October 2007 - Posts

IFC News: Afterlives, Bogdanovich.
Mon, Oct 15 2007 11:16 AM

This week at IFC News: We're prompted by "Wristcutters: A Love Story" is run down a few other high-concept film...

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NYFF: Clean-up.
Sun, Oct 14 2007 9:37 PM

We're more than ready to put this festival to rest, so here are the blurby remnants of our review backlog....

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"Every 37 years I'm going to do four hours for the New York Film Festival."
Fri, Oct 12 2007 2:28 PM

Peter Bogdanovich and his ascot talk his four-hour doc "Runnin’ Down a Dream: Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers" at the...

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NYFF: "Alexandra."
Fri, Oct 12 2007 1:00 PM

Alexandra Nikolaevna (opera singer Galina Vishnevskaya, one of the subjects of director Aleksandr Sokurov's 2006 documentary "Elegy of a Life:...

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"As a result we got worms at the end of the summer..."
Fri, Oct 12 2007 11:44 AM

Below, video from NYFF closing night film "Persepolis"'s press conference with directors Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi. Marjane Satrapi and...

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NYFF: "Actresses."
Wed, Oct 10 2007 4:53 PM

[A note: "Actresses" has just been picked up by IFC First Take. We've generally tried to avoid reviewing films that...

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The John Landis Project.
Wed, Oct 10 2007 2:05 PM

Footage from the John Landis press conference for "Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project" is below. No warring with audience...

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NYFF: "Margot at the Wedding."
Tue, Oct 9 2007 6:19 PM

We'll give you this: Noah Baumbach is a masterful writer of cringingly sad-funny dialogue, and quite possibly an astute chronicler...

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De Palma vs. Cuban.
Tue, Oct 9 2007 10:51 AM

Below is video footage of yesterday's delightfully confrontational "Redacted" New York Film Festival press conference, in which Brian De Palma...

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IFC News: Like haiku poetry.
Mon, Oct 8 2007 6:27 PM

This week at IFC News: Video footage of the "Margot at the Wedding" press conference (with Nicole Kidman, looking distressingly...

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NYFF: "Married Life."
Fri, Oct 5 2007 6:00 PM

The late '40s and '50s have become such pop culture shorthand for emotional repression and immaculately groomed exteriors that it...

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NYFF: "I'm Not There."
Wed, Oct 3 2007 8:14 PM

We're barely literate in Bob Dylanese, so a fair amount of Todd Haynes' "I'm Not There" went over our head,...

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NYFF: "Redacted."
Tue, Oct 2 2007 6:35 PM

Brian De Palma has attempted to give us the Iraq occupation's answer to his 1989 "Casualties of War" in "Redacted,"...

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IFC News: Lake of Kaye.
Mon, Oct 1 2007 6:59 PM

We're hideously behind on NYFF reviews, so we'll be posting a few together in the near future. Also, check out...

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