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NON-PROFIT ORG. US POSTAGE PAID GLENS FALLS, NY PERMIT #511 This program is made possible in part with public funds from the Electronic Media and Film Program of the State of the New York State Council of the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. Beasts of the Southern Wild The Loneliest Planet Hitchcock Give Me the Banjo Life of Pi Bully Red Tails First Position Kanyarwanda Parental Guidance Black Maria Film & Video Festival Won’t Back Down Robot & Frank Screenings are held in the Christine L. McDonald Community Room, Lower Level, Glen Street Entrance. For more information, please call Crandall Public Library at 792-6508, extension 3 or visit our web site at: crandalllibrary.org. To learn how you or your business can become a sponsor, call 792-6508, extension 284. 251 Glen Street, Glens Falls, NY 12801 FILM & VIDEO FESTIVAL SPRING 2013 Beasts of the Southern Wild Nominated for 4 Academy Awards The Loneliest Planet Hitchcock The Story Behind the Legend Give Me the Banjo The History of the Banjo Comes to Life Life of Pi Winner of 4 Academy Awards Bully A Feature Documentary Film on Bullying A panel discussion will follow this film. Red Tails The Story of the WWII Tuskegee Airmen First Position Award Winning Documentary Kanyarwanda Sundance Award Winner. A film Company representative will attend this screening. Parental Guidance Entertaining Family Comedy Black Maria Film & Video Festival Independent Shorts Won’t Back Down Inspired by True Events Robot & Frank Delightful, Dramatic Comedy MAY JUNE (USA, 2011, 94 min., color, 35mm) Starring Quvenzhané Wallis and Dwight Henry In a forgotten but defiant bayou community cut off from the rest of the world by a sprawling levee, a six-year- old girl exists on the brink of orphanhood. Buoyed by her childish optimism and extraordinary imagination, she believes that the natural world is in balance with the universe until a fierce storm changes her reality. Desperate to repair the structure of her world in order to save her ailing father and sinking home, this tiny hero must learn to survive unstoppable catastrophes of epic proportions. – Criterion "This film is a remarkable creation..." – Roger Ebert, 7/4/2012 Tuesday, April 2, 6:30 p.m. (USA, 2011, 113 min., color, 35mm) Starring Hani Furstenberg and Gael García Bernal An engaged couple's backpacking trip in the Caucasus Mountains is derailed by a single misstep that threatens to undo everything the pair believed about each other and about themselves. – IMDB.com “Loktev has written and directed with a haunt- ing emphasis on the shortcomings of some interpersonal communication.” – Wesley Morris, Boston Globe 11/1/2012 Tuesday, April 9, 6:30 p.m. (USA, 2012, 98 min., color, 35mm) Starring Anthony Hopkins and Helen Mirren A love story between influential filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock and wife Alma Reville during the filming of Psycho in 1959. – Criterion “Filmed with lots of style and a maca- bre sense of humor the master him- self would have enjoyed.” – Richard Roeper, richardroeper.com 12/4/2012 Tuesday, April 16, 6:30 p.m. APRIL 2 9 16 23 30 FILM &VIDEO FESTIVAL Spring 2013 For wheelchair access, use the main Glen Street entrance. There is an elevator at the Glen Street entrance that accesses the Christine L. McDonald Community Room where the films are screened. Staff will help anyone who needs additional assis- tance. Handicapped parking is available on Glen Street in front of the Library. Listening assistive devices are supplied upon request. (USA, 2012, 98 min., color, 35mm) Directed by Lee Hirsch This year, over 5 million Ameri- can kids will be bullied at school, online, on the bus, at home, through their cell phones and on the streets of their towns, making it the most common form of vio- lence young people in this coun- try experience. The Bully Project is the first feature documentary film to show how we've all been affected by bullying, whether we've been victims, perpetrators or stood silent as a witness. The world we inhabit as adults begins on the playground. – Swank Motion Pictures "...an urgent and moral movie..." – Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly 4/3/2012 Tuesday, May 7, 6:30 p.m. THE LONELIEST PLANET 7 14 21 28 4 11 18 25 Crandall Public Library (USA, 2011, 90 min., color, 35mm) Narrated by Steve Martin The banjo has been an emblem of American culture for centuries. Yet few realize the instrument’s compli- cated, checkered past, one that illuminates a fledgling nation coming into being. Featuring such banjo greats as Béla Fleck, Earl Scruggs, and TajMahal, GIVE ME THE BANJO delves into the complex history of the banjo, from its origins in Africa and its development in early America to the present day. A wide variety of banjo experts come together to tell the comprehensive history of the banjo, while also discussing the instru- ment’s influence on a vast array of musical styles, including ragtime, jazz, and country. – Docurama “Marc Fields' history explains how the African instrument first came to America during the slavery years and became a broadly based musical tool…” – John Stanley, San Francisco Chronicle 8/12/2012 Tuesday, April 23, 6:30 p.m. Give Me the BANJO (USA, 2012, 127 min., color, 35mm) Starring Suraj Sharma and Irrfan Khan Based on the best-selling novel by Yann Martel, is a magical adventure story centering on Pi Patel, the precocious son of a zookeeper. Dwellers in Pondicherry, India, the family decides to move to Canada, hitching a ride on a huge freight- er. After a shipwreck, Pi is found adrift in the Pacific Ocean on a 26-foot lifeboat with a zebra, a hyena, an orangutan and a 450-pound Bengal tiger named Richard Parker, all fighting for survival. – Criterion “This transcendent fable carries a real sting in its tail. Ang Lee has made a bold and wondrous movie, one of his best.” – Tom Charity, CNN.com 11/21/2012 Tuesday, April 30, 6:30 p.m. LIFE OF PI THE LONELIEST PLANET A Riveting Drama by Russian Filmmaker Julia Loktev

