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NYFF55 talks also include On Cinema: Richard Linklater and Directors Dialogues with Lucrecia Martel, Agnès Varda & JR, Hong Sang-soo, and Philippe Garrel

The Film Society of Lincoln Center announces the lineup for the sixth edition of free talk series NYFF Live during the 55th New York Film Festival (September 28 – October 15). HBO® is the presenting sponsor of NYFF Live, which features actors, directors, writers, critics, and other industry insiders participating in daily evening discussions from September 29 – October 13 in the Amphitheater at the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center.

NYFF55 Directors Dialogues, for which HBO® is also the presenting sponsor, include conversations with Main Slate filmmakers Lucrecia Martel, Agnès Varda & JR, Hong Sang-soo, and Philippe Garrel. This year’s On Cinema features Opening Night filmmaker Richard Linklater (Last Flag Flying) in an in-depth discussion with NYFF Director Kent Jones about films that have influenced and inspired him, illustrated with film clips.

NYFF Live features panels on The Square, The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected), The Florida Project, and other films from NYFF55, as well as discussions with festival talent including Vanessa Redgrave, Luca Guadagnino, and Claire Denis. For updates and additional details about panelists and moderators, visit filmlinc.org. NYFF Live is organized by FSLC Deputy Director Eugene Hernandez and Brian Brooks, FSLC’s Manager of Talks and Artist Programs.

Free tickets to both NYFF Live and Directors Dialogues events will be distributed at the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center box office (144 West 65th Street, between Broadway and Amsterdam) on a first-come, first-served basis starting one hour prior to the talks. Limit one ticket per person, subject to availability. For those unable to attend, video from these events will be available online at filmlinc.org.

The 18-day New York Film Festival highlights the best in world cinema, featuring works from celebrated filmmakers as well as fresh new talent. The selection committee, chaired by Jones, also includes Dennis Lim, FSLC Director of Programming; Florence Almozini, FSLC Associate Director of Programming; and Amy Taubin, contributing editor for Film Comment and Artforum.

Friday, September 29
7:00PM     Ruben Östlund, The Square
8:00PM     VR and the Future of Virtual Production by Lucasfilm

Saturday, September 30
6:00PM     On Cinema: Richard Linklater
7:00PM     Gamescape: The Revenge of Full Motion Video
8:00PM     IndieWire Screen Talk LIVE podcast with Eric Kohn & Anne Thompson

Sunday, October 1
3:00PM      HBO Directors Dialogues: Lucretia Martel
7:00PM     Film Comment: The Cinema of Experience
8:00PM     Serge Bozon & Isabelle Huppert, Mrs. Hyde

Monday, October 2
6:00PM     HBO Directors Dialogues: Agnès Varda & JR
7:00PM     Noah Baumbach, The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
8:00PM     NYFF Shorts Filmmakers

Tuesday, October 3
7:00PM     Making The Florida Project: Sean Baker & Chris Bergoch

Wednesday, October 4
7:00PM     Making Call Me by Your Name: Luca Guadagnino, Armie Hammer, and Michael Stuhlbarg

Thursday, October 5
7:00PM     Spotlight on Documentary Filmmakers

Friday, October 6
7:00PM     Documenting Creativity: Griffin Dunne, Rebecca Miller, Susan Lacy, Josh Koury & Myles Kane

Saturday, October 7
7:00PM     Film Comment: Filmmakers Chat

Sunday, October 8
7:00PM     Vanessa Redgrave, Sea Sorrow

Monday, October 9
7:00PM     Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird
8:00PM     HBO Directors Dialogues: Hong Sang-soo

Tuesday, October 10
7:00PM     Field of Vision Presents
8:00PM     HBO Directors Dialogues: Philippe Garrel

Wednesday, October 11
7:00PM     Keeping Cultural Borders Open: Laurie Anderson and special guests

Thursday, October 12
7:00PM     Real Characters: Writing Biopics and Origin Stories

Friday, October 13
7:00PM     Film Comment: Festival Wrap
8:00PM     Access New Audiences: Wonderstruck & The Blind Boys of Alabama

Friday, September 29
7:00pm
Ruben Östlund, The Square
Swedish filmmaker Ruben Östlund’s The Square won the coveted Palme d’Or at Cannes this year. The satirical drama, starring Claes Bang and Elisabeth Moss, follows a well-heeled contemporary art curator at a Stockholm museum who falls prey to a pickpocketing scam, triggering an overzealous response and then a crisis of conscience. Östlund, whose features also include Play and Force Majeure, will talk about writing and directing The Square, which plays at this year’s NYFF.

