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New York Film Festival · 2014

New York Film Festival 2014

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8 films · 5 reviews

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Burroughs: The Movie

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Like much of Burroughs' writing, the film has a shaggy dog tale quality, rambling along in a way which does not at first seem nearly as informative as it actually is, then bursting into moments of brilliant radicalism.

Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
Portrait of the author, built around a series of encounters with him and interviews with many friends, including Allen Ginsberg, Terry Southern, John Giorno. and Brion Gysin.

(Country: US; Year: 1983; Director: Howard Brookner; Stars: Mortimer Burroughs, William S. Burroughs, Lucien Carr, Jackie Curtis, Allen Ginsberg, John Giorno, James Grauerholz, Brion Gysin, Lauren Hutton, Patti Smith, Terry Southern)

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The Colour Of Pomegranates (Sayat Nova)

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It may be staggeringly beautiful and inventive, but it’s posturing nonsense all the same.

Robert Munro · 2 out of 5
Exploration of the life of Sayat Nova.

(Country: Armenia; Year: 1968; Director: Sergei Parajanov; Writer: Sayat Nova, Sergei Parajanov; Stars: Sofiko Chiaureli, Melkon Alekyan, Vilen Galstyan, Giorgi Gegechkori, Spartak Bagashvili, Medea Djaparidze, Hovhannes Minasyan, Onik Minasyan, Yuri Amiryan, I. Babayan, Medea Bibileishvili, T. Dvali, Aleksandr Dzhanshiyev, Guranda Gabunia, Zh. Gharibyan)

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Hiroshima Mon Amour

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Even after many viewings it is difficult to fully grasp the film's historical significance, storytelling innovations and stylistic brilliance.

Anne-Katrin Titze · 5 out of 5
A French actress making an anti-war film embarks on an affair with a married man.

(Country: France, Japan; Year: 1959; Director: Alain Resnais; Writer: Marguerite Duras; Stars: Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada, Stella Dassas, Pierre Barbaud, Bernard Fresson)

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Jamaica Inn

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An entertaining and surprisingly dark period drama.

Daniel Hooper · 4 out of 5
As Mary travels to Jamaica Inn to see her relatives, she is unaware of sinister goings on at the guesthouse.

(Country: UK; Year: 1939; Director: Alfred Hitchcock; Writer: Sidney Giliat, Joan Harrison, based on the novel by Daphne Du Maurier; Stars: Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, Leslie Banks, Marie Ney)

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The Man From Laramie

A stranger defies the local cattle baron and his sadistic son by working for one of his oldest rivals.

(Country: US; Year: 1955; Director: Anthony Mann; Writer: Philip Yordan, Frank Burt, Thomas T. Flynn; Stars: James Stewart, Arthur Kennedy, Donald Crisp, Cathy O'Donnell, Alex Nicol, Aline MacMahon, Wallace Ford, Jack Elam, John War Eagle, James Millican, Gregg Barton, Boyd Stockman, Frank DeKova, Beulah Archuletta, Jack Carry)

Moana With Sound

Film abut Polynesia, reworked in 1980 by the filmmaker's daughter.

(Year: 1926; Director: Robert Flaherty, Frances Hubbard Flaherty)

Once Upon A Time In America

New York gangster saga.

(Country: Italy, US; Year: 1984; Director: Sergio Leone; Writer: Harry Grey, Leonardo Benvenuti, Piero De Bernardi, Enrico Medioli, Franco Arcalli, Franco Ferrini, Sergio Leone, Stuart Kaminsky, Ernesto Gastaldi; Stars: Robert De Niro, James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern, Joe Pesci, Burt Young, Tuesday Weld, Treat Williams, Danny Aiello, Richard Bright, James Hayden, William Forsythe, Darlanne Fluegel, Larry Rapp, Richard Foronjy, Robert Harper)

The Tales Of Hoffmann

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The passage of time - and a beautiful 4k restoration - have been kind to this reimagining of Jacques Offenbach's opera, with its deliberately operatic gestures and colours and stylised production design feeling sharply avant garde even today.

Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
A poet recalls three doomed romances.

(Country: UK; Year: 1951; Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger; Writer: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, Dennis Arundell; Stars: Moira Shearer, Ludmilla Tchérina, Anne Ayars, Pamela Brown, Léonide Massine, Robert Helpmann, Frederick Ashton, Mogens Wieth, Robert Rounseville, Lionel Harris, Philip Leaver)

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