The 24th New York Film Festival took place September 19 – October 5, 1986 at Film at Lincoln Center.

Main Slate

Down by Law (Jim Jarmusch) with Loose Corner (Anita Thacher) (Opening Night)
Peggy Sue Got Married (Francis Ford Coppola) (Closing Night)
The Blind Director (Alexander Kluge)
Cactus (Paul Cox) with Passionless Moments (Jane Campion and Gerard Lee)
Charlotte and Lulu (L’Effrontée) (Claude Miller)
Dancing in the Dark (Leon Marr) with My Socks (Martin Gressman)
The Decline of the American Empire (Denys Arcand)
Directed by William Wyler (Aviva Slesin) and Dodsworth (William Wyler) (Retrospective selection)
Isaac in America (Amram Nowak) and International Sweethearts of Rhythm (Greta Schiller & Andrea Weiss) with Set in Motion (Jane Aaron)
Malandro (Ruy Guerra) with Honky Tonk Bud (Scott Laster)
Marlene (Maximilian Schell) with A Girl’s Own Story (Jane Campion)
Ménage (Bertrand Blier) with Girls in Suits at Lunch (Ruth Charny)
No End (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
Police (Maurice Pialat)
Round Midnight (Bertrand Tavernier)
The Sacrifice (Andrei Tarkovsky)
Scene of the Crime (André Téchiné)
Sid and Nancy (Alex Cox)
Thérèse (Alain Cavalier)
A Time to Live and a Time to Die (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
To Sleep So as to Dream (Kaizo Hayashi) with Attack on a Bakery (Yamakawa Naoto)
True Stories (David Byrne) with Quest/A Long Ray’s Journey Into Light (Michael Sciulli and Melissa White)
The Wedding March (Erich von Stroheim) (Retrospective selection)
A Zed and Two Noughts (Peter Greenaway)

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