h. nazan ışık—
13 August 2015—
The Film Society of Lincoln Center announced main slate official selection for the 53rd New York Film Festival (NYFF, September 25 – October).
There are 26 films in the main slate.
The 2015 Main Slate will host four World Premieres: Steven Spielberg’s Bridge of Spies, starring Tom Hanks and Mark Rylance in the Cold War story of the 1962 exchange of a U-2 pilot for a Soviet agent; Laura Israel’s Don’t Blink: Robert Frank, a documentary portrait of the great photographer and filmmaker; Opening Night selection The Walk and Closing Night selection Miles Ahead.
The 17-day New York Film Festival highlights the best in world cinema, top films from different film festivals. If you didn’t have a chance to go to the Cannes Film Festival, don’t worry, Award-winning films from Cannes will be presented to New York audiences, including Best Director Hou Hsiao-hsien’s The Assassin; Todd Haynes’s Carol, starring Best Actress winner Rooney Mara; Stéphane Brizé’s The Measure of a Man, starring Best Actor winner Vincent Lindon; Jury Prize winner The Lobster; Un Certain Regard Best Director Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Journey to the Shore; and Un Certain Talent Prize winner Corneliu Porumboiu’s The Treasure.
The 53rd New York Film Festival Main Slate
Opening Night
The Walk (World Premiere)
Director: Robert Zemeckis
USA, 2015, 3-D DCP, 100m
Centerpiece
Steve Jobs
Director: Danny Boyle
USA, 2015, DCP, TBC
Closing Night
Miles Ahead (World Premiere)
Director: Don Cheadle
USA, 2015, DCP, 100m
Arabian Nights: Volume 1, The Restless One (125m) (U.S, Premiere)
Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One (131m) (U.S, Premiere)
Arabian Nights: Volume 3, The Enchanted One (125m) (U.S, Premiere)
Director: Miguel Gomes
Portugal/France/Germany/Switzerland, 2015, DCP, Portuguese with English subtitles
The Assassin (U.S, Premiere)
Director: Hou Hsiao-hsien
Taiwan/China/Hong Kong, 2015, DCP, 105m
Mandarin with English subtitles
Bridge of Spies (World Premiere)
Director: Steven Spielberg
USA, 2015, DCP, 135m
Brooklyn
Director: John Crowley
UK/Ireland/Canada, 2015, 35mm/DCP, 112m
Carol
Director: Todd Haynes
USA, 2015, DCP, 118m
Cemetery of Splendour (U.S, Premiere)
Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Thailand/UK/France/Germany/Malaysia, 2015, DCP, 122m
Thai with English subtitles
Les Cowboys (U.S, Premiere)
Director: Thomas Bidegain,
France,2015, DCP, 114m
French and English with English subtitles
Don’t Blink: Robert Frank (World Premiere)
Director: Laura Israel
USA/Canada, 2015, DCP, 82m
Experimenter
Director: Michael Almereyda
USA, 2014, DCP, 94m
The Forbidden Room
Directors: Guy Maddin & Evan Johnson
Canada, 2015, DCP, 120m
In the Shadow of Women / L’Ombre des femmes (U.S. Premiere)
Director: Philippe Garrel
France, 2015, DCP, 73m
French with English subtitles
Journey to the Shore / Kishibe no tabi (U.S. Premiere)
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Japan/France, 2015, DCP, 127m
Japanese with English subtitles
The Lobster
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
France/Netherlands/Greece/UK, 2015, DCP, 118m
Maggie’s Plan (U.S. Premiere)
Director: Rebecca Miller
USA, 2015, DCP, 92m
The Measure of a Man / La Loi du marché (North American Premiere)
Director: Stéphane Brizé
France, 2015, DCP, 93m
French with English subtitles
Mia Madre (U.S. Premiere)
Director: Nanni Moretti
Italy/France, 2015, DCP, 106m
Italian and English with English subtitles
Microbe & Gasoline / Microbe et Gasoil (U.S. Premiere)
Director: Michel Gondry
France, 2015, 103m
French with English subtitles
Mountains May Depart
Director: Jia Zhangke
China/France/Japan, 2015, DCP, 131m
My Golden Days / Trois Souvenirs de ma jeunesse (North American Premiere)
Director: Arnaud Desplechin
France, 2015, DCP, 123m
No Home Movie (U.S. Premiere)
Director: Chantal Akerman
Belgium/France, 2015, DCP, 115m
French and English with English subtitles
Right Now, Wrong Then (U.S. Premiere)
Director: Hong Sangsoo
South Korea, 2015, DCP, 121m
The Treasure / Comoara
Director: Corneliu Porumboiu
Corneliu Porumboiu, Romania, 2015, DCP, 89m
Romanian with English subtitles
Where To Invade Next (U.S. Premiere)
Director: Michael Moore
USA, 2015, DCP, 110m
53rd NYFF main slate does not have any films from Turkey. But still there is a chance. Additional NYFF special events, documentary sections, and filmmaker conversations and panels, as well as NYFF’s Projections and the full Convergence programs, will be announced in subsequent days and weeks.
The selection committee, chaired by Jones, also includes Dennis Lim, FSLC Director of Programming; Marian Masone, FSLC Senior Programming Advisor; Gavin Smith, Editor-in-Chief, Film Comment; and Amy Taubin, Contributing Editor, Film Comment and Sight & Sound.
For more information, visit www.filmlinc.org,