The 61st New York Film Festival took place between September 29 to October 15, 2023, presented by Film at Lincoln Center.
 Festival poster by Jim Jarmusch | |
| Opening film | May December by Todd Haynes |
|---|---|
| Closing film | Ferrari by Michael Mann |
| Location | New York City, United States |
| Founded | 1963 |
| Founded by | Richard Roud and Amos Vogel |
| Hosted by | Film at Lincoln Center |
| Artistic director | Dennis Lim |
| Festival date | September 29 – October 15, 2023 |
| Website | https://www.filmlinc.org/nyff2023/ |
Todd Haynes' romantic drama May December was the "Opening Night Film" of this year edition,[1] while Sofia Coppola's biographical drama Priscilla was chosen to be NYFF's "Centerpiece".[2] Michael Mann's sports drama Ferrari was selected as the Festival's "Closing Night Film".[3] The official "Main Slate" selection was announced on August 8, 2023.[4] Followed by the "Spotlight Gala" section announcements on August 17, 2023.[5] The line-up of the "Revivals" section was announced on August 22, 2023.[6] The Currents slate was announced on August 23, 2023.[7]
Appearing in the NYFF's "Main Slate" for the first time are Annie Baker, Bas Devos, Felipe Gálvez, Jonathan Glazer, Andrew Haigh, Raven Jackson, Michael Mann, Rodrigo Moreno, Paul B. Preciado, Wang Bing, and Zhang Lü.[4]
Official selections
editMain Slate
editThe following films were selected to the "Main Slate" section of the Festival:[4]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| About Dry Grasses | Kuru Otlar Üstüne | Nuri Bilge Ceylan | Turkey, France, Germany |
| All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt | Raven Jackson | United States | |
| All of Us Strangers | Andrew Haigh | United Kingdom | |
| Anatomy of a Fall | Anatomie d'une chute | Justine Triet | France |
| The Beast | La Bête | Bertrand Bonello | France, Canada |
| La chimera | Alice Rohrwacher | Italy, France, Switzerland | |
| Close Your Eyes | Cerrar los ojos | Víctor Erice | Spain, Argentina |
| The Delinquents | Los delincuentes | Rodrigo Moreno | Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Luxembourg |
| Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World | Nu astepta prea mult de la sfârsitul lumii | Radu Jude | Romania |
| Eureka | Lisandro Alonso | Argentina, France, Germany, Portugal, Mexico | |
| Evil Does Not Exist | 悪は存在しない | Ryûsuke Hamaguchi | Japan |
| Fallen Leaves | Kuolleet lehdet | Aki Kaurismäki | Finland |
| Ferrari (closing film) | Michael Mann | United States | |
| Green Border | Zielona Granica | Agnieszka Holland | Poland, Czech Republic, Belgium |
| Here | Bas Devos | Belgium | |
| In Our Day | 우리의 하루 | Hong Sang-soo | South Korea |
| In Water | 물 안에서 | ||
| Janet Planet | Annie Baker | United States | |
| Kidnapped | Rapito | Marco Bellocchio | Italy, France, Germany |
| Last Summer | L'été dernier | Catherine Breillat | France |
| May December (opening film) | Todd Haynes | United States | |
| Music | Angela Schanelec | Germany, France, Serbia | |
| Orlando, My Political Biography | Orlando, ma biographie politique | Paul B. Preciado | France |
| Perfect Days | Wim Wenders | Japan, Germany | |
| Pictures of Ghosts | Retratos Fantasmas | Kleber Mendonça Filho | Brazil |
| Pier Paolo Pasolini – Agnès Varda – New York – 1967 (2022) | Agnès Varda | France | |
| Poor Things | Yorgos Lanthimos | United Kingdom, Ireland, United States | |
| The Practice | La práctica | Martín Rejtman | Argentina, Chile, Portugal |
| Priscilla (centerpiece) | Sofia Coppola | United States | |
| The Settlers | Los colonos | Felipe Gálvez | Chile, Argentina, France, Denmark United Kingdom, Taiwan, Sweden, Germany |
| The Shadowless Tower | 白塔之光 | Zhang Lü | China |
| Youth (Spring) | 青春 | Wang Bing | China, France, Luxembourg, Netherlands |
| The Zone of Interest | Jonathan Glazer | United Kingdom, United States, Poland | |
Spotlight
editFilm at Lincoln Center announced Maestro as the first film of the "Spotlight" section on August 16, 2023.[8] The entire line-up was announced the following day:[5]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aggro Dr1ft | Harmony Korine | United States | |
| Bleat (2022) | Yorgos Lanthimos | Greece | |
| The Boy and the Heron | 君たちはどう生きるか | Hayao Miyazaki | Japan |
| The Curse (episodes 1–3) | Nathan Fielder and Benny Safdie | United States | |
| Foe | Garth Davis | Australia, United States | |
| Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project | Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson | United States | |
| Hit Man | Richard Linklater | ||
| Maestro | Bradley Cooper | ||
| Menus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros | Frederick Wiseman | France, United States | |
| Occupied City | Steve McQueen | United Kingdom, Netherlands, United States | |
| The Pigeon Tunnel | Errol Morris | United Kingdom | |
| Ryuichi Sakamoto: Opus | Neo Sora | Japan | |
| Strange Way of Life | Extraña Forma de Vida | Pedro Almodóvar | Spain |
| The Sweet East | Sean Price Williams | United States | |
| The Taste of Things | La Passion de Dodin Bouffant | Tran Anh Hung | France |
Currents
edit| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Air Force Two | Kevin Jerome Everson | United States | |
| ALLENSWORTH | James Benning | ||
| Boyd v. Denton | Kevin Jerome Everson | ||
| The Daughters of Fire | As Filhas do Fogo | Pedro Costa | Portugal |
| The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed | Joanna Arnow | United States | |
| The Human Surge 3 (opening film) | El auge del humano 3 | Eduardo Williams | Argentina, Portugal, Netherlands, Taiwan, Brazil, Hong Kong, Sri Lanka, Peru |
| Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell | Bên trong vỏ kén vàng | Phạm Thiên Ân | Vietnam, Singapore, France, Spain |
| Laberint Sequences | Blake Williams | United States | |
| Last Things | Deborah Stratman | United States, Portugal, France | |
| Mambar Pierrette | Rosine Mbakam | Cameroon, Belgium | |
| Man in Black | 黑衣人 | Wang Bing | China, France |
| Mangosteen | Tulapop Saenjaroen | Thailand | |
| The Night Visitors | Michael Gitlin | United States | |
| Nowhere Near | Miko Revereza | United States, Philippines | |
| A Prince | Un prince | Pierre Creton | France |
| Trailer of the Film That Will Never Exist: "Phony Wars" | Film Annonce du Film qui n’existera Jamais: “Drôles de Guerres” | Jean-Luc Godard | France, Switzerland, Belgium |
| Unhappy Hour | Ted Fendt | Germany | |
| We Don’t Talk Like We Used To | Joshua Gen Solondz | United States, Hong Kong, Japan | |
| When We Encounter the World | Leonardo Pirondi and Zazie Ray-Trapido | Portugal, United States | |
Currents Shorts
edit| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Program 1: Surface Tension | |||
| Abattoir U.S.A.! | Aria Dean | United States | |
| Mercurial Currents | Carolina Fusilier | Argentina, Mexico | |
| Moving Along Image | Dau:añcut | Adam Piron | United States, Canada |
| Nameless Syndrome | Jeamin Cha | South Korea | |
| Sensitive Content | Narges Kalhor | Iran, Germany | |
| Program 2: Stranger Than Paradise | |||
| The Far and Near | Justin Jinsoo Kim | South Korea | |
| Live From the Clouds | Mackie Mallison | United States | |
| The Moon Will Contain Us | Solo la Luna comprenderá | Kim Torres | Costa Rica, United States |
| Shrooms | Jorge Jácome | Portugal | |
| Slow Shift | Shambhavi Kaul | India, United States | |
| Program 3: Inside Out | |||
| Bold Eagle | Whammy Alcazaren | Philippines | |
| False Wife | Jamie Crewe | United Kingdom | |
| Larry | Takeshi Murata and Christopher Rutledge | United States | |
| LOOPHOLE | Jordan Strafer | ||
| Sundown | Steve Reinke | Austria, Canada, United States | |
| Program 4: Close Encounters | |||
| Disappearances | James Edmonds | Germany | |
| If You Don’t Watch the Way You Move | Kevin Jerome Everson | United States | |
| N’Importe Quoi (for Brunhild) | Luke Fowler | France, United Kingdom | |
| Intersection | Richard Tuohy and Dianna Barrie | United States | |
| Mast-Del | Maryam Tafakory | Iran, United Kingdom | |
| Spark from a Falling Star | Ross Meckfessel | United States | |
| Program 5: Burden of Dreams | |||
| and so it came about (A Tale of Consequential Dormancy) | Charlotte Pryce | United States | |
| Coral | Sonia Oleniak | United States, Poland | |
| Dildotectonica | Tomás Paula Marques | Portugal | |
| Nocturne for a Forest | Catarina Vasconcelos | ||
| The Rays of a Storm | Julio Hernández Cordón | Mexico | |
| Program 6: Site Specific | |||
| The Fist | Ayo Akingbade | United Kingdom, Nigeria | |
| Projekt | Dane Komljen | Germany, Nigeria | |
| Ungentle | Huw Lemmey and Onyeka Igwe | United Kingdom | |
Revivals
editFilm at Lincoln Center announced the following line-up on August 22, 2023:[6]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country | Restored by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abraham’s Valley (1993) | Vale Abrãao | Manoel de Oliveira | Portugal, France, Switzerland | Cinemateca Portuguesa – Museu do Cinema |
| A Dream Longer Than the Night (1976) | Un rêve plus long que la nuit | Niki de Saint Phalle | France | L’Immagine Ritrovata (Bologna-Paris) |
