Table of Contents: Description, Corrections/Clarifications, Housekeeping, General, Main Slate, Ephemera, Recurring Directors, Recurring Countries, One-Time Directors, Debuts/Final Features, Festivals/Oscar Nominees, Shorts/Panels, Discussions By Length, Specifications

Listen to the podcast here.
Subscribe to the podcast here.

Description
The ninth episode of the Catalyst and Witness podcast, devoted to exploring the films and format of the New York Film Festival, hosted by Ryan Swen and Dan Molloy. This covers the ninth edition of the festival in 1971.

0:00-28:52 – Opening
28:53-1:27:08 – Part One [The Debut to Dodes’ka-den]
1:27:09-2:10:52 – Part Two [Directed by John Ford to The Sorrow and the Pity]
2:10:53-3:19:36 – Part Three [Punishment Park to Murmur of the Heart]
3:19:37-3:25:01 – Closing

Corrections/Clarifications

• N/A

Housekeeping

• Hosted by Dan Molloy & Ryan Swen
• Conceived and Edited by Ryan Swen
• Recorded in Los Angeles on Zoom H4N and Behringer Microphones, Edited in Audacity
• Podcast photograph from Yi Yi, Logo designed by Dan Molloy
• Poster by Frank Stella
• Recorded October 29, 2018
• Released October 31, 2018
• Music (in order of appearance):
  • The Debut (opening night)
  • The Sorrow and the Pity (another favorite)
  • The Last Picture Show (favorite of the first section)
  • Four Nights of a Dreamer (favorite of the second section)
  • Punishment Park (favorite of the third section)
  • Murmur of the Heart (closing night)

General

• Selection Committee: Richard Roud (program director), Richard Corliss, Arthur Knight, Arthur L. Mayer, Andrew Sarris, Susan Sontag, Henri Langlois (retrospective consultant)
• Location: Vivian Beaumont Theater
• Prices: 1-4 for zones 1-4; 2 for zone 1, 3 for zone 2, 7.50 for zone 3, 10 for zone 4 for opening night
• Films seen for the podcast:
  • Ryan
    • Seen before podcast watching period: The Last Picture Show
    • Seen for the podcast: All available; none rewatched
    • Favorite films: Punishment Park, Four Nights of a Dreamer, The Sorrow and the Pity, The Last Picture Show, Pioneers in Ingolstadt
    • Least favorite films: Born to Win
    • Seen after the podcast: Two English Girls rewatched (16th)
    • Rewatch Round-Up: Zorns Lemma (8th)
  • Dan
    • Seen before podcast watching period: The Last Picture Show, Directed by John Ford, Four Nights of a Dreamer, Murmur of the Heart
    • Seen for the podcast: All available except The Sorrow and the Pity; none rewatched
    • Favorite films: The Last Picture Show, Punishment Park, Pioneers in Ingolstadt, The Decameron
    • Least favorite films: Born to Win, W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism, Fata Morgana
• Discoveries of the festival: Punishment Park, A Safe Place
• Unavailable films: In the Summertime, Bonaparte and the Revolution

Main Slate

Opening Night: The Debut [Nachalo] (1970, Gleb Panfilov)
October 1, 8:30
Released 1971
Family Life [Życie rodzinne] (1971, Krzysztof Zanussi)
October 2, 6:30
Never released
The Last Picture Show (1971, Peter Bogdanovich)
October 2, 9:30
Released 1971
In the Summertime [Durante l’estate] (1971, Ermanno Olmi)
October 3, 7:30
Never released
The Decameron [Il Decameron] (1971, Pier Paolo Pasolini)
October 4, 7:30
Released 1971
Dodes’ka-den [Dodesukaden] (1970, Kurosawa Akira)
October 5, 7:30
Released 1974
Directed by John Ford (1971, Peter Bogdanovich)
October 6, 8:30
Never released
Fata Morgana (1971, Werner Herzog)
October 7, 7:30
Never released
Four Nights of a Dreamer [Quatre nuits d’un rêveur] (1971, Robert Bresson)
October 8, 7:30
Released 1972
Pioneers in Ingolstadt [Pioniere in Ingolstadt] (1971, Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
October 9, 6:30
Never released
Born to Win (1971, Ivan Passer)
October 9, 9:30
Released 1971
The Sorrow and the Pity [Le Chagrin et la Pitié] (1969, Marcel Ophuls)
October 10, 6:00
Released 1972
Punishment Park (1971, Peter Watkins)
October 11, 7:30
Released 1971
In the Name of the Father [Nel nome del padre] (1971, Marco Bellocchio)
October 12, 7:30
Released 1974
W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism [W.R. – Misterije organizma] (1971, Dušan Makavejev)
October 13, 7:30
Released 1971
Bonaparte and the Revolution [Bonaparte et la Révolution] (1971, Abel Gance)
October 14, 6:00
Never released
A Safe Place (1971, Henry Jaglom)
October 15, 7:30
Released 1971
“Closing Night:” Murmur of the Heart [Le souffle au cœur/The Breath in the Heart] (1971, Louis Malle)
October 16, 9:30
Released 1971

