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The 2011 Salem Film Festival
NW Emerging Artist Winning Films are
Both films will have an encore screening
TONIGHT, October 20th at 7PM at Salem Cinema
KIDS FOR KIDNAPPING
NORTHWEST EMERGING SHORT WINNER!
 Filmmaker Justin Zimmerman in attendance
Directed by Torrance Maurer.
United States. (14 mins.) Drama
When a single mother needs an evening of childcare one discretion leads to the next as her children take matters into their own hands. Kids For Kidnapping delves into a dark and seedy adventure as the two young siblings' antics spiral into the unknown only to learn a harsh truth about love.
HOME: THE STORY OF VALSETZ
NW EMERGING FEATURE WINNER! Filmmaker Ronan Feely in attendance Film hosted by Jeff Hart
& Barbara Wigginton Directed by Ronan Feely
United States. (78 mins.) Documentary
This is the story of a lumber town, set deep in Oregon's coastal range. Like so many other logging towns, it grew from humble roots to hold a special place in the hearts of all who lived there. For the children who lived there, life was idyllic, playing with friends and neighbors in the safety of the forest. For the adults, the old growth trees provided bounteous wood for the town's mill, meaning steady, well paid work. This was a tight community. But unlike its contemporaries, Valsetz was a company town, leaving it as vulnerable to the forces of economics as it was to the nature which surrounded it. This is the story of that town and the people who lived and worked there. A town that was wiped from the face of the earth. Not by fire, wind or flood, but by the people who owned it. This is the story of Valsetz.
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Thursday, October 20th
 doors open at 5:00PM at Salem Cinema; 5:45PM at High Street
FINAL SHOWING
5:45PM THE WOODMANS Salem Cinema
Francesca Woodman's haunting black and white images, many of them nude self portraits, now reside in the pantheon of great photography from the late 20th century. The daughter of artists Betty and George Woodman, Francesca was a precocious RISD graduate who came to New York with the intention of setting the art world on fire. But in 1981, as a despondent 22 year-old, she committed suicide.
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FINAL SHOWING
6:30PM MY JOY Salem Cinema
Shot by master cinematographer Oleg Muto (The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days), My Joy, the first fiction film by acclaimed documentarian Sergei Loznitsa, is a mischievous, ultra-nihilistic parable of post-Communist Russia. When truck driver Georgi takes a wrong turn and finds himself lost in a bleak Russian underworld, he is suddenly caught in a spiral of violence and abuses of power. Sucked into the everyday madness of his country, losing his health and memory in the process, Georgi struggles to survive amidst increasingly vehement reminders of the country's dark past. Read more...
 FINAL SHOWING6:30PM RAPT High Street Cinema
Sprawling and inventive, Rapt is a solid, finely constructed thriller. On the eve of his visit to China as part of the entourage of the French president, the rich and powerful industrialist Stainslas Graff is kidnapped outside of his home by a commando group. What follows is a terrifying sparring match between kidnappers, police and the board of the company of which Graff is the director. Completely cut off from the rest of the world, and only aware of what the kidnappers tell him, Graff cannot understand why his friends and family are taking their time to pay the demanded ransom. Read more...
 7:00PM NW EMERGING ARTIST WINNERS Salem Cinema
& Justin Zimmerman in attendance
With a combined vote from audience and special jury, this year's winning feature film is Home: The Story of Valsetz and the winning short film is Kids For Kidnapping!
FINAL SHOWING
7:45PM LOOK, STRANGER Salem CInema
WEST COAST PREMIERE
 Look, Stranger is a psychological portrait of a woman traveling home in a war torn world. Set in the urban wastelands and desolate forests of an unidentified world at war, Look, Stranger tells the story of a woman making a dangerous journey home from a refugee camp. When her guide is killed on the road in an arbitrary act of violence, the woman is forced to rely on an angry and disillusioned carrier, who agrees to travel with her for a price. Read more... |
Friday, October 21st
doors open at 5:15PM at Salem Cinema
 EXCLUSIVE SHOWING6:30PM CASE SENSITIVE Salem Cinema WEST COAST PREMIERE
Filmmaker Gil Kofman in attendanceCase Sensitive is a psychological thriller about an internet star, MissTulips22, who contrives her own abduction to get more subscribers to her video blog channel. Unfortunately, one of her fans, Lee, takes her plight seriously, and upon trying to rescue her, ends up killing her "captor", who turns out to really be her boyfriend. Rather than reporting the death, a frightened and angry Lee decides to continue entertaining  viewers with scenes from an abduction that has taken a sharp turn from fiction to fact. But having recently been exposed as an internet fraud, no one believes MissTulips' online pleas for help. Read more...
immediately followed by BEHIND THE SCENES DOC TALK
Filmmakers Tanner Barklow King & Gil Kofman in attendance
Stick around for the BEHIND THE SCENES DOC TALK and YOU may end up in Tanner Barklow's film about Gil Kofman's experience making Case Sensitive in China! Read more...  |
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HEY THERE FILM LOVERS!
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Opening Friday, October 21st at Salem Cinema
  
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"High praise for Vera Farmiga, a stunner of an actress, who makes HIGHER GROUND, her directing debut, with the same bold instincts for sharp humor and harsh truths that mark her performances." - Peter Travers, Rolling Stone Click here for showtimes!
"Actress Vera Farmiga's directing debut, the drama HIGHER GROUND, is amazingly graceful. The movie centers on Corinne (played by Farmiga), who joins and, a decade later, breaks away from a fundamentalist religious order. Flushed with hope, wonder and heartbreak, Farmiga frames the film as a kind of love story, beginning with Corinne opening her eyes underwater, at the moment of her baptism, seeing men smiling down like heaven's welcoming committee. She doesn't ever want to come up for air. In an editing coup, Farmiga cuts from her face underwater to the face of Corinne decades earlier, also underwater, a child holding her breath in a bathtub, escaping the fighting of her flirty mom (Donna Murphy) and angry, alcoholic dad (John Hawkes). Farmiga and cinematographer Michael McDonough (WINTER'S BONE) know how to frame the actors loosely yet catch the emotions that count: the ecstasy of harmony, the despair of dissonance as well as Farmiga's satiric brilliance and her deeply sympathetic imagination. What a delicate balance this movie is, with enough religious fervor to discomfit the skeptics and enough skepticism to discomfit the religious. Farmiga has a sure, naturalistic touch and her film is complicated and unresolved in the best kind of way. Her Corinne is a miracle of ambivalence." - David Edelstein, New York Magazine
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"THE FUTURE's gentle humor and imaginative digressions won me over, perhaps saying things that other works of fiction say all the time, but saying them in a creative way." - Eric D. Snider, Film.com Click here for showtimes!
"The fantastical whimsy of Miranda July's THE FUTURE is delicate and fragile. Nice, sensitive, feckless, uncertain and tentative, Sophie (July) and Jason (Hamish Linklater) have been together about four years. They live in a sort of indefinitely attenuated present tense. They occupy a small apartment furnished by the accumulation of playful and ironic possessions. They have low-maintenance jobs adequate to support their undemanding lifestyle. He works on a help line for a tech company. She teaches dance to children. They are held together by habit, by familiarity with each other's peculiarities, by fond inertia. But change comes when they decide to adopt a sick cat, a full-time task that unexpectedly tips the balance. Sophie and Jason, who despite all their self-conscious drifting, are collaborating on a rather elaborate and defined idea of how to live. We are all on a voyage through life, but sometimes we even forget we're on a ship. Not these two. I see them standing side by side, leaning on a rail at the stern, focusing on the departure of the waves. On the surface, this film is an enchanting meditation. At its core is the hard steel of individuality." - Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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"In RESTLESS, Van Sant and his longtime cinematographer, Harris Savides, caress the faces of youth with a poet's eye for beauty and pain."
- Peter Travers, Rolling Stone Click here for showtimes! "He's a good-looking young man who attends the funerals of strangers and talks to the ghost of a Japanese kamikaze pilot. She's a lovely blond pixie who also attends funerals, mostly those of fellow cancer patients. They both dress with tasteful eccentricity. RESTLESS' delicate love and death balance, the near-surreal beauty of its young actors, the inevitable eventual confrontation with reality, all might combine for a twee dance to disaster. But they don't. Credit director Gus Van Sant (MILK, MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO) for guiding the tone with a sure hand, but also credit stars Mia Wasikowska and, in his first feature film, Henry Hopper, son of the late Dennis Hopper. Wasikowska (JANE EYRE), such an effortless actress, nails the emotion of bigger scenes. Working with the ethereal Hopper - the resemblance to his father is haunting and effective here - the two conjure up a fragile beauty that's undeniable. RESTLESS is consciously lovely in the face of death. How rare." - Tom Long, Detroit News Visit the official RESTLESS website and watch the trailer! 
