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THE 2008 NYFF IS SPONSORED BY CHOPARD, THE NEW YORK TIMES AND SARDINIA REGION TOURISM Lineup The 46th New York Film Festival Public Screening Schedule is available here in calendar format. Please note: Adobe Acrobat Reader is required to download the festival schedule. OPENING NIGHT The Class / Entre les murs Laurent Cantet, France, 2008; 128m Fri Sep 26: 8:00pm Avery Fisher Hall Fri Sep 26: 9:00pm Ziegfeld Theatre Take a classroom full of outspoken, multiethnic teens from a tough Parisian junior high school, none of them professional actors, add a real-life teacher trying to make a difference, and you’ve got Laurent Cantet’s utterly engrossing portrait of the new France, the triumphant winner of this year’s Palme d’Or at Cannes. Read more... CENTERPIECE Changeling Clint Eastwood, USA, 2008; 140m Sat Oct 4: 9:15pm Ziegfeld Theatre Sun Oct 5: 11:15am Ziegfeld Theatre Clint Eastwood’s 28th film proves to be one of his best and most ambitious, weaving the tangled threads of an extraordinary true-crime tale. Read more... CLOSING NIGHT The Wrestler Darren Aronofsky, USA, 2008; 109m Sun Oct 12: 8:30pm Avery Fisher Hall With his hearing aid and graying hair, pro wrestler Randy “The Ram” Robinson may be past his prime, but Mickey Rourke has never been better than he is in the title role of Darren Aronofsky’s seriocomic, existentialist wrestling drama. Read more... 24 City / Er shi si cheng ji Jia Zhangke, China/Hong Kong/Japan, 2008; 112m Sat Sep 27: 3:00pm Ziegfeld Theatre The dean of Chinese independent cinema, Jia Zhangke is a poet of facts. Read more... Afterschool Antonio Campos, USA, 2008; 122m Mon Oct 6: 6:00pm Ziegfeld Theatre Wed Oct 8: 9:00pm Ziegfeld Theatre Independent director Antonio Campos’s hypnotically concentrated first feature is set in the insulated world of a New England prep school. Read more... Ashes of Time Redux Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong, 2008; 93m Sat Oct 4: 6:15pm Ziegfeld Theatre Sat Oct 4: Midnight Walter Reade Theater Wong Kar-wai has restored, rescored, expanded and re-edited his legendary 1994 exercise in swordplay pyrotechnics and melancholy temps perdu. He’s also digitally colorized the film, rendering master cinematographer Christopher Doyle’s images even more insanely gorgeous. Read more... Bullet in the Head / Trio en la cabeza Jaime Rosales, Spain/France, 2008; 85m Sun Oct 12: 2:30pm Ziegfeld Theatre Someone is watching––all the time––as a middle-aged Spanish man buys a newspaper, meets another man in a cafe, attends a dinner party, has sex with a woman, listens to music in a CD shop, makes a pay phone call. Read more... Che Steven Soderbergh, France/Spain, 2008; 268m Tue Oct 7: 6:00pm Ziegfeld Theatre This screening will include a 30-minute intermission. The most eagerly awaited event at Cannes last May, Steven Soderbergh’s sweeping, Spanish-language meditation on the theory and practice of guerrilla warfare focuses on the two key episodes in Ernesto “Che” Guevara’s military career. Read more... Chouga / Shuga Darezhan Omirbaev, France/Kazakhstan, 2007; 91m Sat Oct 11: 3:00pm Ziegfeld Theatre Kazakh master Darezhan Omirbaev’s new film is about a well-to-do woman named Chouga (Ainur Turgambaeva, in a quietly compelling performance) who leaves her callous husband and beloved son for a charismatic, but equally callous, younger man named Ablai. Read more... A Christmas Tale / Un conte de Noël Arnaud Desplechin, France, 2008; 150m Fri Oct 10: 6:00pm Ziegfeld Theatre Sat Oct 11: 11:15am