Ephemera

• Panel discussions to widen the scope of the festival by going beyond the individual films to broader issues after In the Summertime, Dodes’ka-den, Fata Morgana, Four Nights of a Dreamer, Punishment Park, W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism, A Safe Place

Recurring Directors
Key: films in this iteration excluding shorts/omnibus/retrospectives, films in this iteration including, films in the festival up to this point excluding, films up to this point including, number of gala spots (when applicable), number of festivals with more than one film shown (when applicable); † indicates their last appearance, fraction in parentheses indicates number of features shown from oeuvre, features released in the eligible timeframe, features in oeuvre

• Peter Bogdanovich: 2/2/2/2/0/1†(2/20/20)
• Robert Bresson: 1/1/5/5
• Ermanno Olmi: 1/1/4/4
• Pier Paolo Pasolini: 1/1/3/5/0/1
• Werner Herzog: 1/1/3/3
• Abel Gance: 1/1/2/3†(3/2/40)
• Kurosawa Akira: 1/1/2/2/1
• Marco Bellocchio: 1/1/2/2
• Dušan Makavejev: 1/1/2/2†(2/11/11)
• Ivan Passer: 1/1/2/2†(2/11/11)
• Peter Watkins: 1/1/2/2†(2/12/12)
• Louis Malle: 1/1/1/1/1
• Gleb Panfilov: 1/1/1/1/1
• Rainer Werner Fassbinder: 1/1/1/1
• Marcel Ophuls: 1/1/1/1
• Krzysztof Zanussi: 1/1/1/1

Recurring Countries
Key: films in this iteration excluding shorts/retrospectives, films in this iteration including, films in the festival up to this point excluding, films up to this point including, number of gala spots (when applicable)

• USA: 5/5/25/36/1
• France: 4/4/53/64/6
• Italy: 3/3/24/28/1
• West Germany: 2/2/9/9
• Japan: 1/1/11/13/1
• Poland: 1/1/7/7
• Yugoslavia: 1/1/5/5
• USSR: 1/1/4/4/2

One-Time Directors

• Henry Jaglom

Feature Debuts

• Henry Jaglom

Final Features

• Abel Gance

Festivals

• NYFF World Premiere
  • The Last Picture Show
  • Born to Win
  • In the Name of the Father
  • A Safe Place
• Cannes
  • Family Life
  • Fata Morgana (Directors’ Fortnight)
  • Murmur of the Heart
  • W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism (Directors’ Fortnight)
  • Pioneers in Ingolstadt (?)
• Berlin
  • The Decameron (Silver Bear Extraordinary Jury Prize)
  • Four Nights of a Dreamer
• Venice
  • Directed by John Ford
  • In the Summertime
• Other
  • Punishment Park (Atlanta and Edinburgh)
  • The Sorrow and the Pity (Dinard, Grand Prize)
• N/A
  • Bonaparte and the Revolution
  • The Debut
  • Dodes’ka-den

Oscar Nominees

• The Last Picture Show: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor (winner and second nominee), Best Supporting Actress (winner and second nominee), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography
• The Sorrow and the Pity: Best Documentary
• Dodes’ka-den: Best Foreign Film
• Murmur of the Heart: 1972 Best Original Screenplay

Shorts/Panels

Discussions By Length (Approximate)

