The world premieres of Ronan Day-Lewis’s Anemone featuring the return of Daniel Day-Lewis, Rebecca Miller’s Mr. Scorsese, and Ben Stiller’s Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost have been added to Spotlight Selections in New York Film Festival (NYFF, September 26-October 13).
The festival announced 12 additions on Tuesday, including US premieres for Sepideh Farsi’s Cannes ACID Gaza documentary Put Your Soul On Your Hand And Walk, and Mamoru Hosoda’s upcoming Venice world premiere, Scarlet.
New York premieres include Harry Lighton’s UK queer romance and Cannes Un Certain Regard premiere Pillion; Paolo Sorrentino’s Venice opener La Grazia; and two from Richard Linklater – Cannes Competition entry Nouvelle Vague, and Berlinale Competition selection Blue Moon.
Anemone is described as a family drama starring Daniel Day-Lewis in the role of a hermit who shares a complicated past with his brother, played by Sean Bean. This marks three-time lead actor Oscar winner Day-Lewis’s first screen role since Phantom Thread in 2017. The cast includes Samantha Morton and Samuel Bottomley, and father and son co-wrote the screenplay. Focus Features will release Anemone on October 3.
Mr. Scorsese from Rebecca Miller is a five-part Apple TV+ documentary about the life and work of Martin Scorsese as recounted by the director himself, family members, and creative collaborators. Talking heads include Miller’s husbandDaniel Day-Lewis, as well as Steven Spielberg, Isabella Rossellini, and Scorsese’s longtime editor Thelma Schoonmaker.
Ben Stiller directs the story of his parents and husband-and-wife comedy duo Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara in Apple Original Films’ Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost. Among the contributors are Christopher Walken, writer John Guare, and the director’s family.
As announced on Monday, Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere will screen as a Spotlight Gala.
NYFF has programmed two strands of short films including Alice Diop’s Fragments For Venus.
Spotlight Films appea in alphabetical order below
* previously announced.
Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere* (US)
Dir. Scott Cooper
Spotlight Gala
Anemone (UK)
Dir. Ronan Day-Lewis
World premiere
Blue Moon (US-Ire)
Dir. Richard Linklater
New York premiere
La Grazia (It)
Dir. Paolo Sorrentino
New York premiere
Mr. Scorsese (US)
Dir. Rebecca Miller
World premiere
Nouvelle Vague (Fr)
Dir. Richard Linklater
New York premiere
The Perfect Neighbor (US)
Dir. Geeta Gandbhir
New York premiere
Pillion (UK)
Dir. Harry Lighton
New York premiere
A Private Life (Vie Privée, Fr)
Dir. Rebecca Zlotowski
New York premiere
Put Your Soul On Your Hand And Walk (Fr-Pal-Iran)
Dir. Sepideh Farsi
US premiere
Scarlet (Japan)
Dir. Mamoru Hosoda
US premiere
Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost (US)
Dir. Ben Stiller
World premiere.
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