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THE 23 BOSTON FILM FESTIVAL
AMC LOEWS THEATRES
SEPTEMBER 14-21
Friday, September 14
Saturday, September 15
Sunday, September 16
Monday, September 17
Tuesday, September 18
Wednesday, September 19
Thursday, September 20
Friday, September 21
| Friday, September
14 Opening Night Film and Party |
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| 7:30PM | Grace is Gone | Director *James Strouse, starring John Cusack, 92 min |
| 10:00PM | OPENING NIGHT PARTY | Mantra 52 Template Place, Boston, 02111 617-542-8111 |
| * Be one of the first 100 tickets sold to the film and have your ticket stamped at the BFF table and you'll get into the party free! (value $150) | ||
| Saturday, September 15 | ||
| 12:00-2:00PM | The Price of Sugar | Director *Bill Haney, Narrated by Paul Newman, 90 min |
| 2:30-3:30PM | Calvin and Sweetpea | *Director Jon Fletcher 52 min |
| Synopsis: The children of a woman dying from Alzheimer's struggle with whether their father's treatment of their mother in the final years of her life absolves him from the previous fifty. | ||
| 4:00-6:00PM | Mo | 105 min |
| Synopsis: Mo’s just another kid trying to fit in and find his way, however he suffers from a genetic mutation called "Marfan Syndrome, which makes his adolescent trials all that more difficult | ||
| 4:00-6:00PM | In The Crease | Director *Michael Sarner, 90 min |
| Synopsis: IN THE CREASE is the first film to take an inside look at youth sports and what it means to kids and their families by charting the roller-coaster ride of a real life teenage hockey team's pursuit of a national championship. The film also features interviews from 15 NHL Stars sharing their own on the ice triumphs growing up playing the game. | ||
| 7:00-8:30PM | Oldest Basketball Team in The World | Director *Sharon McGowan, 47 min |
| Synopsis: This documentary follows 'The Retreads', a women's basketball team with an average ago of 72 as they train for the World Masters Games. Alone in their age category, The Retreads find they must play against three younger, stronger and faster teams. | ||
| 7:30-9:30PM | Lars and The Real Girl | Director *Craig Gillespie, starring Ryan Gosling, *Emily Mortimer, Patricia Clarkson, Paul Schneider, 120 min |
| 8:00-11:00PM | JERRY WEINTRAUB TRIBUTE | with GEORGE CLOONEY |
| 8:30-10:30PM | Team Everest | *Andy Cockrum, 111 min |
| 10:00PM-12:00AM | Lars and The Real Girl | Director *Craig Gillespie, starring Ryan Gosling, *Emily Mortimer, Patricia Clarkson, Paul Schneider, 120 min |
| Sunday, September 16 | ||
| 12:00-2:30PM | Come Walk in My Shoes | Director *Robin Smith, 57 min |
| Synopsis: Civil rights pioneer John Lewis revisits the churches, parks and bridges where he played a pivotal role in the struggle for equality and voting rights in the segregated south. | ||
| Lost and Found in Mexico | Director *Caren Cross, 53 min | |
| Synopsis: Lost and Found in Mexico starts out light-hearted but becomes a thought-provoking and inspiring look into the hearts and minds of people who exchanged the American dream for life in third world Mexico. | ||
| 12:00-2:00PM | Short Program A | 122 min |
| The Ladies | Dir/Prod: Christina Voros. 13 min | |
| Synopsis: 75 years since the first marriage, 50 since the Hungarian Revolution, 25 since the last divorce, two sisters continue to cling to their craft, their grudges and each other. | ||
| A.W.O.L. | Dir: Jack Swanstrom Prod: Jessica Wethington, 22 min | |
| Synopsis: A Twist of Fate Can Be Torture. | ||
| Coney Island | Dir/Prod: Ramen Cromwell, 26 min | |
| Synopsis: A GUY down on his luck finds himself lost in Coney Island where he meets a woman he mistakes for a MERMAID. They spend the day together and dream about running off to start a new life. | ||
| These Boots are Made for Walken | Dir/Prod: Jeremy Pack, 25 min | |
| Synopsis: A man has committed himself to a mental institution believing he is Christopher Walken. His brother finds him and enlists his help in a heist so that he wants to get out of the institution. | ||
