Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere is NYFF Spotlight Gala selection

Director praises musician's influence on storytelling

by Anne-Katrin Titze

Jeremy Allen White as Bruce Springsteen in Scott Cooper’s Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere
Jeremy Allen White as Bruce Springsteen in Scott Cooper’s Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere

Film at Lincoln Center has announced that Scott Cooper’s Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere (adapted from Warren Zanes’s 2023 chronicle of the same title), starring Jeremy Allen White as Bruce Springsteen with Jeremy Strong (as Springsteen’s longtime manager and co-producer Jon Landau), Stephen Graham, Gaby Hoffmann, Paul Walter Hauser, David Krumholtz, and Odessa Young is the Spotlight Gala selection of the 63rd New York Film Festival at Alice Tully Hall on Sunday, September 28, with the director, Jeremy Allen White, Jeremy Strong, Odessa Young, and Bruce Springsteen in attendance. The film is produced by Cooper, Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Eric Robinson, and Scott Stuber with Tracey Landon and Warren Zanes as executive producers. A 20th Century Studios release.

63rd New York Film Festival Spotlight selections: Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague, Harry Lighton’s Pillion, and Mamoru Hosoda’s Scarlet
63rd New York Film Festival Spotlight selections: Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague, Harry Lighton’s Pillion, and Mamoru Hosoda’s Scarlet

Scott Cooper: “The New York Film Festival has always felt like a spiritual home for the kind of cinema I believe in. To now arrive with a film about Bruce Springsteen—an artist whose music shaped not just a country but my own sense of storytelling—is something I could never have imagined.

“Getting to know Bruce, to explore his world and his spirit, has been one of the most profound creative experiences of my life. To share that experience with New York audiences, in a city that defines artistic possibility, is both an honor and a responsibility I hold with deep gratitude.”

“Taking its cue from the stark majesty of Bruce Springsteen’s classic album Nebraska, Scott Cooper’s Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere has an intimacy and immediacy that eludes most film biographies,” said Dennis Lim, Artistic Director, New York Film Festival. “Anchored by Jeremy Allen White’s revelatory performance, this year’s Spotlight Gala selection is a fitting tribute to a living legend.”

The NYFF Main Slate and Spotlight selection committee is chaired by Dennis Lim, NYFF Artistic Director, and includes Florence Almozini, Justin Chang, K. Austin Collins, and Rachel Rosen. Violeta Bava, Michelle Carey, Leo Goldsmith, and Antoine Thirion are NYFF program advisors.

The 63rd New York Film Festival runs from Friday, September 26 through Monday, October 13.

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