The 20th New York Film Festival took place September 24 – October 10, 1982 at Film at Lincoln Center.

Main Slate

Veronika Voss (Rainer Werner Fassbinder) with Pianissimo (Carmen D’Avino) (Opening Night)
Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog) (Closing Night)
Another Way (Károly Makk)
Arshile Gorky (Charlotte Zwerin) with Letter to Freddy Buache (Jean-Luc Godard) and Before the Nickelodeon (Charles Musser)
The Burning Brazier (Ivan Mozhukhin)
City Lovers (Barney Simon) with Coming of Age (Josh Hanig)
Dark Circle (Chris Beaver) with For the Next Sixty Seconds (John Penhall) and Science Fiction (J.J. Murphy)
The Draughtsman’s Contract (Peter Greenaway) with Shift (Ernie Gehr)
Eating Raoul (Paul Bartel) with Louise Smells a Rat (Anne Flournoy)
Identification of a Women (Michelangelo Antonioni)
Koyaanisqatsi (Godfrey Reggio)
Letter from Siberia (Chris Marker) with Description of a Struggle (Chris Marker) (Retrospective selections)
The Light Ahead (Edgar G. Ulmer) (Retrospective selection) with Ted Baryluk’s Grocery (Mike Mirus and John Paskievich)
Little People (Jan Krawitz & Thomas Ott) with Up (Robert Kukes)
Little Wars (Maroun Baghdadi)
Madam Satan (Cecil B. DeMille) (Retrospective selection)
Moonlighting (Jerzy Skolimowski) with Swiss Army Knife with Rats and Pigeons (Robert Breer)
The Night of the Shooting Stars (Paolo & Vittorio Taviani)
One Man’s War (Edgardo Cozarinsky) with Three Postcards from Saigon (Edgardo Cozarinsky)
Say Amen, Somebody (George T. Nierenberg) with Remembering Thelma (Kathe Sandler)
The Stationmaster’s Wife (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Tex (Tim Hunter) with Zea (André and Jean-Jacques Leduc)
Time Stands Still (Péter Gothár) with Miami Is OK (Steven S. Weiss)
La Truite (Joseph Losey) with Delivery Man (Emily Hubley)
The Tyrant’s Heart (Miklós Jancsó)
Vortex (Scott B & Beth B) with Wild Night in El Reno (George Kuchar) and Harmful or Fatal if Swallowed (Manuel De Landa)
Yol (Yelmaz Guney)

NYFF20 POSTER BY ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG