Daily | NYFF 2014 | Mankiewicz, Revivals, Shorts

“Mankiewicz crafted three magnificent and archetypal characters with Bette Davis’s Margo Channing, Anne Baxter’s Eve Harrington, and George Sanders’s Addison DeWitt.”

Back in June, the Film Society of Lincoln Center announced that this year’s New York Film Festival would feature a Joseph L. Mankiewicz retrospective. And now they’ve rolled out the full program. What’s more, the NYFF’s beefed up the Revivals section and added a fresh round of Short Film selections. With lineups set for the Main Slate, the Spotlight on Documentary and Projections, the full program for the NYFF’s 52nd edition is just about there. The dates: September 26 through October 12.

On this round, I’m going to go without the full descriptions of each film from the festival, but you can find those right here.

JOSEPH L. MANKIEWICZ: THE ESSENTIAL ICONOCLAST

Dragonwyck (1943).

Somewhere in the Night (1946).

The Late George Apley (1947).

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947).

Escape (1948).

A Letter to Three Wives (1949).

House of Strangers (1949).

No Way Out (1950).

All About Eve (1950).

People Will Talk (1951).

5 Fingers (1952).

Julius Caesar (1953).

The Barefoot Contessa (1954).

“Mankiewicz had to negotiate his way through the ongoing war between his male stars, the problem of adapting Damon Runyon’s dialogue to the screen, and the ‘dollar-bill proportions’ of the Scope screen, but he made a charming movie.”

Guys and Dolls (1955).

The Quiet American (1958).

Suddenly, Last Summer (1959).

Cleopatra (1963).

The Honey Pot (1967).

There Was a Crooked Man… (1970).

Sleuth (1972).

REVIVALS

Robert Flaherty‘s A Night of Storytelling (1935).

Robert Flaherty and Frances Hubbard Flaherty/Monica Flaherty’s Moana with Sound (1926/1980).

Alfred Hitchcock’s Jamaica Inn (1939).

Anthony Mann‘s The Man from Laramie (1955).

Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger‘s The Tales of Hoffmann (1951).

SHORT FILMS

Program 1 (86 minutes). Jenna Hasse’s In August, Jonas Carpignano’s Young Lions of Gypsy, Sergei Rostropovich’s Ophelia, Tal Zagreba’s Humor, Jayisha Patel’s A Paradise, Jordan Schiele’s Wu Gui and Selma Vilhunen and Guillaume Mainguet’s The Girl and the Dogs.

Program 2 (88 minutes). Marcelo Grabowsky’s Chlorine, Yohann Kouam’s The Return, Tommy Davis’s Hepburn, Federico Adorno’s La Estancia, Oscar Sharp’s The Kármán Line and Andrew Rodgers’s Crooked Candy.

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