# 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 (31 films and two shorts programs)
* Spotlight on Documentary (15 films)
* Projections (13 programs)
* Special Events (6 films)
* Revivals (9 films)
* Joseph L. Mankiewicz Retrospective (21 films)
* Convergence (transmedia presentations and talks)
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 (chair), 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

Source:
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| Opening Night ||||
| Gone Girl | Gone Girl | David Fincher | United States |
| Centerpiece ||||
| Inherent Vice | Inherent Vice | Paul Thomas Anderson | United States |
| Closing Night ||||
| Birdman or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance | Birdman or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance | Alejandro G. Iñárritu | United States |
| Main Slate ||||
| Beloved Sisters | Die geliebten Schwestern | Dominik Graf | Germany |
| The Blue Room | La chambre bleue | Mathieu Amalric | France |
| Citizenfour | Citizenfour | Laura Poitras | United States, Germany |
| Clouds of Sils Maria | Sils Maria | Olivier Assayas | Germany, France, Switzerland |
| Eden | Eden | Mia Hansen-Løve | France |
| Foxcatcher | Foxcatcher | Bennett Miller | United States |
| Goodbye to Language | Adieu au langage | Jean-Luc Godard | France, Switzerland |
| Heaven Knows What | Heaven Knows What | Josh Safdie, Benny Safdie | United States |
| Hill of Freedom | Jayuui Eondeok | Hong Sang-soo | South Korea |
| Horse Money | Cavalo Dinheiro | Pedro Costa | Portugal |
| Jauja | Jauja | Lisandro Alonso | Denmark, United States, Argentina |
| Life of Riley | Aimer, boire et chanter | Alain Resnais | France |
| Listen Up Philip | Listen Up Philip | Alex Ross Perry | United States |
| Maps to the Stars | Maps to the Stars | David Cronenberg | Canada, United States |
| Misunderstood | Incompresa | Asia Argento | Italy, France |
| Mr. Turner | Mr. Turner | Mike Leigh | United Kingdom |
| Pasolini | Pasolini | Abel Ferrara | France, Italy, Belgium |
| The Princess of France | La Princesa de Francia | Matías Piñeiro | Argentina |
| Saint Laurent | Saint Laurent | Bertrand Bonello | France |
| La Sapienza | La Sapienza | Eugène Green | France, Italy |
| '71 | '71 | Yann Demange | United Kingdom |
| Tales of the Grim Sleeper | Tales of the Grim Sleeper | Nick Broomfield | United States, United Kingdom |
| Timbuktu | Timbuktu | Abderrahmane Sissako | France, Mauritania |
| Time Out of Mind | Time Out of Mind | Oren Moverman | United States |
| Two Days, One Night | Deux jours, une nuit | Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne | Belgium, Italy, France |
| Two Shots Fired | Dos Disparos | Martín Rejtman | Argentina |
| Whiplash | Whiplash | Damien Chazelle | United States |
| The Wonders | Le meraviglie | Alice Rohrwacher | Italy, Switzerland, Germany |

#### Shorts

Source:
| Program | English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| Program 1 | In August | En Août | Jenna Hasse | Switzerland |
| Program 1 | Young Lions of Gypsy | A Ciambra | Jonas Carpignano | France, Italy |
| Program 1 | Ophelia | Ophelia | Sergei Rostropovich | Germany |
| Program 1 | Humor | Humor | Tal Zagreba | Israel |
| Program 1 | A Paradise | Un Paraíso | Jayisha Patel | Cuba |
| Program 1 | Wu Gui | Wu Gui | Jordan Schiele | China, Singapore, United States |
| Program 1 | The Girl and the Dogs | The Girl and the Dogs | Selma Vilhunen, Guillaume Mainguet | Denmark, Finland, France |
| Program 2 | Chlorine | Cloro | Marcelo Grabowsky | Brazil |
| Program 2 | The Return | Le Retour | Yohann Kouam | France |
| Program 2 | Hepburn | Hepburn | Tommy Davis | United States |
| Program 2 | La Estancia | La Estancia | Federico Adorno | Paraguay |
| Program 2 | The Kármán Line | The Kármán Line | Oscar Sharp | United Kingdom |
| Program 2 | Crooked Candy | Crooked Candy | Andrew Rodgers | United States |

