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 r 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
			Who’s Camus Anyway? Mitsuo Yanagimachi first played the NYFF in 1985 with Himatsuri (Fire Festival), a visionary work capped by a startling murder. Now he’s back with a radically different kind of film—a brainy, playful Altmanesque portrait of the psyche of modern Japan. Yanagimachi follows a group of film students (many played by hot young Japanese TV stars) as they prepare to make a movie about a seemingly gratuitous murder. As it examines the students’ bickering, betrayal, and sexual cruelty, the film offers a witty portrait of a younger generation so steeped in Western culture that its touchstones are film noir, Michel Houllebecq, and, of course, The Stranger. This brilliantly made film explodes with cinematic energy, from a sly opening sequence that riffs on The Player to a powerful finale that reveals depths as dark and mysterious as anything in Camus. 115 min. Japan, 2005. * Director expected to attend. Click here for New York Times review and festival coverage.