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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-outline-level:3'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:center;line-height:normal;mso-outline-level:3'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>NEW
YORK FILM FESTIVAL<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-outline-level:3'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:center;line-height:normal;mso-outline-level:3'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>2016 �
54<sup>th</sup> Festival<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-outline-level:3'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-outline-level:3'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The
2017 NYFF ended on 16 October.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>This
Festival�the 54<sup>th</sup> edition�again under the brilliant leadership of <b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Kent Jones</b> (Director of the NYFF) and <span
class=SpellE><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Lesli</b></span><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'> <span class=SpellE>Klainberg</span></b> (Executor
Director of the Film Society of Lincoln Center) was a particularly enjoyable
one. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-outline-level:3'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-outline-level:3'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The
Selection Committee (chaired by <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Kent
Jones</b>, and including <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Dennis Lim</b>,
<span class=SpellE>FSLC</span> Director of Programming; <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'>Florence <span class=SpellE>Almozini</span></b>, Associate Director of
Programming for the <span class=SpellE><span class=GramE>FSLC</span></span><span
class=GramE> ;</span> and <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Amy <span
class=SpellE>Taubin</span></b>, Contributing Editor, <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:
normal'>Art Forum</i> and<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'> Film Comment</i>)
put together an incredible Festival, with a Main Slate of 25 wonderful
selections, <span class=SpellE>whih</span> including our very favorite of the
27 films we saw, <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Jim <span class=SpellE>Jarmusch<span
style='font-weight:normal'>�s</span></span></b> <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Paterson</i></b>. Jim�s film was
closely followed in our personal preference by one that was not even in the
Main Slate:<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'>Raoul Peck</b>�s <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>I Am Not Your Negro</i></b>.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>We also loved <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'>Hong <span class=SpellE>Sangsoo<span style='font-weight:normal'>�s</span></span></b>
<b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Yourself
and Yours</i></b>, <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Barry Jenkins</b>�s <b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Moonlight</i></b>,
<b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Maren Ade</b>�s <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Toni Erdmann</i></b>, and <b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Olivier <span class=SpellE>Assayas<span
style='font-weight:normal'>�s</span></span></b> <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Personal <span style='color:black;
mso-themecolor:text1'>Shopper</span></i></b><span style='color:black;
mso-themecolor:text1'>�closely followed by </span></span><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'>Jean-Pierre
and Luc <span class=SpellE>Dardenne</span></span></b><span style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;
mso-themecolor:text1'>�s <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The Unknown Girl</i></b></span><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'> ,
and </span><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=EN
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'>Paul <span class=SpellE>Verhoeven</span></span></b><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>�s <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Elle</i></b>; and the next seven films on my
list were also quite wonderful�so, with 15 �wonderful� films, this was an
excellent Festival, indeed!</span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>(We
actually saw <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:
normal'>28</i></b> screenings, as we ended up seeing <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:
normal'>two</i> screenings of <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>I Am Not Your Negro</i></b>, because it was
so incredible.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-outline-level:3'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-outline-level:3'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>This
<span class=GramE>year�s<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Spotlight</b></span><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'> on Documentary</b> was particularly fabulous (including our second
favorite film in the Festival, <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>I Am Not Your Negro</i></b>):<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>we were able to see four, even though there
were several others we wished there had been time to schedule.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>There were some great <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'>Special Events</b>, including a great screening of <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'>Jim <span class=SpellE>Jarmusch<span style='font-weight:normal'>�s</span></span></b>
<span class=SpellE><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:
normal'>Gimme</i></b></span><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'> Danger</i></b>, a documentary about <b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Iggy Pop</b>, and two special dinner
conversations (that were a bit rich for our blood) with <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'>Adam Driver</b> and<b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'> Kristen
Stewart </b>(the former of which I really wish we could have seen).<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>There were so many wonderful things we did
not have time to avail ourselves of, because there simply wasn�t enough time in
our days:<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>a series of <span class=GramE><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Revivals</b> ,</span> a <b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Retrospective</b>, <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'>Convergence</b> (�a variety of interactive experiences, panels, and
presentations�), <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Projections</b> (�a
broad range of innovative modes and techniques, including experimental
narratives, avant-garde poetics, crossovers into documentary and ethnographic
realms, and contemporary art practices�),<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�
</span>and <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Talks</b>.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>It was a fabulous, fun 17 days�during which
time Nancy and I saw 28 screenings (we were supposed to see 29, but we ended up
just not being to schedule one of the documentaries we had very much wanted to
see, <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Two
Trains <span class=SpellE>Runnin</span>�</i></b>, (the <span class=SpellE>FS�s</span>
description of which I am including anyway).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-outline-level:3'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-outline-level:3'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>As
always, the range of films in the NYFF was extremely wide.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>Given that range, is rather impossible for a
person to like everything in the NYFF.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�
</span>The only thing that unites this diversity, however, is that all the
films are great examples of what they are�they are all excellent, even though
some of them I actually did not like.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-outline-level:3'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-outline-level:3'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Following
the convenient format I developed last year, I am going to do briefer
assessments this year of the 27 films we saw�including, along with my personal
reactions and evaluations, the Film Society�s descriptions of the basic
information about each film to save time.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-outline-level:3'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-outline-level:3'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:center;line-height:normal;mso-outline-level:3'><span
class=MsoHyperlink><b><u><span lang=EN style='font-size:18.0pt;color:black;
mso-themecolor:text1;letter-spacing:1.2pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>THE MAIN SLATE
of FILMS IN THE FESTIVAL<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-outline-level:3'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-outline-level:3'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Here
is the list of MAIN SLATE films, in descending order of how much we liked them
(each title contains an embedded link that will take you to its review; you can
hit �back� to return to the list):<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-outline-level:3'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoToc1 align=center style='text-align:center;tab-stops:right dotted 539.5pt'><!--[if supportFields]><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span><span
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class=MsoHyperlink><u><span style='color:#4472C4;mso-themecolor:accent5;
mso-no-proof:yes'><a href="#_Toc465015318"><u><span lang=EN style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#4472C4;
mso-themecolor:accent5;mso-ansi-language:EN'>Paterson</span></u></a></span></u></span><u><span
style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;
color:#4472C4;mso-themecolor:accent5;mso-no-proof:yes'><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class=MsoToc1 align=center style='text-align:center;tab-stops:right dotted 539.5pt'><span
class=MsoHyperlink><span style='color:#4472C4;mso-themecolor:accent5;
mso-no-proof:yes'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>������������������������������������������������������������
</span></span></span><span class=MsoHyperlink><u><span style='color:#4472C4;
mso-themecolor:accent5;mso-no-proof:yes'><a href="#_Toc465015319"><u><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#4472C4;mso-themecolor:accent5;
mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>I Am Not Your Negro</span></u></a></span></u></span><span
class=MsoHyperlink><span style='color:#4472C4;mso-themecolor:accent5;
mso-no-proof:yes'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span></span></span><span
class=MsoHyperlink><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-no-proof:
yes'>[not actually in the Main Slate]</span></span><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:
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mso-themecolor:accent5;mso-no-proof:yes'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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class=MsoHyperlink><u><span style='color:#4472C4;mso-themecolor:accent5;
mso-no-proof:yes'><a href="#_Toc465015320"><u><span lang=EN style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#4472C4;
mso-themecolor:accent5;mso-ansi-language:EN'>Yourself and Yours</span></u></a></span></u></span><u><span
style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;
color:#4472C4;mso-themecolor:accent5;mso-no-proof:yes'><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class=MsoToc1 align=center style='text-align:center;tab-stops:right dotted 539.5pt'><span
class=MsoHyperlink><u><span style='color:#4472C4;mso-themecolor:accent5;
mso-no-proof:yes'><a href="#_Toc465015321"><u><span lang=EN style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#4472C4;
mso-themecolor:accent5;mso-ansi-language:EN'>Moonlight</span></u></a></span></u></span><u><span
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color:#4472C4;mso-themecolor:accent5;mso-no-proof:yes'><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class=MsoToc1 align=center style='text-align:center;tab-stops:right dotted 539.5pt'><span
class=MsoHyperlink><u><span style='color:#4472C4;mso-themecolor:accent5;
mso-no-proof:yes'><a href="#_Toc465015322"><u><span lang=EN style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#4472C4;
mso-themecolor:accent5;mso-ansi-language:EN'>Toni Erdmann</span></u></a></span></u></span><u><span
style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;
color:#4472C4;mso-themecolor:accent5;mso-no-proof:yes'><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class=MsoToc1 align=center style='text-align:center;tab-stops:right dotted 539.5pt'><span
class=MsoHyperlink><u><span style='color:#4472C4;mso-themecolor:accent5;
mso-no-proof:yes'><a href="#_Toc465015323"><u><span lang=EN style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#4472C4;
mso-themecolor:accent5;mso-ansi-language:EN'>Personal Shopper</span></u></a></span></u></span><u><span
style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;
color:#4472C4;mso-themecolor:accent5;mso-no-proof:yes'><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class=MsoToc1 align=center style='text-align:center;tab-stops:right dotted 539.5pt'><span
class=MsoHyperlink><u><span style='color:#4472C4;mso-themecolor:accent5;
mso-no-proof:yes'><a href="#_Toc465015324"><u><span lang=EN style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#4472C4;
mso-themecolor:accent5;mso-ansi-language:EN'>The Unknown Girl</span></u></a></span></u></span><u><span
style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;
color:#4472C4;mso-themecolor:accent5;mso-no-proof:yes'><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class=MsoToc1 align=center style='text-align:center;tab-stops:right dotted 539.5pt'><span
class=MsoHyperlink><u><span style='color:#4472C4;mso-themecolor:accent5;
mso-no-proof:yes'><a href="#_Toc465015325"><u><span lang=EN style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#4472C4;
mso-themecolor:accent5;mso-ansi-language:EN'>Elle</span></u></a></span></u></span><u><span
style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;
color:#4472C4;mso-themecolor:accent5;mso-no-proof:yes'><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class=MsoToc1 align=center style='text-align:center;tab-stops:right dotted 539.5pt'><span
class=MsoHyperlink><u><span style='color:#4472C4;mso-themecolor:accent5;
mso-no-proof:yes'><a href="#_Toc465015326"><u><span lang=EN style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#4472C4;
mso-themecolor:accent5;mso-ansi-language:EN'>20th Century Women</span></u></a></span></u></span><u><span
style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;
color:#4472C4;mso-themecolor:accent5;mso-no-proof:yes'><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class=MsoToc1 align=center style='text-align:center;tab-stops:right dotted 539.5pt'><span
class=MsoHyperlink><u><span style='color:#4472C4;mso-themecolor:accent5;
mso-no-proof:yes'><a href="#_Toc465015327"><u><span lang=EN style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#4472C4;
mso-themecolor:accent5;mso-ansi-language:EN'>Julieta</span></u></a></span></u></span><u><span
style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;
color:#4472C4;mso-themecolor:accent5;mso-no-proof:yes'><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class=MsoToc1 align=center style='text-align:center;tab-stops:right dotted 539.5pt'><span
class=MsoHyperlink><u><span style='color:#4472C4;mso-themecolor:accent5;
mso-no-proof:yes'><a href="#_Toc465015328"><u><span lang=EN style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#4472C4;
mso-themecolor:accent5;mso-ansi-language:EN'>Things to Come</span></u></a></span></u></span><u><span
style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;
color:#4472C4;mso-themecolor:accent5;mso-no-proof:yes'><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class=MsoToc1 align=center style='text-align:center;tab-stops:right dotted 539.5pt'><span
class=MsoHyperlink><u><span style='color:#4472C4;mso-themecolor:accent5;
mso-no-proof:yes'><a href="#_Toc465015329"><u><span lang=EN style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#4472C4;
mso-themecolor:accent5;mso-ansi-language:EN'>Neruda</span></u></a></span></u></span><u><span
style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;
color:#4472C4;mso-themecolor:accent5;mso-no-proof:yes'><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class=MsoToc1 align=center style='text-align:center;tab-stops:right dotted 539.5pt'><span
class=MsoHyperlink><u><span style='color:#4472C4;mso-themecolor:accent5;
mso-no-proof:yes'><a href="#_Toc465015330"><u><span lang=EN style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#4472C4;
mso-themecolor:accent5;mso-ansi-language:EN'>Manchester by the Sea</span></u></a></span></u></span><u><span
style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;
color:#4472C4;mso-themecolor:accent5;mso-no-proof:yes'><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class=MsoToc1 align=center style='text-align:center;tab-stops:right dotted 539.5pt'><span
class=MsoHyperlink><u><span style='color:#4472C4;mso-themecolor:accent5;
mso-no-proof:yes'><a href="#_Toc465015331"><u><span lang=EN style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#4472C4;
mso-themecolor:accent5;mso-ansi-language:EN'>Son of Joseph</span></u></a></span></u></span><u><span
style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;
color:#4472C4;mso-themecolor:accent5;mso-no-proof:yes'><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class=MsoToc1 align=center style='text-align:center;tab-stops:right dotted 539.5pt'><span
class=MsoHyperlink><u><span style='color:#4472C4;mso-themecolor:accent5;
mso-no-proof:yes'><a href="#_Toc465015332"><u><span lang=EN style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#4472C4;
mso-themecolor:accent5;mso-ansi-language:EN'>Certain Women</span></u></a></span></u></span><u><span
style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;
color:#4472C4;mso-themecolor:accent5;mso-no-proof:yes'><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class=MsoToc1 align=center style='text-align:center;tab-stops:right dotted 539.5pt'><span
class=MsoHyperlink><u><span style='color:#4472C4;mso-themecolor:accent5;
mso-no-proof:yes'><a href="#_Toc465015333"><u><span lang=EN style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#4472C4;
mso-themecolor:accent5;mso-ansi-language:EN'>The 13th</span></u></a></span></u></span><u><span
style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;
color:#4472C4;mso-themecolor:accent5;mso-no-proof:yes'><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class=MsoToc1 align=center style='text-align:center;tab-stops:right dotted 539.5pt'><span
class=MsoHyperlink><u><span style='color:#4472C4;mso-themecolor:accent5;
mso-no-proof:yes'><a href="#_Toc465015334"><u><span lang=EN style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#4472C4;
