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 USA

10 Italian Lessons
(Italy/USA,2007, 6 mins)
Future Filmmaker Showcase: High School Shorts
plays in High School Program 2
Saturday, June 21st 3:00pm
Italian Cultural Institute
$5.00


Sunday, June 29th 6:15pm
Italian Cultural Institute
$5.00



2X2
(USA,2007, 4 mins)
Future Filmmaker Showcase: High School Shorts
plays in High School Program 2
Saturday, June 21st 3:00pm
Italian Cultural Institute
$5.00


Sunday, June 29th 6:15pm
Italian Cultural Institute
$5.00



A: Head, B: Body
(USA,2007, 14 mins)
Short Film Competition
precedes Mechanical Love
Thursday, June 26th 7:00pm
Mann Festival Theatre
$12.00


Saturday, June 28th 10:00pm
The Landmark
$12.00


Organ transplantation was a frontier field back in the '50s, when Dr. Robert White, a neurosurgeon in Cleveland, disturbingly did the impossible.  More...
The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela
(Iceland/Phillipines/USA,2008, 80 mins)
International Showcase
Thursday, June 26th 9:45pm
Mann Festival Theatre
$12.00


Sunday, June 29th 4:30pm
The Landmark
$12.00


Raquela, a charming and insightful Filipina transsexual longing for Parisian romances and a better life, takes the audience on a heartbreaking, profound and ultimately inspiring journey.  More...

The American President
(USA,1995, 114 mins)
Movies & More
Thursday, June 26th 8:00pm
Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum
$15.00


The American President brings a sense of humanity and warmth to the most unknowable of jobs. Join director Rob Reiner for an election-year conversation about his movie and its insider-smart portrait of modern politics.  More...
American Son
(USA,2008, 87 mins)
Summer Previews
Friday, June 27th 7:00pm
Majestic Crest Theatre
$12.00


Saturday, June 28th 3:30pm
Majestic Crest Theatre
$12.00


With 96 hours before his deployment to Iraq, a young Marine struggles to deal with expectations of old friends, lingering family tensions and the excitement of new love.  More...
American Teen
(USA,2008, 103 mins)
Ford Amphitheatre Screenings
Wednesday, June 25th 8:00pm
John Anson Ford Amphitheatre
$12.00


From Academy Award®–nominated documentary filmmaker Nanette Burstein comes a captivating, intimate look into the lives of four teens during their senior year of high school in suburban Indiana.  More...
Anvil! The Story of Anvil
(USA,2008, 80 mins)
Galas
Thursday, June 26th 8:00pm
John Anson Ford Amphitheatre
$12.00


Following the obscure Canadian heavy metal band Anvil on a last-stint effort to gain much-belated stardom, this emotionally evocative documentary proves it is never too late to chase your dream.  More...

The Art of Failure: Chuck Connelly Not for Sale
(USA,2008, 65 mins)
Summer Previews
Friday, June 27th 7:30pm
Mann Festival Theatre
$12.00


Sunday, June 29th 4:30pm
The Landmark
$12.00


Painter Chuck Connelly should have been a star like Schnabel or Basquiat—but he's not. Combining unvarnished interviews and revealing home movies, Jeff Stimmel creates a striking portrait of the artist as his own worst enemy.  More...

Bad Blood: Supergrass
(USA,2008, 3 mins)
Music Videos
plays in Eclectic Mix 2
Sunday, June 22nd 4:30pm
Italian Cultural Institute
$12.00


Sunday, June 29th 7:00pm
The Landmark
$12.00


Baghead
(USA,2007, 81 mins)
Summer Previews
Friday, June 20th 10:00pm
Mann Festival Theatre
$12.00


Friday, June 27th 4:45pm
The Landmark
$12.00


In this improvisational comedy, four struggling actors head to a secluded cabin. When it seems they are being stalked, it's hard to know what's scarier: the thing in the woods or the awkward sexual tensions between them.  More...

Ballast
(USA,2007, 96 mins)
Summer Previews
Wednesday, June 25th 9:30pm
The Landmark
$12.00


Thursday, June 26th 7:00pm
The Regent
$12.00


Lance Hammer creates one of the year's most exciting debuts with a precise, moving, delicately modulated look at lives teetering on the brink, as a family struggles to come to terms with a death in their midst.  More...
Big Heart City
(USA,2007, 84 mins)
Narrative Competition
Tuesday, June 24th 7:00pm
The Regent
$12.00


Wednesday, June 25th 1:30pm
The Landmark
$12.00


Thursday, June 26th 10:00pm
The Landmark
$12.00


Frankie is a young man whose tales of domestic bliss are at odds with his mysteriously empty apartment in this taut look at life on the edges of a sun-blanched Los Angeles.  More...

Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story
(USA,2008, 91 mins)
Documentary Competition
Sunday, June 22nd 7:00pm
Mann Festival Theatre
$12.00


Monday, June 23rd 4:30pm
The Regent
$12.00


Friday, June 27th 1:45pm
The Landmark
$12.00


This fascinating and telling documentary about one-time GOP chairman Lee Atwater chronicles how, in the 1980s, he truly pioneered the modern art of hardball campaigning and solidified the GOP's hold on Middle America.  More...

Bye Bye Birdie
(USA,1963, 112 mins)
Free Screenings
Friday, June 20th 8:30pm
Broxton Ave.
FREE


Postmodern before such a concept much existed, Bye Bye Birdie is a razor-smart satire on show-biz and small-town Americana, as Ann-Margret wins a chance to kiss an Elvis-esque singer.  More...
Carlin
(USA,2007, 7 mins)
Short Film Competition
plays in Shorts Program 3
Sunday, June 22nd 1:30pm
Mann Festival Theatre
$12.00


Tuesday, June 24th 10:00pm
Majestic Crest Theatre
$12.00


As a tribute to his aunt, who suffers from diabetes and is ready to die, Carlin re-creates her life in the family farmhouse in this captivating piece of stop-motion animation.  More...
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