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The New York Film Festival has been a major film festival since it began in 1963 in New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...

. The films are selected by the Film Society of Lincoln Center
Film Society of Lincoln Center
The Film Society of Lincoln Center based in New York City, United States, is one of the world's most prominent film presentation organizations. Founded in 1969 by three Lincoln Center executives - William F. May, Martin E. Segal and Schuyler G...

. The non-competitive festival, sometimes abbreviated as NYFF, was established by Amos Vogel
Amos Vogel
Amos Vogel was one of the most influential cineasts in New York. He is best known for his bestselling book Film as a Subversive Art and as the founder of the New York City avantgarde ciné-club Cinema 16 , where he was the first programmer to present films by Roman Polanski, John Cassavetes,...

 and Richard Roud
Richard Roud
Richard Roud was an American writer on film and co-founder, with Amos Vogel, and a former program director and latterly director of the New York Film Festival from 1963 to 1987....

.

Films at the first NYFF (1963):
  • Opening Night: The Exterminating Angel (Luis Buñuel, Mexico)
  • All the Way Home
    All the Way Home (film)
    All the Way Home is a 1963 drama film about a young boy and his mother dealing with the sudden death of his father. It stars Jean Simmons, Robert Preston, and Pat Hingle, with the boy being portrayed by Michael Kearney...

    (Alex Segal
    Alex Segal
    Alex Segal was an American television director, television producer and film director.He directed mostly on television making over 25 productions between his debut as a director on Starring Boris Karloff in 1949 and his death.He directed a few films including Joy in the Morning in 1965.He received...

    , USA)
  • An Autumn Afternoon
    An Autumn Afternoon
    is a 1962 Japanese drama film directed by Yasujirō Ozu. It stars Ozu regular Chishu Ryu as the patriarch of the Hirayama family who oversees the wedding of his daughter, played by Shima Iwashita. It was Ozu's last film; he died in the following year...

    (Yasujiro Ozu
    Yasujiro Ozu
    was a prominent Japanese film director and script writer. He is known for his distinctive technical style, developed during the silent era. Marriage and family, especially the relationships between the generations, are among the most persistent themes in his body of work...

    , Japan)
  • Barravento (Glauber Rocha, Brazil)
  • Elektra
    Elektra (1962 film)
    Electra is a 1962 Greek film based on the play, Electra, written by Euripides. It was directed by Michael Cacoyannis, as the first installement of his "Greek tragedy" trilogy, followed by The Trojan Women in 1971 and Iphigenia in 1977...

    (Takis Mouzenidis, Greece)
  • The Fiances (Ermanno Olmi
    Ermanno Olmi
    Ermanno Olmi is a renowned Italian film director.-Biography:Olmi was born in Bergamo, Lombardy. He is married to Loredana Detto, who played Antonietta Masetti in Il Posto....

    , Italy)
  • Hallelujah the Hills
    Hallelujah the Hills
    Hallelujah the Hills is an independent rock band from Boston, Massachusetts. Their current line-up consists of Ryan Walsh, David Bentley, Dave Bryson, Brian Rutledge, and Nicholas Ward...

    (Adolfas Mekas
    Adolfas Mekas
    Adolfas Mekas was a Lithuanian-born film director, and brother of Jonas Mekas. He is principally known for his work in the United States....

    , USA)
  • Harakiri (Masaki Kobayashi, Japan)
  • Knife in the Water
    Knife in the Water (film)
    Knife in the Water is a 1962 Polish drama film directed by Roman Polański. It is Polanski's first feature film, featuring three characters in a story of rivalry and sexual tension.-Plot:...

    (Roman Polanski
    Roman Polanski
    Roman Polanski is a French-Polish film director, producer, writer and actor. Having made films in Poland, Britain, France and the USA, he is considered one of the few "truly international filmmakers."...

    , Poland)
  • Le Joli Mai (Chris Marker
    Chris Marker
    Chris Marker is a French writer, photographer, documentary film director, multimedia artist and film essayist. His best known films are La jetée , A Grin Without a Cat , Sans Soleil and AK , an essay film on the Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa...

    , France)
  • Love in the Suburbs (Tamas Fejer
    Tamás Fejér
    Tamás Fejér was an Hungarian film director. He directed 28 films between 1937 and 1988.-External links:...

    , Hungary)
  • Magnet of Doom (Jean-Pierre Melville, France/Italy)
  • Muriel
    Muriel (film)
    Muriel is a 1963 French film directed by Alain Resnais. It was Resnais's third feature film, following Hiroshima mon amour and L'Année dernière à Marienbad , and in common with those films it explores the challenge of integrating a remembered or imagined past with the life of the present...

    (Alain Resnais
    Alain Resnais
    Alain Resnais is a French film director whose career has extended over more than six decades. After training as a film editor in the mid-1940s, he went on to direct a number of short films which included Nuit et Brouillard , an influential documentary about the Nazi concentration camps.He began...

