PHOTOS: 2015 New York Film Festival Main Slate selections

Tuesday, September 22, 2015
In "Les Cowboys," Country and Western enthusiast Alain is enjoying an outdoor gathering of fellow devotees with his wife and teenage children when his daughter abruptly vanishes.
ARABIAN NIGHTS: VOLUME 1, THE RESTLESS ONE is a shape-shifting paean to the art of storytelling strives for what its opening titles call "a fictional form from facts."
ARABIAN NIGHTS: VOLUME 2, THE DESOLATE ONE attests to the power of fiction to generate its own reality, the film treats its fantasy dimension as a license for directness.
Miguel Gomes's ARABIAN NIGHTS: VOLUME 3, THE ENCHANTED ONE concludes with arguably its most eccentric - and most enthralling - installment.
A wuxia like no other, THE ASSASSIN is set in the waning years of the Tang Dynasty when provincial rulers are challenging the power of royal court.
Tom Hanks stars as James Donovan in BRIDGE OF SPIES.
Kyle Chandler and Cate Blanchett star in CAROL.
The wondrous new film CEMETERY OF SPLENDOUR by Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul is set in and around a hospital ward full of comatose soldiers.
DON'T BLINK portraits the life and work of Robert Frank as a photographer and a filmmaker.
EXPERIMENTER features Stanley Milgram, the social scientist whose 1961, Yale-based "obedience study" reflected back on atrocities carried out by ordinary people.
THE FORBIDDEN ROOM is about a four-man crew of a submarine that are trapped underwater, running out of air.
IN THE SHADOW OF WOMEN is a close look at infidelity - not merely the fact of it, but the particular, divergent ways in which it's experienced and understood by men and women.
The particular beauty of JOURNEY TO THE SHORE lies in its flowing sense of life as balance between work and love, existence and nonexistence, you and me.
Actor John Turturro stars in MIA MADRE, a sharp and continually surprising work about the fragility existence that is by turns moving, hilarious, and subtly disquieting.
Teenage misfits Microbe and Gasoline, one nicknamed for his size and the other for his love of all things mechanical and fuel-powered, become fast friends.
Don Cheadle with MILES AHEAD, a remarkable portrait of the artist Miles Davis (played by Cheadle) during his crazy days in New York in the late-70s.
The plot of Jia Zhangke's new film MOUNTAINS MAY DEPART is simplicity itself. Fenyang 1999, on the cusp of the capitalist explosion in China.
Arnaud Desplechin's alternately hilarious and heartrending latest work, MY GOLDEN DAYS, is intimate yet expansive, a true autobiographical epic.
In the middle of the last century, Eilis (Saoirse Ronan) takes the boat from Ireland to America in search of a better life in the film BROOKLYN.
Ham Chunsu (Jung Jaeyoung) is an art-film director who has come to Suwon for a screening of one of his movies in RIGHT NOW, WRONG THEN.
Anyone going to this provocative and wildly entertaining film expecting a straight biopic of STEVE JOBS is in for a shock.
Director Corneliu Porumboiu is one of the subtlest artists in movies, and THE TREASURE is one of his wryest films, and his most magical.
Philippe Petit (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) in TriStar Pictures' THE WALK.
Vincent Lindon gives a fine performance in THE MEASURE OF A MAN as unemployed everyman Thierry, who must submit to a series of quietly humiliating ordeals in his search for work.
WHERE TO INVADE NEXT is provocative, very funny, and impassioned - just like all of Michael Moore's work.
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PHOTOS: 2015 New York Film Festival Main Slate selectionsIn "Les Cowboys," Country and Western enthusiast Alain is enjoying an outdoor gathering of fellow devotees with his wife and teenage children when his daughter abruptly vanishes.
Photo/Antoine Doyen