Tuesday, August 11, 2026

NY Film Festival Blockbuster Additions: Jesse Eisenberg’s “The Debut,” Tom McCarthy’s “A Statement,” Cristian Mungiu’s “Fjord,” More

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The New York Film Festival is out of control this year!

They’ve already announced their tentpole movies — “Paper Tiger,” by James Gray opens. Ava Duvernay closes with “14th.” Tony Gilroy’s “Behemoth” is the centerpiece.

But now they’ve added their Spotlight galas, and they are big, kids. We’re going to be racing around going to everything everywhere all at once!

Lots of stars! All the quality films of the fall in one place. I may take a room at the Empire Hotel so I can just go over to Alice Tully in my pjs! (PJ Clarke’s is going to be impossible to get into, also)

Spotlight Gala:

Godzilla Minus Zero (Takashi Yamazaki)
Bucking Fastard (Werner Herzog)
Club Kid (Jordan Firstman)
The Debut (Jesse Eisenberg)
Edward Said: Between Worlds (Maiken Baird)
Fjord (Cristian Mungiu)
Iron Boy (Louis Clichy)
Joy of Joys (Jonathan Glazer)
Making Marie Antoinette (Eleanor Coppola)
One More Time (Cindy Kleine and André Gregory)
The Only Living Pickpocket in New York (Noah Segan)
Sixteen Moments of My Life (Albert Serra)
A Statement (Tom McCarthy)

64th New York Film Festival Main Slate

Opening Night: Paper Tiger (James Gray)
Centerpiece: Behemoth! (Tony Gilroy)
Closing Night: 14th (Ava DuVernay)
9 Temples to Heaven (Sompot Chidgasornpongse)
All of a Sudden (Ryûsuke Hamaguchi)
Bitter Christmas (Pedro Almodóvar)
Clarissa (Arie Esiri and Chuko Esiri)
Dao (Alain Gomis)
The Day She Returns (Hong Sangsoo)
The Diary of a Chambermaid (Radu Jude)
Double Freedom (Lisandro Alonso)
The Dreamed Adventure (Valeska Grisebach)
Everything Else Is Noise (Nicolás Pereda)
Everytime (Sandra Wollner)
Fatherland (Paweł Pawlikowski)
La Gradiva (Marine Atlan)
I Deserve a Lover Whose Every Rise Sets Fiery Dooms Raging Across the Skies (Mani Haghighi)
I Rarely Wake Up Dreaming (Isabelle Stever)
The Loneliest Man in Town (Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel)
A Long Winter (Andrew Haigh)
The Man I Love (Ira Sachs)
A Man of His Time (Emmanuel Marre)
Minotaur (Andrey Zvyagintsev)
Misty Green (Chris Rock)
My Undesirable Friends: Part II – Exile (Julia Loktev)
My Wife Cries (Angela Schanelec)
Nowhere To Lay My Eyes (Hong Sangsoo)
Once Upon a Time in Harlem (William Greaves and David Greaves)
Possible Love (Lee Chang-dong)
Rose (Markus Schleinzer)
Tender Loving Care (Mike Leigh)
The Unknown (Arthur Harari)

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Roger Friedman
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