SCREENINGS 11:00AM
DIRTY GIRL Comedy, Road Movie, 89mins. The Salt Company. Dir: Abe Sylvia. Key cast: Juno Temple, Milla Jovovich, William H Macy. Danielle is the dirty girl of Norman High School. When Danielle’s misbehavior gets her banished to special ed, she teams up with an innocent closet-case and together they head out on a road trip. Laemmle Monica 3
THE DRAGON PEARL Family, action/ adventure, 95mins. Fries Film Group. Dir: Mario Andreacchio. Key cast: Sam Neill. Young Josh and Ling meet when Josh comes to visit China, where his father and Ling’s mother are on an archeological dig searching for the Lost Dragon Pearl that
was buried in General Zhuangzi’s Tomb thousands of years ago. Fairmont 1
FOOTNOTE Drama, 105mins. WestEnd Films. Dir: Joseph Cedar. Key cast: Shlomo Bar Aba, Lior Ashkenazi, Alisa Rosen. The story of insane competition, the admiration and envy for a role model, and an accolade that brings father and son to a final, bitter confrontation. Broadway Cineplex 1
FRANCESCO AND THE POPE Documentary, 87mins. Beta Cinema. Dir: Ciro Cappellari. Framed by the story of nine-year-old Francesco, whose biggest wish is to sing for the Pope in the choir of the Sistine Chapel. The film takes us behind the walls of the Vatican. AMC Santa Monica 7
ISLAND Thriller, drama, 96mins. Locomotive Distribution. Dir: Elizabeth Mitchell, Brek Taylor. Key cast: Colin Morgan, Janet McTeer, Natalie Press. Abandoned at birth, she has spent most of her life in foster homes and care, with fairy stories as her only escape. Incapable of love or of being loved, paralysed by attacks of fear and desperate for revenge, she decides to find her birth mother… then kill her. Fairmont 5
LIPSTIKKA Romance, 105mins. The Little Film Company. Dir: Jonathan Sagall. Key cast: Clara Khoury, Nataly Attiya. Two Palestinian teenage girls break the curfew imposed by the Israeli military. They sneak into the Jewish part of Jerusalem to see a movie
but their youthful prank suddenly goes wrong. Le Merigot 2
MEMORIAL DAY Action/adventure, 90mins. Screen Media. Dir: Sam Fischer. Key cast: James Cromwell, Jonathan Bennett, Jackson Bond. Memorial Day, 1995. 13-year-old Kyle Vogel’s grandfather, Bud, is a Second World War veteran who hasn’t spoken a word about the war since its end. But when Kyle discovers Bud’s footlocker full of memories, Bud makes a deal: Kyle can pick any three souvenirs and Bud will tell him the stories behind each one. Fairmont 4
MICHAEL Thriller, 98mins. Fortissimo Films. Dir: Ribhu Dasgupta. Key cast: Naseeruddin Shah, Mahie Gill, Purav Bhandare.
Set in Kolkata, Michael, a loyal, hard-working police office is ordered by his superiors to open fire on a crowd of peaceful protesters. He shoots away from the crowd but a bullet ricochets and kills a 12-year-old boy. Michael’s career and life start to fall apart, especially when he begins to receive threatening phone calls suggesting retribution on his own son. Criterion 1
NOBEL’S LAST WILL Drama, thriller, 90mins. Zodiak Rights. Dir: Peter Flinth. Key cast: Malin Crepin, Bjorn Kjellman, Leif Andree. While covering the annual Nobel Banquet, crime reporter Annika Bengtzon witnesses a murder when two people are shot at the Banquet. One of them is the controversial Laureate in Medicine, whom everyone
believes was the target. Annika is the key witness and is bound by the police not to disclose anything. Broadway Cineplex 4
REBIRTH Martial arts, action/ adventure, 92mins. TF1 International. Dir: Jean- Marc Mineo. Key cast: Jon Foo. When Manit was 10, he witnessed the gruesome murder of his parents, and was shot and left for dead. Placed in the care of an old Muay Thai master, Manit recovered but the bullet in his brain changed him forever, severing him from all human emotion. Now, thanks to the combat teachings of his master, he has turned into a veritable killing machine, bent on justice. Criterion 3
ROSEWOOD LANE Thriller, 110mins. Voltage Pictures.
THERE’S STILL TIME TO EXPERIENCE AFI FEST!
NOVEMBER 3–10, 2011 SPECIAL SCREENING HIGHLIGHTS I MELT WITH YOU
DIR Mark Pellington Mon. Nov 7 & Wed. Nov 9
JEFF, WHO LIVES AT HOME
DIR Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass Tue. Nov 8 & Wed. Nov 9
THE KID WITH A BIKE
DIR Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne Tue. Nov 8 & Thu. Nov 10
MELANCHOLIA
DIR Lars von Trier Sun. Nov 6 & Tue. Nov 8
WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN
DIR Lynne Ramsay Wed. Nov 9 & Thu. Nov 10
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CENTERPIECE GALAS LAW OF DESIRE
DIR Pedro Almodóvar Mon. Nov 7
THE ARTIST SHAME CLOSING NIGHT GALAS THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE DIR Steven Spielberg Thu. Nov 10
DIR Steve McQueen Wed. Nov 9
DIR Michel Hazanavicius Tue. Nov 8
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