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2015
FilmColumbia
FilmColumbia
FilmColumbia
FilmColumbia
Chatham/Hudson/10.19–10.25.2015
2015
FilmColumbia
FilmColumbia
FilmColumbia
FilmColumbia
Chatham/Hudson/10.19–10.25.2015
Chatham/Hudson
New York USA
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VENUES AND EVENTS
CHATHAM FILM CLUB | CRANDELL THEATRE
FILMCOLUMBIA 2015
VENUES AND EVENTS: CHATHAM
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ORDER TICKETS
á Monday, October 19
8:00pm
MIA MADRE (page 12)
á Tuesday, October 20
12:00pm
CEMETERY OF SPLENDOR (page 13)
2:30pm
JACK OF THE RED HEARTS (page 13)
5:00pm
LOUDER THAN BOMBS (page 14)
7:00pm
RAMS (page 14)
8:45pm
45 YEARS (page 15)
á Wednesday, October 21
12:00pm
THREE OBSESSIONS (page 15)
2:30pm
VERY SEMI-SERIOUS: A PARTIALLY THOROUGH
PORTRAIT OF NEW YORKER CARTOONISTS (page 16)
4:30pm
THE STRANGE EYES OF DOCTOR MEYES (page 16)
6:30pm
MONSOON (page 16)
8:30pm
THE LADY IN THE VAN (page 17)
á Thursday, October 22
12:00pm
HAZARDOUS LIGHT (page 17)
4:00pm
LABYRINTH OF LIES (page 18)
6:30pm
BOB AND THE TREES (page 18)
8:30pm
BROOKLYN (page 19)
á Friday, October 23
12:00pm
SWEET BEAN (page 19)
2:30pm
MAY MOUNTAINS DEPART (page 20)
5:00pm
MEASURE OF A MAN (page 20)
8:00pm
TRUTH (page 21)
10:00pm
POST-FILM PARTY CHATHAM BREWERY (page 21)
á Saturday, October 24
10:00am
CHILDREN’S INTERNATIONAL SHORT PROGRAM (page 22)
11:30am
TRASH (page 22)
1:30pm
I SAW THE LIGHT (page 23)
4:00pm
DHEEPAN (page 23)
6:30pm
TAXI (page 24)
8:15pm
SNEAK PREVIEW (page 24)
10:30pm
POST-SNEAK GATHERING BLUE PLATE (page 24)
CRANDELL THEATRE Main Street, Chatham
á Sunday, October 25
12:00pm
BEYOND GLORY (page 26)
2:30pm
SON OF SAUL (page 26)
4:30pm
MY GOLDEN DAYS (page 27)
7:00pm
HEART OF A DOG (page 27)
8:45pm
HERE COME THE VIDEOFREEX (page 28)
VENUES AND EVENTS: HUDSON
HUDSON OPERA HOUSE 327 Warren Street, Hudson
á Saturday, October 24
3:00pm
CHILDREN’S INTERNATIONAL SHORT PROGRAM (page 36)
á Sunday, October 25
2:00pm
SCOTT COHEN’S SCREENWRITING PANEL (page 36)
MORRIS MEMORIAL 17 Park Row, Chatham
á Friday, October 23
1:30pm
TIGER AWARDS: THE NEXT GENERATION (page 29)
3:30pm
KORLA (page 29)
5:00pm
THE COCKTAIL PARTY (page 30)
7:30pm
THIS ISN’T FUNNY (page 30)
á Saturday, October 24
12:30pm
ANIMATION FOR GROWNUPS (page 31)
2:30pm
BAND OF ROBBERS (page 32)
5:00pm
ENTER THE FAUN (page 32)
7:30pm
BREAKING A MONSTER (page 33)
á Sunday, October 25
12:00pm
SHORTS PROGRAM (page 34)
2:00pm
ANGKOR’S CHILDREN (page 34)
3:30pm
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN (page 35)
HUDSON LODGE 601 Union Street, Hudson
á Friday, October 23
7:30pm
TWO 4 ONE (page 37)
á Saturday, October 24
11:00am
FOOD FOR THOUGHT, FOOD FOR LIFE (page 37)
12:30pm
JACK OF THE RED HEARTS (page 38)
3:00pm
JANE AARON RETROSPECTIVE (page 38)
4:30pm
HERE COME THE VIDEOFREEX (page 39)
6:30pm
RELATIVE HAPPINESS (page 39)
8:30pm
HEART OF A DOG (page 40)
10:00pm
POST-FILM GATHERING
THE CRIMSON SPARROW (page 40)
á Sunday, October 25
12:00pm
SHORTS PROGRAM (page 41)
2:00pm
BOB AND THE TREES (page 42)
4:30pm
THE STRANGE EYES OF DR. MEYES (page 43)
7:00pm
LOUDER THAN BOMBS (page 42)
TRACY MEMORIAL 77 Main Street, Chatham
á Saturday, October 24
10:00am
PANEL DISCUSSION WITH PETER BISKIND (page 35)
á Sunday, October 25
10:00am
SCOTT COHEN’S SCREENWRITING PANEL (page 35)
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Morris Memorial 17 Park Row Chatham NY 12037
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2015
FilmColumbia
FilmColumbia
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Welcome to the 2015 edition of FilmColumbia, the 16th anniversary of the Hudson
Valley’s own film festival. The festival is the second most popular entertainment venue in
Columbia County with seven thousand ticket buyers showing up annually to see a
selection of the best international features and documentaries of 2015, most of which
have not yet opened commercially. Every year we assure you that this will be the best
festival yet, and every year it is true, so get ready for – yes, the best festival in our 16 year
history, laden with potential Oscar nominations, and more depth than we’ve ever had
before.
This year, we are offering free passes to members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts
and Sciences. We are screening in two venues in Chatham, the historic, communityowned and operated Crandell Theatre, one of the few single-screen facilities left in the
Northeast. Thanks to the generosity of our sponsor, the Chatham Film Club, and
FilmColumbia supporters, the Crandell now has state-of-the-art digital film equipment.
The festival’s second venue, the Morris Memorial, allows us a generous space to show the
work of local and regional filmmakers, and the Hudson Lodge gives us the opportunity to
bring topnotch films to a new audience. We also are also inaugurating a relationship with
the Hudson Opera House, where we are showing a program of children’s films.
THE FILMS
As we have done in the past, many of our offerings arrive bearing the pedigree of awards
from larger festivals around the world, such as Cannes, Venice, Telluride, New York , and
Toronto film festivals. And many will go on to win Academy Awards nominations and
Oscars. There are so many films in this year’s lineup that we don’t want to overexcite you
by listing the titles; just flip through the pages that follow.
Enjoy!
Peter Biskind, Laurence Kardish, Calliope Nicholas
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SHORT—DAMNATION: THE FLASHBACK
Local filmmaker, Reno Dakota, fashions an amusing gem about a sleepy Appalachian town called
Damnation, where the mortician dies in the arms of the “other woman.” His widow, wonderfully
played by Melissa Leo, enacts a simple but satisfying revenge.
Director: Reno Dakota; Year: 2015; Cast: Melisso Leo, Stephen Spinella, Ashlie Atkinson
á Monday 10.19 | Crandell Theatre | Runtime: 15 min.
