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Directors Anisia Uzeyman and multi-talented Saul Williams deep dive into Afro-Futurism with the new film Neptune Frost. The film first premiered at Director’s Fortnight in Cannes, was an official selection at the Toronto Film Festival, and now at the New York Film Festival. Frost is a bold story about how the power of…

It's Oct. 1. Give it a week. Check the headlines, message boards, and online gossip. If the film awards and festival circuit hasn't run smack into a Covid cluster by then, we can all breathe easier. Hollywood will have blazed a trail past the pandemic. Unintentionally—because, let's face it, show business has never…

The 59th annual New York Film Festival kicked off Friday night with back-to-back world premiere screenings of Joel Coen's The Tragedy of Macbeth as the Frances McDormand, Denzel Washington-starrer met with loving applause at Lincoln Center's full Alice Tully Hall. There was much clapping throughout the evening…

Historian and politician John Dalberg Acton is quoted saying, “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Is it possible he was reading William Shakespeare’s 1606 play Macbeth when he thought of this? Macbeth has always been a story about power and corruption of the spirit and how greed could…

Last spring, as Covid-19 vaccines began rolling out and movie theaters and other venues reopened, organizers of the New York Film Festival were pretty sure they wouldn’t be forced back to the drive-in. They soon would decide to require vaccination of all staff, filmmakers, audience members and other participants (a…

EXCLUSIVE: On Friday, the New York Film Festival opens with the world premiere of The Tragedy of Macbeth, the Shakespearean thriller adapted and directed by Joel Coen, and starring Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand, alongside an accomplished cast. Coen, Washington and McDormand have 10 Oscars among them, and the…

New York Film Festival parent, Film at Lincoln Center (FLC), announced an expanded footprint for the 59th edition of the fest (Sept. 24 – Oct. 10), partnering with local arthouse theaters to bring selections to new audiences. NYFF is working with with Anthology Film Archives (East Village), BAM (Brooklyn Academy of…

New York Film Festival organizers have unveiled the slate for its Spotlight section, which includes Dune, C’mon C’mon, Red Rocket and other titles of note. Spotlight is the venue where the festival’s presenting organization, Film at Lincoln Center, aims to showcase the fall season’s most anticipated films. The…

The New York Film Festival organizers have set the main slate for this fall’s largely in-person 59th edition, as well as enhanced pandemic measures including a Covid-19 vaccine requirement. The 32 films in the Main Slate were produced in 31 different countries, reflecting New York’s decades-long reputation as a…

The New York Film Festival will close with Parallel Mothers, the Pedro Almodóvar-directed melodrama that is slated to open next month’s Venice Film Festival. Closing Night in New York will be October 8. After an online and virtual edition in 2020 due to Covid-19, the fest is returning to its Lincoln Center base with…

Jane Campion's The Power of the Dog will screen as the centerpiece selection at this fall’s 59th New York Film Festival. As the festival resumes in-person events after a 2020 edition blending online and drive-in screenings due to Covid-19, Campion’s film will debut at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall on October 1…

After navigating through the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 and mounting a hybrid edition, the New York Film Festival will return to its Lincoln Center base this fall. Film at Lincoln Center, the fest’s presenting organization, said Thursday that this year’s opening-night selection will be Joel Coen's The Tragedy of Macb…