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New York Film Festival

26 September – 12 October 2014

The festival is presenting its 52nd edition in 2014. It aims to bring the "most significant films from around the world" to the city. The festival runs from September 26 to October 12.

This year's festival will open with the world premiere of David Fincher's Gone Girl - starring Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike - and will close with Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu's Birdman Or The Unexpected Virtue Of Ignorance.

This year's retrospective will be Joseph L. Mankiewicz: The Essential Iconoclast.

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  • The Wonders
    Review preview for The Wonders

    Wisdom is quiet and the future a mystery

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4.5 out of 5
    Nothing will be the same at the end of this summer for Gelsomina and her three younger sisters.
  • Li'l Quinquin
    Review preview for Li'l Quinquin

    Dumont - for all the outlandishness of the film in other aspects - prioritises a messy realism over straightforward likeability in relation to his protagonists.

    Rebecca Naughten · 4 out of 5
    A blackly comic murder mystery develops in a small town in northern France.
  • Time Out Of Mind
    Review preview for Time Out Of Mind

    Gere, despite his image both off and on screen, gives a flawless performance.

    Richard Mowe · 3 out of 5
    A homeless man tries to reconnect with his estranged daughter.
  • The Iron Ministry
    Review preview for The Iron Ministry

    The Iron Ministry moves beyond the observational to the experiential, which is to say that sound and image come together to put us among the passengers rather than simply watching them from a distance.

    Rebecca Naughten · 4 out of 5
    A portrait of China, experienced through its vast and expanding railway.
  • Queen And Country
    Review preview for Queen And Country

    Anchoring the audience with a perennial fence-sitter allows more room for the inevitable impact of the characters' stories, without the weight of an absolute ideological argument.

    Luke Shaw · 4 out of 5
    An Englishman signs up to fight in the Korean War.
  • The Look Of Silence
    Review preview for The Look Of Silence

    Oppenheimer boils down the atrocity to the experience of a single family, leaving us to extrapolate back up.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4.5 out of 5
    Consideration of Indonesian genocide.
  • Sunshine Superman
    Review preview for Sunshine Superman

    What is most astonishing about Sunshine Superman is how genuinely happy everybody looks.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 4 out of 5
    Portrait of the father of Base jumping Carl Boenish.
  • Iris
    Review preview for Iris

    What emerges as so extraordinary about the way Iris presents herself, and what makes her so beloved by many people in the fashion industry, is the total freedom of reference she enjoys in anyone.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 4 out of 5
    Portrait of fashion and interior-design expert Iris Apfel.
  • The Tales Of Hoffmann
    Review preview for The Tales Of Hoffmann

    The passage of time - and a beautiful 4k restoration - have been kind to this reimagining of Jacques Offenbach's opera, with its deliberately operatic gestures and colours and stylised production design feeling sharply avant garde even today.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    A poet recalls three doomed romances.
  • '71
    Review preview for '71

    Burke is interested in people not politics, keeping the focus on the sudden outbreaks of inhumanity and humanity in the madness, expertly crafting his thriller from the swirling fog of war.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    A young British soldier is accidentally left behind by his unit on the deadly streets of Belfast in 1971.

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