NYFF50: Cinema Reflected
September 29 – October 12
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Illuminating documentaries and essay films about movies and the men and women who make them.
Celluloid Man
A celebration of Indian cinema as well as of the man who did so much to safeguard it for future generations: P.K. Nair, the founder and patron saint of India’s National Film Archive.
Final Cut – Ladies and Gentlemen
Alain Delon trades glances with Marilyn Monroe and Jackie Chan springs to the rescue of Jeanne Moreau in director György Pà lfi’s one-of-a-kind compilation film.
Liv and Ingmar
Liv Ullmann, director Dheeraj Akolkar and producer Rune Trondsen in person at October 1 screening!
An elegant look at one of the cinema’s most remarkable and fruitful creative partnerships, between director Ingmar Bergman and his muse Liv Ullmann.
Roman Polanski: Odd Man Out
Director Marina Zenovich in person at 10/28 screening!
Marina Zenovich follows her superb Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired with a look at the insidious ins and out of Polanski’s 2009 arrest in Zurich.
Room 237
Director Rodney Ascher in person at both screenings!
Director Rodney Ascher wryly fuses fact and fiction in this kaleidoscopic deconstruction of the myriad myths and possible hidden messages of Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining.
The War of the Volcanoes
Director Francesco Patierno in person at 9/29 screening!
A chronicle of a cinematic battle royale: the making of the Roberto Rossellini-Ingrid Bergman Stromboli and the competing project Volcano engineered by Rossellini’s spurned lover Anna Magnani. Screening with 101 (Luis Miñarro, 20m).
