Benjamin Crossley-Marra

I wasn’t very. I think a lot of guys my age had about an 8-month romance with wrestling when they were kids. It was during the “hulk-a-mania” craze. I went to one match at Madison Square where Hulk was the bad guy. He was against Tony Atlas, and I remember the Hulk trying to throw Atlas, but missing, giving Atlas the opportunity to pull Hulk’s pants off. I was so excited I lost my voice for about three months.

I have to admit it: the New York Film Festival is my favorite.

Certainly the most ambitious film to have its United States debut at the New York Film Festival, Che has been a dream project of director Steven Soderbergh for many years.

Every now and then a film comes along and gets at a certain universal truth in an obscure time and place.

The festival kicked off on Friday night with the Palme d’Or winning The Class by veteran Laurent Cantet. The Class is a low-fi, brilliant, slice-of-life that teased expectations of greater cinema to come.