46th New York Film Festival

The 46th New York Film Festival took place September 26 – October 12, 2008 at Film at Lincoln Center.

Main Slate

The Class (Laurent Cantet) (Opening Night)
Changeling (Clint Eastwood) with Wait for Me (Ross Kauffman) (Centerpiece)
The Wrestler (Darren Aronofsky) with Security (Lars Henning) (Closing Night)
24 City (Jia Zhang-ke)
Afterschool (Antonio Campos)
Ashes of Time Redux (Wong Kar-wai) with Dust (Baker Smith)
Bullet in the Head (Jaime Rosales)
Che (Steven Soderbergh)
Chouga (Darezhan Omirbaev) with Gauge (Alistair Banks Griffin)
A Christmas Tale (Arnaud Desplechin)
Four Nights with Anna (Jerzy Skolimowski) with PAL/SECAM (Dmitry Povolotsky)
Gomorrah (Matteo Garrone)
Happy-Go-Lucky (Mike Leigh)
The Headless Woman (Lucrecia Martel) with I Hear Your Scream (Pablo Lamar)
Hunger (Steve McQueen) with This Is Her (Katie Wolfe)
I’m Gonna Explode (Gerardo Naranjo)
Let It Rain (Agnès Jaoui) with Unpredictable Behaviour (Pasha Shapiro and Ernst Weber)
Lola Montès (Max Ophuls) (Retrospective selection)
Night and Day (Hong Sangsoo)
The Northern Land (João Botelho) with Surprise! (Fabrice Maruca)
Serbis (Brillante Mendoza) with Maybe Tomorrow (Guilhem Amesland)
Summer Hours (Olivier Assayas) with Ralph (Alex Winckler)
Tokyo Sonata (Kiyoshi Kurosawa) with Love Is Dead (Eric Capitaine)
Tony Manero (Pablo Larraín)
Tulpan (Sergey Dvortsevoy) with Deweneti (Dyana Gaye)
Waltz with Bashir (Ari Folman) with I Don’t Feel Like Dancing (Joachim Dollhopf and Evi Goldbrunner)
Wendy and Lucy (Kelly Reichardt) with Cry Me a River (Jia Zhangke)
The Windmill Movie (Alexander Olch) with Quarry (Richard P. Rogers)

SPECIAL EVENTS

The Day Shall Dawn (A.J. Kardar)
It’s Hard Being Loved by Jerks (Daniel Leconte)
The Last Command (Josef von Sternberg)
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (Albert Lewin)

RETROSPECTIVE

Band of Ninja (Nagisa Oshima)
Boy (Nagisa Oshima)
The Catch (Nagisa Oshima)
The Ceremony (Nagisa Oshima)
Cruel Story of Youth aka Naked Youth (Nagisa Oshima)
Dear Summer Sister (Nagisa Oshima)
Death by Hanging (Nagisa Oshima)
Diary of a Shinjuku Thief (Nagisa Oshima)
Double Suicide aka Night of the Killer (Nagisa Oshima)
Empire of Passion (Nagisa Oshima)
In the Realm of the Senses (Nagisa Oshima)
Kyoto, My Mother’s Place (Nagisa Oshima)
The Man Who Left His Will on Film (Nagisa Oshima)
Max Mon Amour (Nagisa Oshima)
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (Nagisa Oshima)
Night and Fog in Japan (Nagisa Oshima)
100 Years of Japanese Cinema (Nagisa Oshima)
Pleasures of the Flesh (Nagisa Oshima)
Shiro of Amakusa, The Christian Rebel aka Revolutionary (Nagisa Oshima)
Sing a Song of Sex aka A Treatise on Japanese Bawdy Songs (Nagisa Oshima)
The Sun’s Burial aka Tomb of the Sun (Nagisa Oshima)
Taboo (Nagisa Oshima)
Three Resurrected Drunkards aka Sinner in Paradise (Nagisa Oshima)
A Town of Love and Hope (Nagisa Oshima)
Diary of a Yunbogi Boy (Nagisa Oshima)
Violence at Noon (Nagisa Oshima)

VIEWS FROM THE AVANT-GARDE

In Girum Imus Nocte et Consumimur Igni (Guy Debord)
Dove Coup (Ben Rivers)
Whispers (Ernie Gehr)
Les Chaises (Vincent Grenier)
Obar (Taylor Dunne)
After Writing (Mary Helena Clark)
Origins of the Species (Ben Rivers)
Film for Invisible Ink, Case No. 142 Abbreviation for Dead Winter (Diminished By 1974) (David Gatten)
Elements (Julie Murray)
False Friends (Sylvia Schedelbauer)
Hold Me Now (Michael Robinson)
And the Sun Flowers (Mary Helena Clark)
False Aging (Lweis Klahr)
Abberation of Starlight (Andrew Noren)
Winter and Sarabande (Nathaniel Dorsky)
A Movie (Bruce Conner)
The White Rose (Bruce Conner)
Breakaway (Bruce Conner)
Vivian (Bruce Conner)
Ten Second Film (Bruce Conner)
Report (Bruce Conner)
Looking for Mushrooms (Bruce Conner)
Take the 5:10 to Dreamland (Bruce Conner)
Valse Triste (Bruce Conner)
Easter Morning (Bruce Conner)
1859 (Fred Worden)
Train of Thought (Jim Jennings)
New York Lantern (Ernie Gehr)
After Marks (Fern Silva)
Nocturne [Avenue A, no lens] (Joel Schlemowitz)
Novel City (Leslie Thornton)
Trypps #5 (Dubai) (Ben Russell)
Today (Excerpts #28, #19) (David Gatten & Jessie Stead)
Ah Liberty (Ben Rivers)
The Diptherians Episode Two: The Rhythm That Forgets Itself (Lewis Klahr)
Tattoo Step (Michael Maryniuk)
Mock Up on Mu (Craig Baldwin)
AMERICA IS WAITING (Bruce Conner)
Dig (Robert Todd)
Right (Scott Spark)
16-18-4 (Tomonari Nishikawa)
The Acrobat (Chris Kennedy)
Nightparking (Gretchen Skogerson)
The Scenic Route (Ken Jacobs)
Phantogram (Kerry Laitala)
When Worlds Collide (Fred Eorden)
Horizontal Boundaries (Pat O’Neill)
RR (James Benning)