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New Directors/New Films

2010

Now in its 39th year, the New Directors/New Films collaboration between The Film Society of Lincoln Center and The Museum of Modern Art in New York will screen 38 films from emerging filmmakers, at both venues.

This year's festival opens on March 24 with documentary Bill Cunningham New York and closes on April 4 with Canadian semi-autobiographical drama I Killed My Mother.

Other years (14)

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  • Bill Cunningham New York
    Review preview for Bill Cunningham New York

    What makes this documentary so powerful and so enjoyable is its intimacy with its subject.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    A documentary focusing on New York Times photographer Bill Cunningham and the fashion he captured on camera.
  • Amer
    Review preview for Amer

    A totally idiosyncratic creation, something that deserves to be relished for its bravado refusal to play by the rules.

    David Graham · 4.5 out of 5
    A surreal look at three stages of a woman's life, drawing heavily on the giallo tradition.
  • How I Ended This Summer
    Review preview for How I Ended This Summer

    A work of chilling beauty, whose sparse, unforgiving landscapes can accommodate all manner of allegorical readings.

    Anton Bitel · 4 out of 5
    A youngster on a remote Arctic research station engages in a series of deadly deceptions.
  • Down Terrace
    Review preview for Down Terrace

    By mixing the situations of a crime drama with dysfunctional family dynamics, the everyday becomes accentuated, meaning that outbreaks of violence are absurdly comic but still retain a nasty edge.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    Killers consider retribution round the kitchen sink.
  • Rob And Valentyna In Scotland
    Review preview for Rob And Valentyna In Scotland

    Rob & Valentyna In Scotland feels genuine, even heartfelt.

    Andrew Robertson · 2.5 out of 5
    Two cousins have an odd-couple adventure.
  • Quadrangle
    Review preview for Quadrangle

    History replicated in the editing suite, composition compelling, illuminating.

    Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
    Two couples recount their complex sexual and romantic involvement.
  • Frontier Blues
    Review preview for Frontier Blues

    Not outright farce, too naturalistic to mug, but observational, behavioural comedy requires that we be looking from the same perspective.

    Andrew Robertson · 2 out of 5
    Four Iranian men and a donkey struggle with life's complexities.
  • The Oath
    Review preview for The Oath

    A low-key, but fascinating, documentary.

    James Benefield · 4.5 out of 5
    The story of two men whose fateful encounter in 1996 set them on a course of events that led them to Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden, 9/11, Guantanamo, and the US Supreme Court.
  • The Man Next Door
    Review preview for The Man Next Door

    From the two-tone credit sequence to the jaunty camera angles, this is visually striking stuff.

    James Benefield · 3.5 out of 5
    An architectural battle of wits.
  • I Am Love
    Review preview for I Am Love

    I Am Love is social melodrama in the best traditions of Italian cinema.

    Chris · 5 out of 5
    Left on the sidelines, a bored woman embarks on a journey of self discovery.

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