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SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
HUNGER
(2008) Directed by Danny Boyle. Screenplay by Simon Beaufoy, based on the novel by
Vikas Swarup. Cast: Dev Patel, Ayush Mahesh Khedekar, Freida Pinto, Rubina Ali,
Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail.
Don’t miss one of the last chances to see Slumdog Millionaire on the big screen, on
film, in the dark! This unlikely Academy Award® pick for Best Picture comes alive in
a swirl of color, drama, music, dancing, and romance that pulls the audience into the
slums of Mumbai - and the dreams of the young people who make it their home. Dev
Patel stars as Jamal, a tv game show contestant on ‘Who Wants to be a Millionaire,’
who flashes back and forth in time to the struggles of his childhood, and his love for
the shy orphan he hopes to find again. Director Danny Boyle, whose notorious hit
Trainspotting was set in the chillier slums of Scotland, has a wildly free imagination,
and a deep connection to characters who’ll try anything for a better life. 120 min.
www.foxsearchlight.com/slumdogmillionaire
(UK, 2009) Director: Steve
McQueen. Screenplay by Enda
Walsh and Steve McQueen. Cast:
Michael
Fassbender,
Liam
Cunningham, Stuart Graham,
Brian Milligan.
Turner Prize-winning visual artist
Steve McQueen, who is black and
British, has chosen for his first
film’s subject the horrific summer
of 1981, when 10 Nationalist Irish
prisoners in Northern Ireland - the
most famous being Bobby Sands starved themselves to death to
protest their loss of political prisoner status. McQueen does not flinch as the men use their own bodies as instruments of
resistance against the unyielding British state, refusing to wear prison uniforms, bathe,
or, ultimately, eat. Hunger has one 22 minute set piece as dramatic as anything seen on
screen this year: an impassioned conversation between Sands (Michael Fassbender) and
a priest (Liam Cunningham) on the pain and morality of sacrifice. “a tour de force of
writing, acting and riveting moral complexity. McQueen has taken the raw materials of
filmmaking and committed an act of great art.” - Ann Hornaday, Washington Post.
96 min. www.hungerthemovie.co.uk www.ifcfilms.com
TWO LOVERS
(2009) Directed by James Gray. Screenplay by James Gray and Richard Menello. Cast:
Joaquin Phoenix, Gwyneth Paltrow, Vinessa Shaw, Isabella Rossellini, Moni Moshonov.
Joaquin Phoenix may be experiencing a major meltdown in the real world, but in what
he calls his last film, he gives a performance of rare sensitivity and intelligence. In his
third film with Brooklyn auteur James Gray (including We Own the Night and The
Yards) Phoenix plays a troubled slacker who moves back in with his Russian-Jewish
parents in Brighton Beach. His mother (Isabella Rossellini) has his future mapped out:
marriage to a nice Jewish girl (Vinessa Shaw) whose dry-cleaner father needs a partner. Phoenix, however, is more interested in a blonde girl with issues: Gwyneth Paltrow,
who finally gets to explore an alluring dark side. “One of the most interesting movies
we’ll get to see in 2009 - Most miraculous of all, its characters are complicated and
uncertain, in ways you often encounter in life but rarely or never do in American
movies.” - Andrew O’Hehir, Salon.com 108 min. www.twoloversmovie.com
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THE READER
(2008) Directed by Stephen Daldry. Screenplay by David Hare, based on the book by
Bernhard Schlink. Directors of photography, Chris Menges and Roger Deakins. Cast:
Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, David Kross, Bruno Ganz, Lena Olin.
Bernhard Schlink’s elegant 1995 novel exposed the confusion of young Germans after
World War II, as they were faced with the horrors perpetrated by their parents’ generation.
British playwright David Hare’s excellent screen adaptation explores this culture of secrecy and guilt in the story of a 36-year-old tram worker (Kate Winslet) who seduces a
teenage boy, only requesting that he read aloud to her after making love. The next time
they meet, he is a law student (played by Ralph Fiennes) observing her trial for her actions
as a concentration camp guard. Kate Winslet won the Academy Award® for Best Actress
in a role that is unsettling, erotic and deeply ambiguous. The mesmerizing score is by
Nico Muhly, a former student of Philip Glass. 123 min. www.thereader-movie.com
CORALINE
(2009) Written and directed by Henry Selick, based on the book by Neil Gaiman. With
the voices of Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher, Jennifer Saunders, Dawn French, Keith
David, John Hodgman and Ian McShane.
Fans of animation, imagination,
feline comrades, fantasy, feisty
girl heroines, and yes, John
Hodgman - this is for you! The
director of James and the
Giant
Peach
and
The
Nightmare Before Christmas
(Henry Selick) has created a
dark new fairy tale for all but
the very young. 11-year-old
Coraline moves with her distant
parents to a dusty old house,
where she is bored & lonely.
