The 23rd Newport Seaside Movie Pageant (NBFF), October 13-20, 2022, celebrates impartial and worldwide movie for each curiosity. It’s the place movie fanatics and pageant attendees can get pleasure from the most effective of Newport Seaside, California’s culinary and beverage connoisseurs, at private and non-private events whereas having fun with among the greatest impartial movies accessible on-screen and in-person from stateside and overseas for 2022.
The vary of movie and movie topics, together with motion sports activities, artwork, structure, design, meals, atmosphere, household, music, and LGBTQ+ in brief, documentary, and narrative codecs, are rigorously curated to incorporate a global choice of topics and tales. Filmmakers are sometimes in attendance with their work and encourage interplay with filmgoers. As a celebrated and anticipated coastal Orange County, California, fall occasion, NBFF takes the movie pageant expertise to a different stage and gives a movie and occasion for everybody’s discerning tastes, from structure and browsing to culinary delicacies and brave impartial movies typically solely accessible at a pageant like NBFF.
The 2022 NBFF will display greater than 300 standout movies from over 50 completely different nations, and this yr, the pageant is overflowing with worldwide programming and plenty of rising stars. NBFF opens with the biopic Bizarre: The Al Yankovic Story and can shut with the second of the Knives Out collection, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Thriller.
Under is a sampling of movies highlighting the number of individuals, concepts, and storytelling that NBFF packages to enchantment to its broad viewers of pageant attendees who’re searching for centered filmmaking on topics and issues that make the pageant a celebrated occasion on the seashore together with delectable California delicacies and crafted cocktails together with non-alcoholic.
Bizarre: The Al Yankovic Story
Opening the 2022 NBFF, Bizarre: The Al Yankovic Story stars Daniel Radcliffe as “Bizarre” Al Yankovic within the unexaggerated true story about probably the most excellent musician of our time. From a traditional upbringing the place taking part in the accordion was a sin, Al rebelled and made his dream of adjusting the phrases to world-renowned songs come true. An instantaneous success and intercourse image, who doesn’t love an outsider? Al lives an extreme way of life and pursues an notorious romance that just about destroys him. The movie, directed by Eric Appel, additionally stars Evan Rachel Wooden, Julianne Nicholson, ‘Bizarre Al Yankovic, Rainn Wilson, Quinta Brunson, Spencer Deal with Clark, Will Forte, and Toby Huss.
October 13, 7:30 p.m. at Massive Newport
Corsage
In NBFF’s Centerpiece Collection, a group of worldwide movies with celebrated and award-winning actors and actresses, together with Corsage, a fictional account of the later years of Empress Elizabeth of Austria, Sisi (Vicky Krieps), as soon as idolized for her magnificence and famend for uplifting trend developments. ‘Sisi’ celebrates her fortieth birthday on Christmas Eve in 1877 and should battle to keep up her public picture, even when it means taking drastic measures. Whereas Elizabeth’s position has been decreased in opposition to her needs to be purely performative, her starvation for data and zest for all times makes her stressed. Directed by Marie Kreutzer and starring Vicky Krieps, Florian Teichtmeister, Katharina Lorenz, and Colin Morgan, Corsage is a interval piece that displays an excellent many Twenty first-century points.
October 14, 7:15 p.m. at The Lot 4
Pricey Zoe
NBFF’s options embody a number of impartial movies that may be a focus for many. Pricey Zoe, a dramatic film, tells the story of when Tess (Sadie Sink) and her household undergo an unimaginable loss. Tess finds help from a shocking supply—her organic father, a lovable slacker from the unsuitable aspect of the tracks, and the charming however harmful juvenile delinquent subsequent door. A Q&A will happen after the screening with the forged and crew. Directed by Gren Wells, Pricey Zoe options Sadie Sink, Theo Rossi, Kweku Collins, Vivien Lyra Blair, Justin Bartha, and Jessica Capshaw.
