Author: Ryan Swen

2021 Viewing Log

Ryan Swen Lists Tags: ,

January
Deep Cover (1992, Bill Duke) – 7.3
The Story of Sue San (1964, King Hu) – 7.4
Gong Shou Dao (2017, Wen Zhang)
Hannah Takes the Stairs (2007, Joe Swanberg) – 7.3
La France (2007, Serge Bozon) – 7.8
WW84 (2020, Patty Jenkins) – 4.0
I Wish You Would (2020, Ryland Walker Knight)
+Yourself and Yours (2016, Hong Sang-soo) – 8.8 [up from 8.6]
The Metamorphosis of Birds (2020, Catarina Vasconcelos) – 7.0
Contact (1985, Alan Clarke) – 7.7
Eight Hours of Terror (1957, Suzuki Seijun) – 7.2
( ) (2003, Morgan Fisher)
The Midnight Sky (2020, George Clooney) – 5.5
Tenet (2020, Christopher Nolan) – 4.9
Lu tempu di li pisci spata (1954, Vittorio De Seta)
Disorder (2009, Huang Weikai) – 7.9
21 Bridges (2019, Brian Kirk) – 6.0
+Top Gun (1986, Tony Scott) – 5.8 [up from ~5.2]
+Air Force One (1997, Wolfgang Petersen) – 5.6 [~same]
Isole di fuoco (1954, Vittorio De Seta)
Film Catastrophe (2018, Paul Grivas) – 6.3
Pasqua in Sicilia (1955, Vittorio De Seta)
Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time (2020, Horvát Lili) – 5.9
Surfarara (1955, Vittorio De Seta)
Just Don’t Think I’ll Scream (2019, Frank Beauvais) – 7.4
+Stop Making Sense (1984, Jonathan Demme) – 8.8 [same]
Ong-Bak (2003, Prachya Pinkaew) – 4.6
Life in a Day 2020 (2021, Kevin Macdonald) – 3.9

February
Contadini del mare (1955, Vittorio De Seta)
Not My Type (2014, Lucas Belvaux) – 7.4
Parabola d’oro (1955, Vittorio De Seta)
Aragane (2015, Oda Kaori) – 7.7
Un giorno in Barbagia (1958, Vittorio De Seta)
Cenote (2019, Oda Kaori) – 7.3
Pescherecci (1958, Vittorio De Seta)
The Pettifogger (2011, Lewis Klahr) – 7.1
Pastori di Orgosolo (1958, Vittorio De Seta)
PTU (2003, Johnnie To) – 8.6
I dimenticati (1959, Vittorio De Seta)
A Fine Day (2001, Thomas Arslan) – 7.0
Halpate (2020, Adam Khalil & Adam Piron)
Subject to Review (2019, Theo Anthony)
Can’t Get You Out of My Head: An Emotional History of the Modern World (2021, Adam Curtis) – 8.7
Monster Hunter (2020, Paul W.S. Anderson) – 6.7
Inside the Storm (2020, Daniel Bloom)
Mundane History (2009, Anocha Suwichakornpong) – 7.1
Present.Perfect. (2019, Zhu Shengze) – 7.8
+Engram of Returning (2016, Saïto Daïchi)
+By the Time It Gets Dark (2017, Anocha Suwichakornpong) – 7.2 [up from 6.3]
Billy (2019, Zachary Epcar)
Krabi, 2562 (2019, Ben Rivers & Anocha Suwichakornpong) – 5.7
A River Runs, Turns, Erases, Replaces (2021, Zhu Shengze) – 7.4

March
Come Here (2021, Anocha Suwichakornpong) – 6.2
Occidente (2015, Ana Vaz)
The Story of a Cheat (1936, Sacha Guitry) – 7.7
Nomadland (2020, Chloé Zhao) – 6.3
The Canaries (1969, Jerome Hill)
Sons of the Good Earth (1965, King Hu) – 7.8
If you could go back, I would see her. (2020, Joshua R. Troxler)
Le bonheur (1965, Agnès Varda) – 7.4
Allures (1961, Jordan Belson)
The Skywalk Is Gone (2002, Tsai Ming-liang)
Looking for Tsai (2002, Patrik Eriksson & Erik Hemmendorff) – 6.2
I Shot Antoine Doinel (2019, Nicolás Prividera)
Black Ice (1994, Stan Brakhage)
Master Z: The Ip Man Legacy (2018, Yuen Woo-ping) – 6.1
Mouse Heaven (2004, Kenneth Anger)
Lingua Franca (2019, Isabel Sandoval) – 5.5
Cosmic Ray (1962, Bruce Conner)
A World Without Women (2011, Guillaume Brac) – 7.2
+Journey to the Shore (2015, Kurosawa Kiyoshi) – 7.8 [up from 6.1]
The Nail Clippers (1969, Jean-Claude Carrière)
Motorway (2012, Soi Cheang) – 6.7
Wife of a Spy (2020, Kurosawa Kiyoshi) – 7.5
Mum’s Cards (2018, Luke Fowler)
Grosse Freiheit Nr. 7 (1944, Helmut Käutner) – 7.4
Artifices #1 (2007, Alexandre Larose)
Low Life (2011, Nicolas Klotz and Élisabeth Perceval) – 7.2
Hercules Conquers Atlantis (1961, Vittorio Cottafavi) – 7.6
Textism (2003, Hirabayashi Isamu)
+Merry-Go-Round (1981, Jacques Rivette) – 7.2 [same]

April
+Oxhide (2005, Liu Jiayin) – 8.0 [up from 7.4]
+Oxhide II (2009, Liu Jiayin) – 8.7 [up from 7.6]
607 (2010, Liu Jiayin)
Minari (2020, Lee Isaac Chung) – 4.8
Alfred (2020, Esther Urlus)
Liz and the Blue Bird (2018, Yamada Naoko) – 7.4
Rose Gold (2017, Sara Cwynar)
+La Chinoise (1967, Jean-Luc Godard) – 7.1 [up from 6.7]
The Inheritance (2020, Ephraim Asili) – 6.9
Melvin and Howard (1980, Jonathan Demme) – 6.8
The Sixteen Showings of Julian of Norwich (2020, Caroline Golum)
Back Yard (2020, Arlin Golden)
Cuba Scalds His Hand (2019, Abby Sun & Daniel Garber)
Still Processing (2020, Sophy Romvari)
Never Rest/Unrest (2020, Tiffany Sia)
The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020, Aaron Sorkin) – 4.4
Mank (2020, David Fincher) – 5.4
Sound of Metal (2019, Darius Marder) – 5.2
A Better Tomorrow II (1987, John Woo) – 6.4
The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932, Charles Brabin) – 6.1
The Courier (2020, Dominic Cooke) – 5.1
The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter (1980, Connie Field) – 5.6
Better Days (2019, Derek Tsang) – 7.0
Pebbles (2021, PS Vinothraj) – 6.9
Radiograph of a Family (2020, Firouzeh Khosrovani) – 5.8
Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse (2021, Stefano Sollima) – 5.4

May
+Fallen Angels (1995, Wong Kar-wai) – 7.9 [same]
+Happy Together (1997, Wong Kar-wai) – 8.0 [same]
The Hand (2004, Wong Kar-wai) – 8.0
+2046 (2004, Wong Kar-wai) – 8.6 [same]
The Big Shave (1967, Martin Scorsese)
The Big Trim (2020, John Magary)
Bye Bye Brazil (1979, Carlos Diegues) – 6.5
Short Vacation (2020, Kwon Min-pyo & Seo Han-sol) ND/NF – 7.8
Nobody (2021, Ilya Naisuller) – 6.2
The Soul (2021, Cheng Wei-hao) – 5.1
The Last Vermeer (2019, Dan Friedkin) – 4.9
+The Tree of Life (2011, Terrence Malick) – 8.7 [same]
All the Light We Can See (2020, Pablo Escoto Luna) ND/NF – 6.2
The Conductor (1980, Andrzej Wajda) – 6.8
The Woman in the Window (2021, Joe Wright) – 5.4
The State I Am In (2000, Christian Petzold) – 6.9
+Barbara (2012, Christian Petzold) – 7.4 [up from 7.2]
Helios (2015, Longman Leung & Sunny Luk) – 5.6
Breaking News (2004, Johnnie To) – 7.2

June
Special Treatment (1980, Goran Paskaljević) – 6.3
Wrath of Man (2021, Guy Ritchie) – 5.5
Confidence (1980, Szabó István) – 6.7
Dear Ex (2018, Mag Hsu & Hsu Chih-yen) – 5.9
And Quiet Rolls the Dawn (1979, Mrinal Sen) – 6.5
Here’s looking at you, kid. (1980, William Edgar Cohen) – 5.9
Cliff Walkers (2021, Zhang Yimou) – 6.1
One Second (2020, Zhang Yimou) – 5.1
Sunday Daughters (1980, Rózsa Janós) – 5.7
Camera Buff (1979, Krzysztof Kieślowski) – 6.3
Europa ’51 (1952, Roberto Rossellini) – 7.2
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968, Sergio Leone) – 7.9
The Color of Pomegranates (1969, Sergei Parajanov) – 7.8
Kagemusha (1980, Kurosawa Akira) – 8.2
Every Man for Himself (1980, Jean-Luc Godard) – 7.5
Loulou (1980, Maurice Pialat) – 7.3
New York Story (1980, Jackie Raynal)
Home Sweet Home (2021, Leste Chen) – 4.8
Nights at O’Rear’s (1980, Robert Mandel) – 5.6
The Constant Factor (1980, Krzysztof Zanussi) – 6.0
Tih-Minh (1918, Louis Feuillade) – 8.6

July
Let Them All Talk a.k.a. The Fall of 2019 (2020, Steven Soderbergh) – 5.8
No Sudden Move (2021, Steven Soderbergh) – 6.1
The Last Metro (1980, François Truffaut) – 6.9
Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone (2007, Anno Hideaki) – 7.0
Shanghai Blues (1984, Tsui Hark) – 8.7
Topology of Sirens (2021, Jonathan Davies) – 7.2
Ten Skies (2004, James Benning) – 7.3
+Trust (1990, Hal Hartley) – 8.9 [same]
The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin) (2020, C.W. Winter & Anders Edström) DP – 7.8
Rosa la rose, fille publique (1986, Paul Vecchiali) – 8.0
Old (2021, M. Night Shyamalan) DP – 5.4
Mischka (2002, Jean-François Stévenin) – 6.6

August
The Green Knight (2021, David Lowery) – 4.9
Fantômas (1932, Fejős Pál) – 5.8
Tirez la langue, mademoiselle (2013, Axelle Ropert) – 7.5
Deep End (1970, Jerzy Skolimowski) – 7.4
The Aviator’s Wife (1981, Éric Rohmer) 35mm – 8.3
4 Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle (1987, Éric Rohmer) 35mm – 7.6
Petite Solange (2021, Axelle Ropert) – 6.4
+Days (2020, Tsai Ming-liang) DP – 7.8 [same]
Annette (2021, Leos Carax) DP – 7.3
Comrades: Almost a Love Story (1996, Peter Chan) – 8.8

September
+Isabella (2020, Matías Piñeiro) DP – 6.6 [same]
+A Brighter Summer Day (1991, Edward Yang) DP – 9.6 [up from 9.5]
Dark Skull (2016, Kiro Russo) – 6.1
El Gran Movimiento (2021, Kiro Russo) – 6.5
Memoria (2021, Apichatpong Weerasethakul) – 8.2
Tokyo Sonata (2008, Kurosawa Kiyoshi) 35mm – 7.9
Casting Blossoms to the Sky (2012, Ōbayashi Nobuhiko) DP – 7.2
Ready, Woolen and Able (1960, Chuck Jones) 35mm
+Killer of Sheep (1977, Charles Burnett) 35mm – 7.5 [same]
The Exiles (1961, Kent Mackenzie) 35mm – 7.4
Untitled Sequence of Gaps (2020, Vika Kirchenbauer)
Autoficción (2020, Laida Lertxundi)
Dear Chantal (2021, Nicolás Pereda)
The Capacity for Adequate Anger (2021, Vika Kirchenbauer)
Inner Outer Space (2021, Laida Lertxundi)
“The red filter is withdrawn.” (2020, Kim Min-jung)
+Blackhat [Approximate Cut] (2015, Michael Mann) – 8.7 [same]
+The Human Surge (2016, Eduardo Williams) – 7.5 [up from 6.6]
Introduction (2021, Hong Sang-soo) – 7.2
Seven Weeks (2014, Ōbayashi Nobuhiko) DP – 5.8
In Front of Your Face (2021, Hong Sang-soo) – 7.3

October
Titane (2021, Julia Ducournau) DP – 6.0
+All My Life (1966, Bruce Baillie)
+Hanagatami (2017, Ōbayashi Nobuhiko) DP – 7.9 [up from 7.7]
The Velvet Underground (2021, Todd Haynes) DP – 7.2
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (2021, Hamaguchi Ryūsuke) DP – 7.8
+North by Northwest (1959, Alfred Hitchcock) 35mm – 8.2 [same]
Canyon Passage (1946, Jacques Tourneur) 35mm – 8.2
Fabian, or Going to the Dogs (2021, Domink Graf) DP – 7.1
Dune: Part One (2021, Denis Villeneuve) DP – 5.8
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun (2021, Wes Anderson) DP – 7.1
Terra Femme (2021, Courtney Stephens) DP – 6.1
Belly (1998, Hype Williams) 35mm – 7.1
The Leopard Man (1943, Jacques Tourneur) 35mm – 7.4
Hit the Road (2021, Panâh Panâhi) SDAFF, DP – 6.7
I Was a Simple Man (2021, Christopher Makoto Yogi) SDAFF, DP – 5.9
+Memoria (2021, Apichatpong Weerasethakul) SDAFF, DP – 8.4 [up from 8.2]

November
What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? (2021, Alexandre Koberidze) DP – 7.8
Drive My Car (2021, Hamaguchi Ryūsuke) SDAFF, DP – 8.8
Procession (2021, Robert Greene) – 7.2
Vanya on 42nd Street (1994, Louis Malle) – 5.3
The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021, Joel Coen) DP – 7.3
Ahed’s Knee (2021, Nadav Lapid) AFI Fest, DP – 7.1
Happening (2021, Audrey Diwan) AFI Fest, DP – 5.6
+Morocco (1930, Josef von Sternberg) – 8.0 [up from 6.4]
+Dishonored (1931, Josef von Sternberg) – 7.7 [up from 7.1]
Shanghai Express (1932, Josef von Sternberg) 35mm – 8.9
+The Red and the White (1967, Jancsó Miklós) DP – 7.5 [same]
+The Master (2012, Paul Thomas Anderson) – 7.5 [same]
+Phantom Thread (2017, Paul Thomas Anderson) – 7.3 [up from 7.1]
Licorice Pizza (2021, Paul Thomas Anderson) 70mm – 7.3
The Souvenir: Part II (2021, Joanna Hogg) DP – 7.0
Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (2021, Radu Jude) – 7.2
Walkabout (1971, Nicolas Roeg) 35mm – 6.3
Round Midnight (1986, Bertrand Tavernier) 35mm – 7.2
Cry Macho (2021, Clint Eastwood) – 6.7
Eternals (2021, Chloé Zhao) DP – 5.5
West Side Story (2021, Steven Spielberg) DP – 7.6

December
Cityscape (2019, Michael Snow)
France (2021, Bruno Dumont) – 7.2
Benedetta (2021, Paul Verhoeven) – 7.0
The Witches of the Orient (2021, Julien Faraut) DP – 6.5
The Worst Person in the World (2021, Joachim Trier) – 6.2
Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance (2009, Anno Hideaki) – 7.3
Pig (2021, Michael Sarnoski) – 4.6
The Piano (1993, Jane Campion) – 7.1
Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo (2012, Anno Hideaki) – 7.2
małni — towards the ocean, towards the shore (2020, Sky Hopinka) – 6.3
The Card Counter (2021, Paul Schrader) – 6.2
The Power of the Dog (2021, Jane Campion) – 7.2
Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time (2021, Anno Hideaki) – 7.4
Petite Maman (2021, Céline Sciamma) – 6.3
+The Red Shoes (1948, Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger) 35mm – 7.9 [up from 6.8]
The Matrix Resurrections (2021, Lana Wachowski) – 6.1
New Rose Hotel (1998, Abel Ferrara) – 7.2
El Planeta (2021, Amalia Ulman) – 6.6
Zeros and Ones (2021, Abel Ferrara) – 6.2
Bergman Island (2021, Mia Hansen-Løve) – 6.1
Parallel Mothers (2021, Pedro Almodóvar) – 7.0

Top 22 of 2020

Ryan Swen Lists Tags: , Leave a comment

While I certainly wouldn’t say 2020 approached the greatness of 2019’s release year, it certainly held up much better than could have been reasonably expected, given all the obstacles eventually overcome. The amount of films is a bit misleading; there were definitely fewer films that I adored, and Steve McQueen’s Small Axe anthology accounts for a not insignificant percentage of this list.

The following list is formed from the reds, oranges, greens, and blues that I have seen at time of writing that were commercially released in New York City or received a virtual commercial release in 2020. A list, not the list.

1. Martin Eden (Pietro Marcello)

2. To the Ends of the Earth (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)

3. Fourteen (Dan Sallitt)

4. I Was at Home, But… (Angela Schanelec)

5. The Grand Bizarre (Jodie Mack)

6. The Traitor (Marco Bellocchio)

7. Heimat Is a Space in Time (Thomas Heise)

8. Vitalina Varela (Pedro Costa)

9. First Cow (Kelly Reichardt)

10. The Whistlers (Corneliu Porumboiu)

11. Lovers Rock (Steve McQueen)

12. Ghost Tropic (Bas Devos)

13. Tesla (Michael Almereyda)

14. Liberté (Albert Serra)

15. Bacurau (Kleber Mendonça Filho & Juliano Dornelles)

16. The Wild Goose Lake (Diao Yinan)

17. City Hall (Frederick Wiseman)

18. Sibyl (Justine Triet)

19. Red, White and Blue (Steve McQueen)

20. Education (Steve McQueen)

21. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets (Bill & Turner Ross)

22. Mangrove (Steve McQueen)

My Top 10 Discoveries During 2020 (for first-time viewings of films made before 2000)

  1. Perceval le Gallois (1978, Eric Rohmer)
  2. Femmes Femmes (1974, Paul Vecchiali)
  3. High and Low (1963, Akira Kurosawa)
  4. Beijing Watermelon (1989, Nobuhiko Obayashi)
  5. His Girl Friday (1940, Howard Hawks)
  6. The Love Eterne (1963, Li Han-hsiang)
  7. Peking Opera Blues (1986, Tsui Hark)
  8. Yearning (1964, Mikio Naruse)
  9. The Rocking Horsemen (1992, Nobuhiko Obayashi)
  10. Dirty Ho (1979, Lau Kar-leung)

17th (1979): “Film Capital of the World” Show Notes

Ryan Swen Catalyst and Witness Leave a comment

Table of Contents: Description, Housekeeping, General, Main Slate, Ephemera, Recurring Directors, Recurring Countries, One-Time Directors, Debuts, Festivals/Oscar Nominees, Events, Discussions By Length, Specifications

poster

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

Description
The seventeenth episode of the Catalyst and Witness podcast, devoted to exploring the films and format of the New York Film Festival, hosted by Ryan Swen. This covers the seventeenth edition of the festival in 1979, and features special guest Jake Cole, freelance film critic for Slant Magazine.

0:00-15:35 – Opening
15:36-1:08:42 – Part One [La luna to Wise Blood]
1:08:43-2:16:06 – Part Two [Short Memory to Molière]
2:16:07-3:13:08 – Part Three [Best Boy to In a Year With 13 Moons]
3:13:09-4:11:27 – Part Four [Without Anesthesia to The Marriage of Maria Braun]
4:11:28-4:17:25 – Closing

Housekeeping

  • Hosted by Ryan Swen
  • Special Guest Jake Cole
  • Conceived and Edited by Ryan Swen
  • Recorded in Roswell and Atlanta on Zoom H4N and Behringer Microphone, Edited in Audacity
  • Podcast photograph from Yi Yi, Logo designed by Dan Molloy
  • Recorded December 13, 2020
  • Released December 26, 2020
  • Music (in order of appearance):
    • La luna (opening night)
    • Wise Blood (another favorite)
    • The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie (favorite of the first section)
    • Short Memory (favorite of the second section)
    • Alexandria… Why? (favorite of the third section)
    • The Black Stallion (favorite of the fourth section)
    • The Marriage of Maria Braun (closing night)

General

  • Selection Committee: Richard Roud (program director), Richard Corliss, Molly Haskell, Charles Michener, Tom Luddy (West Coast consultant), Mary Meerson (retrospective consultant)
  • Location: Alice Tully Hall and Avery Fisher Hall
  • Prices: 3, 4, 5.50; for opening and closing night 5, 7, 10
  • Films seen for the podcast:
    • Ryan
      • Seen before podcast watching period: N/A
      • Seen for the podcast: All
      • Favorite films: The Marriage of Maria Braun, The Golden Coach, In a Year With 13 Moons, Peeping Tom, The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie, Wise Blood, The Black Stallion, Short Memory
      • Least favorite films: The Europeans
      • Catch-Up Corner: The Bench of Desolation (12th)
    • Jake
      • Seen before podcast watching period: Wise Blood, Nosferatu the Vampyre, My Brilliant Career, In a Year With 13 Moons
      • Seen for the podcast: All available except Angi Vera, The Sin of Harold Diddlebock, Other People’s Money, The Wobblies; Nosferatu the Vampyre, My Brilliant Career, In a Year With 13 Moons rewatched
      • Favorite films: Nosferatu the Vampyre, The Marriage of Maria Braun, The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie, The Black Stallion, Wise Blood, Short Memory
      • Least favorite films: The Europeans, The Maids of Wilko
  • Discoveries of the festival: Short Memory, Alexandria… Why?, Other People’s Money, The Sin of Harold Diddlebock

