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October 1, 2007
The News: Stuart Auteurs it Up for NYFF45
Also: Americans love a lawbreaker; Woodstock gets its close-up
Musty Orphans and Minor Tarr
Reeler @ NYFF: Shadowy festival imports fail to thrill despite rich art-house pedigree
October 2, 2007
The News: Cinetic Media, Eh?
Also: Sokurov finds an American buyer; breaking down the NYFF and Coney Island FF parties as only the Israels can
TODAY: Reeler Collides With IFC; None Survive
Reeler at NYFF: Submit your questions and insights to live Webcast from Lincoln Center
In With the New at South Asian Fest
Fourth annual event features premieres from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and... New York?
October 3, 2007
Lake of Fire
Kaye's epic abortion documentary proves as divisive as it is meticulously two-sided
By Michelle Orange
The News: Army's NY/LA High-School Reunion
Also: Affleck's feelings are hurt; Sonnenfeld tries mulligan at Apple Store
Abel Minded
Reeler @ NYFF: From SoHo to Chelsea, trailing the tireless Ferrara's NYC odyssey
By Annaliese Griffin
I'm Not There Isn't
Reeler @ NYFF: A skeptic greets Haynes's Dylan epic at Lincoln Center
October 4, 2007
Sleuth Sorts it Out in Chelsea
Don't call it a remake, Caine and Branagh tell NYC audience
The French Delegation
October promises biggest French cinema surge of the year for New York
The News: Today in List Clusterfuckery
Also: Landis contemplates Rickles; Sex and the City gets younger for big screen
The Heartbreak Kid
Heartbreak remake's upped gross-out quotient marks the Farrelly ethos back in effect
By R. Emmet Sweeney
My Kid Could Paint That
Director Bar-Lev cops out on heady questions he raises about truth and art
By Vadim Rizov
Michael Clayton
Gilroy's moral thriller mimics skins of '70s mentors without attaining their soul
By Keith Uhlich
October 5, 2007
Bible, Kid New All Over Again
Reeler Flashback: Revisiting the Sundance debuts of Daniel Karslake and Amir Bar-Lev
Center of Gravity
Reeler reviews editor Michelle Orange surveys another of round of hits and misses at NYFF's halfway point
The News: All-Positive Friday!
Inside: Reeler sides with Kaufman (twice!); Scott over the moon as NYFF rolls into second week
What's Wrong With This Picture?
Art Fag City: How My Kid reinforces fears and myths about modern art
October 6, 2007
Margot and the Mistress
Reeler @ NYFF: Everything old is (sort of) new again as Kidman, Baumbach and Breillat hit NYC
October 7, 2007
Harsh Mistress
Reeler Interview: Director Breillat on her passion project and a diva named Argento
By S.T. VanAirsdale
October 8, 2007
The News: Harvey Sheiks it Up
Also: Biggie casting call draws dreamers; Kehr owes someone an apology
Lynch-Mania Coming to Sixth Ave.
New doc, Eraserhead revival and midnight retrospective take over fall program
Control
Gorgeous black-and-white visuals are the real star of unhappy rocker's biopic
By Eric Kohn
October 9, 2007
The News: Come for the Hype, Stay for the Commercial
Also: IFC snaps up another pair; are you Rated X?
Jamie Stuart: Once More, With Feeling
Reeler @ NYFF: Stunning new video dispatch among filmmaker's best
The Drama of De Palma
Reeler @ NYFF: Director-on- distributor violence keeps Redacted on fest radar
October 10, 2007
The Man at the Control
Reeler Flashback: Anton Corbijn talks Curtis biopic as ReelerTV goes black-and-white
The News: "De Niro Inc."
Also: We're depressed, watch our movie; Ellis Island gets the German treatment
Warmth to Spare
Reeler @ NYFF: Landis's Rickles doc among fest's funniest in years
Vaughn, Temple En Route to CMJ
Oh, and something else about some guy named Anderson Cooper
October 11, 2007
Hoping Against Hype
Reeler reviews editor Michelle Orange on NYFF's hot-ticket Baumbach, Breillat and Coen selections
The News: Cronenberg Explains Himself
Also: Carr returns with Times two-fer; Bogdanovich preparing for NYFF in 2044
Lars and the Real Girl
Sex dolls and sentiment make uncommon bedfellows in this strangely tender small-town tale
By R. Emmet Sweeney
We Own the Night
Brisk but boring crime drama unmitigated by a few good performances
By Vadim Rizov
King Corn Crops up in NYC
Two rookie farmers play it by ear in new documentary
Halle Berry, Lost in the Fire
Actress cheers for Bier, Benicio at special NYC screening
October 12, 2007
The News: All-Positive Friday!
