1st New York Film Festival

The 1st New York Film Festival took place September 10–19, 1963.

Main Slate

The Exterminating Angel (Luis Buñuel) (Opening Night)
Sweet and Sour (Jacques Baratier) (Closing Night)
An Autumn Afternoon (Yasujiro Ozu)
All the Way Home (Alex Segal
The Chair (Richard Leacock, Jim Lipscombe, D.A. Pennebaker &; Hope Ryden)
The Crisis (Richard Leacock, Jim Lipscombe, D.A. Pennebaker & Hope Ryden)
Barravento (Glauber Rocha)
Elektra (Elektra at Epidaurus) (Ted Zarpas)
The Fiances (Ermanno Olmi)
Hallelujah the Hills (Adolfas Mekas)
Harakiri (Masaki Kobayashi)
In the Midst of Life (Robert Enrico)
Le Joli Mai (Chris Marker)
Love in the Suburbs (Tamas Fejer)
Knife in the Water (Roman Polanski)
Magnet of Doom (Jean-Pierre Melville)
Muriel (Alain Resnais)
The Sea (Giuseppe Patroni Griffi)
The Servant (Joseph Losey)
The Sky aka Glory Sky (Takis Kanellopoulos)
The Terrace (Leopoldo Torre Nilsson)
The Trial of Joan of Arc (Robert Bresson)

SPECIAL SELECTIONS

Selections shown at MoMA were described as “distinguished films of the recent past never before shown theatrically in the U.S.”

Virginity (Roberto Rossellini)
The New World (Jean-Luc Godard)
Cream Cheese (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
The Range-Grown Chicken (Ugo Gregoretti)
The Bread of Our Former Years (Herbert Vesely)
The End of the Fiesta (Leopold Torre Nilsson)
The Exiles (Ken Mackenzie)
I Live in Fear (Akira Kurosawa)
Lola Montes (Max Ophuls)
The New Angels (Ugo Gregoretti)
The Olive Trees of Justice (James Blue)
Point of Order (Emile de Antonio)
Sansho the Bailiff (Kenji Mizoguchi)

Short films shown:

Assembly Line (Morton Heilig)
Boiled Egg (Andrieux & Bernard Brevent)
The Ceiling (Vera Chytilova)
Clap Vocalism (Yoji Kuri)
Concert (Istvan Szabo)
Cybernetic Grandmother (Jiri Trnka)
The Flying Man (George Dunning)
Gallina Vogelbirde (Jiri Trnka)
The Game (Dusan Vukotic)
Girl on the Road (Louis Terme)
Grandmother’s Encyclopedia (Walerian Borowczyk)
Labyrinth (Jan Lenica)
O.K. End Here (Robert Frank)
Plianissimo (Carmen D’Avino)
The Pistol (Wolfgang Urchs)
The Plain Man’s Guide to Advertising (Bob Godfrey)
Skullduggery (Stan VanDerBeek)
The Have All Gone Away (Mark Weiss)
The Two Castles (Bruno Bozzetto)
We Are Hanging by a Thread (Jorgen Roos)
The Winner (Bret Brown)