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Monday, September 28, 2009

This Week's NYFF09 Schedule

by Tony Dayoub



So I'll be arriving to New York on Friday. Until then—and possibly through the weekend, depending on how many films I go see—things might be light around here, with the occasional review popping up here and there. But in the meantime, the 47th New York Festival continues.


This week, the NYFF continues with their Masterworks series focusing on movies made by the People's Republic of China. On Friday, they begin their Views from the Avant Garde series with a restoration of a Pasolini work And Saturday they present their Centerpiece film (pictured above), Precious, directed by Lee Daniels who will talk about the film on Sunday.

Here's a schedule of this week's NYFF events:

EVENT TITLES
NYFF – Festival main slate film
CHN – NYFF MASTERWORKS: (Re)Inventing China
VAG – Views from the Avant Garde
SE – Festival special event

SCREENING LOCATIONS
ATH – Alice Tully Hall, Broadway and 65th Street
WRT – Walter Reade Theater, 65th St. between Amsterdam and Broadway, upper level
KP – Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse, 65th St. between Amsterdam and Broadway, 10th Floor

Monday, Sept. 28
4:15 Platoon Commander Guan, 120m (CHN/WRT)
6:00 Kanikosen, 109m (NYFF/ATH)
6:35 Mysterious Traveling Companion, 100m (CHN/WRT)
8:35 Family/Jia, 130m (CHN/WRT)
9:15 Police/Adjective, 115m (NYFF/ATH)

Tuesday, Sept. 29
4:15 Woman Basketball Player No. 5, 94m (CHN/WRT)
6:00 Police/Adjective, 115m (NYFF/ATH)
6:15 New Year Sacrifice/Zhu Fu, 100m (CHN/WRT)
8:20 Five Golden Flowers, 100m (CHN/WRT)
9:15 The Art of the Steal, 101m (NYFF/ATH)

Wednesday, Sept. 30
4:15 Nie Er, 130m (CHN/WRT)
6:00 A Room and a Half, 130m (NYFF/ATH)
7:00 LECTURE: Chandleresque: Raymond Chandler on Film and Television (SE/WRT)
9:00 The Blue Dahlia, 96m (SE/WRT)
9:30 To Die Like a Man, 138m (NYFF/ATH)

Thursday, Oct. 1
4:00 The Red Detachment of Women, 115m (CHN/WRT)
5:30 LECTURE: Creating Film Culture: A Tribute to Dan and Toby Talbot and the “New Yorker Years” (SE/WRT)
6:00 To Die Like a Man, 138m (NYFF/ATH)
7:00 My Dinner With Andre, 110m (SE/WRT)
9:30 Lebanon, 92m (NYFF/ATH)
10:00 Trash Humpers, 74m (NYFF/WRT)

Friday, Oct. 2
3:00 Lebanon, 92m (NYFF/ATH)
4:15 Big Li, Little Li and Old Li, 100m (CHN/WRT)
6:00 Sweet Rush, 84m (NYFF/ATH)
6:30 VIEWS FROM THE AVANT GARDE: La Rabbia di Pasolini, 83m (VAG/WRT)
8:45 Sentries Under neon Lights, 130m (CHN/WRT)
9:00 Antichrist, 109m (NYFF/ATH)
11:30 Trash Humpers, 74m (NYFF/WRT)

Saturday, Oct. 3
11:00am Crossroads of Youth, 74m (SE/ATH)
12:00pm VIEWS FROM THE AVANT GARDE: Program 2 - Shorts, 105m (VAG/WRT)
1:00 Antichrist, 109m (NYFF/ATH)
3:00 VIEWS FROM THE AVANT GARDE: A Tribute to Chick Strand (1931-2009), 73m (VAG/WRT)
4:15 Sweet Rush, 84m (NYFF/ATH)
5:00 VIEWS FROM THE AVANT GARDE: Program 4 - Shorts, 80m (VAG/WRT)
7:00 CENTERPIECE: Precious, 109m (NYFF/ATH)
7:00 VIEWS FROM THE AVANT GARDE: Program 5 - Shorts, 112m (VAG/WRT)
9:30 VIEWS FROM THE AVANT GARDE: Program 6 - Shorts, 74m (VAG/WRT)
10:00 CENTERPIECE: Precious, 109m (NYFF/ATH)

Sunday, Oct. 4
12:00pm Henri George’s Clouzot’s Inferno , 94m (SE/ATH)
12:30pm VIEWS FROM THE AVANT GARDE: Program 7 - Shorts, 97m (VAG/WRT)
2:00 HBO FILMS DIRECTOR'S DIALOGUES: Lee Daniels (SE/KP)
3:00 Independencia, 77m (NYFF/ATH)
3:00 VIEWS FROM THE AVANT GARDE: Program 8 - Shorts, 93m (VAG/WRT)
5:30 VIEWS FROM THE AVANT GARDE: Program 9 - Shorts, 81m (VAG/WRT)
6:00 Hadewijch, 105m (NYFF/ATH)
7:45 VIEWS FROM THE AVANT GARDE: Program 10 - Shorts, 92m (VAG/WRT)
9:00 Everyone Else, 120m (NYFF/ATH)
9:45 VIEWS FROM THE AVANT GARDE: Program 11 - Shorts, 84m (VAG/WRT)

For more ticket information go online here, or call (212) 875-5050

Photo Credit: Film Society of Lincoln Center/ Lionsgate

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