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<p align=center style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><b><span
style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>NEW YORK FILM
FESTIVAL</span></b><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align=center style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><b><span
style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p align=center style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><b><span
style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>2012 � 50<sup>th</sup>
Festival<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align=center style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><span
style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The <b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><a
href="http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff2011/schedule">2012 NYFF</a></b> ended on 14
October.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>This excellent Festival�the <b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>50<sup>th</sup> anniversary edition</b>�was
fabulous:<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>films from all over the globe,
from young directors and old, ones that delighted and ones that challenged,
ones that made us laugh and ones that made us cry�and mostly intense, rich
experiences that one would be unlikely to have anywhere other than at the <b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>New York Film Festival</b>.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>There were films about coming of age, set in
virtually every decade from the 60s to the present, and there were films about
aging and dying; there were appearances by just about every famous French actor
in film history�including several giants from the <span class=GramE>New Wave</span>
(two of whom appeared in an Austrian�s film).<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�
</span>It was terrific in all the ways the NYFF can be:<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>there were not a lot of films I knew about in
advance or was particularly looking forward to (the main exception being <b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Sally Potter</b>'s <span
class=MsoHyperlink><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><a
href="#_Toc339139272"><i><span lang=EN style='mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;
mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>GINGER AND ROSA</span></i></a></b></span>,
which we had seen an early version of at a focus group the <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'><a href="http://www.filmlinc.com/">Film Society</a></b> had done for it
during its post-production process);<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>the
film I realized I was most excited about seeing was not even <i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>in</i> the NYFF proper (there were 33 films
chosen to be part of the �<b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Main Slate</b>�
that constitutes the heart of this year�s festival)�it was in the <b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><a
href="http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff2012/series/nyff50-special-events">Special
Events</a></b> part of the Festival, and was the 25th anniversary, screening of
<span class=MsoHyperlink><span style='mso-no-proof:yes'><a href="#_Toc339109334"><b><i><span
lang=EN style='mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>THE PRINCESS BRIDE</span></i></b></a></span></span>!
(<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>q.v.</i>, below); there were films I
knew little about from filmmakers I have loved for as long as I can remember (<i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>e.g.</i>, <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'><a href="#_Toc339109312">Alain Resnais</a></b>), and several from
filmmakers I have come to love over our decades of going to the NYFF (<b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><a href="#_Toc339109313">Abbas Kiarostami</a></b>,
<b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><a href="#_Toc339109320">Olivier Assayas</a></b>,
<b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><a href="#_Toc339109318">Noah Baumbach</a></b>,
<b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><a href="#_Toc339109316">Michael Haneke</a></b>,<b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'> <a href="#_Toc339109323">L�os Carax</a></b>,
and <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><a href="#_Toc339109328">Ang Lee</a></b>);
and then there was the very special assortment of films from directors I didn't
know at all (<b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><a href="#_Toc339139282">Song
Fang</a></b>, <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><a href="#_Toc339109322">Miguel
Gomes</a></b>, <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><a href="#_Toc339109317">No�mie
Lvovsky</a></b>, and </span><em><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'><a href="#_Toc339109321"><span style='mso-bidi-font-style:
normal'>Paolo and Vittorio Taviani</span></a></span></b></em><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> [whose films, I am
embarrassed to admit, I had never seen--but which Nancy and I have been happily
devouring ever since]) and whose films I should never have had the opportunity
to see were it not for the Festival (seeing these unexpected gems is always the
very best part of the NYFF experience).<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�
</span>There was also a smattering of more commercial, Hollywood fare
(relatively rare in the NYFF) which, given my preferences, was predictably
disappointing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>So as not
to bury the <span class=SpellE>lede</span>, I�m going to put a list of the
films I saw here, as well as below (the name of each film is linked to my
review of it, below, if you�d like to jump ahead):<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align=center style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.0pt;
margin-left:0in;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><u><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>THE MAIN SLATE of FILMS IN THE
FESTIVAL<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p align=center style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoToc1 align=center style='text-align:center'><!--[if supportFields]><span
lang=EN><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�</span>TOC \f \n \h \z <span style='mso-element:field-separator'></span></span><![endif]--><span
lang=EN><span class=MsoHyperlink><b><a href="#_Toc339139270">YOU AIN�T SEEN
NOTHIN� YET (VOUS N�AVEZ ENCORE RIEN VU)</a></b></span></span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:
minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-theme-font:
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mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoToc1 align=center style='text-align:center'><span
class=MsoHyperlink><b><span lang=EN><a href="#_Toc339139271">LIKE SOMEONE IN
LOVE</a></span></b></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;
mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoToc1 align=center style='text-align:center'><span
class=MsoHyperlink><b><span lang=EN><a href="#_Toc339139272">GINGER AND ROSA</a></span></b></span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:
minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-theme-font:
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mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoToc1 align=center style='text-align:center'><span
class=MsoHyperlink><b><span lang=EN><a href="#_Toc339139274">AMOUR</a></span></b></span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:
minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-theme-font:
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mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoToc1 align=center style='text-align:center'><span
class=MsoHyperlink><b><span lang=EN><a href="#_Toc339139275">CAMILLE REWINDS
(CAMILLE REDOUBLE)</a></span></b></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:
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mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoToc1 align=center style='text-align:center'><span
class=MsoHyperlink><b><span lang=EN><a href="#_Toc339139276">FRANCES HA</a></span></b></span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:
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<p class=MsoToc1 align=center style='text-align:center'><span
class=MsoHyperlink><b><span lang=EN><a href="#_Toc339139277">BARBARA</a></span></b></span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:
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<p class=MsoToc1 align=center style='text-align:center'><span
class=MsoHyperlink><b><span lang=EN><a href="#_Toc339139278">SOMETHING IN THE
AIR (APR�S MAI)</a></span></b></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;mso-hansi-theme-font:
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mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoToc1 align=center style='text-align:center'><span
class=MsoHyperlink><b><span lang=EN><a href="#_Toc339139279">CAESAR MUST DIE
(CESARE DEVE MORIRE)</a></span></b></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:
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mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoToc1 align=center style='text-align:center'><span
class=MsoHyperlink><b><span lang=EN><a href="#_Toc339139280">TABU</a></span></b></span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:
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<p class=MsoToc1 align=center style='text-align:center'><span
class=MsoHyperlink><b><span lang=EN><a href="#_Toc339139281">HOLY MOTORS</a></span></b></span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:
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<p class=MsoToc1 align=center style='text-align:center'><span
class=MsoHyperlink><b><span lang=EN><a href="#_Toc339139282">MEMORIES LOOK AT
ME (JI YI WANG ZHE WO)</a></span></b></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:
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mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoToc1 align=center style='text-align:center'><span
class=MsoHyperlink><b><span lang=EN><a href="#_Toc339139283">HYDE PARK ON
HUDSON</a></span></b></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
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mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;
mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoToc1 align=center style='text-align:center'><span
class=MsoHyperlink><b><span lang=EN><a href="#_Toc339139284">NOT FADE AWAY</a></span></b></span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:
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<p class=MsoToc1 align=center style='text-align:center'><span
class=MsoHyperlink><b><span lang=EN><a href="#_Toc339139285">ARAF � SOMEWHERE
IN BETWEEN</a></span></b></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
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mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoToc1 align=center style='text-align:center'><span
class=MsoHyperlink><b><span lang=EN><a href="#_Toc339139286">LIFE OF PI</a></span></b></span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:
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<p class=MsoToc1 align=center style='text-align:center'><span
class=MsoHyperlink><b><span lang=EN><a href="#_Toc339139287">FLIGHT</a></span></b></span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:
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<p class=MsoToc1 align=center style='text-align:center'><span
class=MsoHyperlink><b><span lang=EN><a href="#_Toc339139288">THE PAPERBOY</a></span></b></span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:
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<p class=MsoToc1 align=center style='text-align:center'><span
class=MsoHyperlink><b><span lang=EN><a href="#_Toc339139289">PASSION</a></span></b></span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:
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<p class=MsoToc1 align=center style='text-align:center'><span
class=MsoHyperlink><b><span lang=EN><a href="#_Toc339139290">NIGHT ACROSS THE
STREET (LA NOCHE DE ENFRENTE)</a></span></b></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:
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mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align=center style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><span
class=MsoHyperlink><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span
style='mso-no-proof:yes'><a href="#_Toc339139291"><i><span lang=EN
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:
EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>BEYOND THE HILLS</span></i><span lang=EN
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:
EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'> </span><span lang=EN
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:
EN;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>(<i>DUPA˘ DEALURI</i>)</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p align=center style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoToc1 align=center style='text-align:center'><!--[if supportFields]><span
lang=EN><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�</span>TOC \f \n \p " " \h \z <span
style='mso-element:field-separator'></span></span><![endif]--><span lang=EN><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:.1in;mso-para-margin-bottom:
.6gd;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><u><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>SPECIAL EVENTS<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class=MsoToc1 align=center style='text-align:center'><!--[if supportFields]><span
lang=EN><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--><span
lang=EN><span class=MsoHyperlink><b><a href="#_Toc339139292">THE PRINCESS BRIDE</a></b></span></span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:center;line-height:normal'><!--[if supportFields]><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>In
the end, of the 22 films I saw, there were eight that I thought were wonderful,
five I felt were really good, five I thought were quite watchable and at least
OK, and four I strongly disliked�not bad for a festival that is dedicated to
taking chances and that tries to present a broad range of things it feels have
artistic merit in a number of directions.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�
</span>(That�s 60% that were films I�d thoroughly recommend as being between
�really good� and �wonderful,� and over 80% that I felt were at least �quite
watchable�!<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>And two of the four I really
disliked I <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>should</i> have known in
advance to avoid, so they were my fault.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>A
wonderful part of the NYFF is its series of <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'>HBO Directors Dialogues</b>.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�
</span>These are separate events in which a professional critic does what is
mostly an extended (usually hour and 45 minutes) one-on-one interview with a
director.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>Although they open the floor
at the end to questions from the audience, the extended interview format sets a
tone that for the most part encourages the audience questions to be
considerably less annoyingly obnoxious than in the Q&As that follow the
screenings themselves.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>I saw three
directors dialogues: an absolutely marvelous one with <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'>Abbas Kiarostami</b>, moderated by <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Phillip
Lopate</b>; a very interesting one with <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Robert
Zemeckis</b>, conducted by <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Richard Pe�a</b>;
and an informative one with <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Noah
Baumbach</b> and <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Brian De Palma</b>
(most unusual, in that there has never been one before done with two directors;
and these are two about whom I have enormously different feelings: I actually
very much like <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Baumbach</b> almost
exactly as much as I dislike <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>De Palma</b>),
in which I was interested in trying to understand the fact that I had just
learned that the two very different directors were good friends.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>An
even more wonderful facet of the NYFF experience is getting to share it with a
group of other cinephiles.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�� </span>At the
Festival, we get to talk with lots of other people who, as we, are having their
own, intense, personal reactions to these incredibly provocative films.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>Some are people we bring with us (the NYFF
provides us with an opportunity to connect with people we don't otherwise get
to see often); some are other members of the Film Society whom we have come to
know over the years; some are just random film lovers we are sitting or
standing near; and some are the filmmakers themselves, as the NYFF provides
many informal opportunities to interact with directors, actors, and those in
the business that make it all possible (a particularly attractive perk or
becoming a <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><a
href="http://www.filmlinc.com/support/patrons-program">Patron</a> </b>of the
Film Society is access to the Patrons Lounge in Alice Tully during the
Festival:<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>it is not only a comfortable, beautiful
place to hang out between films, it is a place that one has unusually good and
intimate access to members of the film community).<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>So, <a
href="http://www.filmlinc.com/support/members-program">become a <b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Member</b></a>, or, better yet, <a
href="http://www.filmlinc.com/support/patrons-program">become a <b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Patron</b></a> of this excellent
organization, and enjoy next year's NYFF in style�and avail yourselves of the
year-round benefits of membership (<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>q.v.</i>,
the <a href="http://www.filmlinc.com/"><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Film
Society's website</b></a>).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoToc1><span lang=EN>The NYFF provides a wealth of riches each
year�going far beyond the the approximately 30 films of it Main Slate.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>This year there were some terrific <a
href="http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff2012/series/nyff50-special-events"><b><i>Special
Events</i></b></a>:<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>a series of �Special
Screenings,� which included the screening of <span class=MsoHyperlink><b><i><span
style='text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><a href="#_Toc339109334"><span
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:normal;text-decoration:
none;text-underline:none'>THE PRINCESS BRIDE</span></a> (</span></i></b></span>mentioned
above); and a series called, �Cinema Relected� (described in the program as,
�documentaries and essay films<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>about movies
and the men and women who make them�), including <a
href="http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff2012/films/liv-and-ingmar"><b><i>Liv and
Igmar</i></b></a> by Dheeraj Akokar, <a
href="http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff2012/films/roman-polanski-odd-man-out"><b><i>Roman
Polanski: Odd Man Out</i></b></a> by Marina Zenovich, <a
href="http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff2012/films/deceptive-practice-the-mysteries-and-mentors-of-ricky-jay"><b><i>Deceptive
Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay</i></b></a> by Bernstein and
Edelstein, and <a
href="http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff2012/films/the-savoy-king-chick-webb-and-the-music-that-changed-america"><b><i>The
Savoy King: Chick Webb and the Music That Changed America</i></b></a> by Jeff
Kaufman.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>There was also an impressive <a
href="http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff2012/series/nyff50-masterworks"><b><i>Masterworks</i></b></a>
series, which included the 1969 <a
href="http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff2012/films/fellini-satyricon"><b><i>Fellini
Satyricon</i></b></a>, the 1965 <a
href="http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff2012/films/the-rolling-stones-charlie-is-my-darling-ireland-65"><b><i>The
Rolling Stones - Charlie is my Darling</i></b></a>, the 1962 <a
href="http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff2012/films/lawrence-of-arabia"><b><i>Lawrence
of Arabia</i></b></a>, and a new director�s cut of the 1986 <a
href="http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff2012/films/little-shop-of-horrors-the-directors-cut"><b><i>Little
Shop of Horrors</i></b></a>.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>As always,
the NYFF included its fabulous<a
href="http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff2012/series/nyff50-views-from-the-avant-garde"><b><i>
Views from the Avant-Garde</i></b></a> series, curated by Mark McElhatten and
Gavin Smith.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>For the first time this
year, there was a series of free interview sessions at the Auditorium of the
Elinor Bunan Monroe Film Center entitled <a
href="http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff2012/series/nyff-live"><b><i>NYFF Live</i></b></a>.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>These session involved dialogues with major
filmmakers whose work was part of the NYFF (including Lee Daniels, Barry
Levinson, Palo Larrain and Gael Garcia Bernal, Roger Michell, Sally Potter, and
