NYFF 2012 - Hyde Park on Hudson

My New York Film Festival coverage kicks off today with Roger Michell's Hyde Park on Hudson. Check back in the next three weeks for all the big name premieres including Flight Robert Zemekis's first live action film since Cast Away, Nicole Kidman and Zac Effron in Lee Daniels lurid potboiler The Paperboy and the world premiere of Ang Lee's Life of Pi.

But first the course of history is altered by hotdogs and presidential handjobs in Hyde Park on Hudson:

Roger Michell’s Hyde Park on Hudson is a perfect example of that particular type of high-end, finely crafted period piece that hits theaters every autumn on its way to an Oscar nomination for Costume Design. These titles exist to provide awards voters with two hours of comfort food nostalgia wrapped in a thin packaging of historical significance. In recent years this subgenre has provided us with films like Finding Neverland, Mrs. Henderson Presents, and My Week With Marilyn. This year it’s Hyde Park on the Hudson, a film on the low end of this particular style. To call it a dud would be too harsh - kinder to say that it’s a missed opportunity...

Read the full review at The Film Experience.