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MELANCHOLIA
September 30–October 16
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the Gold Rush
spirited away
THE SKIN I LIVE IN
tahrir
Cold Fish
Dreileben part three: One Minute of Darkness
Photo by Donata Wenders
pina
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Special Ticketing Celebrating the Nikkatsu
Centennial, Views from the Avant-Garde
$8 Members / $13 Non-members
Gold Rush
$40 Members / $50 Non-members
Dreileben Parts 1-3,
Sodankylä Forever Parts 1-4
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Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center:
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Ben-Hur, Castle in the Sky, Spirited Away
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THE 49TH NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL
6:30
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Carnage (nyff/ath)
7:00
opening night
Carnage (nyff/wrt)
9:00
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Carnage (nyff/ath)
Photo by Guy Ferrandis
opening night CARNAGE
Roman Polanski | 2011 | France/Germany/Poland | 80M
Roman Polanski’s smashing rendition of Yasmina Reza’s Tony
Award-winning “God of Carnage” is uproariously and savagely
satisfying. With Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz and
John C. Reilly, it’s an explosively comic X-ray of what lies just
under the surface of the outwardly civilized behavior of two
New York City couples. A Sony Pictures Classics release.
Fri Sep 30: 6:30 pm, 9:00 pm - ATH
Fri Sep 30: 7:00 pm, 9:30pm - WRT
12:00The 99 – Unbound
(se/fbt)
1:00A Separation (NYFF/ATH)
1:00Jiraiya The Ninja +
Made to Order Cloth
(mwN/WRT)
3:00Hometown (mwN/hgt)
3:00Julia Loktev in conversation with Melissa ­Anderson
(DD/FBT)
3:30Patience (After Sebald)
(se/wrt)
4:00 Miss Bala (NYFF/ath)
9:30
opening night
Carnage (nyff/wrt)
Photo by: Merie Wallace
centerpiece MY WEEK WITH MARILYN
Simon Curtis | 2011 | UK | 96M
One of the most exciting actresses working today, Michelle
Williams accomplishes the near-impossible—portraying Marilyn
Monroe as an actual person, not just an easily caricatured
icon—in this charming bio-pic centering around the production
of her 1957 film, The Prince and the Showgirl. A Weinstein
Company release.
Sun Oct 9: 6:30 pm, 9:00 pm - ATH
Wed Oct 12: 7:00 pm - WRT
4:00Hometown (mwN/hgt)
5:45Tange Sazen and Pot
Worth a Million Ryo
(mwN/hgt)
6:00Crazy Horse (SE/WRT)
6:30 Melancholia (NYFF/ATH)
8:10Singing Lovebirds aka
Samurai Musical
(mwN/hgt)
8:30Don’t Expect Too Much
(se/fbt)
9:00 Le Havre (NYFF/WRT)
9:30Corpo Celeste (nyff/ath)
4:45Season of the Sun
(mwN/hgt)
3:00The Loneliest Planet
(nyff/ath)
5:00Dreileben (Part Three)
(se/wrt)
6:00A Separation (NYFF/ath)
6:15Andrew Bird: Fever Year
(se/FBT)
7:00Spirited Away (se/HGT)
Fri30
7:30Retaliation (mwN/WRT)
sat01
9:00 Miss Bala (NYFF/ath)
3:30Dreileben (Part Three)
(SE/fbt)
3:00The Warped Ones
(mwN/hgt)
10:00Castle in the Sky (se/ath)
4:00Singing Lovebirds aka
Samurai Musical
(mwN/hgt)
4:00 Mud and Soldiers
(mwN/hgt)
4:00Till We Meet Again
(mwN/hgt)
4:40Crazed Fruit (mwN/hgt)
6:00Invasion (mw/wrt)
5:30Capricious Young Man
(mwN/hgt)
6:00
G ala S creening
A Dangerous Method
(nyff/ath)
6:00 The Kid with a Bike
(NYFF/ATH)
6:30Suzaki Paradise: Red Light
(mwN/hgt)
2:30Sun in the Last Days of the
Shogunate aka Shinagawa
Path (mwN/hgt)
6:00A Diary of Chuji’s Travels
(mwN/WRT)
8:15The Burmese Harp
(mwN/hgt)
6:004:44: Last Day on Earth
(nyff/fbt)
6:20The Burmese Harp
(mwN/hgt)
9:00The Kid with a Bike
(nyff/ath)
6:20Earth (mwN/hgt)
7:0020 Years of Art Cinema:
A Tribute to Sony Pictures
Classics (se/fbt)
6:00Susan Orlean: Rin Tin Tin,
the Life and the Legend
(se/wrt)
6:30 George Harrison: Living
in the Material World
(NYFF/AtH)
7:10 Mud and Soldiers
(mwN/hgt)
9:30Capricious Young Man
(mwN/hgt)
6:30Gate of Flesh (mwN/hgt)
3:00Dreileben (Part Two)
(se/wrt)
3:30Dreileben (Part Two)
(SE/fbt)
9:00The Loneliest Planet
(nyff/wrt)
6:00Music According to Tom
Jobim (se/wrt)
1:00Dreileben (Part One)
(se/wrt)
3:30Dreileben (Part One)
(SE/fbt)
9:00Tahrir (se/fbt)
6:00Tahrir (se/fbt)
closing night THE DESCENDANTS
Alexander Payne | 2011 | USA | 115M
George Clooney gives a beautifully understated performance as a
harried father of two in a comic and moving portrait of marriage,
family and community from the Oscar-winning writer-director of
Sideways, Alexander Payne. A Fox Searchlight release.