Richard Pe�a, just to mention a sampling.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>���
</span>They also were streamed live (via YouTube), and many are still available
online at <a href="http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff2012/series/nyff-live"><b><i>http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff2012/series/nyff-live</i></b></a>.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>Unfortunately, it was just a case of too many
riches:<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>while I saw 22 films, two Gala
Tributes, and three Directors Dialogues, neither Nancy nor I were able to avail
ourselves of any of these other swonderful opportunities.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>There
were two <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><a
href="http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff2012/series/nyff50-gala-tributes">Gala
Tributes</a></b> in this year�s NYFF, and these we were able to attend:<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>the first honored <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'><a
href="http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff2012/films/a-tribute-to-nicole-kidman">Nicole
Kidman</a></b> (featuring a reel of clips from her movies and an on-stage
conversation</span>,<span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>
followed by the U.S. premiere of her latest film, <span class=MsoHyperlink><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='mso-no-proof:yes'><a
href="#_Toc339109330"><i><span lang=EN style='mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;
mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;mso-no-proof:no'>THE PAPERBOY</span></i></a></span></b></span></span>);<span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>the second</span> <span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>honored</span><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a
href="http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff2012/films/richard-pena-25-years">Richard
Pe�a</a></span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>,
who is reaching the end of his unprecedented 25 year tenure as the <b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Film Society</b>�s <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'>Program Director</b> and <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Chairman</b>
of the <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Selection Committee</b> of the <b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>New York Film Festiva</b>l (it was a
well-deserved, wonderful tribute to this man who has used his encyclopedic knowledge
of and extraordinary taste in world cinema to enrich and expand the scope of
film shown in the NYFF�and in the US as a whole; and who is perhaps one of the
greatest interviewers of filmmakers anywhere�not to mention that he can often
serve as translator for them in the process, in several languages!)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Once
again this year, there was a <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Surprise
Screening</b> in which the NYFF screened a major, unfinished film�without
announcing beforehand what that film was going to be.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>This <span class=GramE>year�s<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span></span><span class=mediumc3><a
href="http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff2012/blog/nyff-steven-spielberg-lincoln-daniel-day-lewis-sally-field-whoopi-goldberg">Surprise
Screening</a> was <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:
normal'><a
href="http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff2012/blog/nyff-steven-spielberg-lincoln-daniel-day-lewis-sally-field-whoopi-goldberg">Lincoln</a></i></b>,</span></span>
<span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>directed by <b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Steven Spielberg</b> and written by <b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Tony Kushner</b></span>,<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'>which played to a packed Alice Tully Hall<span
style='mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>, and was </span>followed by a Q&A.</span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>For
those who are interested, the <span class=GramE>entire<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>Main</span> Slate of the 2012 NYFF and the
Film Society descriptions of each event can be found at </span><span
style='mso-bidi-font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;
mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><a
href="http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff2012/series/50th-new-york-film-festival">www.filmlinc.com/nyff2012/series/50th-new-york-film-festival</a></span><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>��
</span>My reviews of past years of the NYFF can be found at <a
href="http://www.rlrubens.com/nyff.html">www.RLRubens.com/nyff.html</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>This
50th NYFF was the product of the second successful year of the leadership of <span
class=GramE>the<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span></span><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><a
href="http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff2011/schedule">Film Society of Lincoln Center</a></b>�s
Executive Director <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Rose Kuo</b> and her
increasingly excellent team.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>So, <i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>brava.</i>..and thanks, Rose!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoToc1><span lang=EN>For those of you who over the years have not
noticed my subtlty in this�and who can be blamed for not looking to me to be
subtle about my judgments about anything�I thought I might mention again that I
have always placed my reviews of these films in approximately descending order
of how much I liked them.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>(Had I chosen
to include it along with those in the Main Slate, <span class=MsoHyperlink><b><a
href="#_Toc339109334"><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>THE PRINCESS BRIDE</span></i></a></b></span><span
class=mediumc3><b><i> </i></b></span>would have been high on this list<span
class=mediumc3><b>.)</b></span></span></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The
list is composed of active links, and clicking on a title will take one to the
review of that film.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>All films are dated
2012.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align=center style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.0pt;
margin-left:0in;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><u><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>THE MAIN SLATE of FILMS IN THE
FESTIVAL<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p align=center style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoToc1 align=center style='text-align:center'><!--[if supportFields]><span
lang=EN><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�</span>TOC \f \n \h \z <span style='mso-element:field-separator'></span></span><![endif]--><span
lang=EN><span class=MsoHyperlink><b><a href="#_Toc339139270">YOU AIN�T SEEN
NOTHIN� YET (VOUS N�AVEZ ENCORE RIEN VU)</a></b></span></span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:
minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-theme-font:
minor-fareast;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoToc1 align=center style='text-align:center'><span
class=MsoHyperlink><b><span lang=EN><a href="#_Toc339139271">LIKE SOMEONE IN
LOVE</a></span></b></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;
mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoToc1 align=center style='text-align:center'><span
class=MsoHyperlink><b><span lang=EN><a href="#_Toc339139272">GINGER AND ROSA</a></span></b></span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:
minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-theme-font:
minor-fareast;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoToc1 align=center style='text-align:center'><span
class=MsoHyperlink><b><span lang=EN><a href="#_Toc339139274">AMOUR</a></span></b></span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:
minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-theme-font:
minor-fareast;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoToc1 align=center style='text-align:center'><span
class=MsoHyperlink><b><span lang=EN><a href="#_Toc339139275">CAMILLE REWINDS (CAMILLE
REDOUBLE)</a></span></b></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;
mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoToc1 align=center style='text-align:center'><span
class=MsoHyperlink><b><span lang=EN><a href="#_Toc339139276">FRANCES HA</a></span></b></span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:
minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-theme-font:
minor-fareast;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoToc1 align=center style='text-align:center'><span
class=MsoHyperlink><b><span lang=EN><a href="#_Toc339139277">BARBARA</a></span></b></span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:
minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-theme-font:
minor-fareast;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoToc1 align=center style='text-align:center'><span
class=MsoHyperlink><b><span lang=EN><a href="#_Toc339139278">SOMETHING IN THE
AIR (APR�S MAI)</a></span></b></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;mso-hansi-theme-font:
minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;
mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoToc1 align=center style='text-align:center'><span
class=MsoHyperlink><b><span lang=EN><a href="#_Toc339139279">CAESAR MUST DIE
(CESARE DEVE MORIRE)</a></span></b></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;mso-hansi-theme-font:
minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;
mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoToc1 align=center style='text-align:center'><span
class=MsoHyperlink><b><span lang=EN><a href="#_Toc339139280">TABU</a></span></b></span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:
minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-theme-font:
minor-fareast;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoToc1 align=center style='text-align:center'><span
class=MsoHyperlink><b><span lang=EN><a href="#_Toc339139281">HOLY MOTORS</a></span></b></span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:
minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-theme-font:
minor-fareast;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoToc1 align=center style='text-align:center'><span
class=MsoHyperlink><b><span lang=EN><a href="#_Toc339139282">MEMORIES LOOK AT
ME (JI YI WANG ZHE WO)</a></span></b></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;mso-hansi-theme-font:
minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;
mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoToc1 align=center style='text-align:center'><span
class=MsoHyperlink><b><span lang=EN><a href="#_Toc339139283">HYDE PARK ON
HUDSON</a></span></b></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;
mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoToc1 align=center style='text-align:center'><span
class=MsoHyperlink><b><span lang=EN><a href="#_Toc339139284">NOT FADE AWAY</a></span></b></span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:
minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-theme-font:
minor-fareast;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoToc1 align=center style='text-align:center'><span
class=MsoHyperlink><b><span lang=EN><a href="#_Toc339139285">ARAF � SOMEWHERE
IN BETWEEN</a></span></b></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;
mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoToc1 align=center style='text-align:center'><span
class=MsoHyperlink><b><span lang=EN><a href="#_Toc339139286">LIFE OF PI</a></span></b></span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:
minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-theme-font:
minor-fareast;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoToc1 align=center style='text-align:center'><span
class=MsoHyperlink><b><span lang=EN><a href="#_Toc339139287">FLIGHT</a></span></b></span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:
minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-theme-font:
minor-fareast;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoToc1 align=center style='text-align:center'><span
class=MsoHyperlink><b><span lang=EN><a href="#_Toc339139288">THE PAPERBOY</a></span></b></span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:
minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-theme-font:
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mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoToc1 align=center style='text-align:center'><span
class=MsoHyperlink><b><span lang=EN><a href="#_Toc339139289">PASSION</a></span></b></span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:
minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-theme-font:
minor-fareast;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoToc1 align=center style='text-align:center'><span
class=MsoHyperlink><b><span lang=EN><a href="#_Toc339139290">NIGHT ACROSS THE
STREET (LA NOCHE DE ENFRENTE)</a></span></b></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;mso-hansi-theme-font:
minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;
mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align=center style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><span
class=MsoHyperlink><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span
style='mso-no-proof:yes'><a href="#_Toc339139291"><i><span lang=EN
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:
EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>BEYOND THE HILLS</span></i><span lang=EN
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:
EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'> </span><span lang=EN
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:
EN;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>(<i>DUPA˘ DEALURI</i>)</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p align=center style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoToc1 align=center style='text-align:center'><!--[if supportFields]><span
lang=EN><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�</span>TOC \f \n \p " " \h \z <span
style='mso-element:field-separator'></span></span><![endif]--><span lang=EN><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:.1in;mso-para-margin-bottom:
.6gd;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><u><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>SPECIAL EVENTS<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class=MsoToc1 align=center style='text-align:center'><!--[if supportFields]><span
lang=EN><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--><span
lang=EN><span class=MsoHyperlink><b><a href="#_Toc339139292">THE PRINCESS BRIDE</a></b></span></span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:
minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-theme-font:
minor-fareast;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align=center style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><!--[if supportFields]><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--><span
style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><em><b><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:
EN'>YOU AIN�T SEEN NOTHIN� YET</span></b></em><em><span lang=EN
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'> </span></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>(</span></em><em><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:
EN'>VOUS N�AVEZ ENCORE RIEN VU</span></b></em><em><span lang=EN
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>)</span></em><!--[if supportFields]><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span></span></em><span
lang=EN style='mso-ansi-language:EN'> </span>TC "<span style='mso-bookmark:
_Toc339139270'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc339109312'><span style='mso-bookmark:
_Toc338963377'><em><b><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:
EN'>YOU AIN�T SEEN NOTHIN� YET</span></b></em></span></span></span><span
style='mso-bookmark:_Toc339139270'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc339109312'><span
style='mso-bookmark:_Toc338963377'><em><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;
font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'> </span></em></span></span></span><span
style='mso-bookmark:_Toc339139270'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc339109312'><span
style='mso-bookmark:_Toc338963377'><em><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:
italic'>(</span></em></span></span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc339139270'><span
style='mso-bookmark:_Toc339109312'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc338963377'><em><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>VOUS N�AVEZ ENCORE RIEN VU</span></b></em></span></span></span><span
style='mso-bookmark:_Toc339139270'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc339109312'><span
style='mso-bookmark:_Toc338963377'><em><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:
italic'>)</span></em></span></span></span>" \f C \l "1" <![endif]--><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'><![if !supportNestedAnchors]><a name="_Toc338963377"></a><a
name="_Toc339109312"></a><a name="_Toc339139270"></a><![endif]></span></em><!--[if supportFields]><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span></em><![endif]--><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>��</span>(France<span
class=GramE>)<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'>Alain</b></span><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'> Resnais</b>,
who had a film (</span></em><em><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>Muriel</span></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>) in the very first NYFF, returns at 90 to the 50<sup>th</sup>
NYFF with his amazing </span></em><em><b><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>YOU AIN�T SEEN NOTHIN� YET</span></b></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>This giant of French cinema (</span></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold;mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Hiroshima Mon Amour</span></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold;font-style:normal'> [1959], </span></em><em><span lang=EN
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold;mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Last Year at Marienbad</span></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold;font-style:normal'> [�61]) and NYFF regular (1998 NYFF, <a
href="http://www.rlrubens.com/nyff-99.html"><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:
Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-font-kerning:0pt'>S</span><i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;
mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-font-kerning:0pt'>ame Old Song</span></i></a></span></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>, and 2006 </span></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold;mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a
href="http://www.rlrubens.com/nyff-06.html#_Toc148886871"><span
style='mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-font-kerning:0pt'>Private Fears in Public Places</span><span lang=EN-US
style='mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-font-weight:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'> (Coeurs)</span></a></span></em><em><span lang=EN
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>, and one of our very
favorite films from the 2009 NYFF, </span></em><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:
normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a
href="http://www.rlrubens.com/nyff-09.html#_Toc245911495">Wild Grass (Les Herbes
folles)</a>)</span></i><em><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:
18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>, has created a cinematic masterpiece based on two
works by the playwright Jean Anouilh.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�
</span>The overall construct of the film is based on Anouilh�s 1969 </span></em><em><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>Cher
Antoine ou l'Amour rat�</span></em><em><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;
font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>:<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�
</span>the friends of a playwright, Antoine (played by <b>Denis Podalyd�s</b>),
are informed that the author has died and are summoned to a mountain chateau to
hear the reading of his will.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>The film
opens with each of the incredible real-world actors (including some of the
greatest actors in France: legends like <b>Michel Piccoli</b>, <b>Pierre Arditi</b>,
and Resnais-regular <b>Sabine Az�ma</b>, and current mainstays of French cinema
like <b>Mathieu Amalric</b>; </span></em><em><span lang=EN style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>vide</span></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>, <a
href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1690389/fullcredits#cast"><span
style='mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>IMDB</span></a> for a complete
listing of this amazing cast) receiving the identical phone call, inviting
them, named as the actors they actually are, to come to the reading of
Antoine�s will at his mountain estate in Peillons.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>Once they are all at the chateau, the butler
plays a video of Antoine in which he asks that they</span></em><span lang=EN
style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:"Neutraface 2 Text PS";color:black;
mso-ansi-language:EN'> </span><em><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;
font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>view and evaluate a recording of
an ex�perimental theater company performing his </span></em><em><span lang=EN
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold;mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Eurydice</span></em><em><span lang=EN
