NYFF 2016: Films to See Closing Weekend, Encore Screenings

NYFF 2016: Films to See Closing Weekend, Encore Screenings


The New York Film Festival draws to a close this weekend and there are still many ways to take part.

Highlights of Saturday’s schedule include a free HBO Directors Dialogue with Ang Lee (Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk); a program of digitally restored Jacques Rivette shorts; and multiple screenings of the fest’s closing night film, James Gray’s The Lost City of Z starring Charlie Hunnam and Robert Pattinson. Also, Hamilton’s America, a documentary inside the making of Hamilton, is getting a reprise airing in the evening.

For those who haven’t been attending screenings religiously throughout, Sunday is your catch up day. The festival has added encore screenings of many of the fest’s more popular films. We highly recommend Maren Ade’s Toni Erdmann, a heart-warming comedy about a father trying to reconnect with his daughter; Errol Morris’ The B-Side: Elisa Dorman’s Portrait Photography; and Gianfranco Rosi’s Golden Bear-winning Fire at Sea, a beautifully rendered documentary that explores the European migrant crisis through focusing on the Italian island of Lampedusa. Other films worth mention that are returning Sunday include Ken Loach’s indictment of UK’s welfare system, I, Daniel Blake; Mia Hansen-Løve’s Things to Come starring the radiant Isabelle Huppert; and Jim Jarmusch’s Paterson, which finds Adam Driver playing a poetry-writing bus driver. You can find trailers for many of these films below.

If you’re looking for bargains, the festival has several films with rush tickets available. You can check out the list here. For additional information and tickets visit the festival website.

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