Last year we gave a name to the New Romantic Cinema: human stakes over systems, auteurist vision over house style, emotional truth over conformist entertainment. At the 64th New York Film Festival it arrived in full force.
This short film is our review of the festival.
It takes you inside Alice Tully Hall and the Walter Reade Theater for seven new films that each ask how and why we keep loving one another: James Gray’s Paper Tiger, Takashi Yamazaki’s Godzilla Minus Zero, Lee Chang-dong’s Possible Love, Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s All of a Sudden, Jesse Eisenberg’s The Debut, Tony Gilroy’s Behemoth!, and Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s You Can See Everything. Add to that a new 4K restoration of Powell and Pressburger’s Gone to Earth, introduced by Martin Scorsese and Thelma Schoonmaker.
You’ll hear the filmmakers in their own words, from James Gray and Lee Chang-dong to Pedro Pascal and Scorsese himself, and see the festival from our seats.
And you’ll see why a Japanese monster movie and a documentary about Elizabeth Holmes are now two of the biggest hits of the fall.
Watch it before you buy your tickets.
Godzilla Minus Zero and You Can See Everything are in theaters now, Possible Love is streaming on Netflix, and the rest arrive in theaters between now and Christmas.
Where to Watch
Paper Tiger: in theaters Nov. 13 (Neon)
Godzilla Minus Zero: in theaters now (Toho / GKIDS)
Possible Love: streaming now on Netflix
All of a Sudden: opens Nov. 25 at Film Forum (Neon)
Behemoth!: in theaters Dec. 4 (Searchlight)
The Debut: in theaters Dec. 11, wide Dec. 25 (A24)
Gone to Earth (1950): new 4K restoration from The Film Foundation, playing festivals
You Can See Everything: in theaters now (A24)
Q&A excerpts courtesy of Film at Lincoln Center. Music by Jung Jae-il from Possible Love. Festival photographs and Scorsese/Schoonmaker footage by the author.
