{"id":324655,"date":"2026-08-19T03:44:57","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T03:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/324655\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T03:44:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T03:44:57","slug":"new-york-film-festival-sets-revivals-lineup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/324655\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Film Festival Sets Revivals Lineup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/new-york-film-festival\/\" id=\"auto-tag_new-york-film-festival\" data-tag=\"new-york-film-festival\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Film Festival<\/a> has unveiled its lineup of <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/revivals\/\" id=\"auto-tag_revivals\" data-tag=\"revivals\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">revivals<\/a>, films that that have been restored, preserved or digitally remastered, including 12 features and two programs of shorts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe Devils, Ken Russell\u2019s controversial 1971 work is newly restored and featuring originally censored material. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger\u2019s 1950 Technicolor work Gone to Earth, which had been drastically re-edited by producer David O. Selznick, was restored in a version overseen by Martin Scorsese and Thelma Schoonmaker.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/06\/the-devils-teaser-ken-russell-warner-bros-clockwork-1236963932\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Warner Bros.\u2019s new boutique label,\u00a0Clockwork, will release The Devils in cinemas October 16<\/a>, the first time Russell\u2019s complete version\u00a0will screen in theaters.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tOther restoration world premieres include Allen Fong\u2019s Just Like Weather, Barbara Hammer\u2019s Nitrate Kisses, and Fred Camper\u2019s Suicide Note.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tRediscoveries from the 1980s include Report to Mother, the final feature by South India filmmaker John Abraham; In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones, Pradip Krishen\u2019s coming-of-age story about a Delhi architecture student, written by a young Arundhati Roy; and Hong Kong filmmaker Allen Fong\u2019s Just Like Weather.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThree of this year\u2019s Revivals selections are essential, rarely screened works of the 1960s, when international narrative cinema was at its boldest and most experimental, including<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tPaula Delsol\u2019s 1964 character study The Drift, a rare feminist film of the French New Wave; Ukrainian filmmaker Yuri Ilyenko\u2019s 1965 feature A Well for the Thirsty, suppressed by Soviet authorities, and Alexander Kluge\u2019s 1966 New German Cinema Yesterday Girl were all restored from the original 35mm camera negatives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBarbara Hammer\u2019s 1992 Nitrate Kisses and Fred Camper\u2019s 1970s New York diary Suicide Note represent American experimental filmmaking<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe lineup also features a near-complete retrospective of Armenian filmmaker Artavazd Pelechian, screening in two programs. Pelechian, 88, was honored as a special guest at Cannes Classics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/nyff\/\" id=\"auto-tag_nyff\" data-tag=\"nyff\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NYFF<\/a>\u2019s 64th edition runs September 25 through October 12. See <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?sca_esv=f45b6ea3982c2aeb&amp;rlz=1C5GCCM_en&amp;sxsrf=APpeQnvjDiFd0hmy9cwNGIbNFXpdyTulBQ:1787061402122&amp;q=new+york+film+festival+deadline&amp;tbm=nws&amp;source=lnms&amp;fbs=ABfTbFVyMZGZf1hfvX9uKjN_-G8cqu7ocb7U6ah0xpkIrGMK4JAeCmZp4riIcplhAkpcBx9M9YPRiyHBOvm0lBl5YtbQyVG87wbn35-EJzis7koklmoGANiJbYxIxd00sWpZQLtH4BVho5szt4m20BtslVfte_JcgG9dWVO1wpIk_0ck4UgY1SKd30a1_yVBI1_FTkgMAPZm1IgS5SDHi9X-8R__lajAlQ&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwi6wsLAqqqWAxWonokEHT_eKOQQ0pQJegQIFhAB&amp;biw=1149&amp;bih=589&amp;dpr=2\" target=\"_blank\">the Main Slate<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/08\/new-york-film-festival-tom-mccarthy-jonathan-glazer-world-premieres-1237030698\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spotlight<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/08\/new-york-film-festival-currents-lineup-world-premiere-tala-hadid-bardi-1237032852\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Currents<\/a> selections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tRevivals lineup with festival descriptions:<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe Devils (Ken Russell)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe Drift (Paula Delsol)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tGone to Earth (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tGoodbye South, Goodbye (Hou Hsiao-hsien)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIn Which Annie Gives It Those Ones (Pradip Krishen)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tL\u2019innocente (Luchino Visconti)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tJust Like Weather (Allen Fong)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tNitrate Kisses (Barbara Hammer)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tReport to Mother (John Abraham)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSuicide Note (Fred Camper)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tA Well for the Thirsty (Yuri Ilyenko)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tYesterday Girl (Alexander Kluge)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tPelechian Project Program 1 (Artavazd Pelechian)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tMountain Patrol<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tLand of the People<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWe<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe Seasons<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tPelechian Project Program 2 (Artavazd Pelechian)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe Beginning<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tOur Century<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe End<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tLife<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t64th New York Film Festival Revivals Films and Descriptions<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe Devils<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tKen Russell, 1971, U.K., 35mm, 114m<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tNorth American Premiere of Newly Restored 35mm Print<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tKen Russell\u2019s controversial adaptation of Aldous Huxley\u2019s The Devils of Loudun is at long last available in its full, provocative splendor. This new restoration thrillingly incorporates material that was originally censored\u2014footage that Russell deemed some of the best and most political work of his career. A young Derek Jarman designed the sets that house this story of a vengeful nun (Vanessa Redgrave) who accuses a priest (Oliver Reed) of collaborating with the devil, resulting in the apparent possession of an entire convent. A fearless account of state and church corruption, The Devils mixes graphic sexual imagery with religious iconography in an unforgettable spectacle that could only issue from the mind of Ken Russell. Following its NYFF64 premiere, The Devils will open on 35mm for a one-week engagement beginning October 16 at Film at Lincoln Center. A Warner Bros. Clockwork release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tNew 4K restoration from the original camera negative of Ken Russell\u2019s definitive vision of The Devils, using his privately constructed 2004 edit. Audio remastered from original English Composite 35mm Mag Film transferred at 96kHz, plus other original elements as needed. Picture and sound restoration performed by Warner Bros. Post Production Creative Services, Water Tower Color, and Warner Bros. Sound.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe Drift \/ La d\u00e9rive<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tPaula Delsol, 1964, France, 83m<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tFrench with English subtitles<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tNorth American Premiere of New 4K Restoration<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAn underseen and criminally overlooked film of the Nouvelle Vague, Paula Delfsol\u2019s sensual, meandering work of modernistic character study follows Jacquie (Jacqueline Vandal), a young woman who leaves her family to hit the road with her guitarist lover, only for him to abandon her. As she proceeds to encounter a succession of men, Delsol uses Jacquie\u2019s experiences to reflect on the state of women\u2019s liberation in 1960s France. In her sole feature film, Delsol filled nearly every role behind the camera, and though it fell into obscurity for decades following its Cannes premiere, the film today appears to us as a bold and innovative feminist contribution to the notorious boys\u2019 club that was the Nouvelle Vague. A Janus Films release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tRestored in 4K in 2026 by La Cin\u00e9math\u00e8que fran\u00e7aise in collaboration with the CNC, and with the support of the Neuflize OBC Foundation. Restored at the TransPerfect Media laboratory from the 35mm image and sound negatives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tGone to Earth<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tMichael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, 1950, U.K., 111m<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWorld Premiere of New 4K Restoration<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tFor many years, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger\u2019s evocative ode to Shropshire fell victim to the meddling hands of producer David O. Selznick, who drastically re-edited the film, releasing it as The Wild Heart in 1952. Selznick made his changes directly onto the negative, making it exceedingly difficult to reconstruct Powell and Pressburger\u2019s original version. Overseen by Martin Scorsese and Thelma Schoonmaker, and making use of positive materials held at the British Film Institute, as well as the film\u2019s tattered negative, this restoration miraculously brings Powell and Pressburger\u2019s Technicolor version of Mary Webb\u2019s novel back to life. Jennifer Jones stars as the free-spirited, nature-loving Hazel Woodus, a woman who refuses to bow down to her father (Esmond Knight), the spiritual clergyman (Cyril Cusack) to whom she is betrothed, or the reckless squire (David Farrar) who desires her. Jones gives a career-best performance in The Archers\u2019 glorious tribute to the otherworldly landscapes where Powell\u2019s father grew up. A Walt Disney Company release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tRestored in 2026 by Walt Disney Studios, in association with The Film Foundation, with the participation of the British Film Institute, The George Eastman Museum, The Museum of Modern Art. Image Restoration: Cineric, Inc. Audio Restoration: Audio Mechanics. Supervised by Thelma Schoonmaker, with special thanks to Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe NYFF64 screening of Gone to Earth is presented in partnership with Rolex.