### Spotlight on Documentary

Source:
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| Dreams Are Colder Than Death | Dreams Are Colder Than Death | Arthur Jafa | United States |
| The 50-Year Argument | The 50-Year Argument | Martin Scorsese, David Tedeschi | United States |
| How to Smell a Rose: A Visit with Ricky Leacock in Normandy | How to Smell a Rose: A Visit with Ricky Leacock in Normandy | Les Blank, Gina Leibrecht | United States, France |
| Iris | Iris | Albert Maysles | United States |
| The Iron Ministry | The Iron Ministry | J.P. Sniadecki | United States, China |
| The Look of Silence | Senyap | Joshua Oppenheimer | Denmark, Indonesia, Norway, Finland, United Kingdom |
| Merchants of Doubt | Merchants of Doubt | Robert Kenner | United States |
| National Gallery | National Gallery | Frederick Wiseman | United States, France |
| Non-Fiction Diary | Non-pik-syeon da-i-eo-li | Jung Yoon-suk | South Korea |
| One Cut, One Life | One Cut, One Life | Ed Pincus, Lucia Small | United States |
| Red Army | Red Army | Gabe Polsky | United States |
| Seymour: An Introduction | Seymour: An Introduction | Ethan Hawke | United States |
| Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait | ماء الفضة | Ossama Mohammed, Wiam Simav Bedirxan | Syria, France |
| Stray Dog | Stray Dog | Debra Granik | United States |
| Sunshine Superman | Sunshine Superman | Marah Strauch | United States, Norway, United Kingdom |

### Projections

Source:
| Program | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| Program 1 | Old Growth | Ryan Marino | United States |
| Program 1 | Babash | Lisa Truttmann, Behrouz Rae | United States, Austria, Iran |
| Program 1 | Wayward Fronds | Fern Silva | United States |
| Program 1 | Theoretical Architectures | Josh Gibson | United States |
| Program 1 | Canopy | Ken Jacobs | United States |
| Program 1 | Under the Heat Lamp an Opening | Zachary Epcar | United States |
| Program 1 | Against Landscape | Joshua Gen Solondz | United States |
| Program 1 | Night Noon | Shambhavi Kaul | Mexico, United States |
| Program 2 | Ming of Harlem: Twenty One Storeys in the Air | Phillip Warnell | United Kingdom, Belgium, United States |
| Program 3 | Berlin or a Dream with Cream (Berlin oder ein Traum mit Sahne) [1974] | Marcel Broodthaers | Germany |
| Program 3 | Mr. Teste et La Lune [1970-1974] | Marcel Broodthaers | Belgium |
| Program 3 | Things | Ben Rivers | United Kingdom |
| Program 3 | Depositions | Luke Fowler | United Kingdom |
| Program 3 | a certain worry | Jonathan Schwartz | United States |
| Program 3 | The Dragon Is the Frame | Mary Helena Clark | United States |
| Program 4 | Fe26 | Kevin Jerome Everson | United States |
| Program 4 | Sound That | Kevin Jerome Everson | United States |
| Program 4 | Second Sighted | Deborah Stratman | United States |
| Program 4 | The Measures | Jacqueline Goss, Jenny Perlin | United States, France |
| Program 5 | Sauerbruch Hutton Architects | Harun Farocki | Germany |
| Program 6 | Color Neutral | Jennifer Reeves | United States |
| Program 6 | Hat Trick | Katherin McInnis | United States |
| Program 6 | Sleeping District | Tinne Zenner | Denmark, Russia |
| Program 6 | Zinoviev's Tube: Tape 2 of the Inner Trotsky Child series | Jim Finn | United States |
| Program 6 | Off-White Tulips | Aykan Safoğlu | Turkey, Germany |
| Program 6 | End Reel | Julie Murray | United States |
| Program 6 | Picture Particles | Thorsten Fleisch | Germany |
| Program 7 | Under the Atmosphere | Mike Stoltz | United States |
| Program 7 | The Figures Carved into the Knife by the Sap of the Banana Trees | Joana Pimenta | United States, Portugal |
| Program 7 | Shwebonta | Meredith Lackey | United States |
| Program 7 | Atlantis | Ben Russell | Malta, United States |
| Program 8 | Letters to Max | Eric Baudelaire | France |
| Program 9 | Sea of Vapors | Sylvia Schedelbauer | Germany |
| Program 9 | Red Capriccio | Blake Williams | Canada |
| Program 9 | Field Notes | Vashti Harrison | United States |
| Program 9 | Darkroom | Billy Roisz | Austria |
| Program 9 | Detour de Force | Rebecca Baron | United States, Austria |
| Program 10 | Blue Loop, July | Mike Gibisser | United States |
| Program 10 | The Hummingbird Wars | Janie Geiser | United States |
| Program 10 | Razzle Dazzle | Jodie Mack | United States |
| Program 10 | Blanket Statement #2: It's All or Nothing | Jodie Mack | United States |
| Program 10 | Light Year | Paul Clipson | United States |
| Program 10 | Sound of a Million Insects, Light of a Thousand Stars | Tomonari Nishikawa | Japan |
| Program 10 | Ginza Strip | Richard Tuohy | Australia/Japan |
| Program 10 | Friday Mosque | Azadeh Navai | United States |
| Program 10 | 2012 | Takashi Makino | Japan |
| Program 11 | The Occidental Hotel | Lewis Klahr | United States |
| Program 11 | El Futuro | Luis Lopez Carrasco | Spain |
| Program 12 | Broken Tongue | Mónica Savirón | United States |
| Program 12 | Film | Ismaïl Bahri | France, Tunisia |
| Program 12 | The Innocents | Jean-Paul Kelly | Canada |
| Program 12 | Chapters 1, 2 & 3 ‘from the impossibility of one page being like the other’ | Oraib Toukan, Ala Younis | Jordan |
| Program 12 | Sugarcoated Arsenic | Claudrena Harold, Kevin Jerome Everson | United States |
| Program 12 | Adorno's Grey | Hito Steyerl | Germany |
| Program 12 | O, Persecuted | Basma Alsharif | United Kingdom, Palestine |
| Program 13 | How to Make Money Religiously | Laure Prouvost | United Kingdom |
| Program 13 | Renaissance Center/GM Tower | Nicky Hamlyn | Canada, United Kingdom |
| Program 13 | Sound of My Soul | Wojciech Bąkowski | Poland |
| Program 13 | Seven Signs that Mean Silence | Sara Magenheimer | United States |
| Program 13 | Horizon | Stephanie Barber | United States |
| Program 13 | SONE 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 jungle | Andrew Norman Wilson | United States |
| Program 13 | Lorem ipsum 1 | Victoria Fu | United States |
| Program 13 | Pan | Anton Ginzburg | United States |

