12th New York Film Festival
The 12th New York Film Festival took place September 27 – October 13, 1974 at Film at Lincoln Center.
Main Slate
Don’t Cry with Your Mouth Full (Pascal Thomas) (Opening Night) with A Bird’s Life (H. Born, J. Doubrava, and Milos Macourek)
The Phantom of Liberty (Luis Buñuel) (Closing Night)
Alice in the Cities (Wim Wenders) with Punishment, The Netherlands (Olga Madsen)
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbinder) with Jabberwocky (Jan Svankmajer)
A Bigger Splash (Jack Hazan) with Braverman’s Condensed Cream of Beatles (Charles Braverman)
Céline and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette)
The Circumstance (Ermanno Olmi) with Diary Found with the Ants (George Sénéchal)
Les Enfants terribles (Jean-Pierre Melville) (Retrospective selection)
Lacombe Lucien (Louis Malle)
Lancelot du Lac (Robert Bresson) with Sea Creatures (Robin Lehman)
Liebelei (Max Ophuls) (Retrospective selection)
The Middle of the World (Alain Tanner) with Optimist and Pessimist (Zlatko Grgic)
The Night of the Scarecrow (Sérgio Ricardo) with Along These Lines (Peter Pearson)
Out 1: Spectre (Jacques Rivette)
La Paloma (Daniel Schmid) with Superior Force (Zlatko Pavlinic) and Oh! Oh!, Poland (Bronislaw Zeman)
Part-Time Work of a Domestic Slave (Alexander Kluge) with The Bench of Desolation (Claude Chabrol)
Rome Wants Another Caesar (Miklós Jancsó) with
“Roots”—a program of four featurettes celebrating the contribution of many ethnic strands to the fabric of American Life: Yudie (Mirra Bank), Old-Fashioned Woman (Martha Coolidge), From These Roots (William Greaves), and Italianamerican (Martin Scorsese)
“Homage to Buñuel”: L’Age d’Or, The Exterminating Angel, The Milky Way, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Luis Buñuel) (Retrospective selection)
Light (Jordan Belson)
Stavisky… (Alain Resnais)
A Woman Under the Influence (John Cassavetes)
