This year has not been a general year for film, nor for film festivals, let’s say we’re lucky enough to have any kind of film festival the year COVID-19, and after months of blockade, the virtual broadcast of movies, press meetings and discussions with filmmakers don’t seem so strange.
In addition, because this year’s New York Film Festival has virtual, audiences across the country can participate in its offerings, which was not the case when screenings were limited to Manhattan cinemas. In addition to online offerings, many movies are also screened on drive in locations in Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx, allowing for intelligent social distance.
In the absence of festivals or awards, the New York Film Festival has been one of the most productive organized festivals, with premieres in the United States or New York of films from around the world through some of the most stimulating filmmakers. the festival will continue until October 11, with each film being screened online before its popular release, or what counts as a popular release at the time.
Even if you miss a virtual projection, you can attend enlightening conversations with filmmakers on the YouTube Film channel at Lincoln Center, like this one with director Sofia Coppola and actors Bill Murray, Rashida Jones and Marlon Wayans of the comedy “On the Rocks”:
Below are some of the highlights of the festival that are already in preview, as well as some promising attractions to come. The list will be updated as more films are presented to the press.
“Lovers Rock”: This 70-minute film through Steve McQueen (“12 Years a Slave”), presented as part of a series of films titled “Small Axe”, but which makes it an independent story, recreates the setting of a component of a 1980s house. Caribbean immigrants in London. We see the preparations, we almost smell the cooking of food and we attend the assembly of men and women, dancing, listening to reggae music and so on. There is no genuine situation consistent with se, and the characters do not cut deeply, but there is a tactile feel for the time-keeping, through clothing, music and decoration, while the tensions between woguy and guy are timeless. A remarkable scene: the dancers sing a cappella, proving that you don’t even want a DJ to feel very cheerful through music. Congratulations to The Director of Photography Shabier Kirchner. Screens from October 3rd to 5th.
Two more episodes of McQueen’s anthology “Small Axe” – “Mangrove” and “Red, White and Blue” – will be screened October 3-5. “Small Axe” will be released through Amazon Studios on November 30.
To see the progress of the anthology “Small Axe”, click on the video below:
“Nomadland”: Director Chloe Zhao’s last entry to the New York Film Festival, “The Rider” in 2017, a grim and poignant testimony of a western character in decline, an almost biographical depiction of a Lakota rodeo rider recovering from a fatal wound. In her new narrative feature film, Zhao blurs fiction and non-fiction in a short story animated by journalist Jessica Bruder “Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century,” a story of nomadic inhabitants of vans on the train. living in the aftermath of the 2008 economic crisis. Frances McDormand plays Fern, a widow who clung to life in a Nevada backwater until the mine and, with it, the city closed. Living in a van, he travels from state to state, task to task, leading an itinerant life among similar nomadic elders whose nearness to retirement is on a razor’s edge. Non-public progression on its own terms and despair. Zhao’s direction is finely tuned to those on the sidelines, with a cast that includes some of the other genuine people documented in Bruder’s book, while McDormand brings stoic assurance to his awkward-woman functionality in ” settle for the characterizations of others. of your situation; she will be the ultimate arbiter of what is smart for her, thank you. Screens on September 26. It will be released through Searchlight Pictures on December 4.
To see a preview of “Nomadland”, click on the video below:
“MLK/FBI”: Sam Pollard’s documentary examines the efforts of US law enforcement and intelligence agencies. But it’s not the first time In the 1950s and 1960s to monitor or infiltrate the civil rights motion and its top leader, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. , broadcast on September 26. on launch.
See an excerpt from “MLK/FBI”:
“The Night of Kings”: Inmates who lead a thief in Ivory Coast welcome a new thief who has been selected to be their “Roman” (or storyteller), with a duty to tell a story, in the Scheherazade, the staging of director Philippe Lacate evokes the traditions of West African griot storytelling and the staging of modernist theatre , while Roman tells the tragic story of a famous thief’s life, a story full of superstition, magic and doom. Death,Transmission almost until September 29, with a projection behind the wheel on September 30th. A Neon version.
