19th New York Film Festival

The 19th New York Film Festival took place September 25 – October 11, 1981 at Film at Lincoln Center.

Main Slate

Chariots of Fire (Hugh Hudson) (Opening Night)
Man of Iron (Andrzej Wajda) (Closing Night)
The Aviator’s Wife (Eric Rohmer) with The Ballad of Lucy Jordan (Ian Moo Young) and Couples and Robbers (Clare Peploe)
The Beads of One Rosary (Kazimierz Kutz) with Coming Soon (Eugene Ferraro)
Beau Père (Bertrand Blier)
Bob le flambeur (Jean-Pierre Melville) (Retrospective selection)
Contract (Krzysztof Zanussi) with America Is Waiting (Bruce Conner)
Graduate First (Maurice Pialat) with Flying Fur (George Griffin)
Hopper’s Silence (Brian O’Doherty)
The Last to Know (Bonnie Friedman)
Lightning Over Water (Wim Wenders & Nicholas Ray) with Act of God (Peter Greenaway)
Looks and Smiles (Ken Loach) with Mirrored Reason (Stan VanDerBeek)
Matti de slegare (Silvano Agosti & Marco Bellocchio & Sandro Petraglia & Stefano Rulli)
Mephisto (István Szabó)
Mur Murs with Documenteur: An Emotion Picture (Agnès Varda)
My Dinner with Andre (Louis Malle) with Cecilia (Diana Michener)
The Mystery of Oberwald (Michelangelo Antonioni)
Only a Mother with Karin Mansdotter (Alf Sjöberg) (Retrospective selections)
Passione d’amore (Ettore Scola)
Le Pont du Nord (Jacques Rivette)
Resurgence: The Movement for Equality Versus the Ku Klux Klan (Tom Sigel & Pamela Yates)
Soldier Girls (Nick Broomfield & Joan Churchill) with The Last to Know (Bonnie Friedman)
Taxi Zum Klo (Frank Ripploh) with Friday and Clyde (Kerry L.B. Feltham)
Tighten Your Belts, Bite the Bullet (James Gaffney & Martin Lucas & Jonathan Miller)
Trances (Ahmed El Manouni) with Overseas (Jacques Fieschi)
Vernon, Florida (Errol Morris) with Stations of the Elevated (Manfred Kirchheimer) and The Climate of New York (Edgar B. Howard)
We Were German Jews (Michael Blackwood)
The Witness (Peter Bacsó) with Egg City (David Kellogg)
The Woman Next Door (François Truffaut)

SPECIAL EVENTS

“Movies for Cynics” – a program of American and political satire and commentary presented at the Paramount Theater.

An Acquired Taste (Ralph Arlyck)
The Americanization of Emily (Arthur Hiller)
El Salvador: Another Vietnam (Glenn Silber and Tete Vasconcellas)
First Family (Buck Henry)
The Great Dictator (Charlie Chaplin)
The Great McGinty (Preston Sturges)
The Hungry I Reunion (Thomas Cohen)
Nixon: From Checkers to Watergate (Charles Braverman)
The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover (Larry Cohen)
Putney Swope (Robert Downey, Sr.)
SHORT CUTS, satirical shorts by R.O. Blechman, Jeff Carpenter, Bruce Conner, George Griffin, J. Hoberman, Andrew Lack, James McPhearson, Daniel Nauke, Robert Nelson, Janet Perlman, and Jimmy Picker
Smile (Michael Ritchie)
Taking Off (Milos Forman)
Winter Kills (William Richert).