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SEPTEMBER 28–OCTOBER 15, 2017 . FILMLINC.ORG/NYFF TABLE OF CONTENTS

Schedule 2 Spotlight on Documentary 46 Main Slate 6 Projections 56 Shorts 20 Retrospective: Centenary 64 Talks 22 Artist Initiatives 80 Special Events 24 Society Board & Staff 82 Convergence 32 About the Film Society 84 Revivals 36

NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL PROGRAMMERS

SELECTION COMMITTEE MAIN SLATE . REVIVALS . SPOTLIGHT ON DOCUMENTARY Kent Jones Chair Florence Almozini Associate Director of Programming, Film Society of Lincoln Center (FSLC) Dennis Lim Director of Programming, FSLC Amy Taubin Contributing Editor, Film Comment and Artforum

CONVERGENCE PROJECTIONS RETROSPECTIVE Matt Bolish Dennis Lim & Aily Nash Kent Jones & Dan Sullivan

SHORTS Narrative: Gabi Madsen . Genre Stories: Laura Kern . Stories: Dan Sullivan . Documentary: Tyler Wilson

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ELINOR BUNIN MUNROE FILM CENTER 7:00 VR and the Future of cvg/amp 3:00 No Stone Unturned doc/wrt ms MAIN SLATE 144 West 65th Street Virtual Production 3:00 The Old Dark House rev/hgt amp AMPHITHEATER by (Free Talk) 4:00 Documentary Shorts sho/fbt pjt PROJECTIONS 8:30 The Square ms/ath 5:00 Pursued ret/hgt ebm LOBBY 8:30 Casa de Lava rev/fbt 6:00 Zama ms/ath FILMLINC.ORG/NYFF . #NYFF . /NYFILMFEST rev REVIVALS fbt FRANCESCA BEALE THEATER 9:00 Did You Wonder doc/wrt 6:00 On Cinema: talks/wrt Who Fired the Gun? hgt HOWARD GILMAN THEATER @FILMLINC AND @THENYFF . @FILMLINC . /FILMLINC ret RETROSPECTIVE: ROBERT MITCHUM CENTENARY 6:30 A Skin So Soft doc/fbt FREE CONVERGENCE VIRTUAL REALITY 7:00 Film Comment Live: talks/amp se SPECIAL EVENTS WALTER READE THEATER PROJECTS 3:00–6:00pm cvg/ebm wrt 165 West 65th Street The Cinema of Experience 9:00 Spoor ms/ath sho SHORTS SIGN UP FOR UPDATES AT FILMLINC.ORG/NEWS 9:00 ms/wrt 9:00 Genre Shorts sho/fbt talks NYFF TALKS FREE CONVERGENCE VIRTUAL REALITY FOR A LIST OF IN-PERSON APPEARANCES, PROJECTS 1:00–6:00pm cvg/ebm VISIT FILMLINC.ORG/NYFF. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 12:00 Spoor ms/hgt 3:30 The Friends of Eddie Coyle ret/fbt 3:45 L’Atalante rev/hgt 3:30 Thunder Road ret/fbt 3:30 A Story from rev/fbt 3:30 Crossfire ret/hgt 12:00 Thelma ms/hgt 12:30 Faces Places ms/ath 3:45 Track of the Cat ret/hgt 6:00 ms/ath 3:30 Till the End of Time ret/hgt Chikamatsu 4:00 Projections Program 1: pjt/fbt 12:00 Projections Program 3: pjt/fbt 12:30 Mrs. Hyde ms/wrt 6:00 Zama ms/ath 6:00 Without a Net se/wrt 6:00 Call Me by Your Name ms/ath 3:45 Macao ret/hgt Speculative Spaces The Shape of Things 12:30 The Crime of Monsieur Lange rev/fbt 6:00 Hall of Mirrors doc/wrt 6:00 The Rape of Recy Taylor doc/fbt 6:00 Filmworker doc/hgt 6:00 Félicité ms/wrt 6:00 An Evening with se/ath 1:00 Four Sisters: se/ath 2:45 A Skin So Soft doc/fbt 6:00 Directors Dialogues: Agnès Varda & JR talks/fbt 6:30 New York Shorts sho/hgt 6:00 Film Comment Presents: se/wrt 6:00 Spielberg se/ath Ava DuVernay and... Hippocratic Oath 3:00 The Florida Project ms/ath 6:15 River of No Return ret/hgt 7:00 NYFF Live Free Talk talks/amp A Gentle Creature 6:00 Voyeur doc/hgt 6:00 Jane doc/hgt 1:30 Sea Sorrow doc/wrt 3:00 One Sings, the Other Doesn't rev/wrt 7:00 NYFF Live Free Talk talks/amp 8:30 Filmworker doc/wrt 6:15 Narrative Shorts sho/fbt 6:15 Home from the Hill ret/fbt 6:00 Cielo doc/wrt 2:00 Projections Program 4: pjt/fbt 3:00 Directors Dialogues: Lucrecia Martel talks/hgt 8:30 Faces Places ms/fbt 8:45 ms/fbt 7:00 NYFF Live Free Talk talks/amp 7:00 NYFF Live Free Talk talks/amp 6:15 Projections Program 2: pjt/fbt First Person 5:30 No Stone Unturned doc/fbt 9:00 The Meyerowitz Stories ms/ath (New and Selected) 8:30 Cape Fear (1991) ret/hgt 9:00 Jane doc/wrt Present Tense 2:45 Cielo doc/hgt 6:00 The Meyerowitz Stories ms/ath (New and Selected) 9:00 Call Me by Your Name ms/ath 9:00 Hall of Mirrors doc/fbt 9:00 Film Comment Presents: se/hgt 7:00 NYFF Live Free Talk talks/amp 3:30 Let the Sun Shine In ms/ath (New and Selected) 9:00 Genre Shorts sho/hgt 9:00 Documentary Shorts sho/hgt 9:15 Félicité ms/ath A Gentle Creature 8:45 Spielberg se/wrt 4:00 The Day After ms/wrt 6:00 Before We Vanish ms/wrt 9:00 Trouble No More se/wrt 9:30 Voyeur doc/wrt 9:15 Grandeur and rev/fbt 8:15 Occidental pjt/fbt 4:00 Tonsler Park pjt/fbt 6:00 Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun? doc/hgt Decadence 9:00 Thelma ms/ath 5:15 Projections Program 1: pjt/hgt 7:00 De-Escalation Room: Live Lab cvg/amp 9:30 ms/ath 9:00 Narrative Shorts sho/hgt Speculative Spaces w/Columbia Digital Storytelling Lab (Free) 6:00 CENTERPIECE: ms/ath FREE PROJECTIONS SCREENING 8:30 Western ms/fbt Wonderstruck On Loop 12:00–6:00pm & 9:00–11:00pm 8:45 El mar la mar doc/hgt 6:15 CENTERPIECE: ms/wrt The Worldly Cave pjt/amp Wonderstruck 9:00 The Square ms/ath 6:15 Good Luck pjt/fbt 9:00 The Rape of Recy Taylor doc/wrt 7:00 Film Comment Live: talks/amp FREE CONVERGENCE VIRTUAL REALITY PROJECTS Filmmakers Chat 1:00–6:00pm cvg/ebm 7:30 Projections Program 2: pjt/hgt Present Tense 9:00 CENTERPIECE: ms/ath Wonderstruck 9:15 CENTERPIECE: ms/wrt Wonderstruck FREE PROJECTIONS SCREENING On Loop 12:00–6:00pm & 9:00–11:00pm The Worldly Cave pjt/amp OCT 8–15 & TICKET INFO  SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 12:00 Projections Program 5: pjt/fbt 1:00 Projections Program 6: pjt/fbt 3:30 El Dorado ret/fbt 3:00 rev/wrt 3:30 Cape Fear (1962) ret/wrt 3:15 The ret/fbt 12:00 Ismael's Ghosts ms/ath Urban Rhapsodies The Forgotten 6:00 Four Sisters: Noah's Ark + se/fbt 4:30 Le Révélateur rev/fbt 3:30 Undercurrent ret/fbt 4:30 Bob le flambeur rev/hgt 1:00 The Venerable W. doc/fbt 1:00 BOOM FOR REAL The Late Teenage doc/ath 3:00 Barbara Hammer Program pjt/fbt The Merry Flea 6:00 Blood on the Moon ret/hgt 6:00 Mudbound ms/ath 6:00 Ismael's Ghosts ms/ath 1:00 Joan Didion: The doc/wrt Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat 3:30 The Night of the Hunter ret/ath 6:00 Pandora's Box se/ath 6:00 Joan Didion: The doc/ath 6:00 Hallelujah the Hills rev/hgt 6:00 A Conversation with se/fbt Center Will Not Hold

2:00 Four Sisters: Baluty se/wrt 3:30 Projections Program 5: pjt/hgt 6:00 L'Enfant secret rev/hgt Center Will Not Hold 6:00 Piazza Vittorio doc/wrt 1:30 Farewell My Lovely ret/hgt 2:30 Mike Henderson Program pjt/fbt Urban Rhapsodies 6:00 Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast ret/wrt 6:00 Master Class: Vittorio se/wrt 6:30 Dead Man ret/fbt 6:00 The Venerable W. doc/wrt 3:15 The Rider ms/ath 3:15 Projections Program 3: pjt/hgt 4:00 ret/wrt 7:00 NYFF Live Free Talk talks/amp Storaro & Ed Lachman 7:00 NYFF Live Free Talk talks/amp 6:30 Speak Up doc/hgt 3:30 The Sacrifice rev/hgt The Shapes of Things 5:15 Dragonfly Eyes pjt/hgt 8:00 Directors Dialogues: talks/amp 7:00 NYFF Live Free Talk talks/amp 8:00 Lucía rev/hgt 7:00 Film Comment Live: talks/amp 3:30 Arthur Miller: Writer doc/wrt 3:30 Let the Sun Shine In ms/ath 5:30 Le Fort des fous pjt/fbt 8:30 Arthur Miller: Writer doc/wrt 8:30 ms/wrt 8:30 Speak Up doc/wrt Festival Wrap 4:00 Three Music doc/fbt 4:00 Sea Sorrow doc/wrt 6:00 BPM (Beats Per Minutes) ms/ath 8:30 The Other Side of Hope ms/hgt 9:00 The Lusty Men ret/ath 9:00 Joan Didion: The doc/fbt 9:00 Piazza Vittorio rev/fbt by 5:00 Vivian's Garden & Electro-Pythagoras pjt/fbt 6:30 Arthur Miller: Writer doc/wrt 9:00 Lover for a Day ms/ath 9:00 Nice Girls Don't Stay ret/hgt Center Will Not Hold 9:00 Three Music Films doc/wrt CLOSING NIGHT 5:00 Projections Program 4: pjt/hgt talks/amp for Breakfast by Mathieu Amalric 7:00 Directors Dialogues: Hong Sang-soo 9:00 Angel Face ret/fbt 9:15 The Rider ms/ath 6:00 Wonder Wheel ms/ath First Person pjt/hgt 9:00 BOOM FOR REAL doc/fbt 9:15 Mudbound ms/ath 8:00 Projections Program 6: 6:15 Wonder Wheel ms/wrt 6:00 Lady Bird ms/ath The Forgotten The Late Teenage Years 7:00 NYFF Live Free Talk talks/amp 6:15 On the Beach at Night Alone ms/wrt 8:45 Caniba pjt/fbt of Jean-Michel Basquiat 9:00 Wonder Wheel ms/ath 7:00 NYFF Live Free Talk talks/amp 9:00 On the Beach at Night Alone ms/wrt 9:15 Wonder Wheel ms/wrt 7:15 Caniba pjt/fbt 9:30 Lady Bird ms/ath 7:30 Good Luck pjt/hgt 8:30 BPM (Beats Per Minute) ms/ath FREE PROJECTIONS SCREENING 9:00 The Day After ms/wrt On Loop 12:00–6:00pm & 9:00–11:00pm SUNDAY The Worldly Cave pjt/amp 9:30 Dragonfly Eyes pjt/fbt 15 FREE PROJECTIONS SCREENING ENCORE SCREENINGS On Loop 12:00–6:00pm & 9:00–11:00pm Visit filmlinc.org/nyff for details The Worldly Cave pjt/amp

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OPENING NIGHT . WORLD PREMIERE CENTERPIECE Last Flag Flying Wonderstruck Directed by Richard Linklater Directed by

In Richard Linklater’s lyrical road movie, as USA, 2017, 124m In 1977, following his mother’s death, Ben USA, 2017, 117m funny as it is heartbreaking, three aging Principal Cast (Oakes Fegley) loses his hearing in a freak Principal Cast Vietnam-era Navy vets—soft-spoken Doc Steve Carell, accident and travels from Minnesota to New Oakes Fegley, Bryan Cranston, , (Steve Carell), unhinged and unfiltered Sal Laurence Fishburne York, seeking the father he’s never met. A Millicent Simmonds Michelle Williams, (Bryan Cranston), and quietly measured Screenplay half-century earlier, another deaf 12-year- Jaden Michael Mueller (Laurence Fishburne)—reunite to Richard Linklater, old, Rose (Millicent Simmonds), flees her Darryl Ponicsan Screenplay perform a sacred task: the proper burial restrictive Hoboken home, captivated by Brian Selznick Cinematography of Doc’s only child, who has been killed Shane F. Kelly the nearby big city’s bustle and romance. Cinematography Ed Lachman in the early days of the Iraq invasion. As Editing These parallel adventures, unfolding largely this trio of old friends makes its way up the Sandra Adair without dialogue, are exuberant love letters Editing Affonso Gonçalves Eastern seaboard, Linklater gives us a rich Producers to bygone eras of New York; they ultimately Ginger Sledge, Producers rendering of friendship, a grand mosaic of John Sloss converge, with Julianne Moore in a lovely Christine Vachon, common life in the USA during the Bush dual role. From a book by Brian Selznick Pam Koffler, John Sloss era, and a striking meditation on the pas- (The Invention of Hugo Cabret), this all-ages Twenty-five essential new feature films sage of time and the nature of truth. To put enchantment is true to Haynes’s sensibility: it simply, Last Flag Flying is a great movie an intelligent, personal, and lovingly intri- from around the world from one of America’s finest filmmakers. An cate tribute to the power of obsession. An Amazon Studios release. Amazon Studios release.

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CLOSING NIGHT . WORLD PREMIERE U.S. PREMIERE Wonder Wheel Before We Vanish BPM (Beats Per Minute) Call Me by Your Name Directed by Directed by Directed by Directed by

In a 50-year career, Woody Allen has peri- USA, 2017, 101m The latest from master of art-horror Kiyoshi Japan, 2017, 129m In the early 1990s, ACT UP—in France, as France, 2017, 144m A story of summer love like no other, the /France, 2017, 132m odically refined, reinvented, and redefined Principal Cast Kurosawa is perhaps his most mainstream Principal Cast in the U.S.—was on the front lines of AIDS Principal Cast sensual new film from the director ofI Am Principal Cast the terms of his art, and he does exactly Kate Winslet, film yet, a throwback to 1980s sci-fi. An , activism. Its members, mostly gay, HIV- Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Love, set in 1983, charts the slowly ripening Timothée Chalamet, Justin Timberlake, Ryuhei Matsuda, Arnaud Valois, , that with his daring new film. We’re in Coney Jim Belushi, advance crew of three aliens journey to Hiroki Hasegawa positive men, stormed drug company and Adèle Haenel, romance between Elio (Timothée Chalamet), , Juno Temple Antoine Reinartz, , Island in the . A lifeguard (Justin Earth in preparation for a complete take- Screenplay government offices in “Silence=Death” a teen on the verge of discovering himself, Félix Maritaud, Amira Casar Screenplay Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Timberlake) tells us a story perhaps filtered over of the planet. They snatch not only T-shirts, facing down complacent suits Ariel Borenstein and Oliver (Armie Hammer), the handsome Woody Allen Sachiko Tanaka Screenplay through his imagination: a carousel opera- bodies but memories, beliefs, values— with the urgency of their struggle for life. Screenplay older grad student whom his professor James Ivory Cinematography Cinematography Robin Campillo, tor (James Belushi) and his beleaguered everything that defines their conquests Robin Campillo (Eastern Boys) depicts their father (Michael Stuhlbarg) has invited to Cinematography Philippe Mangeot Sayombhu Mukdeeprom wife (Kate Winslet), eking out a living on Editing as human—leaving only hollow shells, Editing comradeship and tenacity in waking up the their vacation home in Northern Italy. From Cinematography Alisa Lepselter Koichi Takahashi Editing the boardwalk, are visited by his estranged which are all but unrecognizable to their world to the disease that was killing them Jeanne Lapoirie the wistful novel by André Aciman, Call Me Walter Fasano Producers daughter (Juno Temple)—from this, layer loved ones. This disturbing parable for our and movingly dramatizes the persistence Editing by Your Name is Guadagnino’s most exqui- Erika Aronson, Producers Robin Campillo upon layer of all-too-human complica- Letty Aronson, present moment, replete with stunning of passionate love affairs even in dire cir- sitely rendered, visually restrained film, Emilie Georges, tions develop. Allen and cinematographer Edward Walson images—including a drone attack—is also cumstances. All the actors, many of them Producers capturing with eloquence the confusion and Luca Guadagnino, Hugues Charbonneau, James Ivory, Vittorio Storaro, working with a remarkable a profoundly mystical affirmation of love as unknown, are splendid in this film, which Marie-Ange Luciani longing of youth, anchored by a remarkable, Marco Morabito, cast led by Winslet in a startlingly brave, the only form of resistance and salvation. A not only celebrates the courage of ACT UP star-making performance by Chalamet, Howard Rosenman, Peter Spears, powerhouse performance, have created a NEON release. but also tacitly provides a model of resis- always a nervy bundle of swagger and inse- Rodrigo Teixeira bracing and truly surprising movie experi- tance to the forces of destruction running curity, contrasting with Hammer’s stoicism. Saturday, Sep 30 9:00pm (WRT) ence. An Amazon Studios release. rampant today. A release of The Orchard. A Sony Pictures Classics release. Sunday, Oct 1 6:00pm (WRT) Saturday, Oct 14 6:00pm, 9:00pm (ATH) Sunday, Oct 8 8:30pm (ATH) Tuesday, Oct 3 9:00pm (ATH) Saturday, Oct 14 6:15pm, 9:15pm (WRT) Monday, Oct 9 6:00pm (ATH) Wednesday, Oct 4 6:00pm (ATH) 8 #NYFF DOWNLOAD THE APP 9 MAIN SLATE Courtesy of Courtesy of Cohen Media Group Media Cohen Courtesy of Courtesy of Jour2Fete Courtesy of Courtesy of Marc Schmidt & A24

