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The 45th New York Film Festival will premiere 28 films when it runs September 28 - October 14 at the Frederick P. Rose Hall, Home of Jazz at Lincoln Center. The festival, presented by the Film Society of Lincoln Center and sponsored by Sardinia Region Tourism and The New York Times, also features the 11th Annual Views from the Avant-Garde as well as two other showcases, three music documentaries and six retrospective films. This year's HBO Films Directors Dialogues will be with Wes Anderson, Todd Haynes, Sidney Lumet and Julian Schnabel ~ close encounters focusing on their entire body of work & delving into the filmmaking process. In addition to screening Blade Runner: The Final Cut, our 25th anniversary salute to this key work of science fiction includes "The Future Is Now," a panel discussion with prominent film scholars.
Opening Night
This year�s festival opens on Friday, September 28 with Wes Anderson�s new film, The Darjeeling Limited. Featuring Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody and Jason Schwartzman, the films follows three brothers as they re-forge family bonds on a train ride across India. Anjelica Huston is also featured in the Fox Searchlight release, co-written by Anderson, Roman Coppola and Schwartzman.
Centerpiece
On Saturday, October 6, Joel and Ethan Coen�s No Country for Old Men will be honored as the festival�s Centerpiece. Based on the novel by Pulitzer Prize-winner Cormac McCarthy and adapted by the Coens, the film is a mesmerizing thriller about the violent chain reaction that follows a hunter�s discovery of several dead bodies, a major stash of heroin and $2 million in cash. Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Woody Harrelson and Kelly MacDonald star.
Closing Night
Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud�s Persepolis has been selected as the festival�s Closing Night film. The animated coming-of-age story, based on Satrapi�s popular graphic novel about her own childhood in Iran during the Islamic Revolution, won a Jury Prize at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. It features the voice talents of Catherine Deneuve, Chiara Mastroianni, Danielle Darrieux and Simon Abkarian, several of whom are expected to attend the festival�s Closing Night screening at Lincoln Center�s Avery Fisher Hall on Sunday, October 14. Sony Pictures Classics is releasing the film.
Showcases
For the eleventh year "Views from the Avant-Garde" premieres the latest work from the frontiers of cinematic possibility during the second weekend of the festival, October 6-7, at the Walter Reade Theater. This experimental film showcase brings together new and rediscovered work by established luminaries and emerging artists from near and far. Highlights this year include programs devoted to Robert Beavers, Ernie Gehr, Peter Hutton, and Ken Jacobs, plus new films and videos from Jeanne Liotta, Luther Price, Damon Packard, Helga Fanderl, Phil Solomon, Lewis Klahr, Peggy Ahwesh, and David Gatten.
This year�s festival honors director and screenwriter Joaquim Pedro de Andrade, a renowned member of Brazil�s Cinema Novo movement of the 1950s and �60s. He solidified his place as a master filmmaker with his 1969 classic, Macunaima for which he won Best Film at the Mar del Plata Film Festival. Favoring a hard-edged expressionism meant to capture the realities of his nation�s poverty, de Andrade established himself in 1965 with The Priest and the Girl, nominated for the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival. Three times de Andrade has won Brazilian cinema�s highest honor, the Candango Trophy. "Tropical Analysis: The Films of Joaquim Pedro de Andrade", will run September 29-October 9 at the Walter Reade Theater.
The 10th anniversary of the establishment of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region will be celebrated at the Walter Reade Theater with "Chinese Modern: A Tribute to Cathay Studios", October 10-16, screening films from the Hong Kong production house that, more than any other, introduced a distinctly modern lifestyle to Chinese culture.
New Line Cinema Gala
On Friday, October 5, the Film Society will salute New Line Cinema�s 40 years of extraordinary moviemaking at a black-tie gala to benefit the Film Society�s the In Motion capital building campaign for the new Elinor Bunin-Munroe Film Center. New Line Cinema�s Co-Chairmen and Co-CEOs Bob Shaye and Michael Lynne will be honored during a star-studded evening at the Frederick P. Rose Hall, Home of Jazz at Lincoln Center in the Time Warner Center. The gala event � which will include a sneak peek of New Line�s highly anticipated winter release, The Golden Compass, starring Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig, and directed by Chris Weitz � marks the biggest benefit in the history of the Film Society. All proceeds will go to the capital building campaign.
