10th (1972): “The Next Picture Show” Show Notes

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

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Description
The tenth 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 tenth edition of the festival in 1972.

0:00-47:30 – Introduction [AFI Fest+]
47:31-1:02:44 – Opening
1:02:45-1:41:57 – Part One [Love in the Afternoon to A Sense of Loss]
1:41:58-2:20:13 – Part Two [Family Life to Nathalie Granger]
2:20:14-3:00:17 – Part Three [The Adversary to L’Amour fou]
3:00:18-3:51:03 – Part Four [Tout va bien to Last Tango in Paris]
3:51:04-3:56:45 – 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 Josef Albers
  • Recorded December 17, 2018
  • Released December 24, 2018
  • Music (in order of appearance):
    • Love in the Afternoon (opening night)
    • Tout va bien (another favorite)
    • Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (another favorite)
    • We Won’t Grow Old Together (favorite of the first section)
    • Nathalie Granger (favorite of the second section)
    • L’Amour fou (favorite of the third section)
    • Two English Girls (favorite of the fourth section)
    • Last Tango in Paris (closing night)

General

  • Selection Committee: Richard Roud (program director), Richard Corliss, Arthur Knight, Arthur L. Mayer, Andrew Sarris, Susan Sontag, John Russell Taylor, Henri Langlois (retrospective consultant)
  • Location: Alice Tully Hall
  • Prices: 1-4, for opening and closing night 2, 4, 7.50, 10
  • Films seen for the podcast:
    • Ryan
      • Seen before podcast watching period: N/A
      • Seen for the podcast: All available except The Assassination of Trotsky
      • Favorite films: L’Amour fou, Two English Girls, Love in the Afternoon, We Won’t Grow Old Together, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Nathalie Granter, Tout va bien, The Merchant of Four Seasons
      • Least favorite films: Summer Soldiers, Bad Company, Going Home, Family Life
      • Seen after the podcast: The Assassination of Trotsky (11th)
    • Dan
      • Seen before podcast watching period: Love in the Afternoon, We Won’t Grow Old Together, The Merchant of Four Seasons, Images, The King of Marvin Gardens, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Last Tango in Paris
      • Seen for the podcast: All available except A Sense of Loss, The Adversary, L’Amour fou; none rewatched
      • Favorite films: Two English Girls, Tout va bien, Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania, Nathalie Granger
      • Least favorite films: The Assassination of Trotsky, Summer Soldiers, Last Tango in Paris
  • Discoveries of the festival: Love, Red Psalm, Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania
  • Unavailable films: Behind the Wall

Main Slate

Opening Night: Love in the Afternoon [L’Amour l’après-midi] (1972, Éric Rohmer)
September 29, 9:15
Released 1972
Love [Szerelem] (1971, Makk Károly)
September 30, 6:30
Released 1973
We Won’t Grow Old Together [Nous ne vieillirons pas ensemble] (1972, Maurice Pialat)
September 30, 9:30
Released 2012
Summer Soldiers [Samâ sorujâ] (1972, Teshigahara Hiroshi)
October 1, 6:30
Never released
Red Psalm [Még kér a nép/And the People Still Ask] (1972, Jancsó Miklós)
Also: Behind the Wall [Za sciana] (1971, Krzysztof Zanussi)
October 1, 9:30
Released 1973/Never released
A Sense of Loss (1972, Marcel Ophuls)
October 2, 7:30
Released 1972
Family Life (1971, Ken Loach)
October 3, 7:30
Released 1972
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1972, Jonas Mekas)
And: Going Home (1972, Adolfas Mekas)
October 4, 7:30
Released 1974/Never released
Heat (1972, Paul Morrissey)
October 5, 7:30
Released 1972
The Inner Scar [La cicatrice intérieure] (1972, Philippe Garrel)
October 6, 6:30
Never released
Nathalie Granger (1972, Marguerite Duras)
October 6, 9:30
Never released
The Adversary [Pratidwandi] (1970, Satyajit Ray)
October 7, 6:30
Released 1973
Bad Company (1972, Robert Benton)
October 7, 9:30
Released 1972
The Merchant of Four Seasons [Händler der vier Jahreszeiten] (1971, Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
October 8, 6:30
Released 1973
Images (1972, Robert Altman)
October 8, 9:30
Released 1972
L’Amour fou [Mad Love] (1969, Jacques Rivette)
October 9, 7:00
Released 1972
Tout va bien [Just Great] (1972, Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Pierre Gorin)
October 10, 7:30
Released 1973
Two English Girls [Les Deux Anglaises et le Continent/The Two English Girls and the Continent] (1971, François Truffaut)
October 11, 7:30
Released 1972
The King of Marvin Gardens (1972, Bob Rafelson)
October 12, 7:30
Released 1972
The Assassination of Trotsky (1972, Joseph Losey)
October 13, 7:30
Released 1972
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie [Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie] (1972, Luis Buñuel)
October 13, 11:00
Released 1972
Closing Night: Last Tango in Paris [Ultimo tango a Parigi] (1972, Bernardo Bertolucci)
October 14, 8:30
Released 1973