| A Driving Lesson | Dir/Prod: Darren Press, 25 min | |
| Synopsis: It is a lovely autumn day and Leslie has taken her daughter Brooke out for a driving lesson on a quiet country road. And as in any mother/daughter relationship, things do not remain quiet. | ||
| The Baglady Diaries | Dir:Tyler Purcell Prod/starring:Laney Fichera, 10 min | |
| Synopsis: Wanda Shapiro a very successful, yet egocentric talent agent spontaneously combusts; confirming, that we all may be, just one deal away from the streets. | ||
| Sweetpea | 14 min | |
| 3:00-5:00PM | The Union: The Business of Getting High | Director *Brett Harvey, 105 min |
| Synopsis: After noticing the effects of the illegal marijuana trade industry on his business, a young night club owner dives head first into the underground market. From buried train cars, to Harvard professors and pop culture icons, join Adam Scorgie as he attempts to unravel the mystery of 'The Union'. | ||
| 4:00-6:00PM | Rails & Ties | Director *Alison Eastwood, starring *Kevin Bacon, Marcia Gay Harden, 120 Min |
| 5:30-7:30PM | MetroSexual | Director *Adam Kaufman, starring Shaun Benson, Nick Paonessa, Mya Harrison, Colm Meaney, 84 min |
| 6:00-8:00PM | Todd English and BONFIRE Party | |
| Synopsis: In “The Metrosexual”, Eric Bremer elevates “typical male behavior” with his obsessive attention to appearance, manners, and a preference for the finer things in life. | ||
| 8:30-10:30PM | Good Luck Chuck | Director *Mark Helfrich, starring *Dane Cook, Jessica Alba, 120 min |
| 9:00-11:00PM | Rails & Ties | Director *Alison Eastwood, starring *Kevin Bacon, Marcia Gay Harden, 120 |
| Monday, September 17 | ||
| 1-3PM | Short Program B | 120 min |
| The Art of Stalking | 14 min | |
| Alternate Endings | 14 min | |
| Massacre at Murambi | 5 min | |
| D 4 Delivery | 13 min | |
| The Ride | 17 min | |
| Case 13 | 13 min | |
| On The Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres | 16 min | |
| The End of Magic | 16 min | |
| August | 16 min | |
| The Bag Lady Diaries | 5 min | |
| December Story | 12 min | |
| Why | 7 min | |
| 3:30-5:30PM | Street Cleaner | Director *Nathaniel Nauert, 34 min |
| Synopsis: A prostitute gets kidnapped and held in a small room, but not for the reasons one would expect. | ||
| Rose | Director Ava Karvonen, starring Kathryn Robinson, Phillip Rogers, 33 min | |
| Synopsis: Little Travis lives for one day a year, the day he goes into the woods to meet his best friend Rose. The ghost of a murdered, runaway teenage girl, Rose returns to the woods once a year to relive her final hours to the last detail. | ||
| CNN Hero Mountain Top Removal | Director *Michael Cusack O’Connell 74 min | |
| Synopsis: Mountain Top Removal explores the issue of mountaintop removal coal mining through the actions of coal field residents and citizen conservation groups. | ||
| 5:00-7:00PM | Filmmaker Reception | Strega Restaurant |
| 6:00-8:00PM | Bobby Dog | Director *TK Reilly, Starring Mike Boland, Dawn McGee, Joshua Eddy, 115 min |
| 6:00-8:00PM | Short Program B | 120 min |
| Alternate Endings | Dir/Prod: Elisabeth Fry, 14 min | |
| Synopsis: The story of a successful photojournalist who is caught in the crossfire of a Los Angeles gang war. As she recovers from her physical injuries, she is forced to confront the dark emotional pain of her past. | ||
| Massacre at Murambi | Dir/Prod: Sam Kauffmann, 5 min | |
| Synopsis: Does the way we responded to the genocide in Rwanda tell us about who we are as members of the 'Global Village' and predict our response to Darfur? | ||
| D4 Delivery | Dir/Prod: Heland Lee, 13 min | |
| Synopsis: Living in New York City can be perilous...especially when you lead the life of a Chinese food delivery man. Murders and assaults happen daily but go unreported. | ||
| The Ride | Dir./Prod: Brian Ide | |
| The film takes us on a ride with Paul Revere and shows us what really happened on that fateful night in Boston. | ||
