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2017.08.28 13:27
뉴욕영화제 다큐멘터리 상영작 Spotlight on Documentary
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55th New York Film Festival (9/28-10/15)
Spotlight on Documentary
This year’s series of dispatches from the front lines of nonfiction cinema features intimate portraits of artists, depictions of social upheaval, and much more. Presented with support from The Blanche & Irving Laurie Foundation, Inc.
Arthur Miller: Writer
Rebecca Miller 2017 USA 101 minutes
Rebecca Miller’s film is a portrait of her father, his times and insights, built around impromptu interviews shot over many years in the family home.
Showtimes
October 9
6:30 PM
October 10
8:30 PM
October 14
3:30 PM
BOOM FOR REAL The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat
Sara Driver 2017 USA 79 minutes
Sara Driver’s documentary is both a celebration of and elegy for the downtown New York art/music/film/performance world of the late 1970s and early ’80s, through which Jean-Michel Basquiat shot like a rocket.
Showtimes
October 8
1:00 PM
October 11
9:00 PM
Cielo
Alison McAlpine 2017 Canada/Chile 78 minutes
World Premiere
The first feature from Alison McAlpine, director of the beautiful 2008 “nonfiction ghost story” short Second Sight, is a dialogue with the heavens—in this case, the heavens above the Andes and the Atacama Desert in northern Chile, where the sky “is more urgent than the land.”
Showtimes
October 6
6:00 PM
October 7
2:45 PM
Travis Wilkerson 2017 USA 90 minutes
Travis Wilkerson turns his sights on his own family and the small town of Dothan, Alabama, where his white supremacist great-grandfather S.E. Branch once shot and killed Bill Spann, an African-American man.
Showtimes
September 29
9:00 PM
October 1
6:00 PM
Joshua Bonnetta, J.P. Sniadecki 2017 USA 94 minutes
Urgent yet never didactic, El mar la mar allows the symbolically fraught terrain of the Sonoran Desert to take shape in vivid sensory detail, and in so doing, suggests new possibilities for the political documentary.
Showtimes
September 29
6:30 PM
October 1
8:45 PM
Tony Zierra 2017 USA 94 minutes
Leon Vitali was a name in English television and movies when Stanley Kubrick cast him as Lord Bullingdon in Barry Lyndon, but after his acclaimed performance the young actor surrendered his career in the spotlight to become Kubrick’s loyal right-hand man.
Showtimes
October 3
8:30 PM
October 4
6:00 PM
Hall of Mirrors
Ena Talakic, Ines Talakic 2017 USA 87 minutes
World Premiere
In this lively documentary portrait, the great nonpartisan investigative reporter Edward Jay Epstein, still going strong at 81, takes us through his most notable articles and books, including close looks at the findings of the Warren Commission, the structure of the diamond industry, the strange career of Armand Hammer, and the inner workings of big-time journalism itself.
Showtimes
October 2
6:00 PM
October 4
9:00 PM
Brett Morgen 2017 USA 90 minutes
U.S. Premiere
Brett Morgen (Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck) has created a vibrant film experience, giving new life to the experiences of Jane Goodall and the wild in which she found a home.
Showtimes
October 5
9:00 PM
October 6
6:00 PM
Griffin Dunne 2017 USA 92 minutes
World Premiere
Griffin Dunne’s years-in-the-making documentary portrait of his aunt Joan Didion moves with the spirit of her uncannily lucid writing: the film simultaneously expands and zeroes in, covering a vast stretch of turbulent cultural history with elegance and candor, and grounded in the illuminating presence and words of Didion herself.
Showtimes
October 11
6:00 PM
October 12
9:00 PM
October 14
1:00 PM
No Stone Unturned
Alex Gibney 2017 Northern Ireland/USA 111 minutes
World Premiere
Investigative documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney—best known for 2008’s Oscar-winning Taxi to the Dark Side, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, and at least a dozen others—turns his sights on the 1994 Loughinisland massacre, a cold case that remains an open wound in the Irish peace process.
Showtimes
September 30
3:00 PM
October 1
5:30 PM
Piazza Vittorio
Abel Ferrara 2017 Italy/USA 69 minutes
North American Premiere
Abel Ferrara’s new documentary is a vivid mosaic/portrait of Rome’s biggest public square, Piazza Vittorio, built in the 19th century around the ruins of the 3rd century Trofei di Mario.
Showtimes
October 12
6:00 PM
Nancy Buirski 2017 USA 90 minutes
North American Premiere
Nancy Buirski’s passionate documentary shines a light on a case that became a turning point in the early Civil Rights Movement, and on the many formidable women—including Rosa Parks—who brought the movement to life.
Showtimes
October 1
9:00 PM
October 3
6:00 PM
Sea Sorrow
Vanessa Redgrave 2017 UK 72 minutes
U.S. Premiere
Vanessa Redgrave’s debut as a documentary filmmaker is a plea for a compassionate western response to the refugee crisis and a condemnation of the vitriolic inhumanity of current right wing and conservative politicians.
Showtimes
October 7
1:45 PM
October 8
4:00 PM
Denis Côté 2017 Canada/Switzerland/France 94 minutes
U.S. Premiere
Studiously observing the world of male bodybuilding, Denis Côté’s A Skin So Soft (Ta peau si lisse) crafts a multifaceted portrait of six latter-day Adonises through the lens of their everyday lives: extreme diets, training regimens, family relationships, and friendships within the community.
Showtimes
September 30
6:30 PM
October 1
2:45 PM
Stéphane de Freitas 2017 France 99 minutes
North American Premiere
Each year at the University of Saint-Denis in the suburbs of Paris, the Eloquentia competition takes place to determine the best orator in the class. Speak Up (À voix haute - La Force de la Parole) follows the students, who come from a variety of family backgrounds and academic disciplines, as they prepare for the competition while coached by public-speaking professionals like lawyers and slam poets.
Showtimes
October 12
8:30 PM
October 13
6:30 PM
The Venerable W.
Barbet Schroeder 2017 France/Switzerland 100 minutes
The Islamophobic Burmese monk known as The Venerable Wirathu has led hundreds of thousands of his Buddhist followers in a hate-fueled, violent campaign of ethnic cleansing, in which the country’s tiny minority of Muslims were driven from their homes and businesses and penned in refugee camps on the Myanmar border.
Showtimes
October 13
6:00 PM
October 14
1:00 PM
Voyeur
Myles Kane, Josh Koury 2017 USA 96 minutes
World Premiere
Gerald Foos bought a motel in Colorado in the 1960s, furnished the room with louvered vents that allowed him to spy on his guests, and kept a journal of their sexual encounters…among other things.
Showtimes
October 4
9:30 PM
October 5
6:00 PM
Three Music Films by Mathieu Amalric
Mathieu Amalric
These three movies from Mathieu Amalric are musicals, from the inside out: they move with the mental and physical energies of John Zorn, the wildly prolific and protean composer/performer/bandleader/record label founder/club owner and all-around grand spirit of New York downtown music; and via the great Canadian-born soprano/conductor/champion of modern classical music Barbara Hannigan.
Showtimes
October 13
9:00 PM
October 14
4:00 PM
