

But if your friends and lovers are dropping like flies, you're bound to become a little impatient (pun intended). When ACT UP Paris storms the offices of Melton Pharm, a med-research company withholding data about a new protease inhibitor, the staff assures the activist-patients that they understand their plight.

This is fitting, because not only does 90s house music (which averages around 120 BPM) constitute the soundtrack (mostly furnished by Arnaud Rebotini), but a major aim of the film's AIDS-activist central characters is to demonstrate that seropositive and seronegative people live at radically different tempos. In the US, Robin Campillo's 120 battements par minute is titled BPM, the unit in which tempo is measured. Updated 10/6 with Let the Sunshine In, Sea Sorrow, and Zamaĭir. Updated 10/2 with Lover for a Day, The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected), and Voyeur And if you have difficulty sorting through ticket prices, online queues, rushes, sellouts, and standby lines, you can consult the Film Society's website for ticket information and an updated list of availability. This article will be updated throughout the festival, to be noted on our daily email and social media. Hyde, and Hong Sang-soo's The Day After.(Hong's other film in the main slate, On the Beach at Night Alone, will be released by Cinema Guild.)Īlthough we intend to focus our coverage on the Main Slate, we'll also chime in on the Spotlight on Documentary and Projections line-ups as availability allows and will incorporate Revivals and Retrospectives into our usual stream of daily featured screenings. Almost all of the films arrive with distribution, meaning that if you miss out on the festival screenings, the films are likely to hit a theater near you soon exceptions as of this writing are Agnieszka Holland's Spoor, Lucrecia Martel's Zama, Serge Bozon's Mrs. To parse the line-up at a glance, this year's edition offers 25 features in the main slate, including thirteen premieres: the world premieres of Richard Linklater's Last Flag Flying (see below for Chloe Lizotte's take) and W***y A***n's latest five North American premieres, and six U.S. Each fall we're pleased to offer Screen Slate writers' takes on many of the noteworthy films in the New York Film Festival line-up-an annual chance to pipe up on mainstream arthouse releases that we otherwise leave for the Tomatometer-approved critical masses to hash out.
