New York Film Festival unveils 30 in main official selection

The roster includes North American premieres of Asia Argento’s Misunderstood, Bertrand Bonello’s Saint Laurent and Alice Rohrwacher’s The Wonders.

There are US premieres for, among others, Oren Moverman’s Time Out Of Mind, Abderrahmane Sissako’s Timbuktu, Abel Ferrara’s Pasolini and Martin Rejtman’s Two Shots Fired.

The line-up of New York premieres includes Mike Leigh’s Mr. Turner, Bennett Miller’s Foxcatcher, Yann Demange’s ’71 and Damien Chazelle’s Whiplash.

As previously announced, the world premiere of David Fincher’s Gone Girl (pictured) will open NYFF, the world premiere of Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inherent Vice is the Centerpiece Gala Selection and the North American premiere of Birdman from Alejandro Iñárritu will close the event.

“Sometimes the sheer breadth of cinema amazes me,” said NYFF director and selection committee chair Kent Jones. “In this year’s line-up, we have great big films alongside films made on the most intimate scale, personal epics and intricately constructed chamber pieces, films of great serenity and films that leave you dazed, first-films and last films, all equally vivid, alive, and essential.

“Taken altogether, this year’s Main Slate reminds me, all over again, why I love the cinema so much, and it will do the same for you.”

Additional special events, documentary sections, and filmmaker conversations and panels, as well as NYFF’s Projections and the full Convergence programmes, will be announced in subsequent days and weeks.

The selection committee is chaired by Jones and includes Dennis Lim, FSLC director of programming; Marian Masone, FSLC senior programming advisor; Gavin Smith, editor-in-chief, Film Comment; and Amy Taubin, contributing editor, Film Comment and Sight & Sound.

NYFF previously announced the retrospective Joseph L Mankiewicz: The Essential Iconoclast, as well as initial selections in NYFF Convergence and the Revivals section, including Burroughs: The Movie, The Color Of Pomegranates, Hiroshima Mon Amour, and Once Upon A Time In America.  

The 52nd New York Film Festival main slate:

WP = World premiere / NAP = North American premiere / US = US premiere / NYP = New York premiere

OPENING NIGHT GALA SELECTION
Gone Girl (USA), David Fincher
WP

CENTERPIECE GALA SELECTION
Inherent Vice (USA), Paul Thomas Anderson
WP

CLOSING NIGHT GALA SELECTION
Birdman Or The Unexpected Virtue Of Ignorance (USA), Alejandro Iñárritu
NAP

Beloved Sisters (Die Geliebten Schwestern) (Germany-Austria), Dominik Graf
NAP

The Blue Room (La Chambre Bleue) (France), Mathieu Amalric
NAP

Clouds Of Sils Maria (Switzerland-Germany-France), Olivier Assayas
US

Eden (France), Mia Hansen-Løve
US

Foxcatcher (USA), Bennett Miller
NYP

Goodbye To Language (Adieu Au Langage) (France), Jean-Luc Godard
NYP

Heaven Knows What (USA), Josh and Benny Safdie
US

Hill Of Freedom (Jayuui Eondeok) (South Korea), Hong Sang-soo
US

Horse Money (Cavalo Dinheiro) (Portugal), Pedro Costa
US

Jauja (Argentina-Denmark-France-Mexico-USA-Germany-Brazil), Lisandro Alonso
US

Life Of Riley (Aimer, Boire Et Chanter) (France), Alain Resnais
NYP

Listen Up Philip (USA), Alex Ross Perry
NYP

Maps To The Stars (Canada-Germany), David Cronenberg
US

Misunderstood (Incompresa) (Italy-France), Asia Argento
NAP

Mr. Turner (UK), Mike Leigh
NYP

Pasolini (France-Belgium-Italy), Abel Ferrara
US

The Princess Of France (La Princesa De Francia) (Argentina), Matías Piñeiro
US

Saint Laurent (France), Bertrand Bonello
NAP

La Sapienza (France-Italy), Eugène Green
US

’71 (UK), Yann Demange
NYP

Tales Of The Grim Sleeper (USA-UK), Nick Broomfield
NYP

Timbuktu (France-Mauritania), Abderrahmane Sissako
US

Time Out Of Mind (USA), Oren Moverman
US

Two Days, One Night (Deux Jours, Une Nuit) (Belgium-France-Italy), Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
NYP

Two Shots Fired (Dos Disparos) (Argentina), Martín Rejtman
US

Whiplash (USA), Damien Chazelle
NYP

The Wonders (Le Meraviglie) (Italy-Switzerland-Germany), Alice Rohrwacher
NAP