A Feast for the Eyes

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The 45th edition of the New York Film Festival begins on Friday, and a single glance at its annual Lincoln Center home shows just how quintessentially New York the season’s premiere movie event is: Like seemingly every other block in our dynamic city, the arts complex is in the throes of glass-sheathed reconstruction, as part of a project that will yield, among other goodies, an elaborate new film center.

So while the festival’s opening-night and closing-night selections — Wes Anderson’s “The Darjeeling Limited” and the animated adaptation “Persepolis” — will still take their bows in old-school style at Avery Fisher Hall, the primary screening venue for this year’s slate has shifted from the Alice Tully to the Frederick P. Rose Hall, which usually plays host to Lincoln Center’s jazz programs and is located in the neighborhood’s Johnny-come-lately behemoth, the Time Warner Center.

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