New York Film Festival Podcast

The 47th Annual New York Film Festival September 25 - October 11, 2009 Please stay tuned for complete coverage of the New York Film Festival including director panels. We interview Jack Angstreich on the background on the following directors: ( The rest of the directors/film will be posted the following week.) OPENING NIGHT Wild Grass / Les herbes folles Alain Resnais, 2009, France, 113m As avant-garde as ever fifty years after making his debut with the landmark Hiroshima Mon Amour, the venerable Alain Resnais delivers a career-crowning masterpiece. An exquisite human comedy of manners, mystery and romance with some of France’s – and our – favorite actors: Sabine Azéma, André Dussollier, Emmanuelle Devos and Mathieu Almaric. A Sony Pictures Classics release. Fri. Sept. 25: 6pm CENTERPIECE Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire Lee Daniels, 2009, USA, 109m In this astonishing adaptation of Sapphire’s 1996 novel, second-time director Lee Daniels unsparingly recounts the horrific story of 16-year-o