NYFF Home Main Slate Special Events Avant-Garde HBO Films Dialogues Masterworks Guide Videos $10 Rush Tickets VIP Passport Ticket Information Trailer Contest Sweepstakes Rules Archive The New York Film Festival September 25 - October 11, 2009 View Calendar>> Special Events Approaching The Wizard ~~ Chandleresque Tribute to the Talbots ~~ The Night of Counting the Years Almodóvar’s History of Cinema ~~ The Red Riding Trilogy NYFF09 special events and screenings will be at the Walter Reade Theater, with unreserved seating, except where otherwise noted. Click on the SHOWTIME under Buy Tickets to purchase online. Tickets are also on sale at the Alice Tully Hall box office. >> Ticket prices vary per program ~ unreserved seating in the Walter Reade Theater except where otherwise noted. >> More ticket information >> NYFF09 Complete Schedule in Calendar Format   Approaching The Wizard: Flying Monkeys, Ruby Slippers and Yellow Brick Roads in American Cinema and Culture In conjunction with the Special Presentation of the magnificently restored The Wizard of Oz, this panel discussion will focus on the place and continuing impact of the film even seventy years after its initial release. Panelist include: John Fricke, coauthor of the new 70th anniversary book, "The Wizard of Oz: An illustrated Companion to the Timeless Movie Classic;" Jane Lahr, daughter of Cowardly Lion Bert Lahr; Ned Price, Vice President, Mastering and Restoration, Warner Brothers Technical Operations Inc.; and Robert Sklar, Professor Emeritus of Cinema Studies at NYU and author of "Movie Made America. " Read more >>   Buy Tickets Sun. Sept. 27: 11am Tickets: $11 adult, $8 senior, $7 member & student Chandleresque: Raymond Chandler on Film and Television To commemorate the 50th anniversary of Raymond Chandler's death, Adrian Wootton, Director of Crime Scene & CEO of Film London, will present an illustrated talk, featuring film/audio clips, chronicling Chandler's extraordinary life and career. Followed by a 9pm screening of The Blue Dahlia [George Marshall, 1946, USA, 96m). Read more >> The Blue Dahlia Raymond Chandler’s first original screenplay presents a world of surface tranquility and beauty that soon is revealed to be a thin cover for a festering pool of treachery and corruption. Directed by George Marshall (1946, USA, 96 min.). Starring: Alan Ladd, William Bendix, Hugh Beaumont and Doris Dowling. Read more >> Buy Tickets Wed. Sept. 30: 7pm Tickets, includes complimentary admission to the screening of The Blue Dahlia: $15 adult, $13 senior, $12 member & student Wed. Sept. 30: 9pm Tickets, only for the screening of the film: $11 adult, $8 senior, $7 member & student Creating Film Culture: A Tribute to Dan and Toby Talbot and the “New Yorker Years” Critic Molly Haskell and filmmaker Jonathan Demme will join Dan and Toby Talbot for an on stage conversation about the Talbots’ legacy and their role in the growth of film culture in New York. The conversation will be preceded by a reception and book signing for Toby Talbot's new book "The New Yorker Theater and Other Scenes from a Life at the Movies" (Columbia University Press). and then followed by a screening of Louis Malle's My Dinner With Andre (1981, USA, 110m). Please note: Screening only tickets for My Dinner with Andre are NOT available. Read more >> AT THE FRIEDA AND ROY FURMAN GALLERY Posters from the New Yorker Theater September 10 - October 20 Open daily 1:30 to 6pm The New Yorker Theater, the legendary art house on the Upper West Side was started by Dan Talbot and ran from 1960 to 1973, a Golden Age in cinema and one of political unrest. A neighborhood hub, it became a cinema mecca, what Bernardo Bertolucci called a kind of wild university, like Henri Langlois’ Cinémathèque in Paris. It emerged at a moment when movies gained recognition as an art form, with a history and an aesthetic. It was a cradle for cinephiles – Andrew Sarris, Manny Farber, Susan Sontag, and Morris Dickstein were regulars. A Jules Feiffer mural covered the