NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL (NYFF53) Spent 10 days and nights watching movies, attending talks and public conversations and then thought what do I want to alert my readers to that will open over the next few months .. (hopefully) … here you go a ..please clip to your fridge door .. full reviews when in theater

HERE IS MY CRITIC WIRE BALLOT

FOR BEST OF NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL

BEST NARRATIVE FEATURE

1. Les Cowboys

What happens when your dream for your daughter becomes your worst nighmare?

2. Carol

50’s morality, shappic desire and Todd Haynes, Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara

3 Son of Saul.

How to be human is a totally unhuman space

4.The Measure of a Man

What happens when I a man in his fifties loses his job and has a family he has to support / A universal question but here we are in France

5.Bridge of Spies

Steven Spielberg at the core of this exciting film asks a very essential question: “what makes a good American?” I immediately thought of Lynn Stewart, Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning ..

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

1. Fishtail Two Filmmakers, partners in Life and Work, return to the Rabo de Peixe a Village in the Azores That is home to the Largest Collection of artisanal fisheries on the Whole Archipelago .And soon multinational Corporations and global warming are destroying Centuries old Way of Life.

2. No Home Movie

Chantal Ackerman ‘ s last film (RIP) “This Film is above All about my Mother, my Mother who is no longer with US. About this woman who arrived in Belgium in 1938, FLEEING Poland, the pogroms and the Violence. This woman who is only ever seen inside her apartment. An apartment in Brussels. A film about a world in motion that my mother does not see. “

3. Do not Blink -Robert Frank .. World Famous photographer at home with the Beats he has outlived Almost All of Them. The AMERICANS is just the tip of the Iceberg of His 60 years of creative Work.

4. The Witness new information Including first time Interview with Kitty’s Genovese’s lover Carol. Still this many years later her death it continues to confound the public and the Media . Her brother Bill digs deep and finds new material and raises new questions and suggests answers

the WiTNESS what really happened to KItty Genovese?

5 . What to Invade Next ….

Michael Moore despite the title actually brings us a hopeful documentary in these troubled times and suggests what some people and countries are doing to make a Better World.