• 16:49 The Last Picture Show (46:28-1:03:17)
• 15:24 Punishment Park (2:23:36-2:39:00)
• 11:56 Dodes’ka-den (1:15:12-1:27:08)
• 11:48 Directed by John Ford (1:28:08-1:39:56)
• 11:45 The Sorrow and the Pity [One Person] (2:11:50-2:23:35)
• 10:28 The Decameron (1:04:43-1:15:11)
• 9:51 W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism (2:46:30-2:56:21)
• 8:59 Family Life (37:28-46:27)
• 8:49 Four Nights of a Dreamer (1:47:52-1:56:41)
• 8:46 Murmur of the Heart (3:10:50-3:19:36)
• 7:54 Fata Morgana (1:39:57-1:47:51)
• 7:37 The Debut (29:50-37:27)
• 7:31 A Safe Place (3:03:18-3:10:49)
• 7:28 In the Name of the Father (2:39:01-2:46:29)
• 7:10 Born to Win (2:03:42-2:10:52)
• 6:59 Pioneers in Ingolstadt (1:56:42-2:03:41)
• 6:55 Bonaparte and the Revolution [Unavailable] (2:56:22-3:03:17)
• 1:24 In the Summertime [Unavailable] (1:03:18-1:04:42)

Specifications

• Глеб Панфилов, Нача́ло, 1970, 35 mm, black-and-white, mono sound, 91 minutes, 2.35:1, Russian, USSR.
• Krzysztof Zanussi, Życie rodzinne, 1971, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 88 minutes, 1.66:1, Polish, Poland.
• Peter Bogdanovich, The Last Picture Show, 1971, 35 mm, black-and-white, mono sound, 126 minutes, 1.85:1, English, USA.
• Ermanno Olmi, Durante l’estate, 1971, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 105 minutes, 1.37:1, Italian, Italy.
• Pier Paolo Pasolini, Il Decameron, 1971, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 111 minutes, 1.85:1, Italian, Italy.
• 黒澤明, どですかでん, 1970, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 140 minutes, 1.37:1, Japanese, Japan.
• Peter Bogdanovich, Directed by John Ford, 1971, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 99 minutes, 1.37:1, English, USA.
• Werner Herzog, Fata Morgana, 1971, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 79 minutes, 1.37:1, German, West Germany.
• Robert Bresson, Quatre nuits d’un rêveur, 1971, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 87 minutes, 1.66:1, French, France.
• Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Pioniere in Ingolstadt, 1971, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 84 minutes, 1.37:1, German, West Germany.
• Ivan Passer, Born to Win, 1971, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 88 minutes, 1.85:1, English, USA.
• Marcel Ophuls, Le Chagrin et la Pitié, 1969, 16 mm, black-and-white, mono sound, 251 minutes, 1.66:1, French and German, France.
• Peter Watkins, Punishment Park, 1971, 16 mm, color, mono sound, 91 minutes, 1.37:1, English, USA.
• Marco Bellocchio, Nel nome del padre, 1971, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 115 minutes, 1.85:1, Italian, Italy.
• Душан Макавејев, W.R. – Мистерије организм, 1971, 16 mm and 35 mm, color and black-and-white, mono sound, 84 minutes, 1.37:1, Serbo-Croatian and English, Yugoslavia.
• Abel Gance, Bonaparte et la Révolution, 1971, 35 mm, black-and-white, mono sound, 275 minutes, 1.37:1, French, France.
• Henry Jaglom, A Safe Place, 1971, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 94 minutes, 1.85:1, English, USA.
• Louis Malle, Le souffle au cœur, 1971, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 118 minutes, 1.66:1, French, France.

Listen to the podcast here.
Subscribe to the podcast here.

Description
The third 2018 festival dispatch of the Catalyst and Witness podcast, devoted to exploring the films and format of the New York Film Festival, hosted by Ryan Swen and Dan Molloy. This covers the second half of the 2018 New York Film Festival, and features guests Forrest Cardamenis, Courtney Duckworth, Caden Mark Gardner, Jeva Lange, Jason Miller, and Kyle Pletcher.

