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Sunday, April 21, 2013 Saturday, April 20, 2013 9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. 12 noon Not Yet Begun to Fight The Art of the Video Essay: How to Speak Through Movies Moderated by Omer Mozaffar “!"#$%&'()"%*+%!,-%.')+/+'” !!"#$%%"&''()*"!"#+,-"./"0$"1231

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Welcome from the University of ...... 7 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 2013 Days of Heaven (7:00 p.m.) ...... 44 ...... Welcome from the Festival Director 9 with Short Subject I Remember ...... 45

“Those Were the Days” Sing-Along...... 11 THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 2013 Vincent: The Life and Death of Vincent Virginia Theatre Gets Facelift ...... 12 Van Gogh (1:00 p.m.)...... 48 Complete Schedule of Events...... 16 with Short Subject To Music ...... 49 In the Family (4:00 p.m.) ...... 50 Roger Ebert — 50 years since Illinois...... 21 Bernie (9:00 p.m.) ...... 52

Important Information About the Festival...... 23 FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 2013 Oslo, August 31st (1:00 p.m.)...... 56 Dining Tips...... 25 The Ballad of Narayama (4:00 p.m.) ...... 58

Festival Guests ...... 29-42 Julia (8:30 p.m.) ...... 60

Festival Sponsors ...... 74 SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 2013 Blancanieves (11:00 a.m.) ...... 63 ...... A Look Back at Last Year’s Festival 79-81 Kumaré (2:00 p.m.) ...... 64 Escape From Tomorrow (5:00 p.m.) ...... 66 Special Thanks...... 83 The Spectacular Now (9:00 p.m.) ...... 68

Parking Information and Area Map...... 85 SUNDAY, APRIL 21, 2013 Festival Dedication — Haskell Wexler ...... 87 Not Yet Begun to Fight (12 noon) ...... 70

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From Roger Ebert This year includes the chris- tening of the magnificently re- elcome to the 15th It is homeward I look again. stored Virginia Theatre. I salute anniversary Ebertfest! the , and The idea for this cel- famously described a movie many local donors. Their generosi- ebration began a year earlier, in studio as “the greatest train set a boy ever ty preserves this landmark, where an event at the Krannert Center my father saw Harry Houdini to mark the birthday of HAL had.” Surely every movie critic desires perform onstage. When Donald 9000, the computer in “2001: A O’Conner appeared onstage here Space Odyssey” — who, as HAL his own film festival. after an anniversary screening of tells us itself, was born in Urbana. “Singin’ in the Rain,” he told us, In an early demo of video chats, “I tap-danced on this stage!” Its we were joined by Sir Arthur C. looked.” Some directors were re- James Bond and Steve Kraus, and stars included the Marx Broth- Clarke online from Sri Lanka, his luctant to think of their films in including not only 70mm but ers, and in college I saw Miriam face beaming down upon us. such terms, and the current name Dimension 70, top-rank digital Hopkins perform here in “Look At first this was called the took over. Our first selection was formats, and even Todd-AO. Sadly, Homeward, Angel.” “Overlooked Film Festival,” and “2001,” beginning a tradition of in recent years fewer prints are It is homeward I look again. intended for films that “either world-class big-screen projection available in 70mm, as high-end Orson Welles famously described have been, or will be, over- masterminded by the experts digital formats take over. a movie studio as “the greatest

Roger and Chaz welcoming the audience to the 2012 Festival.

4 15th Annual Roger Ebert’s Film Festival train set a boy ever had.” Surely Korea, Turkey, the UK and the US. dition to my Great Movies, Keisuke host for most of our guests in the every movie critic desires his own Many have visited before. Many Kinoshita’s Japanese classic “Bal- heart of the campus. film festival. As a local boy I be- are back this year. They’ll be seat- lad of Narayama” (1958). I suspect Our sponsors and volunteers gan in newspapers here at ground ed among you. Have a chat. Join our good friend David Bordwell, make the festival possible. Many level, by delivering the Courier, them at the Steak ‘n Shake. Just of the University of Wisconsin, sponsors have been with us all 15 and when I was not quite 16, I don’t try to discover the location will be on stage afterwards. And years; some are with us for the was trusted with a job by The of their secret Karaoke Night. as usual, the disclaimer: All these first time this year. Volunteers News-Gazette. No, not an “intern- From day one, Urbana native guests have agreed to be with serve in many ways, including ship.” I covered what was one of and UI alum Nate Kohn, now us, but sometimes actual work, serving as drivers and guides for the most important beats on the professor at the University of weather or the occasional volcano festival guests. We thank them paper: Urbana High School sports! Georgia, has been director of the interferes and they have to cancel for their loyalty and continuing With the kindness and patience Festival. This introduction usu- at the last minute. support. of such staffers as Harold Holmes, ally includes a brief outline of My wife Chaz acts as our char- The festival is a production Bill Schmelzle, Jari Jackson, Curt the year’s program, but we’re still ismatic emcee, and is also my of the College of Media of the Beamer and the festival’s dear involved in trying to iron much of trusted advisor whose scouting at University of Illinois at Urbana- friend Betsy Hendrick, I learned it out as I write this. You’ll have many film festivals recommended Champaign, whose dean, Jan first hand from the best. to depend on the descriptions in some of these titles to me. The Slater, has been generous in her My own festival experience this excellent program produced tireless Mary Susan Britt makes support and encouragement. was altered greatly when illness by The Daily Illini. But I can tell everything run and answers Leone Advertising is our invalu- overtook me in 2006, and I lost you who is coming with the films. emails at all hours. She heads a able Webmaster at ebertfest. the ability to speak. That relieved As mentioned above, is dedicated staff, including many com; Carlton Bruett is responsible audiences of the prospect of lis- coming with his documentary on volunteers whose smiling faces for the posters and the look of tening to and me the festival; The Daily Illini, my speak even later into the night. other alma mater, produces this Ebertfest is honored this year by splendid program. A special thank repeat visits from some of our Fifteen years! It seems like only yesterday! you to our leading sponsors: the favorite artists, including Paul Champaign County Anti-Stigma Cox, , Haskell I love it when I notice festival regulars Alliance, Steak ‘n Shake and The Wexler and . Paul greeting each other year after year. To Academy of Motion Picture Arts will be here with his remarkable and Sciences. We are proud to film about his countryman Vin- paraphrase a well-known movie title, they’re have Champaign County Anti- cent van Gogh, which I first saw Stigma Alliance sponsor the film and loved at the 1972 Venice Film no longer strangers when they meet. “In the Family” showing Thursday Festival. at 4:00 p.m., and Steak ‘n Shake In lovely symbolism, he will sponsor the film “Blancanieves” also introduce “To Music,” a showing Saturday at 11:00 a.m. short film by Sophie Kohn, Nate’s the life of Van Gogh, “Vincent;” have become familiar over the And very special thanks to daughter. The next generation Tilda Swinton with “Julia;” direc- years. I’d especially like to thank University of Illinois President is advancing into place. On the tor of photography Haskell Wexler our guardian angel, Mary Frances Bob Easter and his wife Cheryl, opening-night rededication of with Terrance Malick’s “Days of Fagan of American Airlines, who and Chancellor Phyllis Wise, for the Virginia and observation of Heaven;” director Patrick Wang arranges transportation here. their generous support. the 15th anniversary of Ebertfest with “In the Family;” director Mary Frances is another C-U na- And new this year will be our and 25th anniversary of Terrence Richard Linklater and star Jack tive, so you can see we haven’t own Ebertfest iPad App from Malick’s “Days of Heaven,” we Black with “Bernie;” director forgotten our roots. Shatterglass Studios that will will show you “I Remember,” by Joachim Trier with “Oslo, August Steven Bentz and his cheer- contain every festival interview, Grace Wang of Toronto, one of our 31st;” director with ful staff at the Virginia Theatre photograph, review, panel discus- Far-Flung Correspondents. Please the silent Spanish film “Blan- put out the welcome mat. The sion, link and artifact that we carefully study your instructions canieves;” director Randy Moore, Champaign Park District and the could find from the first fifteen about when to sing and listen producer Soojin Chung, and Champaign Police Department are Ebertfests. It will be available on during the opening ceremony; actor Roy Abramsohn with the always helpful. Betsy Hendrick iTunes and updated annually. Our the sound bite from Orson Welles’ Sundance hit “Escape from Tomor- throws her now-legendary Satur- thanks to Shatterglass for doing “Falstaff” was used by Daniel row;” director day night party. Where would we this and for the spectacular fes- Curley, a mentor and friend at Il- and actor with be without our fabled projection- tival videos they do for us every linois, when he autographed one the Sundance prize-winning “The ists James Bond and Steve Kraus, year. Look for Luke and Brett, of his novels to me. Spectacular Now;” director Vikram with the help of Travis Bird, who the Shatterglass guys, in the east When I first began writing a Gandhi and producer Stephen bring their own digital projec- lobby during the festival. blog, I quickly noticed how many Feder with the documentary “Ku- tors to complement the theater’s Fifteen years! It seems like of the best comments were com- maré;” and producer/co-director vintage 35/70mm projectors? only yesterday! I love it when I ing from writers in distant places, Sabrina Lee and Afghan war A shout-out goes to our good notice festival regulars greeting and I had the inspiration of using veterans Elliott Miller and Erik friend Bertha Mitchell, who serves each other year after year. To them as FFCs. They come from Goodge with “Not Yet Begun to her famous downstate barbeque paraphrase a well-known movie Australia via the Philippines, Bra- Fight.” Also showing, but so far from the tent in front of the title, they’re no longer strangers zil, Canada, France, Mexico, South without a guest, is my recent ad- theater. The Illini Union plays when they meet.

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Dear Ebertfest fan, this campus looks forward to vision are just as important to all year long. It was one of the the health and advancement elcome to Ebertfest first events mentioned to me of our society as the physical — a film festival when I arrived here 16 months sciences and innovations in like no other in the ago and it comes up in my technology. world. Stepping back from the conversations on a weekly basis. I believe that arts — whether cinematic magic that brings you Roger Ebert’s vision realized here expressed on film, in digital and thousands of other fans has a tremendous and lasting image, written language or in here — it is also an event that impact on our arts scene in music — offer us all a transports our campus and our Champaign-Urbana. He is an ground in a world where cultures community to a different place amazing individual and we are so and ideas can be so diverse and for a couple of days each year. proud to claim him as one of the too often divisive. We need to You bring an exhilaration and Illinois family. advance efforts to expand these excitement to our streets that I know you’ll have a wonderful shared spaces and to translate remind all of us that universities time at this year’s festival and these moments of connection we Phyllis Wise aren’t just classrooms and labs you attend because of the find in a darkened theater or a Chancellor, University of Illinois at — but living centers of learning opportunity to see these films concert hall into global life. Urbana-Champaign and sharing and communication. from new perspectives and hear Who knew you could change They are places to experience about the stories behind them the world just by watching a life. from different voices. But, I also great film? This week of films, lectures, want to thank you for your part Well, clearly, Roger Ebert did. appearances and debates among in reminding the world that art, Thank you for being here. See fans is something everyone on critical thought and creative you at the Virginia Theatre!

Welcome to Ebertfest! when we roll out the red carpet volunteers and students — your for the industry guests who support means the world to us. he College of Media is come to share their experiences Finally, thanks to all of you proud to be your host for making these films. It’s a time — the movie lovers. Your love Ebertfest and our pride is that the University of Illinois of the art of storytelling and only intensified as we celebrate and Champaign-Urbana come filmmaking keeps us looking the crystal anniversary of the together to welcome home our towards the future. Thank you event. We are so grateful to native son and alumnus who for your support and for joining Roger and Chaz for their loyalty takes great care in choosing the us for this annual tribute to and support. Thank you for films we need to see. great movies and to a great keeping us near to your heart, Our heartfelt thanks go out movie critic. and sharing your love of the to Mary Susan Britt and Dr. Nate The College of Media at the movies and movie making with Kohn who organize and direct University of Illinois is proud all of us. Your homecoming every this festival. It requires logistics to be your host for Ebertfest. April is an event like no other. that would humble ordinary We appreciate your support and Ebertfest is a very special time humans. They work tirelessly and delight in your enthusiasm for Jan Slater in our community. It’s a time graciously to make this event what the next few days bring to Interim Dean, College of Media, that we welcome movie lovers the best each year. Many thanks Champaign-Urbana. University of Illinois at Urbana- from around the world who will to our sponsors who return each Champaign make Champaign-Urbana their year to make Ebertfest possible. home for a week. It’s a time And to our own community Enjoy the show!

