26/10/2024
Talking Movies reports from the New York Film Festival - one of the most prestigious film events in North America. Highlights include Pedro Almodovar's The Room Next Door and Mike Leigh's Hard Truths.
Talking Movies reports from the New York Film Festival - one of the most prestigious film events in North America.
Among the highlights covered by the team are celebrated Spanish film-maker Pedro Almodovar's first English-language full-length feature The Room Next Door and Mike Leigh's Hard Truths, starring Marianne Jean-Baptiste, who previously worked with Leigh in his 1996 picture Secrets & Lies. The festival opened with Nickel Boys, a portrayal of the relationship between two young men at an abusive racist reform school in 1960s Florida, inspired by a Pulitzer Prize-winning book from American novelist Colson Whitehead.
Talking Movies also finds out how young audiences have become the lifeblood of both the New York and London film festivals - it's also been discovered that young people are drawn to the year-round activities of these festivals, gravitating especially to repertory cinema and certain old classics.
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