18th New York Film Festival

The 18th New York Film Festival took place September 26 – October 12, 1980 at Film at Lincoln Center.

Main Slate

Melvin and Howard (Jonathan Demme) with Dance Space (John C. Avildsen) (Opening Night)
The Last Metro (François Truffaut) (Closing Night)
“Americana”: New York Story (Jackie Raynal), Rush (Evelyn Purcell), and Nights at O’Rear’s (Robert Mandel)
Bye Bye Brazil (Carlos Diegues) with The Solar Film (Saul and Elaine Bass)
Camera Buff (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
The Color of Pomegranates (Sergei Parajanov) with T.Z. (Robert Breer) and Dog’s Dialogue (Raúl Ruiz)
The Confessions of Wanda Sacher Masoch (Franco Brogi Taviani)
Confidence (István Szabó)
The Constant Factor (Krzysztof Zanussi) with Backdrop (Arthur Joffe)
Europa ’51 (Roberto Rossellini) (Retrospective selection)
Every Man for Himself (Jean-Luc Godard)
Handicapped Love (Marlies Graf) with Here’s Looking at You, Kid (William E. Cohen)
The Handyman (Micheline Lanctôt)
Kagemusha (Akira Kurosawa)
The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter (Connie Field) with Quilts in Women’s Lives (Pat Ferrero)
Loulou (Maurice Pialat)
The Martin Scorsese Color Show: Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone) (Retrospective selection)
One Day Like Another (Mrinal Sen) with Marathon Woman, Miki Gorman (Ellen Freyer)
The Orchestra Conductor (Andrzej Wajda)
Special Treatment (Goran Paskaljevic)
Sunday Daughters (Janos Rozsa)
Tih Minh (Louis Feuillade) (Retrospective selection)

SPECIAL EVENTS

“British Film Now” – presented by the Film Society and the British Film Institute at the Paramount Theater, prior to the NYFF.

Bad Timing (Nicolas Roeg)
Bill Douglas Trilogy (My Childhood, My Ain Folk, and My Way Home)
Bleak Moments (Mike Leigh)
Bloody Kids (Stephen Frears)
Brothers and Sisters (Richard Woolley)
The Gamekeeper (Ken Loach)
Long Shot (Maurice Hatton)
Moon Over the Alley (Chuck Despins)
The Tempest (Derek Jarman)