    , France/Italy)
  • RoGoPaG
    Ro.Go.Pa.G.
    Ro.Go.Pa.G. is a 1963 film, which consists of four segments, each written and directed by one of the four film directors - French Jean-Luc Godard , and three Italian: Ugo Gregoretti , Pier Paolo Pasolini and Roberto Rossellini .The movie title is an...

    (Roberto Rossellini
    Roberto Rossellini
    Roberto Rossellini was an Italian film director and screenwriter. Rossellini was one of the directors of the Italian neorealist cinema, contributing films such as Roma città aperta to the movement.-Early life:Born in Rome, Roberto Rossellini lived on the Via Ludovisi, where Benito Mussolini had...

    /Ugo Gregoretti
    Ugo Gregoretti
    Ugo Gregoretti is an Italian film director, actor and screenwriter. He has directed 20 films since 1956. He was born in Rome, Italy.-Selected filmography:* Ro.Go.Pa.G. * Les plus belles escroqueries du monde...

    /Jean-Luc Godard
    Jean-Luc Godard
    Jean-Luc Godard is a French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic. He is often identified with the 1960s French film movement, French Nouvelle Vague, or "New Wave"....

    /Pier Paolo Pasolini
    Pier Paolo Pasolini
    Pier Paolo Pasolini was an Italian film director, poet, writer, and intellectual. Pasolini distinguished himself as a poet, journalist, philosopher, linguist, novelist, playwright, filmmaker, newspaper and magazine columnist, actor, painter and political figure...

    , Italy/France)
  • The Sea (Giuseppe Patroni Griffi
    Giuseppe Patroni Griffi
    Giuseppe Patroni Griffi was an Italian playwright, screenwriter, director and author.He was born in Naples in an aristocratic family and moved to Rome immediately after the end of World War II and spent his professional life there...

    , Italy)
  • The Servant (Joseph Losey
    Joseph Losey
    Joseph Walton Losey was an American theater and film director. After studying in Germany with Bertolt Brecht, Losey returned to the United States, eventually making his way to Hollywood...

    , UK)
  • Glory Sky
    Glory Sky
    Glory Sky is a 1962 Greek war film directed by Takis Kanellopoulos. It was entered into the 1963 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Aimilia Pitta - Sofia* Faidon Georgitsis - Stratos* Takis Emmanuel - Giagos* Eleni Zafeiriou* Niki Triantafillidi - Anthoula...

    (Takis Kanellopoulos, Greece)
  • Sweet and Sour
    Sweet and Sour (film)
    Sweet and Sour is a 1963 French-Italian comedy film directed by Jacques Baratier and starring Guy Bedos.-Cast:* Jean Babilée - Oscar* Guy Bedos - Gerard* Jean-Paul Belmondo - Raymond* Claude Brasseur - Plumber* Françoise Brion - Striptease Girl...

    (Jacques Baratier
    Jacques Baratier
    Jacques Baratier was a French film director and screenwriter. He directed 21 films. His film Goha won the Jury Prize at the 1958 Cannes Film Festival...

    , France/Italy)
  • The Terrace
    The Terrace
    The Terrace is a 1963 Argentine drama film directed by Leopoldo Torre Nilsson. It was entered into the 13th Berlin International Film Festival.-Cast:* Graciela Borges - Claudia* Leonardo Favio - Rodolfo* Marcela López Rey - Vicky...

    (Leopoldo Torre Nilsson
    Leopoldo Torre Nilsson
    Leopoldo Torre Nilsson , also known as Leo Towers and as Babsy, was an Argentine film director, producer and screenwriter....

    , Argentina)
  • The Trial of Joan of Arc (Robert Bresson
    Robert Bresson
    -Life and career:Bresson was born at Bromont-Lamothe, Puy-de-Dôme, the son of Marie-Élisabeth and Léon Bresson. Little is known of his early life and the year of his birth, 1901 or 1907, varies depending on the source. He was educated at Lycée Lakanal in Sceaux, Hauts-de-Seine, close to Paris, and...

    , France)


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)


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
Richard Peña
Richard Peña is the American film program director of the prestigious Film Society of Lincoln Center noted for his organization of the New York Film Festival, New Directors/New Films series and Scanners .-Early life:Interested in film at a very young age, when Richard was just 12 years old, he was...

, 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
J. Hoberman
James Lewis Hoberman , also known as J. Hoberman, is an American film critic. He is currently the senior film critic for The Village Voice, a post he has held since 1988.-Education:...

 of The Village Voice
The Village Voice
The Village Voice is a free weekly newspaper and news and features website in New York City that features investigative articles, analysis of current affairs and culture, arts and music coverage, and events listings for New York City...

.

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.

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