Priscilla premieres tonight at NYFF. I caught the press screening earlier today (pretty good, will get my thoughts down on paper shortly). It fits snugly in the middle of Coppola’s body of work, and is her strongest film in over a decade.
1. Lost in Translation
2. Somewhere
3. The Virgin Suicides
4. Marie Antoinette
5. Priscilla
6. The Beguiled
7. The Bling Ring
8. On the Rocks
Liz Lopatto is on the ground, covering the Sam Bankman-Fried trial. But if you want even more curly-haired crypto baby in your life, our pals at New York will be reporting it out in their excellent newsletter Court Appearances.
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I enjoyed Richard Linklater’s Hit Man (review here!) but like Vulture’s Alison Willmore, I’m bummed it will likely get a diminished theatrical release next year. Sometimes a movie needs to be seen in the theater — not for eye-searing IMAX spectacle, but just to be around a room of strangers you can laugh with.
That’s the question answered by Hayao Miyazaki’s latest film, which screens today at New York Film Festival under its much worse American title, The Boy and the Heron. I caught this last week and loved it — though it will definitely be divisive, especially for those expecting a film as straightforward as The Wind Rises.
Alicia Haddick reviewed the movie for The Verge back in July, after its release in Japan. Check that one out, if you missed it.
Would it be even better if he donned a bright green YSL riding jacket while doing it? In Pedro Almodóvar’s short queer Western, Pascal reunites with a past lover (Ethan Hawke) after 25 years. It plays today at NYFF, and streams on Mubi soon.
The year’s biggest storm didn’t stop the festival’s opening night with May December, or the party that followed, or the heavy sponsorship from Campari. (Although you’d expect that a bright red Italian liquor might make more sense for the premiere of Ferrari?)
