The 50th New York Film Festival, which began Friday night, September 28 is beyond the midpoint of its two week festival run with a ?Centerpiece? World Premiere screening of Not Fade Away by David Chase (The Sopranos) yet the film schedule continues to entice, drawing huge audiences to the newly renovated Lincoln Center campus. While it was a gray, rainy day for an October weekend in New York City, it was an excellent day for watching films, masterworks screenings of filmmakers past and present day?director?s dialogue.
In the Masterworks section, Cin?astes/Cinema of our Time is a classic Film Society of Lincoln Center repertoire with ?restorations, revivals and rediscoveries from cinema?s past as they were meant to be seen on the big screen.? I?m there. Before this opportunity, the films were out in the art cinemas in New York City back in the day and I was too young to attend at the time. My film education remained at home watching Million Dollar Movie many times over and over again weeknights. During the first week of the festival, there was a seven film tribute to an influential film critic/publicist, Pierre Rissient, who helped create the legendary Paris cinema I had come to equate with the 1950s. I was hoping for a cinephilic immersion and that?s exactly what I got.
Sunday started at 11:30 a.m. with Jean-Pierre Mellville: a Protrait in 9 Poses, a documentary-style conversation that portrays two of French cinema?s great filmmaking mavericks in front of and behind the camera. Andre Labarthe, heard asking questions, went back to re-edit this film on Melville, who in turn, leads Labarthe through a labyrinth of introspective accounts describing his career, the do?s and don?ts of filmmaking and what was considered the Melville myth? dark glasses, trenchcoats and stetson, along with a tough-guy demeanor. American realism gone wild. This fascinating segment was followed by an extraordinary powerful, behind the scenes discussion of work by director Catherine Breillat: The First Time/Catherine Breillat, la premi?re fois by Luc Moullet. Bold, bold, bold. More to come on that.
Following this section ?that btw floored me? I didn?t have to leave my seat in the renovated with acoustically improved, Walter Reade Theater other than get in closer for the start of the HBO Directors Dialogue with David Chase, director behind Saturday night?s ?Centerpiece? film, Not Fade Away and the creator of The Sopranos.?Success in television spurred his continued desire to make a movie and it was an interesting conversation, because Chase was allowed to talk about his work without interruption or old questions answered in interviews.
Insightful and funny, more to come about David Chase. If this turned out great, I planned on another HBO On Cinema conversation coming up early evening between filmmakers Noah Baumbach and Brian De Palma, who were set up to talk about each others? work. The concept was a good one in theory, but did not work very well. The conversation turned out to be one-sided, becoming a mutual admiration society with the moderator unable to jump start anything interesting. Both filmmakers have films in this year?s Main Slate: Frances Ha (Noah Baumbach) and Passion (Brian De Palma).
One of the Main Slate films was just about to start in Alice Tully Hall, also renovated to improve their acoustics for film screenings and I made it in for one of the last seats in a packed house. Cristian Mungiu?s Beyond the Hills, the winner of a screenplay and shared actress award at Cannes, Richard Pe?a calls the latest by the director of 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days ?a very rich work that will garner lots of discussion? and ?a new film by someone who I think is on his way to being seen as a major figure of European and international cinema.? More to come with a film review and director Q&A that followed this U.S. Premiere.
This will be the last festival in the twenty-five year tenure of Richard Pe?a, who has been director of programming at the Film Society of Lincoln Center since 1988. At the same time, he oversaw the Film Society?s expansion from an annual festival to a year-round film exhibitor with an ever-expanding online presence. Recently announced was the appointment of Kent Jones, a well-respected film programmer, writer and director, as Director of Programming for the festival and Robert Koehler as Director of Programming, year round.
The film society, founded in 1969, has had to become more competitive in recent years with the foreign and independent cinemas currently presented at Tribeca Film Festival, IFC Center, Film Forum and Museum of Modern Art. The society?s expansion is part of the 16-acre Lincoln Center campus redevelopment (great behind-the-scenes documentary on PBS) that was designed by David Rockwell/Rockwell Group in collaboration with Diller Scofidio+Renfro for the exterior redesign and renovation. A long day, sky clearing, lights coming up for the evening film screenings. A full week is still scheduled with much in store. Looking forward to more. Check out doddleme.com for in depth blog and film reviews.
Source: http://www.filmfestivalreviews.com/2012/10/taking-it-in-at-the-50th-new-york-film-festival/
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