43rd NY Film Festival Line-Up Announced

Source: Filmlinc

The Lincoln Center Film Society in New York City has announced the line-up for its 43rd New York Film Festival. As in past years, there is a great selection of American and foreign films, including many returning favorites like Lars von Trier (Dogville, Neil Jordan, and Steven Soderbergh.

It had already been previously announced that George Clooney's second film as a director, Good Night. And, Good Luck., would be opening the festival on September 23. The film is a historical piece set in the '50s about the early days of television news, focusing on veteran CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow, as played by David Strathairn, and his on-air confrontation with Senator Joseph McCarthy.

Neil Jordan's Breakfast on Pluto, starring Cillian Murphy as an abandoned Irish boy in the '70s who becomes a transvestite, will be the festival's Centerpiece, and the festival will close on October 9th with the latest film from Michael Haneke (Code Unknown. Cache (Hidden) stars Daniel Auteuil as a man receiving mysterious packages from a stalker. The film, which debuted at Cannes earlier this year, also stars Juliette Binoche.

Another film that premiered at Cannes but will get its U.S. debut at the festival is director Lars von Trier's Manderlay, his follow-up to Dogville, which was shown at the festival two years ago. Michael Winterbottom's Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story reunites the director with his 24 Hour Party People star Steve Coogan. It will also be shown in New York shortly after its Toronto debut.

Director Steven Soderbergh, who also produced Good Night. And, Good Luck. returns with Bubble, his first film for 2929 Entertainment that will be released simultaneously in theatres, on television and DVD. Its a murder-mystery set in Ohio that was show on high-definition video.

Other films of special interest include Park Chan-wook's Sympathy for Lady Vengeance--the third in his revenge trilogy that began with Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, opening in New York this weekend; The Squid and the Whale, a Brooklyn drama from The Life Aquatic cowriter Noah Baumbach; the biodrama Capote starring Philip Seymour Hoffman as the stalwart writer; and foreign films such as Aleksandr Sokurov's The Sun and the Cannes Palm D'or winner L'Enfant from Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne.

Tickets go on sale to the general public on September 11.

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