8th New York Film Festival

The 8th New York Film Festival took place September 10–20, 1970 at Film at Lincoln Center.

Main Slate

The Wild Child (François Truffaut) with The “What Did You Think of the Movie?” Movie (Jeremy Paul Kagan) (Opening Night)
Tristana (Luis Buñuel) with Visages de femmes (Peter Foldes) (Closing Night)
Le Boucher (Claude Chabrol) with Henry 9 ’til 5 (Bob Godfrey and Bev Roberts)
The Cannibals (Liliana Cavani) with Bleu Shut (Robert Nelson)
Comrades (Marin Karmitz) with Making “Love” (Finbar Harvey)
The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci)
The Crucified Lovers (Kenji Mizoguchi) (Retrospective selection)
Days and Nights in the Forest (Satyajit Ray)
Even Dwarfs Started Small (Werner Herzog) with The Want-Ad (Bernd Upnmoor)
Five Easy Pieces (Bob Rafelson) with Arena (István Ventilla)
From Lumiere to Langlois: The French Silent Cinema (Henri Langlois) with Langlois (Elia Hershon & Roberto Guerra)
The Garden of Delights (Carlos Saura) with Even the Sun Cries (François Bel)
Harry Munter (Kjell Grede) with Three Days (Phillip Frey)
The Inheritors (Carlos Diegues)
Je t’aime, je t’aime (Alain Resnais) with Invasion (Stefan Schabenbeck)
Kes (Ken Loach) with Hands, Knees and Bumps-a-Daisy (George Dunning)
Mistreatment (Lars Lennart Forsberg) with The-End-of-One (Paul Kocela)
La Musica (Marguerite Duras & Paul Seban) with Subterraneans (Roberto E. Castro)
Othon (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet) with Reunion (Gerry Matthews and Ton Scheuer)
Praise Marx and Pass the Ammunition (Maurice Hatton) with Richard Hamilton (James M. Scott)
The Scavengers (Ermanno Olmi) with P.B.L. #2 (Robert Breer)
Une simple histoire (Marcel Hanoun) with Kyoto (Kon Ichikawa)
The Spider’s Stratagem (Bernardo Bertolucci) with The Battle (Derek Phillips)
Street Scenes 1970 (Martin Scorsese) with The Golden Positions (James Broughton)
Wind from the East (Groupe Dziga Vertov and Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin) with The Giants (Gene Deitch)
Zorns Lemma (Hollis Frampton) with Double Pisces, Scorpio Rising (Dick Fontaine)

SPECIAL EVENTS

Company (D.A. Pennebaker)

“1927-1933: Medium Rare” – presented in association with the Film Society and the AFI.

Black Street (John M. Stahl)
The Front Page (Lewis Milestone)
Kid Brother (Ted Wilde)
The Emperor Jones (Dudley Murphy)
King of Jazz (John Murray Anderson)
The Last Flight (Wilhelm Dieterle)
Laughter (Henri d’Abbadie d’Arrast)
The Miracle Woman (Frank Capra)
Mystery of the Wax Museum (Michael Curtiz)
Once in a Lifetime (Russell Mack)

“American Voices” – a survey of films by and about minority groups in America today, presented the Department of Film of the Museum of Modern Art in association with the Film Society.

America Is In Real Trouble (Tom Palazzo)
Before the Mountain Was Moved (Robert Sharpe)
Bessie Smith (Charles Levine)
Black Roots (Lionel Rogosin)
El Teatro Campesino (Victoria Hochberg, Janet Sternberg & Jac Venza)
How Can I Note Be Among You? (Thomas Reichman)
I Am Also You (Bruce Kerner)
I Am Somebody (Medelyne Anderson)
I’m A Man (Peter Rosen)
Ira, You’ll Get Into Trouble (Stephen Sbarge)
The Land (Robert Flaherty)
Lenny Bruce (John Magnuson)
Lord Thing (Dewitt Beall)
March of Time (Time Life Inc & Louis de Rochemont)
Mississippi Summer (William Bayer)
Miss Nude America (Tony Silver)
Nothing But a Man (Michael Roemer)
The Other America (Krainin/Savage Productions)
The Plow That Broke the Plains (Pare Lorentz)
The River (Pare Lorentz)
Susan After the Sugar Harvest (Peter Robinson)
This Is the Home of Mrs. Levant Graham (Eliot Noyes Jr. & Claudia Weill)
Trail of Tears (Lane Slate)
Uptown: A Portrait of the South Bronx (Herb Danska)
Woo Who? May Wilson (Amalie R. Rothschild)
You Are on Indian Land (National Film Board of Canada)
Encounter with Saul Alinsky, Part II (Rama Indian Reserve) (National Film Board of Canada)
Ballad of Crowfoot (National Film Board of Canada)

“Cinema and Color” – presented by the Cinémathèque Française in association with the Film Society.

All These Women (Ingmar Bergman)
Banjo on My Knee (John Cromwell)
Blood and Sand (Rouben Mamoulian)
The Bowery (Raoul Walsh)
A Double Tour (Web of Passion) (Claude Chabrol)
Folies Bergere (Roy Del Ruth)
King of Jazz (John Murray Anderson)
Othello (Sergei Yutkevich)
The Princess Yang Kwei-Fei (Kenji Mizoguchi)
Rapsodia Satanica (Carmine Gallone)
The Return of Frank James (Fritz Lang)
Western Union (Fritz Lang)