### Special Events

Source:
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| The Forest | La Forêt | Arnaud Desplechin | France |
| Voilà l’enchaînement | Voilà l’enchaînement | Claire Denis | France |
| The King and the Mockingbird (1952/1980) | Le Roi et l'oiseau | Paul Grimault | France |
| P'tit Quinquin | P'tit Quinquin | Bruno Dumont | France |
| Queen and Country (Film Comment Presents) | Queen and Country (Film Comment Presents) | John Boorman | United Kingdom |
| This Is Spinal Tap (30th anniversary screening) | This Is Spinal Tap (30th anniversary screening) | Rob Reiner | United States |

### Revivals

Source:
| Year | English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| 1983 | Burroughs: The Movie | Burroughs: The Movie | Howard Brookner | United States |
| 1968 | The Color of Pomegranates | Նռան գույնը | Sergei Parajanov | Soviet Union |
| 1959 | Hiroshima Mon Amour | Hiroshima Mon Amour | Alain Resnais | France, Japan |
| 1939 | Jamaica Inn | Jamaica Inn | Alfred Hitchcock | United Kingdom |
| 1955 | The Man from Laramie | The Man from Laramie | Anthony Mann | United States |
| 1926/1980 | Moana with Sound | Moana with Sound | Robert Flaherty, Frances Hubbard Flaherty, Monica Flaherty | United States |
| 1935 | A Night of Storytelling | Oidhche Sheanchais | Robert Flaherty | Ireland |
| 1984 | Once Upon a Time in America | Once Upon a Time in America | Sergio Leone | Italy, United States |
| 1951 | The Tales of Hoffmann | The Tales of Hoffmann | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | United Kingdom |

### Retrospective

Source:
| Year | Original Title | Director | Production Country |
| 1952 | 5 Fingers | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | United States |
| 1950 | All About Eve | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | United States |
| 1954 | The Barefoot Contessa | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | United States |
| 1964 | A Carol for Another Christmas | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | United States |
| 1963 | Cleopatra | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | United States |
| 1946 | Dragonwyck | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | United States |
| 1948 | Escape | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | United States |
| 1947 | The Ghost and Mrs. Muir | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | United States |
| 1955 | Guys and Dolls | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | United States |
| 1967 | The Honey Pot | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | United States |
| 1949 | House of Strangers | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | United States |
| 1953 | Julius Caesar | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | United States |
| 1947 | The Late George Apley | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | United States |
| 1949 | A Letter to Three Wives | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | United States |
| 1950 | No Way Out | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | United States |
| 1951 | People Will Talk | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | United States |
| 1958 | The Quiet American | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | United States |
| 1972 | Sleuth | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | United States |
| 1946 | Somewhere in the Night | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | United States |
| 1959 | Suddenly, Last Summer | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | United States |
| 1970 | There Was a Crooked Man... | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | United States |