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t is a great privilege to wel- no categories, and no business is come you to the 15th annual done at our festival. That’s how This festival is Roger Ebert’s gift to his Roger Ebert’s Film Festival, we conceived the festival and a special event of the University that’s how it still is today. hometown, and for that we thank him and of Illinois’ College of Media in In 1997, when Roger hosted partnership with the greater a screening of “2001: A Space his wife, Chaz. They are a remarkable team. Champaign-Urbana community Odyssey” at the Virginia Theatre and lovers of movies everywhere. as part of the University’s birth- We are celebrating our 15th an- day party for HAL the computer, Group, Filos Film Productions, known to frequent the South Neil niversary at the festival this year, we got to talking about what A24 Films, Kino Lorber, Grace Street branch on more than one looking back on 15 amazing years makes a successful film festival. Wang, Magnolia Pictures, Janus occasion during the festival. And I and looking forward to many, We agreed that movies are best Films, Shochiku Films, Mankurt am more than thrilled that Steak many more! seen on a really large screen. Media LLC, Patrick Wang, Bill Ban- ‘n Shake has finally opened a We are also celebrating the And watching a movie is not ning & Roxie Releasing, Ultravio- restaurant where I live in Athens, newly renovated Virginia Theatre. something to be done alone — it let Projects and Story Road Films Georgia. Only problem is the lines The Champaign Park District is a communal activity, bringing for graciously providing us with are way too long. But a double closed the theatre for a year in together friends and strangers in their very best 35mm and digital steakburger and fries is always order to accomplish this mo- a mutual emotional adventure. prints. worth the wait. Steak ‘n Shake is mentous task. They promised us When we sit in the darkened I also want to thank all of our sponsoring our showing of “Blan- the work would be completed in Virginia, both alone and to- sponsors, volunteers, festival canieves” at this year’s festival. time for Ebertfest and so it is. We gether, we enter another world, pass holders and individual ticket One of our most dedicated spon- thank Bobbie Herakovich and Ste- transported for a couple of hours holders for their welcome par- sors, the Champaign County Anti- ven Bentz for all their hard work from our everyday lives into the ticipation in this endeavor. We Stigma Alliance, in addition to and for their unwavering commit- wondrous dreamscapes of shared look forward to their unwavering sponsoring our showing of “In the ment to the Virginia Theatre, one imagination. support, and yours, as our festival Family,” is this year holding a pan- of the world’s great movie palaces. That is what this festival is all continues to blossom each year in el discussion on Friday morning Our festival has changed little about — about sharing, and com- the Central Illinois spring. at the Illini Union. Please plan to over the years, remaining true munity, and Roger Ebert, and the A particular thanks goes out attend this free event. We thank to Roger’s original vision: the love of great movies. to our Film Circle Sponsors: Roger the Anti-Stigma Alliance for real- celebration and shared enjoyment Together at this festival, we & , Champaign County izing the power of film to change of great movies, as they were are seeing — and by seeing, we Anti-Stigma Alliance, American minds and attitudes, for support- meant to be seen by those who are celebrating — movies that Airlines & American Eagle, Steak ing our festival, and for all the made them. Ebertfest is all about Roger considers worthy of our ‘n Shake, and Betsy Hendrick; and good they do year after year in the films. We give no prizes, have full attention, films that reveal to our Diamond Sponsors: The Champaign County. and reflect the wonder of the hu- Academy of Motion Picture Arts Finally, I want to recognize man condition. We are honored and Sciences, Leone Advertis- Associate Festival Director Mary to bring these movies to you, to ing, Shatterglass Studios, L.A. Susan Britt, Dean Jan Slater, share Roger’s choices with you. Gourmet Catering, and The News- and President and Mrs. Bob Eas- And we are seeing them as the Gazette. ter and Chancellor Phyllis Wise, women and men who made them Roger has to be Steak ‘n without whose hard work and intended them to be seen — with Shake’s biggest booster. In the enthusiastic support this festival state-of-the-art projection and early years of the festival, Roger, would not be possible. sound on a screen the full width Chaz, Dusty, Joan, and other This festival is Roger Ebert’s of the Virginia Theatre. For that, guests would invariably end up at gift to his hometown, and for we thank our cinema designer Steak ‘n Shake after the last show that we thank him and his wife, James Bond, projectionist Steve on Thursday night and carouse Chaz. They are a remarkable Kraus, and all the people at the there until the wee hours. In the team, and it is an honor to work Virginia Theatre and the Cham- past few years, our Far Flung Cor- with them. paign Park District. respondents always include Steak So as the lights dim and the We also thank Paramount Pic- ‘n Shake as a part of their tour of curtains open, please sit back Nate Kohn tures, Millennium Entertainment, festival landmarks. And of course, and let the festival once again Festival Director Strand Releasing, Cohen Media Mary Susan and I have been embrace you.

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10 15th Annual Roger Ebert’s Film Festival THOSE WERE THE DAYS Lyrics customized by Roger Ebert (Please sing along when instructed to do so.)

Once upon a time there was a theater, Where we used to see a f lm or two Remember how we laughed away the hours And dreamed of all the great things we would do Those were the days my friend We thought theyíd never end Weíd sing and dance forever and a day Weíd live the life we choose Weí d f ght and never lose For we were young and sure to have our way.

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alking through the doors of Champaign’s Virginia Theatre is a trip back in time to the venue’s beginnings in the 1920s. The Virginia’s most recent, aesthetic renovation was completed in April, just in time for Roger Ebert’s 15th annual Film Festival. The Champaign Park District, which bought the theater in 2000, has spent the last 13 years fundraising for the project, the last in a series of improvements to the 92-year- old building, and a $5.5 million endeavor. Champaign-based Broeren Russo Construction has taken the project through its stages, managing the overall structural components and contracting some finer points to restoration experts. These specialists led months of The newly discovered original canvas painting is displayed on the ceiling of the Virginia Theatre's auditorium. The paintings were discovered in late fall as restorers cleaned the water-based paint from the ceiling. This canvas is one of six discovered painstaking cleaning, repair and nearly fully intact. Photo courtesy of the Champaign Park District restoration for the building’s historic artwork. Though the preceding decades, the artwork discovered auditorium. The restoration contractor A.W. Stoolman. “life-safety” renovations, like depicted male figures holding team was able to identify Stoolman named the theater bringing the Virginia up to Spanish coats of arms, which enough of the stencil pattern after his daughter Elizabeth building code, have done much aligns with the theater’s and original color to recreate Virginia. to preserve the theater’s life for Spanish-style influence. what they believe is a near- The Italian Renaissance- years to come, Laura Auteberry, “We were very surprised — exact iteration of the original style exterior, coupled with the marketing director for the CPD, thoroughly excited about the artwork. Spanish Renaissance interior, said this final restoration of the find,” Auteberry said. “I’d These pieces of the has played host to some of the auditorium’s interior was where seen many historic theaters, auditorium, along with large- biggest names in entertainment the magic began to surface. like those in Chicago, and I’d scale Spanish-style murals, over the last century. In its In late fall, painters were always thought ours was kind of ornate plaster work, original early days, the Virginia saw restoring the ceiling of the ‘blah.’ But it really wasn’t; (the Tiffany light fixtures, and gold such performers as Red Skelton theater when they uncovered beauty) was just covered up.” and silver leaf detail, have all and the Marx Brothers. When six of eight intricately painted In addition to the canvasses, been carefully restored since live shows declined, the theater canvasses, believed to be which have now been fully the auditorium project began became a movie house, which original to the 1921 opening restored, painters also last May. The Virginia has drew the interest of Urbana of the Virginia. After stripping discovered extensive stenciling been closed to the public for native and University alumnus away the water-based paint that that had originally spanned nearly a year. However, in the Roger Ebert. Ebert’s choice had covered the canvases for the entire perimeter of the past, renovations have left of locale for his annual film the theater open. But this was festival celebrates the historical a sacrifice, Auteberry said, significance of the theater, and necessary for the payoff at the puts Champaign on the map, “(The restoration) revealed a lot of the grand reveal in April. said Auteberry. “(The aesthetic restoration) But this year’s Ebertfest will theater we didn't even know existed. She's revealed a lot of the theater reveal the auditorium’s true, we didn’t even know existed,” original beauty for the first time even more grand than we thought.” Auteberry said. “She’s even to the annual fest-goers, she more grand than we thought.” said. Complete restoration to – Laura Auteberry – The theater was originally all lobbies, basement dressing commissioned in 1920 by local rooms and brand new seating

12 15th Annual Roger Ebert’s Film Festival in the auditorium were some of or otherwise damaged, and the heaviest finanical hitters rebuilding the organ’s counsel in the three-year project. The and keyboard. Added to new seating, 1,420 plush red the organ were electronics velvet theater-style chairs, is a to replace its original wire nod to early 20th century. Old mechanisms, as well as adding seats from the Virginia were “special sound” capabilities sold last summer for $50 per inspired by a full orchestra, chair. Revenue from the chairs including drums and horns. went right back into the project. But not everything about the Seats not sold were salvaged by instrument was modernized; in Discount Seating Co. in Jackson, fact, the restorers stripped the Tenn., so none of the Virginia’s organ of its white paint and old seating would end up in a gold details that had adorned landfill, and history could have the exterior in the latter half of new life. the 20th century, and went back An artist paints the ceiling of the Virginia Theatre’s auditorium, outside the The theater welcomed back to the original mahogany finish. outline of intricate stenciling that was restored to its near-original look. an old friend last March in its And for more vintage charm, Photo courtesy of the Champaign Park District pipe organ, the original musical the Virginia still uses 1950s-era accompaniment to the theater’s projectors: Two Norelco AA II For now, festival-goers can continued to grow business and shows and silent movies. The projectors, specifically designed sit back and enjoy an extended opportunity for the theater. Wurlitzer, an orchestral pipe to run “Oklahoma!” Though the weekend of film in the newly “(The CPD) bought the organ, underwent a year of two projectors have lasted for transformed auditorium. As theater to preserve it and restoration at the hands of the better part of a century, Ebertfest devotees may know, eliminate the possibility of it Champaign-based John-Paul Auteberry said it’s time for the fest’s 15-year history is being demolished,” Auteberry Buzard Pipe Organ Builders. them to retire, and the CPD is deeply entwined with the saving said. “That’s where it was Improvements to the currently searching for more of the theater. It has been on heading.” instrument included a full funding for audio and visual the National Registry of Historic But the Virginia is safe from restoration of pipes, many equipment, as the Virginia looks Places since December 2003, that fate, and is now preserved of which had been smashed toward a more digital future. after the fifth Ebertfest, which for generations to come.

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FILM SCREENINGS LIVE WDWS ON-AIR INTERVIEW Wednesday, April 17, 2013 Please Tune In to WDWS-AM 1400! 7:00 p.m. Days of Heaven Wednesday, April 17, 2013 with Short Subject I Remember 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Jim Turpin’s (WDWS) Ebertfest Interview Thursday, April 18, 2013 1:00 p.m. Vincent: The Life and Death ACADEMIC PANEL DISCUSSIONS of Vincent Van Gogh with Short Subject To Music Illini Union 4:00 p.m. In the Family 1401 W. Green Street, Urbana, IL 9:00 p.m. Bernie Free and open to the public

Thursday, April 18, 2013 Friday, April 19, 2013 9:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. 1:00 p.m. Oslo, August 31st Sustaining a Career in Film 4:00 p.m. The Ballad of Narayama Moderated by Nate Kohn 8:30 p.m. Julia Pine Lounge, 1st Floor

10:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. Saturday, April 20, 2013 Reality or Illusion: A False Dichotomy? 11:00 a.m. Blancanieves Moderated by Eric Pierson 2:00 p.m. Kumaré Pine Lounge, 1st Floor 5:00 p.m. Escape From Tomorrow 9:00 p.m. The Spectacular Now Friday, April 19, 2013 9:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. Sunday, April 21, 2013 Creative Independence in the Digital Age – How Real Is It? Moderated by Nate Kohn Noon Not Yet Begun to Fight Pine Lounge, 1st Floor

All films will be shown at the Historic Virginia Theatre, 203 W. 10:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. Park, Champaign, IL. Roger and festival guests will appear on Challenging Stigma Through the Arts stage after each film to join the audience in discussions about Moderated by Deborah Townsend the films. Festival passes ($145). Individual tickets ($14) / Pine Lounge, 1st Floor student & senior citizen tickets ($12) on sale at the Virginia Theatre box office, 217-356-9063.