Main Slate

Opening Night: La luna [Luna] (1979, Bernardo Bertolucci)
September 28, 8:30 {Avery Fisher Hall}
Released 1979
Retrospective: The Golden Coach [Le Carrosse d’or] (1952, Jean Renoir)
September 29, 12:30
Released 1954
The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie (1979, Chuck Jones)
September 29, 3:00
Released 1979
Black Jack (1979, Ken Loach)
September 29, 6:00
Never released
Wise Blood (1979, John Huston)
September 29, 9:00
Released 1980
Short Memory [La mémoire courte] (1979, Eduardo de Gregorio)
September 30, 2:00
Never released
Angi Vera (1978, Gabór Pál)
October 1, 6:15
Released 1980
Nosferatu the Vampyre [Nosferatu – Phantom der Nacht/Nosferatu—Phantom of the Night] (1979, Werner Herzog)
October 1, 9:30
Released 1979
Retrospective: Howard Hughes Presents…
Scarface (1932, Howard Hawks)
The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (1947, Preston Sturges)
October 2, 6:15
Released 1932/Released 1951
The Europeans (1979, James Ivory)
October 2, 9:30
Released 1979
Molière (1978, Ariane Mnouchkine)
October 4, 7:00
Never released
Best Boy (1979, Ira Wohl)
October 5, 6:15
Released 1980
Other People’s Money [L’Argent des autres] (1978, Christian de Chalonge)
October 5, 9:30
Never released
Alexandria… Why? [Iskanderija… lih?] (1979, Youssef Chahine)
October 6, 6:00
Never released
My Brilliant Career (1979, Gillian Armstrong)
October 6, 9:00
Released 1980
A Scream From Silence [Mourir à tue-tête/To Die at the Top of One’s Lungs] (1979, Anne Claire Poirier)
October 8, 6:15
Never released
In a Year With 13 Moons [In einem Jahr mit 13 Monden] (1978, Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
October 8, 9:30
Released 1980
Without Anesthesia [Bez znieczulenia] (1978, Andrzej Wajda)
October 9, 9:30
Released 1982
The Wobblies (1979, Steward Bird & Deborah Shaffer)
October 11, 6:15
Released 1981
The Maids of Wilko [Panny z Wilka] (1979, Andrzej Wajda)
October 11, 9:30
Never released
The Black Stallion (1979, Carroll Ballard)
October 13, 12:30
Released 1979
Retrospective: Peeping Tom (1960, Michael Powell)
October 13, 3:00
Released 1979
Closing Night: The Marriage of Maria Braun [Die Ehe der Maria Braun] (1979, Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
October 14, 8:30 {Avery Fisher Hall}
Released 1979

Ephemera

  • Festival of American Independent Films, a six-day festival featuring six new or unreleased films and nine previously released films, released as a prelude leading directly to the New York Film Festival, $3 a film at Paramount Theater
  • Exhibition of technological developments in filmmaking, displayed October 2-4 from 11-8 in Alice Tully Hall

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

  • Rainer Werner Fassbinder: 2/2/9/9/1/1
  • Andrzej Wajda: 2/2/3/3/0/1
  • Bernardo Bertolucci: 1/1/7/8/2/1†(8/17/17)
  • Werner Herzog: 1/1/7/8/0/1
  • James Ivory: 1/1/4/4†(4/29/29)
  • Ken Loach: 1/1/3/3
  • Eduardo de Gregorio: 1/1/2/2†(2/5/5)
  • Youssef Chahine: 1/1/1/1
  • Christian de Chalonge: 1/1/1/1
  • Deborah Shaffer: 1/1/1/1
  • Jean Renoir: 0/1/0/5†(5/0/33)
  • Michael Powell: 0/1/0/1

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: 5/7/61/80/3
  • France: 3/3/98/117/15
  • West Germany: 3/3/29/31/2
  • UK: 2/3/22/25/1
  • Poland: 2/2/13/13
  • Italy: 1/2/36/42/4
  • Hungary: 1/1/10/10
  • Canada: 1/1/6/7
  • Australia: 1/1/2/2
  • Egypt: 1/1/1/1

One-Time Directors

  • Gillian Armstrong
  • Carroll Ballard
  • Stewart Bird
  • Gabór Pál
  • Howard Hawks (retrospective)
  • John Huston
  • Chuck Jones
  • Ariane Mnouchkine
  • Anne Claire Poirier
  • Preston Sturges (retrospective)
  • Ira Wohl

Feature Debuts

  • Deborah Shaffer
  • Ira Wohl

Festivals

  • NYFF World Premiere
    • The Black Stallion
    • The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie
    • The Wobblies
  • Cannes
    • Without Anesthesia (Prize of the Ecumenical Jury)
    • The Europeans
    • My Brilliant Career
    • A Scream From Silence (Un Certain Regard)
    • Angi Vera (Directors’ Fortnight, FIPRESCI)
    • Black Jack (Directors’ Fortnight, FIPRESCI)
    • Short Memory (Directors’ Fortnight)
    • Wise Blood (Out of Competition)
  • Berlin
    • Alexandria… Why? (Special Jury Prize)
    • The Marriage of Maria Braun (Best Actress, Silver Bear)
    • Nosferatu the Vampyre (Outstanding Individual Achievement)
  • Other
    • Best Boy (Toronto)
    • The Maids of Wilko (Locarno)
  • N/A
    • The Golden Coach
    • In a Year With 13 Moons
    • La luna
    • Molière
    • Other People’s Money
    • Peeping Tom
    • Scarface
    • The Sin of Harold Diddlebock

Oscar Nominees

  • Best Boy: Best Documentary (won)
  • The Black Stallion: Best Supporting Actor, Best Film Editing, Special Achievement for Sound Editing
  • The Maids of Wilko: Best Foreign Film
  • My Brilliant Career: 1980 Best Costume Design

Events

events

Discussions By Length (Approximate)

  • 15:09 The Marriage of Maria Braun (3:56:18-4:11:27)
  • 15:04 “Howard Hughes Presents…” (1:40:16-1:55:20)
  • 13:14 In a Year With 13 Moons (2:59:54-3:13:08)
  • 13:12 Nosferatu the Vampyre (1:27:03-1:40:15)
  • 12:58 Molière (2:03:08-2:16:06)
  • 12:50 The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie (37:36-50:26)
  • 12:02 La luna (16:41-28:43)
  • 11:56 Short Memory (1:09:47-1:21:43)
  • 11:15 The Black Stallion (3:34:35-3:45:50)
  • 10:26 Peeping Tom (3:45:51-3:56:17)
  • 10:09 Wise Blood (58:33-1:08:42)
  • 10:04 Without Anesthesia (3:14:10-3:24:14)
  • 10:00 A Scream From Silence (2:49:53-2:59:53)
  • 9:44 Best Boy (2:17:07-2:26:51)
  • 8:51 The Golden Coach (28:44-37:35)
  • 8:34 Alexandria… Why? (2:32:56-2:41:30)
  • 8:21 My Brilliant Career (2:41:31-2:49:52)
  • 8:05 Black Jack (50:27-58:32)
  • 7:46 The Europeans (1:55:21-2:03:07)
  • 6:26 The Maids of Wilko (3:28:08-3:34:34)
  • 6:03 Other People’s Money [One Person] (2:26:52-2:32:55)
  • 5:18 Angi Vera [One Person] (1:21:44-1:27:02)
  • 3:52 The Wobblies [One Person] (3:24:15-3:28:07)

Specifications

  • Bernardo Bertolucci, La luna, 1979, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 142 minutes, 1.85:1, English and Italian, Italy.
  • Jean Renoir, Le Carrosse d’or, 1952, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 103 minutes, 1.37:1, English and Italian, Italy.
  • Chuck Jones, The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie, 1979, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 98 minutes, 1.37:1, English, USA.
  • Ken Loach, Black Jack, 1979, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 110 minutes, 1.66:1, English, UK.
  • John Huston, Wise Blood, 1979, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 106 minutes, 1.85:1, English, USA.
  • Eduardo de Gregorio, La mémoire courte, 1979, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 105 minutes, 1.66:1, French, France.
  • Gabór Pál, Angi Vera, 1978, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 96 minutes, 1.66:1, Hungarian, Hungary.
  • Werner Herzog, Nosferatu – Phantom der Nacht, 1979, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 107 minutes, 1.85:1, German, West Germany.
  • Howard Hawks, Scarface, 1932, 35 mm, black-and-white, mono sound, 93 minutes, 1.37:1, English, USA.
  • Preston Sturges, The Sin of Harold Diddlebock, 1947, 35 mm, black-and-white, mono sound, 89 minutes, 1.37:1, English, USA.
  • James Ivory, The Europeans, 1979, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 91 minutes, 1.66:1, English, UK.
  • Ariane Mnouchkine, Molière, 1978, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 260 minutes, 1.66:1, French, France.
  • Ira Wohl, Best Boy, 1979, 16 mm, color, mono sound, 111 minutes, 1.37:1, English, USA.
  • Christian de Chalonge, L’Argent des autres, 1978, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 105 minutes, 1.66:1, French, France.
  • يوسف شاهين‎, إسكندرية… ليه؟, 1979, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 133 minutes, 1.66:1, Arabic and English, Egypt.
  • Gillian Armstrong, My Brilliant Career, 1979, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 100 minutes, 1.85:1, English, Australia.
  • Anne Claire Poirier, Mourir à tue-tête, 1979, 16 mm, color and black-and-white, mono sound, 96 minutes, 1.37:1, French, Canada.
  • Rainer Werner Fassbinder, In einem Jahr mit 13 Monden, 1978, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 124 minutes, 1.66:1, German, West Germany.
  • Andrzej Wajda, Bez znieczulenia, 1978, 35 mm and video, color, mono sound, 131 minutes, 1.37:1, Polish, Poland.
  • Stewart Bird & Deborah Shaffer, The Wobblies, 1979, 16 mm, color, mono sound, 89 minutes, 1.37:1, English, USA.
  • Andrzej Wajda, Panny z Wilka, 1979, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 118 minutes, 1.66:1, Polish, Poland.
  • Carroll Ballard, The Black Stallion, 1979, 35 mm, color and black-and-white, stereo sound, 118 minutes, 1.85:1, English, USA.
  • Michael Powell, Peeping Tom, 1960, 35 mm and 16 mm, color and black-and-white, mono sound, 101 minutes, 1.66:1, English, UK.
  • Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Die Ehe der Maria Braun, 1979, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 120 minutes, 1.66:1, German and English, West Germany.

2020 Virtual Commercial Releases

Ryan Swen Lists Tags:

Compiled from The Film Stage New to Streaming round-ups, format based on Mike D’Angelo’s New York City Commercial Releases lists, criteria for inclusion loose as long as the film appears to be released through some form of contractural distribution, is not playing as part of a festival or equivalent institution, and has not been released in NYC before. With MUBI films specifically, I have attempted to only select MUBI releases not associated with a specific festival or series, but some errors may persist. For completion’s sake, films that received a NYC theatrical release before 20 Mar have been copied from D’Angelo’s list.

