I'd focus on Maren Ade's Everyone Else (Kent Jones wrote an essay in this month's Film Comment about this German film and comparable on-screen relationships citing Cassavetes and Bergman examples), Zhao Dayong's three hour documentary film (Ghost Town) about how China's Cultural Revolution didn't benefit everyone and (see pic) Samuel Maoz's circa 1982 film (Lebanon) which will screen at Venice, TIFF and at the Lincoln Center - not bad for a first time filmmaker!
Kicking off with the visually impressive, yet admittedly tepid The Darjeeling Limited, audiences would probably do better to download the precursor gem Hotel Chevalier.
Greetings from New York! This is Benjamin and I’ll be your ioncinema.com guide for the 45th Annual New York Film Festival, which kick starts today for a little more than two weeks into the crisp month of October. Produced by The Film Society of Lincoln Center, the festival has a very “New York” feel to it this year as ten of the film’s screening here are from New York based directors. Also, 2007 has been a great year for international festivals such as Cannes, Venice and Toronto and that’s been reflected in this year’s showcase.
The final tally and full list of films presented at this year's TIFF have been announced today and hardcore cinephiles will have many options available to them out of the 261 film selected.
The jury composed of Walter Carvalho, Saverio Costanzo, Irène Jacob, Jia Zhang-ke, Romuald Karmakar and Bruno Todeschini gave out a bunch of leopards on the weekend. Masahiro Kobayashi...