By Jake Coyle, Film Writer
NEW YORK (AP) --In addition to opening this month's Venice Film Festival, Noah Baumbach's adaptation of Don DeLillo's "White Noise" will also kick off the 60th New York Film Festival.
Film at Lincoln Center, which puts on the annual New York festival, announced Tuesday that "White Noise" will launch this year's edition on Sept. 30 at Alice Tully Hall. Baumbach's film, starring Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig, adapts DeLillo's classic 1985 novel about a toxic event in a suburban college town.
The Netflix release is already slated to open the 79th Venice Film Festival on Aug. 31. But Baumbach, a New York native, has a long history with the New York Film Festival, which he regularly attended as a kid. Six of his previous films have played in NYFF's main slate, from 1995's "Kicking and Screaming" to 2019's "Marriage Story," which was the festival's centerpiece selection that year.
"In 1985 my father and I drove from Brooklyn to see Kurosawa's 'Ran' open the 23rd NYFF, the same year that he brought home the hardback of Don DeLillo's 'White Noise,'" said Baumbach in a statement. "Opening the 60th NYFF with 'White Noise' is truly special for me. This festival was part of my film education and has been a home for me and many of my movies over the years."
Dennis Lim, the festival's artistic director, called Baumbach's adaptation "an unequivocal triumph: a wildly entertaining and morbidly funny meditation on the way we live now that is also the director's most ambitious and expansive film."
The New York Film Festival runs Sept. 30-Oct. 16.
Harvey Weinstein hit with new sex crime charge in New York
Harvey Weinstein pleaded not guilty Wednesday to a new sex crime charge in New York, as he awaits retrial in his landmark #MeToo case.
Details of the new allegations were not immediately available. He was charged with committing a criminal sex act.
The jailed ex-movie mogul has long maintained that any sexual activity was consensual.
Prosecutors revealed last week that Weinstein had been indicted on additional sex crime charges that weren't part of the case that led to his now-overturned 2020 conviction. But the new indictment was sealed until his arraignment.
Prosecutors have said that the grand jury heard evidence of up to three alleged assaults — two in hotels in the Tribeca neighborhood and one at a lower Manhattan residential building. The purported incidents took place from the mid-2000s to 2016, prosecutors said.
But it's not clear whether any of those allegations underlie the new indictment.
While bracing for the new charges, Weinstein also is awaiting retrial after New York state's highest court this spring overturned his 2020 conviction on rape and sexual assault charges involving two women. The high court, called the Court of Appeals, ordered a new trial, which is tentatively scheduled to begin Nov. 12.
The Court of Appeals ruled that the then-trial judge unfairly allowed testimony against him based on allegations that were not part of the case. That judge's term expired in 2022, and he is no longer on the bench.
Prosecutors have said they'll seek to fold the new charges into the retrial, but Weinstein's lawyers say it should be a separate case.
Weinstein, who also was convicted in 2022 in a Los Angeles rape case, remains behind bars while awaiting his New York retrial.
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