Sun Oct 16: 6:15 pm, 9:00 pm - ATH
Sun Oct 16: 6:45 pm, 9:30 pm - WRT
10:30Ben-Hur (mw/ath)
8:30
G ala S creening
A Dangerous Method
(nyff/ath)
8:45Tange Sazen and Pot
Worth a Million Ryo
(mwN/hgt)
6:00Shame (nyff/ath)
12:30The Student (nyff/ath)
3:30 Sleeping Sickness
(NYFF/AtH)
4:45Season of the Sun
(mwN/hgt)
5:30 Once Upon a Time in
Anatolia (NYFF/ATH)
6:40Rusty Knife (mwN/hgt)
8:40Crazed Fruit (mwN/hgt)
8:30The Warped Ones
(mwN/hgt)
9:00 Melancholia
(NYFF/AtH)
9:304:44: Last Day on Earth
(nyff/ath)
9:00You Are Not I (mw/wrt)
9:00 Le Havre
(NYFF/WRT)
7:00 Le Havre (NYFF/ATH)
8:30Music According to Tom
Jobim (se/wrt)
8:40The World of Geisha
(mwN/hgt)
9:00Andrew Bird: Fever Year
(se/fbt)
sun02 mon03
9:00We Can’t Go Home Again
(MW/ath)
tue04 wed05
12:00Shame (nyff/ath)
2:00The Gold Rush (mw/ath)
1:00Suzaki Paradise: Red Light
(mwN/hgt)
2:00Gate of Flesh (mwN/hgt)
2:30 The Turin Horse
(NYFF/AtH)
5:45Take Aim at the Police Van
(mwN/hgt)
2:45Till We Meet Again
(mwN/hgt)
6:00Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
(se/ath)
5:00Take Aim at the Police Van
(mwN/hgt)
7:30Pigs and Battleships
(mwN/hgt)
6:15Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
(se/wrt)
6:30
centerpiece
My Week with Marilyn
(nyff/ath)
9:00 Footnote (NYFF/AtH)
8:00Intentions of Murder
(mwN/hgt)
3:50Intimidation (mwN/hgt)
6:40Intimidation (mwN/hgt)
8:15Rusty Knife (mwN/hgt)
9:00
centerpiece
My Week with Marilyn
(nyff/ath)
12:00Wim Wenders in conversation with Scott Foundas
(DD/FBT)
1:30Corman’s World: Exploits
of a Hollywood Rebel
(SE/WRT)
2:00Charisma (mwN/hgt)
2:45Policeman (NYFF/ATH)
4:10Ten Nights of Dreams
(mwN/hgt)
6:15
closing night The
Descendants (NYFF/ATH)
6:20The Woman with Red Hair
(mwN/hgt)
6:45
closing night The
Descendants (NYFF/WRT)
8:00Cold Fish (mwN/hgt)
9:00
closing night The
Descendants (NYFF/ATH)
sun16
9:30
closing night The
Descendants (NYFF/wrt)
venues:
3:30Martha Marcy May
Marlene (nyff/fbt)
1:00The World of Geisha
(mwN/hgt)
6:00Abel Ferrara in conversation with Dennis Lim
(DD/FBT)
6:00
G ala S creening
The Skin I Live In
(nyff/ath)
4:15Retaliation (mwN/hgt)
2:45Stray Cat Rock: Sex
Hunter (mwN/hgt)
6:00 Footnote (NYFF/AtH)
6:00The Student (nyff/fbt)
6:15Dancer in Izu (mwN/hgt)
6:10A Colt Is My Passport
(mwN/hgt)
6:00Joe Berlinger and Bruce
Sinofsky in conversation
with Eugene Hernandez
(DD/FBT)
8:00Tokyo Drifter (mwN/hgt)
6:10Stray Cat Rock: Sex
Hunter (mwN/hgt)
8:15Sodankylä Forever
(Parts 1 & 2) (se/fbt)
8:45Sodankylä Forever
(Parts 3 & 4) (se/FBT)
8:00From Morning Till
Midnight (se/wrt)
9:00The Ballad of Mott the
Hoople (se/wrt)
9:00
G ala S creening
The Skin I Live In
(nyff/ath)
8:00The Hell-Fated Courtesan
(mwN/hgt)
tue11
9:15Sleeping Sickness
(NYFF/ WRT)
wed12
and don’t miss
Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center
144 West 65th Street
FBT Francesca Beale Theater
HGT Howard Gilman Theater
AT Amphitheater
new york film festival Forums
EVENT TITLES:
nyff Festival Main Slate Films
DD Directors
Dialogues
MW Masterworks
MWN Velvet Bullets and Steel
Kisses: Celebrating the
Nikkatsu Centennial
SE Special Event
VAG Views from
the Avant-Garde
6:00This is not a Film
(NYFF/ATH)
7:00My Week with Marilyn
(nyff/wrt)
ATH Alice Tully Hall
1941 Broadway
WRT Walter Reade Theater
165 West 65th Street
fri07
4:15I Look Up When I Walk
(mwN/hgt)
9:15Martha Marcy May
Marlene (nyff/ath)
sun09 mon10
12:00The Artist (NYFF/ATH)
thu06
4:00Pigs and Battleships
(mwN/hgt)
Join us for free daily conversations with
filmmakers and actors, as well as panel
discussions at the Amphitheater inside
the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center (144
W. 65th St.) and at the Apple Store, Upper
West Side (1981 Broadway). Get the
schedule at FilmLinc.com.
