On this edition of the podcast, we report on the recent New York Film Festival.
0:00 Intro: Correction and Preview of the Speed Round
4:22 New York Film Festival '07
5:02 - Silent Light (Reygadas)
9:06 - Paranoid Park (Van Sant)
15:08 - The Man From London (Tarr)
18:42 - Flight of the Red Balloon (Hou)
25.18 - Go Go Tales (Ferrara)
28:19 - In the City of Sylvia (Guerín)
33:47 - avant-garde, celebs, and recap
36:17 DVD Pick
36:59 Outro
Next Time: A year-end speed round, with reviews of I'm Not There, The Savages, My Kid Could Paint That, and quick reviews of nearly a dozen other new films that are in theaters now or will be soon.
Related Links
• our earlier podcast about Hou Hsiao-hsien.
• acquarello's reviews (plus discussion) of Silent Light, Paranoid Park, and Memories.
• articles about In the City of Sylvia and Go Go Tales by Miguel MarÃas and Nicole Brenez, respectively, in the latest issue of Rouge.
• observations and questions from Girish about the film by Jose Luis Guerín.
• Balance, by Wolfgang & Christoph Lauenstein, the German animated short that I kept thinking of while watching Béla Tarr's The Man From London: