New York Film Festival Announces Its Main Slate

New works by Joel and Ethan Coen, Hayao Miyazaki, Richard Curtis, J. C. Chandor and James Franco are among the features that will be presented in the main slate of the New York Film Festival, the Film Society of Lincoln Center said on Monday. That roster includes “Inside Llewyn Davis,” the Coen brothers’ look at a fictional folk singer in 1960s New York; “The Wind Rises,” the first animated feature directed by Mr. Miyazaki in five years; “About Time,” a romantic comedy that Mr. Curtis (“Four Weddings and a Funeral”) says will be his swan song; “All Is Lost,” Mr. Chandor’s film starring Robert Redford as a yachtsman adrift in the Indian Ocean; and “Child of God,” Mr. Franco’s adaptation of the Cormac McCarthy novel.

Other films on the main slate include Abdellatif Kechiche’s sexually explicit romance “Blue Is the Warmest Color,” which was awarded the Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival; Alexander Payne’s “Nebraska,” about a father-son road trip, and Claude Lanzmann’s Holocaust documentary “The Last of the Unjust,” both of which were also presented at Cannes; James Gray’s period drama “The Immigrant”; “The Invisible Woman,” a historical drama directed by Ralph Fiennes and starring him as Charles Dickens; and “Alan Partridge,” a comedy directed by Declan Lowney that marks the movie debut of that oblivious Steve Coogan character.

This year’s New York Film Festival will run from Sept. 27 through Oct. 13. It will open with  “Captain Phillips.” The  centerpiece film is “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” and the festival will close with  “Her.”

The complete list of main slate films announced on Monday for the New York Film Festival appears below:

ABOUT TIME
Director: Richard Curtis

ABUSE OF WEAKNESS (Abus de Faiblesse)
Director: Catherine Breillat

ALAN PARTRIDGE
Director: Declan Lowney

ALL IS LOST
Director: J. C. Chandor

AMERICAN PROMISE
Directors: Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson

AT BERKELEY
Director: Frederick Wiseman

BASTARDS (Les Salauds)
Director: Claire Denis

BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR (La Vie d’Adèle)
Director: Abdellatif Kechiche

BURNING BUSH (Hořicí Keř)
Director: Agnieszka Holland

CHILD OF GOD
Director: James Franco

GLORIA
Director: Sebastián Lelio

THE IMMIGRANT
Director: James Gray

INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS
Directors: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen

THE INVISIBLE WOMAN
Director: Ralph Fiennes

JEALOUSY (La Jalousie)
Director: Philippe Garrel

JIMMY P: PSYCHOTHERAPY OF A PLAINS INDIAN
Director: Arnaud Desplechin

THE LAST OF THE UNJUST (Le Dernier des Injustes)
Director: Claude Lanzmann

LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON (Soshite Chichi ni Naru)
Director: Hirokazu Kore-eda

THE MISSING PICTURE (L’Image Manquante)
Director: Rithy Panh

MY NAME IS HMMM… (Je m’appelle Hmmm…)
Director: agnès B

NEBRASKA
Director: Alexander Payne

NOBODY’S DAUGHTER HAEWON (Nugu-ui ttal-do anin Haewon)
Director: Hong Sang-soo

NORTH, THE END OF HISTORY (Norte, Hangganan ng Kasaysayan)
Director: Lav Diaz

OMAR
Director: Hany Abu-Assad

ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE
Director: Jim Jarmusch

THE SQUARE
Director: Jehane Noujaim

STRANGER BY THE LAKE (L’Inconnu du Lac)
Director: Alain Guiraudie

STRAY DOGS (Jiao You)
Director: Tsai Ming-liang

A TOUCH OF SIN (Tian Zhu Ding)
Director: Jia Zhangke

LE WEEK-END
Director: Roger Michell

WHEN EVENING FALLS ON BUCHAREST OR METABOLISM (Când se Lasa Seara Peste Bucuresti sau Metabolism)
Director: Corneliu Porumboiu

THE WIND RISES (Kaze Tachinu)
Director: Hayao Miyazaki