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NARRATIVES EAST COAST PREMIERE EAST COAST PREMIERE The AdderAll THE AMERICANS THE AUTOMATIC HATE BAND OF RObbers DIARIES AN EPISODE FROM THE THE Directed by Justin Lerner Directed by Adam Nee & Aaron Nee with James Franco, Ed Harris CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED SHOW USA / 2015 / 97 minutes USA, France / 2015 / 95 minutes Directed by Pamela Romanowski FOLLOWED BY AN IN DEPTH DISCUSSION WITH SHOWRUNNER Upstate Films WOODSTOCK USA / 2015 / 87 minutes JOE WEISBERG Thur Oct 1 • 9:00PM Upstate Films WOODSTOCK Fri Oct 2 • 7:00PM WOODSTOCK Playhouse Orpheum Theater SAUGERTIES Fri Oct 2 • 10:00PM Upstate Films WOODSTOCK Sat Oct 3 • 7:30PM ROSENDALE Theatre Sat Oct 3 • 2:15PM Sat Oct 3 • 2:15PM Orpheum Theater SAUGERTIES COURTESY OF FUNFILM Sat Oct 3 • 5:00PM COURTESY OF FX How would you react if you Expertly adapting the characters COURTESY OF A24 discovered everything you thought from Mark Twain’s seminal stories you knew about your family turned into the 21st century, Band of Adapted from Stephen Elliott’s STINGERS out not to be so? After an enigmatic Robbers is a clever escapade that true crime memoir of the same visit to his dying grandfather and the truly honors the essence of its name, The tells the unflinchingly SEASON 3, EPISODE 10 source material. We meet thrill- honest story of Elliott (James Philip and Elizabeth deploy a surprise appearance of an alluring plan for the C.I.A.’s Mujahideen and whimsical young woman claiming seeking Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer Franco), a once-successful novelist as young boys pursuing adventure. paralyzed by writer’s block and in visitors. Tensions at the Jenning’s to be his cousin, Davis Greene home escalate. discovers a family he never knew But the authorities have a different the thrall of an Adderall addiction, concept of fun, and after being who becomes fascinated by a high- Nominated for numerous awards existed. Gingerly, he allows himself and two-time winner of the AFI to be seduced into uncovering the released from his latest stay in profile murder case as a way to prison, petty crook Huck hopes to escape his personal struggles. As Best TV Program of the Year,is an past. But as estranged cousins Davis exciting Cold War series about two and Alexis grow close to each other, leave his criminal activities behind. Elliott delves into the twisted case But lifelong friend and corrupt and its motley crew of suspects, Soviet intelligence agents posing they discover the dark secret that as a married couple to spy on the shattered the relationship of their police officer Tom has a different he is haunted by the memories of idea in mind. In a final endeavor to his own tortured childhood and his American government. This superb fathers. suburban spy thriller, staring Keri achieve their childhood dreams, Tom cruel, estranged father (Ed Harris). The second feature film from Russell and Matthew Rhys, balances pulls the gang back together in the When his father mysteriously director Justin Lerner, is an intimate the escapades of espionage with the hopes of discovering a legendary resurfaces and claims that his and gripping portrait of a family told tribulations of parenting and, in the treasure. Little do they know, this son’s nightmarish memories were with spectacular pacing and assured process, achieves what might appear new caper will send them into fabricated, Elliott’s past is further unimaginable — empathy for the en- direction, offering plenty of surprise more unexpected and dangerous thrust under the microscope. He emy. Explore the ins and outs of this turns along the way. Starting out as territories than they ever faced as embarks on a journey to separate “hide in plain sight” story with show a simple indie drama, where Davis children. The sophomore feature fact from fiction, amidst a backdrop creator Joe Weisberg, who worked in and his girlfriend are struggling to from brothers Aaron and Adam Nee, of self-medication and false the CIA’s Directorate of Operations in understand their relationship, The with its impressively talented cast, confessions. the early 1990s. evolves into a heartbreaking romance comes together to create a slightly Q&A ATTENDEE: Pamela Romanowski that spans two generations of fami- dark, but always witty comedy- Emily Nussbaum, TV critic at the New lies broken apart. – Sam Robotham adventure. – Sam Robotham Yorker calls The Americans “possibly Q&A ATTENDEES: the best current drama out there.” Justin Lerner and several cast members Q&A ATTENDEES: Adam Nee & Aaron Nee IN DEPTH discussion with showrunner Joe Weisberg follows screening All events are subject to change. For latest updates, 2 visit www.WoodstockFilmFestival.com WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL 2015 NARRATIVES WORLD PREMIERE NEW YORK PREMIERE CLOSING NIGHT FILM EAST COAST PREMIERE BLUNT FORCE TRAUMA BOB AND The Trees THE FORBidden Room GooD Ol’ BOY with Mickey Rourke Directed by Diego Ongaro Directed by Guy Maddin with Jason Lee Directed by Ken Sanzel USA / 2015 / 92 minutes Co-director: Evan Johnson Directed by Frank Lotito Columbia / 2015 / 96 minutes CANADA / 2015 / 120 minutes USA / 2015 / 102 minutes ROSENDALE Theatre Upstate Films WOODSTOCK Fri Oct 2 • 3:30PM WOODSTOCK Playhouse WOODSTOCK Playhouse Fri Oct 2 • 9:30PM Upstate Films WOODSTOCK Sun Oct 4 • 7:30PM Fri Oct 2 • 2:00PM Orpheum Theater SAUGERTIES Sun Oct 4 • 11:30AM ROSENDALE Theatre Sun Oct 4 • 12:30PM COURTESY OF KINO LORBER Sun Oct 4 • 2:30PM Bob is a handsome, rugged Welcome to an underground, logger who spends his days The Forbidden Room is Guy The year is 1979, when life was money-making subculture of either cutting trees in the silent, Maddin’s ultimate epic simpler but families were still people who wear bulletproof vests majestic Massachusetts woods or phantasmagoria. Honoring classic complex, and an Indian family and shoot each other. Set against listening to hardcore rap music cinema while electrifying it with moves to America hoping to live Colombia’s majestic landscapes and and playing golf. But this routine energy, this Russian nesting doll of the American Dream. Reminiscent impoverished villages, Blunt Force life is rudely interrupted when one a film begins (after a prologue on of The Wonder Years, Good Ol’ Boy Trauma follows two modern-day gun- of his beloved cows gets brutally how to take a bath) with the crew is an endearing coming-of-age slingers, John and Colt, who are on wounded and his work suffers a of a doomed submarine chewing story, where 10-year-old Smith parallel but very different journeys, financial blow following a bad flapjacks in a desperate attempt to falls for the girl next door and is one seeking excitement, the other business deal. Suddenly Bob finds breathe the oxygen within. Suddenly, caught between his family’s Hindu revenge. Part action drama-part love himself facing some hard decisions. impossibly, a lost woodsman wanders traditions and his desire to become story and always engrossing, their Despite family opposition, the into their company with his tale of a good ol’ boy. While the children worlds collide with passion and pain unyielding winter woods ultimately escaping a fearsome clan of cave and their stories take the lead, Good as John and Colt each try to fulfill push Bob to do whatever it takes to dwellers. From here, Maddin and Ol’ Boy challenges the stereotypical their own wants and at the same time keep his failing business alive. Just co-director Evan Johnson take us notion of both traditional Indian keep each other safe in the dueling how much is he willing to sacrifice high into the air, around the world and predictable redneck families as underworld. to hold his life together? and into dreamscapes, spinning tales the patriarchs help tell a compelling Writer/director Ken Sanzel Bob and the Trees thrives of amnesia, captivity, deception, tale of the struggles of parenthood impressively weaves a yarn of loss, on ultra-realism. With non-actors murder, skeleton women, and and married life for anyone of any longing, alienation, and revenge, right portraying fictionalized versions of vampire bananas. Like some glorious race or background. By initially up to the climactic moment of fleeting themselves, debut feature director meeting between Italo Calvino, treating the characters as carica- satisfaction when John finally meets Diego Ongaro succeeds in getting Sergei Eisenstein and a perverted tures of themselves, we’re given the the fight champion, impeccably played impressively honest performances six year-old, The Forbidden Room is chance to laugh with them as we by Mickey Rourke. is a visual master- from his cast, especially lead Bob Maddin’s grand ode to lost cinema. watch how the depth of their char- piece and a must-see film for anyone Tarasuk, who plays himself in the Created with the help of master poet acters and love for their families with an interest in realistic action film. The arresting Berkshires and John Ashbery, the film features a evolve. – Benjamin Scott dramas. -Woodstock Film Festival slow-building tension add to this high profile cast playing a cavalcade Q&A ATTENDEES: story of struggle that pays tribute Frank Lotito, Anjul Nigam Q&A ATTENDEE: Ken Sanzel of misfits, thieves and lovers, all to a declining population still hold- joined in the joyful delirium of the ing onto their rural dreams.