2014 NYFF: Chazelle, Broomfield, Bonello, Ferrara, Sang-soo, Hansen-Løve Make Cut

While Sundance (Damien Chazelle’s Whiplash and Alex Ross Perry’s Listen Up Philip) and Berlin (Dominik Graf’s Beloved Sisters, Yann Demange’s ’71, Alain Resnais’ Life of Riley) titles are indeed present, the 52nd edition (much like previous years) is a Cannes heavy and slightly Venice lopsided affair/showcase for Manhattanites.

Also the lieu for subtitle friendly distrib companies to measure their summer purchases (IFC, SPC, Cinema Guild, Cohen Media), leading the pack in non Croisette or Lido items, we’re most curious about Pedro Costa’s Horse Money, Matías Piñeiro’s The Princess of France and Eugène Green’s La Sapienza and are looking forward to multi-volume Eden from Mia Hansen-Løve and Nick Broomfield’s (Telluride-TIFF) Tales of the Grim Sleeper (see pic above) Added to Fincher’s Gone Girl, Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inherent Vice and Iñárritu’s Birdman or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance here are the 52nd edition offerings (we’ll of course be on hand to cover the fest).

Beloved Sisters / Die geliebten Schwestern (North American Premiere) – Dominik Graf
The Blue Room / La chambre bleue (North American Premiere) – Mathieu Amalric
Clouds of Sils Maria (U.S. Premiere) – Olivier Assayas
Eden (U.S. Premiere) – Mia Hansen-Løve
Foxcatcher (U.S. Premiere) – Bennett Miller
Goodbye to Language / Adieu au langage (New York Premiere) – Jean-Luc Godard
Heaven Knows What (U.S. Premiere) – Josh & Benny Safdie
Hill of Freedom / Jayuui Eondeok (U.S. Premiere) – Hong Sang-soo
Horse Money / Cavalo Dinheiro (U.S. Premiere) – Pedro Costa
Jauja (U.S. Premiere) – Lisandro Alonso
Life of Riley / Aimer, boire et chanter (New York Premiere) – Alain Resnais
Listen Up Philip (New York Premiere) – Alex Ross Perry
Maps to the Stars (U.S. Premiere) – David Cronenberg
Misunderstood / Incompresa (North American Premiere) – Asia Argento
Mr. Turner (New York Premiere) – Mike Leigh
Pasolini (U.S. Premiere) – Abel Ferrara
The Princess of France / La Princesa de Francia (U.S. Premiere) – Matías Piñeiro
Saint Laurent (North American Premiere) – Bertrand Bonello
La Sapienza (U.S. Premiere) – Eugène Green
’71 (New York Premiere) – Yann Demange
Tales of the Grim Sleeper (New York Premiere) – Nick Broomfield
Timbuktu (U.S. Premiere) – Abderrahmane Sissako
Time Out of Mind (U.S. Premiere) – Oren Moverman
Two Days, One Night / Deux jours, une nuit (New York Premiere) – Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
Two Shots Fired / Dos Disparos (U.S. Premiere) – Martín Rejtman
Whiplash (New York Premiere) – Damien Chazelle
The Wonders / Le meraviglie (North American Premiere) – Alice Rohrwacher