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

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.

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

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

Housekeeping

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

Films Ranked by Festival

Festivals by Number of Films/Programs/New Features:

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

Total: 444/399/379

Festivals by Primary Location:

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

Selection Committee Members:

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

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

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

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

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

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

Film Format:

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

Aspect Ratio:

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

B&W/Color:

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

Featured Languages:

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

Sound/Silent:

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

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

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

Total: 44919/101:10

Films Over Two-and-a-Half Hours

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

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

• Bernardo Bertolucci: 8 [La commare secca to La luna]
• Robert Bresson: 7 [The Trial of Joan of Arc to The Devil, Probably]
• Luis Buñuel: 5 [The Milky Way to That Obscure Object of Desire]
• Jean-Luc Godard: 5 [Alphaville to 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her]
• Alain Resnais: 5 [Muriel, or the Time of Return to Stavisky…]
• Jacques Rivette: 5 [The Nun to Duelle {discounting Out 1: Noli me tangere}]
• Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet: 5 [Not Reconciled to Moses and Aaron]
• François Truffaut: 5 [Day for Night to The Green Room]
• Werner Herzog: 4 [Signs of Life to Land of Silence and Darkness]
• Kurosawa Akira: 4 [Red Beard to Kagemusha]
• Ermanno Olmi: 4 [One Fine Day to The Circumstance]
• Jerzy Skolimowski: 4 [Identification Marks: None to Le Départ]
• René Allio: 3 [The Shameless Old Lady to Pierre and Paul]
• Luis Buñuel: 3 [The Exterminating Angel to Simon of the Desert]
• Claude Chabrol: 3 [Le Boucher to Just Before Nightfall]
• Rainer Werner Fassbinder: 3 [Despair to The Marriage of Maria Braun]
• Miloš Forman: 3 [Black Peter to The Firemen’s Ball]
• James Ivory: 3 [Autobiography of a Princess to The Europeans]
• Jancsó Miklós: 3 [Red Psalm to Electra, My Love]
• Ken Loach: 3 [Kes to Black Jack]
• Marcel Ophuls: 3 [The Sorrow and the Pity to The Memory of Justice]
• Éric Rohmer: 3 [Love in the Afternoon to Perceval le Gallois]
• Agnès Varda: 3 [The Creatures 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: 287
Films premiered the year before their festival appearance: 83
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: 112
Films released more than two years after their festival appearance: 63
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: 41
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)

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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

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

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.

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 seventh 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 seventh edition of the festival in 1969, and features special guest Caden Mark Gardner, critic and co-publisher of Body Talk.

0:00-21:56 – Opening
21:57-1:21:11 – Part One [Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice to Boy]
1:21:12-2:27:41 – Part Two [Ådalen 31 to My Night at Maud’s]
2:27:42-3:13:51 – Part Three [The Merry Widow to HE Who Gets Slapped]
3:13:52-4:00:43 – Part Four [Le Gai Savoir to Oh! What a Lovely War]
4:00:44-4:09:52 – Closing

Corrections/Clarifications

• N/A

Housekeeping

• Hosted by Dan Molloy & Ryan Swen
• Special Guest Caden Mark Gardner
• Conceived and Edited by Ryan Swen
• Recorded in Los Angeles, Portland, and Schenectady on MacBook GarageBand, Edited in Audacity
• Podcast photograph from Yi Yi, Logo designed by Dan Molloy
• Poster by Marisol Escobar
• Recorded August 28, 2018
• Released August 31, 2018
• Music (in order of appearance):
  • Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (opening night)
  • La Ronde (another favorite)
  • Boy (favorite of the first section)
  • My Night at Maud’s (favorite of the second section)
  • Destroy, She Said (favorite of the third section)
  • Mandabi (favorite of the fourth section)
  • Oh! What a Lovely War (closing night)

General

• Selection Committee: Richard Roud (program director), Penelope Huston, Arthur Knight, Andrew Sarris, Susan Sontag, Henri Langlois (retrospective consultant)
• Location: Alice Tully Hall
• Prices: 2.25 and 3.50 for orchestra, 4.50 for loge
• Films seen for the podcast:
  • Ryan
    • Seen before podcast watching period: Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, Le Gai Savoir
    • Seen for the podcast: All available except The Deserter and the Nomads and One Fine Day; Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice rewatched
    • Favorite films: My Night at Maud’s, Boy, La Ronde, A Gentle Woman, Destroy, She Said, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
    • Least favorite films: Goto, Island of Love
    • Seen after the podcast: One Fine Day (8th)
  • Dan
    • Seen before podcast watching period: A Gentle Woman, Boy, My Night at Maud’s
    • Seen for the podcast: All available except Oh! What a Lovely War; Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice and La Ronde rewatched
    • Favorite films: Boy, My Night at Maud’s, Destroy, She Said, La Ronde, Ådalen 31
    • Least favorite films: Porcile, Goto, Island of Love, The Deserter and the Nomads
  • Caden
    • Seen before podcast watching period: Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, A Gentle Woman, Boy, La Ronde, My Night at Maud’s, Le Gai Savoir
    • Seen for the podcast: All available except Oh! What a Lovely War; My Night at Maud’s rewatched
    • Favorite films: Boy, A Gentle Woman, My Night at Maud’s, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
    • Least favorite films: The Deserter and the Nomads
• Discoveries of the festival: Destroy, She Said, Ådalen 31, Oh! What a Lovely War
• Unavailable films: The Lady From Constantinople, Pierre and Paul

Main Slate

Opening Night: Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969, Paul Mazursky)
September 16, 6:30
Released 1969
The Joke [Žert] (1969, Jaromil Jireš)
September 17, 6:30
Released 1970
A Gentle Woman [Une femme douce] (1969, Robert Bresson)
September 17, 9:30
Released 1971
The Lady From Constantinople [Sziget a szárazföldön/The Island on Land] (1969, Elek Judit)
September 18, 6:30
Never released
The Rite [Riten] (1969, Ingmar Bergman)
September 18, 9:30
Never released
Boy [Shōnen] (1969, Oshima Nagisa)
September 19, 6:30
Released 1970
Ådalen 31 (1969, Bo Widerberg)
September 19, 9:30
Released 1969
The Epic That Never Was (1965, Bill Duncalf)
September 20, 12:00 AM
Never released
Lions Love (1969, Agnès Varda)
September 20, 9:30
Released 1969
Pierre and Paul [Pierre et Paul] (1969, René Allio)
September 21, 1:00
Never released
Retrospective: La Ronde [The Round Dance] (1950, Max Ophuls)
September 21, 9:30
Released 1954
My Night at Maud’s [Ma nuit chez Maud] (1969, Éric Rohmer)
September 23, 9:30
Released 1970
Retrospective: The Merry Widow (1925, Erich von Stroheim)
September 24, 6:30
Released 1925
Duet for Cannibals [Duett för kannibaler] (1969, Susan Sontag)
September 24, 9:30
Released 1969
Destroy, She Said [Détruire, dit-elle] (1969, Marguerite Duras)
September 25, 9:30
Released 1970
Goto, Island of Love [Goto, l’île d’amour] (1969, Walerian Borowczyk)
September 26, 9:30
Never released
Retrospective: HE Who Gets Slapped (1924, Victor Sjöström)
September 27, 1:00
Released 1924
Le Gai Savoir [The Gay Science/Joy of Learning] (1969, Jean-Luc Godard)
September 27, 6:30
Released 1970
The Deserter and the Nomads [Zbehovia a pútnici/The Deceased and the Pilgrims] (1968, Juraj Jakubisko)
September 27, 9:30
Never released
Porcile [Pigsty] (1969, Pier Paolo Pasolin)
September 28, 6:30
Never released
Mandabi [The Money Order] (1968, Ousmane Sembène)
September 29, 9:30
Released 1970
One Fine Day [Un certo giorno/Some Day] (1968, Ermanno Olmi)
September 30, 9:30
Never released
“Closing Night”: Oh! What a Lovely War (1969, Richard Attenborough)
October 2, 6:30
Released 1969

