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New York Film Festival · 2017

New York Film Festival 2017

Special Events

There are a number of talks and master classes in addition to the films below.

Programme

7 films · 1 review

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Four Sisters

Series of four films - The Hippocratic Oath, Baluty, The Merry Flea and Noah's Ark - based on interviews from the 70s with four female Holocaust survivors from eastern Europe.

(Country: France; Year: 2017; Director: Claude Lanzmann; Writer: Claude Lanzmann; Stars: Paula Biren, Ruth Elias, Claude Lanzmann, Ada Lichtman, Hanna Marton)

World premiere

A Gentle Creature

A woman travels to a remote prison to try to find out what has happened to her jailed husband.

(Country: France; Year: 2017; Director: Sergei Loznitsa; Writer: Sergei Loznitsa, based on the short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky)

The Opera House

The history of the Metropolitan Opera in NYC.

(Year: 2016; Director: Susan Froemke)

World premiere

Pandora's Box (Die Büchse Der Pandora)

Review preview for Pandora's Box

Full of striking imagery which, once seen , will stay with you forever.

Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
A beautiful young woman exploits her sexuality to enjoy freedom and power in 1880s London.

(Country: Germany; Year: 1929; Director: GW Pabst; Writer: Ladislaus Vajda, based on the plays of Frank Wedekind; Stars: Louise Brooks, Fritz Kortner, Franz Lederer, Gustav Diessl, Alice Roberts)

Full review

Spielberg

Documentary about the work of the filmmaker.

(Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Susan Lacy; Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Christian Bale, Tom Hanks, Cate Blanchett, Steven Spielberg, Daniel Craig, Martin Scorsese, Harrison Ford, Daniel Day-Lewis, Laura Dern, Holly Hunter, Ralph Fiennes, Liam Neeson, Drew Barrymore, Richard Dreyfuss)

World premiere

Trouble No More

Footage from Bob Dylan’s “born again” period, shot on the last leg of his 79-80 tour.

(Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Jennifer Lebeau; Stars: Mary Elizabeth Bridges, Tim Drummond, Bob Dylan, Gwen Evans, Jim Keltner, Clydie King, Regina McCrary, Spooner Oldham, Michael Shannon, Fred Tackett, Monalisa Young, Terry Young)

World premiere

Without A Net

Interrogation of the public education system in the US.

(Year: 2017; Director: Rory Kennedy)