| Case 13 | ||
| On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres | Dir/Prod: Jason Mann | |
| Synopsis: A microcosm of ecclesiastical tension in the United States that depicts one family at the mercy of a Mid-western town after trying to stop the mandatory prayer in the local high school. | ||
| The End of Magic | ||
| August | ||
| A Bump In The Night | Dir/Prod: Benjamin Kitchens, 6 min | |
| Synopsis: A smoky control room is the center of salvation. A small team of scientists and engineers stands poised delicately between the world and unspeakable destruction. The future of the earth is in the past and one man is being sent to retrieve it. Will he survive, or will he encounter something unlike anything he has ever experienced? | ||
| December Story | ||
| Why? | 7 min | |
| 7:00-9:00PM | Trade | Director *Marco Kreuzpaintner, starring Kevin Kline, *Alicja Bachleda, Paulina Gaitan, Cesar Ramos, Producer *Roland Emmering, 90 min |
| Synopsis: Trade is the riveting story of what happens to 13-year-old Adriana after she is kidnapped by sex traffickers in Mexico City and her 17-year-old brother, Jorge, who sets off on a desperate mission to save her. | ||
| 9:30-11:30PM | Good Luck Chuck | Director *Mark Helfrich, starring *Dane Cook, Jessica Alba, 120 min |
| Tuesday, September 18 | ||
| 4:00-6:00PM | Short Program C | 121 min |
| Super 16 | 17 min | |
| Taxista | 21 min | |
| Lebenswandel | 22 min | |
| The Masquerade | 16 min | |
| The Hikeaway | 16 min | |
| Perle | 10 min | |
| Turn Back South | 11 min | |
| Love Story | 13 min | |
| The Art of Stalking | Dir/Prod: Amitabh Klemm, 14 min | |
| Synopsis: Leo is infatuated with Kate, has been following her for some time, and needs to know part of her feels the same way towards him. One night Leo discovers someone dangerous also following Kate. He takes it upon himself to protect her, and everything goes horribly wrong. | ||
| 6:00-8:00PM | Everybody Wants To Be Italian | Director *Jason Todd Ipson, Jaime Burke, starring Cerina Vincent, Dan Cortese, *Jay Jablonski, *John Kapelos, John Enos III, 103 min |
| Synopsis: It's a case of mistaken ethnicity, when two non-Italians pretend to be Italian to win each other's hearts in Boston's North End. | ||
| 5:00-7:00PM | Filmmaker Reception | Umbria Restaurant |
| 6:30-8:00PM | Million Calorie March | Director *Gary Marino, starring Brian Baldwin, Dan Jones, Russ Surette, Julie Marino and Dr. Howard Rankin, 95 min |
| Synopsis: Million Calorie March follows the journey of recovering food addict, Gary Marino, whose weight loss inspired him to launch a national Walk for Obesity and become a healthy activist for change. Marino uses his Florida to Boston walk to raise funds to fight childhood obesity | ||
| 8:30PM | Stiffs | Director *Frank Ciota, starring *Danny Aiello, *Leslie Ann Warren, 80 min |
| Wednesday, September 19 | ||
| 4:00-6:30PM | Greetings From The Shore | Director *Greg Chwerchak, starring Paul Sorvino, Jay O' Sanders, *Kim Shaw, *David Fumero, 118 min |
| Synopsis: A coming of age film in the tradition of “Mystic Pizza” and “Dirty Dancing” | ||
| 5:00-7:00PM | Filmmaker Reception | 33 Restaurant and Lounge |
| 6:00PM-9:15PM | Short Program | 114 min |
| The Masquerade | 16 min | |
| In The Land of Merry Misfits | Director *Kevin Ungaro, Producer *Maria Menounos, 98 min |
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| Synopsis: It’s Will’s loss of love and his desire for revenge that drives him through a mystical tunnel and into a strange universe. | ||
| 7:00-9:00PM | Take | Director *Charles Oliver, starring Minnie Driver, Jeremy Renner, *Adam Rodriquez, 99 min |
| Synopsis:The lives of two strangers, a struggling mother and a gambling addict, converge in unspeakable tragedy. | ||
| 9:30-11:15PM | Strength and Honour | *Director
Mark Mahon, starring *Michael Madsen, 104 min |
| Synopsis: A single father decides to break his dying wife's last wish to not box again in order to save his young son from certain death | ||
