Joel Coen and Ethan Coen’s “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs,” Barry Jenkins’ “If Beale Street Could Talk” and Paul Dano’s “Wildlife” are among the films that will screen at this fall’s 56th New York Film Festival, the Film Society of Lincoln Center announced Tuesday.
This year’s main slate, featuring films from 22 countries, also includes Olivier Assayas’ “Non-Fiction,” Alex Ross Perry’s “Her Smell,” Tamara Jenkins’ “Private Life” and Hirokazu Kore-eda’s “Shoplifters.”
Five films were previously honored at Cannes, including Jean-Luc Godard’s “The Image Book.” Returning filmmakers include Alex Ross Perry, Claire Denis, Ulrich Köhler, Lee Chang-dong, Jia Zhangke, and Christian Petzold. Other filmmakers include Alice Rohrwacher and Pawel Pawlikowski.
The festival will kick off on September 28 and run through October 14.
As previously announced, Yorgos Lanthimos’ “The Favourite” will open the festival while Alfonso Cuaron’s “ROMA” is the centerpiece and Julan Schnabel’s “At Eternity’s Gate” will close the festival.
“Francis Ford Coppola said that the cinema would become a real art form only when the tools of moviemaking became as inexpensive as paints, brushes, and canvases,” NYFF director and selection committee chair Kent Jones said in a statement. “That has come to pass, but at the same time it’s become increasingly tough to do serious work that is beholden to nothing but the filmmaker’s need to express these emotions in this form in moving images and sound. So if I were pressed to choose one word to describe the films in this year’s Main Slate, it would be: bravery.”
See below for the festival’s main slate:
The Favourite (Opening Night)
Dir. Yorgos Lanthimos
ROMA (Centerpiece)
Dir. Alfonso Cuarón
At Eternity’s Gate (Closing Night)
Dir. Julian Schnabel
3 Faces
Dir. Jafar Panahi
Asako I & II
Dir. Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
Ash Is Purest White
Dir. Jia Zhangke
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Dir. Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
Burning
Dir. Lee Chang-dong
Cold War
Dir. Paweł Pawlikowski
A Faithful Man / L’Homme fidèle
Dir. Louis Garrel
A Family Tour
Dir. Ying Liang
La Flor
Dir. Mariano Llinás
Grass
Dir. Hong Sangsoo
Happy as Lazzaro / Lazzaro felice
Dir. Alice Rohrwacher
Her Smell
Dir. Alex Ross Perry
High Life
Dir. Claire Denis
Hotel by the River
Dir. Hong Sangsoo
If Beale Street Could Talk
Dir. Barry Jenkins
The Image Book / Le Livre d’image
Dir. Jean-Luc GodardBi Gan
In My Room
Dir. Ulrich Köhler
Long Day’s Journey Into Night
Dir. Bi Gan
Monrovia, Indiana
Dir. Frederick Wiseman
Non-Fiction / Doubles vies
Dir. Olivier Assayas
Private Life
Dir. Tamara Jenkins
RAY & LIZ
Dir. Richard Billingham
Shoplifters
Dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda
Sorry Angel
Dir. Christophe Honoré
Too Late to Die Young
Dir. Dominga Sotomayor
Transit
Dir. Christian Petzold
Wildlife
Dir. Paul Dano