CEMETERY OF SPLENDOR
Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 2010
with Uncle Boonme Who Can Recall Past Lives, as well as numerous prizes at the Venice and Berlin
festivals. His works, seeped deeply in Khmer myth, are mysterious, haunting and, in their fluid
beauty, mesmerizing. The ostensible subject of this gossamer cinematic meditation are soldiers
struck down with a mysterious sleeping sickness. But the plot is secondary to the mood and look of
the film, a chiaroscuro of striking images that weave themselves together only to separate and blend
again in moments of blinding clarity. The film resists literal interpretation but it charms, enchants
and surprises. Prepare to visit a nether world made visible.
Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul; Writer: Year: 2015; Distributor: Strand Releasing; Genre: Drama; Country: Thailand; UK, France, Germany,
Malaysia; Language: Thai; Subtitles: Yes, Cast: Jenjira Pongpas, Banlop, Banlop Lomnoi, Jenjira Widner
á Tuesday 10.20 | 12:00pm | Crandell Theatre | Runtime: 122 min.
MIA MADRE
We showed Nanni Moretti’s We Have a Pope three years ago, and now he’s back with a drama-cumcomedy starring John Turturro as a temperamental movie star driving director Margherita Buy
crazy as she struggles to retain control of her movie while leaving her boyfriend, handling her
teenage daughter, and ministering to her dying mother. Turturro steals both shows, Moretti’s movie
and the movie within the movie, with his wonderful impersonation of an out of control actor who
forgets his lines, makes up new ones, argues and rants, all the while enjoying the chaos he’s creating.
Meanwhile, in a difficult balancing act that Moretti pulls off with skill, there’s another story going
on—the death of the director’s mother—which Moretti treats with appropriate seriousness, and plays
off against the comedy. Played the Cannes Film Festival.
Director: Nanni Moretti; Writer: Nanni Moretti, Francesco Piccolo, Valia Santella; Year: 2015, Distributor: Alchemy; Genre: Drama; Rating: NR;
Country: Italy, France; Language: Italian, English; Subtitles: Yes; Cast: John Turturro, Margherita Buy, Giulia LazzarinI
JACK OF THE RED HEARTS
Movies about people with disabilities often drown in sentimentality, but Jack of the Red Hearts,
skillfully directed by Janet Grillo, is the exception. The tears here are scarce, and earned. A tough
teenage runaway on the lam from her parole officer, brazenly impersonates a trained caregiver and
forms a unique bond with an 11 year-old autistic girl, brilliantly played by newcomer Taylor
Richardson. The girl’s desperate mother (Famke Janssen) in turn bonds with the imposter. When
the deception is exposed and the cops descend, the pieces of this puzzle are reshuffled into a new,
satisfying whole.
á Monday 10.19 | 8:00pm | Crandell Theatre | Runtime: 106 min.
Director: Janet Grillo; Writer: Jennifer Deaton; Year: 2015; Country: USA; Cast: Famke Janssen, Annasophia Robb, Scott Cohen, Taylor Richardson
á Tuesday 10.20 | 2:30pm | Crandell Theatre | Runtime: 100 min.
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LOUDER THAN BOMBS
This is Norwegian director Joachim Trier’s first English language feature as well as his first foray
with major stars, after directing two films in his native tongue: Reprise and Oslo, August 31st. Louder
Than Bombs is set in the aftermath of a family tragedy, wherein wife Isabelle Huppert, a famous war
photographer dies in ambiguous circumstances, leaving her husband and two sons to reconcile
themselves with the dysfunction of their family. Trier’s agility as a story-teller, using dream
sequences and shifting points of view enables him to avoid the pitfalls of his subject while exploring
his themes with subtlety and gradually accumulating power. Also starring Jesse Eisenberg, Gabriel
Byrne, and Amy Ryan. Played the Cannes Film Festival.
Director: Joachim Trier; Writers: Joachim Trier, Eskil Vogt; Year: 2015; Distributor: The Orchard; Genre: Drama; Country: Norway, France, Denmark;
Language: English, French; Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Isabelle Huppert, Gabriel Byrne, Amy Ryan
á Tuesday 10.20 | 5:00pm | Crandell Theatre | Runtime: 109 min.
45 YEARS
Both Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay, each iconic actors in their own right, won the Best
Acting Silver Bears this year at the Berlin Film Festival, and it is safe to predict each performer will
cart off many more prizes before the year is up because, without hyperbole, as Geoff and Kate
Mercer, a couple with a shaggy dog in a quaint Norfolk village, they are transcendent. About to
celebrate their 45th wedding anniversary they receive some startling news that upsets Geoff and so
unsettles Kate that she questions the foundations of what seems to be a happy marriage. Andrew
Haigh, whose earlier film, Weekend, is also about a couple who come together for a few short days, is
a miniaturist whose observations about relationships are sharp, subtle, and piercing. This is a small
story, but it contains the world.
Director: Andrew Haigh; Writer: Andrew Haigh; Year: 2015; Distributor: Sundance Selects; Genre: Drama; Country: UK; Cast: Charlotte Rampling,
Tom Courtenay
á Tuesday 10.20 | 8:45pm | Crandell Theatre | Runtime: 94 min.
RAMS
THREE OBSESSIONS
With a major sheep farm up the road, the Crandell in Chatham is the perfect place to showcase
Rams, a bittersweet sheep farming comedy from Iceland, and winner of the top prize in this year’s
“Un Certain Regard” section at Cannes. Two brothers, although neighbors, are competing sheep
farmers who have not spoken to each other in years. They rely on a dog to carry messages back and
forth until a crisis obliges them to seek each other’s help. A portrait of a community, and a caution
against stubborn individualism, Rams is at once sardonic, true, and heartbreaking. It is Iceland’s
entry to the Oscar’s for Best Foreign-Language Film, and has played the Toronto Film Festival..
Bengali Cinema is known in the West primarily through the genius of Satyajit Ray. FilmColumbia is
proud to introduce another independent filmmaker of stellar promise who, like Ray was formerly in
advertising: Buddy Mukherji. He tells three stories of love, loss and possible resurrection over a
century. The first tale, shot in black-and-white, is set pre-50s in a village and speaks of puppy love,
the second in Calcutta during a torrential rain storm is in Technicolor, and the third photographed
digitally in Kolkota today with its surprising twists, is a salute to Hitchcock.
Director: Grimur Hakronarson; Writer: Grimur Hakronarson; Year: 2015; Distributor: Cohen Media; Genre: Drama; Country: Iceland; Language:
Icelandic; Subtitles: Yes; Cast: Sigurdur Sigurjonsson, Theodor Juliusson, Charlotte Beving
Director: Bauddhayan Mukherji; Writers: Bauddhayan Mukherji and Abhinandan Banerjee; Year: 2015; Genre: Drama; Country: India; Language:
Bengali; Subtitles: Yes; Cast: Ritapurna Sengupta, Ashish Vidyarthi, Joy Sengupta, Ananya Sen
á Wednesday 10.21 | 12:00pm | Crandell Theatre | Runtime: 124 min.
á Tuesday 10.20 | 7:00pm | Crandell Theatre | Runtime: 93 min.
