The fall film festival circuit has grown by leaps and bounds as we scrutinize the likes of the Toronto, Venice and Telluride Film Festival selections and New York has just upped the ante even further. The fest already set Paul Greengrass‘ Captain Phillips as its opener, Spike Jonze‘s Her as its closer and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty as its centerpiece selection. With the secret screening still a question mark (will it be Martin Scorese’s The Wolf of Wall Street?) the fest has just announced 51 more titles that will be making an appearance and many are standouts from this year’s Cannes Film Festival that had so far avoided Toronto and Venice.
Among the titles that premiered at Cannes you have Joel and Ethan Coen’s Inside Llewyn Davis (read my “A+” review here), J.C. Chandor‘s All is Lost starring Robert Redford (read my “A+” review here), Alexander Payne‘s Nebraska (read my review here), Blue is the Warmest Color, The Bastards (read my review here), Like Father, Like Son, Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian (read my review here), Only Lovers Left Alive (read my review here), The Immigrant (read my review here) and A Touch of Sin.
The absence of many of these titles from the Toronto and Venice lineups was a little cause for concern when you try and consider their Oscar chances, but setting up their North American premieres at the New York Festival is a smart move.
A few titles are already set to play Toronto as well such as James Franco‘s Child of God, Ralph Fiennes latest directorial outing The Invisible Woman, Roger Michell‘s La Week-end and Hayao Miyazaki‘s latest animated feature The Wind Rises.
The most recognizable title making a premiere is Richard Curtis‘s time-travel comedy About Time starring Domhnall Gleeson, Rachel McAdams, Lindsay Duncan and Bill Nighy.
Here’s a look at the complete list of titles announced:
- ABOUT TIME (dir. Richard Curtis)
- ABUSE OF WEAKNESS (Abus de Faiblesse) (dir. Catherine Breillat)
- ALAN PARTRIDGE (dir. Declan Lowney)
- ALL IS LOST (dir. J.C. Chandor)
- AMERICAN PROMISE (dird. Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson)
- AT BERKELEY (dir. Frederick Wiseman)
- BASTARDS (Les Salauds) (dir. Claire Denis)
- BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR (La Vie d’Adèle) (dir. Abdellatif Kechiche)
- BURNING BUSH (Hořicà Keř) (dir. Agnieszka Holland)
- CAPTAIN PHILLIPS (dir. Paul Greengrass)
- CHILD OF GOD (dir. James Franco)
- GLORIA (dir. Sebastián Lelio)
- HER (dir. Spike Jonze)
- THE IMMIGRANT (dir. James Gray)
- INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS (dirs. Ethan Coen, Joel Coen)
- THE INVISIBLE WOMAN (dir. Ralph Fiennes)
- JEALOUSY (La Jalousie) (dir. Philippe Garrel)
- JIMMY P: PSYCHOTHERAPY OF A PLAINS INDIAN (dir. Arnaud Desplechin)
- THE LAST OF THE UNJUST (Le Dernier des injustes) (dir. Claude Lanzmann)
- LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON (Soshite Chichi ni Naru) (dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda)
- THE MISSING PICTURE (L’image manquante) (dir. Rithy Panh)
- MY NAME IS HMMM… (Je m’appelle Hmmm…) (dir. agnès b)
- NEBRASKA (dir. Alexander Payne)
- NOBODY’S DAUGHTER HAEWON (Nugu-ui ttal-do anin Haewon) (dir. Hong Sang-soo)
- NORTH, THE END OF HISTORY (Norte, Hangganan ng Kasaysayan) (dir. Lav Diaz)
- OMAR (dir. Hany Abu-Assad)
- ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE (dir. Jim Jarmusch)
- THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY (dir. Ben Stiller)
- THE SQUARE (dir. Jehane Noujaim)
- STRANGER BY THE LAKE (L’Inconnu du lac) (dir. Alain Guiraudie)
- STRAY DOGS (Jiao You) (dir. Tsai Ming-liang)
- A TOUCH OF SIN (Tian Zhu Ding) (dir. Jia Zhangke)
- LE WEEK-END (dir. Roger Michell)
- WHEN EVENING FALLS ON BUCHAREST OR METABOLISM (dir. Corneliu Porumboiu)
- THE WIND RISES (Kaze Tachinu) (dir. Hayao Miyazaki)