Shorts
Discover the filmmakers of tomorrow
today with two programs of original and
accomplished short films by exciting new
talents on the world cinema stage. Visit
FilmLinc.com for more information.
8:30The Royal Tenenbaums
(se/ath)
sat08
12:00Play (NYFF/ATH)
12:00On Cinema: Alexander
Payne (se/wrt)
4:00Spirited Away (se/fbt)
1:00I Look Up When I Walk
(mwN/hgt)
4:30Intentions of Murder
(mwN/hgt)
2:30The Untold History of the
United States (SE/WRT)
6:00The Artist (NYFF/ATH)
6:00Vito (SE/WRT)
3:00Goodbye First Love
(NYFF/ATH)
6:30The Exterminating Angel
(se/fbt)
3:00Tattooed Core of Flower
(mwN/hgt)
7:20The Oldest Profession
(mwN/hgt)
4:40Tokyo Drifter (mwN/hgt)
9:00Goodbye First Love
(NYFF/AtH)
6:30Love Hotel (mwN/hgt)
9:00The Woman with Red Hair
(mwN/hgt)
9:15Vito (SE/WRT)
thu13
gala A DANGEROUS METHOD
David Cronenberg | 2011
France/Ireland/UK/Germany/Canada | 99M
From David Cronenberg, A Dangerous Method charts the
relationship between Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen) and
his protégé turned dissenter Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender), as
it was shaped by the case of Sabine Spielrein (Keira Knightley),
a young Russian Jewish patient of Jung’s. A Sony Pictures
­Classics release.
Wed Oct 5: 6:00 pm, 8:30 pm - ATH
fri14
6:15Pina (NYFF/ATH)
7:00Pauline Kael: A Life in the
Dark (se/fbt)
7:30The Adventures of
Buckaroo Banzai (SE/wrt)
sat15
8:20Charisma (mwN/hgt)
9:15Policeman (NYFF/ATH)
gala THE SKIN I LIVE IN / LA PIEL QUE HABITO
Pedro Almodóvar | 2011 | Spain | 117M
Marking the first collaboration in 21 years between Pedro
Almodóvar and Antonio Banderas, this dramatic thriller follows a
famous plastic surgeon’s (Banderas) obsession to create a new
skin with which he might save his wife’s life. Unbeknownst to
others, he has been trying to put his theory into practice and
holds a deep, dark secret. Almodóvar continues to address the
theme in his work of a bold, unsettling exploration of identity. A
Sony Pictures ­Classics release.
Wed Oct 12: 6:00 pm, 9:00 pm - ATH
In her exceptional third feature, writer-director
Mia Hansen-Løve shows once again her talent for
capturing the agony and the ecstasy of adolescence.
Besotted teenagers Sullivan and Camille struggle, as all
couples must, with a painful push-pull dynamic over
the course of eight years. A Sundance Selects release.
Fri Oct 14: 9:00 pm - ATH
Sat Oct 15: 3:00 pm - ATH
4:44: LAST DAY ON EARTH
Abel Ferrara | 2011 | Usa | 82M
With the planet on the verge of extinction, a New York
couple (Willem Dafoe and Shanyn Leigh) cycle
through moments of anxiety and ecstacy in Abel
Ferrara’s visceral imagining of the apocalypse, a
haunting trance film and a mournful valentine to the
director’s beloved New York.
Wed Oct 5: 6:00 pm - FBT
Sat Oct 8: 9:30 pm - ATH
THE ARTIST
Michel Hazanavicius | 2011 | France | 98M
An honest-to-goodness black-and-white silent
picture. A love letter to the movies’ early days with a
dashing Douglas Fairbanks-style star (Jean Dujardin)
whose career wanes with the coming of sound and a
dazzling young actress (Berenice Bejo) whose
popularity skyrockets at the same time. With James
Cromwell, Penelope Ann Miller and John Goodman. A
Weinstein Company release.
Fri Oct 14: 6:00 pm - ATH
Sun Oct 16: 12:00 pm - ATH
CORPO CELESTE
Alice Rohrwacher | 2011
Italy/Switzerland/France | 100M
Alice Rohrwacher’s impressive debut chronicles
13-year old Marta’s private battle with the Church,
while preparing for her confirmation, and how it is
carried out under the shadow of the physical changes
coursing through her. A Film Movement release.
Mon Oct 3: 9:30 pm - ATH
Photo by Ren Mendelson
FOOTNOTE / HEARAT SHULAYIM
Joseph Cedar | 2011 | Israel | 106M
Winner of the prize for Best Screenplay at Cannes, New
York born-and-trained Israeli filmmaker Joseph Cedar
has created the wryest of Jewish comedies. A clerical
error awards a top prize to an obscure Talmudist
instead of his son. A Sony Pictures Classics release.
Mon Oct 10: 9:00 pm - ATH
Tue Oct 11: 6:00 pm - ATH
Intentions of Murder
VELVET BULLETS AND STEEL KISSES:
Celebrating the Nikkatsu Centennial
Ever-changing, always on the edge, Japan’s
Nikkatsu Studio made the best Japanese war
films, created a stylish gangster/action cinema
that influenced filmmakers everywhere, and in
the Seventies invented “roman-porno,” soft-core
erotic films that often verged into surrealism. We
celebrate Nikkatsu’s upcoming centennial with this
37-film tribute. Presented in collaboration with
Nikkatsu, the Japan Foundation, and the National
Film Center of Japan.
Oct 1–Oct 16
MISS BALA
Gerardo Naranjo | 2011 | Mexico | 113M
A tense and highly original thriller about Mexico’s
drug wars, told from the viewpoint of an aspiring
beauty queen. Directed by Gerardo Naranjo, one of
the most exciting young talents around. A Fox
International Productions release.
