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New York, New Talent at the New Directors/New Film Festival
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- Published on Thursday, 07 March 2013 02:49
- Written by Brad Bafour
March in New York City is all about the new -- seasons and otherwise. What better month to look towards new talent rather than the notoriously tepid stuff that lands at the mainstream theater chains where studios usually dump films not good enough to be summer blockbusters or to serve as late year awards fare?
"Populaire" Kicks Off Rendez-Vous with French Cinema
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- Published on Wednesday, 06 March 2013 05:00
- Written by Paula Schwartz
The light-hearted soufflé of a film, Populaire, directed by Régis Roinsard and starring Romain Duris and Deborah François, kicked off Rendez-Vous With French Cinema Thursday night at the Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street).
The charming director and the glittery stars attended the premiere and afterparty at the Cultural Services of the French Embassy on Fifth Avenue. (The Film Society of Lincoln Center, Unifrance Films and the Weinstein Company present the festival, which runs through March 10, 2013.)
Populaire is about an adorable and innocent young woman (François), a grocer’s daughter, stuck in the French provinces in 1959, who dreams of independence and a career. In Paris she finds work as a secretary of a handsome but often clueless boss (Duris), who discovers she can type like a maniac.
Film Comment Selects 2013
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- Published on Tuesday, 19 February 2013 10:00
- Written by Kevin Filipski
The 13th annual Film Comment Selects series comprises a selection of films that haven’t been seen yet in New York or not in awhile. Alongside new films by Marco Bellocchio, Manoel de Oliveira, Michel Gondry and Kiyoshi Kurosawa are lesser-known or forgotten films by Ingmar Bergman, James William Guercio and Howard Zieff.
First Time Fest: Inaugural Fest For New Filmmakers
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- Published on Friday, 08 February 2013 22:00
- Written by Matt Oakes
Every great filmmaker had a first film which could have easily slipped under the radar, from Christopher Nolan’s Memento to Darren Aronofsky’s Pi to Wes Anderson’s Bottle Rocket.
The inaugural First Time Fest -- taking place from March 1 - 4, 2013, at the Players Club -- hopes to discover the great talents of the next generation before they achieve commercial success.
Hosted in NYC’s Gramercy Park, the Festival is also set to showcase first-time filmmakers in retrospect with a film series entitled First Exposure which will feature Aronosky's Pi , John Huston's The Maltese Falcon, Todd Haynes' Poision, Jack Goes Boating by Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Hal Hartley's The Unbelievable Truth, True Love made by Nancy Savoca and Stanley Kubrick's first film Killer's Kiss. Many stars and filmmakers are expected to attend such as Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Ryan, Chris Chase and Hal Hartley.
