Playlist runs down their "Must See" films at the NYFF and puts TLCOZ at the top of the list (since it has 6 screenings at the festival, more than any other film, it seems warranted).
14 Must-See Films At The New York Film Festival The Playlist Staff
...this week’s upcoming New York Film Festival is irrefutable proof that cinema is alive and healthier than ever.
The 54th annual New York Film Festival kicks off this Friday and as usual, the stellar programming is a top-shelf selection of artful and intelligently-made cinema. In simplest terms, the choices made in the NYFF programming this year is as exemplary as ever. As the festival begins this Friday, we decided to run down a list of 14 must-see movies for you New Yorkers dying to absorb more cinematic culture.
“The Lost City Of Z”
Some 8-odd years in the making, James Gray follows up the intimate chamber drama, “The Immigrant,” with his most ambitious film to date. Based on the titular book by David Grann, “The Lost City Of Z” centers on a knowledge-thirsty English explorer who leaves the comfort of his family to travel to South America and look to discover a rumored lost city in the middle of the Amazonian jungle.
Perilous and potentially foolhardy, the quest is heart of darkness journey down the rabbit hole of jungle of claustrophobia. Starring Charlie Hunnam, Robert Pattinson, Tom Holland, Sienna Miller, and shot once again by Darius Khondji, the epic-sounding ‘Lost City Of Z’ said to be influenced by David Lean and Francis Ford Coppola, is easily Gray’s biggest film to dates and widest in scope ever.
Gray uses genre as a Trojan horse to examine masculinity and family dysfunction so it will be interesting to see what Gray does with this “Apocalypse Now”-sounding picture. Additionally, Gray’s picture has the distinction of being the festival’s closing night film.
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