The New York Film Festival opens with the industry in limbo

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A lack of actors was conspicuous at the New York Film Festival’s kickoff screening of “May December.”

Style is where The Washington Post covers happenings on the front lines of culture and what it all means, including the arts, media, social trends, politics and yes, fashion, all told with personality and deep reporting. For more Style stories,Guests followed a maze of white weatherproof tents from the restaurant to a courtyard that backs directly onto the 843-acre park. DJs oontz-oontzed from their booths.

Still, something felt a little off. A little melancholy. While thousands of movie and TV writers are celebratingthat crippled Hollywood, the industry’s actors remain on strike, prohibited from promoting their projects, and therefore conspicuously absent from the festival. Last year, Greta Gerwig, Adam Driver, Don Cheadle, Lars Eidinger and Jodie Turner-Smith were on hand for the festival’s first day, talking up their roles in Noah Baumbach’s “White Noise.”By contrast, the audience at the Lincoln Center on Friday applauded screenwriter Samy Burch, who was able to make her first promotional appearance for “May December” now that the writers strike has ended.

 

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