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Joel Coen’s “The Tragedy of Macbeth” will make its World Premiere on the Opening Night of the 59th New York Film Festival on 24th September 2021.
A work of stark chiaroscuro and incantatory rage, Joel Coen’s boldly inventive visualisation of The Scottish Play is an anguished film that stares, mouth agape, at a sorrowful world undone by blind greed and thoughtless ambition. In meticulously world-weary performances, a strikingly inward Denzel Washington is the man who would be king, and an effortlessly Machiavellian Frances McDormand is his Lady, a couple driven to political assassination—and deranged by guilt—after the cunning prognostications of a trio of “weird sisters” (a virtuoso physical inhabitation by Kathryn Hunter). Though it echoes the forbidding visual designs—and aspect ratios—of Laurence Olivier’s classic 1940s Shakespeare adaptations, as well as the bloody medieval madness of Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood, Coen...
Joel Coen’s “The Tragedy of Macbeth” will make its World Premiere on the Opening Night of the 59th New York Film Festival on 24th September 2021.
A work of stark chiaroscuro and incantatory rage, Joel Coen’s boldly inventive visualisation of The Scottish Play is an anguished film that stares, mouth agape, at a sorrowful world undone by blind greed and thoughtless ambition. In meticulously world-weary performances, a strikingly inward Denzel Washington is the man who would be king, and an effortlessly Machiavellian Frances McDormand is his Lady, a couple driven to political assassination—and deranged by guilt—after the cunning prognostications of a trio of “weird sisters” (a virtuoso physical inhabitation by Kathryn Hunter). Though it echoes the forbidding visual designs—and aspect ratios—of Laurence Olivier’s classic 1940s Shakespeare adaptations, as well as the bloody medieval madness of Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood, Coen...
- 7/22/2021
- by Michelle Hannett
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Marking Joel Coen’s first film without his brother Ethan Coen, The Tragedy of Macbeth brings together Denzel Washington, Frances McDormand, Brendan Gleeson, Corey Hawkins, Moses Ingram, Harry Melling, Ralph Ineson, and more in what will be a faithful retelling of Shakespeare’s iconic story—shot in black-and-white by cinematographer Bruno Delbonnel, who reteams with Coen from The Ballad of Buster Scruggs and Inside Llewyn Davis.
Film at Lincoln Center has announced that the Apple and A24 production is the Opening Night selection of the 59th New York Film Festival, making its World Premiere at the Alice Tully Hall on September 24.
Check out NYFF’s synopsis below.
A work of stark chiaroscuro and incantatory rage, Joel Coen’s boldly inventive visualization of The Scottish Play is an anguished film that stares, mouth agape, at a sorrowful world undone by blind greed and thoughtless ambition. In meticulously world-weary performances, a strikingly...
Film at Lincoln Center has announced that the Apple and A24 production is the Opening Night selection of the 59th New York Film Festival, making its World Premiere at the Alice Tully Hall on September 24.
Check out NYFF’s synopsis below.
A work of stark chiaroscuro and incantatory rage, Joel Coen’s boldly inventive visualization of The Scottish Play is an anguished film that stares, mouth agape, at a sorrowful world undone by blind greed and thoughtless ambition. In meticulously world-weary performances, a strikingly...
- 7/22/2021
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
This year’s 59th New York Film Festival will open with some classic Shakespearean tragedy, as only Joel Coen could render it. Film at Lincoln Center has today announced that the world premiere of Coen’s “The Tragedy of Macbeth,” starring Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand, will serve as the festival’s Opening Night event on September 24. This year’s festival will take place September 24 – October 10, and will feature a combination of in-person, outdoor, and virtual screenings, with a comprehensive series of health and safety policies in coordination with state and city medical experts.
“The New York Film Festival is a place where I’ve been watching movies as an audience member and showing them as a filmmaker for almost 50 years,” said director Coen in an official statement. “It’s a real privilege and a thrill to be opening the Festival this year with ‘The Tragedy of Macbeth.'”
Today...
“The New York Film Festival is a place where I’ve been watching movies as an audience member and showing them as a filmmaker for almost 50 years,” said director Coen in an official statement. “It’s a real privilege and a thrill to be opening the Festival this year with ‘The Tragedy of Macbeth.'”
Today...
- 7/22/2021
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
'The Tragedy of Macbeth' With Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand to Open New York Film Festival
Joel Coen's "The Tragedy of Macbeth," starring Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand, will make its world premiere as the opening night film of the 2021 New York Film Festival.
"The Tragedy of Macbeth" will kick off NYFF 59 with a screening at Alice Tully Hall on Sept. 24. The festival itself runs from Sept. 24 through Oct. 10.
Coen's film is a new visualization of the Scottish play, all shot in a stark chiaroscuro, that stars Washington as Macbeth and McDormand as Lady Macbeth. NYFF describes it as an "anguished film that stares, mouth agape, at a sorrowful world undone by blind, greed and thoughtless ambition" and features "meticulously world-weary performances" by the two leads.
The film is also shot in an aspect ratio that echoes some of Laurence Olivier's classic Shakespeare adaptations from the '40s, as well as Akira Kurosawa's "Throne of Blood," which itself is a "Macbeth" adaptation. But...
"The Tragedy of Macbeth" will kick off NYFF 59 with a screening at Alice Tully Hall on Sept. 24. The festival itself runs from Sept. 24 through Oct. 10.
Coen's film is a new visualization of the Scottish play, all shot in a stark chiaroscuro, that stars Washington as Macbeth and McDormand as Lady Macbeth. NYFF describes it as an "anguished film that stares, mouth agape, at a sorrowful world undone by blind, greed and thoughtless ambition" and features "meticulously world-weary performances" by the two leads.
The film is also shot in an aspect ratio that echoes some of Laurence Olivier's classic Shakespeare adaptations from the '40s, as well as Akira Kurosawa's "Throne of Blood," which itself is a "Macbeth" adaptation. But...
- 7/22/2021
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Festival runs September 24-October 10 as combination of in-person, outdoor, virtual screenings.
The world premiere of Joel Coen’s The Tragedy Of Macbeth will open the 59th New York Film Festival (NYFF) with an in-person screening on September 24.
The adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy Macbeth about an ambitious Scottish lord and his scheming wife stars Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand.
Coen makes his first solo directorial outing after co-directing films throughout his career with his brother Ethan. Kathryn Hunter also stars in the Apple/A24 thriller.
“The New York Film Festival is a place where I’ve been watching movies as...
The world premiere of Joel Coen’s The Tragedy Of Macbeth will open the 59th New York Film Festival (NYFF) with an in-person screening on September 24.
The adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy Macbeth about an ambitious Scottish lord and his scheming wife stars Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand.
Coen makes his first solo directorial outing after co-directing films throughout his career with his brother Ethan. Kathryn Hunter also stars in the Apple/A24 thriller.
“The New York Film Festival is a place where I’ve been watching movies as...
- 7/22/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: After confirming last week it would reopen April 16, Film at Lincoln Center is offering details about its comeback, confirming spring programming and the theatrical return of New Directors/New Films.
After more than a year of closure due to the coronavirus pandemic, the organization affirmed safety guidelines and precautions along with initial bookings. It will not sell concessions in the early going, following the path of downtown commercial arthouse the IFC Center. Masks will be required at all times. Extra time between screenings will be built in to facilitate cleaning and minimize personal interaction.
Consistent with state guidelines, attendance will be capped at 25%, meaning no more than a couple dozen people in the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center’s two auditoriums. Flc said its biggest venue, the Walter Reade Theater, will open a few weeks after the Munroe reopening, after minor renovations are completed.
While the initial box office...
After more than a year of closure due to the coronavirus pandemic, the organization affirmed safety guidelines and precautions along with initial bookings. It will not sell concessions in the early going, following the path of downtown commercial arthouse the IFC Center. Masks will be required at all times. Extra time between screenings will be built in to facilitate cleaning and minimize personal interaction.
Consistent with state guidelines, attendance will be capped at 25%, meaning no more than a couple dozen people in the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center’s two auditoriums. Flc said its biggest venue, the Walter Reade Theater, will open a few weeks after the Munroe reopening, after minor renovations are completed.
While the initial box office...