U.S. PREMIERE U.S. PREMIERE U.S. PREMIERE The Day After Faces Places Félicité The Florida Project Directed by Hong Sang-soo Directed by Agnès Varda & JR Directed by Alain Gomis Directed by Sean Baker

Hong continues in the openly emotional South Korea, 2017, 92m The 88-year-old Agnès Varda teamed up France, 2017, 89m The new film from Alain Gomis, aFrance/Senegal/ A six-year-old girl (the remarkable USA, 2017, 115m Belgium/Germany/ register of his On the Beach at Night Alone, Principal Cast with the 33-year-old visual artist JR for Principal Cast French director of Guinea-Bissauan and Brooklynn Prince) and her two best friends Principal Cast Lebanon, 2017, 124m also showing in this year’s Main Slate. Shot Kwon Hae-hyo, Faces Places (Visages villages), a tour of JR, Agnes Varda Senegalese descent, is largely set in the run wild on the grounds of a week-by-week Willem Dafoe, Kim Min-hee, Principal Cast Brooklynn Prince, Screenplay in moody black and white, The Day After Kim Sae-byuk, rural France that follows in the footsteps roughest areas of the rough city of Kinshasa Véro Tshanda Beya, motel complex on the edge of Orlando’s Valeria Cotto, JR, Agnes Varda opens with book publisher Bongwan (Kwon Cho Yun-hee, of Varda’s groundbreaking documentary in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Papi Mpaka, Disney World. Meanwhile, her mother Bria Vinaite Ki Ju-bong, Editing Gaetan Claudia Screenplay Hae-hyo) fending off his wife’s heated Park Yea-ju, The Gleaners and I (NYFF 2000) in its cel- Agnes Varda, Here, a woman named Félicité (Véro (talented novice Bria Vinaite) desperately Screenplay Sean Baker, Kang Tae-u Maxime Pozzi-Garcia accusations of infidelity. At the office, it’s ebration of artisanal production, workers’ Tshanda Beya) scrapes together a living as a Alain Gomis, tries to cajole the motel manager (the ever Chris Bergoch Screenplay Producer Olivier Loustau, the first day for his new assistant, Areum solidarity, and the photographic arts in the singer in a makeshift bar (her accompanists surprising Willem Dafoe) to turn a blind eye Cinematography Hong Sang-soo Rosalie Varda Delphine Zingg (Kim Min-hee), whose predecessor was face of mortality. Varda and JR wielded are played by members of the Kasai Allstars to the way she pays the rent. A film about Alexis Zabé Cinematography Cinematography Editing Bongwan’s lover. Mistaken identity, repeti- Kim Hyung-koo cameras themselves, but they were also band). When her son is seriously injured in Céline Bozon but not for kids, Baker’s depiction of child- Sean Baker tion compulsion, and déjà vu figure into the Editing documented in their travels by multiple an accident, she goes in search of money for Editing hood on the margins has fierce energy, Producers Hahm Sung-won Alain Gomis, narrative as the film entangles its charac- image and sound recordists. Out of this his medical care and embarks on a double tenderness, and great beauty. After the Andrew Duncan, Fabrice Rouaud ters across multiple timelines through an often spontaneous jumble, Varda and journey: through the punishing outer world ingenuity of his iPhone-shot 2015 breakout Alex Saks Producers intricate geometry of desire, suspicion, and her editor Maxime Pozzi-Garcia created of the city and the inner world of the soul. Arnaud Dommerc, Tangerine, Baker reasserts his commitment betrayal. The end result is one of Hong’s an unassuming masterpiece (the winner Félicité is tough, tender, lyrical, mysterious, Alain Gomis, to 35mm film with sun-blasted images that Oumar Sall most plaintive and philosophical works. of this year’s L’Oeil d’or at Cannes) that is funny, and terrifying, both responsive to the evoke a young girl’s vision of adventure vivid, lyrical, and inspiringly humanistic. A moment and fixed on its heroine’s spiritual and endurance beyond heartbreak. An Saturday, Oct 7 4:00pm (WRT) Cohen Media Group release. progress. A Strand Releasing release. A24 release. Sunday, Oct 8 9:00pm (WRT) Sunday, Oct 1 12:30pm (ATH) Wednesday, Oct 4 9:15pm (ATH) Sunday, Oct 1 3:00pm (ATH) Monday, Oct 2 8:30pm (FBT) Thursday, Oct 5 6:00pm (WRT) Tuesday, Oct 3 6:00pm (ATH) 10 #NYFF DOWNLOAD THE APP 11 MAIN SLATE Courtesy of Magnolia Pictures; ©Jean-Claude Lother, Not Why ©Jean-Claude Lother, Pictures; Magnolia Courtesy of Photo by Merie Wallace, courtesy of A24 of courtesy Wallace, Merie by Photo Courtesy of IFC Films Distribution SBS Courtesy of

NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Ismael’s Ghosts: Director’s Cut Lady Bird Sponsored by Let the Sun Shine In Lover for a Day Directed by Directed by Directed by Claire Denis Directed by Philippe Garrel

Phantoms swirl around Ismael (Mathieu France, 2017, 132m Greta Gerwig’s directorial debut is a por- USA, 2017, 93m is incandescent and raw in France, 2017, 95m After a painful breakup, heartbroken France, 2017, 76m Amalric), a filmmaker in the throes of writing a Principal Cast trait of an artistically inclined young woman Principal Cast Let the Sun Shine In (Un beau soleil intérieur) Principal Cast Jeanne (Esther Garrel) moves back in with Principal Cast spy thriller based on the unlikely escapades Mathieu Amalric, () trying to define herself in Saoirse Ronan, as a middle-aged Parisian artist in search Juliette Binoche, her university professor father, Gilles (Éric Éric Caravaca, , Laurie Metcalf, Xavier Beauvois, Esther Garrel, of his brother, Ivan Dedalus (). , the shadow of her mother (Laurie Metcalf) Tracy Letts, of definitive love. The elliptical film moves Paul Blain, Caravaca), to discover that he is living Louise Chevillotte Louis Garrel, , Alex Descas, His only true source of stability, his relation- and searching for an escape route from from one romantic/emotional attachment to with optimistic, life-loving student Ariane Screenplay , Timothée Chalamet, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Jean-Claude Carrière, ship with Sylvia (Charlotte Gainsbourg), is László Szabó, her hometown of Sacramento. Moods are Odeya Rush, another, as though set to some mysterious Gérard Depardieu (newcomer Louise Chevillotte), who is the Caroline Deruas, Hippolyte Girardot Beanie Feldstein upended, as is the life of his Jewish docu- layered upon moods at the furious pace of bio-rhythm: from a boorish married lover Screenplay same age as Jeanne. An unusual triangular , mentarian mentor and father-in-law (László Screenplay late adolescence in this lovely and loving Screenplay (Xavier Beauvois); to a subtly histrionic Christine Angot, relationship emerges as both girls seek the Philippe Garrel Arnaud Desplechin, Greta Gerwig Claire Denis Cinematography Szabó), when Ismael’s wife Carlotta (Marion Julie Peyr, film, which shifts deftly from one emotional actor (Nicolas Duvauchelle), also married; favor of Gilles, as daughter or lover, while Cinematography Cinematography Renato Berta Léa Mysius Cotillard), who disappeared twenty years and comic register to the next. Lady Bird is Sam Levy to a dreamboat hairdresser (Paul Blain); to Agnès Godard developing their own friendship, finding Editing Cinematography earlier, returns, and, like one of Hitchcock’s rich in invention and incident, and it is pow- Editing a gentle man (Alex Descas) not ready for Editing common ground despite their differences. François Gédigier Irina Lubtchansky Nick Houy Guy Lecorne fragile, delusional femmes fatales, expects ered by Ronan, one of the finest actors in commitment to...an enigmatic fortune-teller. Gorgeously shot in grainy black and white Producers Editing Producers Producer Said Ben Said, that her husband and father are still in thrall Laurence Briaud movies. With Lucas Hedges and Timothée Aptly, the film (loosely inspired by Barthes’s by Renato Berta (Au revoir les enfants), , Olivier Delbosc Michel Merkt to her. A brilliant shape-shifter—part farce, Producers Chalamet as the men in Lady Bird’s life, Evelyn O’Neill, A Lover’s Discourse) feels lit from within; it Lover for a Day (L'Amant d’un jour) is an part melodrama—Ismael’s Ghosts (Les Pascal Caucheteux, Beanie Feldstein as her best friend, and was lit from without by Denis’s longtime cin- exquisite meditation on love and fidelity Vincent Maraval fantômes d’Ismaël) is about the process of Tracy Letts as her dad. An A24 release. ematographer Agnès Godard. It’s also very that perfectly illustrates Garrel's poetic creating a work of art and all the madness funny. A Sundance Selects release. exploration of desire. A MUBI release. Sunday, Oct 8 6:00pm (ATH) that requires. A Magnolia Pictures release. Monday, Oct 9 9:30pm (ATH) Saturday, Oct 7 3:30pm (ATH) Tuesday, Oct 10 9:00pm (ATH) Friday, Oct 13 6:00pm (ATH) Sunday, Oct 8 3:30pm (ATH) Wednesday, Oct 11 8:30pm (WRT) Saturday, Oct 14 12:00pm (ATH) 12 #NYFF DOWNLOAD THE APP 13 MAIN SLATE Courtesy of Les Films Pelléas Films Les Courtesy of Courtesy of NetflixCourtesy of Guild Cinema Courtesy of Courtesy of Atsushi Nishijima/ Atsushi Courtesy of

NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) Mrs. Hyde Mudbound On the Beach at Night Alone Directed by Directed by Serge Bozon Directed by Directed by Hong Sang-soo

Noah Baumbach revisits the terrain of USA, 2017, 110m Serge Bozon’s eccentric comedic thriller is France, 2017, 95m Writer-director Dee Rees’s historical epic, USA, 2017, 134m Hong Sang-soo’s movies have always South Korea, 2017, 101m family vanities and warring attachments Principal Cast loosely based on Robert Louis Stevenson’s Principal Cast based on the novel by Hillary Jordan, Principal Cast invited autobiographical readings, and his Principal Cast that he began exploring with The Squid , The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. , details the daily hardships and vicissitudes Carey Mulligan, 19th feature is perhaps his most personal Kim Min-hee, , Romain Duris, Jason Clarke, Seo Young-hwa, and the Whale in this intricately plotted , Hyde, with many a twist. Mrs. Géquil José Garcia of farm life in Mississippi during the post– Jason Mitchell, film yet, a steel-nerved, clear-eyed response Jung Jae-young, , Mary J. Blige, Moon Sung-keun, story of three middle-aged siblings (Adam (Isabelle Huppert), a timid and rather Screenplay World War II era. Two families, one white to the tabloid frenzy that erupted in South Elizabeth Marvel, Rob Morgan, Kwon Hae-hyo, Serge Bozon, Sandler, Ben Stiller, and Elizabeth Marvel) peculiar physics professor, teaches in a (the landlords) and one black (the share- Jonathan Banks, Korea over his relationship with actress Kim Song Seon-mi, Axelle Ropert Ahn Jae-hong, coping with their strong-willed father Screenplay suburban technical high school. Apart croppers), work the same miserable piece Min-hee. The film begins in Hamburg, where Cinematography Park Yea-ju Noah Baumbach Screenplay (Dustin Hoffman) and the flightiness of his from her quiet married life with her gentle Céline Bozon of farmland. Out of need and empathy, the actress Young-hee (played by Kim herself, Dee Rees, Screenplay Cinematography wife (Emma Thompson). Baumbach’s film stay-at-home husband, she is mocked and Editing mothers of the two families bond as their Virgil Williams who won the Best Actress prize at Berlin for Hong Sang-soo Robbie Ryan François Quiqueré never stops deftly changing gears, from despised on a daily basis by pretty much younger male relatives go off to war and Cinematography this role) is hiding out after the revelation Cinematography Editing Producers Kim Hyung-koo, surges of pathos to painful comedy and everyone around her—headmaster, col- learn that there is a world beyond racial of her affair with a married filmmaker. Back David Thion, Park Hong-yeol Editing back again. Needless to say, this lyrical Producers leagues, students. During a dark, stormy Philippe Martin hatred and fear. The flawless ensemble in Korea, a series of encounters shed light Mako Kamitsuna Editing Scott Rudin, quicksilver comedy is very much a New night, she is struck by lightning and wakes cast includes Carey Mulligan, Mary J. Blige, on Young-hee’s volatile state, as she slips Hahm Sung-won Noah Baumbach, Producers York experience. A Netflix release. Lila Yacoub, up a decidedly different person, a newly Garrett Hedlund, Jason Mitchell, Jason Sally Jo Effenson, in and out of melancholic reflection and Producer Eli Bush powerful Mrs. Hyde with mysterious energy Clarke, Rob Morgan, and Jonathan Banks. Cassian Elwes, dreams. Centered on Kim’s astonishingly Hong Sang-soo Sunday, Oct 1 6:00pm (ATH) Carl Effenson, and uncontrollable powers. Highlighted by A Netflix release. Charles D. King, layered performance, On the Beach at Night Monday, Oct 2 9:00pm (ATH) Bozon's brilliant mise en scène, Isabelle Kim Roth, Alone is the work of a master mining new Tuesday, Oct 3 8:45pm (FBT) Thursday, Oct 12 6:00pm (ATH) Christopher Lemole, Huppert hypnotizes us again, securing her Tim Zajaros emotional depths. A Cinema Guild release. Friday, Oct 13 9:15pm (ATH) place as the ultimate queen of the screen. Sunday, Oct 8 6:15pm (WRT) Friday, Sep 29 6:00pm (ATH) Monday, Oct 9 9:00pm (WRT) Sunday, Oct 1 12:30pm (WRT) 14 #NYFF DOWNLOAD THE APP 15 MAIN SLATE Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics Pictures Sony Courtesy of Courtesy of Robert Palka Studio FIlmowe Tor Pictures Magnolia Courtesy of Courtesy of Janus Films Janus Courtesy of

U.S. PREMIERE The Other Side of Hope The Rider Spoor The Square Directed by Aki Kaurismäki Directed by Chloé Zhao Directed by Agnieszka Holland, in cooperation with Kasia Adamik Directed by Ruben Östlund

Leave it to Aki Kaurismäki (Le Havre, NYFF , 2017, 98m The hardscrabble economy of America’s USA, 2017, 103m Janina Duszejko is a vigorous former engi- Poland/Germany/Czech A precisely observed, thoroughly modern Sweden, 2017, 150m Republic, 2017, 128m 2011), peerless master of humanist tragi- Principal Cast rodeo country, where, for some, riding Principal Cast neer, part-time teacher, and animal activist, comedy of manners, this Palme d’Or–win- Principal Cast comedy, to make the first great fiction Sherwan Haji, and winning is the only source of pleasure Brady Jandreau, living in a near wilderness on the Polish- Principal Cast ner revolves around Christian (Claes Bang), Claes Bang, Sakari Kuosmanen, Tim Jandreau, Agnieszka Mandat, Elisabeth Moss, film about the 21st century migrant crisis. Ilkka Koivula, and income, is depicted with exceptional Lily Jandreau, Czech border, where hunting is the favored Wiktor Zborowski, a well-heeled contemporary art curator Dominic West, Having escaped bombed-out Aleppo, Janne Hyytiäinen, compassion and truth by a filmmaker Lane Scott, year-round sport of the corrupt men who Miroslav Krobot, at a Stockholm museum. While preparing Terry Notary Nuppu Koivu, Cat Clifford Jakub Gierszał, Screenplay Syrian refugee Khlaed (Sherwan Haji) Kaija Pakarinen, who is in no way an insider: Zhao was rule the region. When a series of hunters Patricia Volny, his new exhibit—a four-by-four-meter zone Screenplay Ruben Östlund Niroz Haji, Tomasz Kot, seeks asylum in Finland, only to get lost in born in Beijing and educated at Mount Chloé Zhao die mysteriously, Janina wonders if the designated as a “sanctuary of trust and Simon Al-Bazoon, Borys Szyc, Cinematography a maze of functionaries and bureaucracies. Kati Outinen Holyoke and NYU. Set on the Pine Ridge Cinematography animals are taking revenge, which doesn’t Andrzej Grabowski caring”—Christian falls prey to a pickpock- Fredrik Wenzel Joshua James Richards Meanwhile, shirt salesman Wikström (Sakari Screenplay Reservation in South Dakota, The Rider is stop the police from coming after her. A Screenplay eting scam, which triggers an overzealous Editing Kuosmanen) leaves his wife, wins big in a Aki Kaurismäki a fiction film that calls on nonprofessional Editing brilliant, passionate director, Agnieszka Olga Tokarczuk, response and then a crisis of conscience. Ruben Östlund, Alex O'Flinn Agnieszka Holland Jacob Secher Schulsinger poker game, and takes over a restaurant Cinematography actors to play characters similar to them- Holland—who like Janina comes from a Featuring several instant-classic scenes Timo Salminen Producers Cinematography Producers whose deadpan staff he also inherits. These selves, incorporating their skill sets and Chloé Zhao, generation that learned to fight authoritar- Jolanta Dylewska, and a vivid supporting cast (Elisabeth Moss, Erik Hemmendorff, Editing Bert Hamelinck, Rafał Paradowski Philippe Bober parallel stories dovetail to gently comic and Samu Heikkilä experiences. Brady Jandreau is extraordi- ianism by any means necessary—forges Dominic West, and noted motion-capture Sacha Ben Harroche, Editing enormously moving effect in Kaurismäki’s Producers nary as a badly injured former champion Mollye Asher a sprawling, wildly beautiful, emotionally actor Terry Notary), The Square is the most Pavel Hrdlička politically urgent fable, an object lesson Aki Kaurismäki, rider and horse trainer forced to give enveloping film that earns its vision of uto- ambitious film yet by one of contemporary Misha Jaari, Producers on the value of compassion and hope that Mark Lwoff up the life he knows and loves. A Sony pia. It’s at once a phantasmagorical murder Krzysztof Zanussi, cinema’s most incisive social satirists, the remains grounded in a tangible social real- Pictures Classics release. mystery, a tender, late-blooming love story, Janusz Wąchała rare movie to have as many laughs as ity. A Janus Films release. and a resistance and rescue thriller. ideas. A Magnolia Pictures release. Thursday, Oct 12 9:15pm (ATH) Thursday, Oct 5 9:30pm (ATH) Saturday, Oct 14 3:15pm (ATH) Saturday, Sep 30 9:00pm (ATH) Friday, Sep 29 8:30pm (ATH) Tuesday, Oct 10 8:30pm (HGT) Sunday, Oct 1 12:00pm (HGT) Sunday, Oct 1 9:00pm (ATH) 16 #NYFF DOWNLOAD THE APP 17 MAIN SLATE Courtesy of Cinema Guild Cinema Courtesy of Courtesy of The Orchard, ©MotlysAS Orchard, The Courtesy of

