NYFF 2011. Ruben Östlund's "Play"
David Hudson“What’s the line between a provocative, no-holds-barred drama about race relations and a straight-up racist film?”
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Dialogue as Context: A Conversation with Santiago Mitre
Michael GuillenAn interview with the Argentine director of the Locarno, TIFF and NYFF-selected film, El Estudiante.
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NYFF 2011. Mia Hansen-Løve's "Goodbye First Love"
David Hudson“Lola Créton will be the next pouting-faced star of French cinema.”
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NYFF 2011. Joseph Cedar's "Footnote"
David HudsonA “brilliant academic comedy” or a “sour, rather unpleasant affair”?
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NYFF 2011. Pedro Almodóvar's "The Skin I Live In"
David Hudson“Almodóvar’s most formally complex, bravura film since All About My Mother (1999).”
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NYFF 2011. Mojtaba Mirtahmasb and Jafar Panahi's "This Is Not a Film"
David HudsonA ‘micro-scaled masterpiece… that makes Panahi’s artistry all the more heartening and his imprisonment all the more infuriating."
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NYFF 2011. Simon Curtis's "My Week with Marilyn"
David HudsonMichelle Williams? Marvelous. The film itself? Hardly.
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NYFF 2011. Sean Durkin's "Martha Marcy May Marlene"
David Hudson“Riding into Manhattan on a wave of Sundance and Cannes huzzahs…”
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NYFF 2011. Berlinger and Sinofsky's "Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory"
David HudsonThe “West Memphis 3” will be making their first public appearance this evening since they were freed in August.
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NYFF 2011. Béla Tarr's "The Turin Horse"
David HudsonA highlight of this roundup on Tarr’s last film: Robert Koehler’s interview with cinematographer Fred Kelemen.
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NYFF 2011. Santiago Mitre's "The Student"
David HudsonFluency in Argentinian politics is not a prerequisite for an appreciation of Mitre’s debut.
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NYFF 2011. Ulrich Köhler's "Sleeping Sickness"
David Hudson“One of the year’s very best films” for one; another senses a tone of “misguided superiority.”