New York Film Festival heavy on foreign pictures

The New York Film Festival announced it's line-up on Tuesday, with an emphasis on foreign films rater than domestic, a Hollywood Reporter story reports.

The festival is boasts such European filmmakers as Michael Haneke ("The White Ribbon"), Alain Resnais (who's "Wild Grass" will open the festival), Pedro Almodovar ("Broken Embraces") and Claire Denis ("White Material"). There are only two film's with U.S. directors, a recent low for the festival.

"Two years ago, we had the Coen brothers and Wes Anderson and Julian Schnabel and Noah Baumbach and Sidney Lumet," said Richard Pena, programming director and selection committee chair for the Film Society of Lincoln Center. "Last year, there was less, and this year there is much less."

Though the trend seems to be that domestic films are waning, Pena said he sees it more as a passing phase than a new reality.

"I think we're in one of those in-between years, when a number of films are being prepared," he said. He added that there were "a number of Hollywood films that we were hoping to see that weren't ready in time."