mso-themecolor:accent5;mso-ansi-language:EN'>Hermia and Helena</span></u></a></span></u></span><u><span
style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;
color:#4472C4;mso-themecolor:accent5;mso-no-proof:yes'><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class=MsoToc1 align=center style='text-align:center;tab-stops:right dotted 539.5pt'><span
class=MsoHyperlink><u><span style='color:#4472C4;mso-themecolor:accent5;
mso-no-proof:yes'><a href="#_Toc465015335"><u><span lang=EN style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#4472C4;
mso-themecolor:accent5;mso-ansi-language:EN'>The Rehearsal</span></u></a></span></u></span><u><span
style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;
color:#4472C4;mso-themecolor:accent5;mso-no-proof:yes'><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class=MsoToc1 align=center style='text-align:center;tab-stops:right dotted 539.5pt'><span
class=MsoHyperlink><u><span style='color:#4472C4;mso-themecolor:accent5;
mso-no-proof:yes'><a href="#_Toc465015336"><u><span lang=EN style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#4472C4;
mso-themecolor:accent5;mso-ansi-language:EN'>Fire at Sea</span></u></a></span></u></span><u><span
style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;
color:#4472C4;mso-themecolor:accent5;mso-no-proof:yes'><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class=MsoToc1 align=center style='text-align:center;tab-stops:right dotted 539.5pt'><span
class=MsoHyperlink><u><span style='color:#4472C4;mso-themecolor:accent5;
mso-no-proof:yes'><a href="#_Toc465015337"><u><span lang=EN style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#4472C4;
mso-themecolor:accent5;mso-ansi-language:EN'>The Lost City of Z</span></u></a></span></u></span><u><span
style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;
color:#4472C4;mso-themecolor:accent5;mso-no-proof:yes'><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class=MsoToc1 align=center style='text-align:center;tab-stops:right dotted 539.5pt'><span
class=MsoHyperlink><u><span style='color:#4472C4;mso-themecolor:accent5;
mso-no-proof:yes'><a href="#_Toc465015338"><u><span lang=EN style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#4472C4;
mso-themecolor:accent5;mso-ansi-language:EN'>My Entire High School Sinking into
the Sea</span></u></a></span></u></span><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;mso-no-proof:yes'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:center;line-height:normal;mso-outline-level:3'><!--[if supportFields]><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:center;line-height:normal;mso-outline-level:3'><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-outline-level:3'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�</span><a
href="http://www.filmlinc.org/films/paterson/"><span lang=EN style='font-size:
18.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN'>Paterson</span><!--[if supportFields]><span
lang=EN style='font-size:18.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN'><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span></span><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;color:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN'> </span><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;color:windowtext'>TC "</span><span
style='mso-bookmark:_Toc465015318'><span lang=EN style='font-size:18.0pt;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN'>Paterson</span></span><span
style='mso-bookmark:_Toc465015318'></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;color:windowtext'>" \f C
\l "1" </span><![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><span lang=EN
style='font-size:18.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:
EN'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--></a><![if !supportNestedAnchors]><a
name="_Toc465015318"></a><![endif]></span><span lang=EN style='font-size:18.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:#454545;mso-ansi-language:EN'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�</span><span
style='mso-tab-count:1'>����� </span></span><span style='font-size:18.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:#454545'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:#454545;mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'>Jim <span
class=SpellE><span class=GramE>Jarmusch</span></span><span class=GramE><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>2016</span> USA 118 minutes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'>Paterson
is an <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>amazing</i> film.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>It is pure <span class=SpellE><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Jarmusch</b></span>�and to me that <span
class=GramE>means</span> it is perfection.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�
</span>Even the intertwining intricacies of the set of it</span><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'> are wonderful</span><span lang=EN
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'>:<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>a bus driver (played by <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'>Adam Driver</b>, no less) named Paterson, in Paterson, NJ, who writes
poetry�in an homage to the book-<span class=GramE>length<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>poem</span>, <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Paterson</i></b>, by<b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'> William Carlos Williams</b> (who lived in Paterson,
naturally).<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>But the most elegant
intricacy is that this film about writing poetry is in itself so poetic.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>As almost every one of <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'>Jim</b>�s films<span class=GramE>,<b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�
</span>Paterson</i></b></span> is gorgeously filmed�this time by DP <b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Frederick <span class=SpellE>Elmes</span></b>.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>It is about poetry and creation, and it is a
poetic creation�and it was hands-down our favorite film this year.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span lang=EN
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'>U.S. Premiere</span></b><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'>Paterson (Adam Driver)
is a bus driver who writes poetry drawn from the world around him. Paterson is also
the name of the New Jersey city where he works and lives with his effervescent
and energetic girlfriend (<span class=SpellE>Golshifteh</span> <span
class=SpellE>Farahani</span>). And <i>Paterson</i> is the title of the great
epic poem by William Carlos Williams, whose spirit animates Jim <span
class=SpellE>Jarmusch�s</span> exquisite new film. This is a rare movie
experience, set to the rhythm of an individual consciousness absorbing the
beauties and mysteries and paradoxes and joys and surprises of everyday life,
at home and at work, and making them into art. <span class=GramE>An Amazon
Studios Release.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;
mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<h3 style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span class=MsoHyperlink><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>I Am Not
Your Negro</span></span><!--[if supportFields]><span class=MsoHyperlink><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><span
style='mso-element:field-begin'></span></span></span> TC "<span
style='mso-bookmark:_Toc465015319'><span class=MsoHyperlink><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>I Am Not
Your Negro</span></span></span>" \f C \l "1" <![endif]--><span
class=MsoHyperlink><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold'><![if !supportNestedAnchors]><a name="_Toc465015319"></a><![endif]></span></span><!--[if supportFields]><span
class=MsoHyperlink><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span></span><![endif]--><strong><span
style='font-family:proxima-nova;color:#454545'><o:p></o:p></span></strong></h3>
<h3 style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><strong><span lang=EN
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#454545;
mso-ansi-language:EN;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></strong></h3>
<h3 style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><strong><span lang=EN
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;
mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold'>Raoul Peck USA/France/Belgium/Switzerland, 2016, 93m<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span><o:p></o:p></span></strong></h3>
<h3 style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><o:p> </o:p></h3>
<h3 style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;
mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>This stunning and important documentary was not even
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>in</i> the Main Slate of the NYFF, but I
am including it here because it not only deserved to be, it should have been
the Opening Night film�particularly since<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�
</span>the Film Society did for the first time choose to open with a
documentary (a <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>far</i> less good
one).<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>This amazingly beautiful, powerful
work by the fabulous director <b>Raoul Peck</b> is spun out from the 30 pages <b>James
Baldwin</b> had written of the manuscript</span><span lang=EN style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;
mso-ansi-language:EN'>, </span><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold'>Remember This House</span></i><span lang=EN style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:
EN'>, </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>he was working on
at the time of his death in 1987.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�
</span>Dealing with the assassinations of his three friends, <b>Medgar Evers</b>,
<b>Malcolm X</b>, and <b>Martin Luther King</b>, <b>Baldwin</b> was dealing
with the state of race relations in the US, and <b>Peck</b> utilizes it as the
jumping off point to create an extremely poignant and penetrating view of race
right up to the present day<b>.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span></b></span><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>I Am Not Your Negro</span></b><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;
mso-themecolor:text1'> has all the sophistication and elegance that Opening
Night�s <span class=GramE><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The</i></span><i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'> 13<sup>th</sup></i> by Ava <span
class=SpellE>DuVernay</span> lacks.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>With
thrilling footage of the eloquent and brilliant <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'>Baldwin</b> speaking on the issues involved and <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'>Samuel L. Jackson</b> narrating and giving voice to <b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Baldwin</b>�s written words, <b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Peck</b> combines the existing material
with historical footage to illustrate the points and directions of his own to
create a magnificent film.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>It is
gripping.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>It is emotional.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>It is moving.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�
</span>But, most of all, it is profound.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�
</span>It also has a sense of both responsibility and hope, without any escape
into unrealistic optimism.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>And it is
also a quintessentially cinematic experience�<span class=GramE>rising</span>
far beyond the realm of even the best other documentaries.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>This is a MUST SEE!<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>(And I am told that it has been picked up by
Magnolia, and it will have a theatrical release.)<span style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold'><o:p></o:p></span></span></h3>
<h3 style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in;
margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p> </o:p></span></h3>
<h3 style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in;
margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'>Haitian filmmaker Raoul
Peck has taken the 30 completed pages of James Baldwin�s final, unfinished
manuscript, <em><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Remember This
House</span></em>, in which the author went about the painful task of remembering
his three fallen friends Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, and
crafted an elegantly precise and bracing film essay. Peck�s film, about the
unholy agglomeration of myths, institutionalized practices both legal and
illegal, and displaced white terror that have long perpetuated the tragic state
of race in America, is anchored by the presence of Baldwin himself in images
and words, read beautifully by Samuel L. Jackson in hushed, burning tones. <o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<h3 style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in;
margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p> </o:p></span></h3>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-outline-level:3'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a
href="http://www.filmlinc.org/films/yourself-and-yours/"><span lang=EN
style='font-size:18.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:
EN'>Yourself and Yours</span><!--[if supportFields]><span lang=EN
style='font-size:18.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:
EN'><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span></span><span lang=EN
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;color:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN'> </span><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;color:windowtext'>TC "</span><span
style='mso-bookmark:_Toc465015320'><span lang=EN style='font-size:18.0pt;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN'>Yourself and
Yours</span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc465015320'></span><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;color:windowtext'>" \f C \l "1" </span><![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><span
lang=EN style='font-size:18.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--></a><![if !supportNestedAnchors]><a
name="_Toc465015320"></a><![endif]></span><span lang=EN style='font-size:18.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:#FF6633;mso-ansi-language:EN'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>����� </span></span><span
style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:#454545'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-outline-level:3'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#454545;mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-outline-level:3'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;
mso-ansi-language:EN'>Hong <span class=SpellE><span class=GramE>Sangsoo</span></span><span
class=GramE><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>2016</span> South Korea 86
minutes</span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-outline-level:3'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-outline-level:3'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>We <i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>adore</i> the films of <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'>Hong <span class=SpellE>Songsoo</span></b>.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>This writer/director creates these masterpieces
at the rate of ~1 film per year, and they are all about approximately the same
characters and themes; and they are all so terrific that they are almost always
in the Main Slate of the <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>NYFF</b>.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>In his introduction of <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Yourself and Yours</i></b>, <b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Dennis Lim</b> (The Director of Programming
for the <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Film Society</b>) actually
quoted a conversation I had had with him earlier that day, when I said that <b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Hong</b> keeps making the same film over
and over again each year, but that it is an incredibly wonderful film�and that
it grows and evolves in the most profoundly rewarding way in each of its new
iterations.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>We never miss one of his
films, and he has never disappointed us!<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�
</span>This film centers on the tortured relationship between a painter and his
girlfriend, whose excessive drinking and flirting (and fighting) with other men
exasperate and infuriate him�and yet whom he loves in a powerful, albeit
infantile dependent, way.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>But don�t be
misled by this description:<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>the film is
lighthearted and tender! And that such content can have such a feel to it is
very much part of <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Hong</b>�s
genius.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>If you do not know his work, you
really should discover it.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>His oeuvre is
a joy awaiting you.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>(And he can pull off
such a wondrous experience in an 86 minute run time�something I consider an enormous
added talent and benefit.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'>Prolific NYFF favorite
Hong <span class=SpellE>Sangsoo</span> boldly and wittily continues his ongoing
exploration of the painful caprices of modern romance. Painter <span
class=SpellE>Youngsoo</span> (Kim <span class=SpellE>Joo-hyuk</span>) hears
secondhand that his girlfriend, <span class=SpellE>Minjung</span> (Lee <span
class=SpellE>Yoo</span>-young), has recently had (many) drinks with an unknown
man. This leads to a quarrel that seems to end their relationship. The next
day, <span class=SpellE>Youngsoo</span> sets out in search of her, at the same
time that <span class=SpellE>Minjung</span>�or a woman who looks exactly like
her and may or may not be her twin�has a series of encounters with strange men,
some of whom claim to have met her before . . . <i>Yourself and Yours</i>
is a break-up/make-up comedy unlike any other, suffused with sophisticated
modernist mystery.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-outline-level:3'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-outline-level:3'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a
href="http://www.filmlinc.org/films/the-13th/"><span lang=EN style='font-size:
18.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN'>Moonlight</span><!--[if supportFields]><span
