now on bbc news, talking movies: new york film festival. hello from new york. tom brook and welcome to talking movies. in today's programme, highlights from one of the most prestigious cinema events in north america, the 62nd annual new york film festival. it was two weeks of powerful cinema. a new film from pedro almodovar starring julianne moore and tilda swinton. the film is about bearing witness. that reliance on fellowship, i think, is something really important. also on offer, veteran british film—maker mike leigh's new picture, hard truths, in which he collaborates once again with marianne jean—baptiste. festival goers thought she gave a brilliant portrayal. a consummate character actress, and she's great. and heartening news: young people have become the new lifeblood of film festivals. we see that, over the course of the whole year, 60% of our audience members are under 45 and 50% are under 35. it's been a busy time for film festivals. in recent weeks, we've had venice, toronto, telluride, new york and london. these film events have provided us with som

on the opening weekend of the new york film festival, it rained. —goers, many of them young people. young people have become the new lifeblood for film festivals in new york and london, and they definitely want to embrace the long—established artform of cinema. i think a lot of young people are engaging more with media that a lot of people think is kind of outdated, but... or i think there's kind of this insinuation that film is dying, and that's just not true. for the individuals involved in the running of the new york and london film festivals, it's good news that young people are coming to their venues. in our own surveys, we see that, over the course of the whole year, 60% of our audience members are under 45 and 50% are under 35. and so for that, those numbers are, like, terrific for us in terms ofjust even our year—round numbers, much less the new york film festival. similar increases are also being seen by the british film institute, which also runs the future film festival, the uk's largest film festival for young people. we are seeing our a

reverberating throughout the world well beyond the region — in new york, one of the city's biggest autumn cultural events — the new york film festivalm collective is directly addressing palestinian concerns. 1. 1,2, 1, 2, 3, 4. occupation no more! protesters — 1, 2, 3, 4. occupation no more! protesters greeted _ protesters greeted festivalgoers at the first night, auto1 of the most discussed festival films directly addressed palestinian grievances. called it talks about evicting palestinians in the occupied west bank. it's made by an israeli—palestinian film collective. two men in that collective — yuval abraham, an israeli journalist, and basel adra, a palestinian lawyer who's lived on the land since childhood — are key figures in the documentary. basel adra told me what was in the film. , . ,. , ., the film. they are scenes from our daily life _ the film. they are scenes from our daily life under _ the film. they are scenes from our daily life under occupation | our daily life under occupation — our houses destroyed by bulldozers, and people's stories like when their homes got demologisted, how they handle it. people lose their li

new york. i'm tom brook and welcome to talking movies. in today's programme, highlights from one of the most prestigious cinema events in north america, the 62nd annual new york film festival swinton. the film is about bearing witness. that reliance on fellowship, i think, is something really important. also on offer, veteran british film—maker mike leigh's new picture, hard truths, in which he collaborates once again with marianne jean—baptiste. festival goers thought she gave a brilliant portrayal.

separating migrants from their parents, it debuted at the venice film festival in august, and now the movie is coming to theaters, including new york'sring this friday where you can join me and jacob and oscar winning film maker, errol morris for a conversation about the film ahead of the election. >>> all right, we've got some breaking news we're going to get to now. jack smith election interference case against donald trump, the judge, tanya chutkan, just unsealed the special counsel's 165-page redacted motion on presidential immunity. joining us now, msnbc legal correspondent lisa rubin. it is 165 pages, we have had it for all of, i think, four minutes. we obviously haven't been able to go through all of it. still, this was what we thought would be sort of a mini trial. here is the evidence we have against donald trump in regards to what happened in 2020. is there anything so far that is jumping out to you now that we didn't know about before today? >> well, katy, one of the things that i would just point out is that we obviously know who the government thinks donald trump's most important coconspirators are. in this indictment, t

new york, and it's directed by sean baker. when his film was rewarded with the top prize at the cannes film festival earlier this year, he dedicateda is a fairytale in reverse. it's the name of a young american russian sex worker who meets the son of a russian oligarch. a happy ever after is within touching distance. iiii after is within touching distance.— after is within touching distance. ., ., distance. if i get married to an american, _ distance. if i get married to an american, i— distance. if i get married to an american, i wouldn't - distance. if i get married to i an american, i wouldn't have distance. if i get married to - an american, i wouldn't have to go back to russia. but an american, i wouldn't have to go back to russia.— go back to russia. but when his family find _ go back to russia. but when his family find out _ go back to russia. but when his family find out they _ go back to russia. but when his family find out they are - family find out they are married, the tragicomedy of anora unfolds. the setting is new york, coney island and brighton beach, which has a large russian population. the movie also features ar

film festival is part of the journey. we have, for example, a film that's going to be screening tomorrow, saturday, la cocina, which is set in new york by an independent filmmaker, though it does have some celebrity star power with rooney mara, who's in girl with the girl with the tattoo. but then we also have like an independent work out of mexico that just picked up a distributor called las tres sisters, which screens a week from tonight in san francisco. and so for them, yeah, the goal is to have a film picked up and quite a few of these films, especially in the last few years with the rise of streaming, a lot of short films, a lot of independent films have been picked up by the streamers as a result. >> so this must be definitely a fantastic time for filmmaking, especially independent filmmakers right now, because of the number of streamers that are out there. we may have heard of the big ones, but there are other smaller streamers out there that do cater to specific films that are made by independent filmmakers as well. >> yes, there's that, there's definitely that. i think that, you know, like we you know, we had that whole iss

films showing arab culture. the festival runs today through november 3rd. well, the owners of the a's, john fisher, is reportedly trying to cash in on the team's move to las vegas. the new yorkst reports fisher hired an investment bank to try to sell 25% of the team for $500 million. that would value the team at $2 billion. in march, forbes estimated the a's that they were valued at 1.2 billion, making them the second lowest valued team in the major leagues. the remaining members of the grateful dead are being honored for their philanthropic work. the organization music cares has named the grateful dead its 2025 persons of the year. the organization helps people in the music industry who need financial or personal or medical help. the organization says mickey hart, bill kreutzmann, phil lesh and bob weir have been committed to helping the community and they had a huge impact on the music world during the last 60 years. they're going to be honored at a gala in january. well, a four mile road in yolo county will be closed sunday, when almost 3000 ironman athletes will ride their bikes on that 112 mile course. salt wine company in clarksburg had no idea an international event w