FALL 2006 SEASON
FALL 2006 SEASON
11/20 - FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION
"Debut feature director Jay Berman steers cast and crew through a typically tumultuous independent film "Home for Purim," an intimate period drama about a Jewish family's turbulent reunion on the occasion of the dying matriarch's favorite holiday. When Internet-generated rumors begin circulating that three of the film's stars--faded luminary Marilyn Hack, journeyman actor and former hot dog pitchman Victor Allan Miller, and ingénue Callie Webb--may be perpetrating Award-worthy performances, a rumble of excitement rattles the cast."
Cast:
Ricky Gervais
Catherine O'Hara
Parker Posey
Bob Balaban
Harry Shearer
Eugene Levy
Jennifer Coolidge
Christopher Guest
Jane Lynch
Michael McKean
Director:
Christopher Guest
Writers:
Christopher Guest
Eugene LevyProducer
Karen Murphy
HOST PETER TRAVERS
GUEST - BOB BALABAN
Bob Balaban
Official Site: Link Link
11/13 - PAINTED VEIL
Based on the classic novel by W. Somerset Maugham, “The Painted Veil” is a love story set in the 1920s that tells the story of a young English couple, Walter, a middle class doctor and Kitty, an upper-class woman, who get married for the wrong reasons and relocate to Shanghai, where she falls in love with someone else. When he uncovers her infidelity, in an act of vengeance, he accepts a job in a remote village in China ravaged by a deadly epidemic, and takes her along. Their journey brings meaning to their relationship and gives them purpose in one of the most remote and beautiful places on earth.
Edward Norton and Series Producer Mark Ehrenkranz
Edward Norton
Cast:
Naomi Watts,
Edward Norton,
Liev Schreiber,
Toby Jones
Director: John Curran
Screenwriter: Ron Nyswaner
GUEST - EDWARD NORTON
HOST - PETER TRAVERS
Official Site: Link Link
BONUS DOUBLE FEATURE:
AURA - (THE DAWN) -
Cast: Ricardo Darín,
Dolores Fonzi,
Alejandro Awada,
Pablo Cedron,
Jorge D'Elia
Directed by: Fabián Bielinsky
Info
IFC Films
11/6 -HISTORY BOYS
"The History Boys tells the story of a group of bright, funny history students in pursuit of an undergraduate place at Oxford or Cambridge. Bounced between their maverick English teacher (Richard Griffiths), a young and shrewd professor hired to up their test scores (Stephen Campbell Moore), a grossly outnumbered history teacher (Frances De La Tour), and a headmaster obsessed with results (Clive Merrison), the boys attempt to sift through it all to pass the daunting university admissions process. Their journey becomes as much about how education works, as it is about where education leads."
Director Nicholas Hytner (MADNESS OF KING GEORGE)
Critic Peter Travers discusses HISTORY BOYS transformation from stage to film with (L-R) Director Nicholas Hytner (MADNESS OF KING GEORGE), and stars: Richard Griffiths( 50 + Films, HARRY POTTER SERIES, CHARIOTS OF FIRE, VENUS, STAGE BEAUTY) , Samuel Barnett (MRS. HENDERSON PRESENTS), Dominic Cooper (BREAKFAST ON PLUTO)
Richard Griffiths( 50 + Films, HARRY POTTER SERIES, CHARIOTS OF FIRE, VENUS, STAGE BEAUTY)
Samuel Barnett (MRS. HENDERSON PRESENTS), Dominic Cooper (BREAKFAST ON PLUTO)
Director:
Nicholas Hytner
Screenwriter:
Alan Bennett
Cast:
Richard Griffiths,
Clive Merrison,
Frances de la Tour,
Stephen Campbell Moore,
Sacha Dhawan,
Samuel Anderson,
Dominic Cooper
GUESTS -
DIRECTOR - Nicholas Hytner
Nicholas Hytner
STARS:
Samuel Barnett
Dominic Cooper
Andrew Knott, Dominic Cooper and Samuel BarnettHOST - PETER TRAVERS
Official Site:Link
10/30 - FLANNEL PAJAMAS
Flannel Pajamas - On a rainy April night, two 30-something New Yorkers meet for a blind date at a local diner. It's a magical evening with that so-elusive combination of great chemistry and instant connection. Stuart (Justin Kirk) is a study in contrasts - seemingly confident, with a high-powered Broadway job that makes full use of his fast-talking smarts, yet clearly lonely and desperately eager for love. Younger and still finding her way, Nicole (Julianne Nicholson) is naturally more reticent, coping with city life far from her large and eccentric Montana family.
