 OPENING NIGHT GALA O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU?
Thursday, October 19, 7:30 pm US Premiere
USA, 2000, 106 minutes A blend of high adventure, humor and heartfelt emotion, O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? is written and directed by Joel & Ethan Coen, two of today's preeminent filmmakers who put their own unique modern-day spin on Homer's classic tale of THE ODYSSEY. Everett Ulysses McGill (George Clooney) is a silver-tongued petty criminal doing hard time in a Mississippi prison. Reluctant to spend any more time crushing rocks, he scams his way off the chain gang with a clumsy duo: sweet and simple Delmar (Tim Blake Nelson) and the maladjusted Pete (John Turturro). The trio embarks on the adventure of a lifetime, as they set out to pursue their freedom and the promise of sharing a fortune in buried treasure.
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 CENTERPIECE GALA BEFORE NIGHT FALLS
Monday, October 23, 7:30 pm
USA, 2000, 125 min. Anchored by a brilliant script and a magnificent performance by Javier Bardem, BEFORE NIGHT FALLS won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2000 Venice Film Festival. Based on posthumous memoirs, the film charts the life of exiled Cuban novelist and poet Reinaldo Arenas from childhood to his death from AIDS in 1990. With Andrea de Stefano, Olivier Martinez, Johnny Depp, Sean Penn and Michael Wincott.
 AWARDS CEREMONY & CLOSING NIGHT GALA QUILLS
Thursday, October 26 6:30 pm Awards Ceremony
USA, 2000, 123min. Academy Award winner Geoffrey Rush stars as the notorious Marquis de Sade whose blasphemous writings are encouraged by a God-fearing priest, Abbe de Coulmier (Joaquin Phoenix), who believes in curing the insane through his humanistic principles. As Coulmier urges him to write, "to purge his evil thoughts upon the page," an adoring chamber maid, Madeleine LeClerc (two time Academy Award nominee Kate Winslet) abets the Marquis' cause and smuggles the scandalous writings out of the asylum for publication. Both risk everything for the Marquis, until a new doctor (Academy Award winner Michael Caine) arrives at Charenton hell-bent on "curing" the Marquis of his nasty writing habit by any means necessary.
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 PHILIP KAUFMAN
Wednesday, October 25, 7:00 pm Philip Kaufman's career spans nearly 40 years and numerous awards. We celebrate this highly-decorated auteur with a special tribute. Kaufman classics that will screen throughout the Festival include: HENRY AND JUNE, THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING, THE RIGHT STUFF, INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS, THE WANDERERS and THE WHITE DAWN. His latest film, QUILLS, will screen as part of the Closing Night Gala.
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