![David Fincher has a strong relationship with The New York Film Festival, he made world premiere debuts of “The Social Network”(2010), and “Gone Girl,” (2014). “Mindhunter” screened at the 2017 edition, and if the filmmaker has a new film in the wings, it’s generally in the wings for a NYFF discussion at least. So while it made its world premiere in Venice already (read our review), today Film at Lincoln Center announces Fincher’s latest film, “The Killer” starring Michael Fassbender would join the Spotlight selection of the 61st New York Film Festival, screening on October 14 at 7pm at the Paris Theater and October 15 at 8:45pm at the Walter Reade Theater. READ MORE: ‘The Killer’ Review: David Fincher’s Homage To The Classic Crime Thriller With Michael Fassbender Is Entertaining But Orthodox [Venice] Described as a neo-noir action thriller, and reunited Fincher with his “Sev7vn” screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker—Fincher had been trying to develop this since 2007!—“The Killer” stars Fassbender as a professional assassin who battles his employers, and himself, on an international manhunt he insists isn't personal, after a fateful near miss and job that goes awry. The film also stars Arliss Howard, Charles Parnell, Kerry O'Malley, Sala Baker, Sophie Charlotte, and Tilda Swinton. Here's NYFF’s synopsis, noting the film’s “corrosive wit “and “rigorously precise technique.” With corrosive wit and rigorously precise technique, this mesmerizing new film from director David Fincher (The Social Network, NYFF48; Gone Girl, NYFF52) pares the payback thriller down to its spare but deeply pleasurable essentials. Adapted by Andrew Kevin Walker from a graphic novel by Alexis “Matz” Nolent and Luc Jacamon, and starring a perfectly chilled Michael Fassbender as a globe-trotting hit man of near-ascetic commitment to his craft, it’s an exemplary process movie in which revenge proves unpredictable, character is action (and inaction), and murder isn’t personal — until, suddenly, it is. A Netflix release. The NYFF Spotlight selection committee, chaired by Dennis Lim, also includes Florence Almozini, Justin Chang, K. Austin Collins, and Rachel Rosen. A Netflix release, “The Killer” in set for select theaters October and on the streaming service on November 10.](https://cdn.theplaylist.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/26151805/The-Killer-NYFF.jpg "David Fincher has a strong relationship with The New York Film Festival, he made world premiere debuts of “The Social Network”(2010), and “Gone Girl,” (2014). “Mindhunter” screened at the 2017 edition, and if the filmmaker has a new film in the wings, it’s generally in the wings for a NYFF discussion at least. So while it made its world premiere in Venice already (read our review), today Film at Lincoln Center announces Fincher’s latest film, “The Killer” starring Michael Fassbender would join the Spotlight selection of the 61st New York Film Festival, screening on October 14 at 7pm at the Paris Theater and October 15 at 8:45pm at the Walter Reade Theater. READ MORE: ‘The Killer’ Review: David Fincher’s Homage To The Classic Crime Thriller With Michael Fassbender Is Entertaining But Orthodox [Venice] Described as a neo-noir action thriller, and reunited Fincher with his “Sev7vn” screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker—Fincher had been trying to develop this since 2007!—“The Killer” stars Fassbender as a professional assassin who battles his employers, and himself, on an international manhunt he insists isn't personal, after a fateful near miss and job that goes awry. The film also stars Arliss Howard, Charles Parnell, Kerry O'Malley, Sala Baker, Sophie Charlotte, and Tilda Swinton. Here's NYFF’s synopsis, noting the film’s “corrosive wit “and “rigorously precise technique.” With corrosive wit and rigorously precise technique, this mesmerizing new film from director David Fincher (The Social Network, NYFF48; Gone Girl, NYFF52) pares the payback thriller down to its spare but deeply pleasurable essentials. Adapted by Andrew Kevin Walker from a graphic novel by Alexis “Matz” Nolent and Luc Jacamon, and starring a perfectly chilled Michael Fassbender as a globe-trotting hit man of near-ascetic commitment to his craft, it’s an exemplary process movie in which revenge proves unpredictable, character is action (and inaction), and murder isn’t personal — until, suddenly, it is. A Netflix release. The NYFF Spotlight selection committee, chaired by Dennis Lim, also includes Florence Almozini, Justin Chang, K. Austin Collins, and Rachel Rosen. A Netflix release, “The Killer” in set for select theaters October and on the streaming service on November 10.")
David Fincher has a strong relationship with The New York Film Festival; he made the world premiere debuts of “The Social Network” (2010) and “Gone Girl” (2014). “Mindhunter” screened at the 2017 edition, and if the filmmaker has a new film in the wings, it’s generally in the wings for an NYFF discussion, at least. So while it made its world premiere in Venice already (read our review), today Film at Lincoln Center announces Fincher’s latest film, “The Killer,” starring Michael Fassbender, would join the Spotlight selection of the 61st New York Film Festival—making it the film’s North American premiere— screening on October 14 at 7pm at the Paris Theater and October 15 at 8:45pm at the Walter Reade Theater.
Described as a neo-noir action thriller and reunited Fincher with his “Sev7vn” screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker—Fincher had been trying to develop this since 2007!—“The Killer” stars Fassbender as a professional assassin who battles his employers and himself on an international manhunt he insists isn’t personal after a fateful near miss and a job that goes awry. The film also stars Arliss Howard, Charles Parnell, Kerry O’Malley, Sala Baker, Sophie Charlotte, and Tilda Swinton.
Here’s NYFF’s synopsis, noting the film’s “corrosive wit “and “rigorously precise technique.”
With corrosive wit and rigorously precise technique, this mesmerizing new film from director David Fincher (The Social Network, NYFF48; Gone Girl, NYFF52) pares the payback thriller down to its spare but deeply pleasurable essentials. Adapted by Andrew Kevin Walker from a graphic novel by Alexis “Matz” Nolent and Luc Jacamon, and starring a perfectly chilled Michael Fassbender as a globe-trotting hitman of near-ascetic commitment to his craft, it’s an exemplary process movie in which revenge proves unpredictable, character is action (and inaction), and murder isn’t personal — until, suddenly, it is. A Netflix release.
The NYFF Spotlight selection committee, chaired by Dennis Lim, also includes Florence Almozini, Justin Chang, K. Austin Collins, and Rachel Rosen. A Netflix release, “The Killer,” is set for select theaters in October and on the streaming service on November 10.
