History as it is reflected onscreen will be one of the themes that is front and center as the 43rd New York Film Festival kicks off Sept. 23 with George Clooney's Good Night, and Good Luck, an account of CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow's confrontation with Sen. Joseph McCarthy. Reflecting on the festival's lineup, announced Wednesday, Richard Pena, chairman of the selection committee and program director, said, "The films are never selected with themes in mind. But if you look at this year's selections, starting with opening night, there is a notion of how history is treated, re-created and expressed onscreen and in art." Films that touch on that subject include Hou Hsai-hsien's Three Times, a Taiwanese film set in three time periods, 1911, 1966 and 2005; Israeli documentarian's Avi Mograbi's Avenge but One of My Two Eyes, which records the treatment of Palestianians by members of the Israeli army; Bennett Miller's Capote, which follows Truman Capote (Philip Seymour Hoffman) as he researches his seminal nonfiction book In Cold Blood; and Lars von Trier's Manderlay, which looks at the legacy of slavery in the American South of the 1930s.
- 8/19/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
History as it is reflected onscreen will be one of the themes that is front and center as the 43rd New York Film Festival kicks off Sept. 23 with George Clooney's Good Night, and Good Luck, an account of CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow's confrontation with Sen. Joseph McCarthy. Reflecting on the festival's lineup, announced Wednesday, Richard Pena, chairman of the selection committee and program director, said, "The films are never selected with themes in mind. But if you look at this year's selections, starting with opening night, there is a notion of how history is treated, re-created and expressed onscreen and in art." Films that touch on that subject include Hou Hsai-hsien's Three Times, a Taiwanese film set in three time periods, 1911, 1966 and 2005; Israeli documentarian's Avi Mograbi's Avenge but One of My Two Eyes, which records the treatment of Palestianians by members of the Israeli army; Bennett Miller's Capote, which follows Truman Capote (Philip Seymour Hoffman) as he researches his seminal nonfiction book In Cold Blood; and Lars von Trier's Manderlay, which looks at the legacy of slavery in the American South of the 1930s.
- 8/18/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
History as it is reflected onscreen will be one of the themes that is front and center as the 43rd New York Film Festival kicks off Sept. 23 with George Clooney's Good Night, and Good Luck, an account of CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow's confrontation with Sen. Joseph McCarthy. Reflecting on the festival's lineup, announced Wednesday, Richard Pena, chairman of the selection committee and program director, said, "The films are never selected with themes in mind. But if you look at this year's selections, starting with opening night, there is a notion of how history is treated, re-created and expressed onscreen and in art." Films that touch on that subject include Hou Hsai-hsien's Three Times, a Taiwanese film set in three time periods, 1911, 1966 and 2005; Israeli documentarian's Avi Mograbi's Avenge but One of My Two Eyes, which records the treatment of Palestianians by members of the Israeli army; Bennett Miller's Capote, which follows Truman Capote (Philip Seymour Hoffman) as he researches his seminal nonfiction book In Cold Blood; and Lars von Trier's Manderlay, which looks at the legacy of slavery in the American South of the 1930s.
- 8/18/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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