The 2nd New York Film Festival took place September 14–26, 1964.

Main Slate

Hamlet (Grigori Kozintsev) (Opening Night)
The Great City aka The Big City (Satyajit Ray) (Closing Night)
L’Age d’Or (Luis Buñuel) (Retrospective selection)
Alone on the Pacific (Kon Ichikawa)
Band of Outsiders (Jean-Luc Godard)
Before the Revolution (Bernardo Bertolucci)
The Brig (Adolfas & Jonas Mekas)
Ça Ira (Thermidor) (Tinto Brass
Conflagration (Kon Ichikawa)
Cyrano et D’Artagnan (Abel Gance)
Diary of Chambermaid (Luis Buñuel)
Fail-Safe (Sidney Lumet)
Hands Over the City (Francesco Rosi)
The Inheritance (Ricardo Alventosa)
King & Country (Joseph Losey)
Life Upside Down aka Inside Out (Alain Jessua)
Lilith (Robert Rossen)
Nobody Waved Goodbye (Don Owen)
Nothing But a Man (Michael Roemer)
Passenger (Andrzej Munk & Witold Lesiewicz)
Salvatore Giuliano (Francesco Rosi)
She and He (Susumu Hani)
Tales of the Taira Clan aka The Taira Clan (Kenji Mizoguchi)
To Love (Jorn Donner)
Woman in the Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara)
A Woman Is a Woman (Jean-Luc Godard)

SECOND NYFF POSTER BY SAUL BASS