Sat Oct 1: 9:00 pm - ATH
Sun Oct 2: 4:00 pm - ATH
THE KID WITH A BIKE / LE GAMIN AU VÉLO
Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
2011 | Belgium/France | 87M
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at this year’s Cannes
Film Festival, the latest film by Luc and Jean-Pierre
Dardenne, is a poetic, universally resonant drama
about an 11-year-old boy’s search for a family to call
his own. A Sundance Selects release.
Thu Oct 6: 6:00 pm - ATH
Fri Oct 7: 9:00 pm - ATH
MASTERWORKS
ONCE UPON A TIME IN ANATOLIA
BIR ZAMANLAR ANADOLU’DA
Nuri Bilge Ceylan | 2011 | Turkey | 157M
The investigation of a rural murder reveals in this
seemingly pacific Turkish outback a festering world of
jealousies and resentments, and uncovers webs of
deceit and resentments in what is surely Nuri Bilge
Ceylan’s finest film to date. A Cinema Guild release.
Sat Oct 8: 5:30 pm - ATH
LE HAVRE
Aki Kaurismäki | 2011
Finland/France/Germany | 93M
A Parisian author in exile comes to the aid of an
African immigrant boy on the run from police in
Finnish master Aki Kaurismäki’s gentle yet profound
comedy of friendship, random acts of kindness and
small acts of revolution. A Janus Films release.
Sun Oct 2: 7:00 pm - ATH
Mon Oct 3: 9:00 pm - WRT
Wed Oct 5: 9:00 pm - WRT
THE LONELIEST PLANET
Julia Loktev | 2011 | USA/Germany | 113M
Nica and Alex take a hiking trip in the Caucasus,
Georgia and a split-second decision by Alex proves
horrifying to Nica. Directed by Julia Loktev, and
starring Gael Garcia Bernal, this is a staggeringly
acute examination of the fractures that develop
between couples.
Sat Oct 1: 3:00 pm - ATH
Tue Oct 4: 9:00 pm - WRT
GEORGE HARRISON:
LIVING IN THE MATERIAL WORLD
Martin Scorsese | 2011 | Usa | English | 208M
Rich in mesmerizing archival footage, Martin
Scorsese’s expansive documentary on the Beatles’
lead guitarist—and of one of the greatest musicians of
the 1960s and ’70s—traces all aspects of Harrison’s
professional and personal life. An HBO Documentary
Films release.
Tue Oct 4: 6:30 pm - ATH
PINA
Wim Wenders | 2011 | Germany/France | 106M | In 3D
Making extraordinary usage of 3D, Wim Wenders
offers this lovely, heartfelt tribute to the art of the late
German choreographer Pina Bausch. Longtime
members of the Tanztheater recreate many of their
original roles in such seminal works as “Café Müller,”
“Le Sacred du Printemps,” and “Kontakthof.” A
Sundance Selects release.
Sat Oct 15: 6:15 pm - ATH
PLAY
Ruben Östlund | 2011
Sweden/France/Denmark | 119M
A startling and disturbing tale of how five savvy
African immigrant boys in Gothenberg, Sweden take
advantage of the liberal guilt and placating temperament of three local kids to rob them and take them
for a ride to unknown destinations.
Sat Oct 15: 12:00 pm - ATH
POLICEMAN / HASHOTER
Nadav Lapid | 2011 | Israel | 100M
A gripping political drama from Israel, pivoting on the
initially unrelated activities of an elite anti-terrorist
police unit and some wealthy young anarchists. A
striking first feature and award winner.
Sat Oct 15: 9:15 pm - ATH
Sun Oct 16: 2:45 pm - ATH
Photo by Habib Madjidi
MELANCHOLIA
Lars von Trier | 2011
Denmark/Sweden/France/Germany/Italy | 135M
The latest provocation from Lars von Trier beautifully
and wrenchingly depicts new bride Justine’s (a
revelatory Kirsten Dunst) mental illness, which is so
severe that she drives away her groom during their
disastrous wedding reception, as the extinction of the
planet looms ever larger. A Magnolia Pictures release.
Mon Oct 3: 6:30 pm - ATH
Thu Oct 6: 9:00 pm - ATH
BEN-HUR
William Wyler | 1959 | USA | 212M
Format: 8K Digital, 5.1 Stereo
Even if you had seen Ben-Hur during its first-run
70mm roadshow engagements in 1959, it’s
doubtful that you would have seen (or heard) a
spectacle quite as stunning as this 8K digital
restoration Warner Home Video has produced after
more than a year of meticulous work. A Warner
Home Video release.
Sat Oct 1: 10:30 am - ATH
THE GOLD RUSH
Charles Chaplin | 1925 | USA | 90M
Charlie Chaplin’s personal favorite among his
films—a beautifully constructed comic fable set in
the icy wastes of the Alaskan gold fields—is
presented in a new restoration with live orchestral
accompaniment performed by members of the New
York Philharmonic. Courtesy The Chaplin Estate.
Mon Oct 10: 2:00 pm - ATH
Photo by Jody Lee Lipes
MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE
Sean Durkin | 2011 | USA | 101M
Sean Durkin’s haunting first feature, about a young
woman’s halting attempts to undo the psychic terror
of the cult she’s just escaped, heralds the arrival of a
remarkable new talent. Elizabeth Olsen leads an
excellent cast including Sarah Paulson and Hugh
Dancy. A Fox Searchlight release.
