2014 New York Film Festival Starts This Weekend

The New York Film Festival is one of the world’s longest running film festivals. This year marks the 52nd festival, held from 9/26 to 10/12 in several venues around the city.

Some of the notable films that will be shown include:

Gone Girl, directed by David Fincher
Inherent Vice, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
Birdman or the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance, directed by Alejandro G. Irritu
Maps to the Stars, directed by David Cronenberg

The festival will feature a variety of new and previously released films, along with special events, such as a special 30th anniversary screening of This is Spinal Tap and An Evening With Ethan Hawke, An Evening With Richard Gere and a talk by Henry Jenkins on A Brief History of Transmedia Worlds.