Spring 2004
Spring Series Closing Night
5/23 -HEIGHTS
"Heights' follows five characters over 24 hours on a fall day in New York City. Isabel, a photographer, is having second thoughts about her upcoming marriage to Jonathan, a lawyer. On the same day, Isabel's mother Diana learns that her husband has a new lover and begins to re-think her life choices and her open marriage. Diana and Isabel's paths cross with Alec, a young actor, and with Peter, a journalist. As the interrelated stories proceed, the connections between the lives of the five characters begin to reveal themselves and their stories unravel. Isabel, Jonathan, Diana, Alec, and Peter must choose what kind of lives they will lead before the sun comes up on the next day."
Director:
Chris Terrio
Screenwriter:
Amy Fox,
Chris Terrio
Producers:
Richard Hawley,
Ismail Merchant
Associate Producer : Pierre Proner
Cinematographer : Jim Denault
Editor : Sloane Klevin
Cast:
Glenn Close,
Elizabeth Banks,
James Marsden,
Jesse Bradford,
Eric Bogosian,
Isabella Rossellini,
Matt Davis,
George Segal,
Rufus Wainwright
GUEST - DIRECTOR: Chris Terrio
HOST: DAVID EDELSTEIN – watch him on CBS Sunday Mornings!
Official Site(s): Link Link
5/16 - SAVING FACE
For 28-year old New Yorker Wilhelmina "Wil" Pang, life is a juggling act between a promising career as a surgeon and her responsibilities as a dutiful daughter. Like the #7 train she takes to visit her Chinese family on a weekly basis, Wil is perpetually in transit between two worlds. The expectations of the Flushing, Queens society she is from and the desires that alienate her from it have made Wil content to live below the surface -- even if it means playing an inadvertent game of charades with her widowed mother.
Cast:
Alice Wu,
Joan Chen,
Michelle Krusiec
Lynn Chen
Director: Alice Wu
Producers: Teddy Zee,
James Lassiter,
Will Smith
Guest: Director Alice Wu
5/9 - ME YOU AND EVERYONE WE KNOW
"The movie was written and directed by Miranda July, the well-known performance artist, who developed it at the Sundance summer workshop. She stars as Christine, a would-be artist and full-time Elder Cab driver. She falls in love at first sight with a shoe salesman named Richard (John Hawkes), who is separated from his wife and helping to raise his two sons. It also involves two sexually curious teenage girls, a solemn neighbor girl, a dirty old man, some art curators, and me and you." Roger Ebert www.ebertfest.com
Cast:
Ellen Geer
John Hawkes
Brad Henke
Miranda July
Holly Becker- executive producer
Mike Crawford- line producer
Gina Kwon- producer
Mary Prendergast- associate producer
Suzi Yoonessi- associate producer
HOST PETER TRAVERS
GUEST: HOLLY BECKER EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Holly Becker
HOLLY BECKER - EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Holly heads up production and development for IFC Productions, the theatrical producing division of IFC Entertainment. She executive produced Todd Graff's CAMP, Michael Almereyda's HAPPY HERE AND NOW and THIS SO-CALLED DISASTER, Tony Fisher's TROUBLE WITH MEN AND WOMEN, and Maxie Collier's PAPER CHASERS, and supervised the digital films PIECES OF APRIL and KILL THE POOR.Official Site: link
5/2 - DYING GAUL
"Jeffrey Tishop (Campbell Scott) is the one of the most powerful, ruthless, and sexually avaricious studio executive in Hollywood. He lives an untouchable life high in the Malibu Hills with his wife, Elaine (Patricia Clarkson), once a screenwriter herself, but now restlessly taking her place in Hollywood royalty that her husband’s position has anointed her to while she raises their two beautiful children."
Cast :
Patricia Clarkson
Peter Sarsgaard
Campbell Scott
Executive Producers : David Newman, Paul E. Cohen, Joseph Caruso, Jerome Schwartz, Elba Luis Lugo
Producers : Campbell Scott, George VanBuskirk
Cinematographer : Bobby Bukowski
Editor : Andy Keir
Composer : Steve Reich
GUEST: Patricia Clarkson
Director: Craig Lucas
Craig Lucas: Craig Lucas won the 2004 New York Film Critics Award for best screenplay for The Secret Lives of Dentists; he also received the 2004 Obie Award for best American play for Small Tragedy. His other screenplays include Longtime Companion, Prelude to a Kiss, and Reckless (the last two based on his plays). Lucas's other plays include Missing Persons, God's Heart, Stranger, and Singing Forest. He wrote the book for the musical The Light in the Piazza, which opens in April at Lincoln Center. He is the recipient of numerous awards.and Producer George Van Buskirk
HOST: PETER TRAVERS
PLUS :
DOUBLE FEATURE:
The lives of two very different brothers become simultaneously intertwined and thrust apart in this intense and powerful drama directed by Susanne Bier.
