The Film Society of Lincoln Center announced the full New York Film Festival lineup today. Clint Eastwood's period drama, The Changeling, starring Angelina Jolie, is the Centerpiece film and closing night is Darren Aronofsky's The Wrestler (the Film Society's Kent Jones says Mickey Rourke gives "a performance of a lifetime" as a retired boxer performing for wrestling fans in NJ). The previously announced opening night film is Palme d'Or-winner The Class, Laurent Cantet's high school classroom drama. Other films include Steven Soderbergh's four-hour Che starring Benicio Del Toro, Mike Leigh's Happy-Go-Lucky, Ari Folman's animated Waltz with Bashir, Wong Kar Wai's Ashes of Time Redux, and Arnaud Desplechin's A Christmas Tale. Also, Max Opul's Lola Montes will be screened. Indiewire have brief descriptions of films here; tickets start to go on sale September 7.
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