New York Film Festival

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  Master Gardener

  Review preview for Master Gardener

  Weaver...hasn’t had a role this rich for years, and is magnificent throughout.

  A meticulous horticulturist who is devoted to tending the grounds of a beautiful estate and pandering to his employer, the wealthy dowager, is persuaded to take on her great niece as an apprentice.
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  The Dam

  Review preview for The Dam

  Built on strong imagery rather than substantive narrative.

  Sudan, near the Merowe dam. Maher works in a traditional brickyard fed by the waters of the Nile. Every evening, he secretly builds a mysterious construction made of mud.
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  Pacifiction

  Review preview for Pacifiction

  The languid mood contrasts with the most dangerous topics.

  On the French Polynesian island of Tahiti, the High Commissioner of the Republic and French government navigates the high end "establishment" as well as shady venues as a rumour abounds about the sighting of a submarine whose presence could herald the return of French nuclear testing.
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  Saint Omer

  Review preview for Saint Omer

  Quietly devastating.

  A novelist who attends the trial of Laurence Coly at the Saint-Omer Criminal Court tries to use her story to write a modern-day adaptation of the ancient myth of Medea, but things don't go as expected.
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  All The Beauty And The Bloodshed

  Review preview for All The Beauty And The Bloodshed

  The intimacies are staggering.

  The story of artist Nan Goldin and the downfall of the Sackler family, the pharmaceutical dynasty often blamed for the US opioid epidemic.
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  Women Talking

  Review preview for Women Talking

  Polley has crammed in a lot of good ideas, but they cannot all usefully share the same space.

  A group of women from a remote religious community deal with the aftermath of sexual assault perpetrated by the colony’s men.
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  Alcarràs

  Review preview for Alcarràs

  Simón takes a loose approach to the narrative, letting the small dramas of family play out alongside larger ones, giving as much value to the transient pleasures of fresh peach juice and cooked snails as the tensions between siblings.

  The Solé family spends the summer picking peaches - but this year’s crop may well be their last as new owners plan to replace the peach trees with solar panels and the family’s livelihood is threatened.
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  Till

  Review preview for Till

  There are none of the big set piece speeches traditionally associated with winning awards. Instead we are presented with something which feels much more raw and natural.

  The story of Mamie Till-Mobley, the Chicago woman whose son, Emmett Till, was lynched while visiting cousins in Mississippi and whose body became an indelible image of the horrors of American racism.
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  Tár

  Review preview for Tár

  Phantom chimes at night produce an atmosphere that could tumble into horror movie territory, but the real damage is done during the day.

  Set in the international world of classical music, this film centres on Lydia Tár. widely considered one of the greatest living composer/conductors and first-ever female chief conductor of a major German orchestra.
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  The Super 8 Years

  Review preview for The Super 8 Years

  The romantic, the familial and the geopolitical are inseparable here.

  A trip to the Seventies via family video shot at the time.

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Features

• Roads that lead you to roam
  Laura Citrella on the mysteries and winding pathways of Trenque Lauquen
• Catalan renegade working from inside out
  Albert Serra on inspiration, stimulation, Magimel and filming Pacifiction in Tahiti
• From make-up.. to natural blusher
  Léa Seydoux on coming over all coy with Daniel Craig and Melvil Poupaud
• Portraits of modern life
  Mia Hansen-Løve on Léa Seydoux, Pascal Greggory, Kafka, ghosts and One Fine Morning
• The functional and the representational
  Marie Kreutzer on Empress Elisabeth of Austria, the biographies of Sisi, and Corsage
• Control, numbers and measurements
  Marie Kreutzer on Vicky Krieps, Camille, and the look of Corsage
• A film that meant everything
  Jeremy Pope and Elegance Bratton discuss making The Inspection
• Almost a ghost story
  James Gray on his grandfather, Anthony Hopkins, Susan Sontag and Armageddon Time
• Walk through fear
  Nan Goldin, Laura Poitras, Harry Cullen and Megan Kapler on All The Beauty And The Bloodshed
• A timeless dimension
  Pietro Marcello on Gabriel Yared, Pascaline Chavanne and Scarlet
• Desiring a reality
  Alessandro Comodin on Pier Luigi Mecchia, Jacques Lacan’s Other, and The Adventures Of Gigi The Law
• The real and unreal
  Noah Baumbach on White Noise, Ann Roth, Danny Elfman and James Murphy
• Celebrity culture
  Vicky Krieps on Marie Kreutzer’s Corsage, Romy Schneider, and Margarethe von Trotta’s Bachmann & Frisch
• Close encounters
  Helena Wittmann on Denis Lavant, Marguerite Duras, Friedrich Glauser and Human Flowers Of Flesh
• Beauty is scary.. looks are a currency
  Director Ruben Östlund on the starting point for Triangle Of Sadness
• Living history
  Margaret Brown on her documentary Descendant
• Flight and fight
  Shaunak Sen on making his documentary about two brothers' bird hospital in Delhi

News

• Nan Goldin announced as NYFF poster designer
  Festival directors inspired by All The Beauty And The Bloodshed
• NYFF Current section announced
  New talents join established names
• NYFF Revivals announced
  New restorations reveal classics at their best
• NYFF Spotlight selections announced
  Special screening for Tarkovsky’s Solaris
• Elegance Bratton’s The Inspection to be NYFF closing film
  "A début film for the ages" - Dennis Lim
• Armageddon Time joins NYFF line-up
  Special screening for James Gray's celebration of New York
• All The Beauty And The Bloodshed to be NYFF Centerpiece
  Film follows Nan Goldin and the downfall of the Sackler family
• White Noise to open New York Film Festival
  Noah Baumbach's adaptation of Don DeLillo's novel to kick off 60th edition