{"id":72631,"date":"2015-07-22T13:55:31","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T13:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/0de2709a84.nxcli.net\/0-kjasnb\/2015\/07\/22\/don-cheadles-miles-ahead-to-premiere-and-close-out-53rd-new-york-film-festival\/"},"modified":"2018-12-18T03:42:39","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T03:42:39","slug":"don-cheadles-miles-ahead-to-premiere-and-close-out-53rd-new-york-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/don-cheadles-miles-ahead-to-premiere-and-close-out-53rd-new-york-film-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Don Cheadle’s Miles Ahead To Premiere And Close Out 53rd New York Film Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

Don Cheadle’s Miles Ahead To Close Out 53rd New York Film Festival <\/strong>Posted by Wilson Morales<\/p>\n

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The Film Society of Lincoln Center announced today that Don Cheadle\u2019s <\/strong>directorial debut Miles Ahead <\/strong>will make its World Premiere as the Closing Night selection of the upcoming 53rd New York Film Festival<\/strong> (September 25 \u2013 October 11). Cheadle, who co-wrote the script, stars as the legendary musician opposite Emayatzy Corinealdi <\/strong>and Ewan McGregor<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

New York Film Festival Director and Selection Committee Chair Kent Jones said: \u201cI admire Don\u2019s film because of all the intelligent decisions he\u2019s made about how to deal with Miles, but I was moved\u2014deeply moved\u2014by Miles Ahead for other reasons. Don knows, as an actor, a writer, a director, and a lover of Miles\u2019 music, that intelligent decisions and well-planned strategies only get you so far, that finally it\u2019s your own commitment and attention to every moment and every detail that brings a movie to life. \u2018There is no longer much else but ourselves, in the place given us,\u2019 wrote the poet Robert Creeley. \u2018To make that present, and actual \u2026 is not an embarrassment, but love.\u2019 That\u2019s the core of art. Miles Davis knew it, and Don Cheadle knows it.\u201d
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Don Cheadle added: \u201cI am happy that the selection committee saw fit to invite us to the dance. It\u2019s very gratifying that all the hard work that went into the making of this film, from every person on the team, has brought us here. Miles\u2019 music is all-encompassing, forward-leaning, and expansive. He changed the game time after time, and New York is really where it all took off for him. Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center… feels very \u2018right place, right time.\u2019 Very exciting.\u201d
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Miles Davis was one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. And how do you make a movie about him? You get to know the man inside and out and then you reveal him in full, which is exactly what Don Cheadle does as a director, a writer, and an actor with this remarkable portrait of Davis, refracted through his crazy days in the late-70s. Holed up in his Manhattan apartment, wracked with pain from a variety of ailments and fiending for the next check from his record company, dodging sycophants and industry executives, he is haunted by memories of old glories and humiliations and of his years with his great love Frances Taylor (Emayatzy Corinealdi). Every second of Cheadle\u2019s cinematic mosaic is passionately engaged with its subject: this is, truly, one of the finest films ever made about the life of an artist. With Ewan McGregor as Dave Brill, the \u201creporter\u201d who cons his way into Miles\u2019 apartment. The film was produced by Don Cheadle, Pamela Hirsch, Lenore Zerman. Along with Daniel Wagner, Robert Barnum, Vince Willburn<\/strong> and Daryl Porter<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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The 17-day New York Film Festival highlights the best in world cinema, featuring top films from celebrated filmmakers as well as fresh new talent. The selection committee, chaired by Jones, also includes Dennis Lim, FSLC Director of Programming; Marian Masone, FSLC Senior Programming Advisor; Gavin Smith, Editor-in-Chief, Film Comment; and Amy Taubin, Contributing Editor, Film Comment and Sight & Sound.<\/p>\n

NYFF previously announced Robert Zemeckis\u2019s The Walk <\/strong>as the Opening Night selection and Luminous Intimacy: The Cinema of Nathaniel Dorsky and Jerome Hiler, the first-ever complete dual retrospective of the experimental filmmakers.<\/p>\n

Tickets for the 53rd New York Film Festival will go on sale in early September. Becoming a Film Society Member at the Film Buff Level or above provides early ticket access to festival screenings and events ahead of the general public, along with the exclusive member ticket discount! To find out how to become a Film Society member, visit filmlinc.com\/membership.<\/p>\n

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