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New York Film Festival · 2012

New York Film Festival 2012

Masterworks

Restorations, revivals and rediscoveries from cinema’s past, as they were meant to be seen on the big screen.

Programme

11 films · 3 reviews

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Cousin Jules

m A rediscovered masterpiece of world cinema, focused on the everyday life of a farmer (the filmmaker’s cousin) and his wife in the remote French countryside.

(Country: France; Year: 1972; Director: Dominique Benicheti)

Downpour (Ragbar)

A well educated and humble teacher arrives in a new city and at a new job in the pre-revolutionary Iran.

(Country: Iran; Year: 1972; Director: Bahram Beizai; Writer: Bahram Beizai; Stars: Parviz Fanizadeh, Mohamad Ali Keshavarz, Jamshid Layegh, Parvaneh Massoumi, Esmat Safavi, Hossein Kazbian, Manuchehr Farid, Rogheyeh Chehreh-Azad, Sirrus Hassanpur)

Fellini - Satyricon

In first century Rome, two student friends, Encolpio and Ascilto, argue about ownership of the boy Gitone.

(Country: Italy; Year: 1969; Director: Federico Fellini; Writer: Petronius, Federico Fellini, Bernardino Zapponi, Brunello Rondi; Stars: Martin Potter, Hiram Keller, Max Born, Salvo Randone, Mario Romagnoli, Magali Noël, Capucine, Alain Cuny, Fanfulla, Danika La Loggia, Giuseppe Sanvitale, Genius, Lucia Bosé, Joseph Wheeler, Hylette Adolphe)

Field Diary (Yoman Sadeh)

In 1982, Amos Gitai and a film crew travel around the occupied territories of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank as tensions mount.

(Country: Israel, France; Year: 1982; Director: Amos Gitai)

Heaven's Gate

Michael Cimino’s much-discussed but rarely screened western epic returns in a glorious new restoration of the director’s final cut, personally supervised by Cimino himself.

(Country: US; Year: 1980; Director: Michael Cimino; Writer: Michael Cimino; Stars: Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, John Hurt, Sam Waterston, Brad Dourif, Isabelle Huppert, Joseph Cotten, Jeff Bridges.)

The King of Marvin Gardens

Jack Nicholson and Bruce Dern star as estranged brothers trying to get rich quick in bottomed-out Atlantic City in director Bob Rafelson’s great and largely unheralded follow-up to his Five Easy Pieces.

(Country: US; Year: 1972; Director: Bob Rafelson; Writer: Jacob Brackman, Bob Rafelson, Jacob Brackman; Stars: Jack Nicholson, Bruce Dern, Ellen Burstyn, Julia Anne Robinson, Scatman Crothers, Charles LaVine, Arnold Williams, John P. Ryan, Sully Boyar, Josh Mostel, William Pabst, Garry Goodrow, Imogene Bliss, Ann Thomas, Tom Overton)

Lawrence Of Arabia

Review preview for Lawrence Of Arabia

What remains true now, as it was then, is the scale and scope of the thing.

Angus Wolfe Murray · 5 out of 5
A biopic of TE Lawrence focused on role in the Arab/Turkish conflict during the First World War.

(Country: UK; Year: 1962; Director: David Lean; Writer: Robert Bolt, based on Seven Pillars Of Wisdom by T E Lawrence; Stars: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins, Omar Sharif, Jose Ferrer, Anthony Quale, Claude Rains, Arthur Kennedy, Donald Wolfit)

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Little Shop Of Horrors

Review preview for Little Shop Of Horrors

Shot in vivid colour and interspersed with some terrific songs, this is a formulaic story but a hell of a ride.

Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
A shy young man finds his life transformed when he discovers an unusual plant - but at what cost?

(Country: US; Year: 1986; Director: Frank Oz; Writer: Howard Ashman; Stars: Rick Moranis, Ellen Greene, Vincent Gardenia, Steve Martin, Levi Stubbs, James Belushi, John Candy, Christopher Guest, Bill Murray) , Trailer

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The Mattei Affair (Il caso Mattei)

Francesco Rosi’s Palme d’Or-winning bio-pic stars the great Gian Maria Volonté as Enrico Mattei, the Italian businessman who sought to develop the country’s energy efficiency before dying under mysterious circumstances in 1962.

(Country: Italy; Year: 1972; Director: Francesco Rosi; Writer: Tito Di Stefano, Tonino Guerra, Tonino Guerra, Nerio Minuzzo, Francesco Rosi; Stars: Gian Maria Volonté, Luigi Squarzina, Gianfranco Ombuen, Edda Ferronao, Accursio Di Leo, Giuseppe Lo Presti, Aldo Barberito, Dario Michaelis, Peter Baldwin, Franco Graziosi, Elio Jotta, Luciano Colitti, Terenzio Cordova, Camillo Milli, Jean Rougeul)

Native Son

Heavily censored upon its initial American release, French director Pierre Chenal’s provocative adaptation of Richard Wright’s controversial bestseller has been fully restored to its original 104-minute running time.

(Country: US, Argentina; Year: 1951; Director: Pierre Chenal; Writer: Pierre Chenal, Richard Wright; Stars: Richard Wright, Gloria Madison, Willa Pearl Curtis, Nicholas Joy, Ruth Robert, Charles Cane, George D. Green, Jean Wallace, George Rigaud, Leslie Straugh, Lidia Alves, Charles Simmonds, Ned Campbell, Don Dean, Cecile Lezard)

Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs

Review preview for Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs

Snow White, the first full-length animated feature, shows a class that Disney has since run out of.

Gator MacReady · 4 out of 5
Disney classic about a wicked queen's attempts to slay "the fairest of them all".

(Country: US; Year: 1937; Director: David Hand; Writer: Ted Sears, Otto Englander, Earl Hurd, Dorothy Ann Blank, Richard Creedon, Dick Richard, Merrill de Maris, Webb Smith, based on the fairy story by the brothers Grimm; Stars: voices of Adriana Caselotti, Harry Stockwell, Lucille La Verne, Billy Gilbert)

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