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Blanchett, Hawke, Hoffman, Kidman, et al. Set for NY Film Festival

Ethan Hawke
(© Joseph Marzullo/Retna)
Ethan Hawke
(© Joseph Marzullo/Retna)

Films featuring New York stage veterans Cate Blanchett, Patricia Clarkson, Ethan Hawke, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Nicole Kidman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Marisa Tomei will be screened as part of the 45th Annual New York Film Festival, to run September 18-October 14 at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Rose Hall.

Blanchett is one of six actors — along with Christian Bale, Richard Gere, Heath Ledger, Ben Wishaw, and Marcus Carl Franklin — playing aspects of singer Bob Dylan in Todd Haynes’ I’m Not There. Clarkson stars in Ira Sachs’ Married Life, a melodrama about an unhappy marriage also starring Oscar winner Chris Cooper, Pierce Brosnan, and Rachel McAdams. Meanwhile, Hoffman, Hawke, and Tomei co-star alongside Albert Finney in Sidney Lumet’s crime drama Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead, while Kidman and Leigh play sisters in Margot at the Wedding, written and directed by Leigh’s husband, Noah Baumbach, and also starring Jack Black.

Other American entries at the festival will include Wes Anderson’s The Darjeeling Limited, starring Adrien Brody, Owen Wilson, and Jason Schwartzman; Joel and Ethan Coen’s No Country for Old Men, starring Josh Brolin, Javier Bardem, and Tommy Lee Jones; Brian de Palma’s Redacted; Gus Van Sant’s Paradise Park; and Julian Schnabel’s The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.

In addition, the NYFF will present five “Retrospective” films, including a 1920 German silent film version of Hamlet, John Ford’s The Iron Horse, Josef von Sternberg’s Underworld, John Stahl’s Leave it to Heaven, and a new cut of Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner.