17th New York Film Festival

The 17th New York Film Festival took place September 28 – October 14, 1979 at Film at Lincoln Center.

Main Slate

La Luna (Bernardo Bertolucci) (Opening Night)
The Marriage of Maria Braun (Rainer Werner Fassbinder) (Closing Night)
Alexandria… Why? (Youssef Chahine)
Angi Vera (Pal Gabor) with Since ’45 (Michael Korolenko)
Best Boy (Ira Wohl) with LMNO (Robert Breer)
Black Jack (Ken Loach) with Every Child (Eugene Fedorenko)
The Black Stallion (Carroll Ballard)
The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie (Chuck Jones)
The Europeans (James Ivory) with Impasse (Frank and Caroline Mouris)
The Golden Coach (Jean Renoir) (Retrospective screening) with Jean Renoir’s Direction of Actors (Gisèle Braunberger)
In a Year of 13 Moons (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Molière (Ariane Mnouchkine)
My Brilliant Career (Gillian Armstrong) with The Bronswik Affair (Robert Awad and André Leduc)
Nosferatu the Vampyre (Werner Herzog) with Euclidean Illusions (Stan VanDerBeek)
Other People’s Money (Christian de Chalonge) with Special Delivery (Eunice Macaulay and John Weldon)
Peeping Tom (Michael Powell) (Retrospective screening)
Primal Fear (Anne Claire Poirier) with Pretend You’re Wearing a Barrel (Jan-Marie Martell)
Short Memory (Eduardo de Gregorio)
Wise Blood (John Huston) with Why Me? (Derek Lamb and Janet Perlman)
Without Anesthesia (Andrzej Wajda)
The Wobblies (Stewart Bird & Deborah Shaffer) with Modeling the Universe (Jaime Snyder)
The Young Girls of Wilko (Andrzej Wajda)
“Howard Hughes Presents…”: Scarface (Howard Hawks) and The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (Preston Sturges) (Retrospective screenings)

SPECIAL EVENTS

“American Independents” – presented by the Film Society and the Film Fund at the Paramount Theater, 61st Street and Broadway, prior to the NYFF.

Alambrista! (Robert M. Young)
Badlands (Terrence Mallick)
Bush Mama (Haile Gerima)
The Cool World (Shirley Clarke)
Crazy Quilt (John Korty)
Gal Young Un (Victor Nunez)
Glen and Randa (Jim McBride)
Heartland (Richard Pearce)
Ice (Robert Kramer)
Killer’s Kiss (Stanley Kubrick)
The Brig (Jonas Mekas)
Northern Lights (John Hanson & Rob Nilsson)
Scenic Route (Mark Rappaport)
Sweet Sweetback’s Badasssss Song (Melvin Van Peebles)
Trash (Paul Morissey)