The 2024 New York Film Festival (September 27-October 14) has announced its Spotlight section. These are the films that didn’t make the prestigious Main Slate of the festival, but were still worthy of programming.
Last week, I mentioned how no film will be screening at all four of the major fall festivals. However, there’s many titles that will be playing three of the four fests. Three more have now been added to this list after this morning’s NYFF additions.
The Friend (Telluride/Toronto/NYFF)
I’m Still Here (Venice/Toronto/NYFF)
Maria (Venice/Telluride/NYFF)
PREVIOUSLY MENTIONED:
The Room Next Door (Venice/TIFF/NYFF)
The Brutalist (Venice/TIFF/NYFF)
Queer (Venice/NYFF/TIFF)
April (Venice/NYFF/TIFF)
Harvest (Venice/NYFF/TIFF)
Happyend (Venice/NYFF/TIFF)
I should probably point out Scott McGehee & David Siegel’s “The Friend,” which has been going under the radar in terms of coverage. It is quite possible that this film could turn out to be one of the sleeper breakouts of the season. The film stars Naomi Watts as a novelist whose closest friend and mentor (Bill Murray) commits suicide.
See the full NYFF 2024 Spotlight lineup below:
“Queer”
Luca Guadagnino“Apocalypse in the Tropics”
Petra Costa“Elton John: Never Too Late”
R.J. Cutler, David Furnish, 2024“Emilia Pérez”
Jacques Audiard“The Friend”
Scott McGehee, David Siegel“I’m Still Here”
Walter Salles“It’s Not Me”
Leos Carax“Maria”
Pablo Larraín“Pavements”
Alex Ross Perry“A Real Pain”
Jesse Eisenberg“Rumours”
Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson“Scénarios” + Exposé du Film annonce du film “Scénario”
Jean-Luc Godard“TWST / Things We Said Today”
Andrei Ujică, 2024“Union”
Brett Story, Stephen Maing
There’s been a lot of smoke around Luca Guadagnino’s “American Psycho,” but not much actual fire. Drew Starkey has now added a little more to it.