Venue & Ticket Information
Due to ongoing renovations at Lincoln Center�s Alice Tully Hall, this year�s New York Film Festival screenings will be held at the Frederick P. Rose Hall, Home of Jazz at Lincoln Center, in the Time Warner Center. The Opening and Closing Night screenings will be held at Lincoln Center�s Avery Fisher Hall. Tickets to all events except the showcases in this year�s New York Film Festival will go on sale to the general public on Sunday September 9 at 10am at the Frederick P. Rose Hall box office, Home of Jazz at Lincoln Center, Broadway at 60th Street. Online ticket sales to all events, subject to availability, will begin on Monday, September 10 on this website.
Selection Committee
The 45th New York Film Festival�s selection committee includes Richard Pe�a, committee chairman and program director at the Film Society; Scott Foundas, film editor and critic, L.A. Weekly; J. Hoberman, film critic, The Village Voice, and visiting lecturer at Harvard University; Kent Jones, associate director of programming at the Film Society and editor-at-large of Film Comment magazine; and Lisa Schwarzbaum, film critic, Entertainment Weekly.
Sponsors The 45th New York Film Festival is sponsored by Sardinia Region Tourism and The New York Times. Additional support from illy caff�; HBO Films; Maxell; Mikimoto; Ghirardelli Chocolate�; and Martin Miller's Gin. Participating sponsors include [yellow tail]�; [yellow tail]� Sparkling White Wine; Stella Artois; the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office, New York; Kodak; Technicolor; and HBO Documentary Films. Special thanks to Cineric; Dolby; CTS; Josephina; O'Neals; The Park Lane Hotel and Borders. Trailer courtesy of Bunker New York and Nuncle. The 45th New York Film Festival is made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.
This year�s festival poster, t-shirts, and tote bags have been designed and generously donated by agn�s b.
Special thanks also to Warner Bros. and Warner Home Video for their support of "The Future is Now: Blade Runner at 25"; the Romanian Cultural Institute (RCINY) in New York for supporting the travel of Cristian Mungiu and Alexandru Mavrodineanu; and ANA All Nippon Airways and The Japan Foundation in New York for supporting the travel of Masayuki Suo.
American Express and The Film Foundation present Drums Along the Mohawk and Leave Her to Heaven as part of the Preservation Screening Program, "In Glorious Technicolor". The Preservation Screening Program has been created by American Express and The Film Foundation to provide public access to motion pictures that have been preserved/restored with funding from the foundation. Through this new program, today's moviegoers are connecting with film art and culture of the past, developing appreciation for our shared cinematic history and highlighting the importance of film preservation.
The screenings of Hamlet and Underworld are made possible through the generosity of the Ira M. Resnick Foundation.
"Tropical Analysis: The Films of Joaquim Pedro de Andrade" has been organized by the Film Society of Lincoln Center and Os Filmes do Serro, with special thanks to Antonio and Alice de Andrade, Cristina Ach� and Fabiano Canosa. In "Views from the Avant-Garde", the Helga Fanderl program is supported by the Goethe-Institut New York. "Chinese Modern: A Tribute to Cathay Studios" is sponsored by the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office New York and is organized by the Film Society, in collaboration with the Hong Kong Film Archive. Special thanks to Cathay-Keris Films Pte. Ltd. and Cathay Organization Holdings, especially Violet Kwan and Jennifer Wee, and also to Sandi Tan, Norman Wang, Sam Ho, Hazel Chang, Wong Ai-ling and Shu Kei for their help in making the series possible.
The photos for "One Last Shot: Signed Polaroids, Photographs by Henny Garfunkel" were scanned and printed by Joseph Oland and the Jones Photographic Lab, Tucson, Ariz. The opening reception is sponsored by PAPER and Nicolas Feuillatte.
