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NYFF 46 (2008): The Headless Woman and Tony Manero
The House Next Door — ... [The 46th New York Film Festival begins September 26th, 2008 and runs through October 12th, 2008. Screening information for The Headless Woman can be found here; screening information for Tony Manero can be found ...

The 46th New York Film Festival Has Begun!
ComingSoon.net - 30 most recent stories — ... (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 The Headless Woman (Monday, Oct 6) follows a woman who think she hits something while driving along a dirt road, something that endlessly haunts her. There are at least a dozen more foreign films from all parts of the world that you can read about on the ...

NYFF. The Headless Woman.
GreenCine Daily — "The Headless Woman [site] is a scrupulously crafted, thematically sound social critique masquerading as a character study that, to put it bluntly, is so affected and emotionally inaccessible as to be borderline intolerable," writes Nick Schager. "The film's opener - a series of glidingly crosscut images of children running and Verónica fussing with her girlfriends, capped by the haunting image of palm prints fading on a car window - is a tour de force of economical storytelling that makes the next 80 or so minutes moot," writes ...

NYFF 2008: The rest.
IFC.com - Indie Eye — ... "A Christmas Tale" Arnaud Desplechin's film about a family gathering for the holidays has been picked up by our sister company IFC Films, so I'll abstain from anything beyond this: It's one of best of the year, and scenes (Mathieu Amalric taking a sodden curbside faceplant; Emmanuelle Devos clenching her fists in glee at the approach of a train that whites out the screen) have wormed their way inextricably and apparently permanently into my brain. "The Headless Woman" Cheating -- I haven't actually seen Lucrecia Martel's film since Cannes, ...