50th New York Film Festival

The 50th New York Film Festival took place September 28 – October 14, 2012 at Film at Lincoln Center.

Main Slate

Life of Pi (Ang Lee) (Opening Night)
Not Fade Away (David Chase) (Centerpiece)
Flight (Robert Zemeckis) (Closing Night)
Amour (Michael Haneke)
Araf—Somewhere in Between (Yeşim Ustaoğlu)
Barbara (Christian Petzold)
Beyond the Hills (Cristian Mungiu)
Bwakaw (Jun Robles Lana)
Camille Rewinds (Noémie Lvovsky)
Caesar Must Die (Paolo Taviani and Vittorio Taviani)
The Dead Man and Being Happy (Javier Rebollo)
Fill the Void (Rama Burshtein)
First Cousin Once Removed (Alan Berliner)
Frances Ha (Noah Baumbach)
The Gatekeepers (Dror Moreh)
Ginger and Rosa (Sally Potter)
Here and There (Antonio Méndez Esparza)
Holy Motors (Léos Carax)
Hyde Park on Hudson (Roger Michell)
Kinshasa Kids (Marc-Henri Wajnberg)
The Last Time I Saw Macao (João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata)
Leviathan (Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Véréna Paravel)
Like Someone in Love (Abbas Kiarostami)
Lines of Wellington (Valeria Sarmiento)
Memories Look at Me (Song Fang)
Night Across the Street (Raúl Ruiz)
No (Pablo Larraín)
Our Children (Joachim Lafosse)
The Paperboy (Lee Daniels)
Passion (Brian De Palma)
Something in the Air (Olivier Assayas)
Tabu (Miguel Gomes)
You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet (Alain Resnais)

Special Screenings

Lincoln (Steven Spielberg)
The Met Live in HD: L’Elisir d’Amore (Bartlett Sher)
Olivier Stone’s Untold History of the United States (Oliver Stone)
Once Every Day (Richard Foreman)
The Princess Bride (Rob Reiner)

Masterworks

Cousin Jules (Dominique Benicheti)
Downpour (Bahram Beyza’i)
Fellini Satyricon (Frederico Fellini)
Field Diary (Amos Gitai)
Heaven’s Gate (Michael Cimino)
The King of Marvin Gardens (Bob Rafelson)
Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean)
Little Shop of Horrors (Frank Oz)
The Mattei Affair (Francesco Rosi)
Native Son (Pierre Chenal)
Nothing But a Man (Micheal Roemer)
Old Czech Legends (Jiří Trnka)
The Overcoat (Grigori Kozintsev Leonid Trauberg)
Marnie (Alfred Hitchcock)
Richard III (Laurence Olivier)
The Rolling Stones- Charlie is My Darling-Ireland ’65 (Peter Whitehead)
The Satin Slipper (Manoel de Oliveira)
Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs (William Cotrell and David Hand)

Cinéma, De Notre Temps

Abel Ferrara: Not Guilty (Rafi Pitts)
Alain Cavalier: 7 Chapters, 5 Days, 2 Kitchens (Jean-Pierre Limosin)
The “Home Cinema” of the dardenne Brothers (Jean-Pierre Limosin)
Bubsy Berkeley (Hubert Knapp and André S. Labarthe)
Catherine Breillat: The Fist Time (Luc Moullet)
A Converstation with George Cukor (Hubert Knapp and André S. Labarthe)
Chantal Akerman by Chantal Akerman (Chantal Akerman)
Philippe Garrel, Artisit (Françoise Etchegaray)
Erich von Strohiem (Robert Valery)
Eric Rohmer: Evidance (Labarthe and Jean Douchet)
HHH, A Portrait of Hou Hsiao-hsien (Olivier Assayas)
Jacques Rivette: The Night Watchman (Claire Denis)
Jean-Pierre Melville: a Portrait in 9 Poses (Labarthe)
Jean Renoir, The Boss: The Rule and the Expectation (Jacques Rivette)
Jean Vigo (Jacques Rozier)
Jerry Lewis (part one) (André S. Labarthe)
Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub, Cinéastes (Pedro Costa)
David Lynch, Don’t Look at Me (Guy Girard)
John Cassavettes (Hubert Knapp and André S. Labarthe)
Rome is Burning (Portrait of Shirley Clarke) (Noël Burch and André S. Labarthe)
Joesph Losey (André S. Labarthe)
Luis Buñuel: a Flimmaker of Our Time (Robert Valery)
Lang/Godard: The Dinosaur and the Baby (André S. Labarthe)
Otar Iosseliani: The Whistling Blackbird (Julie Bertuccelli)
The New Wave: Remedy or Poison? (Robert Valery)
Wild Man Pasolini (Jean-André Fieschi)
Otto Preminger and the Dangerous Woman (André S. Labarthe)
Raoul Walsh or the Good Old Days (Hubert Knapp and André S. Labarthe)
Josef Von Sternberg: from Silence Comes the Other (André S. Labarthe)
Samuel Fuller, Independent Filmmaker (André S. Labarthe)
Fuller at the Editing Table (André S. Labarthe)
The Scorsese Machine (André S. Labarthe)
Scorsese at the Editing Table (André S. Labarthe)
Shohei Imamura: the Free Thinker (Paulo Rocha)
One day in the Life of Andreï Arsenevitch (Chris Marker)
Where Does your Hidden Smile Lie? (Pedro Costa and Thierry Lounas)

MEN OF CINEMA

Liebelei (Max Ophuls)
Night and the City (Jules Dassin)
Objective Burma! (Raoul Walsh)
The Prowler (Joseph Losey)
Pursued (Walsh)
The Tiger of Eschnapur (Fritz Lang)
Whirpool (Otto Preminger)

