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The 46th New York Film Festival Has Begun!
ComingSoon.net - 30 most recent stories — ... (Cinema Guild), a pseudo-documentary about the cultural revolution told through the stories of the workers at a shut-down munitions factory in the city of Chengdu, played by professional actors such as Joan Chen. It will screen once on Saturday, September 27. The Mexican film Voy a explotar (I'm Gonna Explode) (Sept. 28 and 29) from Gerardo ( Drama/Mex ) Naranjo follows two high school boys who travel across the country in a stolen Volkswagen, while Argentine director Lucrecia ( The Holy Girl - NYFF ‘04) Martel's ...

NYFF. I'm Gonna Explode.
GreenCine Daily — "Voy a Explotar (I'm Gonna Explode) is the contemporary Mexican teenage Pierrot le Fou," writes Karina Longworth at the SpoutBlog. "It knows this, and it wants you to know it, and it doesn't care if this makes you hate it on principle. The third feature by Gerardo Naranjo (director of Drama/Mex, co-writer and star of Azazel Jacobs's The GoodTimeskid), it's the rare love letter to influence that's infused with enough personal style and sentiment to transform the ...

NYFF 2008: The rest.
IFC.com - Indie Eye — "I'm Gonna Explode" An unhappy girl and a troubled boy meet in detention in their high school in a suburb of Mexico City, and before you can shout "Holy Nouvelle Vague, Batman!" they're running away on a dreamy days-long adventure together, having found their perfect co-conspirator. Their parents don't take this well, but their on-the-lam offspring haven't actually gone further than the roof of the boy's house, where they sunbathe with the radio on, divest themselves of their virginity, curl up to movies in a tent, and sneak food and booze from ...