Ephemera

  • Panel discussions

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

  • Jean-Luc Godard: 1/1/13/17/2/5
  • Luis Buñuel: 1/1/6/6/1/2
  • Bernardo Bertolucci: 1/1/5/6/1/1
  • Satyajit Ray: 1/1/4/4/1
  • Marguerite Duras: 1/1/3/3
  • Jancsó Miklós: 1/1/3/3
  • Joseph Losey: 1/1/3/3
  • Éric Rohmer: 1/1/2/3/1
  • François Truffaut: 1/1/2/2/1
  • Rainer Werner Fassbinder: 1/1/2/2
  • Jean-Pierre Gorin: 1/1/2/2†(2/9/9)
  • Ken Loach: 1/1/2/2
  • Adolfas Mekas: 1/1/2/2†(2/6/6)
  • Jonas Mekas: 1/1/2/2
  • Marcel Ophuls: 1/1/2/2
  • Maurice Pialat: 1/1/2/2
  • Bob Rafelson: 1/1/2/2†(2/10/10)
  • Jacques Rivette: 1/1/2/2
  • Teshigahara Hiroshi: 1/1/2/2†(2/10/11)
  • Krzysztof Zanussi: 1/1/2/2
  • Robert Altman: 1/1/1/1
  • Philippe Garrel: 1/1/1/1
  • Makk Károly: 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: 8/8/61/72/7
  • USA: 5/5/30/41/1
  • UK: 4/4/15/17/1
  • Hungary: 2/2/7/7
  • Italy: 1/1/25/29/2
  • West Germany: 1/1/10/10
  • India: 1/1/4/4/1
  • Japan: 1/1/12/14/1
  • Poland: 1/1/8/8

One-Time Directors

  • Robert Benton
  • Paul Morrissey

Feature Debuts

  • Robert Benton

Final Features

  • Adolfas Mekas

Festivals

  • NYFF World Premiere
    • Bad Company
    • The King of Marvin Gardens
    • Last Tango in Paris
    • A Sense of Loss
  • Cannes
    • Love (1971, Jury Prize)
    • Red Psalm (Best Director)
    • We Won’t Grow Old Together (Best Actor)
    • Images (Best Actress)
    • Heat (Directors’ Fortnight)
    • Summer Soldiers (Directors’ Fortnight)
    • The Inner Scar (?, also Berlin?)
  • Berlin
    • Family Life (Forum of New Film?, FIPRESCI, OCIC)
  • Venice
    • The Merchant of Four Seasons
  • Other
    • Tout va bien (Venice Counter-Festival)
  • N/A
    • The Adversary
    • L’Amour fou
    • The Assassination of Trotsky
    • Behind the Wall
    • The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
    • Going Home
    • Love in the Afternoon
    • Nathalie Granger
    • Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania
    • Two English Girls

Oscar Nominees

  • The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie: Best Original Screenplay, Best Foreign Film (winner)
  • Last Tango in Paris: 1974 Best Director, Best Actor

Shorts/Panels

shorts

Discussions By Length (Approximate)

  • 12:35 Two English Girls (3:11:57-3:24:32)
  • 10:58 Last Tango in Paris (3:40:05-3:51:03)
  • 10:42 L’Amour fou [One Person] (2:49:35-3:00:17)
  • 10:37 Tout va bien (3:01:19-3:11:56)
  • 10:35 Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania/Going Home (1:49:13-1:59:48)
  • 9:15 Love in the Afternoon (1:03:44-1:12:59)
  • 7:47 Heat (1:59:49-2:07:36)
  • 7:44 The Adversary [One Person] (2:21:16-2:29:00)
  • 7:29 Nathalie Granger (2:12:44-2:20:13)
  • 7:03 The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (3:33:01-3:40:04)
  • 7:00 We Won’t Grow Old Together (1:16:52-1:23:52)
  • 6:59 The Merchant of Four Seasons (2:35:52-2:42:51)
  • 6:55 Summer Soldiers (1:23:53-1:30:48)
  • 6:50 Bad Company (2:29:01-2:35:51)
  • 6:44 Red Psalm (1:30:49-1:37:33)
  • 6:42 Images (2:42:52-2:49:34)
  • 6:14 Family Life (1:42:58-1:49:12)
  • 5:06 The Inner Scar (2:07:37-2:12:43)
  • 4:54 The King of Marvin Gardens (3:24:33-3:29:27)
  • 3:54 A Sense of Loss [One Person] (1:38:03-1:41:57)
  • 3:51 Love (1:13:00-1:16:51)
  • 3:32 The Assassination of Trotsky [One Person] (3:29:28-3:33:00)
  • 0:28 Behind the Wall [Unavailable] (1:37:34-1:38:02)

