50th New York Film Festival

The New York Film Festival is 50 years old. (New York Times article about the change of artistic director. Rather than this blog covering the London Film Festival this year, The New York Film Festival seemed a must. The former festival screens around 75-80% of what the New York festival offers. But it's a missing percentage that is well worth the visit. Look back to the opening year of 1963. How few of those films ever see the light of a cinema screen these days or even DVD! Many, however, do manage a further theatrical release. In time. Now with the new Elinor Bunn Monroe Film Center complex across the street from the simply but splendidly proportioned Walter Reade cinema, these Lincoln Center cinemas offer an oasis of both art house and more interesting mainstream films throughout the year for New York. For the first time this year there is a Midnight Movies slot, that includes recent Brit chiller release Berberian Sound Studio. 

Photos and video will be added every few days at end of post - in the order that they were taken.

Christian Petzold (Barbara) Press conference HERE

Aquí y Allá (Here and There)

Yeşim Ustaoğlu (Araf) Pres conference HERE

Christian Mungui (Beyond the Hills) Press conference HERE

Keith Jones (Punk in Africa) Press conference HERE

Mikey Sumner, Noah Baumbach, Greta Gerwig (Frances Ha)
Press conference HERE 

Richard Foreman (Once Every Day)

Press conference HERE

Jun Robles Lana (Bwakaw)

Press conference HERE

 Song Fang (Memories Look at Me)

Press conference HERE

Linhas de Wellington 

                                                           Press conference HERE (audio only)

Paolo Taviani (Caesar Must Die) and Richard Peña 

Press conference HERE

more Taviani Brothers photos HERE

Véréna Paravel (Leviathan)

Lucien Castaing-Taylor (Leviathan)

 Press conference HERE

Ang Lee (Life of Pi)

Press conference HERE

Night Across the Street 

Press conference HERE 

Alan Berliner (First Cousin Once Removed)

 Press conference HERE

David Oyelowe, Lee Daniels (director), Nicole Kidman (The Paperboy)
more photos Here

 Press conference HERE

NYFF Amphitheater talks HERE 

Michael Haneke (Amour)

Press conference HERE

another photo HERE 

David Chase (L), Steven van Zandt (R)-Not Fade Away

Press conference HERE

                                   another photo HERE

India Menuez (actress), Olivier Assayas (director), Clément Métayer (actor): Something in the Air

                                    Press conference HERE
                                    more photos HERE

Abbas Kiarostami and Richard Peña (Like Someone in Love)

Press conference HERE

Sally Potter (Ginger and Rosa)

 Press conference HERE

another photo HERE

Leos Carax (Holy Motors)

 Press conference HERE

Dror Moreh (The Gatekeepers)

Press conference HERE

Richard Peña (L) and Javier Rebollo (R) -The Dead Man and Being Happy

 Press conference HERE

more photos HERE 

João Rui Guerra da Mata (co-director)-The Last Time I Saw Macao 

Press conference HERE 

Pablo Larraín (No)

Press conference HERE

more photos HERE 

David Thomson

David Thomson's new book The Big Screen

 video of his chat at the NYFF HERE

 all photos and video on the site are copyright Andrew Lucre (with

 relevant credits wherever appropriate)