After revealing its opening, closing, centerpiece, and 60th-anniversary titles, Film at Lincoln Center (FLC) has announced the 32 films that comprise the Main Slate of the 60th New York Film Festival (NYFF), taking place September 30–October 16 at Lincoln Center and in venues across the city.
We already know big highlights like Noah Baumbach’s “White Noise,” the Opening Night Film starring Adam Driver, and Greta Gerwig, but there’s much more. First of all, the list of filmmakers is nuts Margaret Brown, Park Chan-wook, Davy Chou, Laura Citarella, Claire Denis, Alice Diop, Todd Field, James Gray, Mia Hansen-Løve, Joanna Hogg, Mark Jenkin, Marie Kreutzer, Pietro Marcello, Cristian Mungiu, Ruben Östlund, Jafar Panahi, Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Laura Poitras, Kelly Reichardt, Hong Sangsoo, Paul Schrader, to name just a few.
Highlights include the return of writer/director Todd Field with “TÁR,” a classical music-world film starring Cate Blanchett. It will be his first directorial effort since 2006’s “Little Children,” his first film in 16 years. Paul Schrader will return to the festival with “The Master Gardner,” a thriller starring Sigourney Weaver and Joel Edgerton, as well U.K. filmmaker Joanna Hogg with her new film, “The Eternal Daughter” starring Tilda Swinton.
Highlights that premiered earlier this year at Cannes include Park Chan-wook’s “Decision to Leave,” Charlotte Wells’ “Aftersun,” Kelly Reichardt’s “Showing Up,” Claire Denis’ “Stars at Noon,” and it wouldn’t be a regular NYFF without two Hong Sangsoo films in the line-up.
“If there is one takeaway from this year’s Main Slate, it is cinema’s limitless capacity for renewal,” said Dennis Lim, artistic director of the New York Film Festival. “Collectively, the films in the program suggest that this renewal takes many forms: breathtaking debuts, veterans pulling off new tricks, filmmakers of all stripes seeking new and surprising forms of expression and representation. We love the range and eclecticism of this group of films and are excited to share it with audiences.”
This year’s Main Slate showcases films produced in 18 different countries, featuring new titles from renowned auteurs, exceptional work from returning NYFF directors as well as those making their NYFF debuts, and celebrated films from festivals worldwide, including Cannes prizewinners: Claire Denis’s Stars at Noon; Park Chan-wook’s Decision to Leave; Ruben Östlund’s Triangle of Sadness; and Charlotte Wells’s debut feature film, Aftersun. Carla Simón’s Alcarràs was awarded the Golden Bear at the 72nd Berlinale Festival, and Shaunak Sen’s All That Breathes took the Grand Jury Prize in the World Cinema Documentary Competition at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and the l’Oeil d’Or for best documentary at Cannes.
NYFF runs September 30–October 16, and we’ll have plenty of coverage before, during, and after the festival.
The 60th New York Film Festival Main Slate
Opening Night
White Noise
Dir. Noah Baumbach
Centerpiece
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Dir. Laura Poitras
Closing Night
The Inspection
Dir. Elegance Bratton
NYFF 60th Anniversary Celebration
Armageddon Time
Dir. James Gray
Aftersun
Dir. Charlotte Wells
Alcarràs
Dir. Carla Simón
All That Breathes
Dir. Shaunak Sen
Corsage
Dir. Marie Kreutzer
A Couple
Dir. Frederick Wiseman
De Humani Corporis Fabrica
Dir. Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor
Decision to Leave
Dir. Park Chan-wook
Descendant
Dir. Margaret Brown
Enys Men
Dir. Mark Jenkin
EO
Dir. Jerzy Skolimowski
The Eternal Daughter
Dir. Joanna Hogg
Master Gardener
Dir. Paul Schrader
No Bears
Dir. Jafar Panahi
The Novelist’s Film
Dir. Hong Sangsoo
One Fine Morning
Dir. Mia Hansen-Løve
Pacifiction
Dir. Albert Serra
R.M.N.
Dir. Cristian Mungiu
Return to Seoul
Dir. Davy Chou
Saint Omer
Dir. Alice Diop
Scarlet
Dir. Pietro Marcello
Showing Up
Dir. Kelly Reichardt
Stars at Noon
Dir. Claire Denis
Stonewalling
Dir. Huang Ji and Ryuji Otsuka
TÁR
Dir. Todd Field
Trenque Lauquen
Dir. Laura Citarella
Triangle of Sadness
Dir. Ruben Östlund
Unrest
Dir. Cyril Schäublin
Walk Up
Dir. Hong Sangsoo
Details of all the films, including casts and synopses, can be read on the next page.