- 3/30/2021
- by Dade Hayes
- Deadline Film + TV
The Notebook is covering the NYFF with an on-going correspondence between critic Doug Dibbern and editor Daniel Kasman.Above: Lovers RockDear Doug,I’m very happy to be corresponding with you about the New York Film Festival, but I must admit it feels very strange indeed to pick up the keyboard to write again about film. I haven’t done so since March, writing from True/False Film Fest in Columbia, Missouri. The subsequent festivals at Cannes and Locarno were canceled; the film world is in complete disarray. I greatly miss going to the movie theaters—not just for the huge screen, but for the community encountered before, during, and after. Normally at this time of year, I would be seeing you at the Walter Reade to attend the press screenings for the NYFF. This—a communal art of shared experience— is what makes cinema, and part of what makes...
- 9/24/2020
- MUBI
Guy Maddin on Stump The Guesser: “Kharms had so many ideas and we wanted them all …”
A standout decision by the Currents programming team for the 58th New York Film Festival, is to show Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, and Galen Johnson’s mysterious fairground short, Stump The Guesser, starring Adam Brooks, with There Are Not Thirty-Six Ways Of Showing A Man Getting On A Horse, Nicolás Zukerfeld’s tribute to Raoul Walsh. On the afternoon of the Autumnal Equinox, Guy Maddin joined me for a lively and in-depth e-mail exchange conversation, which touched on the costumes by Greg Blagoev (”Winnipeg's Mayakovsky!”), Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps, Robert Donat questioning Mr. Memory, and John Buchan (1st Baron Tweedsmuir), Ludwig Tieck, Thomas Mann's The Holy Sinner, Bertrand Tavernier and Pursued, Soviet absurdist Daniil Kharms, and the evolution of Stump The Guesser, starting with the Ensemble Musikfabrik in Cologne.
The Guesser...
A standout decision by the Currents programming team for the 58th New York Film Festival, is to show Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, and Galen Johnson’s mysterious fairground short, Stump The Guesser, starring Adam Brooks, with There Are Not Thirty-Six Ways Of Showing A Man Getting On A Horse, Nicolás Zukerfeld’s tribute to Raoul Walsh. On the afternoon of the Autumnal Equinox, Guy Maddin joined me for a lively and in-depth e-mail exchange conversation, which touched on the costumes by Greg Blagoev (”Winnipeg's Mayakovsky!”), Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps, Robert Donat questioning Mr. Memory, and John Buchan (1st Baron Tweedsmuir), Ludwig Tieck, Thomas Mann's The Holy Sinner, Bertrand Tavernier and Pursued, Soviet absurdist Daniil Kharms, and the evolution of Stump The Guesser, starting with the Ensemble Musikfabrik in Cologne.
The Guesser...
- 9/23/2020
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSAbove: aKasha.We've been alerted by the programming team at the Toronto International Film Festival that Sudanese filmmaker Hajooj Kuka (aKasha), along with five other artists, has been sentenced to two months in prison.Speaking of TIFF, Chloé Zhao's Nomadland won the disrupted festival's People's Choice Award. Other notable winners this year include Michelle Latimer's Inconvenient Indian, Chaitanya Tamhane's The Disciple, and Dea Kulumbegashvili's Beginning.The great French actor Michael Lonsdale has died at the age of 89. Lonsdale's career range was incredible, including Jacques Rivette's epic Out 1, the James Bond film Moonraker, Marguerite Duras's India Song, and Spielberg's Munich. His physically towering presence was one of the great connective tissues across international cinema.Recommended VIEWINGSpike Lee has been having a big year, first with Da 5 Bloods...
- 9/23/2020
- MUBI
Tilda Swinton in Pedro Almodóvar’s The Human Voice Photo: El Deseo / Iglesias Más
Film at Lincoln Center has announced the six Spotlight selections of the 58th New York Film Festival. They are Sofia Coppola’s On The Rocks, starring Rashida Jones, Marlon Wayans and Bill Murray; David Dufresne’s title The Monopoly Of Violence which quotes Max Weber; Pedro Almodóvar’s first English-language film The Human Voice, his adaptation of the Jean Cocteau play, which centres on Tilda Swinton’s performance, is shot by José Luis Alcaine and is scored by Alberto Iglesias; Hopper/Welles, Orson Welles’ conversation with Dennis Hopper, resurrected by producer Filip Jan Rymsza and editor Bob Murawski; All In: The Fight For Democracy, directed by Lisa Cortés and Liz Garbus, and Spike Lee’s David Byrne’s American Utopia.
David Byrne’s Broadway hit, American Utopia, directed by Spike Lee is a Spotlight selection Photo:...
Film at Lincoln Center has announced the six Spotlight selections of the 58th New York Film Festival. They are Sofia Coppola’s On The Rocks, starring Rashida Jones, Marlon Wayans and Bill Murray; David Dufresne’s title The Monopoly Of Violence which quotes Max Weber; Pedro Almodóvar’s first English-language film The Human Voice, his adaptation of the Jean Cocteau play, which centres on Tilda Swinton’s performance, is shot by José Luis Alcaine and is scored by Alberto Iglesias; Hopper/Welles, Orson Welles’ conversation with Dennis Hopper, resurrected by producer Filip Jan Rymsza and editor Bob Murawski; All In: The Fight For Democracy, directed by Lisa Cortés and Liz Garbus, and Spike Lee’s David Byrne’s American Utopia.
David Byrne’s Broadway hit, American Utopia, directed by Spike Lee is a Spotlight selection Photo:...
- 8/27/2020
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Moments ago, the New York Film Festival announced their new Spotlight section. For this 58th incarnation of the festival, a very unique one already, which will focus largely on outdoor and virtual screenings, NYFF is opening to try this approach, which will include sneak previews, gala events, screenings with live elements, and other more. Headlining this list is Pedro Almodovar’s The Human Voice, Sofia Coppola’s On the Rocks, Spike Lee’s filmed version of David Byrne’s American Utopia, and plenty more. It gives a glitzier sheen to the fest, which was somewhat lacking in that sort of thing this time around. The omission on the Main Slate of On the Rocks and The Human Voice initially was glaring, so it’s fitting that they’ll be playing at NYFF in the end. Read on for more… Here is the press release about these NYFF additions: Film at...
- 8/27/2020
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
Sofia Coppola’s “On the Rocks,” centered on a father/daughter duo played by Rashida Jones and Bill Murray, will world premiere at the New York Film Festival as part of its new spotlight section.
“On the Rocks” will be released in October by A24 and Apple TV Plus. Coppola and Murray last collaborated on 2003’s “Lost in Translation,” which earned Coppola an Academy Award for original screenplay and garnered Murray an acting nomination.
The spotlight lineup for the 58th New York Film Festival, which opens on Sept. 17 with Steve McQueen’s “Lovers Rock” and closes on Oct. 11, showcases sneak previews, gala events, screenings with live elements, and other special evenings.
The spotlight lineup also includes David Byrne’s “American Utopia,” Spike Lee’s filmed version of the Broadway musical; the newly unearthed “Hopper/Welles,” a poolside chat between Orson Welles and Dennis Hopper; “The Human Voice,” Pedro Almodóvar’s first English-language film,...
“On the Rocks” will be released in October by A24 and Apple TV Plus. Coppola and Murray last collaborated on 2003’s “Lost in Translation,” which earned Coppola an Academy Award for original screenplay and garnered Murray an acting nomination.
The spotlight lineup for the 58th New York Film Festival, which opens on Sept. 17 with Steve McQueen’s “Lovers Rock” and closes on Oct. 11, showcases sneak previews, gala events, screenings with live elements, and other special evenings.
The spotlight lineup also includes David Byrne’s “American Utopia,” Spike Lee’s filmed version of the Broadway musical; the newly unearthed “Hopper/Welles,” a poolside chat between Orson Welles and Dennis Hopper; “The Human Voice,” Pedro Almodóvar’s first English-language film,...
- 8/27/2020
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
The New York Film Festival, whose longer-than-usual 2020 edition will run from September 17 to October 11, has announced the lineup for its new Spotlight section.
On the Rocks, director Sofia Coppola’s re-teaming for Apple and A24 with Lost in Translation star Bill Murray, will have its world premiere in the Spotlight lineup. Other titles include Hopper/Welles, a cinephile’s delight featuring a 1970 conversation between Dennis Hopper and Orson Welles; American Utopia, Spike Lee’s filmed version of David Byrne’s Broadway musical; and Pedro Almodóvar’s The Human Voice. Tilda Swinton stars in Human Voice, which is Almodóvar’s first English-language film.