Inside: Wade's Freeheld short-listed for Oscars; close-ups get their close-up
The Animated Life
Reeler @ NYFF: Filmmakers bring Persepolis to city for closing night
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Protestants rule and Catholics predictably drool, but Elizabeth redux is as ideologically confused as it is completely meaningless
By Michelle Orange
October 15, 2007
Young Blood
Williamsburg splatter epic Murder Party joins others to mobilize "hipster horror" genre
By John Lichman
A Useless End
Reeler @ NYFF: Jia impresses, Castillo depresses at 45th fest closes
The News: Tyler Perry Conquers World
Also: Idle Weinsteins apparently still newsworthy; Streep set for Lincoln Center tribute in 2008
October 16, 2007
From Woodstock With Love
A 48-hour Catskills sojourn reveals two new classics and a fest to watch
By S.T. VanAirsdale
October 17, 2007
The Lethem Picture Show
Brooklyn author and honorary BAM curator talks cinephilia and adaptation with The Reeler
By Annaliese Griffin
The News: Fingers on the Trigger
Also: I'm Not There gets benefit concert; Bloomberg latest notch on IFP bed post
Love, Hate and Michael Haneke
Cynical Games-manship ensues at MoMA retrospective's closing night
October 18, 2007
Wristcutters: A Love Story
Endearing and intelligent vision of the afterlife may soften even the hardest of hipster asses
By Vadim Rizov
Rendition
Discourse on U.S. torture policies less cogent -- and entertaining -- than it thinks
By Michelle Orange
Reservation Road
Like bad teenage poetry, Terry George's clumsy melodrama insists solely on its own tragedy
By Vadim Rizov
River to the Hamptons
Reeler Interview: Actor-director Chris Eigeman on his upcoming fest premiere and finding Famke Janssen's inner pool shark
By S.T. VanAirsdale
Gone Baby Gone
Affleck's debut a twisted love letter to Boston's roughest but a just plain twisted narrative
By Michelle Orange
Festival in Law
Fordham Law Film Festival returns for second year of cinematic deliberations
October 19, 2007
Will the Real Zodiac Please Stand Up?
Fincher bringing seven extra minutes with him next month at Lincoln Center
Black White in Color
Reeler Interview: Documentarian James Crump on his enigmatic subjects Wagstaff and Mapplethorpe
By Ben Gold
The News: All-Positive Friday! Video Edition
Inside: Drew Carey pinches bladders; revisiting Mailer and one of our favorite flies on the wall
October 22, 2007
The News: Chill in the Air for Box Office, Coppola
Also: Lumet deja vu; shorts festival returns with ambition to spare
Temple of Punk
Filmmaker shares new Strummer doc with eager crowd at CMJ FilmFest
Gothams Sound Off for '07
Zobel's debut scores hat trick, Loktev nabs pair as IFP nominations revealed
By S.T. VanAirsdale
October 23, 2007
The News: Binary Burns Coming Soon to iTunes
Also: Stuart defies Gravity; Seberg vs. the world in beauty sweepstakes
The Reeler Finds The Hamptons -- Again
24 hours of traffic, tragedy and even a couple of worthwhile films
October 24, 2007
Lagerfeld Confidential
Largely ephemeral, day-in-the-life doc studded with a few meaty moments
By Michelle Orange
Documentaries Gone Wild
DocFest07 hosts Who, Flynt and non-fiction forces at Paley Center
Karl's in Charge
Director Marconi on the matter-of-fact trail of Lagerfeld Confidential
The News: The Long and Short of It
Also: Ansen flashes back (and back); Bean makes Noise in Rome
Now Playing: The Totally Unrelated Blog-a-Thon
One week of freedom to spoil the film blogosphere with whim and whatever
Horror Fest Goes to School
New digs at NYU welcome Roth, honor Lewis and unspool Boll's latest
Jimmy Carter Man From Plains
Demme succumbs to the pie-eyed Carter myth in his disappointing documentary
By Keith Uhlich
The Real Thing
Totally Unrelated Blog-a-Thon: What we can -- and should -- learn from Dionne Warwick
By S.T. VanAirsdale
October 25, 2007
The News: Troma on the Move
Also: Mulberry Street goes national; Anderson apparently big in Sweden
Mr. Untouchable
Imaginatively bankrupt portrait drains the color from one of NYC's flashiest gangsters
By Vadim Rizov
"They're All Going to Die!"
Reeler Interview: Catching up with the evil genius behind the Pioneer Theater's Werewolf All-Nighter
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Lumet's steady, memorable crime drama embodies existential despair
By Eric Kohn
The Day the Music Vied
Duelling Harlem kingpin films bring Damon Dash and Jay-Z too close for comfort -- again
By S.T. VanAirsdale
October 26, 2007
The News: All-Positive Friday!
Inside: Welcome Streep to the New Jersey Hall of Fame(!); another Weinstein "leak" mysteriously good for buzz
October 29, 2007
"One Lucky Moment"
Reeler Roundtable: Catching up with three generations of Croatian filmmakers as national cinema takes NYC
By S.T. VanAirsdale
The News: Mayor's Office Backs Off Permits
Also: Bob Berney still good at his job; Shelly Foundation sets date for inaugural gala
Letterman Wearing Pants on New Doc
Talk icon lending name to Election Day chronicle of young candidates
October 30, 2007
Unwritten Rules
Reeler Interview: Director Temple on new Strummer doc, campfire filmmaking and how not to light Scorsese
By S.T. VanAirsdale
The News: Pull Up a Chair, Edelstein's on a Roll
Also: Bloggy producer-on-consultant violence; micro-marketing hot new trend for '07
Gangsters Work it Out
Harlem drug kingpin tandem reunited for Untouchable/Gangster flashback in NYM
The Nanking Experience
Special screening of Guttentag's harrowing new doc delivers influence and intensity downtown
October 31, 2007
The News: Real Horror Show
Also: Butler flees Escape in terror; Critics in Crisis, Day 3
Yes, But Can Amy Fisher Act?
Long Island Lolita sex video makes rounds, world yawns with interest
Big Rig Rolls Into NYC
Pray's latest screens Stranger Than Fiction with a message for all you four-wheelers