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New York Film Festival Essentials

New York Film Festival Essentials

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New York Film Festival Essentials
  • Bob le Flambeur

    Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville • Crime • 1956 • France • French with English subtitles
    Starring Roger Duchesne, Isabelle Corey, Daniel Cauchy

    From legendary director Jean-Pierre Melville comes an underworld comedy of manners. “Bob Le Flambeur” melds the toughness of American gangster films wit...

  • Confidence

    Directed by István Szabó • Drama • 1980 • Hungary • Hungarian with English subtitles
    Starring Peter Andorai, Ildiko Bansagi

    István Szabó's "Confidence" was nominated for an Academy Award and won Berlinale's Silver Bear for Best Director in 1980. Set in World War II-era Hungary, it follows two un...

  • Diamantino

    Directed by Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel Schmidt • Comedy • 2019 • Portugal, France, Brazil • Portuguese with English subtitles
    Starring Carloto Cotta, Anabela Moreira, Margarida Moreira

    Winner of the Critics' Week Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, "Diamantino" follows a soccer hunk as he goe...

  • Duet for Cannibals

    Directed by Susan Sontag • Arthouse • 1969 • Sweden • Swedish with English subtitles
    Starring Adriana Asti, Gosta Ekman, Lars Ekborg

    Essayist, novelist, critic, and all-around intellectual dynamo Susan Sontag made her directorial debut with this definition-defying, dryly funny psychological seri...

  • Faust

    Directed by F.W. Murnau • Silent • 1926 • Germany • German with English intertitles
    Starring Gosta Ekman, Emil Jannings, Camilla Horn

    Mobilizing full studio resources, F.W. Murnau orchestrated a colossal adaptation of Goethe's “Faust” that ranks among the greatest achievements of German silent c...

  • Fire at Sea

    Directed by Gianfranco Rosi • Documentary • 2016 • Italy • Italian with English subtitles
    Featuring Samuele Pucillo, Mattias Cucina, Pietro Bartolo

    An Academy Award nominee for Best Documentary Feature and winner of the top prize at the Berlin International Film Festival, "Fire at Sea" takes pla...

  • France

    Directed by Bruno Dumont • Comedy • 2021 • France, Germany, Italy, Belgium • French with English subtitles
    Starring Léa Seydoux, Blanche Gardin, Benjamin Biolay

    Léa Seydoux brilliantly holds the center of Bruno Dumont’s Cannes Palme d'Or nominated film, which starts out as a satire of contempora...

  • Goodbye, Dragon Inn

    Directed by Tsai Ming-liang • Arthouse • 2017 • Taiwan • Mandarin with English subtitles
    Starring Lee Kang-sheng, Chen Shiang-chyi, Mitamura Kiyonobu

    In Tsai Ming-liang’s minimalist film, the Fu-Ho Grand, a movie palace in Taipei, is closing its doors. Its valedictory screening: King Hu’s 1967 w...

  • Hermia & Helena

    Directed by Matías Piñeiro • Arthouse • 2017 • US, Argentina • English, Spanish with English subtitles
    Starring Agustina Muñoz, Mati Diop, Duston Guy Defa

    A young Argentine theater director travels to New York for a residency to work on a new Spanish translation of "A Midsummer Night’s Dream", b...

  • Kippur

    Directed by Amos Gitai • Drama • 2000 • Israel, France • Hebrew w/ English subtitles
    Starring Juliano Mer, Uri Ran Klauzner, Tomer Ruso

    An Official Selection at the Cannes, New York, and Toronto Film Festivals, Amos Gitai's "Kippur" is a gut-wrenching journey through beautiful landscapes ravaged...

  • Portrait of Jason

    Directed by Shirley Clarke • Documentary • 1967 • US • English
    Featuring Jason Holliday, Shirley Clarke

    In 1966, director Shirley Clarke spent twelve hours with the one-and-only Jason Holliday where she confronted the iconic performer about his good times and bad behavior as a gay hustler, on-an...

  • L'Age D'or

    Directed by Luis Buñuel • Arthouse • 1930 • France • French with English subtitles
    Starring Gaston Modot, Lya Lys, Max Ernst

    The surrealist masterpiece “L'Age D'or” showcases the incomparably obsessive cinematic imagination of Luis Buñuel at its beginning and the celebrated surrealism of Salvado...

