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59th New York Film Festival early bird highlights Futura, Jane By Charlotte, James Baldwin: From Another Place and The Velvet Underground
2016
As compelling as it is humourous.
Though it is Cox's turn that grabs, it is Konig's that delights.
An effective short film anchored by a strong central performance.
Though it feels somewhat haphazard, Chirico and Chloe Sosa-Sims' film is well put together and maintains its energy and charm most of the way through.
Messily shot and assembled like the story it tells, this is a film which forces the viewer to ask questions about what is accident and what is artistry.
Ruffalo is astonishing. He makes Bradley Cooper in Silver Linings Playbook look easy.
It’s kind of a good film, but it’s kind of an irritating one too.
Jeffrey Krolick's documentary is minimally intrusive and proceeds at a gentle pace, letting Condos unfold his tale.
An exquisitely beautiful piece of stop motion animation.
Pohland - working with an impressive script by Oren Moverman and Michael A Lerner - manages to orchestrate a musical path between the double storyline that finds unity through the creative process.
Mamma Mia! is a roller coaster of emotion, careering colourfully from the blue waters of the Adriatic.
A bold take on a subject it's still all too easy to obfuscate.
Planes, Trains & Automobiles is an eternal tribute to how great Martin used to be before he sold himself out to family movies and how wonderful Candy was as an actor and a person.
The clashes between characters give this film plenty of catalysts for interesting discussions, and it is refreshing that these discussions are not framed as anything other than three young adults connecting.
It is funny and serious by turns... full of striking and humorous images.
The overall standard of acting from the young cast is impressive.
There is a luminosity to Dalio's imagery, a beautiful use of colour, that encourages us to engage with these people and feel their joy as much as their pain.
The film challenges notions about masculinity and the culture of expecting trans people to prove themselves by rejecting everything associated with the sex category they were put in at birth.
Witherspoon completely inhabits the role.
59th New York Film Festival early bird highlights Futura, Jane By Charlotte, James Baldwin: From Another Place and The Velvet Underground
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