This will mark the sixtieth year of the New York Film Festival, an event that has long introduced audiences to the latest cinematic works from the world's celebrated filmmakers and exciting new talent. This year's fest will begin on September 30th and conclude on October 16th.
The new film from Noah Baumbach, "White Noise", which had it's world premiere at the Venice Film Festival last month, will be the Opening Night selection that will make it's North American premiere. This bold adaptation of the Don DeLillo’s 1985 novel stars Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig in a satire about an accidental airborne toxic event that terrifyingly changes their comfortable suburban lives.
The photographer Nan Goldin, who is a subject in this year’s Centerpiece selection "All the Beauty and the Bloodshed", has created two posters (one pictured above) to celebrate the fest's milestone. This documentary by Laura Poitras (which won the top prize of the Golden Lion at Venice) explores the legal battle between Goldin and the Sacklers, the family behind the pharmaceutical company, Purdue Pharma who she held personally accountable for her opioid addiction.
James Gray's latest feature, "Armageddon Time" has been selected as the NYFF 60th Anniversary Celebration screening. This semi-autobiographical, coming-of-age drama, set in 1980's Queens, is about a sixth grade boy (Banks Repeta) who dreams of becoming an artist. Yet his parents (Jeremy Strong and Anne Hathaway) have other plans for his future while he struggles to understand the racism from people (including his parents) about his friendship with an African-American classmate (Jaylin Webb).
The Closing Night selection will be "The Inspection", the riveting feature film debut by Elegance Bratton. Based on Bratton's own experiences, Jeremy Pope stars as a troubled young gay man, forced to live on the streets due to conflict with his homophobic mother (Gabrielle Union), who decides to join the Marines in an attempt to turn his life around. But this is during the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" era, making this even more of a challenge for him.
Other films in the Main Slate include North American and US premieres from international filmmakers like Marie Kreutzer ("Corsage"); Frederick Wiseman ("A Couple"); Jerzy Skolimowski ("EO"); Mia Hansen-Løve ("One Fine Morning"); Cristian Mungiu ("R.M.N."); Davy Chou ("Return to Seoul"); Pietro Marcello ("Scarlet"); Alice Diop ("Saint Omer").
Some highlights from the Spotlight section of the fest includes the film critic, Elvis Mitchell's first time behind the camera with the documentary, "Is That Black Enough for You?!?" which takes an engaging yet scholarly look at the African-American revolution in cinema during the 1970's; The Oscar-winning British director, James Ivory looks back at himself in the documentary, "A Cooler Climate" which he co-directed with Giles Gardner that reveals the contents of a recently found box of film shot in the 1960's during Ivory's life-changing trip to Afghanistan; "Sr" explores the life and career of Robert Downey Sr., the visionary filmmaker best known for his counterculture comedies (who passed away at eighty-five in 2021) from director Chris Smith. And the world premiere of "Till", Chinonye Chukwu’s heartfelt examination of the tragic aftermath of the horrific murder of Emmett Till, a fourteen year old boy from Chicago, with his mother, Mamie (Danielle Deadwyler) demanding the world see what was done to her son, helping to ignite the civil rights movement.
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