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NYFF 46 (2008): Gomorrah, Afterschool
The House Next Door — By Vadim Rizov [The 46th New York Film Festival begins September 26th, 2008 and runs through October 12th, 2008. Screening information for Gomorrah can be found here; screening information for Afterschool can be found here.] There's not much to say about Gomorrah that hasn't already been said (the price of engaging with Cannes' Grand Prix winner months later, based on a hot-topic book no less), so let's be brief. David Simon has apparently ruined life for everyone because this is ...

NYFF. Afterschool.
GreenCine Daily — "Afterschool, the debut feature of Antonio Campos, a 25-year-old New Yorker, unfolds in the cloistered environment of an elite boarding school, though it is perhaps more relevant to say that it takes place within the brave new world of digital information overload," writes Dennis Lim in the New York Times. "Shot mainly on old-fashioned celluloid but fluent in the language of viral video, the film combines the timeless bewilderment of adolescence with a very contemporary recognition that for many of us - not least adolescents - ...