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New York Film Festival

29 September – 15 October 2023

The 61st edition of New York Film Festival will run from September 29 to October 15. It will open with Todd Haynes' May to December and feature Sofia Coppola's Priscilla as its Centrepiece gala. Our inputting is a work in progress so please check back.

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  • Close Your Eyes
    Review preview for Close Your Eyes

    A meditation on both memory and movies as well as ageing and a hankering for the past that is informed by the melancholic knowledge that nostalgia is inevitably rose-tinted.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    A TV show looking into the mysterious disappearance of an actor leads a director on a journey into his own past while making discoveries in the present.
  • Orlando, My Political Biography
    Review preview for Orlando, My Political Biography

    Capturing the experience of living in a world where one’s gender doesn’t fit better than almost any other film to date, Preciado’s work is all about claiming space and present day narrative.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    Docufiction interpretation of Virginia Woolf's novel.
  • Evil Does Not Exist
    Review preview for Evil Does Not Exist

    Hamaguchi isn’t scared to completely change the rhythm of his film on a dime, something that is likely to frustrate as many people as it delights.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    A rural village faces disruption from the construction of a glamping site for Tokyo tourists.
  • Green Border
    Review preview for Green Border

    Essential, urgent and damning.

    Amber Wilkinson · 5 out of 5
    Multifaceted drama about the plight of refugees on the Belarus/Poland border.
  • La Chimera
    Review preview for La Chimera

    Rohrwacher’s visually eclectic style is well suited to exploring the contrasts between present and past, natural and artificial, poverty and wealth.

    Jennie Kermode · 2.5 out of 5
    The story of a group of archaeologists and the black market in historical artefacts.
  • Eureka
    Review preview for Eureka

    Characters come and go between these different worlds, emerging and re-emerging in different forms, as we explore different aspects of colonialism, responses to it, and survival strategies at personal and cultural levels.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    Three stories set in wildly different terrain reflect lives haunted by the spectre of colonialist violence.
  • About Dry Grasses
    Review preview for About Dry Grasses

    It’s the multiple layers of mystery – which have less to do with actual events than with what different characters are thinking – which make the film compelling.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    A young teacher hopes to be appointed to Istanbul after mandatory duty at a small village. After long time waiting he loses all hope of escaping from this gloomy life. His colleague helps him to regain his perspective.
  • The Delinquents
    Review preview for The Delinquents

    Moreno isn’t shy about his use of symbolism...What this effects to disguise, however, is the degree to which [the men's] own thinking has been shaped by symbols and by the belief system which surrounds them.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    Two bank staff rob their own establishment.
  • Perfect Days
    Review preview for Perfect Days

    The 4:3 format, preferred by Yasujirō Ozu, is the perfect frame for paying attention to the small mysteries that are often overlooked.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 4.5 out of 5
    The story of an urban renewal project which involves the creation of 17 public toilets in key locations in the Japanese capital.
  • Ferrari
    Review preview for Ferrari

    The car racing scenes are the best in the history of cinema.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    It's the summer of 1957 and Ferrari is in crisis, both in his business and personal life. He decides to take a gamble on a race, the Mille Miglia.

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