Sedona Film Fest sched is out
Full schedule here, as a PDF.
The closing night films haven’t been released yet, but should be early this week.
The festival boasts some 150 screenings over seven days in eight screening rooms, most of them at the Sedona Harkins. It runs from Feb. 21 to Feb. 28.
Here’s some other tidbits from the fest:
• Appearances by Oscar-winning documentary director Michael Moore and screening of three of his films;
• Turner Classic Movies’ host Robert Osborne returns with three classic films: “The Adventures of Robin Hood” (1938) with Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland; “A Place in the Sun” (1951) with Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor and Shelley Winters; and “Leave Her to Heaven” (1945) with Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde and Vincent Price.
• Aiden Quinn’s “A Shine of Rainbows” as the opening-night film.
• New films by Susan Sarandon and Pierce Brosnan (“The Greatest”) and Barry Levinson (“PolliWood”).
• “Another Harvest Moon,” featuring an all-star cast of Ernest Borgnine, Richard Schiff, Piper Laurie, Doris Roberts, Cybill Shepherd and Anne Meara.
• “Waking Sleeping Beauty,” a documentary about the inner workings and conflicts at Disney during the Michael Eisner years with an appearance in Sedona by director/producer Don Hahn.
While the fest says The Greatest is “by” Brosnan and Saradon, they just appear in it. The film is a reputed heart-tugger about the death of the couple’s son; it played at Sundance last year but apparently hasn’t yet had an American release. The Levinson film, which is called PoliWood, not Polliwood, is a documentary about celebs and the 2008 presidential campaign.
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Desperado Gay Film Fest dates set—trailer released, too
The Desperado Gay and Lesbian Film Festival is scheduled for Paradise Valley Community College on Friday and Saturday, Jan. 29 and 30.
Here’s the trailer for the fest, which is amusing:
The main film is a Swedish work called Patrik, 1,5, written and directed by Ella Lemhagen; the odd title refers to the film’s plot, which sees a gay couple adopting what they think is going to be a one-and-a-half year old boy, but who turns out to be 15 and not very gay-friendly.
The film won an audience award at this year’s San Francisco Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. There’s no official trailer yet (and the poster to the left is from the retitled French version), but you can see scenes from it here.
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