  • Le Gai Savoir

    Directed by Jean-Luc Godard • Arthouse • 1969 • France • French with English subtitles
    Starring Juliet Berto, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Jean-Luc Godard

    In this classic film from Jean-Luc Godard, two militants have a discourse on language while alone in an abandoned television studio. Referring to spoke...

  • Martin Eden

    Directed by Pietro Marcello • Arthouse • 2020 • Italy • Italian with English subtitles
    Starring Luca Marinelli, Jessica Cressy, Denise Sardisco

    Winner of the Best Actor award at the Venice Film Festival and adapted from the 1909 novel by Jack London, "Martin Eden" follows a dashing young proleta...

  • Mephisto

    Directed by István Szabó • Drama • 1981 • Hungary • German, Hungarian with English subtitles
    Starring Klaus Maria Brandauer, Ildiko Bansagi, Krystyna Janda

    Winner of Best Foreign Language Film at the 1982 Academy Awards and nominated for a Palme d'Or at Cannes, István Szabó's "Mephisto" follows ...

  • Neptune Frost

    Directed by Saul Williams, Anisia Uzeyman • Sci-Fi • 2021 • US, Rwanda • English, Kinyarwanda with English subtitles
    Starring Cheryl Isheja, Elvis Ngabo, Diogene Ntarindwa

    In an otherworldly e-waste dump camp, an anti-colonialist hacking collective attempts a takeover of the authoritarian regime...

  • Nostalghia

    Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky • Arthouse • 1983 • Italy, Russia • Italian, Russian with English subtitles
    Starring Oleg Yankovskiy, Erland Josephson, Domiziana Giordano

    In Andrei Tarkovsky’s first film made outside of the USSR, a Russian intellectual conducting research in Italy becomes overwhelm...

  • Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today

    Directed by Stuart Schulberg • Documentary • 1948 • US • English, German with English subtitles
    Featuring Liev Schreiber

    One of the greatest courtroom dramas in history, “Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today” shows how international prosecutors built their case against top Nazi war criminals using...

  • Oliver Sacks: His Own Life

    Directed by Ric Burns • Documentary • 2020 • US • English
    Featuring Oliver Sacks, Temple Grandin, Atul Gawande

    A month after receiving a fatal diagnosis, esteemed neurologist Oliver Sacks sat down for a series of interviews in his apartment in New York City. For eighty hours, surrounded by famil...

  • Red Psalm

    Directed by Miklós Jancsó • Drama • 1972 • Hungary • Hungarian with English subtitles
    Starring József Madaras, Tibor Orbán, Jácint Juhász

    Winner of the best director prize at Cannes in 1972 and widely considered to be the greatest Hungarian film of the 70s, Miklós Jancsó's masterpiece set on th...

  • Rude Boy

    Directed by Jack Hazan, David Mingay • Drama • 1980 • UK • English
    Starring Ray Gange, Joe Strummer, Mick Jones

    Set against a background of riots, anti-racist demos, and police hostility, this unforgettable film portraits the UK at a moment when subcultural shock troops met those of a rising rig...

  • The Conformist: Restored Edition

    Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci • Arthouse • 1970 • Italy • Italian with English subtitles
    Starring Jean-Louis Trintignant, Stefania Sandrelli, Dominique Sanda

    Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, Bernardo Bertolucci's masterpiece is a political drama set in Mussolini's It...

  • The Draughtsman's Contract

    Directed by Peter Greenaway • Comedy • 1983 • UK • English
    Starring Janet Suzman, Anthony Higgins, Anne Louise Lambert

    Set in 17th-century England, Peter Greenaway’s erotic country house murder mystery catapulted him to the forefront of international art cinema. Adorned with intricate wordplay, ...

  • The Sorrow and the Pity

    Directed by Marcel Ophuls • Documentary • 1972 • France, Switzerland, Germany • French with English subtitles
    Featuring Pierre Mendes France, Sir Anthony Eden, Christian de la Maziere

    Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary, "The Sorrow and The Pity" has been acclaimed as one of the ...