To view an excerpt from “Night of the Kings”, click on the following:
“City Hall” – Documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman’s paintings are recognizable by his strategy of filming and editing on the fly, without considerable editorial influence, that Wiseman’s independent (and long) films envelop the viewer in a series of interpersonal dynamics while their protagonists are caught up in probably impersonal bureaucracies. In his most recent “City Hall,” Wiseman discusses the triad of non-easy situations facing a municipal government, in this case Boston, whose mayor, public servants, and public servants engage in paintings of everyday life, marrying couples, opening the streets, and explaining the pressure on the electorate seeing citizens under pressure are not easy social services. The four-and-a-half hour era occupies a lot of floor and, in the end, no one deserves to be dismissed what smart government does if the culprits pay attention to the wishes of the citizens. Projections until September 30. An exit from Zipporah Films.
To see a “City Hall” preview, click on the next one.
Among the other festival films that were still noticed at the time of publication, here are some interesting offers:
“Time”: Garrett Bradley’s emotional documentary follows a determined Louisiana woman fighting for decades for her husband’s release from a criminal after being sentenced to 60 years for robbery. Screens on September 25th. An edition of Amazon Studios.
“Hopper / Welles”: The manufacturer and editor who restored Orson Welles’ “The Other Side of the Wind” resurrects 1970s photographs from a verbal exchange between Welles and actor and director Dennis Hopper, two filmmakers who at the time had declining and emerging careers in Hollywood. who talk about the life of an independent artist in an industry little known to authors. Screens from September 28th to October 3rd.
“The Disciple” – A young musician seeks to thrive in his quest for Khayal Indian music, in a world where marketing goes beyond tradition. Screens from September 29th to October 6th.
“The Woman Who Ran” – A South Korean woman lives visits with her friends without, for once, her husband in tow, in this comedy devoid of men. Screens from October 2nd to 7th. An exit from Cinema Guild.
“David Byrne’s American Utopia” – Spike Lee directed this filmed performance of Byrne’s recent Broadway concerto, brimming with everlasting Talking Heads melodies. Screens from October 4th to 9th. An HBO edition.
“The Truffle Hunters” – A documentary about dogs in Italy that take their old men at an ideal price: Alba. Screens’ valuable white truffle on October 5. An edition of Sony Pictures Classics.
“Notturno” – Gianfranco Rosi (director of the Oscar nominated documentary “Fire at Sea”) presents a meditation on the patience of damaged landscapes of Iraq, Kurdistan, Lebanon and Syria, in schools and hospitals, and in the rhythms of paintings . for those whose lives have been shattered by war. Screens from October 6 to 11.
“Undine” – German director Christian Petzold (“Transit”, “Phoenix”, “Barbara”) returns to the festival with a romance tinged with supernatural nuances. Projections from 9 to 14 October. A launch of IFC Films.
“French Exit” – Faced with insolvency, socialite Michelle Pfeiffer and her son Lucas Hedges flee to Paris, because why not?Screens on October 10. An output from Sony Pictures Classics.
The festival also features restorations and covers of old films, William Klein’s documentary about boxer Cassius Clay, “Muhammad Ali, the Greatest”; “Condemnation” through Bela Tarr; “In the Mood for Love” via Wong Kar Wei; “Soft talk” through Joyce Chopra; “The ghost who sat through the door” through Ivan Dixon; and “Zero for Conduct” through Jean Vigo.
Click to view the festival’s verbal exchange calendar with filmmakers.
The screenings of those films in it have already expired, but deserve to be monitored for:
“On the Rocks” – Director Sofia Coppola reunites with “Lost in Translation” star Bill Murray for another dissexed romance. Here she plays the father of Rashida Jones, a married mother of two who suspects her husband is having an affair. Whoever plays Bill Murray better than the others) assumes the role of detective to see how he catches his son-in-law on the spot, while confirming his worst insecurities towards women and the emotional detachment of men. York is winning an Apple/A24 version.
To see a preview of “On the Rocks”, click on the following:
“The Monopoly of Violence”: Director David Dufresne’s hard documentary combines talking heads with intense video footage to produce a treaty considered on the legitimacy of violence, whether conducted across the state (through the police) or through the hands of protesters. the “yellow jacket” protests for social justice that took place in France between November 2018 and February 2020, the film features interviews with law professors, social activists, protesters and policemen, who serve as witnesses to video sequences of clashes on the streets of Paris and other cities The debate over the use of pre-emptive arrests and non-lethal force (in which projectiles can still maim for life) is passionate and extends beyond the themes of public anger that triggered the protests in the first position, and to the very roots of democracy (and its most authoritarian cousin, what one topic calls a “democracy”). distributor to advertise.
To see a preview of “The Monopoly of Violence,” click on the following:
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