Ephemera

• “The National Film Collection”: 23 programs of American films from the National Film Collection at the Library of Congress, shown at the Library and Museum of Performing Arts in Lincoln Center, all free
• “Avant-Garde West”: 9 programs of films by West Coast filmmakers, shown at the Library and Museum of Performing Arts in Lincoln Center, all free
• “Open Programs”: 15 programs of features and shorts of all categories, shown at the Library and Museum of Performing Arts in Lincoln Center, all free
• “Jean Renoir: A One-Man Show”: a virtually complete retrospective of Renoir’s films, shown in five series at the Library & Museum of the Performing Arts in Lincoln Center

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: 1/1/11/15/2/5
• Robert Bresson: 1/1/4/4
• Pier Paolo Pasolini: 1/1/2/4/0/1
• Agnès Varda: 1/1/3/3/1
• René Allio: 1/1/3/3†(3/10/10)
• Bo Widerberg: 1/1/3/3
• Ermanno Olmi: 1/1/2/2
• Jaromil Jireš: 1/1/1/2†(1/22/22)
• Éric Rohmer: 1/1/1/2
• Ingmar Bergman: 1/1/1/1
• Walerian Borowczyk: 1/1/1/1
• Marguerite Duras: 1/1/1/1
• Oshima Nagisa: 1/1/1/1
• Ousmane Sembène: 1/1/1/1
• Max Ophuls: 0/1/0/2
• Erich von Stroheim: 0/1/0/2

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: 6/7/41/52/4
• Sweden: 3/3/8/8
• USA: 2/4/16/27/1
• Italy: 2/2/16/20/1
• Czechoslovakia: 2/2/11/13/3
• UK: 2/2/8/10/1
• Japan: 1/1/10/11/1
• Hungary: 1/1/5/5
• Senegal: 1/1/1/1

One-Time Directors

• Richard Attenborough (gala)
• Bill Duncalf
• Elek Judit
• Juraj Jakubisko
• Paul Mazursky (gala)
• Victor Sjöstrom (retrospective)
• Susan Sontag

Feature Debuts

• Richard Attenborough
• Elek Judit
• Paul Mazursky
• Susan Sontag

Festivals

• Cannes
  • Ådalen 31 (Special Jury Prize)
  • My Night at Maud’s
  • Duet for Cannibals (Directors’ Fortnight)
  • A Gentle Woman (Directors’ Fortnight; also San Sebastian, Silver Seashell)
  • The Lady From Constantinople (Critics’ Week)
  • The Deserter and the Nomads (Out of Competition)
  • The Joke (?)
  • The Rite (?)
• Berlin
  • Le Gai Savoir
• Venice
  • Boy
  • Mandabi
• N/A
  • Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
  • Destroy, She Said
  • The Epic That Never Was
  • Goto, Island of Love
  • HE Who Gets Slapped
  • Lions Love
  • The Merry Widow
  • Oh! What a Lovely War
  • One Fine Day
  • Pierre and Paul
  • Porcile
  • La Ronde

Oscar Nominees

• Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice: Best Original Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Cinematography
• My Night at Maud’s: Best Foreign Film, 1970 Best Original Screenplay
• Ådalen 31: Best Foreign Film

Events/Shorts

Discussions By Length (Approximate)

• 19:50 Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (22:57-42:47)
• 14:57 My Night at Maud’s (2:12:44-2:27:41)
• 14:35 Lions Love (1:45:41-2:00:16)
• 13:35 Ådalen 31 (1:22:03-1:35:38)
• 12:20 Oh! What a Lovely War [One Person] (3:48:23-4:00:43)
• 11:23 Boy (1:09:48-1:21:11)
• 11:23 Destroy, She Said (2:48:05-2:59:18)
• 11:13 La Ronde (2:01:30-2:12:43)
• 10:59 Duet for Cannibals (2:37:05-2:48:04)
• 10:24 A Gentle Woman (50:55-1:01:19)
• 10:01 The Epic That Never Was (1:35:39-1:45:40)
• 9:34 Mandabi (3:34:59-3:44:33)
• 9:17 HE Who Gets Slapped (3:04:34-3:13:51)
• 8:53 Le Gai Savoir (3:14:51-3:23:44)
• 8:20 The Merry Widow (2:28:44-2:37:04)
• 8:06 The Joke (42:48-50:54)
• 7:17 The Rite (1:02:30-1:09:47)
• 7:07 Porcile (3:27:51-3:34:58)
• 5:14 Goto, Island of Love (2:59:19-3:04:33)
• 4:05 The Deserter and the Nomads (3:23:45-3:27:50)
• 3:48 One Fine Day (3:44:34-3:48:22)
• 1:12 Pierre and Paul [Unavailable] (2:00:17-2:01:29)
• 1:09 The Lady From Constantinople [Unavailable] (1:01:20-1:02:29)

