2015-filmfest

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LAMB
THE LAST GREAT CIRCUS FLYER
THE LAST MAN ON THE MOON
NARRATIVE
Director: Ross Partridge
Producers: Mel Eslyn, Taylor Williams
Cast: Jess Weixler, Joel Murray, Lindsay Pulsipher,
Tom Bower, Jennifer Lafleur, Ross Partridge, Oona
Laurence, Ron Burkhardt
USA/96 Min
Jaded 45-year-old Chicagoan David Lamb takes his
new young friend Tommie for a restorative camping
trip in the woods. But everything is not quite what
it seems. Does he have nefarious purposes? Is he
insane? Haunted? Salacious? When his girlfriend
comes the the cabin looking for him, the whole
situation comes to a head quickly.
Thursday, April 16, 7:15pm, SunTrustTheatre 11
Friday, April 17, 5:00pm, Herald-Tribune Theatre 9
DOCUMENTARY
Director: Philip Weyland
Producer: Philip Weyland
USA/105 Min
A quadruple somersault was considered impossible
until 17 year old Miguel Vazquez achieved this
‘impossible’ quadruple during a 1982 Ringling Bros.
performance. Vazquez’s ‘Quad’ was a premiere
attraction at Ringling Bros., and the largest circuses
in Europe until in 1994, at the apex of his career,
Vazquez unexpectedly quit flying. Filmed over a
6 year period, this film addresses the triumphs,
dangers, fears and oftentimes tragedies of trapeze
performers through interviews with great flyers of
the past and performances by young flyers from
Ringling Bros., Cirque du Soleil, and Circus Vargas.
Friday, April 17, 3:00pm, Theatre 8
Saturday, April 18, 9:15pm, Theatre 10
DOCUMENTARY
Director: Mark Craig
Producer: Gareth Dodds, Patrick Mark
USA/99 Min
“When I stepped off the pod and the engine shut
off,” says Eugene Cernan early in this documentary,
“it was the quietest I’ve ever heard. It was like
stepping into a different world.” It’s possibly the
only time you’ll ever hear those words spoken in
a documentary where they’re not metaphorical.
Cernan, an astronaut, was literally the last man to
walk on the moon. Now, as he nears the end of his
life, he remembers the experience and everything
that came after. You won’t soon forget his story.
Thursday, April 17, 9:30pm, Theatre 12
Saturday, April 18, 3:15pm, Theatre 12
LOOK AT US NOW MOTHER
LOVE AND MERCY
THE MAKINGS OF YOU
NARRATIVE
Director: Gayle Kirschenbaum
Producer: Gayle Kirschenbaum
USA/ 71 minutes
Filmmaker Gayle Kirschenbaum presents a raw,
fearless but bitingly funny portrait of both her
childhood, fraught with shame and humiliation,
and her adulthood scarred by its fallout. Woven
together from decades of personal home movies,
photos and videos, LOOK AT US NOW invites
audiences to join her on her quest to love,
understand, and forgive her aging mother before
it’s too late. As these two formidable women
travel down the bumpy road of discovery, their
relationship changes before our eyes, and teaches
a universal lesson of family dynamics, empathy and
the power of forgiveness.
Saturday, April 11, 3:45pm, Theatre 10
Monday, April 13, 3:15pm, Theatre 12
NARRATIVE SPOTLIGHT
Director: Bill Pohlad
Producers: Bill Pohlad, Claire Rudnick Polstein, John
Wells, Brian Wilson
Cast: John Cusack, Paul Dano, Elizabeth Banks, Paul
Giamatti, Jake Abel, Kenny Wormald, Joanna Going,
Dee Wallace, Erin Darke, Brett Davern, Jonathan
Slavin, Graham Rogers, Bill Camp, Diana Maria Riva
USA/ 120 Min
The life of reclusive Beach Boys songwriter and
musician Brian Wilson, from his successes with
highly-influential orchestral pop albums to his
nervous breakdown and subsequent encounter
with controversial therapist Dr. Eugene Landy.
The film features brilliant cross-cutting between
stirring performances by Paul Dano as the younger
idealistic, bright-eyed Wilson and John Cusack as
the older, wounded, world-weary, paranoid Wilson.
The Beach Boys music contained an almost otherworldly
amount of joy and Brian Wilson paid an
almost inconceivable price for it.
Tuesday, April 14, 3:30pm, Theatre 10
NARRATIVE
Director: Matt Amato
Producers: Matt Amato, Sheryl Lee, Jack
Richardson, Grace Zabriskie
Cast: Sheryl Lee, Grace Zabriskie, Jay R. Ferguson
USA/123 Min
In this poignant story of self-discovery, love and
loss, Frank and Judy are two wounded souls who
are comfortably numb to their lives. When a chance
encounter brings them together, their love for each
other reignites life’s sweet, unimagined possibilities.
Cinematically capturing the melancholy
atmosphere and decaying scenery of St. Louis in an
almost “David Lynchian” fashion, this tone poem
also features the highly anticipated reunion of
Twin Peaks alumni Sheryl Lee (who played “Laura
Palmer”) and Grace Zabriskie (who played “Sarah
Palmer”) cast in the roles of mother and daughter
again.
Saturday, April 11, 4:15pm, Theatre 7
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