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EXCLUSIVE: One of the fun parts of the New York Film Festival is the surprise films that show up unannounced. We are hearing that the festival will stage the World Premiere of Lincoln, the Steven Spielberg-directed film that stars Daniel Day-Lewis as the 16th President in the final months of his life and his struggle to end the Civil War, reunite the country and abolish slavery. Tony Kushner wrote the script.
The DreamWorks film made a splash last night with a two-minute trailer that was shown immediately following the first Presidential debate between Barack Obama and Republican candidate Mitt Romney. NYFF last year surprised festgoers with a premiere of the in-progress Martin Scorsese-directed Hugo, a film that went on to garner a swarm of Oscar nominations including Best Picture. It’s a showy way to put a film in the Oscar conversation. DreamWorks would not confirm this is happening, but dress for it! Here’s the trailer that premiered last night:
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Someone please stop John Williams from ever scoring a Spielberg picture again. It’s enough to stop me from seeing this.
Yeah, a Hans Zimmer score would be much better for that type of film.
Not really a surprise now..
Seems like a pretty big role for Ben Stiller, but looks like he pulls it off quite nicely.
This is rude manners. It’s supposed to have its world premiere at the AFI Festival….
And it’s screening October 10th with Q&A live Yahoo Q&A with Spielberg & DDL @ the NYC screening…. and screening also in other major cities the same day, and the Q&A from NYC will be streamed live for audiences in other theaters showing Lincoln.
NYFF made a big deal that “They are screening the film before anyone else” and it’s just two days early. Rude manners NYFF. RUDE.
Why would you call them rude? Even if it’s true the secret screening is Lincoln, it’s not like the NYFF people do it without the deal with the people involved in Lincoln. In fact you should ask the Lincoln people why they do it.
It’s the same like The Master screenings that happened weeks before its premiere at Venice.
I have a ticket for the secret screening. I sure hope it’s not “Lincoln.”
NYFF said the film was a “work in progress” (i.e., unfinished film). Wouldn’t that exclude “Lincoln” which by all accounts is a final edit? And how would screening a film a few days before another organization be a triumph for the NYFF 50th Anniversary? I think NYFF is aiming for something more special than “Lincoln.” At least I hope so.
Is this for sure or just a guess?
Why are they saying the movie that’s screening Monday night is some big secret when it obviously isn’t? I wonder if the people who paid $20 a ticket for a ‘surprise’ will try to get their money back when they find out they’ve paid to see ‘Lincoln’, which hasn’t been getting very good buzz from its previews…
Got a front row ticket when they were released online and found this story an hour after it was posted. I’m a huge Spielberg fan so this would be sweet.
But, I was thinking it would have been something like Django Unchained, Skyfall or Les Miserables because of the whole AFI Fest “premiere.” And earlier poster Punker was right, wouldn’t it pretty much be a final edit?
The Secret Screening is listed at 120 minutes and Ginger and Rosa will be starting afterwards at 9:30. So there’s room for length. If it is Lincoln that’s great. If it’s not, hopefully it’s not Zero Dark Thirty.
120 minutes is too short for Les Miserables (the stage show is almost 3 hours, so the film will likely be 140-160 min.). It might be Skyfall, or Django Unchained. I agree with others that ‘Lincoln’ would be an odd choice, since it’s finished and not a “work in progress.”
Lincoln Center. Lincoln. Is it really that simple?
Divine Order is always working. Thanks you Steven, Daniel Day Lewis & the entire wonderful cast for making this historical movie…just in time…before the election. Love you all!!
It’s not Lincoln! The film is already finished and it’s supposed to be a work-in-progress screening. My bets are still on Les Mis or The Hobbit. As for the 120 minute listing on the site, that could easily just be a phony runtime so people don’t predict what the film is.
NYFF just announced the start of the film. It’s ‘Lincoln’. A lot of Twitter folks got excited because Tom Hooper took the stage, and the rumor flew around that it was going to be Les Miz. Then he introduced Steven Spielberg, who actually said ‘Lincoln’ isn’t finished yet!
But, that answers that questions. The “surprise” movie is ‘Lincoln’.
It was “Lincoln.” It was probably a touch over 2 hours. Like the other films I’ve seen at the festvial, the end titles were turned off midway. Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner took the stage with NYFF Program Director Richard Pena at the end for about 15 minutes. Spielberg signed about 30 or so autographs. I didn’t have a pen but I shook his hand! Awesome!
The film is restrained, quiet and like Ang Lee’s “Life of Pi”, quite humorous. It was most definitely a “stage” production in that it was like a play. It opens with a short battlefield sequence but focuses on the closed door dealings for the ratification of the 13th Amendment. A lot of dialogue, most of which is good but turn lengthy at times. Very little John Williams score, so that might be the “unfinished” part. It could use a tightening, especially the first half. The second half seemed pretty solid. No vampires.
Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field and Tommy Lee Jones are great. James Spader along with John Hawkes and Tim Blake Nelson just about steal the show as Democratic “operatives.”
The absolute show stopping, engrossing parts of the film are when Lincoln tells a story. This happens I believe 4 times. Each one is a treat and helps the film greatly. I don’t have much interest in biographical films or stage plays but Spielberg’s direction and Janusz Kami?ski’s cinematography are solid and peel away at each actors layers. A notch above Amistad.
* Kaminski. Tried to get the accent above the N but it came out as a question mark. Apologies.