2005 NYFF Good Night, and Good Luck Regular Lovers The Death of Mr. Lazarescu Methadonia L'Enfant (The Child) Avenge But One of My Two Eyes Bubble The Squid and the Whale I Am Capote Something Like Happiness Sympathy for Lady Vengeance Manderlay Tale of Cinema Breakfast on Pluto Through the Forest The President's Last Bang Who's Camus Anyway? Three Times Paradise Now Tristram Shandy Gabrielle The Sun The Passenger Cache (Hidden) Special Events Ticket Information Press Office		The 43rd New York Film Festival September 23 - October 9,2005 Sponsored by Sponsored by HSBC Private Bank, a division of HSBC USA, N.A., The New York Times, and Audi
			The Sun In the last days of August 1945, as the Japanese prepare to surrender to occupying American forces, Emperor Hirohito rummages around his palace, trying to make sense of the impending defeat and his own responsibility for it. In an unforgettably poignant performance by Issey Ogata, Hirohito is fully brought to life as an educated, ineffectual gentleman, aware of his fallibility but trapped by rituals of adoration behind the mask of divinity. Aleksandr Sokurov, (Mother and Son, NYFF í97; Russian Ark, NYFF ë02), brings his customary imagistic brilliance to this tour-de-force of historical reconstruction. As controversial for its interpretative conjectures as it is visually arresting, The Sun is a complex, important work by a major filmmaker. 110 min. Russia/Italy/France/Switzerland, 2005. Click here for New York Times review and festival coverage. Shown with Cigarette Break (Ralf Stadler, Germany, 2005, 6 min). Adapted from a play by 1920s Russian avant-garde writer Daniil Charms, this "post-futuristic" fragment imagines a totalitarian world in which the limits of human perception and science conceal other, more ominous dimensions. Click here to watch select short films from the 43rd New York Film Festival, available exclusively online at NYTimes.com