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"Inherent Vice," the screen adaptation of Thomas Pynchon's
2009 crime novel, starring Josh Brolin, Reese Witherspoon and
Joaquin Phoenix, has been selected as the centerpiece film.
"Gone Girl," the screen version of author Gillian Flynn's
best-selling book with Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike, will open
the 17-day film festival.
"Birdman of the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance," starring
Michael Keaton, Edward Norton and Naomi Watts, will be the
closing film.
"In this year's lineup, we have great big films alongside films
made on the most intimate scale, personal epics and intricately
constructed chamber pieces, films of great serenity and films
that will leave you dazed, first films and last films, all
equally vivid and alive, and essential," Kent Jones, director of
the New York Film Festival and chair of the selection committee,
said in a statement.
The festival, which will run from Sept. 26 to Oct. 12, also
includes French-Swiss director Jean-Luc Godard's 3-D film
"Goodbye to Language," his 43rd feature, and Bennett Miller's
wrestling drama "Foxcatcher," starring Mark Ruffalo, Channing
Tatum and Steve Carell.
Canadian director David Cronenberg's "Maps to the Stars," a
Hollywood satire featuring Julianne Moore as a fading Hollywood
star and Robert Pattinson as a chauffeur will also be on the
slate, along with director Mike Lee's "Mr. Turner," starring
British actor Timothy Spall as the artist J.M.W. Turner.
Other notable films include Damien Chazelle's thriller
"Whiplash" and "Life of Riley," the final film of the late
French director Alain Resnais about three couples who learn that
a mutual friend is terminally ill.
(Editing by Tom Brown)
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