Presented by the College of Media at Illinois April 21-25, 2010 The Virginia Theatre 203 W. Park, Champaign (217) 356-9063 Ebertfest.com !"#$%&'()*$%+'$,#-(.%#$%/'/#0(,'/%,1% !"#$%&'(#)*%+%,-./%0"#1)- 56789:886 56:89:858 231,"%0)'(,'/% /#$,#40,#-'%-#),5(.%61)./$% +)17%,"'#)%#7(8#4(,#14$9: 2%0"()-%,3)-4 !"#$%&'($%)*+&,-./&,$+)-01.& !"#"$ +23$45.$ "6&$0$7)+ FILM SCREENINGS AT THE VIRGINIA THEATRE LIVE WDWS ON-AIR INTERVIEW Wednesday, April 21, 2010 Please Tune In to WDWS-AM 1400! 7:00 pm Pink Floyd The Wall Wednesday, April 21, 2010 10:00 pm You, the Living 9:00 am - 10:00 am Jim Turpin’s (WDWS)Ebertfest Interview Thursday, April 22, 2010 Noon Munyurangabo 3:00 pm The New Age ACADEMIC PANEL DISCUSSIONS 8:00 pm Apocalypse Now Redux Thursday, April 22, 2010 Friday, April 23, 2010 9:30 am – 10:45 am 1:00 pm Departures Getting the Damned Thing Made Moderated by Nate Kohn 4:00 pm Man with a Movie Camera Pine Lounge, 1st Floor 8:00 pm Synecdoche, New York Friday, April 23, 2010 Saturday, April 24, 2010 9:00 am – 10:15 am 11:00 am I Capture the Castle Do Film Students Really Need to Know Much About 2:00 pm Vincent: A Life in Color Classic Films? 4:30 pm Trucker Moderated by Eric Pierson 9:00 pm Barfly Pine Lounge, 1st Floor Sunday, April 25 10:30 am – 11:45 am The Global Web of Film Lovers Noon Song Sung Blue Moderated by Omer Mozaffar Pine Lounge, 1st Floor SPECIAL POST-FESTIVAL SCREENING Sunday, April 25, 2010 WORKSHOP 4:30 pm The Soloist Free and open to the public Saturday, April 25, 2010 The Champaign County Anti-Stigma Alliance is pleased to announce that they will have a special showing of THE SOLOIST 9:00am -10:30 am immediately following the close of Ebertfest (April 25). The An Amateur Guide to No Budget Filmmaking Alliance was formed to challenge disability discrimination and Moderated by Don Tingle promote education and awareness. This screening will be at the Illini Union/General Lounge, 2nd Floor Virginia Theatre at 4:30 pm and it will free to the public. The screening will be followed by a panel of guest speakers. Shop Apple On Campus Save when you buy a Mac at Illini Apple Center. Based on the University of Illinois campus, our store is proud to ofer resources for students, faculty and staf. See our website for exclusive deals. 512 E. Green Street, In The Heart of Campus www.illiniapplecenter.com Store Hours: 217.337.3116 Mon–Sat: 9am–6pm Sun: Noon–5pm 2 12th Annual Roger Ebert’s Film Festival !"#$%#$& Welcome from Roger Ebert . .4 MOVIE REVIEWS WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21, 2010 Welcome from President Stanley O. Ikenberry . .6 Pink Floyd The Wall(7pm) . 30 You, the Living (10pm) . 32 Welcome from the College of Media . .9 THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 2010 Festival Dedication. 11 Munyurangabo (noon) . 36 The New Age (3pm) . 38 Complete Schedule of Events. 12 Apocalypse Now Redux (8pm) . 40 Important Information about the Festival . 17 FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 2010 Departures (1pm) . 44 Dining Tips. 19 Man with a Movie Camera accompanied by the (4pm) . 46 Festival Guests . 21-29 Alloy Orchestra Synecdoche, New York (8pm) . 50 Festival Sponsors . 68 SATURDAY, APRIL 24, 2010 A Look Back at Last Year’s Festival . 71 I Capture the Castle (11am) . 54 Vincent: A Life in Color (2pm) . 56 Special Thanks. 75 Trucker (4pm) . 60 Barfl y (9pm) . 62 Parking Information and Area Map. 77 SUNDAY, APRIL 25, 2010 Bringing Apocalypse Now to Today . 78 Song Sung Blue (noon) . 64 Presented by the College of Media at Illinois Ebertfest.com April 21-25, 2010 The Virginia Theatre Presented by the The Virginia Theatre 203 W. Park, Champaign 203 W. Park, Champaign (217) 356-9063 Ebertfest.com College of Media at Illinois (217) 356-9063 April 21-25, 2010 "#$%&'# to the 12th Annual Roger Ebert’s Film Festival This year's festival is dedicated to John Hughes and Eric Rohmer From Roger Ebert and represents their agreed-upon final cut. Anyone familiar with ometimes it seems to me film and sound editing and with Ebertfest is not so much “Apocalypse Now” will realize !a film festival as a revival that Murch in some ways is its meeting. We have a special re- co-author. lationship with the movies, and I saw the film for the first time here we gather with others of our at its world premiere at Cannes. It persuasion. We love a big screen is a film that cries out to be seen and great sound. We enjoy being on a big screen, with surround part of an informed, like-minded