2015 New York Film Festival
The 53rd New York Film Festival was held September 25 – October 11, 2015.
The lineup consisted of seven sections:
- Main Slate (26 films and four shorts programs)
- Spotlight on Documentary (11 films and one shorts program)
- Projections (14 programs)
- Special Events (10 films)
- Revivals (11 films)
- Nathaniel Dorsky & Jerome Hiler Retrospective (12 programs)
- Convergence (transmedia presentations and talks)
The Festival also included various talks and free screenings. The primary selection committee included Kent Jones (chair), Dennis Lim, , , and Amy Taubin. The Shorts Programs were selected by , , , , and Dan Sullivan. Projections was programmed by Dennis Lim, , and Gavin Smith. The Dorsky/ retrospective was programmed by Gavin Smith, and Convergence was curated by .[1][2]
Sections[]
Main Slate[]
Feature-length[]
Title | Original Title | Director | Country |
---|---|---|---|
The Walk (Opening Night) | The Walk | Robert Zemeckis | United States |
Steve Jobs (Centerpiece) | Steve Jobs | Danny Boyle | USA |
Miles Ahead (Closing Night) | Miles Ahead | Don Cheadle | USA |
Arabian Nights | As 1001 Noites | Miguel Gomes | Portugal France Germany Switzerland |
The Assassin | 聶隱娘 Nie Yin Niang | Hou Hsiao-hsien | Taiwan China Hong Kong |
Bridge of Spies | Bridge of Spies | Steven Spielberg | USA |
Brooklyn | Brooklyn | John Crowley | UK Ireland Canada |
Carol | Carol | Todd Haynes | USA |
Cemetery of Splendour | รักที่ขอนแก่น Rak Ti Khon Kaen | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Thailand France Germany Malaysia |
Les Cowboys | Les Cowboys | Thomas Bidegain | France |
Don't Blink – Robert Frank | Don't Blink – Robert Frank | USA Canada | |
Experimenter | Experimenter | Michael Almereyda | USA |
The Forbidden Room | The Forbidden Room | Guy Maddin Evan Johnson |
Canada |
In the Shadow of Women | L'Ombre des femmes | Philippe Garrel | France |
Journey to the Shore | 岸辺の旅 Kishibe no tabi | Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Japan France |
The Lobster | The Lobster | Yorgos Lanthimos | France Netherlands Greece UK |
Maggie's Plan | Maggie's Plan | Rebecca Miller | USA |
The Measure of a Man | La Loi du marché | Stéphane Brizé | France |
Mia Madre | Mia Madre | Nanni Moretti | Italy France |
Microbe & Gasoline | Microbe et Gasoil | Michel Gondry | France |
Mountains May Depart | 山河故人 Shan He Gu Ren | Jia Zhangke | China France Japan |
My Golden Days | Trois souvenirs de ma jeunesse | Arnaud Desplechin | France |
No Home Movie | No Home Movie | Chantal Akerman | Belgium France |
Right Now, Wrong Then | 지금은맞고그때는틀리다 Jigeumeun-matgo-geuttaeneun-tteullida | Hong Sang-soo | South Korea |
The Treasure | Comoara | Corneliu Porumboiu | Romania |
Where to Invade Next | Where to Invade Next | Michael Moore | USA |
Shorts[]
Program | Title | Director | Country |
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Program 1: International | La novia de Frankenstein | Agostina Gálvez, Francisco Lezama | Argentina |
Program 1: International | Monaco | David Easteal | Australia |
Program 1: International | Carry On | Rafael Haider | Austria |
Program 1: International | Marea de Tierra | Manuela Martelli, Amirah Tajdin | Chile, France |
Program 1: International | The Mad Half Hour | Leonardo Brzezicki | Argentina, Denmark |
Program 2: Genre Stories | Territory (Territoire) | Vincent Paronnaud | France |
