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RR1=Railroad Square Cinema screening room #1
RR2=Railroad Square Cinema screening room #2
OH=Waterville Opera House
All times are P.M. unless otherwise stated
7/13-9:15-RR2 reads July 13, 9:15 P.M. at Railroad Square Cinema
screening room #2
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Mid-Life Achievement Award:
Terrence Malick
A salute to one of the undisputed geniuses of the American cinema.
BADLANDS
Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek are young outcasts in love. When they
kill her overbearing father, they flee across the wide open spaces of the
West. A lyrical, one of a kind film. 7/15-9:45-RR1
DAYS OF HEAVEN
A story of migrant farm workers at the turn of the century, DAYS OF
HEAVEN is full of passion, drama, and has been called “the most beautiful
film ever made.” Stars Richard Gere and Brooke Adams. 7/14-7:00-OH
ENDURANCE
Malick co-produced this movie about Ethiopian Olympic champion Haile
Gebrselassie, who began his career running barefoot through his tiny African
village. 7/15-5:00-RR1
THE THIN RED LINE
Malick’s most recent film is an astonishing original with an amazing
cast: John Cusack, Nick Nolte, George  Clooney,
Adrien Brody, and Sean Penn (to name a few). Malick received two Oscar
nominations for this film, which follows a group of American soldiers during
the invasion of Guadalcanal in World War II. 7/15-6:30-RR2, 7/16-12:15-RR2 |
AIMEE AND JAGUAR
A dangerous love affair blossoms in 1943 Berlin when a Nazi officer’s
wife falls in love with a Jewish woman. Based on a true story. 7/8-7:00-RR2,
7/9-9:30-RR2
THE ANIMATED FILMS OF DEVON DAMONTE
Devon Damonte makes his unique, whimsical films entirely by hand, using
collage techniques and no cameras whatsoever. 7/9-9:15-RR1
BABY, IT’S COLD OUTSIDE (work-in-progress)
A sneak peek at a feature-length comedy being shot in Maine, with local
cast and crew . . . including an anteater. 7/15-7:00-OH
BENJAMIN SMOKE
The story of an idiosyncratic rock musician from rural Georgia who
becomes a local celebrity, even as he struggles with his own demons. 7/8-12:45-RR2,
7/11-7:00-RR2
BLINK
A white supremacist begins to question his views in this remarkable
documentary. 7/9-5:30-RR1, 7/10-9:00-RR1
CARAVAN: THE MAKING OF
World premiere of a short video that goes behind the scenes of our
Opening Night film. Special event - no admission. 7/8-4:30-RR1, 7/9-2:30-RR1,
7/11-6:15-RR2
CHILDREN OF THE STORK
Three outcasts, two of them lovers, find an injured stork on the road.
They adopt the bird and their journey takes a new turn. North American
premiere of the surprising new comedy from the director of LATCHO DROM
and GADJO DILO, Tony Gatlif. 7/8-5:15-RR1, 7/9-7:00-RR1
CLOSE TO LOVE
An affecting, passionate and edgily-told story of cross-cultural love
and tension, CLOSE TO LOVE finds a young Hungarian policeman falling in
love with a pregnant Chinese woman. 7/16-12:45-RR1
CREMASTER 2
A rare showing of Matthew Barney’s epic avant-garde western, which
combines spectacular beauty and a dream-like narrative. Stars author Norman
Mailer. 7/7-9:45-RR2, 7/15-9:30-RR2
DEEP TROUT TRILOGY
Maine filmmakers Abbott Meader and Walter Easton’s reflections on life,
the universe, and everything. World premiere of the final section. 7/11-7:00-OH
THE DREAM CATCHER
Two boys cross the country on a quest for family and meaning. “A beautiful
road movie about unlikely redemption”--Chicago Sun-Times. 7/13-7:00-OH,
7/15-3:00-RR2
THE EDGE OF THE WORLD
A 1930s classic by director Michael Powell (THE RED SHOES), in a restored
new version. Citizens of a remote, rocky Scottish island find their traditional
ways of life are changing?and soon the future of the town hangs in question.
