New York Film Festival 2018 Main Slate Lineup
Shoplifters, The Favourite, Roma, and other films in the Main Slate sections of the 2018 New York Film Festival (NYFF) has been announced. The 56th Annual New York Film Festival is a “film festival held every autumn in New York City, presented by the Film Society of Lincoln Center (FSLC). Founded in 1963 by Richard Roud and Amos Vogel with the support of Lincoln Center president William Schuman, it is one of the longest-running and most prestigious film festivals in the United States. The non-competitive festival is centered around a “Main Slate” of typically 20-30 feature films, with sidebars for experimental cinema and retrospectives, and recently introduced documentary and trans-media sections.” Twenty-two countries will be represented in the Main Slate of the 2018 New York Film Festival, including: A Faithful Man, The Favourite, Burning, Happy as Lazzaro, The Image Book, and others.
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The full lineup for the Main Slate of the 2018 New York Film Festival: Opening Night The Favourite Dir. Yorgos Lanthimos Centerpiece ROMA Dir. Alfonso Cuarón Closing Night At Eternity’s Gate Dir. Julian Schnabel Main Slate 3 Faces Dir. Jafar Panahi Asako I & II Dir. Ryûsuke Hamaguchi Ash Is Purest White Dir. Jia Zhangke The Ballad of Buster Scruggs Dir. Joel Coen & Ethan Coen Burning Dir. Lee Chang-dong Cold War Dir. Pawe? Pawlikowski A Faithful Man/L’Homme fide?le Dir. Louis Garrel A Family Tour Dir. Ying Liang
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La Flor Dir. Mariano Llinás Grass Dir. Hong Sangsoo Happy as Lazzaro/Lazzaro felice Dir. Alice Rohrwacher Her Smell Dir. Alex Ross Perry High Life Dir. Claire Denis Hotel by the River Dir. Hong Sangsoo If Beale Street Could Talk Dir. Barry Jenkins The Image Book/Le Livre d’image Dir. Jean-Luc Godard In My Room Dir. Ulrich Köhler Long Day’s Journey Into Night Dir. Bi Gan Monrovia, Indiana Dir. Frederick Wiseman Non-Fiction Dir. Olivier Assayas Private Life Dir. Tamara Jenkins RAY & LIZ Dir. Richard Billingham Shoplifters Dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda Sorry Angel Dir. Christophe Honoré Too Late to Die Young Dir. Dominga Sotomayor Transit Dir. Christian Petzold Wildlife Dir. Paul Dano Leave your thoughts on the New York Film Festival 2018 Main Slate lineup below in the comments section. For more New York Film Festival news coverage, photos, videos, and information, visit our Film Festival Page. This year’s New York Film Festival will be held from September 28, 2018 through October 14, 2018. FilmBook will be in attendance this year so stay tuned for our coverage. Want up-to-the-minute notifications? FilmBook staff members publish articles by Email, Twitter, Tumblr, Google+, and Facebook.
