2017 New York Film Festival

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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]

Contents

Main slate

English titleOriginal titleDirector(s)CountryRef
Before We Vanish 散歩する侵略者 (Sanpo Suru Shinryakusha) Kiyoshi Kurosawa Japan [2]
BPM (Beats per Minute) 120 battements par minute Robin Campillo France
Call Me by Your Name Luca Guadagnino Italy, United States, France
The Day After 그 후 (Geu-hu) Hong Sang-soo South Korea
Faces Places Visages Villages Agnès Varda, JR France
Félicité Alain Gomis Senegal
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 Richard Linklater United States
Let the Sunshine In Un beau soleil intérieur Claire Denis France
Lover for a Day L'Amant d'un jour Philippe Garrel France
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 (Bamui Haebyeoneseo Honja) Hong Sang-soo South Korea
The Other Side of Hope Toivon tuolla puolen Aki Kaurismäki Finland
The Rider Chloé Zhao United States
Spoor Pokot Agnieszka Holland Poland
The Square Ruben Östlund Sweden, France, Germany, Denmark
Thelma Joachim Trier Norway
Western Valeska Grisebach Germany, Bulgaria
Wonder Wheel Woody Allen United States
Wonderstruck Todd Haynes United States
Zama Lucrecia Martel Argentina

Spotlight on Documentaries

English titleOriginal titleDirector(s)CountryRef
Arthur Miller: Writer Rebecca Miller United States [3]
Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat Sara Driver United States
Cielo Alison McAlpineChile, Canada
Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun? Travis Wilkerson United States
El Mar La Mar Joshua Bonnetta, J.P. Sniadecki United States
Filmworker Tony Zierra United States
Hall of MirrorsEna Talakic, Ines TalakicUnited States
Jane Brett Morgen United States
Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold Griffin Dunne United States
No Stone Unturned Alex Gibney Northern Ireland
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 UpÀ voix hauteStéphane de FreitasFrance
The Venerable W. Le vénérable W. Barbet Schroeder France, Switzerland
Voyeur Myles Kane, Josh Koury United States
Three Music Films by Mathieu Amalric: C’est presque au bout du monde, Zorn, Music Is Music Mathieu Amalric France

Special events

English titleOriginal titleDirector(s)CountryRef
First Reformed Paul Schrader United States [4]
Mindhunter David Fincher United States
Pandora's Box Die Büchse der Pandora G. W. Pabst Germany
The Opera House Susan Froemke United States
Shoah: Four Sisters Claude Lanzmann France
Spielberg Susan LacyUnited States
Trouble No MoreJennifer LebeauUnited States
Without a Net: The Digital Divide in America Rory Kennedy United States

Projections

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 titleOriginal titleDirector(s)CountryRef
Caniba Véréna Paravel, Lucien Castaing-Taylor United States, France, United Kingdom [5]
Dragonfly EyesQing ting zhi yan Xu Bing China
Electro-Pythagoras and Vivian’s Garden Luke Fowler United Kingdom
Le Fort des fousNarimane MariFrance, Algeria, Greece, Germany, Qatar
Good Luck Ben Russell France, Germany
OccidentalNeïl BeloufaFrance
Tonsler Park Kevin Jerome Everson United States
The Worldly Cave Zhou Tao China

Revivals

English titleOriginal titleDirector(s)CountryRef
L'Atalante Jean Vigo France [6]
Bob the Gambler Bob le flambeur Jean-Pierre Melville France
The Crime of Monsieur Lange Le Crime de Monsieur Lange Jean Renoir France
The Crucified Lovers (A Story from Chikamatsu)近松物語 (Chikamatsu Monogatari) Kenji Mizoguchi Japan
Down to Earth Casa de Lava Pedro Costa Portugal
Daughter of the Nile Ni luo he nyu er Hou Hsiao-hsien Taiwan
Grandeur and Decadence (a/k/a The Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company)Grandeur et décadence d'un petit commerce de cinéma Jean-Luc Godard France
Hallelujah the Hills Adolfas Mekas United States
Lucía Humberto Solás Cuba
The Old Dark House James Whale United States
One Sings, the Other Doesn't L'une chante, l'autre pas Agnès Varda France
Le Révélateur Philippe Garrel France
Sansho the Bailiff 山椒大夫 (Sanshō Dayū) Kenji Mizoguchi Japan
The Secret Son L'Enfant secret Philippe Garrel France

Robert Mitchum Retrospective

FilmDirector(s)Ref
Angel Face Otto Preminger [7]
Blood on the Moon Robert Wise
Cape Fear J. Lee Thompson
Cape Fear Martin Scorsese
Crossfire Edward Dmytryk
Dead Man Jim Jarmusch
El Dorado Howard Hawks
Farewell, My Lovely Dick Richards
The Friends of Eddie Coyle Peter Yates
His Kind of Woman John Farrow
Home from the Hill Vincente Minnelli
The Lusty Men Nicholas Ray
Macao Josef von Sternberg, Nicholas Ray
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast Bruce Weber
The Night of the Hunter Charles Laughton
Out of the Past Jacques Tourneur
Pursued Raoul Walsh
River of No Return Otto Preminger
The Story of G.I. Joe William Wellman
Till the End of Time Edward Dmytryk
Thunder Road Arthur Ripley
Track of the Cat William Wellman
Undercurrent Vincente Minnelli
The Wonderful Country Robert Parrish
The Yakuza Sydney Pollack

Shorts

English titleOriginal titleDirector(s)CountryRef
All Over the PlaceMariana SanguinettiArgentina [4]
BirthdayAlberto ViavatteneItaly
BonbonéRakan MayasiPalestine, Lebanon
The Brick HouseEliane Esther BotsNetherlands
Cheer Up BabyAdinah DancygerUnited States
CreswickNatalie Erika JamesAustralia
CucliXavier MarradesSpain
The DisinheritedLos DesheredadosLaura FerrésSpain
DouggyMatvey FiksUnited States, Russia
Drip DropJonna NilssonSweden
A Gentle NightQiu YangChina
Hedgehog's Home Eva CvijanovićCanada, Croatia
HitchhikerDamien PowerAustralia
HombreJuan Pablo Arias MuñozChile
The Last LightAngelita MendozaUnited States, Mexico
The LayoverAshley Connor, Joe StankusUnited States
Mr. Yellow SweatshirtPacho Velez, Yoni BrookUnited States
My Nephew EmmettKevin Wilson, Jr.United States
ProgramGabriel de UriosteUnited States
The Road to MagnasantiJohn WilsonUnited States
Scaffold Kazik Radwanski Canada
The True TalesUne histoire vraieLucien MonotSwitzerland
TwoDueRiccardo GiacconiItaly, France
UnpresidentedJason GiampietroUnited States

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