COMING SOON TO NY FILM FEST

The New York Film Festival, from Sept. 28 to Oct. 14, will give the city’s cinephiles an early peek at awards contenders, indie films and documentaries. Here are some movies not to be missed.

Director Barry Jenkins’ follow-up to the Best Picture-winning “Moonlight,” “If Beale Street Could

Talk” (Oct. 9 and 11), is an adaptation of James Baldwin’s novel about a man falsely accused of a grievous crime in 1970s Harlem.

Emma Stone visits the 18th century for her costume-drama debut,

“The Favourite” (Sept. 28). In this festival opener, Stone vies for the attention of Britain’s Queen Anne.

The must-see event of the festival is the New York premiere of Orson Welles’ final film, a Hollywood

satire called “The Other

Side of the Wind” (Sept. 29 and Oct. 10). Welles’ unfinished film (he died in 1985) languished for more than 40 years over rights, financial and artistic troubles.

Another movie with deafening buzz is “Roma” (Oct. 5 and 6), directed by Alfonso Cuarón. The blackand-white, autobiographical film about a family in Mexico during the 1970s, won the top prize at this year’s Venice Film Festival.

And for a bit of fun: The Coen brothers’ latest film “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs” (pictured above; Oct. 4, 9, 13) is a darkly comic anthology of frontier stories.