It’s a given that their Main Slate — the fresh, the recently buzzed-about, the mysterious, the anticipated — will be the New York Film Festival’s primary point of attraction for both media coverage and ticket sales. But while a rather fine lineup is, to these eyes, deserving of such treatment, the festival’s latest Revivals section — i.e. “important works from renowned filmmakers that have been digitally remastered, restored, and preserved with the assistance of generous partners,” per their press release — is in a whole other class, one titanic name after another granted a representation that these particular works have so long lacked.
The list speaks for itself, even (or especially) if you’re more likely to recognize a director than title. Included therein are films by Andrei Tarkovsky (The Sacrifice), Hou Hsiao-hsien (Daughter of the Nile, a personal favorite), Pedro Costa (Casa de Lava; trailer here), Jean-Luc Godard (the rarely seen,...
The list speaks for itself, even (or especially) if you’re more likely to recognize a director than title. Included therein are films by Andrei Tarkovsky (The Sacrifice), Hou Hsiao-hsien (Daughter of the Nile, a personal favorite), Pedro Costa (Casa de Lava; trailer here), Jean-Luc Godard (the rarely seen,...
- 8/21/2017
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Aleksei German's Hard to Be a God is currently at Anthology Film Archives in New York and will screen from February 20 through 23 at Northwest Film Forum in Seattle. A few cities here and there follow, but for the rest of us, we'll get to see it eventually, so you must see James Kang's collection of reviews at Critics Round Up. Linking to 26 pieces by top-notch writers, James figures the overall score to be 97/100. More goings on: Tell It Like It Is: Black Independents in New York, 1968-1986; Brooklyn Boheme; films starring Charles Laughton and Katharine Hepburn; Philippe Garrel's Le Révélateur (1968); and work by Eric Baudelaire and Paul Sharits. » - David Hudson...
- 2/4/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
Aleksei German's Hard to Be a God is currently at Anthology Film Archives in New York and will screen from February 20 through 23 at Northwest Film Forum in Seattle. A few cities here and there follow, but for the rest of us, we'll get to see it eventually, so you must see James Kang's collection of reviews at Critics Round Up. Linking to 26 pieces by top-notch writers, James figures the overall score to be 97/100. More goings on: Tell It Like It Is: Black Independents in New York, 1968-1986; Brooklyn Boheme; films starring Charles Laughton and Katharine Hepburn; Philippe Garrel's Le Révélateur (1968); and work by Eric Baudelaire and Paul Sharits. » - David Hudson...
- 2/4/2015
- Keyframe
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