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New York Film Festival Sets Spotlight Slate: Pablo Larraín’s ‘Maria’ With Angelina Jolie, Leos Carax’s ‘It’s Not Me’, Elton John Doc, ‘A Real Pain’ & More

The New York Film Festival set its Spotlight slate including Pablo Larraín’s 'Maria' With Angelina Jolie, Jesse Eisenberg's 'A Real Pain' and documentaries about the Beatles, Elton John and more.

Film at Lincoln Center unveiled its Spotlight section including Pablo Larraín’s Maria with Angelina Jolie as legendary opera singer Maria Callas in her final days; the North American premieres of Leos Carax’s It’s Not Me; Alex Ross Perry’s Pavements, Andrei Ujică’s Beatles documentary TWST / Things We Said Today and the U.S. premiere of doc Elton John: Never Too Late, with an appearance by the legendary musician. Jacques Audiard’s Cannes Jury Prize winner Emilia Pérez joins new works by Jacques Audiard, Petra Costa, Jesse Eisenberg, Jean-Luc Godard, Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson and Galen Jackson, Scott McGehee and David Siegel, Walter Salles, Brett Story and Stephen Maing. Jean-Luc Godard continues to be a presence at NYFF two years after his death with the U.S. premiere of one film by the New Wave masterb — Scénarios, a quintessential, complexly layered work that concludes with a poignant appearance by the filmmaker himself the day before his death, screens along with a documentary conceptualized by Godard and shot in 2021 by longtime collaborator Fabrice Aragno.

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