Week of 25 Dec

Dear Comrades! (Andrei Konchalovsky)
The Midnight Sky (George Clooney)
Soul (Pete Docter)
Sylvie’s Love (Eugene Ashe)
Wonder Woman 1984 (Patty Jenkins)
Your Name Engraved Herein (Liu Kuang-Hui)

Week of 18 Dec

Education (Steve McQueen)
Greenland (Ric Roman Waugh)
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (George C. Wolfe)
Tenet (Christopher Nolan)

Week of 11 Dec

Alabama Snake (Theo Love)
Alex Wheatle (Steve McQueen)
Archenemy (Adam Egypt Mortimer)
Assassins (Ryan White)
Barbs, Wastelands (Marta Mateus)
Deep in Vogue (Amy Watson & Dennis Keighron Foster)
Farewell Amor (Ekwa Msangi)
Finding Yingying (Shi Jiayan)
Funny Boy (Deepa Mehta)
I’m Your Woman (Julia Hart)
Let Them All Talk (Steven Soderbergh)
Minari (Lee Isaac Chung)
Out Stealing Horses (Hans Petter Moland)
Safety (Reginald Hudlin)
To the Ends of the Earth (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
Wander Darkly (Tara Miele)
The Weasels’ Tale (Juan José Campanella)
Wild Mountain Thyme (John Patrick Shanley)
Wolfwalkers (Tomm Moore & Ross Stewart)
Yalda, a Night for Forgiveness (Massoud Bakhshi)

Week of 4 Dec

Ammonite (Francis Lee)
Another Round (Thomas Vinterberg)
Billie (James Erskine)
Black Bear (Lawrence Michael Levine)
Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds With Shane MacGowan (Julien Temple)
Disco (Jorunn Myklebust Syversen)
Faith (Valentina Pedicini)
Luxor (Zeina Durra)
Mank (David Fincher)
Mayor (David Osit)
Minor Premise (Eric Schultz)
Nomadland (Chloé Zhao)
Red, White and Blue (Steve McQueen)
76 Days (Wu Hao & Chen Weixi & Anonymous)
Sound of Metal (Darius Marder)
Survival Skills (Quinn Armstrong)
Tripping With Nils Frahm (Benoit Toulemonde)

Week of 27 Nov

Fatman (Eshom Nelms)
Happiest Season (Clea DuVall)
Let Him Go (Thomas Bezucha)
Lovers Rock (Steve McQueen)
The Mystery of D.B. Cooper (John Dower)
Overseas (Yoon Sung-A)
Stardust (Gabriel Range)
Superintelligence (Ben Falcone)
Uncle Frank (Alan Ball)
Zappa (Alex Winter)

Week of 20 Nov

Ainu Mosir (Fukunaga Takeshi)
Amulet (Romola Garai)
Born to Be (Tania Cypriano)
Cemetery (Carlos Casas)
Collective (Alexander Nanau)
De Lo Mio (Diana Peralta)
Dreamland (Miles Joris-Peyrafitte)
Embattled (Nick Sarkisov)
Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on the Exorcist (Alexandre O. Philippe)
Mangrove (Steve McQueen)
The Nest (Sean Durkin)
The Personal History of David Copperfield (Armando Iannucci)
Run (Aneesh Chaganty)
The Twentieth Century (Matthew Rankin)
Unhinged (Derrick Borte)

Week of 13 Nov

Coded Bias (Shalini Kantayya)
Divine Love (Gabriel Mascaro)
Francisca (Manoel de Oliveira) [1981]
Free Time (Manfred Kirchheimer)
Fireball: Visitors From Darker Worlds (Werner Herzog & Clive Oppenheimer)
The Giant (David Roby)
The Life Ahead (Edoardo Ponti)
Monsoon (Khaou Hong)
Nova Lituania (Karolis Kaupinis)

Week of 6 Nov

The Dark and the Wicked (Bryan Bertino)
Jungleland (Max Winkler)
Kindred (Joe Marcantonio)
Koko-Di Koko-Da (Johannes Nyholm)
Mortal (André Øvredal)
Possessor (Brandon Cronenberg)
Proxima (Alice Winocour)

Week of 30 Oct

City Hall (Frederick Wiseman)
Damnation (Tarr Béla) [1988]
The Donut King (Alice Gu)
Fire Will Come (Oliver Laxe)
His House (Remi Weekes)
Raining in the Mountain (King Hu) [1979]
Train to Busan Presents: Peninsula (Yeon Sang-ho)
The True Adventures of Wolfboy (Martin Krejci)
Us Kids (Kim A. Snyder)
The Young Observant (Davide Maldi)

Week of 23 Oct

Bad Hair (Justin Simien)
Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm (Jason Woliner)
Coming Home Again (Wayne Wang)
David Byrne’s American Utopia (Spike Lee)
Ham on Rye (Tyler Taormina)
On the Rocks (Sofia Coppola)
Rebecca (Ben Wheatley)
The Sounding (Catherine Eaton) [2017]
The Witches (Robert Zemeckis)

Week of 16 Oct

Hosts (Adam Leader & Richard Oakes)
Kajillionaire (Miranda July)
Martin Eden (Pietro Marcello)
The Secrets We Keep (Yuval Adler)
Shithouse (Cooper Raiff)
Time (Garrett Bradley)
Totally Under Control (Alex Gibney & Ophelia Harutyunyan & Suzanne Hillinger)
The Trial of the Chicago 7 (Aaron Sorkin)
White Riot (Rubika Shah)

Week of 9 Oct

Charm City Kings (Angel Manuel Soto)
The Lie (Veena Sud)
Save Yourselves! (Alex Huston Fischer & Eleanor Wilson)
South Terminal (Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche)
The 40-Year-Old Version (Radha Blank)
The Wolf of Snow Hollow (Jim Cummings)

Week of 2 Oct

Deerskin (Quentin Dupieux)
Dick Johnson Is Dead (Kirsten Johnson)
Eternal Beauty (Craig Roberts)
The Glorias (Julie Taymor)
Scare Me (Josh Ruben)
12 Hour Shift (Brea Grant)

Week of 25 Sep

The Artist’s Wife (Tom Dolby)
Bird Island (Maya Kosa & Sérgio da Costa)
Jay Sebring….Cutting to the Truth (Anthony DiMaria)
Oliver Sacks: His Own Life (Ric Burns)
Ottolenghi and the Cakes of Versailles (Laura Gabbert)
The Shadow of Violence (Nick Rowland)

Week of 18 Sep

All In: The Fight for Democracy (Liz Garbus & Lisa Cortés)
Blackbird (Roger Michell)
The Devil All the Time (Antonio Campos)
Residue (Merawi Gerima)

Week of 11 Sep

Buoyancy (Rodd Rathjen)
Cuties (Maïmouna Doucouré)
I Hate New York (Gustavo Sanchez)
Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President (Mary Wharton)
Our Time Machine (Yang Sun & S. Leo Chiang)
Red, White & Wasted (Andrei Bowden Schwartz & Sam B. Jones)
Sibyl (Justine Triet)
The Social Dilemma (Jeff Orlowski)
Space Dogs (Elsa Kremser & Levin Peter)
Unpregnant (Rachel Lee Goldenberg)

Week of 4 Sep

The Argument (Robert Schwartzman)
Feels Good Man (Arthur Jones)
I’m Thinking of Ending Things (Charlie Kaufman)
Isadora’s Children (Damien Manivel)
The Mole Agent (Maite Alberdi)
Mulan (Niki Caro)
My Prince Edward (Norris Wong)
Robin’s Wish (Tylor Norwood)
Sicilia! (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet) [1999]

Week of 28 Aug

Bill & Ted Face the Music (Dean Parisot)
Centigrade (Brendan Walsh)
Driven to Abstraction (Daria Price)
Epicentro (Hubert Sauper)
The Garden Left Behind (Flavio Alves)
Get Duked! (Ninian Doff)
Ghost Tropic (Bas Devos)
The Hole (Tsai Ming-liang) [1998]
Lingua Franca (Isabel Sandoval)
Matthias & Maxime (Xavier Dolan)
Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin (Werner Herzog)
You Cannot Kill David Arquette (Price James & David Darg)

Week of 21 Aug

African Violet (Mona Zandi Haghighi)
The August Virgin (Jonás Trueba)
Coup 53 (Amir Amirani)
Desert One (Barbara Kopple)
King of the Cruise (Sophie Dros)
Pretending I’m a Superman: The Tony Hawk Video Game Story (Ludvig Gür)
Random Acts of Violence (Jay Baruchel)
Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies (Matt Cipolla)
Son of the White Mare (Jankovics Marcell) [1981)
Tesla (Michael Almereyda)
Wonders in the Suburbs (Jeanne Balibar)

Week of 14 Aug

Boys State (Amanda McBaine & Jesse Moss)
Change of Life (Paulo Rocha) [1966]
An Easy Girl (Rebecca Zlotowski)
Happy Happy Joy Joy: The Ren & Stimpy Story (Ron Cicero & Kimo Easterwood)
The Last Tree (Shola Amoo)
Martin Margiela: In His Own Words (Reiner Holzemer)
Project Power (Henry Joost & Ariel Schulman)
Spree (Eugene Kotlyarenko)
Sputnik (Egor Abramenko)
Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Broadway (Muta’Ali)

Week of 7 Aug

An American Pickle (Brandon Trost)
Arkanasas (Clark Due)
The Green Years (Paulo Rocha) [1963]
I Used to Go Here (Kris Rey)
La Llorona (Jayro Bustamante)
Made in Italy (James D’Arcy)
Psychomagic, A Healing Art (Alejandro Jodorowsky)
Red Penguins (Gabe Polsky)
She Dies Tomorrow (Amy Seimetz)
Song Without a Name (Melina León)
Sunless Shadows (Mehrdad Oskouei)
A Thousand Cuts (Ramona S. Diaz)
Waiting for the Barbarians (Ciro Guerra)
You Never Had It: An Evening With Bukowski (Matteo Borgardt)

Week of 31 Jul

Again Once Again (Romina Paula)
Banana Split (Benjamin Kasulke)
Black Is King (Beyoncé)
The Fight (Josh Kriegman & Elyse Steinberg & Eli B. Despres)
A Girl Missing (Fukada Kōji)
Marley (Kevin Macdonald)
Shine Your Eyes (Matias Mariani)
Summerland (Jessica Swale)

Week of 24 Jul

Amulet (Romola Garai)
Fisherman’s Friends (Chris Foggin)
Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful (Gero von Boehm)
Host (Rob Savage)
Impetigore (Joko Anwar)
Most Wanted (Daniel Roby)
Radioactive (Marjane Satrapi)
The Rental (Dave Franco)
Yes, God, Yes (Karen Maine)

Week of 17 Jul

Ghosts of War (Eric Bress)
Mayak (Maria Saakyan)
The Painted Bird (Vaclav Marhoul)
The Rest of Us (Aisling Chin-Lee)
The Sunlit Night (David Wnendt)

Week of 10 Jul

The Beach House (Jeffrey A. Brown)
Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets (Bill & Turner Ross)
Greyhound (Aaron Schneider)
Guest of Honour (Atom Egoyan)
Mucho Mucho Amor (Cristina Costantini & Kareem Tabsch)
The Old Guard (Gina Prince-Bythewood)
Palm Springs (Max Barbakow)
Relic (Natalie Erika James)
We Are Little Zombies (Nagahisa Makoto)

Week of 3 Jul

Bungalow (Ulrich Köhler) [2002]
Family Romance, LLC (Werner Herzog)
Hamilton (Thomas Kail)
John Lewis: Good Trouble (Dawn Porter)
The Truth (Koreeda Hirokazu)
Viena and the Fantomes (Gerardo Naranjo)
Welcome to Chechnya (David France)

Week of 26 Jun

Beats (Brian Welsh)
Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga (David Dobkin)
The Ghost of Peter Sellers (Peter Medak)
House of Hummingbird (Kim Bo-ra)
Irresistible (Jon Stewart)

