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| Luca Guadagnino, director of After The Hunt: “I have always found the New York Film Festival to be an arbiter of global cinema.” Photo: Anne Katrin Titze |
Film at Lincoln Center has announced that Luca Guadagnino’s After The Hunt, starring Julia Roberts, Michael Stuhlbarg, Ayo Edebiri, Andrew Garfield, and Chloë Sevigny is the Opening Night selection of the 63rd New York Film Festival at Alice Tully Hall on Friday, September 26, with Guadagnino and members of the cast in attendance.
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| Luca Guadagnino’s After The Hunt to open the 63rd New York Film Festival Photo: Yannis Drakoulidis, © Amazon Content Services LLC |
Guadagnino’s films include BAFTA and Academy Award-winner (for best adapted screeenplay to James Ivory) Call Me By Your Name (NYFF55, based on the book by André Aciman); Bones And All, based on the book by Camille DeAngelis (NYFF60, Best Director Silver Lion win at the 79th Venice International Film Festival); Queer (NYFF62 Spotlight Gala, based on the short story by William S Burroughs); I Am Love (a New Directors/New Films 2010 selection); A Bigger Splash (2015, based on the story by Alain Page); Challengers, and Suspiria.
Luca Guadagnino: “I have always found the New York Film Festival to be an arbiter of global cinema. For over 60 years it has been a festival that makes audiences open their minds and hearts to the most daring and compelling global cinema from both established and emerging filmmakers.
“To be invited to open the 63rd edition is a tremendous responsibility and honour. I, alongside the incredible cast and crew and our companions at Amazon MGM Studios who made After the Hunt possible, am elated and thrilled to bring to New York our tale of morality and power. My most heartfelt thanks to Dennis Lim and the singular NYFF team.”
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“We are excited to open this year’s festival with Luca Guadagnino’s latest, which confirms his status as one of the most versatile risk-takers working today,” said Dennis Lim, Artistic Director, New York Film Festival. “Brilliantly acted and crafted, After The Hunt is something rare in contemporary cinema: a complex, grown-up movie with a lot on its mind that also happens to be a deeply satisfying piece of entertainment.”
The NYFF Main Slate selection committee is chaired by Dennis Lim, NYFF Artistic Director, and includes Florence Almozini, Justin Chang, K Austin Collins, and Rachel Rosen.
The 63rd New York Film Festival runs from Friday, September 26 through Monday, October 13.
