HOTEL NEW YORK

With Jackie Raynal, Sid Geffen, Suzanne Fenn, and Gary Indiana. “HOTEL NEW YORK can be seen as a description of a fight; the fight of an immigrant with her new city and the fight of a filmmaker with her desire to make films within precarious boundaries. In HOTEL NEW YORK Jackie Raynal plays and wins.” –CAHIERS DU CINéMA

“One day in New York, I took my linen to a small Chinese laundry. Then I forgot it for a few weeks. When I went back, the laundry wasn’t there anymore, the building had been demolished! I was haunted by the thought of my bedsheets gone forever with the laundry. This experience was the starting point for the NEW YORK HOTEL script. I wanted to write and make this film to show how everything is transient over there. Things change all the time and are immediately replaced, much quicker than in Europe. The story stemmed from my own experience and impressions as a foreigner. It’s a comedy-drama.” –Jackie Raynal, LIBéRATION

Preceded by: éric Rohmer SIX IN PARIS / PARIS VU PAR…: PLACE DE L’éTOILE 1965, 16 min, 35mm-to-DCP. In French with English subtitles. Jackie Raynal was the editor on all of the short films that comprise the French New Wave omnibus film SIX IN PARIS, each of which focuses on a single Paris neighborhood. Arguably the highlight of the collection, Rohmer’s PLACE DE L’éTOILE spins a silent-comedy-like tale in and around the chaotic roundabout anchored by the Arc de Triomphe.

“A film that is both perfect and unusual in form, closed in on itself, and that seems to have nothing to say, but which actually says everything. A pure diamond.” –Luc Moullet

Total running time: ca. 75 min.

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