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tGoodbye South, Goodbye \/ \u5357\u570b\u518d\u898b,\u5357\u570b<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHou Hsiao-hsien, 1996, Taiwan, 120m<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tTaiwanese Hokkien and Mandarin Chinese with English subtitles<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tNorth American Premiere of New 4K Restoration<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tArriving midway through Hou Hsiao-hsien\u2019s 1990s run of unassailable masterpieces, Goodbye South, Goodbye is one of his great contemporary films, and a definitive generational portrait, following the schemes and plots of a group of small-time gangsters in the age of get-rich-quick late-capitalism. As Gao (Jack Kao) aims to establish a gambling ring in Pingxi with a friend and accomplice, Gao\u2019s girlfriend quickly grows wary of the new faces that enter his life as a result. A typically mesmerizing study of the effects of modernization on the lives of everyday Taiwanese, cycling between movement and stasis, Goodbye South, Goodbye remains one of Hou\u2019s most sociologically insightful works, and it features several of his most bravura long takes in a career replete with them. A Janus Films release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t4K scanned from the 35mm original camera negative preserved at the National Film Archive of Japan, followed by picture restoration and color grading. Sound digitized from the optical magnetic sound track (cinetape) and audio-restored\/remastered.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIn Which Annie Gives It Those Ones<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tPradip Krishen, 1989, India, 112m<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tNorth American Premiere of New 4K Restoration<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBased on a screenplay by a then-28-year-old Arundhati Roy, In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones at first appears to be a modest and playful depiction of student life in the 1970s. But Roy\u2019s story of Annie (Arjun Raina), a New Delhi architecture student caught in a vicious cycle of failing and repeating his studies, gradually reveals itself as a sharp and poignant portrayal of youth, deftly poised between hope and cynicism. (Roy herself quietly steals the show in her onscreen turn as Radha, Annie\u2019s girlfriend and an independent young woman proud of her nonconformist ways.) Directed by Roy\u2019s husband Pradip Krishen and based on her own university experiences, the English-language film was originally made for television and circulated exclusively on VHS for many years. This new restoration, which made use of the 16mm camera negative, as well as a 35mm print, finally brings this deeply pleasurable film to the big screen where it belongs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tRestored in 4K by Film Heritage Foundation at L\u2019Immagine Ritrovata laboratory in association with the director Pradip Krishen. Funding provided by Film Heritage Foundation. Restored using the best surviving elements: 16mm original camera negative and sound negative preserved at the NFDC-National Film Archive of India and 35mm release print preserved at Film Heritage Foundation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tL\u2019innocente \/ The Innocent<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tLuchino Visconti, 1976, Italy\/France, 129m<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tItalian with English subtitles<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tNorth American Premiere of New 4K Restoration<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIn his final film, Luchino Visconti offers one of his most cutting variations on his lifelong theme: the moral decay of the soul-sick aristocracy. Based on a novel by the proto-fascist sensualist Gabriele d\u2019Annunzio, this poison-pill melodrama concerns a callously self-absorbed nobleman (Giancarlo Giannini) whose liberal views on marriage extend only as far as his own extramarital affairs. When his tormented wife (Laura Antonelli) pursues a dalliance with a writer, the full monstrosity of his chauvinism is unleashed. Working with a late-career rigor, Visconti returns one last time to the luxuriant, red-velvet world of the 19th century, stripping away operatic excess in favor of a supremely controlled emotional intensity. A Film Movement release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tNew digital transfer created in 4K resolution on an Arriscan film scanner from the original camera negative by Cinelab Service in Italy. All video and