47th New York Film Festival

The 47th New York Film Festival took place September 25 – October 11, 2009 at Film at Lincoln Center.

Main Slate

Wild Grass (Alain Resnais) (Opening Night)
Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire (Lee Daniels) (Centerpiece)
Broken Embraces (Pedro Almodóvar) (Closing Night)
Antichrist (Lars von Trier)
Around a Small Mountain (Jacques Rivette) with Plastic Bag (Ramin Bahrani)
The Art of the Steal (Don Argott)
Bluebeard (Catherine Breillat) with Love Child (Daniel Wirtberg)
Eccentricities of a Blond Hair Girl (Manoel de Oliveira) with Get Yer Ya-Yas Out! (Bradley Kaplan, Ian Markiewicz, and Albert Maysles)
Everyone Else (Maren Ade)
Ghost Town (Zhao Dayong)
Hadewijch (Bruno Dumont) with Lili’s Paradise (Melina León)
Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Inferno (Serge Bromberg and Ruxandra Medrea) with The Jung Files (Gemma Ventura)
Indepencia (Raya Martin) with A History of Independence (Daouda Coulibaly)
Kanikosen (Sabu)
Lebanon (Samuel Maoz) with The Slow Game (Paolo Sorrentino)
Life During Wartime (Todd Solondz) with Socarrat (David Moreno)
Min Yè… (Tell Me Who You Are) (Souleymane Cissé)
Mother (Bong Joon-ho)
Ne change rien (Pedro Costa) with Final Cut Template #2: Hollis Frampton (Doug Henry)
Police, Adjective (Corneliu Porumboiu)
A Room and a Half (Andrey Khrzhanovsky)
Sweetgrass (Ilisa Barbash and Lucien Castaing-Taylor) with The History of Aviation (Bálint Kenyeres)
Sweet Rush (Tatarak) (Andrzej Wajda)
To Die Like a Man (João Pedro Rodrigues)
Trash Humpers (Harmony Korine)
Vincere (Marco Bellocchio)
White Material (Claire Denis) with Chicken Heads (Bassam Ali Jarbawi)
The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke)

SPECIAL EVENTS

The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming)
The Blue Dahlia (George Marshall)
My Dinner with Andre (Louis Malle)
Crossroads of Youth (An Jong-hwa)
The Night of Counting the Years aka The Mummy (Shadi Abdel Salam)
Red Riding 1974 (Julien Jarrold)
Red Riding 1980 (James Marsh)
Red Riding 1983 (Anand Tucker)

RETROSPECTIVE

“A Heart as Big as the World: The Films of Guru Dutt”

Full Moon (M. Sadiq)
The Gamble aka A Game of Chance (Guru Dutt)
The Hawk (Guru Dutt)
In Search of Guru Dutt (Nasreen Munni)
Master, Mistress and Servant (Abrar Alvi)
Mr. & Mrs. ’55 (Guru Dutt)
Paper Flowers (Guru Dutt)
Thirst aka The Thirsty One (Guru Dutt)

“(Re)Inventing China: A New Cinema for a New Society – 1949-1966”

Before the New Director Arrives (Lu Ban)
Big Li, Little Li and Old Li (Xie Jin)
Bridge (Wang Bin)
Family (Chen Xihe & Ye Ming)
Five Golden Flowers (Wang Jiayi)
Keep the Red Flag aka Song of the Red Flag (Ling Zifeng)
Li Shang Shuang (Lu Ren)
Living Forever in Burning Flames (Shui Hua)
Mysterious Traveling Companion (Lin Nong & Zhu Wenshun)
New Year Sacrifice (Sang Hu)
Nie Er (Zheng Junli)
Platoon Commander Guan (Shi Hui)
The Red Detatchment of Women (Xie Jin)
Sentries Under Neon Lights (Wang Ping & Ge Xing)
Seventy-Two Tenants (Wang Weiyi)
This Life of Mine aka The Life of a Beijing Policeman (Shi Hui)
Two Stage Sisters (Xie Jin)
Visitors on the Icy Mountains (Zhao Shinshui)
Woman Basketball Player No. 5 (Xie Jin)
Woman Hairdresser (Ding Ran)

VIEWS FROM THE AVANT-GARDE

La Rabbia di Pasolini (Pier Paolo Pasolini & Giuseppe Bertolucci)
Horizon Line (Katherin McInnis)
Scene 32 (Shambhavi Kaul)
What Part of the Earth is Inhabited (After Pliney the Elder) (Erin Espelie)
Night Side (Rebecca Meyers)
Dwarfs the Sea (Stephanie Barber)
Journals and Remarks (David Gatten)
A Letter to Uncle Boonmee (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
(((((())))))) (Leslie Thornton)
Trypps #6 (Ben Russell)
I Know Where I’m Going (Ben Rivers)
Angel Blue Sweet Wings (Chuck Strand)
Cartoon Le Mousse (Chuck Strand)
Kristallnacht (Chuck Strand)
Loose Ends (Chuck Strand)
Fake Fruit Factory (Chuck Strand)
Sarah Ann (Pim Zwier)
Riff (Lis Rhodes)
O’er the Land (Deborah Stratman)
In Comparison (Harun Farocki)
Scrap Vessel (Jason Bryne)
Puccini Conservato (Michael Snow)
Bethlehem (Peggy Ahwesh)
My Tears Are Dry (Laida Lertxundi)
If There Be Thorns (Michael Robinson)
Wednesday Morning Two A.M. (Lewis Klahr)
Sky Socialist (Ken Jacobs)
Still Raining, Still Dreaming (Phil Solomon)
The Three Raves (Bobby Abate)
My Way 1 (Amie Siegel)
I Miss (Annie Dorsen)
(If I Can Sing a Song About) Ligatures (Abigail Child)
The Inversion Transcription, Evening Track and Attractor (Stephanie Barber)
Non-Aryan (Abraham Ravett)
Faces by a Person Unknown (Paolo Gioli)
Vineland (Laura Kraning)
The Diamond (Descarte’s Daughter) (Emily Wardill)
Contre-jour (Christophe Girardet & Matthius Muller)
The Last Happy Day (Lynne Sachs)
Nothing is Over Nothing (Jonathan Schwartz)
The Exception and the Rule (Brad Butler & Karen Mirza)
Untitled (Norman Mailer)
Holy Woods (Cecile Fontaine)
Sahara Mosaic (Fern Silva)
Way Fare (Sylvia Schedelbauer)
Lumphini 2552 (Tomonari Nishikawa)
Chromatic Frenzy (Kerry Laitala)
Vibration (Jane Arden & Jack Bond)
Postcards #3: Niagara Rises (Carolyn Faber)
Sphinx on the Seine (Paul Clipson)
Piensa en Mi (Alexandra Cuesta)
Quartet (Nicky Hamlyn)
H(i)J (Guillaume Cailleau)
The Universe (Barry Gerson)
Straight Lines (Vincent Grenier)
Waterfront Follies (Ernie Gehr)
Trees of Syntax, Leaves of Ash (Daichi Saito)
Parallax (Christopher Becks)
Sound Over Water (Mary Helena Clark)
Physical Changes (David Dinnell)
Wound Footage (Thorsten Fleisch)
Cong in Our Gregational Pom-Poms (Bruce McClure)