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>�a play by Antoine which we
learn all of the assembled actors appeared in over the years.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>The plot of Antoine�s </span></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold;mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Eurydice</span></em><em><span lang=EN
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold;font-style:normal'> is roughly that of Anouilh�s 1941 play by the same
name�which itself is a somewhat surrealistic, contemporary retelling of the
classic myth of Orpheus and Eurydice (most commonly known in its Roman form, �
la Virgil).</span></em><em><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:
18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>As the
assembled actors watch the �Compagnie de la Colombe� <span class=GramE>perform</span>
the play onscreen, one by one they begin to recite the lines from the roles
they had played in it along with their youthful onscreen counterparts.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>Before long we are seeing an incredible
intermingling of three distinct productions of the play: two in which an older
(<b>Pierre Arditi</b> and <b>Sabine Az�ma)</b> and younger (<b>Lambert Wilson</b>
and <b>Anne Consigny</b>) set of Orph�es and Eurydices lead productions
utilizing combinations of the other assembled actors, the third being the
onscreen version by the Compagnie de la Colombe.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>It is interesting to note that
psychiatrically people�s relationship to reality is measured in their degree of
orientation in three realms: person (does one know </span></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold'>who</span></em><em><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:
18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'> one is), place (does one know </span></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold'>where</span></em><em><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:
18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'> one is), and time (does one know </span></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold'>when</span></em><em><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:
18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'> it is).<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>In
this film, all three dimensions of orientation (and disorientation) are triply
complicated: there are </span></em><em><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>three</span></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'> Orph�es, </span></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold'>three</span></em><em><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:
18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'> Eurydices�a very young onscreen set of actors, and
an older and younger set of actor-friends in the chateau; actions take place in
three different universes (the industrial set which is the world of the
onscreen production, the room in the chateau in which the filmed version is
being viewed, and sets from what must have been one of the earlier
productions), and there are three different time frames (the most recent�yet
removed�time frame of the onscreen production, and the more and less distant
time frames of the two earlier productions by Antoine�s friends).<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>Within this complex matrix, <b>Resnais</b>
plays out the Orpheus and Eurydice themes of devoted love and hateful jealousy,
friendship and betrayal, and ultimately life and death.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>At the risk of being a spoiler, I cannot help
but mentioning that there are also three endings�and a final twist that engenders
an entirely other layer to the already complex layerings of realities.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>The Orpheus and Eurydice myth is about love
that goes through stages of death, a return to life (after Orpheus is permitted
to bring Eurydice back from the underworld), and a return to death; and <b>Resnais</b>
deals with every aspect of this throughout every part of the incredible
film.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>I cannot wait to see it again!</span></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:
minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-hansi-theme-font:
minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;
font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'><o:p></o:p></span></em></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><em><b><span lang=EN
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>LIKE SOMEONE IN
LOVE</span></b></em><!--[if supportFields]><em><b><span lang=EN
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'><span
style='mso-element:field-begin'></span></span></b></em><span lang=EN
style='mso-ansi-language:EN'> </span>TC "<span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc339139271'><span
style='mso-bookmark:_Toc339109313'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc338963378'><em><b><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>LIKE SOMEONE IN
LOVE</span></b></em></span></span></span>" \f C \l "1" <![endif]--><em><b><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'><![if !supportNestedAnchors]><a
name="_Toc338963378"></a><a name="_Toc339109313"></a><a name="_Toc339139271"></a><![endif]></span></b></em><!--[if supportFields]><em><b><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'><span
style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span></b></em><![endif]--><em><b><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>��</span></span></b></em><em><span lang=EN
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>(</span></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>Japan/France; <span style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold'>Sundance Selects)<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>Just the
opposite from our reaction to </span></span></em><em><b><span lang=EN
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;
mso-ansi-language:EN'>THE PAPERBOY</span></b></em><em><span lang=EN
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'> (</span></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold'>q.v.</span></em><em><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:
18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>, below), our appreciation for this marvelous new
film from </span></em><em><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=EN
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>Abbas Kiarostami</span></b></em><em><span lang=EN
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'> became increasingly more positive as we moved
further from having viewed it�and it started out extremely high to begin
with.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span></span></em><em><b><span lang=EN
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>LIKE SOMEONE IN
LOVE</span></b></em><em><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:
EN;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'> is an incredibly well-done
film from this Iranian virtuoso, whose works we have grown to love over the
last decades at the NYFF.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>Set in
Japan�and in Japanese, a language he does not speak�the film continues <b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Kiarostami</b>�s exploration of other
cultures and other settings.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>In this
film he goes further than he did in his wonderful last film, <a
href="http://www.rlrubens.com/nyff-10.html#_Toc275199361"><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:
normal'>Certified Copy (Copie conforme)</i></a>, our very favorite film from
the 2010 NYFF, which, while set in Florence, used actors who were French and
English.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>All of the actors in </span></em><em><b><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>LIKE SOMEONE IN
LOVE</span></b></em><em><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:
EN;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>, from the beautiful young
woman Akiko (<b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Rin Takanashi</b>) to the
81 year old Professor Takashi (<b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Tadashi
Okuno</b>, who was astounding, although he had never before had a major role in
a film) spoke only Japanese; and the settings and themes of the film were
deeply Japanese.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>Saying </span></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>anything</span></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'> about this film risks spoiling the exquisite
experience of having this master filmmaker reveal in his own elegant fashion
and own carefully chosen time each aspect of who his characters are and what is
actually happening in his story; so I shall confine my comments to the earliest
moments of the film�although even this will not completely avoid the problem.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>The story begins in a lively bar, where we
hear a female voice, which we only eventually realize has been one side of a
mobile phone conversation, spoken by Akiko, whom we do not see for many minutes
as the camera takes in other patrons of the bar.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>It eventually turns out that Akiko, a
high-end call girl who is also a sometimes sociology student (both facts we
only learn in stages later) was speaking to her jealous and controlling
boyfriend, Noriaki (<b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Ry�o Kase</b>, whom
we only meet the next day).<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>His jealousy
seems insane�or is it?<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>While Akiko yells
at one point, �I am not lying!<span class=GramE>�;</span> she clearly is.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>When the owner of the bar (and the manager of
her escort dealings) pushes her to ignore the fact that she is supposed to meet
her grandmother in order to go to a client he has arranged, she screams that
she will not do it; but she goes.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>(The
grandmother interlude is a complex thing of beauty and poignancy all its own,
even though it occupies only minutes of the film.)<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>And these are only the opening minutes of
this amazing work of art.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>Akiko ends up
at the apartment of Takashi, the aging professor who is to be her client; and
the next day they both end up meeting her boyfriend.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>Along the way we end up seeing a bizarrely
out-of-sync pair of intrusions into events by a female neighbor of the
professor (once as just a disembodied voice, and once as a face in her
window)�incomprehensible in terms of story line, but crucial in terms of
mood�although one does not know this at the time.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>The title, </span></em><em><b><span lang=EN
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>LIKE SOMEONE IN
LOVE</span></b></em><em><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:
EN;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>, comes in part from the title
of one of the many Ella Fitzgerald songs playing in the professor�s apartment,
but it also alludes to a very fundamental question in describing each of the
main characters in the complex tapestry of human interaction.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>The reason it took some time to realize how
fully deeply I loved this film relates to a disturbing turn the film takes�one
which only becomes understandably part of the entire fabric of the film in
retrospect, as one settles in to realizing all of what one has absorbed along
the way. <span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�</span>But enough�see it for yourself
and think about it.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>This one is a true
gem!<o:p></o:p></span></em></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><em><b><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:
EN'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></em></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><em><b><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:
18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>GINGER AND ROSA</span></b></em><!--[if supportFields]><em><b><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'><span
style='mso-element:field-begin'></span></span></b></em><span lang=EN
style='mso-ansi-language:EN'> </span>TC "<span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc339139272'><em><b><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>GINGER AND ROSA</span></b></em></span>"
\f C \l "1" <![endif]--><em><b><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'><![if !supportNestedAnchors]><a
name="_Toc339139272"></a><![endif]></span></b></em><!--[if supportFields]><em><b><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'><span
style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span></b></em><![endif]--><em><b><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>��</span></span></b></em><em><span lang=EN
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>(</span></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>UK; A24 Films)<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�
</span><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Sally Potter</b> has made some
very interesting and powerful films (her 2000 </span></em><em><span lang=EN
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>The Man Who
Cried</span></em><em><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:
EN;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>, 1996 </span></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>The Tango Lesson</span></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>, and her 1992 film </span></em><em><span lang=EN
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>Orlando</span></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>), but </span></em><em><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:
EN'>GINGER AND ROSA</span></b></em><em><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:
italic'> is her most totally successful, lovely, moving, and important film to
date.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>It is the story of two 16 year old
British girls, connected since their mothers' pregnancies, coming of age
together as best friends in 1962.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>The
main character, Ginger (<b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Elle Fanning</b>,
only 14 years old�and only 13 when the film was shot�did a simply fabulous job
playing this complex teenager; and her performance may well put her in
contention for an Oscar) is dealing with the disintegration of the marriage of
her disturbingly narcissistic, but deeply loved parents (well-acted by <b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Alessandro Nivola</b> and <b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Christina Hendricks</b>), and eventually
the increasing strain in her devotedly loving relationship with her friend Rosa
(<b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Alice Englert</b>), whose combination
of sexual precociousness and immature religiosity clash painfully with Ginger's
adolescent innocence and anxiety in social relationships and her hyper-serious
devotion to things artistic, intellectual, and political.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>As she is horribly betrayed by those she
loves the most, Ginger experiences her terror about the destruction of her
relational world as if it were all about the physical destruction of the larger
world in which she has become politically involved:<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>Ginger has become active in the Ban the Bomb
movement, and the story is taking place against the backdrop of the Cuban
Missile crisis�a moment in time when political narcissism threatened physically
to destroy the world in a nuclear way that parallels the emotional holocaust Ginger
is in the midst of.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>Ginger is a
wonderfully complex character, and <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Fanning</b>
is amazingly successful bringing her to the screen.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>But, most of all, <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'>Sally Potter</b> has created a </span></em><em><span lang=EN
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>major</span></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'> masterpiece:<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�
</span></span></em><em><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=EN
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>GINGER AND ROSA</span></b></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'> works enormously well on so many levels�from the
intimately private to the grandly political, from issues of childishness to
maturity (as both are to be found and not found in young people as well as in
nominal adults [interestingly, the only truly adult support Ginger receives is
from a gay couple�Mark and Mark 2, <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Timothy
Spall </b></span></em><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>and
</span><em><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=EN
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>Oliver Platt</span></b></em><em><span lang=EN
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>�who are friends of her family]), from personal
striving to interpersonal responsibility, from raw feelings to lofty intellect,
and from the challenge of thought-provoking issues to just plain entertaining
experience.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>Brava, Sally!<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span><span class=GramE>And how lucky we all are to
have this film to see.</span></span></em><!--[if supportFields]><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span></span></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'> TC "</span></em><span
style='mso-bookmark:_Toc339139273'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc339109315'><span
style='mso-bookmark:_Toc338963379'><em><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:
italic'>GINGER AND ROSA (UK)</span></em></span></span></span><span
style='mso-bookmark:_Toc338963379'></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc339109315'></span><span
style='mso-bookmark:_Toc339139273'></span><em><span lang=EN style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>" \f C \l "1" </span></em><![endif]--><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'><![if !supportNestedAnchors]><a name="_Toc338963379"></a><a
name="_Toc339109315"></a><a name="_Toc339139273"></a><![endif]></span></em><!--[if supportFields]><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span></em><![endif]--><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'><o:p></o:p></span></em></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><em><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:
18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'><o:p> </o:p></span></em></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><em><b><span lang=EN
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>AMOUR</span></b></em><!--[if supportFields]><em><b><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'><span
style='mso-element:field-begin'></span></span></b></em><span lang=EN
style='mso-ansi-language:EN'> </span>TC "<span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc339139274'><span
style='mso-bookmark:_Toc339109316'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc338963380'><em><b><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>AMOUR</span></b></em></span></span></span>"
\f C \l "1" <![endif]--><em><b><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'><![if !supportNestedAnchors]><a
name="_Toc338963380"></a><a name="_Toc339109316"></a><a name="_Toc339139274"></a><![endif]></span></b></em><!--[if supportFields]><em><b><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'><span
style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span></b></em><![endif]--><em><b><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�</span></span></b></em><em><span lang=EN
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�</span>(</span></em><em><span lang=EN
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>Austria/France/Germany;<span style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold'> Sony Pic�tures Classics</span><span class=GramE>)<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Haneke</b></span>
is a tough filmmaker: his film from the 2009 NYFF, </span></em><span
class=MsoHyperlink><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold;mso-no-proof:yes'><a
href="http://www.rlrubens.com/nyff-09.html#_Toc245911501">The White Ribbon (Das
Wei�e Band</a>)</span></i></span><em><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;
font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>, was very good, gripping but
very harsh, and the one from the 2005 Festival, <a
href="http://www.rlrubens.com/nyff-05.html#_Toc117094488"><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:
normal'>Cach� (Hidden)</i></a> was equally gripping and harsh, if somewhat less
good.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>With </span></em><em><b><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>AMOUR</span></b></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>, which won this year�s </span></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold'>Palme d�Or</span></em><em><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;
font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'> at Cannes this writer/director
enters an entirely new realm:<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>while as
powerful and devastating in its emotional intensity as any of <b>Haneke</b>�s
earlier works, this film is also tender and loving in a way that adds a balance
