Noah Baumbach’s ‘White Noise’ Set as New York Film Festival Opener
thewrap.comNoah Baumbach’s “White Noise” will be the opening night film for the 60th New York Film Festival, which kicks off Sept. 30. “White Noise” stars Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig and will have its North American premiere at NYFF following its world premiere at Venice and before debuting on Netflix.
Baumbach’s “White Noise” is an adaptation of Don DeLillo’s 1985 postmodern novel, a work of satire that has long been considered “unfilmable.” Driver plays a “Hitler Studies” professor and father of four whose comfortable suburban college town life and marriage to the secretive Babette (Greta Gerwig) are upended after a horrifying nearby accident creates an airborne toxic event of frightening and unknowable proportions. “In 1985 my father and I drove from Brooklyn to see Kurosawa’s ‘Ran’ open the 23rd NYFF, the same year that he brought home the hardback of Don DeLillo’s ‘White Noise,’” Baumbach said in a statement. “Opening the 60th NYFF with ‘White Noise’ is truly special for me.
This festival was part of my film education and has been a home for me and many of my movies over the years. I couldn’t be more excited and honored to return.”Many of Baumbach’s other movies, including most recently “Marriage Story,” have also played at previous New York Film Festivals.
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