She discovers a magical world where the button-eyed ‘Other Mother and Father’ love
her madly - and would like her to stay... It took 83 weeks of stop-animation to bring
Neil Gaiman’s book the screen. But, to quote the L.A. Times’ Kenneth Turan, “you are
aware of none of that. Instead, you are captured completely by what is going on. How
rare, and how wonderful, is that?” 100 min. www.coraline.com
CHE: PART I
(2008) Director: Steven Soderbergh. Screenplay: Peter Buchman. Cast: Benicio Del Toro,
Benjamin Bratt, Demian Bichir, Kahlil Mendez, Rodrigo Santoro, Santiago Cabrera.
Picking up where The Motorcycle Diaries left off, Argentine doctor Ernesto “Che”
Guevara (Benicio Del Toro) is now deeply committed to social change - and overthrowing the corrupt, American-backed dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista in Cuba. 50 years
after the fall of Batista, it is fascinating to see history come to life as Che teams up with
Fidel Castro (Demian Bichir) to execute a textbook revolution - even if Che would eventually renounce Castro and his honorary Cuban citizenship. Steven Soderbergh - with
films including sex,lies and videotape, Erin Brockovich and Ocean’s Eleven - is the
most versatile director working today. This sweeping epic, filmed in Spanish, on the life
of an anti-capitalist revolutionary, proves he is also one of the boldest. 129 min. Benicio
Del Toro won the Best Actor Award at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival. www.ifcfilms.com
THE WRESTLER
(2008) Director: Darren Aronofsky. Screenplay by Robert D. Siegel. Director of photography, Maryse Alberti. Cast: Mickey Rourke, Marisa Tomei, Evan Rachel Wood.
Not since the heyday of 1970s realism have we seen a film as comfortable in its slightly seedy, blue collar setting of union halls and school gyms, where many Americans
might actually live and work. Mickey Rourke’s riches-to-dives acting career gets a
much-needed boost in a role that shadows his own fall from grace: a has-been wrestler
(Randy ‘the Ram’) tries to find some dignity just by doing what he does best - providing his audiences with the illusion of the fight, all across the small towns of New
Jersey. Another outstanding movie from the audacious director Darren Aronofsky, who
made Pi, Requiem for a Dream, and The Fountain. “This is the performance of
Mickey Rourke’s lifetime...one of the year’s best films.” ✰✰✰✰ - Roger Ebert.
105 min. www.foxsearchlight.com/thewrestler
GOMORRAH
(Italy, 2009) Directed by Matteo Garrone. Screenplay by Maurizio Braucci, Ugo Chiti,
Gianni Di Gregorio, Matteo Garrone, and Roberto Saviano, based on the book by
Roberto Saviano. Cast: Marco Macor, Ciro Petrone, Salvatore Abruzzese, Carmine
Paternoster, Maria Nazionale.
Martin Scorsese was so
impressed by this new Italian
movie that he introduced it at
the New York Film Festival
and immediately signed on as
the American ‘presenter.’ No
surprise: Gomorrah is a
shocking, revelatory look at
organized crime in Naples that
strips any semblance of
romance from its Mafia connection. Gomorrah is based
on the exposé by journalist
Roberto Saviano, who has
been living undercover with 24 hour police protection since he blew the whistle on the
violence, exploitation and toxic pollution that has a grip around the throat of one of
Europe’s busiest port cities. “I hope this movie will finally show people the ferocious
face of Italy, which is the face that really runs things,” Saviano says. “I think many
American moviegoers will be surprised.” 135 min. www.ifcfilms.com
GRAN TORINO
(2008) Directed by Clint Eastwood. Screenplay by Nick Schenk, based on a story by
Dave Johannson and Nick Schenk. Cast: Clint Eastwood, Bee Vang, Ahney Her,
Christopher Carley.
At age 78, Clint Eastwood stars and directs in a new film that takes his Dirty Harry
‘make my day,’ avenging angry white guy image, and transforms it into something
entirely different. As Walt Kowalski, Eastwood is still angry: embittered by his wife’s
death, his spoiled kids, the implosion of the car industry, and the influx of immigrants
into his crumbling Detroit neighborhood. If that’s not bad enough, the next door
teenage Hmong boy (Bee Vang) is pressured by gang members into trying to steal
Kowalski’s last symbol of American dominance: his vintage Gran Torino. But, as in the
best of Eastwood’s movies, life is unpredictable, and the crack in Kowalski’s rigid world
view is, in the words of Leonard Cohen’s Anthem, “how the light gets in.” 116 min.
www.thegrantorino.com
AMARCORD
New Restoration
(Italy, 1973) Director: Federico Fellini. Screenplay by Federico Fellini and Tonino
Guerra. Director of photography: Giuseppe Rotunno. Music: Nino Rota. Cast: Bruno
Zanin, Pupella Maggio, Armando Brancia, Magali Noel.
