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New York Film Festival

28 September – 14 October 2012

Life Of Pi opened the 50th edition of NYFF
Life Of Pi opened the 50th edition of NYFF

Celebrating its 50th edition, New York Film Festival aims not to be a marketplace but rather a celebration of talent, bringing together the cream of the crop from other festivals around the globe.

The festival, which runs from September 28 to October 14, opens with the world premiere of Ang Lee's 3D Life Of Pi and closes with Robert Zemeckis' thriller Flight, starring Denzel Washington.

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  • Whirlpool
    Review preview for Whirlpool

    Ferrer is wonderfully sleazy as Korvo and makes the perfect foil for Tierney.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    A woman secretly suffering from kleptomania is hypnotized in an effort to cure her condition. Soon afterwards, she is found at the scene of a murder with no memory of how she got there and seemingly no way to prove her innocence.
  • Night Across The Street
    Review preview for Night Across The Street

    There is a weight of ideas here and they are sometimes too much for the script to bear.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    A drama centered on an office worker on the verge of retirement who begins to relive both real and imagined memories.
  • Celluloid Man
    Review preview for Celluloid Man

    A film about film history may sound dry, but the stories captured here crackle with life and enthusiasm.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    The story of extraordinary cinema archivist PK Nair.
  • First Cousin Once Removed
    Review preview for First Cousin Once Removed

    There is talk of his reaching a "transcendent place of nothingness", but this is not tranquil, this fading - it is distressing, discomfiting.

    Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
    Chronicle of poet Edward Honig's loss of memory.
  • Leviathan
    Review preview for Leviathan

    An awe-inspiring experience.

    Robert Munro · 5 out of 5
    A documentary shot in the North Atlantic and focused on the commercial fishing industry.
  • The Last Time I Saw Macao
    Review preview for The Last Time I Saw Macao

    João Rui Guerra da Mata and João Pedro Rodriguez’s film is a seamless and absorbing blend of essay film and hardboiled thriller.

    Michael Pattison · 3 out of 5
    This stunning amalgam of film noir and Chris Marker cine-essay poetically explores the psychic pull of the titular former Portuguese colony.
  • The Paperboy
    Review preview for The Paperboy

    The references are messy, the gestures grand.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 3 out of 5
    A reporter heads back to his Florida hometown to investigate a possible miscarriage of justice.
  • The Bay
    Review preview for The Bay

    There's some fun to be had among the commotion of the outbreak, but it all seems too stretched to really bite deep as either satire or schlock.

    David Graham · 3 out of 5
    Chaos breaks out in a small town in the wake of an ecological disaster.
  • The Gatekeepers
    Review preview for The Gatekeepers

    And as Moreh probes the men, we, whether we agree with them or not, find ourselves drawn into their moral maze in all of its complexity.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4.5 out of 5
    Six former heads of Israel’s internal security agency, the Shin Bet, discuss their nation’s past, present and future.
  • No
    Review preview for No

    Pablo Larraín's No is a resounding yes!

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 5 out of 5
    Gael Garcia Bernal stars as a Chilean adman trying to organize a campaign to unseat Pinochet in Pablo Larraín’s smart, engrossing political thriller.

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