New York Film Festival

Beginning on Sept. 27, the 51st New York Film Festival will be taking over the Big Apple for more than two weeks. Thirty-six films will be screened during the festival, including the highly anticipated Tom Hanks’ entry “Captain Phillips,” and there will be an abundance of other sidebar programming including panels, tributes, talks and other events. The NYFF is just one of the many New York Attractions that takes place in the city each year. For this year’s festival, writer/director Andrea Arnold has been named the 2013 "Filmmaker in Residence." This is the first year the residence program has been in existence and the point of the venture is "further the goals of filmmakers at an earlier stage in the creative process." Arnold is best known for her Oscar-winning 2005 live-action short film “Wasp,” and for her 2006 feature films “Red Road” and “Fish Tank,” which both won Jury Prizes at Cannes in 2006. Her latest work, “Wuthering Heights” was released in the U.S. by Oscilloscope Pictures in 2012. An Advisory Board comprised of actors, filmmakers, producers and writers - including Charles Finch, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Danny Huston, Tamara Jenkins, Ed Lachman, Matthew Modine, Ira Sachs, Paul Schrader and Marisa Tomei - recommended that Arnold receive the nomination. Tickets for the festival are a hot commodity, but if you want to attempt to get them online, please follow this link. Once you enter the "Virtual Waiting Room," do not refresh your browser or navigate away from the page or you will lost your spot in line. You can also try getting tickets in-person at the Alice Tully Hall Box Office (1941 Broadway at West 65th Street) from 10am - 6pm Monday through Saturday and from 12pm - 6pm on Sunday. Phone orders are subject to a $4.50 service charge per ticket but they are available by calling 212.721.6500 or 212.957.1709. If getting tickets proves to be difficult, you can still see how entwined Gotham is with the film industry by going on a New York Movie Tour. For an even more specific look at NYC, the Sex and the City Tour is also an option.

The New York Film Festival will be featured at the following NYC venues:

Alice Tully Hall

Walter Reade Theater

Francesca Beale Theater

Howard Gilman Theater

Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center

Bruno Walter Auditorium

Furman Gallery

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