Cinestudio presents a newly restored print of Federico Fellini’s masterpiece of coming
of age and remembrance, Amarcord. The magical, surreal, bawdy and emotion-suffused images of life in the director’s hometown of Rimini on the Adriatic coast is a perfect introduction for Fellini neophytes, and a bello tresoro for his many fans. Amarcord
is set in the 1930s, where a keenly observant boy soaks up everything around him, from
the sexual repressions of the Catholic Church and the scary emergence of fascism, to
the outrageously lascivious Volpina and the town’s melancholy, would-be movie star,
Gradisca. But it is the mysterious visual images - an ocean liner disappearing into fog,
a peacock spreading its wings in the snow - that linger well after the curtain comes
down. “Captures Fellini at the peak of his cinematic powers in an eye-popping restoration!” - Andrew O’Hehir, Salon.com 127 min.
THE CLASS ENTRE LES MURS
(France, 2008) Directed by Laurent Cantet. Screenplay by Laurent Cantet, François
Bégaudeau and Robin Campillo, based on the novel by François Bégaudeau. Cast:
François Bégaudeau, Wei Huang, Esméralda Ouertani, and Nassim Amrabt.
François Bégaudeau, a teacher who wrote a fascinating book about his experiences in a
diverse, working class junior high school in Paris, now stars in a film based on one year
of his life in the classroom. Bégaudet is daily challenged by his attempts to reach his
volatile students of African, Asian, and Arab descent, many of whom who feel marginalized in French society - and less-than-inspired by learning about Louis XIV. At the
same time, he tries to ‘educate’ many of his fellow teachers and administrators, who project their low expectations onto their students. A lively, visceral, and often hopeful look
at a changing Europe that won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival and Academy
Award® nomination for Best Foreign Film. 128 min. www.sonyclassics.com/theclass
For more information on Out Film Connecticut,
The 22nd Connecticut Gay & Lesbian Film Festival,
go to www.ctglff.org
GIRL SEEKS GIRL (Chica Busca Chica) (2009. Spain, Dir: Sonia Sebastian 90 min.)
In Chica Busca Chica, Spain’s answer to The L Word, we are introduced to a group of
ladies looking for love in all the right and sometimes wrong places as they play musical beds to their hearts’ desire. This sexy and amusing episodic series has been packaged into a feature-length film for festival audiences.
SUGAR RUSH (2005, UK, Dir: Katie Baxendale 90 min.) Meet 15-year-old Kim, a
young lesbian forced to move from her posh boarding school in London to the seaside
town of Brighton, where she promptly falls in love with her new best friend, the
delightfully naughty Sugar. Deliciously heady British TV drama series, based on the
novel by Julie Burchill.
PEDRO: THE MOVIE (2008, US, Dir: Nick Oceano 90 min.) In 1994, Bunim/Murray
Productions made the groundbreaking decision to cast openly gay, HIV-positive
Cuban-American Pedro Zamora as part of MTV’s The Real World: San Francisco. This
is his story, from his courageous decision at age 17 to dedicate the rest of his life to
speaking out about his condition, to his death at age 22, which provoked a worldwide
outpouring of grief.
THE OTHER SIDE (A Outra Margem) (2006, Portugal. Dir: Luìs Filipe Rocha 106
min.) After the suicide of his partner, a devastated drag performer goes to live with his
sister and her Down Syndrome son. The tentative bond that develops between these two
outsiders in Portuguese society has the possibility to empower them both.
CHEF’S SPECIAL (2008, Spain, Dir: Nacho G. Velilla. 111 min.) Maxi thinks his life is
just perfect; he’s the famous chef - and famously ‘out’ - owner of a hip restaurant in
Madrid. The sudden appearance of his kids on the scene, and the arrival of an attractive Argentine ex-soccer star next door will force him reconsider everything he has held
dear. Bad timing, then, for the imminent arrival of a Michelin Guide food critic, as
Maxi must learn to juggle his restaurant, children and lover, with hilariously over-thetop results.
TRU LOVED (2008, US, Dir: Stewart Wade. 102 min.) Sixteen-year-old Tru is uprooted by her lesbian moms from her comfortable gay-friendly home in San Francisco and
moved to a conservative, suburban community in Southern California. Tru’s only friend
is a closeted football player, and even that friendship is jeopardized when she daringly
starts the school’s first Gay-Straight Alliance.
