6th New York Film Festival

The 6th New York Film Festival took place September 17–28, 1968.

Main Slate

Capricious Summer (Jiří Menzel) (Opening Night)
The Firemen’s Ball (Miloš Forman) (Closing Night)
2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (Jean-Luc Godard)
24 Hours in the Life of a Woman (Dominique Delouche)
L’Argent (Marcel L’Herbier) (Retrospective selection)
Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed (Alexander Kluge)
Les Biches (Claude Chabrol)
Beyond the Law (Norman Mailer)
The Boy with Green Hair (Joseph Losey) (Retrospective selection)
Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
L’Enfance nue (Maurice Pialat)
Faces (John Cassavetes)
Hugo and Josephine (Kjell Grede)
The Immortal Story (Orson Welles)
Kaja, I’ll Kill You! (Vatroslav Mimica)
Lola Montès (Max Ophuls) (Retrospective selection)
Mouchette (Robert Bresson)
Naked Childhood (Maurice Pialat)
The Nun (Jacques Rivette)
One Plus One aka Sympathy for the Devil (Jean-Luc Godard) (canceled)
Partner (Bernardo Bertolucci)
The Red and the White (Jancsó Miklós)
A Report on the Party and the Guests (Jan Němec)
Signs of Life (Werner Herzog)
They Live by Night (Nicholas Ray) (Retrospective selection)
Toni (Jean Renoir) (Retrospective selection)
Tropics (Gianni Amico)
Week-end (Jean-Luc Godard)

SPECIAL EVENTS

“Personal Cinema” – personal-story films, portraits, and auto-documentaries.

The Amazing Colossal Man, Cinder City Plus Six & Yellow Ball Cache (Children of the Yellow Ball Workshop)
Anti-1 (Michel Maquesse)
Arabesque (Nancy Linde)
The Attempt (Ivan Quilles)
Black Spring (LeRoi Jones)
Bridge (Ted Benzer)
The Children of Cardoza (William Gaddis & William Hansard)
Child’s Eye View (Bank Street College)
Clarence (Jud Dale)
David Holzman’s Diary (Jim McBride)
Douglas, James and Joe (Grover Dale)
The End and The Pot Head in ‘Let’s Get Nice’ (Alfonso Sanchez)
Fat Fred (Students in the North of England)
The Fight Against the Borrowers (Orso Montez)
Film Club (James Barrios)
The First Step (Gheer Morton Jr. & Bill Peltz)
From the Inside Out (Residents of the California Ghetto)
Georg (Stanton Kaye)
Ghetto (Richard Mason)
The Grandfather (Peter Hoving)
I Love You, I Think (Woodard Archie)
I’m Here Now (NY Ghetto Residents)
Intrepid Shadows (Al Clah)
The Journey (Marvin Silbersher)
The Jungle (The Oxford Street Gang of Philadelphia)
Laughing Bear (Mark Sadan)
Male and Female (Miguel Sanchez)
Memory of John Earl (Earl McFadden)
Menagerie (Students at the Lexington School of Modern Dance)
Nyala (Glen Denny)
The Picnic (British Students)
Profiles Cast Long Shadows (Bob Sperry)
Prospera (Linda Yellin)
The Revenge (Miguel Sanchez)
Song of Innocence (Mark Sadan)
Spirit of the Navajo (Maxinne & Maryjane Tsossie)
Tell It Like It Is (Harry Dolan and other Watts writers)
That’s Where I’m At (Alvin Fiering & Lois Ginandes)
The Thief (Raymond Esquelin)
Trio at 19 (Judith Kurtz)
Yesterday (Paul Tepper)
You Dig It? (Members of Mobilization for Youth)
You See What I’m Trying to Say? (Henry English)

“The Western”

Broken Arrow (Delmer Daves)
The Red Raiders (excerpts) (Ken Maynard)
The Covered Wagon (James Cruze)
Cowboy Ambrose
The Phantom Empire, Deadwood Dick, The Red Rider & Zorro’s Fighting Legion (all excerpts) (Henry Hathaway)
The Heart of an Indian (Thomas Ince)
The Gunfighter and Jesse James (Henry King)
Hell’s Hinges (William S. Hart)
Wild Bill Hickock & Tumbleweeds (excerpts) (William S. Hart)
High Noon (Fred Zinnemann)
The Iron Horse (John Ford)
My Darling Clementine (John Ford)
The Last Drop of Water (D.W. Griffith)
Massacre (Alan Crosland)
The Plainsman (Cecil B. DeMille)
The Real War (NBC Documentary with Gary Cooper)
Red River (Howard Hawks)
Shane (George Stevens)
Sky High (Lynn Reynolds)
The Texas Rangers (King Vidor)
Thundering Hoofs (Albert S. Rogell)
When Outlaws Meet (Al Jennings)
Wild and Woolly (John Emerson)

“Film-makers on New Life-Styles” – movies dealing with the new generation’s attempts to create alternative styles of living.

Gold Respects Us When We Work, But Loves Us When We Dance (Les Blank & Skip Gerson)
The Alternative (Fred Thorne)
Last Summer Won’t Happen (Peter Gessner & Tom Hurwitz)
No Vietnamese Ever Called Me Nigger (David Loeb Weiss)
One Step Away (David Neuman & Ed Pincus)
Sally’s Hounds (Robert Edelstein)
Sometimes I Like Even Me (Peter Levin)
Summerhill (Denis Miller)