39th New York Film Festival

The 39th New York Film Festival took place September 28 – October 14, 2001 at Film at Lincoln Center.

Main Slate

Va savoir (Jacques Rivette) (Opening Night)
Mulholland Drive (David Lynch) with Music for One Apartment and Six Drummers (Johannes Stjärne Nilsson and Ola Simonsson) (Centerpiece)
In Praise of Love (Jean-Luc Godard) with V.O. (Antonia San Juan) (Closing Night)
All About Lily Chou-Chou (Shunji Iwai)
Baran (Majid Majidi) with Inja (Steve Pasvolsky)
La Ciénaga (Lucrecia Martel) with Measure (Dayna and Gaelen Hanson)
Deep Breath (Damien Odoul) with Golden Gate (Palace II) (Katia Lund and Fernando Meirelles)
Fat Girl (Catherine Breillat) with Asylums (Jason Bolling)
I’m Going Home (Manoel de Oliveira) with Could Have Been Utah (Frazer Bradshaw)
Intimacy (Patrice Chéreau) with Contemporary Case Studies (Janet Merewether)
Italian for Beginners (Lone Scherfig) with Swimming Out to Holly (Jesse Peyronel)
The Lady and the Duke (Eric Rohmer)
“Men at Work”: La Libertad (Lisandro Alonso) and That Old Dream That Moves (Alain Guiraudie)
The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton) (Retrospective selection)
The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson) with InBetweening America (Candy Kugel)
Silence…We’re Rolling (Youssef Chahine) with Tuesday (Geoff Dunbar)
Sobibor, October 14, 1943, 4 P.M. (Claude Lanzmann)
The Son’s Room (Nanni Moretti) with Just Little Birds (Fred Louf)
Storytelling (Todd Solondz) with Superhero (Eric Guirado)
Time Out (Laurent Cantet)
Waking Life (Richard Linklater) with Saturday Morning (Santi Trullenque)
Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (Shohei Imamura)
What Time Is It There? (Tsai Ming-liang) with Gourmet Baby (Sandi Tan)
Y tu mamá también (Alfonso Cuarón) with Beautiful (Adam Stevens)

SPECIAL EVENTS

Blue Wild Angel: Jimi Hendrix Live at the Isle of Wight (Murray Lerner)
My Voyage to Italy (Martin Scorsese)

RETROSPECTIVE

The Boss (Fernando Ayala)
Chronicle of a Lonely Child (Leonardo Favio)
Dream, Dream (Leonardo Favio)
The Employee aka The Clerk (Leonardo Favio)
Gatica (Leonardo Favio)
Hand in the Trap (Leopoldo Torre Nilsson)
Juan Moreira (Leonardo Favio)
The Kidnapper (Torre Nilsson)
Nazareno Cruz and the Wolf (Leonardo Favio)
Peron, A Symphony of Feeling (Leonardo Favio)
The Romance of Aniceto and Francisca (Leonardo Favio)

VIEWS FROM THE AVANT-GARDE

Loves Refrain (Nathaniel Dorsky)
Micro-Garden (Stan Brakhage)
The Ground (Robert Beavers)
The Or Cloud (Fred Worden)
Light Licks 5 (Saul Levine)
Patina (Peter Herwitz)
Impossible Love (Jim Jennings)
Fear of Blushing (Jennifer Reeves)
Nebel (Mist) (Matthius Muller)
The Enjoyment of Reading (Lost and Foun) (David Gatten)
Interior (Jim Jennings)
Looking at the Sea (Peter Hutton)
Time Being (Andrew Noren)
The Dark Room (Minyong Jang)
Her Glacial Spped (Eve Heller)
Dream Work (For Man Ray) (Peter Tscherkassky)
The Last Long Shot (Cecile Fontaine)
Montessori Sword Fight (Mary Beth Reed)
Dark Dark (Abigail Child)
The Aperture’s Ghostings (Lewis Klahr)
Hallowed (Kerry Laitala)
Angel Beach (Scott Stark)
Meditations on Revolution III: Soledad (Robert Fenz)
Notes Before the Revolution (Ip Yuk-Yiu)
Introduction to Living in a Closed System (Brittany Gravely)
Have a Nice Day Alone (Leslie Thornton)
Conquerd (Kerry Laitala)
Their Idols Disintegrate (Jennifer Fieber)
Going to the Ocean (Matt McCormick)