Friday, July 21, 2017

New York Film Festival Spotlight on Documentary

51st (2013):
Motion Portraits
Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq (Nancy Buirski)
The Dog (Allison Berg & Frank Keraudren)
Fifi Howls From Happiness (Mitra Farahani)
23rd August 2008 (Laura Mulvey & Faysal Abdullah & Mark Lewis)
In the Dark Room (Nadav Schirman)
Manakamana (Stephanie Spray & Pacho Velez)
What Now? Remind Me (Joaquim Pinto)
Who Is Dayani Cristal? (Marc Silver)
Applied Science
Google and the World Brain (Ben Lewis)
Particle Fever (Mark Levinson)
Tim's Vermeer (Teller)
How Democracy Works Now (Michael Camerini & Shari Robertson)
The Game is On
Mountains and Clouds
Sam in the Snow
The Kids Across the Hill
Marking Up the Dream
Ain't the AFL for Nothin'
Brothers and Rivals
Protecting Arizona
The Senate Speaks
Last Best Chance

52nd (2014):
Dreams Are Colder Than Death (Arthur Jafa)
The 50-Year Argument (Martin Scorsese & David Tedeschi)
How to Smell a Rose: A Visit With Ricky Leacock in Normandy (Les Blank & Gina Leibrecht)
Iris (Albert Maysles)
The Iron Ministry (J.P. Sniadecki)
The Look of Silence (Joshua Oppenheimer)
Merchants of Doubt (Robert Kenner)
National Gallery (Frederick Wiseman)
Non-fiction Diary (Jung Yoon-suk)
One Cut, One Life (Ed Pincus & Lucia Small)
Red Army (Gabe Polsky)
Seymour: An Introduction (Ethan Hawke)
Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait (Ossama Mohammed & Wiam Simav Bedirxan)
Stray Dog (Debra Granik)
Sunshine Superman (Marah Strauch)

53rd (2015):
Everything is Copy (Jacob Bernstein)
Field of Vision: New Episodic Nonfiction [Asylum (selected episodes), Peace in the Valley, Notes From the Border, The Above, God Is an Artist, Birdie] (Laura Poitras, Michael Palmieri & Donal Mosher, Iva Radivojevic, Kirsten Johnson, Dustin Guy Defa, Heloisa Passos)
Fish Tail (Joaquim Pinto & Nuno Leonel)
Homeland: Iraq Year Zero (Abbas Fahdel)
Immigration Battle (Michael Camerini & Shari Robertson)
Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words (Stig Björkman)
In Jackson Heights (Frederick Wiseman)
Jia Zhangke, A Guy From Fenyang (Walter Salles)
Rebel Citizen (Pamela Yates)
Troublemakers: The Story of Land Art (James Crump)
We Are Alive (Carmen Castillo)
The Witness (James Solomon)

54th (2016):
Abacus: Small Enough to Jail (Steve James)
The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography (Errol Morris)
Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds (Alexis Bloom & Fisher Stevens)
The Cinema Travellers (Shirley Abraham & Amit Madheshiya)
Dawson City: Frozen Time (Bill Morrison)
Hissein Habré, A Chadian Tragedy (Mahamat-Saleh Haroun)
I Am Not Your Negro (Raoul Peck)
I Called Him Morgan (Kasper Collin)
Karl Marx City (Petra Epperlein & Michael Tucker)
Patria O Muerte: Cuba, Fatherland or Death (Olatz López Garmendia)
Restless Creature: Wendy Whelan (Linda Saffire & Adam Schlesinger)
The Settlers (Shimon Dotan)
Two Trains Runnin' (Sam Pollard)
Uncle Howard (Aaron Brookner)
Whose Country? (Mohamed Siam)

55th (2017):
Arthur Miller: Writer (Rebecca Miller)
BOOM FOR REAL The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat (Sara Driver)
Cielo (Alison McAlpine)
Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun? (Travis Wilkerson)
El mar la mar (Joshua Bonnetta & J.P. Sniadecki)
Filmworker (Tony Zierra)
Hall of Mirrors (Ena & Ines Talakic)
Jane (Brett Morgen)
Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold (Griffin Dunne)
No Stone Unturned (Alex Gibney)
Piazza Vittorio (Abel Ferrara)
The Rape of Recy Taylor (Nancy Buirski)
Sea Sorrow (Vanessa Redgrave)
A Skin So Soft (Denis Côté)
Speak Up (Stéphane de Freitas)
The Venerable W. (Barbet Schroeder)
Voyeur (Myles Kane & Josh Koury)
Three Music Films by Mathieu Amalric [C'est presque au bout du monde, Zorn (2010-2017), Music Is Music] (Mathieu Amalric)

56th (2018):
American Dharma (Errol Morris)
Angels Are Made of Light (James Longley)
Carmine Street Guitars (Ron Mann)%
Dream of a City (Manfred Kirchheimer)%
The Cold Blue (Erik Nelson)
Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes (Alexis Bloom)
End of Life (John Bruce & Paweł Wojtasik)
Fire Music (Tom Surgal)
Maria by Callas (Tom Volf)
The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress (William Wyler)
The Times of Bill Cunningham (Mark Bozek)
The Waldheim Waltz (Ruth Beckermann)
Watergate (Charles Ferguson)
What You Gonna Do When the World's on Fire? (Roberto Minervini)

57th (2019):
45 Seconds of Laughter (Tim Robbins)
63 Up (Michael Apted)
Bitter Bread (Abbas Fahdel)
The Booksellers (D.W. Young)
Born to Be (Tania Cypriano)
Bully. Coward. Victim.: The Story of Roy Cohn (Ivy Meeropol)
College Behind Bars (Lynn Novick)
Cunningham (Alla Kovgan)
Free Time (Manfred Kirchheimer)%
Suite No. 1, Prelude (Nicholas Ma)%
My Father and Me (Nick Broomfield)
Oliver Sacks: His Own Life (Ric Burns)
Santiago, Italia (Nanni Moretti)
State Funeral (Sergei Loznitsa)