| TITLE:: | TIME:: |
| BALLROOM (DANCING) | SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER
13, 12:00AM / VISTA THEATRE TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 4:30 PM/ VISTA |
| Dir.: Patrick Mario Bernard, Pierre Trividic, Xavier Brillat, 2002, FRANCE, 35MM, 92:30 | |
| Using spare sets, sparse dialogue, and stirring music, Ballroom paints a portrait of the artist as a middle-aged man. Rene’s studio is part of boyfriend Patrick’s boyhood home which sits atop a deserted ballroom in a forgotten town in France. The setting is intensified by the solitude and soul-searching of an artist’s life, and underscores Rene’s growing feeling of ennui. Struck by a spooky image he cannot force out of his mind, and plagued by doppelgangers, the line between the rational and aesthetic worlds blurs until neither we nor Rene can sort them out. Unlike anything you have ever watched, Ballroom enfolds into an eerie world that forces us to contemplate our own lives in a discomforting yet powerful way. | |
| BETTY BLOWTORCH (AND HER AMAZING TRUE LIFE ADVENTURES) | TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 7:00PM / BARNSDALL GALLERY THEATRE |
| Dir.: ANTHONY SCARPA, 2003, VIDEO, USA, 99:30 | |
| This riveting documentary is as fierce and funny as its subject, a legendary LA riot girl band. Starting with their incarnation as post-punk Butt Trumpt, and taking us through rehab rebanding as Betty Blowtorch, this film is packed with live footage of did-we-really-see-that moments (look for Vanilla Ice with a monster bong) and ending with the tragic death of leader Bianca Halstead, Betty Blowtorch brings out the punker--or at least metalhead--in us all. | |
| BOOM | WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 4:30 PM/ VISTA THEATRE |
| Dir.: KAIZAD GUSTAD, 2003, INDIA, 35MM | |
| In the land of overwrought movie musicals, Gustad is young, hip, and all of his films reflect the attributes of a modern director on the move. Sporting huge production values, a hard-boiled diamond-thief plot, and three of the most gorgeous women ever captured on film, Boom is the quintessential modern Bollywood romp...all this, and Bo Derek to boot! Musical sequences, gun battles, half naked super models, and a three-continent-wide canvas gives BOOM everything an audience craves. | |
| CABIN FEVER | THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 9:30PM / VISTA THEATRE |
| Dir.: ELI ROTH, 2003, 35MM, USA, 92:00 | |
| An offbeat horror tale about a group of five college friends on vacation at a remote mountain cabin when one contracts a flesh-eating virus. As it spreads among the friends, their true feelings and personalities emerge as they struggle to survive the virus and each other. | |
| CAPTAIN JANUARY | THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 7:00PM / VISTA THEATRE |
| Dir.: EDWARD F. CLINE, 1924, USA, 68:00 | |
| Signed to a $1,500,000 contract by the age of four and a half, Baby Peggy was one of the first major child stars. In the charming Captain January she plays a shipwrecked orphan adopted by a kind lighthouse keeper. The two are inseparable until town busybodies insist he's too old to raise her. | |
| COME FEEL ME TREMBLE | WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 7:30PM / BARNSDALL GALLERY THEATRE |
| Dir.: OTTO ZITHROMAX (PAUL WESTERBERG) and RICK FULLER, USA, 88:00 | |
| Paul Westerberg is one of the most influential and critically acclaimed musicians of the post-punk era and former frontman of the legendary band The Replacements. In this close-up and personal film, we see Westerberg in the studio, on the road, and musing about life as a musician in a time when mediocrity rules the radio. . .and the day. A must for any fan of alternative grooves. | |
| CORNER OF YOUR EYE | TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16/9:30PM / LOS FELIZ 3 |
| Dir.: JESSE SPENCER, WORLD PREMIERE. USA, 16MM, 96:00 | |
| Sam, Sarah, and Paul all have the same problem: They’re going insane. It’s a psychological venereal disease that’s disrupting the lives of these three close friends, sending them into a hallucinatory love triangle. What results are a coma, writer’s block, and a career in public relations. Corner of Your Eye sees the trio’s life and times from an alien perspective--and keeps watching, unblinkingly, long after the “happy ending” is over. | |
| DAS BUS | FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2:00 PM/ LOS FELIZ 3 |
| Dir.: BENJAMIN MEADE, 2002, USA, 78:00 | |
| DAS BUS is an Experimental Documentary featuring bus drivers, passengers, and people with bus phobia which investigates bus culture as modern urban myth. Featuring L.A. crime novelist James Ellroy. This highly provocative film also features an eclectic soundtrack including the music of Iris Dement, Tech N9NE, Nace Brothers, Bill Gladden, Binary System, The Bon Ton Soul Accordian Band, the Bolony Ponyz, Bob Walkenhorst, Billy Ebeling and Gary Kirkland. | |
| DEMONLOVER | WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 7:00PM / VISTA THEATRE |
| Dir.: Olivier Assayas, 2003, 35MM, USA | |
| Olivier Assayas' breathtaking vision of our spectacle-driven modern global society follows Diane (Connie Nielsen), a corporate mole trying to undermine a deal between two multinational conglomerates. Upon uncovering a link between one of the companies and an interactive torture Web site known as "The Hellfire Club,” she is challenged every step of the way by her amoral colleague (Charles Berling), an antagonistic and mysterious assistant (Chloë Sevigny) and an outspoken, pot-smoking American executive (Gina Gershon). Brilliantly shot by Denis Lenoir (who previously collaborated with Assayas on such films asLate August, Early September and Cold Water), Demonlover captures a culture spiraling out of control in which reality is posited as a video game and where every twist escalates the film to a new level. | |
| EL KOTBIA (THE BOOK STORE) | FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 9:30PM / VISTA THEATRE |
| Dir.: NATWEL SAHEB-ETTABA, 35MM, TUNISIA, 100:00 | |
| At once an incisive look at a modern Arab society and affecting meditation on luck and love, this Tunisian film shows us a world usually closed to Western eyes. When Jamil returns to his homeland after seeking his fortune abroad, he accepts a position in a bookstore in central Tunis. Immediately interjected into a turbulent family’s life, he is forced to examine his own notions of freedom, liberty, and the force of society at large--and, strikingly, so do we. A masterpiece of the New Arab cinema, El Kotbia is a film of rare wonder and warmth. | |
| ELVIS AND JUNE: A LOVE STORY | SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 7:00PM / LOS FELIZ 3 |
| Dir.: STUART A. GOLDMAN, VIDEO, USA, 46:00 | |
| Before Priscilla and Lisa Marie there was June. . .and this delicious documentary tells it all. The time is June 1955, the place the small-town South, and the girl June Juanico, is Elvis’s first true love. More than anything, the film shows how we Americans used to be, and what a kind, gentle man the pre-rhinestone Elvis really was. Rare footage is woven throughout this captivating and bittersweet time capsule. | |
