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Don't you just love that feeling of "discovering" a new artist that no one else knows about yet? The New Directors/New Films festival curated by the Film Society at Lincoln Center and the Museum of Modern Art's Film department have been keeping New Yorkers ahead of the cinema curve for 35 years now with their annual series. In the past they've showcased such newbies as Chantal Akerman, Pedro Almodóvar, Héctor Babenco, Terence Davies, Guillermo del Toro, Atom Egoyan, Nicole Holofcener, Spike Lee, Richard Linklater, Sally Potter, John Sayles, Steven Spielberg, Tom Tykwer and Wim Wenders, so you know picking at random from even just one of the 26 films in the series could yield a new favorite .

to find out.

While celebrities and those "famous for being famous" mingled in their Manolos with the likes of us and our Dr. Scholls sandals, there was also art being bid on. We couldn't afford any, but if we could we may have put our money down on that photo to the left. Or, more realistically, that Cynthia Rowley dress we saw hanging on the wall. What can we say, seeing Karolina Kurkova up close made us want to dress better. And go to the gym. And curse our genes.