Cast:
Justin Kirk,
Julianne Nicholson,
Rebecca Schull,
Jamie Harold,
Michelle Federer
Produced by:
Simon Channing-Williams,
Bryce Angell,
Eric Scholl
Directed by: Jeff Lipsky
IFC Film Critic Matt Singer chats with NY Indie Film Pioneer Jeff Lipsky about his latest film FLANNEL PAJAMAS
Lipsky's first directorial effort in 1997, CHILDHOOD’S END, co-starring Tony Award nominee Sam Trammell, was selected for competition by the San Sebastian Film Festival and was presented at the Montreal World Film Festival, the Stockholm Film Festival and the Hamburg Film Festival. A 30-year veteran in the independent film world, Lipsky is internationally known for his expertise in independent film marketing, acquisition and distribution. Co-founder of two successful film distribution companies, October Films and Lot 47 Films, Lipsky is prominently featured in books about Oscar nominated writer/director Mike Leigh, godfather to the independent American film movement John Cassavetes and filmmaker Spike Lee.HOSTED BY:
MATT SINGER (IFC NEWS)
Matt Singer the on-air IFC News host, as well as a freelance writer and film critic originally from central New Jersey. His work has appeared in print in the Village Voice and Shock Cinema, and online on IFC.com, MTV.com, Kevin Smith's MoviePoopShoot.com, and many other Web sites that have since joined the dodo bird in oblivion. Matt recently completed his graduate studies at New York University, where he received his Master's in Cinema Studies and wrote extensively about Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ed Wood and "Shaft."
BONUS DOUBLE FEATURE
Captive
Winner of the prestigious Fipresci Award at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival, CLIMATES is internationally acclaimed writer-director Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s sublime follow-up to his Cannes multi-award winner DISTANT. Beautifully drawn and meticulously observed, the film vividly recalls the cinema of Italian master Michelangelo Antonioni with its poetic use of landscape and the incisive, exquisitely visual rendering of loneliness, loss and the often-elusive nature of happiness.
Info: Link
10-23 -CATCH A FIRE */* INFAMOUS
Catch A Fire: Powerfully telling the story of a South African hero's journey to freedom, Catch a Fire is the new film from director Phillip Noyce (The Quiet American, Rabbit-Proof Fence). The political thriller takes place during the country's turbulent and divided times in the early 1980s, and in the new South Africa of today.
CAST:
Tim Robbins
Derek Luke
Bonnie Henna
Mncedisi Shabangu
Terry Pheto
Tumisho Masha
Sithembiso Khumalo
Michelle Burgers
Produced by
Tim Bevan
Liza Chasin
Miranda Culley
Eric Fellner
Debra Hayward
Anthony Minghella
Sydney Pollack
Robyn SlovoHOST: CHARLEY TAYLOR Charley Taylor (Star Ledger, National Society of Film Critics)
Directed by:
Phillip Noyce
Screenwriter:
Shawn Slovo
Official Site: Link
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INFAMOUS -
INFAMOUS- What starts out as the irreverent journey of the openly gay writer Truman Capote to the middle-class world of 1950's Kansas, where he goes--with his childhood friend Harper Lee--to research the murder of the Clutter family, turns to something altogether darker when Capote forms an intense and complex relationship with one of the murderers. In doing so, he produced his greatest work, "In Cold Blood," but at a devastating personal cost.
