The New York Film Festival lists film lineup for 60th anniversary
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On its 60th anniversary, the New York Film Festival is celebrating with a dynamic 32-film main slate dominated by hometown tales.
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A still from "The Inspection," directed by Elegance Pratton.
On its 60th anniversary, the New York Film Festival will be celebrating with a dynamic 32-film main slate dominated by hometown tales, including "Armageddon Time" directed by James Gray, and "All the Beauty and Bloodshed," directed by Laura Poitras.
The festival will be held at Film at Lincoln Center, which announced the lineup Tuesday. The screenings are largely NY-centric, as they will begin with a previously announced opening film from New York Film Festival regular Noah Baumbach, who will be debuting his Don DeLillo adaptation "White Noise" just after it opens the Venice Film Festival.
The centerpiece, however, is "All the Beauty and the Bloodshed," in which Poitras showcases artist Nan Goldin's fight to contain the opioid crisis and the pharmaceutical companies that profited from it.
Elegance Bratton's "The Inspection," a semi-autobiographical film which stars Jeremy Pope, will close the festival.
"Armageddon Time" will be showcased as part of the celebration. The film premiered in May at the Cannes Film Festival. The film draws on Gray's personal childhood in the 1980s Queens. Anthony Hopkins, Jeremy Strong, and Anne Hathaway start in the movie.
Other films that will be screened are Todd Field's "TAR," in which Cate Blanchett plays a famous composer, Paul Schrader’s “Master Gardner" in which Joel Edgerton acts as a horticulturist, Joanna Hogg’s “The Eternal Daughter” starring Tilda Swinton; in addition to documentarian Frederick Wiseman’s “A Couple" - a monologue drama based on the letters of Leo Tolstoy and wife Countess Sophia Behrs. Iranian director Jafar Panahi's "No Bears" was also part of the selection.
The New York Film Festival will be running from September 30 till October 16.
