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Festival opener Carnage
Now celebrating its 49th edition, New York Film Festival aims not to be a marketplace but rather a celebration of talent, bringing together the cream of the crop from other festivals around the globe.
The festival, which runs from September 30 to October 16, opened with Roman Polanski's Carnage. It closed with Alexander Payne's The Descendants.
In addition to the strands outlined below, the festival also celebrates Views From The Avant-Garde and is celebrating the centennial of the film production and distribution company Nikkatsu Corporation with a slate of 37 films under the banner Velvet Bullets And Steel Kisses. Films showing, include Cold Fish and Woman With Red Hair.
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A companion piece to Don't Expect Too Much, We Can't Go Home Again is an experimental vision of disillusioned American youth in the Seventies.
A middle-aged shoe-shiner helps an illegal immigrant.
Tracks the triumphant rise of Hollywood’s most prolific writer-director-producer, the godfather of independent filmmaking.
Absorbing and boldly original drama revolving around a German doctor in present-day Cameroon.
An Iranian couple's trial separation is complicated by their interactions with another troubled family.
A suspenseful cat-and-mouse search between police and an escaped convict.
A police psychologist renews old acquaintances when she is drafted in to help small town police find an escaped convict.
A young couple's passionate relationship plays out against the backdrop of a manhunt.
A thirtysomething finds his life spiral out of control after his sister moves into his apartment.
Tale of father-son rivalries within the Israeli academic establishment.
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Filming sensations Mathieu Amalric on Pierre Léon, Jeanne Balibar and the sounds and colours of Barbara
Character arc Seth A Smith on filming with a two-year-old and bringing marbling to life in The Crescent
Keeping up appearances Marcello Martinessi on cultural conservatism and filmmaking honesty in The Heiresses
A different space Kelly Macdonald on working with Marc Turtletaub on Puzzle
Out of the past Susanna Nicchiarelli on Trine Dyrholm and the costume design in Nico, 1988
The iconic man Jonathan Baker on Becoming Iconic and Inconceivable
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