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28 15th Annual Roger Ebert’s Film Festival A warm welcome to our Special Festival Guests

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All Q&A sessions and panel discussions will be streamed live at www.ebertfest.com and on the Ebertfest Facebook Fan Page April 17-21, 2013t5IF7JSHJOJB5IFBUSF 29 numerous special tributes and international fi lm festivals. retrospectives at fi lm festivals His French-Dutch short Corps around the world including Accords was selected for Best a major retrospective at the Debut Completion in the 2011 Lincoln Center in . Dutch Film Festival. Santbergen’s spontaneous little fi lm To Music, co-directed with Sophie Kohn, To Music was selected for Ebertfest 2013. (short subject) Whether with Filos Film or others, Santbergen intends to Thursday, April 18, 1:00 p.m. keep producing independent fi lms about love, loss, life and the rich SOPHIE KOHN (co-director) is human spirit. for a Mass Media Arts & Sociology major at the University of Use your smartphone Georgia. Set to graduate in May In the Family 2013, she has written, produced to explore and share and directed fi lms both as a part Thursday, April 18, 4:00 p.m. the experience of of her university life as well PATRICK WANG (director/actor) our public sculptures. as outside of it. She has had several internships ranging from graduated MIT with a degree in Economics and a concentration S4PAL.ORG assistant producing at Robert Osborne’s Classic Film Festival to in Music and Theatre Arts. As Production Assistant on feature an economist, he has studied fi lms and TV shows. In 2011 she energy policy, game theory and started the production company income inequality. As a theater director, he has specialized in supported by SophieShorts under which she made the short fi lm Blink. In classical verse drama and new indi-go-art.com the summer of 2012, in a special works. A collection of his short collaboration, she went to drama was published as The to fi lm an 8mm movie Monologue Plays. His performance titled The Liver. Kohn has just in M. Butterfl y was the subject fi nished writing her next project of Leah Hager Cohen’s book, The and plans to shoot it in March Stuff of Dreams. His fi rst fi lm, In 2013. She is the director of the Family, was nominated for an GradyFest, her University’s Independent Spirit Award and annual fi lm festival. was a critic’s pick of , Time Out Chicago, Chicago Thank you Reader, Time Out New York, New FEIKE SANTBERGEN (co- director) of Arnhem, York Magazine, Flavorpill and , fi nished fi lm school NOW Magazine. Wang received in 2010, with his 45-minute fi lm site Hammer to Nail’s 2011 Roger and Chaz graduation fi lm Solely Here Golden Hammer award, was one (Alleen Hier), a fi lm about a of Instinct Magazine’s Leading young man’s confrontation with Men of 2012, and was featured inherent existence through loss. in Filmmaker Magazine’s 2012 list In 2007 Santbergen interned of 25 New Faces of Independent with Dutch-Australian fi lmmaker Film. Paul Cox (, Innocence, Molokai). A lasting TREVOR ST. JOHN (actor) friendship emerged that remains attended Whitworth College on an inspiration to Santbergen. a jazz performance scholarship. After his internship, Santbergen As a percussionist, he has played made Four Eyes (Vier Ogen), a with Marshall Royal (Count Congratulations on personal fi lm about the loss of Basie Orchestra), Slide Hampton his sister, who died in 2004. and Bill Berry (Duke Ellington 15 years in the beautiful, After fi lm school Santgergen Orchestra) and Gene Harris. co-founded Filos Film Productions His fi rst major acting role was comfy Virginia TheatRE. with some peers, and wrote and opposite in the TV directed several shorts produced movie Serving in Silence. Other with Filos, exploring subjects like television credits include One Life Ann Beddini AND Barbara Hulseberg transience, human connection to Live, The Client List, Murder, and men’s inner being. His She Wrote, Seaquest, Pacifi c Blue, fi lms have screened at many Diagnosis Murder, Nash Bridges,

30 15th Annual Roger Ebert’s Film Festival and Just Shoot Me. Film credits 2008 proved a busy year for include The Bourne Ultimatum, Black, who lent his voice as The Kingdom, My Soul To Take, the lead in ’ Payback, Crimson Tide, Dogtown animated film Kung Fu Panda. Joseph Kuhn and Higher Learning. That summer, Black found himself on top of the box office again for & Co. the Paramount release of Tropic Bernie Thunder. Directed and written by Ben Stiller, who also starred in Thursday, April 18, 9:00 p.m. the film, Black was joined by a star studded cast including Robert RICHARD LINKLATER (director) Downey Jr., Jay Baruchel, Brandon has directed 17 feature films. T. Jackson, and He also serves as the Artistic Matthew McConaughey. Director for the Austin Film School of Rock (2003), from Society, which he founded in producer Scott Rudin, director 1985 to showcase films from Linklater and writer Mike White, around the world that were not was revered by filmgoers and Select suit sale typically shown in Austin. The critics alike. Black received a Austin Film Society has given $129 to $159, Golden Globe® nomination for out over $1,000,000 in grants to best actor in a musical or comedy. filmmakers and in 1999, regular priced from In 2006 Black reunited with White received the DGA Honor which to release Nacho Libre, the first $300 to $695 was given by the Directors Guild production under Black & White of America in recognition of its Productions, formed in late 2004 support of the arts. Store hours by White and Black. In 2005, Mon, Wed, Turs, Sat: 10-6 Black was seen in the Academy Tues, Fri: 10-8 (actor), collaborat- Award® winning film Kong. ing once again with School of Directed by Peter Jackson, it 2 weeks only! Rock director, Linklater, earned a opened at #1 and remained on top Located at 33 E Main St, Champaign Golden Globe® and Independent for three weeks in a row. (217) 352-7666 Spirit Award nominations for his Black’s other screen credits turn as Bernie. David Denby of The include the comedies Bob Roberts, New Yorker called his performance High Fidelity, Saving Silverman, a “…fine, disciplined piece of Shallow Hal, Orange County, Envy, acting” and Peter Travers called it Shark Tale, The Holiday, and the “award-caliber.” independent dramas Jesus’ Son In 2012, Black also returned (2000) and Margot at the Wedding as Po in Kung Fu Panda 2 for (2007). Paramount Pictures. In 2011, Proving he is a true multi- he starred in The Big Year with hyphenate, Black is also the lead Academy Award® winner Anjelica singer of the rock-folk comedy Huston and a comedy super cast group Tenacious D, which he of , Owen Wilson, created with longtime friend and Jim Parsons, Rashida Jones and collaborator Kyle Gass. Their self- Joel McHale. He was also seen titled album was released in 2001 in the surprise box-office hit The with Epic Records and was quickly Muppets, written by his Gulliver’s certified at gold-selling status. Travels co-star, . The band had a variety series on In 2010, Black released the HBO in 1999. The duo completed highly anticipated Gulliver’s their first feature film together, remake. Black, who produced Tenacious D in the Pick of Des- the film, starred as Lemuel tiny in 2006, about which two Gulliver opposite Academy Award® documentaries were subsequently nominated Emily Blunt, Segel released. The first, directed and and Amanda Peet. In 2009, Black produced by Black, The Making of voiced video game character Eddie ‘The Pick of Destiny,’ is a behind- Riggs (modeled after him) in the the-scenes look at the making of widely popular Brutal Legend. The the film. The second, D Tour: A game follows roadie Riggs into Tenacious Documentary focused on a fantasy world of heavy metal. the band’s world tour in support Black was nominated for and won of their film and soundtrack. Most for best voice at the 2009 Spike Video Game Awards. continued on next page

All Q&A sessions and panel discussions will be streamed live at www.ebertfest.com and on the Ebertfest Facebook Fan Page April 17-21, 2013t5IF7JSHJOJB5IFBUSF 31 Foreword by Roger Ebert

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All Q&A sessions and panel discussions will be streamed live at www.ebertfest.com and on the Ebertfest Facebook Fan Page April 17-21, 2013t5IF7JSHJOJB5IFBUSF 33 over seven days, which was Talk About Kevin with Lynne performed at The Serpentine Ramsay directing. We Need To Gallery in collaboration with an Talk About Kevin went into the installation she devised with main competition of Cannes 2011 Cornelia Parker. 22,000 people to huge critical acclaim. saw The Maybe there, making it Swinton worked with Wes the most popular exhibition of Anderson on the movie Moonrise its time. The following year, in Kingdom in 2011 and has recently collaboration with the French finished working with Anderson artists Pierre et Gilles – and for on The Grand Budapest Hotel. comparable numbers of visitors Swinton also features in the – she performed the piece at the upcoming titles, Snowpiercer, Museo Baracco in Rome. directed by Bong Joon Ho Swinton has also appeared and Only Lovers Left Alive, by in Spike Jonze’s Adaptation; Jarmusch, both of which will be David Mackenzie’s Young Adam; released this year. Mike Mills’ Thumbsucker; Francis She is preparing to direct the Lawrence’s Constantine; Béla second of two essay films she has Tarr’s The Man from London; written about the English writer Andrew Adamson’s two John Berger, the first of which, blockbusters The Chronicles of Ways of Listening, was completed Narnia tales; Tony Gilroy’s Michael last year. Clayton, for her performance in which she received both the BAFTA and Academy Awards® for Blancanieves Best Supporting Actress of 2008; Saturday, April 20, 11:00 a.m. and Erick Zonca’s Julia, which received its world-premiere at PABLO BERGER (director) the 2008 Berlin International began his directorial career Film Festival and which, on with the cult film Mama (1988). its release in the UK, won for After winning numerous awards, Swinton the Evening Standard’s he received a scholarship Best Actress award. from the Basque Government In the summer of 2008, to attend NYU, where he earned Swinton launched the Ballerina an MFA in film. While at NYU Ballroom Cinema of Dreams he directed the film Truth And film festival in her hometown Beauty, which was nominated of Nairn, Scotland. In 2009 for the College Emmys. Berger the festival not only curated has taught film courses at a Scottish Cinema of Dreams Cambridge, Princeton, Yale, edition in Beijing, but in August, La Sorbonne and La Fémis and returned as a mobile cinema that served as a lecturer at New York travelled – and was bodily pulled Film Academy. – from Kinlochlevan on the west Torremolinos 73, his debut coast of Scotland to Nairn on the feature, premiered at the 2003 east coast. All three festivals Malaga Film Festival, where it became events of international received awards for Best Actor, interest. Best Film, Best Director and Best In 2010 Swinton launched, Actress. Torremolinos 73 was one along with Mark Cousins, of the top box office successes their 8 and a Half Foundation, in Spain in 2003-2004, and at which seeks to establish a new the 2004 Spanish Film Academy birthday for children – the 8 and Goyas was nominated for Best a halfth – for the celebration Screenplay, Best New Director, of a magical introduction to Best Actor, and Best Actress. the wide company of cinema The international premiere fandom. Inaugurated first in of Torremolinos 73 at the Scotland, two thousand children Edinburgh Film Festival was a have benefitted from the first great success, as were screenings two years of this initiative to at Toulouse Film Festival, date. Palm Springs Film Festival and In May 2010 Swinton many others. Torremolinos 73 completed filming We Need To was internationally released

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All Q&A sessions and panel discussions will be streamed live at www.ebertfest.com and on the Ebertfest Facebook Fan Page April 17-21, 2013t5IF7JSHJOJB5IFBUSF 35 the American Cinema Editor’s He has appeared in over 200 Eddie award and was nominated commercials, TV shows and for Best Editor at the Show films including Without a Trace, Off Your Shorts Film Festival. American Dream, The Parkers, Chung continues to work as Medium and Weeds, where he was an editor, including Universal a recurring character last season. Picture’s soon-to-be-released Feature films include The Dukes, Dead In Tombstone. As producer, with Peter Bogdonovich and she co-founded a production , a starring role in the cult horror-flick Creepshow company, Forerunner Films, and has several projects in various 3, and The Amazing Spiderman. stages of development. ROY ABRAMSOHN (actor) is The Spectacular Now an LA-based actor who has Saturday, April 20, 9:00 p.m. worked for the past 25 years in film, TV and theater throughout JAMES PONSOLDT’s (director) the US and abroad – from San first feature, Off the Black, !"#$%&%'()*+,%+&-. Francisco and to premiered at Sundance 2006; Hong Kong and Cannes. Also his second feature, Smashed, a trained pianist, Abramsohn won a Special Jury Prize at 21&2%+#3,'%!(+$ originated the leading role in Sundance and was nominated the two-man, Pulitzer-nominated for an Independent Spirit drama Old Wicked Songs at the Award; and his third feature, The historic Walnut Street Theatre Spectacular Now, premiered at in Philadelphia, where he also Sundance 2013, where it won a /%-,00(,%1&"2$&) played the dual role of Chico and Special Jury Prize, and will be Harpo Marx in Groucho: A Life in released theatrically by A24 this Revue with the original Broadway summer. Ponsoldt also writes for cast. Groucho was taped live at Filmmaker magazine. the Westport Country Playhouse in Connecticut and has aired SHAILENE WOODLEY (actor) on PBS. Other stage credits most recently starred opposite include 2 years at the Oregon George Clooney in the Academy Shakespearean Festival, Dirty Award® nominated film The Blonde at Portland Center Stage, Descendants from writer/director the West Coast Premiere of . Among the acclaimed playwright Israel many accolades she received Horovitz's Lebensraum (Fountain for her work in the film were a Theatre, Hollywood), the recent 2012 Independent Spirit Award revival of As Is (New American for best supporting actress, the Theater (Hollywood), Gunmetal National Board of Review Award Blues and Who's Afraid of Virginia for best supporting actress, a Woolf (San Jose Stage), Trumbo, Golden Globe® nomination and a with Tony Award-winner Joe Critics Choice Award nomination. Mantegna at Garry Marshall's Variety said of her performance, Falcon Theater in LA, and the “Woodley is a revelation in the West Coast Premiere of Taking role of Alex, displaying both Sides and A Chorus of Disapproval the edge and the depth that at the Odyssey Theatre, also in the role demands.” A.O. Scott LA. He recently did the world of the New York Times agreed, 15 premiere of Hijacking the Northern saying Woodley gives, “one of YEARS Star with an international cast the toughest, smartest, most at the Shouson Performing Arts credible adolescent performances Center in Hong Kong. in recent memory.” !"#$%&'()&'*"#+,'",-"$.%, Abramsohn attended the Woodley’s performance in The &#/,!0&1,"#,23,4.&%+, Oberlin College and Conservatory Spectacular Now was honored at of Music, where he studied Sundance 2013 with a Special theater and piano. He hosted Jury Award for best acting a Young People's Concert for alongside her co-star Miles Romantic Music with the New Teller. She has just completed !"#$%&'"(')'*+ York Philharmonic in Avery work on White Bird in a Blizzard Fisher Hall in New York City and for director Gregg Araki, and played piano with the orchestra.

