As Actors Strike Drags On, NY Film Festival Offers A Tale Of Two Premieres: ‘Ferrari’ Brings Adam Driver & Penélope Cruz, While ‘The Curse’ Duo Benny Safdie & Nathan Fielder Dodge Spotlight
deadline.comThe SAG-AFTRA strike, a wild card throughout the fall festival season, has created a closing stretch of the New York Film Festival unlike many (any?) of its 60 previous editions.
The final NYFF press conference this morning featured Ferrari cast members Adam Driver, Penélope Cruz and Gabriel Leone alongside writer-director Michael Mann discussing the Closing Night selection.
The presence of talent onstage at Walter Reade Theater, thanks to an interim agreement for publicity obtained by distributor Neon before the film’s August 31 world premiere in Venice, offered a welcome dose of the familiar.
Not only was the stage picture a recognizable one, but the themes of the conversation all covered well-established terrain. (The strike, for example, never came up.) Topics included the film’s production in Italy, Mann’s decades-long quest to get it made and the cast’s exhaustive research.
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