0:00-58:56 – Part One
58:57-1:48:21 – Part Two

Housekeeping

• Hosted by Dan Molloy & Ryan Swen
• Conceived and Edited by Ryan Swen
• Guests: Forrest Cardamenis, Courtney Duckworth, Caden Mark Gardner, Jeva Lange, Jason Miller, Kyle Pletcher
• Recorded in Los Angeles, New York City, Schenectady, and Trenton on Zoom H4N and Behringer Microphones and MacBook GarageBand and Audacity, Edited in Audacity
• Podcast photograph from Yi Yi, Logo designed by Dan Molloy
• Recorded October 13, 2018
• Released October 27, 2018
• Music (in order of appearance):
  • Historias extraordinarias
  • Kaili Blues
  • Happy Hour

Films Ranked by Festival

Festivals by Number of Films/Programs/New Features:

• 4th (1966): 31/25/22
• 2nd (1964): 30/26/28
• 8th (1970): 28/26/27
• 3rd (1965): 28/25/18
• 12th (1974): 28/21/20
• 6th (1968): 26/25/22
• 5th (1967): 26/23/22
• 18th (1980): 26/22/21
• 16th (1978): 25/21/21
• 10th (1972): 24/22/24
• 15th (1977): 24/21/21
• 17th (1979): 24/23/20
• 7th (1969): 23/23/20
• 14th (1976): 22/19/17
• 1st (1963): 21/21/21
• 13th (1975): 21/20/20
• 11th (1973): 19/18/17
• 9th (1971): 18/18/18

Total: 444/399/379

Festivals by Primary Location:

• Alice Tully Hall: 9
• Philharmonic Hall: 8
• Vivian Beaumont Theater: 1

Selection Committee Members:

• Richard Roud (first program director): 18
• Arthur Knight: 12 (2 as West Coast consultant)
• Susan Sontag: 12
• Richard Corliss: 10
• Andrew Sarris: 9
• Henri Langlois (retrospective consultant): 8
• Amos Vogel (original festival director): 6
• Arthur L. Mayer: 5
• Charles Michener: 5
• Roger Greenspun: 4
• Molly Haskell: 3
• Tom Luddy (West Coast consultant): 3
• Mary Meerson (retrospective consultant): 3
• Penelope Huston: 1
• John Russell Taylor: 1

Directors:
Key: films in the festival up to this point excluding shorts/omnibus/retrospectives, films up to this point including, number of gala spots (when applicable), number of festivals with more than one film shown (when applicable); † indicates filmmakers with no more films

• Jean-Luc Godard: 14/18/2/5
• Rainer Werner Fassbinder: 9/9/1/1
• Luis Buñuel: 8/12/2/3†
• François Truffaut: 8/8/5
• Bernardo Bertolucci: 7/8/2/1†
• Werner Herzog: 7/8/0/1
• Robert Bresson: 7/7
• Claude Chabrol: 6/6/1/1
• Satyajit Ray: 6/6/1†
• Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet: 5/6/0/1
• Alain Resnais: 5/5/2
• Jerzy Skolimowski: 5/5/0/2
• Jacques Rivette: 5/5/0/1
• Marguerite Duras: 5/5†
• Jancsó Miklós: 5/5
• Ermanno Olmi: 5/5
• Krzysztof Zanussi: 5/5
• Pier Paolo Pasolini: 4/6/0/1†
• Éric Rohmer: 4/5/2
• Agnès Varda: 4/4/2
• Kurosawa Akira: 4/4/1
• Andrzej Wajda: 4/4/0/1
• James Ivory: 4/4†
• Alexander Kluge: 4/4
• Joseph Losey: 4/4
• Martin Scorsese: 4/4
• Gianni Amico: 3/4†
• Miloš Forman: 3/3/2
• Louis Malle: 3/3/1
• Chris Marker: 3/3/1
• Francesco Rosi: 3/3/0/1†
• René Allio: 3/3†
• Ken Loach: 3/3
• Marcel Ophuls: 3/3
• Maurice Pialat: 3/3
• Wim Wenders: 3/3
• Bo Widerberg: 3/3
• Luchino Visconti: 2/3/1
• Ichikawa Kon: 2/3/0/1
• Oshima Nagisa: 2/3/0/1
• Peter Whitehead: 2/3/0/1†
• Abel Gance: 2/3†
• Robert Altman: 2/2/1
• Jonathan Demme: 2/2/1†
• Peter Bogdanovich: 2/2/0/1†
• Marco Bellocchio: 2/2
• Walerian Borowczyk: 2/2†
• John Cassavetes: 2/2
• Eduardo de Gregorio: 2/2†
• Carlos Diegues: 2/2†
• Claude Goretta: 2/2†
• Jean-Pierre Gorin: 2/2†
• Kjell Grede: 2/2†
• Kobayashi Masaki: 2/2†
• Dušan Makavejev: 2/2†
• Adolfas Mekas: 2/2†
• Jonas Mekas: 2/2
• Sergei Parajanov: 2/2
• Ivan Passer: 2/2†
• Bob Rafelson: 2/2†
• Carlos Saura: 2/2
• Volker Schlöndorff: 2/2†
• Ousmane Sembène: 2/2
• Szabó István: 2/2
• Alain Tanner: 2/2
• Teshigahara Hiroshi: 2/2†
• Leopoldo Torre Nilsson: 2/2†
• Peter Watkins: 2/2†
• Orson Welles: 2/2†
• Jan Němec: 1/3/0/1†
• Roberto Rossellini: 1/3
• Joris Ivens: 1/2/1
• Jiří Menzel: 1/2/1†
• Věra Chytilová: 1/2†
• Jaromil Jireš: 1/2†
• Albert Maysles: 1/2
• David Maysles: 1/2†
• Jean-Pierre Melville: 1/2
• Mizoguchi Kenji: 1/2†
• Jean Rouch: 1/2†
• Grigori Kozintsev: 1/1/1
• Gleb Panfilov: 1/1/1
• Merzak Allouache: 1/1
• Denys Arcand: 1/1
• Ingmar Bergman: 1/1
• Bertrand Blier: 1/1
• Youssef Chahine: 1/1
• Christian de Chalonge: 1/1
• Philippe Garrel: 1/1
• Krzysztof Kieślowski: 1/1
• Barbara Kopple: 1/1
• Claude Lanzmann: 1/1
• Sidney Lumet: 1/1
• Makk Károly: 1/1
• Mészáros Márta: 1/1
• Errol Morris: 1/1
• Nelson Pereira dos Santos: 1/1
• Aleksandar Petrović: 1/1
• Roman Polański: 1/1
• Glauber Rocha: 1/1
• Michael Roemer: 1/1
• Deborah Shaffer: 1/1
• Andrei Tarkovsky: 1/1
• Paolo & Vittorio Taviani: 1/1
• André Téchiné: 1/1
• Jean Renoir: 0/5†
• Max Ophuls: 0/3
• Louis Feuillade: 0/2†
• Fritz Lang: 0/2†
• Erich von Stroheim: 0/2
• Michelangelo Antonioni: 0/1
• Cecil B. DeMille: 0/1
• Sergio Leone: 0/1
• Rouben Mamoulian: 0/1
• Michael Powell: 0/1

