GENERAL INFORMATION

The New York Film Festival, which will celebrate its 40th year in 2002, continues its proud tradition of
showing the newest and most important cinematic works by directors from around the world.
The 17-dayFestival is an unparalleled showcase of inspiring and provocative cinema by emerging
talents and first-rank international artists whose films are often recognized as contemporary classics.
The New York Film Festival, sponsored by Grand Marnier, celebrates its 39th year beginning Friday,
September 28, 2001 with a vibrant selection of films from around the world that features 43 brilliant
and affecting new works by an array of acknowledged masters and rising stars, as well as several
special events.The Festival is bookended this year by two legends of the French Nouvelle Vague.
Jacques Rivette’s Va Savoir opens the Festival and Jean-Luc Godard’s In Praise of Love is the
festival’s Closing Night film. David Lynch, a true American original, makes his Festival debut with
Mulholland Drive in the coveted Centerpiece position, while on the same middle weekend the Festival
will present the world premiere of Wes Anderson’s much-anticipated The Royal Tenenbaums.
In all, more than 20 countries are represented in this year’s showcase of the best in world
cinema, from Singapore to Switzerland, from Argentina to Australia, including 10 feature productions
or co-productions from France. All of the feature films in the Festival are U.S. premieres.
"The range of this year’s NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL is not only geographical but also generational,
stretching from the 92-year-old Portuguese master Manoel de Oliveira to 26-year-old Argentine
newcomer Lisandro Alonso," said Richard Peña, Chairman of the Festival Selection Committee and
Program Director of The Film Society of Lincoln Center. "This year’s program is a chance to celebrate
the great achievements of some of world cinema’s most senior and influential filmmakers
(Godard, Chahine, Imamura) as well as those of directors flourishing in mid-career (Lynch, Breillat, Moretti),
and outstanding emerging talents (Martel, Solondz, Odoul)."

FESTIVAL TICKETS

The box office for the Festival will open at Alice Tully Hall at noon on September 10. Tickets are
$14 for regular screenings; $20 for the Centerpiece; and $30 for Opening and Closing Nights.
Special event screenings have various ticket prices. Please contact the New York Film Festival
Box Office, at 212/875-5050, for additional information.

TICKETS FOR FESTIVAL SPECIAL EVENTS

The Films of Leonardo Favio and Views from the Avant-Garde take place at the Walter Reade
Theater, located at 165 W. 65th St., plaza level. Tickets are available by phone (212) 875-5600;
online at www.filmlinc.com; or at the box office, from 30 minutes before the first screening of the
day until 15 minutes after the last show begins. Ticket prices are $9 general, $5 for Members.
For information, call (212) 875-5600.

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FESTIVAL POSTER

The Film Society of Lincoln Center is proud to present a reproduction of an oil painting on board by
acclaimed American artist Manny Farber for its 38th New York Film Festival poster. The painting
dates from 1986 and is in the collection of Charles J. Watts. The original work measures 72" x 72".
The poster, printed on gallery art silk paper, measures 26 _" by 38 _".

Manny Farber was born in 1917 in Douglas, Arizona. He began painting when he was in his twenties
and has exhibited regularly ever since. Starting in the late 40s he began a parallel career as a film
critic and wrote for a variety of magazines, including The Nation and Time and later Artforum and Film
Comment. His writings on film have influenced a whole generation of critics and filmmakers.

The 39th New York Film Festival Poster will be on sale in the lobby of Alice Tully Hall during the Festival,
September 24 to October 14, 2001. It will also be available from the Film Society of Lincoln Center,
70 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023 (add $5 for shipping and allow six weeks for delivery) and
on the Film Society’s Website at the estore.

The cost of a signed poster is $60 ($50 for Film Society Members). An unsigned poster is $40 ($30 for
Film Society Members). Past NYFF posters have been designed by Martin Scorsese, Juan Gatti, William
Wegman, Robert Rauschenberg, David Hockney, Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Frank Stella, Jim Dine,
and Andy Warhol, among others.

SELECTION COMMITTEE

Selections for the 39th New York Film Festival were made by Richard Peña, Chairman of the Committee and
Program Director, The Film Society of Lincoln Center; John Anderson, chief film critic for Newsday;
Manohla Dargis, film editor for the L.A. Weekly and contributor to Harper’s Bazaar; Dave Kehr,
New York Times film columnist; and Kathleen Murphy, Seattle-based film programmer, critic, and scholar.