36 15th Annual Roger Ebert’s Film Festival The Amazing Spiderman 2, in hand-painted sign that read “Hip which she will play the role Hop Show Tonight” planted in a of Mary-Jane. She is currently roadside cow pasture. She was shooting Divergent, in which she then inspired to create Where You will play the main character, From, the award-winning feature Tris. Following that she will documentary about rural rap. fi lm the female lead in the fi lm Soon after, she collaborated with adaptation of the popular YA Shasta Grenier to produce and novel Fault in Our Stars. Woodley co-direct Not Yet Begun To Fight, also stars on the hit ABC Family an intimate and unconventional burgers, salads, & more drama The Secret Life of the look at the impact of war, which 2 east main, champaign American Teenager, which will end was completed in 2012. Lee sliders, salads, soups, & entrées its run this spring. completed her BA at Duke Woodley began her career University, where she studied at the age of 5 when an agent fi lm (without her father’s recognized her potential and consent) and graduated Phi Beta signed her on the spot. She has Kappa. She lives in Montana been working ever since. She with her husband and two started in commercials and then children, breathing plenty of tex-mex food & drinks got her fi rst TV role in the 1999 fresh air and encountering the MOW Replacing Dad, which starred occasional wild animal. 6 taylor street on the corner of chester & market two-time Oscar® nominee Mary downtown champaign downtown champaign McDonnell. Other roles include SHASTA GRENIER (co-director/ the lead in the popular WB editor) only discovered the movie Felicity: An American Girl proverbial worth of the picture Adventure, which was produced after a long history with by Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas and words. But she always draws from , and recurring roles her roots in bread and butter on Crossing Jordan (as a young narrative (MA English, University Jill Hennessy), The O.C., and Jack of British Columbia). With a & Bobby. She also had a lead knack for fi nding stories in role opposite Ann Margaret and mounds of footage, Grenier is Matthew Settle in the TV movie A mesmerized by the siren call Place Called Home. of the unexpected and the When she is not on set overlooked. Those sirens have Woodley spends as much time been variously incarnated as outdoors as possible, thinking small town basketball players, of ways she can help keep the forgotten musical pioneers, and environment beautiful and orphaned owlets. By gratefully healthy for future generations. and respectfully appropriating She has started a charitable stories and regularly losing sleep, organization called All It Takes, she has earned numerous Emmy®, which is dedicated to all things CINE Golden Eagle, Telly and fi lm that help the environment and festival awards. people's lives in general. She also puts time in working with ELLIOTT MILLER (subject), various charities that benefi t Navy SEAL (ret.), worked as a children, including St. Jude’s sniper and combat medic until he Children’s Research Hospital and sustained severe injuries from an the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric RPG attack and subsequent IED Aids Foundation. in Iraq in 2006. He and his wife, April, live in San Diego.

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erence Malick’s “Days Abby and asks her to stay after of Heaven” has been the harvest is over. Bill overhears praised for its painterly a conversation between the images and evocative score, but farmer and a doctor, and learns criticized for its muted emotions: that the farmer has perhaps Although erupt in a a year to live. In a strategy deadly love triangle, all the familiar from “The Wings of feelings are somehow held at the Dove,” he suggests that arm’s length. This observation Abby marry the farmer — and is true enough, if you think then, when he dies, he and only about the actions of the Abby will at last have money adults in the story. But watching enough to live happily. “He this 1978 film again recently, was tired of livin’ like the rest I was struck more than ever of ‘em, nosing around like a with the conviction that this pig in a gutter,” Linda confides is the story of a teenage girl, on the soundtrack. But later told by her, and its subject is she observes of the farmer: the way that hope and cheer “Instead of getting sicker, he have been beaten down in her just stayed the same; the doctor heart. We do not feel the full must of give him some pills or passion of the adults because it something.” is not her passion: It is seen at The farmer sees Bill and Abby a distance, as a phenomenon, in tender moments together, like the weather, or the plague feels that is not the way a of grasshoppers that signals the brother and sister should behave beginning of the end. and challenges Bill. Bill leaves, The film takes place during hitching a ride with an aerial the years before World War I. circus that has descended out Outside Chicago, Bill (Richard of the sky. Abby, the farmer and Gere) gets in a fight with a steel Linda live happily for a year, and in a scene from “Days of Heaven.” mill foreman and kills him. With then Bill returns at harvest time. his lover Abby (Brooke Adams) All of the buried issues boil up and his kid sister Linda (Linda to the surface again, against a and beauty of the limitless Texas Saens’ “Carnival of the Animals.” Manz), he hops a train to Texas, backdrop of biblical misfortune: prairie. In the first hour of the The music is wistful, filled with where the harvest is in progress, a plague of grasshoppers, fields film there is scarcely a scene set loss and regret: in mood, like and all three get jobs as laborers in flame, murder, loss, exile. indoors. The farm workers camp “” theme but not on the vast wheat field of a “Days of Heaven” is above all under the stars and work in the so lush and more remembered farmer (). Bill tells one of the most beautiful films fields, and even the farmer is so than experienced. Voices are everyone Abby is his sister, and ever made. Malick’s purpose is besotted by the weather that he often distant, and there is far-off gets in a fight with a field hand not to tell a story of melodrama, tinkers with wind instruments on thunder. who suggests otherwise. but one of loss. His tone is the roof of his Gothic mansion. Against this backdrop, the The farmer falls in love with elegiac. He evokes the loneliness The film places its humans in story is told in a curious way. We a large frame filled with natural do see key emotional moments details: the sky, rivers, fields, between the three adult “Days of Heaven” is above all one of the horses, pheasants, rabbits. Malick characters. (Bill advises Abby set many of its shots at the to take the farmer’s offer. The most beautiful films ever made. Malick’s “golden hours” near dawn and farmer and Abby share moments dusk, when shadows are muted together in which she realizes purpose is not to tell a story of and the sky is all the same tone. she is beginning to love him, and These images are underlined Bill and the farmer have their melodrama, but one of loss. by the famous score of Ennio elliptical exchanges in which Morricone, who quotes Saint- neither quite states the obvious.)

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CREDITS if summed up, do not equal trying to reconstruct these the total of the words in the events that were seen through DAYS OF HEAVEN voiceover spoken so hauntingly naive eyes. She is there in almost (1978) Rated PG by Linda Manz. the first words of the film (“My She was 16 when the film was brother used to tell everyone 8SJUUFOBOEEJSFDUFEby made, playing younger, with they were brother and sister,” a a face that sometimes looks statement that is more complex 1IPUPHSBQIFE by Nestor angular and plain, but at other than it seems). And still there in Almendros and Haskell Wexler times (especially in a shot where the last words of the film, as she she is illuminated by firelight walks down the tracks with her Cast: and surrounded by darkness) has new “best friend.” She is there Richard Gere as #JMM a startling beauty. Her voice tells after the others are gone. She is Brooke Adams as Abby us everything we need to know the teller of the tale. Linda Manz as -JOEB about her character (and is so This child, we gather, has Haskell Wexler, director of photography. Sam Shepard as 'BSNFS particular and unusual that we survived in hard times. She Robert J. Wilke as 'BSN'PSFNBO almost think it tells us about the has armored herself. She is not Jackie Shultis as -JOEBT'SJFOEù actress, too). It is flat, resigned, surprised by the worst. Her not worked out well. The days Stuart Margolin as .JMM'PSFNBO emotionless, with some kind of voice sounds utterly authentic; of heaven are over. She says: Gene Bell as %BODFS quirky Eastern accent. it seems beyond performance. “You could see people on the Richard Libertini as 7BVEFWJMMJBO The whole story is told by I remember seeing the film for shore, but it was far off and you her. But her words are not a the first time and being blind- couldn’t see what they were Running time: 95 minutes narration so much as a parallel sided by the power of a couple doing. They were probably calling commentary, with asides and of sentences she speaks near the for help or something — or they 1SJOU$PVSUFTZ footnotes. We get the sense end. The three of them are in Paramount Pictures that she is speaking some years a boat on a river. Things have continued on page 47

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Remember,” our 15th associate, and now here is her A special guest will be her anniversary short premiere work as a director, friend and mine, Joan Cohl of subject, has a special which was selected for rotation Toronto, whose husband Dusty significance for me because it is in the Berlin International Di- co-founded TIFF — which in by Grace Wang of Toronto, one rectors Lounge. Its dreamy and many ways was an inspiration of the very first few Far-Flung haunting realism embodies the for Ebertfest. Dusty and Joan Correspondents. When she first poetic feeling of many of her have attended from our first contributed to the FFCs, Grace FCC pieces. year, and Joan continues after was employed in the legal field. In a special tribute to the Dusty's passing. She since began working for 15th anniversary Ebertfest, Grace will introduce her film. the Toronto International Film Grace will gather with me, Chaz, Then please remain attentive Festival, and served as assistant Nate, Mary Susan, the attending for a very brief film clip I have to its director, Cameron Bailey, FFCs and our VIP guests on stage selected. Then will come the on his film-finding trip to China as they join the audience in song. Allow it to finish. To the and Hong Kong. Since then she singing “Those Were the Days.” very end. has been a TIFF programming Which they surely have been. — Roger Lily Huang (top) stars in “I Remember.” Grace Wang (bottom) is the director of the film.

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46 15th Annual Roger Ebert’s Film Festival continued from page 45 were trying to bury somebody or from view. Because the film something.” made such an impression, the That is the voice of the fact of his disappearance took What is the point of “Days of Heaven” — the person who tells the story, and on mythic proportions. He was, that is why “Days of Heaven” is one heard, living in Paris. Or payoff, the message? This is a movie made correct to present its romantic San Francisco. Or Montana. Or by a man who knew how something felt, triangle obliquely, as if seen Austin. He was dying. Or working through an emotional filter. on another film. Or on a novel, and found a way to evoke it in us. Children know that adults can or a play. Right now Malick is be seized with sudden passions back at work, with two projects, for one another, but children are “The Thin Red Line,” with Sean concerned primarily with how Penn, and “The Moviegoer,” with Haskell Wexler.” Wexler, too, a film whose look remains these passions affect themselves: Tim Robbins and Julia Roberts. is one of the greatest of all unmistakably in the memory. Am I more or less secure, more Perhaps the mysteries will clear. cinematographers. That credit What is the point of “Days or less loved, because there has “Days of Heaven’s” great has always rankled him, and he of Heaven” — the payoff, been this emotional realignment photography has also generated once sent me a letter in which the message? This is a movie among the adults who form my a mystery. The credit for he described sitting in a theater made by a man who knew how world? cinematography goes to the with a stopwatch to prove that something felt, and found a way Since it was first released, Cuban Nestor Almendros, who more than half of the footage to evoke it in us. That feeling “Days of Heaven” has gathered won an Oscar for the film; “Days was shot by him. The reason is how a child feels when it legends to itself. Malick, now 53, of Heaven” established him he didn’t get top billing is a lives precariously, and then is made “Badlands” with newcomers in America, where he went on story of personal and studio delivered into security and joy, and to great success. Then there politics, but the fact remains and then has it all taken away in 1973, made this film five is a small credit at the end: that between them, these two again — and blinks away the years later and then disappeared “Additional photography by great cinematographers created tears and says it doesn’t hurt.

