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Palm Springs International Film Festival announces opening and closing films
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“The Comedian” starring Robert De Niro and Leslie Mann closes the Palm Springs International Film Festival.
he 28th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF) announced that the festival’s opening night will be the World Premiere screening of “The Sense of an Ending”, directed by Ritesh Batra on Thursday, Jan. 5. The festival will close with “The Comedian,” directed by Taylor Hackford on Sunday, Jan. 15. The Festival will screen 190 films from 72 countries, including 58 premieres (9 World, 5 International, 20 North American and 24 U.S.) from Jan. 2-16. The complete line-up including a focus on cinema from Poland, Premieres, New Voices/New Visions competition, Modern Masters, True Stories, After Dark and more were also announced, in addition to the Awards Buzz program. PSIFF will open with the World
Premiere of the CBS Film “The Sense of an Ending,” directed by Ritesh Batra. The film stars Jim Broadbent and Charlotte Rampling who team up with the director of The Lunchbox in this mesmerizing adaptation of Julian Barnes’s acclaimed novel about time, memory, jealousy, and the lies we tell ourselves to survive. The film also stars Harriet Walter, Freya Mavor, Emily Mortimer, Michelle Dockery, Matthew Goode and Billy Howle. The film opens in NY and LA on March 10. Closing the festival will be the Sony Pictures Classics film The Comedian, directed by Taylor Hackford. Robert De Niro stars as Jackie Burke, a bitter, angry insult comic who was once the popular star of a TV sitcom, and is now trying to claw his way back on the stand-up
circuit, one scabrous joke at a time. The film’s supporting cast features Leslie Mann, Danny Devito, Cloris Leachman, Harvey Keitel, Patti LuPone and Edie Falco. “I couldn’t be more proud of this year’s lineup. The programming team has managed to pull together a plethora of different viewpoints in storytelling from around the world in hopes of generating great discussion sorely needed in these divisive times,” said Artistic Director Michael Lerman. “Between the 42 Foreign Language Oscar submissions, each selected to represent their own country in a year that’s more competitive than ever, to the poignant work being made by Modern Masters like Kim Ki-Duk, Ken Loach, Feng Xiaogang and Steve James, to the ever-surprising
first and second features in our New Voices/New Visions competition like the unmissable Zoology and Kati Kati, the festival is jampacked with gems. Along with that, I have to say what a pleasure it is to present the World Premiere of Ritesh Batra’s second feature film, The Sense of an Ending for Opening Night. We were all massive fans of his first feature, The Lunchbox, and we can’t wait to welcome him to Palm Springs.” For the complete line-up visit, psfilmfest.org. For more information about the Palm Springs International Film Festival, call 760-778-8979 or 800898-7256 or visitpsfilmfest.org.