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...
The thrill of meeting Marjane Satrapi reminded me of being 6 years old at Disney Land when I met the living, breathing Cinderella. Except Cinderella was an actress with a blond wig and Marjane is the real woman behind her autobiographical graphic novel, turned movie, “Persepolis”. The distinctive mole on her nose and her dark sultry eyes rose off the page and appeared in front of me, smoking and speaking with a French accent.