CINEMA REFLECTED

Casting by (Tom Donahue)
Celluloid Man (Shivendra Singh Dungarpur)
Final Cut- Ladies and Gentlemen (György Pálfi)
Liv abd Ingmar (Dheeraj Akolkar)
Roman Planski: Odd Man Out (Marina Zenovich)
Room 237 (Rodeny Ascher)
The War of the Volcanoes (Franscesco Patierno)
101 (Luis Miñaro)

MIDNIGHT MOVIES

The Bay (Barry Levinson)
Berberian Sound Studio (Peter Strickland)
Outrage Beyond (Takeshi Kitano)

ON THE ARTS

Becoming Traviata (Philippe Béziat)
Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay (Molly Bernstein and Alan Edelstein)
Ingrid Caven: Music and Voice (Bertrand Bonello)
Punk in Africa (Keith Jones and Deon Maas)
The Savory King: Chick Webb and The Music That Changed America (Jeff Kaufman)

VIEWS FROM THE AVANT-GARDE

Sans Soleil (Chris Marker)
The Blind Owl (Raúl Ruiz)
The Creation as We Saw It (Ben Rivers)
Morning of Saint Anothony’s Day (João Pedro Rodrigues)
Concrete Parlay (Fern Silva)
Walker (Tsai Ming-Liang)
anders, Molussien (Nicholas Rey)
Tensison Building (Ericka Beckman)
Collections (Peggy Ahwesh)
Interstital Project 1 (Matt McCormick)
Birthstone (April Simmons)
Kiss the Rain (Lewis Klahr)
The Street of Everlasting Rain (Lewis Klahr)
Tokens and Penalties (Talena Sanders)
Interstital Project 2 (Matt McCormick)
Circle in the Sand (Michael Robinson)
The Paralel Road (Ferdinand Khittl)
The Extravagant Shadows (Dacid Gatten)
The Poor Stockinger, the Luddite Cropper and the Deluded Folloers of Joanna Southcott (Luke Fowler)
A Day at Karl Marx’s Grave (Petter von Bagh)
S P E C T R E (Sarah Grace Nesin)
Phantoms of a Libertine (Ben Rivers)
The Room Called Heaven (Laida Lertxundi)
Mekong Hotel (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Beyond Expression Bright (Erin Espelie)
The Name is no the Thing Named (Deborah Stratman)
Marshy Place Across (Lorenzo GAttorna)
Tectonics (Petter Bo Rappmund)
Martina’s Playhouse (Peggy Ahwesh and Joe Gibbons)
From Romance to Ritual (Peggy Ahwesh)
Confidential pt. 2 (Joe Gibbons)
Spying (Joe Gibbons)
In the Stone House (Jerome Hiler)
New Shores (Jerome Hiler)
August and After (Nathaniel Dorsky)
April (Nathaniel Dorsky)
STOP (Jeff Preiss)
When Faces Touch (Paolo Gioli)
Abor (Janie Geiser)
Imperssions (Marika Borgeson)
Point de Gaze (Jodie Mack)
Audition (Karen Yasinsky)
When Bodies Touch (Paolo Gioli)
Dragonflies with Birds and Snakes (Wolfgang Lehmann)
Small Roads (James Benning)
Strata of Natural Histroy (Jeannette Munoz)
The Girl Chewing Gum (John Smith)
The Man Phoning Mum (John Smith)
Intersitial Project 3 (Matt McCormick)
Trainsit of venus I (Nicky Hamlyn)
Trainsit of venus II (Nicky Hamlyn)
WORK IN PROGRESS (Ernie Gehr)
Across and Down (Lori Felker)
Hotel Room (Bernd Oppl)
The Day of Two Noons (Mike Gibisser)
The Strife of Love in a Dream (Camille Henrot)
21 Chitrakoot (Shambhavi Kaul)
A Few Extra Copies (Bobby Abate)
17 New Dam rd (Dani Leventhal)
The Voice of God (Bernd Lützeler)
The Tombigbee Chronicles Number two (Kevin Jerome Everson)
Chevelle (Kevin Jerome Everson)
Wadena (Peggy Agwesh)
Jake Seven (Mary Beth Reed)
Austerity Measures (Guillayne Caulleu Ben Russell)
Another Void (Paul Clipson)
Which Ceaselessly Float up (Vanessa O’Neil and Kent Long)
Bloom (Scott Stark)
Never a Foot too Far, Even (Daichi Saito)
Deep Red (Esther Urlus)
Fragments of Kubelka (Martina Kudlácek)
Monument Film (Peter Kubelka) with Arnulf Rainer (Peter Kubelka)
EMPIRE (Phil Solomon)
Vulgar Fractions (Peter Bo Rappmund)
Ponce de León (Ben Russell and Jim Drain)
Age is… (Stephen Dwoskin)
Foxfur (Damon Packad)
Deep State (Brad Butler and Karen Mirza)

SHORT FILMS

Creacendo (Alonso Alvarez Barreda)
Up the Valley adn Beyond (Todd Rosken)
A Story for the Modlins (Sergio Oksman)
A Breif History of John Baldessari (Henry Joost and Ariel Shulman)
Saint Pierre (Kevan Fun)
Frank Etienne Toward Beatitude (Costance Meyer)
Curfew (Shawn Christensen)
Things I Heard On Wedneasdays (Abu Bakr Shawky)
Night Shift (Zia Mandviwalla)
Zombie (David Moreno)
Nothing Can Touch Me (Milad Alami)
Kavinsky (Daniel Schraner and Mannuel Haefele)