1. What’s the best older movie you saw for the first time this year? A Special Day

2. What’s the best older movie you saw again this year? Love Actually

3. What was your favorite programming at FLC this year? Sophia Loren retrospective

4. What was your favorite programming elsewhere? Conclave

5. What was the best Q&A/talk you watched that FLC conducted this year? Mohammed Rassoulof / The Seed of the Sacred Fig

6. What’s your most anticipated movie of 2025? No idea!

Max Isaacs, Theater Staff

Dune: Part Two
A Different Man (best of the year for me)
Challengers
Civil War
Kinds of Kindness
Deadpool & Wolverine
Trap
A Real Pain
Harvest
Happyend
The Shrouds
The Room Next Door
Anora
Meanwhile On Earth
Christmas Eve In Miller’s Point
Juror #2
Allen Sunshine
Afraid
Carry-On

1. What’s the best older movie you saw for the first time this year? I saw Badlands at the Paris in March with some friends and it became my current favorite film. This is what I wrote about it after watching: “Masterpiece. So much fun. The coolest guy to ever walk the Earth. The coolest girl to ever go with the flow. The coolest Dad to ever get in the way. The coolest shots of desert and sunsets and animals to ever grace my eyes. It’s poetic. The dialogue is sublime. It’s a dream role. It should be boring but it weirdly makes everything make so much sense again. I love this movie like I love my own passion for wanting to be in them. It outshines most of cinema for me. The 70s is where it’s at.”

2. What’s the best older movie you saw again this year? Maybe it’s recency bias but I rewatched Secrets & Lies during a special screening at the Reade with Marianne Jean-Baptiste doing an intro. I was floored. This is what I wrote for that: “3 years later and it’s 3x better in a theater. Gosh what a masterpiece. How do you write characters this specific.” I guess I like the word masterpiece.

3. What was your favorite programming at FLC this year? My favorite programming we did last year was the second half of the Edward Yang series in January solely because I saw A Brighter Summer Day on new year’s day and I truly felt it carry me throughout the entire year. But as for a series contained entirely in the year 2024, it would have to be Never Look Away: Serge Daney’s Radical 70’s. I spent an entire day at the Reade and saw four films in a row and it was one of the best days ever.

Nicholas Byrne, Theater Staff

By the Stream – Hong Sang-soo
A Traveler’s Needs – Hong Sang-soo
It Snows on You – Hong Sang-soo
Scénarios – Jean-Luc Godard
Trap – M. Night Shyamalan
You Burn Me – Matías Piñeiro

1. What’s the best older movie you saw for the first time this year?
Les jours où je n’existe pas – Jean-Claude Fitoussi
Casting Blossoms to the Sky – Nobuhiko Obayashi
Speed Racer – The Wachowskis
Ici et ailleurs – Jean-Luc Godard
The Blue Angel – Josef von Sternberg
Hélas pour moi – Jean-Luc Godard
From the Clouds to the Resistance – Jean-Marie Straub/Danièle Huillet
Duvidha – Mani Kaul
Ornamental Hairpin – Hiroshi Shimizu
The Lusty Men – Nicholas Ray
Throw Down – Johnnie To

2. What’s the best older movie you saw again this year? Sans Soleil – Chris Marker (35mm seen @ Japan Society) and Éloge de l’amour – Jean-Luc Godard (seen @ L’Alliance NY)

3. What was your favorite programming at FLC this year? Never Look Away: Serge Daney’s Radical 1970s

4. What was your favorite programming elsewhere? Hiroshi Shimizu retrospective (MoMI and Japan Society)

5. What was the best Q&A/talk you watched that FLC conducted this year? Isabelle Huppert, A Traveler’s Needs

6. What’s your most anticipated movie of 2025? Whatever Hong releases

Rebecca Slaman, Associate, Marketing

Pepe
Monkey Man
Matt and Mara
A Different Man
Challengers & Queer
A Complete Unknown
Lisa Frankenstein
Good One
I Saw The TV Glow
Anora

Here are my top 10 first watches of older films:
Head (1968)
Harvey (1950)
Monterey Pop (1968)
Anne at 13,000 Feet (2019)
The Dirties (2013)
Fantastic Planet (1973)
Rumstick Road (2013)
The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
First Cow (2019)
My Dinner with Andre (1981)

My favorite programming at FLC was Angels and Puppets: The Stage on Screen with Annie Baker! It brought up so many ideas about how an ephemeral art form can be preserved and translated to the screen. I got to show a friend the classic Original Cast Album: Company as well as be introduced to The Meadows Green and Rumstick Road. It was magical sharing that experience with an audience.