U.S. PREMIERE U.S. PREMIERE Thelma Western Zama Directed by Joachim Trier Directed by Valeska Grisebach Directed by Lucrecia Martel

An adolescent country girl (Eili Harboe) has Norway/Sweden/France, As its title suggests, German director Germany/Bulgaria, 2017, The great Lucrecia Martel ventures into /Brazil/Spain, just moved to the city to begin her univer- 2017, 116m Valeska Grisebach’s first feature in a 119m the realm of historical fiction and makes 2017, 115m sity studies, with the internalized religious Principal Cast decade is a supremely intelligent genre Principal Cast it her own in this adaptation of Antonio di Principal Cast Eili Harboe, Meinhard Neumann, Daniel Giménez Cacho, severity of her quietly domineering mother Kaya Wilkins, update that recognizes the Western as Syuleyman Alilov Letifov, Benedetto’s 1956 classic of Argentinean lit- Lola Dueñas, and father (Ellen Dorrit Petersen and Henrik Ellen Dorrit Petersen, a template on which to draw out eternal Vyara Borisova, erature. In the late 18th century, in a far-flung Matheus Nachtergaele, Henrik Rafaelsen Reinhardt Wetrek, Juan Minujín, Rafaelsen) always in mind. When she realizes human conflicts. In remote rural Bulgaria, Veneta Frangova, corner of what seems to be Paraguay, Zama, Rafael Spregelburd, that she is developing an attraction to her Screenplay a group of German workers are build- Kevin Bashev an officer of the Spanish crown (Daniel Nahuel Cano, Eskil Vogt, Mariana Nunes, Screenplay new friend Anja (Kaya Wilkins), she begins Joachim Trier ing a water facility. Meinhard (Meinhard Giménez Cacho) born in the Americas, waits Daniel Veronese Valeska Grisebach to manifest a terrifying and uncontrollable Cinematography Neumann), the reserved newbie in this in vain for a transfer to a more prestigious Screenplay Cinematography Jakob Ihre Lucrecia Martel power that her parents have long feared. all-male company, immediately draws the Bernhard Keller location. Martel renders Zama’s world—his Editing Cinematography To reveal more would be a crime; let’s just ire of the boorish team leader, not least Editing daily regimen of small humiliations and petty Olivier Bugge Coutté Rui Poças say that this fluid, sharply observant, and for his willingness to mingle with the wary Bettina Böhler politicking—as absurd and mysterious, and Producer Editing Producers continually surprising film begins in the key Thomas Robsahm locals. Cast with utterly convincing non- as he succumbs to lust and paranoia, sub- Miguel Schverdfinger, Jonas Dornbach, Karen Harley of horror and ends somewhere completely professional actors, Western is a gripping Janine Jackowski, ject to a creeping disorientation. Precise yet different. A release of The Orchard. culture-clash drama, attuned both to old Maren Ade, dreamlike, and thick with atmosphere, Zama Producers Michel Merkt Benjamín Doménech, Warning: This film contains flashing lights, codes of masculinity and new forms of is a singular, intoxicating experience, and a Vânia Catani, which may not be suitable for photosensi- colonialism. A Cinema Guild release. welcome return from one of contemporary Matías Roveda, Santiago Gallelli tive epilepsy. Viewer discretion is advised. cinema’s truly brilliant minds. Saturday, Sep 30 3:00pm (ATH) Friday, Oct 6 9:00pm (ATH) Sunday, Oct 1 8:30pm (FBT) Saturday, Sep 30 6:00pm (ATH) Saturday, Oct 7 12:00pm (HGT) Monday, Oct 2 6:00pm (ATH) 18 #NYFF SHORTS

Program 1: Program 2: Program 3: Program 4: Narrative Genre Stories Documentary Showcasing both established and emerg- This is the third annual edition of a program This program, now in its third year, show- For its second year, NYFF showcases inter- ing filmmakers, this program features focusing on the best in new horror, thriller, cases work from some of the most exciting national works that capture the versatility six unique films from around the world. sci-fi, pitch-black comedy, twisted noir, and filmmakers living and working in the city and depth of short nonfiction. TRT: 84m fantasy shorts. today. TRT: 90m TRT: 92m TRT: 79m Hedgehog's Home Directed by Eva Cvijanović Cucli Directed by Xavier Marrades A widowed Douggy In this stop-motion tale, a hedgehog's love of truck driver considers the nature of his compan- Unpresidented Creswick Directed by Natalie James As a woman Unpresidented Directed by Jason Giampietro his humble abode perplexes his predators, ionship with a dove in this ethereal, moving work helps her dad pack up his home, it becomes Giampietro confronts our uncertain political who deliver their dialogue in rhyming couplets. about loss and renewal. Spain, 2017, 17m apparent that it may be inhabited by more than moment head-on with this dark comedy, in which Canada/Croatia, 2017, 10m just memories. Australia, 2016, 10m a man attempts to justify his having bet on Trump The Brick House Directed by Eliane Esther Bots to win the 2016 presidential election. USA, 2017, All Over the Place Directed by Mariana With meticulous detail, Bots sensuously cap- The Last Light Directed by Angelita Mendoza 14m Sanguinetti While moving out of the apartment tures the placid movements and sounds of two The innocence and the developing evils of youth she shared with her ex-boyfriend, Jimena reflects friends inside a Dutch apartment as they share collide when two children’s paths cross in an Cheer Up Baby Directed by Adinah Dancyger A on closure and the future in a stream-of-con- memories—both pleasant and harrowing—of abandoned house. USA/, 2017, 11m young woman (India Menuez) has been sexually sciousness message on his answering machine. their childhood in Tanzania. North American assaulted by a stranger on the subway, and her North American Premiere, Argentina, 2017, 10m Premiere, Netherlands, 2016, 16m Birthday Directed by Alberto Viavattene A cor- experience is rendered with psychological men- rupt young nurse messes with the wrong patient ace and sensory dislocation. World Premiere, A Gentle Night Directed by Qiu Yang When The True Tales Directed by Lucien Monot on the day she turns 100. U.S. Premiere, Italy, USA, 2017, 12m their 13-year-old daughter disappears on her way Shooting on 16mm, Monot constructs a buoyant 2017, 15m home from school, a couple's feelings of help- ode to his father, who wanders in and out of Scaffold The Layover Directed by Ashley Connor & Joe My Nephew Emmett lessness conflict with their desire to act.China, scripted scenarios that deconstruct his personal Program Directed by Gabriel de Urioste In the Stankus This miniature offers a tender glimpse of 2017, 15m history while refracting his family’s unspoken Digital Age, finding real love is more challeng- the lives of two flight attendants as they observe loss. U.S. Premiere, Switzerland, 2017, 22m ing—and glitchier—than ever. World Premiere, the one-year anniversary of their beloved dog’s Douggy Directed by Matvey Fiks Tow-truck USA, 2017, 8m passing. World Premiere, USA, 2017, 10m driver Douggy's mind is on a series of unan- Two Directed by Riccardo Giacconi Giacconi’s swered phone calls as he goes through the schematic, almost surreal essay film maps the Hombre Directed by Juan Pablo Arias Muñoz My Nephew Emmett Directed by Kevin Wilson, motions of his last two night shifts. Fiks renders development of a utopian residential neighbor- While on a hunting trip with his father, a teenage Jr. This visually ravishing work portrays one of the his routine's quietude and rusty infrastructure in hood planned by Silvio Berlusconi in the seven- boy must contend with multiple monsters. North USA’s great shames—the 1955 murder of 14-year- warm 16mm grain. North American Premiere, ties, and offers a representation of the not-yet American Premiere, Chile, 2017, 21m old Emmett Till by two white men in Mississippi— USA/Russia, 2017, 19m prime minister’s lasting impact on Italian culture. and movingly reminds us of this dark episode’s North American Premiere, France/Italy, 2017, Drip Drop Directed by Jonna Nilsson Alone one enduring relevance. USA, 2017, 19m Scaffold Directed by Kazik Radwanski Filmed 16m night, a woman is terrorized by water that mani- in fragmentary close-up, Scaffold stitches fests itself in unusual ways. Sweden, 2016, 7m The Road to Magnasanti Directed by John together the conversations, interactions, and The Disinherited Directed by Laura Ferrés In Hombre Wilson Wilson welcomes us to the terrordome Cucli people-watching that make up the daily grind this funny and tender portrait that deftly blurs Hitchhiker Directed by Damien Power Right with his latest, in which he hilariously and chill- for two Bosnian-Canadian construction workers. documentary and fiction, Ferrés’s father reluc- before brilliantly deconstructing camping films in ingly illustrates NYC’s not-so-gradual transforma- U.S. Premiere, Canada, 2017, 15m tantly endures the demise of his family busi- Killing Ground, its director made this noirish hom- tion into a late-capitalist paradise-cum-dystopia. ness while trying to retain his dignity. North age to road movies. World Premiere, Australia, World Premiere, USA, 2017, 15m Bonboné Directed by Rakan Mayasi A American Premiere, Spain, 2017, 19m 2015, 20m Palestinian man serves time in an Israeli jail, Mr. Yellow Sweatshirt Directed by Pacho Velez but he and his wife still hope to conceive a Saturday, Sep 30 4:00pm (FBT) Saturday, Sep 30 9:00pm (FBT) & Yoni Brook A man’s inability to get a subway child. With the help of a bonbon wrapper, the turnstile to accept his Metrocard encapsulates Tuesday, Oct 3 9:00pm (HGT) couple overcomes physical obstacles in a race Monday, Oct 2 9:00pm (HGT) NYC’s ongoing public transit crisis in Velez and against the clock. U.S. Premiere, Palestine/ Brook’s elegant and formally audacious docu- Lebanon, 2017, 15m mentary. USA, 2017, 9m 6:15pm (FBT) Wednesday, Oct 4 Saturday, Sep 30 12:45pm (WRT) 9:00pm (HGT) Drip Drop Friday, Oct 6 Tuesday, Oct 3 6:30pm (HGT) The Brick House 20 #NYFF DOWNLOAD THE APP 21 Ang Lee's Directors Dialogue at NYFF54 SPONSORED BY 22 TALKS

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For the 55th NYFF, we’re very pleased to present two special evenings headlined by two of the brightest stars working today in the film industry.

Live An Evening with Ava DuVernay and . . . A Conversation with Kate Winslet happenings, The director of the opening night selection of last year’s NYFF, For more than twenty years, Kate Winslet has proven herself one the blistering documentary about institutionalized and of the most expressive actors in movies, from her astonishing big-name docs, mass incarceration in the U.S. 13TH, as well as I Will Follow (2010), breakouts in Heavenly Creatures (1994), Sense and Sensibility Middle of Nowhere (2012) Selma (2014), and the much-anticipated (1995), and Titanic (1997), to the increasingly internalized char- and some A Wrinkle in Time (2018), the multi-talented Ava DuVernay is acterizations of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), quickly becoming one of the essential figures in the contemporary Revolutionary Road (2008), The Reader (2008), for which she won surprise guests! American cinema landscape. In this special onstage conversa- an Oscar, and Steve Jobs (2015), a NYFF centerpiece. This year, tion, DuVernay will choose an artist to join her for a wide-ranging Winslet stars in the NYFF festival closer, Wonder Wheel, directed discussion about the state of the art. For more information on by Woody Allen, and her blistering, unpredictable, vanity-free per- DuVernay’s very special guest, check filmlinc.org/nyff. formance is destined to be remembered as one of her greatest. Join Kate Winslet in a special live onstage event in which she talks Friday, Oct 6 6:00pm (ATH) about this latest role, and her career in general.

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WORLD PREMIERE “An explosive opera” —The New Yorker Thomas Adès’s astounding adaptation of Luis Buñuel’s CLAUDE LANZMANN’S FOUR SISTERS classic surrealist film has its Met premiere.

Tickets start at $25 metopera.org 212.362.6000 Since 1999, Claude Lanzmann has made destinies, each finding herself unexpectedly each one of them was subjected to, is their several films that could be considered sat- and improbably alive after war’s end: Ruth intelligence, an incisive, sharp and carnal Photo: Paola Kudacki/Metropolitan Opera ellites of Shoah, comprised of interviews Elias from Ostravia, Czechoslovakia; Paula intelligence that rejects all pretence and conducted in the 1970s that didn’t make Biren from Lodz, Poland; Ada Lichtman from false reasons—in a word—idealism.” What it into the final, monumental work. He has further south in Krakow; and Hannah Marton is so remarkable about Lanzmann’s films is just completed a series of four new films, from Cluj, or Kolozsvár, in Transylvania. the way that they stay within the immediate built around four women from four different “What they have in common,” wrote present tense, where the absolute horror of areas of Eastern Europe with four different Lanzmann, “apart from the specific horrors the shoah is always happening.