lang=EN style='font-size:18.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN'><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span></span><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;color:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN'> </span><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;color:windowtext'>TC "</span><span
style='mso-bookmark:_Toc465015321'><span lang=EN style='font-size:18.0pt;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN'>Moonlight</span></span><span
style='mso-bookmark:_Toc465015321'></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;color:windowtext'>" \f C
\l "1" </span><![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><span lang=EN
style='font-size:18.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:
EN'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--></a><![if !supportNestedAnchors]><a
name="_Toc465015321"></a><![endif]></span><b><span lang=EN style='font-size:
10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#454545;mso-ansi-language:EN'><br
style='mso-special-character:line-break'>
<![if !supportLineBreakNewLine]><br style='mso-special-character:line-break'>
<![endif]></span></b><strong><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:
minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;
color:#454545;mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-outline-level:3'><strong><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-weight:normal;
mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>Barry <span class=GramE>Jenkins<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>USA</span> 2016 110m<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-outline-level:3'><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-outline-level:3'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold'>This is a wonderfully complex, layered, sophisticated film�on subject
matter that easily could have been dealt with in a heavy-handed, clumsy
way.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>It is totally absorbing, grippingly
emotional, and satisfyingly intelligent.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�
</span><b>Alex <span class=SpellE>Hibbert</span></b>, <b>Aston Sanders</b>, and</span><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-themecolor:
text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'> <span class=SpellE><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'>Trevante</b></span><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'> Rhodes </b>each
do an incredible job of portraying the film�s main character at three stages of
his life; and the others in the cast are also wonderful.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Barry
Jenkins</b> has written and directed a great film.<span style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-outline-level:
3'><b><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;
mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'><br>
</span></b><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;
mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'>Barry Jenkins more than fulfills the
promise of his 2008 romantic two-hander <em><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Medicine
for Melancholy </span></em>in this three-part narrative spanning the childhood,
adolescence, and adulthood of a gay African-American man who survives Miami�s
drug-plagued inner city, finding love in unexpected places and the possibility
of change within himself. <em><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Moonlight
</span></em>offers a powerful sense of place and a wealth of unpredictable
characters, featuring a fantastic ensemble cast including Andr� Holland, <span
class=SpellE>Trevante</span> Rhodes, <span class=SpellE>Naomie</span> Harris,
and <span class=SpellE>Mahershala</span> Ali�delivering performances filled
with inner conflict and aching desires that cut straight to the heart. An A24
release<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-outline-level:3'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;
mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-outline-level:3'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a
href="http://www.filmlinc.org/films/toni-erdmann/"><span lang=EN
style='font-size:18.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:
EN'>Toni Erdmann</span><!--[if supportFields]><span lang=EN style='font-size:
18.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN'><span
style='mso-element:field-begin'></span></span><span lang=EN style='font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:
minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;
color:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN'> </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;color:windowtext'>TC "</span><span
style='mso-bookmark:_Toc465015322'><span lang=EN style='font-size:18.0pt;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN'>Toni Erdmann</span></span><span
style='mso-bookmark:_Toc465015322'></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;color:windowtext'>" \f C
\l "1" </span><![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><span lang=EN
style='font-size:18.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:
EN'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--></a><![if !supportNestedAnchors]><a
name="_Toc465015322"></a><![endif]></span><span style='font-size:18.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:#454545;mso-ansi-language:EN'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�</span></span><span
style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:#454545'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:#454545;mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'>Maren <span
class=GramE>Ade<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>2016</span> Germany 162
minutes. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>I like films to be two
hours or less, and this was closer to <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>three</i>
hours; but the fact that it kept my rapt attention�and that I thoroughly
enjoyed it�speaks to how wonderful this film is.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>It is funny; it is clever; it is
entertaining.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>It works.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>It easily could have been a full hour
shorter, and it would have been much better had it been�in fact, heavy editing
would have made this an <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>incredible</i>
film.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>Nevertheless, even as it stands,
it is an extremely good film, and well worth watching�and many moments in it <span
class=GramE>are</span> truly fabulous.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�
</span>The fact that <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Ade</b> has chosen
to make it so long hints at its other flaw:<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�
</span>it takes itself a bit too seriously; but the flaw is a minor one.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>The film, works best on it outlandish, comic
level�and on that level it is a joyful experience. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'>An audacious twist on
the screwball comedy�here, the twosome is an aging-hippie prankster father and
his corporate-ladder-climbing daughter�<i>Toni Erdmann</i> delivers art and
entertainment in equal measure and charmed just about everyone who saw it at
the Cannes Film Festival this year. Maren Ade�s dazzling script has just enough
of a classical comedic structure to support 162 minutes of surprises big and
small. Meanwhile, her direction is designed to liberate the actors as much as
possible while the camera rolls, resulting in sublime performances by Sandra <span
class=SpellE>H�ller</span> and Peter <span class=SpellE>Simonischek</span>, who
leave the audience suspended between laughter and tears. <span
class=GramE>A Sony Pictures Classics release.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-outline-level:3'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a
href="http://www.filmlinc.org/films/personal-shopper/"><span lang=EN
style='font-size:18.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:
EN'>Personal Shopper</span><!--[if supportFields]><span lang=EN
style='font-size:18.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:
EN'><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span></span><span lang=EN
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;color:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN'> </span><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;color:windowtext'>TC "</span><span
style='mso-bookmark:_Toc465015323'><span lang=EN style='font-size:18.0pt;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN'>Personal
Shopper</span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc465015323'></span><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;color:windowtext'>" \f C \l "1" </span><![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><span
lang=EN style='font-size:18.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--></a><![if !supportNestedAnchors]><a
name="_Toc465015323"></a><![endif]></span><span style='font-size:18.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:#454545;mso-ansi-language:EN'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�</span><span
lang=EN><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:#454545;mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'>Olivier
<span class=SpellE><span class=GramE>Assayas</span></span><span class=GramE><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>2016</span> France 105 minutes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>This is one of those films
about which my opinion changed profoundly as I became more distant from
it.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>I have generally loved all of <b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Olivier <span class=SpellE>Assayas<span
style='font-weight:normal'>�s</span></span></b> films, and I consider him of one
of the great directors of our day.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�
</span>Although it was a beautifully filmed, exquisitely executed work<span
class=GramE>,<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>my</span> first reaction
to<b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Personal
Shopper</i></b> was not to like it all that much.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>It had two major strikes against it for
me:<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>first, <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'>Kristen Stewart</b>, whom I had liked in his fabulous <i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Clouds of <span class=SpellE>Sils</span>
Maria</i> last year, is actually not an actor I generally like, and she is in
almost every frame of this film�very much being the flat, pouty, discontented
Millennial she seems usually to be onscreen; second, the film seems very much
about mediums and �spiritual� experiences with ghosts and the paranormal�all of
which is an immediate turnoff to me. With every passing hours from having seen
the film, and for days afterwards, my appreciation for the film continued to
grow and my liking for it, increased.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>I
began to feel the subtlety that <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Olivier</b>
had generated in the tension not only of the plot, but in the meaning of the
character�s experience itself.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>I should
have known that he would not�even as a thriller�simply buy in to the paranormal
as an accepted reality; he is someone acutely and sophisticatedly attuned to
the nuances of how people create their experience in the world, and we are
witnessing in this film his exploration of certain people�s experience�and, in
particular, that of the main character.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�
</span>Silly me to have made any assumptions that we should be taking her
experience at face value!<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>In this light,
all my objections�even my dislike of her acting persona�take on new meaning;
and, in this light, the film transformed for me into an elegant and wonderful
exploration of the human psyche and of personal experience of the sort I have
come to love and expect from this great director.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>It would be too much of a spoiler to describe
and discuss some of the details of what was directly in the film which I had
ignored before my view began pleasantly to mutate; but let me risk it enough to
tell you to reflect upon and think about (after you have watched the film) the
aspects of the experience different from and/or omitted from her account to the
police.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>In the end, I consider <b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Personal
Shopper</i></b> a great film.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span lang=EN
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span lang=EN
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'>U.S. Premiere</span></b><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'>Kristen Stewart is the
medium, in more ways than one, for this sophisticated genre exploration from
director Olivier <span class=SpellE>Assayas</span> (<i>Clouds of <span
class=SpellE>Sils</span> Maria</i>). As a fashion assistant whose twin brother
has died, leaving her bereft and longing for messages from the other side,
Stewart is fragile and enigmatic�and nearly always on-screen. From an opening
sequence in a haunted house with an intricately constructed soundtrack to a
high-tension, cat-and-mouse game on a trip from Paris to London and back set
entirely to text messaging, <i>Personal Shopper </i>brings the psychological
and supernatural thriller into the digital age. <span class=GramE>An <span
class=SpellE>IFC</span> Films release.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-outline-level:3'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a
href="http://www.filmlinc.org/films/the-unknown-girl/"><span lang=EN
style='font-size:18.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:
EN'>The Unknown Girl</span><!--[if supportFields]><span lang=EN
style='font-size:18.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:
EN'><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span></span><span lang=EN
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;color:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN'> </span><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;color:windowtext'>TC "</span><span
style='mso-bookmark:_Toc465015324'><span lang=EN style='font-size:18.0pt;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN'>The Unknown
Girl</span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc465015324'></span><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;color:windowtext'>" \f C \l "1" </span><![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><span
lang=EN style='font-size:18.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--></a><![if !supportNestedAnchors]><a
name="_Toc465015324"></a><![endif]></span><span lang=EN style='font-size:18.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:#454545;mso-ansi-language:EN'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�</span><span
style='mso-tab-count:1'>������ </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:#454545;mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'>Jean-Pierre
and Luc <span class=SpellE><span class=GramE>Dardenne</span></span><span
class=GramE><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>2016</span> Belgium 106
minutes</span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:
normal'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:
normal'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>The Unknown Girl</span></i></b><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'> is an exploration of guilt�perhaps <span
class=GramE>even</span> an elegy to guilt�and possibly of redemption, as
well.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>It is a gripping and suspenseful,
yet subtle and complex human drama.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>��
</span>Made with all the skill and expertise customary <span class=GramE>for<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>these</span> two fabulous filmmakers, the
film goes in directions somewhat new to them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span lang=EN
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span lang=EN
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'>U.S. Premiere</span></b><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span
class=GramE><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'>It�s</span></span><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'> a few minutes after closing
time in a medical clinic in Seraing, Belgium. The buzzer rings. Doctor Jenny (<span
class=SpellE>Ad�le</span> <span class=SpellE>Haenel</span>) tells her assistant
(Olivier <span class=SpellE>Bonnaud</span>) to ignore it. She is later informed
that the girl she turned away was soon found dead on the riverside. From that
moment, Jenny becomes a different kind of doctor, diagnosing not just her
dispossessed patients� illnesses but also the greater malady afflicting her
community. And this is a different kind of movie for Luc and Jean-Pierre <span
class=SpellE>Dardenne</span>, in which the urgency pulses beneath the seemingly
placid surface, and it is all keyed to <span class=SpellE>Haenel�s</span>
extraordinary performance. <span class=GramE>A Sundance Selects release.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-outline-level:3'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a
href="http://www.filmlinc.org/films/elle/"><span lang=EN style='font-size:18.0pt;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN'>Elle</span><!--[if supportFields]><span
lang=EN style='font-size:18.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN'><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span></span><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;color:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN'> </span><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;color:windowtext'>TC "</span><span
style='mso-bookmark:_Toc465015325'><span lang=EN style='font-size:18.0pt;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN'>Elle</span></span><span
style='mso-bookmark:_Toc465015325'></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;color:windowtext'>" \f C
\l "1" </span><![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><span lang=EN
style='font-size:18.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:
EN'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--></a><![if !supportNestedAnchors]><a
name="_Toc465015325"></a><![endif]></span><span lang=EN style='font-size:18.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:#454545;mso-ansi-language:EN'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�</span><span
style='mso-tab-count:1'> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:#454545;mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'>Paul <span
class=SpellE><span class=GramE>Verhoeven</span></span><span class=GramE><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>2016</span> France/Germany/Belgium 131
minutes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><b><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><b><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'>U.S.
