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Cinema St. Louis Announces Lineup for 20th Annual Stella Artois St. Louis International Film Festival (Nov. 10-20, 2011) – We Are Movie Geeks

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Cinema St. Louis Announces Lineup for 20th Annual Stella Artois St. Louis International Film Festival (Nov. 10-20, 2011)

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John Goodman as Al Zimmer in Michel Hazanavicius’s film THE ARTIST. Photo by: The Weinstein Company

The lights are about to go down, and the stars are getting ready to shine.

The 20th Annual Stella Artois St. Louis International Film Festival (SLIFF) will be held Nov. 10-20. SLIFF will screen nearly 400 films: 257 shorts, 89 features and 53 documentaries. This year’s festival features a record 205 programs, with 43 countries represented. The fest will host more than 100 filmmakers and related guests.

The festival opens with the St. Louis premiere of “The Artist,” the major hit of the festival circuit, a black-and-white silent romance about the arrival of the sound era in Hollywood that costars St. Louis native son John Goodman.

Other prominent films featured in the festival include “The Descendents,” “Jeff, Who Lives at Home,” “A Dangerous Method,” “Shame,” “Coriolanus,” “In Darkness,” “Butter,” “We Need to Talk About Kevin,” and “I Melt With You.” The fest also hosts a special preview screening of “Like Crazy” on Nov. 3.

The fest schedule and a complete list of films (with descriptions) are available at the Cinema St. Louis Web site (www.cinemastlouis.org).

SLIFF’s primary venues are the following theaters:

 Tivoli Theatre, 6350 Delmar Blvd.

 Plaza Frontenac Cinema, Plaza Frontenac, Lindbergh Boulevard and Clayton Road

 Webster University, Webster Hall’s Moore Auditorium, 470 East Lockwood Ave.

 Washington University, Brown Hall Auditorium, Forsyth and Skinker boulevards

SLIFF also hosts programs at an additional seven venues, including Edwardsville, Ill.’s Wildey Theatre.

For more information:

Visit www.cinemastlouis.org

Follow them on Twitter: @CinemaStLouis

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or call 314-289-4150.

Program Overview

SLIFF’s stellar lineup features a constellation of cinema’s brightest lights:

· Major awards to significant filmmakers:

– Lifetime Achievement Award: Bill Plympton (Oscar®-nominated animation director of such shorts as “Your Face” and “Guard Dog” and such features as “Hair High”).

– Lifetime Achievement Award in Documentary: Steve James (director of “Hoop Dreams,” “The Interrupters,” “At the Death House Door,” and “Stevie”).

– Contemporary Cinema Award: Jay and Mark Duplass (writer/directors of “Jeff, Who Lives at Home,” “The Puffy Chair,” “Baghead,” and “Cyrus”).

– Women in Film Award: Pamela Yates (“Granito,” “When the Mountains Tremble,” “State of Fear,” and “The Reckoning”).

– Charles Guggenheim Cinema St. Louis Award: SLIFF founders Diane Carson, Delcia Corlew, Kathy Corley, Janet Herrmann, Carrie Houk, Roberta Lautenschlager, Pat Scallet, Barbara Smythe-Jones, and Mary Strauss.

· Oscar® contenders and buzz films: “The Artist,” “The Descendents,” “A Dangerous Method,” “Shame,” “Coriolanus,” “Jeff, Who Lives at Home,” “In Darkness,” “We Need to Talk About Kevin,” “Butter,” and “I Melt With You.”

· More than 100 guests, including “Rin Tin Tin” author Susan Orlean (with silent “Clash of the Wolves”) and SLIFF honorees Jay Duplass, Steve James, Bill Plympton, and Pamela Yates.

· Films with St. Louis and Missouri roots or connections: “23 Minutes to Sunrise,” “All Those Yesterdays,” “Bedlam Street,” “Brick by Chance and Fortune,” “Bubba Moon Face,” “Give a Damn?,” “The Gray Seasons,” “Joint Body,” “Love Stalker,” and “Turbine.”

· Free human-rights sidebar: A selection of a half-dozen documentaries focused on human rights issues in the U.S. and the world, including “Family Talk,” “Give a Damn?,” “Granito,” “My So-Called Enemy,” “A People Uncounted,” “The Pruitt-Igoe Myth,” and “Stevie.”

· Free Children’s Film Showcase: Three days of free programming, including “Aurelie LaFlamme’s Diary,” “A Cat in Paris,” “Circus Dreams,” “Eleanor’s Secret,” “Little Vampire,” “Quest for Zhu,” “Snowmen,” “Voltron Force!: Behind the Scenes of the Animated Series,” and “Weston Woods Animation Sampler.”

· Quintet of programs with live music: “Clash of the Wolves” (with live accompaniment by Carl Pandolfi), “Confidence Man” (with post-film concert by the Woodbox Gang’s Alex Kirt and, circumstances allowing, Hugh DeNeal), “Kevin” (with singer/songwriter Kevin Gant), “Poco’s Rusty Young and Jack Sundrud: Scoring Weston Woods’ Cartoons,” and “The Wildcat” (with live accompaniment by the Rats and People Motion Picture Orchestra).