Program 2: Genre Stories | We Wanted More | Stephen Dunn | Canada |
Program 2: Genre Stories | Sânge | Percival Argüero Mendoza | Mexico |
Program 2: Genre Stories | How to Be a Villain | Helen O’Hanlon | UK |
Program 2: Genre Stories | Ramona | Andrei Cretulescu | Romania |
Program 3: Animation | The Lingerie Show | Laura Harrison | USA |
Program 3: Animation | Whole | William Reynish | Denmark |
Program 3: Animation | Sanjay’s Super Team | Sanjay Patel | USA |
Program 3: Animation | Rolling | Matt Christensen | USA |
Program 3: Animation | Hot Bod | Claire van Ryzin | USA |
Program 3: Animation | Food | Siqi Song | USA |
Program 3: Animation | Denis the Pirate | Sam Messer | USA |
Program 3: Animation | Palm Rot | Ryan Gillis | USA |
Program 4: New York | Hernia | Jason Giampietro | USA |
Program 4: New York | Riot | Nathan Silver | USA |
Program 4: New York | Sundae | Sonya Goddy | USA |
Program 4: New York | Dragstrip | Pacho Velez, Daniel Claridge | USA |
Program 4: New York | Special Features | James N. Kienitz Wilkins | USA |
Program 4: New York | Six Cents in the Pocket | Ricky D’Ambrose | USA |
Program 4: New York | Bad at Dancing | Joanna Arnow | USA |
Program 4: New York | My Last Film | Zia Anger | USA |
Program 4: New York | Review | Dustin Guy Defa | USA |
Spotlight on Documentary[]
Feature-length[]
Title | Original Title | Director | Country |
---|---|---|---|
Everything is Copy | Everything is Copy | USA | |
Rabo De Peixe | Joaquim Pinto |
Portugal | |
Homeland (Iraq Year Zero) | Homeland (Iraq Year Zero) | Abbas Fahdel | Iraq France |
Immigration Battle/Reasons to Believe | Michael Camerini Shari Robertson |
USA | |
Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words | Jag är Ingrid | Stig Björkman | Sweden |
In Jackson Heights | In Jackson Heights | Frederick Wiseman | USA |
Jia Zhangke, A Guy from Fenyang | Walter Salles | Brazil France | |
Rebel Citizen | Pamela Yates | USA | |
Troublemakers: The Story of Land Art | James Crump | USA | |
We Are Alive | On est vivants | France Belgium | |
The Witness | USA |
Field of Vision: New Episodic Nonfiction[]
Title | Director | Country |
---|---|---|
Asylum (selected episodes) | Laura Poitras | USA, Germany |
Peace in the Valley | Michael Palmieri, Donal Mosher | USA, Germany |
Notes from the Border | Iva Radivojevic | USA, Germany |
The Above | Kirsten Johnson | USA, Germany |
God Is an Artist | Dustin Guy Defa | USA, Germany |
Birdie | Heloisa Passos | USA, Germany |
Projections[]
Program | Title | Director | Country |
---|---|---|---|
Program 1 | Neither God nor Santa María | Samuel M. Delgado, Helena Girón | Spain |
Program 1 | Something Horizontal | Blake Williams | USA, Canada |
Program 1 | Analysis of Emotions and Vexations | Wojciech Bakowski | Poland |
Program 1 | Traces/Legacy | Scott Stark | USA |
Program 1 | Entangled (Entrelazado) | Riccardo Giacconi | Colombia, Italy |
Program 2 | Prima Materia | Charlotte Pryce | USA |
Program 2 | Intersection | Vincent Grenier | USA |
Program 2 | Port Noir | Laura Kraning | USA |
Program 2 | Centre of the Cyclone | Heather Trawick | USA, Canada |
Program 2 | The Devastated Land (Le Pays Dévasté) | Emmanuel Lefrant | France |
Program 2 | Cathode Garden | Janie Geiser | USA |
Program 2 | Something Between Us | Jodie Mack | USA |
Program 2 | brouillard – passage 15 | Alexandre Larose | Canada |
Program 3 | A Distant Episode | Ben Rivers | UK, Morocco |