7/8-5:15-RR2, 7/9-12:45-RR2
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A FORCE MORE POWERFUL
A fresh look at using nonviolent weapons to take power from oppressors,
from Gandhi to South Africa to the American South. Actual participants
tell their stories in their own words.7/12-4:45-RR2, 7/13-4:45-RR1
THE GIRL ON THE BRIDGE
Daniel Auteuil plays a failed knife-thrower and Vanessa Paradis plays
his new target. Love and chance combine in Patrice Leconte’s (MR. HIRE)
romantic anti-romance, the most exhilarating French film in years. 7/15-7:00-RR1
HELEN NEARING: CONSCIOUS LIVING, CONSCIOUS DYING
The lives of Scott and Helen Nearing, Maine authors and homesteaders.
7/14-5:15-RR1
A HERO FOR DAISY
One day in 1976 the women of the Yale rowing team decided it was time
for equality in sports--so they took matters into their own hands, changing
the playing fields forever.
7/13-7:00-RR1, 7/15-2:00-RR1
IDITAROD: A FAR DISTANT PLACE
Every year hundreds of mushers and sled dogs make the 1,000 mile trek
across the Alaskan wilds. These are the stories of three of them. 7/8-7:15-RR1,
7/9-12:45-RR1
JUDEX
Based on an early silent serial, JUDEX is set in a poetic world of
masked men, women in skintight cat suits, and midnight crimes. A rediscovery.
7/8-12:45-RR1, 7/12-5:00-RR1
JULIETTE OF THE HERBS
The true story of Juliette de Bairacli Levy, pioneer herbalist, who
traveled the world learning nature’s healing secrets. 7/9-7:00-OH, 7/10-5:00-RR1
KIRIKOU AND THE SORCERESS
A charming, award-winning animated film based on traditional African
folktales and mythology with an original soundtrack by Youssun N’ Dour.
7/13-7:15-RR2, 7/15-1:15-RR2, 7/16-5:30-RR2
LIVE FREE OR DIE
A small New Hampshire town is torn apart by the controversy over reproductive
rights.
7/8-4:00-RR2, 7/11-9:15-RR2
MIDSOMMAR-STORIES
Five vignettes about modern life from Germany. A lively blend of humor,
drama, and the everyday. 7/9-3:15-RR2, 7/13-5:00-RR2
MONEY BUYS HAPPINESS
A married couple on the verge of separation find themselves faced with
an unusual challenge: they must drag a piano through the streets of Seattle.
7/9-7:15-RR2, 7/10-4:45-RR2
THE MOST UNKNOWABLE THING
A filmmaker’s account of her brother’s struggle with AIDS becomes,
over the course of the years, a meditation on the unpredictable nature
of life itself. 7/8-2:45-RR2, 7/10-9:15-RR2
THE MUSIC VIDEOS OF NEW ORDER & MICHAEL SHAMBERG
Rarely-seen works by Jonathan Demme, William Wegman, and others, featuring
British band New Order. 7/8-9:30-RR2
ON GOLDEN POND
The classic film, starring Henry Fonda, Jane Fonda, and Katherine Hepburn,
presented by Academy Award winner Ernest Thompson, who set his screenplay
on the shores of Belgrade, Maine’s Great Pond. 7/16-12:45-OH
ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF ANDREI ARSENOVICH
Legendary French filmmaker Chris Marker (LA JETEE)’s take on the life
of famed Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky.
7/11-5:00-RR2, 7/15-3:30-RR1
ONE MORE DEAD FISH?
Conflict arises between local fishermen and commercial trawlers in
a small Nova Scotian town. Soon buildings are occupied and controversy
erupts, as the fishermen question governmental/corporate bonds and ecological
practices. 7/10-7:15-RR2, 7/15-5:00-RR2
OUR HOUSE
A very real documentary about the kids of gay and lesbian parents.
7/14-7:15-RR1, 7/15-12:45-RR1
PORTRAIT OF A COUNTRY SINGER: THE LIFE & TIMES OF DICK CURLESS
(work-in-progress)
Fairfield filmmaker Bill Chinnock’s study of
legendary Maine-born country artist Dick Curless, who had over 22 hit
singles in his epic career. 7/12-7:00-OH
POST CONCUSSION
When a young man gets hit by a car, his life changes forever in many
surprising ways in
this wry comedy. 7/10-7:00-OH, 7/11-4:45-RR1
SET ME FREE
13-year-old Lea, daughter of a Catholic mother and a Jewish father,
comes of age in 1960s Montreal. “Tender and perceptive”--Los Angeles Times.
