The 10 Buzziest Films at the New York Film Festival Inline
Photo: Courtesy of NYFF1/10The Walk
Just in time for a major retrospective of his work at MoMA, Robert Zemeckis, the director of Forest Gump, Back to the Future, and Cast Away, is releasing The Walk in Imax 3D. The film, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Philippe Petit, reimagines the real-life tightrope walk between the Twin Towers.
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Jacob Bernstein’s tribute to his late mother, Nora Ephron, will surely leave viewers misty-eyed. Everything Is Copy (a motto Ephron learned from her screenwriter mother) features many of her friends, family members, and collaborators who reminisce about the impact and legacy of the writer. The documentary also samples scenes from her beloved movies and vintage interviews with Ephron before she passed away in 2012.
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The third film about the life of the late Apple cofounder and CEO may have finally gotten it right. Directed by Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire) and written by Aaron Sorkin (The Social Network), the film has a starry cast, including Michael Fassbender as the titular man in the black turtleneck, Kate Winslet, Seth Rogen, and Jeff Daniels.
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After Laura Poitras premiered her Edward Snowden documentary, Citizenfour, at last year’s New York Film Festival, she’s back on the circuit with sections from her latest, Asylum, which follows another infamous information vigilante: Julian Assange. If history is any guide, this could mean back-to-back Oscars for the documentarian.
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This surreal, dark comedy takes place in a not-so-distant future where single people are sent to a residential center to find a mate. If they fail to find love, the singleton is then transformed into an animal (of their preference, at least). Colin Farrell plays David, a man who has been left by his wife and has only 45 days to find his next partner. Enter Rachel Weisz as the quirky loner who might just be his match.
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This Cold War–era movie follows a Brooklyn insurance lawyer (Tom Hanks) who is tasked with negotiating the release of a captured American spy. Directed by Steven Spielberg and written by the Coen brothers, you can just go ahead and put Bridge of Spies on your Oscar ballot right now.
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Todd Haynes, the director behind Far from Heaven and HBO’s Mildred Pierce, explores yet another repressed romance in the mid-20th century. Carol centers on the love affair between a young aspiring photographer (Rooney Mara) and an older, fur-wearing aristocrat (Cate Blanchett). The film lit up this year’s Cannes Film Festival, with Mara tying for the Best Actress award.
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In this coming-of-age drama, Saoirse Ronan stars as Ellis Lacey, a young Irish immigrant who makes her way to New York City in the early 1950s. Based on Colm Tóibín’s novel and adapted by Nick Hornby, Brooklyn earned rave reviews at Sundance earlier this year. If the literary cred hasn’t won you over, the film’s mid-century costumes are sure to wow.
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Looking for an international offering? Watch French auteur Philippe Garrel’s new film, In the Shadow of Women, which ruminates on the nature of infidelity, specifically as it relates to a pair of married documentary filmmakers and their respective lovers.
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Don Cheadle’s film-directorial debut, Miles Ahead, will close out the festival. The film zeroes in on legendary jazz musician Miles Davis during his mysterious silent period. Cheadle, who also cowrote the screenplay, stars as the saxophonist, while Ewan McGregor plays a Rolling Stone reporter who’s trailing the enigmatic musician.
