Just three days to go until the 47th New York Film Festival starts this Friday with Alain Resnais's highly-anticipated (by me at least) Wild Grass. I've added a link on the right to Slant Magazine's annual film-by-film coverage of the festival. While I expect to disagree with many of their assessments, the Slant team is a highly knowledgeable group of young cinephiles (several of whom are openly gay) who do a great job of covering this and other festivals, with a full review (new ones added daily) of each film in the NYFF Main Selection.The Village Voice used to offer full coverage in the past, but they've been much more spotty in recent years as the Voice has scaled back all of its arts coverage. Voice writers Jim Hoberman, Scott Foundas and Melissa Anderson are all on the festival's selection committee, so I'll be eagerly reading their NYFF section tomorrow. [UPDATE: The Voice's coverage is pretty good, including an overview by Hoberman, a Resnais interview piece by Scott Foundas, an interview of Charlotte Gainsbourg by Melissa Anderson (and a great cover photo of Gainsbourg), plus a roundup of the festival's documentaries by Nicolas Rapold. Consensus is building that the Chinese doc Ghost Town is going to be a fascinating film. I'm curious to see the NY Times's coverage on Friday.]
The other essential source of NYFF coverage is of course David Hudson's Auteurs Daily pieces. He's done a great job of collecting news and critical opinion from Venice and Toronto, and certainly will do the same for New York.
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