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New York Film Festival

2009

Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon
Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon

Notching its 47th year in 2009, aims - unlike most other festivals - not to be a marketplace but rather a celebration of talent, bringing together the cream of the crop from other festivals around the globe.

Highlights this year include the Palme d'Or winning The White Ribbon and Allan Resnais' Wild Grass.

This year's festival also celebrates the 70th anniversary of The Wizard Of Oz with a screening of the newly restored edition.

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Latest reviews

  • Sweetgrass
    Review preview for Sweetgrass

    It plunges you right into a Midwest midwinter, where wind and snow scour a starkly beautiful landscape and a built-in woolly jumper is a prerequisite for survival.

    Jeff Robson · 3.5 out of 5
    A year in the life of a flock of sheep and the people who tend to them.
  • Trash Humpers
    Review preview for Trash Humpers

    The film is a purely visceral experience, which by and large does everything it sets out to do – repel, amuse, horrify, bore – with a sickening but punk-rock panache.

    David Graham · 5 out of 5
    A group of elderly people film themselves fornicating with the debris of society.
  • Police Adjective
    Review preview for Police Adjective

    This is a police procedural, but it's also about the nature of policing, about the gap between law and justice, the self and the state.

    Andrew Robertson · 5 out of 5
    A young policeman crosses swords with his supervisor when he hesitates to turn in a teen caught with drugs.
  • Vincere
    Review preview for Vincere

    Filippo Timi is excellent as the young, supremely egotistical Mussolini.

    Val Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    The story of Musslolini's secret love child.
  • The White Ribbon
    Review preview for The White Ribbon

    The slippery nature of the morality on show coupled with the shifting sands of the narrative makes this an uneasy watch - yet it is also a beautiful and masterfully constructed film.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    Tensions in a German town on the eve of the First World War.
  • Hadewijch
    Review preview for Hadewijch

    For a film about the brimming over of one girl's emotional fervour, it does surprisingly little to elicit a 'gut response' from the audience.

    Amber Wilkinson · 2.5 out of 5
    Exploration of religious extremism as viewed through the eyes of a young woman.
  • Mother
    Review preview for Mother

    When it comes to subverting the audience’s expectations, Joon-ho proves he is a puppet master, pulling our strings without us ever suspecting it.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    A mother tries to prove her son's innocence.
  • Broken Embraces
    Review preview for Broken Embraces

    There is a violence here, a passion, all beautifully shot, all haunting.

    Andrew Robertson · 4.5 out of 5
    A tale of obsessive love and contested identity within the world of filmmaking.
  • Antichrist
    Review preview for Antichrist

    The main horror element is a deep psychological manipulation that stays with you for days afterwards.

    Chris · 4 out of 5
    A couple whose child has died retreat into the woods and discover very dark things.
  • Precious: Based On The Novel Push By Sapphire
    Review preview for Precious: Based On The Novel Push By Sapphire

    This is an actors' movie through and through, with all of them pulling off the key emotional scenes magnificently.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
    An obese teenager tries to escape from her hellish homelife with the help of an inspirational teacher.

A–Z of New York Film Festival 2009 reviews

Features

  • The Restoration of Oz
    As The Wizard of Oz returns to delight a new generation, we explore the real magic of cinema. The film you'll see in cinemas now is clean and bright; but how was this achieved?

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