See L.A. Film Critics' Picks for 'The Films That Got Away'
Filed under: Drama, Foreign Language, Independent, Cinematical Indie
With Los Angeles being the film capital of the world, you'd think every film that's worth seeing would be shown there at some point. Not so, says the L.A. Film Critics Association. They've polled their members and put together a mini-fest of "The Films That Got Away," movies they consider to be excellent that for some reason were never shown commercially in the United States. The films will screen Oct. 19-24 in conjunction with American Cinematheque at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica. Here's what's on tap:
- Oct. 19: Mary (2005), a big winner at the Venice Film Festival, stars Matthew Modine as a Mel Gibson-like actor/director who's just made a film about Jesus and Mary Magdalene ... with himself as Jesus. Mary was directed by maverick filmmaker Abel Ferrara. Modine and editor Langdon Page will be on hand for a post-screening discussion.
- Oct. 20: The Case of the Grinning Cat (2004) is an hour-long documentary by Chris Marker covering early-21st-century French society and politics, all in the context of looking at a curious phenomenon where the same image of a grinning cat kept appearing on Paris buildings. A couple of Marker's other short political films, The Sixth Side of the Pentagon (1967) and The Embassy (1973), will also be shown.
- Oct. 21: Elsewhere (2001) sounds like a fascinating nature and anthropology documentary: Twelve 20-minute segments, each filmed in a different remote part of the world, giving us a view of cultures and places we've never seen. (Do the math, though: twelve segments, 20 minutes each ... that's four hours.) The filmmaker is Austrian documentarian Nikolaus Geyrhalter.
- Oct. 24: Come and Go (Vai e Vem) (2003) was the last film by Portuguese writer/director/actor Joao Cesar Monteiro before his death at age 70. It's a surreal comedy in which Monteiro plays an old man with lots of time on his hands, ruminating about sex, religion, race, and everything else.
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10-07-2007 @ 2:38AM
sethdove said...
i 've seen Elsewhere at Thessaloniki's Documentary Festival (Greece) 5 years ago. Don't miss it, it's an adventurous and educational trip around the world!
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10-07-2007 @ 10:43PM
josh Boelter said...
I remember a lot of buzz about "Mary" at Toronto in 2005, but then it sort of disappeared.
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