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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
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$5 General Admission at the door
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Joe Dante is best known for his stylized “scare” films, most famously the 1984 film, Gremlins. His film, MATINEE is an ode to farcical, B-grade movies which were a staple of his early career as a fanzine horror film critic. Joe Dante graduated from the University of the Arts in 1968 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Photography. USA Today called MATINEE "a movie lovers' movie," while Roger Ebert said, "there are a lot of big laughs in MATINEE, and not many moments when I didn't have a wide smile on my face." Don't miss out on this fantastic opportunity to have the same wide smile on your face as you enjoy MATINEE on a beautiful 35mm print.
Following the screening, there will be a moderated discussion by Drexel University Assistant Professor, Lise Raven.
About Lise Raven
DIRECTOR/CO-WRITER Lise Raven is an award-winning filmmaker who enjoys making both narrative and documentary films. Raven’s first feature film, LOW, screened in over 30 international film festivals. In 1995 she helped to found the SLAMDANCE FILM FESTIVAL, after which she wrote and directed three films for the SHOWTIME Cable network. In 2000 Raven moved to Berlin, Germany after being awarded the DAAD Berliner Künstlerprogramm Artist Residency in Film. While in Europe, Raven’s feature film project, Snipe, was funded by the Irish Film Board. In 2011 she worked with the Philadelphia Museum of Art to create a short video which screened in the ROBERTO CAPUCCI: ART INTO FASHION exhibition. KINDERWALD is the second part of THE KINDERWALD TRILOGY, a trilogy of films that are inspired by fairy tales about children lost in the woods. The first film, KINDERWALD: Neighbors, was shot in 2011. Raven is an Assistant Professor at Drexel University, in the Department of Cinema and Television.
Trailer: MATINEE TRAILER
Release Date: January 29, 1993
Runtime: 1hr and 39mins
Rated: PG
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$5 General Admission at the door.
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The location for the showing of “Stranger Than Paradise” is relocated to Connelly Hall in UArts’ Terra Hall at 7:30pm. Terra Hall is at 211 S. Broad Street, on the corner of Broad and Walnut.
“Stranger Than Paradise” is the first in the “Artist as Filmmaker” series co-sponsored by UArts and the Philadelphia Film Society. The film will be moderated by Zhenya Kiperman, professor of film at Drexel University. Kiperman is an award-winning filmmaker and founder of Kiperfilms
(www.kiperfilms.com) and the author of numerous essays on film and literature.
In "Stranger Than Paradise" director Jim Jarmusch strayed from Hollywood norms and defined what we now know as independent cinema. "Stranger Than Paradise," was created on a budget of $125,000 with much praise, winning the prestigious Camera D'Or Award for best first feature film at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival.
FREE for PFS Members & Students with ID
$5 General Admission
Tickets available 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.
DIRECTOR JON FOY WILL BE IN ATTENDANCE.
*Audience members will be able to purchase copies of the film on DVD during this official release party!
A surprise hit at the Sundance Film Festival, Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles garnered West Philadelphian Jon Foy an award for Best Documentary Director at Sundance 2011. Resurrect Dead is an artfully crafted documentary that follows Foy, local musician and artist Justin Duerr, and Steve Weinik and Colin Smith as they try to solve the mystery of the Toynbee Tiles.
Appearing on city streets over the past three decades, the Toynbee Tiles consist of hundreds of cryptic messages about resurrecting the dead. The search takes them to a David Mamet play, a TV news hijacker with a cryptic message, eccentric residents in the deepest reaches of South Philadelphia and dedicated shortwave radio buffs, creating an atmosphere of magical realism as the unexpected pieces of this complex puzzle click into place. 85 min.
PFS Members are FREE w/membership card! $3 General Admission. Doors open at 6:30pm / show starts at 8:00 pm / Ages 21+ / ID required.
See it in the theater before it's out on DVD/BLU-RAY!
Ryan Gosling stars as a Los Angeles wheelman for hire, stunt driving for movie productions by day and steering getaway vehicles for armed heists by night. Though a loner by nature, Driver can't help falling in love with his beautiful neighbor Irene (Carey Mulligan), a vulnerable young mother dragged into a dangerous underworld by the return of her ex-convict husband Standard (Oscar Isaac). After a heist intended to pay off Standard's protection money spins unpredictably out of control, Driver finds himself driving defense for the girl he loves, tailgated by a syndicate of deadly serious criminals (Albert Brooks and Ron Perlman). But when he realizes that the gangsters are after more than the bag of cash in his trunk-that they're coming straight for Irene and her son-Driver is forced to shift gears and go on offense. 100 Minutes. Rated R.
PFS Members are FREE w/membership card! $3 General Admission. Doors open at 6:30pm / show starts at 8:00 pm / Ages 21+ / ID required.
CONTEST: Between Friday, January 20 and Sunday, January 22 you can enter to win a copy of 50/50 one day before its DVD release! Send an email to tickets@filmadelphia.org with "50/50 DVD" in the subject line.Winners will be announced a few minutes before the start of the film screening on January 23, 2012 at the Trocadero Theater. All entrants will automatically be subscribed to the Philadelphia Film Society monthly newsletter.
THIS FILM WILL SCREEN ONE DAY PRIOR TO ITS RELEASE ON DVD/BLU-RAY!
25 year old Adam Schwartz (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) lives a nice and simple life. He has a beautiful girlfriend named Rachel (Bryce Dallas Howard) and works at a museum with his best friend Kyle (Seth Rogen) who complicates his life in annoying but humorous ways. However, he is soon diagnosed with a rare type of cancer. Considering his young age and healthy lifestyle, Adam has a hard time believing this is happening to him. With no other choice he breaks the news to his parents, friends, and Rachel, who all support him. To get his mind off of things, Adam begins seeing Katie (Anna Kendrick) a relatively new medical psychologist who is trying to help him cope with the emotional effects of having cancer. As time goes on and his vitality and health slowly fade, Adam comes to terms with his life and illness. While fighting the cancer he begins to appreciate what he has in life, especially the things he took for granted before his battle. Rated R
PFS Members are FREE! Doors 6:30pm / show 8:00 pm / Ages 21+. General Admission is $3 at the door and goes toward a drink. Arrive before 7pm & get a FREE beer & a bag of popcorn.
