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Prescott Film Festival was a smashing success with filmmakers from all over the world coming together to share their vision.
Shelagh Carter’s Passion Flower was the win- ner of best Narrative Feature and best New Director as it chronicled the story of Shel- agh’s early life dealing with a mother with mental illness, a profoundly moving piece that captivated audiences. Thanks to Helen, Deb, Sean and the rest of the staff of the fes- tival that found their stride in their new loca- tion and new time of the year. We’ll see you next year in July at the Yavapai Performing Arts Center!
The College of Arts & Letters Film Series at Northern Arizona University celebrates its tenth year! Congrats to Paul Helford and Paul Donnelly who culled over 250 films to curate this semester’s Classic Series focusing on: “Families: Not Your Typical Family Series.” According to Donnelly, “all the good family films are about dysfunctional families.” Local experts contribute informative introductions to the films and the “two Paul’s” lead post- screening discussions. All shows are at 7PM on Tuesday nights at Cline Library. (Free parking behind library.)
8/28/12 – My Man Godfrey, directed by Gregory La Cava, starring William Powell and Carol Lombard; 1936, 94 minutes, Un- rated, (with cartoon). A dizzy socialite hires a homeless man as her butler in what may be the zaniest comedy in early Hollywood days.
9/4/12 – Make Way for Tomorrow, directed by Leo McCarey, starring Victor Moore, Beu- lah Bondi; 1937, 93 minutes, Unrated, (with cartoon). This lost masterpiece explores an elderly couple that loses their home and must separate during the depression. It’s a story that represents today in many sad ways. Heartbreaking.
9/11/12 – Rebecca, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Lawrence Olivier and Joan Fontaine, 1940, 136 minutes, TV-PG. Hitchcock won his lone Best Picture Oscar for this tale about a naïve young woman who marries a rich brooding widower, who is haunted by the death of his first wife.
9/18/12 – Shane, directed by George Ste- vens, starring Alan Ladd and Jean Arthur,
1953,118minutes,Unrated(withcartoon).A retired gunfighter settles with a family look- ing for a quiet life, but circumstances force him to strap on the guns one more time. A western classic!
9/25/12 – Sweet Bird of Youth, directed by Richard Brooks, starring Paul Newman, Geraldine Page and Rip Torn, 1962, 120 min- utes, Unrated. Tennessee William’s great play about a faded film star who returns to his home town and the trouble he left behind with his old girlfriend and her father. Brooks’ a genius, relish!
NAU’s International Film Series focuses on “Dreaming Big” for its fall season. A diverse group of Academy nominated and winning films tops the bill as the university presents international culture through cinema. Astrid Klocke says each of the films is graced with a character that wants something big, that dreams big. All shows are at 7PM in room 120 of the Liberal Arts Building. Parking in P11 lot. Discussions follow with a great array of academic specialists demonstrating their love of film. Films are unrated, viewer discre- tion is advised.
9/5/12 – Departures, directed by Yojiro Takita, Japan, 2008, 130 minutes. Winner of Best Foreign Language Film 2009. Diago moves back to his hometown after losing his job as a cellist. There he finds work as a funeral professional who prepares bodies for burial. Diago takes pride in his work as he uncovers the powerful emotions behind life and death.
9/19/12 – Cinema Paradiso, directed by Guiseppe Tornatore, Italy, 1989, 123 minutes. This is the director’s cut and winner of the Best Foreign Film in 1989. A young boy in a small town is hypnotized by a movie theatre and its kind hearted Projectionist. An hom- age to “the movies” of the highest order!
9/26/12 – Amelia, directed by Jean-Piere Jeunet, France, 2001, 121 minutes. This fairy tale like film follows a shy young woman, who people underestimate, as she blossoms into a woman and finds her place in the world. A magical coming of age story that’s a pure delight, don’t miss!
On Saturday, September 1, 2012 the Mu- seum of Northern Arizona will screen the award winning documentary film: The Re- turn of Navajo Boy. The film tells the story of a reunited Navajo family and the federal investigation into uranium contamination in the Monument Valley region. Also showing with this feature is the short: Water is Life, a documentary that explores the sacredness of water and how industrialization ruins the traditional way of life for Navajo communi- ties.
The Sedona International film Festival continues its run of great films and extra cur- ricular activities at the Mary D. Fisher The- atre in Sedona, also bringing up films once a month to Harkins Theatres in Flagstaff.
At the Mary D. Fisher Theatre in Septem- ber: Check sedonafilmfestival.com for times and descriptions of these films.
9/4 - 9/7/12 — Farwell My Queen and Why Stop Now.
9/12 - 9/14/12 — 360 starring Anthony Hopkins.
9/14 - 9/21/12 — Arbitrage starring Rich- ard Gere.
9/18 - 9/21/12 — Delicacy
9/25 - 9/28/12 — Beloved and The Manhat- tan Shorts Festival.
Special events in September include “Bal- let in Cinema:”
Monday 9/10 — La Bayadere.
Monday 9/17 — La Source.
Monday 9/24 — Move to Move
Finally, live from New York City’s 92nd Street
Y: Thursday 9/13 Conversations with “Relevant Octogenarians” featuring Rupert Murdoch, Ed Koch and Paul Volcker.
And get to Harkins Theatre in Flagstaff, Wednesday 9/12/12 at 7PM for an outra- geous comedy, perfect for the election year. Grassroots is the bizarre over the top true sto- ry of a candidate who actually cares. Imagine that! A Q&A with Director Stephen Gyllen- haal will follow the screening. Don’t miss this film fans!
On 9/11/12 in the SBS Building #70, off of McConnell Drive, on the south side of cam-
pus in Room 107 there will be a screening of AE911Truth, a short film about the falling buildings on 9-11-01 and A Noble Lie, a fea- ture on the Oklahoma City bombing. Doors open at 6PM.
The official narrative: 19 guys from the Middle East, directed from caves, took down a multi-trillion dollar defense system and successfully terrorized a nation “seems” like a conspiracy theory and would be “if” it was uttered by anyone but our patriarchal gov- ernment. “Do you believe your own eyes, or do you believe what we tell you” has be- come a litmus test for being a good passive American. A Noble Lie demonstrates that first responders and local media got it right the first day in Oklahoma, but the narrative was snatched by the Mainstream Corporate Me- dia to tell us another fairy tale.
“Whoever controls the past, controls the present and the future.” – George Orwell. Over 1700 architects and engineers for 911 Truth use only scientific evidence to show the buildings came down on 9-11-01 by de- molition. Check out AE911Truth.org . The government’s narrative is that the buildings came down due to two air planes and their jet fuel, but if that’s true, what happened to building #7, a forty-seven story building, which was not hit by a plane and came down at 5:20PM in the afternoon? That’s the smok- ing gun, the “magic bullet,” that’s the one that gets the dominoes to fall for the rest of the fairy tale.
As the distance becomes greater, people become less fearful of the implications of the truth and like the JFK assassination, someday 90% of Americans will no longer believe the “official magic falling building” story. (The official narrative defies the laws of physics and gravity, which the architects and engineers demonstrate.) Investigate on your own, weigh the evidence; narrative and counter narrative, and see which one makes sense to you. Also, a $50 prize for best one page review of A Noble Lie. Also, the first 25 people to show up get copies of the film Blueprint for Destruction.
| Bob Reynolds makes mince of conspiracies. bob699669@hotmail.com
A still from Departures, at NAU’s International Film Series.
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