NEW YORK – Lincoln Center will feel a bit like the French Riviera this fall, with the New York Film Festival featuring several films that appeared earlier this year at Cannes.
Among the films on the schedule announced Monday is “Elephant,” which won the top prize, the Palme d’Or, at the Cannes Film Festival in May.
The latest film from Gus Van Sant (“Drugstore Cowboy,” “Good Will Hunting”) follows a high school shooting in America. The director cast real students instead of professional actors and asked them to improvise their lines.
Among the other films on the lineup that previously screened at Cannes that are:
• “Dogville,” in which director Lars Von Trier (“Breaking the Waves”) takes a scathing look at America. Set in a small, fictitious Rocky Mountain town during the Depression, the film stars Nicole Kidman, Lauren Bacall and Stellan Skarsgard.
• “The Barbarian Invasions,” which earned awards at Cannes for best screenplay and best actress (Marie-Josee Croze). The film from French-Canadian director Denys Arcand is about a dying man who reunites with estranged family and friends.
• “Mystic River,” which festival organizers previously announced would be the opening night film on Oct. 3. The latest directorial effort from Clint Eastwood stars Sean Penn, Kevin Bacon and Tim Robbins as childhood friends who are thrown together again as adults after a murder.
The closing night film will be “21 Grams,” from Mexican director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, best known for the graphic “Amores Perros.”
The festival, now in its 41st year, runs Oct. 3-19. The rest of the schedule follows alphabetically, along with each film’s director and the director’s nationality:
• “Bright Leaves,” Ross McElwee, United States
• “Crimson Gold,” Jafar Panahi, Iran
• “Distant,” Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Turkey
• “The Flower of Evil,” Claude Chabrol, France
• “Free Radicals,” Barbara Albert, Austria
• “Good Morning, Night,” Marco Bellocchio, Italy
• “Goodbye Dragon Inn,” Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan
• “Mansion by the Lake,” Lester James Peries, Sri Lanka
• “Mayor of the Sunset Strip,” George Hickenlooper, USA
• “Pornography,” Jan Jakub Kolski, Poland
• “PTU,” Johnnie To, Hong Kong
• “Raja,” Jacques Doillon, France/Morocco
• “S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine,” Rithy Panh, Cambodia/France
• “Since Otar Left,” Julie Bertuccelli, France
• “A Thousand Months,” Faouzi Bensaidi, Morocco/France
• “Young Adam,” David Mackenzie, Scotland
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