42nd New York Film Festival

The 42nd New York Film Festival took place October 1-17, 2004 at Film at Lincoln Center.

Main Slate

Look at Me (Agnès Jaoui) (Opening Night)
Bad Education (Pedro Almodóvar (Centerpiece)
Sideways (Alexander Payne) with Never Even (Jan Schomburg) (Closing Night)
The Big Red One: The Reconstruction (Samuel Fuller) (Retrospective selection)
Café Lumière (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
The Gate of the Sun (Yousry Nasrallah)
The Holy Girl (Lucrecia Martel) with Flowers for Diana (Reynald Bertrand)
House of Flying Daggers (Zhang Yimou)
In the Battlefields (Danielle Arbid) with The Patio (Milagros Mumenthaler)
Keane (Lodge Kerrigan) with Nits (Harry Wootliff)
Kings and Queen (Arnaud Desplechin)
Moolaadé (Ousmane Sembène)
Notre musique (Jean-Luc Godard)
Or (My Treasure) (Keren Yedaya) with Frozen River (Courtney Hunt)
Palindromes (Todd Solondz)
Rolling Family (Pablo Trapero) with Supermarket (Illeana Douglas)
Saraband (Ingmar Bergman)
Tarnation (Jonathan Caouette) with Boy (Welby Ings)
The 10th District Court: Moments of Trial (Raymond Depardon)
Triple Agent (Eric Rohmer) with Highway 403, Mile 39 (Mitch McCabe)
Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Undertow (David Gordon Green)
Vera Drake (Mike Leigh)
Woman Is the Future of Man (Hong Sangsoo) with Little Apocrypha No.2 (Kornél Mundruczó)
The World (Jia Zhangke)

RETROSPECTIVE

“Elegance, Passion, and Cold Hard Steel: A Tribute to Shaw Brothers Studios”

Blood Brothers (Zhang Che)
Clans of Intrigue aka Killer Clans (Chor Yuen)
The Empress Dowager (Li Han-hsiang)
Heroes Two (Zhang Che)
Hong Kong Nocturne (Inoue Umetsugu)
The House of 72 Tenants (Chor Yuen)
Intimate Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan (Chor Yuen)
The Kingdom and the Beauty (Li Han-hsiang)
The Last Tempest (Li Han-hsiang)
The Love Eterne (Li Han-hsiang)
Love Without End (Doe Chin)
Vermillon Door (Lo Chen)

SPECIAL EVENTS

The Infernal Affairs Trilogy (Andrew Lau & Alan Mak)
Macunaíma (Joaquim Pedro de Andrade)
Miles Electric: A Different Kind of Blue (Murray Lerner)
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson (Ken Burns)
Selling Democracy: Films of the Marshall Plan (1947 – 1953)

VIEWS FROM THE AVANT-GARDE

The Orientalist Chapters 1-5 (Michele Smith)
Terrance 49 (Jane Geiser)
Orchard (Julie Murray)
Let me Count the Ways: Minus 10, 9, 8, 7… (Leslie Thornton)
Anaconda Targets (Dominic Angerame)
The Future is Behind You (Abigal Child)
Isahn (Soon-mi Yoo)
Paradise Crushed and End in New World (Leslie Thornton)
The Two Minutes to Zero Trilogy and Daylight Moon (A Quartet) (Lewis Klahr)
Redshift (Emily Richardson)
Behind This Soft Eclipse (Eve Heller)
Deliquium (Julie Murray)
Luke (Bruce Conner)
Tabula Rasa (Vincent Grenier)
#6: Okkyung (Andrew Lampert)
Mirror (Christoph Giradet & Matthias Muller)
Michelangelo Eye to Eye (Michelangelo Antonioni)
Sylvia’s Promise (Mike & George Kuchar)
Born of the Wind (Mike & George Kuchar)
The Thief and the Stripper (Mike & George Kuchar)
A Town Called Tempest (Mike & George Kuchar)
The Orientalist Chapters 6-8 (Michele Smith)
The Eye in the Mask and The Accursed Mazurka (Nina Fonoroff)
Precarious Garden, The Astronomer’s Dream, The Collector and Passage (Ernie Gehr)
Truth and Poetry (Peter Kubelka)
Mosaic im Vertauen (Peter Kubelka)
Play (Christoph Giradet & Matthias Muller)
Chasmic Dance (Daichi Saito)
Aspect (Emily Richardson)
Life on Mars (Isabelle Nouzha)
Phantom (Matthias Muller)
Axe (Christoph Janetzko)
Stable (Robert Todd)
Echo, Echo (Dietmar Brehm)
Palermo – History Standing Still (Janet Merewether)
Come to See ‘Ya and Dirt (Eric Saks)