'Class' to open N.Y. film fest

July 15, 2008 Laurent Cantet's Palme d'Or-winning look at teachers in a French high school, "The Class," will open the 46th annual fest, which runs Sept. 26-Oct. In the Realm of Oshima (featuring the work of Japanese director Nagisa Oshima) and the annual Views From the Avant-Garde featuring a 30th anniversary presentation of Guy Debord's "We Spin Around the Night Consumed by the Fire." Class" is the fourth Palme d'Or film to open the fest, following 2000's "Dancer in the Dark," 1996's "Secrets and Lies" and 1994's "Pulp Fiction.

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