The 23rd New York Film Festival took place September 27 – October 13, 1985 at Film at Lincoln Center.

Main Slate

Ran (Akira Kurosawa) (Opening Night)
Kaos (Paolo & Vittorio Taviani) (Closing Night)
28 Up (Michael Apted) and Seven Up! (Paul Almond) (Retrospective selection)
Angry Harvest (Agnieszka Holland)
Black Narcissus (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger) (Retrospective selection)
Bliss (Ray Lawrence)
Boy Meets Girl (Leos Carax)
Chain Letters (Mark Rappaport) with Standard Gauge (Morgan Fisher)
City of Pirates (Raúl Ruiz)
Colonel Redl (István Szabó)
Les Temps Détruit (Pierre Beuchot)
Hail Mary (Jean-Luc Godard)
Harvest of Despair (Slavko Nowytski)
Himatsuri (Mitsuo Yanagimachi)
Huey Long (Ken Burns)
No Man’s Land (Alain Tanner)
Nothing Sacred (William Wellman) (Retrospective selection) with Manhole Covers (Ruth Cade)
Oriana (Fina Torres) with Shapes, Forms and Robots (Cathy Karol)
Private Conversations (Christian Blackwood) with Destrux: Bring the Horror Home (Conrad Fink)
Renoir, the Boss (Jacques Rivette) with Jean Cocteau – Self-Portrait of a Man Unknown (Edgardo Cozarinsky)
The Satin Slipper (Manoel de Oliveira)
Steaming (Joseph Losey) with Traveling Light (Jane Aaron)
Sugarbaby (Percy Adlon) with Boomtown (Connie D’Antuon, Bill Plympton, and Valeria Vasilevski)
When Father Was Away on Business (Emir Kusturica)
A Year of the Quiet Sun (Krzysztof Zanussi)

NYFF23 POSTER BY TOM WESSELMANN