Premiere</span></b><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;
mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;background:white'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>Elle</span></i></b><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'> is an incredibly intense, difficult,
provocative film.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>To illustrate, it is
enough to say that it alternates between scenes of </span><span class=SpellE><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'>Mich�le</span></span><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>, played in a bravura performance by the
incomparably talented and beautiful <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Isabelle
Huppert</b>, being violently raped and being amusingly droll and <span
class=SpellE>and</span> funny.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>One is
emotionally whipsawed about in the vacillation in this film, a feeling
intensified by the tension and danger that pervades its story.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>Nevertheless, it <span class=SpellE>it</span>
an intelligent and deep exploration of the badness and feared inner badness
that underlies the psychological phenomenon of victimization that leads people
to abuse and to open themselves to be abused�an exploration that is integrally
embedded in the narrative of the action, and never as a separate
intellectualization.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>On this count, I
found this to be a marvelous film.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�
</span>Unfortunately, my low tolerance for violence made it an extremely hard
film for me to watch, and actually lessened my ability fully to appreciate it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'>Paul <span class=SpellE>Verhoeven�s</span>
first feature in a decade�and his first in French�<span class=GramE>ranks</span>
among his most incendiary, improbable concoctions: a wry, almost-screwball
comedy of manners about a woman who responds to a rape by refusing the mantle
of victimhood. As the film opens, Parisian heroine <span class=SpellE>Mich�le</span>
(a brilliant Isabelle Huppert) is brutally violated in her kitchen by a hooded
intruder. Rather than report the crime, <span class=SpellE>Mich�le</span>, the
CEO of a video game company and daughter of a notorious mass murderer, calmly
sweeps up the mess and proceeds to engage her assailant in a dangerous game of
domination and submission in which her motivations remain a constant source of
mystery, humor, and tension. <span class=GramE>A Sony Pictures Classics
release.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-outline-level:3'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a
href="http://www.filmlinc.org/films/20th-century-women/"><span lang=EN
style='font-size:18.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:
EN'>20th Century Women</span><!--[if supportFields]><span lang=EN
style='font-size:18.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:
EN'><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span></span><span lang=EN
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;color:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN'> </span><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;color:windowtext'>TC "</span><span
style='mso-bookmark:_Toc465015326'><span lang=EN style='font-size:18.0pt;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN'>20th Century
Women</span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc465015326'></span><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;color:windowtext'>" \f C \l "1" </span><![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><span
lang=EN style='font-size:18.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--></a><![if !supportNestedAnchors]><a
name="_Toc465015326"></a><![endif]></span><span lang=EN style='font-size:18.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:#454545;mso-ansi-language:EN'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>� </span></span><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=EN style='font-size:18.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'>Centerpiece</span></b><span
lang=EN style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:#454545;mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:#454545;mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'>Mike <span
class=GramE>Mills<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>2016</span> USA</span><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>. 118 minutes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:
normal'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:
normal'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>20<sup>th</sup> Century
Women</span></i></b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'> features magnificent
performances by virtually every member of its outstanding cast:<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Annette
<span class=SpellE>Bening</span></b> is fabulous, as is <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'>Elle Fanning</b>, and <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Lucas Jade
<span class=SpellE>Zumann</span></b> (who plays <span class=SpellE><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Bening</b>�s</span> teenage son); and even <b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Greta <span class=SpellE>Gerwig</span></b>,
whose usual flighty, adolescent performances I have come not to like, turns in
a great performance, quite different from her usual roles.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>The film is witty and clever, and full of
extraordinarily funny moments, making it quite enjoyable. It suffers, however,
from two�probably related�problems:<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>it
is too long by at least 15 or 20 minutes, detracting from its dramatic and
comic movement; and it takes itself too seriously, in a way that detracts from
its far more successful light hearted mood. It still remains well worth seeing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span lang=EN
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span lang=EN
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'>World Premiere</span></b><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'>Mike <span class=SpellE>Mills�s</span>
texturally and behaviorally rich new comedy seems to keep redefining itself as
it goes along, creating a moving group portrait of particular people in a
particular place (Santa Barbara) at a particular moment in the 20th century
(1979), one lovingly attended detail at a time. The great Annette <span
class=SpellE>Bening</span>, in one of her very best performances, is Dorothea,
a single mother raising her teenage son, Jamie (Lucas Jade <span class=SpellE>Zumann</span>),
in a sprawling bohemian house, which is shared by an itinerant carpenter (Billy
Crudup) and a punk artist with a Bowie haircut (Greta <span class=SpellE>Gerwig</span>)
and frequented by Jamie�s rebellious friend Julie (Elle Fanning). <i>20th
Century Women</i> is warm, funny, and a work of passionate artistry. <span
class=GramE>An A24 release.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-outline-level:3'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a
href="http://www.filmlinc.org/films/julieta/"><span lang=EN style='font-size:
18.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN'>Julieta</span><!--[if supportFields]><span
lang=EN style='font-size:18.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN'><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span></span><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;color:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN'> </span><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;color:windowtext'>TC "</span><span
style='mso-bookmark:_Toc465015327'><span lang=EN style='font-size:18.0pt;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN'>Julieta</span></span><span
style='mso-bookmark:_Toc465015327'></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;color:windowtext'>" \f C
\l "1" </span><![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><span lang=EN
style='font-size:18.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:
EN'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--></a><![if !supportNestedAnchors]><a
name="_Toc465015327"></a><![endif]></span><span style='font-size:18.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:#454545;mso-ansi-language:EN'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�</span><span
lang=EN><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#454545;mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'>Pedro <span
class=SpellE><span class=GramE>Almod�var</span></span><span class=GramE><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>2016</span> Spain<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>99 minutes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>I adore <b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Pedro </b></span><span class=SpellE><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;
mso-ansi-language:EN'>Almod�var</span></b></span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>,
and my reaction to almost all of his films has been somewhere between rapture
and just adoration.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>I very much liked <b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Julieta</i></b>,
but it did not rise to the level of greatness for me that most of his films
have.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>Don�t get me wrong: I thoroughly
enjoyed it.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>It is beautiful, it is
engaging, it is well made, and it is well acted and directed.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>The problem for me is that I do not feel that
<b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Pedro</b> �got� the main character in a
critical way.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>What was particularly
upsetting about this is that he �gets� his female characters more profoundly
and more wonderfully�and more lovingly and clearly�than almost any director
around; and the title role (played in her younger incarnation by <b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Emma </b></span><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'>Su�rez</span></b><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>, and in her older one by <b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Adriana <span class=SpellE>Ugarte</span></b>;
both actresses are beautiful and talented, and I think were successfully
portraying their roles as directed�but therein I suspect lies the problem)
bothered me and detracted from my appreciation of this film.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>This is a serious film, not a comedy; and it
is about an upsetting subject, that involves the narcissism of its main
character.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>The irony is that <b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Pedro</b> usually understands and
successfully and lovingly appreciates the narcissism of his female roles in the
deepest and most penetratingly accurate of ways; but, in <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Julieta</i></b>, I am afraid he
misses <span class=SpellE>it<span class=GramE>,and</span></span>/or seriously
misunderstands it.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>Perhaps it is this
particular �North American� brand of narcissism (the film takes place here, and
actually was originally intended to be made here in English [an undertaking
that did not work out]), and perhaps it was exacerbated by the film being based
on three stories by <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Alice Munro</b>
(which I do not know, BTW), but the film doesn�t seem to grasp how
destructively selfish and self-centered Julieta is.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>The fact that it so seriously misses how
terrible this is�especially for her son�made it very hard for me to like the
film as much as I very much wanted to.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'>Pedro <span
class=SpellE>Almod�var</span> explores his favorite themes of love, sexuality,
guilt, and destiny through the poignant story of Julieta, played to perfection
by Emma Su�rez (younger) and Adriana <span class=SpellE>Ugarte</span>
(middle-aged), over the course of a 30-year timespan. Just as she is about to
leave Madrid forever, the seemingly content Julieta has a chance encounter that
stirs up sorrowful memories of the daughter who brutally abandoned her when she
turned eighteen. Drawing on numerous film historical references, from Hitchcock
to the director�s own earlier <span class=SpellE>Movida</span> era work, <span
class=SpellE>Almod�var�s</span> twentieth feature, adapted from three short
stories by Alice Munro (�Chance,� �Soon,� and �Silence�), is a haunting drama
that oscillates between disenchanted darkness and visual opulence. <span
class=GramE>A Sony Pictures Classics release.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-outline-level:3'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a
href="http://www.filmlinc.org/films/things-to-come/"><span lang=EN
style='font-size:18.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:
EN'>Things to Come</span><!--[if supportFields]><span lang=EN style='font-size:
18.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN'><span
style='mso-element:field-begin'></span></span><span lang=EN style='font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:
minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;
color:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN'> </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;color:windowtext'>TC "</span><span
style='mso-bookmark:_Toc465015328'><span lang=EN style='font-size:18.0pt;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN'>Things to Come</span></span><span
style='mso-bookmark:_Toc465015328'></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;color:windowtext'>" \f C
\l "1" </span><![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><span lang=EN
style='font-size:18.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:
EN'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--></a><![if !supportNestedAnchors]><a
name="_Toc465015328"></a><![endif]></span><span lang=EN style='font-size:18.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:#454545;mso-ansi-language:EN'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>��</span></span><span
style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:#454545'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#454545;mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'>Mia
Hansen-<span class=SpellE>L�ve</span><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>��
</span>2016 France/Germany 100 minutes</span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>I am not a fan of <b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Hansen-Love</b>, and I rather disliked her
last two films.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>I really enjoyed <b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Things
to <span class=GramE>Come</span></i></b>, however.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>(I suspect that with this film she done
something rather different, as some friends who<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:
normal'> have</i> loved her last films rather disliked this one.)<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>The film is aided by the amazing performance
of the wonderful <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Isabelle Huppert</b>,
who plays a radically different role in this film than she does in <b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Elle</i></b>�similar
only in how wonderful her acting is.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>��
</span>The film has a beautifully successful texture to it, and it is engaging
and entertaining�albeit not as profound as I suspect it takes itself to be.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'>In the new film from Mia
Hansen-<span class=SpellE>L�ve</span> (<i>Eden</i>), Huppert is Nathalie, a
Parisian professor of philosophy who comes to realize that the tectonic plates
of her existence are slowly but inexorably shifting: her husband (Andr� <span
class=SpellE>Marcon</span>) leaves her, her mother (Edith <span class=SpellE>Scob</span>)
comes apart, her favorite student decides to live off the grid, and her first
grandchild is born. Hansen-<span class=SpellE>L�ve</span> carefully builds <i>Things
to <span class=GramE>Come</span></i> around her extraordinary star: her verve
and energy, her beauty, her perpetual motion. Huppert�s remarkable performance
is counterpointed by the quietly accumulating force of the action, and the
result is an exquisite expression of time�s passing. <span class=GramE>A
Sundance Selects release.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;background:white'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;
mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-outline-level:3'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a
href="http://www.filmlinc.org/films/neruda/"><span lang=EN style='font-size:
18.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN'>Neruda</span><!--[if supportFields]><span
lang=EN style='font-size:18.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN'><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span></span><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;color:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN'> </span><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;color:windowtext'>TC "</span><span
style='mso-bookmark:_Toc465015329'><span lang=EN style='font-size:18.0pt;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN'>Neruda</span></span><span
style='mso-bookmark:_Toc465015329'></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;color:windowtext'>" \f C
\l "1" </span><![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><span lang=EN
style='font-size:18.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:
EN'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--></a><![if !supportNestedAnchors]><a
name="_Toc465015329"></a><![endif]></span><span style='font-size:18.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:#454545;mso-ansi-language:EN'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�</span><span
lang=EN><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-outline-level:3'><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#454545;
mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-outline-level:3'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;
mso-ansi-language:EN'>Pablo <span class=SpellE><span class=GramE>Larra�n</span></span><span
class=GramE><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>2016</span>
Chile/Argentina/France/Spain 107 minutes</span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-outline-level:3'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-outline-level:3'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>This
film was not at all what I was expecting:<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�
</span>it was far more a fantasy spun out from the <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:
normal'>feel</i> of Pablo Neruda�s life than a story about his life.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>I�m not sure I <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:
normal'>like</i> the portrayal of Neruda; but I am sure I <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:
normal'>enjoyed</i> it.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Neruda</i></b>
creates an adventure fantasy, in which Neruda (played by <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'>Luis <span class=SpellE>Gnecco</span></b>, who, at very least
physically, recreates the great Chilean poet marvelously) is pursued by a
fictional detective (played wonderfully by <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Gael