Kyle Milner, Theater Manager

1. Rap World
2. The Beast
3. A Different Man
4. Trap
5. Hard Truths
6. Nickel Boys
7. I Saw the TV Glow/Janet Planet/La Chimera
8. Nosferatu/Juror No. 2
9. Between the Temples/Last Summer
10. In Search of Gladys Glover/The Front Room

NYFF62 Favs coming in ’25: By the Stream, Eephus, and Pavements

Fav First Watches at the cinema:
The Fan (1996): 35mm at Nitehawk Prospect Park
Opening Night (1977): DCP at MoMI…before it screened twice on 35mm during the summer :/
Female Trouble (1974): 35mm midnight at IFC
Prêt-à-Porter [Ready to Wear] (1994): 35mm in the Walter Reade
Fat Girl (2001): 35mm in the Walter Reade
Light Sleeper (1992): first from the comfort of my couch on Criterion then again on 35mm at Metrograph

Fav First Watches from the comfort of my couch:
Sorcerer (1977)
Wolfen (1982)
Twins (1988)/Junior (1994)
Frankenhooker (1990)
Jacob’s Ladder (1990)
Hard Target (1993)
Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995)

Fav FLC Program was Angels and Puppets: The Stage on Screen w/ Annie Baker and elsewhere I loved Aaron Schimberg’s I’m Not Myself Today: Films That Inspired A Different Man at BAM! Watching Alex Ross Perry and the fellas from Pavement getting to goof around on the Alice Tully Hall stage for the NYC premiere of Pavements during NYFF62 was massively enjoyable!

Most Anticipated of 2025: If the slim rumor is true that this PTA flick has been “punted” to 2026 then me and the other bros will certainly be sad. Fortunately, I am very excited for Rob Pattinson’s slate of Bong Joon-ho’s Mickey 17, Lynne Ramsay’s Die, My Love and Kristoffer Borgli’s The Drama as well as looking forward to Spike Lee’s HIGHEST 2 LOWEST, Kelly Reichardt’s The Mastermind, Darren Aronofsky’s Caught Stealing and, finally, Big Jim’s Avatar: Fire and Ash.

Bobby Kanter, Theater Staff

Caught by the Tides (Jia Zhang-ke)
Scénarios (Jean-Luc Godard)
Last Summer (Catherine Breillat)
Stress Positions (Theda Hammel)
Trap (M. Night Shyamalan)
Hard Truths (Mike Leigh)
Chime / Cloud (Kyoshi Kurosawa)
Juror #2 (Clint Eastwood)
Afternoons of Solitude (Albert Serra)
Better Man (Michael Gracey)
Honorable Mention: Megalopolis (Francis Ford Coppola)

1. What’s the best older movie you saw for the first time this year?
One Eyed Jacks (Marlon Brando) on 35mm IB Technicolor at Nitehawk Prospect Park
The Children of the Beehive (Hiroshi Shimizu) at Japan Society
The House of Mirth (Terence Davies) at Museum of the Moving Image
The Chelsea Girls (Paul Morrissey and Andy Warhol) at Roxy Cinema
Valet Girls (Rafal Zielinski) at The Deuce, Nitehawk Williamsburg
The Brute (Luis Buñuel) at Anthology Film Archives
Minnie and Moskowitz (John Cassavetes) at Roxy Cinema
Gertrud (Carl Th. Dreyer) at BAM
Lifeforce (Tobe Hooper) at MoMA
Oh, Rosalinda! (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger) at MoMA
Trick Baby (Larry Yust) at Film Forum
Les Enfants Terribles (Jean-Pierre Melville) at Film Forum
Ophélia (Claude Chabrol)
May God Bless America (Robert Morin) at Anthology Film Archive
Snakes on a Plane (David R. Ellis) at Metrograph
The Killing of Sister George (Robert Aldrich) at Film Forum
Cobra Woman (Robert Siodmak) at the Walter Reade theater
One From the Heart: Reprise (Francis Ford Coppola) at IFC
The Crystal Cradle (Philippe Garrel) at L’Alliance New York
The Lusty Men (Nicholas Ray) at the Walter Reade theater
The Bridges of Madison County (Clint Eastwood) at Roxy Cinema
Puzzle of a Downfall Child (Jerry Schatzberg) at Roxy Cinema
Quick Billy (Bruce Baillie) at Anthology Film Archive