I CAN’T THINK STRAIGHT (2008, UK, Dir: Shamim Sarif, 82 min.) An exuberant,
touching romantic comedy about the clashing of two worlds and cultures. Tala, a spirited Palestinian woman living in London, prepares for her elaborate wedding in Jordan.
Until, that is, she meets Leyla, a shy Muslim from India who turns her world upside
down. As family members descend and the wedding day approaches, Tala is torn
between what is expected and what her heart desires.
TRAINING RULES (2009, US, Dirs: Dee Mosbacher & Fawn Yacker. 57 min.) Rene
Portland had three training rules during her 26 years coaching basketball at Penn State:
no drinking, no drugs and no lesbians. This stunning film exposes how women’s collegiate sports, caught in a web of homophobic practices, destroys the lives and dreams of
many of its most talented athletes.
FERRON: GIRL ON A ROAD (2009, Canada, Dir. Gerry Rogers, 60 min.) Gerry
Rogers’ beautiful portrait of Canadian singer/songwriter Ferron, known for influencing
Mary Gauthier, The Indigo Girls and Ani DiFranco is a must-see. This one hour film
captures Ferron’s salt of the earth folk stylings and features a live performance in
Vancouver as she re-unites with her old band mates after 10 years.
SEX POSITIVE (2008, US, Dir: Daryl Wein. 75 min.) Sex Positive explores the life of
Richard Berkowitz, a gay S&M hustler-turned-AIDS-activist in the 1980s, whose early,
revolutionary promotion of safe sex has never been fully credited. Berkowitz is a fascinating, prickly, decidedly un-saintly character, and Wein’s film provides a fascinating
and crucial slice of traumatic sexual history that’s all but invisible to younger generations. Grand Jury Prize, L.A. Outfest.
SHOWGIRLS, PROVINCETOWN, MA (2009, US, Dir: C. Fitz. 72 min.) This giddily
entertaining overview of Provincetown’s annual stage review scales the heights and
plumbs the depths of good taste in that bucolic seaside town’s legendary Monday night
show, which takes place under the auspices of drag guru Ryan Landry, along with a
number of his perennial drag cohorts.
TRINIDAD (2008, US, Dirs: Jay Hodges & P.J. Raval. 80 min.) Saddle up for a wild
ride as Trinidad, Colorado transforms from a Wild West outpost to the ‘sex-change capital of the world,’ and follows three transgender women who may steer the rural ranching town toward becoming the world’s ‘transsexual mecca.’
ANDER (2009, Spain, Dir: Roberto Castón, 128 min) A farmer in his forties comes out
of the closet when he finds out that he has feelings for Jose, a Peruvian immigrant
whom he hired to work on his farm.
DROOL (2009, US, Dir: Nancy Kissam. 84 min.) Life looks up when Anora Fleece,
bullied by her husband, discovers the friendship (and more) of the new ‘cocoa skinned’
woman next door. When she accidentally kills her husband, Anora takes off on a family road trip with her kids and lover, looking for the perfect place to ‘bury daddy.’ 2006
Slamdance Best Screenplay Prize went to writer/director Nancy Kissam.
ASK NOT (2008, USA, Dir: Johnny Symons. 73 min.) A rare and compelling documentary film that explores the effects of the US military’s ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy
on gay and lesbian soldiers and service members. The film exposes the tangled political battles that led to the discriminatory law and the changes in society since its passage in 1993. Current and veteran gay soldiers reveal how ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ affects
them during their tours of duty, as they struggle to maintain a double life, uncertain of
whom they can trust.
VALENTINO: THE LAST EMPEROR
(2009) Produced and directed by Matt Tyrnauer. With: Valentino, Giancarlo Giametti,
Giorgio Armani, Karl Lagerfeld, Gwyneth Paltrow, Claudia Schiffer.
Just forget about America’s infatuation with cheesy fashion-based reality shows - longtime Vanity Fair editor and writer Matt Tyrnauer takes on haute couture icon Valentino,
a man whose fabulous
gowns have graced the
bodies of the world’s
most glamorous women
for nearly fifty years. The
film was shot over two
years in Paris, Rome,
London, NY, and aboard
Valentino’s yacht, with
incredible access to the
designer and Giancarlo
Giammetti, his partner in
fashion and life. Their
ongoing conversation acerbic, hilarious, and loving - is the heart behind this hugely entertaining look at the
fashion business. “we see Valentino and Giancarlo lovingly bicker over dresses, fashion-show sets, and even which café they first met at. And as if they’re not adorable and
hilarious enough, there are the clothes! Glorious, glorious dress after dress coming to
life before your very eyes!” - Amy Odell, New York magazine. 96 min.
www.valentinomovie.com
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