Specifications

• Paul Mazursky, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, 1969, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 105 minutes, 1.85:1, English, USA.
• Jaromil Jireš, Žert, 1969, 35 mm, black-and-white, mono sound, 80 minutes, 1.37:1, Czech, Czechoslovakia.
• Robert Bresson, Une femme douce, 1969, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 88 minutes, 1.66:1, French, France.
• Elek Judit, Sziget a szárazföldön, 1969, 35 mm, black-and-white, mono sound, 79 minutes, 1.85:1, Hungarian, Hungary.
• Ingmar Bergman, Riten, 1969, 16 mm, black-and-white, mono sound, 72 minutes, 1.37:1, Swedish, Sweden.
• 大島渚, 少年, 1969, 35 mm, color and black-and-white, mono sound, 105 minutes, 2.35:1, Japanese, Japan.
• Bo Widerberg, Ådalen 31, 1969, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 110 minutes, 2.35:1, Swedish, Sweden.
• Bill Duncalf, The Epic That Never Was, 1965, 35 mm, black-and-white, mono sound, 74 minutes, 1.37:1, English, UK.
• Agnès Varda, Lions Love, 1969, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 110 minutes, 1.66:1, English, USA.
• René Allio, Pierre et Paul, 1969, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 90 minutes, 1.66:1, French, France. (?)
• Max Ophuls, La Ronde, 1950, 35 mm, black-and-white, mono sound, 93 minutes, 1.37:1, French, France.
• Éric Rohmer, Ma nuit chez Maud, 1969, 35 mm, black-and-white, mono sound, 110 minutes, 1.37:1, French, France.
• Erich von Stroheim, The Merry Widow, 1925, 35 mm, black-and-white, silent, 137 minutes, 1.33:1, English, USA.
• Susan Sontag, Duett för kannibaler, 1969, 35 mm, black-and-white, mono sound, 105 minutes, 1.37:1, Swedish, Sweden.
• Marguerite Duras, Détruire, dit-elle, 1969, 35 mm, black-and-white, mono sound, 94 minutes, 1.66:1, French, France.
• Walerian Borowczyk, Goto, l’île d’amour, 1969, 16 mm, black-and-white and color, mono sound, 93 minutes, 1.66:1, French, France.
• Victor Sjöström, HE Who Gets Slapped, 1924, 35 mm, black-and-white, silent, 80 minutes, 1.37:1, English, USA.
• Jean-Luc Godard, Le Gai Savoir, 1969, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 95 minutes, 1.37:1, French, France.
• Juraj Jakubisko, Zbehovia a pútnici, 1968, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 103 minutes, 1.37:1, Slovak and German, Czechoslovakia.
• Pier Paolo Pasolini, Porcile, 1969, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 99 minutes, 1.85:1, Italian, Italy.
• Ousmane Sembène, Mandabi, 1968, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 90 minutes, 1.85:1, Wolof, Senegal.
• Ermanno Olmi, Un certo giorno, 1968, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 102 minutes, 1.37:1, Italian, Italy.
• Richard Attenborough, Oh! What a Lovely War, 1969, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 144 minutes, 2.35:1, English, UK.

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Description
The first 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 announcement of the 2018 main slate.

0:00-1:03:40 – Part One [The Favourite to Hotel by the River]
1:03:41-2:08:35 – Part Two [Roma to At Eternity’s Gate]

Housekeeping

• Hosted by Dan Molloy & Ryan Swen
• Conceived and Edited by Ryan Swen
• Recorded in Los Angeles and Portland on MacBook GarageBand, Edited in Audacity
• Podcast photograph from Yi Yi, Logo designed by Dan Molloy
• Recorded August 10, 2018
• Released August 11, 2018
• Music (in order of appearance):
  • Breathless
  • Still Life
  • Phoenix