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Tuesday, July 15, 2008

"The Class" to open NY Film Fest


Laurent Cantet's Palm d'Or winner "The Class" will open the 46th New York Film Festival, running Sept. 26 to Oct. 12.  Film follows a French schoolteacher working in a multicultural neighborhood of Paris.  Sony Pictures Classics picked up the film at Cannes.

Fest also announced a retrospective of Nagisa Oshima ("In the Realm of the Senses," "Night and Fog in Japan") and a presentation of Guy Debord's "In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni" which has a few different English titles, including "We Spin Around the Night Consumed by the Fire." 

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