In addition to Hopper/Welles, documentaries include All In: The Fight for Democracy, a look at voter suppression directed by Liz Garbus and Lisa Cortés; and The Monopoly of Violence, from director David Dufresne, an examination of police brutality in France.
The Spotlight section is described by NYFF...
On the Rocks, director Sofia Coppola’s re-teaming for Apple and A24 with Lost in Translation star Bill Murray, will have its world premiere in the Spotlight lineup. Other titles include Hopper/Welles, a cinephile’s delight featuring a 1970 conversation between Dennis Hopper and Orson Welles; American Utopia, Spike Lee’s filmed version of David Byrne’s Broadway musical; and Pedro Almodóvar’s The Human Voice. Tilda Swinton stars in Human Voice, which is Almodóvar’s first English-language film.
In addition to Hopper/Welles, documentaries include All In: The Fight for Democracy, a look at voter suppression directed by Liz Garbus and Lisa Cortés; and The Monopoly of Violence, from director David Dufresne, an examination of police brutality in France.
The Spotlight section is described by NYFF...
- 8/27/2020
- by Dade Hayes
- Deadline Film + TV
Sofia Coppola’s “On the Rocks,” Pedro Almodovar’s “The Human Voice,” Spike Lee’s “David Byrne’s American Utopia” and a new documentary film that features Orson Welles have been added to the lineup for the 58th New York Film Festival, Film at Lincoln Center unveiled Thursday.
The movies are part of the festival’s Spotlight Section, which also includes the addition of the documentary “All In: The Fight for Democracy” and David Dufresne’s “The Monopoly of Violence.”
NYFF runs from September 17 to October 11.
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“Prior to the pandemic, Dennis Lim and I spent time talking with each other and the Film at Lincoln Center staff about how we might reshape and focus the New York Film Festival,” Eugene Hernandez, director of NYFF said in a statement.
The movies are part of the festival’s Spotlight Section, which also includes the addition of the documentary “All In: The Fight for Democracy” and David Dufresne’s “The Monopoly of Violence.”
NYFF runs from September 17 to October 11.
Also Read: Azazel Jacobs' 'French Exit' With Michelle Pfeiffer, Lucas Hedges Set as New York Film Festival Closing Night Movie
“Prior to the pandemic, Dennis Lim and I spent time talking with each other and the Film at Lincoln Center staff about how we might reshape and focus the New York Film Festival,” Eugene Hernandez, director of NYFF said in a statement.
- 8/27/2020
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
First posted on August 13, updated on August 27 with new additions. This year’s New York Film Festival has announced its main slate, as well as plans to begin a week earlier than originally announced to accommodate its plans for drive-in screenings. The festival will run September 17 through October 11, and will include a robust main slate of 25 feature films. That selection, announced today, includes a variety of new films from a number of established masters and rising stars.
The slate boasts a deep selection of documentaries, including Garrett Bradley’s black-and-white social justice effort “Time” and Victor Kossakovsky’s Berlin entry “Gunda” (which follows a particularly special pig), Sam Pollard’s “MLK/FBI” (also set for a TIFF premiere and part of the Telluride lineup), and nonagenarian documentary maverick Frederick Wiseman’s latest deep dive, “City Hall.” And non-fiction veteran Heidi Ewing offers up a hybrid approach with her Sundance-acclaimed immigration...
The slate boasts a deep selection of documentaries, including Garrett Bradley’s black-and-white social justice effort “Time” and Victor Kossakovsky’s Berlin entry “Gunda” (which follows a particularly special pig), Sam Pollard’s “MLK/FBI” (also set for a TIFF premiere and part of the Telluride lineup), and nonagenarian documentary maverick Frederick Wiseman’s latest deep dive, “City Hall.” And non-fiction veteran Heidi Ewing offers up a hybrid approach with her Sundance-acclaimed immigration...
- 8/27/2020
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
This year, the New York Film Festival will look different than the past fifty-seven years––and it’s not just the shift from in-theater screenings to outdoor and virtual, but also with its programming. With the new leadership of NYFF Director Eugene Hernandez and NYFF Director of Programming Dennis Lim, one of the major changes in Film at Lincoln Center’s yearly showcase of the best in world cinema is the addition of a new section titled Currents.
A nod to previous programs featured in the festival––including Views From the Avant-Garde, Explorations, and Projections––Currents provides an expansive overview of the filmmakers that are among the boldest and most innovative working today. With a lineup including 14 features and 46 short films, representing 28 countries, Currents takes a comprehensive look at both the future of filmmaking from emerging directors as well as new offerings from established filmmakers.
Opening Night of Currents is...
A nod to previous programs featured in the festival––including Views From the Avant-Garde, Explorations, and Projections––Currents provides an expansive overview of the filmmakers that are among the boldest and most innovative working today. With a lineup including 14 features and 46 short films, representing 28 countries, Currents takes a comprehensive look at both the future of filmmaking from emerging directors as well as new offerings from established filmmakers.
Opening Night of Currents is...
- 8/24/2020
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
Following his crime thriller Widows, Steve McQueen is returning this year with a project of great ambition and scope. Small Axe, an anthology series from BBC and Amazon Prime Video, is made up of five new feature films, each one directed and co-written by the 12 Years a Slave helmer. While it was revealed that two of the films were originally set to premiere as part of the Cannes Film Festival 2020 lineup, it’s now been announced where they will make their world premieres, along with another film in the anthology.
Film at Lincoln Center’s New York Film Festival has unveiled that one of the films in the anthology, Lovers Rock (pictured below), will be the Opening Night film of the 58th edition, while two others––Mangrove and Red, White and Blue (pictured above)––will premiere in the festival’s Main Slate. Set from the late 1960s to the mid-1980s,...
Film at Lincoln Center’s New York Film Festival has unveiled that one of the films in the anthology, Lovers Rock (pictured below), will be the Opening Night film of the 58th edition, while two others––Mangrove and Red, White and Blue (pictured above)––will premiere in the festival’s Main Slate. Set from the late 1960s to the mid-1980s,...
- 8/3/2020
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
Steve McQueen’s “Lovers Rock” will be the opening night film for the 2020 New York Film Festival, Film at Lincoln Center announced Monday.
The 58th edition of NYFF kicks off on September 25 with the latest from the “12 Years a Slave” director. And “Lovers Rock,” which will make its world premiere, is one of five films as part of an anthology from McQueen called “Small Axe.” All five movies, including “Mangrove,” “Lovers Rock,” “Alex Wheatle,” “Education” and “Red, White and Blue,” are set to premiere on BBC One later this year and on Amazon Prime Video in the U.S.
Two other films as part of McQueen’s anthology, “Mangrove” and “Red, White and Blue,” will also have their world premieres as part of the festival. The full main slate for the New York Film Festival will be announced in the coming weeks.
Also Read: Toronto Film Festival Lineup to...
The 58th edition of NYFF kicks off on September 25 with the latest from the “12 Years a Slave” director. And “Lovers Rock,” which will make its world premiere, is one of five films as part of an anthology from McQueen called “Small Axe.” All five movies, including “Mangrove,” “Lovers Rock,” “Alex Wheatle,” “Education” and “Red, White and Blue,” are set to premiere on BBC One later this year and on Amazon Prime Video in the U.S.
Two other films as part of McQueen’s anthology, “Mangrove” and “Red, White and Blue,” will also have their world premieres as part of the festival. The full main slate for the New York Film Festival will be announced in the coming weeks.
Also Read: Toronto Film Festival Lineup to...
- 8/3/2020
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Film at Lincoln Center and The Museum of Modern Art announced the complete lineup for the 49th annual New Directors/New Films running March 25 – April 5 and opening with Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss’s Boys State, winner of the U.S. Grand Jury Prize for documentary at Sundance.
The closing film is Maite Alberdi’s The Mole Agent. Both are New York premieres.
In between, the iconic series will screen 27 features and 10 short films from 35 countries, with 13 North American premieres and 4 U.S. premieres, 15 films directed or co-directed by women and 15 works by first-time feature filmmakers
In Boys State, Texas high school students participate in an elaborate mock election to build their own state government, encapsulating “precisely the state of politics in the United States today. The idealistic, pragmatic, witty, and combative teenage subjects are uncanny reflections of their adult counterparts,” said La Frances Hui, Associate Curator of Film, The...
The closing film is Maite Alberdi’s The Mole Agent. Both are New York premieres.