| The Dupes (1973) | المخدوعون | Tewfik Saleh | Syria | The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project and Cineteca di Bologna in collaboration with the National Film Organization and the family of Tewfik Saleh |
| Emak-Bakia (1926) | Man Ray | France | Womanray and Cinenovo in partnership with La Cinémathèque française, the Centre Pompidou, the Library of Congress, the CNC and Cineteca di Bologna | |
| Household Saints (1993) | Nancy Savoca | United States | Lightbox Film Center at University of the Arts (Philadelphia) in collaboration with Milestone Films | |
| Les Mystères du Château de Dé (1927) | Man Ray, Jacques-André Boiffard | France | Womanray and Cinenovo in partnership with La Cinémathèque française, the Centre Pompidou, the Library of Congress, the CNC and Cineteca di Bologna | |
| Pier Paolo Pasolini – Agnès Varda – New York – 1967 (2022) | Agnès Varda | Cine-Tamaris, in collaboration with L’Immagine Ritrovata | ||
| Pressure (1976) | Horace Ové | United Kingdom | BFI National Archive and The Film Foundation | |
| Renata (1982) | Nancy Savoca | United States | Milestone Film & Video in collaboration with Ross Lipman, Corpus Fluxus | |
| Return to Reason (1923) | Le Retour à la Raison | Man Ray | France | Womanray and Cinenovo in partnership with La Cinémathèque française, the Centre Pompidou, the Library of Congress, the CNC and Cineteca di Bologna |
| La Roue (1923) | Abel Gance | The Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé in collaboration with the Cinémathèque Française, the Cinémathèque Suisse, and Pathé and with the support of the CNC | ||
| The Starfish (1928) | L’Étoile de mer | Man Ray, Jacques-André Boiffard | Womanray and Cinenovo in partnership with La Cinémathèque française, the Centre Pompidou, the Library of Congress, the CNC and Cineteca di Bologna | |
| The Stranger and the Fog (1974) | Qaribe va Meh | Bahram Beyzai | Iran | The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project and Cineteca di Bologna in collaboration with Bahram Beyzai |
| The Strangler (1970) | L'Étrangleur | Paul Vecchiali | France | CNC and Cosmodigital |
| The Stronger (1976) | Lee Grant | United States | Academy Film Archive and The Film Foundation | |
| Tell Me a Riddle (1980) | ||||
| The Woman on the Beach (1947) | Jean Renoir | Library of Congress and The Film Foundation | ||
Free talks
edit| Section | Speakers | Notes | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| The 2023 Amos Vogel Lecture | Paul B. Preciado | The writer and philosopher spoke about her debut film Orlando, My Political Biography. | [9] |
| Deep Focus | Todd Haynes | Haynes debuted his short film Image Book about the production of his film May December. | |
| Nikki Giovanni | The Poet and activist spoke about Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Story. | ||
| Sandra Hüller | The German actress spoke about her latest films Anatomy of a Fall and The Zone of Interest | ||
| Catherine Breillat | The French auteur spoke about her filmography and her film Last Summer. | ||
| Crosscuts | Wang Bing & Eduardo Williams | The two talk about their respective films, Youth (Spring) and The Human Surge 3. | |
| Joanna Arnow & Nancy Savoca | The two discuss their careers and approach to filmmaking. | ||
| Sandra Adair & Jonathan Alberts | The two editors talk about their films Hit Man and All of Us Strangers. | ||
| Annie Baker & Raven Jackson | Two two discuss their films Janet Planet and All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt. |
References
edit- ^ "Todd Haynes's May December Will Open the 61st New York Film Festival". Film at Lincoln Center. 2023-07-11. Retrieved 2023-07-29.
- ^ "Sofia Coppola's Priscilla is the Centerpiece Selection of 61st New York Film Festival". Film at Lincoln Center. 2023-07-20. Retrieved 2023-07-29.
- ^ "Michael Mann's Ferrari is the Closing Night Selection of 61st New York Film Festival". Film at Lincoln Center. 2023-07-27. Retrieved 2023-07-29.
- ^ a b c "61st New York Film Festival Main Slate Announced". Film at Lincoln Center. 2023-08-08. Retrieved 2023-08-08.
- ^ a b "61st New York Film Festival Spotlight Announced". Film at Lincoln Center. 2023-08-17. Retrieved 2023-08-17.
- ^ a b "61st New York Film Festival Revivals Announced". Film at Lincoln Center. 2023-08-21. Retrieved 2023-08-23.
- ^ "61st New York Film Festival Currents Announced". Film at Lincoln Center. 2023-08-23. Retrieved 2023-08-24.
- ^ "Bradley Cooper's Maestro Announced as Spotlight Gala of the 61st New York Film Festival". Film at Lincoln Center. 2023-08-16. Retrieved 2023-08-16.
- ^ "2023 Talks - New York Film Festival". Film at Lincoln Center. Retrieved August 10, 2024.