(This years scorching hotVenice Film Festival lineupmightve scooped many of NYFFs most desired debuts.)
Which is not to say these arent marvelous choices.
And there are a lot of great ones to choose from this year.
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Full lineup and film descriptions below.
Stay tuned to EW for more NYFF coverage.
55th NEW YORK FILM FESTIVALFilms & Descriptions
Opening NightLast Flag FlyingDir.
To put it simply,Last Flag Flyingis a great movie from one of Americas finest filmmakers.
An Amazon Studios release.
An Amazon Studios release.
Were in Coney Island in the 1950s.
An Amazon Studios release.
An advance crew of three aliens journey to Earth in preparation for a complete takeover of the planet.
BPM (Beats Per Minute)/120 battements par minuteDir.
Robin Campillo, France, 2017, 144mU.S.
A release of The Orchard.
Bright Sunshine In/Un beau soleil interieurDir.
It is also very funny.
A Sundance Selects release.
Call Me by Your NameDir.
A Sony Pictures Classics release.
Hong Sang-soo, South Korea, 2017, 92mU.S.
The end result is one of Hongs most plaintive and philosophical works.
A Cohen Media Group release.
Alain Gomis, France/Senegal/Belgium/Germany/Lebanon, 2017, 124mU.S.
A Strand Releasing release.
Sean Baker, USA, 2017, 105mU.S.
Ismaels Ghosts/Les fantomes dIsmaelDir.
A Magnolia Pictures release.
Lover for a Day/LAmant dun jourDir.
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)Dir.
Baumbachs film never stops deftly changing gears, from surges of pathos to painful comedy and back again.
Needless to say, this lyrical quicksilver comedy is very much a New York experience.
On the Beach at Night AloneDir.
A Cinema Guild release.
The Other Side of Hope/Toivon tuolla puolenDir.
A Janus Films release.
A Sony Pictures Classics release.
Agnieszka Holland, in cooperation with Kasia Adamik, Poland/Germany/Czech Republic, 2017, 128mU.S.
A Magnolia Pictures release.
A release of The Orchard.
Valeska Grisebach, Germany and Bulgaria, 2017, 119mU.S.
In remote rural Bulgaria, a group of German workers are building a water facility.
A Cinema Guild release.
Lucrecia Martel, Argentina/Brazil/Spain, 2017, 115mU.S.