Specifications

  • Éric Rohmer, L’Amour l’après-midi, 1972, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 97 minutes, 1.37:1, French, France.
  • Makk Károly, Szerelem, 1971, 35 mm, black-and-white, mono sound, 88 minutes, 1.85:1, Hungarian, Hungary.
  • Maurice Pialat, Nous ne vieillirons pas ensemble, 1972, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 110 minutes, 1.66:1, French, France.
  • 勅使河原宏, サマー・ソルジャー, 1972, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 107 minutes, 1.37:1, Japanese and English, Japan.
  • Jancsó Miklós, Még kér a nép, 1972, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 87 minutes, 1.85:1, Hungarian, Hungary.
  • Krzysztof Zanussi, Za sciana, 1971, 35 mm, black-and-white, mono sound, 56 minutes, 1.37:1, Polish, Poland.
  • Marcel Ophuls, A Sense of Loss, 1972, 16 mm, color, mono sound, 135 minutes, 1.37:1, English, UK.
  • Ken Loach, Family Life, 1971, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 108 minutes, 1.37:1, English, UK.
  • Jonas Mekas, Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania, 1972, 16 mm, color and black-and-white, mono sound, 88 minutes, 1.37:1, English, USA.
  • Adolfas Mekas, Going Home, 1972, 16 mm, color, mono sound, 61 minutes. 1.37:1, English, USA.
  • Paul Morrissey, Heat, 1972, 16 mm, color, mono sound, 102 minutes, 1.37:1, English, USA.
  • Philippe Garrel, La cicatrice intérieure, 1972, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 60 minutes, 1.66:1, French and English and German, France.
  • Marguerite Duras, Nathalie Granger, 1972, 35 mm, black-and-white, mono sound, 83 minutes, 1.66:1, French, France.
  • সত্যজিত রায়, প্রতি দ্বন্দ্বী, 1970, 35 mm, black-and-white, mono sound, 110 minutes, 1.37:1, Bengali, India.
  • Robert Benton, Bad Company, 1972, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 93 minutes, 1.85:1, English, USA.
  • Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Händler der vier Jahreszeiten, 1971, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 88 minutes, 1.37:1, German, West Germany.
  • Robert Altman, Images, 1972, 35 mm, color, stereo sound, 104 minutes, 2.39:1, English, UK.
  • Jacques Rivette, L’Amour fou, 1969, 35 mm and 16 mm, black-and-white, mono sound, 252 minutes, 1.85:1, French, France.
  • Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Pierre Gorin, Tout va bien, 1972, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 95 minutes, 1.66:1, French and English, France.
  • François Truffaut, Les Deux Anglaises et le Continent, 1971, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 130 minutes, 1.66:1, French and English, France.
  • Bob Rafelson, The King of Marvin Gardens, 1972, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 103 minutes, 1.85:1, English, USA.
  • Joseph Losey, The Assassination of Trotsky, 1972, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 103 minutes, 1.85:1, English, UK.
  • Luis Buñuel, Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie, 1972, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 102 minutes, 1.66:1, French, France.
  • Bernardo Bertolucci, Ultimo tango a Parigi, 1972, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 129 minutes, 1.85:1, English and French, Italy.

2018 Seattle Film Critics Nominations Ballot

Note: Zama was deemed ineligible.

Best Picture

  1. First Reformed
  2. The Other Side of the Wind
  3. The Day After
  4. Mission: Impossible – Fallout
  5. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
  6. Bisbee ’17
  7. Burning
  8. Let the Sunshine In
  9. If Beale Street Could Talk
  10. Before We Vanish

Best Director

  1. Paul Schrader, First Reformed
  2. Orson Welles, The Other Side of the Wind
  3. Christopher McQuarrie, Mission: Impossible – Fallout
  4. Lee Chang-dong, Burning
  5. Hong Sang-soo, The Day After

Best Actor

  1. Ethan Hawke, First Reformed
  2. John Huston, The Other Side of the Wind
  3. Kwon Hae-hyo, The Day After
  4. Tom Cruise, Mission: Impossible – Fallout
  5. Meinhard Neumann, Western

Best Actress

  1. Juliette Binoche, Let the Sunshine In
  2. Kim Min-hee, The Day After
  3. Regina Hall, Support the Girls
  4. Esther Garrel, Lover for a Day
  5. Rachel Weisz, The Favourite

Best Supporting Actor

  1. Steven Yeun, Burning
  2. Peter Bogdanovich, The Other Side of the Wind
  3. Bill Heck, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
  4. Michael B. Jordan, Black Panther
  5. Tim Blake Nelson, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

