2014 New York Film Festival


The 52nd New York Film Festival was held September 26 – October 12, 2014.
The lineup consisted of seven sections:
  • Main Slate
  • Spotlight on Documentary
  • Projections
  • Special Events
  • Revivals
  • Joseph L. Mankiewicz Retrospective
  • Convergence
The Festival also included various interviews and panels. Following the departure of programmer Mark McElhatten, the experimental section was renamed from "Views from the Avant-Garde" to "Projections". The primary selection committee included Kent Jones, Dennis Lim, Marian Masone, Gavin Smith, and Amy Taubin. Projections was programmed by Dennis Lim, Aily Nash, and Gavin Smith. Convergence was curated by Matt Bolish.

Sections

Main Slate

Feature-length

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Shorts

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Spotlight on Documentary

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Projections

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ProgramOriginal TitleDirectorProduction Country
Program 1Old GrowthRyan MarinoUnited States
Program 1BabashLisa Truttmann, Behrouz RaeUnited States, Austria, Iran
Program 1Wayward FrondsFern SilvaUnited States
Program 1Theoretical ArchitecturesJosh GibsonUnited States
Program 1CanopyKen JacobsUnited States
Program 1Under the Heat Lamp an OpeningZachary EpcarUnited States
Program 1Against LandscapeJoshua Gen SolondzUnited States
Program 1Night NoonShambhavi KaulMexico, United States
Program 2Ming of Harlem: Twenty One Storeys in the AirPhillip WarnellUnited Kingdom, Belgium, United States
Program 3Berlin or a Dream with Cream Marcel BroodthaersGermany
Program 3Mr. Teste et La Lune Marcel BroodthaersBelgium
Program 3ThingsBen RiversUnited Kingdom
Program 3DepositionsLuke FowlerUnited Kingdom
Program 3a certain worryJonathan SchwartzUnited States
Program 3The Dragon Is the FrameMary Helena ClarkUnited States
Program 4Fe26Kevin Jerome EversonUnited States
Program 4Sound ThatKevin Jerome EversonUnited States
Program 4Second SightedDeborah StratmanUnited States
Program 4The MeasuresJacqueline Goss, Jenny PerlinUnited States, France
Program 5Sauerbruch Hutton ArchitectsHarun FarockiGermany
Program 6Color NeutralJennifer ReevesUnited States
Program 6Hat TrickKatherin McInnisUnited States
Program 6Sleeping DistrictTinne ZennerDenmark, Russia
Program 6Zinoviev's Tube: Tape 2 of the Inner Trotsky Child seriesJim FinnUnited States
Program 6Off-White TulipsAykan SafoğluTurkey, Germany
Program 6End ReelJulie MurrayUnited States
Program 6Picture ParticlesThorsten FleischGermany
Program 7Under the AtmosphereMike StoltzUnited States
Program 7The Figures Carved into the Knife by the Sap of the Banana TreesJoana PimentaUnited States, Portugal
Program 7ShwebontaMeredith LackeyUnited States
Program 7AtlantisBen RussellMalta, United States
Program 8Letters to MaxEric BaudelaireFrance
Program 9Sea of VaporsSylvia SchedelbauerGermany
Program 9Red CapriccioBlake WilliamsCanada
Program 9Field NotesVashti HarrisonUnited States
Program 9DarkroomBilly RoiszAustria
Program 9Detour de ForceRebecca BaronUnited States, Austria
Program 10Blue Loop, JulyMike GibisserUnited States
Program 10The Hummingbird WarsJanie GeiserUnited States
Program 10Razzle DazzleJodie MackUnited States
Program 10Blanket Statement #2: It's All or NothingJodie MackUnited States
Program 10Light YearPaul ClipsonUnited States
Program 10Sound of a Million Insects, Light of a Thousand StarsTomonari NishikawaJapan
Program 10Ginza StripRichard TuohyAustralia/Japan
Program 10Friday MosqueAzadeh NavaiUnited States
Program 102012Takashi MakinoJapan
Program 11The Occidental HotelLewis KlahrUnited States
Program 11El FuturoLuis Lopez CarrascoSpain
Program 12Broken TongueMónica SavirónUnited States
Program 12FilmIsmaïl BahriFrance, Tunisia
Program 12The InnocentsJean-Paul KellyCanada
Program 12Chapters 1, 2 & 3 ‘from the impossibility of one page being like the other’Oraib Toukan, Ala YounisJordan
Program 12Sugarcoated ArsenicClaudrena Harold, Kevin Jerome EversonUnited States
Program 12Adorno's GreyHito SteyerlGermany
Program 12O, PersecutedBasma AlsharifUnited Kingdom, Palestine
Program 13How to Make Money ReligiouslyLaure ProuvostUnited Kingdom
Program 13Renaissance Center/GM TowerNicky HamlynCanada, United Kingdom
Program 13Sound of My SoulWojciech BąkowskiPoland
Program 13Seven Signs that Mean SilenceSara MagenheimerUnited States
Program 13HorizonStephanie BarberUnited States
Program 13SONE S/S 2014: Chase ATM emitting blue smoke, Bank of America ATM emitting red smoke, TD Bank ATM emitting green smoke /// Invisibility-cloaked hand gestures in offshore financial center jungleAndrew Norman WilsonUnited States
Program 13Lorem ipsum 1Victoria FuUnited States
Program 13PanAnton GinzburgUnited States

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Revivals

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Retrospective

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YearOriginal titleDirectorProduction country
19525 FingersJoseph L. MankiewiczUnited States
1950All About EveJoseph L. MankiewiczUnited States
1954The Barefoot ContessaJoseph L. MankiewiczUnited States
1964A Carol for Another ChristmasJoseph L. MankiewiczUnited States
1963CleopatraJoseph L. MankiewiczUnited States
1946DragonwyckJoseph L. MankiewiczUnited States
1948EscapeJoseph L. MankiewiczUnited States
1947The Ghost and Mrs. MuirJoseph L. MankiewiczUnited States
1955Guys and DollsJoseph L. MankiewiczUnited States
1967The Honey PotJoseph L. MankiewiczUnited States
1949House of StrangersJoseph L. MankiewiczUnited States
1953Julius CaesarJoseph L. MankiewiczUnited States
1947The Late George ApleyJoseph L. MankiewiczUnited States
1949A Letter to Three WivesJoseph L. MankiewiczUnited States
1950No Way OutJoseph L. MankiewiczUnited States
1951People Will TalkJoseph L. MankiewiczUnited States
1958The Quiet AmericanJoseph L. MankiewiczUnited States
1972SleuthJoseph L. MankiewiczUnited States
1946Somewhere in the NightJoseph L. MankiewiczUnited States
1959Suddenly, Last SummerJoseph L. MankiewiczUnited States
1970There Was a Crooked Man...Joseph L. MankiewiczUnited States