MoMA and the Film Society of Lincoln Center have released the schedule for New Directors/New Films, and as in the past, it’s heavy on films that recently played Sundance, including award winners (Push, We Live in Public, The Cove and The Maid). I’m looking forward to catching Amreeka (the ND/NF opening night film), Stay the Same Never Change and Unmade Beds, all of which I missed in Park City, as well as Bob Byington’s Harmony and Me, a world premiere starring Justin Rice.
indieWIRE has the full lineup. ND/NF starts March 25.
Oh, Unmade Beds is just lovely. I was a bit disheartened to see no one in the (admittedly small and casual) indieWIRE Sundance poll even give it a nod. I went back to watch Alexis Dos Santos’ debut, Glue, and I can see in retrospect that it’s a rare sophomore effort that fulfills the promise of the debut by building on what was great but also adding an elegance and complexity not hinted at before. I didn’t even realize how much I was enjoying it until it kind of clicked for me in the end.