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By Roger Ebert, Jan. 6, 1989

ow rich art is! If only one can remember what one has seen. - Van Gogh in a letter to his brother. “Dear Theo,” the letters always began, and there were more than 750 of them written by Vincent Van Gogh to his brother. The painter spoke of his life, his finances, his health, his prospects, his opinions of the art world — but most of all he spoke about his paintings and about the discoveries he was making. To read the letters while looking at the paintings (as you can do if you have the book “Vincent by Himself”) is like having Van Gogh take you by the hand and lead you through an exhibit of his work. Few other painters have left such a moving and honest personal correspondence. If you only read the letters and look at the works, however, you will miss something: the look of the everyday world that Van Gogh was transforming Vincent Van Gogh, the world-renowned painter who confided in his brother. into his paintings. What Paul Cox has done in “Vincent: The take his camera to some of the as Van Gogh might have seen, and fields and watches birds Life and Death of Vincent Van places Van Gogh painted and and we visit some of the places and flowers, and meanders down Gogh” — the best film about a to re-create some of the others where he painted. But there are alleyways populated with people painter I have ever seen — is to in his imagination. This is not, fictionalized, created sequences who seem to harbor some of the however, one of those idiotic “art as well; scenes of farmers weariness and fear of so many appreciation” films in which we in their fields, or peasants of Van Gogh’s models. The words see the windmill and then we walking down country lanes, continue over these images as see the painting of the windmill; or shadows sweeping across well, creating the illusion that Cox knows too much about art fields of sunflowers. And there the painter is narrating the film to be that simplistic. Instead, he is a magical sequence in which himself. adopts the role of a disciple of the people in a room go about The best parts of the film the painter, a man who wants to their daily business until they are the most specific. Cox uses stand in the same places and see arrange themselves, seemingly closeups to show the smallest the same things as a simple act by accident, into a reproduction details of some of the paintings, of love toward Van Gogh’s work. of a painting. while the narration describes the All of the words on the Sometimes Cox makes no painter’s technical discoveries soundtrack are from Vincent’s effort to photograph specific and experiments. There are times letters to Theo, read by the things that Van Gogh might when we almost seem to be British actor . On the have seen or been influenced by. looking at the very brushstroke Paul Cox, director of “Vincent.” screen, we see landscapes such Instead, his camera visits woods that Van Gogh is describing in a

48 15th Annual Roger Ebert’s Film Festival THURSDAY 1 p.m. CAST AND but about the way he saw his subjects. CREDITS There are times when we almost seem to be So much of the popular image of Van Gogh is crude VINCENT: THE LIFE looking at the very brushstroke that Van Gogh and inaccurate, fed by the AND DEATH OF notion that he was “mad,” VINCENT VAN GOGH is describing in a letter. These moments fueled by the fact that he cut (1987) Not rated off his ear. There is an entirely create a sense of the specific. different Vincent here, a poetic, %JSFDUFECZPaul Cox thoughtful man who confides 8PSET by Vincent Van Gogh everything to his brother, who is 3FBE by John Hurt not mad so much as completely letter. These moments create a such a way in response to his open to the full range of his Running time: 99 minutes sense of the specific. We aren’t feeling and his craft. The strokes experience, including those looking at stars in the sky, or seem enormous, on the big parts that most of us prudently 1SJOU$PVSUFTZBill Banning & fields of flowers, or a portrait movie screen, and they call our suppress. “Vincent” is the most Roxie Releasing of the artist; we’re looking at attention to the detail, to the romantic and yet the most frozen moments in time when way that Van Gogh’s paintings sensible documentary about a Van Gogh’s brush moved just were not about their subjects painter I have ever seen.

SHORT SUBJECT By Paul Cox

part from being an ode bolts, bought in a township ing by. Meanwhile Sophie and to the music of life, “To nearby. Feike had convinced Roger’s Music” is also an ode Feike and Sophie frantically wife Michele that her house to the process of filmmaking. started to write their screen- was the perfect location — a I felt privileged to be able to play. During the day they beautiful 16th century house, watch the making of this film would sit on the grass in front with a small tower, right in from the very moment of con- of the house; when it rained the heart of the village. Her ception to the first screening. they disappeared into the at- 92-year-old father was also re- We were in the South of tic; and when the temperature cruited. France with Sophie Kohn and dropped at night they would It was a delight to watch Feike Santbergen. Both are huddle in front of the fire. We two people on a roll! They had keen filmmakers. They came watched their enthusiasm and little time, little money but for a little holiday after the excitement with delight and great passion and ingenuity. madness of the Cannes Film offered our help as production Feike’s homemade dolly per- Festival. When they heard that assistants and actors. formed miracles and Sophie’s maestro Tamás Vásáry, a world- I was asked to play the boom/fishing rod embraced the renowned pianist, and his depressed protagonist but de- marvelous soundscape of the dancer wife Henriett Tunyogi clined this opportunity. A little French countryside. were coming for the weekend, too close to the bone! Absurd “To Music” is a beautiful they could not sit idle any lon- characters like the lusty village short film. There are no special ger. “Talent must not be wast- priest are more in my range! effects or digital manipula- ed,” a film needed to be made! Fortunately, my friend Roger tions. It’s beautiful because it’s A camera and lights came from Glanville-Hicks, the finest lute honest and humane and shows Holland, a tripod from nearby player in the South of France, us how music, good music that Feike Santbergen (top) and Sophie Avignon and a dolly was con- offered to play the lead and is, can heal the body and spirit Kohn (bottom) are the co-director's structed out of pipes, nuts and Tamás and Henriett were stand- and bring people together. of “To Music.”

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By Roger Ebert

n the Family” centers on one of the notable performances I’ve seen — if, indeed, it is a performance. Perhaps Patrick Wang is exactly like that. Then he must be a very good man. He wrote, di- rected and stars in the film, but it’s not a one-man show. It is about the meaning of “family.” This is his first feature, and may signal the opening of an impor- tant career. Wang plays Joey Williams, a Chinese-American man who has been living happily for about five years with Cody Hines (Trevor St. John) and Cody’s 6-year-old son, Chip (Sebastian Banes). Chip’s mother died in Peter Hermann, Kelly McAndrew, Eugene Brell, Patrick Wang, Brian Murrary and Marsha Waterbury in a scene from “In the Family.” childbirth. Some months af- ter that, to his own surprise, Cody fell in love with Joey, and erty and custody of his child. nor is it an “Asian-American” Without ever making a point they’re raising Chip. This house- This will, written after the death film. It is about a father and of it, he has been treated as hold is given enough screen of Cody’s wife and before he met son who have been separated an outsider. Wang, as director, time to establish it as a happy, Joey, has never been updated. against their wishes. indicates this by several scenes healthy place. On Thanksgiving Day, Joey Its objectivity in these terms with the back of the character’s Then Cody is killed in an ac- drops the boy off at the sister’s is possible because of Wang’s head to the camera, so that we cident. Chip stays with Joey, house and never sees him again. extraordinary performance. I’ve see the other characters from whose treatment of him is a A lawyer in his Tennessee town been unable to discover any his POV, instead of seeing Joey study in wisdom and love. The tells him flatly he doesn’t have a details about him, but he speaks mixed in visually. He is not a boy is so irrepressibly joyous child custody case, and no judge in a relaxed, natural Tennessee hothead, not neurotic, not psy- that we sense what a happy life in the state will rule in his accent and creates Joey as a chologically damaged, but in he has led. But Cody’s sister favor. Neither this lawyer nor particularly convincing charac- this crisis, the entire basis of Eileen (Kelly McAndrew) reveals anyone else ever uses the words ter, a contractor who drives a his being has been challenged. that her brother left a will years “homosexual” or “gay.” It isn’t red pickup truck. (Cody was a Having seen Cody, we can feel ago, granting her all of his prop- in any sense a “gay rights” film, schoolteacher.) His own parents certain he would have granted died when he was very young. custody to Joey if he had ever He was adopted by foster par- made another will. Cody’s sister ents, who gave him their name, doesn’t see it that way. What Patrick Wang wrote, directed and stars in and who died when he was a does she think about homosexu- teenager. As a man of Asian ality? She never says. the film, but it's not a one-man show. It is birth who has been raised apart Joey’s case looks hopeless. from other Asians, as an orphan Friends try to console him, but about the meaning of “family.” This is his and a foster child who for years helplessly. He’s working on a first feature, and may signal the opening had no family, we sense how im- house for a local attorney who portant stability and continuity has an ornate law library, and of an important career. are to him. he reveals his skills in bookbind- And there is something else. ing — an art learned from his

50 15th Annual Roger Ebert’s Film Festival THURSDAY 4 p.m. CAST AND What a courageous first feature this is, a CREDITS IN THE FAMILY film that sidesteps shopworn stereotypes (2011) Not rated

and tells a quiet, firm, deeply humanist 8SJUUFOBOEEJSFDUFEby story about doing the right thing. Patrick Wang Cast: Patrick Wang as +PFZ8JMMJBNT foster father. This attorney, Paul humiliates the other man sim- Trevor St. John as $PEZ)JOFT Hawks (the authoritative and ply by being a good person and Sebastian Banes as $IJQ)JOFT wise Brian Murray), offers his telling the truth. Lisa Altomare as #FUTZ help and observes there may be “In the Family” is a long Brian Murray as 1BVM)BXLT no help within the court system film, and truth to tell, could Patrick Wang, writer, director and star Park Overall as 4BMMZ)JOFT but there may be a more human have been made shorter. (One of “In the Family,” is one of this year’s Peter Hermann as %BWF3PCFZ path around it. dimly lit confrontation between Festival guests. Kelly McAndrew as &JMFFO3PCFZ Then follows a scene of le- Joey and a key participant gal depositions, during which seems unnecessary.) That said, about doing the right thing. It Patrick Wang’s performance, in I was completely absorbed from is a film that avoids any mes- Running time: 169 minutes long takes that feel entirely beginning to end. What a cou- sage or statement and simply spontaneous, recounts his life rageous first feature this is, a shows us, with infinite sympa- 1SJOU$PVSUFTZPatrick Wang story. Joey’s response to the film that sidesteps shopworn thy, how the life of a complete- offensively hostile attorney for stereotypes and tells a quiet, ly original character can help the other side is masterful: He firm, deeply humanist story us lead our own.

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By Roger Ebert

would buy a used coffin from this man. In Richard Linklater’s droll comedy “Bernie,” Jack Black plays an east Texas funeral director named , and it is surely one of the performances of the year. I had to forget what I knew about Black. He creates this character out of thin air, it’s like nothing he’s done before, and it proves that an actor can be a miraculous thing in the right role. Black is not a giant. He stands 5’6”. Yet the word for Bernie Tiede is “hovering.” He seems to hover above even those taller than him. He is solicitous, gentle, tactful. When Marjorie Nugent’s husband dies, he is the angel at her shoulder, creating the impression that no client has ever touched him quite so much as she has. That’s a triumph because Marjorie (Shirley MacLaine) is the most disliked woman in Carthage, Texas. Bernie Tiede’s story is factual, based on a celebrated Texas Monthly article titled “Midnight in the Garden of East Texas” by Shirley MacLaine and Jack Black in a scene from “Bernie.” Skip Hollandsworth. The late Mr. Nugent, apparently a prince of Was it her money that to want anything in particular. hands while having simultaneous a fellow, owned the local bank. attracted Bernie? No one can Not sex, certainly; there were massages in a (respectable) local Marjorie took over after his say. Bernie was known and those in Carthage who assumed spa. passing and started throwing liked by almost everyone, sang Bernie was gay and rumored to There are flat-footed ways loan applications into the waste in the church choir, served be a few who knew. Nor was he this story could have been told. basket and otherwise offending on charity boards, organized boldly after her money, although Linklater finds a tricky note the locals. civic functions, provided a he suggested purchases which difficult to define. “Bernie” sympathetic shoulder. His origins in embellishing her lifestyle did never declares itself a comedy; were obscurely in Arkansas, nothing to diminish his. Surely often when we laugh we’re but his manner was such that Marjorie knew she was hated in thinking, “I can’t believe I’m he got the job at the Carthage the town and surely she enjoyed seeing this.” An unspoken funeral home almost just by being paid tribute; MacLaine compact grows between Bernie presenting himself. Among his allows the slightest of smiles and Marjorie in which neither many abilities was the tact to to sometimes shine out from a one declares exactly what’s going convince mourners he believed fixed frown. They began to be on, but the fiction is maintained they had selected precisely the seen around town, especially that Bernie believes her worthy right coffin. at the theatrical and artistic of his kindest attentions, and Bernie’s courtship of Marjorie events that Bernie supported she believes that at last a man is a masterpiece of social and sometimes performed in. has gotten her right. But a Matthew McConaughey in a scene from delicacy. In the odd dance They shared such sublimated relationship this problematic “Bernie.” between the two, he never seems sexual experiences as holding can’t last forever, and eventually

