The 2024 New York Film Festival (September 27-October 14) has added more to its already-buzzy lineup, with the latest selections in its Spotlight section announced today. The NYFF Spotlight gala this year, as previously named, will be the U.S.
premiere of Luca Guadagnino’s Venice competition title “Queer.” But new to the NYFF mix are Alex Ross Perry’s “anti-biodoc” (the festival’s words) “Pavements,” about the iconic indie rock band Pavement. That film also premieres in Venice in the Horizons section.
A North American premiere of “Holy Motors” director Leos Carax’s self-reflexive short film collage “It’s Not Me,” which bowed in Cannes, also comes to NYFF this fall. Notably, one more “last film” by Jean-Luc Godard, who died in September 2022 , “Scénarios” will play NYFF after screening in Cannes. The New Wave master completed the film the day before he died by assisted suicide.
“Trailer of the Film That Will Never Exist: ‘Phony Wars,” from 2023, was previously touted as Godard’s final film . Elsewhere, Jacques Audiard’s Cannes-winning trans musical “Emilia Pérez,” a major Oscar contender from Netflix this fall, joins NYFF. Along with Petra Costa’s “Apocalypse in the Tropics,” the U.
S. premiere of R.J.
Cutler’s “Elton John: Never Too Late,” Scott McGehee and David Siegel’s Naomi Watts-starrer “The Friend,” Walter Salles’ “I’m Still Here,” Pablo Larraín’s Maria Callas biopic “Maria” with An.