NYFF62: FREE TALKS
New York Film Festival
Elinor Bunin Munroe Amphitheater
144 West Sixty-Fifth St. between Broadway & Amsterdam Ave.
September 28 – October 11, free tickets available one hour before showtime (unless otherwise noted)
www.filmlinc.org
The sixty-second annual New York Film Festival kicks off today, with more than ninety feature films and shorts, from US premieres to unexpected revivals. The opening night selection is RaMell Ross’s Nickel Boys, the centerpiece Pedro Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door, and the closing night choice Steve McQueen’s Blitz. Many screenings will be followed by Q&As with members of the cast and crew, including Saoirse Ronan, Sean Baker, Mikey Madison, Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, Jia Zhangke, Mike Leigh, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Paul Schrader, David Cronenberg, Isabelle Huppert, Elton John, Selena Gomez, Zoe Saldaña, Naomi Watts, and Bill Murray.
In addition, there are free talks nearly every day in the Elinor Bunin Munroe Amphitheater that will go behind the scenes of numerous films at the festival; no advance RSVP is required except for a few special events.
Saturday, September 28, 7:30
Sunday, September 29, 8:00
Monday, September 30, 7:30
Tuesday, October 8, 7:30
Cinephile Game Night: NYFF62 Edition, including movie trivia, Six Degrees, a card game, prizes, and special guests, hosted by Jordan Raup, Conor O’Donnell, and Dan Mecca, Amphitheater, free with advance RSVP
Sunday, September 29
Deep Focus: RaMell Ross (Nickel Boys), in conversation with Barry Jenkins, Amphitheater, 6:00
Monday, September 30
Roundtables: New Asian Auteurs, with Neo Sora (Happyend), Trương Minh Quý (Việt and Nam), and Yeo Siew Hua (Stranger Eyes), Amphitheater, 4:30
Tuesday, October 1
Deep Focus: No Other Land, with directors Basel Adra, Yuval Abraham, and Rachel Szor, Amphitheater, 6:00
Wednesday, October 2
On exergue – on documenta 14, with director Dimitris Athiridis, curator Adam Szymczyk, D14 artist Naeem Mohaiemen, and curator and writer Serubiri Moses, moderated by Rachael Rakes, Amphitheater, 5:00
Thursday, October 3
Crosscuts: Alex Ross Perry (Pavements) & Andrei Ujică (TWST / Things We Said Today), Amphitheater, 6:00
Saturday, October 5
Deep Focus: Sigrid Nunez (The Friend, The Room Next Door), moderated by A. O. Scott, Amphitheater, 1:00
Film Comment Live: Collective Protagonists, with Rob Nilsson and John Hanson (Northern Lights), Brett Story and Stephen Maing (Union), moderated by Devika Girish and Clinton Krute, Amphitheater, 7:00
Sunday, October 6
Crosscuts: Zeinabu irene Davis (Compensation) & Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich (The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire), Amphitheater, 6:00
Monday, October 7
IndieWire Presents: Screen Talk Live, with Anne Thompson and Ryan Lattanzio, Amphitheater, 4:00
Tuesday, October 8
The 2024 Amos Vogel Lecture: Jia Zhangke (Caught by the Tides), interpreted by Vincent Cheng, Walter Reade Theater, $12.50-$17.50, 5:00
Wednesday, October 9
Crosscuts: Miguel Gomes (Grand Tour) & Payal Kapadia (All We Imagine as Light), moderated by Devika Girish, Amphitheater, 4:00
Crosscuts: Julia Loktev (My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow) & Roberto Minervini (The Damned), moderated by Madeline Whittle, Amphitheater, 6:00
Friday, October 11
Film Comment Live: Festival Report, with Devika Girish and Clinton Krute, Amphitheater, 7:00
[Mark Rifkin is a Brooklyn-born, Manhattan-based writer and editor; you can follow him on Substack here.]