The Hippocratic Oath Baluty Noah’s Ark + The Merry Flea France, 2017, 89m France, 2017, 64m France, 2017, 68m France, 2017, 52m

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WORLD PREMIERE WORLD PREMIERE WORLD PREMIERE The Opera House Pandora’s Box Spielberg Trouble No More Directed by Directed by G.W. Pabst Directed by Susan Lacy Directed by Jennifer Lebeau

Renowned documentarian Susan Froemke USA, 2017, 108m Pabst’s immortal film of the Frank Wedekind Germany, 1929, 143m This new film traces the private, public, and USA, 2017, 147m Like every other episode in the life of Bob USA, 2017, 59m takes viewers through the history of the Principal Cast play gave us one of the most enduring Principal Cast artistic development of one of cinema’s Featuring Dylan, the “born again” period that suppos- Featuring Metropolitan Opera via priceless archival Samuel Barber, presences in cinema. Louise Brooks’s Lulu Louise Brooks, true giants, from his early love of movie- , edly began with the release of Slow Train Bob Dylan Rudolf Bing, Fritz Kortner, Francis Coppola, Michael Shannon stills, footage, and interviews (with, among Wallace K. Harrison, was, in J. Hoberman’s words, a “new kind Francis Lederer, making as a kid growing up in all-American Daniel Day-Lewis, Coming (1979) and supposedly ended with Lyrics written by Robert Moses, Carl Goetz , others, the great soprano Leontyne Price). of femme fatale—generous, manipulative, suburbia, through his sudden rise to super- Shot of Love (1981) has been endlessly Bob Dylan Leontyne Price, , Screenplay The film follows the institution’s develop- Franco Zeffirelli heedless, blank, democratic in her affec- stardom with Jaws, to his establishment of , scrutinized in the press. Less attention Sermons written by Ladislaus Vajda Tom Hanks, Luc Sante ment from its beginnings at the old opera Cinematography tions, ambiguous in her sexuality.” She’s a film-and-TV empire with DreamWorks, has been paid to the magnificent music Cinematography , Gregory Andracke, Cinematography house on 39th Street to the storied reign of inspired countless helmet-haired imitators, Gunther Krampf and beyond. Along the way, Spielberg has , he made. This very special film consists of Richard Chisolm, Ellen Kuras , Rudolph Bing to the long-gestating move Edward Marritz, but she still reigns supreme. Featuring the Editing approached every new film as if it were his truly electrifying video footage, much of it John Williams Editing Bob Richman, Joseph Fleisler to Lincoln Center, the construction of which world premiere of a new orchestral score first. Featuring interviews with friends and Oprah Winfrey, thought to have been lost for years and all Damian Rodriguez Buddy Squires, Producer traces a fascinating byway through the era Thorsten Thielow composed and conducted by Jonathan contemporaries in the “New Hollywood” Cinematography newly restored, shot at shows in Toronto Producer Heinz Landsmann Eddie Marritz, Jennifer Lebeau of urban renewal and Robert Moses’s trans- Editing Ragonese. A Janus Films release. (Francis Coppola, Brian De Palma, George and Buffalo on the last leg of the ’79-’80 Sam Painter formation of New York. Most of all, this is a Peter R. Livingston Jr. This evening was generously supported by Lucas, Martin Scorsese); key collabora- tour, interspersed with sermons written Editing Producers film about the love for and devotion to the Ira Resnick. tors (Tom Hanks, John Williams, longtime Deborah Peretz by Luc Sante and beautifully delivered by Susan Froemke, preservation of an art form, and the upkeep DCP courtesy Deutsche Kinemathek from restoration DP Janusz Kamiński); and, the film’s most Producers Michael Shannon. More than just a record of a home where it can live and thrive. based on elements contributed by the Cinémathèque touching presences, Spielberg’s beloved Susan Lacy, of some concerts, Trouble No More is a Française, Gosfilmofond, and the Národní Filmový Jessica Levin, Funding provided by The Lloyd E. Archiv in Prague done at Cineteca di Bologna. Work sisters and parents, Arnold and Leah. An Emma Pildes total experience. Rigler-Lawrence E. Deutsch Foundation helmed by George Eastman House and Big Sound HBO Documentary Films release. with funding provided by Hugh M. Hefner. Monday, Oct 2 9:00pm (WRT) 6:30pm (Screens at the 6:00pm (ATH) Friday, Oct 1 Tuesday, Oct 10 6:00pm (ATH) Thursday, Oct 5 Metropolitan Opera House) Friday, Oct 6 8:45pm (WRT) 28 #NYFF DOWNLOAD THE APP 29

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NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Film Comment Presents: A Gentle Creature Directed by Sergei Loznitsa

This tragicomic pageant by Sergei Loznitsa France, 2017, 143m (My Joy, NYFF 2010) brings a roiling energy Principal Cast and a lunatic sense of desperation to its larg- Vasilina Makovtseva, Marina Kleshcheva, er-than-life vision of today’s Russia. Inspired Lia Akhedzhakova by a Dostoevsky short story, A Gentle Screenplay Courtesy of Moxie Firecracker Films Firecracker Courtesy Moxie of Creature follows an unnamed woman Sergei Loznitsa Cinematography FREE EVENT (Vasilina Makovtseva) moving through a Oleg Mutu Sponsored by prison town underworld after attempting Without a Net Master Class: Vittorio Storaro & Ed Lachman Editing to visit her incarcerated husband. Loznitsa Danielius Kokanauskis Directed by Rory Kennedy uses the town as a microcosm for a country Producer Marianne Slot Many of us assume that the world, or at USA, 2017, 56m The cinematographers behind two of this year's true visual won- where corruption and authority are so inter- least the country, is now fully connected, Featuring the voice of ders—titled, appropriately, Wonderstruck and Wonder Wheel—sit twined as to be indistinguishable. As the but throughout American classrooms there down with NYFF Director Kent Jones for a conversation about film takes a turn into the carnivalesque and exists a digital divide. In a shockingly large Screenplay the craft of cinematography and their own astonishing careers the infernal, it gets at the deeply troubled Mark Bailey, number of schools, access to technol- Tucker Capps in particular. Vittorio Storaro, who has had lengthy creative part- slumber of a beleaguered country. ogy, connectivity, and teacher-training is Editing nerships with , Francis Coppola, and Carlos Wednesday, Oct 4 6:00pm (WRT) Gillian McCarthy,

nonexistent. Many of those underserved Saura, has now worked with Woody Allen to create one of his MACHINE ©SLOT Charlton McMillan Thursday, Oct 5 9:00pm (HGT) schools are located just a few miles from greatest aesthetic achievements; Ed Lachman, who has worked Producers fully equipped schools with technologically Rory Kennedy, extensively with many filmmakers from Wim Wenders to Steven adept teachers in better funded districts. Mark Bailey, Soderbergh, is now perhaps best known for his collaboration with PART OF NYFF FREE TALKS Tucker Capps, This new film from Rory Kennedy, in which Martin Pearson Todd Haynes, with whom he has created a remarkable movie set we see the situation through the eyes of stu- in two wholly distinct lost worlds: New York in the twenties and The Cinema of Experience Filmmakers Chat Festival Wrap the seventies. dents, educators, policy experts, and advo- At this year’s NYFF, filmmakers are rising For the second year, Film Comment gives In what is becoming an annual tradition, cates across the country, clearly lays out Wednesday, Oct 11 6:15pm (WRT) to the challenge of representing race and you the rare chance to see some of today’s Film Comment contributing critics and edi- the steps we must take a to bring our public immigration at a pivotal time in our nation’s most important filmmakers in dialogue with tors gather for the festival’s last weekend With education system into the 21st century. history. Our guests will discuss how cin- each other. A selection of directors whose and talk about the films they’ve seen, dis- panel discussion featuring director Rory ematic technique is used to reflect such films are screening at NYFF will talk together cussing—or arguing about—the selections Kennedy and other special guests. experiences and what is different about the in a discussion moderated by Film Comment in the lineup, from Main Slate and beyond. 6:00pm (WRT) latest generation of storytelling. editor-in-chief Nicolas Rapold. Tuesday, Oct 3 Friday, Oct 13 7:00pm (AMP) Sunday, Oct 1 7:00pm (AMP) Saturday, Oct 7 7:00pm (AMP) 30 #NYFF DOWNLOAD THE APP 31 CONVERGENCE

De-Escalation Room

FREETitle? TALKS & EXPERIENCES Gamescape: The Revenge De-Escalation Room: VR and the Future of Virtual of Full Motion Video Live Lab w/Columbia Production by Lucasfilm It’s 1983. You find yourself in a suburban Digital Storytelling Lab Rachel Rose, Jose Perez & Nick Rasmussen arcade. Among future classics like Space Talk and Rapid Prototyping Session From the depths of earth’s oceans to galax- Invaders and Donkey Kong is something dif- Presented by Lance Weiler & Nick Fortugno ies far, far away, VR allows us to be anyone, Astron Belt ferent: Sega’s or Cinematronics’ go anywhere, and see anything. Lucasfilm Dragon’s Lair, eschewing pixelated sprites Founded in 2014, Columbia University’s Digital Storytelling Lab was created to and its visual effects division, Industrial for video and vivid animation. Full Motion Light & Magic, have created a new Virtual Video games were movies you could explore ways of telling stories that incorpo- rate technology and disciplines from across Production toolset, allowing filmmakers to play—to a point: games were unreliable, build and scout a virtual set, manipulate systems crashed, and FMV all but disap- the humanities. A champion of iterative, col- laborative design, the DSL will pull back the props, puppeteer characters, even com- peared. Today, creators are breathing new pose shots to create virtual storyboards. life into this 35-year-old form. Gamescape curtain on its creative process during this special session, and invite the festival audi- It’s a game changing application that allows 2017 celebrates new FMV work and looks storytellers to focus on the elements that back on golden age titles both famous ence to become participants in developing the group’s next project, the De-Escalation blend together to form great stories. SEPTEMBER 29–OCTOBER 1 and infamous. GameScape is co-curated by Clara Room. A collaboration with SAFELab, the Talk The creators of the toolset will discuss the Fernandez-Vara, of the NYU Game Lab. De-Escalation Room aims to create an development of the platform and its potential to Her Story (Sam Barlow, UK, 2015) impact the filmmaking process. An array of immersive experiences that redefine immersive storytelling space that reckons Mind Trapped (Claire Carre, USA, 2017) with the negative behaviors of social media, Demo Audiences are invited to experience the Loop Record (Nicolai Troshinsky, Spain, 2017) system first hand. the idea of cinematic storytelling forcing its players to work together to defuse PRY (Tender Claws, USA, 2015) an otherwise dangerous situation. Friday, Sep 29 (Talk) 7:00pm (AMP) Cibele (Nina Freeman, USA, 2016) Virtual Jockey Saturday, Sep 30 (Demo) For showtime Last Night (Dejobaan Games, USA, 2018) Sunday, Oct 1 7:00pm (AMP) visit filmlinc.org/nyff Friday, Sep 29–Sunday, Oct 1 (EBM) 32 #NYFF DOWNLOAD THE APP 33 CONVERGENCE

Sanctuaries of Silence Virtual Virtual Reality Title?Dark Corner VR Virtual Jockey

VIRTUAL & AUGMENTED REALITY (FREE) Dark Corner VR: Night Virtual Jockey Arilyn Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center . Friday, Sep 29 3:00–6:00pm . Saturday, Sep 30 1:00–6:00pm . Sunday, Oct 1 1:00–6:00pm Night, Mule, and Catatonic Virtual Reality Experience Augmented Reality Installation The team at Dark Corner Studios Vizor, Finland, 2017 With Augmented Reality, which superim- Sanctuaries of Silence Virtual Virtual Reality Look But With Love have made a name for themselves on At parties, DJs control the mood by select- poses images, video, and other content Adam Loften and Emmanuel Vaughan- Tender Claws, USA, 2017 Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, USA, 2017 360-degree virtual reality projects that ing the music, and VJs set the ambience by onto our flesh and bone world, the line Lee, USA, 2017 The brainchild of Tender Claws, the col- Directed by Oscar-winning filmmaker explore the boundaries of horror cinema displaying visuals on screens. With VR head- between the virtual and the real can blur to One of the defining characteristics of vir- lective behind the Full Motion Video game Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy and presented by by placing audiences in the center of sets such as the Oculus Rift, the experience the point of being indistinguishable—with tual reality is its fully immersive nature: PRY (2015), Virtual Virtual Reality ponders WITHIN, this documentary series follows thrilling—and often terrifying—scenarios. is more than that, when everything around little more than a cell phone. - we gear up, covering our eyes and ears in humanity’s purpose in a future where our extraordinary people in Pakistan working Convergence will feature the world pre- you can be changed on the fly. Finnish visual based Arylin has created a number of Night Night order to briefly live another person’s story. jobs have been co-opted by machines. Will to improve their communities. From a doc- miere of their latest piece as artists Fthr and Lintu specialize in creating installations and activations that leverage Mule Catatonic In Adam Loften and Emmanuel Vaughan- we be little more than relics, reminders tor in the slums of Karachi who’s dedicated well Dark Corner's and . surreal worlds in real time while interacting the power of AR to great effect: paintings with the . Using custom software that come to life and everyday objects that Lee’s piece, the story that we’re asked to . . . even pets? Activitude, a Virtual Labor his life to providing free emergency care Night Night by Guy Shelmerdine USA, 7m experience is that of silence itself, as told System, is here to help, creating an A.I. to children, to a courageous community of Night Night takes you from the safety of your (Vizor Patches) and a variety of materials, spawn interactive videos. A number of childhood bed to a clown-filled nightmare dream- they guide you through a trip that starts these pieces will be on display throughout through the unique perspective of acoustic manager that’s a perfect match for your women in Nowshera, the epicenter of the scape. A Dark Corner Studios, MPC, and Unit ecologist Gordon Hempton. “Sanctuaries meaningfulness quotient. It’s Inception terrorist insurgency, Look But With Love Sofa production. from nothing and ends in a living, breathing the festival venues—simply download the virtual world. Each participant walks away Arilyn app and look for this symbol to of Silence” invites its audience to join meets The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy explores the lives of Pakistan’s most fear- Mule by Guy Shelmerdine USA, 6m Hempton as he travels through Olympic meets The Wizard of Oz, only there is not less and passionate citizens one story at a A thrilling, emotional journey through the last with a personalized piece that is saved on experience AR for yourself. moments of a man’s life. Choose your ending— the web and can be relived at home. National Park, one of the quietest places just one wizard but a network of wizards time. Audiences are invited to experience do you want to be buried or cremated? A Dark in North America, searching for a place living inside wizards, splitting themselves the first two episodes of this exciting proj- Corner Studios production. not impacted by noise pollution—which is open like nesting dolls, pulling back infinite ect, “A Story of Women” and “A Story of Catatonic by Guy Shelmerdine USA, 5m fast becoming as threatened as any endan- tiny curtains to reveal a churning multitude Dance.” The documentary is produced by This pioneering horror experience places you in the POV of a new patient as you are welcomed gered species. of unstable realities. SOC Films and Here Be Dragons, and will into a sinister psychiatric hospital. A Dark Corner be available on the WITHIN app. Studios production. 34 #NYFF DOWNLOAD THE APP 35 REVIVALS Courtesy of Nounez/Gaumont/Kobal/REX/ShutterstockCourtesy of Pictures/Studiocanal Rialto Courtesy of

L’Atalante Bob le flambeur Directed by Jean Vigo Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville

Jean Vigo’s legendary last film, about a France, 1934, 89m The 1981 screening of Bob le flambeur at France, 1956, 102m The latest barge captain (Jean Dasté) and his new Principal Cast the 19th New York Film Festival marked Principal Cast bride (Dita Parlo), who begin their turbulent Dita Parlo, many American filmgoers’ first exposure Roger Duchesne, Jean Dasté, Isabelle Corey, restorations marriage aboard his riverboat accompa- Michel Simon to Jean-Pierre Melville. His fourth feature, Daniel Cauchy nied by an eccentric first mate (Michel Screenplay starring Roger Duchesne as a thief with Screenplay Simon), was filmed in the winter of 1933 Jean Vigo, a code of honor who envisions and exe- Jean-Paul Melville, and re-releases Albert Riéra Auguste Le Breton while the director was suffering from tuber- cutes a perfect plan to rob the casino in Cinematography Cinematography of essential culosis. Gaumont started hacking away at , Deauville, marks the real beginning of what Henri Decaë Louis Berger, Vigo’s cut and released a 65-minute ver- we have now come to think of as Melville’s Editing Jean-Paul Alphen sion to poor reviews. One month later, Vigo world: a drily elegant network of interlock- Monique Bonnot classics of Editing Producers died at age 29. Since then, the film has not Louis Chavance ing movements and gestures between Jean-Pierre Melville, cinema only been seen and loved but painstak- Producer laconic gangsters, at once powered and Serge Silberman, ingly reconstituted over time to be as close Jacques Louis-Nounez haunted by American cinema. A Rialto Roger Vidal as we will ever come to Vigo’s original cut. Pictures release. A Janus Films release. 4K restoration from the interpositive, under the supervision of Studiocanal, with the support of the Restored by Gaumont in association with The Film CNC. Foundation and La Cinémathèque française with the support of Centre National de la Cinématographie. Friday, Oct 13 4:30pm (HGT) Restoration performed at L’Immagine Ritrovata in Bologna and . The Old Dark House Tuesday, Oct 3 3:45pm (HGT)

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144 WEST 65TH STREET // NEW YORK, NY 10023 Casa de Lava The Crime of Monsieur Lange Daughter of the Nile Directed by Pedro Costa Directed by Jean Renoir Directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien

Cape Verde’s colonial histories and dis- Portugal, 1994, 105m A publishing company’s members form France, 1936, 77m Often overlooked, Hou Hsiao-hsien’s Taiwan, 1987, 91m placed emigrants have been central to many Principal Cast a collective after its charming and thor- Principal Cast Daughter of the Nile (Ni luo he nu er), a fasci- Principal Cast of Costa’s films, but his rarely seen second Isaach De Bankolé oughly evil owner (Jules Berry) disappears René Lefèvre, nating attempt to portray the anomie felt by Yang Lin, Inês de Medeiros, Florelle, Jack Kao, feature is the only one thus far shot on the Edith Scob, in the dead of night in Jean Renoir and Jules Berry Taiwanese youth of the mid-1980s (based Shu-Fang Chen, Pedro Hestnes Shu-Fen Hsin, archipelago. Leão (Isaach De Bankolé), the writer Jacques Prévert’s beautiful film, Screenplay in part on incidents in the life of screen- Chih-Cheng Hseuh comatose laborer whose removal to his Screenplay made under the sign of Prévert’s socialist Jean Renoir, writer Chu T’ien-wen), came between the Pedro Costa Jacques Prévert, Screenplay home at Fogo jump-starts the film, shares theater collective, Le Groupe Octobre. “Of Jean Castanier period pieces that established the director Chu T'ien-wen Cinematography a profession and a past with Costa’s iconic Emmanuel Machuel all Renoir’s films,” wrote François Truffaut, Cinematography on his home ground and around the world. Cinematography Jean Bachelet Chen Huai-en Ventura. But this film’s revelation is the Editing “M. Lange is the most spontaneous, the Even Hou himself has been hard on the fierce, unblinking attention given to the col- Dominique Auvray richest in miracles of camerawork, the Editing film and its main actress, pop star Yang Lin, Editing Marthe Huguet, Liao Ching-song Producers onists: Edith Scob as an aging Portuguese most full of pure beauty and truth. In short, Marguerite Renoir in the role of a teenager trying to make a Producers woman who has made the island her ill-fit- it is a film touched by divine grace.” With Producers living, care for her volatile older brother Lu Wen-jen ting home; Pedro Hestnes as her son; and René Lefèvre as the guileless dreamer M. André Halley des (Jack Kao), find love, and define herself Fontaines Inês de Medeiros as the Lisbon nurse who Lange and singer and actress Florelle as Jean Renoir all at once. Nevertheless, Daughter of the accompanies Leão. Inspired by Tourneur’s I his beloved. A Rialto Pictures release. Nile is a rich experience from a formidable

Walked with a Zombie, this is one of Costa’s 4K restoration from nitrate and safety elements, the filmmaker. A Cohen Media Group release. most direct reckonings with Portugal’s colo- internegative and a 35mm print, under the supervision of Studiocanal, with the support of the CNC. Friday, Sep 29 6:00pm (FBT) nial legacy. A Grasshopper Film release.

