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Article: FILM COMMENT SELECTS
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- The Village Voice
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- February 15, 2006
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FILM COMMENT SELECTS
February 15 through 28
Walter Reade
THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD
Idiosyncratic annual sampling ranges from post-Mao China to sleepy Sri Lanka
In its sixth incarnation, the "Film Comment Selects" series serves as something like a film-festival filtering system, scanning last year's global scene and handpicking movies that its editors and writers deem notable, yet are largely too austere, or too wacky, to get stateside distribution. It's a conscientiously idiosyncratic program, and the results can be scattershot, but the intent is pure and the overall level of achievement is only as amazing or tiresome as the art form itself manages to be outside of middle-class ...