NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL at the Film Society of Lincoln Center (through Oct. 14). N.Y.F.F.’s second week brings Projections, a sidebar of experimental film — but experimental doesn’t always mean inaccessible. A joyous, painstakingly crafted symphony of colors and textures, “The Grand Bizarre” (showing on Saturday and Sunday) finds the filmmaker Jodie Mack animating textiles and patterns from around the globe. Elsewhere in the festival, a retrospective honors Dan Talbot, the founder of New Yorker Films, who died in December, shortly before the closure of his Lincoln Plaza Cinemas. The program consists of films he was instrumental in bringing to American audiences, from the early Bernardo Bertolucci effort “Before the Revolution” (on Thursday) to “My Dinner With André” (on Tuesday), which Mr. Talbot’s company released and which enjoyed a long run at Lincoln Plaza. A highlight of the Spotlight on Documentary program is “Carmine Street Guitars” (on Saturday and Monday), a portrait of the Greenwich Village guitar shop that represents a vanishing New York in more ways than one: Not only has the store resisted gentrification, its owner builds guitars out of wood salvaged from city buildings.

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JORGE SEMPRÚN at Film Forum (through Oct. 11). A Spanish writer who fought in the French Resistance and was at various points a Communist and a Communist apostate, Mr. Semprún is perhaps most known in the realm of movies for his screenplay for Costa-Gravras’s political assassination thriller “Z” (showing on Saturday), a rare film in which a disclaimer at the outset — signed by both the screenwriter and the director — notes that any similarity to real figures is intentional. Film Forum is also giving a full run to “Stavisky” (through Thursday), a somewhat neglected Alain Resnais film with a screenplay by Mr. Semprún and a score by Stephen Sondheim. Jean-Paul Belmondo plays the title character, a real Russian-born confidence man whose exposure rocked the French government in the 1930s.

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