Sunday, Oct 1 12:30pm (FBT) Friday, Sep 29 8:30pm (FBT)

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L’Enfant secret Grandeur and Decadence Hallelujah the Hills Lucía Directed by Philippe Garrel Directed by Jean-Luc Godard Directed by Adolfas Mekas Directed by Humberto Solás

After the generational upheaval of May ’68, France, 1979, 92m Godard took a French network television France, 1986, 91m Inspired as much by Hollywood comedies USA, 1963, 82m A key work of Cuban cinema, Solás’s first Cuba, 1968, 160m and the personal upheavals of drug addic- Principal Cast commission to create a TV movie for the Principal Cast and romances of the silent era as by the Principal Cast feature is a trio of stories about women Principal Cast tion, depression, and shock therapy, Garrel Anne Wiazemsky, Série noire TV anthology based on James Jean-Pierre Mocky, , Adolfas Mekas’s debut Peter Beard, named Lucía: “Lucía 1895” (featuring Raquel Revuelta, Henri de Maublanc, Marie Valera, Sheila Finn, Eslinda Núñez, decided to turn away from the increasingly Xuan Lindenmeyer Hadley Chase’s 1964 novel The Soft Centre, Jean-Pierre Léaud feature remains, 54 years after its American Martin Greenbaum, Raquel Revuelta, the “Voice of Cuba” in I Adela Legrá Peggy Steffans private poetry of his earlier work, at the Screenplay and turned in this funny, melancholy video Screenplay premiere in the first New York Film Festival, Am Cuba) is inspired by Visconti’s Senso; Screenplay center of which was his great love, . Philippe Garrel piece about a director (Jean-Pierre Léaud) Jean-Luc Godard an irreverent delight, a semi-slapstick Screenplay “Lucía 1933” (with Eslinda Núñez, from Humberto Solás, Adolfas Mekas Nelson Rodríguez, Cinematography Cinematography Screenwriter Annette Wadamant helped and producer (comic filmmaker Jean-Pierre vision of true love, and a valentine to cin- Memories of Underdevelopment) is closer Julio García Espinosa Pascal Laperrousaz Caroline Champetier Cinematography him organize his thoughts into a narrative Mocky) who are trying to make a movie Serge Le François ema itself. Two madly impulsive young Ed Emshwiller to Hollywood melodrama of the ’40s; and Cinematography Editing Jorge Herrero of “things that happened to me,” and the Philippe Garrel out of the Chase novel—sort of—in the old Producer men are in love with the same woman, Editing “Lucía 196_”, made in the spirit of the Pierre Grimblat Louis Brigante, Editing result was this spare, devastating film about Producer style: on the run, with a low budget, and who happens to be played by two different revolutionary moment, is a broadly drawn Adolfas Mekas Nelson Rodríguez two damaged souls (Henri de Maublanc Philippe Garrel with an eye toward sublimity. A Capricci actresses. The snow-covered fields and tale of a woman (Adela Legrá) under the Producers Producers and Anne Wiazemsky) trying to build a life Films release. trees of Vermont still gleam as beautifully David C. Stone thumb of her domineering husband. Lucía Raúl Canosa, as her child’s taken away. Serge Daney in this new digital restoration as in the orig- is a vivid visual experience, shot in glorious Camilo Vives Thursday, Oct 5 9:15pm (FBT) wrote, “It’s as if this autobiographical film inal 35mm. A Kino Lorber release. black and white by Jorge Herrero.

has succeeded in holding its bearings with- Restored by Cineteca di Bologna at L'Immagine Thursday, Oct 12 6:00pm (HGT) out forgetting the trace of each stage of the Ritrovata laboratory in association with Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industria Cinematográficos (ICAIC). journey it’s passed through.” A Film Desk Restoration funded by and The release. Film Foundation's World Cinema Project. Digital remaster courtesy of Re:Voir Thursday, Oct 12 8:00pm (HGT)

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The Old Dark House One Sings, the Other Doesn’t Le Révélateur The Sacrifice Directed by Directed by Agnès Varda Directed by Philippe Garrel Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky

Cast from the mold of Edgar Allan Poe’s USA, 1932, 71m The opening night selection of the 1977 France, 1977, 107m This astonishingly beautiful black-and- France, 1968, 67m The sacrifice in Andrei Tarkovsky’s final Sweden, 1986, 142m “The Fall of the House of Usher” and the Principal Cast New York Film Festival, Agnès Varda’s sin- Principal Cast white , shot in Germany’s Black Principal Cast film, completed only months before his Principal Cast many gothic tales in its wake, J. B. Priestley’s Boris Karloff, gular One Sings, the Other Doesn’t (L’une Thérèse Liotard Forest with a cast of three (Bernadette , death from cancer at the age of 54, is per- Erland Josephson, , Valérie Mairesse, Laurent Terzieff, Susan Fleetwood, 1927 novel Benighted was one of the most Charles Laughton, chante, l’autre pas) is a feminist musi- Robert Dadiès, Lafont, Laurent Terzieff, Stanislas Robiolle), Stanislas Robiolle formed by Alexander, an aging professor Allan Edwall Gloria Stuart, Ali Rafie popular among the dozens of stories of the cal—with lyrics by the director—about the is a primal response to May ’68 as it was Screenplay who strikes a deal with God in order to Screenplay Lillian Bond late 1920s and early 1930s for the page, bond of sisterhood felt by Pomme (Valérie Screenplay unfolding. Lafont synopsized perfectly: “A Philippe Garrel avert humankind’s self-obliteration after Andrei Tarkovsky Screenplay Agnès Varda Cinematography Cinematography stage, and screen about stranded travel- Benn Levy, Mairesse) and Suzanne (Thérèse Liotard) couple and their child flee in the face of an the sudden outbreak of World War III. The Cinematography Michel Fournier R. C. Sherriff ers wandering through gloomy, secluded throughout years of changes and fraught Charles Van Damme unknown but still considerable menace… Sacrifice is a work made under the sign Editing Editing Cinematography mansions at night. In their film adaptation, relationships with men. “If I put myself on Editing In a desolate landscape, full of humidity Philippe Garrel of one of Tarkovsky’s masters, Ingmar Michal Leszczylowski, Arthur Edeson Joëlle Van Effenterre Andrei Tarkovsky James Whale and his writers Benn Levy the screen—very natural and feminist— and humiliation, we see the weakest of Producers Bergman: the film was shot in Swedish Editing Philippe Garrel, Producers and R. C. Sherriff gave the novel a comic Clarence Kolster maybe I’d get ten people in the audience,” beings stage his revolt: a child.” Michel with several of Bergman’s principal actors, Sylvinia Boissonnas, Anna-Lena Wibom spin, bringing the film closer in spirit to the Producer Varda explained to Gerald Peary at the Fournier said that Garrel allowed him “the Claude Nedjar including Erland Josephson in the lead, and director’s later Bride of Frankenstein. The Carl Laemmle Jr. time of the film’s release. “Instead, I put two greatest liberty to improvise and to invent, his DP Sven Nykvist. It is, most certainly, Old Dark House was thought to be missing nice young females on the screen, and not with voluntarily minimal lighting in order to a final testament. But it is also, like every in the years after Universal lost the rights, too much of my own leftist conscience. By stimulate our imagination and an extremely Tarkovsky film, a plunge into the uncanny and it was filmmaker Curtis Harrington who not being too radical but truly feminist, my sensitive film stock in order to capture the and the uncharted. A Kino Lorber release. rescued it from oblivion. A Cohen Media film has been seen by 350,000 people in faintest glimmers or the strongest appari- Saturday, Oct 14 3:30pm (HGT) Group release. France.” A Janus Films release. tions.” A Film Desk release.

Saturday, Sep 30 3:00pm (HGT) Sunday, Oct 1 3:00pm (WRT) Digital remaster courtesy of Re:Voir Wednesday, Oct 11 4:30pm (FBT)

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Sansho the Bailiff A Story from Chikamatsu Directed by Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi

One of the greatest of Mizoguchi’s films, Japan, 1954, 124m Mizoguchi’s film of a 17th-century jōruri Japan, 1954, 102m NET Sansho the Bailiff( Sanshô Dayû) is also one Principal Cast play by Chikamatsu Monzaemon about Principal Cast of the greatest works of the cinema. The Kinuyo Tanaka, an apprentice scroll-maker who runs Kazuo Hasegawa, Yoshiaki Hanayagi, Kyoko Kagawa, THE story of a family’s quiet endurance as it is Kyoko Kagawa, away with his master’s young wife is, like Eitaro Shindo Masao Shimizu, split up, its members sold into slavery and Sansho the Bailiff and before them, Screenplay Eitaro Shindo DIGITAL DIVIDE prostitution, in 11th-century Japan, is very a work of extraordinary beauty and force. Yoshikata Yoda Screenplay Cinematography delicately balanced between tenderness Fuji Yahiro, Per , this is “a great mas- IN AMERICA HOW MILLIONS OF KIDS ARE and remove. Sansho the Bailiff“moves from Yoshikata Yoda terpiece that could only have been made Editing Cinematography BEING DENIED TECHNOLOGY. easy poetry to difficult poetry,” wrote Roger by Mizoguchi.” The director instructed Kanji Suganuma Kazuo Miyagawa AND A FUTURE. Greenspun upon the film's NY premiere in screenwriter Yoshikata Yoda: “Be stronger, Producer Editing Masaichi Nagata 1969. “Its impulses, which are profound but Mitsuzo Miyata dig more deeply. Seize man, not in some

not transcendental, follow an aesthetic pro- Producer of his superficial aspects, but in his total- DIGITALDIVIDE.COM gram that is also a moral progression, and Masaichi Nagata ity.” In other words, a quest—one that is at that emerges, with superb lucidity, only from the heart of Mizoguchi’s greatest works. A the greatest art.” A Janus Films release. Janus Films release. Restored by KADOKAWA Corporation and The Film Restored by KADOKAWA Corporation and The Film Foundation at Cineric, Inc. in New York with sound by Foundation at Cineric, Inc. in New York with sound by Audio Mechanics, with the cooperation of The Japan Audio Mechanics, with the cooperation of The Japan Presented by Foundation. Special thanks to Masahiro Miyajima and Foundation. Special thanks to Masahiro Miyajima and Martin Scorsese for their consultation. Martin Scorsese for their consultation. DIRECTED & WRITTEN A MOXIE FIRECRACKER FILMS PRODUCTION PRODUCED BYRORY KENNEDY BYMARK BAILEY & TUCKER CAPPS NARRATED PRODUCED EXECUTIVE Wednesday, Oct 11 3:00pm (WRT) Thursday, Oct 5 3:30pm (FBT) BYJAMIE FOXX BYMARK BAILEY, TUCKER CAPPS & MARTIN PEARSON PRODUCED BYROSE STUCKEY KIRK, DIEGO SCOTTI EDITED MARK DOWLEY & CASEY SCHLAYBAUGH BYGILLIAN MCCARTHY & CHARLTON MCMILLAN 44 #NYFF

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U.S. PREMIERE BOOM FOR REAL The Late Teenage Arthur Miller: Writer Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat Directed by Rebecca Miller Directed by Sara Driver

Miller’s portrait of her father, his times and USA, 2017, 101m Sara Driver’s documentary is both a cele- USA, 2017, 79m insights, built around impromptu interviews Featuring bration of and elegy for the downtown New Featuring shot over many years in the family home, Arthur Miller, York art/music/film/performance worldJean-Michel Basquiat, Inge Morath, Alexis Adler, is quite different from what the public has Rebecca Miller, of the late 1970s and early ’80s, through Al Diaz, ever seen of the great American playwright. Robert A. Miller, which Jean-Michel Basquiat shot like a Fred Brathwaite aka Fab Joan Copeland, 5 Freddy, It is a close consideration of a singular life Kermit Miller, rocket. Weaving Basquiat’s life and artistic Lee Quiñones, shadowed by the tragedies of the Red Fran Miller, progress in and out of her rich, living tapes- Felice Rosser, Jane Doyle, Jennifer Jazz, Scare and the death of Marilyn Monroe; a , try of this endlessly cross-fertilizing scene, Luc Sante, bracing look at success and failure in the Tony Kushner Driver has created an urgent recollection Carlo McCormick, Glenn O’Brien, Cinematography public eye; an honest accounting of human of freedom and the aesthetic of poverty. Jim Jarmusch Ellen Kuras frailty; a tribute to one artist by another. Graffiti meets gestural painting, hip hop Cinematography Editing Adam Benn Arthur Miller: Writer invites you to see how David Bartner infects rock and roll and visa versa, heroin Editing one of America's sharpest social commen- Producers comes and never quite goes, night swal- Adam Kurnitz tators formed his ideologies, how his life Damon Cardasis, lows day, and everybody looms as large Cindy Tolan, Producers reflected his work, and, in some small part, Rebecca Miller as they feel like looming on the crumbling Rachel Dengiz, shaped the culture of our country in the streets of the Lower East Side. Sara Driver 20th century. An HBO . Figures from the past, and realities of the present Sunday, Oct 8 1:00pm (ATH) Special thanks to The Blanche & Irving Laurie Foundation, Inc Monday, Oct 9 6:30pm (WRT) Wednesday, Oct 11 9:00pm (FBT) Tuesday, Oct 10 8:30pm (WRT) Cielo Saturday, Oct 14 3:30pm (WRT)

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WORLD PREMIERE Cielo Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun? El mar la mar Filmworker Directed by Alison McAlpine Directed by Travis Wilkerson Directed by Joshua Bonnetta & J.P. Sniadecki Directed by Tony Zierra

The first feature from Alison McAlpine, Canada/Chile, 2017, 78m How is it that some people escape the USA, 2017, 90m The first collaboration between film and USA, 2017, 94m Leon Vitali was a name in English television USA, 2017, 94m director of the beautiful 2008 “nonfiction Cinematography racism and misogyny in which they are Screenplay sound artist Bonnetta and filmmaker/ Cinematography and movies when Stanley Kubrick cast him Featuring ghost story” short Second Sight, is a dia- Benjamín Echazarreta raised, and some cling to it as their reason Travis Wilkerson anthropologist Sniadecki (The Iron Joshua Bonnetta, as Lord Bullingdon in Barry Lyndon, but Leon Vitali, J.P. Sniadecki Ryan O’Neal, Editing Cinematography logue with the heavens—in this case, the to exist? For 20 years, Travis Wilkerson Ministry, NYFF 2014) is a lyrical and highly after his acclaimed performance the young , Andrea Chignoli Travis Wilkerson Editing Lee Ermey, heavens above the Andes and the Atacama has been making films that interrogate the topical film in which the Sonoran Desert, Joshua Bonnetta, actor surrendered his career in the spot- Producers Editing Danny Lloyd, J.P. Sniadecki Desert in northern Chile, where the sky Carmen Garcia, malevolent effects of capitalism on the Travis Wilkerson among the deadliest routes taken by those light to become Kubrick’s loyal right-hand Stellan Skarsgård, “is more urgent than the land.” McAlpine Paolo Castillo, American Dream. Here he turns his sights crossing from Mexico to the , Sound Re-recording man. For the next two decades, Vitali was Marie Richardson, Alison McAlpine Mixer Julian Senior, keeps the vast galaxies above and beyond on his own family and the small town of is depicted a place of dramatic beauty and Josh Berger Kubrick’s factotum, never not on call, for Tim Colceri, Lisa Leone in a delicate balance with the earthbound Dothan, Alabama, where his white suprem- merciless danger. Haunting 16mm images Producers whom no task was too small. Along the way, world of people, gently alighting on the acist great-great grandfather S.E. Branch of the unforgiving landscape and the Joshua Bonnetta, Vitali’s personal life suffered, he drifted from Cinematography J.P. Sniadecki and Editing desert- and mountain-dwelling astrono- once shot and killed Bill Spann, an African- human traces within it are supplemented his children, and his health deteriorated as Tony Zierra mers, fishermen, miners, and cowboys who American man. Branch was arrested but with an intricate soundtrack of interwoven he gave everything to his work. Filmworker Producers live their lives with reverence and awe for never charged with the crime. The life of sounds and oral testimonies. Urgent yet is of obvious interest to anyone who cares Elizabeth Yoffe, Tony Zierra the skies. Cielo itself is an act of reverence his victim has been all but obliterated from never didactic, El mar la mar allows this about Kubrick, but it is also a fascinating and awe, and its sense of wonder ranges memory and public record. “This isn’t a symbolically fraught terrain to take shape portrait of awe-inspired devotion burning all from the intimate and human to the vast white savior story. This is a white nightmare in vivid sensory detail, and in so doing, the way down to the wick. and inhuman. story,” says the filmmaker, who refuses to suggests new possibilities for the political Tuesday, Oct 3 8:30pm (WRT) let himself or anyone else off the hook. documentary. A Cinema Guild release. Friday, Oct 6 6:00pm (WRT) Wednesday, Oct 4 6:00pm (HGT) Saturday, Oct 7 2:45pm (HGT) Friday, Sep 29 9:00pm (WRT) Friday, Sep 29 6:30pm (WRT) Sunday, Oct 1 6:00pm (HGT) Sunday, Oct 1 8:45pm (HGT) 48 #NYFF DOWNLOAD THE APP 49 SPOTLIGHT ON DOCUMENTARY Courtesy of Institute Goodall Jane Courtesy of Courtesy of Julian Wasser Julian Courtesy of Courtesy of Stan Harlow Courtesy of Ines and Ena Talakic Ena and Ines Courtesy of