Best Supporting Actress

  1. Regina King, If Beale Street Could Talk
  2. Isabelle Huppert, Claire’s Camera
  3. Haley Lu Richardson, Support the Girls
  4. Zoe Kazan, The Ballad of Buster Scurggs
  5. Jeon Jeong-soo, Burning

Best Ensemble Cast

  1. The Other Side of the Wind
  2. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
  3. The Day After
  4. Isle of Dogs
  5. If Beale Street Could Talk

Best Youth Performance

  1. Koyu Rankin, Isle of Dogs
  2. Marco Graf, Roma
  3. Abby Ryder Fortson, Ant-Man and the Wasp
  4. Miguel Lobo, Good Manners
  5. Mahour Jabbari, Ava

Best Villain

  1. August Walker, Mission: Impossible – Fallout
  2. Ben, Burning
  3. Stephen Taubes, Notes on an Appearance
  4. Buster Scruggs, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
  5. Ayoub El-Khazzani, The 15:17 to Paris

Best Screenplay

  1. Paul Schrader, First Reformed
  2. Orson Welles & Oja Kodar, The Other Side of the Wind
  3. Hong Sang-soo, The Day After
  4. Joel & Ethan Coen, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
  5. Barry Jenkins, If Beale Street Could Talk

Best Animated Feature

  1. Isle of Dogs

Best Documentary Feature

  1. Bisbee ’17
  2. Monrovia, Indiana
  3. Caniba
  4. Hale County This Morning, This Evening
  5. The Green Fog

Best Foreign Language Film

  1. The Day After
  2. Burning
  3. Let the Sunshine In
  4. Before We Vanish
  5. Claire’s Camera

Best Cinematography

  1. Alexander Dynan, First Reformed
  2. Gary Graver, The Other Side of the Wind
  3. Hong Kyung-pyo, Burning
  4. Kim Hyung-koo, The Day After
  5. Alfonso Cuarón, Roma

Best Costume Design

  1. The Other Side of the Wind
  2. Mission: Impossible – Fallout
  3. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
  4. Let the Sunshine In
  5. Claire’s Camera

Best Film Editing

  1. The Other Side of the Wind
  2. Bisbee ’17
  3. Let the Corpses Tan
  4. Let the Sunshine In
  5. Ready Player One

Best Original Score

  1. Michel Legrand, The Other Side of the Wind
  2. Nicholas Britell, If Beale Street Could Talk
  3. Mowg, Burning
  4. Alexandre Desplat, Isle of Dogs
  5. Thom Yorke, Suspiria

Best Production Design

  1. Isle of Dogs
  2. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
  3. The Other Side of the Wind
  4. Burning
  5. If Beale Street Could Talk

Best Visual Effects

  1. The Other Side of the Wind
  2. Before We Vanish
  3. First Reformed
  4. Mission: Impossible – Fallout
  5. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

Favorite Directors

  1. Edward Yang
  2. David Lynch
  3. Wong Kar-wai
  4. Hong Sang-soo
  5. Jacques Rivette
  6. Tsai Ming-liang
  7. King Hu
  8. Alain Resnais
  9. Robert Bresson
  10. Éric Rohmer

Pantheon Directors

  • Apichatpong Weerasethakul
  • Robert Bresson
  • Adam Curtis
  • Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • Louis Feuillade
  • Hollis Frampton
  • Jean-Luc Godard
  • Hamaguchi Ryusuke
  • Hal Hartley
  • Howard Hawks
  • Hong Sang-soo
  • Hou Hsiao-hsien
  • King Hu
  • Jia Zhangke
  • Kurosawa Akira
  • Kurosawa Kiyoshi
  • Fritz Lang
  • Lau Kar-leung
  • David Lynch
  • Michael Mann
  • Chris Marker
  • Mizoguchi Kenji
  • Obayashi Nobuhiko
  • Ozu Yasujiro
  • Alain Resnais
  • Jacques Rivette
  • Éric Rohmer
  • Josef von Sternberg
  • Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet
  • Johnnie To
  • Tsai Ming-liang
  • Tsui Hark
  • Orson Welles
  • Wong Kar-wai
  • John Woo
  • Edward Yang

The Far Side of Paradise

  • Chantal Akerman
  • Paul Thomas Anderson
  • Wes Anderson
  • Anno Hideaki
  • Bi Gan
  • Luis Buñuel
  • Claude Chabrol
  • Brian De Palma
  • Jacques Demy
  • Claire Denis
  • Carl Theodor Dreyer
  • Marguerite Duras
  • John Ford
  • Dominik Graf
  • Alfred Hitchcock
  • Sammo Hung
  • Chuck Jones
  • Abbas Kiarostami
  • Mariano Llinás
  • Terrence Malick
  • Elaine May
  • F.W. Murnau
  • Max Ophuls
  • Oshima Nagisa
  • Christian Petzold
  • Satyajit Ray
  • Kelly Reichardt
  • Jean Renoir
  • Michael Snow
  • Steven Spielberg
  • Takahata Isao
  • Jacques Tourneur
  • François Truffaut

November 2018 Capsules

Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
One of the most subtly yet immediately poignant moments in this masterwork comes midway through the film, when Jeanne is drinking coffee in a café. After she finishes and pays, she puts her elbow on the table and pauses, looking to her right with that placid yet fundamentally unreadable expression that she wears for nearly the entire film. It is the first — if not the last — time that the next step in her routine is not readily apparent to the audience, when she is given the chance to stop and ponder. Its brevity (it lasts less than twenty seconds) and its placement both within a larger shot and a larger sequence (she has just bought some yarn to continue knitting a sweater for her son) is emblematic of everything that this film accomplishes, everything that it evokes and embodies.

9th (1971): “This Year, Who Knows?” Show Notes

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

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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 (Special 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

shorts

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.

2018 Festival Dispatch #3 Show Notes

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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

New York Film Festival Running Tallies

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: 286
Films premiered the year before their festival appearance: 84
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: 42
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)

2018 Festival Dispatch #2 Show Notes

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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

October 2018 Capsules

A Star Is Born
Yes, “The Man That Got Away” might be the greatest musical number ever committed to film, but one sequence seems to capture the spirit of this extravagant, devastating masterpiece even better: “Born in a Trunk.” (Complicating this of course is the fact that “Born in a Trunk” was filmed after Cukor had finished his involvement with the film, though this only strengthens its connections to the machinations of Hollywood.) The medley of songs from numerous genres indulges in all the abstraction and expressionism possible in the American film industry, lunging through vividly contrasting set after set, with the only connective tissue being Garland’s voice and physicality. It is blatantly, gloriously unclear whether this is some part of Vicki Lester’s star-making role or a mental projection of her thinking on her past life through said role – notably, the Academy ratio of the film-within-the-film expands to CinemaScope in the span of a cut. Comparisons to Gene Kelly’s repeated intonations of “dignity, always dignity” or even “Broadway Melody” from Singin’ in the Rain are there, of course, but the lines between role, performer-in-a-role, and performer are even further blurred. And throughout, it is so clear that Vicki Lester is the real deal, that she must shine and diminish all around her. This is the film in less than 15 minutes; what makes it what is is the two and a half hours left: not one second is anything less than vital.

8th (1970): “The Deluge” Show Notes

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

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Description
The eighth 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 eighth edition of the festival in 1970.

0:00-17:13 – Opening
17:14-1:19:40 – Part One [The Wild Child to Othon]
1:19:41-2:19:33 – Part Two [Le Boucher to Je t’aime, je t’aime]
2:19:34-2:53:46 – Part Three [The Inheritors to The Garden of Delights]
2:53:47-3:56:36 – Part Four [The Conformist to Tristana]
3:56:37-4:04:55 – 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 James Rosenquist
  • Recorded September 24, 2018
  • Released September 30, 2018
  • Music (in order of appearance):
    • The Wild Child (opening night)
    • Le Boucher (another favorite)
    • Othon (favorite of the first section)
    • Je t’aime, je t’aime (favorite of the second section)
    • La Musica (favorite of the third section)
    • The Conformist (favorite of the fourth section)
    • Tristana (closing night)

General

  • Selection Committee: Richard Roud (program director), Arthur Knight, Andrew Sarris, Susan Sontag, Henri Langlois (retrospective consultant)
  • Location: Philharmonic Hall and Alice Tully Hall
  • Prices: 2.50 for terraces, 3.50 for orchestra, 4.50 for loge; ATH 2.50 and 3.50 for orchestra, 4.50 for loge; add 1.50 for opening night
  • Films seen for the podcast:
    • Ryan
      • Seen before podcast watching period: Five Easy Pieces
      • Seen for the podcast: All available; Five Easy Pieces rewatched
      • Favorite films: Othon, Je t’aime, je t’aime, Zorns Lemma, Le Boucher, The Crucified Lovers, The Conformist, Days and Nights in the Forest, The Wild Child
      • Least favorite films: Harry Munter, Comrades
      • Catch-Up Corner: One Fine Day (7th)
      • Seen after the podcast: Zorns Lemma rewatched (9th), Langlois (16th)
    • Dan
      • Seen before podcast watching period: The Wild Child, Five Easy Pieces, Le Boucher, The Crucified Lovers, The Conformist, Tristana
      • Seen for the podcast: All available except A Simple Story, Even Dwarfs Started Small, The Spider’s Stratagem, The Cannibals; The Wild Child, Five Easy Pieces rewatched
      • Favorite films: Je t’aime, je t’aime, Othon, Wind From the East, Zorns Lemma, Days and Nights in the Forest
      • Least favorite films: Harry Munter, Comrades, The Scavengers
      • Seen after the podcast: Even Dwarfs Started Small (13th)
  • Discoveries of the festival: Days and Nights in the Forest, Wind From the East, Le Boucher, Zorns Lemma
  • Unavailable films: Double Pisces, Scorpio Rising; Mistreatment; Street Scenes 1970; The Inheritors; From Lumiere to Langlois: The French Silent Cinema; Langlois; Praise Marx and Pass the Ammunition

