New York Latino Film Festival: ‘Habla Now’, ‘Charm City Kings’, ‘Critical Thinking’ And More Set For Hybrid Edition Of Fest

Earlier in the week, the 2020 incarnation of the New York Film Festival got underway officially, with one part of Steve McQueen’s Small Axe anthology, Lovers Rock, serving as the Opening Night Selection. Having seen it, the movie serves as both a strong start for NYFF this year, as well as a smaller and far less awards friendly selection.

Dade Hayes Finance EditorApplause is often the soundtrack of film festival screenings, especially on opening night.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticIn the most transporting scene of Steve McQueen’s “Lovers Rock,” we’re at a London house party that has just hit its smoky seductive dirty-dancing groove. It’s 1980, and most of the revelers have West Indian roots.

Todd McCarthy Watching Lovers Rock is akin to going to see Romeo and Juliet and only staying through the first act, to departing a basketball game after the first quarter, to sipping the soup and skipping the rest of the meal. A mere wisp of a thing, Steve McQueen’s 68-minute feature, the only fictional section of a five-film anthology called Small Axe about London’s West Indian community between the late 1960s and 1980, steeps you in the atmosphere and music of the latter date.

canceled altogether, while this month’s New York Film Festival will mix mostly online viewing with a few outdoor screenings in Brooklyn, Queens and The Bronx. Only Venice has been totally brick-and-mortar.The pandemic has taught us a few things: For starters, more straight-to-digital releases from major studios will come in the future and many of us will work from home indefinitely.

Dino-Ray Ramos editorAfter unveiling their first wave of programming last week, New York Comic Con and MCM Comic Con’s Metaverse have even more panels and entertainment to feed your fandom. The all-digital confab is set to take place October 8-11 via the New York Comic Con YouTube channel.This year’s edition will include everything the in-person event offers all in the comfort of your own home.

Dade Hayes Finance EditorThe New York Film Festival exudes tradition. Since 1963, its Lincoln Center commingling of culturati, Oscar hopefuls and cinephiliacs has been a mainstay of the city’s fall calendar and the global festival circuit.This year, though, COVID-19 has thrown tradition to the wind and New York movie theaters and arts venues remain stuck in a lengthy, agonizing suspension.

The 58th New York Film Festival is right around the corner. Early next week, the virtual press screenings begin, while the fest officially starts up on September 17th (running from then all the way until October 11th).

Dade Hayes Finance EditorEXCLUSIVE: The New York Film Festival’s unorthodox 58th edition, which starts next week, has added a drive-in at the Bronx Zoo to its roster of screening sites.Three films have been confirmed to screen at the location, which has been built in the zoo’s south parking lot. Steve McQueen’s Lovers Rock, which is the opening selection at the festival next Thursday at a drive-in in Queens, will be shown in the Bronx on September 23.

NEW YORK -- This is normally the time of year when flashy premieres march down red carpets and proclamations of Oscar buzz circle the globe. An avalanche of new films topples onto screens.

The 64th edition of the BFI London Film Festival — rejigged due to the COVID-19 crisis and largely shifted online for 2020 — has unveiled its full program. Chloe Zhao's buzzy Nomadland — bowing in Venice before heading to Toronto and New York — is set to screen, together with Pixar feature Soul, directed by Pete Doctor.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticFilmmaker and Baltimore’s favorite son John Waters has never had a movie of his shown at the New York Film Festival, but his non-film contribution to this year’s fest might just outshine some of the actual entrants: The Hairspray creator designed the official poster for the 58th annual event.

Mariah Carey has opened up about having an affair with New York Yankees baseball legend Derek Jeter while she was married to Tommy Mottola.The musician writes about the affair, which was rumoured for years, in her upcoming memoir, The Meaning of Mariah Carey.In the book, Carey writes that the affair with Mottola happened in the 1990s after they met at a dinner party and secretly began “text flirting”.The singer reveals how her first meeting with Jeter took place on the rooftop of his New York

The 2020 VMAs are nearly here, and the show — much like the entire year itself — will be a new kind of undertaking, with performances happening all around New York City instead of contained to a single arena stage. Despite the new format, the spirit of watching visionary musical renditions (and all the candid, shocking, unexpected, heartfelt moments that come from awards speeches) is still front and center.

The New York Film Festival has added the world premiere of Sofia Coppola's On the Rocks, which sees the filmmaker reunite with her Lost in Translation star Bill Murray in a comedy about a father-daughter duo played by Murray and Rashida Jones, to its lineup. The A24 and Apple Original Films title joins a number of other high-profile titles in the Spotlight section at 58th annual event, presented by Film at Lincoln Center.

Moments ago, the New York Film Festival announced their new Spotlight section. For this 58th incarnation of the festival, a very unique one already, which will focus largely on outdoor and virtual screenings, NYFF is opening to try this approach, which will include sneak previews, gala events, screenings with live elements, and other more.

Dave McNary Film ReporterSofia Coppola’s “On the Rocks,” centered on a father/daughter duo played by Rashida Jones and Bill Murray, will world premiere at the New York Film Festival as part of its new spotlight section.“On the Rocks” will be released in October by A24 and Apple TV.

Lisa Cortés and Liz Garbus, USA, 2020, 102mAll In: The Fight for Democracy is an invigorating and rigorous primer on the history of voter suppression in the United States, an insidious and still persistent reality in our nation.

Mangrove is set to open the BFI London Film Festival (LFF) later this year.The film, which stars Black Panther‘s Letitia Wright, will tell the story of the Mangrove Nine – a group of Black activists who clashed with London police in 1970 during a protest march, which led to a highly publicised trial.Mangrove forms part of McQueen’s Small Axe anthology series, and will premiere at New York Film Festival before having its European premiere at LFF, later airing on BBC One and Amazon Prime Video