52nd New York Film Festival

The 52nd New York Film Festival took place September 26–October 12, 2014 at Film at Lincoln Center.

Main Slate

Gone Girl (David Fincher) (Opening Night)
Inherent Vice (Paul Thomas Anderson) (Centerpiece)
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (Alejandro González Iñárritu) (Closing Night)
Beloved Sisters (Dominik Graf)
’71 (Yann Demange)
The Blue Room (Mathieu Amalric)
Citizenfour (Laura Poitras)
Clouds of Sils Maria (Olivier Assayas)
Eden (Mia Hansen-Løve)
Foxcatcher (Bennett Miller)
Goodbye to Language (Jean-Luc Godard)
Heaven Knows What (Josh & Benny Safdie)
Hill of Freedom (Hong Sangsoo)
Horse Money (Pedro Costa)
Jauja (Lisandro Alonso)
Life of Riley (Alain Resnais)
Listen Up Philip (Alex Ross Perry)
Maps to the Stars (David Cronenberg)
Misunderstood (Asia Argento)
Mr. Turner (Mike Leigh)
Pasolini (Abel Ferrara)
The Princess of France (Matías Piñeiro)
Saint Laurent (Bertrand Bonello)
La Sapienza (Eugène Green)
Tales of the Grim Sleeper (Nick Broomfield)
Timbuktu (Abderrahmane Sissako)
Time Out of Mind (Oren Moverman)
Two Days, One Night (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
Two Shots Fired (Martin Rejtman)
Whiplash (Damien Chazelle)
The Wonders (Alice Rohrwacher)

SPECIAL EVENTS

The Forest (Arnaud Desplechin)
Volià (Claire Denis)
The King and the Mockingbird (Paul Grimault)
Li’l Quinquin (Bruno Dumont)

FILM COMMENT PRESENTS

Queen and Country (John Boorman)

30th ANNIVERSARY SCREENING

This is Spinal Tap (Rob Reiner)

SPOTLIGHT ON DOCUMENTARY

The 50 Year Argument (Martin Scorsese and David Tedeschi)
Dreams Are Colder Than Death (Arthur Jafa)
How to Smell a Rose: A Visit with Ricky Leacock in Normandy (Les Blank and Gina Leibrecht)
Iris (Albert Maysles)
The Iron Ministry (J.P. Sniadecki)
The Look of Silence (Joshua Oppenheimer)
Merchants of Doubt (Robert Kenner)
National Gallery (Frederick Wiseman)
Non-fiction Diary (Jung Yoon-suk)
One Cut, One Life (Ed PIncus and Lucia Small)
Red Army (Gabe Polsky)
Seymour: An Introduction (Ethan Hawke)
Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait (Ossama Mohammed and Wiam Simav Bedirxan)
Stray Dog (Debra Granik)
Sunshine Superman (Marah Strauch)

