New York Film Festival

The New York Film Festival has been a major film festival since it began in 1963 in New York. The films are selected by the Film Society of Lincoln Center. The non-competitive festival, sometimes abbreviated as NYFF, was established by Amos Vogel and Richard Roud.

Films at the first NYFF (1963):

• Opening Night: The Exterminating Angel (Luis Buñuel, Mexico)
• All the Way Home (Alex Segal, USA)
• An Autumn Afternoon (Yasujiro Ozu, Japan)
• Barravento (Glauber Rocha, Brazil)
• Elektra (Takis Mouzenidis, Greece)
• The Fiances (Ermanno Olmi, Italy)
• Hallelujah the Hills (Adolfas Mekas, USA)
• Harakiri (Masaki Kobayashi, Japan)
• Knife in the Water (Roman Polanski, Poland)
• Le Joli Mai (Chris Marker, France)
• Love in the Suburbs (Tamas Fejer, Hungary)
• Magnet of Doom (Jean-Pierre Melville, France/Italy)
• Muriel (Alain Resnais, France/Italy)
• RoGoPaG (Roberto Rossellini/Ugo Gregoretti/Jean-Luc Godard/Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italy/France)
• The Sea (Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, Italy)
• The Servant (Joseph Losey, UK)
• Glory Sky (Takis Kanellopoulos, Greece)
• Sweet and Sour (Jacques Baratier, France/Italy)
• The Terrace (Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, Argentina)
• The Trial of Joan of Arc (Robert Bresson, France)^[1]

Films at the second NYFF (1964):

• Opening Night: Hamlet (Grigori Kozintsev, USSR)
• Alf, Bill and Fred (Bob Godfrey, UK) [short]
• Allo, Allo (Ion Popescu-Gopo, Rumania) [short]
• Alone on the Pacific (My Enemy, the Sea) (Kon Ichikawa, Japan)
• Bahing (Jean-Charles Meunier, France) [short]
• Band of Outsiders (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
• Before the Revolution (Bernardo Bertolucci, Italy)
• Breathing (Robert Breer, USA) [short]
• The Brig (Jonas & Adolfas Mekas, USA)
• Ca Ira (Tinto Brass, Italy)
• Canon (Norman McLaren, Canada) [short]
• Conflagration (Kon Ichikawa, Japan, 1959)
• Corps Profond (Igor Barrere & Etienne Lalou, France) [short]
• Cow at the Border (Dragutin Vunak, Yugoslavia) [short]
• Cyrano et d'Artagnan (Abel Gance, France/Italy/Spain)
• Diary of a Chambermaid (Luis Bunuel, France)
• Fail Safe (Sidney Lumet, USA)
• Francis Bacon (David Thompson, UK) [short]
• The Great City (Satyajit Ray, India)
• Hands Over the City (Francesco Rosi, Italy)
• The Inheritance (Ricardo Alventosa, Argentina)
• Insects (Teru Murakami, UK) [short]
• Inside Out (Alain Jessua, France)
• Interview With Bruce Gordon (Harold Becker, USA) [short]
• Joseph Kilian (Pavel Juracek & Jan Schmidt, Czechoslovakia) [short]
• King and Country (Joseph Losey, UK)
• L'Adage (Dominique Delouche, France) [short]
• L'Age d'Or (Luis Bunuel, France, 1930)
• The Last Clean Shirt (Alfred Leslie, USA) [short]
• Le Poulet (Claude Berri, France) [short]
• Lilith (Robert Rossen, USA)
• Love (Yoji Kuri, Japan) [short]
• Mammals (Roman Polanski, Poland) [short]
• Nobody Waved Good-Bye (Don Owen, Canada)
• Nothing but a Man (Michael Roemer, USA)
• One, Two, Three (Gyula Macskassy, Hungary) [short]
• Passenger (Andrzej Munk, Poland)
• The Peaches (Michael Gill, UK) [short]
• Red Type (Albert Noble, UK) [short]
• Renaissance (Walerian Borowcyk, France) [short]
• Salvatore Giuliano (Francesco Rosi, Italy)
• She and He (Susumu Hani, Japan)
• Snow (Geoffrey Jones, UK) [short]
• The Taira Clan (Kenji Mizoguchi, Japan, 1955)
• To Love (Jorn Donner, Sweden)
• Trope (Barry H. Prince, USA) [short]
• Valparaiso (Joris Ivens, France/Chile)
• Woman in the Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara, Japan)
• A Woman is a Woman (Jean-Luc Godard, France/Italy, 1961)^[1]

Films at the 3rd New York Film Festival (1965)

• Opening Night: Alphaville (Jean-Luc Godard, France)

Films at the 4th New York Film Festival (1966)

• Opening Night: Loves of a Blonde (Milos Forman, Czechoslovakia)

Films at the 5th New York Film Festival (1967)

