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New York Film Festival · 2017

New York Film Festival 2017

Revivals

Programme

15 films · 2 reviews

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Bob Le Flambeur

An ageing gangster, down on his luck, decides to try and rob a Deauville casino.

(Country: France; Year: 1956; Director: Jean-Pierre Melville; Writer: Jean-Pierre Melville; Stars: Roger Duchesne, Isabelle Corey, Daniel Cauchy)

Casa De Lava

A nurse accompanies a comatose immigrant on a journey to Cape Verde.

(Country: Portugal; Year: 1994; Director: Pedro Costa; Writer: Pedro Costa; Stars: Inês de Medeiros, Isaach De Bankolé, Edith Scob)

The Crime Of Monsieur Lange

A woman tells the story of a man accused of murder.

(Country: France; Year: 1936; Director: Jean Renoir; Writer: Jacques Prévert, based on the story by Jean Castanier; Stars: René Lefèvre, Florelle, Jules Berry)

Daughter Of The Nile

The eldest daughter of a broken and troubled family works to keep the family together and look after her younger siblings, who are slipping into a life of crime.

(Country: Taiwan; Year: 1987; Director: Hou Hsiao-hsien; Writer: Chu T'ien-wen, Huang Chien-ho; Stars: Lin Yang, Jack Kao, Chen Shu-fang)

Grandeur And Decadence

Subversive TV movie about a doomed attempt to adapt James Hadley Chase’s 1964 novel The Soft Centre into a TV movie.

(Country: France; Year: 1986; Director: Jean-Luc Godard; Stars: Pierre Léaud, Jean-Pierre Mocky)

Hallelujah The Hills

After courting a woman called Vera for seven years, friends Jack and Leo decide to seclude themselves in the Vermont woods near her home, when she finally decides to accept a third man.

(Country: US; Year: 1963; Director: Adolfas Mekas; Writer: Adolfas Mekas; Stars: Peter Beard, Sheila Finn, Martin Greenbaum, Peggy Steffans, Jerome Raphael, Ed Emshwiller)

L'Atalante

A newly married couple struggle with their relationship aboard a ship.

(Country: France; Year: 1934; Director: Jean Vigo; Writer: Jean Guinée, Albert Riéra, Albert Riéra, Jean Vigo, Jean Vigo; Stars: Michel Simon, Dita Parlo, Jean Dasté, Gilles Margaritis, Louis Lefebvre, Maurice Gilles, Raphaël Diligent, Claude Aveline, René Blech, Lou Bonin, Fanny Clar, Charles Dorat, Paul Grimault, Genya Lozinska, Gen Paul)

L'Enfant Secret

Four stories about the circumstances surrounding the birth of a secret child.

(Country: France; Year: 1979; Director: Philippe Garrel; Writer: Philippe Garrel; Stars: Anne Wiazemsky, Henri de Maublanc, Xuan Lindenmeyer)

Lucía

The history of Cuba as illustrated by three episodes in the life of one woman, who is betrayed by the man she loves.

(Country: Cuba; Year: 1968; Director: Humberto Solas; Writer: Julio García Espinosa, Nelson Rodríguez, Humberto Solás; Stars: Raquel Revuelta, Eslinda Núñez, Adela Legrá, Eduardo Moure, Ramón Brito, Adolfo Llauradó, Idalia Anreus, Silvia Planas, Flora Lauten, Rogelio Blain, Maria Elena Molinet, Aramís Delgado, Teté Vergara, Flavio Calderín, Nelson Rodríguez)

The Old Dark House

Review preview for The Old Dark House

Although Whale is working with clichés, many of them were only established in literary form in 1932, and are presented on film here for the first time in forms that continue to be imitated to this day.

Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
A couple run into trouble after they are stranded by a storm.

(Country: US; Year: 1932; Director: James Whale; Writer: Benn W Levy, RC Sherriff, based on the play by JB Priestly; Stars: Boris Karloff, Melvyn Douglas, Charles Laughton, Lilian Bond, Ernest Thesiger, Eva Moore, Raymond Massey, Gloria Stuart, Elspeth Dudgeon, Brember Wills)

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One Sings, The Other Doesn't (L'Une Chante, L'Autre Pas)

The lives of a singer and a community worker are entangled within the French feminist movement.

(Country: Venezuela, France, Belgium; Year: 1977; Director: Agnès Varda; Writer: Agnès Varda; Stars: Thérèse Liotard, Valérie Mairesse, Robert Dadiès)

Le Révélateur

An experimental film in which action develops around a 4-year-old child.

(Country: France; Year: 1968; Director: Philippe Garrel; Writer: Philippe Garrel; Stars: Laurent Terzieff, Bernadette Lafont, Stanislas Robiolle)

Sansho The Bailiff

In medieval Japan, a compassionate governor is sent into exile. His wife and children try to join him, but are separated, and the children grow up amid suffering and oppression.

(Country: Japan; Year: 1954; Director: Kenji Mizoguchi; Writer: Fuji Yahiro, based on the story by Ogai Mori; Stars: Kinuyo Tanaka, Yoshiaki Hanayagi, Kyôko Kagawa)

The Sacrifice (Offret)

Review preview for The Sacrifice

Tarkovsky's gently gliding camera expertly frames each shot and the use of light and of crisp natural sound is breathtaking.

Jennie Kermode · 5 out of 5
Faced with the destruction of everything he loves, a father offers himself to God as a sacrifice in its stead.

(Country: Sweden, UK, France; Year: 1986; Director: Andrei Tarkovsky; Writer: Andrei Tarkovsky; Stars: Erland Josephson, Susan Fleetwood, Tommy Kjellqvist, Allan Edwall, Guðrún Gísladóttir, Sven Wollter)

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A Story From Chikamatsu (The Crucified Lovers, Chikamatsu Monogatari)

Thw wife and employee of a master printer, wrongly accused of being lovers, run away together to avoid being punished, but their actions could jeopardise the printer's reputation.

(Country: Japan; Year: 1954; Director: Kenji Mizoguchi; Writer: Matsutarô Kawaguchi, based on the play by Monzaemon Chikamatsu; Stars: Kazuo Hasegawa, Kyôko Kagawa, Eitarô Shindô)