The New York Film Festival as Film Critic in THE VILLAGE VOICE
by Andre Soares
Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud’s Persepolis will close this year’s New York Film Festival.
Nathan Lee in The Village Voice:
"Is the 45th New York Film Festival more than the sum of its parts? With parts this good, does it matter? Still, the question is hard to shake. Every festival program represents a set of decisions, and the decision at New York to present the best of the best does not go unchallenged. When the complaint arises that the program derives almost exclusively from the selection of other festivals, New York replies: Yes, but isn’t that where the best are found? And reflect, if you will, on the implications of what we did not select!
"This attitude is a little bit haughty, a little bit lazy, and basically irrelevant to all but a minority of a fraction of an elite — less people, I’d guess, than manage to nab one of the festival’s hot tickets after members of the Film Society claim first dibs. But it is a point of view, and if the NYFF likes to think of itself as an act of criticism, it’s fair to consider what kind of critic it’s trying to be."
Jacques Rivette’s OUT 1 at UCLA
Norwegian Film Series at Lincoln Center
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