New York boogie.(35th New York Film Festival features 'The Ice Storm;' 'Boogie Nights')

The 1970's were ascendant at the 35th New York Film Festival, held September 26 through October 12 at Lincoln Center. The opening night selection, Ang Lee's The Ice Storm, a moody study of affluent suburbia circa 1973, was steeped not only in the era's loosening sexual mores, but also in details of decor and costume such as water beds and crocheted sweaters. Boogie Nights, Paul Thomas Anderson's exuberant taken on the porn industry, vaults forward to cover the years 1977-84. This high-disco period finds the film's actors (when they're wearing clothes) dancing to the beat in platform shoes, leisure suits, and neck chains (photo, above). Even the festival closer, Pedro Almodovar's Live Flesh, opens in 1970 Madrid, albeit in a Franco-era environment that is considerably more repressed than what could be found stateside at the time.

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