From September 30 to October 16, the 60th New York Film Festival will take place.
White Noise, Noah Baumbach's adaptation of Don DeLillo's novel, will also open the 60th New York Film Festival in addition to the Venice Film Festival this month. The annual New York festival is produced by Film at Lincoln Center, who revealed on Tuesday that White Noise will open the event on September 30 in Alice Tully Hall. Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig appear in Baumbach's adaptation of Don DeLillo's renowned 1985 novel about a poisonous incident in a suburban college town.
The 79th Venice Film Festival will begin on August 31 with the Netflix release. Baumbach, a native New Yorker, however, has a long relationship with the New York Film Festival and frequently attended it when he was younger. Six of his earlier movies, ranging from 1995's Kicking and Screaming to 2019's Marriage Story, which served as the festival's primary attraction that year, were included in the main slate of the NYFF.
In the same year that he brought home the hardcover of Don DeLillo's White Noise, my father and I travelled from Brooklyn to see Kurosawa's Ran open the 23rd NYFF, recalled Baumbach in a statement. "It is an absolute honor for me to kick off the 60th NYFF with White Noise. As a part of my film education, this festival has been a home for me and many of my movies over the years."
Baumbach's adaption was hailed as "an unquestionable triumph: a hugely entertaining and darkly humorous meditation on the way we live now that is also the director's most ambitious and expansive film," according to Dennis Lim, the festival's artistic director.
Sept. 30 – Oct. 16 is the New York Film Festival's runtime.
