Film at Lincoln Center Announces Spotlight for 61st NYFF
World premieres are Nathan Fielder and Benny Safdie’s The Curse, Garth Davis’s Foe starring Saoirse Ronan and Paul Mescal, and U.S. premiere of The Boy and the Heron, Hayao Miyazaki’s first film in a decade.
[New York, NY — August 17, 2023] — Film at Lincoln Center announces Spotlight for the 61st New York Film Festival (September 29-October 15). The NYFF61 Spotlight section complements the Main Slate with a selection of significant and surprising films, one-of-a-kind presentations including adventurous portraits of creative minds, one-night only events with live musical accompaniment, bold short films by acclaimed directors, and probing documentaries.
As previously announced, NYFF61 will present the North American premiere of Bradley Cooper’s Maestro on October 2 in a Spotlight Gala evening at David Geffen Hall specially outfitted with Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos sound.
World premieres in the Spotlight section are Nathan Fielder and Benny Safdie’s genre-defying series The Curse starring Emma Stone; and Garth Davis’s superbly rendered science-fiction drama Foe, starring Saoirse Ronan and Paul Mescal.
Additional highlights in Spotlight are the long-awaited The Boy and the Heron, Hayao Miyazaki’s first film in a decade; a late-night showing of Harmony Korine’s AGGRO DR1FT, shot entirely in infrared, preceded by David Cronenberg’s surreal short Four Unloved Women, Adrift on a Purposeless Sea, Experience the Ecstasy of Dissection; Richard Linklater’s cleverly existential comedy Hit Man, starring and co-written by actor Glen Powell; Sean Price Williams’s feature debut, the weird and wild The Sweet East; and Trân Anh Hùng’s sumptuous Cannes Best Director winner The Taste of Things, starring Juliette Binoche and Benoît Magimel.
Documentaries are a significant part of Spotlight, with Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson’s Sundance-awarded Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project; Steve McQueen’s sober and gripping Occupied City; Errol Morris’s riveting portrait of John le Carré, The Pigeon Tunnel; Frederick Wiseman’s sumptuous Menus-Plaisirs Les Troisgros; and Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus, Neo Sora’s heartfelt gift to his father’s fans.
One-of-a-kind events include Yorgos Lanthimos’s Bleat starring Emma Stone, presented in 35mm and featuring live musical accompaniment, and an extended conversation with Pedro Almodóvar following his 30-minute film Strange Way of Life.
The New York Film Festival will offer festival screenings in all five boroughs of New York City in partnership with Alamo Drafthouse Cinema (Staten Island), BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music) (Brooklyn), the Bronx Museum of the Arts (Bronx), Maysles Documentary Center in Harlem (Manhattan), and the Museum of the Moving Image (Queens). Each venue will present a selection of films throughout the festival; a complete list of films and showtimes will be announced later this month.
For more information, visit the festival website.
Originally published at https://behindtherabbitproductions.wordpress.com on August 17, 2023.
