Post by jeffan on Feb 11, 2009 13:51:11 GMT -5
Thought this may be of interest:
Other 2009 festival selections include:
• Afterschool, a visually striking drama about teenage alienation by acclaimed young director Antonio Campos, who will attend the festival.
• Flying By, a world-premiere musical with Billy Ray Cyrus as a man who reunites with his teenage band at his high-school reunion. Last year's NaFF honoree Patricia Neal co-stars with Heather Locklear and High School Musical's Olesya Rulin.
• True Adolescents, a comedy about an indie rocker who takes his two teenagers on a disastrous hiking trip, featuring Frozen River Oscar nominee Melissa Leo and indie hero Mark Duplass.
• The Narrows, a drama about a student who gets in dutch with mobsters in his Brooklyn neighborhood starring Vincent D'Onofrio and Kevin Zegers.
• House of Numbers, Brent Leung's globe-spanning AIDS documentary, which was photographed by local filmmaker and NaFF staffer Pouria Montazeri.
• The Other Side of the Lens, the true story of a Salt Lake City newscaster, Reed Cowan, who arrived to cover the scene of a tragedy, only to find out the tragedy was his own. Cowan will attend the world premiere.
• Prodigal Sons, in which a transsexual filmmaker makes contact with the estranged brother who hasn't seen her since her surgery. That's only the first of many flabbergasting surprises in Kimberly Reed's documentary, which Owens says "is the only movie in my six years of programming where I walked up to the filmmaker and said, 'What are you doing in April?' "
Also on the bill are a number of selections tied to the festival's 40th anniversary. A restored print of Easy Rider, the movie that rattled Hollywood and ushered in the '70s, will be screened with special guest Peter Fonda and possibly others. (Here's hoping calls go out to Toni Basil and Phil Spector.) To represent NaFFs past, the festival has chosen retrospective screenings of Terry Zwigoff's Crumb, Kevin Smith's Clerks, Jim Jarmusch's Night on Earth, and perhaps the best film ever made about moviemaking, Les Blank and Maureen Gosling's Werner Herzog documentary Burden of Dreams.
All-access passes are currently on sale at the NaFF website (nashvillefilmfestival.org). (Since the $225 cost includes access to meals and drinks in the VIP tent along with parties and 40 movies, it's something of a steal.) Individual tickets go on sale in early April.
Email jridley@nashvillescene.com, or call 615-844-9402.
www.nashvillescene.com/2009-02-12/film/peter-fonda-william-shatner-ballet-among-2009-nashville-film-festival-lineup/
Other 2009 festival selections include:
• Afterschool, a visually striking drama about teenage alienation by acclaimed young director Antonio Campos, who will attend the festival.
• Flying By, a world-premiere musical with Billy Ray Cyrus as a man who reunites with his teenage band at his high-school reunion. Last year's NaFF honoree Patricia Neal co-stars with Heather Locklear and High School Musical's Olesya Rulin.
• True Adolescents, a comedy about an indie rocker who takes his two teenagers on a disastrous hiking trip, featuring Frozen River Oscar nominee Melissa Leo and indie hero Mark Duplass.
• The Narrows, a drama about a student who gets in dutch with mobsters in his Brooklyn neighborhood starring Vincent D'Onofrio and Kevin Zegers.
• House of Numbers, Brent Leung's globe-spanning AIDS documentary, which was photographed by local filmmaker and NaFF staffer Pouria Montazeri.
• The Other Side of the Lens, the true story of a Salt Lake City newscaster, Reed Cowan, who arrived to cover the scene of a tragedy, only to find out the tragedy was his own. Cowan will attend the world premiere.
• Prodigal Sons, in which a transsexual filmmaker makes contact with the estranged brother who hasn't seen her since her surgery. That's only the first of many flabbergasting surprises in Kimberly Reed's documentary, which Owens says "is the only movie in my six years of programming where I walked up to the filmmaker and said, 'What are you doing in April?' "
Also on the bill are a number of selections tied to the festival's 40th anniversary. A restored print of Easy Rider, the movie that rattled Hollywood and ushered in the '70s, will be screened with special guest Peter Fonda and possibly others. (Here's hoping calls go out to Toni Basil and Phil Spector.) To represent NaFFs past, the festival has chosen retrospective screenings of Terry Zwigoff's Crumb, Kevin Smith's Clerks, Jim Jarmusch's Night on Earth, and perhaps the best film ever made about moviemaking, Les Blank and Maureen Gosling's Werner Herzog documentary Burden of Dreams.
All-access passes are currently on sale at the NaFF website (nashvillefilmfestival.org). (Since the $225 cost includes access to meals and drinks in the VIP tent along with parties and 40 movies, it's something of a steal.) Individual tickets go on sale in early April.
Email jridley@nashvillescene.com, or call 615-844-9402.
www.nashvillescene.com/2009-02-12/film/peter-fonda-william-shatner-ballet-among-2009-nashville-film-festival-lineup/