MIDNIGHT IN PARIS captures the nostalgic whimsy of Woody Allen's playful past. It's a smart comedy, magical in all the right ways! Click here for showtimes! Light, brisk and breezy, MIDNIGHT IN PARIS is a chic and stylish love letter to the City of Lights. Owen Wilson stars as Gil, a struggling screenwriter vacationing in Paris with his beautiful fiancée (Rachel McAdams) and her family. Gil's romantic notions to become a novelist carry him to the cafes and down the cobblestone streets once walked by his beloved, luminous artistic and literary legends: Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald. He finds magic as the clock strikes midnight, and, able to merge and mingle with the Paris of his dreams, experiences a renewed passion and exuberance for life. Woody Allen delivers his most charming and imaginative film in decades, a carefree, vibrant and witty escape with the divine allure reminiscent of STARDUST MEMORIES and THE PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO! Visit the official MIDNIGHT IN PARIS website and watch the trailer! |
SHOWTIMES FOR OCTOBER 21 - OCTOBER 27, 2011Please visit our website often!
Salem Film Festival Closing Night!  CASE SENSITIVE Not Rated. (94 mins.)
Friday 10/21 ... 6:30
Following the screening of the director's cut of Case Sensitive, Tanner and Gil plan to show a bit of the version that was released in China versus theirs, and hold a filmed discussion on what it's like for an eager American director/writer to work on a government sanctioned, independent commercial film in the People's Republic of China. Moreover, they will be presenting some footage of the "behind the scenes" documentary they are in the process of editing about the entire experience, and will be shooting new footage during the on-going discussion with the Salem audience that will hopefully end up in the hilarious film they are assembling.
Salem Film Festival Encore Screenings!  TAKE ME HOME
Monday 10/24 ... 12:30
Thom Colvin isn't having a good day. After getting turned down by a photogrpahy agency, Thom finds his landlord throwing all of his belongings out into the hall way. With no job prospects and no place to sleep, Thom must turn to his recurring last resort: driving his illegal taxicab around the streets of New York.
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 EL BULLI: COOKING IN PROGRESS
Monday 10/24 ... 12:30
Three-star chef Ferran Adria is widely considered the most innovative and craziest chef in the world. In his kitchen, that which was once familiar disintegrates. Each year, his restaurant El Bulli closes for six months - time for Adria and his culinary team to retire to his Barcelona cooking laboratory to create the new menu for the coming season. From the initial experimentation to the premiere of the finished dish, with many an ingredient examined in a totally new way, we are whisked away on a delightfully savory escape. Read more...
HIGHER GROUND Rated R. (109 mins.)
Friday 10/21 ... 6:00; 8:30Saturday 10/22 ... (*3:30); 6:00; 8:30 Sunday 10/23 ... (*2:45); 5:15; 7:45 Monday 10/24 ... (*12:30) ; (*5:15) ; 7:45 Tuesday 10/25 ... (*5:15) ; 7:45 Wednesday 10/26 ... 7:00 Thursday 10/27 ... 7:00 (*Bargain Shows)
THE FUTURE
Rated R. (91 mins.)
Friday 10/21 ... 8:30Saturday 10/22 ... (*3:45); 6:00 Sunday 10/23 ... 5:30; 7:45 Monday 10/24 ... (*5:30) ; 7:45 Tuesday 10/25 ... (*5:30) ; 7:45 Wednesday 10/26 ... 7:00 Thursday 10/27 ... 7:00 (*Bargain Shows)
RESTLESS Rated PG-13. (91 mins.)
Friday 10/21 ... 6:00Saturday 10/22 ... 6:00; 8:30 Sunday 10/23 ... (*3:00) ; 5:30 Monday 10/24 ... (*5:30) Tuesday 10/25 ... (*5:30) Wednesday 10/26 ... 7:00 Thursday 10/27 ... 7:00 (*Bargain Shows)
MIDNIGHT IN PARIS
Rated PG-13. (94 mins.)
Friday 10/21 ... no showings Saturday 10/22 ... (*3:45) ; 8:30 Sunday 10/23 ... (*3:00) ; 7:45 Monday 10/24 ... 7:45 Tuesday 10/25 ... 7:45 Wednesday 10/26 ... no showings Thursday 10/27 ... no showings (*Bargain Shows)
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COMING SOON TO SALEM CINEMA!
Attack The Block
The Hedgehog
Martha Marcy May Marlene
Take Shelter
The Skin I Live in
Shame
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