Cast:
Sigourney Weaver
Toby Jones
Gwyneth Paltrow
Mark Rubin
Steve Schwelling
Glover Johns Gill
Rey Arteaga
Justin Sherburn
Andrew Halbreich
Juliet Stevenson
Michael Panes
Hope Davis
Frank G. Curcio
Sandra Bullock
Isabella Rossellini
Director: Douglas McGrath
Screenplay: Douglas McGrath
Producers: Christine Vachon, Jocelyn Hayes, and Anne Walker-McBay
Executive Producer: John Wells
Director of Photography: Bruno Delbonnel
10-16- CONVERSATIONS WITH GOD
Adapted from the books by Neale Donald Walsch that inspired and changed the lives of millions worldwide, CONVERSATIONS WITH GOD tells the true story of Walsch (Henry Czerny) who, at the lowest point in his life, asks God some very hard questions. The answers he gets from God/within become the foundation of an internationally-acclaimed book series that has sold over 7 million copies and been translated into 34 languages. The film chronicles the dramatic journey of a down and out man who inadvertently becomes a spiritual messenger and bestselling author.Cast:
Henry Czerny,
Ingrid Boulting,
Bruce Page,
Vilma Silva
Directed by: Stephen Simon
Produced by: Gay Hendricks, Stephen SimonStephen Simon
Stephen Simon is a veteran producer whose distinguished career includes the Presidency of two major production companies and the development and production of a myriad of well-known films such as: "Smokey and the Bandit," "The Goodbye Girl," "The Electric Horseman," "Somewhere in Time," the Academy Award ® winning "What Dreams May Come", and the Emmy-nominated Lifetime television movie "Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story."
GUESTS: Director Stephen Simon , Star Henry Czerny, and Neale Donald Walsch of who's life the film is based on.
HOST :Godfrey Cheshire
Official Site: Link Link
10/9 - BABEL
BABEL- Armed with a Winchester rifle, two Morrocan boys set out to look after their family's herd of goats. In the silent echoes of the desert, they decide to test the rifle… but the bullet goes farther than they thought it would. In an instant, the lives of four separate groups of strangers on three different continents collide. Caught up in the rising tide of an accident that escalates beyond anyone's control are a vacationing American couple (Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett), a rebellious deaf Japanese teenager and her father, and a Mexican nanny who, without permission, takes two American children across the border. None of these strangers will ever meet; in spite of the sudden, unlikely connection between them, they will all remain isolated due to their own inability to communicate meaningfully with anyone around them.
From Alejandro González Iñárritu comes a film that is at once intimate and epic, shot in four countries, cast with actors and non-actors, and concludes his trilogy that started with Amores Perros and 21 Grams.
Cast:
Brad Pitt,
Cate Blanchett,
Gael Garcia Bernal,
Paul Terrell Clayton,
Koji Yakusho,
Elle Fanning
DIRECTOR: Alejandro González Iñárritu
PRODUCERS:
Steve Golin
Alejandro González Iñárritu
Jon Kilik
SCREENWRITER: Guillermo Arriaga
STUDIO: Paramount Pictures
GUEST - PRODUCER JON KILIK
John Kilik
HOST - PETER TRAVERS
Official Sire: Link
BONUS DOUBLE FEATURE
DRIVING LESSONS
CAST:
Rupert Grint,
Laura Linney,
Julie Walters
DIRECTOR: Jeremy Brock
SCREENWRITER: Jeremy Brock
STUDIO: Sony Pictures Classics
WED 10-4 - 7PM- OPENER -Little Children
LITTLE CHILDREN- In a suburban town full of perfect parents devoted to rearing their children for Harvard futures, a stay-at-home mom has an affair with an ex-jock stay-at-home dad who rebels against his wife's wishes that he become a big-bucks lawyer. New Line Cinema.
Cast:
Kate Winslet
Jennifer Connelly
Phyllis Sommerville
Patrick Wilson
Jackie Earle Haley
Gregg Edelman
Sarah Buxton
Ty Keegan Simpkins
Noah Emmerich
Director: Todd Field
Producer(s)
Kent Alterman,
Toby Emmerich,
Patrick Palmer
HOST - PETER TRAVERS
GUEST - Cast Member: Phyllis Sommerville
