2016 New York Film Festival
th new york film festival held september october lineup consisted eight section main slate film five short program spotlight documentary film exploration six film projection program special event six film revival film retrospective film convergence transmedia presentation talk festival also included various talk free screening exploration section new addition described festival new section devoted work around world filmmaker across spectrum experience artistic sensibility … one quality share adventurous exploratory best sense word primary selection committee included kent jones chair dennis lim florence almozini amy taubin gavin smith consultant short program selected dilcia barrera laura kern dennis lim gabi madsen dan sullivan projection programmed dennis lim aily nash revival retrospective section programmed kent jones convergence curated matt bolish featurelength short retrospective contained two program inspired bertrand tavernier “a brief journey french cinema” screened tavernier’s journey french cinema along several title cited film second program focused henry hathaway director tavernier particularly admires brief journey french cinema henry hathaway