8:00pm
VR and the Future of Virtual Production by Lucasfilm
Demo and Talk with Rachel Rose, Jose Perez, and Nick Rasmussen
From the depths of earth’s oceans to galaxies far, far away, VR allows us to be anyone, go anywhere, and see anything. Lucasfilm and its visual effects division, Industrial Light & Magic, have harnessed the power of this medium to create a new Virtual Production toolset, allowing filmmakers to build and scout a virtual set, manipulate props, puppeteer characters and vehicles, even compose shots to create virtual storyboards. It’s a game-changing application that is easy to learn, allowing storytellers to focus on the elements that blend together to form great stories. The creators of the toolset will participate in a conversation about the development of the platform and its potential to impact the filmmaking process, followed on Saturday by a public demonstration that will allow audiences to experience the system first hand.

Saturday, September 30
6:00pm
On Cinema: Richard Linklater
In this annual special event, NYFF Director Kent Jones sits down with world-renowned filmmakers for an in-depth talk about films that have influenced and inspired them, illustrated with film clips. This year, Jones will talk with Richard Linklater, whose intensely emotional comic drama Last Flag Flying is this year’s opening night selection, and whose many superb films (Slacker, Dazed and Confused, Waking Life, and Boyhood, to name just a few) have been genuine gifts to modern American cinema.

7:00pm
Gamescape: The Revenge of Full Motion Video
It’s 1983. You find yourself in an arcade in the ’burbs. Among the future classics—Galaga, Space Invaders, Donkey Kong—you find something different: Sega’s Astron Belt or Cinematronics’ Dragon’s Lair, games that eschewed pixelated sprites for video and vivid animation. Full Motion Video games were movies you could play—to a point: the technical execution left something to be desired. Games were unreliable, systems crashed, and FMV all but disappeared. But FMV is making a comeback as creators breathe new life into this 35-year-old form. The 2017 edition of Gamescape celebrates some of the best new FMV work and looks back on titles both famous and infamous from the golden age of the arcade. GameScape is co-curated by Clara Fernandez-Vara, of the NYU Game Center.

8:00pm
IndieWire Screen Talk LIVE podcast with Eric Kohn & Anne Thompson
Take a seat to watch IndieWire’s Chief Film Critic Eric Kohn and Editor at Large Anne Thompson engage in film debate and banter as they record the next episode of their popular podcast, Screen Talk. Kohn and Thompson will give their takes on the first weekend of the New York Film Festival, and talk about how awards season is shaping up.

Sunday, October 1
3:00pm
HBO Directors Dialogues: Lucrecia Martel
A singular artist working in cinema today, Argentinean director Lucrecia Martel makes films that are unlike any others. This year, Zama, showcased in the Main Slate, marks Martel’s fourth feature and fourth New York Film Festival appearance, following La Cienaga (2001), The Holy Girl (2004), and The Headless Woman (2009). Join Martel for a discussion of her films and her remarkable latest, an adaptation of a classic Argentinean novel, set in the late 18th century.

7:00pm
Film Comment: The Cinema of Experience
At this year’s NYFF, filmmakers are rising to the challenge of representing race and immigration at a pivotal time in our nation’s history. Our guests will discuss how cinematic technique is used to reflect such experiences and what is different about the latest generation of storytelling. Moderated by Film Comment Editor-in-Chief Nicolas Rapold, and featuring critic Teo Bugbee, writer-programmer Ashley Clark, and writer-filmmaker Farihah Zaman.

8:00pm
Serge Bozon & Isabelle Huppert, Mrs. Hyde
Academy Award nominee Isabelle Huppert headlines Serge Bozon’s eccentric comedic thriller loosely based on Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Huppert plays a timid physics professor at a suburban high school constantly mocked by colleagues and students. During a stormy night, she is struck by lightning, and wakes up as the newly powerful Madame Hyde. Meet Huppert as she talks about transforming into this character, and her career in movies and television; and Bozon, who will share his experiences making the movie.