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VERY SEMI-SERIOUS:
A PARTIALLY THOROUGH PORTRAIT OF NEW YORKER CARTOONISTS
A semi-comprehensive but thoroughly entertaining look at those cartoons and cartoonists that have
made the New Yorker magazine a legend. Always wondered what Roz Chast looks and sounds like?
Here she is in the flesh, along with George Booth, who has penned 800 cartoons over half a century,
along with lesser lights, like one artist whose work was rejected for 25 years before one cartoon was
accepted. The star of this documentary, if there is one, is Bob Mankoff, the gate-keeper, whose story
serves as the backbone on which the many fascinating vignettes hang. Played the Tribeca Film
Festival. Executive producer Deborah Shaffer will appear with the movie.
Director: Leah Wolchok; Year: 2015; Genre: Documentary; Country: USA
THE LADY IN THE VAN
á Wednesday 10.21 | 2:30pm | Crandell Theatre | Runtime: 83 min.
THE STRANGE EYES OF DR. MEYES
An “indy” artisanal romp, The Strange Eyes of Dr. Meyes is a hand-crafted micro-budget sci-fi
“schlock opera” made vigorous by animation, new music and a very game cast. A post-modern mad
scientist film in which Dr. Meyes, a leading researcher, lets her experiments get the best of both her
and her disciples. They transform themselves into, well, you’ll see. Nancy Andrews, one of America’s
leading avant-garde filmmakers, has concocted this winning and original fable with humor, little
means, and a most cheerful imagination.
Lady in the Van is the screen adaptation of Alan Bennett’s short story and hit play of the same name,
the latter starring the great Maggie Smith. Here, Smith reprises her role as Miss Shepherd, a bag
lady who lived out of her van parked in Bennett’s driveway for 15 years. Poignantly, but with humor
and no more than a modicum of sentiment, Bennett tells the story of his relationship with the
irascible and eccentric Ms. Shephard, and recounts her sundry misadventures, among them sending
inciting letters to the Argentinean Embassy during the Falklands war, running for Parliament, and
her inventive attempts to extract a free electric wheelchair out of Social Services. In the process, he
freezes a moment in the 70’s and then the 80’s when liberals squirmed unhappily under the thumb of
Margaret Thatcher. Directed by Nicholas Hytner (The History Boys), the film has played the Toronto
Film Festival.
Director: Nicholas Hytner; Writer: Alan Bennett; Year: 2015; Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics; Genre: Drama; Country: UK; Cast: Maggie Smith, Jim
Broadbent, Dominic Cooper, James Corde.
á Wednesday 10.21 | 8:30pm | Crandell Theatre | Runtime: 104 min.
Director: Nancy Andrews; Writers: Nancy Andrews and Jennifer Reeder; Music: Nancy Andrews and Zach Soares; Year: 2015; Genre: Avant-garde
sci-fi; Country: USA; Caste: Michola Briana White, Kevin Jackson, Jennifer Prediger
á Wednesday 10.21 | 4:30pm | Crandell Theatre | Runtime: 77 min.
HAZARDOUS LIGHT
MONSOON
This exhilarating documentary is about a natural, recurring and necessary example of extreme
weather—the monsoon. Shot entirely across the world’s most colorful nation, India, this exquisitely
photographed portrait of a deluge moving west to east, both nourishing the land and destroying
homes, begins with the joy of children who love to dance in the rain and ends high in the Himalayas
in the wettest spot on earth. Along the way we meet “bookies” who take bets on the day when the
rains will begin, and we learn that the monsoon gave Bollywood the best reason to make “wet sari”
movies.
Director: Sturla Gunnarsson; Year: 2014; Distributor: Ina Finchman/Intuitive Pictures; Country: Canada, India; Language: English, Hindi, Assamese,
Malayalam and Marathi; Subtitles: Yes
á Wednesday 10.21 | 6:30pm | Crandell Theatre | Runtime: 108 min.
Ah, “film noir”! A French expression and a favorite American genre that flourished after World War
II, and includes all time favorites like Double Indemnity, D.O.A., Detour, and Laura, is really, argues
Milton Moses Ginsberg, an invention of German writer-directors who fled to Hollywood when the
Weimar Republic metamorphosed into the Third Reich. In his rich investigation into the
Expressionist roots of these dark and twisted dreams, Ginsberg uses fabulous clips from German
and American films. He also provides autobiographical accounts of their shadowy influence on an
impressionable young New Yorker. Ginsberg, a celebrated film editor best known for his
independent feature, Coming Apart, provides the film buff and the cultural historian with a delicious
serving of the tastiest morsels of cinema’s nastiest narratives.
Director: Milton Moses Ginsberg; Year: 2015; Genre: Documentary; Country: USA
á Thursday 10.22 | 12:00pm | Crandell Theatre | Runtime: 175 min.
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LABYRINTH OF LIES
After fifty years of books, films and TV miniseries that have graphically catalogued the horrors of
the Holocaust, contemporary audiences may find it difficult to believe that fifteen years after the war
most Germans knew little about really happened in Auschwitz. And their elders—not just Nazis, but
“ordinary” Germans who preferred to forget—were not of a mind to educate them. How the Germans
learned about the Holocaust not from the Allies but from other Germans is what Labyrinth of Lies
chronicles. This procedural breathlessly describes how a young public prosecutor, Johann
Radmann, a dramatic composite of three actual lawyers, brings, against all odds, twenty-two
“ordinary” Germans who were guards at Auschwitz to trial for murder that made history in Frankfurt
1963. Played the Toronto Film Festival.
Director: Giulio Ricciarelli. Writer: Giulio Ricciarelli and Elisabeth Bartel. Year: 2014; Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics; Genre: Drama; Country:
Germany; Language: German; Subtitles: Yes; Cast: Alexander Fehling, Andre Szymanski, Frederike Becht
á Thursday 10.22 | 4:00pm | Crandell Theatre | Runtime: 122 min.
BROOKLYN
Saoirse Ronan turns in a brilliant performance in this screen adaptation of Colm Toibin’s bestselling
novel about a young, Irish immigrant woman who arrives on these shores in the 50’s. From a script
by Nick Hornby, director John Crowley has crafted an old fashioned, emotion filled movie, the kind
that Hollywood has stopped making. Eventually, Ronan’s character has to make a choice between
two men—her Irish boyfriend back home and her American boyfriend here, as well as the two
countries they represent. The picture boasts of a wonderful British cast. Played the Sundance and
Toronto film festivals.
Director: John Crowley; Writer: Nick Hornby; Year: 2015; Distributor: Fox Searchlight; Genre: Drama; Rating: PG-13; Country: Ireland, UK, Canada;
Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Domhnall Gleason, Julie Waters, Jim Broadbent
á Thursday 10.22 | 8:30pm | Crandell Theatre | Runtime: 111 min.
BOB AND THE TREES
This powerful feature, lent documentary verisimilitude by its skillful use of non-actors, and shot in
the Berkshires by a French director, focuses on a 50-something farmer struggling to make ends
meet. Realizing that his farm faces disaster, he tries his hand at logging at the very moment the
polar vortex of 2014 sends blizzard after blizzard his way, which all of us who braved last winter in
this area will remember fondly. He empties his bank account to log a neighbors land, only to
discover the wood is infested with insects and worthless, and he goes downhill from there.
