For starters, the fall slate includes three instances of top shelf directors paired with virtuoso casts
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The leaves are about to change and the movies — which have already been quite good this year — are about to get stellar. Coming this fall to a movie theater — or streaming site — near you are films from the best veteran directors in the biz, as well as exciting new projects from young talents. Precocious six-year-old Floridians, a shrunken Matt Damon, the mid-20 th century London fashion world: it’s all happening. It’s never too early to fantasize about the fall movie slate, so here, in the middle of August, is our Fall Movie Preview, in which we pick the ten films we are most looking forward to.
1. “Mother!” (September 15)
Name a living director better at putting audiences at the edge of their seats and keeping them there than Darren Aronofsky. His best films have an unparalleled intensity running through them. “Mother!”, which stars Jennifer Lawrence, Javier Bardem and Ed Harris, is a film I can’ t wait to want-to-but-not-want to look away from.
2. “Woodshock” (September 22)
Two fashion designers, the sisters Kate and Laura Mulleavy, team up for a Kirsten Dunst pic about a girl who takes a drug and suffers from intense paranoia. It is sure to be visually sumptuous, if nothing else.
3. “The Florida Project” (October 6)
Remember the guy who made a film about Los Angeles transgender sex workers on his iPhone? He’s back and headed to Florida. And this time he’s focusing his camera on a group of ragtag six-year-olds who spend their summer doing things like begging strangers for ice cream money.
4. “Blade Runner 2049″ (October 6)
With Denis Villeneuve at the head, the new “Blade Runner” is what you want to see from a sequel or a remake: a franchise brand being used as cover for an ambitious artist to make a giant, no-cost-barred piece of cinema.
5. “The Killing of a Sacred Deer” (November 3)
Yorgos Lanthimos, who you probably know as the director of “The Lobster, ” makes exquisitely odd films. This one, which also stars Colin Farrell, is about a boy’s attempts to hook his mom up with a brilliant surgeon. Also, the boy (Barry Keoghan) asks the surgeon (Farrell) to show him his chest hair. Which he does.
