The 62nd New York Film Festival opened at Lincoln Center on Friday, the return of what may be the best curated international film festival, featuring new works by such esteemed directors as Pedro Almodóvar, Mike Leigh, David Cronenberg, Paul Schrader, Steve McQueen, and Luca Guadagnino.The festival, which runs through Oct.14 at venues across New York City, showcases more than 100 films from 41 countries, including prize winners from the Cannes, Venice, Berlin, Sundance, Toronto and Locarno film festivals.
Among the stars featured are Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones ("The Brutalist"), Daniel Craig ("Queer"), Richard Gere and Uma Thurman ("Oh, Canada"), Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore ("The Room Next Door"), Saoirse Ronan ("Blitz"), Cate Blanchett ("Rumours"), and Naomi Watts and Bill Murray ("The Friend").Angelina Jolie stars as opera diva Maria Callas in the biopic "Maria," directed by Pablo Larrain ("Jackie," "Spencer")."Emilia Perez," a crime thriller/musical, won the best actress award at Cannes for its four lead performers: Zoe Saldaña, Selena Gomez, Karla Sofía Gascón and Adriana Paz.
"A Traveller's Needs" stars the great Isabelle Huppert as a French teacher in South Korea whose unconventional teaching methods involve speaking hardly any French words. Gala screeningsFriday's opening night presentation, "Nickel Boys," is an adaptation of Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about a young Black student unjustly sent to a reform school in Florida, where he witnesses the cruel hypocrisies of the Jim Crow era.Directed by RaMell Ross (the Oscar-nominated documentary "Hale County This Morning, This Evening"), the film takes a subjective view of the characters' journey into adulthood.
It stars Ethan Herisse, Brandon Wilson, and Deveed Diggs.To watch a trailer for "Nickel Boys" click on the video player below: Other gala screenings include the festival's centerpiece, "The Room Next Door." Pedro Almodóvar's first English-language feature, w...