GALA PRESENTATIONS
NOMINATED FEATURE DIRECTOR AND CAST IN ATTENDANCE
NOMINATED FEATURE DIRECTOR AND CAST IN ATTENDANCE
DISCUSSION TO FOLLOW FILM 044 MARTHA MARCY
MAY MARLENE HAWAII PREMIERE FRIDAY, OCT. 14 | 5:00 PM | REGAL DOLE
UNITED STATES 2011 | ENGLISH | 120M DIRECTOR: Sean Durkin SCREENWRITER: Sean Durkin PRODUCERS: Antonio Campos, Patrick Cunningham, Chris Maybach, Josh Mond CINEMATOGRAPHER: Jody Lee Lipes CAST: Elizabeth Olsen, Christopher Abbott, Brady Corbet, Hugh Dancy, Maria Dizzia
Rarely do American independent films carry themselves with as much grace as MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE. Writer/director Sean Durkin’s film, about a young woman’s recovery from time spent in a sexual-religious cult (the subject of many an exploitation flick), is all the more special for resisting the demands of convention and genre. Durkin isn’t especially interested in the lurid details, but rather the psychological motivations for her involvement with this substitute family.
The film begins with a young woman (Elizabeth Olsen), known by all four of these names at different stages of the film, struggling to escape from cult life and readjust to normality in the lakeside cottage of her self- involved sister (Sarah Paulson). Vaguely chronological flashbacks to her time in the cult punctuate her incomplete and disturbed recovery. Scenes from Martha’s recent past have a luminous quality that suggests happy memories, but life in the cult is anything but easy. When her surrogate family is forced to engage in criminal activity, she begins to prepare herself for a break, but the cult just won’t vanish from her life. –Noah Cowan
OSAMU TEZUKA’S BUDDHA: THE GREAT DEPARTURE TEZUKA OSAMU NO BUDDA: AKAI
SABAKU YO! UTSUKUSHIKU HAWAII PREMIERE TUESDAY, OCT. 18 | 6:30 PM | REGAL DOLE
JAPAN 2011 | JAPANESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES | 111M DIRECTOR: Kozo Morishita CAST: Kiyokazu Kanze, Masato Sakai, Sayuri Yoshinaga, Hidetaka Yoshioka
Osamu Tezuka is an anime legend, and his award-winning, eight-volume manga of the life of Buddha has long been a dream project for filmmakers in Japan. Now, almost four decades after it was written, it arrives as a powerful animated movie from Tezuka’s own production company. Tezuka’s manga wasn’t just concerned with the Buddha but with the web of characters who crossed paths with him over the years, telling the story of all India instead of the life of one holy man. Because before he was the Buddha, he was Siddharta, a spoiled, pampered, sheltered prince whose father wants to toughen him up so he can go fight wars.
BUDDHA: THE GREAT DEPARTURE is told in grand strokes and ringing tones. It quietly gathers power as it tracks these characters over the course of 15 years, and before you know it you’re caught up in a sweeping emotional journey. Eventually this will be part one of a trilogy of animated films, but for now it works perfectly as a standalone movie.
THE FORGIVENESS OF BLOOD / SNOWTOWN
LEGEND OF THE MILLENIUM DRAGON / SACRIFICE
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