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NYFF 2018: New York Film Festival news and movie reviews

New York’s most prestigious film festival can solidify a film’s awards chances and introduce it to an eager audience of devoted cinephiles.

Contributors: Alissa Wilkinson

New York City is a town of devoted cinephiles, and the New York Film Festival is the most anticipated event on the year’s movie calendar. Hosted by the Film Society of Lincoln Center, the NYFF includes world and New York premieres alongside films that made waves at the year’s most important festivals, including Cannes, Berlin, Sundance, and Toronto. It’s one of the longest-running and most prestigious festivals in the United States.

The 56th edition of the festival takes place September 28-October 14, 2018. It will open with Yorgos Lanthimos’s The Favourite and close with Julian Schnabel’s At Eternity’s Gate, with Alfonso Cuaron’s Roma as centerpiece. The main slate includes films like Frederick Wiseman’s Monrovia, Indiana, the Coen brothers’ The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Alex Ross Perry’s Her Smell, Claire Denis’s High Life, Barry Jenkins’s If Beale Street Could Talk, and Cannes Palme d’Or winner Shoplifters.

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Oct 5, 2018, 6:52pm EDT
  • December 21, 2018

    Cold War, a decades-spanning romance, will break your heart

    By Alissa Wilkinson

    And you’ll love it.

  • December 13, 2018

    If Beale Street Could Talk adapts James Baldwin’s novel into a haunting, gorgeous film

    By Alissa Wilkinson

    Barry Jenkins follows up Moonlight with a lush and devastating movie.

  • November 21, 2018

    The Favourite director Yorgos Lanthimos on why his films aren’t as mean as people say

    By Alissa Wilkinson

    "You don’t need to make films about women just idealizing them."

  • November 16, 2018

    Netflix’s Ballad of Buster Scruggs is an old West folk tale, with a signature Coen brothers twist

    By Alissa Wilkinson

    The six-part romp leans hard into caricatures to sing of mortality and life’s absurdities.

  • October 25, 2018

    Why famed documentarian Frederick Wiseman focused on the Midwest for his latest film

    By Alissa Wilkinson

    "My job is to deceive myself into thinking I understand what’s going on," the documentarian says about his new film Monrovia, Indiana.

  • October 5, 2018

    Private Life is a terrific, heartbreaking look at a marriage through the lens of infertility

    By Alissa Wilkinson

    Kathryn Hahn and Paul Giamatti play a couple struggling with infertility in Tamara Jenkins’s funny, moving drama.