2008 New York Film Festival

31 August 2008

46th New York Film Festival
26 Sep - 12 Oct, 2008

A strong list - more than half without distributors. Among the must-sees:

二十四城 (24 City) (Jia Zhangke, China/Hong Kong/Japan, 2008)
Sat 27 Sep, 3 pm

Voy a explotar (I’m Gonna Explode) (Gerardo Naranjo, Mexico, 2008)
Sun 28 Sep, 9 pm; Mon 29 Sep, 6 pm

Tony Manero (Pablo Larrain, Chile/Brazil, 2008)
Mon 29 Sep, 9:15 pm; Tue 30 Sep, 6 pm

Corte do Norte (The Northern Land) (João Botelho, Portugal, 2008)
Tue 30 Sep, 9:15 pm

Cztery noce z Anna (Four Nights with Anna) (Jerzy Skolimowski, Poland/France, 2008)
Fri 3 Oct, 9:30 pm; Sun 5 Oct, 3 pm

Lola Montes (Max Ophuls, France, 1955)
Sat 4 Oct 11:15 am

Night and Day (Hong Sang-soo, Korea, 2008)
Sat 4 Oct, 2:30 pm

东邪西毒: 终极版 (Ashes of Time Redux) (Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong, 2008)
Sat 4 Oct, 6:15 pm; Sat 4 Oct, 12 midnight

The Windmill Movie (Richard P. “Dick” Rogers, USA, 2008)
Sun 5 Oct, 6:00 pm

Afterschool (Antonio Campos, USA, 2008)
Mon 6 Oct, 6:00 pm; Wed 8 Oct, 9:00 pm

La mujer sin cabeza(The Headless Woman) (Lucrecia Martel, Argentina/France/Italy/Spain, 2008)
Mon 6 Oct 9:15 pm; Wed 8 Oct, 6:00 pm

Che (Steven Soderbergh, France/Spain, 2008)
Tue 7 Oct, 6:00 pm

Tokyo Sonata (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Japan/Netherlands, 2008)
Thu 9 Oct, 6:00 pm; Sat 11 Oct, 9:15 pm

Tulpan (Sergey Dvortsevoy, Germany/Kazakhstan/Poland/Russia/Switzerland, 2008)
Thu 9 Oct, 9:00 pm; Sat 11 Oct, 6:00 pm

Let It Rain (Agnès Jaoui, France, 2008)
Fri 10 Oct, 9:45 pm; Sun 12 Oct 11:15 am

Bullet in the Head (Jaime Rosales, Spain/France, 2008)
Sun 12 Oct, 2:30 pm

Serbis (Brillante Mendoza, Philippines/France, 2008)
Sun 12 Oct, 5:15 pm

The Wrestler (Darren Aronofsky, USA, 2008)
Sun 12 Oct, 8:30 pm

The Day Shall Dawn (Pakistan, 1959)
Sat 11 Oct, 6:30 pm

Also a sidebar of films by Nagisa Oshima and the 12th annual Views from the Avant-Garde. Visit the festival website for details.

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New York Turkish Festival

14 August 2008

New York Turkish Festival
Central Park, NYC (5th Avenue & 97th Street)
24 August 2008, 10 am - 9 pm

Music, Turkish tea, Turkish coffee, Turkish food, baklava!
Art, Turkish oil wrestling, language lessons & more. Not to be missed.
What is Turkish oil wrestling?

Visit www.nyturkishfestival.org for more attractions.

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