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Page 1: FILM & VIDEO FESTIVAL Spring 2013 - Crandall Public … & VIDEO FESTIVAL SPRING 2013 Beasts of the ... DePrince and Joan Sebastian Zamora ... A contemporary artist,

NON-PROFIT ORG.

US POSTAGE PAID

GLENS FALLS, NY

PERMIT #511

This program is made

possible in part

with public funds

from the Electronic Media

and Film Program

of the

State of the New York State

Council of the Arts

with the support of

Governor Andrew Cuomo

and the

New York State

Legislature.

Beasts of the

Southern Wild

The Loneliest

Planet

Hitchcock

Give Me the Banjo

Life of Pi

Bully

Red Tails

First Position

Kanyarwanda

Parental

Guidance

Black Maria Film

& Video Festival

Won’t Back Down

Robot & Frank

Screenings are held in the Christine L. McDonald Community Room, Lower Level, Glen Street Entrance.

For more information, please call Crandall Public Library at 792-6508, extension 3 or visit our web site at: crandalllibrary.org. To learn how you or your business can become a sponsor, call 792-6508, extension 284.

251 Glen Street, Glens Falls, NY 12801

FILM & VIDEO FESTIVAL SPRING 2013 Beasts of the

Southern Wild

Nominated for 4 Academy Awards

The Loneliest

Planet

Hitchcock

The Story Behind the Legend

Give Me the Banjo

The History of the Banjo Comes to Life

Life of Pi

Winner of 4 Academy Awards

Bully

A Feature Documentary Film on Bullying

A panel discussion will follow this film.

Red Tails

The Story of the WWII Tuskegee Airmen

First Position

Award Winning Documentary

Kanyarwanda

Sundance Award Winner. A film Company

representative will attend this screening.

Parental

Guidance

Entertaining Family Comedy

Black Maria Film

& Video Festival

Independent Shorts

Won’t Back Down

Inspired by True Events

Robot & Frank

Delightful, Dramatic Comedy

MA

Y

JU

NE

(USA, 2011, 94 min., color, 35mm)

Starring Quvenzhané Wallis and Dwight Henry

In a forgotten but defiant bayou community cut off from the rest of the world by a sprawling levee, a six-year- old girl exists on the brink of orphanhood. Buoyed by her childish optimism and extraordinary imagination, she believes that the natural world is in balance with the universe until a fierce storm changes her reality. Desperate to repair the structure of her world in order to save her ailing father and sinking home, this tiny hero must learn to survive unstoppable catastrophes of epic proportions. – Criterion

"This film is a remarkable creation..." – Roger Ebert, 7/4/2012

Tuesday, April 2, 6:30 p.m.

(USA, 2011, 113 min., color, 35mm) Starring Hani Furstenberg

and Gael García Bernal

An engaged couple's backpacking trip in the Caucasus Mountains is derailed by a single misstep that threatens to undo everything the pair believed about each other and about themselves. – IMDB.com

“Loktev has written and directed with a haunt-ing emphasis on the shortcomings of some interpersonal communication.” – Wesley Morris, Boston Globe 11/1/2012

Tuesday, April 9, 6:30 p.m.