Ziegfeld Theatre Arnaud Desplechin comes home for Christmas in his outrageous, daring and emotionally bountiful new movie. Read more... Four Nights with Anna / Cztery noce z Anna Jerzy Skolimowski, Poland/France, 2008; 87m Fri Oct 3: 9:30pm Ziegfeld Theatre Sun Oct 5: 3:00pm Ziegfeld Theatre The first film in 17 years by the great Polish auteur Jerzy Skolimowski is more than worth the wait. Read more... Gomorrah / Gomorra Matteo Garrone, Italy, 2008; 137m Fri Oct 3: 6:00pm Ziegfeld Theatre Sun Oct 5: 9:00pm Ziegfeld Theatre From Roberto Saviano’s bestselling 2006 book about the international influence of the Italian organized crime empire known as the Camorra, Matteo Garrone (The Embalmer, ND/NF 2003) has made an electrifying mob movie set in Naples that will impress and unnerve even the most demanding aficionados of the genre. Read more... Happy-Go-Lucky Mike Leigh, UK, 2008; 118m Sat Sep 27: 6:15pm Ziegfeld Theatre Sun Sep 28: 12:00pm Ziegfeld Theatre You’ve never met a woman in bloom quite as fresh as Poppy Cross, the radiant north Londoner whose militantly upbeat embrace of life is reflected in the title of Mike Leigh’s irresistible new work. Read more... The Headless Woman / La mujer sin cabeza Lucrecia Martel, Argentina/France/Italy/Spain, 2008; 87m Mon Oct 6: 9:15pm Ziegfeld Theatre Wed Oct 8: 6:00pm Ziegfeld Theatre A middle-aged woman (Maria Nieto) is driving alone on a dirt road. Suddenly, she hits something––perhaps a dog, perhaps a boy, perhaps something more mysterious. Read more... Hunger Steve McQueen, UK, 2008; 96m Sat Sep 27: 12:00pm Ziegfeld Theatre Sun Sep 28: 6:15pm Ziegfeld Theatre A pair of bloodied hands immerse themselves in a basin. Contraband packages pass silently, imperceptibly between inmates and their loved ones in the visiting room of Her Majesty’s Maze prison. Read more... I’m Gonna Explode / Voy a explotar Gerardo Naranjo, Mexico, 2008; 106m Sun Sep 28: 9:00pm Ziegfeld Theatre Mon Sep 29: 6:00pm Ziegfeld Theatre Was this the movie we secretly wanted to live? Mexican director Gerardo Naranjo hits his stride and promptly accelerates with this boldly hectic youth film. Read more... Let It Rain / Parlez-moi de la pluie Agnès Jaoui, France, 2008; 110m Fri Oct 10: 9:45pm Ziegfeld Theatre Sun Oct 12: 11:15am Ziegfeld Theatre The urbane social satirist Agnès Jaoui (The Taste of Others, NYFF 2000; Look At Me, Opening Night, NYFF 2004) is at the height of her powers, both as a filmmaker and as an actor, in this deftly structured comic study of self-delusion set in an unexpectedly rainy southern France. Read more... Night and Day / Bam guan nat Hong Sang-soo, South Korea, 2008; 144m Sat Oct 4: 2:30pm Ziegfeld Theatre Sung-nam is a 40ish, married painter who takes it on the lam to Paris after getting caught smoking pot with some American tourists in Seoul. Read more... The Northern Land / A Corte do Norte João Botelho, Portugal, 2008; 122m Tue Sep 30: 9:15pm Ziegfeld Theatre Portuguese director João Botelho returns to the festival with this magnificent adaptation of a novel by Agustina Bessa Luis (also a great favorite of Manoel de Oliveira). Read more... Serbis Brillante Mendoza, Philippines/France, 2008; 90m Sun Oct 12: 5:15pm Ziegfeld Theatre Raw and uncompromising, the seventh feature by Brillante Mendoza (Foster Child, ND/NF 2008), channeling both Fassbinder and John Waters, follows the travails of the Pineda family in the Filipino city of Angeles. Read more... Summer Hours / L’heure d’eté Olivier Assayas, France, 2008; 103m Wed Oct 1: 6:00pm Ziegfeld Theatre Thu Oct 2: 9:00pm