In between, the iconic series will screen 27 features and 10 short films from 35 countries, with 13 North American premieres and 4 U.S. premieres, 15 films directed or co-directed by women and 15 works by first-time feature filmmakers
In Boys State, Texas high school students participate in an elaborate mock election to build their own state government, encapsulating “precisely the state of politics in the United States today. The idealistic, pragmatic, witty, and combative teenage subjects are uncanny reflections of their adult counterparts,” said La Frances Hui, Associate Curator of Film, The...
- 2/20/2020
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
Lesli Klainberg on the appointment of Eugene Hernandez as Director of the New York Film Festival and Dennis Lim, Director of Programming: “This is a very exciting new chapter in the story of the New York Film Festival and Film at Lincoln Center.” Photo: Henny Garfunkel
Film at Lincoln Center’s Executive Director Lesli Klainberg announced this morning that Eugene Hernandez has been appointed Director of the New York Film Festival, succeeding Kent Jones, who stepped down on September 19, 2019. Dennis Lim has been named Director of Programming for the festival.
Eugene Hernandez: "I had just moved to the city and saw Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, opening night of the 32nd Nyff, and was immediately under the spell of the festival's prestige and singular programming." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
“I'll never forget my first experience at the New York Film Festival,” said Eugene Hernandez. “I had just moved to the city...
Film at Lincoln Center’s Executive Director Lesli Klainberg announced this morning that Eugene Hernandez has been appointed Director of the New York Film Festival, succeeding Kent Jones, who stepped down on September 19, 2019. Dennis Lim has been named Director of Programming for the festival.
Eugene Hernandez: "I had just moved to the city and saw Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, opening night of the 32nd Nyff, and was immediately under the spell of the festival's prestige and singular programming." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
“I'll never forget my first experience at the New York Film Festival,” said Eugene Hernandez. “I had just moved to the city...
- 2/19/2020
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Let’s face it: The New York Film Festival has always been run by older white men, from its founder, the late great Richard Roud, through departing director Kent Jones, who now turns his focus to full-time filmmaking. New Nyff director Eugene Hernandez brings an exciting and welcome perspective to the 57-year-old festival, which is just five years older than he is. He’s an erudite cinema connoisseur, having scarfed up movies for decades at the major film festivals and beyond as a journalist (mostly at IndieWire) and, for the last decade, rising in the ranks at Film at Lincoln Center.
But he’s more than a passionate film lover. Hernandez will bring a change in focus to the Nyff in terms of long-term strategy, ongoing opportunism, and industry and filmmaker outreach. Dennis Lim will enlarge his role, as both programming director for the October festival, which is the focal...
But he’s more than a passionate film lover. Hernandez will bring a change in focus to the Nyff in terms of long-term strategy, ongoing opportunism, and industry and filmmaker outreach. Dennis Lim will enlarge his role, as both programming director for the October festival, which is the focal...
- 2/19/2020
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
Let’s face it: The New York Film Festival has always been run by older white men, from its founder, the late great Richard Roud, through departing director Kent Jones, who now turns his focus to full-time filmmaking. New Nyff director Eugene Hernandez brings an exciting and welcome perspective to the 57-year-old festival, which is just five years older than he is. He’s an erudite cinema connoisseur, having scarfed up movies for decades at the major film festivals and beyond as a journalist (mostly at IndieWire) and, for the last decade, rising in the ranks at Film at Lincoln Center.
But he’s more than a passionate film lover. Hernandez will bring a change in focus to the Nyff in terms of long-term strategy, ongoing opportunism, and industry and filmmaker outreach. Dennis Lim will enlarge his role, as both programming director for the October festival, which is the focal...
But he’s more than a passionate film lover. Hernandez will bring a change in focus to the Nyff in terms of long-term strategy, ongoing opportunism, and industry and filmmaker outreach. Dennis Lim will enlarge his role, as both programming director for the October festival, which is the focal...
- 2/19/2020
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Eugene Hernandez, the deputy executive director of Film at Lincoln Center and founder of IndieWire, has been named director of the New York Film Festival. He’ll will work closely with Dennis Lim, who has been appointed the festival’s director of programming.
The announcement made Wednesday effectively creates two roles, both of which were previously held by former festival chief Kent Jones, who announced his departure last fall.
Hernandez will oversee the strategic direction and leadership of the prestigious festival and serve on its selection committee. He’ll retain his current duties across the broader canvas of Film at Lincoln Center, including as leader of its Artist, Industry, and Education initiatives and publisher of Film Comment, an online and bimonthly print magazine.
Lim expands his current role as director of programming for Film at Lincoln Center, which puts on films and events throughout the year at the organization’s...
The announcement made Wednesday effectively creates two roles, both of which were previously held by former festival chief Kent Jones, who announced his departure last fall.
Hernandez will oversee the strategic direction and leadership of the prestigious festival and serve on its selection committee. He’ll retain his current duties across the broader canvas of Film at Lincoln Center, including as leader of its Artist, Industry, and Education initiatives and publisher of Film Comment, an online and bimonthly print magazine.
Lim expands his current role as director of programming for Film at Lincoln Center, which puts on films and events throughout the year at the organization’s...
- 2/19/2020
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
Eugene Hernandez has been named the new director of the New York Film Festival, Film at Lincoln Center’s executive director Lesli Klainberg announced Wednesday. He’s replacing Kent Jones, who stepped down to become a full-time filmmaker after last year’s Nyff.
Dennis Lim, the director of programming for Film at Lincoln Center, is also expanding his role to become director of programming for Nyff.
Hernandez will remain the deputy executive director of the organization. And in addition to his current duties, which include leadership of Flc’s Artist, Industry, and Education initiatives and serving as publisher of Film Comment, Hernandez will be responsible for the strategic direction and leadership of the New York Film Festival and will serve on the festival’s selection committee.
Also Read: Kent Jones to Step Down as Director of New York Film Festival
“This is a very exciting new chapter in the story...
Dennis Lim, the director of programming for Film at Lincoln Center, is also expanding his role to become director of programming for Nyff.
Hernandez will remain the deputy executive director of the organization. And in addition to his current duties, which include leadership of Flc’s Artist, Industry, and Education initiatives and serving as publisher of Film Comment, Hernandez will be responsible for the strategic direction and leadership of the New York Film Festival and will serve on the festival’s selection committee.
Also Read: Kent Jones to Step Down as Director of New York Film Festival
“This is a very exciting new chapter in the story...
- 2/19/2020
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Eugene Hernandez will take over as New York Film Festival director, replacing former chief Kent Jones who stepped down in September.
Hernandez, who serves as deputy executive director of Film at Lincoln Center, is bolstering his responsibilities to include strategic direction and leadership of the New York Film Festival. He will also serve on the film festival’s selection committee. Film at Lincoln Center puts on the New York Film Festival, which first began in 1963.
“Knowing that Kent was going on to greener pastures as a filmmaker gave us a moment to think about where we see the festival going and what person we need to run it,” Film at Lincoln Center executive director Lesli Klainberg told Variety. “It was a very obvious thing to consider Eugene as a person to fulfill this role because of his experience, not only within the organization, but outside in the industry. He has...
Hernandez, who serves as deputy executive director of Film at Lincoln Center, is bolstering his responsibilities to include strategic direction and leadership of the New York Film Festival. He will also serve on the film festival’s selection committee. Film at Lincoln Center puts on the New York Film Festival, which first began in 1963.
“Knowing that Kent was going on to greener pastures as a filmmaker gave us a moment to think about where we see the festival going and what person we need to run it,” Film at Lincoln Center executive director Lesli Klainberg told Variety. “It was a very obvious thing to consider Eugene as a person to fulfill this role because of his experience, not only within the organization, but outside in the industry. He has...
- 2/19/2020
- by Rebecca Rubin
- Variety Film + TV
Film at Lincoln Center has appointed the new director of the New York Film Festival, and his name is familiar to longtime readers of this site. IndieWire co-founder Eugene Hernandez will take over the prestigious fall gathering, marking a significant shift in the festival’s nearly 60-year history.
Hernandez spent the last decade as digital director, then deputy executive director, of Film at Lincoln Center. Dennis Lim, who serves as director of year-round programming, will now also serve as director of programming for the festival.
Hernandez’s new job has personal reverberations for IndieWire, which traces some of its roots to the festival. Even the prospect of interviewing the new festival director creates a potential conflict of interest for this writer, who — full disclosure! — worked for him during his last three years as editor of the site.
