"Back to selectionWith the 63rd edition of the New York Film Festival kicking off tomorrow (Luca Guadagnino's After the Hunt is the Opening Night Film), we at Filmmaker offer a list of 20 recommendations, the majority films we've seen and reviewed out of other festivals, a list augmented with a couple of strongly anticipated titles. Find below recommendations from Vadim Rizov, Blake Williams, Natalia Keogan, Leonardo Goi, Vikram Murthi, Nicolas Rapold and Sofia Bohdanowicz, with links to their coverage. For more information and tickets, visit the NYFF site."
"There are two world premieres in NYFF's Main Slate this year. The starry inclusion of Bradley Cooper's directorial latest, Is This Thing On? as a closing night title speaks for itself; more potentially interesting is Ulrich Köhler's Gavagai. Tracking a tumultuous film shoot in Senegal presided over by a neurotically demanding French director, this is the expertly eccentric German's first feature in six years since 2019's excellent family quasi-thriller A Voluntary Year and the previous year's post-apocalyptic relationship non-drama In My Room. Oddball humor and lowkey formal expertise are the connective tissue throughout his thematically diverse body of work. - Vadim Rizov"
"Sirat Oliver Laxe'sSirât is a stark work of minimalism. After an onscreen quote references the Sirât Bridge-a line between paradise and hell as thin as a thread and sharp as a sword-we are dropped into a freetekno party somewhere in Morocco's arid desert landscape, as an arriving techno beat from Berlin-based composer Kangding Ray... Narrative movies are so often dependent on satisfying viewers' desire for images we're already comfortable with, so if was a relief to see one that argues-quite literally, in the end-for not thinking, for finding our way by closing our eyes." - Blake Williams"
The 63rd New York Film Festival opens with Luca Guadagnino's After the Hunt as the Opening Night Film and includes a curated list of 20 recommended titles drawn from festival screenings and anticipated releases. NYFF's Main Slate features two world premieres: Bradley Cooper's Is This Thing On? as a closing night selection and Ulrich Köhler's Gavagai, which follows a chaotic film shoot in Senegal and showcases Köhler's oddball humor and formal control after a six-year pause. Oliver Laxe's Sirât adopts stark minimalism around a freetekno party in Morocco, using the Sirât Bridge motif and a score by Kangding Ray. Jim Jarmusch's Father Mother Sister Brother addresses familial relationships between parents and children.
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