16th New York Film Festival

The 16th New York Film Festival took place September 22 – October 8, 1978 at Film at Lincoln Center.

Main Slate

A Wedding (Robert Altman) (Opening Night)
Violette (Claude Chabrol) (Closing Night)
America Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince (Martin Scorsese) + Movies Are My Life (Peter Hayden)
The Apple Game (Věra Chytilová)
Bloodbrothers (Robert Mulligan)
Camouflage (Krzysztof Zanussi)
Despair (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Dossier 51 (Michel Deville)
Elective Affinities (Gianni Amico)
Gates of Heaven (Errol Morris) + Manimals (Robin Lehman)
Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (Bertrand Blier)
The Green Room (François Truffaut)
The Left-Handed Woman (Peter Handke)
Like a Turtle On Its Back (Luc Béraud & Hubert Niogret)
The Miracle of the Wolves (Raymond Bernard)
Newsfront (Phillip Noyce)
Perceval (Éric Rohmer)
The Shout (Jerzy Skolimowski)
Spies (Fritz Lang)
Skip Tracer (Zale R. Dalen)
CIA: Case Officer (Sam Landau)
They Are Their Own Gifts (Lucille Rhodes & Margaret Murphy)
With Babies and Banners: Story of the Women’s Emergency Brigade (Lorraine Gray)

Special Events

“New Currents in Japanese Cinema” – a collaboration between the Film Society and the Japan Society.

Pastoral Hide-and-Seek (Shuji Terayama)
The Pornographers (Shohei Imamura)
Preparation for the Festival (Kazuo Kuroki)
Sanrizuka: The Skies of May (Shinsuke Ogawa) + Nito-jo (Shuji Terayama)
Third Base (Yoichi Higashi)