At the same time, it would be disingenuous not to acknowledge the connection:...
Hernandez spent the last decade as digital director, then deputy executive director, of Film at Lincoln Center. Dennis Lim, who serves as director of year-round programming, will now also serve as director of programming for the festival.
Hernandez’s new job has personal reverberations for IndieWire, which traces some of its roots to the festival. Even the prospect of interviewing the new festival director creates a potential conflict of interest for this writer, who — full disclosure! — worked for him during his last three years as editor of the site.
At the same time, it would be disingenuous not to acknowledge the connection:...
- 2/19/2020
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Dennis Lim named director of programming
Film at Lincoln Center (Flc) executive director Lesli Klainberg announced on Wednesday (19) that Eugene Hernandez has been appointed director of the New York Film Festival.
The independent community stalwart and co-founder of the film portal IndieWire joined Flc in 2010 as director of digital strategy and most recently served as deputy executive director.
Hernandez, who leads Flc’s artist, industry and education initiatives and is the publisher of Film Comment, will now be responsible for the strategic direction and leadership of the festival and serve on the selection committee.
He succeeds Kent Jones, who said...
Film at Lincoln Center (Flc) executive director Lesli Klainberg announced on Wednesday (19) that Eugene Hernandez has been appointed director of the New York Film Festival.
The independent community stalwart and co-founder of the film portal IndieWire joined Flc in 2010 as director of digital strategy and most recently served as deputy executive director.
Hernandez, who leads Flc’s artist, industry and education initiatives and is the publisher of Film Comment, will now be responsible for the strategic direction and leadership of the festival and serve on the selection committee.
He succeeds Kent Jones, who said...
- 2/19/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
With Parasite’s stunning best-picture Oscar win amid shifting industry trends, Eugene Hernandez senses the perfect moment to being named the new director of the New York Film Festival as it continues to introduce U.S. audiences to world cinema.
"It's such a great opportunity for us, and a reflection of how open our audiences are, I hope that audiences are more open and willing than ever to explore," Hernandez told THR ahead of Film at Lincoln Center, which presents the Nyff, unveiling the 17-day event's new leadership Wednesday.
Flc's director of programming Dennis Lim will ...
"It's such a great opportunity for us, and a reflection of how open our audiences are, I hope that audiences are more open and willing than ever to explore," Hernandez told THR ahead of Film at Lincoln Center, which presents the Nyff, unveiling the 17-day event's new leadership Wednesday.
Flc's director of programming Dennis Lim will ...
- 2/19/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
With Parasite’s stunning best-picture Oscar win amid shifting industry trends, Eugene Hernandez senses the perfect moment to being named the new director of the New York Film Festival as it continues to introduce U.S. audiences to world cinema.
"It's such a great opportunity for us, and a reflection of how open our audiences are, I hope that audiences are more open and willing than ever to explore," Hernandez told THR ahead of Film at Lincoln Center, which presents the Nyff, unveiling the 17-day event's new leadership Wednesday.
Flc's director of programming Dennis Lim will ...
"It's such a great opportunity for us, and a reflection of how open our audiences are, I hope that audiences are more open and willing than ever to explore," Hernandez told THR ahead of Film at Lincoln Center, which presents the Nyff, unveiling the 17-day event's new leadership Wednesday.
Flc's director of programming Dennis Lim will ...
- 2/19/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Carlo Chatrian’s rapid rise to becoming Berlin’s artistic director stems from the steely resolve of a soft-spoken film lover with smarts and a clear sense of what he considers meaningful in contemporary cinema today.
The Italian film critic and curator previously served a five-year stint as artistic director of Switzerland’s Locarno Film Festival. He is considered a bold choice on the part of German culture minister Monika Gruetters, who led the search team for a new Berlinale topper after
longtime director Dieter Kosslick exited last year. Chatrian is tasked with rebooting the Berlinale’s lineup, which Kosslick critics said was too large and favored quantity over quality.
Chatrian says that in his job interview with the culture minister and the selection committee, he “told them what cinema means for me and what I think festivals are.” His vision for Berlin and also what he achieved at Locarno motivated their choice,...
The Italian film critic and curator previously served a five-year stint as artistic director of Switzerland’s Locarno Film Festival. He is considered a bold choice on the part of German culture minister Monika Gruetters, who led the search team for a new Berlinale topper after
longtime director Dieter Kosslick exited last year. Chatrian is tasked with rebooting the Berlinale’s lineup, which Kosslick critics said was too large and favored quantity over quality.
Chatrian says that in his job interview with the culture minister and the selection committee, he “told them what cinema means for me and what I think festivals are.” His vision for Berlin and also what he achieved at Locarno motivated their choice,...
- 2/17/2020
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Madrid — Brussels-based sales agent Best Friend Forever has dropped a first trailer for Colombian Camilo Restrepo’s feature debut “Los Conductos,” a movie which captures the shattered mental landscape of a man on the run from a sect.
Winner of last year’s Mar del Plata Work in Progress competition, Restrepo’s has scored a prime festival berth for its world premiere as one of the contenders in the Berlinale’s first ever Encounters competition.
Appealing to a kaleidoscope of visual styles, the movie can be read as a portrait of the difficulties of reinsertion in post civil conflict Colombia, or the enduring emotion devastation of any kind of fanaticism, even when an individual has renounced its creed.
Inspired by the experience of a real-life person, Pinky, whom the director befriended and persuaded to play himself in the film, “Los Conductos” captures Pinky now on the lam, living in a squat.
Winner of last year’s Mar del Plata Work in Progress competition, Restrepo’s has scored a prime festival berth for its world premiere as one of the contenders in the Berlinale’s first ever Encounters competition.
Appealing to a kaleidoscope of visual styles, the movie can be read as a portrait of the difficulties of reinsertion in post civil conflict Colombia, or the enduring emotion devastation of any kind of fanaticism, even when an individual has renounced its creed.
Inspired by the experience of a real-life person, Pinky, whom the director befriended and persuaded to play himself in the film, “Los Conductos” captures Pinky now on the lam, living in a squat.
- 2/12/2020
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Following its screening accompanied by a live performance of its score by the Hollywood Chamber Orchestra, Bong Joon Ho's Parasite will soon be screened in black and white in New York and Los Angeles, giving viewers yet another way to experience the renowned film that's nominated for six Oscars:
Parasite will screen in black and white at New York's Walter Reade Theater and Francesca Beale Theater, as well as Los Angeles' Egyptian Theater. We have the official press release with full details below, and in case you missed it, Bong Joon Ho's latest film is coming to Blu-ray, DVD, and VOD on January 28th.
Press Release: New York, January 22, 2020 - Neon, in partnership with Film at Lincoln Center in New York and the American Cinematheque in Los Angeles, is thrilled to present the black and white version of Parasite to audiences on both coasts. This special presentation of the...
Parasite will screen in black and white at New York's Walter Reade Theater and Francesca Beale Theater, as well as Los Angeles' Egyptian Theater. We have the official press release with full details below, and in case you missed it, Bong Joon Ho's latest film is coming to Blu-ray, DVD, and VOD on January 28th.
Press Release: New York, January 22, 2020 - Neon, in partnership with Film at Lincoln Center in New York and the American Cinematheque in Los Angeles, is thrilled to present the black and white version of Parasite to audiences on both coasts. This special presentation of the...
- 1/27/2020
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSLolita (1962)This year's Golden Globes winners have been announced and can be found here.Looking ahead, take note of Criterion's roster of upcoming films to look forward to in 2020, from Steven Spielberg's West Side Story to Joanna Hogg's The Souvenir Part II. Sue Lyon, who starred in films like Stanley Kubrick's Lolita and The Night of the Iguana by John Huston, has died. The Studio Ghibli official New Year's message includes the announcement that Hayao Miyazaki's How Do You Live? is about 15% complete, as Miyazaki is completing about one minute of animation per month. Nevertheless, we look forward to the auteur's latest opus. Recommended VIEWINGThe first trailer for Downhill, an adaptation of Ruben Östlund's Force Majeure starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Will Ferrell as a couple whose relationship is threatened by a fateful avalanche.
