The 59th New York Film Festival took place from September 24 to October 10, 2021.[1] Unlike the 2020 New York Film Festival, which was staged online due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2021 festival returned to physical screenings at the Lincoln Center.
| Opening film | The Tragedy of Macbeth by Joel Coen |
|---|---|
| Closing film | Parallel Mothers by Pedro Almodóvar |
| Location | New York City, United States |
| Founded | 1963 |
| Founded by | Richard Roud and Amos Vogel |
| Hosted by | Film at Lincoln Center |
| Artistic director | Dennis Lim |
| Festival date | September 30 – October 16, 2022 |
| Website | https://www.filmlinc.org/nyff2021/ |
Joel Coen's The Tragedy of Macbeth was announced as the opening film[2] with Pedro Almodóvar's Parallel Mothers announced as the closing film.[3] Jane Campion's The Power of the Dog was the festival's centerpiece screening.[4][5][6]
Official Selection
edit| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Opening Film | |||
| The Tragedy of Macbeth | Joel Coen | United States | |
| Centerpiece | |||
| The Power of the Dog | Jane Campion | New Zealand, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia | |
| Closing Film | |||
| Parallel Mothers | Madres Paralelas | Pedro Almodóvar | Spain |
| Main Slate | |||
| A Chiara | Jonas Carpignano | Italy | |
| Ahed's Knee | Habereḵ | Nadav Lapid | France, Israel, Germany |
| Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn | Babardeală cu bucluc sau porno balamuc | Radu Jude | Romania, Luxembourg, Czech Republic, Croatia |
| Benedetta | Paul Verhoeven | France, Netherlands | |
| Bergman Island | Mia Hansen-Løve | France, Germany, Belgium, Sweden | |
| Il Buco | Michelangelo Frammartino | Italy, France, Germany | |
| Drive My Car | Doraibu mai kā | Ryusuke Hamaguchi | Japan |
| The First 54 Years: An Abbreviated Manual for Military Occupation | Avi Mograbi | France, Finland, Israel, Germany | |
| Flee | Jonas Poher Rasmussen | Denmark, France, Sweden, Norway | |
| France | Bruno Dumont | France, Germany, Belgium, Italy | |
| Futura | Pietro Marcello, Francesco Munzi, Alice Rohrwacher | Italy | |
| The Girl and the Spider | Das Mädchen und die Spinne | Ramon Zürcher, Silvan Zürcher | Switzerland |
| Hit the Road | Panah Panahi | Iran | |
| In Front of Your Face | Hong Sang-soo | South Korea | |
| Întregalde | Radu Muntean | Romania | |
| Introduction | Hong Sang-soo | South Korea | |
| Memoria | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Colombia, Thailand, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Mexico, Qatar | |
| Neptune Frost | Saul Williams, Anisia Uzeyman | United States, Rwanda | |
| Passing | Rebecca Hall | United States, United Kingdom | |
| Petite Maman | Céline Sciamma | France | |
| Prayers for the Stolen | Noche de fuego | Tatiana Huezo | Mexico, Germany, Brazil, Qatar |
| The Souvenir Part II | Joanna Hogg | United Kingdom | |
| Titane | Julia Ducournau | France | |
| Unclenching the Fists | Разжимая кулаки | Kira Kovalenko | Russia |
| The Velvet Underground | Todd Haynes | United States | |
| Vortex | Gaspar Noé | France | |
| What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? | რას ვხედავთ როდესაც ცას ვუყურებთ? | Alexandre Koberidze | Georgia, Germany |
| Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy | Gūzen to Sōzō | Ryusuke Hamaguchi | Japan |
| The Worst Person in the World | Verdens verste menneske | Joachim Trier | Norway |
Spotlight
edit| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Belle | 竜とそばかすの姫 | Mamoru Hosoda | Japan |
| C'mon C'mon | Mike Mills | United States | |
| Dune | Denis Villeneuve | ||
| The French Dispatch | Wes Anderson | ||
| Jane by Charlotte | Charlotte Gainsbourg | France | |
| The Lost Daughter | Maggie Gyllenhaal | United States, Greece | |
| Marx Can Wait | Marco Bellocchio | Italy | |
| Red Rocket | Sean Baker | United States | |
| The Souvenir | Joanna Hogg | United Kingdom, United States | |
Currents
edit| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| All About My Sisters | Jia ting lu xiang | Wang Qiong | United States |
| The Great Movement | El Gran Movimiento | Kiro Russo | Bolivia, France, Qatar, Switzerland |
| Haruhara-san's Recorder | Haruharasan no uta | Kyoshi Sugita | Japan |
| I Want to Talk About Duras | Vous ne désirez que moi | Claire Simon | France |
| Just a Movement | Juste une mouvement | Vincent Meessen | Belgium, France |
| Nature | La Nature | Artavazd Peleshian | France, Germany, Armenia |
| A Night of Knowing Nothing | Payal Kapadia | France, India | |
| Outside Noise | Ted Fendt | Germany, South Korea, Austria | |
| Prism | Éléonore Yameogo, An van Dienderen and Rosine Mbakam | Belgium | |
| Returning to Reims | Retour à Reims (Fragments) | Jean-Gabriel Périot | France |
| A River Runs, Turns, Erases, Replaces | Gang-eun heuleugo, gub-ichigo, jiugo, doebichunda | Shengze Zhu | United States |
| Social Hygiene | Hygiène sociale | Denis Côté | Canada |
| Ste. Anne | Rhayne Vermette | ||
| The Tale of King Crab | Re Granchio | Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis | Italy, Argentina, France |
| The Tsugua Diaries | Diários de Otsoga | Maureen Fazendeiro and Miguel Gomes | Portugal |
Short films
edit| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 38 | Daniel Chew, Micaela Durand | United States | |
| All of Your Stars Are But Dust on My Shoes | Haig Aivazian | Lebanon | |
| Blind Body | Allison Chhorn | Australia | |
| The Canyon | Zachary Epcar | United States | |
| The Capacity for Adequate Anger | Vika Kirchenbauer | Germany | |
| Cutting the Mushroom | Mike Crane | United States | |
| Day Is Done | Zhang Dalei | China | |
| Do Not Circulate | Tiffany Sia | Hong Kong | |
| Dog Star Descending | Aykan Safoğlu | Turkey, Germany | |
| Dreams Under Confinement | Christopher Harris | United States | |
| earthearthearth | Daïchi Saïto | Canada | |
| Elle | Luise Donschen | Germany | |
| Estuary | Ross Meckfessel | United States | |
| Fictions | Manuela de Laborde | Mexico, Germany | |
| Grandma's Scissors | Erica Sheu | Taiwan, United States | |
| Here Is the Imagination of the Black Radical | Rhea Storr | United Kingdom | |
| Homage to the Work of Philip Henry Gosse | Pablo Martín Weber | Argentina | |
| Home When You Return | Carl Elsaesser | United States | |
| A Human Certainty | Morgan Quaintance | United Kingdom | |
| If I Could Name You Myself (I Would Hold You Forever) | Hope Strickland | United Kingdom | |
| In and Out a Window | Richard Tuohy | United States | |
| In Flow of Words | Eliane Esther Bots | Netherlands | |
| Kindertotenlieder | Virgil Vernier | France | |
| May June July | Kevin Jerome Everson | United States | |
| Night Colonies | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Thailand | |
| No Subject | Guillermo Moncayo | France, Colombia | |
| Personality Test | Justin Jinsoo Kim | South Korea, United States | |
| Reach Capacity | Ericka Beckman | United States | |
| Six Seventy-Two Variations, Variation 1 | Tomonari Nishikawa | ||
| South | Morgan Quaintance | United Kingdom | |
| Strange Object | Miranda Pennell | United States | |
| Sycorax | Lois Patiño, Matías Piñeiro | Spain, Portugal | |
| To Pick a Flower | Shireen Seno | Philippines | |
| Tonalli | Los Ingrávidos | Mexico | |
| What Is It That You Said? | Shun Ikezoe | Japan | |
Revivals
edit| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adoption (1976) | Örökbefogadás | Márta Mészáros | Hungary |
| Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) | John Carpenter | United States | |
| Bluebeard's Castle (1963) | Herzog Blaubarts Burg | Michael Powell | Germany |
| Chameleon Street (1989) | Wendell B. Harris, Jr. | United States | |
| James Baldwin: From Another Place (1973) | Sedat Pekay | Turkey | |
| Hester Street (1975) | Joan Micklin Silver | United States | |
| Kummatty (1979) | Govindan Aravindan | India | |
| Mississippi Masala (1991) | Mira Nair | United Kingdom, United States | |
| Radio On (1979) | Chris Petit | United Kingdom, West Germany | |
| Ratcatcher | Lynne Ramsay | United Kingdom, France | |
| The Round-Up (1966) | Miklós Jancsó | Hungary | |
| Rude Boy (1980) | Jack Hazan & David Mingay | United Kingdom | |
| Sambizanga (1972) | Sarah Maldoror | Angola, France | |
| Songs for Drella (1990) | Ed Lachman | United States | |
| Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971) | Melvin Van Peebles | ||
| Who Killed Vincent Chin? (1987) | Christine Choy | ||
Amos Vogel Centenary Retrospective
edit| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Lead Shoes (1949) | Sidney Peterson | United States | |
| Unconscious Motivation (1949) | Lester F. Beck | ||
| The Battle of San Pietro (1949) | John Huston | ||
| Study No. 11 (1932), Allegretto (1936-43), and Motion Painting No. 1 (1947) | Oskar Fischinger | Germany | |
| Barravento | Glauber Rocha | Brazil | |
| Pearls of the Deep (1965) | Perličky na dně | Jiří Menzel, Jan Němec, Evald Schorm, Věra Chytilová, and Jaromil Jireš | Czechoslovakia |
| The Flicker (1966) | Tony Conrad | United States | |
| Echoes of Silence (1965) | Peter Emanuel Goldman | ||
| Malcolm X: Struggle for Freedom (1964) | Lebert Bethune | France | |
| Now (1965) | Santiago Álvarez | Cuba | |
| Black Natchez | David Neuman and Ed Pincus | United States | |
| The Jungle (1966) | 12th and Oxford Street Film Makers | ||
| Film Club (1968) | Jaime Barrios | ||
| WR: Mysteries of the Organism (1971) | Dušan Makavejev | Yugoslavia, West Germany | |
| Nebula II (1971) | Robert Frerck | United States | |
Free talks
edit| Section | Speakers | Notes | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| The 2023 Amos Vogel Lecture | Albert Serra | The filmmaker spoke about his career and legacy | [7] |
| Deep Focus | The Making of Mississippi Masala | A discussion between director Mira Nair, cinematographer Edward Lachman, and actress Sarita Choudhury. | |
| Jane Campion | Campion talked about The Power of the Dog and her career with moderator and director Sofia Coppola. | ||
| Ryûsuke Hamaguchi | The auteur talked about his Drive My Car with moderator and filmmaker Matías Piñeiro. | ||
| Saul Williams & Anisia Uzeyman | The filmmakers talked about cinema as a means of realizing new and better futures with moderator Maya Cade. | ||
| Apichatpong Weerasethakul | The director talked about their latest film Memoria with novelist Katie Kitamura. | ||
| Cross Cuts | Mia Hansen-Løve & Joachim Trier | The filmmakers talk about their latest films, Bergman Island and The Worst Person in the World respectively. | |
| Silvan Zürcher & Alexandre Koberidze | The two talked about their films The Girl and the Spider and What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?. | ||
| Maggie Gyllenhaal & Kira Kovalenko | The female filmmakers discussed feminism, heroines, transcending the status quo. |
References
edit- ^ Dade Hayes, "New York Film Festival To Open With Joel Coen's ‘The Tragedy Of Macbeth’ In Return To In-Person Lincoln Center Mode". Deadline Hollywood, July 22, 2021.
- ^ Brent Lang, "Joel Coen's ‘Tragedy of Macbeth’ With Frances McDormand, Denzel Washington Will Open New York Film Festival". Variety, July 22, 2021.
- ^ Dade Hayes, "New York Film Festival To Close With Pedro Almodóvar's ‘Parallel Mothers’". Deadline Hollywood, August 3, 2021.
- ^ Hayes, Dade (July 27, 2021). "Jane Campion's 'The Power Of The Dog' Chosen As New York Film Festival Centerpiece". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved July 27, 2021.
- ^ Pearce, Leonard (August 19, 2021). "59th New York Film Festival Adds C'mon C'mon, Dune, Red Rocket, The French Dispatch & More". The Film Stage. Retrieved August 19, 2021.
- ^ Chris Lindahl, "NYFF 2021 Announces Currents Section Focused on Cutting Edge and Experimental Films — Exclusive". IndieWire, August 24, 2021.
- ^ "2021 Talks - New York Film Festival". Film at Lincoln Center. Retrieved August 10, 2024.
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