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New York Film Festival 2019

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Born To Be Born To Be
Born To Be and My Father And Me
45 Seconds Of Laughter (Country: US; Year: 2019; Director: Tim Robbins; Stars: Tim Robbins, Sabra Williams, Jeremie Loncka, Tim Robbins, Sabra Williams, Jeremie Loncka)
Documentary about The Actors' Gang Prison Project.
63 Up (Country: UK; Year: 2019; Director: Michael Apted; Stars: Lynn Johnson, Tony Walker, Nicholas Hitchon, Charles Furneaux, Suzanne Dewey, Peter Davies, Jacqueline Bassett, Bruce Balden, John Brisby, Neil Hughes, Symon Basterfield, Susan Sullivan, Andrew Brackfield, Paul Kligerman, Lynn Johnson)
Follow-up documentary about a group of people who have talked about their lives on camera at intervals across the decades since their childhoods.
See: Michael Apted in conversation with Anne-Katrin Titze at the Film Forum US theatrical première of 63 Up
, Michael Apted in conversation on growing up, Coronation Street, Wild Strawberries, Paul Almond, and 63 Up
, DOC NYC Visionaries Tribute Lifetime Achievement and Critics Choice Documentary Landmark Award honouree Michael Apted in conversation on 63 Up
Bitter Bread (Country: Lebanon, Iraq, France; Year: 2019; Director: Abbas Fahdel)
Documentary about a community of refugees living in a tent camp in Lebanon’s Beqaa Valley.
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The Booksellers (Country: US; Year: 2019; Director: DW Young; Stars: Parker Posey, Fran Lebowitz, Rebecca Romney, Susan Orlean, Gay Talese, Nicholas D. Lowry, Nancy Bass Wyden, Zack Hample, Syreeta Gates, Bibi Mohamed, Adina Cohen, Arthur Fournier, Adam Weinberger, Tom Lecky, Jay Walker)
A tour of New York’s book world, past and present.
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Born To Be (Country: US; Year: 2019; Director: Tania Cypriano; Stars: Leiomy Maldonado, Jess Ting, Mahogany Phillips, Devin Benitez, Jordan Rubenstein, Cashmere, Shawn Frederick Sr., Leiomy Maldonado, Jess Ting, Mahogany Phillips, Devin Benitez, Jordan Rubenstein, Cashmere, Shawn Frederick Sr.)
Documentary, charting the emotional and physical journey of surgical transitioning, as experienced by patients at New York’s Mount Sinai Hospital.
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The Booksellers The Booksellers
The Booksellers and State Funeral
Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn (Country: US; Year: 2019; Director: Ivy Meeropol)
Documentary about the life and death of Roy Cohn, the closeted, conservative American lawyer whose first job out of law school was prosecuting filmmaker Ivy Meeropol’s grandparents, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
College Behind Bars (Country: US; Year: 2019; Director: Lynn Novick)
Four-part documentary charting incarcerated students as they work for exams.
Cunningham (Country: Germany, France, US; Year: 2019; Director: Alla Kovgan; Writer: Alla Kovgan)
Profile of choreographer Merce Cunningham.
Full Review See: Rashaun Mitchell and Silas Riener in conversation on the choreography of Merce Cunningham and the 3D for Cunningham
, Alla Kovgan in conversation on Merce Cunningham, Rei Kawakubo, Robert Rauschenberg, John Cage, Carolyn Brown, Hauschka, and the 3D for Cunningham
Free Time (Country: US; Year: 2019; Director: Manfred Kirchheimer)
Restored documentary capturing New York life in the Sixties.
My Father And Me (Country: UK; Year: 2019; Director: Nick Broomfield)
The filmmaker charts his relationship with his humanist-pacifist father, Maurice Broomfield, a factory worker turned photographer.
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Bitter Bread Bitter Bread
Bitter Bread and Cunningham
Oliver Sacks: His Own Life (Country: US; Year: 2019; Director: Ric Burns)
Documentary about the life of the neurologist.
Full Review See: Interview with Ric Burns about Oliver Sacks: His Own Life
Santiago, Italia (Country: Italy, France, Chile; Year: 2018; Director: Nanni Moretti; Writer: Nanni Moretti)
Nanni Moretti tells the story of the efforts of the Italian Embassy to save and relocate citizens targeted by the fascist Pinochet regime in Chile.
State Funeral (Country: Netherlands, Lithuania; Year: 2019; Director: Sergei Loznitsa; Writer: Sergei Loznitsa)
Documentary based on footage from March 5 - 9, 1953, when the USSR mourned and buried Joseph Stalin.
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