2. What’s the best older movie you saw again this year?
Yeast (Mary Bronstein) on Criterion Channel
Ishtar (Elaine May) again and again and again

3. What was your favorite programming at FLC this year?
Never Look Away: Serge Daney’s Radical 70s and Jacques Rozier: Chronicler of Summer

4. What was your favorite programming elsewhere?
Quebec-Core & Med Hondo at Anthology
Buñuel in Mexico, Tobe Hooper, Powell and Pressburger, and The Ongoing Revolution of Portuguese Cinema at MoMA
I’m Not Myself Today: Films That Inspired A Different Man
The Complete Hiroshi Shimizu at Japan Society and Museum of the Moving Image
The Gospel According to Paul Morrissey at Roxy Cinema

5. What was the best Q&A/talk you watched that FLC conducted this year? Fabrice Aragno speaking about his relationship with Jean-Luc Godard

What’s your most anticipated movie of 2025?
The Alto Knights (Barry Levinson)

Katie Skelly, Senior Manager, Marketing

I Saw the TV Glow (Jane Schoenbrun)
The Beast (Bertrand Bonello)
Green Border (Agnieszka Holland)
Nickel Boys (RaMell Ross)
Janet Planet (Annie Baker)
No Other Land (Basel Adra & Rachel Szor & Hamdan Ballal & Yuval Abraham)
La Chimera (Alice Rohrwacher)
Trap (M. Night Shyamalan)
Nosferatu (Robert Eggers)
Kneecap (Rich Peppiatt)

What’s the best older movie you saw for the first time this year? John Frankenheimer’s Grand Prix: Not to be dramatic but I don’t know how they made this movie. This has the best racing sequences I’ve ever seen. A Saul Bass opening sequence? Chef’s kiss! Feeling the need for speed after seeing Grand Prix, I finally got around to watching The Wachoskwi’s Speed Racer as well, which was an excellent double feature.

What’s the best older movie you saw again this year? Fritz Lang’s Metropolis with a live organ accompaniment.

What was your favorite programming at FLC this year? Carnal Knowledge: The Films of Catherine Breillat

What was your favorite programming elsewhere? Sundays on Fire at Nitehawk, programmed by Subway Cinema. Also shoutout to Anthology Film Archives for Quebec-Core; I couldn’t go but the program looked incredible.

What was the best Q&A/talk you watched that FLC conducted this year? Basel Adra and Yuval Abraham on No Other Land, moderated by Justin Chang

What’s your most anticipated movie of 2025?
BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions (Khalil Joseph)
Yes! (Nadav Lapid)
28 Years Later (Danny Boyle)
Untitled Kathryn Bigelow project
Die, My Love (Lynne Ramsay)
The Mastermind (Kelly Reichardt)

Matthew Dinda, Senior Manager, Partnerships and Advertising

The Beast
Challengers
Evil Does Not Exist
Ghostlight
Good One
Green Border
Hard Truths
I Saw the TV Glow
Janet Planet
Nickel Boys

What’s your most anticipated movie of 2025? There are so many exciting films on the horizon, but I’m particularly looking forward to: Ildikó Enyedi’s Silent Friend, Chloe Zhao’s Hamnet, Gregg Araki’s I Want Your Sex, David Lowery’s Mother Mary, and Isabel Sandoval’s Moonglow. Bring it on!

Erin Delaney, Senior Manager, Operations and Production; Assistant Producer, NYFF

All We Imagine as Light
Janet Planet
I Saw the TV Glow
La Chimera
Last Summer
Nickel Boys
No Other Land
Rumours
The Seed of the Sacred Fig
The Shrouds

1. What’s the best older movie you saw for the first time this year? House of Mirth, Chess of the Wind, Design for Living, Phantom Lady, Pandora’s Box, The Devils, Society, Take Me in Your Arms, Funeral Parade of Roses, History is Made at Night, Hellraiser

2. What’s the best older movie you saw again this year? Mad Max: Fury Road, Lust, Caution, The Women

3. What was your favorite programming at FLC this year? Spectacle Every Day: Mexican Popular Cinema

4. What was your favorite programming elsewhere? Nitrate Picture Show

5. What was the best Q&A/talk you watched that FLC conducted this year? All, Or Nothing At All

6. What’s your most anticipated movie of 2025? Surprise me!

Jim Rohner, Senior Coordinator, Theater Operations and Venue Sales

The Brutalist
The Substance
Emilia Perez
Conclave
Hit Man
Dune Part 2
Anora
Seed of the Sacred Fig
Sing Sing
Challengers

1. What’s the best older movie you saw for the first time this year? Midnight Run. Charles Grodin isn’t just the dad from Beethoven.

