The Philadelphia Film Society and the University of the Arts are proud to present Passport to World Cinema, a handpicked selection of the year's strongest cinema from around the globe. Each of the monthly screenings will include a notable international film title from the recent film festival circuit and a post-screening talkback led by a local film connoisseur. The ongoing partnership, now in its second year, encourages cinematic discussion and film education among local students and audiences via contemporary masterpieces.
About the film
The Act of Killing is an internationally acclaimed and award winning documentary that challenges former Indonesian death squad leaders to reenact their real-life mass-killings in whichever cinematic genres they wish, including classic Hollywood crime scenarios and lavish musical numbers.
Director: Joshua Oppenheimer, Christine Cynn
Featuring: Haji Anif, Syamsul Arifin, Sakhyan Asmara, Anwar Congo, Jusuf Kalla
Country/Year: Denmark/Norway/UK/Sweden/Finland 2012
Language: Indonesian/English
Run time: 115 minutes
Official Selection of: Toronto International Film Festival 2012, Telluride Film Festival 2012, Berlin International FIlm Festival 2013
Tickets
General Admission: $5.00
PFS Members: FREE
UARTS Current Students & Faculty: FREE
The Philadelphia Film Society presents an exciting opportunity to support the restoration of the PFS Theater at the Roxy.
Join us for the Philadelphia debut of the most anticipated film out of Sundance "Upstream Color" on Wednesday, March 27. Ticket sales will directly benefit improvements to the new PFS Theater at the Roxy, including theater seats, new flooring, screens and more.
Join us for cocktails and light fare before the screening at Positano Coast for an exclusive opportunity to meet and chat with Writer/Director, Shane Carruth and PFS Artistic Director, Michael Lerman.
Cocktail event begins at 6:30pm, followed by the screening at the Ritz Five Theater at 8pm. Tickets available for screening and reception, or screening only. Limited space available, pre-registration is required.
About the film:
Premiering at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, “Upstream Color” is a story about a man and woman who are drawn together, entangled in the lifecycle of an ageless organism. Identity becomes an illusion as they struggle to assemble the loose fragments of wrecked lives.
Tickets for cocktail party and screening: $25
Screening only: $10
SAVE THE DATE!
The 22nd annual Philadelphia Film Festival will be held from October 17-27, 2013.
Founded in 1991, the Philadelphia Film Festival is one of the longest-running film festivals in the city. Presented annually by the nonprofit Philadelphia Film Society (PFS), the Festival is an outstanding showcase of cinematic excellence and imagination, featuring over 200 films with more than 50 filmmakers and industry guests at seven unique venues throughout the Greater Philadelphia Area.
As one of Philadelphia’s most important cultural events, the Festival is eagerly anticipated by its enthusiastic and devoted audiences, including students, film lovers, and arts supporters. Critically acclaimed by industry professionals, the Festival aims to promote domestic and international films that might not otherwise be seen in Philadelphia. The two-week event showcases thought-provoking narrative features, live action and animated shorts, locally-produced films, and theatrical documentaries. Industry panels, director Q&As, special event screenings, and networking opportunities enhance the Festival experience, providing Philadelphia audiences with unrivalled access to world-class films and the talent responsible for creating them.
The first Philadelphia festival solely dedicated to movies about music…brought to you by the local authorities on film and music. Screenings will be held in West Philadelphia at the Annenberg Center, Mandell Theater and World Cafe Live, April 11 – 14, 2013.
Four days of contemporary films including rockumentaries, biopics about musicians and movies that are defined by great soundtracks spanning a variety of musical genres!
Tickets Available Monday, March 25.
Tickets on Sale March 22 for PFS & XPN Members -
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Tickets can be purchased online, at the door or in advance at the Annenberg Center Box Office, 3680 Walnut Street, Philadelphia.
Individual Film Tickets:
$8 - XPN & PFS Members
$8 - Students w/ID
$12 - General Public
4 Day Access Badge:
$100 - XPN & PFS Members
$125 - General Public
The XPN Music Film Festival is sponsored by the Annenberg Center for Performing Arts and the University of Pennsylvania.
