Report From the New York Film Festival
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‘The Cotton Club Encore’ Film Review: Francis Ford Coppola’s Butchered Masterpiece Gets Its Redemption
New York Film Festival 2019: With the restoration of Gregory Hines’ complete performance, this legendary flop now stands among a master director’s greatest films
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New York Film Festival: Kelly Reichardt, Agnes Varda Lead Slate With 20% Female Directors
The 29 films in the NYFF’S main slate include lots of movies from Cannes, but only six from female directors
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‘Widows’ Film Review: Viola Davis, Steve McQueen Team Up for a Curious Heist Movie
Davis leads a gang forced to pull off a complex theft, but her director is more interested in obsessions than robberies
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Coen Brothers, Barry Jenkins’ New Films to Play at New York Film Festival
The 56th New York Film Festival will kick off on September 28 and run through October 14
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‘Wonder Wheel’ Film Review: Woody Allen Takes ‘Streetcar’ Again, to Diminished Effect
Kate Winslet gets to fill in for Blanche DuBois this time, but Allen’s 1950s drama is no “Blue Jasmine”
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‘Last Flag Flying’ Review: Richard Linklater’s Vet Drama Stuck at Half-Mast
New York Film Festival: Despite its sincerity, this message movie misses the mark
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‘Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold’ Review: Incisive Writer Gets Equally Perceptive Documentary
New York Film Festival: Didion’s nephew Griffin Dunne takes a lean and honest look at a legendary literary life
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‘The Lost City of Z’ Review: Charlie Hunnam Explores the Amazon in Stirring Saga
James Gray taps into deeper levels of artistry with this stirring look at the travels of early-20th-century explorer Percival Fawcett
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’20th Century Women’ Review: Annette Bening Anchors Strong Ensemble Piece
Mike Mills (“Beginners”) makes another film about one of his parents, and this one goes even deeper
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‘Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk’ Review: Ang Lee Stumbles at 50-Yard Line
Bad writing is further undone by 120 frames-per-second cinematography that turns everything into glossy magazine photos
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’13th’ NYFF Review: Ava DuVernay Connects the Dots From Slavery to #BlackLivesMatter
This harrowing Netflix documentary examines how treating black American males as criminals has perpetuated systematic oppression
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New York Film Festival Adds Movies by Almodovar, Jarmusch, Paul Verhoeven
The 54th annual festival runs from September 30 through October 16
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‘Bridge of Spies’ NYFF Review: Tom Hanks Is Steven Spielberg’s All-American Cold Warrior
This true-life tale of espionage and international intrigue plays intelligently and suspensefully until Spielberg gives in to mawkishness
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‘My Week With Marilyn’ to Premiere at NY Film Fest
Film stars Michelle Williams as Marilyn Monroe; restored “Ben-Hur,” Nicholas Ray film also added to NYFF slate
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Against ‘Festivalism’: Final Thoughts on NYFF
If the audience for the New York Film Festival is defined as a standard American bunch, there are a number of entries this year to which one could apply the dubious label of "obscure": The African melodrama "Min Yè…," a document of sheep herding called "Sweetgrass," and Filipino director Raya Martin’s stylish colonialist indictment "Independencia"…