From the IDF To the NYFF
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During its 45-year existence, the New York Film Festival has both championed emerging filmmakers at the dawn of their careers and offered ongoing support by showcasing new work by festival alums as they have evolved and matured. Included among this year’s dozen festival veterans are the director Sidney Lumet, who is returning to Lincoln Center’s autumn classic for the first time since 1964, and France’s Eric Rohmer, who’s making his 13th festival appearance.
But this year, the festival features one artist who is both debuting and repeating. As the co-scripter of Ira Sachs’s brilliantly acute and engagingly mannered “Married Life” and Todd Haynes’s mind-boggling, seven-headed Bob Dylan biopic “I’m Not There,” the screenwriter Oren Moverman is the unacknowledged belle of Manhattan’s grand movie ball.
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