
NYFF50: Masterworks
Restorations, revivals and rediscoveries from cinema’s past, as they were meant to be seen on the big screen.
Dominique Benicheti
1972|
France|
91 minutes|
French with English subtitles
A rediscovered masterpiece of world cinema, focused on the everyday life of a farmer (the filmmaker’s cousin) and his wife in the remote French countryside.
Federico Fellini
1969|
Italy|
128 minutes|
Italian with English subtitles
Better late than never, perpetual NYFF bridesmaid Federico Fellini makes his very first festival appearance with this new restoration of his Oscar-nominated 1969 classic.
Amos Gitai
1982|
Israel / France|
83 minutes|
Hebrew with English subtitles
30th Anniversary Screening! Amos Gitai in person!
Amos Gitai’s landmark documentary about the Israeli occupation of the West Bank helped to end, in Gitai’s words, the “myth of the good occupation.”
Michael Cimino
1980|
USA|
216 minutes|
English
Michael Cimino and Kris Kristofferson in person!
Michael Cimino’s much-discussed but rarely screened western epic returns in a glorious new restoration of the director’s final cut, personally supervised by Cimino himself.
Bob Rafelson
1972|
USA|
103 minutes|
English
Bob Rafelson in person!
Jack Nicholson and Bruce Dern star as estranged brothers trying to get rich quick in bottomed-out Atlantic City in director Bob Rafelson’s great and largely unheralded follow-up to his Five Easy Pieces.
David Lean
1962|
United Kingdom, USA|
242 minutes|
English, Arabic, Turkish with English Subtitles
The screen’s greatest epic returns in a magnificent 4K restoration. A Sony Pictures Repertory release.
1986|
USA|
103 minutes|
English
Director Frank Oz, actress Ellen Greene, composer Alan Menken and film restorer Kurt Galvao in person!
Director Frank Oz’s ebullient adaptation of the smash Off-Broadway musical has finally been restored to its original director’s cut, including 20 minutes of never-before-seen footage. A Warner Home Video release.
Francesco Rosi
1972|
Italy|
116 minutes|
Italian with English subtitles
Francesco Rosi’s Palme d’Or-winning bio-pic stars the great Gian Maria Volonté as Enrico Mattei, the Italian businessman who sought to develop the country’s energy efficiency before dying under mysterious circumstances in 1962.
Pierre Chenal
1951|
Argentina / USA|
104 minutes|
English, Spanish with subtitles
Based on the terrifically successful 1940 novel by Richard Wright (the subject of Baldwin’s first major essay, “Everybody’s Protest Novel”) and shot in Argentina, this striking work tells the story of the accidental death of a white Chicago heiress at the hands of a young black man from the South Side.
Michael Roemer
1964|
USA|
95 minutes|
English
Director Michael Roemer and cinematographer Robert M. Young in person!
Director Michael Roemer and cinematographer Robert M. Young brought the influence of cinema vérité to this landmark drama about a newlywed black couple facing the social challenges of 1960s America.
Grigori Kozintsev
1926|
USSR|
84 minutes|
Russian with English subtitles
Live musical accompaniment by the Alloy Orchestra!
The marvelous Alloy Orchestra returns to NYFF to accompany this rarely screened masterpiece of Soviet silent cinema, based on Gogol’s tragicomic story. Screening with Filmstudie (Hans Richter, 1926).
1964|
USA|
130 minutes|
English
The Master of Suspense’s strange tale of a thief (Tippi Hedren) with an unnatural fear of thunderstorms and men will be presented and analyzed by leading Hitchcock scholar William Rothman, author of Hitchcock: The Murderous Gaze.
Laurence Olivier
1955|
United Kingdom|
161 minutes|
English
Screening introduced by Martin Scorsese!
Immaculately restored to its full Technicolor glory, the finest entry of Laurence Olivier’s Shakespeare adaptations features the actor-director as the eponymous hunchback duke who will stop at nothing to win the British throne.
Peter Whitehead
1966/2012|
UK / USA|
65 minutes|
English
This newly restored version of director Peter Whitehead’s behind-the-scenes diary of The Rolling Stones on tour in Ireland in 1965 is an invaluable document of the band becoming the legend.
Manoel de Oliveira
1985|
France / Portugal / West Germany / Switzerland|
410 minutes|
Portuguese, French with English subtitles
Manoel de Oliveira’s epic rendering of playwright Paul Claudel’s verse masterwork, initially screened at the 1985 NYFF in a drastically cut two-hour version, presented here in its full seven-hour cut.
David Hand
1937|
USA|
83 minutes|
English
Family Film: $10 tickets… for everyone! Please note: This screening will take place in the Walter Reade Theater.
Disney’s timeless tale of a princess banished from the palace and then saved by seven unforgettable dwarves—the first animated feature made in America. A Walt Disney Pictures release. Screening with Paperman.
September 29 – October 14
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Restorations, revivals and rediscoveries from cinema’s past, as they were meant to be seen: on the big screen. This year’s Masterworks section includes two special series: Cinéastes/Cinema of Our Time and Men of Cinema: Pierre Riessent and the Cinema Mac Mahon.















