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_44_2.gif" align="left" hspace="5" width="33" height="50" border="0" alt="S"><div id="body_text"><div class="body_text" align="justify" style="padding-right: 0.5ex">cuttlebutt has it that this year's edition of the New York Film Festival is one of the richest in the festival's 44-year history. This is impossible to dispute given the variety of the program, which includes seven Cannes holdovers, among them Pedro Almodóvar's <i>Volver</i>, Nuri Bilge Ceylan's <i>Climates</i>, Sofia Coppola's <i>Marie Antoinette</i>, Abderrahmane Sissako's <i>Bamako</i> and Johnnie To's <i>Triad Election</i>.<br><br> As always, there were some surprising omissions: <i>The Wind that Shakes the Barley</i> and the two most volatile cherry bombs lobbed inside the Cannes Palais earlier this year, <i>Southland Tales</i> and <i>Flandres</i>. Their absence, though it may be felt, is easy to forgive given the platter of high-profile U.S. premieres from masters old and new: Tian Zhuangzhuang's <i>The Go Master</i>, Manoel de Oliveira's <i>Belle Toujours</i>, Hong Sang-soo's <i>The Woman on the Beach</i>, Jafar Panahi's <i>Offside</i> and Apichatpong Weerasethakul's <i>Syndromes and a Century</i>.<br><br> <div align="center"><img src="/images/features/nyff/nyff_44.jpg" width="205" height="100" border="0"></div><br> The selection committee also ensures that fanboys won't go hungry this year: Closing the festival will be Guillermo del Toro's Franco-era fairy tale <i>Pan's Labyrinth</i>, and filling three of the program's slots will be two already-acclaimed productions, Satoshi Kon's latest animation <i>Paprika</i> and Bong Joon-ho's wild genre hybrid <i>Host</i>, and what is bound to be the hottest ticket in this year's festival, David Lynch's latest self-reflexive ode to the dream factory, <i>Inland Empire</i>. The film, which rides into town on a wave of baffled critical discourse from its premiere screening at Venice, clocks in at three hours, and for some that will not be a minute too long. <br><br> Beginning September 20, 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 44th New York Film Festival will run from September 29 to October 15, 2006. For more information please check the festival's <a href="javascript:go('filmlinc.com/nyff/program/films/films.html')">main program</a>.<br><br></div></div>
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