Main Slate

Opening Night: The Wild Child [L’Enfant sauvage] (1970, François Truffaut)
September 10, 9:00
Released 1970
Wind From the East [Le Vent d’est] (1970, Groupe Dziga Vertov and Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin)
September 11, 6:30 {Alice Tully Hall}
Never released
Five Easy Pieces (1970, Bob Rafelson)
September 11, 9:30
Released 1970
Zorns Lemma (1970, Hollis Frampton)
And: Double Pisces, Scorpio Rising (1970, Dick Fontaine)
September 12, 4:00
Never released/Never released
Othon [Les yeux ne veulent pas en tout temps se fermer ou Peut-être qu’un jour Rome se permettra de choisir à son tour/Eyes Do Not Want to Close at All Times or Perhaps One Day Rome Will Permit Herself to Choose in Her Turn] (1970, Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
September 12, 6:30 {Alice Tully Hall}
Released 1971
Le Boucher [The Butcher] (1970, Claude Chabrol)
September 12, 9:30
Released 1971
Comrades [Camarades] (1970, Marin Karmitz)
September 13, 1:30
Never released
Retrospective: The Crucified Lovers [Chikamatsu Monogatari/A Story From Chikamatsu] (1954, Mizoguchi Kenji)
September 13, 4:00 {Alice Tully Hall}
Released 1971
Mistreatment [Misshandlingen/Assault] (1969, Lars Lennart Forsberg)
September 13, 6:30 {Alice Tully Hall}
Never released
Kes (1969, Ken Loach)
September 13, 9:30
Released 1970
Street Scenes 1970 (1970, Martin Scorsese)
September 14, 6:30
Never released
Je t’aime, je t’aime [I Love You, I Love You] (1968, Alain Resnais)
September 14, 9:30
Released 1972
The Inheritors [Os Herdeiros] (1970, Carlos Diegues)
September 15, 6:30
Never released
La Musica [The Music] (1967, Marguerite Duras & Paul Seban)
September 15, 9:30
Never released
A Simple Story [Une simple histoire] (1959, Marcel Hanoun)
September 16, 6:30
Never released
Even Dwarfs Started Small [Auch Zwerge haben klein angefangen] (1970, Werner Herzog)
September 16, 9:30
Released 1971
The Spider’s Stratagem [Strategia del ragno] (1970, Bernardo Bertolucci)
September 17, 6:30
Released 1973
Harry Munter (1969, Kjell Grede)
September 17, 9:30
Never released
The Garden of Delights [El jardín de las delicias] (1970, Carlos Saura)
September 18, 6:30
Released 1971
The Conformist [Il conformista] (1970, Bernardo Bertolucci)
September 18, 9:30
Released 1971
From Lumiere to Langlois: The French Silent Cinema (1970, Henri Langlois)
Also: Langlois (1970, Eila Hershon & Roberto Guerra)
September 19, 2:00
Never released/Never released
Days and Nights in the Forest [Aranyēra Dinarātri/Daylight of the Forest] (1970, Satyajit Ray)
September 19, 6:30
Released 1973
The Cannibals [I cannibali] (1970, Liliana Cavani)
September 19, 9:30
Never released
Praise Marx and Pass the Ammunition (1970, Maurice Hatton)
September 20, 4:00
Never released
The Scavengers [I recuperanti/The Recoverers] (1970, Ermanno Olmi)
September 20, 6:30
Never released
“Closing Night”: Tristana (1970, Luis Buñuel)
September 20, 9:30
Released 1970

Ephemera

  • “American Voices”: 12 programs of films by and about minority groups in the America of today, shown at the Library and Museum of Performing Arts in Lincoln Center, all free
  • “Cinema and Color: 12 programs of films, shown at the Library and Museum of Performing Arts in Lincoln Center, all free
  • 1927-1933: Medium Rare”: 10 programs of films, shown at Alice Tully Hall, all 2.25

