The 28th New York Film Festival took place September 21 – October 7, 1990 at Film at Lincoln Center.

Main Slate

Miller’s Crossing (Joel & Ethan Coen) with Eternity (Sheryl Sardina) (Opening Night)
The Nasty Girl (Michael Verhoeven) with The Lunch Date (Adam Davidson) (Closing Night)
American Dream (Barbara Kopple) with Siberian Summer (Andras Der)
An Angel at My Table (Jane Campion)
L’Atalante (Jean Vigo) (Retrospective selection) with To the Top (Anita Thacher)
“Avant-Garde Visions”: Pièce Touchée (Martin Arnold), Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol (Jonas Mekas), and Sink or Swim (Su Friedrich)
Doctor Petiot (Christian de Chalonge) with The Space Between the Door and the Floor (Pauline Chan) and Hang Up (Pauline Chan)
Freeze Die Come to Life (Vitaly Kanevski)
The Golden Boat (Raúl Ruiz) with Inside the Circle of Love (J.P. Somersaulter)
Golden Braid (Paul Cox) with Touch My Lips (Jim Garrard)
I Hired a Contract Killer (Aki Kaurismäki)
Ju Dou (Zhang Yimou) with Macha’s Curse (Rose Bond)
King of New York (Abel Ferrara) with Nowon (Peter Judson)
Listen Up: The Lives of Quincy Jones (Ellen Weissbrod & Courtney Sale Ross)
The Match Factory Girl (Aki Kaurismäki) with That Burning Question (Alan Taylor)
Night Sun (Paolo & Vittorio Taviani) with Mr. Tao (Bruno Bozzetto)
No, or the Vain Glory of Command (Manoel de Oliveira) with The Magical Stories (Ondrej Rudavsky)
Nouvelle Vague (Jean-Luc Godard) with Save the Last Dance for Me (Lewis Furey)
Open Doors (Gianni Amelio) with Hiding Out from Heaven (Fred Marx)
Privilege (Yvonne Rainer) with Night Cries: A Rural Tragedy (Tracey Moffat)
Siddheshwari (Mani Kaul) with A Nice Arrangement (Gurinder Chadha)
The Sting of Death (Kohei Oguri) with Another Damaging Day (Stacy Cochran)
A Tale of Springtime (Eric Rohmer)
Taxi Blues (Pavel Lounguine) with Wonderland (Zoe Beloff)
Tilai (Idrissa Ouedraogo) and All My Relations (Jonna Priestley)
To Sleep with Anger (Charles Burnett) with Fat Monroe (Andrew Garrison)
A Woman’s Revenge (Jacques Doillon)

NYFF28 POSTER BY ERIC FISCHL