Ziegfeld Theatre How much or how little are we obliged to honor the wishes of our parents after they’re gone? This is the painful question posed by Olivier Assayas in his rueful and wise new film. Read more... Tokyo Sonata Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Japan/Netherlands, 2008; 85m Thu Oct 9: 6:00pm Ziegfeld Theatre Sat Oct 11: 9:15pm Ziegfeld Theatre Kiyoshi Kurosawa delves into a different kind of horror with his surprising and exquisitely crafted new film. Read more... Tony Manero Pablo Larrain, Chile/Brazil, 2008; 98m Mon Sep 29: 9:15pm Ziegfeld Theatre Tue Sep 30: 6:00pm Ziegfeld Theatre Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larrain’s second feature is a spiky whirling dervish of a movie, filled with deadpan humor and unexpected moves. Read more... Tulpan Sergey Dvortsevoy, Germany/Kazakhstan/Poland/Russia/Switzerland, 2008; 100m Thu Oct 9: 9:00pm Ziegfeld Theatre Sat Oct 11: 6:00pm Ziegfeld Theatre Celebrated Kazakh documentarian Sergey Dvortsevoy won the Prix Un Certain Regard for this, his first feature—an astonishing ethnographic drama-cum-wildlife movie. Read more... Waltz with Bashir Ari Folman, Israel/Germany/France, 2008; 90m Wed Oct 1: 9:15pm Ziegfeld Theatre Thu Oct 2: 6:00pm Ziegfeld Theatre Intrigued by the recurring nightmare of a friend who’s chased in his dream by the ghosts of the dogs he shot in Lebanon during the ’82 war, director Ari Folman comes to realize how much he has suppressed of his memories as a soldier. Read more... Wendy and Lucy Kelly Reichardt, USA, 2008; 80m Sat Sep 27: 9:30pm Ziegfeld Theatre Sun Sep 28: 3:15pm Ziegfeld Theatre Girl, Wendy, loses dog, Lucy. Girl looks for dog. Girl (the always surprising Michelle Williams, with heartrending gumption) is all alone and counting pennies in a nowhere Oregon town, on the road to somewhere in Alaska. Read more... The Windmill Movie Alexander Olch, USA, 2008; 80m Sun Oct 5: 6:00pm Ziegfeld Theatre Richard P. “Dick” Rogers was a respected filmmaker and film teacher. Following his death in 2001, his former student Alexander Olch began unearthing boxes of footage Rogers shot for a long-planned autobiography. Read more... SPOTLIGHT RETROSPECTIVE Lola Montès Max Ophuls, France/West Germany, 1955; 115m Sat Oct 4: 11:15am Ziegfeld Theatre Ostensibly a biography told in flashbacks of Elizabeth Rosanna Gilbert, better known as Lola Montès, dancer, courtesan, mistress of composers and kings, Max Ophuls’s final masterpiece is really a meditation on time and the evanescent nature of fame and riches. Read more... Views from the Avant-Garde presents In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni Guy Debord, France, 1978; 100m Fri Oct 3: 6:30pm Walter Reade Theater “I will make no concessions to the public,” says Guy Debord at the beginning of his 1978 film, and he stays true to his word. Read more... The Last Command Josef von Sternberg, USA, 1928; 88m Mon Oct 6: 6:00pm Walter Reade Theater Mon Oct 6: 8:30pm Walter Reade Theatre Alloy Orchestra returns to the Walter Reade Theater with the New York premiere of their newest score, accompanying a gorgeous new 35mm print of Josef von Sternberg’s 1928 silent classic The Last Command. Read more... Martin Scorsese Presents IN GLORIOUS TECHNICOLOR Pandora and the Flying Dutchman Albert Lewin, UK, 1951; 122m Fri Oct 10: 6:15pm Walter Reade Theater This remarkable romance, a reworking of the tale of the Flying Dutchman set on the Spanish coast, is as visually exquisite as filmmaking gets. Director Albert Lewin was one of the most unusual and