- 1/9/2020
- MUBI
Oscar-winning filmmaker Spike Lee might not be in the awards season mix this year — after finally winning his first Oscar last year for scripting “BlacKkKlansman,” he’s deserving of a break — but the indelible New Yorker will be on hand to accept at least one huge honor in 2020. Film at Lincoln Center has announced that Lee will be honored at the 46th Chaplin Award Gala on Monday, April 27, 2020. “We are delighted to honor Spike Lee, an original and iconic New York filmmaker,” said Ann Tenenbaum, Film at Lincoln Center’s Board Chairwoman, in an official statement. “It is thrilling to welcome his bold voice into the pantheon of artists who have received the Chaplin Award.”
The Chaplin Award Gala is the organization’s most important fundraising event of the year and all proceeds benefit the organization in its mission to support the art and craft of cinema. The annual gala...
The Chaplin Award Gala is the organization’s most important fundraising event of the year and all proceeds benefit the organization in its mission to support the art and craft of cinema. The annual gala...
- 11/7/2019
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Zombi Child director Bertrand Bonello on Olivier Meyrou's Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé documentary Celebration: "It's beautiful. A beautiful film." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
The last time I spoke with Bertrand Bonello, it was on Nocturama at the Rendez-Vous with French Cinema luncheon in 2017, hosted by uniFrance at Robert De Niro's Locanda Verde in Tribeca. The event was also attended by Django director Étienne Comar and Reda Kateb (who portrays Django Reinhardt), Film at Lincoln Center's Director of Programming Dennis Lim, along with numerous members of the French film delegation.
This time around, Bertrand and I met at the Hudson Hotel the morning before the New York Film Festival Us Premiere at Alice Tully Hall of his latest film, Zombi Child, with Mackenson Bijou, Louise Labèque, Wislanda Louimat, Katiana Wilfort, Adelé David, Ninon François, Mathilde Riu, and Patrick Boucheron. This is not Jim Jarmusch's The Dead Don't Die.
The last time I spoke with Bertrand Bonello, it was on Nocturama at the Rendez-Vous with French Cinema luncheon in 2017, hosted by uniFrance at Robert De Niro's Locanda Verde in Tribeca. The event was also attended by Django director Étienne Comar and Reda Kateb (who portrays Django Reinhardt), Film at Lincoln Center's Director of Programming Dennis Lim, along with numerous members of the French film delegation.
This time around, Bertrand and I met at the Hudson Hotel the morning before the New York Film Festival Us Premiere at Alice Tully Hall of his latest film, Zombi Child, with Mackenson Bijou, Louise Labèque, Wislanda Louimat, Katiana Wilfort, Adelé David, Ninon François, Mathilde Riu, and Patrick Boucheron. This is not Jim Jarmusch's The Dead Don't Die.
- 10/10/2019
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
First Cow director Kelly Reichardt with Orion Lee, John Magaro and Film at Lincoln Center Director of Programing Dennis Lim Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Two free events have been added to the 57th New York Film Festival - a tribute to producer Ben Barenholtz who died on June 26, 2019, with Eamonn Bowles, Ethan Coen, and John Turturro, moderated by Annette Insdorf; and a screening of Lynne Ramsay’s Brigitte, commissioned by Miu Miu, followed by a Q&a with Ramsay and Brigitte Lacombe.
The Irishman, Joker and The Wolf of Wall Street producer Emma Tillinger Koskoff with Jane Rosenthal, Joe Pesci, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Martin Scorsese and Kent Jones Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Free conversations with Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne on Young Ahmed; Nadav Lapid on Synonyms; producers Emma Tillinger Koskoff and David Hinojosa; Ric Burns (Oliver Sacks: His Own Life), Tania Cypriano (Born To Be), Ivy Meeropol (Bully.
Two free events have been added to the 57th New York Film Festival - a tribute to producer Ben Barenholtz who died on June 26, 2019, with Eamonn Bowles, Ethan Coen, and John Turturro, moderated by Annette Insdorf; and a screening of Lynne Ramsay’s Brigitte, commissioned by Miu Miu, followed by a Q&a with Ramsay and Brigitte Lacombe.
The Irishman, Joker and The Wolf of Wall Street producer Emma Tillinger Koskoff with Jane Rosenthal, Joe Pesci, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Martin Scorsese and Kent Jones Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Free conversations with Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne on Young Ahmed; Nadav Lapid on Synonyms; producers Emma Tillinger Koskoff and David Hinojosa; Ric Burns (Oliver Sacks: His Own Life), Tania Cypriano (Born To Be), Ivy Meeropol (Bully.
- 9/28/2019
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Film at Lincoln Center announces Josh Safdie and Benny Safdie’s Uncut Gems is the secret screening during the 57th New York Film Festival Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Film at Lincoln Center has just announced a sneak preview of Josh Safdie and Benny Safdie’s Uncut Gems, starring Adam Sandler with Idina Menzel and Kevin Garnett. It will be screened at Alice Tully Hall during this year's New York Film Festival on Thursday, October 3 at 9:00pm.
The Opening Night selection is the world première of Martin Scorsese's The Irishman with Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Joe Pesci; Centerpiece is Noah Baumbach's Marriage Story, starring Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver with Laura Dern, Ray Liotta, Alan Alda, Julie Hagerty, and Merritt Wever, and the Closing Night is Edward Norton's Motherless Brooklyn with Bruce Willis, Willem Dafoe, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Cherry Jones, Alec Baldwin, Bobby Cannavale, Leslie Mann, and Norton.
Film at Lincoln Center has just announced a sneak preview of Josh Safdie and Benny Safdie’s Uncut Gems, starring Adam Sandler with Idina Menzel and Kevin Garnett. It will be screened at Alice Tully Hall during this year's New York Film Festival on Thursday, October 3 at 9:00pm.
The Opening Night selection is the world première of Martin Scorsese's The Irishman with Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Joe Pesci; Centerpiece is Noah Baumbach's Marriage Story, starring Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver with Laura Dern, Ray Liotta, Alan Alda, Julie Hagerty, and Merritt Wever, and the Closing Night is Edward Norton's Motherless Brooklyn with Bruce Willis, Willem Dafoe, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Cherry Jones, Alec Baldwin, Bobby Cannavale, Leslie Mann, and Norton.
- 9/26/2019
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSMichael Mann on the set of HeatMichael Mann has stated that he wishes to continue the Heat saga with a big-screen sequel, and maybe even a television series. Mann has also "two-thirds" of a novel that is both a prequel and sequel to the iconic film. At the Venice Film Festival, Brian De Palma discussed his forthcoming thriller that uses the "Harvey Weinstein era" as a "historical backdrop." The current title for the project is Predator. One last potential movie we'd like to see: the ever-absent Richard Kelly, director of Donnie Darko, is rumored to be entering production on a biopic about The Twilight Zone creator Rob Serling.Recommended VIEWINGRoy Andersson's dreamy About Endlessness depicts "a kaleidoscope of all that is eternally human" in a string of interconnected lives. The official trailer for Ema,...
- 9/14/2019
- MUBI
Nanni Moretti's Santiago, Italia to screen in the Spotlight on Documentary section Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Film at Lincoln Center has announced the 57th New York Film Festival Spotlight on Documentary selections. The program includes 45 Seconds Of Laughter, directed by Tim Robbins; Dw Young's The Booksellers, executive produced by Parker Posey, featuring Fran Lebowitz, Susan Orlean, and Gay Talese; Nick Broomfield's My Father And Me; Ric Burns's Oliver Sacks: His Own Life; Michael Apted's 63 Up; Alla Kovgan's Cunningham 3D on Merce Cunningham; Ivy Meeropol's Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story Of Roy Cohn, which features interviews with Cindy Adams, Alan Dershowitz, Tony Kushner, Nathan Lane and John Waters, and Nanni Moretti's Santiago, Italia.
Gay Talese is interviewed for Dw Young's The Booksellers Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
In all, there are 13 feature documentaries and one short, Nicholas Ma's (producer of Morgan Neville's Won’t You Be My Neighbor?...
Film at Lincoln Center has announced the 57th New York Film Festival Spotlight on Documentary selections. The program includes 45 Seconds Of Laughter, directed by Tim Robbins; Dw Young's The Booksellers, executive produced by Parker Posey, featuring Fran Lebowitz, Susan Orlean, and Gay Talese; Nick Broomfield's My Father And Me; Ric Burns's Oliver Sacks: His Own Life; Michael Apted's 63 Up; Alla Kovgan's Cunningham 3D on Merce Cunningham; Ivy Meeropol's Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story Of Roy Cohn, which features interviews with Cindy Adams, Alan Dershowitz, Tony Kushner, Nathan Lane and John Waters, and Nanni Moretti's Santiago, Italia.
