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NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL: The reign of 'Antichrist'

NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL: The reign of 'Antichrist'
"Antichrist," screening Oct. 2-3 at the New York Film Festival. For more information click here. Leave it to Lars Von Trier to stir up some controversy. At this year’s New York Film Festival, the controversial director has delivered his bleakest vision yet: A morbid and hopeless affair named “Antichrist,” in which two charact...

TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL: Tender-hearted farewells in 'Departures'

TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL: Tender-hearted farewells in 'Departures'
Answering an ad in the newspaper, a washed-up cellist from Tokyo thinks he's taking a job in a travel agency. But instead of taking care of 'departures,' he discovers to his chagrin the firm actually tends to 'the departed,' in other words, prepping corpses for burial. In "Departures," the Academy Award winner for best foreign language film whic...

TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL: The Best of the Fest

TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL: The Best of the Fest
With fewer venues and titles, this was a more reserved year for the Tribeca Film Festival, but even with a smaller catalogue, the quality was as high as ever. From intimate issue-oriented documentaries to brave relationship dramas – to one quirky tale of famous go-kart racers – there are a good number of films from this year’s ...

NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL: Returning to Lebanon, on the Front Lines

NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL: Returning to Lebanon, on the Front Lines
“Lebanon,” screening October 1-2 at the New York Film Festival. For more information click here. Why is it, that the best war movies of recent years have come from filmmakers working in Europe and the Middle East? Just as Hollywood remains fixated on casting big movie stars and filming sweeping battle scenes, Europe’s given u...

TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL: Family bonding with Kore-eda's Still Walking

TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL: Family bonding with Kore-eda's Still Walking
Tribeca has only just begun but already there's a serious front runner for our favorite film in the festival, Hirokazu Kore-eda's Still Walking. Playing next Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, this Japanese film is getting its New York premiere at Tribeca, as a part of their Spotlight series which features top-notch independent cinema. Still Walki...

TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL: Eric Bana revs his engine

TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL: Eric Bana revs his engine
Eric Bana loves his car. No really, he LOVES his car. The Australian actor has owned his Ford XB Falcon Coupe since he was a teenager, and even though he now headlines blockbuster films, he still loves to tune it up and race it. In his documentary, "Love the Beast," playing at the Tribeca Film Festival next Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturd...

TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL: Week 2 - The ESPN Sports Film Festival

TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL: Week 2 - The ESPN Sports Film Festival
The Tribeca Film Festival is an event of distinct chapters. There’s the hoopla of opening night, then the rare pleasure of the annual Drive-In on the banks of the Hudson (which this year lucked out with three consecutive evenings of gorgeous weather). The second week is populated by key industry panels, and the family-friendly Street Fair,...

NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL: Harmony Korine's uplifting ugliness

NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL: Harmony Korine's uplifting ugliness
“Trash Humpers,” screening Oct. 1 at the New York Film Festival For more information, click here Harmony Korine, the director who’s forged a serious love-hate relationship with New York critics, is back in action at this year’s New York Film Festival with a new work titled “Trash Humpers.” Set to premiere ...

NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL: Haneke's pitch-black 'White Ribbon'

NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL: Haneke's pitch-black 'White Ribbon'
"The White Ribbon," screening Oct. 7-8 at the New York Film Festival. For more information visit www.filmlinc.com/nyff/program.html. Unsettling things occur in “The White Ribbon,” the latest tense opus from French provocateur Michael Haneke – the man behind the voyeuristic thriller “Cache” and the bloody “...

NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL: Todd Solondz, and the ugly beauty of suburbia

NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL: Todd Solondz, and the ugly beauty of suburbia
"Life During Wartime,” screening Oct. 10-11 at the New York Film Festival. For more information visit http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/program.html. If American prosperity could be equated with a mighty Redwood, then Todd Solondz has made a career out of digging up the dirt to expose the rotten roots underneath. From “Happiness” t...