Increasingly paranoid, Bob concludes that someone is trying to destroy his life, and takes to
carrying a gun. Director Diego Ongaro will introduce and answer questions after the film, which
played the Sundance Film Festival, won first prize at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.
Filmmakers will appear with the film.
SWEET BEAN
When at 28 Naomi Kawase won Cannes’ “Camera d’or” in 1997 for Best First Feature she was the
youngest filmmaker to do so. Although she has made celebrated feature films since and even
established a film festival in her hometown, Nara, the ancient capital city of Japan, she is barely
known in the U.S.–until now, perhaps, with the American release of a her most recent moral tale.
Tokue, a mysterious elderly woman suddenly appears to help a confectioner perfect the red bean
paste fillings of the sweet buns he sells from his small shop in suburban Tokyo. His recipe is lacking
but Tokue understands that the beans must be spoken to…but who is she and from where does she
come? Or does it matter now that the pastries cheer up so many eaters? It does.
Director: Diego Ongaro; Writers: Courtney Maum, Diego Ongaro, Sasha Statman-Weil; Year: 2015; Genre: Drama; Country:, USA; France; Language:
English; Cast: Bob Tarasuk, Matt Gallagher, Polly MacIntyre
Director: Naomi Kawase; Writer: Naomi Kawase; Year: 2015; Distributor Kino-Lorber; Genre: Drama; Country: Japan/France/Germany;
Language: Japanese; Subtitles: Yes; Cast: Kirin Kiki, Masatoshi Nagase, Kyara Uchida
Thursday 10.22 | 6:30pm | Crandell Theatre | Runtime: 91 min.
á Friday 10.23 | 12:00pm | Crandell Theatre | Runtime: 113 min.
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SHORT—A CONVERSATIONAL PIECE
A narcissistic voice-over coach learns of a love affair between her angry daughter and a nervous
female student, as they all collide in a conversational place.
Director: Bob Giraldi, Year: 2015, Cast: Catherine Zambri, Darcie Siciliano, Marilyn Sokol
á Friday 10.23 | 6:30pm | Crandell Theatre | Runtime: 14 min.
MAY MOUNTAINS DEPART
Jia Zhang-ke, one of the world’s leading filmmakers. May Mountains Depart is a fast-paced triptych
drama about China, a film that begins in the recent past and races into the future with a final
episode that is shot, for the most part, daringly enough, in English. On one level a love story, this
drama is a tale of parental commitment and abandonment, and on another it is about the rapid
social changes that are uprooting China’s traditional notions of family. Everything is up for grabs.
Ravishingly photographed and beautifully cast, the film confirms Zhang-ke’s mastery of cinema.
Played the Toronto Film Festival.
Director: Jia Zhang-ke; Writer: Jia Zhang-ke; Year: 2015; Distributor: Kino-Lorber; Genre: Drama; Country: China/France/Japan; Language:
Mandarin; Subtitles: Yes; Cast: Zhao Tao, Zhang Yi, Liang Jindong
á Friday 10.23 | 2:30pm | Crandell Theatre | Runtime: 125 min.
TRUTH
Robert Redford plays CBS anchor Dan Rather and Cate Blanchett CBS producer and Peabody Award
winner Mary Mapes in this film based on the scandal that cost Rather his job at CBS. The two of
them developed a blockbuster story that claimed George Bush, Sr., used his influence to place
George Bush, Jr., in the Texas National Guard, which would have sheltered him from the Vietnam
war, where even there he shirked his duties. Facing fierce attacks on the credibility of the documents
on which the story was based, CBS eventually backed down, and Rather was fired. The movie is
based on Mapes’ book about the controversy, in which she expresses her belief that the documents
were genuine. Truth played Cannes and Toronto film festivals.
Director: James Vanderbilt; Writer: James Vanderbilt; Year: 2015; Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics; Genre: Drama; Country: USA; Cast: Cate
Blanchett, Robert Redford, Elisabeth Moss, Dennis Quaid
á Friday 10.23 | 8:00pm | Crandell Theatre | Runtime: 121 min.
MEASURE OF A MAN
Vincent Lindon, one of France’s leading film actors, won the Best Actor at Cannes this year for his
performance as Thierry in this film whose literal translation from French is “Law of the Market”
which allows companies to fire workers to increase profits. Thierry, a family man in his early fifties,
is unemployed and struggling to keep afloat as his developmentally-challenged son needs special
needs schooling. When he does find a job, his “measure of a man” is threatened. Shot in the natural
spirit of a Dardennes brothers film and through the lens of reality, the film questions how far his new
job will go to test his "measure of a man." The answers are not easy. Played the New York Film
Festival.
POST-FILM PARTY!
Join filmmakers and FC crew after the film for Friday night celebration and libations.
á Friday 10.23 | 10:00pm | Chatham Brewery
Director: Stephane Brize. Writers: Stephane Brize, Olivier Gorce; Year: 2015; Distributor: Kino Lorber; Genre: Drama; Country: France; Language:
French; Subtitles: Yes; Cast: Vincent Lindon, Karine de Mirbeck, Matthieu Schaller
á Friday 10.23 | 5:00pm | Crandell Theatre | Runtime: 93 min.
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I SAW THE LIGHT
Amy Winehouse didn’t invent
self-destructiveness. The legendary Hank
Williams, who virtually invented the country
western genre, was there first, along with
many other damaged performers. This
powerful film featuring Tom Hiddleston as
Williams, gives him a chance to escape the
role of Loki which he has been assigned in
the Marvel movies, and demonstrate his
acting chops, which he does here. He’s such a
good fit that it seems like he was born to play
Williams, tweeking Loki’s sneer into the
singer’s enigmatic smile. The film chronicles
the ups and down of the singers career, of
which there were many. He scored big with
megahits like “Lovesick Blues” and “Your
Cheatin’ Heart,” at the same time he was
wont to disappear into the black hole of
booze and drugs. The highs and lows are all
here, in I Saw the Light.
CHILDREN’S INTERNATIONAL SHORT PROGRAM
FilmColumbia’s treat for our kids, giving them a rare opportunity to watch a sensational
international array of short films, lovingly selected by Patti Greaney of GIRALDI Media, NYC.
Sponsored by Hudson River Bank and Trust Foundation.
á Saturday 10.24 | 10:00am | Crandell Theatre | Runtime: 60 min.
Director: Marc Abraham; Writer: Marc Abraham; Year: 2015;
Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics; Genre: Biopic; Country: USA,
Cast: Tom Hiddleston, Elizabeth Olsen, Cherry Jones
á Saturday 10.24 | 1:30pm | Crandell Theatre
| Runtime: 123 min.
TRASH
DHEEPAN
Trash has been called a South American version of Slumdog Millionaire. Directed by Stephen
Daldry (The Reader, Billy Elliott), and scripted by Richard Curtis (Four Weddings and a Funeral) the
film is set in Rio, and features three effervescent kids who live next to a garbage dump, and
accidentally come upon a wallet that contains evidence that will destroy a corrupt politician. There
are cops and robbers and cute kids, plus Rooney Mara and Martin Sheen. What’s not to like?