Tue Oct 11: 9:15 pm - ATH
Thu Oct 13: 3:30 pm - FBT
GOODBYE FIRST LOVE / Un AMOUR DE JEUNESSE
Mia Hansen-Løve | 2011 | France/Germany | 110M
Photo by Eniak Martinez
A SEPARATION / JODAEIYE NADER AZ SIMIN
Asghar Farhadi | 2011 | Iran | 123M
An Iranian Rashomon, director Asghar Farhadi’s
brilliantly acted, prize-winning drama begins as
scenes from the end of a marriage and transforms
into an unexpectedly gripping legal thriller. A Sony
INVASION / INVASIÓN
Hugo Santiago | 1969 | Argentina | 123M
The first film imagined by the great Jorge Luis
Pictures Classics release.
Sat Oct 1: 6:00 pm - ATH
Sun Oct 2: 1:00 pm - ATH
SHAME
Steve McQueen | 2011 | UK | 99M
In his encore to his first feature, Hunger, British artist
Steve McQueen reunites with the extraordinary
Michael Fassbender who dazzles as a compulsive
womanizer in this ferociously sexual drama and
explosive portrait of a sex addict. Carey Mulligan also
stars in this stylistically brilliant and erotically charged
film, set in contemporary New York.
Fri Oct 7: 6:00 pm - ATH
Sun Oct 9: 12:00 pm - ATH
SLEEPING SICKNESS / SCHLAFKRANKHEIT
Ulrich Köhler | 2011
Germany/France/Netherlands | 91M
The lives of a white European doctor long in
Cameroon and that of a young black doctor newly
arrived on the continent run parallel and eventually
intersect in this haunting, Conradian meditation on
Africa’s troubled past and uncertain future.
Sat Oct 8: 3:30 pm - ATH
Wed Oct 12: 9:15 pm - WRT
THE STUDENT / EL ESTUDIANTE
Santiago Mitre | 2011 | Argentina | 110M
Borges directly for the cinema, a kind of updating
of The Iliad that breathlessly morphs from police
thriller to dream-like fantasy. Making his feature
film debut, Hugo Santiago created a work that is
lyrical, unsettling and infinitely suggestive.
Wed Oct 5: 6:00 pm - WRT
WE CAN’T GO HOME AGAIN
Nicholas Ray | 1972–2011 | USA | 93M
The long unseen, wildly experimental last film by
legendary director Nicholas Ray (Rebel Without a
Cause, In a Lonely Place) returns in a stunning
digital restoration. A collection of notes on
Vietnam-era America, the generation gap and the
filmmaking process itself. An Oscilloscope
Laboratories release.
Sun Oct 2: 9:00 pm - ATH
YOU ARE NOT I
Sara Driver | 1981 | USA | 50M
A post-punk film classic, unavailable for almost
twenty years, this beautiful adaptation of a Paul
Bowles short story follows a woman who has
escaped from a mental institution.
Thu Oct 6: 9:00 pm - WRT
Politics is a game, a seduction, and a vicious cycle in
Santiago Mitre’s gripping, fine-tuned debut, the story
of a university student who falls for a radicalized
teacher and organizer and soon finds himself
entangled with Buenos Aires campus activists.
Sat Oct 8: 12:30 pm - ATH
Wed Oct 12: 6:00 pm - FBT
THIS IS NOT A FILM / IN FILM NIST
Jafar Panahi, Mojtaba Mirtahmasb | 2011 | Iran | 75M
Accused of collusion against the Iranian regime and
currently appealing a prison sentence and a ban from
filmmaking, Jafar Panahi collaborated with the
documentarian Mojtaba Mirtahmasb on a remarkable
day-in-the-life chronicle that finds a rich middle
ground between fiction and reality.
Thu Oct 13: 6:00 pm - ATH
THE TURIN HORSE / A TORINÓI LÓ
Béla Tarr, Ágnes Hranitzky | 2011
Hungary/France/Germany/Switzerland/USA | 146M
Nietzsche’s long silence, and the carriage driver who
seemingly brought it on, are the parallel themes of
Béla Tarr’s latest film. A mesmerizing, provocative
meditation on the unsettling connectedness of things,
in which the resonance of actions and gestures
continues long after their actual occurrence. A
Cinema Guild release.
Sun Oct 9: 2:30 pm - ATH
Touchstone Pictures / The Kobal Collection /
Hamilton, James
Paradise Lost 3:
Purgatory
15TH ANNUAL
views from
the avant-garde
Curated by Mark McElhatten and Gavin Smith
Views from the Avant-Garde presents four days
and nights of New York and world premieres from
the frontiers of innovative moving image making,
screening in the Walter Reade Theater and the
Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center. Featuring: James
Benning, Lewis Klahr, Betzy Bromberg, Ben Rivers,
Nathaniel Dorsky, Jennifer Reeves, Ken Kobland,
MM Serra, Robert Fenz, Dani Leventhal, Michael
Robinson, Kevin Jerome Everson, Chick Strand,
Klaus Wyborny, Paul Clipson, Ernie Gehr, George
Kuchar, Ken Jacobs, Ute Aurand, Bobby Abate,
Janie Geiser, Dietmar Brehm and many more, plus
a special John Zorn event.