Week of 19 Jun

Babyteeth (Shannon Murphy)
Crazy World (Nabwana IGG) [2014]
The Day After I’m Gone (Nimrod Eldar)
Disclosure (Sam Feder)
Miss Juneteenth (Channing Godfrey People)
7500 (Patrick Vollrath)
Wasp Network (Olivier Assayas)

Week of 12 Jun

Artemis Fowl (Kenneth Branagh)
Aviva (Boaz Yakin)
Da 5 Bloods (Spike Lee)
Hill of Freedom (Hong Sang-soo) [2014]
The King of Staten Island (Judd Apatow)
The Surrogate (Jeremy Hersh)
You Don’t Nomi (Jeffrey McHale)

Week of 5 Jun

Becky (Jonathan Milott & Cary Murnion)
Dreamland (Bruce McDonald)
Hammer (Christian Sparkes)
Judy & Punch (Mirrah Foulkes)
MS Slavic 7 (Sofia Bohdanowicz and Deragh Campbell)
Shirley (Josephine Decker)
Tommaso (Abel Ferrara)
Yourself and Yours (Hong Sang-soo) [2016]

Week of 29 May

Around the World When You Were My Age (Koretzky Aya)
End of Sentence (Elfar Adalsteins)
The High Note (Nisha Ganatra)
I Will Make You Mine (Lynn Chen)
On the Record (Kirby Dick & Amy Ziering)
Papicha (Mounia Meddour)
The Vast of Night (Andrew Patterson)

Week of 22 May

Cassandro, The Exotico! (Marie Losier)
Diana Kennedy: Nothing Fancy (Elizabeth Carroll)
Inheritance (Vaughn Stein)
Joan of Arc (Bruno Dumont)
Military Wives (Peter Cattaneo)
The Painter and the Thief (Benjamin Ree)
Take Me Somewhere Nice (Ena Sendijarević)
The Trip to Greece (Michael Winterbottom)

Week of 15 May

Alice (Josephine Mackerras)
Capone (Josh Trank)
Castle in the Ground (Joey Klein)
Fourteen (Dan Sallitt)
The Wolf House (Cristóbal Léon & Joaquín Cociña)

Week of 8 May

Arkansas (Clark Duke)
Becoming (Nadia Hallgren)
Clementine (Lara Gallagher)
Driveways (Andrew Ahn)
How to Build a Girl (Coky Giedroyc)
Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind (Laurent Bouzereau)
On a Magical Night (Christophe Honoré)
Porno (Keola Racela)
Rewind (Sasha Joseph Neulinger)
Spaceship Earth (Matt Wolf)
Sweetness in the Belly (Zeresenay Berhane Mehari)

Week of 1 May

Bad Education (Cory Finley)
Blood Quantum (Jeff Barnaby)
Bull (Annie Silverstein)
Closeness (Kantemir Balagov)
Deerskin (Quentin Dupieux)
Ema (Pablo Larraín)
The Half of It (Alice Wu)
Liberté (Albert Serra)
A Russian Youth (Alexander Tolotukhin)
Tammy’s Always Dying (Amy Jo Johnson)
Until the Birds Return (Karim Moussaoui)
The Wretched (Brett & Drew T. Pierce)

Week of 24 Apr

Beastie Boys Story (Spike Jonze)
Circus of Books (Rachel Mason)
Extraction (Sam Hargrave)
Ghost Town Anthology (Denis Côté)
The Heiresses (Marcelo Martinessi)
Someone Somewhere (Cédric Klapisch)
Sunrise/Sunset (Ougie Pak)
To the Stars (Martha Stephens)
True History of the Kelly Gang (Justin Kurzel)

Week of 17 Apr

Abe (Fernando Grostein Andrade)
Butt Boy (Tyler Cornack)
Endings, Beginnings (Drake Doremus)
Mercury in Retrograde (Michael Glover Smith)
The Quarry (Scott Teems)
Selah and the Spades (Tayarisha Poe)
The Sharks (Lucía Garibaldi)
This Is Not Berlin (Hari Sama)
A White, White Day (Hlynur Pálmason)

Week of 10 Apr

The Ghost Who Walks (Cody Stokes)
The Grand Bizarre (Jodie Mack)
Gray House (Austin Lynch & Matthew Booth)
Santiago, Italia (Nanni Moretti)
Sea Fever (Neasa Hardiman)
Tigertail (Alan Yang)

Week of 3 Apr

Coffee & Kareem (Michael Dowse)
Nona. If they soak me, I’ll burn them (Camila José Donoso)
The Other Lamb (Malgorzata Szumowska)
Slay the Dragon (Chris Durrance & Barak Goodman)

Week of 27 Mar

Crimp Camp (Nicole Newnham & Jim LeBrecht)
Cunningham (Alla Kovgan)
The Daughters of Fire (Albertina Carri)
Heimat Is a Space in Time (Thomas Heise)
Resistance (Jonathan Jakubowicz)
Vivarium (Lorcan Finnegan)

Week of 20 Mar

Blow the Man Down (Danielle Krudy & Bridget Savage Cole)
Human Capital (Marc Meyers)
The Platform (Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia)

Week of 13 Mar

Big Time Adolescence (Jason Orley)
Block Z (Mikhail Red)
Bloodshot (Dave Wilson)
Cruel Peter (Ascanio Malgarini & Christian Bisceglia)
The Dog Doc (Cindy Meehl)
English Medium (Homi Adajania)
Human Nature (Adam Bolt)
The Hunt (Craig Zobel)
I Still Believe (Adam & Jon Erwin)
Inside the Rain (Aaron Fisher)
A Kid From Coney Island (Coodie & Chike)
Lost Girls (Liz Garbus)
Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears (Tony Tilse)
Never Rarely Sometimes Always (Eliza Hittman)
The Postcard Killings (Danis Tanović)
Ride Like a Girl (Rachel Griffiths)
The Roads Not Taken (Sally Potter)

Week of 6 Mar

Baaghi 3 (Ahmed Khan)
Bacurau (Kleber Mendonça Filho & Juliano Dornelles)
The Banker (George Nolfi)
Beneath Us (Max Pachman)
The Booksellers (D.W. Young)
The Burnt Orange Heresy (Giuseppe Capotondi)
Extra Ordinary. (Mike Ahern & Enda Loughman)
First Cow (Kelly Reichardt)
Foxtrot Six (Randy Korompis)
Go Back to China (Emily Ting)
Hope Gap (William Nicholson)
Made in Hong Kong (Fruit Chan) [1997]
Only (Takashi Doscher)
Onward (Dan Scanlon)
Run This Town (Ricky Tollman)
Sorry We Missed You (Ken Loach)
Swallow (Carlo Mirabella-Davis)
The Way Back (Gavin O’Connor)
The Wild Goose Lake (Diao Yinan)

Week of 28 Feb

Blood on Her Name (Matthew Pope)
Burden (Andrew Heckler)
Disappearance at Clifton Hill (Albert Shin)
Doordarshan (Gagan Puri)
A Fine Line (Joanna James)
Greed (Michael Winterbottom)
Guns Akimbo (Jason Lei Howden)
Hai Tang Hong (Yan Dewei & Meng Zhonghua)
The Invisible Man (Leigh Whannell)
The Jesus Rolls (John Turturro)
My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising (Nagasaki Kenji)
Nuuk (Veronica Velasco)
Saint Frances (Alex Thompson)
Straight Up (James Sweeney)
Thappad (Anubhav Sushila Sinha)
Wendy (Benh Zeitlin)
The Whistlers (Corneliu Porumboiu)

Week of 21 Feb

Balloon (Michael Bully Herbig)
Bhoot Part One: The Haunted Ship (Bhanu Pratap Singh)
Brahms: The Boy II (William Brent Bell)
Cabaret Maxime (Bruno de Almeida)
The Call of the Wild (Chris Sanders)
CatVideoFest 2020 (Alex P. Kitten)
Corpus Christi (Jan Komasa)
Emma. (Autumn de Wilde)
Goldie (Sam de Jong)
(Impractical) Jokers: The Movie (Chris Henchy)
Jinpa (Pema Tseden)
Las Pildoras de Mi Novio (Diego Kaplan)
The Night Clerk (Michael Cristofer)
Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson & The Band (Daniel Roher)
Premature (Rashaad Ernesto Green)
Ride Your Wave (Yuasa Masaaki)
Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan (Hitesh Kewalya)
Standing Up, Falling Down (Matt Ratner)
The State Against Mandela & the Others (Nicolas Champeaux & Gilles Porte)
True Fiction (Braden Croft)
Viral: Antisemitism in Four Mutations (Andrew Goldberg)
Vitalina Varela (Pedro Costa)
Young Ahmed (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)

Week of 14 Feb

Blumhouse’s Fantasy Island (Jeff Wadlow)
Buffaloed (Tanya Wexler)
Come as You Are (Richard Wong)
The Cordillera of Dreams (Patricio Guzmán)
Downhill (Nat Faxon & Jim Rash)
Enter the Fat Dragon (Kenji Tanigaki & Wong Jing)
I Was at Home, But… (Angela Schanelec)
Impossible Monsters (Nathan Catucci)
The Kindness of Strangers (Lone Scherfig)
The Last Thing He Wanted (Dee Rees)
Love Aaj Kal (Imtiaz Ali)
The Misogynists (Onur Tukel) [2017]
Olympic Dreams (Jeremy Teicher)
Ordinary Love (Lisa Barros D’Sa & Glenn Leyburn)
The Photograph (Stella Meghie)
Sonic the Hedgehog (Jeff Fowler)
The Thief of Baghdad (Ahmed Khaled)
The Times of Bill Cunningham (Mark Bozek)
VFW (Joe Begos)
Waiting for Giraffes (Marco De Stefanis) [2016]
Wild (Uriel Sinai & Danel Elpeleg)
You Go to My Head (Dimitri de Clercq) [2017]

Week of 7 Feb

And Then We Danced (Levan Akin)
Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn (Cathy Yan)
Cane River (Horace B. Jenkins) [1982]
Come to Daddy (Ant Timpson)
The Lodge (Veronika Franz & Severin Fiala)
Malang (Mohit Suri)
The Man Standing Next (Woo Min-ho)
Waiting for Anya (Ben Cookson)

Week of 31 Jan

The Assistant (Kitty Green)
Beanpole (Kantemir Balagov)
Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words (Michael Park)
Gretel & Hansel (Osgood Perkins)
Gul Makai (H.E. Amjad Khan)
Incitement (Yaron Zilberman)
Jawaani Jaaneman (Nitin Kakkar)
José (Li Cheng)
Miss Americana (Lana Wilson)
The Rhythm Section (Reed Morano)
The Traitor (Marco Bellocchio)

Week of 24 Jan

Color Out of Space (Richard Stanley)
The Gentlemen (Guy Ritchie)
Get Gone (Michael Thomas Daniel)
I Wish I Knew (Jia Zhangke) [2010]
John Henry (Will Forbes)
The Last Full Measure (Todd Robinson)
Los Leones (Frank Perozo)
Panga (Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari)
Quezon’s Game (Matthew Rosen)
Street Dancer 3 (Remo D’Souza)
The Turning (Floria Sigismondi)
Zombi Child (Bertrand Bonello)

