Tickets are for sale at the regular box office of the Formula Kino
cinema at the Evropeisky shopping center. They are already available
for sale now in advance. I know some films were sold out last year so
recommend buying them in advance if possible!
On Oct 8, 2008, at 2:43 PM, Kevin Withane wrote:
How do you get tickets?
2008/10/8 rhess210 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Dear Moscow friends,
I wanted to send out a special announcement about the Third Annual
American Film Festival of Moscow, which will be taking place this
week!
October 8-12th at the Formula Kino Evropa cinema on the 3rd floor in
the Evropeisky Shopping Center by Kievsky.
The festival features recent releases, indie films, incredible
documentaries, some Hollywood Classics, and more.
These are truly incredible films that you will never get another
chance to see in Moscow. We also have ALL of the documentary
directors coming, ready to engage in debates and discussions. We
also will have screenwriter Michael Tolkin (The Player) and other
special guests.
Here is a link to the festival website where you can see all the
trailers of the films.
http://www.amfest.ru/
And here is a link to the documentary program.
http://www.amfest.ru/en/2008/doc
Our very exciting event is a retrospective of special guest: Ross
McElwee. I'll put a short bit with more information about the indie
documentary program below. I hope you don't mind me plugging the
festival, but the films are worth it! Hope you can come! Spread the
word!
For over 25 years, Ross McElwee's films have taken audiences into a
new world of first-person filmmaking, with his personal and
confessional narration guiding us along the journey. Our
retrospective of his work includes the legendary Sherman's March.
What began as a film retracing 19thcentury Civil War General
Sherman's route through McElwee's homeland- the American South,
wound up as a tender and funny account of the filmmaker's search for
love. Sherman's March won numerous awards, including Best
Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival. Sherman's March was also
chosen for preservation by the Library of Congress National Film
Registry in 2000 as an "historically significant American motion
picture."
Other films by McElwee that Amfest is pleased to present are:
Charleen, a portrait of McElwee's eccentric friend and former poetry
teacher; Backyard, an examination of both the filmmaker's
relationship with his father and his family's relationship with the
black people who work for them; Something to Do with the Wall which
chronicles the Checkpoint Charlie area of the Berlin Wall just
before and after the collapse; Time Indefinite,which contemplates
the changes in McElwee's personal life since Sherman's March; Six
O'clock News,which considers America's fascination with television
news, disasters, and the people they touch, and Bright Leaves in
which McElwee contemplates his family's own legacy as it intersects
with the legacy of tobacco growing in the South. As much as these
films are intensely personal stories of Ross McElwee's journey
through life, they also resonate on a more universal level. As the
Museum of Modern Art in New York has written, "Always wise and
irreverent, ever the unreliable narrator, McElwee makes the grandest
themes of human comedy his artistic province: love and death, chance
and fate, memory and denial, the marvelous and the appalling."
We are also screening a selection of the some of the best
independent documentaries of recent years. They include: Hear and
Now is director Irene Taylor Brodsky's moving and very intimate film
which chronicles her deaf parents' decision to undergo cochlear ear
implant surgery and learn to navigate their new relationship to the
world and to each other as people who can hear. Kurt Cobain: About a
Son by AJ Schnack is an original and poetic essay of a film –
exploring the places in the Pacific Northwest that were important to
Cobain while his own voice from personal interviews allows us a
glimpse into the complicated mind of the cultural icon of the 1990s.
My Kid Could Paint That by Amir Bar-Lev tells the story of 4 year-
old Marla Olmstead who became an overnight celebrity when her
colorful abstract paintings were compared to Kandinsky and Jackson
Pollock and sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars. When doubts
about the authenticity of the paintings arise, the film probes
important questions about modern art, the power of the media, and
how to objectively approach a controversy. Margaret Brown's film The
Order of Myths profiles the oldest Mardi Gras in America - in Mobile
Alabama - where there are still separate celebrations for the black
and white communities to this day. Documenting the parades and
pageantry, the film reveals many subtleties about race relations
today through the parallel stories of the Mardi Gras Royalty, and
the communities that surround them. Lastly, the powerful documentary
by Edet Belzberg, The Recruiter provides a rare window into the
world of one of the most successful US Army recruiters, Staff
Sergeant Clay Usie. At a time when enlistment likely means
deployment to Iraq, Staff Sergeant Usie enthusiastically encourages
young Americans to follow his lead and express their patriotism by
serving their country while reaching personal goals in the process.
These award-winning notable films are a powerful entry into the
personal, political, and cultural spheres of American life. They are
also some of the best examples of the strong non-fiction independent
films that exists at this exciting time - when documentaries are an
increasing presence in movie theatres across the United States. We
are delighted to be able to bring them to you in Moscow.
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