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Mickey Rourke in Darren Aronofsky's The Wrestler
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
A woman's life goes off the rails after a mysterious car accident.
A romance develops between two rebels without a cause.
The story of a psychotic fiftysomething and his obssession with John Travolta's character in Saturday Night Fever.
A man dreams of becoming a shepherd in the Kazakhstan steppe, but is there room for such dreams in the modern world?
Quasi-documentary about a group of Parisian school kids.
A crematorium worker becomes obssessed with a beautiful nurse.
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.
Drama about a young woman's attempts to find her lost dog.
A Tokyo salaryman loses his job and tries to conceal it from his already dysfunctional family.
Second episode in Soderbergh's meditation on the Argentine-born revolutionary, focussing on his time in Bolivia.
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