Since The New York Film Festival began, the idea has always been to celebrate film as an art form. In the ancient battle between art versus commerce, between small art films and big Hollywood blockbusters, this festival favors art for art's sake. The even
The 60th New York Film Festival opens Friday in New York City at Lincoln Center in Manhattan. Sandy Kenyon has the story.Since The New York Film Festival began, the idea has always been to celebrate film as an art form.
The 60th NYFF is as big and bold as ever before: half a century plus a decade does not mean the event has become settled in its ways.Lesli Klainberg, who is the President of Film At Lincoln Center where the event is headquartered, added that, "it's natural for us to work and deal within consider a wider variety of different voices."
Klainberg showed a program from the first New York Film Festival that shows a short list of just 21 films to be shown that first year. It's ironic because the NYFF is an ode to the joys of leaving home to watch movies on a big screen with other film lovers.
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