audio restoration done at Heavenly Movie Corporation by Sebastian Alvarez del Castillo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tJust Like Weather \/ \u7f8e\u570b\u5fc3<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAllen Fong, 1986, Hong Kong, 95m<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tCantonese and English with English subtitles<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWorld Premiere of New 4K Restoration<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAllen Fong\u2019s fascinating, ahead-of-its-time third feature follows a couple from Hong Kong as they navigate domestic trials and tribulations, both real and staged, before eventually heading to the United States in search of a potential better future amid the social and political malaise of their generation. They soon discover, like many immigrants before and since, that the U.S. isn\u2019t quite the promised land of abundant opportunity. Fong\u2019s use of non-actors and documentary techniques in a fictional context\u2014or perhaps fictional techniques in a documentary context?\u2014at times recalls the work of Abbas Kiarostami, imbuing quotidian concerns with a powerful metaphysical and political resonance. The result is a signature work of the Hong Kong New Wave, and one of the great films about married life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tRestored in 4K by M+, Hong Kong in 2026. The restoration was made using the original 16mm picture negative, the 35mm reversal intermediate, and the 35mm optical sound negative preserved at the Hong Kong Film Archive, Leisure and Cultural Services Department. The restoration was undertaken at L\u2019Immagine Ritrovata. Special thanks to George Chang. Just Like Weather is one of the films under \u201cM+ Restored,\u201d an initiative supported by CHANEL.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tNitrate Kisses<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBarbara Hammer, 1992, U.S., 67m<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWorld Premiere of New 4K Restoration<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBarbara Hammer\u2019s pioneering first feature weaves together a liberating portrait of queer sexuality through a dizzying mix of archival and original footage: interviews, sexual imagery, and excerpts of documentary and narrative films from the 1930s, including the first gay film from the U.S., James Sibley Watson and Melville Webber\u2019s Lot in Sodom (1933). Hammer\u2019s editing juxtapoises contrasting images and sounds and brings past and present into an intimate and unexpected dialogue. With sections that explore, among other matters, the sexuality of American author Willa Cather and the status of lesbians in the Third Reich, Hammer\u2019s film boldly pulls back the curtain on the queer experience. A Strand Releasing release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tRestored by BB Optics (Mackenzie Lukenbill, Restoration Technician). Supported by Frameline and The Estate of Barbara Hammer. Restoration overseen by Brydie O\u2019Connor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tReport to Mother \/ Amma Ariyan<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tJohn Abraham, 1986, India, 115m<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tMalayalam with English subtitles<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tU.S. Premiere of New 4K Restoration<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe final feature by legendary Malayalam filmmaker John Abraham, Report to Mother is an astonishing work of political commitment and aesthetic experimentation. The first production of the Odessa Collective, which raised funds by screening films and performing in villages with the aim of creating a true \u201cpeople\u2019s cinema,\u201d the film follows Purushan (Joy Mathew), who discovers a dead body while en route to Delhi and sets out to inform the mother of the deceased of his apparent fate, while gathering an eclectic group of companions along the way. Indelibly capturing the political tumult of 1970s Kerala in stark black and white, Report to Mother has endured as one of South Indian cinema\u2019s most essential works.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tRestored by Film Heritage Foundation at L\u2019Immagine Ritrovata laboratory and Digital Film Restore Pvt. Ltd. in association with Odessa Collective with special thanks to cinematographer Venu ISC and editor Bina Paul. Funding provided by Film Heritage Foundation. Restored in 4K from one of the only two surviving prints: the first-generation 35mm release print preserved at the NFDC-National Film Archive of India.