![]() ![]() A group of nerds, led by Mike Lazaridis (a pitch-perfect Jay Baruchel) and his bombastic best friend Doug (Johnson), has created a device–a phone… that does computing!–that the world isn’t ready for. It’s movie season, baby!įor as long as I can remember, we’ve been inundated with stories of guys inventing things in garages that will “change the world.” The beginning of Matt Johnson’s Blackberry resembles one of those stories, albeit with a quirkier tone and more jagged texture. But look forward to the recent trickle of new entries to this list turning into a deluge. Most films in the festival have yet to see a wide release. There are 30 selections in the festival’s main slate-among them, Andrew Haigh’s All of Us Strangers, Raven Jackson’s All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt, and Bas Devos’s Here-and though I have plenty left to see, it feels safe to say this much: Cinema indeed remains a vital art form. “If we are to make a case for cinema as a vital art form, which are the films we’d put forth as evidence?” Director of Programming Dennis Lim said of the Festival’s approach to its main slate in particular. Rather, NYFF aims to be a representative, forward-facing survey of the best of contemporary film. It’s fairly singular among festivals for its approach: There’s no competition, and it’s not interested in premieres or acquisition. Unfortunately, that person won’t be me.ĭespite some inevitable disappointments, attending NYFF tends to be a highlight of my year. I’m sure someone will write intelligently about its virtues. The film, which is more like an 80-minute vibe piece, is a comically macho video game riff about a Miami assassin. It's one of the more recent movies that I’ve seen-if you can call it that. Though, that’s not because of the volume so much as it’s because of the molten, infrared tones of Harmony Korine’s Aggro Dr1ft. Over the past couple weeks, I’ve managed to catch about two films per day.
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