Clint Eastwood’s supernatural thriller “Hereafter” will close the New York Film Festival on Oct. 10, it was announced today. Matt Damon stars in Eastwood’s fourth NYFF selection, which we hear will debut at next month’s Toronto International Film Festival (which hasn’t announced it yet); Warner Bros. opens it on Oct. 22.
NYFF previously announced films backed by major Hollywood studios as its opener (Sony’s “The Social Network”) and Centerpiece (Disney’s “The Tempest”) all this should help all three films’ quest for Oscars.
The rest of the NYFF lineup announced today is, keeping with longstanding Lincoln Center custom, heavily larded with titles that premiered in Cannes, including Jean-Luc Godard’s 27th selection, the dreadful “Film Socialisme.” There’s also Kelly Reichart’s “Meek’s Cutoff,” which, like “The Tempest,” will bow shortly in Venice. The other titles:
ANOTHER YEAR, Mike Leigh, 2010, UK, 129 min
AURORA, Cristi Puiu, 2010, Romania, 181 min
BLACK VENUS, (Venus noire), Abdellatif Kechiche, France, 166 min
CARLOS, Olivier Assayas, 2010, France, 319 min
CERTIFIED COPY (Copie conformé), Abbas Kiarostami, 2010, France/Italy, 106 min
FILM SOCIALISME, Jean-Luc Godard, 2010, Switzerland, 101 min
INSIDE JOB, Charles Ferguson, 2010, USA, 120 min
LE QUATTRO VOLTE, Michelangelo Frammartino, 2010, Italy, 88 min
LENNON NYC, Michael Epstein, 2010, USA, 115 min
MEEK’S CUTOFF, Kelly Reichardt, 2010, USA, 104 min
MY JOY (Schastye moe), Sergei Loznitsa, 2010, Ukraine/Germany, 127 min
MYSTERIES OF LISBON (Misterios de Lisboa), Raul Ruiz, Portugal/France, 272 min
OF GODS AND MEN (Des homes et des dieux), Xavier Beauvois, 2010, France, 120 min
OKI’S MOVIE (Ok hui ui yeonghwa), Hong Sang-soo, 2010, South Korea, 80 min