The 52nd New York Film Festival was held September 26 – October 12, 2014.
The lineup consisted of seven sections:
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.[1]
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opening Night | ||||
| Gone Girl | David Fincher | United States | ||
| Centerpiece | ||||
| Inherent Vice | Paul Thomas Anderson | United States | ||
| Closing Night | ||||
| 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 | Laura Poitras | United States, Germany | ||
| Clouds of Sils Maria | Sils Maria | Olivier Assayas | Germany, France, Switzerland | |
| Eden | Mia Hansen-Løve | France | ||
| Foxcatcher | Bennett Miller | United States | ||
| Goodbye to Language | Adieu au langage | Jean-Luc Godard | France, Switzerland | |
| 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 | Lisandro Alonso | Denmark, United States, Argentina | ||
| Life of Riley | Aimer, boire et chanter | Alain Resnais | France | |
| Listen Up Philip | Alex Ross Perry | United States | ||
| Maps to the Stars | David Cronenberg | Canada, United States | ||
| Misunderstood | Incompresa | Asia Argento | Italy, France | |
| Mr. Turner | Mike Leigh | United Kingdom | ||
| Pasolini | Abel Ferrara | France, Italy, Belgium | ||
| The Princess of France | La Princesa de Francia | Matías Piñeiro | Argentina | |
| Saint Laurent | Bertrand Bonello | France | ||
| La Sapienza | Eugène Green | France, Italy | ||
| Yann Demange | United Kingdom | |||
| Tales of the Grim Sleeper | Nick Broomfield | United States, United Kingdom | ||
| Timbuktu | Abderrahmane Sissako | France, Mauritania | ||
| 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 | Damien Chazelle | United States | ||
| The Wonders | Le meraviglie | Alice Rohrwacher | Italy, Switzerland, Germany | |
Source:[5]
| Program | English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Program 1 | In August | En Août | Jenna Hasse | Switzerland |
| Young Lions of Gypsy | A Ciambra | Jonas Carpignano | France, Italy | |
| Ophelia | Sergei Rostropovich | Germany | ||
| Humor | Tal Zagreba | Israel | ||
| A Paradise | Un Paraíso | Jayisha Patel | Cuba | |
| Wu Gui | Jordan Schiele | China, Singapore, United States | ||
| The Girl and the Dogs | Selma Vilhunen, Guillaume Mainguet | Denmark, Finland, France | ||
| Program 2 | Chlorine | Cloro | Marcelo Grabowsky | Brazil |
| The Return | Le Retour | Yohann Kouam | France | |
| Hepburn | Tommy Davis | United States | ||
| La Estancia | Federico Adorno | Paraguay | ||
| The Kármán Line | Oscar Sharp | United Kingdom | ||
| Crooked Candy | Andrew Rodgers | United States | ||
Source:[6]
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dreams Are Colder Than Death | Arthur Jafa | United States | ||
| The 50-Year Argument | Martin Scorsese, David Tedeschi | |||
| How to Smell a Rose: A Visit with Ricky Leacock in Normandy | Les Blank, Gina Leibrecht | United States, France | ||
| Iris | Albert Maysles | United States | ||
| 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 | Robert Kenner | United States | ||
| 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 | Ed Pincus, Lucia Small | United States | ||
| Red Army | Gabe Polsky | |||
| Seymour: An Introduction | Ethan Hawke | |||
| Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait | ماء الفضة | Ossama Mohammed, Wiam Simav Bedirxan | Syria, France | |
| Stray Dog | Debra Granik | United States | ||
| Sunshine Superman | Marah Strauch | United States, Norway, United Kingdom | ||
| Program | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Program 1 | Old Growth | Ryan Marino | United States |
| Babash | Lisa Truttmann, Behrouz Rae | United States, Austria, Iran | |
| Wayward Fronds | Fern Silva | United States | |
| Theoretical Architectures | Josh Gibson | ||
| Canopy | Ken Jacobs | ||
| Under the Heat Lamp an Opening | Zachary Epcar | ||
| Against Landscape | Joshua Gen Solondz | ||
| 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 |
| Mr. Teste et La Lune [1970-1974] | Marcel Broodthaers | Belgium | |
| Things | Ben Rivers | United Kingdom | |
| Depositions | Luke Fowler | ||
| a certain worry | Jonathan Schwartz | United States | |
| The Dragon Is the Frame | Mary Helena Clark | ||
| Program 4 | Fe26 | Kevin Jerome Everson | |
| Sound That | Kevin Jerome Everson | ||
| Second Sighted | Deborah Stratman | ||
| 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 |
| Hat Trick | Katherin McInnis | ||
