NYFF 2006

The 44th New York Film Festival
September 29 – October 15, 2006 - Official Website

PREMIERE

• 49 Up (2006/Michael Apted, UK) 1
• Amitiés Maléfiques / Poison Friends (2006/Emmanuel Bourdieu, France) 1 2
• August Days (2006/Marc Recha, Spain) 1
• Bamako (2006/Abderrahmane Sissako, Mali/France) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
• Belle Toujours (2006/Manoel de Oliveira, France) 1 2 3 4
• Climates (2006/Nuri Bilge Ceylan,Turkey) 1 2 3 4 5
• Coeurs / Private Fears in Public Places (2006/Alain Resnais, France) 1 2 3 4 5
• Election 1/2/3 (2006/Johnnie To, Hong Kong) 1 2
• Falling (2006/Barbara Albert, Austria) 1
• Inland Empire (2006/David Lynch, France/USA) 1 2 3 4 5 7
• Jardins en Automne / Gardens in Autumn (2006/Otar Iosseliani. France) 1 2 3
• Les Matins / A Little Bit Under The Weather (2005/Annick Raoul, France)
• Little Children (2006/Todd Field, USA) 1 2 3 4 5
• Mafioso (1962/Alberto Lattuada, Italy) 1 2 3 4
• Marie Antoinette (2006/Sofia Coppola, USA) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
• Offside (2006/Jafar Panahi, Iran) 1 2 3
• Our Daily Bread (2006/Nikolaus Geyrhalter. Austria) DOC 1 2 3
• Pan’s Labyrinth (2006/Guillermo del Toro, Spain/Mexico) 1 2 3 4 5 6
• Paprika (2006/Satoshi Kon, Japan) 1 2 3 4
• South of Ten (2006/Liza Johnson, USA)
• Syndromes and a Century (2006/Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand/France/Austria) 1 2 3 4
• The Go Master (2006/Tian Zhuangzhuang, China/Japan) 1 2
• The Host (2006/Bong Joon-ho, South Korea) 1 2 3 4 5 6
• The Journals of Knud Rasmussen (2006/Zacharias Kunuk and Norman Cohn, Canada) 1 2 3 4
• The Queen (2006/Stephen Frears, UK) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
• These Girls (2006/Tahani Rached, Egypt) DOC 1
• Volver (2006/Pedro Almodóvar, Spain) 1 2 3 4
• Woman on the Beach (2006/Hong Sang-soo, South Korea) 1 2 3 4 5 6

SHORT FILMS

• A Drop of Water (2006/Deniz Gamze Erguven, France/Turkey)
• Alice Sees The Light (2006/Ariana Gerstein, USA)
• Chronicle of A Jump (2005/Zohar Lavi, Israel/USA)
• Cubs (2006/Tom Harper , UK)
• Fourteen (2005/Nicole Barnette , USA)
• Lump (2006/Faye Jackson , UK)
• In The Tradition of My Family (2005/Todd Davis, USA)
• Innocence (2005/Arnaud Gautier, France)
• Jimmy Blue (2006/Joseph Infantolino, USA)
• Salt Kiss / Beijo de sal (2006/Fellipe Gamarano Barbosa , Brazil/USA)
• The Caretakers (2006/Elisabeth Subrin, USA)
• The Day I Died/El Dia que mori (2005/Maryam Keshavarz, Argentina/USA)
• The Naked Race (2005/Benoit Forgeard, UK)

RETROSPECTIVE

• Insiang (1976/Lino Brocka, The Philippines) 1 2
• Reds (1981/Warren Beatty, USA) 1
• El Topo (1970/Alejandro Jodorowsky, Spain/Mexico) 1
• The Holy Mountain (1973/Alejandro Jodorowsky, Mexico/USA) 1
• Brand Upon The Brain! (2006/Guy Maddin, Canada) 1
• Scenes from the City: 40 Years of Filmmaking in New York
• Looking at Jazz
• Picturing Development: The Case of Bamako

DIRECTORS DIALOGUE

Stephen Frears
Michael Apted
Guillermo del Toro

AVANT GARDE www 1 2 3 4 5

50 YEARS OF JANUS FILM www 1 2

• Jules and Jim
• The Rules of The Game
• The Seventh Seal
• Children of Paradise
• Beauty and the Beast
• Knife in the Water
• Cria Cuervos
• Monika
• WR: Mysteries of the Organism
• The 400 Blows
• Antoine et Colette
• The Cranes are Flying
• La Strada
• The Organizer
• The Makioka Sisters
• Wild Strawberries
• The Lady Vanishes
• Viridiana
• Cleo From 5 to 7
• Zéro de conduite
• The Seven Samurai
• The Earrings of Madame de...
• L’Avventura
• Ballad of a Soldier
• Sansho the Bailiff
• Day of Wrath
• High and Low
• Kwaidan
• Fires of the Plain
• Walkabout
• The Phantom Carriage
• Death of a Cyclist

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I've only seen 6 films from this impressive line up. I will watch Amitiés Maléfiques soon (released here this week). So there are more titles on my anticipation list, than in my recommendations.
MUST SEE : Our Daily Bread; Climates
WORTHWHILE : Bamako; Volver; Marie Antoinette
DON'T BOTHER : Jardins en Automne

Roughtly in preferential order my anticipation list:
Inland Empire; Syndromes and a Century; Woman on the Beach; The Go Master; These Girls; Belle Toujours; Coeurs; Pan’s Labyrinth; The Queen

The sidebar retrospectives also offer some great gems, like Jodorowsky's El Topo and The Holy Mountain (which I saw recently on its new remastered print from Cannes Classics). Lots of praise around Philipino's Insiang by Brocka too. And the Janus sidebar is like a list of historical canon masterpieces! Notably the rare silent swedish film The Phantom Carriage. And from what I need to see for a long time : Cria Cuervos; WR: Mysteries of the Organism; The Makioka Sisters; Fires of the Plain; Walkabout; Ballad of a Soldier; Sansho the Bailiff.

Jim Emerson at Scanners puts into question the relevance of the NYFF. And comments AO Scott's article of the festival in the NYT.

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Online Reports :

• Strictly Film School (acquarello) 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
• GreenCine Daily Report 1 2 3 4 5
• Green Cine Daily Dispatch (Filmbrain) 1 2 3 4 5
• Green Cine Daily Dispatch (D'Arcy) 1 2 3 4 5 6
• Green Cine Daily Dispatch (Michael Sicinski) 1 2
• Village Voice (Hoberman) 1 2
• Not To A Theatre Near You (NYFF coverage) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
• Premiere (Aaron Hillis) 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
• d-kaz (Daniel Kasman) 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
• Scanners (Jim Emerson) 1 2 3
• IndieWire Reverse Shot 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
• NPR webcast 1 2 3 4
• The Mutiny Company (video) 1 2 3 4 5

For more reviews check out my posts for Cannes and Toronto