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Known for his unique visual style Wong Kar-wai released FALLEN ANGELS in 1995 in Hong Kong. Set in the neon-washed underworld of present day Hong Kong, Fallen Angels intertwines exhilarating tales of love and isolation, primarily the unconsummated love affair between a contract Killer (Leon Lai Ming) and the ravishing female Agent (Michele Reis) who books his assignments and cleans up after his jobs.
After the screening there will be a moderated discussion by Timothy Corrigan.
About Timothy Corrigan
Timothy Corrigan is a Professor of Cinema Studies, English, and History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania. His work in Cinema Studies has focused on modern American cinema, contemporary international film, and adaptation studies. He received his B.A. from the University of Notre Dame, and completed graduate work at the University of Leeds, Emory University, and the University of Paris III. Books include New German Film: The Displaced Image (Indiana UP), The Films of Werner Herzog: Between Mirage and History (Methuen), Writing about Film (8th ed., Longman), A Cinema without Walls: Movies and Culture after Vietnam (Routledge/Rutgers UP), Film and Literature: An Introduction and Reader (2nd ed., Routledge), The Film Experience (3rd ed., Bedford/St. Martin’s, co-authored with Patricia White), Critical Visions: Readings in Classic and Contemporary Film Theory (Bedford/St. Martin’s, co-authored with Patricia White and Meta Mazaj), The Essay Film: from Montaigne, after Marker (Oxford UP), and Screen Decades, 2000-2009 (forthcoming). He has published essays in Film Quarterly, Discourse, Cinema Journal, and other collections, and is also an editor of the journal Adaptation and an editorial board member of Cinema Journal. He is a member of graduate groups and an affiliated faculty member in the departments of English, History of Art, German, Women’s Studies, and Comparative Literature.
Trailer: FALLEN ANGELS TRAILER
Release Date: September 6, 1995
Runtime: 1hr 35mins
Rated: Unrated
Vagabond premiered in 1985 in France where director Agnés Varda studied photography and film. Sandrine Bonnaire won the Best Actress César for her portrayal of the defiant young drifter Mona, found frozen to death in a ditch at the beginning of Vagabond. Agnès Varda pieces together Mona’s story through flashbacks told by those who encountered her (played by a largely nonprofessional cast), producing a splintered portrait of an enigmatic woman. With its sparse, poetic imagery, Vagabond (Sans toit ni loi) is a stunner, and won Varda the top prize at the Venice Film Festival.
Following the screening a moderated discussion will be held, led by Gerard Hooper.
About Gerard Hooper
Gerard Hooper has been a Director and Cinematographer for over 20 years. He teaches full time in the Film program at Drexel University and his work has ranged from Feature Films to Documentaries and Industrials. He is also a photographer who has had his worked exhibited. His work been broadcast on PBS, the Discovery Channel and has been shown in theaters here and abroad. His most recent projects includes a film for the Bicentennial of The Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia (March, 2012 ), an adaptation of a children's stage play, broadcast in May of 07, and the permanent installation of a photo exhibit concerned with coffee workers from Central America. He is currently in production on a new fiction project that will begin production in 2012.
Trailer: VAGABOND TRAILER
Release Date: September 1, 1985
Runtime: 1hr 45mins
Rated: R
Directed by David Lynch, LOST HIGHWAY follows a bizarre encounter at a party, where a jazz saxophonist is framed for the murder of his wife and sent to prison, where he inexplicably morphs into a young mechanic and begins leading a new life. Starring Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, and Balthazar Getty this film came out in 1997 during the time David Lynch was experimenting with non-linear surrealist style.
Following the screening there will be a moderated discussion by David Spolum.