Week of 17 Jan

Ashfall (Kim Byung-seo & Lee Hae-jun)
Bad Boys for Life (Adil & Bilall)
Dolittle (Stephen Gaghan)
The Host (Andy Newbery)
Intrigo: Death of an Author (Daniel Alfredson)
My Hindu Friend (Hector Babenco) [2015]
VHYes (Jack Henry Robbins)
Weathering With You (Shinkai Makoto)

Week of 10 Jan

Afterward (Ofra Bloch)
The Battle of Mosul (Bernard-Henri Lévy) [2017]
Chhapaak (Meghna Gulzar)
The Corrupted (Ron Scalpello)
Darbar (A.R. Murugadoss)
The Dawn (Brandon Slagle)
Earth (Nikolaus Geyrhalter)
Inherit the Viper (Anthony Jerjen)
Liberation (Li Shaohong & Chang Xiaoyang)
Like a Boss (Miguel Arteta)
Peshmerga (Bernard-Henri Lévy) [2016]
Reality Queen (Steven Jay Bernheim)
Sarileru Neekevvaru (Anil Ravipudi)
The Sonata (Andrew Desmond)
System K (Renaud Barret)
Tanhaji: The Unsung Warrior (Om Raut)
Three Christs (Jon Avnet) [2017]
Underwater (William Eubank)
Volcanoes: The Fires of Creation (Michael Dalton-Smith)
The Woman Who Loves Giraffes (Alison Reid)

Week of 3 Jan

Adoring (Larry Yang)
Advocate (Rachel Leah Jones & Philippe Bellaïche)
The Grudge (Nicolas Pesce)
Patients of a Saint (Russell Owen)

2020 Festival Dispatch #4 Show Notes

Ryan Swen Catalyst and Witness Leave a comment

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

Description
The fourth 2020 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. This covers the third week of the 2020 New York Film Festival, and features guests Forrest Cardamenis, Soham Gadre, and Jason Miller.

0:00-1:01:03 – Part One
1:01:04-2:06:23 – Part Two

Housekeeping

  • Hosted by Ryan Swen
  • Conceived and Edited by Ryan Swen
  • Guests: Forrest Cardamenis, Soham Gadre, Jason Miller
  • Recorded in Roswell, New York City, and Washington D.C. on Zoom H4N and Behringer Microphones and MacBook GarageBand and Audacity and iPhone, Edited in Audacity
  • Podcast photograph from Yi Yi, Logo designed by Dan Molloy
  • Recorded October 11, 2020
  • Released October 17, 2020
  • Music (in order of appearance):
    • Our Sunhi
    • El Sicario, Room 164
    • El futuro

2020 Festival Dispatch #3 Show Notes

Ryan Swen Catalyst and Witness Leave a comment

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

Description
The third 2020 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. This covers the second week of the 2020 New York Film Festival, and features guests Forrest Cardamenis, Jeva Lange, Jason Miller, and C.J. Prince.

0:00-1:07:45 – Part One
1:07:46-2:07:51 – Part Two

Housekeeping

  • Hosted by Ryan Swen
  • Conceived and Edited by Ryan Swen
  • Guests: Forrest Cardamenis, Jeva Lange, Jason Miller, C.J. Prince
  • Recorded in Roswell, New York City, and Toronto on Zoom H4N and Behringer Microphones and MacBook GarageBand and Audacity and iPhone, Edited in Audacity
  • Podcast photograph from Yi Yi, Logo designed by Dan Molloy
  • Recorded October 4, 2020
  • Released October 7, 2020
  • Music (in order of appearance):
    • Rebels of the Neon God
    • Court
    • 2+2=22 [The Alphabet]

2020 Festival Dispatch #2 Show Notes

Ryan Swen Catalyst and Witness Leave a comment

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

Description
The second 2020 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. This covers the first week of the 2020 New York Film Festival, and features guests Forrest Cardamenis, Max Carpenter, Susannah Gruder, Jeva Lange, Chloe Lizotte, and C.J. Prince.

0:00-1:05:18 – Part One
1:05:19-2:06:11 – Part Two

Housekeeping

  • Hosted by Ryan Swen
  • Conceived and Edited by Ryan Swen
  • Guests: Forrest Cardamenis, Max Carpenter, Susannah Gruder, Jeva Lange, Chloe Lizotte, C.J. Prince
  • Recorded in Roswell, New York City, Toronto, and Camden on Zoom H4N and Behringer Microphones and MacBook GarageBand and Audacity and iPhone and Abelton Live, Edited in Audacity
  • Podcast photograph from Yi Yi, Logo designed by Dan Molloy
  • Recorded September 27, 2020
  • Released September 29, 2020
  • Music (in order of appearance):
    • Law of Desire
    • Stuff and Dough
    • Profit motive and the whispering wind

2020 Festival Dispatch #1 Show Notes

Ryan Swen Catalyst and Witness Leave a comment

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

Description
The first 2020 festival dispatch of the Catalyst and Witness podcast, devoted to exploring the films format of the New York Film Festival, hosted by Ryan Swen. This covers the announcement of the 2020 main slate, and features guest Jason Miller.

0:00-1:28:41 – Part One

Housekeeping

  • Hosted by Ryan Swen
  • Guest Jason Miller
  • Conceived and Edited by Ryan Swen
  • Recorded in Roswell and New York City on Zoom H4N and Behringer Microphones and MacBook GarageBand, Edited in Audacity
  • Podcast photograph from Yi Yi, Logo designed by Dan Molloy
  • Recorded August 13, 2020
  • Released August 19, 2020
  • Music (in order of appearance):
    • Ex Libris: The New York Public Library
    • Viola

16th (1978): “A Thousand and One Details” Show Notes

Ryan Swen Catalyst and Witness Leave a comment

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

poster

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

Description
The sixteenth episode of the Catalyst and Witness podcast, devoted to exploring the films and format of the New York Film Festival, hosted by Ryan Swen. This covers the sixteenth edition of the festival in 1978, and features special guest Evan Morgan, critic and co-host of the dormant Snakes & Funerals podcast.

0:00-18:45 – Opening
18:46-1:13:12 – Part One [A Wedding to The Green Room]
1:13:13-2:10:51 – Part Two [Camouflage to Get Out Your Handkerchiefs]
2:10:52-3:16:50 – Part Three [The Left-Handed Woman to Elective Affinities]
3:16:51-4:22:38 – Part Four [The Shout to Violette Nozière]
4:22:39-4:28:57 – Closing

Corrections/Clarifications

  • Due to the lack of New York Times archives from this period, much of the information in these show notes is conjecture.
  • The episode’s title comes from a quote in A Wedding, due to the absence of New York Times headlines.

Housekeeping

  • Hosted by Ryan Swen
  • Special Guest Evan Morgan
  • Conceived and Edited by Ryan Swen
  • Recorded in Los Angeles and Seattle on Zoom H4N and Behringer Microphone and MacBook GarageBand, Edited in Audacity
  • Podcast photograph from Yi Yi, Logo designed by Dan Molloy
  • Poster by Richard Avedon
  • Recorded June 7, 2020
  • Released July 26, 2020
  • Music (in order of appearance):
    • A Wedding (opening night)
    • The Green Room (another favorite)
    • Spies (favorite of the first section)
    • Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (favorite of the second section)
    • Like a Turtle on Its Back (favorite of the third section)
    • Perceval le Gallois (favorite of the fourth section)
    • Violette Nozière (closing night)

General

  • Selection Committee: Richard Roud (program director), Richard Corliss, Roger Greenspun, Molly Haskell, Charles Michener, Tom Luddy (West Coast consultant), Mary Meerson (retrospective consultant)
  • Location: Alice Tully Hall and Avery Fisher Hall
  • Prices: 2.50, 3, 4, 5.50; for opening and closing night 5, 7, 10
  • Films seen for the podcast:
    • Ryan
      • Seen before podcast watching period: Spies
      • Seen for the podcast: All available; Spies rewatched
      • Favorite films: Perceval le Gallois, Spies, Get Out Your Handkerchiefs, The Green Room, Dossier 51
      • Least favorite films: Bloodbrothers, The Apple Game
      • Catch-Up Corner: Langlois (8th), Yudie (12th), Fear of Fear (14th)
      • Rewatch Round-Up: Band of Outsiders (2nd), Two English Girls (10th)
    • Evan
      • Seen before podcast watching period: Spies, Dossier 51, Perceval le Gallois
      • Seen for the podcast: The Green Room, Camouflage, Get Out Your Handkerchiefs, The Left-Handed Woman, Despair, Like a Turtle on Its Back, The Shout, American Boy, Violette Nozière
      • Favorite films: Spies, Perceval le Gallois, Despair
      • Least favorite films: The Left-Handed Woman, Get Out Your Handkerchiefs, The Shout
  • Discoveries of the festival: Like a Turtle on Its Back, Despair, The Green Room, Get Out Your Handkerchiefs
  • Unavailable films: CIA: Case Officer, Manimals, Elective Affinities, Movies Are My Life

Main Slate

Opening Night: A Wedding (1978, Robert Altman)
September 22, 9:00 {Avery Fisher Hall}
Released 1978
Retrospective: Spies [Spione] (1928, Fritz Lang)
September 23, 1:00
Released 1929
Skip Tracer (1977, Zale Dalen)
September 23, 3:00
Never released
The Green Room [La Chambre verte] (1978, François Truffaut)
September 23, 3:00
Released 1979
Camouflage [Barwy ochronne/Protective Colors] (1977, Krzysztof Zanussi)
September 23, 6:00
Never released
Bloodbrothers (1978, Robert Mulligan)
September 23, 9:00
Released 1978
“Styles of Radical Will”
They Are Their Own Gifts (1978, Lucille Rhodes & Margaret Murphy)
CIA: Case Officer (1978, Saul Landau)
With Babies and Banners: Story of the Women’s Emergency Brigade (1978, Lorraine Gray)
September 24, 1:00
Never released/Never released/Released 1979
Newsfront (1978, Phillip Noyce)
September 26, 6:15
Released 1979
The Apple Game [Hra o jablko] (1977, Věra Chytilová)
September 26, 9:30
Released 1980
Get Out Your Handkerchiefs [Préparez vos mouchoirs] (1978, Bertrand Blier)
September 27, 9:30
Released 1978
The Left-Handed Woman [Die linkshändige Frau] (1978, Peter Handke)
September 28, 9:30
Released 1980
Dossier 51 [Le Dossier 51] (1978, Michel Deville)
September 29, 9:30
Released 1978
Despair (1978, Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
September 30, 1:00
Released 1979
Like a Turtle on Its Back [La tortue sur le dos] (1978, Luc Béraud)
September 30, 6:00
Released 1981
Gates of Heaven (1978, Errol Morris)
Also: Manimals (1978, Robin Lehman)
September 30, 9:00
Released 1980/Never released
Elective Affinities [Le affinità elettive] (1978, Gianni Amico)
October 1, 2:00
Never released
The Shout (1978, Jerzy Skolimowski)
October 1, 9:00
Released 1979
Perceval le Gallois [Perceval the Welsh] (1978, Éric Rohmer)
October 3, 9:30
Released 1978
American Boy (1978, Martin Scorsese)
Also: Movies Are My Life (1978, Peter Hayden)
October 5, 6:15
Released 1990/Never released
Retrospective: The Miracle of the Wolves [Le Miracle des loups] (1924, Raymond Bernard)
October 5, 9:30
Released 1925
Closing Night: Violette Nozière (1978, Claude Chabrol)
October 8, 8:30 {Avery Fisher Hall}
Released 1978

