On our last day at the New York Film Festival, we spoke with Japanese horror auteur Kiyoshi Kurosawa about his plaintive new social drama, TOKYO SONATA, a film that veers far from the director's usual supernatural concerns, yet still bears his distinctive imprint. Then we sat down with the vivacious, multitalented Agnès Jaoui to talk about her new ensemble comedy, LET IT RAIN, which she co-wrote, directed, and starred in.
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Today, we talked with Argentinian filmmaker Lucrecia Martel about her haunting psychological thriller THE HEADLESS WOMAN and the ways in which her protagonist's journey mirrors the current class struggle in her native country. We also met up with Aeroflot employee-turned-filmmaker Sergei Dvortsevoy, whose debut feature TULPAN is one of two Kazakh films playing at the fest.
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Day 5 of the New York Film Festival began with us talking to legendary Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski about his disturbing, bittersweet portrayal of unrequited love, FOUR NIGHTS WITH ANNA. Later, we talked to prolific French filmmaker Olivier Assayas about his intriguing new family drama SUMMER HOURS, which began as a short film commissioned by the Musee D'Orsay about how objects circulate and acquire value.
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On day 4 we talked with two filmmakers whose projects feature incredible lead performances. First, Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larrain talks about the allegorical aspects of his disco-dancing serial-killer story, TONY MANERO. We also interviewed Darren Aronofsky about his much-lauded THE WRESTLER, featuring a poignant, note-perfect performance by Mickey Rourke as a down-and-out professional grappler.
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The brains behind two festival favorites joined us today for an enlightening chat. Laurent Cantet explained how he conceived and cast his Palme D'Or winner THE CLASS. Then, Berlinale Best Actress honoree Sally Hawkins shared her thoughts about Mike Leigh and why she enjoyed playing a most unusually perky character in his HAPPY-GO-LUCKY.
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Defiance and disaffection have been themes in youth movies since Rebel Without a Cause, and two NYFF films deal intriguingly with this legacy. First, director Antonio Campos dropped by the Walter Reade Theater to chat with us about his provocative prep-school drama AFTERSCHOOL. Later, we caught up with Gerardo Naranjo, whose I'M GONNA EXPLODE details the darkly romantic exploits of a rebellious teen couple in Mexico.
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We start off our coverage of the 46th New York Film Festival by talking to first-time feature director Steve McQueen about his brutal, impressionistic film HUNGER, which chronicles the last days of Bobby Sands, an imprisoned IRA activist. Later, we talked with the legendary Mike Leigh, director of the giddy, life-affirming HAPPY-GO-LUCKY, about an irrepressible working-class girl.
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