7th New York Film Festival

The 7th New York Film Festival took place September 16 – October 2, 1969 at Film at Lincoln Center.

Main Slate

Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (Paul Mazursky) (Opening Night)
Oh! What a Lovely War (Richard Attenborough) (Closing Night)
Adalen ’31 (Bo Widerberg)
Boy (Nagisa Oshima) with Passing Days (Nedeljko Dragić)
The Deserter and the Nomads (Juraj Jakubisko) with The Serendipity Bomb (Jean-François Laguionie)
Destroy, She Said (Marguerite Duras) with Momentum (Jordan Belson)
Duet for Cannibals (Susan Sontag)
The Epic That Never Was (Bill Duncalf)
Une femme douce (Robert Bresson) with Cambridge Team Engine (Charlie Jenkins) and The Noose (Sandor Albert)
Le Gai Savoir (Jean-Luc Godard) with 69 (Robert Breer) and Institutional Quality (George Landow)
Goto, Island of Love (Walerian Borowczyk) with Invocation of My Demon Brother (Kenneth Anger)
He Who Gets Slapped (Victor Sjöstrom) (Retrospective selection)
The Joke (Jaromil Jires) with Cosmic Zoom (Joe Koenig and Robert Verral) and To See or Not to See (Bretislav Pojar)
The Lady from Constantinople (Judit Elek) with The World of Man (Michael Collyer and Albert Fischer) and At Home (Martin Lavut)
Lions Love (Agnès Varda) with Mean to Me (Daniel Rosenwein)
The Merry Widow (Erich von Stroheim) (Retrospective selection)
Mandabi (Ousmane Sembène) with How Do You Seduce a Man? (Jeremy Paul Kagan)
My Night at Maud’s (Eric Rohmer) with The Canaries (Jerome Hill)
One Fine Day (Ermanno Olmi)
Pierre and Paul (René Allio) with The Emperor’s New Armor (R.O. Blechman) and Harvesting (Arthur Lamothe)
Porcile (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
The Rite (Ingmar Bergman) with Dr. Murke’s Collected Silences (Per Berglund)
La Ronde (Max Ophüls) (Retrospective selection) with A Paris Never Seen (Albert Lamorisse)

RETROSPECTIVE

“Jean Renoir: A One-Man Show” – presented by the Film Society and the Cinémathèque Française.

Le Bled (Jean Renoir)
Boudu Saved from Drowning (Jean Renoir)
La Chienne (Jean Renoir)
Chotard and Company (Jean Renoir)
The Crime of Monsieur Lange (Jean Renoir)
Le Dejeuner sur L’herbe (Jean Renoir)
Diary of a Chambermaid (Jean Renoir)
Elena and Her Men (Jean Renoir)
The Elusive Coroporal (Jean Renoir)
Experiment in Evil (Jean Renoir)
French Cancan (Jean Renoir)
The Golden Coach (Jean Renoir)
Grand Illusion (Jean Renoir)
The Little Match Girl (Jean Renoir)
The Lower Depths (Jean Renoir)
Madame Bovary (Jean Renoir)
La Marseillaise (Jean Renoir)
Nana (Jean Renoir)
Night at the Crossroads (Jean Renoir)
On Purge Bébé (Jean Renoir)
Partie de Campagne (Jean Renoir)
The River (Jean Renoir)
The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir)
The Sad Sack (Jean Renoir)
The Southerner (Jean Renoir)
Swamp Water (Jean Renoir)
Toni (Jean Renoir)
Whirlpool of Fate (Jean Renoir)

“The National Film Collection” – American films from the Library of Congress, presented by the Film Society in association with the AFI.

Broadway (Paul Fejos)
The Cameraman (Edward Sedgwick)
The Canadian (William Beaudine)
Elvira Madigan (clips) (Bo Widerberg)
Adalen ’31 (clips) (Bo Widerberg)
The Conquering Power (Rex Ingram)
The Criminal Code (Howard Hawks)
Dirgible (Frank Capra)
Exit Smilling (Sam Tayor)
The Goose Woman (Clarence Brown)
The Kiss Before the Mirror (James Whale)
Little Man, What Now? (Frank Borzage)
The Man Who Laughs (Paul Leni)
Men Without Women (John Ford)
The Mysterious Island (Lucien Hubbard)
The Old Dark House (James Whale)
The Patsy (King Vidor)
The Power and the Glory (William K. Howard)
Pride of the Clan (Maurice Tourneur)
The Scarlet Letter (Victor Sjostrom)
So’s Your Old Man (Gregory La Cava)
Stark Love (Karl Brown)
The Third Degree (Michael Curtiz)
The Vanishing American (George B. Seitz)

AVANT-GARDE WEST

Works by West Coast filmmakers.

7362 (Patrick O’Neill)
Still Life (Bruce Baillie)
Anselmo (Chick Strand)
Orange (Karen Johnson)
Castro Street (Bruce Baillie)
The Empire of Things (Philip Makanna)
3-Screen Film (John & James Whitney)
Yantra (James Whitney)
Oiley Peloso, the Pumph Man (Robert Nelson)
Gymnopedies (Larry Jordan)
Free Form (Michael Stewart)
Music With Balls (John Coney)
Untitled (John Whitney)
Project #1 (David Lourie)
Ephesus (Fred Padula)
The Last Days of Spring (Lawrence & Shiela Booth)
I Change, I Am the Same (Shelby Kennedy)
Vicious Cycles (Len Janson & Charles Manville)
Momentum (Jordan Belson)
Mainstream (Jerry Abrams)
Hard Core (Walter De Maria)
The Ineluctible Modality of the Visible (Lenny Lipton)
Happy Birthday, Lenny (Lenny Lipton)
Watersmith (Will Hindle)
Cria (John & Michael Whitney)
2×2 (Al Razutis)
Nuptiae (James Broughton)
Tung (Bruce Baillie)
Flesh Tones (Walter Chappell)
War Is Hell (Robert Nelson)
Cybernetik 5.3 (John Stenhura)
Billabong (Will Hindle)
Epiphanies (Dan McLaughlin)
Invocation of My Demon Brother (Kenneth Anger)
Our Lady of the Sphere (Larry Jordan)
Binary Bit Patterns (Michael Whitney)
E. Pluribus Unum (Alan S. Jacobson)
Due Concentrates (Larry Jordan)
Lady Reddog Returns (Don Symanski)
Chinese Firedrill (Will Hindle)
Feast of Friends (Paul Ferrara)
Charles Lloyd- Journey Within (Eric Sherman)
Cycles (Bill Tannen)

OPEN PROGRAMS

Apollon: An Occupied Factory (Ugo Gregoretti)
Dr. Chicago (George Manupelli)
Naughty Nurse (Paul Bartel)
Herostratus (Don Levy)
High School (Frederick Wiseman)
My Girlfriend’s Wedding (Jim McBride)
Breakfast (William Sachs)
No Man’s Land (Victor Trivas)
This Is What Biafra Is (Harry Laphame)
Some Won’t Go (Fil Toff)
War Is Hell (Robert Nelson)