2. What’s the best older movie you saw again this year? Don’t Look Now. It was the first movie my wife and I ever bonded over when we first started dating and we were thrilled to get to experience it on 35mm for a Valentine’s Day date night. Is there anything more romantic than psychic premonitions of serial murderers committed by someone who vaguely resembles your deceased child? I would argue that there is not.

3. What was your favorite programming at FLC this year? With what I had said previously, how could I not choose Lulu Wang?

4. What was your favorite programming elsewhere? MoMa’s Tobe Hooper retrospective came with a stellar 35mm print of Poltergeist

5. What was the best Q&A/talk you watched that FLC conducted this year? Listening to Villeneuve talk about Dune Part 2 finally made me bite the bullet and read Dune Messiah

6. What’s your most anticipated movie of 2024? How many years in a row can I say Mickey 17?

Clinton Krute, Managing Editor, Film Comment

1. The Room Next Door
2. Evil Does Not Exist
3. Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
4. Janet Planet
5. Hard Truths
6. Mambar Pierrette
7. A Traveler’s Needs
8. Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell
9. La chimera
10. All We Imagine as Light

1. What’s the best older movie you saw for the first time this year? Notre Nazi (Robert Kramer, 1984)

2. What’s the best older movie you saw again this year? Guns (Robert Kramer, 1980)

3. What was your favorite programming at FLC this year? Film Comment Live: Tribute to Navroze Contractor, April 22, 2024

4. What was your favorite programming elsewhere? The Children’s Cinema at Light Industry

5. What was the best Q&A/talk you watched that FLC conducted this year? Film Comment Live: Best of 2024

6. What’s your most anticipated movie of 2024? Predator: Badlands

Michael Blair, Digital Production Coordinator, Film Comment

1. Hard Truths
2. No Other Land
3. Pictures of Ghosts
4. Universal Language
5. A Traveler’s Needs
6. Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
7. La chimera
8. Janet Planet
9. A Different Man
10. The Room Next Door

1. What’s the best older movie you saw for the first time this year? (Milestones, Robert Kramer)

2. What’s the best older movie you saw again this year? (On Dangerous Ground, Nicholas Ray)

3. What was your favorite programming at FLC this year? (Jacques Rozier: Chronicler of Summer)

4. What was your favorite programming elsewhere? (Hiroshi Shimizu at MoMI, Cinema of Palestinian Return and Charles Atlas at Anthology Film Archives, Johnnie To at MoMA)

5. What was the best Q&A/talk you watched that FLC conducted this year? Film Comment Live: Collective Protagonists

6. What’s your most anticipated movie of 2025? (The Mastermind, Kelly Reichardt and The Secret Agent, Kleber Mendonça Filho)

Eva Tooley, Junior Publicist

The Brutalist
A Different Man
Exhibiting Forgiveness
Hard Truths
Janet Planet
Last Summer
Love Lies Bleeding
No Other Land
The Shrouds
The Substance

1. What’s the best older movie you saw for the first time this year? I watched Scorsese’s Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1974) for the first time this year and absolutely loved it (Ellen Burstyn’s performance is incredible!).

2. What was your favorite programming at FLC this year? Besides NYFF62 of course, another favorite of mine in 2024 was our “Spectacle Every Day: Mexican Popular Cinema” series – so many great films that I likely wouldn’t have had a chance to see outside of that series.

3. What was the best Q&A/talk you watched that FLC conducted this year? One of my favorites from 2024 was the Q&A with Titus Kaphar and André Holland following a screening of Exhibiting Forgiveness (as part of New Directors/New Films). It was so insightful and inspiring, and that film ended up being one of my favorites of the year. (I also saw this with my parents and they still rave about the film and the Q&A to this day!)

