2015 New York Film Festival
53rd edition
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The 53rd New York Film Festival took place from September 25 to October 11, 2015, in New York City, presented by Film at Lincoln Center.[1]
| Opening film | The Walk |
|---|---|
| Closing film | Miles Ahead |
| 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 25 – October 11, 2015 |
| Website | https://www.filmlinc.org/nyff/ |
The festival's opening film was Robert Zemeckis's The Walk. Danny Boyle's Steve Jobs was the centerpiece. Don Cheadle's Miles Ahead was the festival's closing film.
Appearing in NYFF's "Main Slate" for the first time were: Danny Boyle, Don Cheadle, John Crowley, Laura Israel, and Thomas Bidegain.
World premieres included: Don Cheadle's Miles Ahead, Jacob Bernstein's Everything Is Copy, Laura Israel's Don't Blink – Robert Frank, Robert Zemeckis's The Walk, and Paul Thomas Anderson's Junun.
Official Selections
The primary selection committee included Kent Jones (chair), Dennis Lim, Marian Masone, Gavin Smith, and Amy Taubin.[1][2] The lineup consisted of seven sections:
Main Slate
The following films were selected:[3][4]
Special Events
The following films were selected:[5][6]
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bring Me the Head of Tim Horton (short) | Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson | Canada | |
| Chantal Akerman by Chantal Akerman (1997) | Chantal Akerman par Chantal Akerman | Chantal Akerman | France |
| Chevalier | Athina Rachel Tsangari | Greece | |
| De Palma | Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow | United States | |
| Heart of a Dog | Laurie Anderson | United States, France | |
| Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) | Chantal Akerman | Belgium, France | |
| Junun | Paul Thomas Anderson | United States | |
| The Martian | Ridley Scott | ||
| O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) | Joel and Ethan Coen | ||
| Son of Saul | Saul fia | László Nemes | Hungary |
Spotlight on Documentary
The following films were selected:[7][8][9][10]
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Everything Is Copy | Jacob Bernstein | United States | |
| Fish Tail | Rabo de Peixe | Joaquim Pinto and Nuno Leonel | Portugal |
| Homeland: Iraq Year Zero | وطن: العراق السنة صفر | Abbas Fahdel | Iraq, France |
| Immigration Battle: Reasons to Believe | Michael Camerini and Shari Robertson | United States | |
| Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words | Jag är Ingrid | Stig Björkman | Sweden |
| In Jackson Heights | Frederick Wiseman | United States | |
| Jia Zhangke, A Guy from Fenyang | Walter Salles | Brazil, France | |
| Rebel Citizen | Pamela Yates | United States | |
| Troublemakers: The Story of Land Art | James Crump | ||
| We Are Alive | On est vivants | Carmen Castillo | France, Belgium |
| The Witness | James Solomon | United States | |
| Field of Vision: New Episodic Nonfiction | |||
| The Above | Kirsten Johnson | United States, Germany | |
| Asylum (selected episodes) | Laura Poitras | ||
| Birdie | Heloisa Passos | ||
| God Is an Artist | Dustin Guy Defa | ||
| Notes from the Border | Iva Radivojevic | ||
| Peace in the Valley | Michael Palmieri and Donal Mosher | ||
Shorts Programs
The section was selected by Sarah Mankoff, Laura Kern, Matt Bolish, Florence Almozini, and Dan Sullivan. The following short films were selected:[11][12]
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Program 1: International | |||
| Carry On | Rafael Haider | Austria | |
| The Mad Half Hour | Leonardo Brzezicki | Argentina, Denmark | |
| Marea de Tierra | Manuela Martelli, Amirah Tajdin | Chile, France | |
| Monaco | David Easteal | Australia | |
| La novia de Frankenstein | Agostina Gálvez and Francisco Lezama | Argentina | |