Program 3 | In Girum Imus Nocte | Giorgio Andreotta Calò | Italy |
Program 3 | Half Human, Half Vapor | Mike Stoltz | USA |
Program 3 | Occidente | Ana Vaz | France, Portugal |
Program 3 | YOLO | Ben Russell | USA, South Africa |
Program 3 | Ah humanity! | Ernst Karel, Verena Paravel, Lucien Castaing-Taylor | Japan, France, USA |
Program 4 | Hard as Opal | Jared Buckhiester, Dani Leventhal | USA |
Program 4 | Confessions [1971] | Curt McDowell | USA |
Program 4 | Non-Stop Beautiful Ladies | Alee Peoples | USA |
Program 4 | Mars Garden | Lewis Klahr | USA |
Program 4 | The Exquisite Corpus | Peter Tscherkassky | Austria |
Program 5 | Soft Fiction [1979] | Chick Strand | USA |
Program 5 | Lost Note [1969/2015] | Saul Levine | USA |
Program 6 | Minotaur | Nicolás Pereda | Mexico, Canada |
Program 6 | Live to Live (Vivir para Vivir) | Laida Lertxundi | USA, Spain |
Program 7 | Hello | Simon Fujiwara | Germany |
Program 7 | F for Fibonacci | Beatrice Gibson | UK |
Program 7 | Black Code (Code Noir) | Louis Henderson | France |
Program 7 | Lessons of War | Peggy Ahwesh | USA |
Program 7 | Scales in the Spectrum of Space | Fern Silva | USA |
Program 7 | Many Thousands Gone | Ephraim Asili | USA, Brazil |
Program 8 | 88:88 | Isiah Medina | Canada |
Program 9 | Radio at Night | James Richards | Germany, UK |
Program 9 | All That Is Solid | Louis Henderson | France, UK, Ghana |
Program 9 | Mad Ladders | Michael Robinson | USA |
Program 9 | Erysichthon | Jon Rafman | Canada |
Program 9 | Slow Zoom Long Pause | Sara Magenheimer | USA |
Program 9 | Hyperlinks or It Didn’t Happen | Cécile B. Evans | UK |
Program 10 | Santa Teresa & Other Stories | Nelson Carlo de Los Santos Arias | Dominican Republic, Mexico, USA |
Program 10 | Bunte Kuh | Ryan Ferko, Faraz Anoushahpour, Parastoo Anoushahpour | Canada |
Program 10 | The Everyday Ritual of Solitude Hatching Monkeys | Basim Magdy | Egypt |
Program 11 | The Sky Trembles and the Earth Is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers | Ben Rivers | UK, Morocco |
Program A | Chums from Across the Void | Jim Finn | USA |
Program A | The Two Sights | Katherin McInnis | USA |
Program A | A Disaster Forever | Michael Gitlin | USA |
Program B | Terrestrial | Calum Michel Walter | USA |
Program B | Noite Sem Distância | Lois Patiño | Portugal, Spain |
Program C | Rabbit Season, Duck Season | Michael Bell-Smith | USA |
Program C | All My Love All My Love | Hannah Black | UK |
Program C | Velvet Peel 1 | Victoria Fu | USA |
Program C | OM Rider | Takeshi Murata | USA |
Special Events[]
Title | Original Title | Director | Country |
---|---|---|---|
Bring Me the Head of Tim Horton | Bring Me the Head of Tim Horton | Guy Maddin Evan Johnson Galen Johnson |
Canada |
Chantal Akerman by Chantal Akerman | Chantal Akerman | France | |
Chevalier | Chevalier | Athina Rachel Tsangari | Greece |
De Palma | De Palma | Noah Baumbach Jake Paltrow |
USA |
Heart of a Dog | Heart of a Dog | Laurie Anderson | USA France |
Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles | Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles | Chantal Akerman | Belgium France |
Junun | Junun | Paul Thomas Anderson | USA |
The Martian | The Martian | Ridley Scott | USA |
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (15th Anniversary Screening) | O Brother, Where Art Thou? | Joel Coen Ethan Coen |
USA |
Son of Saul (Film Comment Presents) | Saul fia | László Nemes | Hungary |
Revivals[]
