49th New York Film Festival

The 49th New York Film Festival took place September 30 – October 16, 2011 at Film at Lincoln Center.

Main Slate

Carnage (Roman Polanski) (Opening Night)
My Week with Marilyn (Simon Curtis) (Centerpiece)
The Descendants (Alexander Payne) (Closing Night)
A Dangerous Method (David Cronenberg) (Special Gala)
The Skin I Live In (Pedro Almodóvar) (Special Gala)
The Artist (Michel Hazanavicius)
Corpo celeste (Alice Rohrwacher)
Footnote (Joseph Cedar)
4:44 Last Day on Earth (Abel Ferrara)
George Harrison: Living in the Material World (Martin Scorsese)
Goodbye First Love (Mia Hansen-Løve)
The Kid with a Bike (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)
Le Havre (Aki Kaurismäki)
The Loneliest Planet (Julia Loktev)
Martha Marcy May Marlene (Sean Durkin)
Melancholia (Lars von Trier)
Miss Bala (Gerardo Naranjo)
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
Pina (Wim Wenders)
Play (Ruben Östlund)
Policeman (Nadav Lapid)
A Separation (Asghar Farhadi)
Shame (Steve McQueen)
Sleeping Sickness (Ulrich Köhler)
The Student (Santiago Mitre)
This Is Not a Film (Mojtaba Mirtahmasb and Jafar Panahi)
The Turin Horse (Béla Tarr)

SPECIAL EVENTS

Andrew Bird: Fever Year (Xan Aranda)
The Ballad of Mott the Hoople (Chris Hall & Mike Kerry)
Castle in the Sky (Hayao Miyazaki)
Corman’s World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel (Alex Stapleton)
The Intruder (Roger Corman)
Crazy Horse (Frederick Wiseman)
Don’t Expect Too Much (Susan Ray)
Dreibelein (Christian Petzold, Dominik Graf, Christoph Hochhausler)
The Exterminating Angel (Luis Bunuel)
From Morning to Midnight (Karl Heinz Martin)
Hugo (Martin Scorsese)
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimenstion (W.D. Richter)
Music According to Tom Jobim (Nelson Pereira dos Santos)
The 99: Unbound (Dave Osbourne)
Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory (Joe Berlinger & Bruce Sinofsky)
Patience (After Sebald) (Grant Gree)
Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark, A Panel Discussion + Fingers (James Toback)
The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson)
Salvador (Oliver Stone)
Sodankyle Forever (Peter von Bagh)
Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki)
Clash of the Wolves (Noel M. Smith)
Tahir (Stefano Savona)
Vito (Jeffrey Schwarz)
Howards End (James Ivory)

VIEWS FROM THE AVANT-GARDE

Woman with Flowers (Chick Strand)
Jan Villa (Natasha Mendonca)
The Sole of the Foot and Correspondence (Robert Fenz)
Sack Barrow and Slow Action (Ben Rivers)
Posthaste Perennial Pattern (Jodie Mack)
Babobilicons (Daina Krumins)
You Are Now Running on Reserve Battery Power (Jessie Stead)
Hull (Tara Meranda Nelson)
hana and the Rats of James Olds: The Phone Call, Billy and the Magician, Little Kitten, Level of Zero Buoyancy, and Romance Novels (Stephanie Barber)
A Party Record Packed with Sex and Sadness (Bobby Abate)
Praxis 8 – 12 Scenes (Dietmar Brehm)
Taste Test (Andrew Lampert)
Bitch-Beauty (MM Serrra)
Berlin Tracks 18h00-20h00 (Shiloh Cinquemani)
(k)now (t)here (Hey-Yeun Jang)
Subway (Angela Ferraiolo)
Village, Silenced (Deborah Stratman)
Snkaes and Ladders (Katherin McInnis)
Back View (Vincent Grenier)
The Toy Son (Ken Kobland)
Upending (OpenEndedGroup)
Seeking the Monkey King (Ken Jacobs)
Crystal Palace, Thank You for Visiting, Mist, and ABRACADABRA. (Ernie Gehr)
Lingo of the Lost and Empire of Evil (George Kuchar)
Between Gold (Jonathan Schwartz)
Tin Pressed (Dani Leventhal)
Fifteen an Hour (Kevin Jerome Everson)
Tableaux Vivants (Vincent Grenier)
Curious Light (Charlotte Pryce)
Forms Are Not Self-Subsistent Substances (Samantha Rebello)
The Matter Propounded of its Possibility of Impossibility, treated in four Parts (David Gatten)
Jhana and the Rats of James Olds: Miniatures, Degas and the Eclipse (Stephanie Barber)
Ransom Notes (Kelly Egan)
Conjuror’s Box (Kerry Laitala)
Passage Upon the Plume (Fern Silva)
Shayne’s Rectangle (Dani Leventhal)
Line Describing Your Mom (Michael Robinson)
Gossip (Bobby Abate)
Jhana and the Rats of James Olds: Tatum’s Ghost (Stephanie Barber)
The Death of the Gorilla (Peter Mays)
By Foot-candle Light (Mary Helena Clark)
A Lax Riddle Unit (Bobby Abate)
Voluptuous Sleep (Betzy Bromberg)
Words of Mercuty (Jerome Hiller)
The Return (Nathanial Dorsky)
14 Scenes, 254 Shots (Gobolux)
Well Then There Now (Lewis Klahr)
Bare Room (Joey Izzo)
Arcana (Henry Hills)
Lothingen! (Straub-Huillet)
Un Heritier (Jean-Marie Straub)
L’Inconsolable (Jean-Marie Straub)
Schakale und Araber (Jean-Marie Straub)
Studies for the Decay of the West (Klaus Wyborny)
The Unstable Object (Daniel Eisenberg)
Less and Less (Luc Moullet)
Quality Control and The Prichard (Kevin Jerome Everson)
River Rites (Ben Russell)
Shadow, Speed, Spagyric (David Baker)
Peril of the Antilles (Fern Silva)
A Preface to Red (Jonathan Schwartz)
Protocol (Lina Rodriguez)
Imperceptihole (Lon Felker & Robert Todd)
LIGHT LICKS: BY THE WATERS OF BABYLON: I WANT TO PAINT IT BLACK (Saul Levine)
Third Law: N Kedzie Blvd (Mike Gibisser)
Slow Burn (Jesse Cain)
Baptismal Sticks and Stones (April Simmons)
Devil’s Gate (Laura Kraning)
Twice Removed (Leslie Thornton)
Ricky (Janie Geiser)
Silent Springs (Erin Espelie)
Gazette (Eleonore de Montesquiou)
Kudzu Vine (Josh Gibson)
The Pettifogger (Lewis Klahr)
Twenty Cigarettes (James Benning)
Villatalla (Jeannette Munoz)
A Year (Renate Sami)
Young Pines (Ute Aurand)
Chorus*, Compound Eyes Nos. 1-5, Light from the Mesa, Chorus, and Morphologies* (Paul Clipson)
Two Years at Sea (Ben Rivers)
Picture Taking (Ernie Gehr)
Binocular Machine: Sheep Torso (Leslie Thornton)
Armoire (Vincent Grenier)
By Pain and Rhyme and Atabesques of Foraging (David Gatten)
Tree Vortex Loop (Leighton Pierce)
Peeper Palace (Dani Leventhal)
Soft Palate (Martin Arnold)
Traders Leaving the Exchange, A Guard and the Street (Les Leveque)
Night House Vortex (Leighton Pierce)
John Krieg Exiting the Falk Corporation in 1971 (James Benning)
Self Control (Martin Arnold)
Inferno Towering The (Anne McGuire)