| Program 2: Genre Stories | |||
| How to Be a Villain | Helen O’Hanlon | United Kingdom | |
| Ramona | Andrei Cretulescu | Romania | |
| Sânge | Percival Argüero Mendoza | Mexico | |
| Territory | Territoire | Vincent Paronnaud | France |
| We Wanted More | Stephen Dunn | Canada | |
| Program 3: Animation | |||
| Denis the Pirate | Sam Messer | United States | |
| Food | Siqi Song | ||
| Hot Bod | Claire van Ryzin | ||
| The Lingerie Show | Laura Harrison | ||
| Palm Rot | Ryan Gillis | ||
| Rolling | Matt Christensen | ||
| Sanjay's Super Team | Sanjay Patel | ||
| Whole | William Reynish | Denmark | |
| Program 4: New York | |||
| Bad at Dancing | Joanna Arnow | United States | |
| Dragstrip | Pacho Velez and Daniel Claridge | ||
| Hernia | Jason Giampietro | ||
| My Last Film | Zia Anger | ||
| Review | Dustin Guy Defa | ||
| Riot | Nathan Silver | ||
| Six Cents in the Pocket | Ricky D'Ambrose | ||
| Special Features | James N. Kienitz Wilkins | ||
| Sundae | Sonya Goddy | ||
Projections
The section was programmed by Dennis Lim, Aily Nash, and Gavin Smith.[1] The following films were selected:[13][14]
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Program 1 | |||
| Analysis of Emotions and Vexations | Wojciech Bakowski | Poland | |
| Entangled | Entrelazado | Riccardo Giacconi | Colombia, Italy |
| Neither God nor Santa María | Samuel M. Delgado and Helena Girón | Spain | |
| Something Horizontal | Blake Williams | United States, Canada | |
| Traces/Legacy | Scott Stark | United States | |
| Program 2 | |||
| brouillard – passage 15 | Alexandre Larose | Canada | |
| Cathode Garden | Janie Geiser | United States | |
| Centre of the Cyclone | Heather Trawick | United States, Canada | |
| The Devastated Land | Le Pays Dévasté | Emmanuel Lefrant | France |
| Intersection | Vincent Grenier | United States | |
| Prima Materia | Charlotte Pryce | ||
| Port Noir | Laura Kraning | ||
| Something Between Us | Jodie Mack | ||
| Program 3 | |||
| Ah humanity! | Ernst Karel, Verena Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor | Japan, France, United States | |
| A Distant Episode | Ben Rivers | United Kingdom, Morocco | |
| In Girum Imus Nocte | Giorgio Andreotta Calò | Italy | |
| Half Human, Half Vapor | Mike Stoltz | United States | |
| Occidente | Ana Vaz | France, Portugal | |
| YOLO | Ben Russell | United States, South Africa | |
| Program 4 | |||
| Confessions (1971) | Curt McDowell | United States | |
| The Exquisite Corpus | Peter Tscherkassky | Austria | |
| Hard as Opal | Jared Buckhiester and Dani Leventhal | United States | |
| Mars Garden | Lewis Klahr | ||
| Non-Stop Beautiful Ladies | Alee Peoples | ||
| Program 5 | |||
| Lost Note (1969-2015) | Saul Levine | United States | |
| Soft Fiction (1979) | Chick Strand | ||
| Program 6 | |||
| Live to Live | Vivir para Vivir | Laida Lertxundi | United States, Spain |
| Minotaur | Nicolás Pereda | Mexico, Canada | |
| Program 7 | |||
| Black Code | Code Noir | Louis Henderson | France |
| F for Fibonacci | Beatrice Gibson | United Kingdom | |
| Hello | Simon Fujiwara | Germany | |
| Lessons of War | Peggy Ahwesh | United States | |
| Scales in the Spectrum of Space | Fern Silva | ||
| Many Thousands Gone | Ephraim Asili | United States, Brazil | |
| Program 8 | |||
| 88:88 | Isiah Medina | Canada | |
| Program 9 | |||
| All That Is Solid | Louis Henderson | France, United Kingdom, Ghana | |
| Erysichthon | Jon Rafman | Canada | |
| Hyperlinks or It Didn’t Happen | Cécile B. Evans | United Kingdom | |
| Mad Ladders | Michael Robinson | United States | |
| Radio at Night | James Richards | Germany, United Kingdom | |
| Slow Zoom Long Pause | Sara Magenheimer | United States | |
| Program 10 | |||
