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Now in its 46th year, the New York Film Festival has a slightly different remit to many going on around the world. Rather than being a marketplace, it aims to be a showcase of talent, bringing together the best work from festivals around the world - from newcomers and established filmmakers.
Highlights this year include, Clint Eastwood's Changeling and Darren Aronofsky's The Wrestler - fresh from scooping the Golden Lion at Venice (see our news story).
The festival also features a Views from the Avant-Garde section which premieres non-narrative, experimental film and video. This year's main slate features 28 films from 18 different countries.
This year's festival also featured a "near-complete retrospective" of Japanese fillmmaker Nagisa Oshima.
View previous years coverage of the New York Film Festival festival:
New York Latest Reviews
![The Headless Woman](/images/stills/h/headless_woman_2008.jpg)
A woman's life goes off the rails after a mysterious car accident.
![I'm Gonna Explode](/images/stills/i/im_gonna_explode_2008.jpg)
A romance develops between two rebels without a cause.
![Tony Manero](/images/stills/t/tony_manero_2008.jpg)
The story of a psychotic fiftysomething and his obssession with John Travolta's character in Saturday Night Fever.
![Tulpan](/images/stills/t/tulpan_2008.jpg)
A man dreams of becoming a shepherd in the Kazakhstan steppe, but is there room for such dreams in the modern world?
![The Class](/images/stills/c/class_2008.jpg)
Quasi-documentary about a group of Parisian school kids.
![Four Nights With Anna](/images/stills/f/four_nights_with_anna_2008.jpg)
A crematorium worker becomes obssessed with a beautiful nurse.
![The Wrestler](/images/stills/w/wrestler_2008.jpg)
An ageing wrestler tries to reconnect with his estranged daughter, but can he get the ring out of his soul? Plus read what Aronofsky, Rourke and Tomei said about the film.
![Wendy And Lucy](/images/stills/w/wendy_and_lucy_2008_14794.jpg)
Drama about a young woman's attempts to find her lost dog.
![Tokyo Sonata](/images/stills/t/tokyo_sonata_2008.jpg)
A Tokyo salaryman loses his job and tries to conceal it from his already dysfunctional family.
![Che: Guerilla](/images/stills/c/che_guerilla_2008.jpg)
Second episode in Soderbergh's meditation on the Argentine-born revolutionary, focussing on his time in Bolivia.
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