The New Yorker Recommends Richard Brody reviews the upcoming cinema. Plus: Alex Ross on the opera composer who went hollywood dot link View in browser link Update your preferences heading level 1 link www dot newyorker dot com utm campaign… Illustration by Max Dalton heading level 3 Fall Movies Preview: High Profile Fantasies, New Bio Pics, and Films from Netflix The New York Film Festival, at Lincoln Center (Sept. 27 Oct. 13), is the city’s main movie event, and this year’s edition includes a trio of films from Netflix. The festival’s opening night offering is Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman, starring Robert De Niro as a hit man whose exploits connect with politics in particular, the real life disappearance, in 1975, of the union leader Jimmy Hoffa (played by Al Pacino). Joe Pesci, Harvey Keitel, and Anna Paquin co star. Noah Baumbach’s romantic drama Marriage Story, the festival’s centerpiece, stars Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver as an actress and a playwright going through a bitter divorce; Laura Dern, Alan Alda, and Ray Liotta co star. Among the festival’s main slate of films will be the French actress and director Mati Diop’s first feature, Atlantics, a drama set in Dakar, Senegal, about a young woman named Ada (Mame Bineta Sane) who confronts supernatural disturbances when her family thwarts her relationship with a construction worker (Ibrahima Traoré). Bio pics, as ever, are prominent among fall releases, but this year’s batch covers a distinctive range of historical figures. Harriet (Nov. 1), directed by Kasi Lemmons (who wrote the script with Gregory Allen Howard), stars Cynthia Erivo as Harriet Tubman, who escaped slavery, liberated hundreds of other enslaved Africans via the Underground Railroad, and worked on behalf of women’s suffrage. Janelle Monáe, Joe Alwyn, and Leslie Odom, Jr dot , co star. Renée Zellweger plays Judy Garland in Judy (Sept. 27), which is centered on the singer’s performances in London in 1968, the year before her death. It’s directed by Rupert Goold; Rufus Sewell co stars, as Garland’s husband Sid Luft, and Jessie Buckley plays her assistant. In James Mangold’s drama Ford v Ferrari (Nov. 15), Matt Damon plays the car designer Carroll Shelby and Christian Bale plays the race car driver Ken Miles, who, in the mid sixties, joined forces to take part in the twenty four hour Le Mans competition. Hustlers (Sept. 13), written and directed by Lorene Scafaria, is based on the true story of a group of New York strippers who teamed up, after the 2008 financial crisis, to extract money from rich men by any means necessary. Constance Wu, Cardi B, and Jennifer Lopez star; Julia Stiles plays a journalist reporting on their deeds. High profile fantasies extend from outer space to Gotham City. James Gray’s science fiction drama, Ad Astra (Sept. 20), is the story of an astronaut (Brad Pitt) who undertakes a dangerous mission to find his father (Tommy Lee Jones) deep in space. Liv Tyler, Ruth Negga, and Donald Sutherland co star. In Pedro Almodóvar’s movie centered drama Pain and Glory (Oct. 4), Antonio Banderas plays an aged director whose creative and personal struggles unleash a torrent of memories, including ones involving his mother (Penélope Cruz). The South Korean director Bong Joon ho’s thriller Parasite (Oct. 11) follows members of a poor family in Seoul who, under false pretenses, move into a rich family’s palatial home. Joker (Oct. 4), the latest installment in the Batman series, stars Joaquin Phoenix in a tale of the villain’s turn to the dark side. Robert De Niro, Zazie Beetz, and Marc Maron co star, and Dante Pereira Olson plays Bruce Wayne. Richard Brody main landmark list with 1 items link Newsletters link heading level 3 Sign Up for the Sunday Archive Newsletter link Classic pieces and hidden gems, curated by our archivists and editors. out of list heading level 2 Reviews and Recommendations link Musical Events link heading level 3 Erich Wolfgang Korngold, the Opera Composer Who Went Hollywood link His melodic gift rivalled Puccini’s but his reputation suffered when he began writing movie scores. link Now the classical world is giving him a fresh listen. link By Alex Ross list with 3 items link The Current Cinema link heading level 3 Where’d You Go, Bernadette? Is at Cate Blanchett’s Command link In Richard Linklater’s adaptation of the Maria Semple novel, Blanchett’s leading performance treads link joyfully close to excess, savoring the pleasures of the brink. link By Anthony Lane link Books link heading level 3 Téa Obreht Reimagines the Western link Her second novel, Inland, brings unexpected disturbances to the American landscape she grew up link romanticizing from afar. link By Francisco Cantú link The Theatre link heading level 3 Endgames in Sea Wall slash A Life and Coriolanus link Jake Gyllenhaal and Tom Sturridge take pains to dredge up feelings of audience profundity, and the link Public presents a colorful new rendition at Shakespeare in the Park. link By Vinson Cunningham out of list heading level 2 From the Culture Desk list with 2 items clickable On Television heading level 3 The Second Season of Succession Digs Into the Characters’ Self Loathing The energy of this round of the family drama is in how a media mogul’s heirs reveal their inner lives as they angle for influence. By Troy Patterson clickable Comma Queen heading level 3 The Long Hot Summer of Grammar The new book Because Internet examines how the Web has changed the way we write. Lionel Shriver and Jacob Rees Mogg, meanwhile, want to turn back the linguistic clock. By Mary Norris out of list heading level 2 More from The New Yorker list with 2 items clickable Elements heading level 3 The Persuasive Power of the Wolf Lady To bridge the divide between wolf lovers and ranchers, the conservationist Karin Vardaman had to change many minds including her own. By Ingfei Chen clickable Elements heading level 3 The Nihilistic Euphoria of the Fish Tube The tube, made by a company called Whooshh, is designed to move fish and eels around dams, but watching it in action can raise existential questions. 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