Once again, the New York Film Festival anticipates Oscar.
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The sheer size of the Toronto festival can be intimidating.
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<img src="/images/features/nyff/nyff_43_2.gif" align="left" hspace="5" width="30" height="30" border="0" alt="O"><div id="body_text"><div class="body_text" align="justify" style="padding-right: 0.5ex">ne year ago, the New York Film Festival starved for a <a href="/film/film_review.asp?ID=830"><i>Dogville</i></a>-style polemic, but the program was nonetheless distinguished by its open cultural arms, with films coming to us from as far as Argentina and Senegal. There isn't a single Latin American film featured in this year's edition of the fest, a glaring oversight given some of the strong works featured in the Film Society of Lincoln Center's recent <a href="/film/features/latinbeat2005.asp">LatinBeat</a> program and the mixed reception works like <i>Manderlay</i> have received in Cannes and Toronto.<br><br> <div align="center"><img src="/images/features/nyff/nyff_43.jpg" width="205" height="51" border="0"></div><br> This second part of Lars Von Trier's trilogy of life in America is just one of many Cannes carryovers (<i>Hidden</i>, <i>L'Enfer</i>, <i>Three Times</i>, among others) that make up this year's typically strong line-up, which also includes new works by Aleksandr Sokurov, Patrice Chéreau, Neil Jordan, Park Chanwook and Steven Soderbergh, two knock-out special events (a restoration of Sam Wood's 1922's melodrama <i>Beyond the Rocks</i> starring Gloria Swanson and Rudolph Valentino and Michelangelo Antonioni's preferred 126-minute cut of <i>The Passenger</i>), and a special presentation in honor of Japan's 110-year-old Shochiku Company.<br><br> <div align="center"><img src="/images/features/nyff/nyff_43_2.jpg" width="205" height="51" border="0"></div><br> As usual, the festival will be remembered equally for the films left outside its door, namely Woody Allen's <i>Match Point</i>, Tsai Ming Ling's <i>The Wayward Cloud</i>, and Ang Lee's <i>Brokeback Mountain</i>, but given the embarrassment of riches on display here, not to mention the chance of seeing films that are unlikely to ever get proper U.S. distribution, there's very little to complain about here. <br><br> Beginning September 15, please check back daily as a synopsis and full review of each festival film will be added to <i>Slant Magazine</i>'s ongoing coverage. The 43rd New York Film Festival will run from September 23 to October 9, 2005. For more information please check the festival's <a href="javascript:go('filmlinc.com/nyff/nyff.htm')">main program</a>.<br><br></div></div>
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