Film at Lincoln Center unveiled its Spotlight section including Pablo Larraín’s Maria with Angelina Jolie as legendary opera singer Maria Callas in her final days; the North American premieres of Leos Carax’s It’s Not Me; Alex Ross Perry’s Pavements, Andrei Ujică’s Beatles documentary TWST / Things We Said Today and the U.S. premiere of doc Elton John: Never Too Late, with an appearance by the legendary musician.
Jacques Audiard’s Cannes Jury Prize winner Emilia Pérez joins new works by Jacques Audiard, Petra Costa, Jesse Eisenberg, Jean-Luc Godard, Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson and Galen Jackson, Scott McGehee and David Siegel, Walter Salles, Brett Story and Stephen Maing.
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NYFF calls Spotlight a showcase of the fall’s most notable films — a selection of literary adaptations, portraits of musical artists, Cannes award winners, works dealing with political and historical realities, and the final film of Jean-Luc Godard, screening alongside a documentary of the master at work.
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As previously reported, the Spotlight Gala will be the U.S. premiere of Luca Guadagnino’s Queer.
The festival runs September 27–October 14. See the main slate here.
Brazilian politics are the focus of two films: Petra Costa’s Apocalypse in the Tropics and Walter Salles’s I’m Still Here, Labor is the focus of Brett Story and Stephen Maing’s immersive documentary Union, which follows the day-to-day struggles of the Amazon labor union and the events that led to its historic 2022 vote. Rumours by Guy Maddin and directors Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson create a sci-fi satire of world leaders at the annual G7 summit.
In Jesse Eisenberg’s Sundance award-winner A Real Pain, Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin star as cousins who attempt to reconnect on a pilgrimage to the Polish hometown of their grandmother, a Holocaust survivor.
Jean-Luc Godard continues to be a presence at NYFF two years after his death with the U.S. premiere of one film by the New Wave masterb — Scénarios, a quintessential, complexly layered work that concludes with a poignant appearance by the filmmaker himself the day before his death, screens along with a documentary conceptualized by Godard and shot in 2021 by longtime collaborator Fabrice Aragno.
French filmmaker Leos Carax pays playful homage to Godard and cinema itself in the North American premiere of It’s Not Me, with an in-depth conversation with Carax after the premiere screening.
The Friend, Scott McGehee and David Siegel’s warm and humane adaptation of Sigrid Nunez’s beloved National Book Award winner, is the second film in the NYFF62 lineup based on the work of the acclaimed writer, whose novel What Are You Going Through was adapted by Pedro Almodóvar for Centerpiece selection The Room Next Door.
SPOTLIGHT FILMS
Spotlight Gala
Queer
Luca Guadagnino, 2024
Apocalypse in the Tropics
Petra Costa, 2024
Elton John: Never Too Late
R.J. Cutler, David Furnish, 2024
Emilia Pérez
Jacques Audiard, 2024
The Friend, 2024
Scott McGehee, David Siegel
I’m Still Here
Walter Salles, 2024
U.S. Premiere
It’s Not Me
Leos Carax, 2024
Maria
Pablo Larraín, 2024,
Pavements
Alex Ross Perry, U.S
A Real Pain
Jesse Eisenberg, 2024,
Rumours
Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson, 2024
Scénarios + Exposé du Film annonce du film “Scénario”
Jean-Luc Godard, 2024,
TWST / Things We Said Today
Andrei Ujică, 2024
Union
Brett Story, Stephen Maing, 2024