Title | Original Title | Director | Country |
---|---|---|---|
Blow Out | Blow Out | Brian De Palma | USA |
Ran | 乱 | Akira Kurosawa | Japan |
A Touch of Zen | 俠女 Xiá nǚ | King Hu | Taiwan |
Visit, or Memories and Confessions | Visita ou Memórias e Confissões | Manoel de Oliveira | Portugal |
Black Girl | La Noire de… | Ousmane Sembène | France Senegal |
The Boys from Fengkuei | 風櫃來的人 Fēngguì lái de rén | Hou Hsiao-hsien | Taiwan |
Heaven Can Wait | Heaven Can Wait | Ernst Lubitsch | USA |
Insiang | Insiang | Lino Brocka | Philippines |
The Long Voyage Home | The Long Voyage Home | John Ford | USA |
The Memory of Justice | The Memory of Justice | Marcel Ophüls | UK USA France Germany |
Rocco and His Brothers | Rocco e i suoi fratelli | Luchino Visconti | Italy France |
Retrospective[]
Nathaniel Dorsky[]
Program | Title | Director | Year |
---|---|---|---|
Early Sounds/Middle Silence | Ingreen | Nathaniel Dorsky | 1964 |
Early Sounds/Middle Silence | A Fall Trip Home | Nathaniel Dorsky | 1964 |
Early Sounds/Middle Silence | Summerwind | Nathaniel Dorsky | 1965 |
Early Sounds/Middle Silence | Kodachrome Dailies from the Time of Song and Solitude (Reel 1) | Nathaniel Dorsky | 2005-2006 |
Hours and More for Jerome | Two Personal Gifts aka Fool’s Spring | Jerome Hiler, Nathaniel Dorsky | 1966-1967 |
Hours and More for Jerome | Hours for Jerome Part 1 | Nathaniel Dorsky | 1966-1982 |
Hours and More for Jerome | Hours for Jerome Part 2 | Nathaniel Dorsky | 1966-1982 |
Excavations | Pneuma | Nathaniel Dorsky | 1977-1983 |
Excavations | 17 Reasons Why | Nathaniel Dorsky | 1985-1987 |
Excavations | Alaya | Nathaniel Dorsky | 1976-1987 |
Three Cinematic Songs | Triste | Nathaniel Dorsky | 1974-1996 |
Three Cinematic Songs | Variations | Nathaniel Dorsky | 1992-1998 |
Three Cinematic Songs | Arbor Vitae | Nathaniel Dorsky | 1999-2000 |
Three Devotional Songs | Song and Solitude | Nathaniel Dorsky | 2005-2006 |
Three Devotional Songs | Threnody | Nathaniel Dorsky | 2004 |
Three Devotional Songs | The Visitation | Nathaniel Dorsky | 2002 |
The Quartet | Sarabande | Nathaniel Dorsky | 2008 |
The Quartet | Compline | Nathaniel Dorsky | 2009 |
The Quartet | Aubade | Nathaniel Dorsky | 2010 |
The Quartet | Winter | Nathaniel Dorsky | 2007 |
New Beginnings | The Return | Nathaniel Dorsky | 2011 |
New Beginnings | Pastourelle | Nathaniel Dorsky | 2010 |
New Beginnings | August and After | Nathaniel Dorsky | 2012 |
Worlds Emerging | April | Nathaniel Dorsky | 2012 |
Worlds Emerging | Song | Nathaniel Dorsky | 2013 |
Worlds Emerging | Spring | Nathaniel Dorsky | 2013 |
The Late Quartet | Summer | Nathaniel Dorsky | 2013 |
The Late Quartet | February | Nathaniel Dorsky | 2014 |
The Late Quartet | Avraham | Nathaniel Dorsky | 2014 |
The Late Quartet | December | Nathaniel Dorsky | 2014 |
Contemplations | Love’s Refrain | Nathaniel Dorsky | 2000-2001 |
Contemplations | Intimations | Nathaniel Dorsky | 2015 |
Contemplations | Prelude | Nathaniel Dorsky | 2015 |
Jerome Hiler[]
Program | Title | Director | Year |
---|---|---|---|
Passing Glances | In the Stone House | Jerome Hiler | 1967-1970/2012 |
Passing Glances | New Shores | Jerome Hiler | 1970-1990/2012 |
Inhabited Places | Words of Mercury | Jerome Hiler | 2011 |
Inhabited Places | Gladly Given | Jerome Hiler | 1997 |
Inhabited Places | Marginalia | Jerome Hiler | 2015 |
References[]
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