The 14th New York Film Festival took place October 1–17, 1976 at Film at Lincoln Center.

Main Slate

Small Change (François Truffaut) with Doubletalk (Alan W. Beattie) (Opening Night)
The Marquise of O… (Eric Rohmer) with Sweet Sounds (James Ivory, Ismail Merchant, and Richard Robbins) (Closing Night)
Dersu Uzala (Akira Kurosawa)
Duelle (Jacques Rivette) with Nightlife (Robin Lehman)
Fear of Fear (Rainer Werner Fassbinder) with Organism (Hilary Harris)
Harlan County, U.S.A. (Barbara Kopple) with Steelworkers from Village Borovica Gornja (Mirjana Zizkovic)
Illustrious Corpses (Francesco Rosi)
In the Realm of the Senses (Nagisa Oshima) with In a Rehearsal Room (David Hahn) (Due to a run-in with U.S. Customs, this is the only time in NYFF history that we were unable to show a scheduled film. It was later screened at MoMA.)
Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 (Alain Tanner) with No Noise (Carmen D’Avino)
Kings of the Road (Wim Wenders)
The Memory of Justice (Marcel Ophuls)
The Middleman (Satyajit Ray)
Nana (Jean Renoir) (Retrospective screening)
Ossessione (Luchino Visconti) (Retrospective screening)
Sérail (Eduardo de Gregorio) with Women’s Answers (Agnès Varda)
The Story of Sin (Walerian Borowczyk)
Strongman Ferdinand (Alexander Kluge) with Two Cops (Charles Braverman)
A Touch of Zen (King Hu)
“Rites of Passage”: Sunday Funnies (Ray Karp), In the Region of Ice (Peter Werner), and Bernice Bobs Her Hair (Joan Micklin Silver)

NYFF14 POSTER BY ALLAN D’ARCANGELO