New York Film Festival Unveils 2023 Lineup: ‘Zone of Interest,’ ‘Poor Things,’ ‘Anatomy of a Fall’ and More
variety.comRebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter Cannes favorites including Jonathan Glazer’s searing drama “The Zone of Interest” and Justine Triet’s Palme d’Or winning crime thriller “Anatomy of a Fall” will play at this year’s New York Film Festival.
Film at Lincoln Center, which presents the annual fete, on Tuesday announced the 32 films that comprise the main slate of the 61st edition.
This year’s lineup includes new works from returning NYFF directors, such as Wim Wenders’s “Perfect Days,” Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s “About Dry Grasses” and Aki Kaurismäki’s “Fallen Leaves.” Several directors will make their festival debut, including Annie Baker with “Janet Planet,” Bas Devos with “Here,” Raven Jackson with “All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt,” Paul B.
Preciado with “Orlando, My Political Biography,” Wang Bing with “Youth (Spring),” and Zhang Lu with “The Shadowless Tower.” “The unsettled state of the industry is an unavoidable talking point these days, but my hope is that our festival, as it has done through its 61-year history, will serve as a reminder that the art of cinema is in robust health,” said Dennis Lim, artistic director of the New York Film Festival. “The filmmakers in this year’s main slate are grappling with eternal questions — about how movies relate to the world, about what it means to make art from life, about the most interesting ways to approach the contemporary moment and the historical past — and the answers they have proposed are thrilling in their variety, ingenuity, and urgency.
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