• Opening Night: The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo, Italy/Algeria)

Films at the 6th New York Film Festival (1968)

• Opening Night: Capricious Summer (Jiri Menzel, Czechoslovakia)

Films at the 7th New York Film Festival (1969)

• Opening Night: Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (Paul Mazursky, US)

Films at the 8th New York Film Festival (1970)

• Opening Night: The Wild Child (François Truffaut, France)

Films at the 9th New York Film Festival (1971)

• Opening Night: The Debut (Gleb Panfilov, Soviet Union)

Films at the 10th New York Film Festival (1972)

• Opening Night: Chloe in the Afternoon (Eric Rohmer, France)

Films at the 11th New York Film Festival (1973)

• Opening Night: Day for Night (François Truffaut, France)

Films at the 12th New York Film Festival (1974)

• Opening Night: Don't Cry With Your Mouth Full (Pascal Thomas, France)

Films at the 13th New York Film Festival (1975)

• Opening Night: Conversation Piece (Luchino Visconti, Italy)

Films at the 14th New York Film Festival (1976)

• Opening Night: Small Change (François Truffaut, France)

Films at the 15th New York Film Festival (1977)

• Opening Night: One Sings, The Other Doesn't (Agnès Varda, France)

Films at the 16th New York Film Festival (1978)

• Opening Night: A Wedding (Robert Altman, US)

Films at the 17th New York Film Festival (1979)

• Opening Night: Luna (Bernardo Bertolucci, Italy/US)

Films at the 18th New York Film Festival (1980)

• Opening Night: Melvin and Howard (Jonathan Demme, US)

Films at the 19th New York Film Festival (1981)

• Opening Night: Chariots of Fire (Hugh Hudson, UK)

Films at the 20th New York Film Festival (1982)

• Opening Night: Veronika Voss (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany)

Films at the 21st New York Film Festival (1983)

• Opening Night: The Big Chill (Lawrence Kasdan, US)

Films at the 22nd New York Film Festival (1984)

• Opening Night: Country (Richard Pearce, US)

Films at the 23rd New York Film Festival (1985)

• Opening Night: Ran (Akira Kurosawa, Japan)

Films at the 24th New York Film Festival (1986)

• Opening Night: Down By Law (Jim Jarmusch, US)

Films at the 25th New York Film Festival (1987)

• Opening Night: Dark Eyes (Nikita Mikhalkov, Soviet Union)

Films at the 26th New York Film Festival (1988)

• Opening Night: Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Pedro Almodóvar, Spain)

Films at the 27th New York Film Festival (1989)

• Opening Night: Too Beautiful For You (Bertrand Blier, France)

Films at the 28th New York Film Festival (1990)

• Opening Night: Miller's Crossing (Joel Coen, US)

Films at the 29th New York Film Festival (1991)

• Opening Night: The Double Life of Veronique (Krysztof Kieslowski, Poland/France)

Films at the 30th New York Film Festival (1992)

• Opening Night: Olivier Olivier (Agnieszka Holland, France)

Films at the 31st New York Film Festival (1993)

• Opening Night: Short Cuts (Robert Altman, US)

Films at the 32nd New York Film Festival (1994)

• Opening Night: Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, US)

Films at the 33rd New York Film Festival (1995)

• Opening Night: Shanghai Triad (Zhang Yimou, China)

Films at the 34th New York Film Festival (1996)

• Opening Night: Secrets & Lies (Mike Leigh, UK)

Films at the 35th New York Film Festival (1997)

• Opening Night: The Ice Storm (Ang Lee, US)

Films at the 36th New York Film Festival (1998)

• Opening Night: Celebrity (Woody Allen, US)

Films at the 37th New York Film Festival (1999)

• Opening Night: All About My Mother (Pedro Almodóvar, Spain)

Films at the 38th New York Film Festival (2000)

• Opening Night: Dancer in the Dark (Lars von Trier, Denmark)

• Before Night Falls (Julian Schnabel, US)
• Boesman and Lena (John Berry, US)
• Chunhyang (Im Kwon Taek, South Korea)
• Circle (Jafar Panahi, Iran)
• Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee, Taiwan)
• Eureka (Shinji Aoyama, Japan)
• Faithless (Liv Ullman, Sweden)
• George Washington (David Gordon Green, US)
• The Gleaners & I (Agnès Varda, France)
• The House of Mirth (Terence Davies, UK)
• In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-Wai, Hong Kong)
• Kippur (Amos Gitai, Israel)
• Pollock (Ed Harris, US)
• Platform (Jia Zhang-Ke, China)
• Smell of Camphor, Fragrance of Jasmine (Bahman Farmanara, Iran)
• Taboo (Nagisa Oshima, Japan)
• The Taste of Others (Agnès Jaoui, France)
• Yi Yi (Edward Yang, Taiwan)