and depth to the film I did not find in his other works.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>It is a profoundly successful, moving story
of an aging French couple, Georges (played incredibly by <b>Jean-Louis
Trintignant</b>, an 82 year old French actor who was discovered by Roger Vadim
[and appeared in his 1956 </span></em><em><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>...And
God Created Woman</span></em><em><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;
font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'> and in his 1959 </span></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold'>Les liaisons dangereuses</span></em><em><span lang=EN style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;
font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>], but is best-known for his
starring role in Claude Lelouche�s 1966 </span></em><em><span lang=EN
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold'>A Man and a Woman (Un homme et une femme)</span></em><em><span lang=EN
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>) and his wife of many
years, Anne, (played by the fabulous <b>Emmanuelle Riva</b>, who, at 85, is
best known as the star of Alain Resnais� 1959 </span></em><em><span lang=EN
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold'>Hiroshima Mon Amour</span></em><em><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;
font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>).<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>In addition to these two giants of French
cinema, the unbelievably excellent cast of this film includes, at the other end
of the age spectrum, the incomparable<b> Isabelle Huppert</b> (who has starred
in films of directors from Goddard to Claire Denis), who plays the couple�s
daughter.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span><b>Haneke</b> presents us with
a vivid but loving close-up examination of the effects of age and illness on
this amazing couple, in their lovely Paris apartment (the strong presence of
which functions almost as another actor in the wonderful cast).<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>Georges loves and is devoted to Anne, and yet
he cannot quite fully be what she needs, despite his Herculean efforts.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span></span></em><em><b><span lang=EN
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>AMOUR </span></b></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>presents insights into the
profound emotional realities of love and relationship, death and
dying�including the profound swings of <span class=SpellE>of</span> tenderness
and anger, patience and frustration, hope and despair that actually are
involved if one has the courage to look below the surface of what is going
on.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>This is a masterpiece of filmmaking,
and an incredibly powerful experience.</span></em><em><span lang=EN
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;
font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'><o:p></o:p></span></em></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><em><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:
EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'><o:p> </o:p></span></em></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><em><b><span lang=EN
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>CAMILLE REWINDS</span></b></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'> </span></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>(</span></em><em><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:
EN'>CAMILLE REDOUBLE</span></b></em><em><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:
italic'>)</span></em><!--[if supportFields]><em><span lang=EN style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:
italic'><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span></span></em><span lang=EN
style='mso-ansi-language:EN'> </span>TC "<span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc339139275'><span
style='mso-bookmark:_Toc339109317'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc338963381'><em><b><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>CAMILLE REWINDS</span></b></em></span></span></span><span
style='mso-bookmark:_Toc339139275'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc339109317'><span
style='mso-bookmark:_Toc338963381'><em><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;
font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'> </span></em></span></span></span><span
style='mso-bookmark:_Toc339139275'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc339109317'><span
style='mso-bookmark:_Toc338963381'><em><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:
italic'>(</span></em></span></span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc339139275'><span
style='mso-bookmark:_Toc339109317'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc338963381'><em><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>CAMILLE REDOUBLE</span></b></em></span></span></span><span
style='mso-bookmark:_Toc339139275'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc339109317'><span
style='mso-bookmark:_Toc338963381'><em><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:
italic'>)</span></em></span></span></span>" \f C \l "1" <![endif]--><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'><![if !supportNestedAnchors]><a name="_Toc338963381"></a><a
name="_Toc339109317"></a><a name="_Toc339139275"></a><![endif]></span></em><!--[if supportFields]><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span></em><![endif]--><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>��</span>(France)<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�
</span><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>No�mie Lvovsky</b> stars in this
completely hilarious, surprisingly moving, and thoroughly enjoyable French
re-working of </span></em><em><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:
18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>Peggy Sue Got Married</span></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'> which she directed and co-wrote with <b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Maud Ameline</b>, <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'>Pierre-Olivier Mattei</b>, and <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Florence
Seyvos</b>.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�� </span>Starting out in current day
France as a middle-aged woman who is looking old beyond her years, showing the
ravages of her drinking and the pain of being left by<span style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold'> her husband of 25 years (<b>Samir Guesmi</b>), Camille passes out at a
New Year�s party with old friends, and then wakes up as a high school senior in
1985, surrounded by these same friends in their earlier friendship
together.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>Her first appearance in the
garb of an 80�s French teenager alone is worth the price of admission!<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span><b>Lvovsky</b> is extraordinary in the
role�touchingly vulnerable, bitingly funny, and so, so French.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>She, of course, knows all that is about to
transpire in this life that she has already lived; and her commentary on it as
she once again meets and falls in love with the man who will become her
husband, the father of her child, and who she knows will eventually abandon her
is the most amazing part of this fabulous film�especially in the scene where
she knows she is about to have her first kiss with this young man.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>There is a wonderful small part perfectly
played by New Wave icon <b>Jean-Pierre L�aud</b> (the boy in Truffaut�s 1959
classic, </span></span></em><em><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>The 400
Blows</span></em><em><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:
EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>�and
who has made several delightful appearances in films in recent NYFF�s,
including last year�s wonderful </span></em><span class=MsoHyperlink><i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><a
href="http://www.rlrubens.com/nyff-11.htm#_Toc307171722">Le Havre</a></span></i></span><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'> by Aki Kaurism�ki, and in
Tsai Ming-liang�s extraordinary 2001 <a
href="http://www.rlrubens.com/nyff-01.html"><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>What
Time Is It There</i></a>) as a watchmaker�which may have some quite deep
significance in a film about dislocations in time.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>This film is a fun experience you will not
want to miss.</span></em><em><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'><o:p></o:p></span></em></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><em><span lang=EN
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'><o:p> </o:p></span></em></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><em><b><span lang=EN
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>FRANCES HA</span></b></em><!--[if supportFields]><em><b><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'><span
style='mso-element:field-begin'></span></span></b></em><span lang=EN
style='mso-ansi-language:EN'> </span>TC "<span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc339139276'><span
style='mso-bookmark:_Toc339109318'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc338963382'><em><b><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>FRANCES HA</span></b></em></span></span></span>"
\f C \l "1" <![endif]--><em><b><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'><![if !supportNestedAnchors]><a
name="_Toc338963382"></a><a name="_Toc339109318"></a><a name="_Toc339139276"></a><![endif]></span></b></em><!--[if supportFields]><em><b><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'><span
style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span></b></em><![endif]--><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>��</span>(</span></em><em><span lang=EN
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>USA<span class=GramE>)<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Noah</b></span><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'> Baumbach</b>�s newest film, co-written by
and starring <b>Greta Gerwig</b><span style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'> as
Frances, is a completely fun, clever romp through the scene of New Yorkers in
their mid-20s.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>The film begins with
Frances giddily happy, ensconced in her Brooklyn apartment with her roommate,
Sophie (played by <b>Mickey Sumner</b>)�more comfortable and loving with Sophie
than with her boyfriend, and pursuing a career as a modern dancer�more invested
in it than talented at it.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>Nevertheless,
Frances is having a wonderfully good time.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�
</span>Before long, however, both her roommate and her internship have
disappeared, and Frances is progressively faced with the necessity of dealing
with life in a more realistic way.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>Can
she do it without losing the vitality and joyfulness that has characterized her
earlier existence? Well, not without making a lot of mistakes and
missteps.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>It is a beautifully filmed
study in black and white, powerfully rooted in specific parts of the fabric of
New York City (the segments are even labeled with explicit street
addresses).<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>The music for the film was
fun�especially the wonderful instrumental pieces from the great <b>Georges
Delerue</b> (there was something about hearing the theme from de Broca�s </span></span></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold'>King of Hearts (Le Roi de coeur)</span></em><em><span lang=EN
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'> that simply made me smile
happily). This film is full of youthful energy and good natured humor.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>And while I did not find it to be nearly as
deep as <b>Baumbach</b>�s earlier works (his NYFF appearances, <a
href="http://www.rlrubens.com/nyff-07.html"><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Margot
at the Wedding</i></a> in 2007 and <a
href="http://www.rlrubens.com/nyff-05.html#_Toc117094479"><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:
normal'>The Squid and the Whale</i></a> in 2005, and even his 2010 </span></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold'>Greenberg</span></em><em><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;
font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>) it is totally enjoyable and
worth seeing.<o:p></o:p></span></em></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><em><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'><o:p> </o:p></span></em></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><em><b><span lang=EN
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>BARBARA</span></b></em><!--[if supportFields]><em><b><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'><span
style='mso-element:field-begin'></span></span></b></em><span lang=EN
style='mso-ansi-language:EN'> </span>TC "<span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc339139277'><span
style='mso-bookmark:_Toc339109319'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc338963383'><em><b><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>BARBARA</span></b></em></span></span></span>"
\f C \l "1" <![endif]--><em><b><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'><![if !supportNestedAnchors]><a
name="_Toc338963383"></a><a name="_Toc339109319"></a><a name="_Toc339139277"></a><![endif]></span></b></em><!--[if supportFields]><em><b><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'><span
style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span></b></em><![endif]--><em><b><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>��</span></span></b></em><em><span lang=EN
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>(</span></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>Germany; <span style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>Adopt
Films)<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�� </span></span>In </span></em><em><b><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>BARBARA</span></b></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>, <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Christian
Petzold </b>has written and directed a film of impressive sophistication.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>The title character, beautifully played by <b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Petzold</b> regular, <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'>Nina Hoss</b></span></em><em><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:
EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>,</span></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'> is a physician in East Germany in 1980 who has
been punished for her earlier political activities, dismissed from her fancy
East Berlin hospital, and whom, at the outset of the film, we see arriving at
the small provincial hospital to which she has been exiled.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>Barbara remains withdrawn and cold around her
colleagues, even with Andr� (played by <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Ronald
Zehrfeld</b>), the head doctor on her service, who seems to be very warm and
welcoming toward her.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>On the other hand,
we see her reacting in a concerned and involved fashion with her patients�and
particularly with Stella (<b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Jasna Fritzi
Bauer</b>), a young girl whose illness she recognizes and treats (after the
chief doctor had misidentified her meningitis as malingering), and with whose
plight as a politically persecuted and abused person she identifies.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>On some levels, </span></em><em><b><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>BARBARA</span></b></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'> is an exciting Cold-War thriller, while on other
levels it is a deeply human drama.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Petzold</b> won the Silver Bear for Best
Director at Berlin Film Festival for this film, and it deserved it:<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>the film is an absorbing, fast-paced,
powerful yet subtle work that will keep you riveted.<o:p></o:p></span></em></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><em><b><span lang=EN
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>SOMETHING IN
THE AIR</span></b></em><em><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:
18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'> </span></em><em><span lang=EN style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:
italic'>(</span></em><em><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=EN
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>APR�S MAI</span></b></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>)</span></em><!--[if supportFields]><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span></span></em><span
lang=EN style='mso-ansi-language:EN'> </span>TC "<span style='mso-bookmark:
_Toc339139278'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc339109320'><span style='mso-bookmark:
_Toc338963384'><em><b><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:
EN'>SOMETHING IN THE AIR</span></b></em></span></span></span><span
style='mso-bookmark:_Toc339139278'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc339109320'><span
style='mso-bookmark:_Toc338963384'><em><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;
font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'> </span></em></span></span></span><span
style='mso-bookmark:_Toc339139278'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc339109320'><span
style='mso-bookmark:_Toc338963384'><em><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:
italic'>(</span></em></span></span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc339139278'><span
style='mso-bookmark:_Toc339109320'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc338963384'><em><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>APR�S MAI</span></b></em></span></span></span><span
style='mso-bookmark:_Toc339139278'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc339109320'><span
style='mso-bookmark:_Toc338963384'><em><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:
italic'>)</span></em></span></span></span>" \f C \l "1" <![endif]--><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'><![if !supportNestedAnchors]><a name="_Toc338963384"></a><a
name="_Toc339109320"></a><a name="_Toc339139278"></a><![endif]></span></em><!--[if supportFields]><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span></em><![endif]--><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>��</span>(France; <span
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>Sundance Selects<span class=GramE>)<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Olivier</b></span></span><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'> Assayas </b>is a great filmmaker:<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>his <a
href="http://www.rlrubens.com/nyff-10.html#_Toc275199362"><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:
normal'>Carlos</i></a> was our second favorite film in the 2010 NYFF, and his <a
href="http://www.rlrubens.com/nyff-08.html#_Toc265421043"><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:
normal'>Summer Hours (L�Heure d��t�)</i></a> was wonderful; and he had a long
history of other films, including his 1996</span></em><em><span lang=EN
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'> Irma Vep</span></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'> (also in the NYFF).<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span></span></em><em><b><span lang=EN
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>SOMETHING IN
THE AIR</span></b></em><em><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:
18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>,
which he wrote and directed, is a beautiful film, in the way Olivier is so good
at making a film beautiful:<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>it has an
emotional tone that elegantly permeates the telling of the story, and it is
visually gorgeous, even when dealing with ugliness.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>(</span></em><em><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>The
cinematography by the amazing <b>Eric Gautier</b> [who was the eye behind his </span></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'><a
href="http://www.rlrubens.com/nyff-08.html#_Toc265421043"><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:
normal'>Summer Hours (L�Heure d��t�)</i></a></span></em><em><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:
italic'>, as well as the recent films of Alain Resnais {</span></em><em><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt'>q.v.</span></em><em><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:
italic'>, above} and Arnaud Desplechin] captures the beauty of the outdoor
scenes in a way the that has a typically of <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'>Assayas</b>� painterly, almost impressionistic visual quality�even when
they in fact are chase scenes of young people escaping violent confrontations.)</span></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>It is the
somewhat autobiographical story of French high school students in the 60s
(which, we all know, began in 1967 and continued until sometime after 1973),
involved in their own, peculiarly French brand of Marxist political activism
and anarchistic social rebellion�in this case largely played out in angry acts
against the repressive structure of their high school, but with grand
aspirations about its broader societal implications.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span><span class=GramE>The original French title, <b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><i>APR�S MAI</i></b>.</span> <span
class=GramE>refers</span> to the student revolt in Paris of May 1968; the film
