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You may have noticed that many tickets for the upcoming Tribeca Film Festival are $18, which indieWIRE notes is a 50% jump. The TFF says, "In an effort to continue to provide the best possible experience, we have raised our prices, which have until now been lower than most other festivals." A spokeswoman tells the Post that the festival must spend "a significant amount of money to outfit all theaters it uses with digital projection equipment, and to fly in top-tier talent for personal appearances at screening Q&A's." Plus, people who live in the 'hood can get discounts.

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 .

This week the box office juggernaut that is the new , there's still tons of repertory to take in instead this weekend.

For New York moviegoers, this is a good week for those who worship at the cult of the director. In both the theatrical releases and the repertory columns, film fans of various established and up in coming auteurs will surely get their fill.

Infernal Affairs screened at last spring's New Directors/New Films and will be released in the U.S. this summer. However, if you have a region-free DVD player, you can probably get yourself a DVD of the film with a little elbow grease.

The best cop movie Gothamist has seen this year, Infernal Affairs, has been chosen as Hong Kong's official selection for Best Foreign Film consideration for the 2003 Academy Awards (meaning, the Academy Awards that will honor films from 2003, but will be broadcast in 2004). The premise is simple and complicated, as the plot description from IMDB indicates: It's surprisingly sophisticated, given it is from Hong Kong (but that doesn't mean there aren't lapses into cheesy interludes when women are around). Truly, the four main performances, of the undercover, his supervisor, the mole, his mob boss, are what drive the film. And Brad Pitt bought the remake rights to the film, but Gothamist doesn't know what that means.

David Edelstein of Slate feels there should be more Seabiscuit in Seabscuit. Roger Ebert liked, but not loved, it. Jami Bernard of the Daily News thinks the movie "get it right."

It was so great to open up Filmmaker magazine and see our friend, Steven Tsuchida listed as number 3 on the top 25 New Faces of Indie Film 2003. Gothamist really loved his short film, The Ninja Pays Half My Rent - and not just because Timm Sharp, who played Marshall on Undeclared is the lead. We just hope that being listed here isn't like the Vanity Fair Ingenue Cover curse. Or Unknown Ingenue curse.

The last film on deck for Gothamist's run at New Directors/New Films is Camp, a film about teenagers going to summer musical camp. The Daily News interview director Todd Graff. Stephen Holden of the Times likes Camp.

Movies at Alice Tully Hall Alice Tully Hall is where many New York Film Festival films are screened, and for the first year, where New Directors/New Films is taking place. My fondness of Alice Tully Hall also stems from the fact that by now, I know the optimal seats for movie viewing as well as talk participation.

Elvis Mitchell gives the film a great review and mentions Anthony Wong who plays the police supervisor. Wong had great presence and has his own rock band according to IMDB. The look of the film is also much-talked about, as it's got this bluish tinge, that makes the film seem more mature than most other Hong Kong movies. Mitchell likens it to Michael Mann's Heat, another twisty cop movie.

Tonight, I'm seeing Raising Victor Vargas, the opening night selection of the New Directors/New Films Festival. I'm excited for a couple reasons: It's from a director my age, Peter Sollett (in fact, my friends graduated from NYU Tisch with him; I'm obviously growing up because I'm not so jealous as I am impressed); it's a great introduction to new films; and it's at Lincoln Center, so close to home.

Past Gothamist coverage of Infernal Affairs.