Photo by Godlis
NYFF Opening Night 2007 brought a tuxedoed Jason Schwartzman and Wes Anderson to a table autographing copies of Film Comment. The pair were in attendance for their film The Darjeelng Limited at the New York Film Festival. The pic above is just one of the many moments from the event captured in the book New York Film Festival Gold, edited by Laura Kern, Joanne Koch, and Richard Peña. Schwartzman returns this year starring in Alex Ross Perry's Listen Up Philip, a nostalgic look at the literary world.
The NYFF began 52 years ago at a time when film was not yet taken seriously as art. The controversies and triumphs brought about by pioneer programmers Richard Roud and Amos Vogel link the festival's history to a golden age of European art cinema. The festival introduced America to Bruñuel's The Exterminating Angel and continued to tantalize by screening new works by auteurs like Rossellini, Godard, Pasolini, Resnais, Ozu, Bresson, and Polanski, some of whom have films featured this year.
[Check out part I of our look back at the New York Film Festival here.]
Enjoy some more of our picks from the archives below.
The Coen Brothers, 1990, photo by Godlis
Joanna Ney and Michael Haneke, Caché, 2005, photo by Godlis
Willem Dafoe, Jim Jarmusch, Abel Ferrara, and Amos Poe, You Are Not I, 2011, photo by Godlis
Reginald Hudlin and Wesley Snipes, King of New York, 1990, photo by Godlis
Faye Dunaway and Barbet Schroeder, Barfly, 1987, photo by Timothy Parks
Catherine Keener and Philip Seymour Hoffman, Capote, 2004, photo by Godlis
Jessica Lange and Robert De Niro, Night and the City, 1992, photo by Stephanie Berger
John Travolta, Quentin Tarantino, and Bruce Willis, Pulp Fiction, 1994, photo by Stephanie Berger
Catherine Deneuve and Björk, Opening Night, </em>Dancer in the Dark, 2000, photo by Stephanie Berger
Jafar Panahi, The White Balloon, 1994, photo by Godlis
