Daily free talk series NYFF Live announced

Morgan Neville and Frederick Wiseman among participants

by Anne-Katrin Titze

A Faithful Man director Louis Garrel and Alex Ross Perry, Jodie Mack and Albert Serra have a Film Comment: Filmmakers Talk with Nicolas Rapold
A Faithful Man director Louis Garrel and Alex Ross Perry, Jodie Mack and Albert Serra have a Film Comment: Filmmakers Talk with Nicolas Rapold Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

The Film Society of Lincoln Center has announced their daily free talk series during the 56th New York Film Festival. Conversations with Morgan Neville, the director of the documentary, They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead on Orson Welles’s The Other Side Of The Wind, which are both screening as Special Events; Monrovia, Indiana director Frederick Wiseman (Main Slate selection), moderated by Kent Jones; cinematographer/photographer Ed Lachman (Todd Haynes's Wonderstruck, Carol, ]Far From Heaven), who also designed this year's festival poster with JR, Agnès Varda's co-director on Faces Places; Paul Dano and Zoe Kazan (Wildlife) with Mary Harron and John Walsh on being writing partners, moderated by Karen Han, and a Film Comment: Filmmakers Talk with directors Louis Garrel (A Faithful Man), Jodie Mack (The Grand Bizarre), Alex Ross Perry (Her Smell), and Albert Serra (Roi Soleil), moderated by editor-in-chief Nicolas Rapold, are a number of the highlights.

Free tickets will be distributed at the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center box office on a first-come, first-served basis starting one hour prior to the talks. Limit one ticket per person, subject to availability.

NYFF Live runs from September 29 through October 10 in the Amphitheater at the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center

The 2018 New York Film Festival runs from September 28 through October 14.

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