The Royal
Tenenbaums
The Exterminating Angel
Uninci S.A Films 59/Altura /
The Kobal Collection
Friday October 7
special events
Kevin Smith’s SMoviola Presents The Adventures of
Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension
Francesca Beale Theater
Sherwood Prods Inc / The Kobal Collection
12:301. The Soul and the Stem
3:152. Ben Rivers
20 YEARS OF ART CINEMA: A TRIBUTE TO SONY
PICTURES CLASSICS
On the occasion of their 20th anniversary, we salute
Sony Pictures Classics with a look back at their
remarkable career, including film clips and an
in-depth conversation with SPC co-presidents
Michael Barker and Tom Bernard.
followed by a screening of howards end
James Ivory | 1992 | UK | 140M
Thu Oct 6: 7:00 pm - FBT
remarkable figures; Roger Corman. The film offers a
rich context for assessing Corman’s importance for
cinema, with insightful and often hilarious testimony
from friends and disciples.
followed by a screening of the intruder
Roger Corman | 1962 | USA | 84M
Starring William Shatner as a mysterious man who
arrives in a small Southern town on the eve of
integration.
Sun Oct 16: 1:30 pm - WRT
THE 99 – UNBOUND
Dave Osbourne | 2011 | UK/Kuwait/USA | 80M
A comic series with super-heroes based on
derivatives of the 99 attributes of Allah, The 99 finally
makes it onto the silver screen in this animated
feature. Dr. Naif al-Mutawa, creator of the series, will
be on hand to discuss the project and his plans for
the future.
Sun Oct 2: 12:00 pm - FBT
CRAZY HORSE
Frederick Wiseman | 2011 | USA/France | 134M
In a sequel of sorts to La Danse, documentary master
Frederick Wiseman’s takes us behind the scenes of
Paris’s legendary Crazy Horse erotic cabaret. An
exuberant, one-of-a-kind musical valentine to the
City of Light and the art of desire.
Mon Oct 3: 6:00 pm - WRT
ANDREW BIRD: FEVER YEAR
Xan Aranda | 2011 | USA | 81M
Part concert film, part intimate portrait, Fever Year
takes us in the studio and on the road with indie rock
superstar Andrew Bird as he battles physical and
creative fatigue and ponders the future of his already
remarkable career.
Sat Oct 1: 6:15 pm - FBT
Sun Oct 2: 9:00 pm - FBT
THE BALLAD OF MOTT THE HOOPLE
Chris Hall, Mike Kerry | 2010 | UK | 103M
Storming out of Hereford, England in the late Sixties,
Mott the Hoople became one of British rock’s most
popular live acts. The rise-fall-rise-disintegration of
an iconic rock band, brilliantly told by Mike Kerry and
Chris Hall, with terrific, never-before-seen concert
footage and interviews.
Tue Oct 11: 9:00 pm - WRT
CASTLE IN THE SKY–25th anniversary screening
Hayao Miyazaki | 1986 | Japan | 124M
The third feature film directed by Japanese animation
legend Hayao Miyazaki is loosely inspired by Gulliver’s
Travels, with an arresting visual design. This
exuberant, one-of-a-kind adventure fantasy,
presented here in a new 35mm print, is certain to
delight kids and kids-at-heart of all ages.
Sat Oct 8: 10:00 am - ATH
CORMAN’S WORLD:
EXPLOITS OF A HOLLYWOOD REBEL
Alex Stapleton | 2011 | USA | 95M
Alex Stapleton has crafted an insightful, engaging
portrait of one of American cinema’s most
DON’T EXPECT TOO MUCH
Susan Ray | 2011 | USA | 70M
In this feature-length companion piece to Nicholas
Ray’s We Can’t Go Home Again, Ray’s widow, Susan,
examines her late husband’s stormy romance with
Hollywood, his self-imposed exile in Europe, and his
eventual return to America, where he began work on
the wildly experimental magnum opus that would
become his final cinematic testament. An ­Oscilloscope
Laboratories release.
Mon Oct 3: 8:30 pm - FBT
DREILEBEN
Three of the best directors in contemporary German
cinema come together for an ingenious movie trilogy
that tells a single story from three completely
different points of view and in radically contrasting
filmmaking styles.
Part One: Beats Being Dead /
Etwas Besseres als den Tod
Christian Petzold | 2011 | Germany | 88m
Part Two: Don’t Follow Me Around /
Komm mir nicht nach
Dominik Graf | 2011 | Germany | 89m
Part Three: One Minute of Darkness /
Eine Minute Dunkel
Christoph Hochhäusler | 2011 | Germany | 90m
Sat Oct 1: 1:00 pm (Part One), 3:00 pm (Part Two),
5:00 pm (Part Three) - WRT
Tue Oct 4: 3
:30 pm - FBT (Part One)
Wed Oct 5: 3:30 pm - FBT (Part Two)
Thu Oct 6: 3:30 pm - FBT (Part Three)
50 YEARS OF THE NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL:
THE EXTERMINATING ANGEL
Luis Buñuel | 1962 | Mexico | 94M
Directors Dialogues
Close encounters with filmmakers:
in-depth conversations followed by Q&A.
Julia Loktev
In conversation with Melissa Anderson
Born in Russia and raised in the U.S., filmmaker
Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky
and video artist Julia Loktev’s work projects an
In conversation with Eugene Hernandez
uncommonly perceptive vision of the world at the
A major force in contemporary non-fiction film, the dawn of the 21st century. As she premieres her
team of Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky (Paradise
latest feature, The Loneliest Planet, in NYFF,
Lost 1-3, Metallica: Some Kind of Monster) will
Loktev will take part in an intimate, wide-ranging
discuss their careers and approach to filmmaking, as conversation about her personal and professional
well as the ethics of the “activist” documentary.
journeys and her fiercely independent art making.