Ephemera

  • New Currents in Japanese Cinema: a collaboration between the Film Society and the Japan Society showing five independent Japanese films in the afternoons at Alice Tully Hall, $2 for each film, $7.50 for full series

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

  • François Truffaut: 1/1/7/7/4
  • Rainer Werner Fassbinder: 1/1/7/7
  • Claude Chabrol: 1/1/6/6/1/1
  • Jerzy Skolimowski: 1/1/5/5/0/2
  • Éric Rohmer: 1/1/4/5/2
  • Martin Scorsese: 1/1/4/4
  • Krzysztof Zanussi: 1/1/4/4
  • Gianni Amico: 1/1/3/4†(3/15/15)
  • Robert Altman: 1/1/2/2/1
  • Věra Chytilová: 1/1/1/2†(1/21/21)
  • Bertrand Blier: 1/1/1/1
  • Errol Morris: 1/1/1/1
  • Fritz Lang: 0/1/0/2†(2/0/41)

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: 7/9/56/73/3
  • France: 6/7/95/114/15
  • West Germany: 2/2/26/28/1
  • Italy: 1/1/35/40/3
  • UK: 1/1/20/22/1
  • Czechoslovakia: 1/1/12/14/3
  • Poland: 1/1/11/11
  • Canada: 1/1/5/6
  • Australia: 1/1/1/1
  • Germany: 0/1/0/3

One-Time Directors

  • Raymond Bernard (retrospective)
  • Luc Béraud
  • Zale Dalen
  • Michel Deville
  • Lorraine Gray
  • Peter Handke
  • Peter Hayden
  • Saul Landau (short)
  • Robin Lehman (short)
  • Robert Mulligan
  • Phillip Noyce
  • Lucille Rhodes & Margaret Murphy

Feature Debuts

  • Luc Béraud
  • Zale Dalen
  • Peter Handke
  • Peter Hayden
  • Errol Morris

Final Features

  • Peter Hayden

Festivals

  • NYFF World Premiere
    • American Boy
    • Gates of Heaven
    • Perceval le Gallois
  • Cannes
    • The Shout (Grand Prix)
    • Despair
    • The Left-Handed Woman
    • Violette Nozière
    • Dossier 51 (Un Certain Regard)
  • Other
    • The Apple Game (Paris)
    • Bloodbrothers (Toronto)
    • Elective Affinities (Montreal)
    • Manimals (Chicago)
    • Movies Are My Life (Chicago)
    • Skip Tracer (Toronto)
    • A Wedding (San Sebastian)
  • N/A
    • Camouflage
    • CIA: Case Officer
    • Get Out Your Handkerchiefs
    • The Green Room
    • Like a Turtle on Its Back
    • The Miracle of the Wolves
    • Newsfront
    • Spies
    • They Are Their Own Gifts
    • With Babies and Banners: Story of the Women’s Emergency Brigade

Oscar Nominees

  • Bloodbrothers: Best Adapted Screenplay
  • Get Out Your Handkerchiefs: Best Foreign Film (won)
  • With Babies and Banners: Story of the Women’s Emergency Brigade: Best Documentary Feature

Events/Shorts/Panels

events
shorts

Discussions By Length (Approximate)

  • 23:07 Spies (29:32-52:39)
  • 22:32 Perceval le Gallois (3:30:13-3:52:45)
  • 18:11 Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (1:52:40-2:10:51)
  • 16:41 Like a Turtle on Its Back (2:50:45-3:07:26)
  • 16:19 The Green Room (56:53-1:13:12)
  • 13:48 Despair (2:36:46-2:50:44)
  • 13:46 Violette Nozière (4:08:52-4:22:38)
  • 13:07 The Left-Handed Woman (2:11:56-2:25:03)
  • 12:21 The Shout (3:17:51-3:30:12)
  • 11:41 Dossier 51 (2:25:04-2:36:45)
  • 10:33 Camouflage (1:14:13-1:24:46)
  • 9:46 A Wedding [One Person] (19:45-29:31)
  • 8:06 The Miracle of the Wolves [One Person] (4:00:45-4:08:51)
  • 7:49 “Styles of Radical Will” [One Person] (1:31:35-1:39:24)
  • 7:15 Newsfront [One Person] (1:39:25-1:46:40)
  • 7:07 Gates of Heaven [One Person] (3:07:27-3:14:34)
  • 6:47 Bloodbrothers [One Person] (1:24:47-1:31:34)
  • 6:32 American Boy (3:52:46-3:59:18)
  • 5:58 The Apple Game [One Person] (1:46:41-1:52:39)
  • 4:12 Skip Tracer [One Person] (52:40-56:52)
  • 1:29 Elective Affinities [Unavailable] (3:15:22-3:16:51)
  • 1:25 Movies Are My Life [Unavailable] (3:59:19-4:00:44)
  • 0:46 Manimals [Unavailable] (3:14:35-3:15:21)

Specifications

  • Robert Altman, A Wedding, 1978, 35 mm, color, stereo sound, 125 minutes, 2.39:1, English, USA.
  • Fritz Lang, Spione, 1928, 35 mm, black-and-white, silent, 150 minutes, 1.33:1, German, Germany.
  • Zale Dalen, Skip Tracer, 1977, 16 mm, color, mono sound, 95 minutes, 1.37:1, English, Canada.
  • François Truffaut, La Chambre verte, 1978, 35 mm, color and black-and-white, mono sound, 94 minutes, 1.66:1, French, France.
  • Krzysztof Zanussi, Barwy ochronne, 1977, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 106 minutes, 1.66:1, Polish and English, Poland.
  • Robert Mulligan, Bloodbrothers, 1978, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 116 minutes, 1.85:1, English, USA.
  • Lucille Rhodes & Margaret Murphy, They Are Their Own Gifts, 1978, 16 mm, color, mono sound, 52 minutes, 1.37:1, English, USA.
  • Saul Landau, CIA: Case Officer, 1978, 16 mm, color, mono sound, 30 minutes, 1.37:1, English, USA.
  • Lorraine Gray, With Babies and Banners: Story of the Women’s Emergency Brigade, 1978, 16 mm, color, mono sound, 45 minutes, 1.37:1, English, USA.
  • Phillip Noyce, Newsfront, 1978, 35 mm and 16 mm, color and black-and-white, mono sound, 110 minutes, 1.66:1 and 1.37:1, English, Australia.
  • Věra Chytilová, Hra o jablko, 1977, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 100 minutes, 1.37:1, Czech, Czechoslovakia.
  • Bertrand Blier, Préparez vos mouchoirs, 1978, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 105 minutes, 1.66:1, French, France.
  • Peter Handke, Die linkshändige Frau, 1978, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 119 minutes, 1.37:1, German and French, West Germany.
  • Michel Deville, Le Dossier 51, 1978, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 108 minutes, 1.66:1, French, France.
  • Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Despair, 1978, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 119 minutes, 1.66:1, English, West Germany.
  • Luc Béraud, La tortue sur le dos, 1978, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 110 minutes, 1.66:1, French, France.
  • Errol Morris, Gates of Heaven, 1978, 16 mm, color, mono sound, 83 minutes, 1.37:1, English, USA.
  • Robin Lehman, Manimals, 1978, 16 mm, color, mono sound, 29 minutes, 1.37:1, English, USA.
  • Gianni Amico, Le affinità elettive, 1978, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 180 minutes, 1.37:1, Italian, Italy.
  • Jerzy Skolimowski, The Shout, 1978, 35 mm, color, stereo sound, 86 minutes, 1.85:1, English, UK.
  • Éric Rohmer, Perceval le Gallois, 1978, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 140 minutes, 1.37:1, French, France.
  • Martin Scorsese, American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince, 1978, 16 mm, color, mono sound, 55 minutes, 1.37:1, English, USA.
  • Peter Hayden, Movies Are My Life, 1978, 16 mm, color, mono sound, 50 minutes, 1.37:1, English, USA.
  • Raymond Bernard, Le Miracle des loups, 1924, 35 mm, black-and-white, silent, 132 minutes, 1.33:1, French, France.
  • Claude Chabrol, Violette Nozière, 1978, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 124 minutes, 1.66:1, French, France.

15th (1977): “A Real Smash” Show Notes

Ryan Swen Catalyst and Witness Leave a comment

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

poster

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

Description
The fifteenth episode of the Catalyst and Witness podcast, devoted to exploring the films and format of the New York Film Festival, hosted by Ryan Swen. This covers the fifteenth edition of the festival in 1977, and features special guest Keith Uhlich.

0:00-18:22 – Opening
18:23-1:23:16 – Part One [One Sings, the Other Doesn’t to Tent of Miracles]
1:23:17-2:45:25 – Part Two [Men of Bronze to Le Camion]
2:45:26-3:48:38 – Part Three [Short Eyes to Citizens Band]
3:48:39-4:50:18 – Part Four [Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom to The Man Who Loved Women]
4:50:19-5:39:23 – Part Five [Omar Gatlato to My Grandmother]
5:39:24-6:54:08 – Part Six [Women to That Obscure Object of Desire]
6:54:09-7:02:59 – Closing

Corrections/Clarifications

  • N/A

Housekeeping

  • Hosted by Ryan Swen
  • Special Guest Keith Uhlich
  • Conceived and Edited by Ryan Swen
  • Recorded in Los Angeles and New York City on Zoom H4N and Behringer Microphone, Edited in Audacity
  • Podcast photograph from Yi Yi, Logo designed by Dan Molloy
  • Poster by Jim Dine
  • Recorded January 3, 2020
  • Released February 22, 2020
  • Music (in order of appearance):
    • One Sings, the Other Doesn’t (opening night)
    • The American Friend (another favorite)
    • Tent of Miracles (favorite of the first section)
    • Padre Padrone (favorite of the second section)
    • The Devil, Probably (favorite of the third section)
    • Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (favorite of the fourth section)
    • Omar Gatlato (favorite of the fifth section)
    • 1900 (favorite of the sixth section)
    • That Obscure Object of Desire (closing night)

General

  • Selection Committee: Richard Roud (program director), Richard Corliss, Roger Greenspun, Charles Michener, Susan Sontag, Arthur Knight (West Coast consultant)
  • Location: Alice Tully Hall and Avery Fisher Hall
  • Prices: 2.50, 3, 4, 5.50; for opening and closing night 5, 7, 10
  • Films seen for the podcast:
    • Ryan
      • Seen before podcast watching period: The American Friend
      • Seen for the podcast: All available; The American Friend rewatched
      • Favorite films: The Devil Probably, Salò or the 120 Days of Sodom, That Obscure Object of Desire, The American Friend
      • Least favorite films: Pafnucio Santo, Heart of Glass, Hot Tomorrows, My Grandmother
    • Keith
      • Seen before podcast watching period: The American Friend, The Devil Probably, Citizens Band, Salò or the 120 Days of Sodom, Heart of Glass, That Obscure Object of Desire
      • Seen for the podcast: All available; The American Friend, The Devil Probably, Heart of Glass, That Obscure Object of Desire rewatched
      • Favorite films: Citizens Band, Heart of Glass, The Devil Probably, That Obscure Object of Desire, Padre Padrone, Omar Gatlato
      • Least favorite films: Roseland, Salò or the 120 Days of Sodom, Pafnucio Santo
  • Discoveries of the festival: Omar Gatlato, Tent of Miracles, The Lacemaker
  • Unavailable films: Men of Bronze, Children of Labor

