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The 46th New York Film Festival Has Begun!
ComingSoon.net - 30 most recent stories — ... ) is also returning to the festival for the firth time with his new drama Night and Day , about a middle-aged painter who escapes to Paris trying to set up a new life there. It premieres on October 4. Likewise, Chinese auteur Jia Zhang-ke ( Still Life ) can't stay away from the New Film Festival, returning this year with ...

Night and Day Difference
The Reeler — ... at the kind of romantic, untethered lifestyle that Paris virtually demands from its tasters. The core of the film is gauzy befuddlement, but chewing down to get there is, to my taste, an extremely engrossing experience. Because this film lacks a distributor, and probably won’t snag one -- it is, after all, almost two and a half hours long, unforgivable in this climate for foreign art cinema but totally necessary if you’re tackling the Superhero Myth -- I highly recommend taking it in this afternoon at the Ziegfeld . Hong is a rarely talented filmmaker with a generous sense for ...

NYFF. Night and Day.
GreenCine Daily — "Following his most even-handed exploration of male-female sexual conflict in Woman on the Beach, Hong Sang-soo hurtles full-bore into the subjectivity of the horny man with Night and Day," writes Kevin B Lee in Slant. "For what it's worth, few films more knowingly illustrate the lust and confusion of the male mind." "There's an eerie feeling in Night and Day similar to that of Agnès Varda's Le Bonheur - that human beings can be completely disposable and replaceable to some ...

NYFF 2008: The rest.
IFC.com - Indie Eye — ... downstairs when everyone's out. The lad's father is a former activist turned right-wing politician, but the film's rebellion is more of the usual teenage variety, a swooningly enjoyable series of episodes set to a languid soundtrack of Bright Eyes and Zoot Woman that convey a thorough sense of all-consuming and self-centered pubescent angst. It's a shame that it has to end, and in fact it seems to reach half a dozen conclusions before its final, unsatisfying one. "Night and Day" While not a major departure for Hong Sang-soo, "Night and Day" is more ...