2005 NYFF Good Night, and Good Luck Regular Lovers The Death of Mr. Lazarescu Methadonia L'Enfant (The Child) Avenge But One of My Two Eyes Bubble The Squid and the Whale I Am Capote Something Like Happiness Sympathy for Lady Vengeance Manderlay Tale of Cinema Breakfast on Pluto Through the Forest The President's Last Bang Who's Camus Anyway? Three Times Paradise Now Tristram Shandy Gabrielle The Sun The Passenger Cache (Hidden) Special Events Ticket Information Press Office		The 43rd New York Film Festival September 23 - October 9,2005 Sponsored by Sponsored by HSBC Private Bank, a division of HSBC USA, N.A., The New York Times, and Audi
			Breakfast on Pluto (Centerpiece) His spooky-beautiful blue eyes make the fast-rising young Irish actor Cillian Murphy a natural at playing gentleman-psychopaths—witness his intensity in Red Eye, Batman Begins, and the zingy career launcher, 28 Days Later. In Neil Jordan’s exquisitely realized new drama, though, adapted from a novel by Pat McCabe (The Butcher Boy) and set in swinging London of the 1960s and ‘70s, Murphy is all but transformed in a tour-de-force performance as Patrick “Kitten” Braden, who escapes the provincialism of small-town Ireland and moves to London to be…herself, a fabulously attired transvestite cabaret chanteuse. Kitten’s determined self-authenticity never wavers. And so naturally, there are consequences. There are echoes of Jordan’s gender-bender The Crying Game (NYFF ’92) but there’s also an exciting whiff of Butcher Boy perversity.  The splendid supporting cast includes Liam Neeson, Stephen Rea, and Brendan Gleeson.  135 min.  Ireland/UK, 2005  A Sony Pictures Classics Release. * Director and actors expected to attend. Click here for New York Times review and festival coverage.