New Directors/New Films

By far my favorite film festival in NYC. Lincoln Center's Walter Reade Theater and MoMA get together to screen about 25 films over two weeks in late March to early April. Most of the directors' names are unknown, ditto the actors; the films are drawn from all around the world and while there are many axes ground, they are at least not all laboring at the same one or two dreary grindstones, as in the more elaborate (and endlessly hyped) AmEx-sponsored Tribeca or the NYC Film Festivals that follow later in the spring. Some of the films in ND/NF deserve the obscurity to which they all soon return, but a few become memorable, Red Road from a couple years ago and the poignant The Grocer's Son from last year. Here's the link for this year: http://www.filmlinc.com/

I bought us five sets of tickets today, for Barking Water, Cold Souls, The Maid (I suspect from the film's description that she may have once worked for us!), Mid-August Lunch, and Parque via.