2008 New York Film Festival

The 46th New York Film Festival ran from September 26 to October 12, 2008. In addition to screening the feature films listed below, which were often preceded by short films, the festival ran a sidebar retrospective of the films of controversial Japanese director Nagisa Oshima. The festival also included its twelfth annual series Views from the Avant-Garde, showcasing a variety of experimental films.

	English title	Original title	Director(s)	Country
Opening Night	The Class	Entre les murs	Laurent Cantet	France
Centerpiece	Changeling		Clint Eastwood	United States
Closing Night	The Wrestler		Darren Aronofsky	United States

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Country
24 City	二十四城记/二十四城記 Er shi si cheng ji	Jia Zhangke	China
Afterschool		Antonio Campos	United States
Ashes of Time Redux	Dung che sai duk redux	Wong Kar-wai	Hong Kong
Bullet in the Head	Tiro en la cabeza	Jaime Rosales	Spain
Che (Part I: The Argentine and Part II: Guerilla)		Steven Soderbergh	United States
Chouga	Shuga	Darezhan Omirbaev	Kazakhstan
A Christmas Tale	Un conte de Noël	Arnaud Desplechin	France
Four Nights With Anna	Cztery noce z Anna	Jerzy Skolimowski	Poland
Gomorrah	Gomorra	Matteo Garrone	Italy
Happy-Go-Lucky		Mike Leigh	United Kingdom
The Headless Woman	La mujer sin cabeza	Lucrecia Martel	Argentina
Hunger		Steve McQueen	United Kingdom
I'm Gonna Explode	Voy a explotar	Gerardo Naranjo	Mexico
Let It Rain	Parlez-moi de la pluie	Agnès Jaoui	France
Night and Day	Bam guan nat	Hong Sang-soo	South Korea
The Northern Land	A Corte do Norte	João Botelho	Portugal
Service	Serbis	Brillante Mendoza	Philippines
Summer Hours	L'heure d'été	Olivier Assayas	France
Tokyo Sonata	Tôkyô sonata	Kiyoshi Kurosawa	Japan
Tony Manero		Pablo Larrain	Chile
Tulpan		Sergey Dvortsevoy	Kazakhstan
Waltz with Bashir	ואלס עם באשיר Vals Im Bashir	Ari Folman	Israel
Wendy and Lucy		Kelly Reichardt	United States
The Windmill Movie		Alexander Olch	United States

• Richard Peña, programming director of the Film Society of Lincoln Center
• Kent Jones, editor-at-large of Film Comment and former associate programming director of the Film Society
• Scott Foundas, chief film critic for L.A. Weekly
• J. Hoberman, senior film critic at The Village Voice
• Lisa Schwarzbaum, film critic at Entertainment Weekly

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