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) | Country | Ref |
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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 McAlpine | Chile, 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 Mirrors | Ena Talakic, Ines Talakic | United 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 Up | À voix haute | Stéphane de Freitas | France | |
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 |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country | Ref |
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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 Lacy | United States | ||
Trouble No More | Jennifer Lebeau | United States | ||
Without a Net: The Digital Divide in America | Rory Kennedy | United States |
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) | Country | Ref |
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Caniba | Véréna Paravel, Lucien Castaing-Taylor | United States, France, United Kingdom | [5] | |
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) | Country | Ref |
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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 |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country | Ref |
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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 |
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