distinctive artists to emerge in ’40s Hollywood, with a genuinely romantic sensibility. Read more... The Day Shall Dawn / Jago Hua Savera A.J. Kardar, Pakistan, 1959; 87m Sat Oct 11: 6:30pm Walter Reade Theatre We’re delighted to include in this year’s festival this little-known masterwork from Pakistan on the occasion of its 50th anniversary. Read more... It’s Hard Being Loved by Jerks / C’est dur d’etre aimé par des cons Daniel Leconte, France, 2008; 119m Sun Oct 12: 1:00pm Walter Reade Theater In Feb. 2006, the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo published a series of 12 cartoons satirizing Islamic fundamentalism that had earlier been published in a Danish newspaper and sparked worldwide protests and violence. Read more... Film Criticism in Crisis? A panel discussion hosted by Film Comment Sat Sep 27: 1:00pm Walter Reade Theater At the turn of the millennium, the burning topic in film culture circles was the oft-proclaimed “Death of Cinema.” Read more... HBO FILMS DIALOGUES Jia Zhangke Sun Sep 28: 4:00pm Kaplan Penthouse Jia Zhangke has established himself as one of the world’s most provocative film directors... Read more... Darren Aronofsky Sat Oct 11: 1:30pm Kaplan Penthouse From his first feature Pi to his new festival-closer The Wrestler, Darren Aronofsky has been an outsider, whose work is characterized by its sharp cinematic intelligence... Read more... Arnaud Desplechin Sat Oct 11: 4:30pm Kaplan Penthouse La sentinelle, My Sex Life…or How I Got into an Argument, Esther Kahn, Kings & Queen and now A Christmas Tale: Over the past 15 years, ... Read more... IN THE REALM OF OSHIMA Sept. 27 – Oct. 13 Walter Reade Theater Nagisa Oshima came of age in a postwar era when the hopes for fundamental change in Japan were dashed as traditional power structures were maintained and the country became firmly locked in the Cold War orbit of the United States. Read more... VIEWS FROM THE AVANT-GARDE Oct. 3-5 Walter Reade Theater Now in its 12th year, the world's leading experimental film showcase presents nine programs that bring together the latest work by past masters, established luminaries and exciting new talents from near and far. Read more... Mark Rappaport’s Brief Histories Of… and Correspondence Course(s) Sept. 15 – Oct. 12 Frieda and Roy Furman Gallery Brief Histories Of… and Correspondence Course(s) are photo essays in which frames from a wide variety of movies are plucked from their original contexts and re-assembled. Read more... Festival Venues: Ziegfeld Theatre*, 141 West 54th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues Avery Fisher Hall, Broadway & West 65th Street Walter Reade Theater, 165 West 65th Street between Broadway and Amsterdam, Plaza Level Kaplan Penthouse, 165 West 65th Street between Broadway and Amsterdam, 10th Floor *PLEASE NOTE: THE ZIEGFELD THEATRE IS NOT WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CALL (212) 875-5610.

Advance ticket info for Film Society Members Advance order forms and full schedules will be mailed out to Film Society Members and Patrons on August 22nd. If you JOIN now, we will mail you an order form as soon as possible. However, we can no longer guarantee that it will be mailed on the 22nd. Forms cannot be emailed or faxed to members. General ticketing information Tickets for the general public will go on sale Sunday, Sept. 7, at 12:00 noon at Avery Fisher Hall, corner of Columbus Avenue and 65th St.; Monday, Sept. 8, online at filmlinc.com; and on Saturday, September 27 at the Ziegfeld Theater, 141 West 54th St.