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Film & BooksIssue: Libra 07

The 45th New York Film Festival September 28 – October 14

Joel and Ethan Coen’s "No Country for Old Men" will be the centerpiece of this year's festival. Based on the novel by Pulitzer Prize-winner Cormac McCarthy and adapted by the Coens, the film is a thriller starring Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Woody Harrelson, and Kelly MacDonald.

Opening night will feature Wes Anderson’s new film, "The Darjeeling Limited." Starring Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody, and Jason Schwartzman, the film follows three brothers as they re-forge family bonds on a train ride across India. Anjelica Huston is also featured in the Fox Searchlight release, co-written by Anderson, Roman Coppola, and Schwartzman.

The festival, presented by the Film Society of Lincoln Center will also feature three showcases, three music documentaries, and six retrospective films. This year's HBO Films Directors Dialogues will be with Wes Anderson, Todd Haynes, Sidney Lumet, and Julian Schnabel. In addition there will be a screening of "Blade Runner: The Final Cut," a 25th anniversary salute to this key work of science fiction. 

For more information, go to http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/nyff.html on the Film Society of Lincoln Center website. dots

by Ann Janda

Film & Books Archives (total entries: 28)

Sagittarius 08 & Honest Self Expression

Rachel Getting Married

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Scorpio 08 - The Money Issue

Review of “The Good Society: The Humane Agenda” by John Kenneth Galbraith

 

Libra 08

How We Choose to Be Happy

Honestly, I have never been one for self-help books, but what I liked most about "How We Choose to Be Happy" is that it celebrates the wisdom of a variety of literary greats balanced by the stories of ordinary people.


Leo 08

The Great Man

This book won the 2008 PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction for good reason. I started the “The Great Man” on Saturday morning and had to finish it by lunch the next day. When it started to rain I traded my lawn chair for the couch and kept on reading. This novel is fabulously funny, mischievous, and easy to read.

cancer 08

Son of Rambow

A quirky look at boyhood and film-making in the 1980s, “Son of Rambow” is a welcome diversion from the current deluge of blockbuster remakes and super hero epics in theaters this summer. Written and directed by Garth Jennings and produced by Nick Goldsmith, I like the way this film spins a standard, winning movie formula at a slightly awkward angle.

Gemini 08

The Maytrees

Although “The Maytrees” by Annie Dillard is marketed as a novel, it reads from beginning to end as a poem. Like body surfing, the poetry will move emotions in directions that the mind may not understand. When this wave brought me to shore, I needed air and I wasn’t quite certain where I had been or where I had landed, but I was, in the truest sense of the word, in awe of the experience I just had.

Taurus 08

The Best Films of 2007

April and May are notoriously bad months to go to the movies. The Academy Award hopefuls of 2008 won't be released until the fall, and the summer blockbusters won't be out for a few months. So what is a film reviewer to do when all the movies in the theaters are lame? This reviewer is going to suggest that you catch up on the best movies of 2007!

Aries 08

Three Cups of Tea

After an unsuccessful attempt to climb K2, Greg Mortenson stumbled into the village of Korphe in Pakistan’s Karakoram Himalaya region. The generosity and hospitality of the Korphe villagers inspired Mortenson to establish the Central Asia Institute (CAI). Since the establishment of CAI ten years ago, the organization has built 55 schools serving Pakistan and Afghanistan’s poorest children, especially girls.

Pisces 08

Persepolis

Based on Marjane Satrapi's books, the film “Persepolis” tells the poignant story of a young girl coming of age in Iran in the midst of revolution and war.

 

Aquarius 08

On Beauty

This book grabs the reality of life with two hands and shakes it upside down. Those who appear to be physically beautiful and those whose eloquence is often over-beautified, are the most repulsive characters. “On Beauty” is about being real, about dealing with life, and about the need to reexamine what “living” really means.