NYFF Main Slate Boasts Big Names, Big Premieres in Gone Girl, Inherent Vice and Foxcatcher (Update)
The main slate of the 52nd New York Film Festival has shaped up to give the Toronto Film Festival a run for its money in terms of premieres and Oscar-bound glory. The North American festivals (including Telluride) often battle it out to get the biggest hits and the Oscar hopefuls. TIFF director Cameron Bailey even went so far as to draw a line in the sand about any film world premiering at a North American festival before his. By all accounts, that threat failed. But with heavy hitters like Gone Girl, Inherent Vice and Foxcatcher debuting, NYFF has plenty for cinephiles and lovers of international cinema in the form of Cannes hits Goodbye to Language 3D from Jean-Luc Godard and Clouds of Sils Maria from Olivier Assayas. NYFF runs from September 26th to October 12th.
Check out the full main slate list below:
Gone Girl (Opening Night – World Premiere, previously announced)
David Fincher, USA
Inherent Vice (Centerpiece – World Premiere, previously announced)
Paul Thomas Anderson, USA
Birdman or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance (Closing Night – New York Premiere, previously announced)
Alejandro G. Iñárritu, USA
Beloved Sisters / Die geliebten Schwestern (North American Premiere)
Dominik Graf, Germany/Austria
German and French with English subtitles
The Blue Room / La chambre bleue (North American Premiere)
Mathieu Amalric, France
French with English subtitles
Clouds of Sils Maria (U.S. Premiere)
Olivier Assayas, Switzerland/Germany/France
English and French with English subtitles
Eden (U.S. Premiere)
Mia Hansen-Løve, France
Foxcatcher (New York Premiere) – will be at Telluride as a U.S. premiere, now a NY premiere here
Bennett Miller, USA
Goodbye to Language / Adieu au langage (New York Premiere)
Jean-Luc Godard, France
French with English subtitles
Heaven Knows What (U.S. Premiere)
Josh & Benny Safdie, USA
Hill of Freedom / Jayuui Eondeok (U.S. Premiere)
Hong Sang-soo, South Korea
Korean and English with English subtitles
Horse Money / Cavalo Dinheiro (U.S. Premiere)
Pedro Costa, Portugal
Portuguese and Creole with English subtitles
Jauja (U.S. Premiere)
Lisandro Alonso, Argentina/Denmark/France/Mexico/USA/Germany/Brazil
Danish and Spanish with English subtitles
Life of Riley / Aimer, boire et chanter (New York Premiere)
Alain Resnais, France
French with English subtitles
Listen Up Philip (New York Premiere)
Alex Ross Perry, USA
Maps to the Stars (U.S. Premiere)
David Cronenberg, Canada/Germany
Misunderstood / Incompresa (North American Premiere)
Asia Argento, Italy/France
Italian, French, and English with English subtitles
Mr. Turner (New York Premiere)
Mike Leigh, UK
Pasolini (U.S. Premiere)
Abel Ferrara, France/Belgium/Italy
Italian, English, and French with English subtitles
The Princess of France / La Princesa de Francia (U.S. Premiere)
Matías Piñeiro, Argentina
Spanish and Italian with English subtitles
Saint Laurent (North American Premiere)
Bertrand Bonello, France
French with English subtitles
La Sapienza (U.S. Premiere)
Eugène Green, France/Italy
French and Italian with English subtitles
’71 (New York Premiere)
Yann Demange, UK
Tales of the Grim Sleeper (New York Premiere)
Nick Broomfield, USA/UK
Timbuktu (U.S. Premiere)
Abderrahmane Sissako, France/Mauritania
Arabic, Bambara, French, English, Songhay, and Tamasheq with English subtitles
Time Out of Mind (U.S. Premiere)
Oren Moverman, USA
Two Days, One Night / Deux jours, une nuit (New York Premiere)
Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, Belgium/France/Italy
French with English subtitles
Two Shots Fired / Dos Disparos (U.S. Premiere)
Martín Rejtman, Argentina
Spanish with English subtitles
Whiplash (New York Premiere)
Damien Chazelle, USA
The Wonders / Le meraviglie (North American Premiere)
Alice Rohrwacher, Italy/Switzerland/Germany
Italian, German, and French with English subtitles
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