(USA, 2012, 98 min., color, 35mm)

Starring Anthony Hopkins and Helen Mirren

A love story between influential filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock and wife Alma Reville during the filming of Psycho in 1959. – Criterion

“Filmed with lots of style and a maca-bre sense of humor the master him- self would have enjoyed.” – Richard Roeper, richardroeper.com 12/4/2012

Tuesday, April 16, 6:30 p.m.

AP

RIL

2

9

16

23

30

FILM & VIDEO FESTIVAL

Spring 2013

For wheelchair access, use the main Glen Street entrance. There is an elevator at the Glen Street entrance that accesses the Christine L. McDonald Community Room where the films are screened. Staff will help anyone who needs additional assis-tance. Handicapped parking is available on Glen Street in front of the Library.

Listening assistive devices are supplied upon request.

(USA, 2012, 98 min., color, 35mm)

Directed by Lee Hirsch

This year, over 5 million Ameri-can kids will be bullied at school, online, on the bus, at home, through their cell phones and on the streets of their towns, making it the most common form of vio-lence young people in this coun-try experience. The Bully Project is the first feature documentary film to show how we've all been affected by bullying, whether we've been victims, perpetrators or stood silent as a witness. The world we inhabit as adults begins on the playground. – Swank Motion Pictures

"...an urgent and moral movie..." – Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly 4/3/2012

Tuesday, May 7, 6:30 p.m.

THE LONELIEST PLANET

7

14

21

28

4

11

18

25

Crandall Public Library

(USA, 2011, 90 min., color, 35mm)

Narrated by Steve Martin

The banjo has been an emblem of American culture for centuries. Yet few realize the instrument’s compli-cated, checkered past, one that illuminates a fledgling nation coming into being. Featuring such banjo greats as Béla Fleck, Earl Scruggs, and TajMahal, GIVE ME THE BANJO delves into the complex history of the banjo, from its origins in Africa and its development in early America to the present day. A wide variety of banjo experts come together to tell the comprehensive history of the banjo, while also discussing the instru-ment’s influence on a vast array of musical styles, including ragtime, jazz, and country. – Docurama

“Marc Fields' history explains how the African instrument first came to America during the slavery years and became a broadly based musical tool…” – John Stanley, San Francisco Chronicle 8/12/2012

Tuesday, April 23, 6:30 p.m.

Give Me the

BANJO

(USA, 2012, 127 min., color, 35mm)

Starring Suraj Sharma and Irrfan Khan

Based on the best-selling novel by Yann Martel, is a magical adventure story centering on Pi Patel, the precocious son of a zookeeper. Dwellers in Pondicherry, India, the family decides to move to Canada, hitching a ride on a huge freight-er. After a shipwreck, Pi is found adrift in the Pacific Ocean on a 26-foot lifeboat with a zebra, a hyena, an orangutan and a 450-pound Bengal tiger named Richard Parker, all fighting for survival. – Criterion

“This transcendent fable carries a real sting in its tail. Ang Lee has made a bold and wondrous movie, one of his best.” – Tom Charity, CNN.com 11/21/2012

Tuesday, April 30, 6:30 p.m.

LIFE OF PI

THE LONELIEST PLANET

A Riveting Drama

by Russian Filmmaker Julia Loktev

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FILM & VIDEO FESTIVAL SPRING 2013

(USA, 2012, 89 min., color, 35mm)

Starring Frank Langella and Susan Sarandon

Set in the near future, Frank, a retired cat burglar, has two grown kids who are concerned he can no longer live alone. They are tempted to place him in a nursing home until Frank’s son chooses a different option: against the old man’s wishes, he buys Frank a walking, talking humanoid robot programmed to improve his physical and mental health. – Swank Motion Pictures

"‘Robot & Frank’ hits all the right notes - romantic, fantastic, tragic and sweet.” – Tom Long, Detroit News 8/31/2012

Tuesday, June 25, 6:30 p.m.

FIRST POSITION (USA, 2011, 90 min., color, 35mm)

Starring Michaela DePrince and Joan Sebastian Zamora

Bess Kargman's award-winning documen-tary, FIRST POSITION, follows six young dancers as they prepare for a chance to enter the world of professional ballet, struggling through bloodied feet, near exhaustion and debilitating injuries, all while navigating the drama of adoles-cence. – IFC Films

"An appealing, largely upbeat documentary..." – Manohla Dargis, The New York Times 5/3/2012

Tuesday, May 21, 6:30 p.m.

