The New York film festival has announced its line-up - and is likely to be the launch-pad for many films' Oscar campaigns.
The festival opens on 27 September with the North American première of Alexander Payne's About Schmidt, for which actor Jack Nicholson has already been tipped for an Oscar nomination, according to Screen Daily.

The centrepiece of this, the 40th festival is Paul Thomas Anderson's Punch-Drunk Love, which earned Anderson the best director prize at this year's Cannes Film Festival.

There are no world premières, but many US premières for some of the most highly-regarded films from this year's international festivals.

The event closes with Talk To Her, the latest film from Spanish director Pedro Almodovar, on 13 October.

Many of the films will be drawn from contenders at the Cannes Film Festival, among them Aki Kaurismäki's Grand Jury Prize-winner The Man Without A Past, and Marco Bellocchio's My Mother's Smile.

There are also several highlights from this year's Berlin Film Festival, including Paul Greengrass' Golden Bear-winner Bloody Sunday, about the British Army's shootings at a Londonderry demonstration in 1972.

Source: Press Release