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NYFF 2008: "The Class."

By Alison Willmore on 10/02/2008

Filed under: Festivals, Reviews

"The Class," Laurent Cantet's very fine film about an academic year in a life of a teacher and his students at an inner city Parisian middle school, gets its structure and its strength from limitations. The camera doesn't wander outside of the walls of the school; it seldom leaves the classroom, the only meaningful place of intersection between the worlds of FranÃ§ois Marin, imperfect instructor, and his boisterously mixed bag of multicultural pupils. When a student departs for the day, or summer, or forever, he or she might as well be oceans away, news of homelife trickling back in through... MORE »

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The 46th New York Film Festival lines up.

By Alison Willmore on 08/12/2008

Filed under: Festivals

And it's Cannes-tastic! As previously announced, Laurent Cantet's Palme d'Or-winning "The Class" is the opening night film, with Clint Eastwood's "Changeling" (a film I couldn't stand) as the starry centerpiece, and Darren Aronofsky's "The Wrestler," post premiere at the Venice Film Festival, closing things out. Also in there, as rumored, Steven Soderbergh's "Che," as well as Arnaud Desplechin's "A Christmas Tale," Mike Leigh's "Happy-Go-Lucky," Kelly Reichardt's "Wendy and Lucy," Olivier Assayas' "Summer Hours" and Hong Sang-soo's "Day and Night." The festival kicks off September 26th, full line-up after the jump.... MORE »

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"The Class" opens New York.

By Alison Willmore on 07/15/2008

Filed under: Festivals

This year's New York Film Festival will open with the North American premiere of Laurent Cantet's "The Class" (Entre les murs), or so my inbox tells me. "The Class," the stealth late entry that managed to win the Palme d'Or at Cannes, is about a year in an inner city high school, and is one of the few competition films I didn't get to catch, so I'm pleased as rum punch to see that it'll be at the festival. From the release: Additionally, two showcases at the Film Society's Walter Reade Theater will round out the festival's main line-up with... MORE »