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Tony Manero Series: 46th New York Film Festival [Sept. 26 – Oct. 12, 2008] Director: Pablo Larrain, Country: Chile/Brazil, Release: 2008, Runtime: 98 Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larrain’s second feature is a spiky whirling dervish of a movie, filled with deadpan humor and unexpected moves. On one hand, Tony Manero is a rough-hewn verité-style dance-musical about a 50-something psychotic with inextinguishable dreams of disco glory. On the other, it’s a darkly comic allegory about the spell cast by American pop culture during the grimmest days of General Pinochet’s police state. The unsmiling protagonist is an Al Pacino look-alike who has named himself after John Travolta’s character in Saturday Night Fever, a movie he revisits as devotedly as others attend mass. Oblivious to curfews, police searches and even his colleague’s anti-regime activities, this wannabe — played with majestic determination by stage actor Alfredo Castro, who also co-wrote the screenplay — will stop at nothing in his quest to stage a scaled-down version of his beloved film in a grungy Santiago cantina. Preceded by Love You More: A tale of vinyl lust featuring a blast from the past by beloved English band the Buzzcocks. Sam Taylor-Wood, UK, 2007; 15m. Pablo Larrain b. 1976, Santiago, Chile 2006 Fuga

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