35th New York Film Festival

The 35th New York Film Festival took place September 26 – October 12, 1997 at Film at Lincoln Center.

Main Slate

The Ice Storm (Ang Lee) with Knitwits (Vincent Cafarelli and Candy Kugel) (Opening Night)
The Sweet Hereafter (Atom Egoyan) with Today, Finland (Eija-Liisa Ahtila) (Centerpiece)
Live Flesh (Pedro Almodóvar) with The Bloody Olive (Vincent Bal) (Closing Night)
The Apostle (Robert Duvall)
Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Deep Crimson (Arturo Ripstein)
Destiny (Youssef Chahine)
Fallen Angels (Wong Kar-wai) with Rocking Horse Winner (Michael Almereyda)
Fast, Cheap & Out of Control (Errol Morris) with Whiplash (Warren Sonbert)
From Today Until Tomorrow (Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet) with The Man Who Couldn’t Open Doors (Paul Arden)
Hana-Bi (Takeshi Kitano) with Balloons, Streamers (Josh Sternfeld)
Happy Together (Wong Kar-wai) with The Hidden (Carina Reich and Bogdan Szyber)
Kiss or Kill (Bill Bennett) with Where’s the Money, Ronnie? (Shane Meadows)
Kitchen (Yim Ho)
Love and Death on Long Island (Richard Kwietniowski)
Marcello Mastroianni: I Remember (Anna Maria Tatò)
Martin (Adolfo Aristarain)
Ma vie en rose (Alain Berliner) with Breeze (Barbara Sanon)
Mother and Son (Aleksandr Sokurov) with Insight (Georg Misch)
Post Coitum, Animal Triste (Brigitte Roüan) with Majorettes in Space (David Fourier)
Public Housing (Frederick Wiseman)
The Saragossa Manuscript (Wojciech Has) (Retrospective selection)
Taste of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami) with The House Is Black (Forough Farrokhzad)
Telling Lies in America (Guy Ferland)
La vie de Jésus (Bruno Dumont) with Sans Titre (Leos Carax)
Voyage to the Beginning of the World (Manoel de Oliveira) with Sea Space (William Farley)
Washington Square (Agnieszka Holland)

SPECIAL EVENTS

Orphans of the Storm (D.W. Griffith)
Year of the Horse (Jim Jarmusch)
The Kingdom: Part 2 (Lars von Trier, Morten Arnfred)

ReTROSPECTIVE

Codes (Wojciech Jerzy Has)
The Doll (Wojciech Jerzy Has)
Farewells (Wojciech Jerzy Has)
The Hourglass Sanatorium (Wojciech Jerzy Has)
How to Be Loved (Wojciech Jerzy Has)
The Memoirs of a Sinner (Wojciech Jerzy Has)
The Noose (Wojciech Jerzy Has)
The Tribulations of Balthazar Kober (Wojciech Jerzy Has)
An Uneventful Story (Wojciech Jerzy Has)
Write and Fight (Wojciech Jerzy Has)

VIEWS FROM THE AVANT-GARDE

Program 1: “Stirrings, Still” – new films by Stan Brakhage, Nathaniel Dorsky, Mark LaPore, Kerry Laitala, Matthias Müller, Rebecca Baron, Robert Frank, Greta Snider
Program 2: “The World Happens Twice” – new films by Jerome Hiler, Lewis Klahr, Peter Tscherkassky, Julie Murray, Stan Brakhage, Leslie Thornton, Gerhard Ertl & Sabine Hiebler, and Martin Arnold.
Program 3: Robert Beavers Program 4: Gregory Markopoulos