Jacques Audiard, considered by some Gallic critics as the French Martin Scorcese, has made some
of his country's most memorable films for the past15 years (The Beat That My Heart Skipped, A
Prophet, and Rust and Bone). With Dheepan, his most recent accomplishment, Audiard won Cannes'
top prize, the Palme d'or awarded to him by the Coen brothers, joint presidents of the international
jury. The film’s subject, illegal immigration and cultural displacement, make Dheepan most timely. A
Tamil freedom fighter fleeing Sri Lanka finds two fellow refugees, a woman and a child in a migrant
camp, and together they improvise a family to enter France. A stinging indictment of French
immigration policies, what befalls them next is dramatic and unexpected.
Director: Stephen Daldry, Christian Duurvoort; Writer: Richard Curtis, Felipe Braga; Year: 2015; Distributor: Focus World; Genre: Drama, Comedy;
Country: UK, Brazil; Language: Portuguese, English; Cast: Rooney Mara, Martin Sheen, Wagner Moura
á Saturday 10.24 | 11:30am | Crandell Theatre | Runtime: 113 min.
Director: Jacques Audiard; Writers: Jacques Audiard, Thomas Bidegain, Noe Debre. 2015; Distributor: Sundance Selects; Genre: Drama; Country:
France; Languages: French, Tamil, English; Subtitles: Yes; Cast: Jesuthasan Antonythasan, Kalieeaswari, Claudine Vinasithamby
á Saturday 10.24 | 4:00pm | Crandell Theatre | Runtime: 114 min.
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TAXI
Winner of Berlin’s Golden Bear this year, the exhilarating Taxi, also known Taxi Teheran, is a film
that should not have been made. Its director/producer/star/cameraman/editor, Jafar Panahi is
under a 20 year filmmaking ban for “propaganda against the Islamic Republic”. Yet, ever
resourceful, Panahi has made two other films since his arrest and sentence (This is Not a Film and
Closed Curtain), all smuggled out of the country on memory sticks! This is his most exuberant, as
well as the saddest. A portrait of today’s Teheran. Panahi’s passengers are a vivid cross-section of
contemporary Iranian society. Fortunately Panahi is more interested in listening to his voluble
fellow citizens than getting from here to there, and the more we hear, the more the disconnect
between the people and the government becomes evident. Panahi’s film is essential viewing to
anyone interested in the current debate about the trustworthiness of this perennial headline state.
Played the New York, Telluride, and Toronto film festivals.
Director: Jafar Panahi. Year: 2015. Distributor: Kino-Lorber; Genre: Documentary; Country: Iran; Language: Farsi; Subtitles: Yes
á Saturday 10.24 | 6:30pm | Crandell Theatre | Runtime: 82 min.
SNEAK PREVIEW
A MAJOR FILM WITH AN OUTSTANDING CAST
THAT HAS PLAYED ALL THE MAJOR FESTIVALS.
Sponsored by Jack Shear
á Saturday 10.24 | 8:15pm | Crandell Theatre | Runtime: 128 min
POST-SNEAK GATHERING
Come join the FilmColumbia crew, filmmakers and fellow film lovers right after the Saturday Night
Sneak for drinks, appetizers, and music!
á Saturday 10.24 | 10:30pm | Blue Plate Restaurant
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BEYOND GLORY
MY GOLDEN DAYS
Tony winning actor Stephen Lang in this spellbinding one-man performance, brings the courage of
eight Medal of Honor winners to life in this screen adaptation of the play he based on Larry Smith’s
book of the same name. Director Larry Brand skillfully translates theater into film. Lang magically
vanishes into each soldier so that although the same theme runs through all the performances, every
one is individuated and distinct. The actor manages to distill the essence of valor that somehow
emerges independently from the particulars of each of three dramatically different wars: World War
II, “the last good war,” to Vietnam, a very bad war.
Stephen Lang will appear with the film.
The literal title of this pulsating, vivacious French film about fractious family relationships and
young love lost, is Three Memories of my Childhood: Our Arcadias. However, the reminiscences are
neither golden nor paradisiacal but full of the weirdness of growing up. Paul Dedalus (yes, note the
surname), a professor of anthropology, returns after many years from Tadjikistan to Paris where he
is greeted by officials who take him to be a spy. His “interrogation” leads to the memories at once
frightening and charming, which constitute the stuff of Daedlus’ biography. Winner of the French
film award at Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight.
Director: Larry Brand; Writer: Stephen Lang; Year: 2015, Genre: Drama; Country: USA; Cast: Stephen Lang
Director: Arnaud Desplechin; Writer: Arnaud Desplechin, Julie Peyr; Year: 2015. Distributor: Magnolia Pictures; Genre: Drama; Country: France;
Language: French; Subtitles: Yes; Cast: Quentin Dolmaire, Lou Roy-Collinet, Mathieu Almaric
á Sunday 10.25 | 12:00pm | Crandell Theatre | Runtime: 79 min.
á Sunday 10.25 | 4:30pm | Crandell Theatre | Runtime: 123 min.
SON OF SAUL
It takes nerve for a first-timer to do a movie about the Holocaust, a subject that has been done and
done and done. What is there to add at this point? Nevertheless, Hungarian director Laszlo Nemes
has succeeded in re-inventing the genre in Son of Saul, the controversial hit of this year’s Cannes
Film Festival. This wrenching story focuses on a Sondercommando at Auschwitz, tasked with
cleaning up after Nazi atrocities. His job is to herd transports to “undressing rooms” prior to their
executions, and then cleaning up the gas chambers. In the process, he comes upon a young boy in a
pile of bodies, and embarks on a quest to find a rabbi to give him a proper Jewish burial, requiring
him to defy the guards and jeopardize is own chances of surviving. Photographed for the most part
in claustrophobic close up so that the horrors are intensified through suggestion, Son of Saul is not
an entertainment but a harrowing tour-de-force that won the filmmaker, the Best Director award at
the festival. It has also played the New York, Telluride, and Toronto film festivals.
Director: Laszlo Nemes. Writers: Laszlo Nemes, Clara Royer; Year: 2015; Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics; Genere: Drama; Country: Hungary,
German, Israel: Laugages: Hungarian, German, Yiddish, Russian, Polish, French, Greek, Slovak; Subtitles: Yes; Cast: Geza Roehrig, Levente Molnar,
Urs Rechn
á Sunday 10.25 | 2:30pm | Crandell Theatre | Runtime: 107 min.
HEART OF A DOG
Laurie Anderson—musician, performance artist, painter—is about as close as we have to a
renaissance woman, and this film, her first in thirty years, is a testimony to her remarkable skill as a
filmmaker. Lolabelle, her beloved rat terrier, who learned how to play the piano, and gave her own
concerts, anchors the movie, but this essay on film is much more than a dog-lover’s tribute to her
pooch; using 8mm home movies, animation, film clips, freshly shot material, and inventively
manipulated images, she creates a mélange of interlocked meditations on her childhood, 9/11, the
surveillance state, her late husband Lou Reed, and storytelling itself, ranging from the delicate to the
dazzling. The film has played the Telluride and Toronto film festivals.
Director: Laurie Anderson, Writer: Laurie Anderson, Year: 2015, Distributor: Abramorama, Genre: documentary, Rating: NR, Country: USA,
Language: English; Cast: Laurie Anderson, Lolabelle
á Sunday 10.25 | 7:00pm | Crandell Theatre | Runtime: 75 min.
