The fall festival circuit has taken cinephiles from Italy (for the Venice International Film Festival) back to America (for the Telluride Film Festival) and then to the Great White North (for TIFF), and now it returns Stateside for the New York Film Festival.This year's 61st edition of the NYFF includes new works from Oscar-nominated filmmakers Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, Agnieszka Holland, Yorgos Lanthimos, Alice Rohrwacher, and Wim Wenders, alongside the likes of Jonathan Glazer, Andrew Haigh, Aki Kaurismäki, Justine Triet, and more. "The unsettled state of the industry is an unavoidable talking point these days," said festival artistic director Dennis Lim, "but my hope is that our festival, as it has done through its 61-year history, will serve as a reminder that the art of cinema is in robust health."This year's NYFF opens with a screening of Todd Haynes' May December, starring Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore, and closes with Michael Mann's Adam Driver and Penélope Cruz-starrer, Ferrari....
