2016 New York Film Festival
| Opening film | 13th |
|---|---|
| Closing film | The Lost City of Z |
| Location | New York City, United States |
| Founded | 1963 |
| Founded by | Richard Roud and Amos Vogel |
| Hosted by | Film at Lincoln Center |
| Artistic director | Kent Jones |
| Festival date | September 30 – October 16, 2016 |
| Website | https://www.filmlinc.org/nyff/ |
The 54th New York Film Festival took place from September 30 to October 16, 2016, in New York City, presented by Film at Lincoln Center.[1]
The festival's opening film was Ava DuVernay's 13th. Mike Mills' 20th Century Women was the festival's centerpiece. James Gray's The Lost City of Z was the festival's closing film.
The "Explorations" section was a new addition for the 2016 program.[2]
Appearing in the NYFF's "Main Slate" for the first time were: Ava DuVernay, Mike Mills, Kleber Mendonça Filho, Gianfranco Rosi, Barry Jenkins, Dash Shaw, and Maren Ade.
World premieres included: Alex Horwitz's Hamilton's America, Ang Lee's Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, Ava DuVernay's 13th, James Gray's The Lost City of Z, and Lonny Price's Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened.
Official Selections
The primary selection committee included Kent Jones (chair), Dennis Lim, Florence Almozini, Amy Taubin, and Gavin Smith as a consultant.[1]
Main Slate
The following films were selected for the Main Slate section:[3][4]
Special Events
The following films were selected: [5][6]
| Title | Director | Production Country |
|---|---|---|
| Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened | Lonny Price | United States |
| Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk | Ang Lee | United States, United Kingdom, China |
| Gimme Danger | Jim Jarmusch | United States |
| Hamilton's America | Alex Horwitz | |
| Jackie | Pablo Larraín | United States, Chile, France |
| A Quiet Passion | Terence Davies | United Kingdom |
Spotlight on Documentary
The following documentaries were selected:[7][8]
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abacus: Small Enough to Jail | Steve James | United States | |
| The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography | Errol Morris | ||
| Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds | Alexis Bloom and Fisher Stevens | ||
| The Cinema Travellers | Shirley Abraham and Amit Madheshiya | India | |
| Dawson City: Frozen Time | Bill Morrison | United States | |
| Hissane Habré: A Chadian Tragedy | Hissein Habré, une tragédie tchadienne | Mahamat-Saleh Haroun | France, Chad |
| I Am Not Your Negro | Raoul Peck | United States, France, Belgium, Switzerland | |
| I Called Him Morgan | Kasper Collin | Sweden, United States | |
| Karl Marx City | Petra Epperlein and Michael Tucker | Germany | |
| Patria O Muerte: Cuba, Fatherland or Death | Olatz López Garmendia | United States | |
| Restless Creature: Wendy Whelan | Linda Saffire and Adam Schlesinger | United States | |
| The Settlers | Shimon Dotan | France, Canada, Israel | |
| Two Trains Runnin’ | Sam Pollard | United States | |
| Uncle Howard | Aaron Brookner | United Kingdom, United States | |
| Whose Country? | Balad Meen? | Mohamed Siam | Egypt, United States, France |
Explorations
The following films were selected:[2][9]
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Death of Louis XIV | La Mort de Louis XIV | Albert Serra | France, Portugal, Spain |
| Everything Else | Todo lo demás | Natalia Almada | Mexico |
| I Had Nowhere to Go | Douglas Gordon | United Kingdom, Germany | |
| Kékszakállú | Gastón Solnicki | Argentina | |
| Mimosas | Oliver Laxe | Spain, Morocco, France, Qatar | |
| The Ornithologist | O Ornitólogo | João Pedro Rodrigues | Portugal, France, Brazil |
Shorts
The Shorts Programs were selected by Dilcia Barrera, Laura Kern, Dennis Lim, Gabi Madsen and Dan Sullivan. The following short films were selected:[10][11]
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Program 1: Narrative | |||
| And The Whole Sky Fit In The Dead Cow’s Eye | Y todo el celo cupo en el ojo de la vaca muerta | Francisca Alegria | Chile, United States |
| Be Good for Rachel | Ed Roe | United States | |
| Dobro | Marta Hernaiz Pidal | Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mexico | |
| The Girl Who Danced with the Devil | A moça que dançou com o Diabo | João Paulo Miranda Maria | Brazil |
| Land of the Lost Sidekicks | Roger Ross Williams | United States | |
| Little Bullets | Küçük Kurşunlar | Alphan Eseli | Turkey |
| Univitellin | Terence Nance | France | |
| Program 2: International Auteurs | |||
| A Brief History of Princess X | Gabriel Abrantes | Portugal, France | |
| Sarah Winchester, Phantom Opera | Sarah Winchester, Opera Fantôme | Bertrand Bonello | France |
| The Hedonists | 营生 | Jia Zhangke | China |
| From the Diary of a Wedding Photographer | מיומנו של צלם חתונות | Nadav Lapid | Israel |
| Program 3: Genre Stories | |||
| Can’t Take My Eyes Off You | Johannes Kizler, Nik Sentenza | Germany | |
| Imposter | Adam Goldhammer | Canada | |
| New Gods | Jack Burke | United Kingdom | |
| Quenottes (Pearlies) | Pascal Thiebaux, Gil Pinheiro | Luxembourg, France | |
| The Signalman | Daniel Augusto | Brazil | |
