Tue, Oct 8, 2002, 12:00am
After getting off to a shaky start on Sept. 27 with About Schmidt, Alexander Payne's disappointing follow-up to Election, the 40th New York Film Festival took off the following day with The Son and Russian Ark and hasn't let up since.
Tue, Oct 8, 2002, 12:00am
BLOODY SUNDAY (Paul Greengrass, England)--Few films have recreated an infamous historical event with the bracing immediacy and energy of Bloody Sunday, an unnerving retelling of the 1972 massacre that resulted in the deaths of 13 unarmed Irish-Catholic civilians in Northern Ireland.
Tue, Oct 8, 2002, 12:00am
More Almodóvarian madness, imbued with the same humorous and humanistic vibe that made All About My Mother so memorable. The man opened the festival in '99 with Mother and in '88 with Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown and closed it in '97 with Live Flesh.
Tue, Oct 8, 2002, 12:00am
Alexander Payne's third film is quite a turnabout for the man who made the fabulously irreverent and satirical Election. An earnest examination of aging in America, About Schmidt features a superb performance by Jack Nicholson and too little else that compares to it.
Tue, Oct 8, 2002, 12:00am
Kaurismäki's hilariously deadpan comedy is a good deal less nihilistic, less minimalist, more colorful, and more heartwarming than his Match-Factory Girl. You get the sense that there's a guiding purpose behind the jokes.
Tue, Oct 8, 2002, 12:00am
"It's quite a fucking privilege to be here," a visibly drunk Paul Thomas Anderson said to the late show audience on Saturday.
Tue, Oct 8, 2002, 12:00am
Abbas Kiarostami's recent troubles in obtaining a U.S. visa have distracted attention from his new movie, Ten.
Tue, Oct 8, 2002, 12:00am
This intimate, unfailingly insightful look at a pair of college-age, provincial Chinese youths captures the quietly tragic condition of a generation drowning in a sea of disposable, generic popular culture and floundering disaffectedly in a rapidly changing world.
Tue, Oct 8, 2002, 12:00am
From the moment that the Lumiere brothers projected their first films--the irrevocable past of the emulsion caught in the irrevocable present of projection--cinema has functioned as a time machine.
Tue, Oct 8, 2002, 12:00am
Probably the most bizarre film to surface at the festival, nonagenarian Manoel de Oliveira's The Uncertainty Principle is the best zombie melodrama I have ever seen.