Manny Lage-Valera, Manager, Theater Operations

1. Coma: Spit Painting (Dillon Friend)
2. Trap/The Watchers (Shyamalan Gang)
3. Hong Triple: A Traveler’s Needs/It Snows on You/By the Stream
4. Madame Web (S.J. Clarkson)/Dream Team (Lev Kalman, Whitney Horn)
5. Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point (Taylor Taormina)
6. Three Late Career Triumphs: Here (Robert Zemeckis)/Megalopolis (Francis Ford Coppola)/Juror #2 (Clint Eastwood)
7. Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver (Zack Snyder)
8.  Terrifier 3 (Damien Leone) / The Strangers: Chapter 1 (Renny Harlin)
9. Three Blumhouse Masterpieces: Night Swim (Bryce McGuire)/Imaginary (Jeff Wadlow)/AFRAID (Chris Weitz)
10. Crazy French Boys (in America!) Triple Feature: Dogman (Luc Besson)/Asphalt City (Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire)/Never Let Go (Alexandre Aja)

What was your favorite programming at FLC this year? Serge Daney, Catherine Breillat, Jacques Rozier, Robert Siodmak

What was your favorite programming elsewhere? Quebec-Core (Anthology Film Archives), Nathaniel Dorsky and Jerome Hiler (MoMA/Anthology Film Archives), Fred Worden (Spectacle Theater), The Deuce (Nitehawk Cinema), Afterimage: Counter Cinema, Radical Cinema (Anthology Film Archives), Skip Norman (Anthology Film Archives), Luis Buñuel (MoMA), Tobe Hooper (MoMA), Lev Kalman and Whitney Horn (Metrograph), Ernie Gehr (MoMA), Johnnie To (MoMA), Ilkka Järvi-Laturi (MoMA), Michael Powell (MoMA), Jocelyn Saab (Anthology Film Archives), Juliet Berto (MoMA), To Save and Project (MoMA), Paul Morrissey (Roxy Cinema), Andy Warhol Rarities (Anthology Film Archives), Med Hondo (Anthology Film Archives)

What was the best Q&A/talk you watched that FLC conducted this year? Cathering Breillat’s Q&A for our screening of Fat Girl

What’s your most anticipated movie of 2025? Avatar: Fire and Ash (James Cameron); Flight Risk [in 4DX] (Mel Gibson); The Strangers: Chapter 2 (Renny Harlin)

Walter Blum, Theater Staff

1. Anora – Dir. Sean Baker (35mm The Vista Theater + Walter Reade Theater, DCP – NYFF Alice Tully Hall)

2. The Brutalist – Dir. Brady Corbet (70mm – NYFF Walter Reade Theater, 70mm – Village East Cinemas)

3. Nickel Boys – Dir. RaMell Ross (DCP – NYFF Francesca Beale Theater)

4. Dune Part II – Dir. Denis Villeneuve (DCP – Walter Reade Theater, IMAX 70mm – AMC Lincoln Square 13 IMAX, 70mm – Village East Cinemas)

5. Afternoons of Solitude – Dir. Albert Serra (DCP – AFI Film Festival TCL Chinese Theater…kinda weird seeing his film at AFI compared to NYFF since his films play at work)

6. La Chimera – Dir. Alice Rohrwacher (Digital – Delta Flight to Los Angeles…I beat myself up that I never saw it at work/NYFF/as a first run at FLC and for the 6 months it played at IFC)

7. Eephus – Dir. Carson Lund (DCP – AFI Film Festival TCL Chinese Theater)

8. The Tributaries – Dir. Kat Gueli (DCP – AMC DINE-IN Levittown 10)

9. Digital Devil Saga – Dir. Cameron Worden (35mm – NDNF53 Walter Reade Theater)

10. Hundreds of Beavers – Dir. Mike Cheslik (Digital – Syndicated Bar Theater Kitchen)

Honorable Mentions (in no particular order)
Music by John Williams – Dir. Laurent Bouzereau (DCP – AFI Film Festival TCL Chinese Theaters [IMAX])
Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl – Dir. Nick Park & Merlin Crossingham (DCP – AFI Film Festival TCL Chinese Theaters [IMAX])
Good One – Dir. India Donaldson (35mm – Metrograph)
Songs from the Hole – Dir. Contessa Gayles (DCP – AFI Film Festival TCL Chinese Theaters)
The Shrouds – Dir. David Cronenberg (DCP – NYFF Alice Tully Hall)
Love Lies Bleeding – Dir. Rose Glass (DCP – AMC Lincoln Square 13 IMAX)
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga – Dir. George Miller (DCP – Dolby AMC DINE-IN Huntington Square 12)

1. The best older film I saw for the first time would be Seven Samurai (Dir. Akira Kurosawa) in 35mm or Prisoners (Dir. Denis Villeneuve) which both played in the Denis Villeneuve Retrospective.

