NY Film Festival Tickets Onsale

Penguin September 10th, 2007

Tickets for the New York Film Festival go on sale today. You can order online, phone, or at the box office. $7 for students, $11 for every else.

Suggest viewing:

The Darjeeling Limited - Sept 28 - Featuring Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody and Jason Schwartzman, the films 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.
No Country for Old Men - Oct 6 - Based on the novel by Pulitzer Prize-winner Cormac McCarthy and adapted by the Coens, the film is a mesmerizing thriller about the violent chain reaction that follows a hunter’s discovery of several dead bodies, a major stash of heroin and $2 million in cash. Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Woody Harrelson and Kelly MacDonald star.

Persepolis - Oct 14 - The animated coming-of-age story, based on Satrapi’s popular graphic novel about her own childhood in Iran during the Islamic Revolution, won a Jury Prize at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. It features the voice talents of Catherine Deneuve, Chiara Mastroianni, Danielle Darrieux and Simon Abkarian, several of whom are expected to attend the festival’s Closing Night screening at Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall on Sunday, October 14. Sony Pictures Classics is releasing the film.

Blade Runner: The Final Cut - Sept 29 - Ridley Scott’s legendary adaptation of Phillip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? gave us a startling vision of a noir-ishly dystopic future, in which the line between human and non-human has worn perilously thin. Scott’s masterpiece not only anticipated our future but designed it: Much of our world today appears, well, just so Blade Runner. To commemorate its 25th anniversary, Scott has gone back, corrected a few details and fashioned a version that he feels is closest to what he had originally intended. One of the greatest American films of the Eighties has just gotten even better.

Paranoid Park - Oct 8-9 - At once a dreamlike portrait of teen alienation and a boldly experimental work of film narrative, Paranoid Park finds Gus Van Sant at the height of his powers. A withdrawn high-school skateboarder (Gabe Nevins) struggles to make sense of his involvement in an accidental death: He recalls past events across tides of memory, and expresses his feelings in a diary that is, in fact, the movie we are watching. The extraordinary skating scenes, filmed by cinematographers Christopher Doyle and Rain Kathy Li in a lyrical mixture of Super 8 and 35mm, depict their subjects soaring in space, momentarily free of the earthly troubles of adolescence.

Redacted - Oct 10-11 - Americans who remember Vietnam may be experiencing a strong sense of déjà vu, but Brian De Palma hasn’t waited until after our war in Iraq to make his movie on the subject. Redacted is ripped from the headlines or, more precisely, from cable news: It’s a fictionalized account of a 2006 atrocity committed against a teenaged girl and her family by American troops in Mahmoudiya that, in its formal invention, harks back to the director’s countercultural roots. Certain to inspire controversy, De Palma’s disturbing portrayal of a dazed, confused, vengeful platoon, complete with resident video diarist, is a powerful movie of technical brio and ice-cold fury.

-Penguin

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