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The New York Film Festival Opens Quietly at Alice Tully with Alain Resnais’ Wild Grass

October 4, 2009

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“It’s like prom night didn’t happen this year,” said documentarian Aviva Kempner (Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg) on Friday, September 25, standing in the lobby of Alice Tully Hall, where the New York Film Festival was celebrating its opening night. She was disappointed at the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s decision to move the party from its… [Read more…]

But Will it Play in Peoria? Esky Nervously Fetes Moore’s Anti-Capitalism Doc at Ultimate Bachelor Pad

October 4, 2009

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“They promised me I would mellow as I got older, and it didn’t happen,” a graying Michael Moore bellowed before the New York premiere of his new film, Capitalism: A Love Story, at Alice Tully Hall on Monday, Sept. 21. The screening, a pre–New York Film Festival event put on by Esquire and the Film… [Read more…]