Friday, April 11, 2008

a list of films that caught my eye at the Nash Film Fest. Yes it is a long post dont be lazy and read it

even tho most of my good friends wont go to this or watch more movies than i do but tend to make more excuses than a junkie i'm
bringing back my love for celluloid
i was looking thru the list of films at the Nashville Film Fest and here are a few that caught my eye, besides william h macey being there and besides all the animation

Pussycat Preacher
Documentary

Green Hills Cinema - Theatre 16
Sunday, Apr 20, 2008 3:15 PM
The true story of a former stripper who found Jesus, won over some young housewives in one church and started a project to reach out to other strippers only to run into objections from some church members.


In the City of Sylvia
Narrative Feature

Green Hills Cinema - Theatre 4
Sunday, Apr 20, 2008 5:00 PM
A young foreigner spends his afternoons in an outdoor cafe, sketching the women he sees...while looking for Sylvia, who he met years before in the same city. An exceedingly graceful work that captures a youthful sense of a world filled with an almost limitless sensuality.


Young@Heart ( i got sneaks to this at opry mills today anyway)
Documentary

Green Hills Cinema - Theatre 4
Monday, Apr 21, 2008 5:00 PM
The touching and heartfelt portrait of a New England senior citizens chorus that has delighted audiences worldwide with their covers of songs The Clash to Sonic Youth to James Brown.


Cornered
Documentary

Green Hills Cinema - Theatre 16
Tuesday, Apr 22, 2008 1:00 PM
In a 1983 boxing match at Madison Square Garden, the padding was removed from the gloves of Luis Resto and for 30 minutes he assaulted Nashville’s Irish Billy Collins. The film not only investigates this brutal crime but follows Resto’s quest for redemption.

Trailer Park of Terror
Narrative Feature

Green Hills Cinema - Theatre 3
Wednesday, Apr 23, 2008 9:00 PM
A romping gory picture show about a group of stranded youth who end up in a desolate trailer park inhabited by zombies who were former residents of the park that had blown up years ago. Beware! Preceded by the film "SIDE EFFECTS MAY INCLUDE ."


Deal, The
Narrative Feature

Green Hills Cinema
Thursday, Apr 17, 2008 7:00 PM
William H. Macy is unforgettable as a Hollywood producer who sees a way to revive his so-called career by casting an action star in a film about 19th-century British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli and in outwits his financiers and the studio along the way. With Meg Ryan as a studio exec, LL Cool J (as an action star who has converted to Judaism), Jason Ritter as the scriptwriter and Elliott Gould in a supporting role as LL Cool J's personal rabbi.

Screening: April 17, 7:00pm

In Attendance: Director Steven Schacter, William H. Macy, Jason Ritter


Searchers 2.0
Narrative Feature

Green Hills Cinema - Theatre 3
Thursday, Apr 17, 2008 7:30 PM
Alex "Repo Man" Cox's laid back, funny sendup of The Searchers follows two men who seek revenge on a B-move screenwriter who mistreated them on the filmset of BUFFALO BILL VS. DOC HOLLIDAY many years before.


haha Nick needs this one
Art of Negative Thinking, The
Narrative Feature

Green Hills Cinema - Theatre 16
Thursday, Apr 17, 2008 9:30 PM
A dark and hilarious story about a depressed but bitterly funny and articulate paraplegic who rejects the sympathy his injury generates and the fiasco that results when a "municipal positivity" group comes to their home. Preceded by the film "Three Towers."

You, the Living
Narrative Feature

Green Hills Cinema - Theatre 15
Thursday, Apr 17, 2008 9:45 PM
A highly subjective and darkly witty series of fifty portraits (from deeply touching to laugh-out-loud funny) of the human race. A mosaic of human destinies on more or less the theme of "how to behave around others." Preceded by the film "The Apology Line."

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hey Punk!
The Art of Negative Thinking huh??? Well, actually you are right.

7:41 AM  

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