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSuicide Note<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tFred Camper, 1976\u20131984, U.S., 16mm, 110m<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSilent with no subtitles<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWorld Premiere of New Restoration<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tShot largely in New York in the late 1970s, and seldom screened publicly, this rare film from critic and artist Fred Camper is a fragmentary, diaristic work, capturing a cluttered and melancholic world on Super 8 reversal film. Haunted by its title, the film is at once intimate and opaque, rhapsodic and withdrawn, as its tremulous images attempt to reckon with the fleeting beauty of crowds, shop windows, domestic interiors, art exhibitions, and a panoptic view of New York City taken from the South Tower of the World Trade Center. Each screening of the film, which unfolds across 10 sections, is different from the last: the reels that make up its eighth section are determined by way of a chance operation performed before each projection. Previously known as SN, the film has now been given its full title (conceived after Camper\u2019s stepfather took his own life and left no note), to coincide with this essential new restoration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSuicide Note has been restored by Chicago Film Society with the support of the National Film Preservation Foundation and Big Creek Cooperative. Picture Restoration: BB Optics; 4K Scan and Laboratory Services: Colorlab. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tA Well for the Thirsty \/ \u041a\u0440\u0438\u043d\u0438\u0446\u044f \u0434\u043b\u044f \u0441\u043f\u0440\u0430\u0433\u043b\u0438\u0445<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tYuri Ilyenko, 1965\/1987, Ukraine\/USSR, 71m<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tUkrainian with English subtitles<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tNorth American Premiere of New 4K Restoration<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tCompleted in 1965 but suppressed by Soviet authorities until its eventual release amid the onset of perestroikain 1987, Yuri Ilyenko\u2019s debut feature is a cryptic, visionary work that helped establish the Ukrainian poetic cinema movement (alongside Sergei Parajanov\u2019s Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, on which Ilyenko served as cinematographer). Almost entirely dialogue-free, A Well for the Thirsty paints the interiority of Levko (Dmytro Miliutenko), an old peasant who lives on the perimeter of a desert; his family members are all dead or otherwise gone, and as he makes preparations for his own inevitable death, he is beset by memories and apparitions from throughout his life. With its radical sound design and striking symbolist imagery, A Well for the Thirsty is a singular achievement that announced Ilyenko as a worthy heir of Alexander Dovzhenko.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tRestored from the 35mm original camera negative, held at Oleksandr Dovzhenko Centre, Kyiv. Scanned by Lukasz Ceranka (Fixafilm) and Oleksandr Bertman (Oleksandr Dovzhenko Centre), restored with funding by Fixafilm and the Polish Film Institute, graded with reference to an archival print loaned by the Dovzhenko Centre. Copyright holder: Dovzhenko Film Studio. Special thanks to Olena Honcharuk, Daniel Bird, Pylyp Illienko, Andriy Donchyk, CEO of Dovzhenko Film Studio.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tYesterday Girl \/ Abschied von gestern<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAlexander Kluge, 1966, West Germany, 88m<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tGerman with English subtitles<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tNorth American Premiere of New 4K Restoration<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tOne of the foundational films of the New German Cinema, the debut feature by the polymath artist and writer Alexander Kluge (who died in March 2026 at the age of 94) remains a radical and generative work that reimagines the formal conventions of narrative cinema in pursuit of a new kind of film, one that would better reflect the political realities of life in Germany 20 years after the fall of the Third Reich. Nominally, the plot concerns Anita G. (Alexandra Kluge, the director\u2019s sister), a young East German woman acclimating to her new life on the other side of the wall. But Kluge adorns her meandering odyssey with a wealth of intertitles, references, citations, and documentary footage, yielding an allusive and polyvocal work about which one can say, simply, that there was a German cinema before Yesterday Girl and a German cinema after it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tRestoration undertaken by Kairos-Film and Reitz-Medien under the supervision of Alexander Kluge. 4K scanning from the original 35mm negative performed at ARRI Film &amp; TV M\u00fcnchen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tPelechian Project<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tLong a figure of cultish devotion but still too little known in the U.S., the Armenian filmmaker Artavazd Pelechian once said, while speaking to Jean-Luc Godard, that \u201cfilm relies on three factors: space, time, and real movement.\u201d Combining archival and original footage, and blurring the categories of documentary essay and the poetic avant-garde, Pelechian\u2019s visionary works revolve around a grand recurring theme of humankind\u2019s tumultuous relationship to the natural world. A spiritual and theoretical descendant of great Soviet filmmakers like Dziga Vertov and Sergei Eisenstein, Pelechian evolved their pioneering editing techniques into a method he termed \u201cdistance montage,\u201d which, instead of forging linear associations, sought to create \u201ca magnetic field around the film.