WORLD PREMIERE U.S. PREMIERE WORLD PREMIERE WORLD PREMIERE Hall of Mirrors Jane Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold No Stone Unturned Directed by Ena Talakic and Ines Talakic Directed by Directed by Griffin Dunne Directed by

In this lively portrait, the great nonpartisan USA, 2017, 87m In 1960, Dr. Louis Leakey arranged for USA, 2017, 90m Dunne’s years-in-the-making documen- USA, 2017, 92m Investigative documentary filmmaker Alex USA/Northern Ireland, 2017, 111m investigative reporter Edward Jay Epstein, Featuring a young English woman with a deep Featuring tary portrait of his aunt Joan Didion moves Featuring Gibney—best known for 2008’s Oscar- still going strong at 81, takes us through his Edward Jay Epstein love of animals to go to Gombe Stream Jane Goodall with the spirit of her uncannily lucid writ- Joan Didion, winning Taxi to the Dark Side, Enron: The Screenplay Griffin Dunne, Alex Gibney Cinematography and Archival Photography most notable articles and books, including National Park near Lake Tangyanika. The ing: the film simultaneously expands and , Smartest Guys in the Room, and at least a Editing Hugo van Lawick Cinematography Harrison Ford, close looks at the findings of the Warren Ines Talakic, Dutch photographer and filmmaker Hugo zeroes in, covering a vast stretch of con- dozen others—turns his sights on the 1994 Ross McDonnell Director of Photography Anna Wintour, Ena Talakic Commission, the structure of the diamond van Lawick was sent to document Jane Ellen Kuras vulsive cultural history with elegance and David Hare, Loughinisland massacre, a cold case that Editing Producers Calvin Trillin, Andy Grieve industry, the strange career of Armand Goodall’s first establishment of contact Editing candor, and grounded in the illuminating remains an open wound in the Irish peace Ines Talakic, Hilton Als, Joe Beshenkovsky, Producer Hammer, and the inner workings of big- Ena Talakic with the chimpanzee population, resulting presence and words of Didion herself. This Susanna Moore process. The families of the victims—who Brett Morgen, Trevor Birney time journalism itself. These are interwoven in the enormously popular Miss Goodall Will Zndaric is most certainly a film about loss—the Cinematography were murdered while watching the World Tom Hurwitz, with an in-­progress investigation into the and the Wild Chimpanzees, the second film Producers loss of a solid American center, the per- Cup in their local pub—were promised Reed Morano, Brett Morgen, circumstances around Edward Snowden’s ever produced by National Geographic. sonal losses of a husband and a child—but William Rexer justice, but 20 years later they still didn’t Bryan Burk, 2013 leak of classified documents, result- One hundred hours of Lawick’s original James Smith Didion describes everything she sees and Editing know who killed their loved ones. Gibney ing in Epstein’s recently published, contro- footage was rediscovered in 2014. From experiences so attentively, so fully, and so Ann Collins uncovers the kind of web of secrecy, lies, versial book How America Lost Its Secrets: that material, Brett Morgen (Kurt Cobain: bravely that she transforms the very worst Producers and corruption that so often results when Mary Recine, Edward Snowden, the Man and the Theft. Montage of Heck) has created a vibrant of life into occasions for understanding. A Annabelle Dunne, the powerful insist they are acting for the One of the last of his generation of journal- film, giving new life to the experiences Netflix release. Griffin Dunne greater good. ists, the energetic, articulate, and boyish of this remarkable woman and the wild Wednesday, Oct 11 6:00pm (ATH) Saturday, Sep 30 3:00pm (WRT) Epstein is a truly fascinating character. in which she found a home. A National Thursday, Oct 12 9:00pm (FBT) Sunday, Oct 1 5:30pm (FBT) Geographic Documentary Films release. Monday, Oct 2 6:00pm (WRT) Saturday, Oct 14 1:00pm (WRT) Wednesday, Oct 4 9:00pm (FBT) Thursday, Oct 5 9:00pm (WRT) Friday, Oct 6 6:00pm (HGT) 50 #NYFF DOWNLOAD THE APP 51 SPOTLIGHT ON DOCUMENTARY Courtesy of Dissent Projects LTD

NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE U.S. PREMIERE U.S. PREMIERE Piazza Vittorio The Rape of Recy Taylor Sea Sorrow A Skin So Soft Directed by Abel Ferrara Directed by Nancy Buirski Directed by Vanessa Redgrave Directed by Denis Côté

Abel Ferrara’s new documentary is a vivid Italy/USA 2017, 75m On the night of September 3, 1944, a young USA, 2017, 90m Vanessa Redgrave's debut as a documen- UK, 2017, 72m Studiously observing the world of male Canada/Switzerland/ France, 2017, 94m mosaic/portrait of ’s biggest public Cinematography African-American mother from Abbeville, Cinematography tary is a plea for a western Featuring bodybuilding, Denis Côté’s A Skin So Soft square, Piazza Vittorio, built in the 19th Tommaso Borgstrom Alabama, named Recy Taylor was walking Rex Miller response to the world’s refugee crisis based Vanessa Redgrave, (Ta peau si lisse) crafts a multifaceted Featuring Lord Alf Dubs, Alexis Légaré, Editing Editing century around the ruins of the 3rd century home from church with two friends when on the international human rights laws signed , portrait of six latter-day Adonises through Benoit Lapierre, Fabio Nunziata Anthony Ripoli Trofei di Mario. The Piazza is now truly a she was abducted by seven white men, and ratified after World War II. Redgrave Emma Thompson the lens of their everyday lives: extreme Cédric Doyon Producer Producers Screenplay Screenplay crossroads of the modern world: it offers Andrea De Liberato driven away and dragged into the woods, Nancy Buirski, includes an interview with the Labour peer diets, training regimens, family relation- Vanessa Redgrave Denis Côté a perfect microcosm of the changes in the raped by six of the men, and left to make Beth Hubbard, Lord Dubs, who at six years old was rescued ships, and friendships within the commu- Claire L. Chandler, Cinematography Cinematography west brought by immigration and forced her way home. Against formidable odds Susan Margolin from the Nazis in Czechoslovakia by one of Andrew Dearden nity. Capturing the physical brawn and François Messier-Rheault displacement. Ferrara, now a resident of and endless threats to her life and the the Kindertransports, and who now leads Editing emotional complexity of its subjects with Editing Rome himself, talks with African musicians lives of her family members, Taylor bravely a British campaign for children fleeing war, Folasade Oyelye wit and tenderness, this companion piece Nicolas Roy and restaurant workers, Chinese barkeeps spoke up and pressed charges. Nancy terrorism and violence. The title, borrowed Producers to Côté’s singular animal study Bestiaire Producers Carlo Nero Jeanne-Marie Poulain, and relocated eastern Europeans, home- Buirski’s passionate documentary shines a from a line in The Tempest, reminds us of (2012) is a self-reflexive rumination on the Joëlle Bertossa, less men and women, artists, members of light on a case that became a turning point the eternal importance of Shakespeare's long tradition of filming the human body Dounia Sichov, Denis Côté the right wing movement CasaPound Italia, in the early Civil Rights Movement, and on sorrow and compassion. that also advances a fascinating perspec- filmmaker Matteo Garrone, actor Willem the many formidable women—including tive on contemporary masculinity. Saturday, Oct 7 1:30pm (WRT) Dafoe, and others, all with varying opinions Rosa Parks—who brought the movement Sunday, Oct 8 4:00pm (WRT) Saturday, Sep 30 6:30pm (FBT) about the vast changes they’re seeing in to life. Sunday, Oct 1 2:45pm (FBT) their neighborhood and world. Sunday, Oct 1 9:00pm (WRT) Thursday, Oct 12 6:00pm (WRT) Tuesday, Oct 3 6:00pm (FBT) Friday, Oct 13 9:00pm (FBT) 52 #NYFF DOWNLOAD THE APP 53 SPOTLIGHT ON DOCUMENTARY Courtesy of NetflixCourtesy of Amalric Mathieu Courtesy of Courtesy of My Box Productions

NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE WORLD PREMIERE Speak Up The Venerable W. Voyeur Three Music Films by Mathieu Amalric Directed by Stéphane de Freitas, co-directed by Ladj Ly Directed by Barbet Schroeder Directed by Myles Kane and Josh Koury C’est presque au bout du monde (France, 2015, 16m) Zorn (2010-2017) (France, 2017, 54m) Each year at the University of Saint-Denis France, 2017, 99m The Venerable Wirathu, an Islamophobic France/Switzerland, Gerald Foos bought a motel in Colorado USA, 2017, 96m 2017, 100m Music Is Music (France, 2017, 21m) in the suburbs of Paris, the Eloquentia Featuring Burmese monk, has led hundreds of thou- in the , furnished the room with Featuring competition determines the class's best Leïla Alaouf, sands of his Buddhist followers in a hate-fu- Featuring louvered vents that allowed him to spy Gay Talese, These three movies from Mathieu Amalric are musicals, from the Souleïla Mahiddin, the voice of Gerald Foos orator. Speak Up (À voix haute) follows Eddy Moniot, eled campaign of ethnic cleansing, in which Maria de Meideros on his guests, and kept a journal of their inside out: they move with the mental and physical energies of Cinematography Elhadj Touré these students, of various family back- the country’s Muslims—a tiny minority— Screenplay sexual encounters…among other things. Cris Moris John Zorn, the wildly prolific and protean composer/performer/ Cinematography Barbet Schroeder grounds and academic disciplines, as they were driven out of their homes and busi- As writer Gay Talese, who had known Foos Editing bandleader/record label founder/club owner and all-around Ladj Ly, Cinematography Myles Kane, prepare. Through the subtle and intriguing Timothée Hilst nesses and penned in refugee camps on for more than three decades, came close grand spirit of New York downtown music; and via the great Victoria Clay Mendoza Josh Koury mechanics of rhetoric, these young people Editing the Myanmar border. As in General Idi Amin to the publication of his book The Voyeur’s Canadian-born soprano/conductor/champion of modern classical Editing Producers Jessica Menéndez, both reveal and discover themselves, their Dada (1974) and Terror’s Advocate (2007), Nelly Quettier Motel (preceded by an excerpt in The New Trisha Koury music Barbara Hannigan. Amalric’s Zorn (2010-2017) began as a Pierre Herbourg moving personal stories surfacing in their Schroder allows a power-hungry fascist to Producers Yorker), factual discrepancies in Foos’s European TV commission that was quickly abandoned in favor Producers Margaret Menegoz, verbal jousts, from the death of a Syrian Harry Tordjman, damn himself with his own testimony. His account emerged, and documentarians of something more intimate: an ongoing dialogue between two Lionel Baier nightingale to a father’s Chuck Norris– Anna Tordjman confrontation with Wirathu is revelatory and Kane and Koury were on hand to record friends that will always be a work-in-progress. The two shorter inspired approach to his battle with cancer. horrifying. A Les Films du Losange release. some wild encounters between the vet- pieces that bracket Zorn feature Hannigan nurturing music into Without sentimentality, Speak Up proves Preceded by What Are You Up to, Barbet eran New York journalist and his enigmatic being with breath, sound, and spirit. Taken together, the three how the art of speech is key to universal Schroeder? (2017, 13m), in which the direc- subject. A Netflix release. films make for one thrilling, intimate musical-gestural-cinematic understanding, social ascension, and per- tor traces the path that led him to where ride. Wednesday, Oct 4 9:30pm (WRT) sonal revelation. racial hatred was mutating into genocide. Thursday, Oct 5 6:00pm (HGT) Friday, Oct 13 9:00pm (WRT) Thursday, Oct 12 8:30pm (WRT) Friday, Oct 13 6:00pm (WRT) Saturday, Oct 14 4:00pm (FBT) Friday, Oct 13 6:30pm (HGT) Saturday, Oct 14 1:00pm (FBT)

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Program 1: Program 2: Speculative Spaces Present Tense TRT: 74m TRT: 76m

Division Movement to Vungtau by Benjamin Pattern Language by Peter Burr Architect Crotty and Bertrand Dezoteux In Crotty and Christopher Alexander's design theories are Dezoteux’s cheeky and damning political applied towards a generative video game laby- patchwork, a quartet of dancing, computer-an- rinth, resulting in this rhythmic animation made imated fruits infiltrate amateur footage shot by of rippling, skipping, and strobing arrays of light soldiers during the Vietnam War. U.S. Premiere, infused with programmatic digital pixelation. Silica France, 2016, 4m USA, 2017, 10m

Wherever You Go, There We Are by Jesse .TV by G. Anthony Svatek The much sought-after, McLean Assisted by a buoyant electro-acous- two-letter web domain suffix of the title is exam- tic soundtrack, McLean maps an evocative ined as both a form of capital and an emblem cross-country travelogue through elegantly of a country on the brink of a climate-induced illustrated postcards and the strangely intoxi- catastrophe in this simultaneously humorous and cating language of junk emails. North American illuminating essay film, centered on the environ- Premiere, USA, 2017, 12m mentally contentious Pacific Islands of Tuvalu. World Premiere, USA/Tuvalu/New Zealand/ IFO by Kevin Jerome Everson In Everson’s France, 2017, 22m hometown of Mansfield, Ohio, multiple UFO sightings yield both passionate firsthand disruption by Belit Sağ In the span of a short accounts and detailed reflections; meanwhile, walk, images and information flow ceaselessly suburban youths raise their arms toward into view as our increasingly digitized lives Flores the heavens in becalmed surrender. North absorb disparate movie and media moments, American Premiere, USA, 2017, 9m from the warmly humorous to the coldly clinical. World Premiere, Netherlands, 2016, 5m Silica by Pia Borg An unseen location scout explores an opal mining town in South Australia Dislocation Blues by Sky Hopinka The Standing in Pia Borg’s sci-fi-laced essay film, which finds Rock protests are the starting point for Ho-Chunk in this semi-deserted region both the traces of artist Sky Hopinka’s inquiry into identity, commu- indigenous culture and remnants of cinema his- nity, and mass media. Against twilit images of the tory. North American Premiere, Australia/U.K., Dakota landscape, the film frames present-day 2017, 23m traumas through distinct first-person perspec- tives and reflects on the threatened environment Flores by Jorge Jácome Island life, love, and and complex social realities of the resistance labor are captured in vivid detail in this specu- camps. USA, 2017, 17m lative fiction, in which two soldiers speak in voi- disruption OCTOBER 6–9 ceover about the over-proliferation of hydrangea Rubber Coated Steel by Lawrence Abu Hamdan flowers on their isolated Portuguese island in the Abu Hamdan, an artist and Forensic Architecture Azores U.S. Premiere, Portugal, 2017, 26m researcher, made an audio analysis to ascertain whether Israeli soldiers used rubber or live The festival’s showcase for international artists’ film and Friday, Oct 6 4:00pm (FBT) bullets in the murder of two Palestinian teens. Saturday, Oct 7 5:15pm (HGT) Through the frame of a speculative court pro- ceeding, the video acts as a tribunal for the case, video works that expand upon our notions of what the which includes audio testimony and onscreen forensic animations. North American Premiere, 2016, 21m moving image can do and be SPONSORED BY Friday, Oct 6 6:15pm (FBT) Flores Saturday, Oct 7 7:30pm (HGT) Dislocation Blues

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Program 3: Program 4: Program 5: Program 6: The Shapes of Things First Person Urban Rhapsodies The Forgotten TRT: 78m TRT: 77m TRT: 75m TRT: 79m

