"In 1966, the fourth year of the New York Film Festival's existence, a correspondent for Cahiers du Cinéma wrote that the festival had 'proved itself incontestably one of the cultural ornaments of this city.' By bringing the French New Wave (via Jean-Luc Godard), the Czech New Wave (Milos Forman and Ivan Passer) and some Hollywood dazzle (a documentary about Marlon Brando) to New York, the festival had drawn a following, as well as the contempt of some of the city's reviewers, including the chief film critic of The New York Times," Manohla Dargis and A.O. Scott report for The New York Times.