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Matt Bolish, who has been a staff member of Film at Lincoln Center since 2011, has been promoted to the newly created position of managing director of the New York Film Festival. In his new post, Bolish will team with artistic director Dennis Lim, who oversees programming and curation, to produce the…

Intimacy coordinators, new protocols and safeguards and "things that seem very small on the page" have made Hollywood a better place for women in the MeToo era unleashed by the New York Times’ Oct. 5, 2017 investigation of Harvey Weinstein, said Zoe Kazan, who plays journalist Jodi Kantor in Maria…

Martin Scorsese gave a long shout-out to the NYFF and the art of cinema on stage at Avery Fisher Hall as the fest celebrated its 60th anniversary with the world premiere of his latest documentary, Personality Crisis: One Night Only. It followed a screening of Armageddon Time, another New York story by…

Chinonye Chukwu was certain of two things setting out to tell the story of a loving and lovely 14-year-old boy lynched in 1955 Mississippi for whistling at a white woman. First, the story had to be told from the perspective of Mamie, the mother of Emmett Till. "We had to follow closely her emotional…

Till, directed by Chinonye Chukwu and written by Chukwu, Keith Beauchamp and Michael Reilly, follows Mamie Till, a woman who moved the nation with her resilience in the face of her teenage son Emmett’s death in 1955. The film stars Danielle Deadwyler, Jalyn Hall, Whoopi Goldberg and Haley Bennett…

Noah Baumbach's White Noise kicked off the 60th New York Film Festival Friday night with a heartfelt paean by the writer/director to an event that he said shaped his love of movies and his career path. The Netflix film, based on Don DeLillo's post-modernist 1985 novel, that premiered in Venice in…

Dennis Lim, the artistic director of the New York Film Festival, has a confession. “I hate 'back to normal' as a phrase and as a concept,” he said with a chuckle. For the festival, however, the 60th edition kicking off tonight with White Noise “does feel kind of close to the experience we know. We’re at…

One problem with being The New York Times—big, lumbering, important—is that you sometimes get in your own way. It happens even when you cover the movies. Every now and then, you find yourself looking at a picture that's looking at you. And that can be awkward. Just such a moment is pending, as The Times prepares to…

Editor’s note: Deadline presents the 30th episode of its video series Take Two (formerly known as Two Shot), in which Pete Hammond and Todd McCarthy tackle the artistry of films. Each has reviewed and written about the craft for decades and built a remarkable breadth of knowledge of films past and present. What we hope…

We’ve seen Noah Baumbach dote on the dramatis personae of dysfunctional family before in his Oscar-winning movie Marriage Story and Cannes Film Festival premiere The Meyerowitz Stories, but here’s a Baumbach we’ve never seen before in his feature take of Don DeLillo’s National Book Award-winning novel. Though the pic…

The New York Film Festival on Tuesday revealed its Spotlight section lineup, which includes the world premiere of She Said, Universal’s drama based on the work of New York Times reporters Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey who investigated and wrote the bombshell 2017 Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse story. Maria Schrader…

The 60th New York Film Festival on Tuesday unveiled its main slate of movies from established and upcoming directors including Cannes’ Palme d'Or winner Triangle of Sadness by Ruben Östlund, Claire Denis' Stars at Noon (tied for Cannes Grand Prize), Park Chan-wook's Decision to Leave (Cannes Best Director) and Charlott…