DAY SIX  November 8, 2005
AFI FEST DAILY WRAP
compiled by Brent Simon
AFI FEST 2005 celebrated another night of star-studded premieres and parties yesterday... SXSW hosted a party in the Cinema Lounge while FUCK's filmmakers celebrated in The Loft at AFI FEST's Rooftop Village... FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS--the second film of AFI FEST 2005's Johnny Depp retrospective--also screened, in advance of the actor's highly anticipated arrival for a special feting on Friday, November 11... The International Shorts Competition debuted at the Mann Chinese 6, the first of four consecutive evening runs at that venue... At a post-screening Q&A for writer/director Jeff Stanzler's SORRY, HATERS--which
enjoyed its US Premiere at the Festival--audience member Jack Nicholson peppered the filmmaker with questions about the movie's roots in the events of September 11 and the "growing madness" in the world... Star Robin Wright Penn, meanwhile, good-naturedly admitted that she and Stanzler often disagreed about whether or not her character was at all sympathetic (he was a yes, she says no)... After the screening, the Penns, Nicholson, Harry Dean Stanton and others enjoyed a private party at the Cabana Club... While the alcohol flowed there, the cursing flowed even more freely at the Q&A with Steve Anderson after the World Premiere of the documentary FUCK, where the director exhorted the audience to yell his film's title along with him... Veronique Courtois, President of Casque D'Or Films, announced today that the company has acquired the US non-theatrical rights of the Spanish hit comedy THE HOLD-UP (EL PALO), starring Carmen Maura and Maribel Verdu.
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