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

  • Bernardo Bertolucci: 2/2/4/5/0/1
  • Jean-Luc Godard: 1/1/12/16/2/5
  • Luis Buñuel: 1/1/5/5/1/2
  • Alain Resnais: 1/1/4/4/2
  • Satyajit Ray: 1/1/3/3/1
  • Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet: 1/1/3/3
  • Claude Chabrol: 1/1/2/2
  • Marguerite Duras: 1/1/2/2
  • Werner Herzog: 1/1/2/2
  • Ermanno Olmi: 1/1/3/3
  • Carlos Saura: 1/1/2/2
  • François Truffaut: 1/1/1/1/1
  • Carlos Diegues: 1/1/1/1
  • Jean-Pierre Gorin: 1/1/1/1
  • Kjell Grede: 1/1/2/2†(2/8/8)
  • Ken Loach: 1/1/1/1
  • Bob Rafelson: 1/1/1/1
  • Martin Scorsese: 1/1/1/1
  • Mizoguchi Kenji: 0/1/1/2†(2/0/93)

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: 8/8/49/60/5
  • Italy: 5/5/21/25/1
  • USA: 4/4/20/31/1
  • UK: 3/3/11/13/1
  • Sweden: 2/2/10/10
  • Spain: 2/2/3/3/1
  • West Germany: 1/1/7/7
  • India: 1/1/3/3/1
  • Brazil: 1/1/2/2
  • Japan: 0/1/10/12/1

One-Time Directors

  • Liliana Cavani
  • Dick Fontaine
  • Lars Lennart Forsberg
  • Hollis Frampton
  • Groupe Dziga Vertov
  • Marcel Hanoun
  • Maurice Hatton
  • Eila Hershon & Roberto Guerra
  • Marin Karmitz
  • Henri Langlois
  • Paul Seban

Feature Debuts

  • Marguerite Duras
  • Lars Lennart Forsberg
  • Hollis Frampton
  • Jean-Pierre Gorin
  • Marcel Hanoun
  • Maurice Hatton
  • Eila Hershon & Roberto Guerra
  • Henri Langlois
  • Paul Seban

Festivals

  • NYFF World Premiere
    • Five Easy Pieces
    • Street Scenes 1970
    • Zorns Lemma
  • Cannes
    • Je t’aime, je t’aime (1968; also San Sebastian)
    • Harry Munter
    • Comrades (Critics’ Week)
    • Kes (Critics’ Week; also Karlov Vary, Crystal Globe)
    • Mistreatment (Critics’ Week)
    • The Cannibals (Directors’ Fortnight)
    • Even Dwarfs Started Small (Directors’ Fortnight)
    • The Inheritors (Directors’ Fortnight)
    • Othon (Directors’ Fortnight)
    • Wind From the East (Directors’ Fortnight)
    • Tristana (Out of Competition)
  • Berlin
    • The Conformist
    • Days and Nights in the Forest
    • The Wild Child (?)
  • Other
    • Le Boucher (San Sebastian, Best Actress)
  • N/A
    • The Crucified Lovers
    • Double Pisces, Scorpio Rising
    • From Lumiere to Langlois: The French Silent Cinema
    • The Garden of Delights
    • Langlois
    • La Musica
    • Praise Marx and Pass the Ammunition
    • The Scavengers
    • A Simple Story
    • The Spider’s Stratagem

Oscar Nominees

  • Five Easy Pieces: Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Original Screenplay
  • The Conformist: Best Adapted Screenplay
  • Tristana: Best Foreign Film

Events/Shorts

events
shorts

Discussions By Length (Approximate)

  • 16:38 The Conformist (2:54:44-3:11:22)
  • 14:59 Days and Nights in the Forest (3:14:13-3:29:12)
  • 14:17 Othon (1:05:23-1:19:40)
  • 13:35 Je t’aime, je t’aime (2:05:58-2:19:33)
  • 13:05 The Wild Child (18:11-31:16)
  • 12:16 Le Boucher (1:20:41-1:32:57)
  • 11:16 Wind From the East (31:17-42:33)
  • 11:09 Zorns Lemma (53:06-1:04:15)
  • 11:08 The Crucified Lovers (1:39:59-1:51:07)
  • 10:48 Kes (1:52:32-2:03:20)
  • 10:31 Five Easy Pieces (42:34-53:05)
  • 9:24 Tristana (3:47:12-3:56:36)
  • 9:03 The Cannibals [One Person] (3:29:13-3:38:16)
  • 7:57 La Musica (2:21:40-2:29:37)
  • 7:00 Comrades (1:32:58-1:39:58)
  • 6:52 The Scavengers (3:40:19-3:47:11)
  • 5:58 Harry Munter (2:44:22-2:50:20)
  • 5:28 Even Dwarfs Started Small [One Person] (2:33:25-2:38:53)
  • 5:27 The Spider’s Stratagem [One Person] (2:38:54-2:44:21)
  • 3:46 A Simple Story [One Person] (2:29:38-2:33:24)
  • 3:25 The Garden of Delights (2:50:21-2:53:46)
  • 2:49 From Lumiere to Langlois: The French Silent Cinema [Unavailable] and Langlois [Unavailable] (3:11:23-3:14:12)
  • 2:36 Street Scenes 1970 [Unavailable] (2:03:21-2:05:57)
  • 2:01 Praise Marx and Pass the Ammunition [Unavailable] (3:38:17-3:40:18)
  • 1:23 Mistreatment [Unavailable] (1:51:08-1:52:31)
  • 1:06 The Inheritors [Unavailable] (2:20:33-2:21:39)
  • 1:06 Double Pisces, Scorpio Rising [Unavailable] (1:04:16-1:05:22)

