31st New York Film Festival

The 31st New York Film Festival took place October 1 – 17, 1993 at Film at Lincoln Center.

Main Slate

Short Cuts (Robert Altman) (Opening Night)
The Piano (Jane Campion) with The Perfect Woman (Illeana Douglas) (Closing Night)
Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer (Nick Broomfield) with Small Change (David Farr)
“Avant-Garde Visions”: Dottie Gets Spanked (Todd Haynes), Passage à l’acte (Martin Arnold), Poverties (Laurie Dunphy)
Birthplace (Pavel Lozinski) with Libertas (Zoran Jovanovic) and The Unproductives (Pierre Isoard)
Blue (Derek Jarman) with Sleepy Haven (Matthias Müller)
Blue (Krzysztof Kieslowski) with Deraillement (Unni Straume)
The Blue Kite (Tian Zhuangzhuang)
Calendar (Atom Egoyan) and Moving In (Chantal Akerman) with Just Desserts (Monica Pellizzari)
Farewell My Concubine (Chen Kaige)
Fiorile (Paolo and Vittorio Taviani) with Pitchmaster 2000 (Bill Allard)
It’s All True: Based on an Unfinished Film by Orson Welles (Bill Krohn, Myron Meisel, and Richard Wilson) with Humboldt Street Family, Brazil (Luciano Moura)
Naked (Mike Leigh) with These Boots (Aki Kaurismäki)
The Night (Mohamad Malas)
The Puppetmaster (Hou Hsiao-hsien
Raining Stones (Ken Loach) with The Darra Dogs (Dennis Tupicoff)
Ruby in Paradise (Victor Nuñez) with Excursions to the Bridge of Friendship (Christina Andreef)
The Scent of Green Papaya (Tran Anh Hung) with First Train, Indonesia (Dicky Irawan)
Shades of Doubt (Aline Issermann) with Grown Up, USA (Joanna Priestly)
The Snapper (Stephen Frears) with Dinner with Malibu (Jon Carnoy)
The Story of a Cheat (Sacha Guitry) with The Taste of Iron (Rémi Bernard) (Retrospective selection)
The Nightmare Before Christmas (Henry Selick) with Vincent (Tim Burton)
Totally F***Ed Up (Gregg Araki) with Coffee and Cigarettes (Jim Jarmusch)
Valley of Abraham (Manoel de Oliveira)
The War Room (Chris Hegedus and D.A. Pennebaker) with Hoping for Better Times (Jonas Raeber)
Wendemi (S. Pierre Yameogo) with Untrue Stories (Cezary Jaworski and John Petrizelli)
The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl (Ray Müller)

REtROSPECTIVE

“L’Auteur complet: Sacha Guitry in Retrospect” – selected films from 1915-1957, organized by the Film Society with the French Ministry for Foreign Affairs (Paris) and Interama Films (New York).

Champ-Elysees (Sacha Guitry)
The Fabulous Destiny of Desiree Clary (Sacha Guitry)
Good Luck! (Sacha Guitry)
The Lame Devil (Sacha Guitry)
Let Us Dream (Sacha Guitry)
Pasteur (Sacha Guitry)
The Pearls of the Crown (Sacha Guitry)
Royal Affairs in Versailles (Sacha Guitry)

VIDEO VISIONS

The Film Society’s International Video Arts Festival.

Double Blind (Sophie Calle & Gregory Shepard)
Ex Memoriam (Beriou)
The Last Bolshevik (Chris Marker)
The Spirit of TV (Vincent Carelli)
Saputi (Norm Cohn, Zacharias Kunuk & Paulossie Qulitalik)
The Couple in the Cage: A Guatinaui Odyssey (Coco Fusco & Paula Heredia)
Work in Progress (Luis Valdovino)
No Rubber, No Way (Sergio Goldenberg)
The Scavengers (Eduardo Coutinho)
SA – Life I
SA – Life II
Change the Style: Pop Videos Reinvent ‘Black Film’”
Ernst Will’s Picture Book (Peter Callas)
The Magnum Eye
The Color Line: Racism in America (Steve Zehentner)
Voices of the Morning (Meena Naji)
Escape from China (Iris Kung)
The Laughing Aligator (Juan Downey)
Information Withheld (Juan Downey)
Hard Times and Culture: Part One, Vienna ‘fin-de-sièclé’ (Juan Downey)
Shiver (Abigal Child)
Greetings from Out Here (Ellen Spiro)
Finally Destroys Us, Darling Child and Nomads (Tom Kalin)
Who, What, When, How? Writing About Video ((Panel Discussion))
Delirium (Mindy Faber)
Joan Sees Stars (Joan Braderman)
Bleeding Heart (Ximena Cuevas)
Inversion of Solitude: A Fictional Documentary (Terro Hanlon)
Heaven, Earth and Hell (Thomas Allen Harris)