(USA, 2012, 121 min., color, 35mm)

Starring Viola Davis and Maggie Gyllenhaal

In this powerful story – inspired by true events – of parenthood, friendship, hope and courage, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Viola Davis portray determined mothers who will stop at nothing to transform their chil-dren’s failing inner city school. Facing a powerful and entrenched bureaucracy and a system mired in traditional thinking, they risk everything to make a difference in the education and future of their children. – Criterion

“... Gyllenhaal and Davis make a powerhouse team ...” – Jim Lane, Sacramento News & Review 10/8/2012

Tuesday, June 18, 6:30 p.m.

(USA, 2011, 100 min., color, 35mm)

Starring Cleophas Kabasita and Hadidja Zaninka

A young Tutsi woman and a young Hutu man fall in love amidst chaos; a soldier struggles to foster a greater good while absent from her family; and a priest grapples with his faith in the face of unspeakable horror. – IMDB.com

“It adds texture to the central facts: This happened, and this matters.” – David DeWitt, The New York Times 12/1/2011

A Film Company representative will be in attendance at this screening.

Tuesday, May 28, 6:30 p.m.

32ND BLACK MARIA

Film + Video Festival

(USA, 2012, color, 35mm)

Here and Away - 11 min. by Meena Nanji, Santa Monica, CA. Stellar Narrative Selection. Here and Away is a magical film shot in India as inspired by a short story by Franz Kafka entitled “Children on a Country Road.” Kafka’s story describes a day in the life of a boy living in the countryside. In Nanji’s film, Ravi is found lying in the grass contemplating the sky and the mystery of nature. He is aware of changing times and the possibilities of the future.

Lionfish Delusion – 4 min. by Quique Rivera Rivera, San Juan, PR. Stella Animation This imaginative underwater neo-noir and colorful animation inspired by the Lionfish plague. Fishes dream, lobster claws trans-mutate and the sea swirls in a story about greed and hierarchy in the Caribbean reefs.

Bug People - 15 min. by Paul Meyers, San Francisco, CA In this whimsical film essay, the maker investigates Western cultural biases and discomfort with things multi legged with exoskeletons. Bugs for breakfast, lunch and dinner can be a great source of protein and an alternative to the flesh of four legged creatures.

Feral - 13 min. by Daniel Sousa, Pawtucket, RI Feral is a lyrical animated parable rendered in artfully silhouetted images. A windmill floats in from the firmament, a feral boy crouches in the forest, he snarls in an encounter with a wolf. A hunter “liberates”the child and carries him to town, introduces him to school and the vicissitudes of “civilization.” But the boy must return to the only home he has ever known.

In the Usual Manner - 6.5 min. by Kate Lain, Pasadena, CA A contemporary artist, Barret Oliver, brings his Civil War – style camera and gear to the Huntington Library on the outskirts of Los Angeles to produce hauntingly beautiful work ‘in the usual manner’ of nineteenth-century photography. This short was made in conjunction with “A Strange and Fearful Interest: Death, Mourning and Memory in the American Civil War,” a photography exhibition at the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.

Tuesday, June 11, 6:30 p.m.

(USA, 2012, 125 min., color, 35mm)

Starring Cuba Gooding, Jr., and Bryan Cranston

1944. As the war in Europe continues to take its toll on Allied forces, the Pentagon brass has no recourse but to consider unorthodox options - including the untried and untested African-American pilots of the experimental Tuskegee training program. Just as the young Tuskegee men are on the brink of being shut down and shipped back home, they are given the ultimate chance to show their courage. Against all the odds, with something to prove and everything to lose, these intrepid young airmen take to the skies to fight for their country - and the fate of the free world. – Criterion

“The film carries important messages about camara-derie, persistence, fortitude and courage in the face of nearly impossible obstacles.” – Sean O’Connell, Movies.com 2/3/2012

Tuesday, May 14, 6:30 p.m.

(USA, 2012, 104 min., color, 35mm)

Starring Billy Crystal and Bette Midler

When his daughter goes away for work, a grand-father finds himself having to take care of his three grandkids using 21st century methods -- though he soon resorts to an old-school style of parenting. – Criterion

“Thanks to a wonderful cast and Crystal's good intentions, Parental Guidance is a much better movie than one might expect it to be.” – Ben Kenber, We Got This Covered 12/20/2012

Tuesday, June 4, 6:30 p.m.

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