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Quotable
"For the denizens of Hollywood, the term 'global film' usually refers to their ability to send STAR WARS, PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN and X-MEN to countries as disparate as China, Dubai, Belgium and Nigeria. For the 60,000 movie fans expected to descend on this year's AFI FEST, which kicks off tonight with the premiere of Emilio Estevez's BOBBY, the term will translate into movies from around the globe."
- Rachel Abramowitz, Los Angeles Times, November 1, 2006
"Nostalgia will be the dominant theme at this year's AFI Los Angeles International Film Festival. Understandably enough, since this is the 20th anniversary of the American Film Institute's sponsorship of LA's most respected movie orgy. But to take the historical theme even further, the 2006 event, in a classy move, is also recognizing 15 years of FILMEX, the gargantuan LA film festival that, in its voracious way (at its mid-1970s peak, it was the world's largest film festival), brought all the possibilities of international and independent cinema to the movie business' nerve center for the first time."
- Bob Strauss, Los Angeles Daily News, November 1, 2006
"A festival lives and dies based on its programming, and in the last few years, I've enjoyed a lot of what I've seen at the AFI FEST. Getting exclusive premieres of high-profile titles is certainly one way to put your festival on the map, but it's the overall line-up that really counts."
- Drew McWeeny (a.k.a. Moriarty), aintitcool.com, November 1, 2006
"At the AFI film fest's BOBBY opening night last night, applause was so enthusiastic it was hard to hear the rousing just-recorded end credits song co-written by Bryan Adams and duetted by Aretha Franklin and Mary J. Blige. Harvey Weinstein is clearly hoping AFI's track record of launching award biggies continues with BOBBY. He's certainly proud of the film and who knows, with the Academy's recent predilection toward human dramas (CRASH, MILLION DOLLAR BABY), the Oscar maestro just might get his wish."
- Pete Hammond, Hollywood Wiretap, November 2, 2006
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