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NYFF: ‘The Damned’ Brings Us Where We’ve Already Been…

@Courtesy of Cinetic Media Six years after What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire? the Italian director Roberto Minervini is back behind the camera with a feature film set during the American Civil War. In 1862, a battalion of volunteers from the Union Army was sent to the uncharted lands of the West…

NYFF: ‘Blitz’ Delivers Beautiful Cinema to Watch, Not to Experience.

@Courtesy of Apple TV + Selected as Closing Film at the 62nd edition of the New York Film Festival, the last movie directed by Steve McQueen tells the story of George, a young boy trying to go back to his mother Rita when London is under the bombs of Nazi aircraft. Born out of wedlock…

NYFF: ‘Emilia Pérez’ Delivers Drama, Musical and Outstanding Performances

@Courtesy of Netflix The ability of Jacques Audiard consists of working inside the genre and at the same time trying to give his interpretation of it. Depending on the film, he decides to follow its rules or surprise the audience with a slightly different tone. His last Emilia Pérez belongs to the latter case: awarded…

NYFF: ‘The Room Next Door’ Video Review: Almodóvar Teams with Moore and Swinton for English Feature Debut

Pedro Almodóvar is back at the 62nd New York Film Festival with his first English-language feature film, The Room Next Door, adapted from the novel by Sigrid Nunez, who also wrote the book on which The Friend is based. (You can watch my review of the movie adapting that other book, which also played NYFF,…

NYFF: With ‘Anora’ You Just Need to Embrace the Chaos and Enjoy the Ride!

©Courtesy of NEON In the last ten years, Sean Baker has directed four movies that speak about life like nothing else in contemporary American cinema. Tangerine, The Florida Project, Red Rocket, and last but not least Anora are linked by a vitality that can drag the viewer into a chaotic world populated by flawed, questionable,…

NYFF/ Nickel Boys Review: RaMell Ross Triumphs in Daring Adaptation

It’s in the glimpses tragic and poetry happen. In the beginning of RaMell Ross’s extraordinary first narrative feature Nicke Boys, a realization of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead, which opens the New York Film Festival, the filmmaker creates a world unlike any other. A child’s hand holds a leaf in the grass, a…

NICKEL BOYS | Official Trailer : Starring Ethan Herisse, Brandon Wilson, Hamish Linklater, Fred Hechinger, Daveed Diggs, and Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor

Photo by Amazon MGM Studios – © Amazon MGM Studios 2024 Hearing the Oscar buzz for a new film every time it premieres in Venice or Telluride or Toronto is an exciting part of the fall season, and then getting our first glimpse when it releases a trailer for us a few days later. The process…

FLC Announces New York Film Festival 62 Spotlight Selections

©Images: Maria, A Real Pain, Emilia Pérez FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER ANNOUNCES SPOTLIGHT FOR THE 62ND NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL North American premieres are Leos Carax‘s It’s Not Me, Alex Ross Perry’s Pavements, and Andrei Ujică’s TWST / Things We Said Today U.S. premiere of documentary Elton John: Never Too Late with an appearance by Elton John and directors R.J….

New York Film Festival 62 : Main Slate Selections

FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER ANNOUNCES MAIN SLATE SELECTIONS FOR THE 62nd NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL 32 features including new films from Pedro Almodóvar, Sean Baker, Brady Corbet, David Cronenberg, Nelson Carlos de los Santos Arias, Robinson Devor, Mati Diop, Miguel Gomes, Alain Guiraudie, Hong Sangsoo, Jia Zhangke, Payal Kapadia, Dea Kulumbegashvili, Mike Leigh, Philippe Lesage,…

FLC Announces RaMell Ross’s NICKEL BOYS as Opening Night of the 62nd New York Film Festival

Film at Lincoln Center announces RaMell Ross’s Nickel Boys as Opening Night of the 62nd New York Film Festival at Alice Tully Hall on September 27. The adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel stars Ethan Herisse, Brandon Wilson, Hamish Linklater, Fred Hechinger, Daveed Diggs, and Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor. Secure tickets with Festival Passes, limited quantities on sale now….

NYFF / “Priscilla” : Press Conference with Actors Cailee Spaeny & Jacob Elordi, Costumer Designer Stacey Battat, Production Designer Tamara Deverell, and Producer Youree Henley

Synopsis : When teenage Priscilla Beaulieu meets Elvis Presley at a party, the man who is already a meteoric rock-and-roll superstar becomes someone entirely unexpected in private moments: a thrilling crush, an ally in loneliness, a vulnerable best friend. Through Priscilla’s eyes, Sofia Coppola tells the unseen side of a great American myth in Elvis…