Garcia Bernal</b>):<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>it becomes a kind of
poetic detective story in which the pursued leaves the pursuer copies of
detective novels as he narrowly avoids being captured by him.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>Although it is �messing� with a figure I hold
in enormously high esteem, the film manages somehow to be a thoroughly
enjoyable romp along the edge of an important piece of history.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'>Pablo <span
class=SpellE>Larra�n�s</span> exciting, surprising, and colorful new film is
not a biopic but, as the director himself puts it, a �<span class=SpellE>Nerudean</span>�
portrait of the great Chilean poet Pablo Neruda�s years of flight and exile
after his 1948 denunciation of his government�s leadership. <span class=SpellE>Larra�n�s</span>
heady blend of fact and fancy (the latter embodied in an invented character,
straight out of detective fiction, played by Gael <span class=SpellE>Garc�a</span>
Bernal) is many things at once: a loving, kaleidoscopic recreation of a
particular historical moment; a comical cat-and-mouse game; and a pocket epic. <span
class=GramE>Featuring Luis <span class=SpellE>Gnecco</span>, a dead ringer for
the poet and a formidable actor, alongside a terrific cast.</span> <span
class=GramE>Released by The Orchard.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-outline-level:3'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a
href="http://www.filmlinc.org/films/manchester-by-the-sea/"><span lang=EN
style='font-size:18.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:
EN'>Manchester by the Sea</span><!--[if supportFields]><span lang=EN
style='font-size:18.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:
EN'><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span></span><span lang=EN
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;color:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN'> </span><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;color:windowtext'>TC "</span><span
style='mso-bookmark:_Toc465015330'><span lang=EN style='font-size:18.0pt;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN'>Manchester by
the Sea</span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc465015330'></span><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;color:windowtext'>" \f C \l "1" </span><![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><span
lang=EN style='font-size:18.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--></a><![if !supportNestedAnchors]><a
name="_Toc465015330"></a><![endif]></span><span style='font-size:18.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:#454545;mso-ansi-language:EN'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�</span><span
lang=EN><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#454545;mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'>Kenneth
<span class=SpellE><span class=GramE>Lonergan</span></span><span class=GramE><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>2016</span> USA 137 minutes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>This is a film I expected
to dislike completely:<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>I had thoroughly
disliked <span class=SpellE><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Lonergan</b>�s</span>
earlier film, <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>You Can Count on Me</i>;
and the description of <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Manchester by the Sea</i></b> made it sound
like it was going to be the most maudlin of soap opera-<span class=SpellE>ish</span>
melodramas, and, at a run time of 137, I expected to be in severe pain from
it�and I was not expecting at all to like the acting of <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'>Casey Affleck</b>.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>I was
completely surprised to find that I enjoyed this film!<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>With the exception of the music�and, while I
shall not dignify the person who did it by looking to see what his or her name
was, I think the person should be drawn and quartered�which was absolutely
embarrassingly and disgustingly terrible (even more maudlin and melodramatic
than my worst fears about what the film was going to be:<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>choral sighing and wailing, more soupy even
than strings playing emotionally drenched muck), Surprisingly, the film
actually took a rather high dramatic road through this potentially sappy
material.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>Even at 137 minutes, it was
quite watch-able.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'>Casey Affleck</b> was quite good.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�
</span>And the story held my attention quite well.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>Nevertheless, this is a film which, as I
moved further from the immediate experience of it, progressively diminished in
my estimation with the passage of time.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�
</span>Perhaps it was because my expectations had been so extremely low and had
been so significantly exceeded, but I ended up thinking that it was only
�OK��not particularly good.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>I will say,
though, that�with the notable exception of the music�it is a watchable and
enjoyable film.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'>In Kenneth <span
class=SpellE>Lonergan�s</span> intimate yet grandly scaled new film, Casey
Affleck is formidable as the volatile, deeply troubled Lee Chandler, a
Boston-based handyman called back to his hometown on the Massachusetts North
Shore after the sudden death of his brother, Joe (Kyle Chandler), who has left
behind a teenage son (Lucas Hedges). This loss and the return to his old
stomping grounds summon Lee�s memories of an earlier, even more devastating
tragedy. In his third film as a director, following <i>You Can Count on Me</i>
(2000) and <i>Margaret</i> (2011), Kenneth <span class=SpellE>Lonergan</span>,
with the help of a remarkable cast, unflinchingly explores grief, hope, and
love, giving us a film that is funny, sharply observed, intimately detailed yet
grand in emotional scale. <span class=GramE>An Amazon Studios Release.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-outline-level:3'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a
href="http://www.filmlinc.org/films/son-of-joseph/"><span lang=EN
style='font-size:18.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:
EN'>Son of Joseph</span><!--[if supportFields]><span lang=EN style='font-size:
18.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN'><span
style='mso-element:field-begin'></span></span><span lang=EN style='font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:
minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;
color:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN'> </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;color:windowtext'>TC "</span><span
style='mso-bookmark:_Toc465015331'><span lang=EN style='font-size:18.0pt;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN'>Son of Joseph</span></span><span
style='mso-bookmark:_Toc465015331'></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;color:windowtext'>" \f C
\l "1" </span><![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><span lang=EN
style='font-size:18.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:
EN'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--></a><![if !supportNestedAnchors]><a
name="_Toc465015331"></a><![endif]></span><span style='font-size:18.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:#454545;mso-ansi-language:EN'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�</span><span
lang=EN><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#454545;mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span class=SpellE><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;
mso-ansi-language:EN'>Eug�ne</span></span><span lang=EN style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;
mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'> <span class=GramE>Green<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>2016</span> France/Belgium 113 minutes</span><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>From its description as a
�nativity story reboot,� I had no idea what to expect of this film.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>We decided to see it because it had <b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Mathieu <span class=SpellE>Amalric</span></b>
in it�and, of course, because the very fact of being in the <b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>NYFF</b> means that a film is likely to
have great merit!<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>We were very glad we
did, as this is a beautiful and interesting film. Had I looked carefully at the
description and thought about its description of director </span><span
class=SpellE><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=EN
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'>Eug�ne</span></b></span><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;
mso-ansi-language:EN'> Green</span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>�s
cherishing of Baroque architecture (which I abhor, BTW), I might have recognize
him as the director behind <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>La Sapienza</i>,
his last film which I deeply disliked.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�
</span>Green looked familiar when he spoke to introduce <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Son of Joseph;</i></b> but
mercifully, I couldn�t place him.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>I say
�mercifully,� as I suspect the association with his last film might have made
it impossible for me to have enjoyed this one�and enjoy it I did.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>It treads on the edge of corny-ness and
religiosity; but, with the exception of the music in one scene, it successfully
avoids all that.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Son of Joseph</i></b> is the
story of a teenager, Vincent, whose mother (Marie, no less) tells him he has no
father.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>The boy discovers his actual
father (<b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Mathieu <span class=SpellE>Amalric</span></b>),
who is every bit the cad his mother had thought him to be (in deciding not to
tell Vincent about him).<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>Vincent
connects with his father�s estranged brother, Joseph (of course), and makes a
father out of him for himself.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>There is
even a scene in which Joseph is leading Vincent and Marie (who he is leading
seated on an ass, no less) out of danger.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�
</span>Sounds hokey, right? It actually isn�t!<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�
</span>It is a lovely, warm, human drama that does not require one <span
class=GramE>do</span> anything with The Biblical references and parallels
except to enjoy them.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>What an unexpected
treat!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'>The American-born
expatriate filmmaker <span class=SpellE>Eug�ne</span> Green exists in his own
special artistic orbit. All Green�s films share a formal rigor and an
increasingly refined modulation between the playfully comic, the urgently
human, and the transcendent, and they are each as exquisitely <i>balanced</i>
as the baroque music and architecture that he cherishes. His latest movie, <i>Son
of Joseph,</i> is perhaps his most buoyant. A nativity story reboot that gently
skewers French cultural pretensions, it features newcomer Victor <span
class=SpellE>Ezenfis</span> as a discontented Parisian teenager in search of a
father, Mathieu <span class=SpellE>Amalric</span> and <span class=SpellE>Fabrizio</span>
<span class=SpellE>Rongione</span> as his, respectively, callous and gentle
alternative paternal options, and Natacha <span class=SpellE>R�gnier</span> as
his single mother. <span class=GramE>A Kino <span class=SpellE>Lorber</span>
Films release.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-outline-level:3'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a
href="http://www.filmlinc.org/films/certain-women/"><span lang=EN
style='font-size:18.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:
EN'>Certain Women</span><!--[if supportFields]><span lang=EN style='font-size:
18.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN'><span
style='mso-element:field-begin'></span></span><span lang=EN style='font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:
minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;
color:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN'> </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;color:windowtext'>TC "</span><span
style='mso-bookmark:_Toc465015332'><span lang=EN style='font-size:18.0pt;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN'>Certain Women</span></span><span
style='mso-bookmark:_Toc465015332'></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;color:windowtext'>" \f C
\l "1" </span><![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><span lang=EN
style='font-size:18.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:
EN'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--></a><![if !supportNestedAnchors]><a
name="_Toc465015332"></a><![endif]></span><span style='font-size:18.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:#454545;mso-ansi-language:EN'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�</span><span
lang=EN><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#454545;mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'>Kelly <span
class=SpellE><span class=GramE>Reichardt</span></span><span class=GramE><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>2016</span> USA 107 minutes. <span
style='mso-tab-count:1'>������ </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=EN style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;
mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=EN style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;
mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'>Kelly <span class=SpellE>Reichardt</span></span></b><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'> is a bit of an acquired
taste:<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>her films are slow, languorous,
visually lush, and extremely mutedly emotional.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�
</span><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:
normal'>Certain Women</i></b> is no exception.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�
</span>It is beautifully filmed and brilliantly acted.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>It presents three apparently unrelated
stories of everyday life in a small Montana town�subtly intertwined by
character overlaps via visual and verbal references (in a way ever-so-slightly
reminiscent of what Jim <span class=SpellE>Jarmusch</span> does far more
extensively in<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'> Midnight Train</i>).<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>Very little actually happens, although there
is much going on.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span><span class=GramE>(One
of our friends who saw it with us�and who is not someone who wants to acquire
this taste�said that, �Well.</span> It�s sort of a Western:<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>horses, cowboys, guns, a train��<span
class=GramE>)<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>It</span> is suffused with
sad sense of unrequited longing, verging on resignation.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>In parts, it is quite brilliant; throughout
it is quite beautiful; but it does not make it as a great film.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'>The seventh feature by
Kelly <span class=SpellE>Reichardt</span> (<i>Meek�s Cutoff</i>), a lean
triptych of subtly intersecting lives in Montana, is a work of no-nonsense
eloquence. Adapting short stories by <span class=SpellE>Maile</span> <span
class=SpellE>Meloy</span>, <i>Certain Women</i> follows a lawyer (Laura Dern)
navigating an increasingly volatile relationship with a disgruntled client; a
couple (Michelle Williams and James Le <span class=SpellE>Gros</span>), in a
marriage laden with micro-aggression and doubt, trying to persuade an old man
(Rene <span class=SpellE>Auberjonois</span>) to sell his unused sandstone; and
a young ranch hand (Lily Gladstone) fixated on a new-in-town night school
teacher (Kristen Stewart). Shooting on 16mm, <span class=SpellE>Reichardt</span>
creates understated, uncannily intimate dramas nestled within a clear-eyed
depiction of the modern American West. <span class=GramE>An <span class=SpellE>IFC</span>
Films release.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-outline-level:3'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a
href="http://www.filmlinc.org/films/the-13th/"><span lang=EN style='font-size:
18.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN'>The 13th</span><!--[if supportFields]><span
lang=EN style='font-size:18.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN'><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span></span><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;color:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN'> </span><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;color:windowtext'>TC "</span><span
style='mso-bookmark:_Toc465015333'><span lang=EN style='font-size:18.0pt;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN'>The 13th</span></span><span
style='mso-bookmark:_Toc465015333'></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;color:windowtext'>" \f C
\l "1" </span><![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><span lang=EN
style='font-size:18.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:
EN'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--></a><![if !supportNestedAnchors]><a
name="_Toc465015333"></a><![endif]></span><span lang=EN style='font-size:18.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:#FF6633;mso-ansi-language:EN'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>������� </span><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>��</span></span><span lang=EN style='font-size:18.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'>Opening Night</span><span
style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:#FF6633'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#454545;mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'>Ava <span
class=SpellE><span class=GramE>DuVernay</span></span><span class=GramE><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>2016</span> USA 100 minutes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'>I was
told this one would be amazing; I was it afraid would be terrible; it wasn�t�I
basically enjoyed it.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>But it was
definitely not wonderful; and the further I got away from it and the more I
thought about it, the less I liked it.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�
</span>The first time ever that a documentary opened the NYFF, this was a very
timely choice, given the subject matter, but not a great choice given the
film�especially when another documentary,<b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'> I Am Not Your Negro</i></b>, not even in
the Main Slate, was orders of magnitude better in every way.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The 13<sup>th</sup></i></b> was
cinematographically clever and well-done (unless you are bothered by intense
rapid-fire graphics which often resolve into animation, as was Nancy and some
