New York Film Festival Director on Curating the 2024 Slate and Why He Doesn’t Prioritize World Premieres
variety.comRebecca Rubin Senior Film and Media Reporter Like many of the fall film festivals, New York Film Festival had to mount its 2023 edition during the actors strike and without major stars like Emma Stone (“Poor Things”), Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore (“May December”) or Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal (“All of Us Strangers”) in attendance to promote their movies.
So, NYFF’s artistic director Dennis Lim is relieved the annual celebration of cinema is returning in 2024 with business as usual.
This year’s fest runs from Sept. 27 through Oct. 14. “We are very happy to not have to work around those restrictions this year,” he says. “And we have many, many actors attending for some of the bigger films.” He’s referring to movies like director Pedro Almodóvar‘s “The Room Next Door,” starring Moore and Tilda Swinton; filmmaker Sean Baker for Palme d’Or-winner “Anora”; Steve McQueen’s historical drama “Blitz,” featuring Saoirse Ronan; Pablo Larraín’s biopic of sorts “Maria” with Angelina Jolie; and Luca Guadagnino’s romance drama “Queer,” starring Daniel Craig.
Also on this year’s slate is David Cronenberg’s sci-fi thriller “The Shrouds,” Alain Guiraudie’s dark comedy “Misericordia,” Mike Leigh’s slice-of-life “Hard Truths,” Paul Schrader’s elegiac drama “Oh, Canada” and Brady Corbet’s historical epic “The Brutalist.” Lim’s ambition in curating the film festival lineup — his selection committee for the main slate includes Film at Lincoln Center’s programmer Florence Almozini, New Yorker critic Justin Chang, film critic K.
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