The 48th New York Film Festival will host 28 feature films from fourteen countries when it runs Sept. 24-Oct. 10 at Alice Tully Hall and The Walter Reade Theater, including the Closing Night selection, Clint Eastwood's Hereafter. The festival, presented by the Film Society of Lincoln Center will also feature a unique blend of programming to complement the main-slate of films, including: two Masterworks programs, Elegant Elegies: The Films of Masahiro Shinoda and Fernando de Fuentes' Revolutionary Trilogy, in addition to The Cinema Inside Me: Olivier Assayas, Views from the Avant-Garde, and 10 special event screenings, all of which will be announced in more detail shortly.
"As so beautifully evident in Hereafter, Clint Eastwood continues to make the most daring, provocative films in America. With his returned appearance here in the New York Film Festival, the director has showcased an Opening Night film, a Centerpiece film and now this year's Closing Night with Hereafter, a "hat trick" of which we are especially proud," says Richard Peña, Selection Committee Chair & Program Director, The Film Society of Lincoln Center.
The festivals previously announced Opening Night and Centerpiece selections (David Fincher's The Social Network and Julie Taymor's The Tempest) headline a strong American contingent within the 2010 slate, though Eastwood is the only key-night Director returning to the New York Film Festival, as Fincher and Taymor will be making their New York Film Festival debuts in this year's program. Returning international veterans for this year's festival will include: Jean-Luc Godard's (27th NYFF visit); Manoel de Oliveira (10th); Mike Leigh (9th); Raul Ruiz (8th); and Abbas Kiarostami & Hong Sang-soo (5th time each).
Added Peña, "My colleagues and I were especially impressed with the fearlessness of the filmmakers selected for this year's program. To see both the veterans and the newcomers moving into bold new areas, experimenting with narrative or pushing the limits of genre, emphasizes the undying vitality of a medium that sadly is so often reduced to formula and repetition."
The 48th New York Film Festival main-slate:
Opening Night
THE SOCIAL NETWORK, David Fincher, 2010, USA, 120 min
Centerpiece
THE TEMPEST, Julie Taymor, 2010, USA, 110 min
Closing Night
HEREAFTER, Clint Eastwood, 2010, USA, 126 min
ANOTHER YEAR, Mike Leigh, 2010, UK, 129 min
AURORA, Cristi Puiu, 2010, Romania, 181 min
BLACK VENUS, (Venus noire), Abdellatif Kechiche, France, 166 min
CARLOS, Olivier Assayas, 2010, France, 319 min
CERTIFIED COPY (Copie conformé), Abbas Kiarostami, 2010, France/Italy, 106 min
FILM SOCIALISME, Jean-Luc Godard, 2010, Switzerland, 101 min
INSIDE JOB, Charles Ferguson, 2010, USA, 120 min
LE QUATTRO VOLTE, Michelangelo Frammartino, 2010, Italy, 88 min
LENNON NYC, Michael Epstein, 2010, USA, 115 min
MEEK'S CUTOFF, Kelly Reichardt, 2010, USA, 104 min
MY JOY (Schastye moe), Sergei Loznitsa, 2010, Ukraine/Germany, 127 min
MYSTERIES OF LISBON (Misterios de Lisboa), Raul Ruiz, Portugal/France, 272 min
OF GODS AND MEN (Des homes et des dieux), Xavier Beauvois, 2010,
France, 120 min
OKI'S MOVIE (Ok hui ui yeonghwa), Hong Sang-soo, 2010, South Korea, 80 min
OLD CATS (Gatos viejos), Sebastian Silva, 2010, Chile, 88 min
POETRY (Shi), Lee Chang-dong, 2010, South Korea, 139 min
POST MORTEM, Pablo Larrain, 2010, Chile/Mexico/Germany, 98 min
REVOLUCION, Mariana Chenillo, Fernando Embecke, Amat Escalante, Gael Garcia
Bernal, Rodrigo Garcia, Diego Luna, Gerardo Naranjo, Rodrigo Plá, Carlos Reygadas,
Patricia Riggen, 2010, Mexico, 110 min
THE ROBBER (Der Räuber), Benjamin Heisenberg, Austria/Germany, 90 min
ROBINSON IN RUINS, Patrick Keiller, 2010, UK, 101 min
SILENT SOULS (Ovsyanki), Alexei Fedorchenko, Russia, 75 min
THE STRANGE CASE OF ANGELICA (O estranho caso de Angélica), Manoel de Oliveira,
Portugal, 97 min
TUESDAY AFTER CHRISTMAS (Marti, dupa craciun), Radu Muntean,
Romania, 99 min
UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL PAST LIVES (Lung Boonmee raluek chat),
Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2010, UK/Thailand, 113 min
WE ARE WHAT WE ARE (Somos lo que hay), Jorge Michel Grau, Mexico, 90 min