The Crack-Up by Jonathan Schwartz This poetic Art and Theft by Sara Magenheimer Tower XYZ by Ayo Akingbade A visual guide to Barbs, Wastelands by Marta Mateus In this 16mm work meditates on the sights and sounds Magenheimer’s video explores the bounds of the under-acknowledged multiethnicity of the accomplished debut, peasants of the Alentejo of slowly crumbling glaciers. The carefully narrative and the illusion of received wisdom in borough Hackney, Tower XYZ skips to region of Portugal stand in stylized tableaux and deployed superimpositions, strident soundtrack, the seven minutes and twenty-two seconds it the beat of the city’s vibrant youth culture and speak to local youths of the Carnation Revolution, and contrasting tones of intensity and tranquility takes to rob a house. Here, images of medieval communal spirit, offering up a rebel cry for a the postwar agrarian reform movement, and the Shape of a Surface suggest the unpredictable rhythms of metaphys- art, popular cinema, and “live” news reportage new generation: “Let’s get rid of the ghetto!” ghosts of a postcolonial struggle that haunt the Fluid Frontiers ical transformation. World Premiere, USA, 2017, speak candidly to the constructedness of all U.S. Premiere, U.K., 2016, 3m landscape to this day. North American Premiere, 16mm, 18m storytelling traditions. World Premiere, USA, Portugal, 2017, 25m 2017, 7m Ride Like Lightning, Crash Like Thunder by Saint Bathans Repetitions by Alexandre Larose Fern Silva Through softly textured 16mm pho- Fantasy Sentences by Dane Komljen In a serene A series of cinematic portraits shot in domestic Filter by Jaakko Pallasvuo Mixing crude ani- tography and regional iconography, Silva offers meditation on image-making and the slippery spaces in a former gold mining town in New mation, 3D modeling, and faux filmic textures a modernist reflection on two of upstate New nature of storytelling, Komljen ominously mingles Zealand expands into a tapestry of glistening in a self-reflexive essay on digitally abetted York’s most storied 19th century touchstones— anonymous home video footage with images of natural light and vaporous movement, created nostalgia, this playful work of fair use pastiche the landscape painters of the Hudson River contemporary Ukraine’s desolate landscapes. via a painstaking process of in-camera layering refracts all manner of postmodern touchstones School and the legend of Rip Van Winkle—nod- U.S. Premiere, Germany/, 2017, 17m effects. U.S. Premiere, Canada, 2016, 16mm, (David Foster Wallace, Talking Heads, Reality ding to a few musical heroes along the way. 20m Bites) into an aesthetic interrogation of its own North American Premiere, USA, 2017, 16mm, Missing In-Between the Physical Proper methodology, resulting in, to paraphrase one 9m by Olivia Ciummo A prismatic collection of Shape of a Surface by Nazli Dinçel Shooting on onscreen subject, a critique of a critique of a cri- re-photographed images—of deserts and 16mm amidst the Aphrodisias ruins in western tique. World Premiere, Finland/USA/Germany, Fluid Frontiers by Ephraim Asili Visually tracing oceans, plants and animals—are disrupted and Wasteland no. 1: Ardent, Verdant Turkey, Dinçel refracts multiple epochs of reli- 2017, 25m the 19th-century Windsor-Detroit slave pass, transformed by an array of color filters, soft Onward Lossless Follows gious history with mirrors and occluded space, with on-site readings of notable texts by many synth accompaniment, and familiarly boorish finding figural as well as metaphorical power in Semen is the Piss of Dreams by Steve Reinke of Motor City’s most storied African-American messages lifted from the online world. World the human body’s place within the landscape. In Reinke’s latest provocation, the words of poets, Asili deftly captures the city not simply Premiere, USA, 2016, 6m Turkey, 2017, 16mm, 9m author Hervé Guibert are made flesh through as a repository of memory but as a landscape a montage of “human events” that work to of living history. U.S. Premiere, USA/Canada, The Welfare of Tomás Ó Hallissy by Duncan Wasteland no. 1: Ardent, Verdant by Jodie Mack collapse the boundaries between the private Flores 2017, 23m Campbell Campbell’s fictional narrative, concern- Mack’s bracing 16mm montage film juxtaposes and public, the perverse and the prosaic. USA/ ing a pair of American anthropologists en route gleaming close-ups of electrical circuit boards Canada, 2016, 7m Onward Lossless Follows by Michael Robinson to the Irish village of Dún Chaoin, expands into a with hyper-saturated images of a flower-littered Robinson’s latest work of cinematic excava- reflective investigation of filmmaking ethics and landscape. In its rapid-fire presentation, the film Year by Wojciech Bąkowski This strangely per- tion uncovers the darkness inherent even in a portrait of a small community forced to confront offers a swift metaphorical representation of sonal, nostalgia-laced video combines the Polish life’s most banal images and encounters. It’s the changing tides of traditions. U.S. Premiere, technology’s inexorable march. U.S. Premiere, animator’s love of everyday domestic objects an unsettling study in duality—between the U.K./Ireland, 2016, 31m USA, 2017, 16mm, 5m and geometric aesthetics with a flickering synth earthbound and the cosmic, the found and for- Filter score out of an eighties urban crime film.World gotten, the rural and domestic, the verbal and Monday, Oct 9 1:00pm (FBT) Missing In-Between the Physical Proper On Generation and Corruption by Takashi Premiere, Poland, 2017, 6m written. U.S. Premiere, USA, 2017, 17m Monday, Oct 9 8:00pm (HGT) Makino In this Aristotle-inspired audiovisual panorama, a fathomless void slowly accumulates BRIDGIT by Charlotte Prodger Prodger examines Aliens by Luis López Carrasco In this short non- rippling digital textures, and waves of watercolor queer identity and time in this first-person essay fiction portrait, Tesa Arranz, one-time leader of pastels wash atop barely perceptible images of film, shot in and around the Scottish Highlands pioneering Spanish new wave band Zombies, natural phenomena. When the darkness returns, and named after the eponymous Neolithic deity, reminisces about her sexual and political con- only the droning soundscape is left to point the whose name has numerous iterations depending quests, while dozens of her recent paintings way forward. Japan, 2017, 26m on life stage, locality and point in history. U.K., are examined by Carrasco’s inquisitive camera. 2016, 32m U.S. Premiere, Spain, 2017, 23m Saturday, Oct 7 12:00pm (FBT) 2:00pm (FBT) 12:00pm (FBT) Sunday, Oct 8 3:15pm (HGT) Saturday, Oct 7 Sunday, Oct 8 Sunday, Oct 8 5:00pm (HGT) Monday, Oct 9 3:30pm (HGT) BRIDGIT The Welfare of Tomás Ó Hallissy

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Barbara Hammer Program Electro-Pythagoras (a TRT: 82m portrait of Martin Bartlett) Experimental cinema pioneer Barbara Hammer by Luke Fowler FIRST CLASS STARTS has spent much of her five-decade career deconstructing gender and sexuality through U.S. Premiere, U.K./Canada, 2017, 45m material examinations of the celluloid image and ON THE GROUND representations of the female body onscreen. The life and work of Canadian composer and This program of 16mm films combines her surreal, microcomputer pioneer Martin Bartlett is resur- Enjoy a meal before takeoff featuring regionally sexualized 1970s fantasias with her forays into rected in this lovingly constructed biographical Psychosynthesis poetic nonfiction and trailblazing experiments essay. Archival footage finds Bartlett at home, at inspired menus and premium wine and spirits. with optically printed visuals of the 1980s. work, and onstage, while readings of the proudly out artist’s reflections on his place in the era’s gay Psychosynthesis 1975, 6m community convey an intimate personal history. Women I Love 1976, 23m Audience 1983, 32m with No No Nooky T.V. 1987, 12m Vivian’s Garden Still Point 1989, 9m by Rosalind Nashashibi aa.com/flagshipfirstdining All films preserved by the Academy Film Archive. North American Premiere, U.K., 2017, 30m Psychosynthesis, Women I Love, and Audience, Deep in the Guatemalan Highlands, Swiss- also preserved by Electronic Arts Intermix through Austrian artists Vivian Suter and Elisabeth Wild the National Film Preservation's Avant-Garde Masters live in a garden villa. Nashashibi captures their Granr program and The Film Foundation; funded by the unusual microcosm, curious mother-daughter George Lucas Family Foundation. intimacy, and the sense of dependency in their Dufus (aka Art) Monday, Oct 9 3:00pm (FBT) relationship with Mayan domestic workers. Sunday, Oct 8 5:00pm (FBT) Mike Henderson Program TRT: 69m

A singular cinematic figure, San Francisco's Mike FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC Henderson became one of the first indepen- dent African-American artists to make inroads The Worldly Cave into experimental filmmaking in the 1960s. by Zhou Tao Henderson’s work throughout the 1970s and 1980s, from which this program of 16mm films North American Premiere, China, 2017, 48m is culled, thrums with a sociopolitical, humorous sensibility that lends his small-scale, often musi- Electro-Pythagoras (a portrait of Martin Bartlett) Anonymous figures are diminished against cally kissed portraits (which he later dubbed unforgiving environs, both natural and man- “blues cinema”) a personal, artisanal quality. made, in Tao’s expansive cross-continental diary, MONEY 1970, 2m featuring monumental views of the Incheon Sea, Dufus (aka Art) 1970/73, 6m the Balearic island of Menorca, and the Sonoran The Shape of Things 1981, 8m Desert that serve to visualize the infinitesimal The Last Supper 1970/73, 8m stature of the human race. When & Where 1984, 3m Showing on loop: Down Hear 1972, 12m Mother’s Day 1970, 14m Friday, Oct 6—Monday, Oct 9 Pitchfork and the Devil 1979, 16m 12:00pm–6pm & 9:00pm–11:00pm (AMP) All films preserved by the Academy Film Archive.

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Caniba Dragonfly Eyes Le fort des fous Good Luck Occidental Tonsler Park by Véréna Paravel & Lucien Castaing-Taylor by Xu Bing by Narimane Mari by Ben Russell by Neïl Beloufa by Kevin Jerome Everson U.S. Premiere, USA/France/U.K., 2017, 97m U.S. Premiere, China, 2017, 81m France/Algeria/Greece/Germany/Qatar, U.S. Premiere, France/Germany, 2017, 143m U.S. Premiere, France, 2017, 73m North American Premiere, USA, 2017, 80m The latest by the makers of Leviathan (NYFF Chinese visual artist Xu Bing’s ambitious 2017, 140m In his first solo feature in eight years, Ben In a boho Parisian hotel, two sexually Election Day, 2016. Kevin Jerome Everson 2012) is a harrowing engagement with debut feature follows an ill-fated romance In this shape-shifting feature, Algerians’ Russell takes us deep into the unforgiving and politically ambiguous Italians romp and his 16mm camera quietly observe a the sheer presence of a man who did the through a frightening and faceless urban memories of their country’s occupation copper mines of Serbia. When we emerge, through a succession of blatantly artificial, community of mostly African-American vot- unthinkable: Issei Sagawa, a tabloid magnet environment, using only closed-circuit sur- are brought to life via resurrected military we’re thousands of miles away, amongst an anachronistically decorated set pieces, ers and volunteers at a local polling precinct after killing and cannibalizing a woman in veillance footage. Constructing a fictitious reports and re-enactments of France’s illegal band of gold miners in the Suriname stoking the prejudices of staff members in Charlottesville, Virginia. Everson’s film Paris in 1981. Caniba moves past sensation- narrative from real-world encounters and colonial project. As the film moves into a jungle. The physical demands of labor, as and fellow guests. Outside, riots rage and captures everyday faces and the general alism to immerse viewers in an unnervingly frequently spectacular images, Xu turns the dramatic mode, two characters from the first well as the transformative power of music, protesters march, threatening to spill into optimistic atmosphere with a casual formal intimate encounter with Sagawa, who has story of a young man attempting to relocate act join up with a small community seeking connect these communities, each equally the increasingly feverish atmosphere gath- elegance. since lived off his notoriety (as a sexploitation his object of desire into a cogent analysis of refuge along the coast. Utopia proves fleet- fortified by the realities of capital and a spirit ering indoors. French-Algerian artist Neïl Saturday, Oct 7 4:00pm (FBT) star and manga author), and his brother and postmodern identity and digitally mediated ing, and the film, perhaps sensing their fate, of masculine camaraderie. Beloufa’s second feature—reminiscent of primary caretaker. The filmmakers use this communication. reinvents itself as documentary. films by and the stage-de- Saturday, Oct 7 6:15pm (FBT) modern-day instance of cannibalism, long rived works of —confirms the Sunday, Oct 8 9:30pm (FBT) Monday, Oct 9 5:30pm (FBT) Sunday, Oct 8 7:30pm (HGT) a subject of anthropological study, to raise arrival of a uniquely provocative, socially Monday, Oct 9 5:15pm (HGT) questions about repulsion, desire, mad- attuned filmmaker. ness, and more. Audacious and unflinching, Friday, Oct 6 8:15pm (FBT) Caniba compels us to reckon with the most extreme limits of human behavior.

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Hollywood has had no shortage of man’s men, but perhaps no actor advanced so complex and alluring a model as Robert Mitchum. Mitchum’s incomparable career stretched across five decades and saw him blossom from a bit player in war films and westerns in

the into a bona fide star working with some of RKO/Kobal/REX/ShutterstockCourtesy of Sigurdson/RKO/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock Oliver Courtesy of Hollywood’s most towering figures (Hawks, Preminger, Tourneur, Minnelli) in nearly every genre. The handsome and endlessly charismatic Mitchum always had the aura Angel Face Blood on the Moon of a man in control of himself and his situation, yet never- Directed by Directed by Robert Wise theless besieged—a kind of walking metaphor for mod- USA, 1953, 35mm, 91m Robert Wise’s synthesis of western and USA, 1948, 35mm, 88m ern man’s limitations amid a universe of antagonism and Mitchum finds himself caught up in Principal Cast was a breakthrough for the Principal Cast uncertainty. This year marks Mitchum’s centenary, and the machinations of a femme fatale in Preminger’s seminal noir. When ambu- Robert Mitchum, director and further solidified Mitchum Robert Mitchum, there is no better excuse to spend time with some of the , Barbara Bel Geddes, Herbert Marshall, as one of Hollywood’s most intriguing Robert Preston, greatest performances in his staggeringly rich career. lance driver Frank Jessup is summoned to a Beverly Hills mansion after wealthy Leon Ames leading men. Mitchum plays Jim Garry, an Walter Brennan Acknowledgments: Academy Film Archive; ; UCLA Screenplay Screenplay Film & Television Archive; George Eastman Museum; Sikelia NY; Ned Catherine Tremayne is evidently poisoned, underemployed cowboy enlisted by an Frank Nugent, Lillie Hayward Hinkle, Brattle Theatre. he enters the orbit of her enterprising step- Oscar Millard old friend (Robert Preston) to collude in Cinematography daughter, Diane (Jean Simmons), who per- Cinematography a scheme to get an aging cattle owner to Nicholas Musuraca Harry Stradling suades Frank to quit his job and become sell off his herd at a discount. The deadly Editing SPONSORED BY her chauffeur—and ultimately her lover. Editing intrigue that results from this plot leads Samuel E. Beetley Frederic Knudtson But after sensing there may be a devious Jim to wonder whether he’s on the right Producers Producer Theron Warth agenda behind her gentle facade, he must Otto Preminger side of the conflict and to further crave find a way to extricate himself from her the trust of the cattle owner’s daughter schemes before it’s too late. Mitchum is as (Barbara Bel Geddes). Mitchum flourishes sympathetic and charismatic as ever in this amid Wise’s assured direction of screen- gripping thriller to rival Preminger’s other writer Lillie Hayward’s foreboding, twist- great noirs (Laura, Whirlpool, Where the laden, psychologically rich script, adapted Sidewalk Ends). from a novel by Luke Short.

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Cape Fear Cape Fear Crossfire Dead Man Directed by J. Lee Thompson Directed by Martin Scorsese Directed by Edward Dmytryk Directed by Jim Jarmusch

Max Cady (Mitchum) is fresh out of jail USA, 1962, 35mm, 105m Martin Scorsese’s staple obsessions USA, 1991, 35mm, 128m This adaptation of writer/director-to-be USA, 1947, 35mm, 86m Jim Jarmusch's hypnotic, parable-like, revi- USA, 1995, 35mm, 121m following an eight-year bid for rape, and Principal Cast emerge with brute force in his update of J. Principal Cast ’s novel The Brick Foxhole, Principal Cast sionist Western follows the spiritual rebirth Principal Cast the first order of business is terrorizing , Lee Thompson’s 1962 Southern thriller, a Robert De Niro, about a group of vets, led by Mitchum’s Robert Young, of a dying 19th-century accountant (Johnny , Robert Mitchum, , Robert Mitchum, Gary Farmer, lawyer Sam Bowden (Gregory Peck), who Polly Bergen, gruesome tale of good versus evil where , Sergeant Keeley, searching postwar , Depp) named William Blake (no relation Crispin Glover, testified against him, along with Bowden’s Lori Martin no one is entirely good and everything is Juliette Lewis, Washington for their amnesiac friend Gloria Grahame, to the poet . . . or is there?). Guiding Blake John Hurt, Joe Don Baker Paul Kelly, Iggy Pop, Screenplay wife (Polly Bergen) and teenage daughter dialed up with unrelenting peril. Robert De (George Cooper) so they can clear him of George Cooper through a treacherous landscape of U.S. Robert Mitchum James R. Webb Screenplay (Lori Martin). J. Lee Thompson’s influential Niro is at his most terrifying as Max Cady, Wesley Strick a murder charge, embodies the essence Screenplay Marshals, cannibalistic bounty hunters, Screenplay Cinematography John Paxton Jim Jarmusch thriller, scored by Bernard Herrmann and a ripped ex-con hell-bent on punishing his Cinematography of what has come to be known as “film shady missionaries, and cross-dressing fur Cinematography Cinematography shot by Sam Leavitt, features a perfor- Editing former lawyer, Sam Bowden (Nick Nolte), noir”—moody, troubled characters; noc- traders is a Plains Indian named Nobody J. Roy Hunt Robby Müller mance from Mitchum that channels the George Tomasini who buried evidence relating to Cady’s Editing turnal action; chiaroscuro cinematography; (Gary Farmer), one of the most fully realized Editing Editing Producer menace and malice of his Harry Powell case 14 years prior. In a film marked by a low-key acting spiced with bits of bravura Harry Gerstad Native American characters in contem- Jay Rabinowitz Sy Bartlett Producer from The Night of the Hunter. Mitchum and twisted sense of humor, Mitchum—the Barbara De Fina eccentricity; and a plot so crazy that it feels Producer porary cinema. Dead Man doubles as a Producer Peck—both recast in supporting roles in original Cady—appears as elderly, honor- like a nightmare. If Robert Ryan’s unhinged Adrian Scott barbed reflection on America’s treatment of Demetra J. MacBride Martin Scorsese’s 1991 remake—enact a able police lieutenant Elgart, while Cady’s southern bigot, Gloria Grahame’s thor- its indigenous people and a radical twist on mortal struggle that is enduringly gripping, defense attorney is played by 1962’s oughly disenchanted cocktail hostess, and the myths of the American West. Jarmusch’s harrowing and iconic. Bowden, Gregory Peck. Paul Kelly as her ex-(or maybe not) hus- metaphysical masterpiece features Mitchum band get to play the acting solos, Mitchum in one of his final roles, as a gun-toting, Thursday, Oct 12 3:30pm (WRT) Wednesday, Oct 4 8:30pm (HGT) does a beautiful job on rhythm. cigar-smoking factory owner.