Monday, October 2
6:00pm
HBO Directors Dialogues: Agnès Varda & JR
At age 89, legendary French filmmaker Agnès Varda has collaborated with 34-year-old visual artist JR on a remarkable new film, titled Faces Places. In it, the two of them journey from one rural French village to another, meeting people, taking their photographs, and printing large-scale versions of them, placed grandly within the environments. The two artist friends will discuss their unique project and the wise and wonderful film that came out of it.

7:00pm
Noah Baumbach, The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
No stranger to the New York Film Festival, Noah Baumbach has presented The Squid and the Whale (2005), Margot at the Wedding (2007), and Frances Ha (2012) here. Baumbach returns this year with the comedic drama The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected), starring Dustin Hoffman, Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller, and Emma Thompson. The film harkens back to the themes of family vanities and warring attachments he has explored in previous movies. Baumbach will talk about writing the film, and working with a cast that includes screen legend Hoffman.

8:00pm
NYFF Shorts Filmmakers
For the past three years, the New York Film Festival has celebrated short form filmmakers living and working in the city. Meet the directors with films in the festival’s “New York Stories” program: Jason Giampietro (Unpresidented), Adinah Dancyger (Cheer Up Baby), Ashley Connor and Joe Stankus (The Layover), Kevin Wilson, Jr. (My Nephew Emmett), John Wilson (The Road to Magnasanti) and Pacho Velez & Yoni Brook (Mr. Yellow Sweatshirt).

Tuesday, October 3
7:00pm
Making The Florida Project: Sean Baker & Chris Bergoch
Sean Baker (writer-director-producer-editor) and Chris Bergoch (writer-producer) collaborated on The Florida Project, which is having its U.S. premiere at the New York Film Festival. In this discussion, they’ll delve into the particulars of how The Florida Project was conceived and executed through its various stages in development. Set over one summer, the film follows precocious six-year-old Moonee as she courts mischief and adventure with her ragtag playmates and bonds with her rebellious but caring mother, all while living in the shadow of nearby Disney World.

Wednesday, October 4
7:00pm
Making Call Me by Your Name: Luca Guadagnino, Armie Hammer, and Michael Stuhlbarg
Luca Guadagnino’s film has already caused a sensation at the Sundance, Berlin, and Toronto film festivals. Based on the book by André Aciman and from a screenplay by James Ivory, Call Me by Your Name centers on the son of an American professor who falls for the graduate student who comes to study and live with his family in their northern Italian home during the summer. Join Guadagnino and actors Armie Hammer and Michael Stuhlbarg as they talk about what is sure to be one of the most debated films of the fall.

Thursday, October 5
7:00pm
Spotlight on Documentary Filmmakers
The amount of nonfiction films has skyrocketed since the turn of the century. Festivals around the world have celebrated the form, while critics and filmgoers have increasingly included docs on their roster of films to see. The group of filmmakers showing at this year’s NYFF—including Alison McAlpine (Cielo), Nancy Buirski (The Rape of Recy Taylor), Ena and Ines Talakic (Hall of Mirrors), among others—represent a cross-section of some of the most compelling documentarians working today.

Friday, October 6
7:00pm
Documenting Creativity: Griffin Dunne, Rebecca Miller, Susan Lacy, Josh Koury & Myles Kane
Many documentaries showing at this year’s NYFF focus on the lives and work of major writers and artists. At this talk, the directors behind four of these films will speak about their processes in representing creative people onscreen: Griffin Dunne, on creating a portrait of his aunt in Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold; Rebecca Miller, on the long road to constructing a documentary on her father in Arthur Miller: Writer; Susan Lacy, who traces the private, public, and artistic development of one of cinema’s true giants in Spielberg; and Josh Koury & Myles Kane on Voyeur, which closely followed Gay Talese as he worked on his controversial book The Voyeur’s Motel.

Saturday, October 7
7:00pm
Film Comment: Filmmakers Chat
For the second year, Film Comment gives you the rare chance to see some of today’s most important filmmakers in dialogue with each other. A selection of NYFF directors past and present will talk together about their influences and inspirations in a discussion moderated by the magazine’s editor-in-chief Nicolas Rapold, with filmmakers Claire Denis (Let the Sun Shine In) and Joachim Trier (Thelma).