Thu Oct 13: 6:00 pm - FBT
Sun Oct 2: 3:00 pm - FBT
Abel Ferrara
In conversation with Dennis Lim
Abel Ferrara has cemented his status as a legend of
American independent filmmaking with his
signature uncompromising portraits of men and
women in conflict with their inner demons: Ms. 45,
King of New York, Bad Lieutenant. Ferrara will
discuss the breadth of his remarkable career and his
return to New York filmmaking after an extended
stay in Europe.
Tue Oct 11: 6:00 pm - FBT
Wim Wenders
In conversation with Scott Foundas
Road-movie maestro Wim Wenders worked as an
engraver and a film critic before emerging as one
of the major figures of the 1970s’ New German
Cinema with such films as Alice in the Cities, Kings
of the Road and The American Friend. Now
entering his fifth decade of filmmaking with the
extraordinary 3D dance movie Pina (screening in
NYFF), Wenders joins us to discuss the multi-faceted career that has taken him from Germany to
America to the end of the world and back again.
Sun Oct 16: 12:00 pm - FBT
In anticipation of the New York Film Festival’s historic
50th edition in the fall of 2012, the Film Society is
proud to inaugurate a year-long retrospective of
highlights from the festival’s past 49 editions. We
begin with the opening night film of the very first
NYFF, Luis Buñuel’s The Exterminating Angel.
Fri Oct 14: 6:30 pm - FBT
FROM MORNING TILL MIDNIGHT /
VON MORGENS BIS MITTERNACHT
Karl Heinz Martin | 1922 | Germany | 65M
live accompaniment by The Alloy Orchestra
This stunning adaptation of Georg Kaiser’s play pushed
the Expressionist stylization of sets, costumes and
gestures to such a radical point that German movie
theaters refused to show it. The Alloy Orchestra has
created a new score for this legendary work.
preceded by a screening of A Trip to the Moon/
la voyage dans la lune
George Méliès | 1902 | France | 14M
More than a century after its first release—and on the
150th anniversary of its creator’s birth—a fully
restored color version of cinematic pioneer George
Méliès’ 1902 science-fiction classic is once again
visible on screen. This film was restored by Lobster
Films, Groupama Gan Foundation for Cinema and
Technicolor Foundation for Cinema Heritage.
Thu Oct 13: 8:00 pm - WRT
MUSIC ACCORDING TO TOM JOBIM
Nelson Pereira Dos Santos | 2011 | Brazil | 88M
Composer/performer Antonio Carlos “Tom” Jobim
introduced Brazil and bossa nova to the world with
“The Girl from Ipanema” and now performers from
around the world pay homage in this musical tribute
by legendary director Nelson Pereira dos Santos.
Sun Oct 2: 6:00 pm - WRT
Sun Oct 2: 8:30 pm - WRT
On Cinema: Alexander Payne
With five fine films already to his credit, Alexander
Payne has been heralded as one of the most distinctive
voices in contemporary American cinema, a genuine
humanist who has brought to the screen some of the
most complex, contradictory, and memorable
characters seen in many years. In conversation with
NYFF Selection Committee Chairman Richard Peña, Mr.
Payne will offer a personal guided tour of some key
moments in his own history of cinema—showing
sequences from films and by filmmakers who
powerfully influenced his thoughts on cinema as well
as his filmmaking practice. Sponsored by
Sat Oct 15: 12:00 pm - WRT
PARADISE LOST 3: PURGATORY
Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky | 2011 | USA | 106M
Don’t worry if you missed the first two parts of
Emmy-winning documentarians Joe Berlinger and
Bruce Sinofsky’s epic chronicle of the “West
Memphis Three,” they quickly catch you up on this
lightning-rod case. The third chapter uncovers
startling new evidence that further points to a gross
miscarriage of justice. This will be the first screening
of the documentary with its new ending. An HBO
Documentary Films release.
Mon Oct 10: 6:00 pm - ATH
Tue Oct 11: 6:15 pm - WRT
PATIENCE (AFTER SEBALD)
Grant Gee | 2011 | UK | 82M
Retracing the steps of the journey taken in W.G.
Sebald’s book The Rings of Saturn, Grant Gee’s
documentary essay is a richly rewarding literary
pilgrimage, a worthy tribute to an unclassifiable
masterpiece.
Sun Oct 2: 3:30 pm - WRT
PAULINE KAEL: A LIFE IN THE DARK, a PANEL
DISCUSSION followed by a screening of Fingers
James Toback | 1978 | USA
Total Running Time: 180M
On the occasion of a new biography and anthology of
legendary New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael, a panel
of noted writers and filmmakers will discuss her life,
work and lasting influence, followed by a screening of
James Toback’s Fingers.
Sat Oct 15: 7:00 pm - FBT
THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS–10TH ANNIVERSARY
SCREENING PRESENTED BY NEW WAVE
Wes Anderson | 2001 | USA | 110M
The Film Society’s young patrons group presents a
special screening of Wes Anderson’s beloved
contemporary classic on the occasion of its 10th
anniversary, followed by a reunion of Anderson and
other members of the cast and crew.
Thu Oct 13: 8:30 pm - ATH
KEVIN SMITH’S SMOVIOLA PRESENTS THE
ADVENTURES OF BUCKAROO BANZAI across the
eighth dimension
W.D. Richter | 1984 | USA | 103M
Our bi-monthly series hosted by Kevin Smith returns
for a special NYFF edition with director W. D. Richter’s
gonzo cult favorite starring Peter Weller as the titular
physicist/neurosurgeon/renaissance man, saving
Earth from an alien invasion.
