New York Film Festival

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  The Last One For The Road

  Review preview for The Last One For The Road

  Blends a shaggy dog story with a road trip.

  Carlobianchi and Doriano, two broke fiftysomethings with a “never skip the last drink” philosophy, meet Giulio, a shy architecture student adrift in life. What starts as a chance encounter turns into a chaotic road trip through the Venetian plains.
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  Rose Of Nevada

  Review preview for Rose Of Nevada

  Jenkin’s style, impressionistic when it comes to places, is particular in regard to objects, the real anchors of our lives.

  A mysterious boat returns to a village 30 years after vanishing. Two men join its crew hoping for better fortune. After one voyage, they find themselves transported back in time, mistaken for the original crew.
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  The Perfect Neighbor

  Review preview for The Perfect Neighbor

  The film is a triumph of editing by Viridiana Lieberman, in terms of storytelling

  A seemingly minor neighbourhood dispute in Florida escalates into deadly violence. Police bodycam footage and investigative interviews expose the consequences of Florida’s 'stand your ground' laws.
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  Pillion

  Review preview for Pillion

  The constant contrast is the trick, which later extends to the emotional stakes.

  A man is taken on as a motorbike club's leader's submissive but begins to question that role.
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  Put Your Soul On Your Hand And Walk

  Review preview for Put Your Soul On Your Hand And Walk

  The film doesn’t answer every common question that people have in this situation, but it does provide some context.

  A glimpse of everyday reality for people living in Gaza in 2024.
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  After The Hunt

  Review preview for After The Hunt

  Guadagnino is tilting at windmills and there isn’t even any wind.

  A college professor finds herself at a personal and professional crossroads when a star pupil levels an accusation against one of her colleagues and a dark secret from her own past threatens to come to light.
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  No Other Choice

  Review preview for No Other Choice

  Park keeps inviting us to laugh, then forcing us to confront what, exactly, we’re laughing at.

  When a man loses his job he finds himself drifting before deciding to take things into his own hands...
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  Mare's Nest

  Review preview for Mare's Nest

  Rivers' dreamlike approach has the quality of memory in places, full of figments and fragments, although that inevitably means some episodes are more engaging than others.

  A child's adventures in an adult-free world.
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  Jay Kelly

  Review preview for Jay Kelly

  It cannot be denied that Jay Kelly is interested in exploring the human condition through the lens of fame and fatherhood, but the romantic, sentimental, and saccharine tones come with a risk.

  Famous movie actor Jay Kelly and his devoted manager Ron embark on a whirlwind and unexpectedly profound journey. Both are forced to confront choices they've made, their relationships with loved ones and the legacies they'll leave behind.
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  Two Prosecutors

  Review preview for Two Prosecutors

  Chillingly restrained and quietly devastating

  Soviet Union, 1937. Thousands of letters from detainees falsely accused by the regime are burned in a prison cell. Against all odds, one of them reaches its destination... the desk of a newly appointed local prosecutor, who embarks on a quest for justice.

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Features

• A 'difficult' director
  Jon Asp on Swedish film history and making Being Bo Widerberg
• 'I don't like that feeling of things that look alike'
  The Love That Remains director Hlynur Pálmason on the idiosyncratic and personal
• 'The important thing is to make films you believe in'
  Ben Rivers on myth adaptation and world creation in Mare's Nest
• Song of the desert
  Kangding Ray on changing attitudes to music in cinema, and scoring Sirât
• 'I think it completely changed my life'
  Aleksandre Koberidze on his love for the Sony Ericsson and using it to shoot Dry Leaf
• Lifted up by an idea
  Kent Jones on Willem Dafoe, Greta Lee, and Kurt Weill & Bertolt Brecht’s Surabaya Johnny in Late Fame
• The beauty of doubt
  Toni Servillo on costumes by Carlo Poggioli and working with Paolo Sorrentino on La Grazia
• Fluidity of memory
  Sophy Romvari on the nature of recollection and drawing on her own life for Blue Heron
• It’s about re-enchantment
  Christian Petzold on cinema history, lullabies, Laura, Rebecca and Miroirs No. 3
• We found our way
  Jim Jarmusch and cast on Father Mother Sister Brother
• Caught in The Currents
  Milagros Mumenthaler on the psychological journey of her latest film
• 63rd New York Film Festival early bird highlights
  Miroirs No. 3, Late Fame, The Secret Agent and Below The Clouds
• 'I didn't make this film myself. The Islamic Republic made it by putting me in prison'
  Jafar Panahi on the inspiration for It Was Just An Accident
• 'I admit it was crazy idea, but then film people are crazy'
  Richard Linklater on chronicling the creation of Godard's Breathless in Nouvelle Vague

News

• Father Mother Sister Brother to be NYFF Centerpiece
  Festival extends Jim Jarmusch connection
• Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere is NYFF Spotlight Gala selection
  Director praises musician's influence on storytelling
• Is This Thing On? to close 63rd New York Film Festival
  Film a 'delightful third feature' says Dennis Lim
• After The Hunt to open 63rd New York Film Festival
  Selection "a tremendous responsibility and honour" says Luca Guadagnino
• RaMell Ross designs 63rd NYFF poster
  Festival acts as "an expression of our times," says filmmaker