The 10 Buzziest Films at the New York Film Festival Inline
Photo: Courtesy of NYFF1/10The Walk
Just in time for a major retrospective of his work at MoMA, Robert Zemeckis, the director of Forest Gump, Back to the Future, and Cast Away, is releasing The Walk in Imax 3D. The film, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Philippe Petit, reimagines the real-life tightrope walk between the Twin Towers.
Photo: Courtesy of NYFF / Legenda, Wellesley College2/10Everything Is Copy
Jacob Bernstein’s tribute to his late mother, Nora Ephron, will surely leave viewers misty-eyed. Everything Is Copy (a motto Ephron learned from her screenwriter mother) features many of her friends, family members, and collaborators who reminisce about the impact and legacy of the writer. The documentary also samples scenes from her beloved movies and vintage interviews with Ephron before she passed away in 2012.
Photo: Courtesy of Universal Pictures3/10Steve Jobs
The third film about the life of the late Apple cofounder and CEO may have finally gotten it right. Directed by Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire) and written by Aaron Sorkin (The Social Network), the film has a starry cast, including Michael Fassbender as the titular man in the black turtleneck, Kate Winslet, Seth Rogen, and Jeff Daniels.
Photo: Courtesy of NYFF4/10Asylum
After Laura Poitras premiered her Edward Snowden documentary, Citizenfour, at last year’s New York Film Festival, she’s back on the circuit with sections from her latest, Asylum, which follows another infamous information vigilante: Julian Assange. If history is any guide, this could mean back-to-back Oscars for the documentarian.
Photo: Courtesy of NYFF5/10The Lobster
This surreal, dark comedy takes place in a not-so-distant future where single people are sent to a residential center to find a mate. If they fail to find love, the singleton is then transformed into an animal (of their preference, at least). Colin Farrell plays David, a man who has been left by his wife and has only 45 days to find his next partner. Enter Rachel Weisz as the quirky loner who might just be his match.