Sat Oct 15: 7:30 pm - WRT
SPIRITED AWAY–10TH ANNIVERSARY SCREENING
Hayao Miyazaki | 2001 | Japan | 125M
Miyazaki’s Oscar-winning triumph follows the
whimsical and occasionally terrifying adventures of
10-year-old Chihiro, who becomes trapped in a strange
spirit world after an evil witch transforms her parents
into pigs. A beautifully drawn coming-of-age story,
with sharp observations on Japanese societal change,
Spirited Away surpassed Titanic as the biggest domestic
box-office hit in Japanese history before becoming
Miyazaki’s breakthrough film in the United States.
Sat Oct 1: 7:00 pm - HGT
Fri Oct 14: 4:00 pm - FBT
SODANKYLÄ FOREVER / SODANKYLÄ IKUISESTI
Peter Von Bagh | 2010 | Finland
Parts 1 + 2: 149M; Parts 3 + 4: 112M
An engrossing history of cinema with 25 years’ worth
of sound bites and anecdotes from a who’s who of
directors attending Finland’s legendary Midnight Sun
Film Festival. All-star cast includes Coppola, Fuller,
Forman, Kieslowski—and 64 more!
Tue Oct 11: 8:15 pm - FBT (Parts 1 + 2)
Wed Oct 12: 8:45 pm - FBT (Parts 3 + 4)
5:453. Bitches Brew
8:454. Ladders and Tracks
WALTER READE THEATER
1:005. OpenEndedGroup
3:306. Ken Jacobs:
5:307. Ernie Gehr
8:308. George Kuchar
Saturday October 8
FRANCESCA BEALE THEATER
11:159. Cabinet of Curiosities
1:4510. Looking Through a Glass Onion
4:1511. Betzy Bromberg
7:1512. Nathaniel Dorsky & Jerome Hiler
9:3013. John Zorn: A Film in 15 Scenes
WALTER READE THEATER
11:0014. Jean-Marie Straub
1:1515. Klaus Wyborny
4:0016. Daniel Eisenberg:
The Unstable Object
6:4517. Kevin Jerome Everson
9:458. George Kuchar
Sunday October 9
FRANCESCA BEALE THEATER
12:001. The Soul and the Stem
2:4512. Nathaniel Dorsky & Jerome Hiler
5:3013. Ladders and Tracks
8:1518. The Red and The Black
WALTER READE THEATER
1:0019. Virgin Springs
3:3020. Lewis Klahr
Susan Orlean: Rin Tin Tin, the Life and the
Legend, a CONVERSATION
followed by a screening of Clash of the Wolves
Noel M. Smith | 1925 | USA Total Running Time: 74M
Celebrated author Susan Orlean (The Orchid Thief)
looks at the triumphs and tragedies of the Rin Tin Tin
dynasty, and will present Clash of the Wolves (Noel M.
Smith, 1925), Rinny’s first great box-office success.
Tue Oct 4: 6:00 pm - WRT
6:004. John Zorn: A Film in 15 Scenes
TAHRIR
Stefano Savona | 2011 | France/Italy | 90M
Soon after the first reports came about the occupation
of Tahrir Square, filmmaker Stefano Savona headed for
Cairo. Savona gives a day-to-day account of the
revolution in Egypt, capturing the anger, fear, resolve
and finally the elation of those who made it happen.
Sun Oct 2: 6:00 pm - FBT
Tue Oct 4: 9:00 pm - FBT
3:4510. Looking Through a Glass Onion
THE UNTOLD HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES,
CHAPTERS 1-3, with panel discussion
Oliver Stone | 2011 | USA | 180M
In his hugely ambitious new project, Oliver Stone puts
nothing less than the entire 20th century under a
microscope, with results that are sobering, surprising
and sure to be controversial. Stone focuses on events
leading up to America’s entrance into World War II,
the war itself, and the unjustly forgotten figure of
former U.S. Vice President Henry Wallace.
Sat Oct 15: 2:30 pm - WRT
VITO
Jeffrey Schwarz | 2011 | USA | 93M
A tireless cinephile as well as an important early voice
for gay rights, Vito Russo (The Celluloid Closet) is
movingly remembered in this stirring portrait of a man
as well as a movement. A revealing chronicle of the birth
of contemporary gay culture and of later AIDS activism.
An HBO Documentary Films release.
Fri Oct 14: 6:00 pm, 9:15 pm - WRT
9:0021. James Benning
Monday October 10
FRANCESCA BEALE THEATER
11:009. Cabinet of Curiosities
1:3022. Aurand/Muñoz/Sami
6:3023. Paul Clipson Super 8 performance
8:453. Bitches Brew
WALTER READE THEATER
11:3014. Jean-Marie Straub
1:456. Ken Jacobs
3:0020. Lewis Klahr
5:0019. Virgin Springs
7:3024. Ben Rivers: Two Years At Sea
plus Daily, October 7-10
Elinor Bunin Munroe amphitheater
Throughout the four days of Views from the
Avant-Garde, we will be exhibiting
installation work on the Film Center’s state
of the art digital screen. These programs are
free of charge. The artists in this special
lineup are Martin Arnold, James Benning,
David Gatten, Ernie Gehr, Vincent Grenier,
Dani Leventhal, Les Leveque, Anne McGuire,
Leighton Pierce, and Leslie Thornton.
Studio Ghibli / The
Kobal Collection
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THE SKIN I LIVE IN
tahrir
Cold Fish
Dreileben part three: One Minute of Darkness
Photo by Donata Wenders
pina
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Gold Rush
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Dreileben Parts 1-3,
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