The 55th New York Film Festival took place from September 28 to October 15, 2017.[1] The festival's opening film was Richard Linklater's Last Flag Flying, and its closing film was Woody Allen's Wonder Wheel.[2]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rebecca Miller | United States | [3] | ||
| Sara Driver | United States | |||
| Cielo | Alison McAlpine | Chile, Canada | ||
| Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun? | Travis Wilkerson | United States | ||
| El Mar La Mar | Joshua Bonnetta, J.P. Sniadecki | United States | ||
| Filmworker | Tony Zierra | United States | ||
| Hall of Mirrors | Ena Talakic, Ines Talakic | United States | ||
| Jane | Brett Morgen | United States | ||
| Griffin Dunne | United States | |||
| No Stone Unturned | Alex Gibney | Northern Ireland | ||
| Piazza Vittorio | Abel Ferrara | Italy, United States | ||
| The Rape of Recy Taylor | Nancy Buirski | United States | ||
| Sea Sorrow | Vanessa Redgrave | United Kingdom | ||
| A Skin So Soft | Ta peau si lisse | Denis Côté | Canada, France, Switzerland | |
| Speak Up | À voix haute | Stéphane de Freitas | France | |
| The Venerable W. | Le vénérable W. | Barbet Schroeder | France, Switzerland | |
| Voyeur | Myles Kane, Josh Koury | United States | ||
| Three Music Films by Mathieu Amalric: C’est presque au bout du monde, Zorn, Music Is Music | Mathieu Amalric | France | ||
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First Reformed | Paul Schrader | United States | [4] | |
| Mindhunter | David Fincher | United States | ||
| Pandora's Box | Die Büchse der Pandora | G. W. Pabst | Germany | |
| The Opera House | Susan Froemke | United States | ||
| Claude Lanzmann | France | |||
| Spielberg | Susan Lacy | United States | ||
| Trouble No More | Jennifer Lebeau | United States | ||
| Without a Net: The Digital Divide in America | Rory Kennedy | United States | ||
In addition to the following feature films, the Projections lineup also included several programs of short films, including programs devoted to the work of Barbara Hammer and Mike Henderson.[5]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Caniba | Véréna Paravel, Lucien Castaing-Taylor | United States, France, United Kingdom | ||
| Dragonfly Eyes | Qing ting zhi yan | Xu Bing | China | |
| Electro-Pythagoras and Vivian’s Garden | Luke Fowler | United Kingdom | ||
| Le Fort des fous | Narimane Mari | France, Algeria, Greece, Germany, Qatar | ||
| Good Luck | Ben Russell | France, Germany | ||
| Occidental | Neïl Beloufa | France | ||
| Tonsler Park | Kevin Jerome Everson | United States | ||
| The Worldly Cave | Zhou Tao | China | ||
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| L'Atalante | Jean Vigo | France | [6] | |
| Bob the Gambler | Bob le flambeur | Jean-Pierre Melville | France | |
| The Crime of Monsieur Lange | Le Crime de Monsieur Lange | Jean Renoir | France | |
| The Crucified Lovers (A Story from Chikamatsu) | 近松物語 (Chikamatsu Monogatari) | Kenji Mizoguchi | Japan | |
| Down to Earth | Casa de Lava | Pedro Costa | Portugal | |
| Daughter of the Nile | Ni luo he nyu er | Hou Hsiao-hsien | Taiwan | |
| Grandeur and Decadence (a/k/a The Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company) | Grandeur et décadence d'un petit commerce de cinéma | Jean-Luc Godard | France | |
| Hallelujah the Hills | Adolfas Mekas | United States | ||
| Lucía | Humberto Solás | Cuba | ||
| The Old Dark House | James Whale | United States | ||
| One Sings, the Other Doesn't | L'une chante, l'autre pas | Agnès Varda | France | |
| Le Révélateur | Philippe Garrel | France | ||
| Sansho the Bailiff | 山椒大夫 (Sanshō Dayū) | Kenji Mizoguchi | Japan | |
| The Secret Son | L'Enfant secret | Philippe Garrel | France | |
| Film | Director(s) | |
|---|---|---|
| Angel Face | Otto Preminger | [7] |
| Blood on the Moon | Robert Wise | |
| Cape Fear | J. Lee Thompson | |
| Cape Fear | Martin Scorsese | |
| Crossfire | Edward Dmytryk | |
| Dead Man | Jim Jarmusch | |
| El Dorado | Howard Hawks | |
| Farewell, My Lovely | Dick Richards | |
| The Friends of Eddie Coyle | Peter Yates | |
| His Kind of Woman | John Farrow | |
| Home from the Hill | Vincente Minnelli | |
| The Lusty Men | Nicholas Ray | |
| Macao | Josef von Sternberg, Nicholas Ray | |
| Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast | Bruce Weber | |
| The Night of the Hunter | Charles Laughton | |
| Out of the Past | Jacques Tourneur | |
| Pursued | Raoul Walsh | |
| River of No Return | Otto Preminger | |
| The Story of G.I. Joe | William Wellman | |
| Till the End of Time | Edward Dmytryk | |
| Thunder Road | Arthur Ripley | |
| Track of the Cat | William Wellman | |
| Undercurrent | Vincente Minnelli | |
| The Wonderful Country | Robert Parrish | |
| The Yakuza | Sydney Pollack |
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All Over the Place | Mariana Sanguinetti | Argentina | ||
| Birthday | Alberto Viavattene | Italy | ||
| Bonboné | Rakan Mayasi | Palestine, Lebanon | ||
| The Brick House | Eliane Esther Bots | Netherlands | ||
| Cheer Up Baby | Adinah Dancyger | United States | ||
| Creswick | Natalie Erika James | Australia | ||
| Cucli | Xavier Marrades | Spain | ||
| The Disinherited | Los Desheredados | Laura Ferrés | Spain | |
| Douggy | Matvey Fiks | United States, Russia | ||
| Drip Drop | Jonna Nilsson | Sweden | ||
| A Gentle Night | Qiu Yang | China | ||
| Hedgehog's Home | Eva Cvijanović | Canada, Croatia | ||
| Hitchhiker | Damien Power | Australia | ||
| Hombre | Juan Pablo Arias Muñoz | Chile | ||
| The Last Light | Angelita Mendoza | United States, Mexico | ||
| The Layover | Ashley Connor, Joe Stankus | United States | ||
| Mr. Yellow Sweatshirt | Pacho Velez, Yoni Brook | United States | ||
| My Nephew Emmett | Kevin Wilson, Jr. | United States | ||
| Program | Gabriel de Urioste | United States | ||
| The Road to Magnasanti | John Wilson | United States | ||
| Scaffold | Kazik Radwanski | Canada | ||
| The True Tales | Une histoire vraie | Lucien Monot | Switzerland | |
| Two | Due | Riccardo Giacconi | Italy, France | |
| Unpresidented | Jason Giampietro | United States | ||