of our friends); but it was sloppy and flawed about its extremely important
subject matter�the mass incarcerations in the US and the fact that it so
disproportionately is directed against Black men.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>It confuses and conflates Nixon�s Southern
strategy with the law and order movement, rolls them together with the war on
drugs, sees it all as part of the mass incarcerations that make the US (with 5%
of the world�s population, have 25%<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>of
those in the world who are in in jail), and attributes it all to the clause in
the 13<sup>th</sup> Amendment (which abolished slavery: </span><span lang=EN
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;
mso-ansi-language:EN'>�Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude�shall exist
within the United States.�</span><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;
mso-ansi-language:EN'>) that excludes those who are incarcerated (</span><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-themecolor:
text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'>�except as a punishment for crime whereof the party
shall have been duly convicted�); and it sees it all as a deliberate attempt to
keep Blacks�and particularly Black men�in chains</span><span lang=EN
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'>.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>It does little or nothing to document or
elucidate that claim; but that is the basis for the thesis�and title�of this
documentary.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>It does offer the
tantalizing fact that after Reconstruction, apparently indiscriminate arrest <i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>was</i> used in the South against Black
people; but it does nothing to establish that was the intent of the
clause�something I would be most interested in knowing more about</span><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>, even though I doubt the film�s hypothesis</span><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'>.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�� </span>I do know, however,<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>from having been very involved at the time,
that Nixon�s Southern strategy (which, of course, is exactly responsible for
why the racists and bigots of our country make up such a big part of the
Republican party�and are the ones openly being courted by Donald Trump, in a
way they have been consistently been covertly courted by the Republican<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>Party since the Democrats [whose party
previously had been home to these folks�particularly in the South]<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>passed Civil Rights legislation under Johnson
in the 60s), was <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>not</i> the same as the
law and order strategy; and that while the effects of these two strategies
eventually <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>did</i> have a terrible impact
on the Black community�and the Civil Rights movement�it was <i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>not</i> their conscious intent, as naively
asserted by <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:
normal'>The 13<sup>th</sup></i></b>.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>The
film makes a nod to the fact that it knows that the Congressional Black Caucus
actually supported the law and order legislation (without actually mentioning
that�just parading Charlie Rangel as a buffoonish legislator who supported it
and only later realized his folly in doing so), but never treats the fact
seriously.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>There are many, many
problematic historical issues in this film, and it glosses over the differences
of the 60s and 70s, and then proceeds to merge them with the 80s and 90s.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>It dumps together every currently important
issue of race and injustice and inequality facing the US right up to the
current day.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>So, while it raised
numerous crucially important issues, I was extremely dissatisfied with the lack
of sophistication in its presentation and handling of these issues.</span><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span lang=EN
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span lang=EN
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'>World Premiere</span></b><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;
mso-ansi-language:EN'>The title of Ava <span class=SpellE>DuVernay�s</span>
extraordinary and galvanizing documentary refers to the 13th Amendment to the
Constitution, which reads �Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as
a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall
exist within the United States.� The progression from that second qualifying
clause to the horrors of mass criminalization and the sprawling American prison
industry is laid out by <span class=SpellE>DuVernay</span> with bracing
lucidity. With a potent mixture of archival footage and testimony from a
dazzling array of activists, politicians, historians, and formerly incarcerated
women and men, <span class=SpellE>DuVernay</span> creates a work of grand
historical synthesis.</span><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;
mso-ansi-language:EN'> To quote Woodrow Wilson on another movie, it�s like
writing history with lightning. </span><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�</span><span class=GramE>A Netflix original
documentary.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-outline-level:3'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a
href="http://www.filmlinc.org/films/hermia-and-helena/"><span lang=EN
style='font-size:18.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:
EN'>Hermia and Helena</span><!--[if supportFields]><span lang=EN
style='font-size:18.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:
EN'><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span></span><span lang=EN
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;color:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN'> </span><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;color:windowtext'>TC "</span><span
style='mso-bookmark:_Toc465015334'><span lang=EN style='font-size:18.0pt;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN'>Hermia and
Helena</span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc465015334'></span><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;color:windowtext'>" \f C \l "1" </span><![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><span
lang=EN style='font-size:18.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--></a><![if !supportNestedAnchors]><a
name="_Toc465015334"></a><![endif]></span><span style='font-size:18.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:#454545;mso-ansi-language:EN'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�</span><span
lang=EN><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#454545;mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span class=SpellE><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;
mso-ansi-language:EN'>Mat�as</span></span><span lang=EN style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;
mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'> <span class=SpellE><span
class=GramE>Pi�eiro</span></span><span class=GramE><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>2016</span> Argentina/USA 87 minutes</span><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>This is a pleasant enough
film, engaging at moments, clever in its overlapping of narrative threads.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>But its forward movement via the use of
progressive flashbacks, each of which itself moves forward in the time sequence
of the past action lends a sense of sophistication that is contrived,
artificial, and ultimately very shallow.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�
</span>It is more �clever� than it is smart; it is more catching of attention
than it is of meaningfully sustaining of it.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�
</span>There is clearly directorial ability shown by <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'>Matias </b></span><span class=SpellE><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'>Pi�eiro</span></b></span><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'> in this film, but he has a lot to learn
about creating meaningful story line.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span lang=EN
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span lang=EN
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'>U.S. Premiere</span></b><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'>Shooting outside his
native Argentina for the first time, New York�based Matias <span class=SpellE>Pi�eiro</span>
fashions a bittersweet comedy of coupling and uncoupling that doubles as a love
letter to his adopted city. Working on a Spanish translation of <i>A Midsummer
Night�s Dream </i>on an artist residency, Camila (Agustina Mu�oz) finds herself
within a constellation of shifting relationships (an old flame, a new one, a
long-lost relative). Mingling actors from the director�s Buenos Aires repertory
with stalwarts of New York�s independent film scene (Keith Poulson, Dustin Guy <span
class=SpellE>Defa</span>, Dan <span class=SpellE>Sallitt</span>), <i>Hermia and
Helena </i>offers the precise gestures, mercurial moods, and youthful energies
of all <span class=SpellE>Pi�eiro�s</span> cinema, with an emotional depth and
directness that make this his most mature work yet.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-outline-level:3'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a
href="http://www.filmlinc.org/films/the-rehearsal/"><span lang=EN
style='font-size:18.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:
EN'>The Rehearsal</span><!--[if supportFields]><span lang=EN style='font-size:
18.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN'><span
style='mso-element:field-begin'></span></span><span lang=EN style='font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:
minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;
color:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN'> </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;color:windowtext'>TC "</span><span
style='mso-bookmark:_Toc465015335'><span lang=EN style='font-size:18.0pt;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN'>The Rehearsal</span></span><span
style='mso-bookmark:_Toc465015335'></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;color:windowtext'>" \f C
\l "1" </span><![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><span lang=EN
style='font-size:18.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:
EN'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--></a><![if !supportNestedAnchors]><a
name="_Toc465015335"></a><![endif]></span><span lang=EN style='font-size:18.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:#454545;mso-ansi-language:EN'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�</span><span
style='mso-tab-count:1'>���� </span></span><span style='font-size:18.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:#454545'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#454545;mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'>Alison
<span class=GramE>Maclean<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>2016</span>
New Zealand 75 minutes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'>This
is a well-acted, well-done film�and I started out really liking it.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�� </span>But it takes a turn that made me rather
totally dislike it:<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>it becomes as
adolescent and shallow as some of its characters, and this deeply bothered
me.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>The fact that Alison Maclean can do
such a technically good film makes it even worse that her vision is ultimately
so puerile.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>I suppose we are to think
that there is redemption for the miscreant behavior in the ending�s turn
around; but long before that the film turned sour on me.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>I did not buy there being anything redemptive
at all; and the fact that the characters�and the filmmaker�seemed to feel
differently put the nail in the coffin of this film for me.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span lang=EN
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span lang=EN
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'>U.S. Premiere</span></b><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'>Alison Maclean (<i>Jesus�
Son</i>) returns to her New Zealand filmmaking roots with a multilayered
coming-of-age story about a young actor (James Rolleston) searching for the
truth of a character he�s playing onstage and the resulting moral dilemma in
his personal life. Set largely in a drama school, featuring Kerry Fox as a
diva-like teacher who tries to shape her student�s raw talent, <i>The
Rehearsal, </i>adapted from the novel by Eleanor Catton, demystifies actors and
acting in order to reveal the moments where craft becomes art. The same happens
with Maclean�s understated but penetrating filmmaking. Her concentration on the
quotidian yields a finale that borders on the sublime.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-outline-level:3'><span lang=EN style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#FF6633;
mso-ansi-language:EN'><a href="http://www.filmlinc.org/films/fire-at-sea/">Fire
at Sea<!--[if supportFields]><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:
minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;color:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'> TC
"</span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc465015336'>Fire at Sea</span><span
style='mso-bookmark:_Toc465015336'></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:
minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;
color:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>" \f C \l "1" </span><![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><span
style='mso-element:field-end'></span><![endif]--></a><![if !supportNestedAnchors]><a
name="_Toc465015336"></a><![endif]></span><span lang=EN style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#454545;
mso-ansi-language:EN'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:#454545;mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'>Gianfranco
<span class=SpellE><span class=GramE>Rosi</span></span><span class=GramE><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>2016</span> Italy/Franc 108 minutes</span><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>This is one that almost
worked:<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>the idea of embedding the
extreme immigration crisis of North Africa into the extremely mundane everyday
life of the Italian island of Lampedusa is a clever one�and it does almost work.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>Immersing the viewer in the quotidian
existence of a pre-adolescent boy and his family, and only having the horror
and pain of the refugees to the island community in which he lives emerge
slowly in the interstices of our view of his life on the island actually could
have created an even higher level of contrast.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�
</span>Unfortunately, I think <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Gianfranco
<span class=SpellE>Rosi</span></b> goes too far in the amount of time he spends
focusing on the quotidian�and in the end it provides a distraction rather than
a contrast.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>Politically the film is
well-meaning and on target.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�
</span>Cinematically it misses the mark.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'>Winner of the Golden
Bear at this year�s Berlin Film Festival, Gianfranco <span class=SpellE>Rosi�s</span>
documentary observes Europe�s migrant crisis from the vantage point of <span
class=SpellE>of</span> Lampedusa, a Mediterranean island where hundreds of
thousands of refugees, fleeing war and poverty, have landed in recent decades. <span
class=SpellE>Rosi</span> shows the harrowing work of rescue operations but
devotes most of the film to the daily rhythms of Lampedusa, seen through the
eyes of a doctor who treats casualties and performs autopsies, and a feisty but
anxious pre-teen from a family of fishermen for whom it is simply a peripheral
fact of life. With its emphasis on the quotidian, the film reclaims an ongoing
tragedy from the abstract sensationalism of media headlines. <span class=GramE>A
Kino <span class=SpellE>Lorber</span> release.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-outline-level:3'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a
href="http://www.filmlinc.org/films/lost-city-z/"><span lang=EN
style='font-size:18.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:
EN'>The Lost City of Z</span><!--[if supportFields]><span lang=EN
style='font-size:18.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:
EN'><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span></span><span lang=EN
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;color:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN'> </span><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;color:windowtext'>TC "</span><span
style='mso-bookmark:_Toc465015337'><span lang=EN style='font-size:18.0pt;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN'>The Lost City
of Z</span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc465015337'></span><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;color:windowtext'>" \f C \l "1" </span><![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><span
lang=EN style='font-size:18.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--></a><![if !supportNestedAnchors]><a
name="_Toc465015337"></a><![endif]></span><span style='font-size:18.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:#454545;mso-ansi-language:EN'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�</span></span><span
style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:#454545'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#454545;mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'>James <span
class=GramE>Gray<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>2016</span> USA</span><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'> 140 minutes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>I had wanted to like this
film.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>We had even brought with us to see
it two Peruvian architects, one of whom actually did a <span class=SpellE>masters</span>
thesis that involved the civilization in question in that part of the Bolivian
Amazon.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>Some hour or so into this film,
however, I began to ask myself, �Why am I supposed to care about this?�<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>By two hours into the film I was angrily
convinced that I absolutely did not, and that there was no conceivable reason
why I should.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>The glorification of the
main character�s obsessive pursuit of this exploration in no way seemed to
justify the toll it took <span class=GramE>on his family�nor</span> on me as
the viewer.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>It was pitched as �visually
resplendent�; but, aside from the visual excitement of the initial hunting
scene (totally ripped off from the almost identical�but far better�sequence in
Tony Richardson�s academy award winning <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Tom
Jones</i>), we did <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>not</i> find it
particularly wonderful visually.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>The