entrance in the lobby and moviegoers sat on the old red velvet Roxy seats. The posters in this exhibit are among several hundred that hung in front of the theater on Broadway between 88th and 89th Street. Buy Tickets Thu. Oct. 1: 5:30pm Tickets for 5:30pm reception & book signing/ 7pm conversation & screening of My Dinner with Andre: $25 adult, $20 senior, $17 member & student Thu. Oct. 1: 7pm Tickets for 7pm conversation & screening: $15 adult, $13 senior, $12 member & student The Night of Counting the Years (a.k.a. The Mummy) / Al-Momia Thanks to the efforts of Cineteca di Bologna and the World Cinema Foundation, Shadi Abdelsalaam’s masterpiece (1969, Egypt, 102m), a fascinating parable about the origins of Egyptian national identity, has now been beautifully restored, so that a new generation can discover this little-known treasure of international cinema. Read more >> Buy Tickets Fri. Oct. 9: 6:15pm Tickets: $15 adult, $13 senior, $12 member & student Pedro Almodóvar’s History of Cinema: A Conversation In addition to being one of the world’s greatest filmmakers, Pedro Almodóvar is also a world-class film buff, with a broad range of tastes and cinematic references that often crop up in his films. Screening clips from several of his favorite films, Mr. Almodóvar will analyze and discuss them with NYFF Selection Committee Chairman Richard Peña, offering his thoughts about the road that cinema has traveled—and where it might be headed. Read more >> Buy Tickets Sat. Oct. 10: 3:30pm Tickets: $16 ~ best available seat location for reserved seating at Alice Tully Hall. The Red Riding Trilogy Sat. Oct. 10: 4pm, 6:15pm & 8:45pm >> Trilogy Pass, for all three films: $25 adult, $18 member ~ limited availability only at the Alice Tully Hall box office. >> Single screening tickets: $11 adult; $8 senior; $7 member & student. One of this year’s great cinematic events—The Red Riding Trilogy—was actually conceived for and premiered on Britain’s Channel Four. Far and away the most convincing recent addition to the canon of film noir, this taut, mesmerizing trilogy of films was adapted from David Peace’s series of novels about the “Yorkshire Ripper,” a serial killer who terrorized northwest England in the 1970’s and 1980’s. Produced by film director Michael Winterbottom and Andrew Eaton, each of these new works was made by a different director, while all shared the same screenwriter, Tony Grisoni. Each installment can be seen separately, yet the impact of all three together is simply overwhelming. Red Riding: 1974 (Julien Jarrold, 2009, UK, 105m) centers on a rookie journalist, Eddie Dunford (Andrew Garfield) whose investigation of a series of child abductions leads him to suspect that there’s a terrifying connection between the perpetrators and the upper echelons of Yorkshire power. Red Riding: 1980 (James Marsh, 2009, UK, 96m) finds the police and the public still baffled that the killer remains at large. A veteran police official, Peter Hunter (Paddy Considine), is called in from Manchester to take over the investigation, but his new theories about the case only incite growing opposition to his involvement. Red Riding: 1983 (Anand Tucker, 2009, UK, 104m) starts with the kidnapping of another young girl. Detective Maurice Jobson (David Morrissey) notices a number of powerful similarities to the abduction cases he had investigated back in the Seventies—and for which a man was convicted and sentenced. Meanwhile, a reluctant local solicitor, John Piggott (Mark Addy), decides to take up the condemned man’s cause. Please Note Tickets & prices for all NYFF events subject to availability. No refunds or exchanges. More ticket information >> Buy Tickets Red Riding: 1974 Sat. Oct. 10: 4pm Red Riding: 1980 Sat. Oct. 10: 6:15pm Red Riding: 1983 Sat. Oct. 10: 8:45pm >> Single screening tickets: $11 adult; $8 senior; $7 member & student. >> Trilogy Pass, for all three films: $25 adult, $18 member ~ limited availability only at the Alice Tully Hall box office. Back to Top