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TIGER AWARDS: THE NEXT GENERATION
Tiger Awards: The Next Generation. German short films are remarkable whether they be sharp
narratives, inventive animations, revelatory documentaries or daring experimental works. This
year’s annual selection was chosen by a jury of filmmakers and screened at the Berlin Film Festival.
In German, English subtitles. Courtesy German Films, Munich.
á Friday 10.23 | 1:30pm | Morris Memorial | Runtime: 87 min.
HERE COME THE VIDEOFREEX
In the late 1960’s, when video recording was a brand new technology, a CBS executive, oddly
enough, conceived a program made by the hippies and radicals who were making history in the
streets, and gave them Sony Portapaks. The group called themselves “Videofreex,” and shot the
legendary Woodstock Music Festival. CBS, of course, washed its hands of the whole thing once they
got a look at the longhaired video makers and their footage, but the Videofreex proceeded to
chronicle the counterculture over the next decade, as well as start a pirate TV station in Lanesville,
New York. Recently Jon Nealon and Jenny Raskin edited this feature length film out of hundreds of
hours of tapes, which contains some striking sequences featuring Abbie Hoffman and Black Panther
Fred Hampton who was shot to death by the Chicago police shortly after the footage was shot.
Among the videofreex were Parry Teasdale, former editor of the Independent and now editor of The
Columbia Paper, as well as Skip Blumberg. The film played the Full Frame and BAM festivals.
Parry Teasdale will appear with the film.
KORLA
Directors: Jon Nealon, Jenny Raskin; Genre: Documentary; Country: USA
Director: John Turner, Producers: Eric Christensen, John Turner; Genre: Documentary; Country: USA
á Sunday 10.25 | 8:45pm | Crandell Theatre | Runtime: 79 min.
á Friday 10.23 | 3:30pm | Morris Memorial | Runtime: 78 min.
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With his jeweled turban, organist Korla Pandi was known as the Godfather of Exotica Music, with a
career that began in the 1940’s and lasted into the 1990’s. Korla’s fan base ranged from legions of
housewives tuning into his TV show to exotica music loving hipsters at tiki bars later in his career.
The story of his life was amazing enough, but what was revealed to the public four years after his
death in 1998, makes for an even more memorable story.
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THE COCKTAIL PARTY
When the daughter of a Japanese businessman in Okinawa accuses a U.S serviceman of assaulting
her, the military claims it was consensual. Twin investigations by the Army and the local police
bring to light persistent resentments on both side that that go back many years, and reveal the
human toll of a long- term military occupation.
Director: Regge Life; Distributor: Lifecycle Productions; Genre: Feature; Country: USA, Japan; Cast: Max Peters, Taylor Marsh, Some Subtitles
á Friday 10.23 | 5:00pm | Morris Memorial | Runtime: 110 min.
ANIMATION FOR GROWNUPS
Animator Gary Leib (American Splendor) presents an international array of cutting-edge animation
that is a FilmColumbia audience favorite! Animators will discuss their work after the screening.
THIS ISN’T FUNNY
Eliot is a stand up comedian with crippling anxiety, while Jamie avoids life through partying and
travel. When Jamie rides his bike into Eliot’s car, it sets off a chain reaction consisting of falling in
love, family crises, and new job opportunities. Will they be able to get out of their own way and truly
come together?
á Saturday 10.24 | 12:30pm | Morris Memorial | Runtime: 75 min.
Director: Paul Ashton; Genre: Feature; Year; 2015; Cast: Katie Page, Paul Ashton, Edi Gathegi, Anthony LaPaglia, Mimi Rogers
á Friday 10.23 | 7:30pm | Morris Memorial | Runtime: 90 min.
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BREAKING A MONSTER
Mark Twain’s iconic characters, Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer, are reimagined in this clever modernday comedic heist film. When Tom Sawyer’s childhood friend Huck is released from jail, Tom, now a
police officer, takes the opportunity to create a gang of thieves to find a fabled treasure.
Three members of band, Unlocking the Truth, are all in 7th grade. In 2013, footage of these AfricanAmerican kids from Brooklyn playing metal music in Times Square amazingly well, created a media
sensation, and 18 months later they become the youngest band to sign with Sony, to the tune of $1.8
million. Their parents’ involvement in juggling the group’s growing pains as the 12 year-old sons
deal with sudden fame and wealth, creates a charming, engaging, and very watchable film.
Directors: Aaron and Adam Nee; Year: 2015; Genre: Comedy; Country: USA; Cast: Kyle Gallner, Adam Nee, Matthew Gray Gubler, Hannibal Buress,
Melissa Benoist, Christian Olsen, Stephen Lang
á Saturday 10.24 | 7:30pm | Morris Memorial | Runtime: 92 min.
BAND OF ROBBERS
Director: Luke Meyer; Year: 2015; Genre: Documentary
á Saturday 10.24 | 2:30pm | Morris Memorial | Runtime: 121 min.
ENTER THE FAUN
The unlikely collaboration between a veteran choreographer and a young actor with cerebral palsy
results in the inspirational proof that some bodies are capable of miraculous recovery. The actor,
Greg Mozgala, knows his diagnosis will eventually put him in a wheelchair, while the choreographer,
Tamar Rogoff, is moved by Mozgala’s youth and energy as an actor. She invites him to dance as Pan,
the mythological creature that is half human, half goat, at La Mama Theater in New York City.
Mozgala takes up the challenge and the result of their work together is astonishing to watch.
Director: Tamar Rogoff, Daisy Wright; Year: 2015; Genre: Documentary; Country: USA
á Saturday 10.24 | 5:30pm | Morris Memorial | Runtime: 68 min.
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CHATHAM
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN
Anna is a beautiful, but emotionally dysfunctional bartender. She succeeds in hiding the fact that
something is deeply broken inside her as she secretly begins planning to commit suicide. Her plans
are interrupted when she helps out a neighbor.
Director: Manu Boyer; Genre: Feature; Year: 2015; Country: USA; Cast: Dawn Oliveri, Wilmer Valderrama, Scott Cohen
á Sunday 10.25 | 3:30pm | Morris Memorial | Runtime: 105 min.
SHORTS PROGRAM
FilmColumbia’s exciting array of outstanding
short films:
á Sunday 10.25 | 12:00pm | Morris Memorial
BLADE #1
Struggling to make ends meet, in this
documentary, New York City dancers respond
to a Craigslist ad looking for women who will
allow their heads to be shaved for money. What
follows is a bizarre journey and a mysterious
man.
Director: Zuzka Kurtz; Year: 2015; Genre: Documentary
á Runtime: 40 min.
THE MANY SAD FACES OF
MR. TOLEDANO
The documentary focuses on noted
photographer Phil Toledano, who becomes
obsessed with his eventually death and over
three years works with a prosthetic makeup
artist to envision the dark possibilities that
may await him.
Director: Joshua Seftel; Year: 2015; Genre: Documentary
á Runtime: 26 min.
JOHN
Local filmmaker, Hugh Scully, debuts at
FilmColumbia with a film about a strange
young man who is allergic to sunlight, the
peculiar genes that run in his family and the
psychiatrist who tries to help.