52 15th Annual Roger Ebert’s Film Festival THURSDAY 9 p.m. CAST AND I had to forget what I knew about Black. CREDITS BERNIE He creates this character out of thin air, (2011) Rated PG-13

it’s like nothing he’s done before, and %JSFDUFEby Richard Linklater it proves that an actor can be a 8SJUUFOby Skip Hollandsworth miraculous thing in the right role. Cast: Jack Black as#FSOJF Shirley MacLaine as.BSKPSJF Matthew McConaughey as%BOOZ Bernie shoots Marjorie four times accustomed lifestyle. Only a Brandon Smith as4IFSJGG in the back. curious district attorney named Now Linklater surpasses Danny Buck Davidson (Matthew Jack Black, star of “Bernie” is one of Running time: 98 minutes himself. Bernie’s attempts to McConaughey) eventually sniffs this year’s Festival guests. conceal the death is based on out something wrong, and even 1SJOU$PVSUFTZMillennium the ability of many good funeral as he comes under suspicion, Black in a completely different Entertainment directors to know instinctively Bernie remains a man who mode in “School of Rock.” Why what people really think about knows exactly how to behave in did he make “Bernie”? I suspect each other. In Marjorie’s case, difficult situations. he read the magazine article and no one liked her, and she isn’t Richard Linklater has made all knew it was a natural movie. particularly missed. Bernie kinds of movies, most of them Anyone could have seen that. redoubles his charity efforts very good. They have little else His genius was to see Jack Black and continues to lead his in common: He worked with as Bernie Tiede.

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By Roger Ebert

slo, August 31st” is about a day, a city and a 34-year-old man named Anders, who is on release from a drug rehab center so he can go to a job interview. The film opens with his memories of growing up in Oslo, described in snatches of dialogue and shown in glimpses of film. Here he was happy. Almost every street and turning is familiar. Are we seeing a dream as it unwinds? Anders (Anders Danielsen Lie) awakens in a hotel room next to a woman we never meet, walks nearby to a wooded stream, fills his pockets with rocks and walks into the water. After an uneasy time, he pops Anders Danielsen Lie (Anders) and Ingrid Olava (Rebecca) share a moment in “Oslo, August 31st.” up sputtering and climbs back on the shore. He changes clothes and goes for his interview at an Cocaine, heroin, whatever. He girlfriend who doesn’t pick Thomas have stayed on board avant-garde magazine and makes stands up and walks out of the up, meets an old friend named the ship, and Anders feels adrift. a good start. He has impressive room. Thomas (Hans Olav Brenner) Even the much-loved city that writing credits. This is a turning point. Anders for coffee. They sit on a bench surrounds him is an affront, a Asked for his critique of cannot be the first addict the overlooking the city and have reminder of the days not lived, the magazine, he is pithy and editor has ever met or perhaps a casual but actually intense the experiences missed. How sounds on the money. The editor even hired. It is Anders himself conversation. Thomas is more can he begin again? Above all, is friendly and open. Then he who terminates the meeting, worried than he will say. Anders Anders is angry with himself questions a gap of some years in anger or despair. He walks has greater reasons to worry and in despair, although he’s in Anders’ resume, and Anders through the lonely summer than he will admit. so inward as he tries to conceal accounts for it: drug addiction. streets, makes calls to a former He has been clean and sober that. for something like a year. In He used drugs again and rehab, he will have been told again and again until there was they aren’t the same thing. It is nothing else left for him to do. one thing to be drug and alcohol Even today he could easily use free and another thing to be drugs and feel whatever it was sober. Anders is on very thin ice. that he felt. But we sense he’s “Oslo, August 31st” is quietly, stranded. He can’t go back and profoundly, one of the most he can’t go forward. observant and sympathetic films As evening comes, he falls into I’ve seen. Director Joachim Trier a pattern that must have been and actor Anders Danielsen routine for him in the old days. Lie, working together for He wanders into a club. He goes the second time, understand to a party. Someone hands him something fundamental about a glass of wine, and he drinks their character. He believes the it. This decision doesn’t surprise ship has sailed without him. him. It was written in some kind He screwed up. He lost years in of inevitable script he has been addiction and recovery. Life has following all day. That’s what Anders Danielsen Lie in a scene from “Oslo, August 31st.” moved on. His old friends like they mean when they say you

56 15th Annual Roger Ebert’s Film Festival FRIDAY 1 p.m. CAST AND

CREDITS There can come a point in life when you OSLO, AUGUST 31st swim so far away from the shore that it is (2011) Not Rated

too late to turn back. 8SJUUFOBOEEJSFDUFEby Joachim Trier

can be dry but not sober. the point, how would he? There Cast: He meets a nice girl, Rebecca, can come a point in life when Anders Danielsen Lie as"OEFST at the party. She knows nothing you swim so far away from the Hans Olav Brenner as5IPNBT of his past. She likes him. She shore that it is too late to turn Ingrid Olava as3FCFDDB invites him to come along with back. some friends, and on one of I know what he should do. Running time: 95 minutes those bright Nordic mornings, He should leave Oslo, even Joachim Trier, writer and director of they go skinny-dipping in a Norway. With the English that “Oslo, August 31st” is one of this year’s 1SJOU$PVSUFTZStrand Releasing pool. All but Anders, who smiles all Norwegians speak, he could Festival guests. and nods but doesn’t jump in. live anywhere. He could take any He knows what will happen kind of a job, no matter what, body but they have taken away before long. He knows the script. and cast his past adrift. His his hope. He could walk and What a sad, true film. How memories of Oslo only inspire walk and walk, and one day even knowledgeable. He could regrets. His old friendships are pick up a book or go to a movie. continue with Rebecca (Ingrid all over. Day after day, he could But Anders has no faith in a new Olava), but how would she deal rebuild his interest in things. beginning. The last sound we with his missing years? More to The drugs haven’t destroyed his hear from him is a sigh.

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By Roger Ebert

he Ballad of Narayama” is a Japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice, telling a story of startling cruelty. What a space it opens up between its origins in the kabuki style and its subject of starvation in a mountain village! The village enforces a tradition of carrying those who have reached the age of 70 up the side of mountain and abandoning them there to die of exposure. Keisuke Kinoshita’s 1958 film tells its story with deliberate artifice, using an elaborate set Keisuke Kinoshita’s visually remarkable “The Ballad of Narayama” was filmed almost entirely on studio sets. Inspired by kabuki with a path beside a bubbling theater, the director intentionally created an air of stagelike artifice. Designed by Kisaku Ito and Chiyoo Umeda. brook, matte paintings for the backgrounds, mist on dewy evenings, and lighting that kabuki theater, there is a black- resignation in the face of her son Tatsuhei (Teiji Takahashi) drops the backgrounds to black clad narrator to tell us what’s traditional fate is in stark contrast loves his mother and doesn’t have at dramatic moments and then happening. with the behavior of her neighbor any desire to carry her up the brings up realistic lighting again. This artifice supports a story Mata (Seiji Miyaguchi), who mountainside, Mata’s family has Some of its exteriors use black that contains great emotional protests violently against his already cut off his food, and he foregrounds and bloody red skies; charge. plays destiny. Their family attitudes are wanders the village as a desperate others use grays and blues. As in Orin, a 70-year-old widow whose similarly opposed; while Orin’s scavenger; Orin invites him in and

A still from the film “The Ballad of Narayama.”

58 15th Annual Roger Ebert’s Film Festival FRIDAY 4 p.m. CAST AND genres, and made 42 films in CREDITS He made dramas, thrillers, musicals, the first 23 years of his career. He was immediately attracted to THE BALLAD OF anything, but [Keisuke Kinoshita] never made motion pictures; a film was shot NARAYAMA in his hometown when he was (1958) Not rated another film like “The Ballad of Narayama.” in high school and he ran away to a studio in Kyoto. His family %JSFDUFEby Keisuke Kinoshita In its matter-of-fact juxtaposition of fate made him return home, but later 8SJUUFOCZ and art, it leaves an indelible impression. dropped its opposition to his Shichirô Fukazawa TUPSJFT career plans. Without a college Keisuke Kinoshita XSJUFS education, he started humbly as a set photographer, and worked his Cast: offers him a bowl of rice, which be the journey up the mountain way up, sending in one screenplay Kinuyo Tanaka as0SJO gobbles hungrily. has three strict rules: (1) you after another to the studio chief. Teiji Takahashi as5BUTVIFJ In contrast with her resignation must not talk after starting up He made dramas, thrillers, Yûko Mochizuki as 5BNBZBO and her son’s reluctance to Narayama; (2) be sure no one sees musicals, anything, but he never Danshi Ichikawa as,FTBLJDIJ carry out her sentence, Orin’s you leave in the morning; (3) made another film like “The Ballad Seiji Miyaguchi as .BUB vile grandson Kesakichi (Danshi never lookback. His adherence is of Narayama.” In its matter-of- Ichikawa) can’t wait to be done in contrast with the adventures fact juxtaposition of fate and art, Running time: 98 minutes with the old woman, and begins of the fearful neighbor Mata, who it leaves an indelible impression. singing a song mocking the appears soon after bound head Tatsuhei’s second bride Tama tells 1SJOU$PVSUFTZShochiku Films & fact that she retains, at 70, all and foot, dragged protesting by him: “When we turn 70, we’ll go Janus Films 33 of her original teeth. This is his son (“Don’t do this!”). together up Narayama.” taken up by the villagers, who Orin’s goodness and resignation materialize as a vindictive chorus, are at the center of the story. “The Ballad of Narayama”is a their song implying she kept In particular, notice her kind new DVD release in the Criterion her teeth because of a deal with welcome for Tama (Yuko Collection. Thanks to Wikipedia for demons. Eager to qualify for her Mochizuki), a 40-year-old widow some of the research in this article. doom, Orin bites down hard on a she has decided will be the ideal stone and when they see her again new wife for her widower son. her mouth reveals bloody stumps. Known for her ability to catch This harsh imagery contrasts trout when no one else can, she with the way the film is leads Tama through the forest structured around song and on a foggy night and reveals a dance. Although presented in the secret place beneath a rock in the kabuki style, it isn’t based on an brook where a trout is always to actual kabuki play but on a novel. be found. This secret was never Kinoshita is correct, I believe, revealed to her first daughter-in- in presenting his story in this law. She even wants to die before stylized way; his form allows it to her first grandchild arrives. She become more fable than narrative, wants to rid the village from a and thus more bearable. hungry mouth. His sets and backdrops reflect Some will find Orin’s behavior the changing seasons with lush strange. So it is. Perhaps, in beauty: Spring, summer, the the years soon after World War red leaves of autumn, then the II, she is intended in praise of wintry snows on the slopes of the Japanese ability to present Narayama. On the mountaintop, acceptance in the face of the blackbirds perch on snowy crags appalling. You can attach any set as the camera uses lateral moves of parallels to Kinoshita’s parable to sweep across the desolate and make them work, but that landscape. Finally depositing his seems to fit. mother in an empty place on Kinoshita (1912-1998) is of the mountain, Tatsuhei greets the same generation as Akira the snow with relief: She will Kurosawa. Saying that ideas freeze more quickly. This he can sprang quickly into his mind, sing only to himself, because he moved between periods and A still from the film “The Ballad of Narayama.”

