New York Film Festival
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The New York Film Festival is the one of the United States's most important film festivals, first held in 1962 in New York. The films are selected by the Film Society of Lincoln Center. The festival does not award prizes.
The festival director is Richard Peña, who is also the chairman of the Selection Committee which includes Kent Jones, editor at-large of Film Comment magazine, and critics Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly,Scott Foundas of L.A. Weekly, and J. Hoberman of The Village Voice.
This is a non-competitive festival, which means no awards are given out. Nevertheless, having your film selected to screen at the Festival is a great honor. Many of the films this year, and in the past, played at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival and Toronto International Film Festival earlier in the year.
The festival is also known for its several sidebars, programs running concurrently with the main festival. These include the annual Views from the Avant-Garde, a showcase of non-narrative, experimental film, which has been running since 1997.
[edit] 2007 NYFF Lineup
The Darjeeling Limited, (Wes Anderson) - Opening Night
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days - (Cristian Mungiu), Romania
Actresses - (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi), France
Alexandra - (Alexander Sokurov), Russia
The Axe in the Attic - (Ed Pincus & Lucia Small), US
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead - (Sidney Lumet), US
Blade Runner: The Final Cut - (Ridley Scott), US, 1982/2007 - Retrospective
Calle Santa Fe - (Carmen Castillo), Chile/France/Belgium
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - (Julian Schnabel), France/US
Flight of the Red Balloon - (Hou Hsiao-hsien), France
A Girl Cut In Two - (Claude Chabrol), France
Go Go Tales - (Abel Ferrara), US
I Just Didn't Do It - (Masayuki Suo), Japan
I'm Not There - (Todd Haynes), US
In the City of Sylvia/Dans La Ville De Sylvia - (Jose Luis Guerin), Spain/France
The Last Mistress - (Catherine Breillat), France
The Man From London- (Béla Tarr), Hungary/France/Germany
Margot at the Wedding - (Noah Baumbach), US
Married Life - (Ira Sachs), US
Mr. Warmth, The Don Rickles Project - (John Landis), US
The Orphanage- (Juan Antonio Bayona), Spain
Paranoid Park- (Gus Van Sant), US
Redacted - (Brian De Palma), US
The Romance of Astreé and Céladon - (Éric Rohmer), France
Secret Sunshine - (Lee Chang-dong), South Korea
Stellet Licht (Silent Light) - (Carlos Reygadas), Mexico/France/The Netherlands
Useless - (Jia Zhangke), Hong Kong
No Country For Old Men (film) - (Joel Coen), US Showcase
Persepolis (film) - (Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud), France Closing Night
The Festival also featured a showcase of the films of Brazilian director Joaquim Pedro de Andrade, as well as "Chinese Modern: A Tribute to Cathay Studios," a Hong Kong based production company.