· Works by internationally renowned directors: Kaige Chen (“Sacrifice”), David Cronenberg (“A Dangerous Method”), Gianni Di Gregorio (“The Salt of Life”), Jay and Mark Duplass (“Jeff, Who Lives at Home”), Rainer Werner Fassbinder (newly restored “World on a Wire”), Jean-Luc Godard (“Film Socialisme”), Michel Hazanavicius (“The Artist”), Agnieszka Holland (“In Darkness”), Dorota Kedzierzawska (“Tomorrow Will Be Better”), Takeshi Kitano (“Outrage”), John Landis (“Burke and Hare”), Ernst Lubitsch (silent “The Wildcat” with live musical accompaniment), Steve McQueen (“Shame”), Pawel Pawlikowski (“The Woman in the Fifth”), Alexander Payne (“The Descendants”), Mark Pellington (“I Melt With You”), Lynne Ramsay (“We Need to Talk About Kevin”), Joann Sfar (“Gainsbourg”), Philipp Stolzl (“Young Goethe in Love”), Fernando Trueba (“Chico and Rita”), and Tom Twyker (“3”).

· Festival award-winners and critically lauded international films: “3, “The Artist,” “The Athlete,” “Belvedere,” “A Cat in Paris,” “Chico and Rita,” “Circus Columbia,” “Corpo Celeste,” “Dooman River,” “Empire of Silver,” “The Fairy,” “Film Socialisme,” “Gainsbourg,” “Headhunters,” “Hermano,” “Hospitality,” “In Darkness,” “King of Devil’s Island,” “Little Sparrows,” “Norwegian Wood,” “Outrage,” “Quill,” “Restoration,” “Sacrifice,” “Seven Minutes in Heaven,” “Shame,” “Simple Simon,” “Tomorrow Will Be Better,” “Tyrannosaur,” “The Ugly Duckling,” “The White Meadows,” “The Woman in the Fifth,” and “Young Goethe in Love.”

· Well-regarded American indies: “96 Minutes,” “Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same,” “David,” “Fort McCoy,” “The Hammer,” “Happy New Year,” “Here’s the Kicker,” “Joint Body,” “Karaoke Man,” “Leave It on the Floor,” “Lord Byron,” “Pig,” “The Pill,” “Radio Free Albemuth,” “Shuffle,” “Snowmen,” and “Stanger Things.”

· More than 250 shorts from around the globe, including a family program, three documentary programs, and the best of the St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase.

· Major documentaries: “Adventures in Plymptoons!,” “Age of Champions,” “Andrew Bird,” “Better This World,” “Bob and the Monster,” “Bringing King to China,” “The Bully Project,” “Carol Channing,” “Circus Dreams,” “Confidence Man,” “Corner Store,” “Dying to Do Letterman,” “Eames,” “Eco-Pirate,” “El Bulli,” “Family Talk,” “Granito,” “Happy,” “Hell and Back Again,” “Holy Wars,” “Incessant Visions,” “The Interrupters,” “Jane’s Journey, ” “Kevin,” “The Last Mountain, ” “Lost Airmen of Buchenwald,” “The Loving Story,” “The Man Nobody Knew,” “Miss Representation,” “My Comic Shop DocumentARy,” “My So-Called Enemy,” “Our Newspaper,” “Passione,” “Peace,” “A People Uncounted,” “Pink Saris,” “The Pipe,” “The Pruitt-Igoe Myth,” “Rehearsal for a Sicilian Tragedy,” “Song of the Lodz Ghetto,” “These Amazing Shadows,” “To Be Heard,” “Undefeated,” “We Were Here,” “The Welcome,” “Wish Me Away,” “Your Environmental Road Trip,” and “You’ve Been Trumped.”

· A strong selection of animation: four animated shorts program, “Adventures in Plymptoons!,” “A Cat in Paris,” “Chico and Rita,” “Eleanor’s Secret,” “An Evening With Bill Plympton,” “Little Vampire,” “Maurice Sendak Shorts,” “Poco’s Rusty Young and Jack Sundrud: Scoring Weston Woods’ Cartoons,” “Quest for Zhu,” “The Ugly Duckling,” “Voltron Force! Behind the Scenes of the Animated Series,” and “Weston Woods Animation Sampler.”

· A substantial family-film sidebar: “Aurelie LaFlamme’s Diary,” “A Cat in Paris,” “Circus Dreams,” “Eleanor’s Secret,” “Family Shorts,” “Little Vampire,” “Maurice Sendak Shorts,” “Poco’s Rusty Young and Jack Sundrud: Scoring Weston Woods’ Cartoons,” “Quest for Zhu,” “Quill,” “Sam Steele and the Crystal Chalice,” “Snowmen,” “The Ugly Duckling,” “Voltron Force!: Behind the Scenes of the Animated Series,” and “Weston Woods Animation Sampler.”

· Revivals and restorations: “The Baron of Arizona,” “Clash of the Wolves” (with writer Susan Orlean and live piano accompaniment by Carl Pandolfi), “House on Haunted Hill,”

“Kurt Cobain About a Son,” “The Rite,” “Stevie,” “These Amazing Shadows,” “Went the Day Well?” (newly restored), “The Wildcat” (with live musical accompaniment by the Rats and People Motion Picture Orchestra), and “World on a Wire” (newly restored).

· The New Filmmakers Forum (NFF), a juried competition for first-time Americanindependent filmmakers, with jury head Mark Stolaroff, a producer and independent-film consultant. The films, which will be accompanied by their directors, are “96 Minutes,” “David,” “Fort McCoy,” “The Hammer,” and “Radio Free Albemuth.”

 

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