34th New York Film Festival

The 34th New York Film Festival took place September 27 – October 13, 1996 at Film at Lincoln Center.

Main Slate

Secrets & Lies (Mike Leigh) with Pieces of the Moon (Kirkham Jackson) (Opening Night)
Thieves (André Téchiné) (Centerpiece)
The People vs. Larry Flynt (Miloš Forman) with Tracks (Carlotta Cerquetti) (Closing Night)
Beyond the Clouds (Michelangelo Antonioni) with The Grateful Dead (Paul McCartney)
Breaking the Waves (Lars von Trier)
“Culture Shock” – two films on nationalism, culture and their discontents: Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask (Isaac Julien) and Umm Kulthum: A Voice Like Egypt (Michal Goldman)
Emigration, N.Y. (Egon Humer)
Fire (Deepa Mehta) with The Secret Story (Janie Geiser)
Gabbeh (Mohsen Makhmalbaf) with The Mail (Laila Pakalnina)
Le garçu (Maurice Pialat) with So Many Things to Consider (Sandye Wilson)
Goodbye South, Goodbye (Hou Hsiao-hsien) with Summer Cannibals (Robert Frank)
illtown (Nick Gomez) with 15th February (Tim Webb)
Irma Vep (Olivier Assayas) with Tuning the Sleeping Machine (David Sherman)
Lilies (John Greyson) with Amor (Robert Beavers)
Mahjong (Edward Yang)
Mandela (Angus Gibson and Jo Menell)
My Sex Life… or How I Got Into an Argument (Arnaud Desplechin)
Nobody’s Business (Alan Berliner) and Trofim (Alexei Balabanov)
La Promesse (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne) with Lulu (Lewis Klahr)
Salut cousin! (Merzak Allouache) with The Day “Close Up” Premiered (Nanni Moretti)
A Self-Made Hero (Jacques Audiard) with Bad Animal (Doug Aitkin)
Sling Blade (Billy Bob Thornton)
subUrbia (Richard Linklater)
Suzanne Farrell: Elusive Muse (Anne Belle and Deborah Dickson)
Temptress Moon (Chen Kaige)
Three Lives and Only One Death (Raúl Ruiz)
Underground (Emir Kusturica)

RETROSPECTIVE

The Citizen (Ritwik Ghatak)
Hidden Star aka The Cloud Capped Star (Ritwik Ghatak)
E-Flat (Ritwik Ghatak)
Pathetic Fallacy (Ritwik Ghatak)
Reason, Debate and a Story (Ritwik Ghatak)
A River Called Titash (Ritwik Ghatak)
The Runaway (Ritwik Ghatak)
Subarnarekha (Ritwik Ghatak)

SPECIAL EVENTS

Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock)
The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus (Michael Lindsay-Hogg)