The 25th New York Film Festival took place September 25 – October 11, 1987 at Film at Lincoln Center.

Main Slate

Dark Eyes (Nikita Mikhalkov) with The First 25 Years, a NYFF-anniversary short (Wendy Keys and Doug Wyles) (Opening Night)
House of Games (David Mamet) (Closing Night)
Anita – Dances of Vice (Rosa von Praunheim) with Imagine (Zbigniew Rybcyncki) and Academy Leader Variations (Various)
Anna (Yurek Bogayevicz) with When I Grow Too Old to Dream (Priscilla Olson)
Babette’s Feast (Gabriel Axel) with Fiddle-de-dee (Norman McLaren)
Barfly (Barbet Schroeder) with Arena Brains (Robert Longo)
The Belly of an Architect (Peter Greenaway) with Blinkity Blank (Norman McLaren) and Finger Wave (Gyula Nagy)
Boyfriends and Girlfriends (Eric Rohmer) with This Is Just to Say (Maureen Selwood)
Chuck Berry Hail! Hail! Rock ‘n’ Roll! (Taylor Hackford)
Diary for My Loved Ones (Márta Mészáros)
Fire from the Mountain (Deborah Shaffer) with El Centerfielder (Ramiro Lacayo Deshon)
Hope and Glory (John Boorman)
Horowitz Plays Mozart (Albert Maysles & Susan Froemke & Charlotte Zwerin) with Young at Heart (Sue Marx & Pam Conn)
Joan of Arc at the Stake (Roberto Rossellini) and The Human Voice (Jean Cocteau) (Retrospective selections)
The Manchurian Candidate (John Frankenheimer) (Retrospective selection)
Mauvais sang (Leos Carax)
Mélo (Alain Resnais) with Conrapunctus (Laura Companeitz)
A Month in the Country (Pat O’Connor) with Begone Dull Care (Norman McLaren)
Police Story (Jackie Chan) with Pas de deux (Norman McLaren)
Radium City (Carole Langer)
A Taxing Woman (Juzo Itami)
The Theme (Gleb Panfilov)
Under the Sun of Satan (Maurice Pialat) with Stars and Stripes (Norman McLaren)
Yeelen (Souleymane Cissé)

NYFF25 POSTER BY SOL LEWITT