New York Film Festival

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  When Evening Falls On Bucharest, Or Metabolism

  Review preview for When Evening Falls On Bucharest, Or Metabolism

  Is Porumboiu simply seeing how much he can get away with? How far does this artistic experiment extend beyond the screen?

  A director and his leading actress converse off set about the difficulty of capturing reality.
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  What Now? Remind Me

  Review preview for What Now? Remind Me

  Brings a sense of immediacy to events now far away in time.

  The director muses on 20 years of life with HIV.
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  My Name Is Hmmm...

  Review preview for My Name Is Hmmm...

  Conversations are awkwardly stilted and lacking in the rhythms of natural speech.

  An abused young girl runs away from home and forms an unlikely bond with a trucker.
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  The Dog

  Review preview for The Dog

  Poignant and robustly entertaining.

  Portrait of the motor-mouthed, completely uncorked John Wojtowicz, whose 1972 botched robbery of a Brooklyn bank was dramatized in Dog Day Afternoon.
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  Inside Llewyn Davis

  Review preview for Inside Llewyn Davis

  The pace may seem deliberate but the Coens obviously want us to uncover the character's layers gently rather than him being delivered ready-made.

  One week in the life of a talented, failed singer/songwriter in Greenwich Village, New York, in the Sixties
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  Club Sandwich

  Review preview for Club Sandwich

  As Hector, Lucio Gimenez Cacho embodies the three primary desires of any teenage boy: getting one's way, getting one's end away, and potato chips.

  A teenage boy experiences first love while holidaying with his mother.
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  Manakamana

  Review preview for Manakamana

  The film, like the cable car, is suspended and moving constantly between two points - not the embarkment station, which gives way to the lives of the present or the exit gateway to the temple of the past - but a continuum of fact and construction.

  Life in a cable car that carries pilgrims and tourists to and from a mountain top temple in Nepal.
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  Exhibition

  Review preview for Exhibition

  The scripting is loose and Albertine - best known as the former guitarist with punk group The Slits - and real-life conceptual artist Gillick have the rawness that comes with first-time acting.

  Examination of the relationship between a middle-aged couple who are planning a move.
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  All Is Lost

  Review preview for All Is Lost

  It's a courageous performance in more ways than one.

  One man must battle to survive after his boat sinks in the ocean.
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  The Invisible Woman

  Review preview for The Invisible Woman

  The film suffers from a profusion of good taste

  Adaptation of Claire Tomalin’s 1992 biography, which brought Charles Dickens' secret 13-year affair with a young actress to light.

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Features

• Architecture of love
  Joanna Hogg talks about making her third film Exhibition.
• Woman behind the Name
  Agnès b on fashion, friendship and her first feature My Name Is Hmmm...
• Arnaud Desplechin in conversation, Part 2
  On working with Mathieu Amalric and Benicio Del Toro.
• Arnaud Desplechin in conversation, Part 1
  On Jimmy P, Vertigo and the art of becoming American.
• All about Gloria
  Sebastián Lelio and Paulina García on their new film.
• New York Film Festival - diary four
  From the Applied Science of Tim's Vermeer to the Cloud Chamber Mystery, It's The Cat and a restoration of The Chase.
• New York Film Festival - diary three
  The Immigrant, Gloria and Jimmy P: Psychotherapy Of A Plains Indian
• New York Film Festival - diary two
  Stars talk All Is Lost, The Last Of The Unjust and Nebraska.
• New York Film Festival - diary one
  From NYC to London: Captain Phillips, The Invisible Woman and Only Lovers Left Alive
• Brilliance of Breillat
  Isabelle Huppert in conversation about character, style and the director of Abuse Of Weakness.
• Strengths in Weakness
  Catherine Breillat on casting, colours and learning how to laugh in her latest film.
• Claire Denis talks Bastards
  On corruption, vengeance, family and unspeakable deeds.
• Cate Blanchett honoured
  Stars come out for actress's double tribute.
• In the family
  Hirokazu Kore-eda on Like Father, Like Son
• Working on Le Week-End
  Hanif Kureishi and Roger Michell talk about their latest collaboration
• Alan Partridge at the New York Film Festival
  Steve Coogan on his most popular unpopular character.
• Meet Kent Jones, part 2
  On female directors, Faulkner, violence and cats.
• Meet Kent Jones, part 1
  The New York Film Festival Director of Programming and Selection Committee Chair speaks.
• Golden celebration
  New York Film Festival at 50.
• Blanchett on an honours roll
  Tributes in Deauville and New York.
• The real deal
  Paulina García on playing Gloria
• Joanna Hogg talks Unrelated
  The accomplished director discusses her feature film debut.

News

• New York Film Festival announces main slate
  Alan Partridge among the Brits joining line-up
• Captain Phillips to open New York Film Festival
  Paul Greengrass' hijack thriller will kick off 51st edition.
• Feline groovy
  Coens at Cannes reveal how cat saved the day for Inside Llewyn Davis.