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On Sale: 2008 Archive
MET Live: Salome
Avant-Garde
Oshima
YFF: Sonetaula
MET Live: Gala
FCS: The Other
Gr. Scr.: Scarred Lands
Latinbeat 08
Charlton Heston
FCS: Captain Ahab
Robert Gavaldón
Never Apologize
Revolutionary Romantic
YFF: L.I.E.
IN: Judge & General
FCS: The Deal
Kawakita
Gr. Scr.: Fields of Fuel
Dominique Delouche
SE: Four Hands
GS: The Cat and...
YFF: American Teen
Slovenian Cinema
SE: Magic Lantern
William Holden
SE: Jazz on a...
Satoshi Kon
IN: Critical Condition
HRW Collection
Human Rights Watch
Gr. Scr.: Biůtiful...
New Italian Cinema
YFF: Judy Berlin
Israel @ 60
Charles Boyer
Gr. Scr.: Nausicaä
Jennifer Jones
SE: Robert Frank
SE: Jerry Schatzberg
SE: Joachim Trier
1968: Intl. Perspective
Romanian Cinema
Met: La Fille du Régiment
SE: Ned Rorem
GS: The Kid Brother
YFF: Le Boucher
Gr. Scr.: Mountaintop...
IN: Phyllis and Harold
NYAFF 2008
SE: Dreams...
SE: On the Street
Met: La Bohème
ND/NF Classics 2008
Gr. Scr.: Garbage...
Met: Tristan und Isolde
Thorold Dickinson
Met: Peter Grimes
Infernal Machines
Rendez-Vous 2008
Green Screens: Flow:...
Met: Manon Lescaut
YFF: Harold and Maude
Film Comment Selects
Program Overview
The Banishment
Before I Forget
Boarding Gate
Chop Shop
Container
Damon Packard...
Dark Matter
Duchess of Langeais
Dust
The Edge of Heaven
Ex Drummer
Flash Point
Frontičre(s)
Diary of the Dead
Import Export
Inside
J'entends plus la guitare
Joy Division
Mandingo
Reflections of Evil
Rubin and Ed
Schindler's Houses
Searchers 2.0
10 Rillington Place
Walker
Wolfsbergen
A Wonderful World
IN: From the Ground Up
SE: Two Laws
GS: Chang: A Story...
Envisioning Russia
YFF: The Ice Storm
NYJFF 2008
Celebrate Alex Corti
NYJFF JM Screens
Met: Macbeth
SE: City of Men
DOC 2008
Met: Hänsel and Gretel
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For those wondering what the man behind Together and Lilya 4-ever has been up to lately. This unclassifiable and completely mesmerizing whatsit, which the Swedish director describes as "a black-and-white silent movie with sound," is the astounding answer. "I am a girl in a boy's body" confides the reedy, tremulous voice of American actress Jena Malone, recorded as if she's whispering in your ear. Her nonstop voiceover takes us on a haunting and intimate journey deep into the morbid fantasies and lurid obsessions of a celebrity-fixated mind. Meanwhile, grainy, high-contrast 16mm images track the cryptic activities of a man and a woman who explore their surroundings (an apartment, the city beyond) and sift through the artifacts of daily life as if they've descended from another planet. In this radical yet always tender experimental excursion, the container of the title just might be the human body itself - but there's a final twist that suggests a completely different meaning...
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