About David Spolum
David Spolum was born and raised in Colorado. He received his Master’s degree from Temple University. He has taught film, literature, art history, poetry and mythology at the University of the Arts and PCA&D in Lancaster ever since. Spolum omnivorously writes fiction, poetry, essays, plays and other literary deviations. He most recently co-wrote the script for the Quay Brothers’ documentary of the Mutter Museum, Through the Weeping Glass. Spolum has been obsessed with aberrant cinema since he was twelve and currently teaches a course on the Quays’ films at U of Arts.
Trailer: LOST HIGHWAY TRAILER
Release Date: February 21, 1997
Runtime: 2hr 15mins
Rated: R
Founded in 1991, the Philadelphia Film Festival is one of the longest-running film festivals in the city. Presented annually by the Philadelphia Film Society (PFS), the Festival is an outstanding showcase of cinematic excellence and imagination, featuring over 200 films with more than 50 filmmakers and industry guests at seven unique venues throughout the Greater Philadelphia Area.
As one of Philadelphia’s most important cultural events, the Festival is eagerly anticipated by its enthusiastic and devoted audiences, including students, film lovers, and arts supporters. Critically acclaimed by industry professionals, the Festival aims to promote domestic and international films that might not otherwise be seen in Philadelphia. The two-week event showcases thought-provoking narrative features, live action and animated shorts, locally-produced films, and theatrical documentaries. Industry panels, director Q&As, special event screenings, and networking opportunities enhance the Festival experience, providing Philadelphia audiences with unrivalled access to world-class films and the talent responsible for creating them.
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Alfred Hitchcock influenced much of what we take for granted in modern cinema with his use of camera techniques, sound tracks and editing styles. When first released, Vertigo received unfavorable reviews from critics, but has gone on to become a classic psychological thriller and a film that helped define Hitchcock’s career. VERTIGO stars screen legend James Stewart (It's a Wonderful Life, You Can't Take It With You) as a San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia and investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife (Kim Novak, Bell Book and Candle), all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her. Come see it the first or thousandth time as we screen this classic in gorgeous 35mm!
After the screening there will be a moderated discussion by Michael Wellenreiter.
About Michael Wellenreiter
Michael Wellenreiter is a film director, Assistant Professor of Film/Video at the University of the Arts, and a co-founder of Severine Pictures in Philadelphia. His feature-length melodramas about the West African immigrant experience, Legalization and Once Upon a Lie, have been viewed internationally, as have his surreal music videos for such artists as Robert Pollard and Mahogany. He is currently directing the feature film La méduse rouge.
Trailer: VERTIGO TRAILER
Release Date: January 1, 1958
Runtime: 2hr 8mins
Rated: PG
FREE for PFS Members & UArts Students with ID
$5 General Admission at the door
The Artist as a Filmmaker series highlights world-renown directors who transitioned their careers from visual artistry to film making. The monthly program serves to expand the Philadelphia Film Festival's Masters of Cinema component and educate its audience on the collaboration of multiple art forms.
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Mike Mills is a graphic designer and artist who incorporates both his illustrations and personal experiences when shifting into the filmmaking process. His film BEGINNERS is an autobiographical story which includes still-image montages that peek into the brain of the main character Oliver, modeled after the director himself.
After the film there will be a moderated discussion with Will Schmenner.
About Will Schmenner
As a college student, Will Schmenner ran Doc Films at the University of Chicago. Doc Films is the oldest, continuously run university film group in the country. After college, he was hired to start Block Cinema at Northwestern University, becoming the Block Museum of Art's film and video curator for 8 years. There he programmed dozens of film series and curated exhibitions about early cinema technology, film director Alfred Hitchcock, and artist Douglas Gordon. After spending his twenties in film groups and museum cinemas, he enrolled in University of Pennsylvania's History of Art doctoral program, focusing his studies on the relationship between movies and art history.
Website: http://focusfeatures.com/beginners/
Trailer: BEGINNERS TRAILER
Release Date: June 3, 2011
Runtime: 1hr 44mins
Rated: R
FREE for PFS Members & Students with ID
$5 General Admission at the door
