The New York Film Festival enters its 2025 edition this Friday, and IndieWire’s “Screen Talk” podcast clues you in on a few under-the-radar titles to see.
Co-host Ryan Lattanzio is a big fan of Bi Gan’s “Resurrection,” which stars Shu Qi as a woman who invades the dreams of the last person capable of having them. The Chinese director’s latest film is a Lynchian odyssey with a oner for the ages, in which a vampire rave is descended upon by a raincoat-clad mafia. Anne Thompson, meanwhile, advocates for Oscar-nominated “Mirai” director Mamoru Hosoda’s animated feature “Scarlet,” which Sony Pictures Classics will push for Academy Awards.
Also, make sure you see Harry Lighton’s “Pillion,” a gay sub-dom romance between Alexander Skarsgård and Harry Melling, which A24 will release early next year. Ryan says it’s like Richard Curtis directing “The Piano Teacher,” and if that’s not enough to sell you, well, we can’t help you there.
Heads up, “Screen Talk” will also host a live edition with Anne and Ryan in person at the New York Film Festival on Monday, October 6. We’ll be joined by guest Daniel Battsek, who is now president of Film at Lincoln Center. Attendance is free and open to all at the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center that afternoon at 4 p.m.
Elsewhere on this week’s episode, we also take a look at the box office prospects for Paul Thomas Anderson’s masterful “One Battle After Another,” which is projected to gross in the $20 million range. Low for a movie of this scale (and budget!) but typical of Anderson’s boundary-pushing work. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio as a retired and drugged-out revolutionary and with breakout performances from Teyana Taylor and Chase Infiniti — not to mention Sean Penn, who we love now? — this is a movie that has legs and will play well into the fall.
We also dive into the latest brouhaha surrounding Jimmy Kimmel, whose late-night show was pulled from the airwaves after he made comments about Charlie Kirk. He’s back on the air, and with a ratings surge to boot, but can it be sustained? And will his tearful monologue, filled with appreciation for those who backed him, be enough for audiences less keen on him already?
Listen to the podcast in the episode below.