| 9:30-11:00PM | In Search of Puppy Love | Director *Wendy Diamond, 78 min |
| Synopsis: It's the story of one woman's heartfelt search to discover whether the same unconditional love, loyalty and soulful bond people experience with their dogs can be paralleled in a human relationship. Can she find the right breed! | ||
| CLOSING NIGHT Thursday, September 20 |
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| 5:00-7:00PM | CLOSING NIGHT Party | MIEL RESTAURANT At The Intercontinetal |
| 4:00PM | Golden Days | Director *Chris Suchorsky, 95 min |
| 5:00-6:30PM | Beyond The Call | Director *Adrian Belic, 82 min |
| 7:00-8:00PM | Who Ordered Tax | Director *Kevin Bright, Linda Feferman, 30 min |
| 8:00-10:00PM | New York City Serenade | Director *Frank Whaley, starring *Freddie Prinze, Jr. Chris Klein, Jamie Lynn Sigler, Wallace Shawn, 95 min |
| Synopsis: New York City Serenade tells the story of lifelong friends Owen and Ray and the series of events that lead to their final farewell. Freddie Prinze, Jr. and Chris Klein are Owen and Ray. | ||
| 7:15-8:00PM | Love Sees No Color | *Starring Nassiri, 30 min |
| Synopsis: "Love Sees No Colors" is a one-of-a-kind 12-minute musical sung in 15 languages by thousands of children in 18 countries by 18 of the world's most talented directors. Nassiri began filming this visually stunning short film in the fall of 2006 as a launching pad for the Nassiri World Peace Foundation | ||
| 8:30-10:30PM | The Poet | Director *Damien Lee, starring Daryl Hannah, Jonathan Scarfe, Nina Dobrev, *Zachary Bennett, Roy Scheider, Kim Coates, 91 min |
| Synopsis: At the dawn of WWII, a Rabbi’s daughter and a disenchanted German soldier fall in love and are separated by the war. They struggle on a perilous journey to find one another. | ||
| Friday, September 21 | ||
| 3:00-5:00PM | Short Program D | 119 min |
| Odesa | Dir/Prod: Ian Midgley, 13 min | |
| Synopsis: A young American is trapped in a Ukrainian hospital as he battles fever. | ||
| Archer House | Dir: Dina Gachman Prod: Mary Posatko, 17 min | |
| Synopsis: A young outcast braves the petit four-fueled skits and cult-like rituals of a Texas sorority. | ||
| Silence | Dir/Prod: Aldo Paternostro, 18 min | |
| Synopsis: A film shot in reverse- an unsentimental yet intimate story about how the absence of words affects a young couple's future. It is about the frailties of love and an examination of what happens when two people want different things and are afraid to accept it. | ||
| Shawn and Sean Search For God | Dir/Prod: Rosario Pellerito, 18 min | |
| Synopsis: Shawn and Sean go on a journey with one thing on there mind; God. 'Shawn and Sean Search for God is a heartfelt comedy about the struggles two naive men face as they go on a quest to find 'God'...literally. When things don't pan out as expected, they must make a decision. Keep going or give up. | ||
| Wonderful, Wonderful | 17 min | |
| Sexy Thing | Dir: Denie Pentecost Prod: Heather Oxenham, 14 min | |
| Synopsis: On a dry suburban day, a 12 year old is caught between the conflicting worlds of family, friendship and imagination. Struggling to endure a confusing love, and longing simply to be seen, the child survives by transforming pain. | ||
| Lucifer | 8 min | |
| Synopsis: This is the story of an exalted angel, charismatic, even heroic, who sat at the right hand of God presumed to be the “chosen one” to rule the Kingdom of Heaven. But this angel whose fierce pride fueled an ambition that would corrupt his judgment, alienate him from his closest friend, divide the heavenly host into two warring factions and ultimately bring Sin and Death to mankind. | ||
| 6:30-8:30M | High and Outside | *Bill Spaceman Lee, Director *Peter J. Vogt |
All films are shown at AMC Loews
Boston Common
175 Tremont Street
Boston, MA 02111
Showtimes: 617-423-3499
Guest Services: 617-423-5801
* denotes Guest appearances
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the boston film festival. all rights reserved.