FILM COMMENT SELECTS
2008 AT LINCOLN CENTER
Manohla Dargis' description is quoted (no doubt with pride) on the FSLC poster and publicity for this series:A self-consciously punk kid alternative to the New York Film Festival.
It is true that the NYFF is staid. With only 28 or so official selections and a desire to present the year's best, it does not venture into extremely avant-gard material. And the FSLC in house magazine Film Comment does bring a formidably knowledgeable and occasionally more daring range of tastes to bear in making its selections for its own series. I won't comment on this year as a whole. I will refer you to Nich Pinkerton's Villege Voice overview And also to Nathan Lee's piece on one FCS choice for The Village Voice. His description didn't make me want to rush uptown to see "the truly and spectacularly horrifying Inside" (a French horror movie); and I'd already seen Romeros' new Diary of the Dead and commented on it. I had also seen Jacques Nolot's elegant, chilly self-starred film about a French HIV-positive gay man approaching 60, Before I Forget. I figured since Chop Shop, Boarding Gate, and The Duchess of Langeais were about to have theatrical distribution I could skip them. I chose four films to see:
Fatih Akin: THE EDGE OF HEAVEN
Andrei Zvyagintsev: THE BANISHMENT
Philippe Garrel: J'ENTENDS PLUS LA GUITARE (1991)
Lucas Moodysson: CONTAINER.
I will post reviews of these four in this thread and also of a fifth FCS film that I saw at the IFC Center:
Jacques Rivette: THE DUCHESS OF LANGEAIS
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