Directors with only one appearance: 128
Directors with only one appearance whose appearance was a gala: 7

Countries:
Key: films in the festival up to this point excluding shorts/omnibus/retrospectives, films up to this point including, number of gala spots (when applicable)

• France: 100/120/16
• USA: 66/87/4
• Italy: 37/45/4
• West Germany: 29/31/2
• UK: 22/25/1
• Poland: 16/16
• Japan: 14/17/1
• Czechoslovakia: 12/14/3
• Hungary: 12/12
• Sweden: 10/10
• USSR: 7/8/2
• Canada: 7/8
• India: 7/7/1
• Switzerland: 6/6
• Yugoslavia: 6/6
• Brazil: 5/5
• Mexico: 3/4/1
• Spain: 3/3/1
• Argentina: 3/3
• Australia: 2/2
• Belgium: 2/2
• Denmark: 2/2
• Greece: 2/2
• Senegal: 2/2
• Algeria: 1/1
• Austria: 1/1
• Egypt: 1/1
• Taiwan: 1/1
• Germany: 0/3

Film Format:

• 35mm: 352
• 16mm: 81
• 35mm and 16mm: 6
• 16mm and 35mm: 2
• 35mm and 8mm: 2
• 70mm: 1
• 35mm and video: 1

Aspect Ratio:

• 1.37:1: 199
• 1.66:1: 120
• 1.85:1: 65
• 2.35:1: 28
• 1.33:1: 15
• 1.20:1: 7
• 2.39:1: 5
• 1.66:1 and 1.37:1: 2
• 2.55:1: 1
• 2.20:1: 1
• 1.33:1 and 4.00:1: 1

B&W/Color:

• Color: 234
• Black & White: 172
• Color and Black & White: 26
• Black & White and Color: 12

Featured Languages:

