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NYUFF. 15th and final.
Published 4/2/2008 at GreenCine Daily
... sees its 15th and final edition launching tonight and running through Tuesday. Ed Halter, an early programmer and, for a while, director, looks back in the Voice, tells a few stories and notes: "It's not a true ending, exactly; Kevin [McGarry] and Nellie [Killian] plan to launch another event to replace it next year and continue the mission in some new way.... True to its indie-rock genealogy, the NYUFF has always functioned more like a band than a traditional arts organization—surviving by the seat of its pants, playing on for the thrill of it without ...

Links for the Day (April 2nd, 2008)
Published 4/2/2008 by Keith Uhlich at The House Next Door
... 1. "The End of the New York Underground Film Festival" : In The Village Voice , Ed Halter looks back at the history of The New York Underground Film Festival, which begins today at Anthology Film Archives, it's 15th and final incarnation. See ...

NYUFF Opens Tonight
Published 4/2/2008 by karina at SpoutBlog
... director Todd Phillips (yes, seriously). Halter has an obit of sorts at the Village Voice , in which he makes it clear that NYUFF isn’t ending because it has to financially. “It’s a conscious decision: There’s no rent hike to point to, no defunding agency to blame…True to its indie-rock genealogy, the NYUFF has always functioned more like a band than a traditional arts organization…Sometimes, a band just decides to call it quits—and hopes to go out in style, while it’s still got the knack.” That said, NYUFF may not have worn out its welcome, but––to extend the indie-rock ...

Weekend Movie Forecast: Stones, Balls and Balloons
Published 4/4/2008 by John Del Signore at Gothamist
... Nights, Wong Kar-wai’s first English-language feature starring Natalie Portman, Norah Jones, Jude Law, and David Strathairn in a sensual ode to the American road movie and universal heartache. The Observer’s Andrew Sarris finds it “beguiling enough and bewitching enough even at this early date to make my list of the 10 best English-language films of 2008.” But other critics like Michelle Orange at the Village Voice can't force it down. And the Voice has a good feature on the 15th and final New York Underground Film Festival, ...