Sunday, October 8
7:00pm
Vanessa Redgrave, Sea Sorrow
Her career as an actor has spanned six decades, but Academy Award winner Vanessa Redgrave has now become a documentary director with Sea Sorrow, a timely examination of the world’s urgent migrant crisis. Redgrave will be joined by producer Carlo Gabriel Nero to discuss what moved her to take on the project and how she set out to accomplish her filmmaking goals.

Monday, October 9
7:00pm
Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird
Greta Gerwig is a familiar presence at the New York Film Festival, seen in films such as Frances Ha (2012), Eden(2014), and 20th Century Women (2016). Gerwig has returned to the festival this year as a filmmaker, presenting her directorial debut, Lady Bird, starring Saoirse Ronan as an artistically inclined young woman trying to define herself in the shadow of her mother (Laurie Metcalf) and searching for an escape route from her hometown of Sacramento. Join Gerwig as she talks about segueing to behind the camera and telling a story that comes from a very personal place.

8:00pm
HBO Directors Dialogues: Hong Sang-soo
Beyond prolific, South Korean director Hong Sang-soo has presented new films in NYFF’s Main Slate for five years in a row. And this year, he has two new movies: The Day After, a black-and-white tale of mistaken identity, déja vu, and adultery; and On the Beach at Night Alone, an achingly personal response to public scandals surrounding his romantic life, starring Kim Min-hee (The Handmaiden). Hong will be on-hand to discuss these intimate, dialogue-driven, comic-tinged dramas.

Tuesday, October 10
7:00pm
Field of Vision Presents
Since its launch in 2013, Field of Vision has been a trailblazer in producing and championing short-form documentaries about developing and ongoing stories from around the world. This evening will spotlight three current films, featuring clips and discussions with their filmmakers. These include Marshall Curry’s A Night at the Garden, about a chilling rally held in New York nearly 80 years ago and which has resonance today; Josh Begley’s Best of Luck with the Wall, which gives perhaps the first true look at the consequences of Trump’s proposed wall between the U.S. and Mexico; and a sneak from Farihah Zaman and Jeff Reichert’s latest project, American Carnage, about the films and politics of Breitbart News chief and former Trump adviser Steve Bannon.

8:00pm
HBO Directors Dialogues: Philippe Garrel
French master Philippe Garrel represents a strain of modernist cinema that stretches from the post–New Wave era to today, as evidenced by three of his films showing during NYFF this year. We’re pleased to present his newest film, the penetrating meditation on relationships and fidelity Lover for a Day, showing in the Main Slate, as well as restorations of his La Révélateur, made while the events of May ’68 were unfolding, and his devastatingly personal 1979 film L’Enfant secret. And we’re thrilled to have Garrel at this rare public appearance.

Wednesday, October 11
7:00pm
Keeping Cultural Borders Open: Laurie Anderson and special guests
This year at the New York Film Festival, hundreds of artists and activists will band together to launch The Federation. Formed by Laurie Anderson, Laura Michalchyshyn, and Tanya Selvaratnam in response to the increased xenophobia and closing of physical borders, The Federation is a coalition of individuals and organizations committed to keeping cultural borders open and recognizing how essential artistic experiences are to fostering compassion, critical thinking, and joy. Join Anderson, Selvaratnam, Sara Driver, Barbet Schroeder, and other special guests for a discussion about the aims of the initiative and the role artists play in combatting cultural barriers. Presented with The Federation

Thursday, October 12
7:00pm
Real Characters: Writing Biopics and Origin Stories
One of the deepest connections we can have to a movie is through fully conceptualized, credible characters. Without them, even the most engrossing plot may not resonate. The Writers Guild of America, East brings together the creators behind some unforgettable recent movie characters to tell us how they made them intriguing and believable. Presented with WGA East

Friday, October 13
7:00pm
Film Comment: Festival Wrap
In what is becoming an annual tradition, Film Comment contributing critics and editors gather for the festival’s last weekend and talk about the films they’ve seen, discussing—or arguing about—the selections in the lineup, from Main Slate and beyond.