ANGKOR’S CHILDREN
A documentary on Cambodia’s cultural and
artistic renaissance. It is told through the voices
of young Cambodian women who represent the
first generation who have grown up after the
Khmer Rouge genocide that killed two million
people, including 90% of the artists and
intellectuals. A singer of Buddhist poetry, a
circus artist, and a former garment worker step
out of the dark past by expressing the resiliency
of Cambodia through their art and advocacy.
They are pioneers, and are part of a global
movement of women who are changing and
inspiring the world.
PANEL DISCUSSION WITH PETER BISKIND
Join FilmColumbia’s Executive Director Peter Biskind and his panel of experts in discussing the
latest hot topic in the film industry. Panel topic and panelists to be announced.
á Saturday 10.24 | 10:00am | Tracy Memorial
SCOTT COHEN’S SCREENWRITING PANEL
Director: Lauren Shaw, Distributor: Great Pond Productions, Genre:
Documentary, Year: 2015, Country: USA/Cambodia
A FilmColumbia audience favorite with actor Scott Cohen (Kissing Jessica Stein, The Other Woman,
Allegiance) moderating. Screenwriters are given a rare opportunity to have their work read by
Cohen’s fellow actors, followed by a discussion of the writing.
á Sunday 10.25 | 2:00pm | Morris Memorial |
Runtime: 60 min.
Screenwriters: Bring 10 copies of 15 pages of your screenplay. Work will be read on a first come basis
Director: Hugh Scully; Year: 2015
á Runtime: 16 min.
á Sunday 10.25 | 10:00am | Tracy Memorial
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HUDSON
CHILDREN’S INTERNATIONAL SHORT PROGRAM
TWO 4 ONE
FilmColumbia’s treat for our community’s kids, giving them a rare opportunity to watch an amazing
international array of short films, lovingly selected by Patti Greaney of GIRALDI Media, NYC.
Sponsored by Hudson River Bank and Trust Foundation.
Although romantic comedies form a backbone of popular cinema, there is nothing traditional about
this absolutely charming and offbeat debut film by Maureen Bradley who self-identifies as a
genderqueer. In Victoria, British Columbia, a city thought to be as staid as its namesake, lives Adam,
born Maureen, who is approaching the end stages of transitioning from female to male. Adam has
remained friends with his former girlfriend, the flighty Miriam, who now lives with sensible Julia.
Miriam, however, as comfortable as she is in her sexual preference, misses something. She wants a
child, but Julia doesn’t. Determined to change Julia’s mind, Miriam orders a sperm kit but the
instructions stymie her. So she calls her close buddy Adam. The former couple use the kit a little too
playfully and complications ensue - naturally. Two 4 One passes the Bechdel test with flying colors.
á Saturday 10.24 | 3:00pm | Hudson Opera House | Runtime: 60 min.
Director: Maureen Bradley; Writer: Maureen Bradley; Year: 2015; Distributor: Telefilm Canada & dadafilms; Genre: Coemdy; Country: Canada; Cast:
Gavin Crawford, Gabrielle Rose, Matt Baram, Naomi Snieckus, Andrea Manard
á Friday 10.23 | 7:30pm | Hudson Lodge | Runtime: 77 min.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT, FOOD FOR LIFE
Screenwriters: Bring 10 copies of 15 pages of your screenplay. Work will be read on a first come basis.
October 16th is International Food Day and FilmColumbia is proud to participate with the screening
of a new short film by Susan Rockefeller, shot in part in Columbia County at Hudson Pines Farms,
established by Margaret and David Rockefeller. Says Susan Rockafeller, “We want our food fast,
convenient and cheap, but at what cost? As farms have become supersized, our environment suffers
and so does the quality of our food. Food for Thought, Food for Life explains the downsides of current
agribusiness practices, and also introduces us to farmers, chefs, researchers, educators, and
advocates who are providing solutions.” Panel discussion to follow.
á Sunday 10.25 | 2:00pm | Hudson Opera House
á Saturday 10.24 | 11:00am | Hudson Lodge
SCOTT COHEN’S SCREENWRITING PANEL
A FilmColumbia audience favorite with actor Scott Cohen (Kissing Jessica Stein, The Other Woman,
Allegiance) moderating. Screenwriters are given a rare opportunity to have their work read by
Cohen’s fellow actors, followed by a discussion of the writing.
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HUDSON
HERE COME THE VIDEOFREEX
JACK OF THE RED HEARTS
Movies about people with disabilities often drown in sentimentality, but Jack of the Red Hearts,
skillfully directed by Janet Grillo, is the exception. The tears here are scarce, and earned. A tough
teenage runaway on the lam from her parole officer, brazenly impersonates a trained caregiver and
forms a unique bond with an 11 year-old autistic girl, brilliantly played by newcomer Taylor
Richardson. The girl’s desperate mother (Famke Janssen) in turn bonds with the imposter. When
the deception is exposed and the cops descend, the pieces of this puzzle are reshuffled into a new,
satisfying whole. Famke Janssen, Scott Cohen, and Janet Grillo will accompany the film to answer
questions.
In the late 1960’s, when video recording was a brand new technology, a CBS executive, oddly
enough, conceived a program made by the hippies and radicals who were making history in the
streets, and gave them Sony Portapaks. The group called themselves “Videofreex,” and shot the
legendary Woodstock Music Festival. CBS, of course, washed its hands of the whole thing once they
got a look at the longhaired video makers and their footage, but the Videofreex proceeded to
chronicle the counterculture over the next decade, as well as start a pirate TV station in Lanesville,
New York. Recently Jon Nealon and Jenny Raskin edited this feature length film out of hundreds of
hours of tapes, which contains some striking sequences featuring Abbie Hoffman and Black Panther
Fred Hampton who was shot to death by the Chicago police shortly after the footage was shot.
Among the videofreex were Parry Teasdale, former editor of the Independent and now editor of The
Columbia Paper, as well as Skip Blumberg. The film played the Full Frame and BAM festivals.
Skip Blumberg and Parry Teasdale will appear with the film.
Director: Janet Grillo; Writer: Jennifer Deaton; Year: 2015; Country: USA; Cast: Famke Janssen, Annasophia Robb, Scott Cohen, Taylor Richardson
Directors: Jon Nealon, Jenny Raskin; Genre: Documentary; Country: USA
á Saturday 10.24 | 12:30pm | Hudson Lodge | Runtime: 100 min.
á Saturday 10.24 | 4:30pm | Hudson Lodge | Runtime: 79 min.
JANE AARON RETROSPECTIVE
RELATIVE HAPPINESS
Jane Aaron was a gifted and prolific animator, as well as an illustrator of children’s books. A
Guggenheim winner, she is best known for her shorts that became mainstays of Sesame Street, but
she made many others as well, that have been shown on MTV and in museums around the world,
some of them shot in Columbia Country with the help of local talent. Her brother Peter Aaron, a well
known architectural photographer, and a longtime resident of Hudson and will accompany the film,
as well as Skip Blumberg, her husband, an important filmmaker in this own right. This retrospective
will present a sampling of Jane’s work. Oscar winning animator Frank Mouris, also a local resident,
will discuss the contribution she made to animation.
