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New York Film Festival 2016

In person events include An Evening with Adam Driver and An Evening with Kristen Stewart.

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A Quiet Passion and Gimme Danger
Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened (Country: US; Year: 2016; Director: Lonny Price; Writer: Kitt Lavoie, Lonny Price, Ted Schillinger; Stars: Stephen Sondheim, Harold Prince, Terry Finn, Ann Morrison, Jim Walton)
Story of the original cast of Stephen Sondheim and Harold Prince’s Merrily We Roll Along.
Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk (Country: UK, China, US; Year: 2016; Director: Ang Lee; Writer: Jean-Christophe Castelli, Ben Fountain; Stars: Kristen Stewart, Vin Diesel, Garrett Hedlund, Steve Martin, Chris Tucker, Beau Knapp, Makenzie Leigh, Deirdre Lovejoy, Ismael Cruz Cordova, Tim Blake Nelson, Jackie Dallas, Deena Dill, Ben Platt, Gregory Alan Williams, Joe Alwyn)
Story of an Iraq war hero brought home for a victory tour.
Gimme Danger (Country: US; Year: 2016; Director: Jim Jarmusch; Writer: Jim Jarmusch; Stars: Iggy Pop, Mike Watt, Ron Asheton, James Williamson)
The story of The Stooges.
Full Review
Hamilton's America (Year: 2016; Director: Alex Horwitz)
Inside the making of the hit musical.
A Quiet Passion (Country: UK, Belgium; Year: 2016; Director: Terence Davies; Writer: Terence Davies; Stars: Cynthia Nixon, Jennifer Ehle, Duncan Duff, Keith Carradine, Jodhi May, Joanna Bacon, Catherine Bailey, Emma Bell, Benjamin Wainwright, Annette Badland, Rose Williams, Noémie Schellens, Miles Richardson, Eric Loren, Stefan Menaul)
The story of American poet Emily Dickinson.
Full Review See: Terence Davies in conversation on A Quiet Passion and his upcoming projects
, Terence Davies in conversation on A Quiet Passion Part 2
, Terence Davies in conversation on A Quiet Passion
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