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The New York Film Festival said Luca Guadagnino's Queer will be the Spotlight Gala of the 62nd New York Film Festival, making its U.S. premiere. The adaptation of William S. Burroughs's novel, scripted by Justin Kuritzkes, stars Daniel Craig, Drew Starkey, Jason Schwartzman, Lesley Manville, Michael…

Cannes' two top prizewinners, Payal Kapadia's All We Imagine as Light (Grand Prize) and Sean Baker's Anora (Palme d'Or) are among 32 features from 18 countries set for the New York Film Festival's Main Slate, unveiled today. Other titles at the venerable New York City mainstay include Roberto…

Pedro Almodóvar's first English-language feature The Room Next Door with Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton will be the Centerpiece selection at the 62nd New York Film Festival. The drama, an adaptation of Sigrid Nunez's 2020 novel What Are You Going Through, make its U.S. premiere at Alice Tully Hall on…

Steve McQueen's Blitz, starring Saoirse Ronan and Elliott Heffernan, will be the closing night selection of the 62nd New York Film Festival, making its North American premiere, said the fest's parent Film At Lincoln Center. The re-creation of London during its blitzkrieg by the Germans during World…

RaMell Ross's Nickel Boys will be the opening-night film of the 62nd New York Film Festival at Alice Tully Hall on September 27, the fest’s parent organization, Film at Lincoln Center, revealed Monday. The adaptation of Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize–winning novel stars Ethan Herisse and Brandon…

Lesli Klainberg, president of Film at Lincoln Center for a decade, will be stepping down this fall after the upcoming New York Film Festival, which runs Sept. 27- Oct. 13. FLC's board will form a search committee to recruit a new leader, the nonprofit film organization said. It’s tapped Matt Bolish…

The 2023 film festival season has wound its way from Sundance and SXSW through Cannes and Tribeca to the fall stops at Venice, Telluride and Toronto. Still to watch for this fall: Both Sundance’s Festival Favorite Award winner Radical starring Eugenio Derbez and Cannes’ Palme d’Or winner Anatomy of a…

The SAG-AFTRA strike, a wild card throughout the fall festival season, has created a closing stretch of the New York Film Festival unlike many (any?) of its 60 previous editions. The final NYFF press conference this morning featured Ferrari cast members Adam Driver, Penélope Cruz and Gabriel Leone…

"The events of the last couple of days have been quite difficult for everybody," said filmmaker Jonathan Glazer as his film about a Nazi commander at Auschwitz screened Sunday at the New York Film Festival. 'Zone of Interest,' Glazer's first appearance on the NYFF main slate, played after the worst…

Sofia Coppola's Priscilla Presley biopic Priscilla is the centerpiece premiere at the New York Film Festival this evening, but the filmmaker had to miss the movie’s presser today at short notice, sending a note that she is "with her mother."  "I'm so proud to have our film at the NYFF in my hometown,&#8221…

The Match Factory has announced a raft of world sales for Sofia Coppola's biopic Priscilla ahead of its North American premiere as the Centrepiece selection of the New York Film Festival on Friday. The film has sold to Australia and New Zealand (Madman Entertainment), Spain (Elastica Films and BTeam…

Director Steve McQueen said his unusual four-hour Holocaust documentary shot in Amsterdam is rooted in his strong sense that "the past is present" in physical manifestations all around us, as well as a reminder to stay vigilant. "It’s very cliche, but we have to not forget. Because see what’s…