\u201d The films in these two programs\u2014restored under the supervision of Pelechian, now 88\u2014span more than three decades and constitute a near-complete survey of his extraordinary body of work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tRestoration of Artavazd Pelechian\u2019s films launched by Coproduction Office in partnership with Cineteca di Bologna under the director\u2019s supervision. Best available elements selected by the director and scanned in 4K at the Public Television Company of Armenia. Restoration and color grading carried out by L\u2019Immagine Ritrovata laboratory. In association with Cinema Foundation of Armenia, Public Television Company of Armenia, VGIK. Additional support by ZDF\/ARTE, ArMa Media Production LLC, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tPelechian Project Program 1<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tArtavazd Pelechian, 1964\u20131975, USSR\/Armenia, 79m<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tMountain Patrol \/ \u053c\u0565\u057c\u0576\u0561\u0575\u056b\u0576 \u057a\u0561\u0580\u0565\u056f\u0576\u0565\u0580<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t1964, 10m<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tNorth American Premiere of New 4K Restoration<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tMade at the legendary Russian film school VGIK while Pelechian was a student, this early short film shows the daily labor of men tasked with clearing the way for train passage through the Armenian mountains.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tLand of the People \/ \u0544\u0561\u0580\u0564\u056f\u0561\u0576\u0581 \u0565\u0580\u056f\u056b\u0580\u0568<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t1966, 11m<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tU.S. Premiere of New 4K Restoration<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tA striking portrait of labor and human thought, bookended by a roving visual meditation on Rodin\u2019s \u201cThe Thinker.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWe \/ \u0544\u0565\u0576\u0584<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t1969, 27m<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tU.S. Premiere of New 4K Restoration<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe question of Armenian identity and the very fate of the Armenian people seem to be at stake in this kinetic, formally convulsive work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe Seasons \/ \u054f\u0561\u0580\u057e\u0561 \u0565\u0572\u0561\u0576\u0561\u056f\u0576\u0565\u0580\u0568<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t1975, 31m<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tU.S. Premiere of New 4K Restoration<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIn what is often considered Pelechian\u2019s magnum opus, the ancient antagonism of nature and humanity plays out in a depiction of a remote farming community, energetically scored with Armenian folk music and Vivaldi\u2019s The Four Seasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tPelechian Project Program 2<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tArtavazd Pelechian, 1967\u20131993, USSR\/Armenia, 77m<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe Beginning<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t1967, 9m<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tU.S. Premiere of New 4K Restoration<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe October Revolution of 1917 comes to life through Pelechian\u2019s unique stuttering montage in this analytical, staccato counterpoint to Eisenstein\u2019s October.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tOur Century<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t1982, 52m<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tNorth American Premiere of New 4K Restoration<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tA jarring, provocative work alternating between images of a rocket launch and scenes of failed experiments in aviation, Our Century is, in Pelechian\u2019s words, \u201ca film about us, about me, about what I\u2019m striving for, what we\u2019re all striving for, every person, humanity. And this desire to ascend, to transcend, is literally embodied in the cosmonauts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe End<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t1992, 9m<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tU.S. Premiere of New 4K Restoration<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tA staggering meditation on landscapes and travel, The End captures a train ride from Moscow to Yerevan, rendered by Pelechian as a kind of hymn outside of time, conjured through the mystery of the human face, the rumbling of mechanized transport, and the revelatory play of light. Note: The End will also screen in Currents Program 2: The Visible Invisible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tLife<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t1993, 7m<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tNorth American Premiere of New 4K Restoration<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tA rare color film for Pelechian, in which a woman\u2019s face movingly fills the frame as she gives birth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Film Festival has unveiled its lineup of revivals, films that that have been restored, preserved&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,14115,11,10,94810,122285],"class_list":["post-324655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-film-festival","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-nyff","tag-revivals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}