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<img src="/images/features/nyff/nyff_40_2.gif" align="left" hspace="5" width="16" height="30" border="0" alt="T"><div id="body_text"><div class="body_text" align="justify" style="padding-right: 0.5ex">he New York Film Festival turns 40 this year with more style and grace than its Toronto and Cannes counterparts. There's no <a href="/film/film_review.asp?ID=746"><i>Ken Park</i></a> or <a href="/film/film_review.asp?ID=622"><i>Irreversible</i></a> on the agenda, but New Yorkers will get an early look at the Vatican's latest whipping post, Peter Mullan's <i>The Magdalene Sisters</i>. No <a href="/film/film_review.asp?ID=601"><i>Gerry</i></a>, <a href="/film/film_review.asp?ID=577"><i>Spider</i></a> or <a href="/film/film_review.asp?ID=499"><i>Far from Heaven</i></a> either, but three of this year's four American entries are of equal repute: Paul Schrader's <i>Auto Focus</i>, Paul Thomas Anderson's <i>Punch-Drunk Love</i> and Alexander Payne's <i>About Schmidt</i>. <br><br> <a href="/film/film_review.asp?ID=517"><i>Bowling for Columbine</i></a> also failed to make the cut though two other non-fiction entries look to overwhelm the predominantly French contingency. The Film Society of Lincoln Center heralds Jennifer Dworkin's <i>Love and Diane</i> as the "<i>Moby-Dick</i> of drug addiction, welfare and a certain kind of agonizing experience in America" while André Heller and Othmar Schmiderer's <i>Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary</i> will sift through memories of Hitler and his Reich by way of the Führer's private secretary, Traudl Junge. Pedro Almodóvar's <i>Talk to Her</i> will close the fest on a moving note.<br><br> Please check back on a daily basis as a synopsis and full review of each festival film will be added to <i>Slant Magazine</i>'s ongoing coverage. The 40th New York Film Festival will run from September 27 to October 13, 2002. For more information please check the festival's <a href="javascript:go('filmlinc.com/archive/nyff/nyfffilms2002.htm')">main program</a>.<br><br> All capsules and reviews by Ed Gonzalez.<br><br></div></div>
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