September 28, 2006 -- WONDERING where the prestige films have been hiding all year? The industry's been storing them for this moment: the New York Film Festival at Lincoln Center. Last year, it was New York's first chance to see "Good Night, and Good Luck," "Capote" and "The Squid and the Whale," which hauled in a combined 12 Oscar nominations and one win.
After Helen Mirren and director Stephen Frears present tomorrow's opener, "The Queen," actors and filmmakers including Sofia Coppola, Kate Winslet, Kirsten Dunst, Warren Beatty, Pedro Almodóvar and David Lynch will appear to introduce their films and take questions from the audience.
Tickets to most of the 28 films shown at this year's 17-day festival are sold out, but a few last-minute rush tickets will be available at the box offices of the Walter Reade Theater and Alice Tully Hall before each show. (Check filmlinc.com for all showtimes.)
Two major Hollywood productions make their U.S. debuts at the otherwise indie-centered fest. "Little Children," with Winslet and Patrick Wilson as suburban parents who tumble into an adulterous affair, is a solemn, chiaroscuro take on Tom Perrotta's best-selling 2004 comic novel. Look for Winslet to score her fifth Oscar nomination.
Coppola brings in her third film, "Marie Antoinette." The irreverent MTV-styled follow-up to "Lost in Translation" was booed at the Cannes Film Festival for using '80s pop-punk songs like "I Want Candy" to illustrate an otherwise fairly accurate retelling of the story of the doomed queen of France.
The Oct. 7-8 Centerpiece film features one of Mirren's likely rivals for Best Actress, Penelope Cruz in "Volver," who will be on hand to discuss Almodóvar's supernatural murder tale about three generations of women.
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