The 10th New York Film Festival took place September 29 – October 14, 1972 at Film at Lincoln Center.

Main Slate

Chloe in the Afternoon (Eric Rohmer) with American Pie (Fred Mogubgub and Al Brodax) (Opening Night)
Last Tango in Paris (Bernardo Bertolucci) (Closing Night)
The Adversary (Satyajit Ray) with Silences (Predrag Golubovic)
L’Amour fou (Jacques Rivette)
The Assassination of Trotsky (Joseph Losey) with 100 (Peter Voigt)
Bad Company (Robert Benton) with Joshua & the Blob (John C. Lange) and White Grease (Barry Bialik)
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Luis Buñuel) with Two Marches (Dusan Povh)
Family Life (Ken Loach) with The Black Beach (John Bulmer)
Heat (Paul Morrissey) with The Prayer (Radivoj Gvozdanovic) and Make Love, Not War (Zlatko Grgic)
Images (Robert Altman) with The Collector (Milan Blazekovic)
The Inner Scar (Philippe Garrel) with Dangling Participle (Standish D. Lawder) and Judas (Vlatko Gilic)
The King of Marvin Gardens (Bob Rafelson) with Meatloaf (Don Cirillo)
Love (Károly Makk) with Façades (Suad Mrkonjic)
The Merchant of Four Seasons (Rainer Werner Fassbinder) with Sheila (Jeff Schwartz) with Sunday Breakfast (Peter Virsis)
Nathalie Granger (Marguerite Duras)
Red Psalm (Miklós Jancsó) with Behind the Wall (Krzysztof Zanussi)
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (Jonas Mekas) with Going Home (Adolfas Mekas)
A Sense of Loss (Marcel Ophuls)
Summer Soldiers (Hiroshi Teshigahara)
Tout va bien with A Letter to Jane (Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin)
Two English Girls (François Truffaut) with Fantoro & the Last Enforcer (Jan Lenica)
We Won’t Grow Old Together (Maurice Pialat) with An American Liaison (Robert Brennan)

NYFF10 POSTER BY JOSEF ALBERS