4:00pm Nosey Parker
Film introduction by Sandi Knakal
Real Life meets Reel Life. Nosey Parker is a delightful combination of fact and fiction. John O'Brien, the creative force behind the movie, takes two actors, Natalie and Richard, and inserts them in his (O'Briens) hometown of Tunbridge, Vermont. Most of the other characters are denizens of Tunbridge, with George Lyford taking on the starring role as himself. The result is wonderful. Not rated. 104 minutes. Official Selection: 2003 South By Southwest Film Festival
Outstanding Direction: 2003 Nantucket Film Festival
Best Film: Northampton Film Festival, Lake Wobegon Film Festival, Port Townsend (WA) Film Festival* The Crunchbird, 1972 Oscar Winner for Best Animated Short, will preceed the showing of Nosey Parker.
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6:00pm Around The Bend
Stars Michael Caine, Christopher Walken, Josh Lucas, Jonah Bobo and Glenne Headly. Four generations brought together by the chance to uncover their family's past. Rated R for strong language. 85 minutes.
Official Website


8:00pm Imaginary Heroes
Film introduction by Calliope Nicholas
A 1960's-going-on-2000 generational drama. Sigourney Weaver plays the druggy matriarch of a dysfunctional family riven by skeletons and grudges in which nothing is as it seems. Directed by first timer Dan Harris who wrote X-Men 2. Also starring Jeff Daniels. Rated R for substance abuse, sexual content, language and some violence. 112 minutes.
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10:15pm Head-On
2004 Grand Prize Winner, Berlin Film Festival
A story of a young Turkish-German woman who marries a man she doesn't love to escape her conservative Islamic family. Rated R. 112 minutes.
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Saturday, October 23, 2004

10:00am Children's Film Program
Film introduction by Eva Chaitman, 5th Grader, Chatham Middle School
FilmColumbia presents its second annual short film program for kids. Provocative, award-winning films from around the world. You won’t see this anywhere else!
*Free admission for kids and students
Click here for more information on the Children's Film Project

Noon Kinsey
Film introduction by Shari Springer Berman & Bob Pulcini
The latest film from Academy Award-winning director Bill Condon. Cast: Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, Chris O'Donnell, Peter Sarsgaard, Timothy Hutton, John Lithgow, Oliver Platt, Tim Curry. Rated R for pervasive sexual content, including some graphic images and descriptions. 118 minutes.
Official Selection: 2004 Chicago Film Festival.
Official Selection: 2004 Starz Denver Film Festival.
Official Selection: 2004 Toronto Film Festival.
Official website

2:00pm The Woodsman
Film introduction by Scott Cohen
Kevin Bacon delivers his finest performance in this harrowing and moving tale of one man’s attempt to re-enter society. Based on a play of the same name. Rated R for sexuality, disturbing behavior and language. 87 minutes.
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4:00pm Being Julia
Film introduction by Branda Miller
A comedy of sex and revenge--All About Eve or Liaisons Dangereuses, take your pick--morphed into the world of the London stage, c. 1930. A tour de force by Annette Bening, helmed by the great Hungarian director Istvan Szabo (Mephisto). With Jeremy Irons and Michael Gambon. Rated R for some sexuality. 105 minutes.
Opening Film: 2004 Toronto International Film Fest
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6:15pm P.S.
Film introduction by John Hart & Helen Schulman
Laura Linney in a romantic fable about getting a second chance at first love. Torrid and tender, serious and sexy. Shot entirely in New York City. Based on Helen Schulman's novel of the same name. Director: Dylan Kidd (Roger Dodger) Cast: Laura Linney, Topher Grace, Paul Rudd, Lois Smith, with Gabriel Byrne, and Marcia Gay Harden. Rated R for language and sexuality. 97 minutes.
Official website

8:15pm Sideways
The much anticipated new film from award-winning director Alexander Payne (About Schmidt, Election, Citizen Ruth...) Rated R for language, some strong sexual content and nudity. 123 minutes.
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Sunday, October 24, 2004

11:30am High School Film Project
Film introduction by Wes Jones
Mentored by filmmaker Wes Jones who worked with seven local high school students in writing, filmming, and editing the original short using digital video. The students were encouraged  to explore the world of film through the use of genre. Out of the many possible genres discussed, the students chose to produce a Western. While the film, Walking The Line, is a classic genre story, its setting is not the 'Old West,' but rather a mythical 'New West,' where modernity intermingles with classic Western motifs and situations. 

2004 High School Film Project Students:
Kristin Anderson
Seamus Donahoe
Clayton Ellis
Jack Patterson
Brittany Ritter
Alex Van Dyne
Caitlyn Walsh

12:30pm Far Side of the Moon
Based on the award-winning Robert Lepage play of the same name. From Canada. Rated PG. 105 minutes
Best Adapted Screenplay: Toronto International Film Festival, Genie Award
Official website

2:30pm A Silent Love
Won Best Screenplay Awards at Brooklyn International Film Festival and Miami Latin Film Festival. From Canada. Rated PG.
Official Selection: Sundance Film Festival, Guadalajara Film Festival, MoMA Canadian Front, Lima Latin America Film Festival, Montreal World Film Festival
Best Screenplay: Miami Latin Film Festival, Brooklyn International Film Festival
Outstanding Performance: Miami Latin Film Festival (Susana Salazar)
Official website

4:30pm Shorts Program
Film introduction by Courtney Hunt
A collection of shorts that are too good to pass up

Frozen River: At the border of New York and Quebec, two women smugglers are tested when they realize they mistakenly left behind an infant in a suitcase.
Official Website

Don't Call Me Crazy on the 4th of July: Who is crazier? A homeless man who believes the government is conspiring against him, or our government who believes a homeless man is conspiring against them?
Official Website

Asylum: Oscar nominated documentary about a Ghanian woman fleeing genital mutilation in her native country.  Executive produced by Deborah Shaffer

Soldiers Pay: A meditation on the current war in Iraq. Not a partisan film, it listens to people from all sides and of varying opinions. http://www.soldierspaythemovie.com

The following story goes to the heart and soul of FilmColumbia at it’s best. During last year’s festival, filmmaker Courtney Hunt over coffee on Main Street with actress Melissa Leo and cameraman Marc Blandori, commented on the struggle to get her film short made. After listening to Courtney’s idea for the storyline, Melissa offered to act in the film and Marc Blandori followed suit by volunteering his services. In January, they filmed on the frozen border between New York and Canada and today, FilmColumbia is proud to screen Frozen River.

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