The format once again will be 3 movies, one of them at the theater.
This year’s nominees:
-God Grew Tired of Us
-4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days
-Shutter Island
Please contact Chad Edwards on the location.
Monday, February 15, 2010
2010 Movie Festival Dates, Location and Nominees
The 5th Annual Movie Festival will take place February 19, 20 and 21 . This year’s festival will take place in Athens, Georgia.
The format once again will be 3 movies, one of them at the theater.
This year’s nominees:
-God Grew Tired of Us
-4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days
-Shutter Island
Please contact Chad Edwards on the location.
The format once again will be 3 movies, one of them at the theater.
This year’s nominees:
-God Grew Tired of Us
-4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days
-Shutter Island
Please contact Chad Edwards on the location.
Sunday, December 14, 2008
2009 Movie Festival Dates and Location
The 4th annual Movie Festival will take place January 23, 24 and 25. This year's festival will take place in Greenville, South Carolina.
This will be the first time the festival will leave Atlanta GA. Like in previous years, there will be three movies viewed - two on Saturday, one on Sunday. Nominations for the Movie Festival are taking place right now, and voting will begin shortly after all the movies are nomintated.
An announcement will be made after the nomination vote.
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Movie Festival a success (yet again!)
The third version of the Movie Festival was another success!
Saturday started by partaking in leftover Super Bowl brews from Stef's party (or Oregon pinot with organic chocolate truffles if you're me). We then sat down to watch the wild, trippy and visually mesmerizing Waking Life. That was the perfect starter as it left us with a lot of questions and pondering many philosophical points. After the film, we headed off to Fatt Matt's Rib Shack where we feasted on some great southern barbecue. Pulled pork sandwiches, ribs, brunswick stew, you name, we had it. And it was wonderful. To end the first evening, we headed off to The Tara to catch The Savages. Brilliant acting and an honest portrail of two adults going through some trying times and forced to make some very difficult decisions. I think we all enjoyed it, and it was a perfect nightcap for our first evening.
The second day of the Movie Festival started with watching Mysterious Skin at Stef's. It was intense and had some very brave and incredible performances. I think we all agreed that it was a very tough movie to watch, but we got a lot out of it and we all ended up liking it. We closed the festival by going out for brunch at the Flying Biscuit.
All in all, the 3rd Annual Movie Festival was a success. We enjoyed some good food and got to spend a lot of time with each other n- something of a premium these days. And we also got to sit down and watch some movies that perhaps we wouldn't have watched on our own if it wasn't for this festival. And for that I'm very glad.
Look forward to doing this again next year, when hopefully we'll have an even bigger turnout.
PS - I'd like to thank Thomas, Paul and Donna for traveling such great distances for the festival (Chad and I didn't really have an excuse for not coming, but props to those guys for making the long road trip). And many thanks to Stef for doing another great job of hosting.this event. And lastly the Kovacs for providing a warm place to sleep in Saturday night!
Saturday started by partaking in leftover Super Bowl brews from Stef's party (or Oregon pinot with organic chocolate truffles if you're me). We then sat down to watch the wild, trippy and visually mesmerizing Waking Life. That was the perfect starter as it left us with a lot of questions and pondering many philosophical points. After the film, we headed off to Fatt Matt's Rib Shack where we feasted on some great southern barbecue. Pulled pork sandwiches, ribs, brunswick stew, you name, we had it. And it was wonderful. To end the first evening, we headed off to The Tara to catch The Savages. Brilliant acting and an honest portrail of two adults going through some trying times and forced to make some very difficult decisions. I think we all enjoyed it, and it was a perfect nightcap for our first evening.
The second day of the Movie Festival started with watching Mysterious Skin at Stef's. It was intense and had some very brave and incredible performances. I think we all agreed that it was a very tough movie to watch, but we got a lot out of it and we all ended up liking it. We closed the festival by going out for brunch at the Flying Biscuit.
All in all, the 3rd Annual Movie Festival was a success. We enjoyed some good food and got to spend a lot of time with each other n- something of a premium these days. And we also got to sit down and watch some movies that perhaps we wouldn't have watched on our own if it wasn't for this festival. And for that I'm very glad.
Look forward to doing this again next year, when hopefully we'll have an even bigger turnout.
PS - I'd like to thank Thomas, Paul and Donna for traveling such great distances for the festival (Chad and I didn't really have an excuse for not coming, but props to those guys for making the long road trip). And many thanks to Stef for doing another great job of hosting.this event. And lastly the Kovacs for providing a warm place to sleep in Saturday night!
Saturday, February 9, 2008
3rd Annual Movie Festival Selections
The three movies have been selected by the panel for 3rd Annual Movie Festival.
At Stef's place:
Mysterious Skin
Gregg Araki's riveting drama, based on a novel by Scott Heim, brings together two unlikely heroes (played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Brady Corbet): a young man who makes a living by selling his body on the streets and another who's convinced he was once abducted by aliens. It seems they have unspeakable tragedy in common as both of them discover they were abused as children. What results is a friendship built on despair but rife with hope.
Waking Life
Director Richard Linklater's mesmerizing animated film follows a young man (Wiley Wiggins) as he floats in and out of philosophical discussions with a succession of eccentrics and passionate thinkers, all the while uncertain whether he's conscious or dreaming. Thanks to each character's oddball charm, the ethereal conversation is as dynamic as the animation, resulting in an innovative film that is by turns droll, disturbing and provocative.