| Sleeping District | Tinne Zenner | Denmark, Russia | |
| Zinoviev's Tube: Tape 2 of the Inner Trotsky Child series | Jim Finn | United States | |
| Off-White Tulips | Aykan Safoğlu | Turkey, Germany | |
| End Reel | Julie Murray | United States | |
| Picture Particles | Thorsten Fleisch | Germany | |
| Program 7 | Under the Atmosphere | Mike Stoltz | United States |
| The Figures Carved into the Knife by the Sap of the Banana Trees | Joana Pimenta | United States, Portugal | |
| Shwebonta | Meredith Lackey | United States | |
| Atlantis | Ben Russell | Malta, United States | |
| Program 8 | Letters to Max | Eric Baudelaire | France |
| Program 9 | Sea of Vapors | Sylvia Schedelbauer | Germany |
| Red Capriccio | Blake Williams | Canada | |
| Field Notes | Vashti Harrison | United States | |
| Darkroom | Billy Roisz | Austria | |
| Detour de Force | Rebecca Baron | United States, Austria | |
| Program 10 | Blue Loop, July | Mike Gibisser | United States |
| The Hummingbird Wars | Janie Geiser | ||
| Razzle Dazzle | Jodie Mack | ||
| Blanket Statement #2: It's All or Nothing | Jodie Mack | ||
| Light Year | Paul Clipson | ||
| Sound of a Million Insects, Light of a Thousand Stars | Tomonari Nishikawa | Japan | |
| Ginza Strip | Richard Tuohy | Australia/Japan | |
| Friday Mosque | Azadeh Navai | United States | |
| 2012 | Takashi Makino | Japan | |
| Program 11 | The Occidental Hotel | Lewis Klahr | United States |
| El Futuro | Luis Lopez Carrasco | Spain | |
| Program 12 | Broken Tongue | Mónica Savirón | United States |
| Film | Ismaïl Bahri | France, Tunisia | |
| The Innocents | Jean-Paul Kelly | Canada | |
| Chapters 1, 2 & 3 ‘from the impossibility of one page being like the other’ | Oraib Toukan, Ala Younis | Jordan | |
| Sugarcoated Arsenic | Claudrena Harold, Kevin Jerome Everson | United States | |
| Adorno's Grey | Hito Steyerl | Germany | |
| O, Persecuted | Basma Alsharif | United Kingdom, Palestine | |
| Program 13 | How to Make Money Religiously | Laure Prouvost | United Kingdom |
| Renaissance Center/GM Tower | Nicky Hamlyn | Canada, United Kingdom | |
| Sound of My Soul | Wojciech Bąkowski | Poland | |
| Seven Signs that Mean Silence | Sara Magenheimer | United States | |
| Horizon | Stephanie Barber | ||
| 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 | ||
| Lorem ipsum 1 | Victoria Fu | ||
| Pan | Anton Ginzburg |
Source:[9]
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Forest | La Forêt | Arnaud Desplechin | France | |
| Voilà l’enchaînement | Claire Denis | |||
| The King and the Mockingbird (1952/1980) | Le Roi et l'oiseau | Paul Grimault | ||
| P'tit Quinquin | Bruno Dumont | |||
| Queen and Country (Film Comment Presents) | John Boorman | United Kingdom | ||
| This Is Spinal Tap (30th anniversary screening) | Rob Reiner | United States | ||
Source:[10]
| Year | English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | Howard Brookner | United States | |||
| 1968 | The Color of Pomegranates | Նռան գույնը | Sergei Parajanov | Soviet Union | |
| 1959 | Hiroshima Mon Amour | Alain Resnais | France, Japan | ||
| 1939 | Jamaica Inn | Alfred Hitchcock | United Kingdom | ||
| 1955 | The Man from Laramie | Anthony Mann | United States | ||
| 1926/1980 | Moana with Sound | Robert Flaherty, Frances Hubbard Flaherty, Monica Flaherty | |||
| 1935 | A Night of Storytelling | Oidhche Sheanchais | Robert Flaherty | Ireland | |
| 1984 | Once Upon a Time in America | Sergio Leone | Italy, United States | ||
| 1951 | The Tales of Hoffmann | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | United Kingdom | ||
Source:[11]
| Year | Original Title | Director | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1952 | 5 Fingers | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | United States |
| 1950 | All About Eve | ||
| 1954 | The Barefoot Contessa | ||
| 1964 | A Carol for Another Christmas | ||
| 1963 | Cleopatra | ||
| 1946 | Dragonwyck | ||
| 1948 | Escape | ||
| 1947 | The Ghost and Mrs. Muir | ||
| 1955 | Guys and Dolls | ||
| 1967 | The Honey Pot | ||
| 1949 | House of Strangers | ||
| 1953 | Julius Caesar | ||
| 1947 | The Late George Apley | ||
| 1949 | A Letter to Three Wives | ||
| 1950 | No Way Out | ||
| 1951 | People Will Talk | ||
| 1958 | The Quiet American | ||
| 1972 | Sleuth | ||
| 1946 | Somewhere in the Night | ||
| 1959 | Suddenly, Last Summer | ||
| 1970 | There Was a Crooked Man... |