Ⓟ is for Public
September 7
10:30AM – Ex Libris – The New York Public Library (Frederick Wiseman) – A Wiseman once said.
2:30PM – The Carter Effect (Sean Menard) – First 30 minutes, because why not. [W/O]
3:15PM – Racer and the Jailbird (Michaël R. Roskam) – SchoenEXarcholpoulos. [W/O]
8:00PM – MDFF Presents: All the Cities of the North (2016, Dane Komljen) – Extratiffular activity.
September 8
9:00AM – +The Rider (Chloe Zhao) – Literally slept (a bit) on this in Cannes.
11:45AM – The Future Ahead (Constanza Novick) – Produced by Lisandro Alonso. [W/O]
1:15PM – Bodied (Joseph Kahn) – Still need to get around to Detention.
4:30PM – The Guardians (Xavier Beauvois) – Of guards and men.
7:30PM – Wavelengths 1: Appetite for Destruction Ⓟ
– Onward Lossless Follows (Michael Robinson)
– some cities (Francesco Gagliardi)
+ The Watchmen (Fern Silva)
– Wasteland No.1 – Ardent, Verdant (Jodie Mack)
+ Fantasy Sentences (Dane Komljen)
– Dislocation Blues (Sky Hopinka) [Left to intro my film.]
9:00PM – PROTOTYPE (Blake Williams) Ⓟ – Nathan and Gaga don’t know what they’re missing.
– preceded by Florence (1970, Erkki Kurenniemi)
September 9
9:15AM – Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig) – I keep my NYFF sharp.
11:30AM – Beyond the One (Anna Marziano) – Orizzonti orizzonti! was promising enough.
– preceded by +Strangely Ordinary This Devotion (Dani Leventhal & Sheilah Wilson)
1:30PM – Molly’s Game (Aaron Sorkin) – Lingering Moneyball goodwill.
6:00PM – Wavelengths 2: Fluid Frontiers Ⓟ
– Pixillation (1976, Anne Charlotte Robertson)
– Ticino (Friedl vom Gröller)
– Brown And Clear (Kevin Jerome Everson)
– Turtles Are Always Home (Rawane Nassif)
– Configuration in Black and White (Helga Fanderl)
– Fire (Lucy Parker)
– From Source to Poem (Rosa Barba)
– Fluid Frontiers (Ephraim Asili)
September 10
9:00AM – mother! (Darren Aronofsky) – Love mothers.
1:00PM – Lean On Pete (Andrew Haigh) – when I’m not strong.
7:15PM – Wavelengths 3: Figures in the Landscape Ⓟ
– Mr. Yellow Sweatshirt (Pacho Velez & Yoni Brook)
– Yeti (Wojciech Bąkowski)
– (100ft) (Minjung Kim)
– Heart of a Mountain (Parastoo Anoushahpour, Ryan Ferko, Faraz Anoushahpour)
– Rose Gold (Sara Cwynar)
– Division Movement to Vungtau (Benjamin Crotty & Bertrand Dezoteux)
– Flores (Jorge Jácome)
9:30PM – Caniba (Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Verena Paravel) – In the realm of the senses.
September 11
1-3PM – Teaching
4:00PM – Wavelengths 4: As Above, So Below Ⓟ
– La Libertad (Laura Huertas Millán)
– Palmerston Blvd. (Dan Browne)
– below-above (André Lehmann)
+ Aliens (Luis López Carrasco)
September 12
10:30AM – Foxtrot (Samuel Maoz) – Venice raves; Lebanon was terrible.
1-3PM – Teaching [screening Dial M for Murder]
September 13
9:00AM – Suburbicon (George Clooney) – Coens. [W/O]
11:15AM – The Shape of Water (Guillermo del Toro) – 💧
2:00PM – Mademoiselle Paradis (Barbara Albert) – First Albert. [W/O]
9:30PM – Brawl in Cell Block 99 (S. Craig Zahler) Ⓟ – Tone: bomahawk.
September 14
9:00AM – Downsizing (Alexander Payne) – Payne sci-fi.
1:30PM – I Love You, Daddy (Louis C.K.) – Horace and Pete, y’all.
5:45PM – PROTOTYPE (Blake Williams) Ⓟ – For the last time.
– preceded by Florence (Erkki Kurenniemi)
8:15PM – Occidental (Neïl Beloufa) Ⓟ – Hamy melon.
September 15
9:30AM – Dark River (Clio Barnard) – Miss Clio.
11:45AM – Manhunt (John Woo) Ⓟ – Woo who?
2:45PM – Félicité (Alain Gomis) Ⓟ – NYFF.
6:00PM – +Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc (Bruno Dumont) Ⓟ – Spider Walk with Me.
9:00PM – First Reformed (Paul Schrader) Ⓟ – Dog Eat Dog was something.
September 16
11:30AM – The Seen and Unseen (Kamila Andini) Ⓟ – Reportedly (somehow) both singular and Joe-esque.
6:15PM – Struggling (1932, Shi Dongshan) Ⓟ – Aren’t we all.
September 17
3:00PM – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (Martin McDonagh) Ⓟ – First McDonagh.
6:15PM – On Body and Soul (Ildikó Enyedi) Ⓟ – Goldener Bär.
9:15PM – +Faces Places (Agnés Varda & JR) Ⓟ – 🐀
Films I have already seen:
Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc (Bruno Dumont) – 8.2
Call Me by Your Name (Luca Guadagnino) – 7.6
Faces Places (Agnès Varda & JR) – 7.2
BPM (Beats Per Minute) (Robin Campillo) – 6.9
The Nothing Factory (Pedro Pinho) – 6.5
3/4 (Ilian Metev) – 6.3
The Florida Project (Sean Baker) – 6.3
The Rider (Chloé Zhao) – 6.2
The Day After (Hong Sang-soo) – 6.1
Western (Valeska Grisebach) – 6.1
A Skin So Soft (Denis Côté) – 6.1
The Killing of a Sacred Deer (Yorgos Lanthimos) – 6.0
Zama (Lucrecia Martel) – 5.8
I Am Not a Witch (Rungano Nyoniand) – 5.7
Happy End (Michael Haneke) – 5.6
Good Luck (Ben Russell) – 5.4
Redoubtable (Michel Hazanavicius) – 5.4
Le Fort des fous (Narimane Mari) – 5.2
Makala (Emmanuel Gras) – 5.2
Mrs. Fang (Wang Bing) – 5.1
Dragonfly Eyes (Xu Bing) – 4.7
A Ciambra (Jonas Carpignano) – 4.7
Radiance (Naomi Kawase) – 4.6
Let the Corpses Tan (Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani) – 4.5
The Square (Ruben Östlund) – 4.4
Cocote (Nelson Carlo de los Santos Arias) – 3.8
Thelma (Joachim Trier) – 3.6
Loveless (Andrey Zvyagintsev) – 3.4
In the Fade (Fatih Akin) – 3.1
Occidental (Neïl Beloufa) – TK
The Other Side of Hope (Aki Kaurismäki) – TK