Monday, December 14, 2009
Film New York Film Critics Circle Announces Awards, Lets the Nerds Pick Some of Them
Posted by Mark Asch on Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 4:57 PM
More heartening, New York being the homebase of most of our smartest and most adventurous critics—basically current and former Village Voice writers—are the awards given in the smaller categories...
This means: laurels for postmodern darling and sometime critic Olivier Assayas's wonderful Summer Hours (Best Foreign Film), the rigorous politicized art installation Hunger (Best First Film for director Steve McQueen), and, surprisingly and marvelously, Terence Davies's personal essay film Of Time and the City (Best Non-Fiction Film), which was overlooked and underrated during its brief run at Film Forum in January.
Incidentally, the L is for the first time putting together a year-end poll of our film critics, which is skewing a bit left of the older-mainstream-critical consensus, and a bit right of the online cinephile community, for reasons I'll explore when it's unveiled in our year-end issue next week.
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