Table of Contents: Description, Corrections/Clarifications, Housekeeping, General, Main Slate, Ephemera, Recurring Directors, Recurring Countries, One-Time Directors, Debuts/Final Features, Festivals/Oscar Nominees, Shorts, Discussions By Length, Specifications

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Description
The thirteenth episode of the Catalyst and Witness podcast, devoted to exploring the films and format of the New York Film Festival, hosted by Ryan Swen and Dan Molloy. This covers the thirteenth edition of the festival in 1975, and features special guest Alyssa Heflin, George Eastman Museum film preservation graduate student and cinephile.

0:00-23:22 – Opening
23:23-1:30:07 – Part One [Conversation Piece to F for Fake]
1:30 :08-2:20:05 – Part Two [The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser to Xala]
2:20 :06-3:03:28 – Part Three [The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum to Compañero: Victor Jara of Chile]
3:03 :29-3:49:41 – Part Four [Exhibition to The Story of Adèle H.]
3:49 :42-3:57:22 – Closing

Corrections/Clarifications

• N/A

Housekeeping

• Hosted by Dan Molloy & Ryan Swen


• Special Guest Alyssa Heflin


• Conceived and Edited by Ryan Swen


• Recorded in Los Angeles and Rochester on Zoom H4N and Sennheiser Microphones and MacBook GarageBand, Edited in Audacity


• Podcast photograph from Yi Yi, Logo designed by Dan Molloy


• Poster by Carol Summers


• Recorded April 7, 2019


• Released April 30, 2019


• Music (in order of appearance):
  
  
  
  • Conversation Piece (opening night)
  
  
  • Fox and His Friends (another favorite)
  
  
  • F for Fake (favorite of the first section)
  
  
  • Xala (favorite of the second section)
  
  
  • Moses und Aron (favorite of the third section)
  
  
  • India Song (favorite of the fourth section)
  
  
  • The Story of Adlèle H. (closing night)
  
  

General

• Selection Committee: Richard Roud (program director), Richard Corliss, Roger Greenspun, Arthur Knight, Arthur L. Mayer, Charles Michener, Susan Sontag, Henri Langlois (retrospective consultant)


• Location: Alice Tully Hall and Avery Fisher Hall


• Prices: 2, 2.50, 3.50, 5; for opening and closing night 4, 5, 7, 10


• Films seen for the podcast:
  
  
  
  • Ryan
    
    
    
    • Seen before podcast watching period: F for Fake, Xala
    
    
    • Seen for the podcast: All available except Milestones; all rewatched
    
    
    • Favorite films: India Song, Moses und Aron, F for Fake, La Chienne, Fox and His Friends
    
    
    • Least favorite films: Black Moon, Compañero, Autobiography of a Princess
    
    
    • Rewatch Round-Up: Muriel, or the Time of Return (1st)
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Dan
    
    
    
    • Seen before podcast watching period: La Chienne, Grey Gardens, F for Fake, The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, Xala
    
    
    • Seen for the podcast: All available except Autobiography of a Princess, Compañero; F for Fake rewatched
    
    
    • Favorite films: F for Fake, India Song, Fox and His Friends, Moses und Aron, La Chienne, The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, The Story of Adèle H.
    
    
    • Least favorite films: Black Moon, Conversation Piece, Hearts of the West
    
    
    • Catch-Up Corner: Even Dwarfs Started Small (8th)
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Alyssa
    
    
    
    • Seen before podcast watching period: Fox and His Friends, F for Fake
    
    
    • Seen for the podcast: All available except Compañero; F for Fake rewatched
    
    
    • Favorite films: F for Fake, Fox and His Friends, India Song, Xala, The Story of Adele H.
    
    
    • Least favorite films: Black Moon, Hearts of the West, Autobiography of a Princess
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  


• Discoveries of the festival: India Song, Smile


• Unavailable films: Exhibition, French Provincial

Main Slate

Opening Night: Conversation Piece [Gruppo di famiglia in un interno/Family Group in an Interior] (1974, Luchino Visconti)
September 26, 9:00 {Avery Fisher Hall}
Released 1977
Retrospective: La Chienne [The Bitch] (1931, Jean Renoir)
September 27, 3:00
Released 1976
Fox and His Friends [Faustrecht der Freiheit/Fist-Right of Freedom] (1975, Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
September 27, 6:00
Released 1976
Grey Gardens (1975, Albert Maysles & David Maysles & Ellen Hovde & Muffie Meyer)
September 28, 3:00
Released 1976
F for Fake (1973, Orson Welles)
September 28, 6:00
Released 1977
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser [Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle/Every Man for Himself and God Against All] (1974, Werner Herzog)
September 28, 9:00
Released 1975
Electra, My Love [Szerelmem, Elektra] (1974, Miklós Jancsó)
September 30, 6:15
Never released
Black Moon (1975, Louis Malle)
September 30, 9:30
Released 1975
The Wonderful Crook [Pas si méchant que ça/Not So Bad] (1975, Claude Goretta)
October 1, 6:15
Released 1977
Xala [Impotence] (1975, Ousmane Sembène)
October 1, 9:30
Released 1975
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum [Die Verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum oder: Wie Gewalt entstehen und wohin sie führen kann/The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum, or: How Violence Develops and Where It Can Lead] (1975, Volker Schlöndorff & Margarethe von Trotta)
October 3, 6:15
Released 1975
Hearts of the West (1975, Howard Zieff)
October 4, 9:00
Released 1975
Moses und Aron [Moses and Aaron] (1975, Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
October 5, 3:00
Released 1975
Autobiography of a Princess (1975, James Ivory)
And: Compañero: Victor Jara of Chile (1975, Stanley Forman & Martin Smith)
October 5, 6:00
Never released/Never released
Exhibition (1975, Jean-François Davy)
October 5, 9:00
Released 1975
India Song (1975, Marguerite Duras)
October 8, 6:15
Released 1981
Milestones (1975, Robert Kramer & John Douglas)
October 8, 9:30
Released 1975
Smile (1975, Michael Ritchie)
October 9, 6:15
Released 1975
French Provincial [Souvenirs d’en France/Memories of France] (1975, André Téchiné)
October 9, 9:30
Released 1976
Closing Night: The Story of Adèle H. [L’Histoire d’Adèle H.] (1975, François Truffaut)
October 12, 8:30 {Avery Fisher Hall}
Released 1975

Ephemera

• A series of directors’ symposia (unscheduled)

Recurring Directors
Key: films in this iteration excluding shorts/omnibus/retrospectives, films in this iteration including, films in the festival up to this point excluding, films up to this point including, number of gala spots (when applicable), number of festiva