The 21st New York Film Festival took place September 23 – October 9, 1983 at Film at Lincoln Center.

Main Slate

The Big Chill (Lawrence Kasdan) (Opening Night)
Streamers (Robert Altman) (Closing Night)
L’Argent (Robert Bresson) with Trial Balloons (Robert Breer) and En rachâchant (Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet)
Boat People (Ann Hui)
Danton (Andrzej Wajda)
Entre Nous (Diane Kurys)
Erendira (Ruy Guerra)
Forbidden Relations (Zsolt Kézdi-Kovács) with Lady Tree (Howard Danelowitz)
Les années 80 (Chantal Akerman) with Camilla Horn Watching Herself Play Gretchen in Murnau’s Silent Film “Faust” (Hedda Rinneberg and Hans Sachs)
Heart Like a Wheel (Jonathan Kaplan)
In the White City (Alain Tanner)
Last Night at the Alamo (Eagle Pennell) with Sifted Evidence (Patricia Gruben)
Life Is a Bed of Roses (Alain Resnais)
Lost Illusions (Gyula Gazdag) with Sundae in New York (James Picker)
The New Babylon (Grigori Kozintsev & Leonid Trauberg) (Retrospective selection)
Nostalghia (Andrei Tarkovsky)
Passion (Jean-Luc Godard) with You the Better (Ericka Beckman)
Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock) (Retrospective selection)
Red Love (Rosa von Praunheim) with The Woman and the Dress (George Kuchar)
Rumble Fish (Francis Ford Coppola)
Seeing Red (Julia Reichert & James Klein)
La Signora di Tutti (Max Ophuls) (Retrospective selection)
So Far from India (Mira Nair) with Dhrupad (Mani Kaul)
The Story of Piera (Marco Ferreri)
Vietnam: The Secret Agent (Jacki Ochs) with Burroughs (Howard Brookner)
The Wind (Souleymane Cissé) with Reassemblage (Trinh T. Minh-ha)

NYFF21 POSTER BY JACK YOUNGERMAN