![]() ![]() Photo by Michael Roberts Among the offerings is Anna and the Apocalypse (11:45 p.m. "We put together a six-film focus, including a couple of documentaries and several narratives spread throughout the program." "We also have a new sort of spotlight section on U.K. These offerings are hardly the only ones with an international flavor at the festival. Saturday, November 10, at the UA Pavilions, and its director, Éva Gárdos, will be on hand for both screenings. He also lauds Budapest Noir, which he describes as "a pretty straightforward throwback noir film." The flick will unspool (figuratively, at least) at 6:30 p.m. It's a very strange little film, and also a really interesting one." It's the story of a refugee who is wounded crossing the border into Hungary, and after that happens, he flies up into the sky in sort of a martyr-like pose - but he's an unwilling martyr. But Jupiter's Moon is sort of a magical realism film. They started closing down borders and made a right-wing switch. When it started, a lot of refugees were flowing into Hungary, and it really affected the political bent of the country. Sunday, November 11, at the UA Pavilions, "a really unusual look at the Syrian refugee crisis. He calls Jupiter's Moon, screening at 8:45 p.m. Thus far, Withey has caught two of the Hungarian films included in the fest. He has deep ties to many of the film-sale agents who work with Hungarian films, and when he and I went to the Berlin Film Festival in February, we noticed a fair amount of films from Hungary in the program and decided to go that way." Withey reveals that Denver Film Festival co-founder Ron Henderson "came in and programmed the Hungarian section. The eleven days of DFF41 that follow will include screenings of more than 200 films long and short, including ten from Hungary, this year's country of focus. Here's a look at the trailer for The Favourite. I think it's a great choice for opening night." ![]() We would definitely want to play it in the festival, but a red carpet?' This one seems to be a step in a different direction, though. If someone came to me and said, 'Are you considering a film of his for one of your red carpets?,' I would have said, 'Oh, no. "They're quirky and they push some buttons. This time around, Stone plays the impoverished cousin of Lady Sarah (Rachel Weisz), the companion to Queen Anne (Olivia Colman) in an eighteenth-century England conjured up from the twisted imagination of Lanthimos, whose previous films, including 2015's The Lobster, are "an acquired taste," Withey admits. Everyone who I've talked to who's seen it says it's really remarkable."Īs a bonus, the film's biggest name, Emma Stone, is a fest favorite thanks to her appearance at the Ellie in 2016 on behalf of La La Land, a thoroughly entertaining modern musical for which she went on to win the Academy Award for Best Actress. "I've seen everything he's made before, and this one sounds amazing. "I'm a huge fan of his films," the Denver Film Festival's Brit Withey says of Yorgos Lanthimos, director of The Favourite, which opens the 41st annual edition of the Mile High City staple tonight during a red-carpet presentation at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House. Today he spotlights a selection for October 31, The Favourite, and provides an overview of other festival highlights. There she is, a human being, diving into the unknown, and she is wide awake.Again this year, Denver Film Festival artistic director Brit Withey is offering his must-see picks for each day of the fest - including many flicks that movie lovers might otherwise miss amid the flood of silver-screen goodies. Each time I see the woman leap off the seventy-eighth floor of the North Tower-one high-heeled shoe slipping off and hovering up over her, the other stuck on her foot as though it were too small, her blouse untucked, hair flailing, limbs stiff as she plummets down, one arm raised, like a dive into a summer lake-I am overcome by awe, not because she looks like Reva, and I think it's her, almost exactly her, and not because Reva and I had been friends, or because I'll never see her again, but because she is beautiful. And I continue to watch it, usually on a lonely afternoon, or any other time I doubt that life is worth living, or when I need courage, or when I am bored. I watched the videotape over and over to soothe myself that day. Trevor was on a honeymoon in Barbados, I'd later learn, but Reva was lost. “On September 11, I went out and bought a new TV/VCR at Best Buy so I could record the news coverage of the planes crashing into the Twin Towers. ![]()
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