37th New York Film Festival

The 37th New York Film Festival took place September 24 – October 10, 1999 at Film at Lincoln Center.

Main Slate

All About My Mother (Pedro Almodóvar) (Opening Night)
Topsy-Turvy (Mike Leigh) (Centerpiece)
Felicia’s Journey (Atom Egoyan) with Hero (John Mustafa) (Closing Night)
Beau travail (Claire Denis) with Cousin (Adam Benjamin Elliot)
Being John Malkovich (Spike Jonze) with Little Echo Lost (Armagan Ballantyne)
Boys Don’t Cry (Kimberly Peirce)
The Carriers Are Waiting (Benoît Mariage)
The Color of Paradise (Majid Majidi) with Even the Wind (Laurence Attali)
Dogma (Kevin Smith)
The Edge of the World (Michael Powell) with Closing Time (Bálint Kenyeres) (Retrospective selection)
Holy Smoke (Jane Campion)
Juha (Aki Kaurismäki) with La comtesse de Castiglione (David Lodge)
julien donkey-boy (Harmony Korine)
The Letter (Manoel de Oliveira) with September 5:10PM (Mitch McCabe)
License to Live (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
Mobutu, King of Zaïre (Thierry Michel)
The Other (Youssef Chahine) with Darwin’s Evolutionary Stakes (Andrew Horne)
Pola X (Leos Carax)
Princess Mononoke (Hayao Miyazaki)
Pripyat (Nikolaus Geyrhalter) with Andares in the Time of War (Alejandra Jiménez López)
Rien sur Robert (Pascal Bonitzer) with Time Flies (Robert Breer)
Rosetta (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne) with End of the Century (Maike Höhne)
Set Me Free (Léa Pool) with 2 ÷ 3 (Richard Press)
Sicily (Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet) with Machorka-Muff (Jean-Marie Straub)
Time Regained (Raúl Ruiz)
The Woman Chaser (Robinson Devor) with hITCH (Bradley Rust Gray)

RETROSPECTIVE

Alfredo, Aldredo (Pietro Germi)
The Birds, the Bees and the Italians (Pietro Germi)
The Brigand of Tacca del Lupo (Pietro Germi)
Divorce Italian Style (Pietro Germi)
The Facts of Murder (Pietro Germi)
Four Ways Out (Pietro Germi)
In the Name of the Law (Pietro Germi)
My Friends (Pietro Germi)
The Railroad Man (Pietro Germi)
Seduced and Abandoned (Pietro Germi)
The Straw Man (Pietro Germi)
The Way of Hope (Pietro Germi)

SPECIAL EVENTS

Underground (Emir Kusturica)
A Visitor from the Living (Claude Lanzmann)
The Man Who Laughs (Paul Leni)

VIEWS FROM THE AVANT-GArDE

Chimp for Normal Short (Leslie Thornton)
Quarry Movie (Greta Snider)
Filter Beds (Guy Sherwin)
Zillertal (Jurgen Reble)
Moebius Strip (Luis Recoder)
Angus Mustang (Stephanie Barber)
Another Worldy (Lesli Thornton)
Removed (Naomi Uman)
Outer Space (Peter Tcherkassky)
Fool’s Spring (Two Personal GIfts) (Jerome Hiler & Nathaniel Dorsky)
Painting the Town (Jim Jennings)
Muktikara (Jeanne Liotta)
Moxon’s Mechanick Exercises (David Gatten)
Silver Rush (Cecile Fontaine)
Hospital Fragment (Guy Maddin)
Twilight Psalm I: The Lateness of the Hour (Phil Solomon)
Home (Luther Price)
Twilight Psalm II: Walking Distance (Phil Solomon)
From the Notebook of… (Robert Beavers)
Work Done (Robert Beavers)
The Painting (Robert Beavers)
Spectres of the Spectrum (Craig Baldwin)