New York Film Festival 2015

[Chris Knipp]

Click here for Filmleaf NYFF 2015 comments thread. (Opening night now moved to September 26.)

Links to reviews:

Arabian Nights: Volume 1, The Restless One/As Mil e Uma Noites: Volume 1, O Inquieto (Miguel Gomes 2015)
Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One/As Mil e Uma Noites: Volume 2, O Desolado (Miguel Gomes 2015)
Arabian Nights: Volume 3, The Enchanted One/As Mil e Uma Noites: Volume 3, O Encantado" (Miguel Gomes 2015)
Assassin/刺客聶隱娘 (Hou Hsiao-hsien 2015)
Bridge of Spies (Steven Spielberg 2015)
Brooklyn (John Crowley 2015)
Carol (Todd Haynes 2015)
Cemetery of Splendor (Apichatpong Weerasethekul 2015)
Cowboys, Les (Thomas Bidegain 2015)
De Palma (Noah Baumbach, Jake Paltrow 2015)
Don't Blink - Robert Frank (Laura Israel 2015)
Experimenter, The (Michael Almereyda 2015)
Forbidden Room, The (Guy Madden, Evan Johnson 2015)
Heart of a Dog (Laurie Anderson 2015)
Heaven Can Wait (Ernst Lubitsch 1943) - Revivals
In the Shadow of Women/L'Ombre des femmes (Philippe Garrel 2015)
Ingrid Bergman in Her Own Words/Jag är Ingrid (Stig Björkman 2015) - Documentary section
Journey to the Shore (Kiyoshi Kurosawa 2015)
Lobster, The (Yorgos Lanthimos 2015)
Maggie's Plan (Rebecca Miller 2015)
Measure of a Man, The/La loi du marché(Stéphane Brizé2015)
Mia Madre/My Mother (Nanni Moretti 2015)
Microbe and Gasoline/Microbe et gasoil (Michel Gondry 2015)
Miles Ahead (Don Cheadle 2015)
Mountains May Depart/山河故人, (Jia Zhangke 2015)
My Golden Days/Trois souvenirs de ma jeunesse (Arnaud Desplechin 2015)
No Home Movie (Chantal Ackerman 2015)
Right Then, Wrong Now/지금은맞고그때는틀리다 (Hong Sang-soo 2015)
Rocco and His Brothers/Rocco e i suoi fratelli (Luchino Visconti 1960) - Revivals section
Son of Saul/Saul fia (László Nemes 2015)
Steve Jobs (Danny Boyle 2015)
Treasure, The/Comoara (Cornelieu Porumboliu 2015)
Walk, The (Robert Zemeckis 2015)
Where to Invade Next (Michael Moore 2015)
Witness, The (James Soloman 2015)

Opening, centerpiece, and closing night films.

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Robert Zemeckis’s The Walk will make its World Premiere as the Opening Night selection of the upcoming 53rd New York Film Festival (September 25 – October 11), which will kick off at Alice Tully Hall. A true story, the film is based on Philippe Petit’s memoir To Reach the Clouds and stars Golden Globe nominee Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Petit, the French high-wire artist who achieved the feat of walking between the Twin Towers in 1974.

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Aaron Sorkin and Danny Boyle's Steve Jobs is this year's centerpiece selection. Steve Jobs stars Michael Fassbender in the title role, Kate Winslet as Joanna Hoffman, Seth Rogen as Steve Wozniak, Jeff Daniels as John Sculley, Michael Stuhlbarg as Andy Hertzfeld, and Katherine Waterston as Chrisann Brennan.

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Don Cheadle's Miles Ahead has been selected for the closing night film.In the film, Cheadle, who also co-wrote the script, stars as the legendary Miles Davis opposite Emayatzy Corinealdi and Ewan McGrego.