itself begins in 1971.<span style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>Gilles (played by <b>Cl�ment Mettayer</b>) is
attempting to balance his political aspirations with his growing interest in
painting and eventually filmmaking, and at the same time balancing all of that
with his relationship to his girlfriend, Christine <b>(Lola Cr�ton</b>)�and
that with his love for a former girlfriend Laure</span></span></em><em><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:
minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-hansi-theme-font:
minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:
italic'> (</span></em><em><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:
italic'>Carole Combes</span></b></em><em><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>)</span></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>, who seems to move in and
out of his life, and life in general.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�
</span>What is so exceptional in the film is the way it captures the tone and
feel of that time in the life of the youth of France�its aspirations and
frustrations, idealism and immaturity, passionate commitment and puerile acting
out, its look and its sound (the period music is wonderfully evocative,
particularly the rendition of a Phil Ochs ballad).<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>It is a terrific film, and I was deeply
caught up in it in a powerful way; nevertheless, the pace flags a bit, and I
didn�t feel that the film was completely successful in carrying me through its
two-hour length�although it was a film that I felt increasingly positive about
as I moved away from it�and I ended up feeling it was quite wonderful. <o:p></o:p></span></em></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><em><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:
minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-hansi-theme-font:
minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;
font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'><o:p> </o:p></span></em></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><em><b><span lang=EN
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>CAESAR MUST DIE</span></b></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'> </span></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>(</span></em><em><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:
EN'>CESARE DEVE MORIRE</span></b></em><em><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:
italic'>)</span></em><!--[if supportFields]><em><span lang=EN style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:
italic'><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span></span></em><span lang=EN
style='mso-ansi-language:EN'> </span>TC "<span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc339139279'><span
style='mso-bookmark:_Toc339109321'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc338963385'><em><b><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>CAESAR MUST DIE</span></b></em></span></span></span><span
style='mso-bookmark:_Toc339139279'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc339109321'><span
style='mso-bookmark:_Toc338963385'><em><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;
font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'> </span></em></span></span></span><span
style='mso-bookmark:_Toc339139279'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc339109321'><span
style='mso-bookmark:_Toc338963385'><em><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:
italic'>(</span></em></span></span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc339139279'><span
style='mso-bookmark:_Toc339109321'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc338963385'><em><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>CESARE DEVE MORIRE</span></b></em></span></span></span><span
style='mso-bookmark:_Toc339139279'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc339109321'><span
style='mso-bookmark:_Toc338963385'><em><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:
italic'>)</span></em></span></span></span>" \f C \l "1" <![endif]--><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'><![if !supportNestedAnchors]><a name="_Toc338963385"></a><a
name="_Toc339109321"></a><a name="_Toc339139279"></a><![endif]></span></em><!--[if supportFields]><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span></em><![endif]--><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>��</span>(Italy; <span
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>Adopt Films<span class=GramE>)<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Paolo</b></span></span><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'> and Vittorio Taviani</b>, NYFF regulars
over the decades, who wrote and directed the wonderful 1982 </span></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>The Night of
the Shooting Stars</span></em><em><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:
italic'> (</span></em><em><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:
18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>La Notte di San Lorenzo</span></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>), and the amazing 1977 </span></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>Padre Padrone</span></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>), have created a most unusual and unusually
fabulous film in </span></em><em><b><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>CAESAR MUST DIE</span></b></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>, which won the <span style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold'>Golden Bear at this year�s Berlin Film Festival.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>It is a documentary, actually shot in a
maximum security prison in Rome, using serious criminals incarcerated there,
who are in the process of preparing and staging a production of Shakespeare�s </span></span></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold'>Julius Caesar</span></em><em><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;
font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�
</span>It is far more than a documentary, however:<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>the movie-making genius of the Taviani
brothers transforms the auditions and rehearsals in the cells, corridors, and
courtyards of the prison into moments of high dramatic intensity and tension�in
a way that the few moments in the film of the actual final production never
even approach.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>The real-world
aggression, anger, and emotions of the actors flare at times with an intensity
that reveals the well-spring out of which the best moments of the individual
performances are drawn.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>I do not believe
I would have wanted to see the actual stage production these convicts put on;
but the riveting intensity of emotional expression that the Taviani brothers
capture on screen in their film creates a tableau of </span></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold'>Julius Caesar</span></em><em><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;
font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'> which is deeply true to the feel
of Shakespeare�s play, and at times <span class=GramE>quite<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>worthy</span> of fine, accomplished
Shakespearean actors . The pure entertainment experience of watching </span></em><em><b><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>CAESAR MUST DIE</span></b></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'> is a joy not to be missed.<o:p></o:p></span></em></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><em><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:
EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'><o:p> </o:p></span></em></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><em><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:
EN'>TABU</span></b></em><!--[if supportFields]><em><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:
EN'><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span></span></b></em><span lang=EN
style='mso-ansi-language:EN'> </span>TC "<span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc339139280'><span
style='mso-bookmark:_Toc339109322'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc338963386'><em><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>TABU</span></b></em></span></span></span>"
\f C \l "1" <![endif]--><em><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'><![if !supportNestedAnchors]><a
name="_Toc338963386"></a><a name="_Toc339109322"></a><a name="_Toc339139280"></a><![endif]></span></b></em><!--[if supportFields]><em><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span></b></em><![endif]--><em><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�</span></span></b></em><em><span lang=EN
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�</span>(Portugal;
Adopt Films<span class=GramE>)<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><i>TABU</i></b></span> was one of those
real NYFF treats: it was from a director we had never heard of, it is a film
that has little chance of much of much commercial existence, and it was an
unusual and exhilarating treat.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>There
are three distinct sections to this black and white film, which by the way, was
the only film in the NYFF to have been shot on celluloid!<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>The first, a sort of prologue, is what <span
class=GramE>Is</span> essentially an old-time silent film (with an energetic,
early-cinema musical accompaniment, and lugubrious voice overs in place of
written titles) in which a Portuguese explorer is seen journeying through some
part of 19<sup>th</sup> century Africa.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�
</span>It is actually quite purposely funny in the absurdity of is
self-seriousness, as the man, despondent over the death of the woman he had
loved (whose presence keeps appearing to him and haunting him; the only spoken
dialogue in this segment is from the apparition), struggles through the jungle
(aided by an entourage of Black porters), and eventually ends his life by
feeding himself to a crocodile�who is said to appear thereafter to others as a
haunting presence in the jungle, a �</span></em><em><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>sad and
melancholy crocodile.� <span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�</span>It turns out that
this movie is being watched by a middle-aged woman <span class=SpellE>Pilar</span>
(<b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Teresa <span class=SpellE>Madruga</span></b>),
alone in a theater in current-day Lisbon, where the second section of </span></em><em><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>TABU</span></b></em><em><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:
italic'>, actually titled, �Paradise Lost,� takes place.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>Here Pilar looks in repeatedly on her aged,
dementing neighbor Aurora (<b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Laura Soveral</b>)
and her Black caretaker, Santa (<b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Isabel
Cardoso</b>).<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>Isabel is tormented by
delusions persecution and guilt�and visions of crocodiles hiding in her
apartment.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>Her dying request to Pilar is
for her to contact a man named Ventura for her.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�
</span>Much to everyone�s surprise, Ventura (<b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'>Henrique Espirito Santo</b>) not only turns out to exist, but is an old
lover of Aurora�s from when she lived as a young woman in Portuguese colonial
Africa.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>The tale he tells is the final
section, �Paradise,� set in the mid-twentieth century�and in which all of the
main players, including a crocodile, have new actors and vibrant new
stories:<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'>Ana Moreira</b> plays a beautiful, fiery young Aurora, <b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Carloto Cotta</b> a handsome, swashbuckling
Ventura�and I don�t know who plays the baby crocodile.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>Every segment is enriched by a humorous
appreciation for absurdity, but each is also charged with extreme emotion;
every section moves energetically forward with a storyline, but everywhere the
plot content is outweighed by surreal evocation of underlying themes�magic and
religion, love and lust, friendship and hatred, loyalty and betrayal, profound
issues of melancholia (including the �slight bipolarity� that is said to
describe one of the character�s early years), and, pervading all, the
persistent but never mentioned issues of race and colonialism (</span></em><em><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt'>e.g.</span></em><em><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:
italic'>, everyone in every section is taken care of by Black people).<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>His handling of the formal aspects of cinema is
every bit as clever, inventive,<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>and
wonderful as his handling of story element:<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�
</span>for example, he uses the combinations of sound and silence
exquisitely�from the apparently silent film of the first section (with a lively
soundtrack), to the mixtures in the third section ranging from total silence
(anytime someone is in a film or photograph) to times when the characters are
totally silenced even though they are obviously speaking, and all the audience
hears is background (either just background noises, like animal noises or wind,
or musical soundtrack); he does similar things with visual elements (</span></em><em><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt'>e.g.</span></em><em><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:
italic'>, the transition from second section, which ends in the tropical
rainforest garden that is part of the restoration of the interior of a major train
station in Lisbon, to the tropical vegetation of Africa in the third section�an
effect that is enhanced by the fact that the soundtrack from the African
portion is already playing at the end of the Lisbon garden scene).<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span></span></em><em><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:
EN;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>Miguel Gomes</span></b></em><em><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:
italic'> has made a fabulously sophisticated and successful film�profoundly
thought-provoking yet thoroughly entertaining.</span></em><em><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'> </span></em><em><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:
EN'>TABU</span></b></em><em><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:
18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'> won
the Alfred Bauer Prize for a work of particu�lar innovation�something which I
feel it completely deserved. <o:p></o:p></span></em></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><em><span lang=EN
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'><o:p> </o:p></span></em></p>
<p class=Pa0 style='line-height:normal'><em><b><span lang=EN style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:
18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>HOLY MOTORS</span></b></em><!--[if supportFields]><em><b><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span></span></b></em><span
lang=EN style='mso-ansi-language:EN'> </span>TC "<span style='mso-bookmark:
_Toc339139281'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc339109323'><span style='mso-bookmark:
_Toc338963387'><em><b><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:
EN'>HOLY MOTORS</span></b></em></span></span></span>" \f C \l
"1" <![endif]--><em><b><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:
EN'><![if !supportNestedAnchors]><a name="_Toc338963387"></a><a
name="_Toc339109323"></a><a name="_Toc339139281"></a><![endif]></span></b></em><!--[if supportFields]><em><b><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span></b></em><![endif]--><em><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;
font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>��</span>(</span></em><em><span lang=EN
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:
italic'>France;<span style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'> Indomina)<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span></span></span></em><em><b><span lang=EN
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>HOLY MOTORS</span></b></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;
font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'> opens with a pajama-clad man
(played by the film�s writer/director, </span></em><em><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>L�os Carax</span></b></em><em><span lang=EN
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;
font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>) trying to sleep in a modern hotel
room, who eventually uses a surrealistic finger/key to open a secret panel in
the room which leads into a dark hallway, which leads into the balcony of an
old movie theater, showing an old, black and white film, and then segues into
the film itself�which �begins� (but who is to say here </span></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>anything</span></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;
font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'> begins or ends within this world
Carax has created) with a well-dressed man, Monsieur Oscar (played wonderfully
by <b>Denis Lavant</b>), saying goodbye to his family and being picked up by a
white stretch limo, chauffeured by C�line (<b>Edith Scob</b>; who starred in </span></em><i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Eyes
Without a Fa</span></i><em><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:
EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>ce (Les yeux sans visage) </span></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;
font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>by Georges Franju [best known as</span></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Neutraface 2 Text PS","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:
minor-bidi;mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'> co-founder in 1937 of the
Cinematheque Fran�aise, the famous French film archive], and who appears in the
publicity photos for </span></em><em><b><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:
EN'>HOLY MOTORS</span></b></em><em><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Neutraface 2 Text PS","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;
mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>
wearing a mask that is a direct reference to that </span></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;
font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>1960 horror classic.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>More than incidentally, there are </span></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>many</span></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;
font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'> wonderful references to other
films within </span></em><em><b><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:
EN'>HOLY MOTORS</span></b></em><em><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:
EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>).<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>In case this description of the beginning
moments of the film does not adequately clue you in, what ensues is a
fabulously and intricately layered journey of dreamy exploration of what is
film and what is reality, what is acting and what is living�with twists and
turns and recursive references that will thrill you and keep you off balance
throughout this incredible experience.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�
</span>So as not to diminish the thrilling experience of having this all play
out fresh for you when you see it, I should probably only quote what he said at
Cannes to describe </span></em><em><b><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:
EN'>HOLY MOTORS</span></b></em><em><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:
EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>:<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>�a film about a man and the experience of
being alive.�<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>But I cannot help risking
telling you that during that single day M. Oscar inhabits 11 different
characters, described as �</span></em><em><span lang=EN style='font-family:
"Neutraface 2 Text PS","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;
font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>M. Oscar / Le banquier / La
mendiante / L'OS de Motion-Capture / <a
href="http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0337418/"><span style='color:windowtext;
text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'>M. Merde</span></a> / Le p�re /
L'accord�oniste / Le tueur / Le tu� / Le mourant / L'homme au foyer</span></em><em><span
style='font-family:"Neutraface 2 Text PS","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:
minor-bidi;mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>.</span></em><em><span lang=EN style='font-family:
"Neutraface 2 Text PS","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;
font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>�</span></em><em><span
style='font-family:"Neutraface 2 Text PS","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:
minor-bidi;mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>And in all
these personas, <b>Levant</b> interacts with some spectacular other actors in
addition to <b>Edit Scob</b>: <b>Eva Mendes</b>, <b>Kylie Minogue</b>, <b>Michel
Piccoli</b>, and <b>Geoffrey Carey</b>, to name a few.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>This film is incredibly interesting, although
I have to acknowledge that I felt that </span></em><em><b><span lang=EN
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:
