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New York cinephiles, cancel your plans through December. Film at Lincoln Center has unveiled its fall and winter lineup, and the calendar is stacked with festival winners, returning auteurs, a controversial restoration and one very large radioactive reptile.
The season begins with the 64th New York Film Festival, running September 25 through October 12. Among its biggest attractions is the world premiere of Godzilla Minus Zero, director Takashi Yamazaki’s follow-up to the Oscar-winning Godzilla Minus One. Set in 1949, the sequel reunites audiences with the Shikishima family as they encounter yet another city-flattening calamity. It screens September 26, 27 and 30, with Yamazaki and cast members scheduled to attend the first two showings.
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Once the festival ends, four Cannes honorees will settle in for theatrical runs: Paweł Pawlikowski’s Fatherland, which earned him Cannes’ Best Director prize, opens October 23. The postwar drama follows novelist Thomas Mann and his daughter Erika, played by Hanns Zischler and Sandra Hüller, on a fictionalized 1949 road trip through a devastated Germany.
Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Cannes Grand Prix winner Minotaur arrives November 20, following a Russian transport executive ordered to send some of his employees to the war in Ukraine. Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s 196-minute All of a Sudden (whose stars Virginie Efira and Tao Okamoto shared Cannes’ Best Actress prize) opens November 25 after sneak previews on November 18 and 19.
Finally, Marine Atlan’s feature debut La Gradiva, winner of the Grand Prize at Cannes Critics’ Week, opens December 18. It follows a group of French teenagers whose school trip to Naples becomes considerably more than an average museum excursion.
Elsewhere, Ken Russell’s scandalous 1971 film The Devils returns October 16 in a newly restored 35mm director’s cut incorporating previously censored footage. That same day brings Once Upon a Time in Harlem, William Greaves’ long-unseen chronicle of a 1972 gathering of Harlem Renaissance luminaries, completed after his death by his son David.
The lineup also includes Lee Chang-dong’s Possible Love on October 23 and Pedro Almodóvar’s meta-cinematic Bitter Christmas on November 13. The year wraps up on December 10 with Film Comment Live: Best of 2026, featuring a real-time countdown of the magazine’s critics’ poll—and, presumably, some extremely civilized arguing.