NY ready for her close-up
NEW York, a film location for hundreds of movies, is also the location of the 56th New York Film Festival.
Thirty newies include works by the Coen brothers and Jean-Luc Go
dard. Centerpiece is director Alfonso Cuarón’s autobiographical “Roma.” Middle-class family, beloved live-in nanny, set in Mexico in the ’70s. An epic, this big-time redcarpet event, shot in black and white, is a Netflix release.
Opener is Fox Searchlight’s “The Favourite.” Court life in 18th-century England. Rachel Weisz plays Britain’s Duchess of Marlborough. Her servant’s played by Oscar winner Emma Stone. Wickedly funny, it includes a sexually charged fight. Official opening date’s November. Closing night. Director
Julian Schnabel’s ravishingly tactile “At Eternity’s Gate.” Willem Dafoe has the role of brilliant-albeitdefeated Vincent van Gogh in his final days.
North America’s pre-miere of “The Ballad off Buster Scruggs” has Liam Neeson as an impresario,o, James Franco a bank robber, Zoe Kazan some shy
creature and Tyne Daly’s s on a stagecoach.
“Her Smell” — forget that title — includes Cara Delevingne, Amber Heard, Virginia Madsenn, Dan Stevens. A ’90s group of musicians, claustrophobic hallways, garish dressing rooms, band-mates unraveling, resent-ment and horror. It’s aboutt rockers, but it’s no musical.l.
“High Life” has t Robert Pattinson, Juliette e Binoche on a spacecraftft piloted by — ready? — death-row prisoners on a suicide mission. And “Private Life” has Paul Gia
matti and Kathryn Hahn as middle-agers desperately trying to have a baby.
The 17-day New York Film Festival at Lincoln Center is Sept. 28 to Oct. 14. Tickets go on sale Sept. 9.