The Oscar winner is riding high from the biopic garnering strong reviews as well as earning standing ovations at film festivals

Angelina Jolie and three of her children lit up the New York Film Festival’s red carpet over the weekend. Jolie, 49, was joined by her children, Pax, 20, Zahara, 19, and Maddox, 23, as she attended the festival’s premiere of her film Maria on Sunday.

The festival, which runs through Oct. 14, features new films starring Adrien Brody, Daniel Craig, Tilda Swinton, Julianne Moore, Saoirse Ronan, Naomi Watts and Bill Murray.

Like many of the fall film festivals, New York Film Festival had to mount its 2023 edition during the actors strike and without major stars like Emma Stone (“Poor Things”), Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore (“May December”) or Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal (“All of Us Strangers”) in attendance to promote their movies.

Sixty years ago, the organizers of the first New York Film Festival held their breath as what was then seen as a bold experiment began. Then, just as it is now, the location was Lincoln Center. The world of film and our city has changed a lot since 1963,