At the movies:
The Savages
Carrying the emotional scars of an abusive childhood, siblings Wendy Savage (Laura Linney, in an Oscar-nominated role), a long-aspiring playwright, and Jon Savage (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a professor of drama, now face the challenge of caring for their ailing elderly father, Lenny (Philip Bosco), despite their emotional disconnect from him and each other. Tamara Jenkins (Slums of Beverly Hills) wrote and directed this indie drama.
The movie festival will take place next weekend, February 16-17, in Atlanta. Specific movie times will be announced later.
At Stef's place:
Mysterious Skin
Gregg Araki's riveting drama, based on a novel by Scott Heim, brings together two unlikely heroes (played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Brady Corbet): a young man who makes a living by selling his body on the streets and another who's convinced he was once abducted by aliens. It seems they have unspeakable tragedy in common as both of them discover they were abused as children. What results is a friendship built on despair but rife with hope.
Waking Life
Director Richard Linklater's mesmerizing animated film follows a young man (Wiley Wiggins) as he floats in and out of philosophical discussions with a succession of eccentrics and passionate thinkers, all the while uncertain whether he's conscious or dreaming. Thanks to each character's oddball charm, the ethereal conversation is as dynamic as the animation, resulting in an innovative film that is by turns droll, disturbing and provocative.
At the movies:
The Savages
Carrying the emotional scars of an abusive childhood, siblings Wendy Savage (Laura Linney, in an Oscar-nominated role), a long-aspiring playwright, and Jon Savage (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a professor of drama, now face the challenge of caring for their ailing elderly father, Lenny (Philip Bosco), despite their emotional disconnect from him and each other. Tamara Jenkins (Slums of Beverly Hills) wrote and directed this indie drama.
The movie festival will take place next weekend, February 16-17, in Atlanta. Specific movie times will be announced later.
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
And The Nominees Are...
...well, can't quite give out the nominees yet. But the panel has received the list of movies and we are in the process of voting for them.
This year's list of nominees includes at least one movie from the 70s, 1 documentary, a few foreign flicks, an Oscar nominee, etc. They're little known to most people, but they look like gems to me. Interesting, good actors and for the most part critics have been kind to them.
We'll have the votes in by Friday...so this Saturday we'll know the movie lineup for the 3rd Annual Movie Festival.
This year's list of nominees includes at least one movie from the 70s, 1 documentary, a few foreign flicks, an Oscar nominee, etc. They're little known to most people, but they look like gems to me. Interesting, good actors and for the most part critics have been kind to them.
We'll have the votes in by Friday...so this Saturday we'll know the movie lineup for the 3rd Annual Movie Festival.
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
3rd Annual Movie Festival - Info
3rd Annual Movie Festival
Dates: Feb 16 - Feb 17, 2008
Where: Stef's apartment (can't pass up the 61" screen!)
Movies: Nominations are still coming in, panel will vote on them soon
Schedule:
Saturday afternoon - watch movie #1, Stef's place
Saturday dinner - dinner & movie discussion, Stef's place
Saturday night - watch movie #2, Stef's place
Sunday lunch - go out for a quick lunch
Sunday early afternoon - watch movie #3, at the theater
Sunday afternoon - final movie discussion
Dates: Feb 16 - Feb 17, 2008
Where: Stef's apartment (can't pass up the 61" screen!)
Movies: Nominations are still coming in, panel will vote on them soon
Schedule:
Saturday afternoon - watch movie #1, Stef's place
Saturday dinner - dinner & movie discussion, Stef's place
Saturday night - watch movie #2, Stef's place
Sunday lunch - go out for a quick lunch
Sunday early afternoon - watch movie #3, at the theater
Sunday afternoon - final movie discussion
A little history....
The year: 2005. Chad, Stef, Paul and I decide to share our love for movies with our need to interact, eat some good food, drink a couple of cold ones discuss movies for a whole weekend. We decide to hold a 3 day long barrage of movies. It was originally thought to be only one category for the whole weekend, changing every year....so for example, we'd focus on Spanish movies of the 1980s one year, Humphrey Bogart movies the next year and movies involving violins the next year. But we scaled it down a good bit, to 4 movies voted by our original panel. 1 on Friday, 2 on Saturday, and a last one on Sunday. 4 movies in the weekend, and at the end we hold a vote on the favorite one.
Pretty simple stuff really. But we made it official and democratic.
We added Heather, Erin and Rob to our selection panel. Each member of the panel nominates any 2 movies they wish to nominate, and then we vote on our two favorite ones. We'd each bring a dish and basically spend all weekend together.
The end result? A lot of great movies, great food and a great time hanging out with friends.
2006
Feature Films:
Grizzly Man
Murderball
Waiting...
Bottle Rocket
2007
Feature Films:
The Edukators
The Red Violin
Blood Diamond
2008
????
Pretty simple stuff really. But we made it official and democratic.
We added Heather, Erin and Rob to our selection panel. Each member of the panel nominates any 2 movies they wish to nominate, and then we vote on our two favorite ones. We'd each bring a dish and basically spend all weekend together.
The end result? A lot of great movies, great food and a great time hanging out with friends.
2006
Feature Films:
Grizzly Man
Murderball
Waiting...
Bottle Rocket
2007
Feature Films:
The Edukators
The Red Violin
Blood Diamond
2008
????
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