A sampling of the buzz in cyberspace ~ articles, interviews, blog entries, photos, webcasts, podcasts & more ~ about the 45th New York Film Festival.
A. O. Scott muses (in the Oct 5 New York Times) that: "Each season has its own distinct pleasures and frustrations, but I think my favorite time of year is right now, the moment defined by the middle of the New York Film Festival." He also finds that New York Festival Is Flavored by France.
Take a front row seat at the NYFF press conferences thanks to IFC News. Also up for your viewing pleasure, the archived versions of the NYFF daily dispatches produced by IFC News' team Matt Singer & Alison Willmore.
Over at New York Magazine their heralding the impressive roster of local talent in this year's Festival as The Return of the New York Autueur ~ one that makes for "a lineup so stacked they could take on the Yankees."
For an unusual take on the Festival's doings, catch the NYFF video diaries of New-York based filmmaker Jamie Stuart, sponsored by Filmmaker Magazine.
The indieWIRE folks have quite an ipopping collection of shots from this Festival.
On his blog, Premiere film critic Glenn Kenny waxes enthusiastically on last Friday's NYFF Opening Night Party at Tavern On The Green.
In The Reeler Michelle Orange has more than a few Choice Words to say about this year's selections while S.T. VanAirsdale has no trouble Getting With the Program when he interviews Richard Peña, committee chairman and program director at the Film Society, about selectivity, second-guessing and his 20th NYFF.
There's plenty to read in the "Gray Lady" about this year's Festival. For starters, there's A.O. Scott's review of The Darjeeling Limited accompanied by an interactive feature entitled Anatomy of a Scene: 'The Darjeeling Limited' in which Wes Anderson, director of "The Darjeeling Limited," discusses how a scene from the movie was created. Manhola Darghis takes on the full range of the Festival's selections in her piece Tickets to a Venturesome Film Festival and says that: "The 45th New York Film Festival offers something tasty for every discriminating cinematic palate." She also tells us that: "Cinemania is alive and well on the Internet, notably in blogs, where young movie nuts rant and rave and help cultivate one another’s cinematic interests. This is heartening, but film — especially the kind that distinguishes this year’s edition of the New York Film Festival — needs more than passion. It needs an audience, a paying public."
We hope you'll come to the Festival and see for yourself what the cyberbuzz is all about. You can check for ticket availability to NYFF screenings & events online &/or call 212-875-5050. Standby lines will form before any show when advance tickets are no longer available. Pending availability, $10 Student/Senior(65+) Rush tickets go on sale day of performance only for the NYFF Feature Film selections screening at the Rose Theater & the Walter Reade Theater, the Special Events at the Walter Reade Theater & Avery Fisher Hall, the HBO Films Directors Dialogues at the Kaplan Penthouse & The TimesCenter. Valid, current ID required. Limit one ticket per person.
