The 55th New York Film Festival took place from September 28 to October 15, 2017. [1] The festival's opening film was Richard Linklater's Last Flag Flying , and its closing film was Woody Allen's Wonder Wheel . [2]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Before We Vanish | 散歩する侵略者 | Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Japan |
| BPM (Beats per Minute) | 120 battements par minute | Robin Campillo | France |
| Call Me by Your Name | Luca Guadagnino | Italy, United States, France, Brazil | |
| The Day After | 그 후 | Hong Sang-soo | South Korea |
| Faces Places | Visages Villages | Agnès Varda and JR | France |
| Félicité | Alain Gomis | Senegal, France | |
| The Florida Project | Sean Baker | United States | |
| Ismael's Ghosts | Les Fantômes d'Ismaël | Arnaud Desplechin | France |
| Lady Bird | Greta Gerwig | United States | |
| Last Flag Flying (opening film) | Richard Linklater | ||
| Let the Sunshine In | Un beau soleil intérieur | Claire Denis | France |
| Lover for a Day | L'Amant d'un jour | Philippe Garrel | |
| The Meyerowitz Stories | Noah Baumbach | United States | |
| Mrs. Hyde | Madame Hyde | Serge Bozon | France |
| Mudbound | Dee Rees | United States | |
| On the Beach at Night Alone | 밤의 해변에서 혼자 | Hong Sang-soo | South Korea |
| The Other Side of Hope | Toivon tuolla puolen | Aki Kaurismäki | Finland, Germany |
| The Rider | Chloé Zhao | United States | |
| Spoor | Pokot | Agnieszka Holland | Poland, Czech Republic, Germany |
| The Square | Ruben Östlund | Sweden, France, Germany, Denmark | |
| Thelma | Joachim Trier | Norway, Sweden, Denmark, France | |
| Western | Valeska Grisebach | Germany, Austria, Bulgaria | |
| Wonder Wheel (closing film) | Woody Allen | United States | |
| Wonderstruck | Todd Haynes | ||
| Zama | Lucrecia Martel | Argentina,Spain | |
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arthur Miller: Writer | Rebecca Miller | United States | |
| Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat | Sara Driver | ||
| Cielo | Alison McAlpine | Chile, Canada | |
| Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun? | Travis Wilkerson | United States | |
| El mar la mar | Joshua Bonnetta and J. P. Sniadecki | ||
| Filmworker | Tony Zierra | ||
| Hall of Mirrors | Ena Talakic and Ines Talakic | ||
| Jane | Brett Morgen | ||
| Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold | Griffin Dunne | ||
| No Stone Unturned | Alex Gibney | United Kingdom | |
| Piazza Vittorio | Abel Ferrara | Italy, United States | |
| The Rape of Recy Taylor | Nancy Buirski | United States | |
| Sea Sorrow | Vanessa Redgrave | United Kingdom | |
| A Skin So Soft | Ta peau si lisse | Denis Côté | Canada, France, Switzerland |
| Speak Up | À voix haute | Stéphane de Freitas | France |
| The Venerable W. | Le vénérable W. | Barbet Schroeder | France, Switzerland |
| Voyeur | Myles Kane and Josh Koury | United States | |
| Three Music Films by Mathieu Amalric: C’est presque au bout du monde, Zorn, Music Is Music | Mathieu Amalric | France | |
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| First Reformed | Paul Schrader | United States | |
| Mindhunter (series) | David Fincher | ||
| Pandora's Box (1929) | Die Büchse der Pandora | G. W. Pabst | Germany |
| The Opera House | Susan Froemke | United States | |
| Shoah: Four Sisters | Claude Lanzmann | France | |
| Spielberg | Susan Lacy | United States | |
| Trouble No More | Jennifer Lebeau | ||
| Without a Net: The Digital Divide in America | Rory Kennedy | ||
In addition to the following feature films, the Projections lineup also included several programs of short films, including programs devoted to the work of Barbara Hammer and Mike Henderson. [5]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caniba | Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor | France, United States | |
| Dragonfly Eyes | Qing ting zhi yan | Xu Bing | China |
| Electro-Pythagoras and Vivian’s Garden | Luke Fowler | United Kingdom | |
| Le Fort des fous | Narimane Mari | France, Algeria, Greece, Germany, Qatar | |
| Good Luck | Ben Russell | France, Germany | |
| Occidental | Neïl Beloufa | France | |
| Tonsler Park | Kevin Jerome Everson | United States | |
| The Worldly Cave | Zhou Tao | China | |
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| L'Atalante (1934) | Jean Vigo | France | |
| Bob the Gambler (1956) | Bob le flambeur | Jean-Pierre Melville | |
| The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1936) | Le Crime de Monsieur Lange | Jean Renoir | |
| The Crucified Lovers (1954) | 近松物語 | Kenji Mizoguchi | Japan |
| Down to Earth (1995) | Casa de Lava | Pedro Costa | Portugal |
| Daughter of the Nile (1987) | 尼羅河女兒 | Hou Hsiao-hsien | Taiwan |
| L'Enfant Secret (1979) | Philippe Garrel | France | |
| Grandeur and Decadence (a/k/aThe Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company) (1986) | Grandeur et décadence d'un petit commerce de cinéma | Jean-Luc Godard | |
| Hallelujah the Hills (1963) | Adolfas Mekas | United States | |
| Lucía (1968) | Humberto Solás | Cuba | |
| The Old Dark House (1932) | James Whale | United States | |
| One Sings, the Other Doesn't (1977) | L'une chante, l'autre pas | Agnès Varda | France |
| Le Révélateur (1968) | Philippe Garrel | ||
| Sansho the Bailiff (1954) | 山椒大夫 | Kenji Mizoguchi | Japan |
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All Over the Place | Mariana Sanguinetti | Argentina | [4] | |
| Birthday | Alberto Viavattene | Italy | ||
| Bonboné | Rakan Mayasi | Palestine, Lebanon | ||
| The Brick House | Eliane Esther Bots | Netherlands | ||
| Cheer Up Baby | Adinah Dancyger | United States | ||
| Creswick | Natalie Erika James | Australia | ||
| Cucli | Xavier Marrades | Spain | ||
| The Disinherited | Los Desheredados | Laura Ferrés | Spain | |
| Douggy | Matvey Fiks | United States, Russia | ||
| Drip Drop | Jonna Nilsson | Sweden | ||
| A Gentle Night | Qiu Yang | China | ||
| Hedgehog's Home | Eva Cvijanović | Canada, Croatia | ||
| Hitchhiker | Damien Power | Australia | ||
| Hombre | Juan Pablo Arias Muñoz | Chile | ||
| The Last Light | Angelita Mendoza | United States, Mexico | ||
| The Layover | Ashley Connor, Joe Stankus | United States | ||
| Mr. Yellow Sweatshirt | Pacho Velez, Yoni Brook | United States | ||
| My Nephew Emmett | Kevin Wilson, Jr. | United States | ||
| Program | Gabriel de Urioste | United States | ||
| The Road to Magnasanti | John Wilson | United States | ||
| Scaffold | Kazik Radwanski | Canada | ||
| The True Tales | Une histoire vraie | Lucien Monot | Switzerland | |
| Two | Due | Riccardo Giacconi | Italy, France | |
| Unpresidented | Jason Giampietro | United States | ||