PROJECTIONS

Old Growth (Ryan Marino)
Babash (Lisa Truttmann and Behrouz Rae)
Wayward Fronds (Fern Silva)
Theoretical Architecture (Josh Gibson)
Canopy (Ken Jacobs)
Under the Heat Lamp an Opening (Zachary Epcar)
Against Landscape (Joshua Gen Solondz)
Night Noon (Shambhavi Kaul)
Ming of Harlem: Twenty One Storeys in the Air (Phillip Warnell)
Berlin or a Dream with Cream (Marcel Broodthaers)
Mr. Teste et La Lune (Marcel Broodthaers)
Things (Ben Rivers)
Depositions (Luke Fowler)
a certain worry (Jonathan Schwartz)
The Dragon is the Frame (Mary Helena Clark)
Fe26 (Kevin Jerome Everson)
Sound That (Kevin Jerome Everson)
Second Sighted (Deborah Stratman)
The Measures (Jacqueline Goss and Jenny Perlin)
Sauerbruch Hutton Architects (Harun Farocki)
Color Neutral (Jennifer Reeves)
Hat Trick (Katherin McInnis)
Sleeping District (Tinne Zenner)
Zinoviev’s Tube: Tape 2 of the Inner Trotsky Child series (Jim Finn)
Off-White Tulips (Aykan Safoglu)
End Reel (Julie Murray)
Picture Particles (Thorsten Fleisch)
Under the Atmosphere (Mike Stoltz)
The Figures Carved into the Knife by the Sap of the Banana Trees (Joana Pimenta)
Shwebonta (Meredith Lackey)
Atlantis (Ben Russell)
Letters to Max (Eric Baudelaire)
Sea of Vapors (Sylvia Schedelbauer)
Red Capriccio (Blake Williams)
Field Notes (Vashti Harrison)
Darkroom (Billy Roisz)
Detour de Force (Rebecca Baron)
Blue Loop, July (Mike Gibisser)
The Hummingbird Wars (Janie Geiser)
Razzle Dazzle (Jodie Mack)
Blanket Statement #2: It’s All or Nothing (Jodie Mack)
Light Year (Paul Clipson)
Sound of a Million Insects, Light of a Thousand Stars (Tomonari Nishikawa)
Ginza Strip (Richard Tuohy)
Friday Mosque (Azadeh Naval)
2012 (Takashi Makino)
The Occidental Hotel (Lewis Klahr)
El Futuro (Luis Lopez Carrasco)
Broken Tongue (Mónica Savirón)
Film (Ismaïl Bahri)
The Innocents (Jean-Paul Kelly)
Chapters 1, 2 & 3 ‘from the impossibility of one page being like the other’ (Oraib Toukan & Ala Younis)
Sugarcoated Arsenic (Claudrena Harold & Kevin Jerome Everson)
Adorno’s Grey (Hito Steyeri)
O, Persecuted (Basma Alsharif)
How to Make Money Religiously (Laure Prouvost)
Renaissance Center/GM Tower (Nicky Hamlyn)
Sound of My Soul (Wojciech Bakowski)
Seven Signs that Mean Silence (Sara Magenheimer)
Horizon (Stephanie Barber)
SONE S/S 2014: Chase ATM emitting blue somke, Bank of America ATM emitting red smoke, TD Bank ATM emitting green smoke /// Invisibility-cloaked hand gestures in offshore financial center jungle (Andrew Norman Wilson)
Lorem ipsum 1 (Victoria Fu)
Pan (Anton Ginzburg)

REVIVALS

Burroughs: The Movie (Howard Brookner)
The Color of Pomegranates (Sergei Parajanov)
Hiroshima Mon Amour (Alain Resnais)
Jamaica Inn (Alfred Hitchcock)
The Man from Laramie (Anthony Mann)
Moana with Sounds (Robert Flaherty and Frances Hubbard Flaherty (1926)/Monica Flaherty (1980))
A Night of Storytelling (Robert Flaherty)
Once Upon a Time in America (Sergio Leone)
The Tales of Hoffman (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger)

RETROSPECTIVE

5 Fingers (Joseph L. Makiewicz)
All About Eve (Joseph L. Makiewicz)
The Barefoot Contessa (Joseph L. Makiewicz)
A Carol of Another Christmas (Joseph L. Makiewicz)
Cleopatra (Joseph L. Makiewicz)
Dragonwyck (Joseph L. Makiewicz)
Escape (Joseph L. Makiewicz)
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (Joseph L. Makiewicz)
Guys and Dolls (Joseph L. Makiewicz)
The Honey Pot (Joseph L. Makiewicz)
House of Strangers (Joseph L. Makiewicz)
Julius Caesar (Joseph L. Makiewicz)
The Late George Apley (Joseph L. Makiewicz)
A Letter to Three Wives (Joseph L. Makiewicz)
No Way Out (Joseph L. Makiewicz)
People Will Talk (Joseph L. Makiewicz)
The Quiet American (Joseph L. Makiewicz)
Sleuth (Joseph L. Makiewicz)
Somewhere in the Night (Joseph L. Makiewicz)
Suddenly, Last Summer (Joseph L. Makiewicz)
There Was a Crooked Man… (Joseph L. Makiewicz)

SHORT PROGRAMS

In August (Jenna Hasse)
Young Lions of Gypsy (Jonas Carpignano)
Ophelia (Sergei Rostropovich)
Humor (Tal Zagreba)
A Paradise (Jayisha Patel)
Wu Gui (Jordan Schiele)
The Girl and the Dogs (Selma Vilhunen and Guillaume Mainguet)
Chlorine (Marcelo Grabowsky)
The Return (Yohann Kouam)
Hepburn (Tommy Davis)
La Estancia (Federico Adorno)
The Kármán Line (Oscar Sharp)
Crooked Candy (Andrew Rodgers)

CONVERGENCE

Artifacts of Fukushima: Selections from Unknown Spring (Jake Price and Visakh Menon)
A Brief History of Transmedia Worlds (Henry Jenkins)
Creators on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Ft. McMoney (David Dufresne)
Futurestates (ITVS (producer))
Immigrant Nation (Theo Rigby)
Last Hijack (Tommy Pallotta and Femke Wolting)
Living Los Sures
Los Sures (Diego Echeverria)
Loves of a Cyclops (Nathan Punwar)