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2004-2005
Season
$7.50
Non-Member Admission
All Film Society tickets are sold at the door
beginning at 6:30pm the evening of the screening.
All Film Society screenings are held at the Vinegar Hill Theatre
in Downtown Charlottesville at 7pm (unless otherwise noted).
Memberships
$50 Regular Membership
$40 Students and Seniors
Join
the Virginia Festival Film Society now for our upcoming 2004-2005
season.
Member benefits include:
-Free admission to all 12 Film Society events
-One complementary pass to Regal Cinema.
-Half off regular admission to the Summer Classics Film Series
at Vinegar Hill Theatre
- Free admission to Ozu's Late Autumn at
the VA Film Festival
-$2 off Mondays at Sneak Reviews on non-new releases
- $2 off the regular $8 admission on Tuesdays at Vinegar Hill
Theatre
Memberships can be purchased at the box office before each screening
or by mail order. Click here
for our Membership Form.
Screenings presented with the Virginia Foundation for the
Humanities
Press
Please visit our Press
page for related press releases and film stills.
Contact Anne Hooff with Payne Ross and Associates at (434) 977-7607
with publicity questions and requests.
Contact the Film Festival office (434) 982-5277 with general Film
Society questions and requests.
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Fall Film Society Season
September 14: What
America Needs
with filmmaker Mark Wojahn
Traveling by train from N.Y.C. to L.A. (with an extended stop
in Charlottesville), filmmaker Wojahn queried more than 500
people on the state of America. His beautifully shot and edited
film is a rich tapestry of voices made thoughtful and troubled
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September
21: Dear
Frankie
A Sneak Preview of the new Miramax release, starring Emily Mortimer
and Jack McElhone! Not wanting to tell her deaf son, Frankie
that they’ve run away from his father, Lizzie pretends
his Dad is away at sea. When the lie is about it be revealed,
Lizzie must choose between telling her son the truth and finding
the perfect stranger to play the perfect dad.
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October
5: L’Avventura
(1960), screening begins at 6:30pm
Michelangelo Antonioni’s classic Italian film is a story
of romance, betrayal and mystery between a group of wealthy
Italian friends. A woman disappears during a Mediterranean boat
trip, but during the search for her, her lover and her best
friend (unforgettably played by Monica Vitti) become attracted
to one another.
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October
19: Re-Imagining
Ireland
with director Andrew Wyndham
Director Wyndham of the Virginia Foundation for Humanities brings
the theatrical premiere of his documentary narrated by Frank
McCourt and based on the groundbreaking Re-Imagining Ireland
conference and festival held here in Charlottesville in 2003.
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November 16: My
Night At Maud’s
(1969)
Eric Rohmer’s film centers around a night spent at Maud's,
which becomes a chaste yet ticklish probing of male emotions
and convictions. Rohmer’s characters are as articulate
and informed as they are vulnerable in their exploration of
the problems of moral responsibility in this “tale that
is as ironic as it is moral” (Vincent Canby, The New York
Times.)
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November 30: Go
Further
Calling his movie an “Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
on Tofu”, director Ron Mann joins actor Woody Harrelson
as he pilots a hemp-fueled bus on an eco-consciousness raising
incursion down the beautiful Pacific Coast.
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Spring Film Society Season
Tuesday, February 8:
The Chorus (Les Choristes)
This Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Film was a huge
hit in France, where it sold over eight million tickets.
Miramax is releasing the film, which Kevin Thomas of the
L.A. Times calls “a well-nigh irresistible
film celebrating the redemptive power of music.”
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Sunday, February 20:
Los Angeles Plays Itself
Newcomb Hall Theater at 7pm. Admission $3; free to Film Society
members.
OFFScreen’s presentation of LAPI is cosponsored with
the Virginia Film Society, whose members will be admitted
free. Thom Andersen's Los Angeles Plays Itself is a documentary
homage to the cinematic history of LA that is at once elegiac
and elated, using clips from over 100 films.
Tuesday,February 22:
The Exiles
One of the discoveries of Los Angeles Plays Itself, this remarkable
1961 independent film blurs the distinction between documentary
and drama, as it follows an evening in the lives of a group
of Arizonian Indians, residents of Bunker Hill, a low-rent
neighbourhood on the west edge of downtown Los Angeles.
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Tuesday,
March 15: Walk
on Water
with guest speakers Alon Confino
This acclaimed Israeli film by Eytan Fox (Yossi and Jagger)
is a colorful and contemporary road movie that attempts
to understand the role of the past in the lives of young
Israeli and German people. Eyal is a tough Israeli Mossad
agent. Axel, is a sweet natured German gay man, and the
grandson of a Nazi fugitive.
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Thursday, March 31:
The Black Maria Film and Video Festival
with festival director John Columbus
John Columbus returns to Charlottesville for the eleventh
year with another dazzling selection of short experimental,
animation, and documentary award winners from this year’s
Black Maria Festival.
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Tuesday, March 29:
Symbiopsychotoxiplasm Take 1 (7:00) and Take 2 ½ (8:45)
with filmmaker William Greaves
$7.50 admission prices gets you into both screenings!
In the 1960s cauldron of the Vietnam War and the civil rights
and feminist movements, filmmaker/actor William Greaves began
a brilliant cinematic experiment that examined the power dynamics
of narrative filmmaking in Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One.
Thirty years later, the veteran director has now profoundly
advanced this inquiry with Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2 1/2,
a further examination of race, gender, and filmmaking that premiered
at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival.
Thursday, April 14:
Sherman’s March
with filmmaker Ross McElwee
**SCREENING AT NEWCOMB HALL THEATER**
McElwee’s classic, comic road film is an autobiographical
quest for true romance by filmmaker McElwee, who, after his
girlfriend dumps him, pursues and films women along the original
route of Sherman’s Civil War March.
Friday,
April 15: Bright Leaves
with filmmaker Ross McElwee
Admission $8, $6 children and seniors; free to Film Society
members. The film is tentatively scheduled to run for one week
at Vinegar Hill Theatre.
Chosen as one of the top 10 films of 2004 by the Village Voice
Critics’ Poll, the New York Times, Entertainment Weekly
and many others! "Bright Leaves" is a meditation on
the allure of cigarettes and their troubling legacy. And it's
about filmmaking, as McElwee fences with the legacy of an obscure
Hollywood melodrama that is purportedly based on the life of
his great-grandfather, a tobacco magnate.
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