Of course, there are plenty of other noteworthy selections again this year, as the NYFF, in conjunction with the Lincoln Center, have announced their full slate of 30+ films for this year’s edition. Only five of the 29 films selected are in English. Despite a total of nine titles helming from this past May’s Cannes Film Festival, Terrence Malick’s “A Hidden Life” Ken Loach’s “Sorry We Missed You,” Ladj Ly’s “Les Miserables,” Elia Suleiman’s “It Must Be Heaven” and Jessica Hausner’s “Little Joe” did not make the final cut. A big surprise is no “Uncut Gems” from New York’s very own Josh and Ben Safdie. What does that say about the movie itself? Who knows. It is set to premiere at Telluride and then Toronto. Are A24 just being cautious in their goal to get Adam Sandler that Oscar nomination? Wouldn’t that be something? But the fact that a heavily NYC-based movie isn’t at the biggest NYC film festival does make you wonder what happened… Also not going to NYFF is more mainstream Hollywood fare such as “Jojo Rabbit,” “The Aeronauts,” “The Laundromat,” and “The Two Popes,” not to mention the three titles that the arthouse crowd was expecting at the festival (Hirokazu Kore-eda’s “The Truth,” Roy Andersson’s “About Endlessness” and Pablo Larrain’s “Ema,”) So basically, the NYFF has decided that this year’s fall lineup of Hollywood films just isn’t for them, with the exception of “The Irishman,” “Marriage Story” and “Motherless Brooklyn.” Good on them. As reported by yours truly, Kelly Reichardt’s “First Cow” is not only going to be part of the NYFF but is also going to Telluride (based on its NYFF Premiere status). From what we can see, again based on Premiere status, Not going to Telluride are “Atlantics: A Ghost Love Story,” “Bacurau,” “Synonyms,” “Wasp Network,” “The Wild Goose Lake.” Telluride-bound will be films such as “Beanpole,” “Pain & Glory,” “Parasite,” “Portrait of A Lady on Fire,” and “Varda by Agnes.” With Olivier Assayas “Wasp Network” not going to Telluride we now have only one movie that is likely to make all four of the major fall festivals (TIFF, Telluride, Venice and NYFF) and that is Noah Baumbach’s “Marriage Story.” The 2019 New York Film Festival begins on September 27. The 57th New York Film Festival Main Slate The IrishmanDir. Martin ScorseseMarriage StoryDir. Noah Baumbach Motherless BrooklynDir. Edward Norton Atlantics: A Ghost Love StoryDir. Mati Diop BacurauDir. Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles BeanpoleDir. Kantemir Balagov Fire Will ComeDir. Oliver Laxe First CowDir. Kelly Reichardt A Girl MissingDir. Koji Fukada I Was at Home, But…Dir. Angela Schanelec LibertéDir. Albert Serra Martin EdenDir. Pietro Marcello The MoneychangerDir. Federico Veiroj Oh Mercy!Dir. Arnaud Desplechin Pain and GloryDir. Pedro Almodóvar ParasiteDir. Bong Joon-ho Portrait of a Lady on FireDir. Céline Sciamma Saturday FictionDir. Lou Ye SibylDir. Justine Triet SynonymsDir. Nadav Lapid To the Ends of the EarthDir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa The TraitorDir. Marco Bellocchio Varda by AgnèsDir. Agnès Varda Vitalina VarelaDir. Pedro Costa Wasp NetworkDir. Olivier Assayas The WhistlersDir. Corneliu Porumboiu The Wild Goose LakeDir. Diao Yinan Young AhmedDir. Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne Zombi ChildDir. Bertrand Bonello Contribute Hire me
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