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Ernie Gehr – the renowned, award-winning
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Giuseppe Tornatore’s 1990 classic Stanno Tutti Bene tells the story
experimental filmmaker who, according to Director: Kirk Jones of a widower who, lonely during the holidays, embarks upon a tour
Director: Ernie Gehr
Village Voice film critic J. Hoberman, “makes Producers: Vittorio Cecchi Gori, of Italy to visit his children (all named, appropriately enough in this
USA / 2009 / 19 min.
films so unsentimental and lucid that they can
Ted Field, Glynis Murray,
bittersweet melodrama, for characters from Italian operas). Kirk Jones
serve as fundamental texts on what film is and
This short is composed of four skits in the spirit
Gianni Nunnari (Waking Ned Devine) transplants the film to contemporary America –
how we experience it” – will receive the festival’s
of the pre-Nickelodeon era of cinema when the
Screenwriters: Kirk Jones, where the members of extended families, separated by long distances,
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2009 Stan Brakhage Vision Award. The New
phenomenon of film as a projected moving image Massimo de Rita, Tonino Guerra,
have increasingly become strangers to one another. Jones adapted
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York–based, internationally recognized film
– “the wonder of the century” – was an attraction
Giuseppe Tornatore
the original screenplay, cowritten by Tornatore and Tonino Guerra (a
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artist is closely associated with the Structural
and a spectacle in itself. Cinematographer: Henry Braham
collaborator of Fellini, Antonioni, Tarkovsky, and Theo Angelopolous)
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film movement of the 1970s. Throughout his
Editor: Andrew Mondshein
to explore the ways in which an impromptu train trip serves as an
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distinguished career, Gehr has made more than Cast: Drew Barrymore, education for a father (Robert De Niro, in the role originally played
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50 films, many of them in the collections of major Crystal Palace
Kate Beckinsale, Robert DeNiro,
by Marcello Mastroianni) who comes to learn more about his grown
museums and film archives around the world. The
Sam Rockwell, Katherine Moennig
Director: Ernie Gehr
children than he ever imagined – or, perhaps, wanted to know.
three short works in this program are his most
2009 / color / 95 min.
USA / 2009 / 27 min.
recent. Abracadabra and Crystal Palace are world
Featuring a quartet of splendid performances (Drew Barrymore, Kate
premieres.
A snow-capped landscape forms the backdrop for
the pandemonium that follows from the interplay KirK JonES
Beckinsale, and Sam Rockwell join De Niro), this is a moving, deep, and
Kirk Jones was born on Halloween
surprisingly funny exploration of the family ties that bind.
Selected Filmography
between humans and natural forces; in Ernie
in 1964 in Bristol, England, making a
Cotton Candy (2002)
Gehr’s world, “the inexplicable, the mysterious, the
name for himself in the early 1990s
For Daniel (1996)
fantastic, and the absurd continuously cross each
with Absolut vodka TV ads. In 1996
Side/Walk/Shuttle (1992) other,” to quote the filmmaker himself.
he won the Silver Lion at Cannes for
Mirage (1981)
his Heinz advertising campaign. He
Table (1976)
won multiple awards for Waking Ned
Eureka (1974)
Devine (1998).
Serene Velocity (1970)
Waterfront Follies
Reverberation (1969)
Director: Ernie Gehr Filmography
USA / 2008 / 39 min.
Nanny McPhee (2005)
Waking Ned Devine (1998)
According to the director, “In this manufactured
universe … even the most insignificant occurrences
have a sense of mystery and a momentary lace
under the sun. Waterfront Follies bypasses the
aesthetics of the cut and thrives upon the possibili-
ties of chance.”
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