Gay Talese is interviewed for Dw Young's The Booksellers Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
In all, there are 13 feature documentaries and one short, Nicholas Ma's (producer of Morgan Neville's Won’t You Be My Neighbor?...
- 8/23/2019
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
“Motherless Brooklyn,” Edward Norton’s second directorial project, is set to close the New York Film Festival, the festival announced Friday. The film will make its New York premiere at the Alice Tully Hall on Friday, Oct. 11, 2019, and will be released in theaters by Warner Bros. on Nov. 1.
Norton stars in the crime drama alongside Alec Baldwin, Bruce Willis, Willem Dafoe, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Bobby Cannavale, Leslie Mann and Cherry Jones. “Motherless Brooklyn” is based on Jonathan Lethem’s novel, and while the book was originally published in 1999 and is a neo-noir narrative, it is now set in the 1950s. Here’s the synopsis:
Emotionally shattered by a botched job, Lionel Essrog (Norton), a lonely private detective with Tourette syndrome, finds himself drawn into a multilayered conspiracy that expands to encompass the city’s ever-growing racial divide and the devious personal and political machinations of a Robert Moses-like master builder,...
Norton stars in the crime drama alongside Alec Baldwin, Bruce Willis, Willem Dafoe, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Bobby Cannavale, Leslie Mann and Cherry Jones. “Motherless Brooklyn” is based on Jonathan Lethem’s novel, and while the book was originally published in 1999 and is a neo-noir narrative, it is now set in the 1950s. Here’s the synopsis:
Emotionally shattered by a botched job, Lionel Essrog (Norton), a lonely private detective with Tourette syndrome, finds himself drawn into a multilayered conspiracy that expands to encompass the city’s ever-growing racial divide and the devious personal and political machinations of a Robert Moses-like master builder,...
- 8/2/2019
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
The 2019 New York Film Festival has announced its Centerpiece selection for this year’s edition of the festival: Noah Baumbach’s “Marriage Story,” starring Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson. The Netflix drama will celebrate its New York premiere at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall on Friday, October 4. “Marriage Story” will be released in select theaters and on Netflix later this year.
It’s the second Netflix film to join the festival’s 2019 lineup, with Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman” announced earlier this week as the festival’s opening night pick. The film will premiere at Venice in August, followed by its Canadian premiere at Tiff in September.
In a statement, the festival said Baumbach’s new film “is about the rapid tangling and gradual untangling of impetuosity, resentment, and abiding love between a married couple negotiating their divorce and the custody of their son. Adam Driver is Charlie, a...
It’s the second Netflix film to join the festival’s 2019 lineup, with Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman” announced earlier this week as the festival’s opening night pick. The film will premiere at Venice in August, followed by its Canadian premiere at Tiff in September.
In a statement, the festival said Baumbach’s new film “is about the rapid tangling and gradual untangling of impetuosity, resentment, and abiding love between a married couple negotiating their divorce and the custody of their son. Adam Driver is Charlie, a...
- 7/30/2019
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
The 2019 New York Film Festival has announced it will open with Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman,” starring Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, and Joe Pesci. The fact-based mob drama will kick off the 57th edition of the festival at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall on Friday, September 27. “The Irishman” will be released in select theaters and on Netflix later this year. The announcement includes a first look at two images from the highly anticipated film, which finds much of its cast aging across several decades.
Pesci stars as Pennsylvania mob boss Russell Bufalino, with Pacino co-starring as Teamsters president Jimmy Hoffa, and De Niro as their right-hand man, the titular Irishman, Frank Sheeran. The film will utilize extensive de-aging technology to tell its time-spanning story. De Niro, Pacino, and Pesci are playing their characters across decades, with Scorsese using VFX to “de-age” the actors to appear up to 30 years younger.
Pesci stars as Pennsylvania mob boss Russell Bufalino, with Pacino co-starring as Teamsters president Jimmy Hoffa, and De Niro as their right-hand man, the titular Irishman, Frank Sheeran. The film will utilize extensive de-aging technology to tell its time-spanning story. De Niro, Pacino, and Pesci are playing their characters across decades, with Scorsese using VFX to “de-age” the actors to appear up to 30 years younger.
- 7/29/2019
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
The movie business is always changing, but these days it can be difficult to tell the difference between struggle and outright decline. The 2019 box office is down nine percent from last year, and soon the theaters’ Netflix battle will be joined by Disney+, Apple+, WarnerMedia, and more. Even Hollywood is worried: Last week, when The New York Times assembled a sprawling collection of influential figures from the film industry to assess the state of moviegoing. The result was a multifaceted collection of alarming messages.
Among the musings that reporter Kyle Buchanan pulled together: J.J. Abrams wonders whether meager returns on “Booksmart” raise the question of “how to protect the smaller films.” Jessica Chastain asks, “What happens to these beautiful, small, dramatic stories?” Jordan Horowitz says, “I don’t feel particularly optimistic about the traditional theatrical experience, especially for independent films.” Ava DuVernay calls the theatrical release “a privilege.” And Joe Russo says,...
Among the musings that reporter Kyle Buchanan pulled together: J.J. Abrams wonders whether meager returns on “Booksmart” raise the question of “how to protect the smaller films.” Jessica Chastain asks, “What happens to these beautiful, small, dramatic stories?” Jordan Horowitz says, “I don’t feel particularly optimistic about the traditional theatrical experience, especially for independent films.” Ava DuVernay calls the theatrical release “a privilege.” And Joe Russo says,...
- 6/28/2019
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Before we unveil our favorites of Sundance Film Festival 2019, the juries and audiences have selected their 28 feature filmmaking picks from 121 total films. This year’s jurors featured Desiree Akhavan, Damien Chazelle, Dennis Lim, Phyllis Nagy, Tessa Thompson, Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Yance Ford, Rachel Grady, Jeff Orlowski, Alissa Wilkinson, Jane Campion, Charles Gillibert, Ciro Guerra, Maite Alberdi, Nico Marzano, Véréna Paravel, Young Jean Lee, Carter Smith, Sheila Vand, and Laurie Anderson.
Topped by the harrowing documentary One Child Nation, the prison drama Clemency, Joanna Hogg’s astounding The Souvenir, and the beautiful Honeyland, see the winners below and our complete coverage here.
2019 Sundance Film Festival Feature Film Awards
The U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary was presented by Rachel Grady to: Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang, for One Child Nation / China, U.S.A. — After becoming a mother, a filmmaker uncovers the untold history of China’s one-child policy and the generations...
Topped by the harrowing documentary One Child Nation, the prison drama Clemency, Joanna Hogg’s astounding The Souvenir, and the beautiful Honeyland, see the winners below and our complete coverage here.
2019 Sundance Film Festival Feature Film Awards
The U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary was presented by Rachel Grady to: Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang, for One Child Nation / China, U.S.A. — After becoming a mother, a filmmaker uncovers the untold history of China’s one-child policy and the generations...
- 2/3/2019
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Insightful documentaries, whistleblowing dramas and a tribute to the power of the Boss are among contenders for the next cult hit
In his Observer report on the 2001 Sundance film festival, the critic Dennis Lim wrote of “an infuriating yet impressive film” that combined “the underdog empathy of Wes Anderson with the bravura of Paul Thomas Anderson”. That film was Richard Kelly’s Donnie Darko, beginning its journey to cult hit in the snowy peaks of Park City, Utah. Attending for the first time, lightheaded from the altitude, I daydreamed about finding this year’s Donnie Darko, an oddity with star-making potential.
Unlike Cannes (too focused on auteurs) or Toronto (too caught up with awards potential), Sundance still feels elastic enough to accommodate genuine curios. One such this year is The Last Black Man in San Francisco. Written and directed by native San Franciscan Joe Talbot, it opens with friends Jimmie...
In his Observer report on the 2001 Sundance film festival, the critic Dennis Lim wrote of “an infuriating yet impressive film” that combined “the underdog empathy of Wes Anderson with the bravura of Paul Thomas Anderson”. That film was Richard Kelly’s Donnie Darko, beginning its journey to cult hit in the snowy peaks of Park City, Utah. Attending for the first time, lightheaded from the altitude, I daydreamed about finding this year’s Donnie Darko, an oddity with star-making potential.
