Global Greats at 51st NY Film Fest

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Published on Friday, 23 August 2013 16:45

Written by Brad Balfour

A spectacular cinematic cavalcade of spectacle, the New York Film Festival (NYFF) returns to Lincoln Center September 27, and runs to October 13, 2013. Having it’s world premiere at NYFF is Paul Greengrass’s Captain Phillips, which has been called “…a riveting experience” by NYFF’s Director of Programming and Selection Committee Chair, Kent Jones. Also at the NYFF’s opening is a special tribute to Actress Cate Blanchett and actor/director Ralph Fiennes, followed closely by the preimere of Fiennes’ The Invisible Woman on October 2.

Oscar winning Tokyo Sonata director, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, will show Real, his first feature since 2008, in which a comic book author slips into a coma, and her husband literally ventures into her psyche in an attempt to revive her.

Premiering, and also the festival's Centerpiece Gala Selection, is Ben Stiller’s adaptation of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, based on the short story by James Thurber. As Stiller’s first directorial piece since Tropic Thunder in ’08, Walter Mitty features comedic powerhouses such as Patton Oswalt, but has a less madcap tone and is more reminiscent of The Royal Tenenbaums.

Blue Is the Warmest Color, based on the graphic novel by Julie Maroh, and directed by Abdellatif Kechiche, will screen uncut with a NC-17 rating. A sensation at Sundance, Blue Is the Warmest Color is a coming of age treatise on sexual and personal identity.

Closing the festival is Spike Jonze's Her, starring Joaquin Phoenix. Reminscent of The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind's themes of technology and self awareness, Her is about a writer played by Phoenix that falls in love with his sentient computer operating system played by Scarlett Johansson.

This is only a small sampling of the films being featured at the 51st NYFF, which is being hotly anticipated.  Follow this site for more updates to come.

To learn more, go to http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff2013/

The 51st New York Film Festival
September 27 – October 13, 2013

The Film Society of Lincoln Center

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