The 19 Best Movies To See At The 2018 New York Film Festival

This is the opening film of the NYFF. It stars Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone in this sexually charged fight to the death for the body and soul of Queen Anne. It is directed by Yorgos Lanthimos so expect a wildly intricate and very darkly funny new film.

What could arguably be the best movie of the year, Alfonso Cuarón returns to Spanish-language cinema to tell the tale set in 70's Mexico City in the early ’70s. According to the NYFF, "Cuarón tells an epic, autobiographical story of everyday life while also gently sweeping us into a vast cinematic experience."

Almost 50 years after Orson Welles started shooting, The Other Side of the Wind, starring Welles as Jake Hannaford, an old-guard macho Hollywood director at the end of his tether, has finally been completed by Welles’s collaborators.

Here’s something new from the Coen Brothers—a wildly entertaining anthology of short films based on a fictional book of “western tales”—starring Tim Blake Nelson, James Franco, Liam Neeson, Tom Waits, Zoe Kazan, Tyne Daly, Brendan Gleeson, and others—unified by the thematic thread of mortality.

Charles Ferguson reopens the case of Watergate, from the 1972 break-in to Nixon’s 1974 resignation and beyond, and gives it a new and bracing life, also drawing disquieting fact-based parallels with another presidency and criminal investigation, still underway.

This noir-tinged film about a solitary man haunted by loss and regret is told in two parts: the first an achronological mosaic, the second a nocturnal dream. Bi Gan has created a film like nothing you’ve seen before, especially in the second half’s hour-long, gravity-defying 3D sequence shot.

Tom Volf’s film about Maria Callas, one of the supreme artists and cultural stars of the mid-20th century, is a cinematic love note to a great artist, and a vivid audiovisual document of mid-century western culture.

This is the most popular Mexican film ever made. It's a passionate and visually beautiful love story which stars Pedro Armendariz and Maria Félix.

Paul Dano debut directorial film stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Carey Mulligan star in a story of a family which comes apart one loosely stitched seam at a time.

Director Mark Bozek depicts an endearing journey into the world of the now legendary street photographer Bill Cunningham. Known for his photographs from the New York Times, the life of a photographer is illustrate with gusto and honor.

The classic trope of the last man on earth, lives on in this 40ish TV cameraman Armin who awakens one morning to find the world around him entirely depopulated.It's a disarmingly realistic and restrained approach to a fantastical premise.

Robert Pattinson has come a long way from Twilight. Here, he works with director Claire Denis about a spacecraft piloted by death row prisoners on a decades-long suicide mission to enter and harness the power of a black hole. Is it science-fiction or a drama?

Juliette Binoche stars in this new film set within the world of publishing. Olivier Assayas directs a story of two hopelessly intertwined couples obsessed with the state of things, and how (or when) it will (or might) change.

Argentinian filmmaker Mariano Llinás creates "La Flor" a unique cinematic experience that ranges from B-movie to a musical to a spy thriller to a category-defying metafiction to a remake of a very well-known French classic and, finally, to an enigmatic period piece.

Elisabeth Moss, winner of a primetime Emmy, stars in a powerhouse performance about an influential lead singer of a popular ’90s alt-rock outfit spiraling out of control.

Paul Giamatti and Kathryn Hahn star in this story of a New York couple caught in the desperation, frustration, and exhaustion of trying to have a child. It's at times hilarious and harrowing.

This is a wild, hallucinatory film that's been largely disregarded and almost unknown for nearly 30 years. But is now renowned as a one-of-a-kind film visual experience.