With the 63rd New York Film Festival set to launch from September 26 to October 13, the official Main Slate has been revealed, and it’s a loaded lineup. The slate features 34 titles, with a mix of the year’s most acclaimed festival circuit holdovers and a handful of world premieres.
Among the buzziest inclusions: the world premiere of Ulrich Köhler’s “Gavagai,” and Bradley Cooper’s “Is This Thing On?,” which will close the festival. Take note, this officially confirms what I had suspected, Josh Safdie’s “Marty Supreme” will be entirely skipping fall fests.
The NYFF slate reads like a who’s who of international auteurs: Bi Gan, Claire Denis, Christian Petzold, Lucrecia Martel, Park Chan-wook, Joachim Trier, Kelly Reichardt, Kathryn Bigelow, and Oliver Laxe all make the cut. There’s also room for established NYFF regulars like Noah Baumbach and Jafar Panahi, as well as Kleber Mendonça Filho and Pietro Marcello.
The films snubbed by NYFF include Yorgos Lathimos’ “Bugonia,” Benny Safdie’s “The Smashing Machine,” Lynne Ramsay’s “Die, My Love,” Chloe Zhao’s “Hamnet,” Paolo Sorrentino’s “La Grazia,” Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein,” Olivier Assayas’ “Wizard of the Kremlin,” Mona Fastvold’s “The Testament of Ann Lee,” and Julian Schnabel’s “In the Hands of Dante.”
I’m counting 14 titles from Cannes, 11 from Venice, 3 from Sundance and 2 from Toronto and 1 from Berlin.
MAIN SLATE
After the Hunt (Luca Guadagnino)
Father Mother Sister Brother (Jim Jarmusch)
Is This Thing On? (Bradley Cooper)
Below the Clouds (Gianfranco Rosi)
BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions (Kahlil Joseph)
Cover-Up (Laura Poitras, Mark Obenhaus)
The Currents (Milagros Mumenthaler)
Duse (Pietro Marcello)
The Fence (Claire Denis)
Gavagai (Ulrich Köhler)
A House of Dynamite (Kathryn Bigelow)
I Only Rest in the Storm (Pedro Pinho)
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (Mary Bronstein)
It Was Just an Accident (Jafar Panahi)
Jay Kelly (Noah Baumbach)
Kontinental ’25 (Radu Jude)
Landmarks (Lucrecia Martel)
Late Fame (Kent Jones)
The Last One for the Road (Francesco Sossai)
The Love That Remains (Hlynur Pálmason)
Magellan (Lav Diaz)
The Mastermind (Kelly Reichardt)
Miroirs No. 3 (Christian Petzold)
No Other Choice (Park Chan-wook)
Peter Hujar’s Day (Ira Sachs)
Resurrection (Bi Gan)
Romería (Carla Simón)
Rose of Nevada (Mark Jenkin)
The Secret Agent (Kleber Mendonça Filho)
Sentimental Value (Joachim Trier)
Sirât (Oliver Laxe)
Sound of Falling (Mascha Schilinski)
Two Prosecutors (Sergei Loznitsa)
What Does That Nature Say To You (Hong Sangsoo)