The 9th New York Film Festival took place October 1–16, 1971 at Film at Lincoln Center.

Main Slate

The Debut (Gleb Panfilov) (Opening Night) with Replay (Robert Deubel)
Murmur of the Heart (Louis Malle) (Closing Night)
Bonaparte and the Revolution (Abel Gance)
Born to Win (Ivan Passer) with I Never Promised You a Long Run (Paul Leaf)
The Decameron (Pier Paolo Pasolini) with The Further Adventures of Uncle Sam (Dale Case and Robert Mitchell)
Directed by John Ford (Peter Bogdanovich) with What Fixed Me (Thomas Rickman)
Dodes’ka-den (Akira Kurosawa)
Family Life (Krzysztof Zanussi) with Passing Quietly Through (Dinitia Smith McCarthy)
Fata Morgana (Werner Herzog) with ’70 (Robert Breer) and Nostalgia (Hollis Frampton)
Four Nights of a Dreamer (Robert Bresson) with New Arts (Howard Chesley and Eric Saarinen)
In the Name of the Father (Marco Bellocchio) with Mummy, Mummy (John Beech)
In the Summertime (Ermanno Olmi) with Little Man, Big City (Gyula Macskássy and György Várnai)
The Last Picture Show (Peter Bogdanovich) with Abraham and Isaac (R.O. Blechman)
Pioneers in Ingolstadt (Rainer Werner Fassbinder) with The Caterpillar and the Wild Animals (Gerard H. Baldwin) and The Last Winters (Jean-Charles Tacchella)
Punishment Park (Peter Watkins) with Fable Safe (Erik Barnouw)
A Safe Place (Henry Jaglom) with Synchromy (Norman McLaren)
The Sorrow and the Pity (Marcel Ophuls)
W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism (Dusan Makavejev) with A Child’s Alphabet with Casual References to DNA Replication in the Garden of Eden (Thomas Spence) and Work (Fred Wardenburg)

NINTH NYFF POSTER BY FRANK STELLA