2. My favorite older film that I saw again this year was Interstellar (Dir. Christopher Nolan); I was able to see this both in 35mm at Nitehawk Prospect Park and in IMAX 70mm at AMC Lincoln Square 13. For those who don’t know, I’m a very big celluloid enthusiast and this film particularly got me into motion pictures shot and/or presented on film. It was a very good 10th Anniversary for this big sci-fi space epic and I owe it to Interstellar for making me the film enthusiast that I am today. I probably would’ve never thought to go out into the city or travel outside the state to go see films if it weren’t for you.

3. My favorite programming this year would be the Denis Villenueve retrospective! I love Denis’s work but I hadn’t seen a few of his early films like Incendies and Polytechnique to name two, also some classics like Seven Samurai in 35mm. Nothing beats a classic when you’re in a full house with a mix of people who either have seen the film or haven’t. Seeing Blade Runner 2049 for the third time (third times the charm) with a full audience was amazing; I saw that opening day to a theater of maybe 50 people in the IMAX at Lincoln Square 13 and about less than half of that when I watched at a local theater on Long Island. Sound and picture were perfect, you could say it felt like the first time watching it! Thank you to Denis Villenueve, Florence Almozini and Dan Sullivan for programming all these wonderful films!

4. What was my favorite programming elsewhere? 2024 was a really good year to see films in IMAX 70mm at home (NYC – AMC Lincoln Square 13 IMAX)! I got to see Oppenheimer (Dir. Christopher Nolan) one more time in that format before awards season, then Nolan came back with a rerelease of Tenet in IMAX 70mm. As soon as Tenet rolled out of theaters, Dune Part II (Dir. Denis Villenuve) flew into the theaters, I got to catch that one three times in IMAX 70mm. In the middle of NYFF when I had a day off, Joker: Folie à Deux (Dir. Todd Phillips) was playing on an IMAX print at the Lincoln Square IMAX so I caught that. And to end the year, IMAX and Christopher Nolan rereleased Interstellar for its 10 Year Anniversary in IMAX 70mm theaters and other IMAX screens all over the world in December. I went into detail of how important that film is to me in my “favorite older film that I revisited” section but I was able to take some family and friends to the screening this time and it was a wonderful treat! I really hope that IMAX does more of these retrospectives and first runs of IMAX 70mm prints in the future!

5. My favorite talk this year has to be the NYFF Talk between RaMell Ross and Barry Jenkins or the talk with Denis Villenueve after the Patron screening of Dune Part II.

6. Most anticipated film of 2025: I said it last year and I’ll say it again, it’ll have to go to Bong Joon-Ho’s Mickey 17! I’ve been reading the book and it makes me more excited to see how Bong will be adapting it! I’m also gonna throw it out there that I’m excited for a certain IMAX film hitting theaters in the summer of 2026, come back to me for the title when we’re at the Best of 2025 list!

Arin Sang-urai, Senior Coordinator, Digital Content Producer

Ghostlight
Uncropped
The 4:30 Movie
Thelma
Stress Positions
Shake Shack
The Beekeeper
Dream Scenario
Love Lies Bleeding

Older Movie First Watch: Normal Life (1996)

Older Movie Rewatch: Happy-Go-Lucky (2008)

Favorite FLC Programming: Annie Baker

Favorite Programming Elsewhere: Joker 2, 1:45AM, 10/4/2024

Best FLC Talk: ??? They are all good

Most Anticipated of 2025: The Final Reckoning

Matt Bolish, Deputy Director; Managing Director, NYFF

Anora
The Brutalist
Blitz
It’s What’s Inside
Dune Part 2
Janet Planet
War Game
Hard Truths
Hundreds of Beavers

What’s the best older movie you saw for the first time this year? M*A*S*H, Robert Altman (1970)

What’s the best older movie you saw again this year? North by Northwest, Alfred Hitchcock (1959)

What was your favorite programming at FLC this year? New York Film Festival

What was your favorite programming elsewhere? Big & Loud, Pt.2 (Paris Theater)

What was the best Q&A/talk you watched that FLC conducted this year? Jia Zhangke on Caught by the Tides

What’s your most anticipated movie of 2024? Mickey 17, Bong Joon Ho

Manuel Santini, Senior Manager, Programming

Nickel Boys
Afternoons of Solitude
It Was All A Dream

The rest of the top 10 in no particular order:
Anora
A Different Man
Last Summer
No Other Land
Evil Does Not Exist
Hard Truths
Taste of Mango

1. What’s the best older movie you saw for the first time this year? Papa, the Lil’ Boats (1971, Nelly Kaplan) & King of Hearts (1966, Philippe de Broca)

2. What’s the best older movie you saw again this year? Fat Girl (2001, Catherine Breillat)