8:00pm
Access New Audiences: Wonderstruck & The Blind Boys of Alabama
Join Michele Spitz (Woman of Her Word) and Jo-Ann Dean (SIGNmation) for a discussion on how filmmakers and distributors can increase audience outreach and box-office by incorporating accessible language components for both Deaf and Blind communities. Participating are Deaf actors Lauren Ridloff, Anthony Natale, and John McGinty, featured in NYFF Centerpiece Wonderstruck; Leslie McCleave, producer-director of How Sweet the Sound: The Blind Boys of Alabama; and award-winning audio producer, director, and engineer Cliff Hahn. The panelists will provide insight on budgeting, grant opportunities, and how American Sign Language (ASL), Audio Description (AD) and Open/Closed Captioning (OC/CC) are inclusive assets. ASL Interpretation Provided. Presented with NYWIFT

The Social Network
Description: Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg creates the social networking site that would become known as Facebook, but is later sued by two brothers who claimed he stole their idea, and the co-founder who was later squeezed out of the business because the predictive analytics they’d done didn’t bade well for the company.
Directed By: David Fincher
Festivals: New York Film Festival (2010)
Section of NYFF: Opening Night
Where to watch: Rent/Buy only

The Tempest
Description: A shipwreck casts members of a royal court ashore on a mysterious island. Their fateful arrival is no accident, for it was engineered by Prospera (Helen Mirren), a sorceress whom these men banished, and who now plans to take vengeance on them. With the help of Caliban and Ariel, her sometimes-unwilling aides, Prospera brings her powers to bear on her former tormentors. Then love casts a spell on her daughter and the king’s son, and Prospera is powerless to intervene.
Directed By: Julie Taymor
Festivals: New York Film Festival (2010)
Section of NYFF: Centerpiece
Where to watch: Rent/Buy only

Hereafter
Description: A drama centered on three people — a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London school boy — who are touched by death in different ways.
Directed By: Clint Eastwood
Festivals: New York Film Festival (2010)
Section of NYFF: Closing Night
Where to watch: CINEMAX

Another Year
Description: A look at four seasons in the lives of a happily married couple and their relationships with their family and friends.
Directed By: Mike Leigh
Festivals: New York Film Festival (2010),Cannes Film Festival (2010)
Section of NYFF: Main Slate
Where to watch: Sundance NOW

https://youtu.be/LAFdApnxmk4

Aurora
Description: An apartment kitchen: a man and a woman discuss Little Red Riding Hood, their voices hushed, mindful of waking the little girl sleeping next room. Waste land on the city outskirts: behind a line of abandoned trailers, the man silently watches what seems to be a family. The same city, the same man: driving through traffic with two hand-made firing pins for a hunting rifle. The man is 42 years old, his name – Viorel. Troubled by obscure thoughts, he drives across the city to a destination known only to him.
Directed By: Cristi Puiu
Festivals: New York Film Festival (2010),Cannes Film Festival (2010)
Section of NYFF: Main Slate
Where to watch: Fandor

Carlos
Description: The story of Venezuelan revolutionary Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, who founded a worldwide terrorist organization and raided the 1975 OPEC meeting.
Directed By: Olivier Assayas
Festivals: New York Film Festival (2010)
Section of NYFF: Main Slate
Where to watch: FilmStruckNetflix

https://youtu.be/KAHR_4GENkg

Certified Copy
Description: In Tuscany to promote his latest book, a middle-aged British writer meets a French woman who leads him to the village of Lucignano. While there, a chance question reveals something deeper.
Directed By: Abbas Kiarostami
Festivals: New York Film Festival (2010),Cannes Film Festival (2010)
Section of NYFF: Main Slate
Where to watch: huluFilmStruckSundance NOW

Film Socialisme
Description: A symphony in three movements. Things such as a Mediterranean cruise, numerous conversations, in numerous languages, between the passengers, almost all of whom are on holiday… Our Europe. At night, a sister and her younger brother have summoned their parents to appear before the court of their childhood. The children demand serious explanations of the themes of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity. The movie draws concepts from places like https://www.salesforce.com/blog/2017/07/20-quotes-about-equality.html about equality, and in which sense, are portrayed in a vague manner with the pith of equality remaining the same. Our humanities. Visits to six sites of true or false myths: Egypt, Palestine, Odessa, Hellas, Naples and Barcelona.
Directed By: Jean-Luc Godard
Festivals: New York Film Festival (2010)
Section of NYFF: Main Slate
Where to watch: tubiTV