• English: 122
• French: 114
• German: 33
• Italian: 33
• Japanese: 16
• Polish: 12
• Czech: 11
• Hungarian: 10
• Swedish: 10
• Spanish: 9
• Bengali: 7
• Russian: 6
• Serbo-Croatian: 6
• French and English: 4
• English and Italian: 3
• Portuguese: 3
• Arabic and French: 2
• English and German and French: 2
• French and English and German: 2
• French and Spanish: 2
• Greek: 2
• Polish and English: 2
• Portuguese and English and French: 2
• Arabic and English: 1
• Armenian: 1
• Chinese Mandarin: 1
• Danish: 1
• Danish and Swedish: 1
• Dutch: 1
• English and Bengali: 1
• English and French: 1
• English and French and German: 1
• Finnish: 1
• French and Dutch and English: 1
• French and English and Hebrew and German and Russian: 1
• French and German: 1
• French and Italian and Spanish: 1
• German and English: 1
• German and French: 1
• Hungarian and German: 1
• Hungarian and Russian: 1
• Italian and French: 1
• Italian and French and German: 1
• Italian and Sardinian and Latin: 1
• Japanese and English: 1
• Polish and English and French: 1
• Portuguese and Italian: 1
• Serbo-Croatian and English: 1
• Slovak: 1
• Slovak and German: 1
• Spanish and French and German: 1
• Ukranian: 1
• Wolof: 1
• Wolof and French: 1

Sound/Silent:

• Mono Sound: 415
• Silent: 16
• Stereo Sound: 6
• 4-Track Stereo Sound: 4
• Silent/Mono Sound: 2
• 6-Track Stereo Sound: 1

Festivals by Total Running Time/Average Running Time per Film:

• 3rd (1965): 2812/100:26
• 12th (1974): 2811/100:24
• 18th (1980): 2769/106:30
• 2nd (1964): 2751/91:42
• 17th (1979): 2746/114:25
• 14th (1976): 2588/117:39
• 5th (1967): 2575/99:02
• 15th (1977): 2528/105:20
• 8th (1970): 2507/89:32
• 4th (1966): 2515/81:08
• 10th (1972): 2491/103:47
• 16th (1978): 2463/98:32
• 6th (1968): 2444/94:00
• 11th (1973): 2267/119:19
• 7th (1969): 2258/98:10
• 13th (1975): 2189/104:15
• 9th (1971): 2126/118:07
• 1st (1963): 2079/99:00

Total: 44919/101:10

Films Over Two-and-a-Half Hours

• Tih Minh (18th, 418)
• Les Vampires (3rd, 417)
• Napoléon (5th, 333)
• 1900 (15th, 317)
• The Memory of Justice (14th, 278)
• Bonaparte and the Revolution (9th, 275)
• Molière (17th, 260)
• Out 1: Spectre (12th, 253)
• L’Amour fou (10th, 252)
• The Sorrow and the Pity (9th, 251)
• Dr. Mabuse the Gambler (11th, 242)
• The Mother and the Whore (11th, 217)
• L’Argent (6th, 195)
• Milestones (13th, 195)
• Céline and Julie Go Boating (12th, 193)
• Israel Why (11th, 185)
• Red Beard (3rd, 185)
• Andrei Rublev (11th, 183)
• Elective Affinities (16th, 180)
• Kagemusha (18th, 180)
• A Touch of Zen (14th, 180)
• Kings of the Road (14th, 175)
• Once Upon a Time in the West (18th, 165)
• A Woman Under the Influence (12th, 155)
• Nana (14th, 150)
• Spione (16th, 150)

Longest Streaks of Consecutive Director Appearances (Three or More Theatrical Features)