October 16, 5 p.m. at The Lot 3
October 19, 5:15 p.m. at Massive Newport 6
Love & Arithmetic
Highlight movies on the 2022 NBFFs embody a movie from Mexico, Love & Arithmetic. After his time within the widespread boy band Equinoccio, Billy Lozano resides a tedious life as a married man, in his late thirties, within the suburbs. Annoyed along with his way of life, he lives with all the required pseudo-comforts in the home of his desires however seems like the most important loser since his final entrepreneurship failed as soon as once more. He has no different occupation however to care for his son and spouse’s canine. Sooner or later he meets Monica, an ex-fan of the music group, who strikes into the home in entrance of them, and encourages him to renew his inventive profession. Their lives won’t ever be the identical, or will they? Directed by Claudia Sainte-Luce, Love & Arithmetic stars Diana Bovio, Roberto Quijano, Homero Guerra, and Jessica Mendiolea.
October 17, 7:30 p.m. at Triangle 3
Who Are the Marcuses?
Featured in NBFF’s environmental movie part is Who Are the Marcuses? a documentary movie reflecting as we speak’s want for philanthropy to alter the world. Directed by Matthew Mishory, Who Are the Marcuses? tells the story of Howard and Lottie Marcus, a Jewish couple from Lengthy Island who have been additionally savvy buyers, and re-imagines battle decision within the Center East and peace by means of the Earth’s most treasured useful resource: water. Mishory interviews a number of Israeli dignitaries together with Warren Buffet. Mishory will attend the screening and a Q&A after the movie. Directed by Matthew Mishory, Who Are the Marcuses? consists of Yitzhak Herzog, Warren Buffett, E. Randol Schoenberg, Ellen Marcus, Daniel Chamovitz, Nadav Boms, Daniel Gordis, Seth Siegel, Micah Goodman, and Kevin Ehrhart.
October 18 & 19, 7:30 p.m. at The Lot 3
Love, Charlie: The Rise and Fall of Chef Charlie Trotter
Featured in NBFF’s culinary movies is Love, Charlie: The Rise and Fall of Chef Charlie Trotter. Within the 2000s, Chef Charlie Trotter was the toast of Chicago, his eponymous restaurant one of many world’s high fine-dining locations. A culinary bad-boy, Trotter paved the way in which for the likes of Anthony Bourdain and Gordon Ramsay, but his tempestuous, aggressive nature alienated many. This absorbing, unvarnished profile chronicles the passions of a grasp chef and the implications of pursuing perfection in any respect prices. Directed by Rebecca Halpern, Love, Charlie: The Rise and Fall of Chef Charlie Trotter options Grant Achatz, Wolfgang Puck, Emeril Lagasse, and Carrie Nahabedian.
October 14, 5:15 p.m. at Massive Newport 5
Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues
In NBFF’s music part, 2022 options the documentary Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues. An intimate and revealing take a look at the world-changing musician introduced by means of a lens of archival footage and never-before-heard house recordings and private conversations. This definitive documentary honors Armstrong’s legacy as a founding father of jazz, one of many first internationally recognized and beloved stars, and a cultural ambassador of the USA. Directed by Sacha Jenkins, Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues options Louis Armstrong, Nas, and Wynton Marsalis, with music composed by Terence Blanchard.
October 20, 7 p.m. at Triangle 3
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Thriller
The closing movie, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Thriller, continues the escapades of famed Southern detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig), who travels to Greece for his newest case—directed by Rian Johnson, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Thriller stars Daniel Craig, Edward Norton, Ethan Hawke, Kate Hudson, and Kathryn Hahn.
October 20, 7:45 p.m. at The New Port Theater
Newport Seaside Movie Pageant
When: Thursday, October 13 – Thursday, October 20
The place: Newport Seaside, California
Data: Schedule, tickets, pageant passes, and well being and security protocols can be found at newportbeachfilmfest.com.