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New York Film Festival

28 September – 15 October 2017

The Other Side Of Hope
The Other Side Of Hope

The New York Film Festival celebrated its 55th year in 2017. The festival opened on September 28 with Richard Linklater's Last Flag Flying and closed on October 15 with Woody Allen's Wonder Wheel. This year's centrepiece gala was Wonderstruck, directed by Todd Haynes.

The retrospective programme this year paid tribute to the films of Robert Mitchum, including The Night Of The Hunter. Titles are still being announced, check back for updates.

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  • Filmworker
    Review preview for Filmworker

    Few voices are missing from this incredibly thorough piece of work.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    Documentary about the working relationship between actor Leon Vitali and Stanley Kubrick.
  • Boom For Real The Late Teenage Years Of Jean-Michel Basquiat
    Review preview for Boom For Real The Late Teenage Years Of Jean-Michel Basquiat

    A life like this is never tidy and neither is Driver's documentary.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    A documentary exploring the pre-fame years of the celebrated American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, and how New York City shaped his vision.
  • Mrs Hyde
    Review preview for Mrs Hyde

    Although we alight at many points of interest throughout the journey, we never stop long enough anywhere to explore.

    Jane Fae · 3.5 out of 5
    After a teacher is struck by lightning, she discovers a powerful and dangerous alter ego.
  • Cielo
    Review preview for Cielo

    McAlpine is so eager that we experience the same sense of joy that she is that she over-editorialises, offering voice-over observations that are more distracting than deep.

    Amber Wilkinson · 2.5 out of 5
    A documentary about the sky above the Andes and the Atacama Desert in northern Chile, and those who live under it.
  • A Skin So Soft
    Review preview for A Skin So Soft

    By simply observing the men as they move around, the film avoids over-interpretation, working hard to leave space for each person watching to find their own narrative as to why each man might have chosen this sport.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    Documentary about bodybuilders.
  • Pandora's Box
    Review preview for Pandora's Box

    Full of striking imagery which, once seen , will stay with you forever.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    A beautiful young woman exploits her sexuality to enjoy freedom and power in 1880s London.
  • The Old Dark House
    Review preview for The Old Dark House

    Although Whale is working with clichés, many of them were only established in literary form in 1932, and are presented on film here for the first time in forms that continue to be imitated to this day.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    A couple run into trouble after they are stranded by a storm.
  • Zama
    Review preview for Zama

    This is a very particular film - one where particles of detail crystallise into observation, meaning and import accreting like nacre around grit, producing a pearl, a natural jewel.

    Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
    A 17th century army officer in Ascuncion, awaits transfer to Buenos Aires.
  • Let The Sunshine In
    Review preview for Let The Sunshine In

    Denis and Binoche take a perceptive and light approach to what could have been hackneyed material.

    Richard Mowe · 4 out of 5
    Isabelle, single mum, divorced artist with one child, is looking for love. True love at last.
  • Western
    Review preview for Western

    It quite subtly toys with the iconography of the genre - poking at the outlying parts of it, the parts dealing with "foreigness" and "home" rather than the more dependable elements of right and wrong.

    Rory Ford · 3.5 out of 5
    A group of German construction workers on a job in Bulgaria begin to compete for the approval of the locals.

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