New York Film Festival to Feature Many New American Films

Typically, the New York Film Festival does not show a huge number of American films. The upcoming 45th annual festival, though, features a great many independent U.S. films, including two from veteran directors Sidney Lumet (a thriller called "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead") and Brian De Palma (the Iraq war drama "Redacted"). Of the latter movie, Film Society of Lincoln Center Director Richard Pena said, "[it] will really be a bombshell. People will be upset and offended by (its depiction of) how some U.S. soldiers are treated and what some U.S. soldiers have done." Other American films in the lineup include Gus Van Sant's "Paranoid Park," Noah Baumbach's "Margot at the Wedding," Wes Anderson's "The Darjeeling Limited," and the Coen brothers' "No Country for Old Men." The foreign films shown will include new movies by Hou Hsiao-hsien, Catherine Breillat, and Eric Rohmer.