| What Happened to Her | Kristy Guevara-Flanagan | United States | |
| Program 4: New York Stories | |||
| Dramatic Relationships | Dustin Guy Defa | United States | |
| The Honeymoon | Tommy Davis | ||
| I Turn to Jello | Andrew T. Betzer | ||
| Kitty | Chloë Sevigny | ||
| Los Angeles Plays New York | John Wilson | ||
| This Castle Keep | Gina Telaroli | ||
| Program 5: Documentaries | |||
| Legal Smuggling with Christine Choy | Lewie Kloster | United States | |
| El Buzo | Esteban Arrangoiz | Mexico | |
| Jean Nouvel: Reflections | Matt Tyrnauer | United States | |
| Rotatio | Ian McClerin | ||
| The Vote | Mila Aung-Thwin, Van Royko | Canada | |
| Brillo Box (3¢ off) | Lisanne Skyler | United States | |
Projections
Projections was programmed by Dennis Lim and Aily Nash.[1] The following films were selected:[12][13]
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Program 1: The Spaces Between the Words | |||
| Now: End of Season | Ayman Nahle | Lebanon | |
| Real Italian Pizza (1971) | David Rimmer | Canada | |
| REGAL | Karissa Hahn | United States | |
| See a Dog, Hear a Dog | Jesse McLean | ||
| Steve Hates Fish | John Smith | United Kingdom | |
| Twixt Cup and Lip | Stephen Sutcliffe | ||
| Program 2: Beyond Landscape | |||
| Bad Mama, Who Cares | Brigid McCaffrey | United States | |
| Bending to Earth | Rosa Barba | United States, Germany | |
| Burning Mountains That Spew Flame | Montañas Ardientes Que Vomitan Fuego | Helena Girón and Samuel Delgado | Spain |
| Canadian Pacific I (1974) | David Rimmer | Canada | |
| Ears, Nose and Throat | Kevin Jerome Everson | United States | |
| Jáaji Approx. | Sky Hopinka | ||
| Ten Mornings Ten Evening and One Horizon | Tomonari Nishikawa | Japan | |
| Program 3: The Illinois Parables | |||
| The Illinois Parables | Deborah Stratman | United States | |
| The Horses of a Cavalry Captain | Die Pferde des Rittmeisters | Clemens von Wedemeyer | Germany |
| Program 4: Fade Out | |||
| Answer Print | Mónica Savirón | United States | |
| Athyrium filix-femina (for Anna Atkins) | Kelly Egan | Canada | |
| Cilaos | Camilo Restrepo | France | |
| Flowers of the Sky | Janie Geiser | United States | |
| Ghost Children | João Vieira Torres | Brazil, France | |
| Luna e Santur | Joshua Gen Solondz | United States | |
| Old Hat | Zach Iannazzi | ||
| Variations on a Cellophane Wrapper (1970) | David Rimmer | Canada | |
| Program 5: Site and Sound | |||
| Europa, Mon Amour (2016 Brexit Edition) | Lawrence Lek | United Kingdom | |
| Foyer | Ismaïl Bahri | France, Tunisia | |
| Indefinite Pitch | James N. Kienitz Wilkins | United States | |
| Strange Vision of Seeing Things | Ryan Ferko | Canada, Serbia | |
| Program 6 | |||
| All the Cities of the North | Dane Komljen | Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Montenegro | |
| Program 7: Pop Culture Clash | |||
| A Boy Needs a Friend | Steve Reinke | United States | |
| Dream English Kid, 1964–1999 AD | Mark Leckey | United Kingdom | |
| Spotlight on a Brick Wall | Alee Peoples and Mike Stoltz | United States | |
| Return to Forms | Zachary Epcar | ||
| Program 8: Dorsky and Hiler | |||
| Autumn | Nathaniel Dorsky | United States | |
| Bagatelle II | Jerome Hiler | ||
| The Dreamer | Nathaniel Dorsky | ||
| Program 9: Event Horizons | |||
| An Aviation Field | Um Campo de Aviação | Joana Pimenta | Portugal, United States, Brazil |
| Electrical Gaza | Rosalind Nashashibi | United States | |
| Event Horizon | Guillermo Moncayo | France | |
| Há Terra! | Ana Vaz | Brazil, France | |
| In Titan's Goblet (1991) | Peter Hutton | United States | |
| Kindah | Ephraim Asili | United States, Jamaica | |
| Program 10: From the Notebook of... | |||
| From the Notebook of... (1971-1998) | Robert Beavers | Italy, Switzerland | |
| For Christian | Luke Fowler | United Kingdom, United States | |
| Program 11 | |||
| The Human Surge | El auge del humano | Eduardo Williams | Argentina, Brazil, Portugal |
Revivals
The Revivals section was programmed by Kent Jones.[1] The following films were selected:[14][15]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| L'Argent (1983) | Robert Bresson | France | |
| At the Four Corners (1949) (short) | Aux quatre coins | Jacques Rivette | |
| The Battle of Algiers (1966) | La battaglia di Algeri | Gillo Pontecorvo | Italy, Algeria |
| The Diversion (1952) (short) | Le divertissement | Jacques Rivette | France |
| Harlan County, USA (1976) | Barbara Kopple | United States | |
| The Living Idol (1957) | Albert Lewin | ||
| Memories of Underdevelopment (1968) | Memorias del subdesarrollo | Tomás Gutiérrez Alea | Cuba |
| One-Eyed Jacks (1961) | Marlon Brando | United States | |
| Panic (1946) | Panique | Julien Duvivier | France |
| The Quadrille (1950) (short) | Le quadrille | Jacques Rivette | |
| Taipei Story (1985) | 青梅竹馬 | Edward Yang | Taiwan |
| Ugetsu (1953) | 雨月物語 | Kenji Mizoguchi | Japan |
Retrospective
The 2016 Retrospective contained two programs, both inspired by Bertrand Tavernier. “A Brief Journey Through French Cinema” screened Tavernier’s My Journey Through French Cinema along with several titles cited in the film. The second program focused on Henry Hathaway, a director Tavernier particularly admires.
