Audition (1
999)
Ôdishon (original title)
115 min - Reviews: 369 user | 154 critic | 19 from Metacritic.com
A widower takes an offer to screen girls at a special audition, arranged for him by a friend to find him a new wife. The one he fancies is not who she appears to be after all.
Director:
Takashi MiikeThe 17-day New York Film Festival highlights the best in world cinema,
"Tom Meets Zizou". Deutschland 2011. Regie/Drehbuch: Aljoscha Pause,
"Nichts zu verzolle
4:44 Last Day on Earth
Abel Ferrara, 2011
A Lower East Side couple await the end of the world in Abel Ferrara’s visceral imagining of the apocalypse, a haunting trance film and a mournful valentine to the director’s beloved New York.
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A Dangerous Method
Gala Presentation
A historical drama that brings ideas to life, David Cronenberg’s latest tells the story of the founding fathers of psychoanalysis and the woman who shaped their groundbreaking theories.
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A Separation
An Iranian Rashomon, director Asghar Farhadi’s brilliantly acted, prize-winning drama begins as scenes from the end of a marriage and transforms into an unexpectedly gripping legal thriller.
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Carnage
Opening Night Gala
Roman Polanski's smashing rendition of Yasmina Reza's Tony Award-winning God of Carnage is uproariously and savagely satisfying.
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Corpo celeste
Preparing for her confirmation, 13-year old Martha duels with the Church while each day physical changes course through body, in Alice Rohrwacher’s impressive debut.
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Footnote
A clerical error awards a top prize to an obscure Talmudist instead of his son in this wryest of Jewish comedies.
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George Harrison: Living in the Material World
Martin Scorsese’s expansive documentary on the Beatles’ lead guitarist—and of one of the greatest musicians of the 1960s and ’70s—traces all aspects of Harrison’s professional and personal life.
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Goodbye First Love
In her exceptional third feature, writer-director Mia Hansen-Løve shows once again her talent for capturing the agony and the ecstasy of adolescence.
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Le Havre
A Parisian author in exile comes to the aid of a young African immigrant on the run from police in Finnish master Aki Kaurismäki’s gentle yet profound comedy of friendship, random acts of kindness and small acts of revolution.
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Martha Marcy May Marlene
Sean Durkin’s haunting first feature, about a young woman’s halting attempts to undo the psychic terror of the cult she’s just escaped, heralds the arrival of a remarkable new talent.
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Melancholia
The end of the world—and the collapse of the spirit—has never been depicted as beautifully and wrenchingly as in Melancholia, the latest provocation from Lars von Trier.
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Miss Bala
A tense and highly original thriller about Mexico’s drug wars, told from the viewpoint of an aspiring beauty queen, from the talented young director Gerardo Naranjo.
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My Week with Marilyn
Centerpiece Gala
Michelle Williams accomplishes the near-impossible—portraying Marilyn Monroe as an actual person, not just an easily caricatured icon—in this charming bio-pic centering around the production of her 1957 film, The Prince and the Showgirl.
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Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
The investigation of a rural murder uncovers webs of deceit and resentments in what is surely Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s finest film to date.
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Pina
Making extraordinarily fresh usage of 3D, Wim Wenders offers this lovely, heartfelt tribute to the art of the late German choreographer Pina Bausch.
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Play
A startling and disturbing film that will challenge anyone's glib assumptions about the benign state of affairs in contemporary Sweden.
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Policeman
A gripping, highly topical political drama from Israel that won major prizes at the Jerusalem and Locarno film festivals.
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Shame
Michael Fassbender dazzles as a compulsive womanizer in Steve McQueen's ferociously sexual drama.
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Sleeping Sickness
The lives of a white European doctor long in Cameroon and that of a young black doctor newly arrived on the continent run parallel and eventually intersect in this haunting, Conradian meditation on Africa’s troubled past and uncertain future.
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The Artist
A wonderful and brand-new French black-and-white silent movie about the moment talkies arrived in Hollywood.
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The Descendants
Closing Night Gala
George Clooney gives a beautifully understated performance as a harried father of two in Sideways director Alexander Payne’s comic and moving portrait of marriage, family and community.
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The Kid with a Bike
The latest from Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne (The Child, NYFF '05) is a poetic, universally resonant drama about an 11-year-old boy’s search for a family to call his own.
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The Loneliest Planet
This staggeringly acute examination of the fissures that develop between couples from Julia Loktev proves that even the most wide-open spaces can feel suffocating during romantic discord.
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The Skin I Live In
Gala Presentation
A doctor’s obsessive experiments to perfect new human skin is the premise for Pedro Almodóvar’s marvelous reflection on identity.
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The Student
Politics is a game, a seduction, and a vicious cycle in Santiago Mitre’s auspicious debut, a gripping drama set amid the heated and byzantine world of Argentinian campus activists.
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The Turin Horse
Niezsche’s long silence, and the carriage driver who seemingly brought it on, are the parallel themes of Béla Tarr’s Silver Bear winner from Berlin.
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This Is Not a Film
A day-in-the-life chronicle of the banned Iranian director Jafar Panahi evolves into an enormously moving statement of political and moral conviction.
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