Inside Job
Description: Takes a closer look at what brought about the 2008 financial meltdown.
Directed By: Charles Ferguson
Festivals: New York Film Festival (2010)
Section of NYFF: Main Slate
Where to watch: hulu

https://youtu.be/bYm_oEO5iyE

Meek’s Cutoff
Description: Settlers traveling through the Oregon desert in 1845 find themselves stranded in harsh conditions.
Directed By: Kelly Reichardt
Festivals: New York Film Festival (2010)
Section of NYFF: Main Slate
Where to watch: Netflix, Fandor, Sundance NOW

Mysteries of Lisbon
Description: Follows a jealous countess, a wealthy businessman, and a young orphaned boy across Portugal, France, Italy and Brazil where they connect with a variety of mysterious individuals.
Directed By: Raúl Ruiz
Festivals: New York Film Festival (2010),Toronto Film Festival (2017),Toronto Film Festival (2010)
Section of NYFF: Main Slate
Where to watch: Fandor

Of Gods and Men
Description: Under threat by fundamentalist terrorists, a group of Trappist monks stationed with an impoverished Algerian community must decide whether to leave or stay.
Directed By: Xavier Beauvois
Festivals: New York Film Festival (2010),Cannes Film Festival (2010),Telluride Film Festival (2010),Toronto Film Festival (2010)
Section of NYFF: Main Slate
Where to watch: Rent/Buy only

https://youtu.be/BgztlkthVGg

Oki’s Movie
Description: A love story between a middle-aged professor, a young student who prepares a movie and a student/film-maker who drinks too much.
Directed By: Sang-soo Hong
Festivals: New York Film Festival (2010),Venice Film Festival (2010)
Section of NYFF: Main Slate
Where to watch: amazon Prime

Poetry
Description: A sixty-something woman, faced with the discovery of a heinous family crime and in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease, finds strength and purpose when she enrolls in a poetry class.
Directed By: Chang-dong Lee
Festivals: New York Film Festival (2010),Cannes Film Festival (2010)
Section of NYFF: Main Slate
Where to watch: tubiTV

Post Mortem
Description: In Chile, 1973, during the last days of Salvador Allende’s presidency, an employee at a Morgue’s recording office falls for a burlesque dancer who mysteriously disappears.
Directed By: Pablo Larraín
Festivals: New York Film Festival (2010),Venice Film Festival (2010)
Section of NYFF: Main Slate
Where to watch: Rent/Buy only

The Robber
Description: A story based on Johann Rettenberger, an Austrian marathon runner and a bank robber.
Directed By: Benjamin Heisenberg
Festivals: New York Film Festival (2010)
Section of NYFF: Main Slate
Where to watch: FilmStruck, vudu Movies On Us

Silent Souls
Description: Present days. A man and his companion go on a journey to cremate the dead body of the former beloved wife, on a riverbank in the area where they spent their honeymoon.
Directed By: Aleksey Fedorchenko
Festivals: New York Film Festival (2010),Venice Film Festival (2010)
Section of NYFF: Main Slate
Where to watch: amazon Prime, Fandor

The Strange Case of Angelica
Description: The line between reality and fantasy blurs for a photographer (Ricardo Trêpa) when a dead bride appears to come to life through his camera lens.
Directed By: Manoel de Oliveira
Festivals: New York Film Festival (2010)
Section of NYFF: Main Slate
Where to watch: Fandor

Tuesday After Christmas
Description: Middle-aged Paul (Mimi Branescu) lives in a pleasant Bucharest apartment with his wife, Adrianna (Mirela Oprisor), and their 9-year-old daughter. But unbeknown to Adrianna, Paul is also having an affair with the family’s dentist, Raluca (Maria Popistasu). As Christmas approaches, Paul finds himself forced to choose between the woman with whom he has shared the last decade of his life and the passionate new partner who has given him a revitalized image of himself.
Directed By: Radu Muntean
Festivals: New York Film Festival (2010)
Section of NYFF: Main Slate
Where to watch: Fandor

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall Past Lives
Description: Afflicted with kidney disease, Uncle Boonmee (Thanapat Saisaymar) is preparing himself for death. He has assembled his relatives in the countryside, convinced he will die within a few days. The ghost of his wife appears and offers guidance on his journey into the beyond, while his estranged son materializes in the guise of a jungle creature. Surrounded by his loved ones, Uncle Boonmee reflects on memories of his past lives, and he decides he must visit a special place before he goes.
Directed By: Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Festivals: New York Film Festival (2010)
Section of NYFF: Main Slate
Where to watch: Fandor