A blurred movie year comes into focus at New York Film Fest

Jennifer Lawrence showed off her growing baby bump as she headed to a workout session in Manhattan earlier this week.The Oscar-winning actress, who is expecting her first child with husband Cooke Maroney, was dressed appropriately for her outing in a comfortable black sports bra, highlighting her evolving figure.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorOscar-winning costume designer Sandy Powell will be honored at the 24th annual SCAD Savannah Film Festival with the Variety Creative Impact in Costume Design Award.Powell, who has created the looks of queens in “The Favourite” and “Shakespeare in Love”; mobsters in “The Irishman” and “Gangs of New York”; lush period pieces such as “Carol” for more than three decades will be appearing in conversation on Oct.

Ellise Shafer administratorThe New York Film Festival premiere of Paul Verhoeven’s “Benedetta” was greeted by a small group of protesters on Sunday.The biographical drama, starring Virginie Efira, tells the story of a 17th century nun who falls in love with another nun.

The 59th annual New York Film Festival kicked off Friday night with back-to-back world premiere screenings of Joel Coen’s The Tragedy of Macbeth as the Frances McDormand, Denzel Washington-starrer met with loving applause at Lincoln Center’s full Alice Tully Hall.

The stacked roster of major awards favorites and international headliners would be impressive in any normal, mask-less year. Here are five of the hottest titles at NYFF, which takes place Sept. 24 to Oct.

Addie Morfoot ContributorAfter going entirely digital in 2020 due to COVID-19 concerns, the New York Film Festival is returning to its Upper West Side home starting today. The 59th edition of the festival, running from Sept.

Last spring, as Covid-19 vaccines began rolling out and movie theaters and other venues reopened, organizers of the New York Film Festival were pretty sure they wouldn’t be forced back to the drive-in.

EXCLUSIVE: Tomorrow, the New York Film Festival opens with the World Premiere of The Tragedy of Macbeth, the Shakespearean thriller adapted and directed by Joel Coen, and starring Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand, alongside an accomplished cast. Coen, Washington and McDormand have 10 Oscars between them, and the film from A24 and Apple lands smack in the middle of another awards season and I expect it to quickly establish itself in the race.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaWhen the New York Film Festival opens on Sept. 24, it will not only signal another key stop on the awards season circuit — it will be a key marker in New York City’s long, painful reemergence from COVID-19.“People are so hungry for communal experiences,” says Eugene Hernandez, the festival’s director.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle paid a visit to the One World Trade Centre in New York today, Thursday. Harry, 37, and Meghan, 40, were joined by New York City’s mayor Bill de Blasio and Governor of New York State, Kathy Hochul, in the observatory located on floors 100-102 of the One World Trade Centre.The couple are also to meet with Mr de Blasio’s wife, the first lady of New York, writer and activist Chirlane McCray, and their son Dante de Blasio.

Clayton Davis Two early and critical precursors to the awards season have announced their voting dates and annual galas. First, the National Board of Review will reveal its 2021 honorees on Tuesday, Nov.

Michael Appler The Delacorte Theater, Central Park’s open air amphitheater home to New York City’s Shakespeare in the Park, contains nearly 2,000 seats. Each summer, those seats hold New Yorkers who’ve come to commune with the Public Theater’s free summer ritual—an exercise, the theater’s late founder Joe Papp would argue, in public art as democracy. “Over the past year and a half, all of us have liked to say, ‘the Delacorte isn’t empty.

Getting back out there! Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are traveling across the country for their first joint outing since their daughter Lili’s June birth.