Main Slate

Opening Night: One Sings, the Other Doesn’t [L’une chante, l’autre pas] (1977, Agnès Varda)
September 23, 9:00 {Avery Fisher Hall}
Released 1977
Retrospective: L’Enfant de Paris [The Child of Paris] (1913, Léonce Perret)
September 24, 1:00
Never released
Tent of Miracles [Tenda dos milagres] (1977, Nelson Pereira dos Santos)
September 24, 3:00
Released 1979
Men of Bronze (1977, Bill Miles)
And: Children of Labor (1977, Noel Buckner & Mary Dore & Richard Broadman & Al Gedicks)
September 24, 6:00
Never released/Never released
The American Friend [Der Amerikanische Freund] (1977, Wim Wenders)
September 24, 9:00
Released 1977
Padre Padrone [My Father, My Master] (1977, Paolo & Vittorio Taviani)
September 25, 1:00
Released 1977
Pafnucio Santo (1977, Rafael Corkiki)
September 27, 6:15
Never released
Le Camion [The Truck] (1977, Marguerite Duras)
September 27, 9:30
Never released
Short Eyes (1977, Robert M. Young)
September 28, 9:30
Released 1977
The Devil, Probably [Le Diable probablement] (1977, Robert Bresson)
September 29, 9:30
Released 1994
Citizens Band (1977, Jonathan Demme)
September 30, 9:30
Released 1977
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom [Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma] (1975, Pier Paolo Pasolini)
October 1, 1:00
Released 1977
Heart of Glass [Herz aus Glas] (1976, Werner Herzog)
Also: La Soufrière [La Soufrière – Warten auf eine unausweichliche Katastrophe/La Soufrière – Waiting for an Inevitable Disaster] (1977, Werner Herzog)
October 1, 6:00
Released 1977/Released 1978
The Man Who Loved Women [L’Homme qui aimait les femmes] (1977, François Truffaut)
October 1, 9:00
Released 1977
Omar Gatlato (1977, Merzak Allouache)
October 2, 2:00
Never released
Roseland (1977, James Ivory)
October 2, 9:00
Released 1977
Hot Tomorrows (1977, Martin Brest)
And/Retrospective: My Grandmother [Chemia bebia] (1929, Kote Mikaberidze)
October 4, 9:30
Never released/Never released
Women [Ok ketten/The Two of Them] (1977, Mészáros Márta)
October 6, 6:15
Released 1978
The Lacemaker [La Dentellière] (1977, Claude Goretta)
October 6, 9:30
Released 1977
1900 [Novecento/Twentieth Century] (1976, Bernardo Bertolucci)
October 8, 2:00
Released 1977
Closing Night: That Obscure Object of Desire [Cet obscur objet du désir] (1977, Luis Buñuel)
October 9, 8:30 {Avery Fisher Hall}
Released 1977

Ephemera

  • Animation Festival: five programs of animated films of all types at Alice Tully Hall; $2 for each program, $7.50 for full series
  • Saved!: a retrospective of ten important American films from the preservation vaults of the American Film Institute, George Eastman House, the Museum of Modern Art, and UCLA at Alice Tully Hall; $2 for each film, $15 for full series

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

  • Werner Herzog: 1/2/6/7/0/1
  • Luis Buñuel: 1/1/8/12/2/3†(9/10/32)
  • Robert Bresson: 1/1/7/7
  • Bernardo Bertolucci: 1/1/6/7/1/1
  • François Truffaut: 1/1/6/6/4
  • Pier Paolo Pasolini: 1/1/4/6/0/1†(5/16/17)
  • Marguerite Duras: 1/1/5/5†(5/16/16)
  • Agnès Varda: 1/1/4/4/2
  • James Ivory: 1/1/3/3
  • Wim Wenders: 1/1/3/3
  • Claude Goretta: 1/1/2/2†(2/23/24)
  • Merzak Allouache: 1/1/1/1
  • Jonathan Demme: 1/1/1/1
  • Mészáros Márta: 1/1/1/1
  • Nelson Pereira dos Santos: 1/1/1/1
  • Paolo & Vittorio Taviani: 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)

  • France: 6/7/89/107/14
  • USA: 6/6/49/64/2
  • Italy: 3/3/34/39/3
  • West Germany: 2/3/24/26/1
  • Hungary: 1/1/9/9
  • Brazil: 1/1/4/4
  • Mexico: 1/1/3/4/1
  • Algeria: 1/1/1/1
  • USSR: 0/1/6/7/2

One-Time Directors

  • Martin Brest
  • Noel Buckner & Mary Dore & Richard Broadman & Al Gedicks
  • Rafael Corkidi
  • Kote Mikaberidze (retrospective)
  • Bill Miles
  • Léonce Perret (retrospective)
  • Robert M. Young

Feature Debuts

  • Merzak Allouache
  • Martin Brest
  • Noel Buckner & Mary Dore & Richard Broadman & Al Gedicks
  • Kote Mikaberidze (retrospective)
  • Bill Miles

Final Features

  • Luis Buñuel
  • Al Gedicks
  • Pier Paolo Pasolini

Festivals

  • NYFF World Premiere
    • Hot Tomorrows
    • Roseland
    • Short Eyes
    • Women
  • Cannes
    • 1900 (1976 Out of Competition)
    • Padre Padrone (Palme d’or, FIPRESCI)
    • The Lacemaker (Prize of the Ecumenical Jury)
    • The American Friend
    • Le Camion
    • Omar Gatlato (Critics’ Week)
  • Berlin
    • The Devil, Probably (Special Jury Prize)
    • The Man Who Loved Women
    • Tent of Miracles
  • Other
    • One Sings, the Other Doesn’t (Taormina, Grand Prize)
    • Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975 Paris)
    • That Obscure Object of Desire (San Sebastian)
  • N/A
    • Children of Labor
    • Citizens Band
    • L’Enfant de Paris
    • Heart of Glass
    • Men of Bronze
    • My Grandmother
    • Pafnucio Santo
    • La Soufrière

Oscar Nominees

  • That Obscure Object of Desire: Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Foreign Film

Events/Shorts

events
events
shorts

Discussions By Length (Approximate)

  • 30:07 1900 (6:06:06-6:36:13)
  • 26:22 The Devil, Probably (3:03:40-3:30:02)
  • 23:26 The Man Who Loved Women (4:26:52-4:50:18)
  • 23:25 Le Camion (2:22:00-2:45:25)
  • 21:53 Tent of Miracles (1:01:23-1:23:16)
  • 21:29 One Sings, the Other Doesn’t (19:22-40:51)
  • 20:30 L’Enfant de Paris (40:52-1:01:22)
  • 20:25 Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (3:49:35-4:10:00)
  • 20:13 Padre Padrone (1:44:07-2:04:20)
  • 19:25 Hot Tomorrows/My Grandmother (5:19:58-5:39:23)
  • 18:35 Citizens Band (3:30:03-3:48:38)
  • 17:54 That Obscure Object of Desire (6:36:14-6:54:08)
  • 17:38 Pafnucio Santo (2:04:21-2:21:59)
  • 17:16 Short Eyes (2:46:23-3:03:39)
  • 16:50 Heart of Glass/La Soufrière (4:10:01-4:26:51)
  • 16:50 The American Friend (1:27:16-1:44:06)
  • 15:41 Omar Gatlato (4:51:16-5:06:57)
  • 13:01 Women (5:40:21-5:53:22)
  • 12:59 Roseland (5:06:58-5:19:57)
  • 12:42 The Lacemaker (5:53:23-6:06:05)
  • 3:00 Men of Bronze/Children of Labor [Unavailable] (1:24:15-1:27:15)

Specifications

  • Agnès Varda, L’une chante, l’autre pas, 1977, 35 mm, color and black-and-white, mono sound, 120 minutes, 1.66:1, French, France.
  • Léonce Perret, L’Enfant de Paris, 1913, 35 mm, black-and-white, silent, 124 minutes, 1.33:1, French, France.
  • Nelson Pereira dos Santos, Tenda dos milagres, 1977, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 132 minutes, 1.66:1, Portuguese and English and French, Brazil.
  • Bill Miles, Men of Bronze, 1977, 16 mm, color and black-and-white, mono sound, 60 minutes, 1.37:1, English, USA.
  • Noel Buckner & Mary Dore & Richard Broadman & Al Gedicks, Children of Labor, 1977, 16 mm, black-and-white, mono sound, 55 minutes, 1.37:1, English, USA.
  • Wim Wenders, Der Amerikanische Freund, 1977, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 127 minutes, 1.66:1, English and German and French, West Germany.
  • Paolo & Vittorio Taviani, Padre Padrone, 1977, 16 mm, color, mono sound, 113 minutes, 1.66:1, Italian and Sardinian and Latin, Italy.
  • Rafael Corkidi, Pafnucio Santo, 1977, 35 mm, color, stereo sound, 100 minutes, 1.37:1, Spanish and French and German, Mexico.
  • Marguerite Duras, Le Camion, 1977, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 79 minutes, 1.66:1, French, France.
  • Robert M. Young, Short Eyes, 1977, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 100 minutes, 1.85:1, English, USA.
  • Robert Bresson, Le Diable probablement, 1977, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 92 minutes, 1.37:1, French, France.
  • Jonathan Demme, Citizens Band, 1977, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 98 minutes, 1.85:1, English, USA.
  • Pier Paolo Pasolini, Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma, 1975, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 117 minutes, 1.85:1, Italian and French and German, Italy.
  • Werner Herzog, Herz aus Glas, 1976, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 94 minutes, 1.66:1, German, West Germany.
  • Werner Herzog, La Soufrière – Warten auf eine unausweichliche Katastrophe, 1977, 16 mm, color, mono sound, 30 minutes, 1.37:1, English, West Germany.
  • François Truffaut, L’Homme qui aimait les femmes, 1977, 35 mm, color and black-and-white, mono sound, 120 minutes, 1.66:1 and 1.37:1, French, France.
  • مرزاق علواش, عمر قتلتوا الرجلة, 1977, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 90 minutes, 1.66:1, Arabic and French, Algeria.
  • James Ivory, Roseland, 1977, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 104 minutes, 1.85:1, English, USA.
  • Martin Brest, Hot Tomorrows, 1977, 35 mm, black-and-white, mono sound, 73 minutes, 1.37:1, English, USA.
  • Котэ Микаберидзе, Моя бабушка, 1929, 35 mm, black-and-white, silent, 73 minutes, 1.33:1, Russian, USSR.
  • Mészáros Márta, Ők ketten, 1977, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 100 minutes, 1.37:1, Hungarian, Hungary.
  • Claude Goretta, La Dentellière, 1977, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 107 minutes, 1.66:1, French, France.
  • Bernardo Bertolucci, Novecento, 1976, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 317 minutes, 1.85:1, Italian, Italy.
  • Luis Buñuel, Cet obscur objet du désir, 1977, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 103 minutes, 1.66:1, French and Spanish, France.