New York Magazine Saves You Trip to Lincoln Center

Considering its 40-year head start and seven-figure budget advantage over me, I will try not to begrudge New York Magazine's stunning new reader service: five NY Film Festival shorts now available for viewing on the magazine's Web site. Some of these are sneak previews of films that won't even debut at Lincoln Center for another week, including Benoit Forgeard's outrageous The Naked Race and Faye Jackson's ghastly psychodrama Lump (above) -- the latter of which is paired up with the sold-out closing-night selection Pan's Labyrinth. So in kind of a roundabout way, these are exclusives, which makes me all the more jealous and you all the more lucky.

Alas, what they don't have yet is a forthcoming chat with Fellipe Gamarano Barbosa, the Columbia alum whose previous short, La Muerte es Pequena, screened at Sundance last January and whose latest film, Salt Kiss, screens next week at the NYFF. I'll try for video -- I'm sure my start-up leverage will go over huge with the Film Society -- but failing that, check out NYM for the select few and meet me back here for the continued local flavor in old-fashioned words and pictures.

Posted at October 3, 2006 1:26 PM