40th New York Film Festival

The 40th New York Film Festival took place September 27 – October 13, 2002 at Film at Lincoln Center.

Main Slate

About Schmidt (Alexander Payne) with Tick (Rebecca Hobbs) (Opening Night)
Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson) with Hyper (Michael Canzoniero and Marco Ricci) (Centerpiece)
Talk to Her (Pedro Almodóvar) with Play with Me (Esther Rots) (Closing Night)
Auto Focus (Paul Schrader)
Blind Spot: Hitler’s Secretary (André Heller and Othmar Shmiderer) with The ErlKing (Ben Zelkowicz)
Bloody Sunday (Paul Greengrass) with Burn (Patrick Jolley and Reynold Reynolds)
Chihwaseon (Im Kwon-taek)
Divine Intervention (Elia Suleiman) with We Wuz Robbed (Spike Lee)
Friday Night (Claire Denis) with Tango de Olvido (Alexis Mital Toledo)
Love and Diane (Jennifer Dworkin)
The Magdalene Sisters (Peter Mullan) with A Social Call (Jonathan Romney)
The Man Without a Past (Aki Kaurismäki) with Don’t Have, Don’t Give (David Turner)
Monday Morning (Otar Iosseliani)
My Mother’s Smile (Marco Bellocchio) with Lifeline (Victor Erice)
On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate (Hong Sangsoo) with Hammerbrook (Elmar Freels)
Russian Ark (Aleksandr Sokurov) with The Projectionist (Michael Bates)
Safe Conduct (Bertrand Tavernier)
The Son (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne) with Lamb (Emma Freeman)
Springtime in a Small Town (Tian Zhuangzhuang) with Jealousy (Dania Saragovia)
Ten (Abbas Kiarostami)
To Be and to Have (Nicolas Philibert) with Two Hundred Dirhams (Laïla Marrakchi)
The Uncertainty Principle (Manoel de Oliveira)
Unknown Pleasures (Jia Zhangke) with Exceed (Julien M. Kheel)
Waiting for Happiness (Abderrahmane Sissako) with Candidate, Iran (Mohammad Shirvani)

SPECIAL EVENTS

Come Drink with Me (Kung Hu)
Faust (F.W. Murnau)

RETROSPECTIVE

“The Actor as Activist: Celebrating Shabana Azmi”

Congregation (Muzaffar Ali)
The Crossing (Goutam Ghose)
Death Sentence (Prakash Jha)
Fire (Deepa Mehta)
Godmother (Vinay Shukla)
Immaculate Conception (Jamil Dehlavi)
In Custody (Ismail Merchant)
Kamla (Jagmohan Mundhra)
The Marketplace (Shyam Benegal)
The Ruins (Mirnal Sen)
Sati (Aparna Sen)
The Seedling (Shyam Benegal)
Shabana! Actor, Activist, Woman (Dev Benegal)

VIEWS FROM THE AVANT-GARDE

Song of the Firefly (Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof)
Yes? Oui? Ja? (Thomas Drashchan & Ulrich Wiesner)
Switch Center (Ericka Beckman)
Excerpts from a Work in Progress (Undesirables) (Owen Land)
Night Mulch (Stan Brakhage)
Very (Stan Brakhage)
Where the Girls Are (Abigail Child)
Guiding Fictions (Mark Street)
Snowdrift aka Snowstorm (Guvnor Grundel Nelson)
Osmosis (Bradley Eros)
Film Number 15 Untitled Seminole Patchwork FIlm (Harry Smith)
Toccata (Hannes Schupbach)
Sullivan’s Banks (Heinz Emigholz)
Maillart’s Bridges (Heinz Emigholz)
The Basis of Makeup Part II (Heinz Emigholz)
The Decay of Fiction (Pat O’Neill)
The Man We Want to Hang (Kenneth Anger)
Metropolis of Recklessness (Thomas Drashchan & Ulrich Wiesner)
Homesick, Vagaries of Madness, Untitled, Theresa, Eulogies and Silence of the Bride (Jose Rodriguez)
Mother (Revised) (Luther Price)
Mullroy (Tracey MacCullion)
A Place Where There is No Trouble, A Ken Jacobs Nervous Magic Lantern Performance (N/A)
Regarding Penelope’s Wake (Michele Smith)
Glider, Crystal Palace, and City (Ernie Gehr)
The Visitation (Nathaniel Dorsky)
Cleft (Peter Biano Madison Brookshire)
Untitled (Julie Murray)
Across the Rappahannock (Brian Frye)
Daylight Moon (Lewis Klahr)
1305 (Augustin Gimel)
Mekong (Mark LaPore)
Ultima Thule (Janie Geiser)
Psalm III: Night of the Meek (Phil Solomon)