New York Film Festival Celebrates 60th Edition And A Return To Familiar Footing
deadline.comDennis Lim, the artistic director of the New York Film Festival, has a confession.“I hate ‘back to normal’ as a phrase and as a concept,” he said with a chuckle.
For the festival, however, the 60th edition kicking off tonight with White Noise “does feel kind of close to the experience we know.
We’re at pre-pandemic levels of attendance, almost every filmmaker coming to present their work. It will hopefully feel like a welcome return to familiar things but with a lot of fresh aspects as well.”In 2020, while Cannes, Telluride and others opted to cancel their events due to Covid, New York managed to pull off a mostly virtual edition with online and drive-in screenings.
Last year, while auditoriums were once again allowed to be 100% full, vaccines were still rolling out, travel restrictions were tight and many filmgoers were not yet comfortable being back in theaters.
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