italic'>Carax</span></b></em><em><span style='font-family:"Neutraface 2 Text PS","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'> was not completely able to
maintain its sublime excellence all the way through to the ending, which was
something of a disappointment.</span></em><em><span lang=EN style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:
18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'><o:p></o:p></span></em></p>
<p class=Pa0 style='line-height:normal'><em><b><span lang=EN style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:
18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></em></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><em><b><span lang=EN
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>MEMORIES LOOK
AT ME</span></b></em><em><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:
18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'> </span></em><em><span lang=EN style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:
italic'>(</span></em><em><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=EN
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>JI YI WANG ZHE
WO</span></b></em><em><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:
EN;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>)</span></em><!--[if supportFields]><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span></span></em><span
lang=EN style='mso-ansi-language:EN'> </span>TC "<span style='mso-bookmark:
_Toc339139282'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc339109324'><span style='mso-bookmark:
_Toc338963388'><em><b><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:
EN'>MEMORIES LOOK AT ME</span></b></em></span></span></span><span
style='mso-bookmark:_Toc339139282'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc339109324'><span
style='mso-bookmark:_Toc338963388'><em><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;
font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'> </span></em></span></span></span><span
style='mso-bookmark:_Toc339139282'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc339109324'><span
style='mso-bookmark:_Toc338963388'><em><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:
italic'>(</span></em></span></span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc339139282'><span
style='mso-bookmark:_Toc339109324'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc338963388'><em><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>JI YI WANG ZHE WO</span></b></em></span></span></span><span
style='mso-bookmark:_Toc339139282'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc339109324'><span
style='mso-bookmark:_Toc338963388'><em><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:
italic'>)</span></em></span></span></span>" \f C \l "1" <![endif]--><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'><![if !supportNestedAnchors]><a name="_Toc338963388"></a><a
name="_Toc339109324"></a><a name="_Toc339139282"></a><![endif]></span></em><!--[if supportFields]><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span></em><![endif]--><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>��</span>(China<span
class=GramE>)<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>This</span> is the
exceptional first film written and directed by <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'>Song Fang</b>, whom we previously only had known as <span
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>the actress who played the nanny and as�piring
filmmaker in Hou Hsiao-hsien�s </span></span></em><em><span lang=EN
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold;font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.rlrubens.com/nyff-07.html"><i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Flight of the Red Balloon</i></a> </span></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>(NYFF 2007)</span></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span></span></em><em><b><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>MEMORIES LOOK
AT ME</span></b></em><em><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:
18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'> is a
tender, beautiful story about <span style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>Song Fang
traveling from her home in Beijing to Nanjing for a visit with her family.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>It is a created, fictional story, but it
involves <b>Song</b>�s actual parents and brother and his family, all of whom
play themselves on screen, in her parent�s actual apartment in Nanjing.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>The film has a slow, intimate pacing to it,
as the unmarried daughter in her mid-30s reconnects�sometimes awkwardly,
sometimes poignantly�with her parents, who seem quite old and decrepit in their
60s.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>There are wonderful moments of
domestic life�including some filial grooming of her parents, many intimate
silences (some warm, some sad; all tender), wonderfully good-natured
interactions, and uncomfortably rejecting parental comments on the problems of
not having a life partner (some blatantly directed at Song, some seemingly
about other relatives, but obvious in their suspended implications).<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>The family is living in cramped, not
luxurious quarters�although there is a beauty to their apartment that is
strongly emphasized in the cinematography by the almost painting-like, gorgeous
visual framing, often involving views out the windows and down halls.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>There is a subtle level of social commentary,
presented with only the lightest of touches:<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�
</span>What in the family�s status is the effect of there being two children?
What is the role of the father being a doctor?<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�
</span>What does it mean for Song to be single?<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�
</span>And what actually is life in China all about?<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>(In one of the most humorous but touching
scenes, one of his patients presents his wife with a live chicken in return for
medical help she cannot pay for; and Song is unable to touch the chicken, even
though her mother needs her help with it.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�
</span>Our friend from Taiwan who saw the film with us said it was exactly like
an incident she had experienced with her mother�only 30 years earlier�also,
perhaps, some implicit social commentary.)<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�
</span>We loved the title, by the way:<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�
</span>the ambiguity and multiplicity of meanings of it�depending on how one
chooses to punctuate it and scan its meaning�seemed to reflect a similar
quality in the film itself.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>(We were
told that the exact same issues pertain to its Chinese title.)<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>It is not a perfect film, as, even at its
appropriate 91 minute length, it at times felt too long�but I would not have
wanted to do away with the film�s pacing, as it was, on the whole, extremely
successful.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>I don�t know whether it will
get distribution, but it is one of those very special things we love that the
NYFF gives us the opportunity to see�and, should it become possible, I�d
recommend that you see it, too.<o:p></o:p></span></span></em></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-outline-level:1'><em><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;
mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'><o:p> </o:p></span></em></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><em><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:
EN'>HYDE PARK ON HUDSON</span></b></em><!--[if supportFields]><em><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span></span></b></em><span
lang=EN style='mso-ansi-language:EN'> </span>TC "<span style='mso-bookmark:
_Toc339139283'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc339109325'><span style='mso-bookmark:
_Toc338963389'><em><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=EN
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>HYDE PARK ON
HUDSON</span></b></em></span></span></span>" \f C \l "1" <![endif]--><em><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'><![if !supportNestedAnchors]><a
name="_Toc338963389"></a><a name="_Toc339109325"></a><a name="_Toc339139283"></a><![endif]></span></b></em><!--[if supportFields]><em><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span></b></em><![endif]--><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>��</span>(UK; Focus
Features)<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>This film was actually one of
the Festival�s surprises: we had seen a trailer for it last summer and had
thought it looked </span></em><em><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>dreadful</span></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>, and we were so pleased to find that it actually
was quite good.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'>Roger Michell</b> (not a director we know) has directed a quite
enjoyable film in </span></em><em><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>HYDE PARK ON
HUDSON</span></b></em><em><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:
18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>.
Although I am a great fan of <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Bill Murray</b>,
I did not expect that he would be able to play the role of President Franklin
D. Roosevelt in the powerful and successful way he did�it was truly a bravura
performance.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>The main storyline�which
is, unfortunately, rather disappointingly thin and, in my opinion, ultimately
unsatisfying�involves FDR�s romantic relationship with his distant cousin,
Margaret �Daisy� Suckley (wonderfully played by <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'>Laura Linney</b>), against the background of his multiple other
long-standing romantic liaisons (including the one with his secretary, Missy,
played by <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Elizabeth Marvel</b>)�and, of
course, against the deeper background his relationship with his wife (played by
<b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Olivia Williams</b>, whom Wes Anderson
fans will remember�but likely not recognize, because she manages convincingly
to look like Eleanor Roosevelt�as the teacher Rosemary Cross and Jason
Schwartzman�s love-interest [and Bill Murray�s] in Rushmore), and his mother (<b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Elizabeth Wilson</b>), who actually runs
the show at her Hyde Park country estate.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�
</span>The most successful part, of the otherwise not terribly well-written
storyline, involves the visit to the upstate NY estate by King George VI
(rather movingly played by <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Samuel West</b>)
and Queen Elizabeth (<b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Olivia Colman</b>)
on the eve of World War II, to plead for US help in the approaching
hostilities.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>This central segment is
what gives the film what substance it has�and, within that, the central
late-night one-on-one between FDR and �Bertie� is the real emotional crux of
the film�albeit that the director may not himself have realized this.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>(Why this monarch is the subject of so much
interest at our particular moment in history is a question worth pondering�and
I am eagerly open to suggestion! As an aside, it is more than mildly annoying
to realize that the position of FDR to the King in the film probably lacks </span></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>any</span></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'> historical validity; but it does not really
interfere in the experience of this most enjoyable and moving part of the
film.)<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�� </span><o:p></o:p></span></em></p>
<p class=Pa0 style='line-height:normal'><em><span lang=EN style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:
18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�</span><o:p></o:p></span></em></p>
<p class=Pa0 style='line-height:normal'><em><b><span lang=EN style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:
18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>NOT FADE AWAY</span></b></em><!--[if supportFields]><em><b><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span></span></b></em><span
lang=EN style='mso-ansi-language:EN'> </span>TC "<span style='mso-bookmark:
_Toc339139284'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc339109326'><span style='mso-bookmark:
_Toc338963390'><em><b><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:
EN'>NOT FADE AWAY</span></b></em></span></span></span>" \f C \l
"1" <![endif]--><em><b><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:
EN'><![if !supportNestedAnchors]><a name="_Toc338963390"></a><a
name="_Toc339109326"></a><a name="_Toc339139284"></a><![endif]></span></b></em><!--[if supportFields]><em><b><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span></b></em><![endif]--><em><b><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�</span></span></b></em><em><span lang=EN
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�</span></span></em><em><span lang=EN
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;
font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>(CENTERPIECE, WORLD PREMIERE; </span></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:
italic'>USA; <span style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>Paramount Vantage)<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span></span></span></em><em><span lang=EN
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;
mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The Sopranos</span></em><em><span lang=EN
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;
font-style:normal'> </span></em><em><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:
EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>creator
<b>David Chase</b> has written and directed as his first feature film this
coming-of-age portrait of high school students in the mid-1960s in New Jersey
forming a rock band.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>One young man,
Douglas (<b>John Magaro</b>), discovers that while his talent as a drummer is
minimal, his abilities as a singer and song-writer are far more
successful.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>The sound track for </span></em><em><b><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>NOT FADE AWAY</span></b></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;
font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'> (produced by <b>Steven Van Zandt</b>)
is quite good, and the look and feel of the film is of very high quality.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>The film suffers mightily, however, from a
thinness of plot and a shallowness of emotion.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�
</span>A lot seems to be happening; but, in the end, it doesn�t seem like much
actually does.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>Douglas is in a trite
rebellious relationship with his very stereotyped, working-class father (<b>James
Gandolfini</b>), who can�t seem to abide his long hair or non-lower middle
class values; he also just can�t seem to get it right with his sometimes
girlfriend, Grace (<b>Bella Heathcote</b>); and while the kids struggle to make
it in the music world, they don�t really have what it takes to pull it
off.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>It is a pleasant enough film to
watch, well-made, and with some good moment; but it is ultimately not very
fulfilling.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>Unfortunately, it seems a
lot like what is bad about watching TV drama�and I am </span></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>not</span></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;
font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'> referring to the experience of
watching things like </span></em><em><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:
EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>The Sopranos</span></em><em><span lang=EN
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;
font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�
</span>The NYFF write-up said this film, �might be the best coming-of-age movie
since Barry Levinson�s </span></em><em><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:
EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;font-style:normal'>Diner</span></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;
font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>�and one of the best rock movies
ever.�<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>Don�t believe it.</span></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></em></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-outline-level:1'><em><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;
font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'><o:p> </o:p></span></em></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><em><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:
EN'>ARAF � SOMEWHERE IN BETWEEN</span></b></em><!--[if supportFields]><em><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span></span></b></em><span
lang=EN style='mso-ansi-language:EN'> </span>TC "<span style='mso-bookmark:
_Toc339139285'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc339109327'><span style='mso-bookmark:
_Toc338963391'><em><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=EN
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>ARAF �
SOMEWHERE IN BETWEEN</span></b></em></span></span></span>" \f C \l "1"
<![endif]--><em><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=EN
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'><![if !supportNestedAnchors]><a
name="_Toc338963391"></a><a name="_Toc339109327"></a><a name="_Toc339139285"></a><![endif]></span></b></em><!--[if supportFields]><em><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span></b></em><![endif]--><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>��</span>(Turkey/France/Germany)<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span></span></em><em><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:
EN'>ARAF</span></b></em><em><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:
18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'> is a
film that captures something deeply important about a side of life in modern
Turkey, where the pressures of modernization grindingly affect the lives of
people who reap almost none of that modernization�s benefit.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>(It totally avoids, by the way, the important
issue of the increasingly rapid growth of religious fundamentalism in the
country.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>While this simply is not the
subject of this movie, its total absence seems unrealistic in a way that
motivates me to refer you to a piece I wrote a couple of years ago about the <a
href="http://www.rickrubens.com/UA-Istanbul.htm#_Toc247697291"><span
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Current Political Situation</span></a> in
Turkey.)<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>Set far away from the
cosmopolitan center of Istanbul, or even from any of Turkey�s second level
cities, </span></em><em><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=EN
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>ARAF</span></b></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'> takes place largely at a highway truck stop, where
the main character, a young girl named Zehra (<b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'>Neshlihan Atag�l</b>), works incredibly long hours behind the cafeteria
counter.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>As the film opens, she moves
back and forth only between work and her repressive home in the small town to
which she travels each day by bus.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>In
Zehra, new filmmaker </span></em><span class=st1><b><span lang=EN
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;
mso-ansi-language:EN'>Yeşim <span class=GramE>Ustaoğlu<span
style='font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>,</span></span></span></b></span><span
class=st1><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'> has created a very
sympathetic and appealing character�responsible and clearly bright�who is
moving toward adulthood, but who has no path forward that shows the slightest
signs of promise.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>ARAF is ultimately a
brutally harsh film, because it is not reductionist in its treatment of the
terrible futility of all Zehra efforts to move out from her situation�and this
is a virtue, as the paths she attempts are ultimately sadly horrible.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>Nevertheless, the director goes to some
visual extremes in the brutality of her own visual presentation which actually <span
class=GramE>diminish</span> the success of the film. Some of the imagery is
just too much; and there is just too much of the whole thing�the two hour
length of the film makes its harshness unpleasant, and unnecessary.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>It would have been a much more successful
film were it somewhat less overdone.</span></span><em><span lang=EN
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'><o:p></o:p></span></em></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><em><span lang=EN
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'><o:p> </o:p></span></em></p>
<p class=Pa0 style='line-height:normal'><em><b><span lang=EN style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:
18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>LIFE OF PI</span></b></em><!--[if supportFields]><em><b><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span></span></b></em><span
lang=EN style='mso-ansi-language:EN'> </span>TC "<span style='mso-bookmark:
