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The 2023 film festival season has wound its way from Sundance and SXSW through Cannes and Tribeca to the fall stops at Venice, Telluride and Toronto. Still to watch for this fall: Both Sundance’s Festival Favorite Award winner Radical starring Eugenio Derbez and Cannes’ Palme d’Or winner Anatomy of a…

The SAG-AFTRA strike, a wild card throughout the fall festival season, has created a closing stretch of the New York Film Festival unlike many (any?) of its 60 previous editions. The final NYFF press conference this morning featured Ferrari cast members Adam Driver, Penélope Cruz and Gabriel Leone…

"The events of the last couple of days have been quite difficult for everybody," said filmmaker Jonathan Glazer as his film about a Nazi commander at Auschwitz screened Sunday at the New York Film Festival. 'Zone of Interest,' Glazer's first appearance on the NYFF main slate, played after the worst…

Sofia Coppola's Priscilla Presley biopic Priscilla is the centerpiece premiere at the New York Film Festival this evening, but the filmmaker had to miss the movie’s presser today at short notice, sending a note that she is "with her mother."  "I'm so proud to have our film at the NYFF in my hometown,&#8221…

The Match Factory has announced a raft of world sales for Sofia Coppola's biopic Priscilla ahead of its North American premiere as the Centrepiece selection of the New York Film Festival on Friday. The film has sold to Australia and New Zealand (Madman Entertainment), Spain (Elastica Films and BTeam…

Director Steve McQueen said his unusual four-hour Holocaust documentary shot in Amsterdam is rooted in his strong sense that "the past is present" in physical manifestations all around us, as well as a reminder to stay vigilant. "It’s very cliche, but we have to not forget. Because see what’s…

The writers have settled. Actors and companies return to the table this week. The awards season is saved (almost, we hope). This could finally be it. Do we dare even say it? The year of The Great Oscar Comeback. Everyone with a stake in the Academy Awards has watched with chagrin as the Oscar…

Foe, a complicated love story set in the near future amid burned out farmland, intertwines AI and climate catastrophe with the challenges of keeping a marriage together — all elements director Garth Davis (Lion) said pulled him to the story. "There are so many reasons why I was compelled to make this…

Todd Haynes, who has appeared on behalf of his latest directing outing, May December, since its splashy debut in Cannes, turned to a new collaborator when promoting it at the New York Film Festival. Samy Burch, writer and executive producer of the film (which is based on an original story developed…

The 61st New York Film Festival opens Friday on a high note, with advance sales of passes and tickets at kickoff up 50% from last year, which was a record-breaking fest. It’s also a day of heavy rains and flooding in New York City. "We have never seen [sales] numbers like this," said artistic…

The Oscar Meter at Deadline is working overtime as the race for the 96th Academy Awards is shifting into higher gear as summer turns to fall this weekend. The official start of the very long six month+ awards season is now behind us as we made it…

Garth Davis's science-fiction sci-fi drama Foe, directed by Garth Davis (Lion) and starring Saoirse Ronan and Paul Mescal, will have its world premiere at the New York Film Festival. The film, which Amazon will release this fall, is one of the Spotlight selections just announced by festival presenter…