New York Film Festival 2024

[Chris Knipp]

GRAND TOUR (Miguel Gomes 2024)

Portuguese auteur Gomes (ARABIAN NIGHTS, TABU) weaves a fabulous and bizarre period journey through time and space, blending studio footage with imagery captured in multiple Asian countries.

Showtimes
Tuesday, October 8
9:00 PM
Wednesday, October 9
6:00 PMStandby Only
Friday, October 11
12:45 PMStandby Only

[Chris Knipp]

APRIL (Dea Kulumbegashvili 2024)

A grueling and powerfully original portrait of a beleaguered and obsessive OB/GYN in aa rural area of Georgia , this is the sophomore feature by the young filmmaker of BEGINNING. (NYFF 2020).

NYFF Showtimes
Monday, October 7
9:00 PMBuy Tickets
Tuesday, October 8
6:00 PMStandby Only
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Venues
Alice Tully Hall - EBM Film Center (FBT)

[Chris Knipp]

A REAL PAIN (Jesse Eisenberg 2024)

As they play two cousins on a Polish Holocaust tour, Jesse allows Kieran Culkin to walk the line between enttertaining and offensive and is seems to work.

Showtimes: more details HERE.
Saturday, October 56:00 PM
Sunday, October 6 1:00 PM

[Chris Knipp]

NO OTHER LAND (Basel Adra, Yuval Abraham, and Rachel Szor 2024)

The protracted Israeli assult on a group of Palestinian villages in the West Bank covered by an Israeli-Palestinan collective and featuring two friends across the divide. Documentary.

Showtimes at the NYFF: see HERE

[Chris Knipp]

ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT (Payal Kapadia 2024)

This quietly luminous film from India by a woman director whois only 38 won the Grand Prix at Cannes. It's about three women working at a Mumbai hospital and their joys nd sorrows. When the oldest moves back to the country, the other two accompany her.
Q&A with Payal Kapadia on Oct. 7 & 8

Showtimes
Monday, October 7
6:00 PMStandby Only
Tuesday, October 8
9:15 PMStandby Only
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Venues
Alice Tully Hall - Walter Reade Theater - EBM Film Center

[Chris Knipp]

HARVEST (Athina Rachel Tsangari 2024).

One tends to get lost in this well-meaning but meanderng adaptaton of an eponymous Jim Crace novel about the last days of a medieval English village. Starring Caleb Landry Jones.

Showtimes
Sunday, September 29
3:15 PMBuy Tickets
Monday, September 30
6:00 PMBuy Tickets
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[Chris Knipp]

HAPPYEND (Neo Sora 2024)

Dystopia with a light touch, this film depicts some near-future techno-loving Tokyo high school kids who get into a tangle with their dictatorial, conventional Principal and some demonstrations result after he imposes a high tech surveillance system to spy on them. Sora is the son of Ryuichi Sakamoto and made an elegant film about his late father that was in last year's NYFf. Charming and thought-provoking, this promises Sora as a new voice in Japanese cinema.

Happyend, 113 mins., debuted at Venice in the Orizzonti sectioin, showing also at Vancouver, Toronto, New York, Zurich, Busan, Hawaii and London BFI. Screened for this review as part of the NYFF. To be released in Japan Oct. 4, 2024.

Showtimes
Sunday, September 29
6:00 PMStandby Only
Monday, September 30
9:15 PMStandby Only

[Chris Knipp]

WINNER! ACADEMY AWARD® BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
NEWS UPDATE: On Monday, March 24, NO OTHER LAND co-director Hamdan Ballal was attacked and beaten outside his home in the West Bank by Israeli settlers and subsequently detained by Israeli authorities before his eventual release the next day.
He has said that he thought he was going to die.