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Garde announces 2007 New London Film FestivalFeaturing twelve comedy, drama, foreign, and documentary filmsFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 17, 2007 (NEW LONDON, CT) Film Festival Passes are now on sale, for the Garde Arts Center’s seventh annual New London Film Festival, opening on Wednesday, August 1, 2007, at 7:30 pm, and running for eleven evenings through Sunday, August 12.
“This year’s festival will continue to show unique contemporary film including award-winning and critically acclaimed pictures that are especially powerful when shown on our giant screen,” said Garde Executive Director Steve Sigel. Film subjects include families integrating across cultures, the individual in times of war, and love overcoming adversity. The Festival opens on Wednesday, August 1 at 7:30 pm with Paris, Je T’aime…, a collection of 18 short films all set in a different Paris neighborhood and featuring major stars such as Natalie Portman, Juliette Binoche, Nick Nolte, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Steve Buscemi, and a roster of accomplished directors. Based on a true story, The Miramax film The Hoax, on Thursday, August 2, 7:30 pm, features Richard Gere, along with Alfred Molina, Hope Davis, Marcia Gay Harden, Stanley Tucci, and Eli Wallach in an award-winning performance as the charismatic author Clifford Irving who persuades the world that he is the authorized biographer for the reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes. A brilliant performance by Julie Christie in Away From Her, on Friday, August 3 at 7:30 pm, documents a crisis in a long marriage when Fiona (Christie) is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and must go live in a nursing home where, separated for the first time in nearly 50 years, she quickly develops a romantic attachment to a fellow patient (Michael Murphy). Saturday, August 4 at 7:30 pm features the 2007 Oscar-winner for best foreign-film, Pan’s Labyrinth, set in 1944 fascist Spain. Two films will be shown on Sunday, August 5. At 4:00 pm, a rarely seen but critically acclaimed Argentinean film Live-In Maid, will be shown for the first time in Connecticut. A runner-up in the world cinema competition at Sundance, it is set in Buenos Aires during an economic crisis that tests the relationship between Beba, a spoiled, temperamental member of the upper middle class, and her longtime maid, Dora (Norma Argentina). The Namesake, on Sunday, August 5 at 7 pm, is a funny and touching adaptation of Pulitzer Prize-winner Jhumpa Lahiri's novel, about two generations, and two clashing cultures that become lovingly intertwined, as together they answer the imminently relevant question: what does it mean to be an American family? The Festival resumes on Tuesday, August 7, at 7:30 pm with the box-office hit Hot Fuzz, an hysterical, action-packed British parody of Hollywood-style action flicks from the makers of Shaun of the Dead. Another Miramax film, The Golden Door, on Wednesday, August 8 at 7:30 pm is produced by Martin Scorsese, and won the Venice Film Festival and European Film Award for this lyrical tale a poor rural Italian family who, inspired by postcard images of the U.S. and its riches, immigrate to America in the early 20th Century. The Garde Arts Center will be part of the brand new release of the documentary No End in Sight, on Thursday, August 9 at 7:30 pm. This winner of the Sundance Documentary Special Jury Prize is a comprehensive look at the Bush Administration's conduct of the Iraq war and its occupation of the country. A movie made for the big screen, Black Book on Friday, August 10, has an Oscar-deserving performance by Carice van Houten in this suspense thriller, by Paul Verhoeven (director of Robocop and Showgirls) about a young French singer who joins the Dutch resistance in World War II. From Germany, the political thriller The Lives of Others, on Saturday, August 11 at 7:30 pm, is the 2007 Oscar Winner for Best Foreign Film, is a political thriller and human drama tracing the gradual disillusionment of a highly skilled officer who works for East Germany's all-powerful secret police. The Festival will conclude on Sunday, August 12 at 4 pm with Into Great Silence, the awe-inspiring and mesmerizing documentary capturing the lives of an ascetic monastery in France that won the Special Jury Prize (World Cinema - Documentary), at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. Film Festival Passes are $30 each and provide admission to all screenings. The Passes are transferable, and allow the pass holder entry to the theatre without having to first visit the Box Office. Single tickets, available the day of the movie, are $9. Film Festival Passes can be purchased at the Garde Box Office, at 860-444-7373, or on the Garde website, at www.gardearts.org. |