Campbell Scott 4/25
4/25 - SAINT RALPH
SAINT RALPH is the unlikely story of Ralph Walker, a ninth grader who, convinced that only a miracle can save his ailing mother, outruns everyone’s expectations except his own in his deluded quest to win the 1959 Boston Marathon. Ebullient and touching, SAINT RALPH is directed with verve by Michael McGowan and features winning turns by Campbell Scott, Gordon Pinsent, Jennifer Tilly and newcomer Adam Butcher.
Cast:
Adam Butcher
Campbell Scott
Shauna MacDonald
Gordon Pinsent
Jennifer Tilly
Directed by: Michael McGowan
Produced by
Teza Lawrence .... producer
Andrea Mann .... producer
Seaton McLean .... producer
Marguerite Pigott .... executive producer
Michael Souther .... producer
Peter Sussman .... executive producer
Gordon Yang .... line producer
GUEST: CAMPBELL SCOTT
HOST: PETER TRAVERS
Official Site(s): Link Link Link
Critic Charley Taylor (Left) and Bethany McLean (writer and cast
member) explore ENRON: THE SMARTEST GUYS IN THE ROOM.
4/18 - ENRON: The Smartest Guys in The Room
ENRON: THE SMARTEST GUYS IN THE ROOM, directed by Alex Gibney, this is the inside story of one of history’s greatest business scandals, in which top executives of America’s 7th largest company walked away with over one billion dollars while investors and employees lost everything. Based on the best-selling book The Smartest Guys in the Room by Fortune reporters Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind and featuring insider accounts and incendiary corporate audio and videotapes, Gibney reveals the almost unimaginable personal excesses of the Enron hierarchy and the utter moral vacuum that posed as corporate philosophy.
Executive Producers : Mark Cuban, Todd Wagner, Joana Vicente
Producers : Alex Gibney, Jason Kliot, Susan Motamed
Coproducer : Alison Ellwood
Cinematographer : Maryse Alberti
Editor : Alison Ellwood
CAST:
Featuring appearances by:
Kenneth Lay
Jeffrey Skilling
Andy Fastow
GUEST –WRITERS Bethany McLean
HOSTED BY CHARLIE TAYLOR OF SALON
Charles Taylor's writing on movies, books, pop music, and politics has appeared in Salon.com, the New York Times, the New Yorker, Newsday, Sight and Sound, GQ, Film Comment, and other publications. He has provided liner notes to the DVD-audio reissue of the classic album "Sinatra at the Sands" and contributed an essay to the DVD documentary collection "5 Films About Christo and Jeanne-Claude." A member of the National Society of Film Critics, Taylor contributed to the group's collection "The A List: The National Society of Film Critics' 100 Essential Films." He lives in Brooklyn.
PLUS - LADIES IN LAVENDER - Two sisters befriend a mysterious foreigner who washes up on the beach of their 1930's Cornish seaside village. Starring : Judi Dench, Maggie Smith & Natascha McElhone. Language: English / German / Polish. GOLDWYN FILMS
Official SiteEnron film praised by a tough crowd: ex-workers
By BRUCE WESTBROOK
Copyright 2005 Houston Chronicle
ANTON YELCHIN (Hearts in Atlantis, Jack) stops by to discuss his work with Robin Williams and David Duchovny in HOUSE OF D
4/11 - HOUSE OF D
Vividly capturing the spirit of youth in all its joy and heartbreak, HOUSE OF D examines with humor and pathos a boy's harrowing coming of age and the manner in which it defines his adulthood. Sensitively directed by Duchovny and bolstered by affectionate portrayals from a talented cast, HOUSE OF D is a winning, hopeful story about overcoming loss and coming to terms with one's past.
Director: David Duchovny
Screenwriter: David Duchovny
Cast:
Anton Yelchin
Téa Leoni
David Duchovny
Robin Williams
Erykah Badu
Magali Amadei
Harold Cartier
Mark Margolis
Zelda Williams
Gideon Jacobs
Mark Richard Keith
James Ockimey
GUEST: STAR ANTON YELCHIN
HOST: JAMI BERNARD
Robin Williams and director David Duchovny on the set of House of D.
Official Links:
House of D The Movie
4/4 Opening Night - WINTER SOLSTICE
Filmed in Northern New Jersey, the film is about a widowed father struggles to raise his two sons. When the eldest son leaves home, the family tries to come to grips with his departure.
Director: Josh Sternfeld
Screenwriter: Josh Sternfeld
Cast:
Anthony LaPaglia,
Aaron Stanford,
Mark Webber,
Allison Janney,
Ron Livingston,
Michelle Monaghan,
Brendan Sexton III,
Ebon Moss-Bachrach
GUEST: PRODUCER DOUG BERNHEIM
HOST: DAVID EDELSTEIN
Official Site(s) Paramount Classics Winter Solstice