grandiosity of thinking this mess of a story merited a two hour and twenty
minute film is very much involved in what was so dreadfully wrong with it:<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>it took itself incredibly seriously without
any earthly justification for doing so.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�
</span>It did have high production values; but, as always, that only
intensifies my disliking a film when its story and dramatic meaning are so
bad.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>It indeed is a film of epic size;
but is a work of tiny value or import,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span lang=EN
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'>World Premiere<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'>James Gray�s emotionally
and visually resplendent epic tells the story of Lieutenant Colonel Percy
Fawcett (a remarkable Charlie <span class=SpellE>Hunnam</span>), the British
military-man-turned-explorer whose search for a lost city deep in the Amazon
grows into an increasingly feverish, decades-long magnificent obsession that
takes a toll on his reputation, his home life with his wife (Sienna Miller) and
children, and his very existence. Gray and cinematographer Darius <span
class=SpellE>Khondji</span> cast quite a spell, exquisitely pitched between
rapture and dizzying terror. Also starring Robert Pattinson and Tom Holland, <i>The
Lost City of Z </i>represents a form of epic storytelling that has all but
vanished from the landscape of modern cinema, and a rare level of artistry.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-outline-level:3'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a
href="http://www.filmlinc.org/films/my-entire-high-school-sinking-into-the-sea/"><span
lang=EN style='font-size:18.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN'>My Entire High School Sinking into the Sea</span><!--[if supportFields]><span
lang=EN style='font-size:18.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN'><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span></span><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;color:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN'> </span><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;color:windowtext'>TC "</span><span
style='mso-bookmark:_Toc465015338'><span lang=EN style='font-size:18.0pt;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN'>My Entire High
School Sinking into the Sea</span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc465015338'></span><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;color:windowtext'>" \f C \l "1" </span><![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><span
lang=EN style='font-size:18.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--></a><![if !supportNestedAnchors]><a
name="_Toc465015338"></a><![endif]></span><span style='font-size:18.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:#454545;mso-ansi-language:EN'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�</span></span><span
lang=EN style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:#FF6633;mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#454545;mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'>Dash <span
class=GramE>Shaw<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>2016</span> USA 75
minutes</span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>I have no idea what this
was doing in the NYFF:<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>it seemed much
more like a high school art project than a professional film.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>It certainly is not for children:<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>it is dark and violent in a deeply disturbing
way; but I did not find it suitable for adults, either:<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>it is puerile and vacuous in an unpleasant
and unfulfilling way.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>We and our guests
all felt it had been a total waste of time to have gone to see it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span lang=EN
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span lang=EN
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'>U.S. Premiere</span></b><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'>No matter your age, part
of you never outgrows high school, for better or worse. Dash Shaw, known for
such celebrated graphic novels as <i>Bottomless Belly Button</i> and <i>New
School</i>, brings his subjective, dreamlike sense of narrative; his empathy
for outsiders and their desire to connect; and his rich, expressive drawing
style to his first animated feature. Packed with action but seen from the
inside out, <i>My Entire High School Sinking into the Sea </i>is about friends
overcoming their differences and having each other�s backs in times of crisis,
and its marvelously complex characters are voiced by Jason Schwartzman, Lena
Dunham, Reggie Watts, Maya Rudolph, and John Cameron Mitchell.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:center;line-height:normal'><u><span style='font-size:18.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'><a
href="http://www.filmlinc.org/nyff2016/sections/spotlight-on-documentary"><b><u><span
lang=EN style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;letter-spacing:1.2pt;
mso-ansi-language:EN'>Spotlight on Documentary</span></u></b></a></span></u><span
class=included-in2><b><u><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:#787878;
letter-spacing:1.2pt'><o:p></o:p></span></u></b></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:#454545'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>The documentaries in this
year�s NYFF were fabulous!<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>I have
already included our favorite, <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>I Am Not Your Negro</i></b>, above among the
films of the Main Slate, as it was our second favorite film in the Festival�and
we saw it twice!<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>But <i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>many</i> of the documentaries below would
rank among our favorite films in the NYFF this year, far above many in the Main
Slate.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<h3 style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span class=MsoHyperlink><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>I Am Not
Your Negro</span></span><strong><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.5pt;
font-family:proxima-nova;color:#454545;mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p></o:p></span></strong></h3>
<h3 style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><strong><span lang=EN
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#454545;
mso-ansi-language:EN;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></strong></h3>
<h3 style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><strong><span lang=EN
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;
mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold'>Raoul Peck USA/France/Belgium/Switzerland, 2016, 93m<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span><o:p></o:p></span></strong></h3>
<h3 style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><o:p> </o:p></h3>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-themecolor:
text1;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>This absolutely incredible documentary should have
been in the Main Slate of the NYFF, and I included it above with the Main Slate
because it not only deserved to be there, in my opinion it should have been the
Opening Night film.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>It was our second
favorite film in the NYFF, and we saw it <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>twice</i>!
(<b>See the review above</b>)</span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#454545'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#454545'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<h3 style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'><a
href="http://www.filmlinc.org/films/restless-creature-wendy-whelan/"><span
lang=EN style='mso-ansi-language:EN'>Restless Creature: Wendy Whelan</span></a></span><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#454545;mso-ansi-language:EN'> <span
lang=EN><o:p></o:p></span></span></h3>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#454545;mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;
mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'>Linda <span class=SpellE>Saffire</span>,
Adam <span class=GramE>Schlesinger<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>2016</span>
USA 90 minutes</span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;
mso-themecolor:text1'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-themecolor:
text1'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-themecolor:
text1'>We would not have missed this documentary, even if only to support our
friend <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Adam Schlesinger</b>, who
co-directed it with <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Linda <span
class=SpellE>Saffire</span></b>; but, in actuality, it is a <i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>terrific </i>film that would be a must-see
for us under <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>any</i> circumstances! It is
an excellent piece of cinema, engaging, entertaining, and quite moving.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>Although <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Wendy
Whelan</b> is a world renowned ballerina, known to all who over the years have
followed the NY City Ballet, she is not someone I have been particularly
interested in; nor am I particularly interested in dance in general.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>It does not matter:<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>the story of her hip injury and her incredible
drive to overcome it and to reclaim her decades-long extraordinary career is so
riveting�and the filmmaking about it is so spectacular�that it is virtually
impossible not to be thoroughly drawn in and entranced by this film.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>What a treat!<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�
</span>And, if you <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>do</i> love dance, it
is an absolute must. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><strong><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p> </o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><strong><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-themecolor:
text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'>Q&As with Wendy Whelan, Linda <span
class=SpellE>Saffire</span>, Adam Schlesinger and additional crew members*</span></strong><b><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-themecolor:
text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'><br>
</span></b><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;
mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'>In 1984, Wendy Whelan joined the New
York City Ballet as an apprentice; by 1991, she had been promoted to Principal
Dancer. She quickly became a revered and beloved figure throughout the dance
world. Wrote Roslyn <span class=SpellE>Sulcas</span>, �<span class=GramE>her</span>
sinewy physicality, her kinetic clarity, and her dramatic, otherworldly
intensity have created a quite distinct and unusual identity.� Linda <span
class=SpellE>Saffire</span> and Adam Schlesinger�s film follows this
extraordinary artist throughout a passage of life that all dancers must face,
when she must confront the limitations of her own body and adapt to a different
relationship with the art form she loves so madly.</span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span lang=EN
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;
mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<h3 style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.filmlinc.org/films/the-b-side/"><span
lang=EN style='mso-ansi-language:EN'>The B-Side: Elsa <span class=SpellE>Dorfman�s</span>
Portrait Photog</span></a></span><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#454545;mso-ansi-language:EN'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span><o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#454545;mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;
mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'>Errol <span class=GramE>Morris<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>2016</span> USA 76 minutes</span><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-themecolor:
text1'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-themecolor:
text1'>Ten years ago, <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Elsa <span
class=SpellE>Dorfman</span></b> took one of her signature 20 x 24 inch Polaroid
photographs of Alex, Nancy, my parents, and me.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�
</span>Two years later, my Dad died, and four years after that my Mom died�so
this portrait has become a family heirloom.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�
</span>It is also a totally <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>amazing</i>
photograph! (At the reception in her honor before the premiere of the film, I
was telling <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Elsa</b> how special that
photograph, taken as a present for my 60<sup>th</sup> birthday had become; and
she said, �Oh! You�re the <span class=SpellE>psychoanalyst!�How</span> she
remembered is beyond me�but not beyond her.)<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�
</span><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Elsa</b> has always been able to
capture something enormously special in her work; and there is something
technically special visually rich about these extremely large format Polaroid
photographs. The esteemed documentarian <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Errol
Morris</b> has made a deeply personal, beautiful, <span class=GramE>touching,</span>
and totally wonderful film about her.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>It
is set as an interview in her Cambridge studio, and consists mostly of her
going through photographs she has taken over the years.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>(The title, <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The B-Side</i></b> derives from
the fact that the copies she has are the ones her clients did not choose.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>These Polaroids are one-offs, unique
originals; so there are no copies of a photograph, only the actual originals
themselves.). In the course of her reminiscing, however, she recounts her
personal and professional history, the story of her family and friends (often,
like Allen Ginsberg, her subjects as well), and the many years she has been
creating this art.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'>Morris</b>, who is a loving friend of <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'>Elsa</b><span class=GramE>,<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>has</span>
created a film that captures the marvels of this fantastic woman and her
incredible work.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>You will be captivated
and thrilled to watch it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-outline-level:
3'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;
mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-outline-level:
3'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;
mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'>Errol Morris�s surprising new film is
simplicity itself: a visit to the Cambridge, Massachusetts studio of his
friend, the 20�24 Polaroid portrait photographer Elsa <span class=SpellE>Dorfman</span>,
who specifies on her website that she likes her subjects �to wear clothes (and
to bring toys, skis, books, tennis racquets, musical instruments, and
particularly pets�).� As this charming, articulate, and calmly uncompromising
woman takes us through her fifty-plus years of remarkable but fragile
images of paying customers, commissioned subjects, family, and close friends
(including the poet Allen Ginsberg), the sense of time passing grows more and
more acute. This is a masterful film.</span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-outline-level:3'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-outline-level:3'><span class=GramE><b><span lang=EN
style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:#FF6633;mso-ansi-language:EN'>Whose</span></b></span><b><span
lang=EN style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:#FF6633;mso-ansi-language:EN'> Country?</span></b><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;background:white'><b><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#454545;
mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;background:white'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;
mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>Mohamed <span class=GramE>Siam<span
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�
</span>2016</span></span></span><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;
mso-ansi-language:EN'> Egypt/USA/France<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�
</span>60 minutes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;background:white'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;
mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>Co-Produced
by our friend <span class=SpellE><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Bruni</b></span><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'> <span class=SpellE>Burres</span></b>, </span><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><i><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;
mso-ansi-language:EN'>Whose Country?</span></i></b><span lang=EN
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>
<span class=GramE>is</span> enormously powerful, partly because it is so
personal and understated.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>Mostly an
interview with a former policeman under the Mubarak regime, the film outlines
the corruption and brutality of the police and their devastating effects on the
lives of innocent Egyptian citizens.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>It moves
through the period of Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood (when the main figure
re-enters the police department), with its failed hope that more fairness will
enter the system; and it continues into the military coup that ended that
failed project.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>The only constants seem
to be corruption and brutality.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>It is a
personal tale of a politically crucial swath of Egypt�s modern history�made even
more complex by the obvious distortions of the main <span class=GramE>character�s</span>
biased telling of the story�and perhaps even by the filmmaker </span><b><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'>Mohamed Siam</span></b><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>�s
own personally related history.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>It is a
completely fascinating piece of documentary cinema that should be seen.</span><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;
background:white'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;
mso-ansi-language:EN'>A remarkable, one-of-a-kind film from Egypt, <span
class=GramE><i>Whose</i></span><i> Country? </i><span class=GramE>has</span> a
point of view that grows in complexity as it proceeds, alongside the shifting
fortunes and affiliations of the Cairo policeman who is the film�s subject and
guide. By his side, we witness the fall of Mubarak, the rise and fall of Morsi
and the Muslim Brotherhood, and the rise of Abdel Fattah el-<span class=SpellE>Sisi</span>.