The following films were selected:[16][17]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| A Brief Journey Through French Cinema | |||
| Angels of Sin (1943) | Les anges du péché | Robert Bresson | France |
| Antoine and Antoinette (1947) | Antoine et Antoinette | Jacques Becker | |
| Deadlier Than the Male (1956) | Voici le temps des assassins | Julien Duvivier | |
| Les Enfants terribles (1950) | Jean-Pierre Melville | ||
| La Marseillaise (1938) | Jean Renoir | ||
| My Journey Through French Cinema (2016) | Voyage à travers le cinéma français | Bertrand Tavernier | |
| Safe Conduct (2002) | Laissez-passer | ||
| Henry Hathaway | |||
| 23 Paces to Baker Street (1956) | Henry Hathaway | United States | |
| The Dark Corner (1946) | |||
| Down to the Sea in Ships (1949) | |||
| Fourteen Hours (1951) | |||
| From Hell to Texas (1958) | |||
| Garden of Evil (1958) | United States, Mexico | ||
| Kiss of Death (1947) | United States | ||
| Niagara (1953) | |||
| North to Alaska (1960) | |||
| Rawhide (1951) | |||
| The Shepherd of the Hills (1941) | |||
| Spawn of the North (1938) | |||
References
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- 1 2 "Explorations | New York Film Festival". Film Society of Lincoln Center. Retrieved 2016-12-26.
- ↑ "Main Slate | New York Film Festival". Film Society of Lincoln Center. Retrieved 2016-12-26.
- ↑ Cox, Gordon (2016-08-09). "New York Film Festival Loads 2016 Main Slate With Festival-Circuit Favorites". Variety. Retrieved 2016-12-28.
- ↑ Cox, Gordon (2016-08-23). "New York Film Festival Adds 'Hamilton's America,' Stephen Sondheim and More Jarmusch". Variety. Retrieved 2016-12-28.
- ↑ "Special Events | New York Film Festival". Film Society of Lincoln Center. Retrieved 2016-12-26.
- ↑ "Spotlight on Documentary | New York Film Festival". Film Society of Lincoln Center. Retrieved 2016-12-26.
- ↑ Nordine, Michael (2016-08-24). "New York Film Festival Announces 2016 Documentary Lineup". IndieWire. Retrieved 2016-12-28.
- ↑ Cavassuto, Maria (2016-08-29). "New York Film Festival Debuts Explorations Program". Variety. Retrieved 2016-12-28.
- ↑ "Shorts Programs | New York Film Festival". Film Society of Lincoln Center. Retrieved 2017-04-10.
- ↑ Murthi, Vikram (2016-08-29). "NYFF Announces Shorts Programs And New Section Explorations". IndieWire. Retrieved 2017-04-10.
- ↑ "Projections | New York Film Festival". Film Society of Lincoln Center. Retrieved 2016-12-28.
- ↑ "54th New York Film Festival Reveals Lineup for 'Projections'". Artforum. 2016-08-17. Retrieved 2016-12-28.
- ↑ "Revivals | New York Film Festival". Film Society of Lincoln Center. Retrieved 2016-12-26.
- ↑ Murthi, Vikram (2016-08-04). "New York Film Festival Announces 2016 Revival Lineup". IndieWire. Retrieved 2016-12-28.
- ↑ "Retrospective | New York Film Festival". Film Society of Lincoln Center. Retrieved 2016-12-28.
- ↑ Erbland, Kate (2016-08-19). "New York Film Festival 2016 Announces Retrospective Selections". IndieWire. Retrieved 2016-12-28.