Isolation, Billy O'Brien's atmospheric Irish rural horror-drama which screens at the Dublin International Film Festival next Friday, is showing this weekend at the Film Society of Lincoln Centre in New York as part of the eclectic Film Comments Selects season.
The movies are chosen by the writers of my favourite film magazine and described as "a smorgasbord of provocative and under-appreciated films from around the world". The line-up includes Battle in Heaven, three recent Raul Ruiz films, and a retrospective tribute to actor-writer-director Elaine May, who will discuss her work in an "intimate conversation" with her former husband and comedy partner, Mike Nichols.
Film Comment editor Gavin Smith does seem to be pushing his luck by describing May as "above all the director of four masterpieces": A New Leaf, The Heartbreak Kid, Mikey and Nicky and incredibly, "the hilarious and unfairly maligned Ishtar, co-starring Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman".
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