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YOU CAN BE TOO. El Dorado Farewell, My Lovely DISCOVER THE Directed by Howard Hawks Directed by CRITERION COLLECTION, The first of Howard Hawks’s two variations USA, 1966, 35mm, 126m In the first half of the 1970s, Mitchum USA, 1975, 35mm, 95m INDEPENDENT, on his own Rio Bravo finds Mitchum play- Principal Cast reached a new peak, the end of which Principal Cast ing a hard-drinking sheriff who teams up , came with this sepulchrally nostalgic, Robert Mitchum, FOREIGN, AND Robert Mitchum, , ART HOUSE FILMS. with an old friend (hired gun John Wayne) James Caan, neon-lit adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s John Ireland, to protect a wealthy rancher (Edward Edward Asner, second Philip Marlowe novel. The film Sylvia Miles, Arthur Hunnicut Harry Dean Stanton Asner) and his family from the threatening has its charms—not the least of which is START YOUR Screenplay Screenplay FREE TRIAL ON advances of another rancher’s fearsome Leigh Brackett a cameo appearance by Jim Thompson… David Zelag Goodman FILMSTRUCK.COM gang. Along the way, they enlist the help Cinematography as Charlotte Rampling’s husband—but Cinematography of a gambler with a distinctive hat (James Harold Rosson Mitchum (who would reprise the role of John A. Alonzo Caan) and an aging, Native American dep- Editing Marlowe in the truly terrible 1978 version of Editing John Woodcock , uty sheriff (Arthur Hunnicutt)—but, against The Big Sleep) is the one who gives the film Walter Thompson Producer such great odds, will this motley crew sur- Howard Hawks its secret force, as if he were confronting Producers vive? Mitchum supplies his own distinctive the end of both his leading-man identity Jerry Bruckheimer, George Pappas charm and charisma, and Hawks master- and the world that formed him as a star fully imbues the proceedings with both a with bravery and grace. narrative leanness and an expansive sense Saturday, Oct 14 1:30pm (HGT) of character.

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The Friends of Eddie Coyle His Kind of Woman Home from the Hill The Lusty Men Directed by Peter Yates Directed by Directed by Directed by

In Peter Yates’s adaptation of George V. USA, 1973, 102m Mitchum had a good time shooting this USA, 1951, 16mm, 120m Vincente Minnelli’s color melo- USA, 1960, 35mm, 150m “The kind of love I have for the film,” said USA, 1952, 35mm, 113m Higgins’s novel, Mitchum is Eddie, an aging, Principal Cast ambling comedy thriller, playing a down- Principal Cast dramas for MGM are all very special, and this Principal Cast Nicholas Ray of The Lusty Men, “is not as Principal Cast Boston-area gunrunner facing a prison bid Robert Mitchum, on-his-luck gambler who takes a mysteri- Robert Mitchum, adaptation of William Humphrey’s sprawling Robert Mitchum, a filmmaker adoring a child, it’s as a part of , Richard Jordan, , , Robert Mitchum, for a job gone awry and caught in a web of Peter Boyle, ous gig that brings him to an exclusive Baja , 1958 saga of an overpowering Texas land- George Peppard, the literature of America.” Set in the pun- Arthur Kennedy, deals and double-crosses while grappling Steven Keats, resort, where he meets up with a colorful owner and his family (with echoes of Giant George Hamilton ishing, rootless world of the rodeo circuit, Arthur Hunnicut Alex Rocco with whether to give up his former associ- crew of characters, including a beautiful Screenplay and The Big Country) is one of the finest. Screenplay this is one of Ray’s very best films, and Screenplay Screenplay Frank Fenton, Harriet Frank Jr., Horace McCoy, ates to the feds. Fully integrating himself Paul Monash woman (Jane Russell) and her movie star Jack Leonard Mitchum—whose Captain Hunnicutt was Irving Ravetch Mitchum’s Jeff McCloud is its sad, busted, David Dortort within a stellar ensemble cast (featuring a Cinematography boyfriend (Vincent Price). The good time Cinematography intended for —got along very Cinematography but still beating heart. According to Lee Cinematography brilliant array of character actors, including Victor J. Kemper came to a close with endless reshoots of a Harry J. Wild well with Minnelli (they’d worked together Server’s biography of the actor, Mitchum Peter Boyle, Richard Jordan, and Steven Editing new ending conceived by RKO studio head Editing a decade earlier on Undercurrent), but Editing was so excited by his work in the film (in Editing Pat Jaffe Frederic Knudtson, Harold F. Kress Ralph Dawson Keats) and blending into Yates’s finely cre- and directed by Richard Eda Warren less well with his younger co-star George which he did many of his own stunts) that Producer Producers Producer ated working-class atmosphere, Mitchum Paul Monash Fleischer, climaxing in a violent drunken Producers Peppard, who asked Mitchum if he’d stud- Edmund Granger, he went out with his director to celebrate, gives one of his career-best performances tirade from the actor, which finished with John Farrow, ied the Stanislavsky Method. “No,” said Sol C. Siegel got drunk, appropriated a gun from an FBI Robert Sparks here, conjuring a blend of melancholy, spir- the immortal words, “Fuck you! And fuck Mitchum, “but I’ve studied the Smirnoff agent, and fired it into a stack of dishes. itual exhaustion, and cloaked malevolence. Howard Hughes, too!” Tirades aside, it’s Method.” Wednesday, Oct 11 9:00pm (ATH) one of Mitchum’s best films. Monday, Oct 2 3:30pm (FBT) Thursday, Oct 5 6:15pm (FBT) Friday, Sep 29 6:30pm (HGT)

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Macao The Night of the Hunter Out of the Past Pursued Directed by /Nicholas Ray Directed by Charles Laughton Directed by Directed by

Nicholas Ray was brought on to finish this USA, 1952, 35mm, 81m Mitchum’s turn in the only film directed by USA, 1955, 35mm, 92m Tourneur’s landmark noir boasts one of USA, 1947, 35mm, 97m In Walsh’s very dark and Freudian noir/ USA, 1947, 35mm, 101m atmospheric crime yarn after producer Principal Cast Laughton is a towering achievement. An Principal Cast Mitchum’s most iconic roles. He is mag- Principal Cast western—a Scorsese favorite—Mitchum is Principal Cast Howard Hughes forced Josef von Sternberg Robert Mitchum, expressionist, southern gothic noir, The Robert Mitchum, netic as Jeff, the low-key proprietor of a Robert Mitchum, Jeb, the only survivor of a massacre that , Jane Russell, , Jane Greer, Robert Mitchum, off the project. (Allegedly, Mitchum helped William Bendix, Night of the Hunter (adapted by James Lillian Gish gas station in small-town . When wiped out his family when he was a boy. Judith Anderson, Thomas Gomez, Dean Jagger write a few scenes with Ray.) But its initial Agee from Davis Grubb’s novel) tracks the Screenplay some ill-intentioned characters from Jeff’s Screenplay After being adopted by another family (led Gloria Grahame director’s signature textures and tones devious exploits of self-styled reverend James Agee shadowy past arrive on the scene looking Geoffrey Homes by chilly matriarch Judith Anderson), he Screenplay Screenplay Niven Busch Cinematography Cinematography still shine through: dresses and gloves Bernard C. Schoenfeld, and serial killer Harry Powell (Mitchum) as for him, it sets off a riveting chain of events falls in love with his foster sister (Teresa Stanley Cortez Nicholas Musuraca Cinematography Stanley Rubin sheathed in glitter; an Escher-like casino; a he gets out of jail and sets out to wed Willa that reunites him with Kathie (Jane Greer, Wright). Now an adult, Jeb yearns to untan- Editing Editing Cinematography pier-set finale that recalls Sternberg’s The Harper (Shelley Winters), the widow of his Robert Golden one of the all-time great femme fatales), Samuel E. Beetley gle suppressed memories of his trauma, Editing Harry J. Wild Christian Nyby Docks of New York. It was, by all accounts, deceased cellmate, and murder her for Producer the slippery girlfriend of powerful and Producer and of the mysterious one-armed man who Editing Paul Gregory Warren Duff Producer an unpleasant, tumultuous production. The Samuel E. Beetley, her hidden fortune; it falls to her children shady Whit Sterling (Kirk Douglas). Out of haunts him. Told in elaborate flashback, Milton Sperling final movie, though, is buoyant—a shimmer- Robert Golden to stop the madman living in their house. the Past is singularly rich with twists, turns, with expressionistic touches, Pursued is ing cinematic vacation starring Mitchum as Producer Mitchum is the charismatic monster lurking and profound ideas concerning the com- one of Mitchum’s great achievements. Alex Gottlieb an American runaway tasked with captur- at the center of Laughton and Agee’s lyri- plex relationship between the past, the 35mm preservation print courtesy of the UCLA Film & ing a crime lord while also wooing a singer cal nightmare (one of only two films com- present, and fate. Television Archive. Preservation funding by The Film Foundation and the AFI/NEA Film Preservation Grants played by Jane Russell. pleted from an Agee script), and it ranks Program. Monday, Oct 9 4:00pm (WRT) among cinema’s greatest and most chilling Thursday, Oct 5 3:45pm (HGT) Saturday, Sep 30 5:00pm (HGT) performances.

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River of No Return The Story of G.I. Joe Directed by Otto Preminger Directed by William Wellman

In this CinemaScope western adventure, USA, 1954, 91m Mitchum’s extraordinary, Oscar-nominated USA, 1945, 35mm, 108m Mitchum is ex-con farmer Matt Calder, who Principal Cast performance as the stoic, exhausted, and Principal Cast lives with his young son in a remote riverside Robert Mitchum, quietly beleaguered Lieutenant Walker Burgess Meredith, Marilyn Monroe, Robert Mitchum, area. Gambler Harry (Rory Calhoun) and Rory Calhoun in this adaptation of correspondent Ernie Freddie Steele, Wally Cassell his fiancée Kay (Marilyn Monroe), a former Screenplay Pyle’s dispatches from the war in Europe, saloon singer, are stranded while en route Frank Fenton made him a star. Director William Wellman, Screenplay Leopold Atlas, Cinematography to collect on a mining claim, and Matt takes himself a WWI vet, and producer Lester Guy Endore, Joseph La Shelle them in. When Harry tests the limits of Matt’s Cowan closely collaborated with Pyle Philip Stevenson Editing Cinematography hospitality, he makes off with his horse and Louis Loeffler (played by Burgess Meredith, who was rifle, leaving Kay behind. Susceptible to Producer doing service in the Air Force at the time) Editing Stanley Rubin the threat of hostile Indians, Matt, his son, to make a film that was true to the life of the Albrecht Joseph and Kay make off down the river in Harry’s WWII soldier—the absolute exhaustion, the Producers abandoned raft, but the river proves to be endurance of terror and shock and loss, the Lester Cowan just as perilous… Monroe and Preminger spells of boredom, the camaraderie. The had a famously rocky rapport (prompting result is a film built like a ballad, unlike any Preminger to buy out his own contract from other of its era. Fox), but Mitchum’s effortless subtlety beau- Print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive. tifully balances Monroe’s broad strokes. Friday, Sep 29 4:00pm (WRT) Monday, Oct 2 6:15pm (HGT) SERIES RETURNS AT PM

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Till the End of Time Thunder Road Track of the Cat Undercurrent Directed by Edward Dmytryk Directed by Arthur Ripley Directed by William Wellman Directed by Vincente Minnelli

This lovely, eloquently simple film about USA, 1946, 16mm, 105m This tale of moonshine runners in the USA, 1958, 35mm, 92m Mitchum reunited with his Story of G.I. Joe USA, 1954, 35mm, 102m A bit of an anomaly within Minnelli’s often USA, 1946, 35mm, 116m returning WWII vets and their difficulties Principal Cast hills of Tennessee and Kentucky was the Principal Cast director William Wellman (“I was very, very Principal Cast more colorful and ebullient oeuvre, this Principal Cast adjusting to the homefront was made and Dorothy McGuire, most personal project of Mitchum’s entire Robert Mitchum, fond of him,” Mitchum said of Wellman, Robert Mitchum, black-and-white, paranoiac romantic thriller , Guy Madison, Gene Barry, Teresa Wright, Robert Taylor, released by RKO to get the jump on The Best Robert Mitchum career—in addition to starring, he pro- Jacques Aubuchon, “and he tolerated me”) for a different kind Tab Hunter, finds the master harnessing his consum- Robert Mitchum Keely Smith, Diana Lynn, Years of Our Lives. Mitchum’s Tabeshaw, Screenplay duced and co-wrote it. Korean War vet of movie, based on a Walter Van Tilburg mate stylishness to spin a haunting, noirish Screenplay James Mitchum Beulah Bondi who has come home with a steel plate in Allen Rivkin Lucas (Mitchum) returns home and sets Clark novel, about a homesteading family tale. Timid Ann (Katharine Hepburn) marries Edward Chodorov Screenplay Screenplay Cinematography Cinematography his head, and his pal Cliff (Guy Madison), about working for his family’s moonshine James Atlee Phillips, in snow country whose livestock is being A.I. Bezzerides the highly eligible Alan Garroway (Robert Harry J. Wild Karl Freud Walter Wise who left as a boy and has returned as a business, making perilous deliveries in a destroyed by a roaming mountain lion. Cinematography Taylor), whose wealth and good looks con- Editing Editing Cinematography William H. Clothier man, spend their days looking for some- Harry Gerstad modified hot rod. But he soon finds himself Wellman and his DP William Clothier (The ceal an underlying and profound cruelty. David Ettenson, Editing thing they can relate to, and the action is Producers taking heat from both the cold-blooded Alan Stensvold Man Who Shot Liberty Valance) worked out Ann grows increasingly obsessed with Producers Fred MacDowell Dore Schary Pandro S. Berman comprised of a series of small encounters, city gangsters who want to take control of Editing a stark visual design, keeping everything— learning the truth about what happened to Producer Harry Marker many of which (for instance, Madison and the moonshine network and the cops who sets, costumes, make-up, and exteriors—in Robert Fellows Alan’s brother, Michael (Mitchum), who has Dorothy McGuire’s war widow flanking a want to crack down on it. A veritable cult Producers black and white tones, with the exceptions been missing for some time... This gripping Robert Mitchum, vet with the shakes at a lunch counter) are classic with driving scenes that still seem Arthur Ripley of one scarlet hunting jacket and one yel- movie casts Hepburn, Taylor, and Mitchum quietly devastating. daring, Thunder Road is both an exhilarat- low scarf. They also shot on location at Mt. all against type, and was one of three films ing ride and a richly characterized expres- Rainier, where 30-foot snowdrifts made for that Mitchum filmed simultaneously follow- Wednesday, Oct 4 3:30pm (HGT) sion of Mitchum’s artistry. the most arduous and exhausting shoot of ing his breakout performance in The Story

Mitchum’s career. of G.I. Joe. Wednesday, Oct 4 3:30pm (FBT) Monday, Oct 2 3:45pm (HGT) Thursday, Oct 12 3:30pm (FBT)

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SPECIAL DOCUMENTARY PRESENTATION The Wonderful Country Nice Girls Don’t Stay for Breakfast Directed by Directed by Directed by Bruce Weber

This western adapted from a novel by Tom USA, 1959, 35mm, 98m Japanese gangster film star Ken Takakura USA, 1974, 35mm, 112m In the late 1990s, the great photographer USA, 2017, 80m Lea stars Mitchum as an expat mercenary Principal Cast teams with Mitchum in a thriller set in Principal Cast and filmmaker Bruce Weber managed to Cinematography who fled to Mexico at age 14 after avenging Robert Mitchum, Tokyo’s criminal underworld. Mitchum Robert Mitchum, convince Mitchum to appear before his Lance Acord, Julie London, Ken Takakura, Jim Fealy, his father’s murder. He’s hired by a cruel Gary Merrill, delivers an alternately rough and sleepy, Brian Keith, camera for a filmed portrait, shooting him Theodore Stanley, Mexican governor (Pedro Armendáriz) Albert Dekker, cynical and gentle performance as retired Richard Jordan, in 35mm black and white, hanging with Shane Sigler Pedro Armendáriz Eiji Okada to carry out an arms deal that takes him cop Kilmer, who returns to Japan after many friends and cronies in restaurants and Editing Screenplay Screenplay Chad Sipkin to Texas, where his refusal to help hunt Robert Ardrey years to help an old army buddy (Brian , hotel rooms and singing before a micro- Producer Robert Towne, Apaches puts him in conflict with a U.S. Cinematography Keith) after his daughter is kidnapped by phone in a studio recording standards. Eva Lindemann-Sánchez Leonard Schrader , Army major (Gary Merrill)—and into the a yakuza boss. Navigating the complex After Mitchum passed away in 1997, it was Executive Producer Alex Phillips Cinematography Nan Bush orbit of the major’s unhappy wife (Julie codes of yakuza ethos, he’s guided by Ken Okazaki Kozo some time before Weber went back into Editing London). Mitchum’s layered performance (Takakura), a former gangster and brother Editing his footage. Still a work in progress, this is Don Guidice, as a reluctantly violent man at a moral Producers of Mitchum’s old flame, but betrayals and a beautifully textured, full-throttle portrait Thomas Stanford crossroads, and caught between two Chester Erskine double crosses lie ahead in Paul Schrader’s of a man who came from—and for many Producers national identities, is the heart of Parrish’s first feature screenplay, co-written with his Sydney Pollack was the very embodiment of—a bygone elegiac, cerebral western, exquisitely shot brother Leonard and Robert Towne. Even era, speaking and enacting its prejudices, by Alex Phillips and Floyd Crosby. in his late fifties, Mitchum is fully capable its longings, its charms. He was also a of handling complex action choreography. great artist with the sensibility of a poet, Saturday, Sep 30 1:30pm (FBT) Print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive. as you’ll see.

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