âCaptain Phiðllipsââ is one of at least three films with survival themes at this yearâs New York Film Festival, where sex, fantasy and comedy are also well represented. Hereâs a quick look at some high-profile titles at the Lincoln Center festival, which runs from Friday night through Oct. 13.
âAll Is Lostââ â Robert Redford gives a solo tour-de-force aáĐâĻáĐáĐáĐáĐáĐâĪâĪâĪâĪáĐâĪâĪâĪâĪáĐâĪâĪâĪâĪáĐðąáĐáĐáĐs an aging sailor adrift on a crippled yacht in the Indian Ocean in this awards-caliber adventure from J.C. Chandor (âMargin Callââ).
â12 Years a Slaveââ â Chiwetel Ejiofor endures brutality as a free black man from upstate New York kidnapped and sold ðinto slavery in pre-Civil War Georgiða in director Steve McQueenâs Oscar front-runner.
âThe Secret Life of WaltęĶer Mittyââ â Ben Stiller directs and stars in a new adaptation of James Thurberâs story about a man with fantastic daydreams, previously filmed with Danny Kaye in 1947.
âHerââ â ðSpike Jonzeâs first feature since âWhere the Wild Things Areââ stars Joaquin Phoenix as a man who develops an unlikely relationship with a computer operating system (voiced by Scarlett Johansson).
âBlue Is the Warmest Colorââ â The three-hour French drama about a sð tudent who has an affair with an older artist has sparked international controversy because of its lengthy, explicit ðsex scenes.
âInside Llewyn Davisââ â Joel and Ethan Coen explore tðĪĄhe Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961 through the eyes of a starving mâusician (Oscar Isaac). With Carey Mulligan, Justin Timberlake and John Goodman.
âNebraskaââ â â70s icon Bruce ðDern stars in this road drama by Alexander Payne (âThe Descendantsââ) about an old drunk traveling with his estranged sonðš (Will Forte) to claim a million-dollar lottery prize.
âAlan Partridgeââ â Steve Coogan reprises his famous British TV role as a wacky DJ ięĶn a comedy where a colleague (Colm Meaney) takes a radio station hostage after being laid off.
âThe Wind Risesââ â The final film from Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki (Oscar winner for âSpirited Awayââ), who says heâs retired, centers on the designer of his countryâs fighter planes in World ðWar II.
âThe Invisible Womanââ â Ralph Fiennes makes his directorial debut and plays Charles Dickens in this fact-inspired story of a much younger woman (Felicity Jones) who becomes the married âwriterâs covert lover.
âThe Immigrantââ â Best Actress Oscar winner Marion Cotillard plays a Polish immigranęĶĶt who takes up with a burlesque manager (Joaquin Phoenix) after being separated from her sisð ter in 1920s New York.
âAbout Timeââ â ÂAnglo-American time-travel comedy with ÂDomhnall Gleeson, Rachel McAdams and BillęĶĄ Nighy, writtenā―§ and directed by ÂRichard Curtis (âLove ÂActuallyââ).
âLe Week-EndâðĶâ â Comedy-drama about a middle-aged couple (Jim Broadbent, Lindsay Duncan) whose faáĐáĐáĐáĐáĐáĐâĪâĪâĪâĪáĐâĪâĪâĪâĪáĐâĪâĪâĪâĪáĐðąáĐáĐáĐding marriage is reinvigorated by a trip to Paris.
âTimâs Vermeerââ â Penn and Teller collaborated on this crowd-pleasing documentary demonstrating how a dedicated amateur was able to pâ roduce a remarkable facsimile of a 17th-century masterpiece.
âOnly Lovers Left AáĢliveââ â Longtime NYFF mainstay Jim Jarmusch directs Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston as vampires who take up residence in a Detroitð house filled with electric guitars.
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