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

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Description
The fifteenth episode of the Catalyst and Witness podcast, devoted to exploring the films and format of the New York Film Festival, hosted by Ryan Swen. This covers the fifteenth edition of the festival in 1977, and features special guest Keith Uhlich.

0:00-18:22 – Opening
18:23-1:23:16 – Part One [One Sings, the Other Doesn’t to Tent of Miracles]
1:23 :17-2:45:25 – Part Two [Men of Bronze to Le Camion]
2:45 :26-3:48:38 – Part Three [Short Eyes to Citizens Band]
3:48 :39-4:50:18 – Part Four [Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom to The Man Who Loved Women]
4:50 :19-5:39:23 – Part Five [Omar Gatlato to My Grandmother]
5:39 :24-6:54:08 – Part Six [Women to That Obscure Object of Desire]
6:54 :09-7:02:59 – Closing

Corrections/Clarifications

• N/A

Housekeeping

• Hosted by Ryan Swen


• Special Guest Keith Uhlich


• Conceived and Edited by Ryan Swen


• Recorded in Los Angeles and New York City on Zoom H4N and Sennheiser Microphones, Edited in Audacity


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


• Poster by Jim Dine


• Recorded January 3, 2020


• Released February 22, 2020


• Music (in order of appearance):
  
  
  
  • One Sings, the Other Doesn’t (opening night)
  
  
  • The American Friend (another favorite)
  
  
  • Tent of Miracles (favorite of the first section)
  
  
  • Padre Padrone (favorite of the second section)
  
  
  • The Devil, Probably (favorite of the third section)
  
  
  • Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (favorite of the fourth section)
  
  
  • Omar Gatlato (favorite of the fifth section)
  
  
  • 1900 (favorite of the sixth section)
  
  
  • That Obscure Object of Desire (closing night)
  
  

General

• Selection Committee: Richard Roud (program director), Richard Corliss, Roger Greenspun, Charles Michener, Susan Sontag, Arthur Knight (West Coast consultant)


• Location: Alice Tully Hall and Avery Fisher Hall


• Prices: 2.50, 3, 4, 5.50; for opening and closing night 5, 7, 10


• Films seen for the podcast:
  
  
  
  • Ryan
    
    
    
    • Seen before podcast watching period: The American Friend
    
    
    • Seen for the podcast: All available; The American Friend rewatched
    
    
    • Favorite films: The Devil Probably, Salò or the 120 Days of Sodom, That Obscure Object of Desire, The American Friend
    
    
    • Least favorite films: Pafnucio Santo, Heart of Glass, Hot Tomorrows, My Grandmother
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Keith
    
    
    
    • Seen before podcast watching period: The American Friend, The Devil Probably, Citizens Band, Salò or the 120 Days of Sodom, Heart of Glass, That Obscure Object of Desire
    
    
    • Seen for the podcast: All available; The American Friend, The Devil Probably, Heart of Glass, That Obscure Object of Desire rewatched
    
    
    • Favorite films: Citizens Band, Heart of Glass, The Devil Probably, That Obscure Object of Desire, Padre Padrone, Omar Gatlato
    
    
    • Least favorite films: Roseland, Salò or the 120 Days of Sodom, Pafnucio Santo
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  


• Discoveries of the festival: Omar Gatlato, Tent of Miracles, The Lacemaker


• Unavailable films: Men of Bronze, Children of Labor

Main Slate

Opening Night: One Sings, the Other Doesn’t [L’une chante, l’autre pas] (1977, Agnès Varda)
September 23, 9:00 {Avery Fisher Hall}
Released 1977
Retrospective: L’Enfant de Paris [The Child of Paris] (1913, Léonce Perret)
September 24, 1:00
Never released
Tent of Miracles [Tenda dos milagres] (1977, Nelson Pereira dos Santos)
September 24, 3:00
Released 1979
Men of Bronze (1977, Bill Miles)
And: Children of Labor (1977, Noel Buckner & Mary Dore & Richard Broadman & Al Gedicks)
September 24, 6:00
Never released/Never released
The American Friend [Der Amerikanische Freund] (1977, Wim Wenders)
September 24, 9:00
Released 1977
Padre Padrone [My Father, My Master] (1977, Paolo & Vittorio Taviani)
September 25, 1:00
Released 1977
Pafnucio Santo (1977, Rafael Corkiki)
September 27, 6:15
Never released
Le Camion [The Lorry] (1977, Marguerite Duras)
September 27, 9:30
Never released
Short Eyes (1977, Robert M. Young)
September 28, 9:30
Released 1977
The Devil, Probably [Le diable probablement] (1977, Robert Bresson)
September 29, 9:30
Released 1994
Citizens Band (1977, Jonathan Demme)
September 30, 9:30
Released 1977
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom [Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma] (1975, Pier Paolo Pasolini)
October 1, 1:00
Released 1977
Heart of Glass [Herz aus Glas] (1976, Werner Herzog)
Also: La Soufrière [La Soufrière – Warten auf eine unausweichliche Katastrophe/La Soufrière – Waiting for an Inevitable Disaster] (1977, Werner Herzog)
October 1, 6:00
Released 1977/Released 1978
The Man Who Loved Women [L’Homme qui aimait les femmes] (1977, François Truffaut)
October 1, 9:00
Released 1977
Omar Gatlato (1977, Merzak Allouache)
October 2, 2:00
Never released
Roseland (1977, James Ivory)
October 2, 9:00
Released 1977
Hot Tomorrows (1977, Martin Brest)
And/Retrospective: My Grandmother [Chemia bebia] (1929, Kote Mikaberidze)
October 4, 9:30
Never released/Never released
Women [Ok ketten/The Two of Them] (1977, Márta Mészarós)
October 6, 6:15
Released 1978
The Lacemaker [La Dentellière] (1977, Claude Goretta)
October 6, 9:30
Released 1977
1900 [Novecento/Twentieth Century] (1976, Bernardo Bertolucci)
October 8, 2:00
Released 1977
Closing Night: That Obscure Object of Desire [Cet obscur objet du désir] (1977, Luis Buñuel)
October 9, 8:30 {Avery Fisher Hall}
Released 1977

Ephemera

• Animation Festival: five programs of animated films of all types at Alice Tully Hall; $2 for each program, $7.50 for full series


• Saved!: a retrospective of ten important American films from the preservation vaults of the American Film Institute, George Eastman House, the Museum of Modern Art, and UC