2008 New York Film Festival
The 46th New York Film Festival ran from September 26 to October 12, 2008. In addition to screening the feature films listed below, which were often preceded by short films, the festival ran a sidebar retrospective of the films of controversial Japanese director Nagisa Oshima. The festival also included its twelfth annual series Views from the Avant-Garde, showcasing a variety of experimental films.
Main slate[]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country | |
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Opening Night | The Class | Entre les murs | Laurent Cantet | France |
Centerpiece | Changeling | Clint Eastwood | United States | |
Closing Night | The Wrestler | Darren Aronofsky | United States |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
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24 City | 二十四城记/二十四城記 Er shi si cheng ji |
Jia Zhangke | China |
Afterschool | Antonio Campos | United States | |
Ashes of Time Redux | Dung che sai duk redux | Wong Kar-wai | Hong Kong |
Bullet in the Head | Tiro en la cabeza | Jaime Rosales | Spain |
Che (Part I: The Argentine and Part II: Guerilla) | Steven Soderbergh | United States | |
Chouga | Shuga | Darezhan Omirbaev | Kazakhstan |
A Christmas Tale | Un conte de Noël | Arnaud Desplechin | France |
Four Nights With Anna | Cztery noce z Anna | Jerzy Skolimowski | Poland |
Gomorrah | Gomorra | Matteo Garrone | Italy |
Happy-Go-Lucky | Mike Leigh | United Kingdom | |
The Headless Woman | La mujer sin cabeza | Lucrecia Martel | Argentina |
Hunger | Steve McQueen | United Kingdom | |
I'm Gonna Explode | Voy a explotar | Gerardo Naranjo | Mexico |
Let It Rain | Parlez-moi de la pluie | Agnès Jaoui | France |
Night and Day | Bam guan nat | Hong Sang-soo | South Korea |
The Northern Land | A Corte do Norte | João Botelho | Portugal |
Service | Serbis | Brillante Mendoza | Philippines |
Summer Hours | L'heure d'été | Olivier Assayas | France |
Tokyo Sonata | Tôkyô sonata | Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Japan |
Tony Manero | Pablo Larrain | Chile | |
Tulpan | Sergey Dvortsevoy | Kazakhstan | |
Waltz with Bashir | ואלס עם באשיר Vals Im Bashir |
Ari Folman | Israel |
Wendy and Lucy | Kelly Reichardt | United States | |
The Windmill Movie | Alexander Olch | United States |
Selection committee[]
- Richard Peña, programming director of the Film Society of Lincoln Center
- Kent Jones, editor-at-large of Film Comment and former associate programming director of the Film Society
- Scott Foundas, chief film critic for L.A. Weekly
- J. Hoberman, senior film critic at The Village Voice
- Lisa Schwarzbaum, film critic at Entertainment Weekly
External links[]
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