2018 New York Film Festival
| Opening film | The Favourite |
|---|---|
| Closing film | At Eternity's Gate |
| 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 28 – October 14, 2018 |
| Website | https://www.filmlinc.org/nyff/ |
The 56th New York Film Festival took place from September 28 to October 14, 2018, in New York City, presented by Film at Lincoln Center.[1][2]
Yorgos Lanthimos' The Favourite was the opening film. Alfonso Cuarón's Roma was the festival centerpiece. Julian Schnabel's At Eternity's Gate was the closing film.
Appearing in the NYFF's "Main Slate" for the first time were: Louis Garrel, Ying Liang, Mariano Llinás, Alex Ross Perry, Ulrich Köhler, Bi Gan, Richard Billingham, Dominga Sotomayor Castillo and Paul Dano.
World premieres included: John Hoffman and Nanfu Wang's Out of Many, One, and Tom Surgal's Fire Music.
Official Selections
Main Slate
The following film were selected for the Main Slate section:[3]
Special Events
The following film were selected to be screened:[3]
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Border | Gräns | Ali Abbasi | Sweden |
| Mid90s | Jonah Hill | United States | |
| Out of Many, One (short) | John Hoffman and Nanfu Wang | ||
| The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921) | Rex Ingram | ||
| The Other Side of the Wind | Orson Welles | United States, France | |
| The Wild Pear Tree | Ahlat Ağacı | Nuri Bilge Ceylan | Turkey, France, Germany, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sweden |
| They'll Love Me When I'm Dead | Morgan Neville | United States | |
Spotlight on Documentary
The following film were selected to the Spotlight on Documentary section:[3]
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Dharma | Errol Morris | United States, United Kingdom | |
| Angels Are Made of Light | James Longley | United States | |
| Carmine Street Guitars | Ron Mann | Canada | |
| The Cold Blue | Erik Nelson | United States | |
| Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes | Alexis Bloom | ||
| Dream of a City (short) | Manfred Kirchheimer | ||
| End of Life | John Bruce and Paweł Wojtasik | ||
| Fire Music | Tom Surgal | ||
| Maria by Callas | Tom Volf | France | |
| The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress (1944) | William Wyler | United States | |
| The Times of Bill Cunningham | Mark Bozek | ||
| The Waldheim Waltz | Waldheims Walzer | Ruth Beckermann | Austria |
| Watergate | Watergate or: How We Learned to Stop an Out of Control President | Charles Ferguson | United States |
| What You Gonna Do When the World's on Fire? | Roberto Minervini | Italy, France, United States | |
Projections
The following film were selected to the Projections section:[3]
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 x 14 (1977) | James Benning | United States | |
| Cinderella (short) (1986) | Ericka Beckman | ||
| Classical Period | Ted Fendt | ||
| Diamantino | Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt | Portugal, France, Brazil | |
| From Its Mouth Came a River of High-End Residential Appliances (short) | Jon Wang | United States | |
| The Grand Bizarre | Jodie Mack | ||
| Gropius Memory Palace (short) | Ben Thorp Brown | Germany, United States | |
| Roi Soleil | Albert Serra | Spain, Portugal | |
| Second Time Around | Segunda Vez | Dora García | Belgium, Norway |
Revivals
The following film were selected to the Revivals section:[3]
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detour (1945) | Edgar G. Ulmer | United States | |
| Hyenas (1992) | Hyènes | Djibril Diop Mambéty | Senegal |
| I Am Cuba (1964) | Soy Cuba / Я — Куба | Mikhail Kalatozov | Cuba, Soviet Union |
| In Love (1946) | Enamorada | Emilio Fernández | Mexico |
| Khrustalyov, My Car! (1998) | Хрусталёв, машину! | Aleksei Yuryevich German | Russia, France |
| Neapolitan Carousel (1954) | Carosello napoletano | Ettore Giannini | Italy |
| None Shall Escape (1944) | Andre de Toth | United States | |
| Spring Night, Summer Night (1967) | Joseph L. Anderson | ||
| The Red House (1947) | Delmer Daves | ||
| The War at Home (1979) | Glenn Silber and Barry Alexander Brown | ||
| Tunes of Glory (1960) | Ronald Neame | United Kingdom | |
Retrospective
Alongside a tribute to the late film industry luminaries Dan Talbot and Pierre Rissient, the following films were selected for the Retrospective section:[3]
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| The American Friend (1977) | Der amerikanische Freund | Wim Wenders | West Germany, France |
| Before the Revolution (1964) | Prima della rivoluzione | Bernardo Bertolucci | Italy |
| Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché | Pamela B. Green | United States | |
| The Ceremony (1971) | 儀式 | Nagisa Ōshima | Japan |
| Every Man for Himself (1980) | Sauve qui peut (la vie) | Jean-Luc Godard | France, Austria, West Germany, Switzerland |
| House by the River (1950) | Fritz Lang | United States | |
| Introduzione All’Oscuro | Gastón Solnicki | Austria, Argentina | |
| Manila in the Claws of Light (1975) | Maynila, sa mga Kuko ng Liwanag | Lino Brocka | Philippines |
| The Man I Love (1947) | Raoul Walsh | United States | |
| The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979) | Die Ehe der Maria Braun | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | West Germany |
| Mother India (1957) | मदर इण्डिया | Mehboob Khan | India |
| My Dinner with Andre (1981) | Louis Malle | United States | |
| Play Misty for Me (1971) | Clint Eastwood | ||
| Searching For Ingmar Bergman | Auf der suche nach Ingmar Bergman | Margarethe von Trotta, Felix Moeller and Bettina Böhler | Germany, France |
| A Touch of Zen (1970) | 俠女 | King Hu | Taiwan, Hong Kong |
| Time Without Pity (1957) | Joseph Losey | United Kingdom | |
References
- ↑ "NYFF56 Schedule". Film Society of Lincoln Center. Retrieved August 11, 2020.
- ↑ "Main Slate". Film Society of Lincoln Center. Retrieved August 11, 2020.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 "56th New York Film Festival". Film at Lincoln Center. Retrieved June 9, 2026.