_Toc339139286'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc339109328'><span style='mso-bookmark:
_Toc338963392'><em><b><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:
EN'>LIFE OF PI</span></b></em></span></span></span>" \f C \l "1"
<![endif]--><em><b><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:
EN'><![if !supportNestedAnchors]><a name="_Toc338963392"></a><a
name="_Toc339109328"></a><a name="_Toc339139286"></a><![endif]></span></b></em><!--[if supportFields]><em><b><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span></b></em><![endif]--><em><b><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�</span></span></b></em><em><span lang=EN
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;
font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�</span>(OPENING NIGHT, WORLD PREMIERE;</span></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:
italic'> USA; </span></em><em><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;
font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>20th Century Fox)<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>I am a great fan of <b>Ang Lee</b>�s films�</span></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;
mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>The Wedding Banquet</span></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;
mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:
italic'> (�93), </span></em><em><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>The Ice
Storm </span></em><em><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;
font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>(�97), <a
href="http://www.rlrubens.com/nyff-00.html"><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Crouching
Tiger, Hidden Dragon</i></a> (�00), </span></em><em><span lang=EN
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:
EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>Brokeback Mountain</span></em><em><span lang=EN
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:
EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>,(�05),
and </span></em><em><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>Lust,
Caution</span></em><em><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;
font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'> (�07) are not only incredible
films, they also reveal the amazing versatility and depth of this fabulous
director; and </span></em><em><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>The Ice
Storm</span></em><em><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;
font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'> and </span></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;
mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon</span></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;
mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:
italic'> played important roles in past NYFF�s.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�
</span>His masterful visual sense and profound story-telling ability invariably
create powerfully engaging films of great intensity and beauty, and </span></em><em><b><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>LIFE OF PI</span></b></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;
mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:
italic'> is no exception: this 3-D film is completely gorgeous and deeply
involving.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>Unfortunately, it was�for
me�horribly off-putting in its soppy sentimentality and romantic
religiosity.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>And this unpleasant
emotional tone was announced during the opening credits�and unfortunately
carried throughout the film�by the horrendously maudlin soundtrack.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>From what I can tell from people I respect
who liked the bestselling book by <b>Yann Martel</b>, the adaptation of it by <b>David
Magee</b> on which the film was based is a big part of what I did not
like.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>And, in the end, while I did enjoy
the experience of watching the film, I painfully did </span></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;
mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>not</span></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;
mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:
italic'> like the film.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span></span></em><em><b><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>LIFE OF PI</span></b></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;
mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;font-style:normal'> </span></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;
mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:
italic'>is the story of a young Indian boy, Pi Patel, (quite wonderfully played
by <b>Suraj Sharma</b>, in his first screen role) who survives a shipwreck and
sub�sequent 227-day journey aboard a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger as his
fearsome and, ulti�mately, cherished companion.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�
</span>The cast also includes two great actors (who played the parents in Mira
Nair�s </span></em><em><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>The
Namesake</span></em><em><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;
font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>),<b> Irrfan Khan</b>, who plays
the adult version of Pi, and <b>Tabu</b>, who plays Pi�s mother).<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>So, the acting in this film is also wonderful.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>Ang Lee manages successfully to deal with all
of what should have been insurmountable technical and artistic obstacles to
bringing this story to a cinematographic reality; but he (and, from what Mr.
Lee said in introducing the film, he </span></em><em><span lang=EN
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:
EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>does</span></em><em><span lang=EN
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:
EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>
bear a big share of the blame for this) and the writer of the adaption rather
ruined the experience for me by introducing its heavy overlay of simple-minded
religiosity.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>Even the potentially
meaningful philosophical twist in the story is undercut by the added soppy
religious overtones.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>It is too bad; it
could have been a very interesting film.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�
</span>There are many who will enjoy it, however.<o:p></o:p></span></em></p>
<p class=Pa0 style='line-height:normal'><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=Pa0 style='line-height:normal'><em><b><span lang=EN style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:
18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>FLIGHT</span></b></em><!--[if supportFields]><em><b><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span></span></b></em><span
lang=EN style='mso-ansi-language:EN'> </span>TC "<span style='mso-bookmark:
_Toc339139287'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc339109329'><span style='mso-bookmark:
_Toc338963393'><em><b><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:
EN'>FLIGHT</span></b></em></span></span></span>" \f C \l "1" <![endif]--><em><b><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'><![if !supportNestedAnchors]><a
name="_Toc338963393"></a><a name="_Toc339109329"></a><a name="_Toc339139287"></a><![endif]></span></b></em><!--[if supportFields]><em><b><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span></b></em><![endif]--><em><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>��</span></span></em><em><span lang=EN
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;
font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>(CLOSING NIGHT, WORLD PREMIERE; </span></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:
italic'>USA;</span></em><em><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;
font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'> Paramount Pictures<span
class=GramE>)<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Robert</span></b></span></span></em><em><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:
EN;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'> Zemeckis</span></b></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:
italic'> has made some wonderful films.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�
</span>Well, not the sort that appear at the NYFF, but ones I have really
enjoyed, going all the way back to his 1984 </span></em><em><span lang=EN
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>Romancing the Stone</span></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:
italic'> and 1985-90 </span></em><em><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:
EN'>Back to the Future</span></em><em><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:
EN;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'> series (I, III�and even II, a
bit)�and even his 1988 </span></em><em><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:
EN'>Who Framed Roger Rabbit</span></em><em><span lang=EN style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:
18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>;
they are just plain fun movies.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span><span
class=GramE>(I have completely<i> disliked</i>, however, his films since:<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>1994 <i>Forest Gump</i>, 1997 Contact, 2000
Cast Away; they may have had good special effects, but, to me, they are
offensively mindless.)</span><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�� </span>So, I was
expecting good special effects from the airplane crash film�and got them; I was
not expecting much more�and my level of expectation was on target.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span></span></em><em><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>FLIGHT</span></b></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:
italic'> deals with a very real problem:<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�
</span>there is an alarmingly high rate of alcoholism among commercial airline
pilots, and this is an extremely scary reality.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�
</span>(Fortunately, commercial jets can practically fly themselves.)<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>Not yet asleep from a night of debauchery
with one of his very sexy flight attendants (<b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'>Nadine Velazquez</b>, whose beautiful naked body we get to see an
amazing amount of in the opening moments in the hotel room), pilot Whip
Whitiker (<b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Denzel Washington</b>) rouses
himself from his drug and alcohol induced stupor by snorting cocaine, so he can
get to the airport to fly his 9 AM flight to Atlanta.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>Whip is an amazingly good pilot, if not much
of a human being.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>In a crunch, he
functions in a way not most pilots can�even sober.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>The series of inflight mishaps in the first
twenty minutes of the film are portrayed on film by <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'>Zemeckis</b> with terrifyingly effective skill�they are wonderfully
done.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>Whip is incredible in his handling
of the emergencies; and <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Washington</b>
is very good portraying this alcoholic hero.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�
</span>The </span></em><em><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:
EN'>other</span></em><em><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:
EN;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'> two hours of the film,
however, deal with the human drama that ensues around the question of Whip�s
alcoholism and how that is going to play out in the investigation that follows
the incident; and on this end, neither <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Zemeckis</b>
nor <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Washington</b> is anywhere near up
to the task. <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�</span>John Goodman</b> is totally wasted (in more
ways than one) in this film (I </span></em><em><span lang=EN style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:
18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>loved</span></em><em><span lang=EN
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:
italic'> his �Walter Shobchak� in </span></em><em><span lang=EN
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>The Big Lebowski</span></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:
italic'>, but it really seemed out of place in </span></em><em><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:
EN'>FLIGHT</span></b></em><em><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:
EN;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>)�the whole thing would have
been better off without him.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>Aside from
the disaster scenes, the best thing about the film is that it�s a reasonably
great advertisement for Alcoholics Anonymous.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�
</span>As for a treatment of the complex emotional issues it is trying to deal
with, </span></em><em><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=EN
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>FLIGHT</span></b></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:
italic'> is a train wreck�oh, no�wait:<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�
</span>it�s an airplane disaster!</span></em><em><span style='font-family:"Neutraface 2 Text PS","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'><o:p></o:p></span></em></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><em><span lang=EN style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'><o:p> </o:p></span></em></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><em><b><span lang=EN
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:
EN'>THE PAPERBOY</span></b></em><!--[if supportFields]><em><b><span lang=EN
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:
EN'><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span></span></b></em><span lang=EN
style='mso-ansi-language:EN'> </span>TC "<span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc339139288'><span
style='mso-bookmark:_Toc339109330'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc338963394'><em><b><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;
mso-ansi-language:EN'>THE PAPERBOY</span></b></em></span></span></span>"
\f C \l "1" <![endif]--><em><b><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'><![if !supportNestedAnchors]><a
name="_Toc338963394"></a><a name="_Toc339109330"></a><a name="_Toc339139288"></a><![endif]></span></b></em><!--[if supportFields]><em><b><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;
mso-ansi-language:EN'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span></b></em><![endif]--><em><b><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;
mso-ansi-language:EN'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�</span></span></b></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;
mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:
italic'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�</span>(USA; Millennium Entertainment<span
class=GramE>)<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>This</span> film by <b>Lee
Daniels</b> (whose </span></em><span class=MsoHyperlink><span style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-no-proof:yes'><a
href="http://www.rlrubens.com/nyff-09.html#_Toc245911499"><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Precious: Based on the Novel
�Push� by Sapphire</i></b></a></span></span><em><span lang=EN style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'> was a surprise hit of the
2009 NYFF) was shown as part of a <b>Gala Tribute</b>�one of two in this year�s
NYFF�to its star, <b>Nicole Kidman</b>.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>��
</span></span></em><em><b><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>THE PAPERBOY</span></b></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;
mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:
italic'> is based on a novel by<b> Pete Dexter</b>, who, along with <b>Daniels</b>,
wrote the screenplay.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>I do not like <b>Nicole
Kidman</b>, but she did do a reasonably good�albeit meaningless�job in
portraying the brazen floozy, Charlotte.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�
</span>(There is a strange, Noah Baumbach twist here, not unlike with the De
Palma film, </span></em><em><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>q.v.</span></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;
mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:
italic'>, below: the only other film in which I have in any way liked Kidman
was Baumbach�s </span></em><em><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>Margot
at the Wedding</span></em><em><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;
font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>, which was shown in the 2007
NYFF.)<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>The story is set in Moat County,
FL, where two brothers, Jack (played by <b>Zac Efron</b>) and older brother
Ward (<b>Matthew McConaughey</b>) each have returned home to work on their
father�s newspaper (the younger essentially as a delivery boy, the other as a
reporter).<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>Ward and his Black co-writer
Yardley (<b>David Oyelowo</b>) are covering the attempt to get death row inmate
Hillary Van Wetter (<b>John Cusack</b>) pardoned; Charlotte is planning to
marry him (after a lurid prison letter-<span class=GramE>writing<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>relationship</span>).<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span><b>Cusack</b> is incredibly impressive in
playing against type in this film:<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>he
plays a completely shallow (and perhaps marginally retarded), stony-faced,
violent, psychopath�and he does it with amazingly convincing power and
depth.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>This is one of those films that
seemed increasingly bad the further we got from the experience of viewing
it:<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>in the moment, it was hard not to be
caught up in the swirl of intense emotion, terrifying action, and dramatic
tension.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>In the end, the more we
reflected on it, the more the emptiness and meaninglessness of the whole thing
bothered us.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span></span></em><em><b><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;
mso-ansi-language:EN'>THE PAPERBOY</span></b></em><em><span lang=EN
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:
EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>
trots out endless, intense themes (family rivalries, racial prejudice,
unprincipled ambition, sexual perversions, backwater poverty and ignorance,
journalistic integrity, distorted marital relationships, </span></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;
mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>etc</span></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;
mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:
italic'>., </span></em><em><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>etc</span></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;
mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:
italic'>.) and repeated shocking images (everything from brutal murders and
slashings to rather un-erotic but pornographic sex acts and <b>Kidman</b>
pissing on <b>Zac Efron</b>�s face); it puts the viewer through an assaultive
barrage of emotions and visceral reactions; but, in the end, one realizes that
there is really no point�all of it goes absolutely nowhere.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span><span class=GramE>And the more that the
pointlessness of all this violence, madness, and brutality becomes apparent,
the less I liked having been subjected to it.</span><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>It just isn�t worth having to go through it.<o:p></o:p></span></em></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><em><span lang=EN style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'><o:p> </o:p></span></em></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><em><b><span lang=EN
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>PASSION</span></b></em><!--[if supportFields]><em><b><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'><span
style='mso-element:field-begin'></span></span></b></em><span lang=EN
style='mso-ansi-language:EN'> </span>TC "<span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc339139289'><span
style='mso-bookmark:_Toc339109331'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc338963395'><em><b><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>PASSION</span></b></em></span></span></span>"
\f C \l "1" <![endif]--><em><b><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'><![if !supportNestedAnchors]><a
name="_Toc338963395"></a><a name="_Toc339109331"></a><a name="_Toc339139289"></a><![endif]></span></b></em><!--[if supportFields]><em><b><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'><span
style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span></b></em><![endif]--><em><b><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�</span></span></b></em><em><span lang=EN
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�</span></span></em><em><span lang=EN
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>(</span></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>USA)<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�� </span>I have
never much liked the films of <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Brian De
