Naomi Watts attended New York Film Festival with her canine co-star from "The Friend" but told attendees that Bill Murray was busy playing golf.

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,