The level of craft in this film is extraordinary, and so is the close
attention that the director pays to his difficult task: illuminating the
compromised lives of the protagonist and his friends and the convulsive nation
they call home</span><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;
mso-ansi-language:EN'>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;
background:white'><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;
mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<h3 style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'><a
href="http://www.filmlinc.org/films/the-cinema-travellers/"><span lang=EN
style='mso-ansi-language:EN'>The Cinema Travelers</span></a></span><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#454545;mso-ansi-language:EN'> <span
lang=EN><o:p></o:p></span></span></h3>
<h3 style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN
style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#454545;
mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p> </o:p></span></h3>
<h3 style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;
mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'>Shirley Abraham, Amit <span
class=SpellE><span class=GramE>Madheshiya</span></span><span class=GramE><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>2016</span> India 96 minutes</span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;
mso-themecolor:text1'><o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<h3 style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'><o:p> </o:p></span></h3>
<h3 style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>I did
not know anything about the history of these traveling film shows�although the
state of Maharashtra is one of those places in India I am somewhat familiar
with.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>This beautiful little film
captures the wonder that these itinerant shows brought to rural areas back
before the moving image had commonly been seen by them, and it then captures
the melancholy of the decline of this activity as it became replaced by
television in the rural life of India.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�
</span>While some of it is full of the joy of discovery and the wonder at a
previously unseen technology, most of the film chronicles the decline of this
art and its practitioners.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>In this, it
is a deeply sad, melancholic film�and I am afraid far too much of its run time
is dedicated to this melancholic part.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�
</span>Ms. <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Abraham</b> and Mr. <span
class=SpellE><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Madheshiva</b></span> are
clearly very talented young filmmakers, with a very promising future.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>I hope that they learn the �less is <span
class=SpellE>more�principle</span>, however:<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�
</span>the only real flaw of their film was that it is too long�something
particularly difficult in documentary filmmaking.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>At an hour, this little gem would have been a
masterpiece.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>As it is, it was still a
lovely film.<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<h3 style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'><o:p> </o:p></span></h3>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-outline-level:
3'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;
mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'>Mohammed and <span class=SpellE>Bapu</span>
are itinerant film showmen who travel through the Western Indian state of
Maharashtra and show 35mm film prints on makeshift screens at village fairs.
All the while, they struggle with both the growing possibility of obsolescence
and the increasing fragility of their enormous rusty, clanking projectors, kept
in barely working order by a repairman named Prakash (who has a beautiful
invention: an �oil bath� projector). This colorful, five-years-in-the-making
documentary is a real Last Picture Show, but its melancholy is leavened with
joy and delight, and the wonder of still images coming to life at 24 frames per
second.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-outline-level:
3'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-themecolor:
text1'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-outline-level:3'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:center;line-height:normal;mso-outline-level:3'><span
class=MsoHyperlink><b><u><span lang=EN style='font-size:18.0pt;color:black;
mso-themecolor:text1;letter-spacing:1.2pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>SPECIAL EVENTS<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-outline-level:3'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#454545'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<h3 style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.filmlinc.org/films/gimme-danger/"><span
class=SpellE><span lang=EN style='mso-ansi-language:EN'>Gimme</span></span><span
lang=EN style='mso-ansi-language:EN'> Danger</span></a></span><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#454545;mso-ansi-language:EN'> <span
lang=EN><o:p></o:p></span></span></h3>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#454545;mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;
mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'>Jim <span class=SpellE><span
class=GramE>Jarmusch</span></span><span class=GramE><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>2016</span> USA 108 minutes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;
mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>Jim <span class=SpellE>Jarmusch</span></span></b><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'> is a
musician and a music lover, and music always plays an integral and wonderful
role in all his films.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>As in his 1997
documentary about Neil Young and Crazy Horse's 1996 concert tour, <i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Year of the Horse</i>, in <span
class=SpellE><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:
normal'>Gimme</i></b></span><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'> Danger</i> Jim</b> has created a very
personal, beautiful portrait of a musician and his work�this time <b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Iggy Pop</b> and the musicians he worked
with, especially the members of his band, <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>The
Stooges</b>.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>This is an intimate, funny,
historically important, humanly insightful piece of work.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>I loved it, even though I am not at all
familiar with the music involved.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-themecolor:
text1'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><strong><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-themecolor:
text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'>Iggy Pop and Jim <span class=SpellE>Jarmusch</span>
in person!</span></strong><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�</span>�Music is life and life is not a business,� said
Iggy Pop when he and his surviving bandmates from The Stooges were inducted
into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2010. Jim <span class=SpellE>Jarmusch�s</span>
cinematic offering to the punk gods of Ann Arbor traces the always raucous and
frequently calamitous history of the Stooges from inception to the present.
With the help of animator James Kerr, plus glimpses of Lucille Ball and a
shirtless Yul Brynner amidst a bonanza of archival performance footage, photos,
and interviews, <span class=SpellE><i>Gimme</i></span><i> Danger</i> has the
feeling of a night at Max�s Kansas City. An Amazon Studios and Magnolia
Pictures release</span><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#454545;mso-ansi-language:EN'>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-outline-level:3'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#454545'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<h3 style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.filmlinc.org/films/jackie/"><span
lang=EN style='mso-ansi-language:EN'>Jackie</span></a></span><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#454545;mso-ansi-language:EN'> <span
lang=EN><o:p></o:p></span></span></h3>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#454545;
mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;
mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'>Pablo <span class=SpellE><span
class=GramE>Larra�n</span></span><span class=GramE><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>2016</span> USA/Chile/France 99 minutes</span><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-themecolor:
text1'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-themecolor:
text1'>As much as I had liked </span><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-themecolor:
text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'>Pablo <span class=SpellE><span class=GramE>Larra�n<span
style='font-weight:normal'>�s</span></span></span></span></b><span class=GramE><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Neruda</i></b></span></span><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>, I <i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>totally</i> disliked his <b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Jackie</i></b>.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>I found it an empty, exploitative,
self-important and self-indulgent aimless wandering through a painful moment in
American history, the assassination of <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Jack
Kennedy</b>.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'>Natalie Portman</b>, whom I usually very much like, was either dreadful
in the title role of this film, <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>or</i> she
was very successfully acting the flat, empty-headed portrayal of Jackie Kennedy
that the director was going for.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>Either
way, it was horrid.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>One can react many
ways to that First Lady�s preoccupation with style and appearance; and, while
it is possible to conclude that it did reflect an actual shallowness and
self-centeredness, it hardly justifies making a film around that�particularly
utilizing the extremely graphic representations of the assassination itself to
punctuate this view point.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>I was not a
fan of JFK, nor was I particularly an admirer of his First Lady; but I feel
that this pointless and pretentious film is an exploitative and empty taking of
this moment in our country�s history.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�
</span>The music was every bit as maudlin and melodramatic as the direction-<span
class=SpellE>pperhaps</span> even more disgustingly so.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>Yuck.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�
</span>(The feel of <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:
normal'>Jackie</i></b> was so totally different from anything I can imagine
from <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Pablo <span class=SpellE>Larrain</span></b>,
I actually wonder how much may be attributable to Darren Aronofsky, who was one
of the producers, and whose project this originally was, and whose work I have
thoroughly disliked.)<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span><span class=GramE>I<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>am</span> only glad that this was only a last
minute addition to the Festival as a Special Event, and not deemed to be worthy
to be part of the Main Slate.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-themecolor:
text1'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-themecolor:
text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'>Pablo <span class=SpellE>Larra�n�s</span> first
English-language film is a bolt from the blue, a fugue-like study of Jackie
Kennedy, brilliantly acted by Natalie Portman. Dramatizing events from just
before, during, and after JFK�s assassination, this carefully reconstructed,
beautifully visualized film is grounded in Jackie�s interactions with her
children, her social secretary (Greta <span class=SpellE>Gerwig</span>), <span
class=SpellE>LBJ�s</span> special assistant Jack <span class=SpellE>Valenti</span>
(Max Casella), her brother-in-law Bobby (Peter <span class=SpellE>Sarsgaard</span>),
a priest (John Hurt), a journalist (Billy Crudup), and others. In this
emotionally urgent film, from a script by Noah Oppenheim, we feel not only
Jackie�s tragic solitude but also her precise awareness that every move she
makes carries historical ramifications. <span class=GramE>A Fox Searchlight
release.</span></span><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;
mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;background:white'><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;
mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<h3 style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.filmlinc.org/films/two-trains-runnin/"><span
lang=EN style='mso-ansi-language:EN'>Two Trains <span class=SpellE>Runnin</span>�</span></a></span><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#454545;mso-ansi-language:EN'> </span><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#454545'><o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'>Sam <span class=GramE>Pollard<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>2016</span> USA 80 minutes<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'>We wanted to see this one, but, in
the end, just couldn�t make the scheduling work.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>But here is the <span class=SpellE>FSLC�s</span>
description of it:<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN'>In the �Freedom Summer�
of 1964, hundreds of young people�including James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and
Michael <span class=SpellE>Schwerner</span>�were drawn to the <span
class=GramE>deep</span> South to take part in the Civil Rights movement. At the
same moment, two groups of young men (including guitarist John Fahey and Dick
Waterman, the great champion of the Blues) made the same trip in search of
Blues legends Skip James and Son House. That these two quests ended in the
volatile state of Mississippi, whose governor famously referred to integration
as �genocide,� is the starting point for Sam Pollard�s inventive, musically and
historically rich film.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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