The 29th New York Film Festival took place September 20 – October 6, 1991 at Film at Lincoln Center.

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The Double Life of Veronique (Krzysztof Kieslowski) (Opening Night) with Home Stories (Matthias Müller)
Homicide (David Mamet) (Closing Night) with Fast Food Matador (Vincent Cafarelli and Candy Kugel)
Adam’s Rib (Viatcheslav Krichtofovitch) with The Tennis Ball (John Dobson)
The Adjuster (Atom Egoyan) with The Visible Compendium (Larry Jordan)
Amelia Lopes O’Neill (Valéria Sarmiento) with Cairo as Told by Youssef Chahine (Youssef Chahine)
“Avant-Garde Visions”: Flaming Creatures (Jack Smith), The Making of “Monsters” (John Greyson), and Opening the Nineteenth Century: 1896 (Ken Jacobs)
Beauty and the Beast (Gary Trousdale & Kirk Wise)
La Belle Noiseuse (Jacques Rivette)
Delicatessen (Jean-Pierre Jeunet & Marc Caro) with New Fangled (George Griffin)
Earth Entranced (Glauber Rocha) (Retrospective selection) with Suburban Route (Francisco Cesar Filho)
Intimate Stranger (Alan Berliner) and The Body Beautiful (Ngozi Onwurah)
Inventory (Krzysztof Zanussi) with With Raised Hands (Mitko Panov)
Jacquot de Nantes (Agnès Varda)
Life on a String (Chen Kaige) with A Year Along the Abandoned Road (Morten Skallerud)
Locked Up Time (Sibylle Schönemann) with Great Regular Flavor (Rudy Burckhardt)
My Own Private Idaho (Gus Van Sant) with Backyard Movie (Bruce Weber)
Night on Earth (Jim Jarmusch)
No Life King (Jun Ichikawa) with Shirt (Kenji Larsen)
The Other Eye (Johanna Heer & Werner Schmiedel) with Schönberg (Gerhard Ertl and Sabine Hiebler)
Pictures from a Revolution (Susan Meiselas & Richard P. Rogers & Alfred Guzzetti) with Post No Bills (Clay Walker)
Prospero’s Books (Peter Greenaway)
The Rapture (Michael Tolkin) with Resonance (Stephen Cummins and Simon Hunt)
Rocco and His Brothers (Luchino Visconti) (Retrospective selection)
The Suspended Step of the Stork (Theo Angelopoulos)
Toto the Hero (Jaco van Dormael) with Puppenhead (David Cox)
Une chambre en ville (Jacques Demy) (Retrospective selection) with La Plage (François Goize)
Woman of the Port (Arturo Ripstein) with After the Fall (Joanna Priestly)
Zombie and the Ghost Train (Mika Kaurismäki) with Tender, Slender and Tall (Lesley Ellen)

NYFF29 POSTER BY PHILIP PEARLSTEIN