NYFF51 Loads Up with the Best from Cannes: Kore-eda, Jarmusch, Denis, Zhangke, Guiraudie, Coens & Kechiche

Not unlike previous years, NYFF programming team with Kent Jones as the top curator have gone with an auteur friendly, Croisette heavy line-up with some of the best Zhangke’s A Touch of Sin, Claire Denis’ Bastards, Coen Bros.’ Inside Llewyn Davis and Abdellatif Kechiche’s Blue is the Warmest Color) and worst (Desplechin’s Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian and James Gray’s The Immigrant) from Cannes. With the exception of the showcased titles (examples Her, Captain Phillips and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty), NYFF51 (09.27-10.13) is pretty much a carbon copy of the TIFF with the likes of Locarno and Venice preemed films from Tsai Ming-liang, Catherine Breillat, Corneliu Porumboiu and Hayao Miyazaki being top filmmakers to keep an eye out for. Here’s the complete Main Slate line-up:

ABOUT TIME (2013) 123min – Director: Richard Curtis
ABUSE OF WEAKNESS (Abus de Faiblesse) (2013) 105min – Director: Catherine Breillat
ALAN PARTRIDGE (2013) 90min – Director: Declan Lowney
ALL IS LOST (2013) 107min – Director: J.C. Chandor
AMERICAN PROMISE (2013) 135min – Directors: Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson
AT BERKELEY (2013) 244min – Director: Frederick Wiseman (see pic above)
BASTARDS (Les Salauds) (2013) 100min – Director: Claire Denis
BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR (La Vie d’Adèle) (2013) 179min – Director: Abdellatif Kechiche
BURNING BUSH (Hořicí Keř) (2013) 234min – Director: Agnieszka Holland
CAPTAIN PHILLIPS (2013) 134min – Director: Paul Greengrass
CHILD OF GOD (2013) 104min – Director: James Franco
GLORIA (2013) 110min – Director: Sebastián Lelio
HER (2013) – Director: Spike Jonze
THE IMMIGRANT (2013) 120min – Director: James Gray
INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS (2013) 105min – Directors: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
THE INVISIBLE WOMAN (2013) 111min – Director: Ralph Fiennes
JEALOUSY (La Jalousie) (2013) 77min – Director: Philippe Garrel
JIMMY P: PSYCHOTHERAPY OF A PLAINS INDIAN (2013) 114min – Director: Arnaud Desplechin
THE LAST OF THE UNJUST (Le Dernier des injustes) (2013) 218min – Director: Claude Lanzmann
LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON (Soshite Chichi ni Naru) (2013) 120min – Director: Hirokazu Kore-eda
THE MISSING PICTURE (L’image manquante) (2013) 92min – Director: Rithy Panh
MY NAME IS HMMM… (Je m’appelle Hmmm…) (2013) 121min – Director: agnès b
NEBRASKA (2013) 115min – Director: Alexander Payne
NOBODY’S DAUGHTER HAEWON (Nugu-ui ttal-do anin Haewon) (2013) 90min – Director: Hong Sang-soo
NORTH, THE END OF HISTORY (Norte, Hangganan ng Kasaysayan) (2013) 250min – Director: Lav Diaz
OMAR (2013) 96min – Director: Hany Abu-Assad
ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE (2013) 123min – Director: Jim Jarmusch
THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY (2013) – Director: Ben Stiller
THE SQUARE (2013) – Director: Jehane Noujaim
STRANGER BY THE LAKE (L’Inconnu du lac) (2013) 97min – Director: Alain Guiraudie
STRAY DOGS (Jiao You) (2013) 138min – Director: Tsai Ming-liang
A TOUCH OF SIN (Tian Zhu Ding) (2013) 133min – Director: Jia Zhangke
LE WEEK-END (2013) 93min – Director: Roger Michell
WHEN EVENING FALLS ON BUCHAREST OR METABOLISM (2013) 89min – Director: Corneliu Porumboiu
THE WIND RISES (Kaze Tachinu) (2013) 126min – Director: Hayao Miyazaki