After the Hunt star Julia Roberts has won an Oscar and opened movies that have made billions at the box office.

Yet Friday night’s premiere of the film on opening night of the New York Film Festival , she said, was a top-shelf highlight of her life and career.

“I moved to New York when I was 17 years old, and I’m 57, and this is Top 3 great achievements of my New York life,” she told the crowd at Alice Tully Hall.

Director Luca Guadagnino raved about the filmgoers at NYFF, calling them “the best audience at festivals in the world.” He recalled being an up-and-comer and meeting filmmakers “that I shall not name” who were telling the younger Guadagnino that “cinema is dead. And I was like, ‘Why?'” The New York fest, he continued, “celebrates cinema in a way that makes us know that

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