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ilda Swinton is fear- less. She’ll take on any role without her ego, paycheck, vanity or career path playing a part. All that matters, apparently, is whether the movie interests her, and whether she thinks she can do something interesting with the role. She almost always can. She hasn’t often been more fascinating than in “Julia,” a nerve-wracking thriller with a twisty plot and startling realism. We have not seen this Tilda before — but then, we haven’t seen most of the Tildas before. This one is an alcoholic slut who lacks what we are pleased to call normal feminine emotions. She’s just been fired from another job. Her pattern is to get sloppy drunk every night and drag a strange man to bed. She needs money. Her neighbor Elena (Kate Tilda Swinton, star of “Julia,” is one of this year's Festival guests. Photo courtesy of Brigitte Lacombe del Castillo) comes to her with an offer. Her young son is now living with his millionaire grand- She cuts back on the drinking, and hostile. He puts Swinton at you will understand why. father, who won’t allow her to however, perhaps because she is the center of this, and she plays Do we hate this woman Julia? see him. She needs somebody to constantly fleeing — both away Julia as a tough broad who is in When you see how she treats the help her kidnap the child. from, and toward. way over her head, and desper- boy Tom (Aidan Gould), we want This is the beginning of Julia’s You have to give a lot of credit ately invents stories to mislead to, except that she’s all that nightmare journey through a to Erick Zonca, the 53-year-old those who want the money stands between Tom and much thorny thicket of people you do French director who co-wrote the involved — which starts out at worse things, including death. not want to meet. If there’s one film with Aude Py. He makes it $50,000 before she cheats her No matter what her motives for thing that’s consistent about her move relentlessly. He skillfully way up to $2 million. keeping him alive, there comes behavior, it’s how she lies to all buries it in seedy American and The plot of “Julia,” with its a moment when she shields him of them. This is not one of those Mexican locations that never, twists and turns and surprises with her body from a man with a tough heroines you sort of like. ever, feel like sets. He uses a and rotten luck, is, shall we say, gun, and an utterly amoral wom- You don’t like her. She makes child actor and uses him well. not very plausible. I believed an would have made a deal. not the slightest effort to be He makes no attempt to senti- it. That’s because everything Oh, she offers lots of deals. liked. She doesn’t give a damn. mentalize the kid, who is spoiled that happens seems inevitable, She’s not to be trusted. There are not contrived — the inescap- times here when only her quick able outcome of what has gone powers of invention keep her and before, growing out of the greed the boy alive, and Swinton does Tilda Swinton is fearless. She’ll take and evil of the characters, which a magnificent job with a tough Julia, who is herself greedy and acting challenge: letting us see on any role without her ego, paycheck, evil, is blindsided by. I could how desperate she is without summarize the plot for you in another character being able to vanity or career path playing a part. one sentence, but I don’t think I tell. This movie lives on the edge will, and when you see the film, all the way through, right up

60 15th Annual Roger Ebert’s Film Festival FRIDAY 8:30 p.m. CAST AND CREDITS This one is an alcoholic slut JULIA (2008) Rated R who lacks what we are pleased to %JSFDUFEby Erick Zonca call normal feminine emotions. 8SJUUFOby Aude Py and Erick Zonca

Cast: until an astonishing final scene It’s good enough to be an art Tilda Swinton as +VMJB on the median strip of a super- film, but don’t let anyone pigeon- as.JUDI highway. What she does then hole it for you. It’s one doozy of Aidan Gould as5PN shows that she’s a better woman a great thriller. And the acting Kate del Castillo as&MFOB than she was when she started here is as good as it gets — not Bruno Bichir as %JFHP out, but you can’t call it a false just from Swinton, but from Saul happy ending, because it’s more Rubinek as her one remaining Running time: 140 minutes wrung out than happy, and, after friend, and by Bruno Bichir as all, what choice did she have? Diego, who she meets in Tijuana. “Julia” should have a big ad You want to be careful who you 1SJOU$PVSUFTZ campaign and be making a lot of meet in Tijuana. Magnolia Pictures noise, stirring up word-of-mouth. Swinton here is amazing. She It’s being treated as an art film. goes for broke and wins big time. Tilda Swinton stars as Julia in “Julia.”

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By Roger Ebert 8SJUUFOBOEEJSFDUFEby Pablo Berger t’s too soon to declare a trend, but a new Cast: once again seems likely to Maribel Verdu as&ODBSOB become a success in the fall movie Daniel Giménez Cacho as season. “Blancanieves,” a striking "OUPOJP7JMMBMUB new Spanish feature, premieres Sofia OriaBT:PVOH$BSNFO here Monday at the Toronto Film Macarena GarciaBT"EVMU$BSNFO Festival. Although the story draws on the and Running time: 104 minutes the legend of , it is anything but a children’s film. It 1SJOU$PVSUFTZ is a full-bodied, visually stunning Cohen Media Group silent film of the sort that might have been made by the greatest directors of the 1920s, if such de- tails as the kinky sadomasochism of the Evil Stepmother could have A still scene photo from “Blancanieves,” the word for Snow White in Spanish. been slipped past the censors. The delightful “The Artist,” which slipped away with 2011’s All goes wrong for him. He is romantic score. Blancanieves is ences and dimensions different Academy Award for best pic- paralyzed in , and his performed lovably by the angelic from talking pictures. I believe ture, cheated a little by having beloved wife dies in childbirth. Sofía Oria when she is a child, “Blancanieves” has a fair shot at tongue-in-cheek fun with its Their daughter, , is raised and as an adult Macarena García. the festival’s all-important Audi- silence, and even allowing a few by her grandmother until Antonio As with “The Artist,” I believe ence Award. words to sneak in. Pablo Berger’s unwisely marries the heartless audiences will discover they like “Blancanieves” exploits the silent Encarna, who wants only his silent films more than they think The film doesn’t yet have an medium for its strengths, includ- money, ignores him in a wheel- they do. The silents offer experi- American release date. ing the fact that it can so easily chair in his room, and adopts deal with fantasy. This is as excit- Carmen only to give her a room in ing, in many of the same ways, the barn and put her to work at as the greatest traditional silent hard labor. Encarna, meanwhile, masterpieces. It’s a Spanish film, dominates her male assistant in but of course silent films speak classic boot-and-whip style, and an international language. Carmen is able to sneak into the The story opens with a famous mansion and bond lovingly with matador, Antonio Villalta, who her father. is filled with swaggering ego. Carmen is forced to escape, wanders in the forest, and is dis- covered by a troupe of dwarves who travel between cities staging The silents offer bullfights. They name her Blan- canieves, Spanish for Snow White. experiences When one of them is wounded during a fight, she leaps into the and dimensions ring and distracts the bull, using matador skills she learned from different from her father. Eventually she, too, becomes a famed matador. talking pictures. This film is a wonderment, urged along by a full-throated Pablo Berger, director, and Maribel Verdu, actress, in “Blancanieves.” All Q&A sessions and panel discussions will be streamed live at www.ebertfest.com and on the Ebertfest Facebook Fan Page April 17-21, 2013t5IF7JSHJOJB5IFBUSF 63

By Roger Ebert

rowing up in New Jer- sey, Vikram Gandhi was a typical American kid who resented the way his family tried to enforce Hindu beliefs and practices. He found it ironic that Americans began to popu- larize gurus and yoga just at the time he was growing away from such things. On a trip to India, he says, he found that “real” gurus were no more real than the American frauds who copied them. That led him into the deliber- ate deception that he filmed in “Kumaré.” He grew a long beard and a pony-tail, exchanged his shoes for sandals, switched his slacks and suits to flowing or- ange robes, and started carrying an ornate walking stick. Then he moved to Arizona, hired an expert to teach him yoga and a PR woman to promote him as a guru, and began to attract fol- lowers in meetings at shopping malls, community centers and around the swimming pools of his affluent clients. His accent was modeled on the way his grandmother spoke English. His teachings were deliberate gib- berish: talk of inner blue lights, Vikram Gandhi, the director of “Kumaré” is one of this year's Festival guests. “finding the guru within,” and chants of fabricated mantras. At this point in the film, it health seriously, are somewhat that of his followers. have started something that was takes an odd turn. Kumaré’s fol- skilled at yoga and follow sched- Gandhi seems typecast for out of his control. lowers believe him without ques- ules of meditation. “Kumaré” the role of Kumaré. Tall, thin, He tells his followers the time tion. They share their deepest seems to establish that a guru bending forward to listen better, has come for him to leave them. secrets with him and visibly ap- can be a complete fraud and he speaks warmly and encourag- Now they are on their own. He pear to benefit from him. These nevertheless do a certain amount ingly, and makes deep eye con- returns to New Jersey, cuts his people are not dummies. Mostly of good, because what matters is tact. He smiles easily. He never hair, shaves his beard, and be- middle-aged, they take their not the sincerity of the guru but pushes too far. He seems as real gins to practice a speech in the as any guru and more real than mirror: “I am not who you think some. His teaching of yoga seems I am.” Whether he ever says this, within the ability of his follow- and how the movie ends, I will It seems to me that “Kumaré” reflects a truth ers to accomplish. He narrates leave for you to discover. that is often expressed in three words: the documentary (in an ordinary It seems to me that “Kumaré” American voice), introduces us reflects a truth that is often “Act as if.” to followers he’s grown close to, expressed in three words: “Act and begins to believe he may as if.” If you can act as if some-

64 15th Annual Roger Ebert’s Film Festival SATURDAY 2 p.m. CAST AND thing is true, in a sense that CREDITS makes it true. It doesn’t matter The film’s implication seems to be: It doesn't if a teacher’s spiritual teachings KUMARÉ have any basis. It doesn’t matter matter if a religion’s teachings are true. (2011) Not rated if the supernatural even exists (Gandhi believes it does not). What matters is if you think they are. %JSFDUFEby Vikram Gandhi His followers benefit by acting &YFDVUJWF1SPEVDFSStephen Feder “as if.” When I first heard this film Cast: described, I assumed it would be Vikram Gandhi as IJNTFMG a satirical, snarky comedy like Purva Bedi asIFSTFMG Sacha Baron Cohen’s “Borat.” Kristin Calgaro asIFSTFMG Not so. Gandhi seems to be es- sentially a good man, and he Running time: 86 minutes learns things of value to himself in his experiment. In a sense, 1SJOU$PVSUFTZKino Lorber the deception he practices on his followers is contemptible, but in another sense, they’re all in it together. The film’s implication seems to be: It doesn’t matter if a religion’s teachings are true. What matters is if you think they are. Stephen Feder, executive producer of “Kumaré” is one of the Festival guests.

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By Michał Oleszczyk

he Disney mystique is a secular religion so global, powerful and self- contained — not to mention liti- gious — that it practically courts desecration. Randy Moore’s “Escape from Tomorrow,” which just premiered at Sundance and is unlikely to come to a theater near you any time soon, is the boldest act of cinematic violation at least since the “ Club” finale of ’s “Full Metal Jacket” (in which scores of American soldiers in Vietnam adopted the show’s an- them as a deranged battle cry). Shot guerilla-style almost en- tirely at Disney World in Florida, Moore’s film offers an immersion into the alternative reality of constant amusement. Having vis- Danielle Safady and in a scene of “Escape from Tomorrow.” ited Disney World myself a mere week before arriving in Park City, I was struck by how astutely with many instances of quaint around him starts to disinte- the film’s effrontery. Unlike Jia the director rendered the sheer rear projection. grate. Obsessed with a couple Zhang Ke’s “The World,” which strangeness of the place. From Taking its cue from the ulti- of sexy French tourists (or are turned a Beijing theme park into the opening shots of Big Thun- mate Disney promise of “dreams they “cast members”?), Jim gets a hollow setting of everyday sad- der Mountain Railroad, scored coming true,” the film then be- caught up in the dark underside ness, “Escape from Tomorrow” to sweeping, melancholy music, comes a realization of a parental of the surrounding kingdom. is a fun paranoia ride, shot in a the film sets to render the ubi- nightmare. As the freshly laid-off The repressed returns, with a style reminiscent of Tom Schil- quitous “magic” unfamiliar and Jim (Ray Abramsohn) takes his vengeance: the dome blows ler’s long-shelved “Nothing Lasts weird — and it certainly helps wife and kids for a theme park up, fairies turn into whores, and Forever” (and quite likely to that it’s shot in black and white, weekend, the world (or World) as Jim is soarin’ along with the share its fate). It’s too early to park’s most spectacular ride, say, given all the positive buzz at shots of naked babes get super- Sundance, but it seems no movie imposed over luscious California that uses a miniature Epcot dome vistas. as an interrogation device (nor Whatever its shortcomings one that equals Disney enchant- (and it could use some condens- ment with a bad case of cat flu) ing), one simply has to admire can get a pass from Tinker Bell.

“You can't be happy all the time,” says a Lucifer-like rebellious princess after inadvertently hugging a tot to death.

Roy Abramsohn cringes in a scene in “Escape From Tomorrow.”