Specifications

  • François Truffaut, L’Enfant sauvage, 1970, 35 mm, black-and-white, mono sound, 83 minutes, 1.66:1, French, France.
  • Groupe Dziga Vertov and Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin, Le Vent d’est, 1970, 16 mm, color, mono sound, 95 minutes, 1.37:1, French, France.
  • Bob Rafelson, Five Easy Pieces, 1970, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 98 minutes, 1.85:1, English, USA.
  • Hollis Frampton, Zorns Lemma, 1970, 16 mm, color, mono sound, 60 minutes, 1.37:1, English, USA.
  • Dick Fontaine, Double Pisces, Scorpio Rising, 1970, 16 mm, color, mono sound, 58 minutes, 1.37:1, English, UK.
  • Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet, Les yeux ne veulent pas en tout temps se fermer ou Peut-être qu’un jour Rome se permettra de choisir à son tour, 1970, 16 mm, color, mono sound, 88 minutes, 1.37:1, French, Italy.
  • Claude Chabrol, Le Boucher, 1970, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 93 minutes, 1.85:1, French, France.
  • Marin Karmitz, Camarades, 1970, 16 mm, color, mono sound, 85 minutes, 1.66:1, French, France.
  • 溝口健二, 近松物語, 1954, 35 mm, black-and-white, mono sound, 102 minutes, 1.37:1, Japanese, Japan.
  • Lars Lennart Forsberg, Misshandlingen, 1969, 35 mm, black-and-white, mono sound, 104 minutes, 1.37:1, Swedish, Sweden.
  • Ken Loach, Kes, 1969, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 111 minutes, 1.66:1, English, UK.
  • Martin Scorsese, Street Scenes 1970, 1970, 16 mm, black-and-white and color, mono sound, 77 minutes, 1.37:1, English, USA.
  • Alain Resnais, Je t’aime, je t’aime, 1968, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 94 minutes, 1.66:1, French and Dutch and English, France.
  • Carlos Diegues, Os Herdeiros, 1970, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 95 minutes, 1.37:1, Portuguese and English and French, Brazil.
  • Marguerite Duras & Paul Seban, La Musica, 1967, 35 mm, black-and-white, mono sound, 80 minutes, 1.66:1, French, France.
  • Marcel Hanoun, Une simple histoire, 1959, 16 mm, black-and-white, mono sound, 68 minutes, 1.37:1, French, France.
  • Werner Herzog, Auch Zwerge haben klein angefangen, 1970, 35 mm, black-and-white, mono sound, 96 minutes, 1.37:1, German, West Germany.
  • Bernardo Bertolucci, Strategia del ragno, 1970, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 100 minutes, 1.37:1, Italian, Italy.
  • Kjell Grede, Harry Munter, 1969, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 101 minutes, 1.66:1, Swedish, Sweden.
  • Carlos Saura, El jardín de las delicias, 1970, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 95 minutes, 1.85:1, Spanish, Spain.
  • Bernardo Bertolucci, Il conformista, 1970, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 113 minutes, 1.66:1, Italian and French, Italy.
  • Henri Langlois, From Lumiere to Langlois: The French Silent Cinema, 1970, 35 mm, black-and-white, silent, 60 minutes, 1.33:1, French, France. (?)
  • Eila Hershon & Roberto Guerra, Langlois, 1970, 16 mm, color, mono sound, 52 minutes, 1.37:1, English, USA.
  • সত্যজিত রায়, অরণ্যের দিনরাত্রি, 1970, 35 mm, black-and-white, mono sound, 115 minutes, 1.37:1, Bengali, India.
  • Liliana Cavani, I cannibali, 1970, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 88 minutes, 2.35:1, Italian, Italy.
  • Maurice Hatton, Praise Marx and Pass the Ammunition, 1970, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 90 minutes, 1.66:1, English, UK. (?)
  • Ermanno Olmi, I recuperanti, 1970, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 101 minutes, 1.37:1, Italian, Italy.
  • Luis Buñuel, Tristana, 1970, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 105 minutes, 1.66:1, Spanish, Spain.