New York Film Festival · 2012
33 films · 23 reviews
Haneke goes far beyond pushing emotional buttons into territory where our most visceral fears lurk.
(Country: France, Germany, Austria; Year: 2012; Director: Michael Haneke; Writer: Michael Haneke; Stars: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva, Isabelle Huppert)
(Country: Turkey, France, Germany; Year: 2012; Director: Yesim Ustaoglu; Writer: Yesim Ustaoglu; Stars: Neslihan Atagül, Baris Hacihan, Özcan Deniz, Nihal Yalcin, Yasemin Conka)
A quietly enjoyable film with a sense of the old-fashioned about it and a few bursts of humour to cut through the air of melancholy and suspicion.
(Country: Germany; Year: 2012; Director: Christian Petzold; Writer: Christian Petzold, Harun Farocki; Stars: Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Rainer Bock, Christina Hecke, Claudia Geisler, Peter Weiss, Carolin Haupt, Deniz Petzold, Rosa Enskat, Jasna Fritzi Bauer, Peer-Uwe Teska, Elisabeth Lehmann, Mark Waschke, Peter Benedict, Thomas Neumann) , Official site
If the way Alina cries and hugs her friend hello, in between train tracks, does not trigger your empathy, you are possibly already dead.
(Country: Romania, France, Belgium; Year: 2012; Director: Cristian Mungiu; Writer: Cristian Mungiu, Tatiana Niculescu Bran; Stars: Cosmina Stratan, Cristina Flutur, Valeriu Andriuta, Dana Tapalaga, Catalina Harabagiu, Gina Tandura, Vica Agache, Nora Covali, Dionisie Vitcu, Ionut Ghinea, Liliana Mocanu, Doru Ana, Costache Babii, Luminita Gheorghiu, Alina Berzunteanu)
(Country: Philippines; Year: 2012; Director: Jun Lana; Writer: Jun Lana; Stars: Eddie Garcia, Princess, Rez Cortez, Soliman Cruz, Bibeth Orteza, Joey Paras, Allan Paule, Beverly Salviejo, Soxy Topacio, Luz Valdez, Gardo Versoza, Armida Siguion-Reyna, Jonathan Neri, Roni Bertubin, May-i Fabros)
(Country: Italy; Year: 2012; Director: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani; Stars: Fabio Cavalli, Salvatore Striano)
Self indulgent, nonsensical and soulless scenes are woven together into a sentimental fog that hovers above the surface of a faux world, past and present.
(Country: France; Year: 2012; Director: Noémie Lvovsky; Writer: Maud Ameline, Noémie Lvovsky, Pierre-Olivier Mattei, Florence Seyvos; Stars: Noémie Lvovsky, Samir Guesmi, Judith Chemla, India Hair, Julia Faure, Yolande Moreau, Michel Vuillermoz, Denis Podalydès, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Vincent Lacoste, Micha Lescot, Anne Alvaro, Mathieu Amalric, Riad Sattouf, Elsa Amiel)
North American premiere
Rebollo, reinvents the Road Movie, just as Leos Carax does in Holy Motors.
(Country: Spain, France, Argentina; Year: 2012; Director: Javier Rebollo; Writer: Lola Mayo, Javier Rebollo, Salvador Roselli; Stars: José Sacristán, Valeria Alonso, Vicky Peña, Fermí Reixach, Roxana Blanco, Jorge Jellinek, Lisa Caligaris, Carlos Lecuona)
North American premiere
Self-hatred and lies, stuck on the merry-go-round of never-ending temptations... give Flight its tension.
(Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Robert Zemeckis; Writer: John Gatins; Stars: Denzel Washington, John Goodman, Don Cheadle, Kelly Reilly, Charlie Anderson, Bruce Greenwood, Melissa Leo)
World premiere
(Country: Israel; Year: 2012; Director: Rama Burshtein; Writer: Rama Burshtein; Stars: Hila Feldman, Razia Israeli, Yiftach Klein, Renana Raz, Ido Samuel, Chayim Sharir, Irit Sheleg, Hadas Yaron)
There is talk of his reaching a "transcendent place of nothingness", but this is not tranquil, this fading - it is distressing, discomfiting.
(Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Alan Berliner)
World premiere
You can enter through the objects, like an Eames chair or three pairs of Ray Bans, bought online. Or through the religious conflict inherent in a bacon bagel.
(Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Noah Baumbach; Writer: Noah Baumbach, Greta Gerwig; Stars: Greta Gerwig, Mickey Sumner, Adam Driver, Michael Zegen, Patrick Heusinger, Teddy Cañez, Hannah Dunne, Grace Gummer, William Todd Levinson, Marina Squerciati, Finnerty Steeves)
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.
(Country: Israel, France, Germany, Belgium; Year: 2012; Director: Dror Moreh)
Fanning's sincere face in happiness and disbelief is the essence of the film.
(Country: UK, Denmark, Canada, Croatia; Year: 2012; Director: Sally Potter; Writer: Sally Potter; Stars: Christina Hendricks, Elle Fanning, Annette Bening, Alessandro Nivola, Jodhi May, Alice Englert, Oliver Milburn, Greg Bennett, Andrew Hawley.)
The sort of film that practically defines the festival experience, but that one could not ever imagine watching in any other context.
(Country: US, Spain, Mexico; Year: 2012; Director: Antonio Méndez Esparza; Writer: Antonio Méndez Esparza; Stars: Pedro Santos De los, Teresa Ramírez Aguirre, Lorena Guadalupe Pantaleón Vázquez, Heidi Laura Solano Espinoza, Néstor Tepetate Medina, Carolina Prado Ángel.)
Mendes more veiled than unveiled and, at times, resembling the Virgin Mary, is wonderful, confused and tender.
(Country: France, Germany; Year: 2012; Director: Leos Carax; Writer: Leos Carax; Stars: Denis Lavant, Edith Scob, Eva Mendes, Kylie Minogue, Michel Piccoli, Leos Carax, Edith Scob, Elise Lhomeau, Jeanne Disson, Nastya Golubeva Carax)
Are Bill Murray's fabulous presidential brogues what is worth remembering most, or are some of the statements about gender still valid commentary?
(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Roger Michell; Writer: Richard Nelson; Stars: Bill Murray, Laura Linney, Olivia Williams, Olivia Colman, Elizabeth Marvel, Blake Ritson, Samuel West, Elizabeth Wilson, Eleanor Bron.)
(Country: Belgium; Year: 2012; Director: Marc-Henri Wajnberg; Writer: Marc-Henri Wajnberg; Stars: Joël Eziegue, José Mawanda, Rachel Mwanza)
João Rui Guerra da Mata and João Pedro Rodriguez’s film is a seamless and absorbing blend of essay film and hardboiled thriller.
(Country: France, Portugal, Macao; Year: 2012; Director: João Pedro Rodrigues, João Rui Guerra da Mata; Writer: João Pedro Rodrigues, João Rui Guerra da Mata; Stars: João Rui Guerra da Mata, João Pedro Rodrigues, Cindy Scrash)
An awe-inspiring experience.
(Country: France, UK, US; Year: 2012; Director: Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Verena Paravel; Writer: Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Verena Paravel; Stars: Declan Conneely, Johnny Gatcombe, Adrian Guillette, Brian Jannelle, Clyde Lee, Arthur Smith, Christopher Swampstead)
A sublime lesson in emotional manipulation through cinematic traditions.
(Country: France, Japan; Year: 2012; Director: Abbas Kiarostami; Writer: Abbas Kiarostami; Stars: Ryo Kase, Rin Takanashi, Denden, Tadashi Okuno, Ryota Nakanishi)
(Country: Portugal, France; Year: 2012; Director: Valeria Sarmiento; Writer: Carlos Saboga; Stars: Nuno Lopes, Soraia Chaves, Marisa Paredes, John Malkovich, Carloto Cotta, Victória Guerra, Marcello Urgeghe, Jemima West, José Afonso Pimentel, Miguel Borges, Mathieu Amalric, Melvil Poupaud, Filipe Vargas, Adriano Luz, João Arrais)
The introductory credits are among the most marvellous images seen on screen.
(Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Ang Lee; Writer: David Magee, based on the book by Yann Martel.; Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Rafe Spall, Irrfan Khan, Suraj Sharma, Tabu, Adil Hussain, Shravanthi Sainath, Ayush Tandon, Vibish Sivakumar)
Opening night. World premiere
(Country: China; Year: 2012; Director: Fang Song; Stars: Fang Song)
There is a weight of ideas here and they are sometimes too much for the script to bear.
(Country: Chile, France; Year: 2012; Director: Raoul Ruiz; Writer: Hernán del Solar, Raoul Ruiz; Stars: Christian Vadim, Sergio Hernández, Valentina Vargas, Chamila Rodríguez, Pedro Vicuña, Cristián Gajardo, Valentina Muhr, Marcial Edwards, Pablo Krögh, Santiago Figueroa, Pedro Villagra, José Luis López, Sergio Schmied)
Pablo Larraín's No is a resounding yes!
(Year: 2012; Director: Pablo Larraín; Writer: Pedro Peirano; Stars: Gael García Bernal, Alfredo Castro and Antonia Zegers)
(Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: David Chase; Writer: David Chase; Stars: Bella Heathcote, James Gandolfini, Jack Huston, Brad Garrett, Christopher McDonald, John Magaro, Veronica Milagros, Molly Price, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Julia Garner, Alex Veadov, Lisa Lampanelli, Justine Lupe, Robert Funaro, Will Brill)
World premiere
Lacks all charm.
(Country: France, Germany; Year: 2012; Director: Brian De Palma; Writer: Natalie Carter, Alain Corneau & Brian De Palma ; Stars: Rachel McAdams, Noomi Rapace, Paul Anderson & Karoline Herfurth)
(Country: Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Switzerland; Year: 2012; Director: Joachim Lafosse; Writer: Thomas Bidegain, Joachim Lafosse, Matthieu Reynaert; Stars: Niels Arestrup, Tahar Rahim, Émilie Dequenne, Stéphane Bissot, Mounia Raoui, Redouane Behache, Baya Belal, Nathalie Boutefeu.)
The references are messy, the gestures grand.
(Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Lee Daniels; Writer: Lee Daniels, Peter Dexter, Peter Dexter; Stars: Zac Efron, Matthew McConaughey, Nicole Kidman, John Cusack, Scott Glenn, Nikolette Noel, David Oyelowo, Macy Gray, Ned Bellamy, Beau Brasseaux, Lorrie Chilcoat, Peter Murnik, Katarzyna Wolejnio, Camille Balsamo, Chip Carriere)
Most real, and at once divine, are the scenes in nature.
(Country: France; Year: 2012; Director: Olivier Assayas; Writer: Olivier Assayas; Stars: Lola Créton, Dolores Chaplin, India Menuez, Carole Combes, Clement Metayer, Victoria Ley, Felix Armand, Nathanjohn Carter, Mathias Renou, Nick Donald, Félix de Givry)
Director Gomes pays homage to the fantasy of colonial history while subverting it at the same time.
(Country: Portugal, Germany, Brazil, France; Year: 2012; Director: Miguel Gomes; Writer: Miguel Gomes, Mariana Ricardo; Stars: Teresa Madruga, Isabel Muñoz Cardoso, Carloto Cotta, Ana Moreira, Laura Soveral)
(Country: France, Germany; Year: 2012; Director: Alain Resnais; Writer: Alain Resnais, Laurent Herbiet, Jean Anouilh; Stars: Mathieu Amalric, Lambert Wilson, Michel Piccoli, Anne Consigny, Sabine Azéma, Hippolyte Girardot, Pierre Arditi, Anny Duperey, Denis Podalydès.)
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