| Bunte Kuh | Ryan Ferko, Faraz Anoushahpour and Parastoo Anoushahpour | Canada | |
| The Everyday Ritual of Solitude Hatching Monkeys | Basim Magdy | Egypt | |
| Santa Teresa & Other Stories | Nelson Carlo de Los Santos Arias | Dominican Republic, Mexico, United States | |
| Program 11 | |||
| The Sky Trembles and the Earth Is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers | Ben Rivers | United Kingdom, Morocco | |
| Program A | |||
| Chums from Across the Void | Jim Finn | United States | |
| A Disaster Forever | Michael Gitlin | ||
| The Two Sights | Katherin McInnis | ||
| Program B | |||
| Noite Sem Distância | Lois Patiño | Portugal, Spain | |
| Terrestrial | Calum Michel Walter | United States | |
| Program C | |||
| All My Love All My Love | Hannah Black | United Kingdom | |
| OM Rider | Takeshi Murata | United States | |
| Rabbit Season, Duck Season | Michael Bell-Smith | ||
| Velvet Peel 1 | Victoria Fu | ||
Revivals
The following films were selected:[6][15]
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Boys from Fengkuei (1983) | 風櫃來的人 | Hou Hsiao-hsien | Taiwan |
| Black Girl (1966) | La Noire de... | Ousmane Sembène | France, Senegal |
| Blow Out (1981) | Brian De Palma | United States | |
| Heaven Can Wait (1943) | Ernst Lubitsch | ||
| Insiang (1976) | Lino Brocka | Philippines | |
| The Long Voyage Home (1940) | John Ford | United States | |
| The Memory of Justice (1976) | The Memory of Justice | Marcel Ophüls | France, West Germany, United Kingdom, United States |
| Ran (1985) | 乱 | Akira Kurosawa | Japan |
| Rocco and His Brothers (1960) | Rocco e i suoi fratelli | Luchino Visconti | Italy, France |
| A Touch of Zen (1970) | 俠女 | King Hu | Taiwan, Hong Kong |
| Visit or Memories and Confessions (2015) | Visita ou Memórias e Confissões | Manoel de Oliveira | Portugal |
Retrospective
The retrospective was programmed by Gavin Smith.[1][2][16][17]
Nathaniel Dorsky
| Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|
| Early Sounds/Middle Silence | ||
| A Fall Trip Home (1964) | Nathaniel Dorsky | United States |
| Ingreen (1964) | ||
| Kodachrome Dailies from the Time of Song and Solitude (Reel 1) (2005-2006) | ||
| Summerwind (1965) | ||
| Hours and More for Jerome | ||
| Hours for Jerome part 1 (1966-1982) | Nathaniel Dorsky | United States |
| Hours for Jerome part 2 (1966-1982) | ||
| Two Personal Gifts aka Fool’s Spring (1966-1967) | Jerome Hiler and Nathaniel Dorsky | |
| Excavations | ||
| 17 Reasons Why (1985-1987) | Nathaniel Dorsky | United States |
| Alaya (1976-1987) | ||
| Pneuma (1977-1983) | ||
| Three Cinematic Songs | ||
| Arbor Vitae (1999-2000) | Nathaniel Dorsky | United States |
| Song and Solitude (2005-2006) | ||
| Threnody (2004) | ||
| Triste (1974-1996) | ||
| Variations (1992-1998) | ||
| The Visitation (2002) | ||
| The Quartet | ||
| Aubade (2010) | Nathaniel Dorsky | United States |
| Compline (2009) | ||
| Sarabande (2008) | ||
| Winter (2007) | ||
| New Beginnings | ||
| August and After (2012) | Nathaniel Dorsky | United States |
| Pastourelle (2010) | ||
| The Return (2011) | ||
| Worlds Emerging | ||
| April (2012) | Nathaniel Dorsky | United States |
| Song (2013) | ||
| Spring (2013) | ||
| The Late Quartet | ||
| Avraham (2014) | Nathaniel Dorsky | United States |
| December (2014) | ||
| February (2014) | ||
| Summer (2013) | ||
| Contemplations | ||
| Intimations (2015) | Nathaniel Dorsky | United States |
| Love's Refrain (2000-2001) | ||
| Prelude (2015) | ||
Jerome Hiler
| Title | Director | Production Country |
|---|---|---|
| Passing Glances | ||
| In the Stone House (1967-1970/2012) | Jerome Hiler | United States |
| New Shores (1970-1990/2012) | ||
| Inhabited Places | ||
| Gladly Given (1997) | Jerome Hiler | United States |
| Marginalia (2015) | ||
| Words of Mercury (2011) | ||