sound. If you never have, in some audience. We detest 3-D and the sense you haven’t seen it at all. marketing mind-set that goes At the other end of the budget along with it. We are open to all scale, we’ll honor “Munyuran- forms of movies, from 16mm to gabo,” a brilliant feature filmed 70mm, from silents to talkies, in Rwanda, and its director, the from wide-screen to the clas- Arkansas-born Lee Isaac Chung, sic 1:1.33, and from all over the writer, Samuel Gray Anderson, world. and co-producer Jenny Lund. This began as the Overlooked The film received acclaim after Film Festival, “for films that its initial screenings in the Un have been, or will be, wrongly Certain Regard, section at Cannes; overlooked.” Some filmmakers I missed that year’s festival, and were understandably not eager to asked Chung for a DVD. It deeply have their works so labeled. Now Drawing by Roger Ebert touched me. After blogging about we simply celebrate films. I don’t it, I heard from its admirers from have a set of criteria in my selec- a blog entry about it, however, I waves his coats to tourist boats all over, and most interestingly tions. It’s more that I see a film received an outpouring of agree- passing under bridges on the Chi- from a former high school teacher and am seized with the desire to ment about its greatness. cago River. of Chung’s in Arkansas, who share it with the Ebertfest family. This is one of those films, like This film was recommended to painted a portrait of a bright, cu- Again this year, our principal “It’s a Wonderful Life,” that will me by my Sun-Times colleague rious student. emcee will be the ebullient Chaz go directly from failure to time- Neil Steinberg, who wrote about Our free Saturday morning Ebert, who assists with the festi- less classic without going through it in his column. Like many Family Matinee will showcase the val at every stage. I hope to play an intermediate stage of suc- Chicagoans, I’d noticed Vincent inspired 2003 film “I Capture the a larger role, but warn guests: The cess. Indeed, if you give it some P. Falk around the Loop--how Castle,” based on the beloved new computer voice you’ve heard thought, “It’s a Wonderful Life” could I not?--and was moved by novel by Dodie Smith. It tells the about doesn’t allow me to “speak wouldn’t have been such a bad the fullness and joy of his life story of a real family living in a again.” I type, it talks. It’s just title if it weren’t already taken. in the face of impaired vision. I real castle with real problems. that it sounds more like me. I feel it’s a singular, stand-alone, invited it, and soon found myself Like all of our family films, it’s “Synecdoche, New York” is this one-off film, like “Metropolis,” exchanging e-mails with Vincent, definitely not for children only. It year’s poster child. I believe many “2001,” the works of Tati, “My whose visit this year will mark was produced by our friend Anant of its early viewers simply never Winnipeg,” “Songs from the Sec- a return to his old stomping- Singh from South Africa. understood what the film was ond Floor,” or anything by Bela grounds at the University. It helps illustrate a feeling I’m demonstrating, or how. Trained Tarr. Walter Murch, the Academy getting, that modern “children’s on countless shallow linear narra- Perhaps at the other end of Award-winning sound and film films” work actively to dumb tives, they were unaccustomed to the fame scale, we’ll have an ap- editor, will appear after our gi- down our children. With their a film which, in its content and pearance by, and Jennifer Burns’ ant-screen presentation of a bright colors, simplistic stories structure, was about life itself-- lovely documentary about, Vin- newly restored print of Francis and reliance on repetitive action, and Charlie Kaufman’s constant cent P. Falk, the man in the coats Ford Coppola’s great film “Apoca- they’re like fast food, giving an subject, the workings of the hu- of many colors who is a regular lypse Now Redux.” This is the immediate rush but no nutrition. man mind (“Being John Malkov- outside the State Street windows version of the great film that Children instinctively like good ich,” “Adaptation”). When I wrote of Channels 7 News, and often Murch supervised with Coppola, movies, but then the bad ones 4 12th Annual Roger Ebert’s Film Festival drive out the good. They love woman who believes in the literal formal beauty of the film. Note can see we haven’t forgotten our “2001” until they see “Transform- word of scripture.