Palma</b>, and we chose to see his new one, </span></em><em><b><span lang=EN
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>PASSION</span></b></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>, only because I had learned that Noah Baumbach,
whose films I </span></em><em><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:
18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>do</span></em><em><span lang=EN style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:
italic'> like, is a close friend of De Palma�s. <span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�</span>(I went to an <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'>HBO </b></span></em><span class=GramE><em><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:
EN'>On</span></b></em></span><em><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'> Cinema</span></b></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'> event which, for the first time this year,
featured two directors together�Baumbach and De Palma.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>During this event, I learned that not only
are they friends, but that they meet regularly together with Wes Anderson�whose
films I </span></em><em><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:
EN'>adore</span></em><em><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:
18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>�to
discuss their work together.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>I did not
know that in advance of seeing </span></em><em><b><span lang=EN
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>PASSION</span></b></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>, but if I had it would have provided even more
incentive to see it.)<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>I was </span></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>not</span></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'> happy that I did see it, however: I thought it was
terrible.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'>De Palma</b> is technically very adept; the film has excellent
production values and a very polished, slick feel.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>But it is hard to imagine <span class=GramE>more
empty</span>, mindless garbage pretending to have some depth or even dramatic
meaning.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>It is a �thriller� (and the
music keeps telling us this is the case in a very heavy-handed way), with
unsuspected and clever twists of plot (all of which were completely predictable
and stupid).<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>The story revolves about
the competition between two women, an ambitious, talented, and seemingly sympathetic
creative director, </span></em><em><b><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:
EN;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>Noomi Rapace</span></b></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;
mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:
italic'> </span></em><em><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:
18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>(who, at least, seems to do a good job acting her
part), and the rapacious, frighteningly narcissistic, unprincipled head of the
agency, </span></em><em><b><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:
normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>Rachel McAdams</span></b></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-font-kerning:
18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'> (who, on the other hand, seems totally incapable
of acting at all).<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span></span></em><em><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:
italic'>De Palma</span></b></em><em><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:
EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>
creates numerous �surprises� and turns of plot, which, to quote the Bard in the
�Scottish Play,� turn out to be a lot of �sound and fury, signifying
nothing.�<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>(And we know who is said to
have told that tale�)<o:p></o:p></span></em></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><em><span lang=EN style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'><o:p> </o:p></span></em></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><em><b><span lang=EN
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>NIGHT ACROSS
THE STREET</span></b></em><em><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:
18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'> </span></em><em><span lang=EN style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:
italic'>(</span></em><em><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=EN
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>LA NOCHE DE
ENFRENTE</span></b></em><em><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:
18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>)</span></em><!--[if supportFields]><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span></span></em><span
lang=EN style='mso-ansi-language:EN'> </span>TC "<span style='mso-bookmark:
_Toc339139290'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc339109332'><span style='mso-bookmark:
_Toc338963396'><em><b><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:
EN'>NIGHT ACROSS THE STREET</span></b></em></span></span></span><span
style='mso-bookmark:_Toc339139290'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc339109332'><span
style='mso-bookmark:_Toc338963396'><em><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;
font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'> </span></em></span></span></span><span
style='mso-bookmark:_Toc339139290'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc339109332'><span
style='mso-bookmark:_Toc338963396'><em><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:
italic'>(</span></em></span></span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc339139290'><span
style='mso-bookmark:_Toc339109332'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc338963396'><em><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>LA NOCHE DE ENFRENTE</span></b></em></span></span></span><span
style='mso-bookmark:_Toc339139290'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc339109332'><span
style='mso-bookmark:_Toc338963396'><em><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:
italic'>)</span></em></span></span></span>" \f C \l "1" <![endif]--><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'><![if !supportNestedAnchors]><a name="_Toc338963396"></a><a
name="_Toc339109332"></a><a name="_Toc339139290"></a><![endif]></span></em><!--[if supportFields]><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span></em><![endif]--><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>��</span>(France/Chile;<span style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold'> Cinema Guild<span class=GramE>)<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>I</span>
do not remember who it was that recommended we see this last film by the
prolific Mexican director </span>Raul Ruiz, who died last year after making </span></em><em><b><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>NIGHT ACROSS
THE STREET</span></b></em><em><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:
18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>, but
I am suspicious that perhaps I was mistaken that this was what the person had
recommended:<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>I found this film to be
unbearable.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>In fairness, it was the 17<sup>th</sup>
film I had seen in 11 days, it screened at 9 PM on a Sunday in which we had
already seen one other film and a director�s dialogue, I was </span></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>very</span></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'> tired, and I had had a margarita (Patron tequila
was a new sponsor of the NYFF this year).<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�
</span>Maybe I just couldn�t follow or appreciate the surrealistic symbolism of
the whole thing; but my experience of it was that this symbolism was trite and
amateurishly self-indulgent in the extreme.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�
</span>I like films taking place in different time frames and at different
levels of reality and fantasy�all of which this was attempting to do; and I
like films with metaphoric meanings and philosophical musings.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>I am just afraid that the attempt at these
things in </span></em><em><b><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:
18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>NIGHT ACROSS THE STREET</span></b></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'> lacked the depth, sophistication, and intelligence
to make it meaningful.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>To me, the point
of this film, like the journey to it, was painfully shallow, sophomoric, and
not worth seeing.<o:p></o:p></span></em></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><em><b><span lang=EN
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>BEYOND THE
HILLS</span></b></em><em><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:
18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'> </span></em><em><span lang=EN style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:
italic'>(</span></em><em><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=EN
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>DUPA˘
DEALURI</span></b></em><em><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:
18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>)</span></em><!--[if supportFields]><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span></span></em><span
lang=EN style='mso-ansi-language:EN'> </span>TC "<span style='mso-bookmark:
_Toc339139291'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc339109333'><span style='mso-bookmark:
_Toc338963397'><em><b><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:
EN'>BEYOND THE HILLS</span></b></em></span></span></span><span
style='mso-bookmark:_Toc339139291'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc339109333'><span
style='mso-bookmark:_Toc338963397'><em><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;
font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'> </span></em></span></span></span><span
style='mso-bookmark:_Toc339139291'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc339109333'><span
style='mso-bookmark:_Toc338963397'><em><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:
italic'>(</span></em></span></span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc339139291'><span
style='mso-bookmark:_Toc339109333'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc338963397'><em><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>DUPA˘ DEALURI</span></b></em></span></span></span><span
style='mso-bookmark:_Toc339139291'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc339109333'><span
style='mso-bookmark:_Toc338963397'><em><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:
italic'>)</span></em></span></span></span>" \f C \l "1" <![endif]--><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;
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lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span></em><![endif]--><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>��</span>(Romania;<span
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'> Sundance Selects)<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>I was hesitant to see this new film from
director <b>Cristian Mungiu</b>, as we had rather disliked his 2007 film </span></span></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold;font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.rlrubens.com/nyff-07.html"><i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days</i></a></span></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'> when we saw it in an
earlier NYFF.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>I should have followed my
instinct, as we ultimately found </span></em><em><b><span lang=EN
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>BEYOND THE
HILLS</span></b></em><em><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:
18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'> to be dreadful.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�
</span>The first several minutes of the film actually promised to be
interesting.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>The story involves a young
woman, Alina (<b>Cristina Flutur</b>) who arrives at a grim, remote monastery
to visit her friend Voichita (<b>Cosmina Stratan</b>), who had earlier been in
an orphanage with her, and is now a novice in a small, cultish group of pious
young nuns, toiling submissively under austere small-mindedness of an
authoritarian Orthodox priest whom they call �Papa� (<b>Valeriu Andriuta</b>).
The tension between the craziness and impulsivity of one of the young women and
the insanity and repressive control of the religious community leads to
endless, slow, heavy-handed emotional dramas�culminating in an exorcism. (The
film claims to have been inspired by a case of alleged demonic possession that
actually oc�curred in Romania�s Moldova region in 2005.)<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>Unfortunately, the film�s pretentions </span></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold'>far</span></em><em><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:
18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'> exceed everything about it other than its
unremitting bleakness and its ponderous 2 � hour length.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>It drags on endlessly in what is ultimately a
banal and shallow treatment of themes that it seems to be taking as profound,
using symbolism that is trite beyond all telling.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span></span></em><em><b><span lang=EN
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>BEYOND THE
HILLS</span></b></em><em><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:
18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'> is as bleak, grim, and boring as the rural
landscape in which it is set.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>I�d
suggest you not join this sect�and not see this film, either.</span></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:
minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-hansi-theme-font:
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mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;
font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'><o:p></o:p></span></em></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;tab-stops:2.05in'><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><u><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Special
Events:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;tab-stops:2.05in'><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><u><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p><span
style='text-decoration:none'> </span></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;tab-stops:2.05in'><em><b><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;
mso-ansi-language:EN'>THE PRINCESS BRIDE</span></b></em><!--[if supportFields]><em><b><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;
mso-ansi-language:EN'><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span></span></b></em><span
lang=EN style='mso-ansi-language:EN'> </span>TC "<span style='mso-bookmark:
_Toc339139292'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc339109334'><em><b><span lang=EN
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:
EN'>THE PRINCESS BRIDE</span></b></em></span></span>" \f C \l
"1" <![endif]--><em><b><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'><![if !supportNestedAnchors]><a
name="_Toc339109334"></a><a name="_Toc339139292"></a><![endif]></span></b></em><!--[if supportFields]><em><b><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;
mso-ansi-language:EN'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span></b></em><![endif]--><em><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;
mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:
italic'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>��</span>(</span></em><em><span lang=EN
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:
EN;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>1987, USA<span class=GramE>)<span
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>For</span></span><span
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'> the 25<sup>th</sup> anniversary of</span></span></em><em><b><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;
mso-ansi-language:EN'> THE PRINCESS BRIDE</span></b></em><em><span lang=EN
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:
EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>,
the NYFF had a screening of it in Alice Tully Hall which </span></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;
mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>clearly</span></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;
mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:
italic'> was the most fun event of the entire Festival!<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span></span></em><em><span lang=EN
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:
EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>All</span></em><em><span lang=EN
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:
EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'> of
the main people involved with the film (</span></em><em><span lang=EN
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:
EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>every</span></em><em><span lang=EN
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:
EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>
single one I mention below, with the exception of the three who are dead and
Christopher Guest, who was working on a film in the UK) were there and onstage
after it for the Q&A�which was hilarious as well as informative.</span></em><em><span
lang=EN style='mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'><o:p></o:p></span></em></p>
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style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><u><o:p><span style='text-decoration:none'> </span></o:p></u></b></p>
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<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=Pa0 style='line-height:normal'><em><span lang=EN style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:
18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>What is there for me to say about this amazing
film: if you know it, you love it; if you don�t know it, you should; if you
don�t like it, I don�t know how I can help you.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�
</span>When it first appeared in 1987, it was a box office flop; only later did
it become a beloved favorite.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>It�s one
of those films I watch at least once a year.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�
</span>(Nancy would say that this is a gross underestimate.)<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>Based on a book by <b>William Goldman</b>
(who also wrote the screenplay) and directed by <b>Rob Reiner</b>, The film
begins with <b>Peter Falk</b> reading </span></em><em><b><span lang=EN
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>THE PRINCESS BRIDE</span></b></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;
font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'> to his 11 year old grandson (<b>Fred
Savage</b>).<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>Soon we are in a fairy tale
with a handsome young hero (<b>Cary Elwes</b>) and a beautiful young maiden (<b>Robin
Wright</b>) who is being courted by an evil prince (<b>Chris Sarandon</b>) with
his even more evil assistant (<b>Christopher Guest</b>).<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>An evil villain (brilliantly cast against
type, <b>Wallace Shawn</b>) hired with his two accomplices (a swordsman played
by <b>Mandy Patinkin</b> and <b>Andr� the Giant</b>) to kidnap and kill the
princess� oh, well, you get the idea.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�
</span>But the in the midst of this wonderful story are magnificent moments of
pure pleasure:<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>a wedding ceremony
performed by an �Impressive Clergyman� (<b>Peter Cook</b>: �Mawwidge�� and
�Wove, twoo wove��); the revival of the hero (who is �only </span></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>mostly</span></em><em><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;
font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'> dead�) by Miracle Max (<b>Billy
Crystal</b>) and his wife <b>Carole Kane</b>��Have fun storming the castle,
boys!� </span></em><em><b><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Neutraface 2 Text PS","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
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font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'><o:p></o:p></span></b></em></p>
<h1 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><em><span lang=EN
style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'><o:p> </o:p></span></em></h1>
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<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><em><span lang=EN style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>Oh, hell�just go rent it and
enjoy it for yourself!<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>(And, the studio
has just released a 25<sup>th</sup> anniversary Blu-ray edition, available on
Amazon.com: <a
href="http://www.amazon.com/Princess-Bride-Anniversary-Edition-Blu-ray/dp/B008FD36IC/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1351304513&sr=8-3&keywords=princess+bride"><span
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>click here</span></a>)</span></em><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><u><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'><u><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p><span
style='text-decoration:none'> </span></o:p></span></u></b></p>
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