American Film

imagineNATIVE 15 – FROZEN RIVER – Heather Rae Spotlight II

Festival Screening – October 17, 2015 @ 2:15 PM at The TIFF Bell Lightbox After her husband takes off in their family vehicle for an unknown destination, Ray Eddy (Melissa Leo in an Academy Award–nominated performance) attempts to survive alone while raising her two sons near the border between Quebec and New York State. One […]

Busan 15 – MOUNTAIN CRY – Closing Night Film

Festival Screening – October 10, 2015 @ 8:00 PM at The Busan Cinema Center BIFF Theater In a remote mountain village, a recent immigrant La Hong dies after stepping on explosives that young villager Han Chong set-up to catch a badger. The elders of the village force Han Chong to care for La Hong’s mute […]

NYFF 15 – MILES AHEAD – Closing Night Film

First Festival Screening – October 10, 2015 @ 6:00 PM at The Alice Tully Hall Second Festival Screening – October 10, 2015 @ 6:15 PM at The Walter Reade Theater Last Festival Screening – October 10, 2015 @ 9:00 PM at The Alice Tully Hall Miles Davis was one of the greatest artists of the […]

Edmonton 15 – THE KEEPING ROOM – American Outlaw Program

Festival Screening – October 8, 2015 @ 9:30 PM at The Landmark Cinemas City Centre In this radically reimagined American Western set towards the end of the Civil War, August encounters two renegade, drunken soldiers who are on a mission of pillage and violence. After escaping an attempted assault, Augusta races back to the isolated […]

Mill Valley 15 – THE DANISH GIRL – Opening Night Film

First Festival Screening – October 8, 2015 @ 6:30 PM at The Rafael Second Festival Screening – October 8, 2015 @ 6:45 PM at The Rafael Third Festival Screening – October 8, 2015 @ 7:00 PM at The Century Larkspur Last Festival Screening – October 8, 2015 @ 7:15 PM at The Century Larkspur Marvelously […]

NYFF 15 – EXPERIMENTER – Main Slate Programme

First Festival Screening – October 6, 2015 @ 9:00 PM at The Alice Tully Hall Last Festival Screening – October 7, 2015 @ 9:00 PM at The Walter Reade Theater Michael Almereyda’s brilliant portrait of Stanley Milgram, the social scientist whose 1961, Yale-based “obedience study” reflected back on the Holocaust and anticipated Abu Ghraib and […]

NYFF 15 – BRIDGE OF SPIES – World Premiere

First Festival Screening – October 4, 2015 @ 6:00 PM at The Alice Tully Hall Last Festival Screening – October 5, 2015 @ 9:00 PM at the Alice Tully Hall In the time from the building of the Berlin Wall to its destruction in 1989, there were three prisoner exchanges between East and West. The […]

Woodstock 15 – THE ADDERALL DIARIES – Narrative Features Program

First Festival Screening – October 2, 2015 @ 10:00 PM at The Woodstock Playhouse Last Festival Screening – October 3, 2015 @ 5:00 PM at The Orpheum Theater Saugerties Adapted from Stephen Elliott’s true crime memoir of the same name, The Adderall Diaries tells the unflinchingly honest story of Elliott (James Franco), a once-successful novelist […]

Woodstock 15 – THE AUTOMATIC HATE – East Coast Premiere

First Festival Screening – October 1, 2015 @ 9:00 PM at The Upstate Films Woodstock Last Festival Screening – October 3, 2015 @ 7:30 PM at The Orpheum Theater Saugerties How would you react if you discovered everything you thought you knew about your family turned out not to be so? After an enigmatic visit […]

NYFF 15 – WHERE TO INVADE NEXT – U.S. Premiere

First Festival Screening – October 2, 2015 @ 9:00 PM at The Alice Tully Hall Last Festival Screening – October 3, 2015 @ 3:00 PM at The Alice Tully Hall Where are we, as Americans? Where are we going as a country? And is it where we want to go, or where we think we […]