Film at Lincoln Center has set the Steve McQueen-directed Lovers Rock as the opening-night film of the 58th New York Film Festival. The film will be making its world premiere, and the festival is going heavily into the work of McQueen, who became the first Black filmmaker to win the Best Picture Oscar for 12 Years a Sl…
The full lineup for the Venice Film Festival will be announced tomorrow morning in Rome, but today it was unveiled that Chloe Zhao's upcoming feature Nomadland has been set to world premiere on September 11 on the Lido. It will also have a simultaneous screening at the Toronto International Film Festival, both of…
The fall festival trifecta – Venice, Telluride and Toronto – plus the nearby New York Film Festival, say they are ditching competing this year to focus on collaboration and supporting the cinema biz through the pandemic era.
Traditionally the first port of call for films intending to launch into awards season, the…
The industry is a long way from discovering how, or even when, the film festival circuit will return to any kind of functionality. Cannes is canned, replaced with a virtual market and potentially some branded tie-up with another event later in the year, and the summer festival calendar has been decimated by…
Organizers of the New York Film Festival, one of the signature cultural events in a city hit harder than anywhere in the world by COVID-19, say they are still exploring in-person elements for the 58th edition this fall.
Delivering some combination of live and digital experiences is still the ultimate goal, Film at Linc…
EXCLUSIVE: The Big Apple has already lost multiple film festivals this year due to the pandemic. The New York Film Festival is optimistic it won’t suffer the same fate, however, and is still very much planning to go ahead in September.
Organizers told us today, “The festival will be going ahead and everyone can expect…
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…
