15th New York Film Festival

The 15th New York Film Festival took place September 23 – October 9, 1977 at Film at Lincoln Center.

Main Slate

One Sings, the Other Doesn’t (Agnès Varda) with Music of the Spheres (Jordan Belson) (Opening Night)
That Obscure Object of Desire (Luis Buñuel) with Kudzu (Marjie Short) (Closing Night) (Closing Night)
1900 (Bernardo Bertolucci)
The American Friend (Wim Wenders)
Le Camion (Marguerite Duras) with Grandpa (Paul Desaulniers and Stephen L. Forman)
The Devil, Probably (Robert Bresson) with Glove Story (Eli Noyes)
L’Enfant de Paris (Léonce Perret) (Retrospective screening)
Handle with Care (Jonathan Demme) with Froggie Went A-Courtin’ (Frank Gladstone)
Heart of Glass with La Soufriere (Werner Herzog)
Hot Tomorrows (Martin Brest) with My Grandmother (Kote Mikaberidze) (Retrospective screening)
The Lacemaker (Claude Goretta)
The Man Who Loved Women (François Truffaut)
Men of Bronze (Bill Miles) with Children of Labor (Noel Buckner, Mary Dore, Richard Broadman, Al Gedicks)
Omar Gatlato (Merzak Allouache) with Striptease (Bruno Bozzetto and Guido Manuli)
Padre Padrone (Paolo & Vittorio Taviani)
Pafnucio Santo (Rafael Corkidi) with Nightmare (Aleksandar Marks)
Roseland (James Ivory) with Part of Your Loving (Tony De Nonno)
Saló, or the 120 Days of Sodom (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
Short Eyes (Robert M. Young)
Tent of Miracles (Pereira dos Santos)
Women (Márta Mészáros) with What I Did Not Tell the Prince (Jiri Brdecka) and Single Fathering (Ron Taylor)

Retrospective

“Saved!” – a retrospective of 12 American films from the preservation vaults of the AFI, George Eastman House, MoMA, and UCLA.

City Girl (F.W. Murnau)
Dodsworth (William Wyler)
Downstairs (Monta Bell)
The Letter (Monta Bell)
The Torrent (Monta Bell)
It (Clarence Badger & Josef von Sternberg)
It’s the Old Army Game (Edward Sutherland)
Liliom (Frank Borzage)
Paid (Sam Wood)
Regeneration (Raoul Walsh)
Transatlantic (William K. Howard)
Wild Oranges (King Vidor)

Animation Festival

Flamingo Boogy (Richard Protovin)
Marguerite (Betty Chen)
Mindscape (Jacques Drouin)
Thru the Mirror (Walt Disney)
Arabesque (John Whitney)
Tête en Fleurs (Bernard Longpre)
Sonoma (Dennis Pies)
Duo Concertantes (Larry Jordan)
Snow Sound (Robert Dvorak)
Opening and Closing (Kathleen Laughlin)
The 40’s (John Canemaker)
The Nose (Alexander Alexeiff, Claire Parker)
Feating (Louis Grenier)
Dreamstealer (Eric Durst)
Music of the Spheres (Jordan Belson)
Chow Fun (Sally Cruikshank)
Fantabiblical (Bruno Bozzetto)
Teatime (Mary Szilagyi)
Manga (Yoji Kuri)
Lady Fishbourne’s Complete Guide to Better Table Manners (Janet Perlman)
Der Fuehrer’s Face (Walt Disney)
The Family That Dwelt Apart (Yvon Mallette)
Made for Each Other (Barbara Bottner)
The Killing of An Egg (Paul Driessen)
Miss Glory (Tex Avery)
Exercise (R.O. Blechman)
When Roobarb Made a Spike (Bob Godfrey)
The Club (George Griffen)
Duck Amuck (Chuck Jones)
Ransom (Ron Skinner)
Ten Short Films (Karen Fredericks)
Autosong (Al Jarnow)
Olympiad (Lillian Schwarz)
UFO Noah (Jean Luc de Reymaecker)
In Plain Sight (Jane Aaron)
Fuji (Robert Breer)
Rapid Eye Movements (Jeff Carpenter)
Fantasy (Vincent Collins)
Pasadena Freeway Stills (Gary Beydler)
Phoenix (Petar Gligorovski)
Coney (Frank Mouris)
Neuron (Robert Russett)
Pin Ball Wizard (Rod McCall)
The Revenge of the Objects (Pierre Veilleux)
Roll ‘Em Lola (Fred Burns)
Sandman (Eli Noyes)
Notes on a Triangle (Rene Jodoin)
The Band Concert (Walt Disney)
The Bead Game (Ishu Patel)
What’s Opera, Doc? (Chuck Jones)
Two Stars (Lisze Bechtold)
Googleplex (Lillian Schwartz)
Improvisation (Doris Chase)
Musical Pig (Zlatko Grgic, Turido Paus)
Composition in Blue (Oskar Fischinger)
Pianissimo (Carmen D’Avino)
Morning, Noon and Nightclub (Max Fleischer)
Afternoon of a Nose (Robert Stuhmer)
Hallelujah (Mark Henrikson)
Whirling Ecstasy (Dennis Pohl)
Snow Show (Stan VanDerBeek)
The Doodlers (Kathy Rose)
Thumbail Sketches (George Griffin)
The Sandcastle (Coe Hoedeman)
The Dream of Inca Yupanqui (Jose Gelabert)
Jabberwocky (Jan Svankmajer)
Honeymation (Ferenc Varsanyi)
Seed Reel (Mary Beams)
A Recent Animation (Lowell Bodger)
Leaves in Space (Kenneth Hoffman)
Album (Linda Heller)
The Intruder (Scott Morris)
I change, I Am the Same (Shelby Kennedy, Ann Severson)
Evolution of the Red Star (Adam Beckett)
High Tide (David Bruce)