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Eugene Hernandez, the deputy executive director of Film at Lincoln Center and founder of IndieWire, has been named director of the New York Film Festival. He'll will work closely with Dennis Lim, who has been appointed the festival's director of programming. The announcement made Wednesday effectively creates two…

Edward Norton’s crime noir Motherless Brooklyn has been on a tear on the fall film festival circuit having premiered at Telluride, then TIFF and now tonight the New York Film Festival. A feature adaptation of Jonathan Lethem’s 1999 novel, it’s Norton’s second directorial in 19 years, a long path due to “fits and…

Francis Ford Coppola wished his old frenemy Robert Evans could have made the trip to a screening of The Cotton Club Encore, the new version of the 1984 film that Coppola spent half a million dollars of his own money to re-edit, expand and re-release. Coppola directed and Evans produced the original film about the…

Introducing Wednesday’s New York Film Festival screening of Joker, director Todd Phillips acknowledged the strong reactions to the film, which finally opens commercially this weekend. "There's been a lot said about this movie – a lot said by me, too. I've learned," the director told the audience. "I'm really excited…

UPDATED at 12:15AM PT with reactions and detail. In The Irishman, mobbed-up characters in need of protection talk about needing "bodies" – shorthand slang for bodyguards – to watch their backs. Plenty of bodies patrolled Friday’s after-party for director Martin Scorsese’s Netflix release, which had a high-energy world…

Ever since it came into our cinematic consciousness there has been much talk and a whole lotta anticipation for Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman, the decades-spanning mob crime epic reuniting Scorsese with Goodfellas and Casino stars Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci, and giving Al Pacino his surprisingly first-ever…

Netflix’s The Irishman drew largely upbeat reactions after a press screening before Friday night’s premiere at the New York Film Festival. While official reviews remained under embargo, many critics took to Twitter to share positive initial impressions of Martin Scorsese’s film, which stars Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci…

Kent Jones, now in his seventh year as director of the New York Film Festival, will step down from that position following this year’s 57th edition, the Film at Lincoln Center organization announced today. Jones, whose career as a film director surged last year with the release of his first narrative feature Diane…

EXCLUSIVE: Today marks the fourth anniversary of the death of renownd neurologist, author and thinker Oliver Sacks, coming a day after Ric Burns’ insightful documentary Oliver Sacks: His Own Life was tipped for the lineup at the Telluride Film Festival. After that it’s headed for the documentary section at the New…

A sneak preview screening of Joker, the Todd Phillips-directed Batman villain story starring Joaquin Phoenix, will be held at this fall’s New York Film Festival. Organizers also announced Friday that Frances Ford Coppola’s The Cotton Club Encore will screen. Coppola recovered lost negatives to render the film…

The New York Film Festival on Wednesday unveiled the lineup for its Spotlight on Documentary section, which include films from Nick Broomfield, Lynn Novick, Nicholas Ma, Nanni Moretti, Tim Robbins and Michael Apted and subjects ranging from dancer and choreographer Merce Cunningham to Roy Cohn and Oliver…

Film at Lincoln Center has set its main slate of 29 films for the 57th New York Film Festival, running September 27-October 13. The festival already announced it will get underway with the Martin Scorsese-directed The Irishman, with the Noah Baumbach-directed Marriage Story its centerpiece, and the Edward…