Happiness should come easily to an oceanfront town in Nova Scotia, and for the most part it does for
Lexie Ivy, winningly played by Australian actress, Melissa Bergland, an oversized and contented 30year old who runs a gorgeously quaint b&b with an emphasis on the second “b” baked by Ivy. But
there is a cloud on the horizon. Lexie’s thin sister is being married, and Lexie needs not only to fit
into a bridesmaid dress but find a date for the wedding. Deanne Foley’s debut feature is a classic
romantic comedy of the first order. Lexie becomes involved with two men, and the audience knows
which one really cares for Lexie well before she does. But will she discover it too?
á Saturday 10.24 | 3:00pm | Hudson Lodge
Directed by Deanne Foley. Written by Foley, Iain Macleod, Sherry White; Year: 2014. Distributor: Telefilm Canada & dadafilms; Country: Canada;
Cast: Melissa Bergland, Aaron Poole, Jonathan Sousa, Susan Kent
á Saturday 10.24 | 6:30pm | Hudson Lodge | Runtime: 94 min.
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HUDSON
HEART OF A DOG
SHORTS PROGRAM
Laurie Anderson—musician, performance artist, painter—is about as close as we have to a
renaissance woman, and this film, her first in thirty years, is a testimony to her remarkable skill as a
filmmaker. Lolabelle, her beloved rat terrier, who learned how to play the piano, and gave her own
concerts, anchors the movie, but this essay on film is much more than a dog-lover’s tribute to her
pooch; using 8mm home movies, animation, film clips, freshly shot material, and inventively
manipulated images, she creates a mélange of interlocked meditations on her childhood, 9/11, the
surveillance state, her late husband Lou Reed, and storytelling itself, ranging from the delicate to the
dazzling. The film has played the Telluride and Toronto film festivals.
FilmColumbia’s exciting array of outstanding short films:
Director: Laurie Anderson, Writer: Laurie Anderson, Year: 2015, Distributor: Abramorama, Genre: documentary, Rating: NR, Country: USA,
Language: English; Cast: Laurie Anderson, Lolabelle
á Sunday 10.25 | 12:00pm | Hudson Lodge
BLADE #1
Struggling to make ends meet, in this documentary, New York City dancers respond to a Craigslist
ad looking for women who will allow their heads to be shaved for money. What follows is a bizarre
journey and a mysterious man.
Director: Zuzka Kurtz; Year: 2015; Genre: Documentary
á Runtime: 40 min.
á Saturday 10.24 | 8:30pm | Hudson Lodge | Runtime: 75 min.
THE MANY SAD FACES OF MR. TOLEDANO
The documentary focuses on noted photographer Phil Toledano, who becomes obsessed with his
eventually death and over three years works with a prosthetic makeup artist to envision the dark
possibilities that may await him.
POST-FILM GATHERING!
Join FilmColumbia’s crew and fellow film lovers after the screening for chef/owner,
John McCarthy’s special film drinks and appetizers!
Director: Joshua Seftel; Year: 2015; Genre: Documentary
á Runtime: 26 min.
á Saturday 10.24 | 10:00pm | The Crimson Sparrow
JOHN
Local filmmaker, Hugh Scully, debuts at FilmColumbia with a film about a strange young man who
is allergic to sunlight, the peculiar genes that run in his family and the psychiatrist who tries to help.
Director: Hugh Scully; Year: 2015
á Runtime: 16 min.
DAMNATION: THE FLASHBACK
Local filmmaker Reno Dakota fashions an amusing gem about a sleepy Appalachian town called
Damnation, where the mortician dies in the arms of the “other woman.” His widow, wonderfully
played by Melissa Leo, enacts a simple but satisfying revenge.
Director: Reno Dakota; Year: 2015; Cast: Melisso Leo, Stephen Spinella, Ashlie Atkinson
á Runtime: 15 min.
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HUDSON
BOB AND THE TREES
This powerful feature, lent documentary verisimilitude by its skillful use of non-actors, and shot in
the Berkshires by a French director, focuses on a 50-something farmer struggling to make ends
meet. Realizing that his farm faces disaster, he tries his hand at logging at the very moment the
polar vortex of 2014 sends blizzard after blizzard his way, which all of us who braved last winter in
this area will remember fondly. He empties his bank account to log a neighbors land, only to
discover the wood is infested with insects and worthless, and he goes downhill from there.
Increasingly paranoid, Bob concludes that someone is trying to destroy his life, and takes to
carrying a gun. Director Diego Ongaro will introduce and answer questions after the film, which
played the Sundance Film Festival, won first prize at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.
Director: Diego Ongaro; Writers: Courtney Maum, Diego Ongaro, Sasha Statman-Weil; Year: 2015; Genre: Drama; Country:, USA; France;
Language: English; Cast: Bob Tarasuk, Matt Gallagher, Polly MacIntyre
á Sunday 10.25 | 2:00pm | Hudson Lodge | Runtime: 91 min.
THE STRANGE EYES OF DR. MEYES
An “indy” artisanal romp, The Strange Eyes of Dr. Meyes is a hand-crafted micro-budget sci-fi
“schlock opera” made vigorous by animation, new music and a very game cast. A post-modern mad
scientist film in which Dr. Meyes, a leading researcher, lets her experiments get the best of both her
and her disciples. They transform themselves into, well, you’ll see. Nancy Andrews, one of America’s
leading avant-garde filmmakers, has concocted this winning and original fable with humor, little
means, and a most cheerful imagination.
Director: Nancy Andrews; Writers: Nancy Andrews and Jennifer Reeder; Music: Nancy Andrews and Zach Soares; Year: 2015; Genre: Avant-garde
sci-fi; Country: USA; Caste: Michola Briana White, Kevin Jackson, Jennifer Prediger
á Sunday 10.25 | 4:30pm | Hudson Lodge | Runtime: 77 min.
LOUDER THAN BOMBS
This is Norwegian director Joachim Trier’s first English language feature as well as his first foray
with major stars, after directing two films in his native tongue: Reprise and Oslo, August 31st. Louder
Than Bombs is set in the aftermath of a family tragedy, wherein wife Isabelle Huppert, a famous war
photographer dies in ambiguous circumstances, leaving her husband and two sons to reconcile
themselves with the dysfunction of their family. Trier’s agility as a story-teller, using dream
sequences and shifting points of view enables him to avoid the pitfalls of his subject while exploring
his themes with subtlety and gradually accumulating power. Also starring Jesse Eisenberg, Gabriel
Byrne, and Amy Ryan. Played the Cannes Film Festival.
Director: Joachim Trier; Writers: Joachim Trier, Eskil Vogt; Year: 2015; Distributor: The Orchard; Genre: Drama; Country: Norway, France, Denmark;
Language: English, French; Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Isabelle Huppert, Gabriel Byrne, Amy Ryan
á Sunday 10.25 | 7:00pm | Hudson Lodge | Runtime: 109 min.
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CFC members will receive a special discount code via email to receive member pricing and have
first access to online tickets. If you are a current CFC member and have not received your code,
email: offi[email protected] or call 518-392-3459.
In person: Pre-sales ticket dates for CFC Members only, Crandell Theatre, Main Street, Chatham.
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Saturday and Sunday – Panels in Chatham and Hudson – $15
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