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46th New York Film Festival September 26 - October 12, 2008 Premiering the best in cinema from around the world. THE 2008 NYFF IS SPONSORED BY CHOPARD, THE NEW YORK TIMES AND SARDINIA REGION TOURISM Representing both newcomers and distinguished alumni, Hollywood features and independent visions from all over the globe, the 46th New York Film Festival opens on September 26th with The Class, the third film from Festival veteran Laurent Cantet. Clint Eastwood’s highly anticipated Changeling will appear as the Festival Centerpiece, while Darren Aronofsky provides the Closing Night film with The Wrestler, starring Mickey Rourke in “the performance of a lifetime” according to the Film Society’s Kent Jones. The Film Society welcomes a group of well-established filmmakers back to the Festival with new work. With 24 City, Jia Zhangke explores the seamy side of China’s rapid devlopment in the tale of the impact of one factory on a town. Wong Kar Wai restores his 1994 exercise in swordplay pyrotechnics and melancholy temps perdu with Ashes of Time Redux. Mike Leigh, the British master of ensemble dysfunction, offers Happy-Go-Lucky. Steven Soderbergh also marks his return with a talk-about entry: Che, a controversial, two-part biography whose star, Benicio del Toro, won the Best Actor award at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. New faces at the Festival include young American independent filmmaker Antonio Campos with Afterschool, a hypnotically focused first feature set in the insulated world of a New England prep school. Celebrated Kazakh documentarian Sergey Dvortsevoy provides as his first feature an comic and awe-inspiring drama-cum-wildlife movie, Tulpan. In Hunger, debut filmmaker Steve McQueen takes up the story of IRA member Bobby Sands and his 1981 hunger strike and turns it into an intensely lyrical reverie on human suffering. The Festival will also present restored versions of such classic films as Lola Montes, Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (presented in a new Technicolor print by Martin Scorsese) and a little known Pakistani masterwork now celebrating its 50th anniversary, The Day Shall Dawn. The festival main slate will be complemented by several special panels and conversations, such as Film Criticism in Crisis, presented by Film Comment magazine, and the HBO Films Dialogues, with will entail conversations with some of the Festival’s most celebrated directors: Jia Zhangke (24 City), Darren Aronofsky (The Wrestler), Arnaud Desplechin (A Christmas Tale) and Wong Kar-Wai (Ashes of Time Redux).

Advance ticket info for Film Society Members Advance order forms and full schedules were mailed out to Film Society Members and Patrons on August 22nd. If you JOIN now, we will mail you an order form as soon as possible. Please note: Order forms cannot be emailed or faxed to members. General ticketing information Tickets for the general public will go on sale Sunday, Sept. 7, at 12:00 noon at Avery Fisher Hall, corner of Columbus Avenue and 65th St.; Monday, Sept. 8, online at filmlinc.com; and on Saturday, September 27 at the Ziegfeld Theater, 141 West 54th St.