FILMLINC DAILY PICK:
Goodbye First Love, 9:00pm, Alice Tully Hall, RUSH TICKETS AVAILABLE!*
In her exceptional third feature, writer-director Mia Hansen-Løve (The Father of My Children, ND/NF '10) shows once again her talent for capturing the agony and the ecstasy of adolescence. Besotted teenagers Sullivan and Camille struggle with a painful push-pull dynamic, heightened by the young man’s decision to leave Paris and travel through South America. Over the course of eight years, we watch Camille, initially devastated by her boyfriend’s departure, emerge with new passions, intellectual and otherwise. Touchingly illuminating the indelible imprint that first romance leaves, Hansen-Løve’s film also explores the hard-won satisfaction of leaving the past behind.
TICKET RELEASE:
A limited number of tickets have been released to our Closing Night Gala film The Descendants. George Clooney gives a beautifully understated performance as a harried father of two in Sideways director Alexander Payne’s comic and moving portrait of marriage, family and community.
GREAT FOR KIDS:
10th Anniversary Screening of Spirited Away, 4:00pm, Francesca Beale Theater
A beautifully drawn coming-of-age story with sharp observations on Japanese societal change, Hayao Miyazaki’s Oscar-winning triumph follows the whimsical and occasionally terrifying adventures of 10-year-old Chihiro, who becomes trapped in a strange spirit world after an evil witch transforms her parents into pigs.
TODAY'S FREE FORUM:
indieWIRE Meets: Pedro Almodóvar, The Skin I Live In, 5:00pm, Amphitheater
Chief NYFF programmer Richard Peña talks with the legendary Spanish filmmaker. Like all our NYFF Forums, this event is FREE and open to the public. We expect a large crowd and space is very limited so come early! If you can't make it to the Film Center today, make sure to tune into our live stream at 5pm sharp!
SPECIAL EVENTS:
50 Years of the New York Film Festival: The Exterminating Angel, 6:30pm, Francesca Beale Theater
The launch of a year-long retrospective of highlights from the New York Film Festival’s past 49 editions, beginning with the opening night film of the very first NYFF, Luis Buñuel’s The Exterminating Angel.
TODAY'S OTHER OFFERINGS:
The Artist, 6:00pm, Alice Tully Hall
A wonderful and brand-new French black-and-white silent movie about the moment talkies arrived in Hollywood.
Vito, 9:15pm, Walter Reade Theater, RUSH TICKETS AVAILABLE!*
A tireless cinephile as well as an important early voice for gay rights, Vito Russo (The Celluloid Closet) is movingly remembered in Jeffrey Schwarz’s stirring portrait of a man as well as a movement. Using some incredible period footage and the testimonies of those who knew him best, the film created this heartfelt, insightful portrait of Vito that serves simultaneously as a revealing chronicle of the birth of contemporary gay culture and of later AIDS activism.
Today's screenings in our special Masterworks series “Velvet Bullets and Steel Kisses: Celebrating the Nikkatsu Centennial” are The World of Geisha (8:40pm, Howard Gilman Theater), Stray Cat Rock: Sex Hunter (2:45pm, Howard Gilman Theater, RUSH TICKETS AVAILABLE!*), Intentions of Murder (8:00pm, Howard Gilman Theater, RUSH TICKETS AVAILABLE!*), The Oldest Profession aka Confidential Report: Sex Market (7:20pm, Howard Gilman Theater) and The Woman with Red Hair (9:00pm, Howard Gilman Theater).
*One hour before showtime, a limited number of rush tickets to selected festival screenings will go on sale at the screening's corresponding box office. Rush tickets are $12 at Alice Tully Hall and $10 at the Walter Reade Theater & the Film Center's theaters. More info…
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