RETROSPECTIVE

“Velvet Bullets and Steel Kisses” Celebrating the Nikkatsu Centennial.

The Burmese Harp (Kon Ichikawa)
Capricious Young Man (Mansaku Itami)
Charisma (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
Cold Fish (Sion Sono)
A Colt Is My Passport (Takashi Nomura)
Crazed Fruit (Ko Nakahira)
Dancer in Izu (Katsumi Nisikawa)
A DIary of Chuji’s Travels (Daisuke Ito)
Earth (Tomu Uchida)
Gate of Flesh (Seijun Suzuki)
The Hell-Fated Courtesan (Noburu Tanaka)
Hometown (Kenji Mizoguchi)
I Look Up When I Walk (Toshio Masuda)
Intentions of Murder (Shohei Imamura)
Intimidation (Koreyoshi Kurahara)
Love Hotel (Shinji Somai)
Made to Order Cloth aka The Chivalrous Robber Jirokichi and Jiraiya the Ninja (Daisuke Ito)
Mud and Soldiers (Tomotaka Tasaka)
The Oldest Profession aka Confidential Report: Sex Market (Noburu Tanaka)
Pigs and Battleships (Shohei Imamura)
Retaliation (Yasuharu Hasebe)
Rusty Knife (Toshio Masuda)
Season of the Sun (Takumi Furukawa)
Singing Lovebirds aka Samurai Musical (Masahiro Makino)
Stray Cat Rock: Shinagawa Path (Yuzo Kawahima)
Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate ata Shinagawa Path (Yuzo Kawahima)
Suzuki Paradise: Red Light (Yuzo Kawahima)
Take Aim at the Police Van (Seijun Suzuki)
Tange Sazen and a Pot Worth a Million Ryo (Sadao Yamanaka)
Tattooed Core of Flowers (Masaru Konuma)
Ten Nights of Dreams (Seijun Suzuki)
The Warped Ones (Koreyoshi Kurahara)
The Woman with Red Hair (Tatsumi Kumashiro)
The World of Geisha (Tatsumi Kumashiro)

MASTERWORKS

Ben-Hur (William Wyler)
The Gold Rush (Charlie Chaplin)
Invasion (Hugo Santiago)

SHORT PROGRAMS

Blue (Stephen Kang)
The Five Stages of Grieg (Jessica Brickman)
The Bird Spider (Jamie Dezcallar)
Fraffitiger (Libor Pixa)
The Runner (Ana Lazarevic)
The Strange Thing About the Johnsons (Ari Aster)
The Great Gatsby in Five Minutes (Michael Almereyda)
Aaron Burr, Part 2 (Dana O’Keefe)
Memory by Design (Nathan Punwar)
My Bow Breathing (E.M. Artale)
Grandmothers (Afrain Eghbal)
Frist Match (Olivia Newman)
Traitors (Sean Gullette)