7/12-9:15-RR1, 7/14-7:00-RR2
SIMON THE MAGICIAN
From Ildiko Enyedi (MY 20TH CENTURY) comes this movie in which Simon,
a rumpled Hungarian psychic, must solve a murder and take on a sorcerer’s
challenge. 7/10-7:00-RR1, 7/14-9:15-RR1
Kirikou
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CARAVAN
Academy Award nominee - Best Foreign Film. Eastern US premiere. A beautiful
fable of a mythic journey across the Himalayas, shot on location in Nepal.
Scenes of breathtaking splendor unfold as a band of villagers makes a treacherous
trek across the mountains.
7/7-7:00-OH, 7.8-12:30-RR1, 7/11-7:00-RR1
STEAL THIS MOVIE
Starring Janeane Garofalo and Vincent D’Onofrio, this is a
fictionalized account of the life and times of 1960s radical activist
Abbie Hoffman. An unforgettable portrait of a man and an era.
7/16-7:30-OH |
MAINE STUDENT FILM &
VIDEO AWARDS SCREENING
Excerpts of works by Maine’s most talented young
film and videomakers. 7/8-10:00AM-RR1
Spotlight on:
Lisa Krueger
Two excellent (and acclaimed) films make Lisa Krueger one of the brightest
new directors in American film.
COMMITTED
Heather Graham is a woman determined to find her errant husband--and
win him back, no matter what the cost. 7/8-7:15-OH, 7/9-12:45-OH
MANNY & LO
Krueger’s wise and wonderful debut, about two runaway sisters. When
one of them realizes she’s pregnant, they kidnap a nurse.
Unexpectedly, the three women become
something awfully like a family. 7/8-2:45-RR1 |
Spotlight on:
Bruce McDonald
The wildest thing to come from Canada since the hockey brawl, McDonald
is a one of a kind artist with a unique style
and a smart sense of humor.
DANCE ME OUTSIDE
Life on the Kidabanesee reservation is easy, until Silas’ sister returns
home with her new husband, who is both white (!) and a yuppie (!!!). 7/14-4:45-RR2
HARD CORE LOGO
A fictional punk band hits the road for a cross-Canada tour. They’re
ready for Edmonton, but is Edmonton ready for them?
7/13-9:15-RR2
HIGHWAY 61
A meek young barber finds himself on a journey from Ontario to New
Orleans, accompanied by a corpse, a casket of cocaine, and a man who seems
to be the devil himself. 7/15-1:00-OH
ROADKILL
On a mission to find a missing rock band, Ramona meets a serial killer-in-training
(it was either that or play hockey, he explains),
and a film crew in search of a film. 7/14-9:30-RR2 |
SNAKE TALES
Stranded in a remote Texas town, a woman uses the traditional
art of storytelling to keep herself out of jail. Stories unfold within
stories in this Southwestern Thousand and One Nights.
7/9-3:15-RR1, 7/12-7:15-RR1
SPACE MUTANTS MUST DIE
Terrifying! Shocking! And . . . incredibly, horribly, true!
7/7-11:30-RR1, 7/8-11:30-RR1
STOP MAKING SENSE *Pizza Party*
Jonathan Demme’s classic record of the Talking Heads’ 1983
concert tour. One of the all-time great rock movies, served at
MIFF with free pizza and dancing in the aisles.
7/14-11:30-RR1, 7/15-11:30-RR1
THE TERRORIST
19-year-old Malli has been raised since birth to be a suicide bomber.
But on the eve of a crucial assignment, she finds herself beginning to
question the mission she’s been given. A ravishingly beautiful film from
India.
7/7-7:15-RR2, 7/11-9:15-RR1, 7/16-3:30-RR2
UNDER THE SUN
A lonely farmer in rural Sweden places a personal ad. A beautiful woman
responds, but she has secrets in her past. One of this year’s Oscar nominees
for Best Foreign Film. 7/8-9:30-RR1, 7/12-7:00-RR2
THE WISDOM OF CROCODILES
Jude Law stars in this taut new British thriller.
7/7-9:30-RR1, 7/9-5:15-RR2
WONDERLAND
A long weekend in contemporary London, in which a group of sisters
search for love among West End pubs and cafes. From director Michael Winterbottom
(JUDE, WELCOME TO SARAJEVO).
7/7-7:00-RR1, 7/12-9:30-RR2, 7/13-9:00-RR1 |