Unlike Cannes (too focused on auteurs) or Toronto (too caught up with awards potential), Sundance still feels elastic enough to accommodate genuine curios. One such this year is The Last Black Man in San Francisco. Written and directed by native San Franciscan Joe Talbot, it opens with friends Jimmie...
- 2/3/2019
- by Simran Hans
- The Guardian - Film News
Transit director Christian Petzold with Anne-Katrin Titze on Jean Renoir's A Day In The Country: "More than Vertigo, which is also very important. And The Searchers is also very important. But this movie is the most important movie in my life." Photo: Aimee Morris
At the Film Society of Lincoln Center reception before the sneak preview screening of Transit, starring Paula Beer and Franz Rogowski, Christian Petzold told me about his new project, to be realised next year. It is an Undine story set in present-day Berlin. Earlier that afternoon the director/screenwriter met with me for a conversation that included Jean Renoir's A Day In The Country which is screening in the program Carte Blanche: Christian Petzold Selects, organized by Dennis Lim and Dan Sullivan, and presented by Goethe-Institut with the support of German Films.
Bertrand Tavernier on the end of Jean Renoir's A Day In The Country:...
At the Film Society of Lincoln Center reception before the sneak preview screening of Transit, starring Paula Beer and Franz Rogowski, Christian Petzold told me about his new project, to be realised next year. It is an Undine story set in present-day Berlin. Earlier that afternoon the director/screenwriter met with me for a conversation that included Jean Renoir's A Day In The Country which is screening in the program Carte Blanche: Christian Petzold Selects, organized by Dennis Lim and Dan Sullivan, and presented by Goethe-Institut with the support of German Films.
Bertrand Tavernier on the end of Jean Renoir's A Day In The Country:...
- 12/3/2018
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Morgan Neville's documentary on the making of Orson Welles's The Other Side Of The Wind is a 56th New York Film Festival Special Event Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
The Film Society of Lincoln Center has announced the 56th New York Film Festival Special Events program: Orson Welles's The Other Side Of The Wind with John Huston, Peter Bogdanovich, Oja Kodar, Edmund O’Brien, Susan Strasberg, Lilli Palmer, Paul Stewart, Mercedes McCambridge, Cameron Mitchell, Paul Mazursky, Henry Jaglom, Claude Chabrol, and Norman Foster plus Morgan Neville's They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead documentary on the making of The Other Side Of The Wind, and Rex Ingram's The Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse, courtesy of Martin Scorsese, with a score written and performed by Matthew Nolan, Barry Adamson, Seán Mac Erlaine, Adrian Crowley, and Kevin Murphy.
Film Comment Presents: Nuri Bilge Ceylan's The Wild Pear Tree starring...
The Film Society of Lincoln Center has announced the 56th New York Film Festival Special Events program: Orson Welles's The Other Side Of The Wind with John Huston, Peter Bogdanovich, Oja Kodar, Edmund O’Brien, Susan Strasberg, Lilli Palmer, Paul Stewart, Mercedes McCambridge, Cameron Mitchell, Paul Mazursky, Henry Jaglom, Claude Chabrol, and Norman Foster plus Morgan Neville's They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead documentary on the making of The Other Side Of The Wind, and Rex Ingram's The Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse, courtesy of Martin Scorsese, with a score written and performed by Matthew Nolan, Barry Adamson, Seán Mac Erlaine, Adrian Crowley, and Kevin Murphy.
Film Comment Presents: Nuri Bilge Ceylan's The Wild Pear Tree starring...
- 8/23/2018
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Jim Jarmusch, Eszter Balint, Lenny Kaye, Bill Frisell, Charlie Sexton and Marc Ribot appear in Ron Mann's Carmine Street Guitars Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
The Film Society of Lincoln Center has announced the 56th New York Film Festival Spotlight on Documentary selections this afternoon. The programme includes Tom Volf's Maria By Callas; Mark Bozek's The Times Of Bill Cunningham, narrated by Sarah Jessica Parker; Charles Ferguson's Watergate with interviews of Lesley Stahl, Dan Rather, Pat Buchanan, and John Dean; Alexis Bloom's Divide And Conquer: The Story Of Roger Ailes At Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News, and American Dharma directed by Errol Morris.
There are 14 documentaries in all chosen by Festival Director and Selection Committee Chair Kent Jones, Dennis Lim, Film Society of Lincoln Center Director of Programming, and Florence Almozini, Film Society of Lincoln Center Associate Director of Programming.
Tickets for the 56th New York Film...
The Film Society of Lincoln Center has announced the 56th New York Film Festival Spotlight on Documentary selections this afternoon. The programme includes Tom Volf's Maria By Callas; Mark Bozek's The Times Of Bill Cunningham, narrated by Sarah Jessica Parker; Charles Ferguson's Watergate with interviews of Lesley Stahl, Dan Rather, Pat Buchanan, and John Dean; Alexis Bloom's Divide And Conquer: The Story Of Roger Ailes At Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News, and American Dharma directed by Errol Morris.
There are 14 documentaries in all chosen by Festival Director and Selection Committee Chair Kent Jones, Dennis Lim, Film Society of Lincoln Center Director of Programming, and Florence Almozini, Film Society of Lincoln Center Associate Director of Programming.
Tickets for the 56th New York Film...
- 8/22/2018
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The Film Society of Lincoln Center has unveiled the complete lineup for its forward-thinking Convergence section of the 56th New York Film Festival, set to take place October 11 – 14. The seventh edition of the annual program is driven by innovative modes of storytelling via interactive experiences, featuring Virtual Reality, Immersive Cinema, AI, and more.
On this year’s Convergence, programmer Matt Bolish said in an official statement, “By expanding our virtual reality programming for 2018 it’s our hope to expose our audiences to compelling stories — documentaries, narrative pieces, games — that will both capture their imaginations and make them think. The addition of our ‘Arcade’ gives attendees the chance to really dig in, explore, and interact with the work, each other, and the storytellers shaping this exciting form.”
The program plays out during the annual fall festival’s final weekend, and will include several world premieres, from “What Goes Up/Must Come Down,...
On this year’s Convergence, programmer Matt Bolish said in an official statement, “By expanding our virtual reality programming for 2018 it’s our hope to expose our audiences to compelling stories — documentaries, narrative pieces, games — that will both capture their imaginations and make them think. The addition of our ‘Arcade’ gives attendees the chance to really dig in, explore, and interact with the work, each other, and the storytellers shaping this exciting form.”
The program plays out during the annual fall festival’s final weekend, and will include several world premieres, from “What Goes Up/Must Come Down,...
- 8/16/2018
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
56th New York Film Festival Projections line-up announced by Anne-Katrin Titze - 2018-08-13 21:31:25
Albert Serra, the director of The Death Of Louis Xiv (La Mort De Louis Xiv), starring Jean-Pierre Léaud, has Roi Soleil, featuring Lluís Serrat in the 56th New York Film Festival Projections line-up Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
The Film Society of Lincoln Center has announced the 56th New York Film Festival Projections line-up which runs from October 4 through October 7.The program will screen seven feature films: Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt's Diamantino; Albert Serra's Roi Soleil; Jodie Mack's The Grand Bizarre; James Benning's 11 x 14; Ted Fendt's Classical Period; Tsai Ming-liang's Your Face, and Dora García's Second Time Around (Segunda Vez).
There will also be five programs of shorts, an Ericka Beckman Program and a Quantification Trilogy by Jeremy Shaw.
Projections is curated by Dennis Lim (Fslc Director of Programming) and Aily Nash (independent curator). Shelby Shaw and Dan Sullivan are Program Assistants.
“This year’s Projections lineup brings together established artists,...
The Film Society of Lincoln Center has announced the 56th New York Film Festival Projections line-up which runs from October 4 through October 7.The program will screen seven feature films: Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt's Diamantino; Albert Serra's Roi Soleil; Jodie Mack's The Grand Bizarre; James Benning's 11 x 14; Ted Fendt's Classical Period; Tsai Ming-liang's Your Face, and Dora García's Second Time Around (Segunda Vez).
There will also be five programs of shorts, an Ericka Beckman Program and a Quantification Trilogy by Jeremy Shaw.
Projections is curated by Dennis Lim (Fslc Director of Programming) and Aily Nash (independent curator). Shelby Shaw and Dan Sullivan are Program Assistants.
“This year’s Projections lineup brings together established artists,...
- 8/13/2018
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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