its anticipated Opening Night selections. Luis Buñuel's The Exterminating Angel screened as NYFF's first Opening Night film back in 1963. Some of the other landmark selections that have screened in the slot include Jean-Luc Godard's Alphaville (1965), Paul Mazursky's Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969), François Truffaut's Small Change (1976), Agnès Varda's One Sings, the Other Doesn't (1977), Bernardo Bertolucci's Luna (1979), Lawrence Kasdan's The Big Chill (1983), Petro Almodóvar's Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988), Joel Coen's Miller's Crossing (1990), Robert Altman's Short Cuts (1993), Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction (1994), Lars von Trier's Dancer In the Dark (2000), Stephen Frears's The Queen (2006), Alain Resnais's Wild Grass (2009) and last year's selection, Captain Phillips by Paul Greengrass (a full list of NYFFopeners can be found below).

NYFF previously announced the retrospective, Joseph L. Mankiewicz: The Essential Iconoclast, to take place during this year's festival, as well as initial selections in the Revivals section of the festival to include Burroughs: The Movie, The Color of Pomegranates, Hiroshima Mon Amour, and Once Upon a Time in America.

The 17-day New York Film Festival takes place September 26 - October 12. FilmLinc will have a full interview with Gone Girl author Gillian Flynn soon.

Tickets for the 52nd New York Film Festival will go on sale to the general public at noon on Sunday, September 7. Becoming a Film Society member before July 31 provides access to a pre-sale period for single tickets to festival screenings and events ahead of the general public on-sale date.

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