Films at the 39th New York Film Festival (2001)

• Opening Night: Va Savoir (Jacques Rivette, France)

Films at the 40th New York Film Festival (2002)

• Opening Night: About Schmidt (Alexander Payne, US)

Films at the 41th New York Film Festival (2003)

• Opening Night: Mystic River (Clint Eastwood, US)

Films at the 42th New York Film Festival (2004)

• Opening Night: Look At Me (Agnès Jaoui, France)

Films at the 43th New York Film Festival (2005)

• Opening Night: Good Night, and Good Luck. (George Clooney, US)

Films at the 44th New York Film Festival (2006)

• Opening Night: The Queen (Stephen Frears, UK)

Films at the 45th New York Film Festival (2007)

• Opening Night: The Darjeeling Limited (Wes Anderson, US)

Films at the 46th New York Film Festival (2008)

• Opening Night: The Class (Laurent Cantet, France)

Films at the 47th New York Film Festival (2009)

• Opening Night: Wild Grass (Alain Resnais, France)

Films at the 48th New York Film Festival (2010)

• Opening Night: The Social Network (David Fincher, US)
• Centerpiece: The Tempest (Julie Taymor, US)
• Closing Night: Hereafter (Clint Eastwood, US)
• Another Year (Mike Leigh, UK)
• Aurora (Cristi Puiu, Romania)
• Black Venus (Abdellatif Kechiche, France)
• Carlos (Olivier Assayas, France)
• Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami, Iran/France/Italy)
• Film Socialisme (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
• Inside Job (Charles Ferguson, US)
• Le Quattro Volte (Michelangelo Frammartino, Italy)
• Lennon NYC (Michael Epstein, US)
• Meek's Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt, US)
• My Joy (Sergei Loznitsa, Ukraine)
• Mysteries of Lisbon (Raul Ruiz, Portugal)
• Of Gods and Men (Xavier Beauvois, France)
• Oki's Movie (Hong Sang-Soo, South Korea)
• Old Cats (Sebastian Silva, Chile)
• Poetry (Lee Chang-Dong, South Korea)
• Post Mortem (Pablo Larrain, Chile)
• Revolución (Various Directors, Mexico)
• The Robber (Benjamin Heisenberg, Germany)
• Robinson in Ruins (Patrick Keiller, UK)
• Silent Souls (Alexei Fedorchenko, Russia)
• The Strange Case of Angelica (Manoel de Oliveira, Portugal)
• Tuesday After Christmas (Radu Muntean, Romania)
• Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apitchatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand)
• We Are What We Are (Jorge Michel Grau, Mexico)

Films at the 49th New York Film Festival (2011)

• Opening Night: Carnage (Roman Polanski, France/Poland)
• Centerpiece: My Week with Marilyn (Simon Curtis, UK)
• Closing Night: The Descendants (Alexander Payne, US)
• Gala Screening: The Skin I Live In (Pedro Almodóvar, Spain)
• Gala Screening: A Dangerous Method (David Cronenberg, Canada/UK/Germany)
• 4:44 Last Day on Earth (Abel Ferrara, US)
• A Separation (Asghar Farhadi, Iran)
• Corpo Celeste (Alice Rohrwacher, Italy/Switzerland/France)
• Footnote (Joseph Cedar, Israel)
• George Harrison: Living in the Material World (Martin Scorsese, US)
• Goodbye First Love (Mia Hansen-Løve, France)
• Le Havre (Aki Kaurismäki, Finland/France)
• Martha Marcy May Marlene (Sean Durkin, US)
• Melancholia (Lars von Trier, Denmark)
• Miss Bala (Gerardo Naranjo, Mexico)
• Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Turkey)
• Pina (Wim Wenders, Germany)
• Play (Ruben Östlund, Sweden)
• Policeman (Nadav Lapid, Israel)
• Shame (Steve McQueen, UK)
• Sleeping Sickness (Ulrich Köhler, Germany)
• The Artist (Michel Hazanavicius, France)
• The Kid with the Bike (Jean-Luc and Pierre Dardenne, Belgium/France)
• The Loneliest Planet (Julia Loktev, US)
• The Student (Santiago Mitre, Argentina)
• The Turin Horse (Béla Tarr and Agnes Hranitzky, Hungary)
• This Is Not a Film (Jafar Panahi and Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, Iran)

The present director is Richard Peña, who is also the chairman of the Selection Committee which includes critics Dennis Lim, Melissa Anderson, Scott Foundas of L.A. Weekly, and J. Hoberman of The Village Voice.

The festival is also known for its several sidebars, programs running concurrently with the main festival. The annual "Views from the Avant-Garde", a showcase of non-narrative experimental films, has been running since 1997.

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Listology

External links

• New York Film Festival official website
• New York Film Festival collected news and commentary at The New York Times