New York Film Festival 2024

[Chris Knipp]

AFTERNOONS OF SOLITUDE (Albert Serra 2024)

An extraordinarily vivid and pure documentary of bullfighting in Spain focused exclusively on the gifted young Peruvian-born matador Andrés Roca Rey. Even if you have been a regular audience member you have never entered into the heart of the corrida del torros as intimately as this. Disturbing but beautiful. Premiered at San Sebastián, where it won the top prize. Included in the Spotlights section at the New York Film Festival.

Showtimes
Friday, October 4
9:00 PMStandby Only
Friday, October 11
3:45 PMStandby Only

[Chris Knipp]

THE ROOM NEXT DOOR (Pedro Almodóvar 2024)

The Spanish director's first feature film in English is based on a novel by American writer Sigrid Nunez, as is another NYFF Main Slate film this year, Scott McGehee and David Siegel's The Friend. This treatment, involving euthanasia in which Julianne Moore's successful novelist assists Tilda Swinton's cancer-ridden war correspondent, is more problematic, though of course beautiful and well acted. With John Turturro.

Centerpiece · U.S. Premiere · Pedro Almodóvar, Julianne Moore, Tilda Swinton, John Turturro, and Alessandro Nivola in person at Oct. 4 screenings at Alice Tully Hall

[Chris Knipp]

QUEER (Luca Guadagnino 2024)

Daniel Craig's casting wildly against type as William Lee, the autobiographical protagonist of William Burroughs' minor early novel, in an adaptation by Luca Guadangino is an event, however inexplicable the project.

Spotlight Gala · U.S. Premiere · Q&A with Luca Guadagnino, Daniel Craig, Drew Starkey, and Justin Kuritzkes on Oct. 6 (joined by Jonathan Anderson) and Oct. 7

[Chris Knipp]

CAUGHT BY THE TIDES 风流一代 (Jia Zhang-ke 2024)

Jia Zhang-ke's symphonic, career-summarizing new film reviews many themes while resuming a favorite storyline. Jia weaves sequences from earlier films to tell a decades-long story of a failed romance that encapsulates the modern history of China. Impressive and recommended.

U.S. Premiere · Q&A with Jia Zhangke on Oct. 8 & 9

[Chris Knipp]

THE SHROUDS (David Cronenberg 2024)

Respectfully received at Cannes. But excruciating, precise necrophilia may not be your thing; it's not mine, so despite careful direction and an excellent cast, this cannot be recommended

U.S. Premiere · Q&A with David Cronenberg on Oct. 5 & 6
Showtimes
Saturday, October 5
8:30 PMStandby Only
Sunday, October 6
5:45 PMStandby Only
Thursday, October 10
8:00 PMStandby Only
Friday, October 11
9:15 PM

[Chris Knipp]

I'M STILL HERE (Walter Salles 2024)

Based on memoirs and the director's own youthful memories, the portrait of an exceptionally happy Rio de Janeiro family destroyed by the Brazilian dictatorship in the early seventies and particularly of the brave surviving wife Eunice Paiva, who while pursuing the truth about her "disappeared" former congressman husband, reinvented herself as a lawyer who worked to defend indigenous rights from land grabbers. A terrific, sad film.

Showtimes
Wednesday, October 9
8:00 PMStandby Only
Thursday, October 10
9:15 PMStandby Only

[Chris Knipp]

SUBURBAN FURY (Robinson Devor 2024)

An interview with and artful portrait of Sara Jane Moore, who attempted to assassinate President Gerald Ford in San Francisco in 1975 and served 32 years in prison for it; and it's also a free-ranging portrait of the radicalism of the seventies.

Premiere. It will also show soon at DOC Stories in San Francisco.

Showtimes
Wednesday, October 9
6:15 PMStandby Only
Thursday, October 10
9:00 PMBuy Tickets
Sunday, October 13
9:00 PMBuy Tickets