Joaquin Phoenix stars in New York Film Festival Centerpiece, Paul Thomas Anderson’s adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s INHERENT VICE
Alice Tully Hall, 1941 Broadway at 65th St.
Walter Reade Theater, 165 West 65th St. at Amsterdam Ave.
Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center: Francesca Beale Theater, Howard Gilman Theater, Amphitheater, 144 West 65th St. between Broadway & Amsterdam Ave.
September 26 – October 12
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Tickets are on sale for the 52nd edition of the New York Film Festival, a wide-ranging collection of film screenings, panel discussions, lectures, interactive presentations, video art, and more organized into nine different sections plus a preliminary event. It all gets under way September 19-29 with NYFF Opening Acts, fourteen early works by directors who have new films in the 2014 lineup, including Mike Leigh, Paul Thomas Anderson, Frederick Wiseman, Olivier Assayas, David Fincher, Albert Maysles, and Alan Resnais, taking place at the Film Society of Lincoln Center as well as the Maysles Cinema, Nitehawk Cinema, and UnionDocs. The festival itself, which runs September 26 through October 12, is divided into the following categories: Main Slate, Projections, Convergence, Revivals, Spotlight on Documentary, HBO Directors Dialogues, On Cinema, Special Events, and Joseph L. Mankiewicz: The Essential Iconoclast. Below are only some of the highlights; keep watching twi-ny as more highlights and select advance reviews are posted. You can also follow everything on the free NYFF app.
Friday, September 26
Main Slate Opening Night World Premiere: Gone Girl (David Fincher, 2014), 6:00, 9:00, 9:15
Saturday, September 27
NYFF52 Revivals: Once Upon a Time in America (Sergio Leone, 1984), 2:30
NYFF52 Convergence: A Brief History of Transmedia Worlds with Henry Jenkins, Keynote Address, 3:00
NYFF52 Convergence: Immigrant Nation (Theo Rigby, 2014), installation and interactive presentation, free, Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center, 1:00 – 7:00
Saturday, September 27, 9:00, and Wednesday, October 1, 9:00
Main Slate: Goodbye to Language (Jean-Luc Godard, 2014) in 3-D
Sunday, September 28
NYFF52 Convergence: Futurestates (ITVS, 2014), interactive presentation, 6:00
Monday, September 29
HBO Directors Dialogue: Mathieu Amalric, The Blue Room, 6:00
Tuesday, September 30, 6:00, and Wednesday, October 1, 9:00
NYFF52 Spotlight on Documentary: The Look of Silence (Joshua Oppenheimer, 2014), companion piece to The Act of Killing
Tuesday, September 30, 6:00, and Wednesday, October 8, 9:00
Main Slate: U.S. premiere of Hill of Freedom (Hong Sang-soo, 2014), Main Slate
Christopher Guest will be at the New York Film Festival for the thirtieth anniversary screening of Rob Reiner’s THIS IS SPINAL TAP
Thursday, October 2, 6:00, and Friday, October 3, 9:00
Main Slate: U.S. premiere of Pasolini (Abel Ferrara, 2014)
Saturday, October 4
NYFF52 Projections: Sauerbruch Hutton Architects (Harun Farocki, 2013), 1:00
Main Slate Centerpiece World Premiere: Inherent Vice (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2014), 5:30, 5:45, 9:00, 9:15
Sunday, October 5
NYFF52 On Cinema: Paul Thomas Anderson, Inherent Vice, 12:30
HBO Directors Dialogue: Mike Leigh, Mr. Turner, 2:30
NYFF52 Spotlight on Documentary: National Gallery (Frederick Wiseman, 2014), 4:00
Tuesday, October 7
NYFF52 Retrospective – Joseph L. Mankiewicz: The Essential Iconoclast: 5 Fingers (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1952), 8:30
Wednesday, October 8
NYFF52 Special Events: 30th Anniversary Screening of This Is Spinal Tap (Rob Reiner, 1984), followed by a Q&A with Christopher Guest, 9:00
Friday, October 10
NYFF52 Revivals: Hiroshima Mon Amour (Alain Resnais, 1959), 6:00
Saturday, October 11
Main Slate Closing Night: Birdman or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance (Alejandro G. Iñárritu, 2014), 6:00, 9:15
Monday, October 13
NYFF52 Retrospective – Joseph L. Mankiewicz: The Essential Iconoclast: Cleopatra (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1963), 1:30