{"id":1821,"date":"2012-02-28T13:07:08","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T20:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theblackstallion.com\/web\/?p=1821"},"modified":"2012-02-28T16:49:15","modified_gmt":"2012-02-28T23:49:15","slug":"the-black-stallion-at-the-new-york-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblackstallion.com\/web\/the-black-stallion-at-the-new-york-film-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"“The Black Stallion” at the New York Film Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nNYFF17: Family Matinee of \u201cThe Black Stallion\u201d
\nPosted by Jeffrey Bloomer on 2.17.2012<\/p>\n

The quintessential tale of a boy and his horse, The Black Stallion screens Saturday at 11am in a special 50 Years of the New York Film Festival<\/a> family matinee at the Walter Reade Theater.
\nAlthough now widely regarded as a classic, The Black Stallion came to NYFF<\/a> in 1979 with an uncertain future; United Artists, its distributor, didn\u2019t show much interest in it. But after it screened at the festival, positive notices started to roll in, and it went on to a leggy box office run and two Academy Award nominations (though, puzzlingly, not one for its spectacular cinematography). Roger Ebert named the film the best of 1980, and Pauline Kael wrote it was “proof that even children who have grown up with television and may never have been exposed to a good movie can respond to the real thing when they see it.”
\nBased on the first of a long series of books by Walter Farley, the film picturesquely chronicles the relationship between a boy and his iconic stallion, initially after they are shipwrecked on an island together and eventually on the racetrack. The simple story resonated profoundly enough to inspire a sequel, prequel, television adaptation and myriad imitators in the years that followed.
\nCome see a magnificent 35mm print this weekend, with tickets just $6 for kids (children 4-12 should be occupied by an adult). And don\u2019t forget to check out our ongoing Family Films series, with daily screenings throughout the February school break and more titles coming soon.
\nBelow is a full list of all the films that played alongside The Black Stallion at the NYFF<\/a> in 1979:
\nLuna
\nBernardo Bertolucci, Italy\/USA, 1979
\nThe Golden Coach
\nJean Renoir, Italy\/ France, 1953
\nThe Bugs Bunny\/Road Runner Movie
\nChuck Jones, USA, 1979<\/p>\n

Black Jack
\nKen Loach, UK, 1979
\nWIse Blood
\nJohn Houston, USA, 1979<\/p>\n

Short Memory (La Memoire Courte)
\nEduardo de Gregorio, France\/Belgium, 1979
\nAngi Vera
\nP\u00e1l Gabor, Hungary, 1979<\/p>\n

Nosferatu, The Vampyre
\nWerner Herzog, West Germany\/USA, 1978
\nMad Wednesday
\nPreston Sturges, USA, 1950
\nScarface
\nHoward Hawks, USA, 1932
\nThe Europeans
\nJames Ivory, UK, 1979<\/p>\n

Moli\u00e8re
\nAriane Mnouchkine, France, 1978<\/p>\n

Best Boy
\nIra Wohl, USA, 1979
\nOther People’s Money (L’argent des autres)
\nChristian de Chalonge, France, 1978
\nAlexandria… Why? (Askandrie…Lie?)
\nYoussef Chahine, Egypt\/Algeria, 1978
\nMy Brilliant Career
\nGill Armstrong, Australia, 1979<\/p>\n

Primal Fear (Mourir \u00e0 tue-t\u00eate)
\nJan-Marie Martell Canada, 1978<\/p>\n

In a Year of 13 Moons (In einem jahr mit 13 monden)
\nRainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany, 1979<\/p>\n

Without Anesthesia
\nAndrzej Wajda, Poland, 1978
\nThe Wobblies
\nStewart Bird and Deborah Shaffer, USA, 1979
\nThe Young Girls of Wilko (Panny z Wilka)
\nAndrzej Wajda, Poland\/France, 1979
\nPeeping Tom
\nMichael Powell, UK, 1959
\nThe Marriage of Maria Braun
\nRauber Wrber Fassvubder, West Germany, 1978
\nSPECIAL EVENT: AMERICAN INDEPENDENTS
\nFilm shown were: The Cold World, Shirley Clarke; Heartland, Richard Pearce; Trash, Paul Morissey; Ice, Robert Kramer; Glen and Randa, Jim McBride; Alambrista (The Illegal), Robert M.Young; Badlands, Terence Malick; Gal Yung Un, Victor Nu\u00f1ez; Killer’s Kiss & The Brig, Stanley Kubrick; Bush Mania, Haile Gerima; Crazy Quilt, John Korty; Northern Lights, Jon Hanson and Rob Nilsson; Sweet Sweetbck’s Badasssss Song, Melvin Van Peebles; Scenic Route, Mark Rappaport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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