• Bernardo Bertolucci: 8 [La commare secca to La luna]
• Robert Bresson: 7 [The Trial of Joan of Arc to The Devil, Probably]
• Luis Buñuel: 5 [The Milky Way to That Obscure Object of Desire]
• Jean-Luc Godard: 5 [Alphaville to 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her]
• Alain Resnais: 5 [Muriel, or the Time of Return to Stavisky…]
• Jacques Rivette: 5 [The Nun to Duelle {discounting Out 1: Noli me tangere}]
• Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet: 5 [Not Reconciled to Moses and Aaron]
• François Truffaut: 5 [Day for Night to The Green Room]
• Werner Herzog: 4 [Signs of Life to Land of Silence and Darkness]
• Kurosawa Akira: 4 [Red Beard to Kagemusha]
• Ermanno Olmi: 4 [One Fine Day to The Circumstance]
• Jerzy Skolimowski: 4 [Identification Marks: None to Le Départ]
• René Allio: 3 [The Shameless Old Lady to Pierre and Paul]
• Luis Buñuel: 3 [The Exterminating Angel to Simon of the Desert]
• Claude Chabrol: 3 [Le Boucher to Just Before Nightfall]
• Rainer Werner Fassbinder: 3 [Despair to The Marriage of Maria Braun]
• Miloš Forman: 3 [Black Peter to The Firemen’s Ball]
• James Ivory: 3 [Autobiography of a Princess to The Europeans]
• Jancsó Miklós: 3 [Red Psalm to Electra, My Love]
• Ken Loach: 3 [Kes to Black Jack]
• Marcel Ophuls: 3 [The Sorrow and the Pity to The Memory of Justice]
• Éric Rohmer: 3 [Love in the Afternoon to Perceval le Gallois]
• Agnès Varda: 3 [Les Créatures to Lions Love]
• Andrzej Wajda: 4 [Without Anesthesia to The Conductor]
• Krzysztof Zanussi: 3 [Family Life to The Illumination]

Number of world premieres: 37
Number of Palme d’or winners: 2
Number of Golden Bear winners: 3
Number of Golden Lion winners: 4
Number of Golden Leopard winners: 2
Number of Tiger Award winners: 0
Number of Best Picture winners: 0
Number of New York Film Critics Circle Best Film winners: 2
Number of Los Angeles Film Critics Association Best Film Winners: 0
Number of National Society of Film Critics Best Film winners: 4

Number of documentaries (feature or short): 59
Films directed in part or whole by women: 42
Number of directorial debuts: 68
Number of final features: 13

Films premiered the same year as their festival appearance: 285
Films premiered the year before their festival appearance: 85
Films premiered more than one year before their festival appearance (non-retrospective): 29
Number of retrospectives: 45
Galas that premiered in a different year from their festival appearance: 8
Films that showed multiple times in the Main Slate: 4

Films released the same year as their festival appearance: 122
Films released one or two years after their festival appearance: 113
Films released more than two years after their festival appearance: 62
Films never released: 122
Retrospective films released before their festival appearance: 29
Replacement film released before its festival appearance: 1

Films better known by their original titles rather than the English translation: 50
Films whose English titles differ from a direct translation of the original title: 66
Films which have a primary language that differs from the primary production country’s official language(s) or lingua franca: 36

Selected Notable Recurring Actors

• Jean-Pierre Léaud: 14
• Juliet Berto: 9
• Gérard Depardieu: 9
• Bulle Ogier: 9
• Michael Lonsdale: 8
• Ingrid Caven: 7
• Michel Piccoli: 7
• Delphine Seyrig: 6
• Nathalie Baye: 5
• Catherine Deneuve: 4
• Bruno Ganz: 4
• Isabelle Huppert: 4
• Bernadette Lafont: 4
• Robert De Niro: 3

New York Film Festival Editions Ranked

1. 12th (1974)
2. 8th (1970)
3. 1st (1963)
4. 14th (1976)
5. 17th (1979)
6. 5th (1967)
7. 11th (1973)
8. 3rd (1965)
9. 18th (1980)
10. 6th (1968)
11. 13th (1975)
12. 4th (1966)
13. 10th (1972)
14. 7th (1969)
15. 15th (1977)
16. 9th (1971)
17. 2nd (1964)
18. 16th (1978)

Listen to the podcast here.
Subscribe to the podcast here.

Description
The second 2018 festival dispatch of the Catalyst and Witness podcast, devoted to exploring the films and format of the New York Film Festival, hosted by Ryan Swen and Dan Molloy. This covers the first half of the 2018 New York Film Festival, and features guests Aret Frost, David Neary, and Kyle Pletcher.

0:00-52:36 – Part One
52:37-1:41:27 – Part Two

Housekeeping

• Hosted by Dan Molloy & Ryan Swen
• Conceived and Edited by Ryan Swen
• Guests: Aret Frost, David Neary, Kyle Pletcher
• Recorded in Los Angeles, New York City, and Trenton on Zoom H4N and Behringer Microphones and MacBook GarageBand and Audacity, Edited in Audacity
• Podcast photograph from Yi Yi, Logo designed by Dan Molloy
• Recorded October 6, 2018
• Released October 9, 2018
• Music (in order of appearance):
  • The Hole
  • The Day He Arrives
  • Trouble Every Day