66 15th Annual Roger Ebert’s Film Festival SATURDAY 5 p.m. CAST AND Given Disney’s stress on happiness and CREDITS ESCAPE FROM smile, this may be Moore’s ultimate, TOMORROW (2013) Not Yet Rated unforgivable heresy. 8SJUUFOBOEEJSFDUFEby Randy Moore

Ultimately, the film is about breaks and glitches, it quickly Cast: the terror of ubiquitous enter- becomes unbearable. Roy Abramsohn as+JN tainment. “You can’t be happy When Odie Henderson and Elena Schuber as&NJMZ all the time,” says a Lucifer- me — my Disney World com- Danielle Safady as 4PQIJF like rebellious princess after panion and enabler, not to Annet Mahendru as *TBCFMMF inadvertently hugging a tot to mention excellent contributor Roy Abramsohn stars as Jim in death. Given Disney’s stress on to this website — got stuck in “Escape from Tomorrow.” He is Running time: 103 minutes happiness and smile, this may the middle of Toy Story Midway one of this year's Festival guests. be Moore’s ultimate, unforgiv- Mania!, the looped synthesized 1SJOU$PVSUFTZ able heresy. Whoever visited version of “You’ve Got a Friend Mankurt Media LLC the Great Laughing Place (as in Me” and Woody’s placating song: “The hell you do!” It’s Uncle Remus would have called message got under our skin around that rebellious impulse it), can testify to a strange in a matter of minutes. By that “Escape from Tomorrow” phenomenon: as much fun as the end of the ride we were has been constructed. it is, whenever Disney magic tempted to shout back at the

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Shailene Woodley and star in ”The Spectacular Now.” Woodley is one of this year's Festival guests. Photo courtesy of Wilford Harewood By Roger Ebert

ere is a lovely film about ened by Aimee (Shailene Wood- a mechanical pencil and a plastic it. It just looks at these two. They two high school seniors ley), who says he’d never recog- triangle working through some get to enjoy hanging out, and who look, speak and nize her from their school. They proofs. More fun than a crossword although Sutter says he has no feel like real 18-year-old middle- start talking, and stroll through puzzle. intention of getting serious with American human beings. Do you a wooded area nearby. Bird song. Sutter isn’t looking for a girl- Aimee and the friend says he has have any idea how rare that is? Sun through the leaves. It’s one friend. Aimee has never had a his back, damned if he doesn’t They aren’t crippled by irony. They of those time-outs licensed by boyfriend. Sutter got so really ask her to the Prom. It’s not even aren’t speeded up into cartoons. youth, where there doesn’t have drunk after splitting up with that they fall in love; they just Their sex lives aren’t insulted by to be a reason: They’re young, Cassidy (). She’s not intensely enjoy one another’s scenes that treat them cheaply. they’re awake, he’s so hung over one of your bitch queens you so company. The story requires them to make he goes into one of those fuzzy often see as the Other Woman When they make love the scene love, but it doesn’t insist we see trances that run on fumes. in teenager movies. Can she tell is handled perfectly by the direc- her tits. Sutter and Aimee are This is a conversation that will there’s no future with Sutter as tor, James Ponsoldt. Neither is smart, but they make dumb mis- continue in one way or another long as he keeps on drinking like a virgin, neither is experienced. takes. They’re more confident on for the whole film. Emotionally this? His teacher (Andre Royko) They perform the task seriously the outside than on the inside. it begins at zero and arrives at has the same thoughts. Sutter is and with care, Aimee hands Sutter They’re very serious about life, al- 60, with some negative num- screwing up just when he should a condom and he puts in on and though Sutter, the boy, makes an bers along the way, but Sutter be filling out an application for enters her carefully and they look effort to conceal that. wouldn’t know that; he wants college. Sutter and the teacher, solemnly into each other’s eyes. He lives with his mom. His dad her to help with his geometry who can’t be 10 years older than None of that wild thrashing about isn’t in the picture. Sutter has a homework. Geometry, the most Sutter, have a serious sit-down that embarrasses older actors, who little buzz on most of the time, entertaining branch of math, and after class. The teacher asks Sut- doth protest too much. carrying a monogrammed flask the most advanced one I ever ter how he expects to get what he They reach that intent state to spike his fast-food sodas. He mastered. Would you believe I was deserves out of life. “Have you?” where they want to help each drives while drinking. One morn- online the other day, looking for Sutter asks him. other. She wants her mother to ing he’s sprawled on the lawn of a the sophomore geometry textbook The movie’s first hour continues give her more freedom. He says he house he’s never seen before. I had at Urbana High? I had this on a, I dunno, realistic or natu- lied when he told her his dad was That’s the Meet Cute. He’s awak- goofy notion to get a protractor, ralistic tone. It makes no point of a pilot. Actually, his dad walked

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What an affecting film this is. It respects CREDITS THE SPECTACULAR NOW its characters and doesn’t use them for its (2013) Not rated

own shabby purposes. How deeply we %JSFDUFEby James Ponsoldt 4UPSZby Tim Tharp care about them. Miles Teller and 4DSFFOQMBZby Scott Neustadter Shailene Woodley are so there. and Michael H. Weber

Cast: Miles Teller as4VUUFS,FFMZ out. His older sister has the phone meet his dad (). A Shailene Woodley as "JNFF number, now revealed to him. Sut- lot of the meaning here is in long 'JOJDLZ ter makes her promise to stand shots. Sutter says the hell with it. as up to her mom. Aimee makes him Insults Aimee. James Ponsoldt, director of “The )PMMZ,FFMZ promise to get the number from What an affecting film this Spectacular Now.” Brie Larson as $BTTJEZ his sister and call it. is. It respects its characters and Kyle Chandler as.S,FFMZ Now comes the place the movie doesn’t use them for its own Cusack in his “Say Anything” pe- was building toward all of his shabby purposes. How deeply we riod. Woodley is beautiful in a real Running time: 95 minutes time. Not a “climax,” nothing care about them. Miles Teller and person sort of way, studying him real exciting, only an experience Shailene Woodley are so there. with concern, and then that warm 1SJOU$PVSUFTZA24 Films that helps explain Sutter’s life Being young is a solemn business smile. We have gone through se- up until now, and points toward when you really care about some- nior year with these two. We have his future. He takes her along to one. Teller has a touch of John known them. We have been them.

Shailene Woodlaey and Miles Teller get close in a scene of “The Spectacular Now.” Photo courtesy of Wilford Harewood

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By Omer M. Mozaffar

arine Colonel Eric Hast- their hospital beds. One paraple- ings, a quiet man of gic warrior, in a deadpan tone, wide smile and thin narrates a list of his injuries, hair, stands knee-deep in a whis- seen in jump-cuts. A Navy SEAL pering river, several decades and with steel eyes speaks through thousands of miles removed from his iPad’s computer voice, typing the brutal chaos of the Vietnam long sentences with one finger. war. As head of the group “War- When he plays his message, he riors and Quiet Waters,” he now remains in a posture of medita- brings damaged young veterans tion for long moments after his of more recent conflicts to his text runs out. As he silently Montana ranch in hopes that struggles through frustrating the tranquility of fly-fishing will rounds of rehabilitation, learn- help relieve their stress disor- ing to walk with a prosthetic leg, ders. In this touching documen- we wonder how many stories his Sabrina Lee, producer and co-director of Editor and co-director Shasta Grenier. tary, the wounds of the past are frozen expression hides. But he “Not Yet Begun to Fight.” soothed by flowing waters. finds light in the support of his These are men of broken body. wife of seven months. There are, deep wounds. He compares his Soon, he is able to accept their Until the camera moves, we however, others whose afflictions six-year Post-Traumatic Stress hugs. These are men of broken would not know, because they are hidden from us. A reserved Disorder to a leech that slowly soul. The hope of Quiet Waters seem frank and reflective, with man in sunglasses and collared crept up on him until it started is that the patient, careful fly- no indication of damage. But, al- shirt looks like a forty-year-old biting. Now he keeps his distance fishing repetitions will teach the most every participant is missing employee of the ranch. But, he is from people, trying not to recall vets new, healthy behaviors, dis- an eye, or leg, or more. Then, as only 28, former bomb technician the vile, disgusting violence he solving away harmful old habits. they speak, we notice some awk- who lived on adrenaline. When associates with all humanity. At But Colonel Hastings does not wardness in their conversation. his trainer apologizes for touch- the ranch, he accepts that there let them hang on to their con- Some remember the blasts that ing him, we anticipate some are people in the world who do quests: When a soldier catches a shattered them. Others remember serious revelations about his care for veterans like himself. fish, he can celebrate, but he has to return the creature to its wa- ters. The point is, these fighters know bloodshed too well; now Hastings teaches them to value life itself. The quiet Montana sky, lush forests, and distant mountains also help. Neverthe- less, those grins from catching fish are captivating and price- less. Movies often tell us about the camaraderie of soldiers. Here, despite their wounds, some of these soldiers long to return to service. One wounded war- rior in eye-patch believes he is perfectly designed for deploy- ment. He longs to return to Afghanistan. Another soldier feels himself responsible for his unit members’ deaths. Hastings explains that a person will not ever get past those feelings, and must learn to live despite them. Navy SEAL Elliott Miller (retired) gets a casting lesson from guide Collin Brown.

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Running time: 60 minutes And go fly-fishing. Perhaps fly- fishing gained most prominence Until the camera moves, we would not know, 1SJOU$PVSUFTZUltraviolet in Robert Redford’s “A River Projects & Story Road Films Runs Through It.” While “Not because they seem frank and reflective, Yet Begun to Fight” might lack the beautiful cinematography with no indication of damage. of that film, it still manages to capture the serene terrain above But, almost every participant is and below water. In Redford’s film, the main character felt con- missing an eye, or leg, or more. strained by the forced precision of the process. Here, though, the goal is freedom from a deep prison. Running only an hour, this documentary is as emotion- ally heavy as almost anything twice as long. Watching the sol- diers in life beyond the group, we feel joy learning of some of their successes, along with the pains of their disappointments. As we watch Colonel Hastings, we cannot help but feel for him. His eyes well as he sympathizes with these young men. Occasion- ally, he sheds tears of gratitude watching them accomplish their small, but meaningful victories. With the grace of a cellist, he swings his own fishing pole back and forth. He soon catches a fish with his bare hands, caresses its body and tail, and lets it swim away Marine Colonel Eric Hastings (retired) fishes in a favorite spot on the Gallatin River.

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76 15th Annual Roger Ebert’s Film Festival In the spring of 2012, the Champaign Park District this beloved facility is apparent to all who walk through her launched the largest renovation project yet for the Virginia doors, and we pledge that same level of quality workmanship Teatre since taking ownership of the historic facility in will continue with everything we do. Please go to 2000. Major components of the current project include www.champaignparkdistrict.com/foundation.htm and restoration of the auditorium paint and plasterwork, donate today so we can continue our eforts to ensure the installation of an elevator to transport patrons between the Virginia Teatre remains a vital part of our community for main and mezzanine level lobbies, upgrades of the electrical generations to come. and stage systems, replacement of the seats and complete renovation of the basement dressing rooms.

Tis is an enormous undertaking for the park district and like any project involving a building that is nearly 100 years old, there are ofen surprises. One of the nicest surprises was the discovery of 24k gold leaf around the proscenium that has now been restored. Another well kept secret of the Virginia’s past was revealed while workers were cleaning and preparing the auditorium ceiling for painting. Teir careful work around light fttings on each side of the dome exposed four canvases depicting coats of arms from Spain supported by two male fgures. Each of the fgures is holding a shield, adorned with diferent devices. In addition, we uncovered large areas of stenciled decoration around the dome, the ornamental plaster, the light fttings and the proscenium. Tis was truly a treasure uncovered.

At the Champaign Park District, we’re making decisions every day for the Virginia that will refect the quality of our previous eforts in her lobbies, concessions and other public spaces. We are confdent that those who love and value Champaign’s great lady will help support our eforts and Champaign Parks Foundation is a 501(c)(3) charitable will be thrilled by the results. Our commitment to restoring nonproft providing philanthropic support for the Champaign Park District.

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78 15th Annual Roger Ebert’s Film Festival A look back at the 2012 Festival Photos courtesy of Thompson McClellan

Chaz introduces a film during the 2012 Festival.

Paul Cox on stage following the screening of “On Borrowed Chancellor Wise making remarks at the Opening Reception hosted by President and Mrs. Robert Easter. Time.” The 2012 Festival was dedicated to Mr. Cox.

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Roger, Chaz and , actor, in the Green Room during the Michael Barker, Sony Pictures Classics distributor, Carolyn Briggs, writer, and Nell Minow, 2012 Festival. moderator, on stage after the screening of “Higher Ground.”

Festival sponsors having a great time in the Green Room at the 2012 Ebertfest. The marquee of The Virginia Theatre.

80 15th Annual Roger Ebert’s Film Festival Omer Mozaffar moderating the Far Flung Correspondents panel discussion during the 2012 Ebertfest.

Alrick Brown, director, discussing “Kinyarwanda” with Nate Kohn, Festival director, and guests from the movie “Patang” following the screening at the 2012 Festival. the audience at the 2012 Ebertfest.

Michael Shannon, actor, , director, and Michael Barker, Sony Classics distributor, Ali LeRoi, comedian, and Raymond C. Lambert, producer, on stage sharing a laugh on stage after the screening of “Take Shelter.” following the screening of “Phunny Business.”

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An Exhibition at the Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 30 April—7 July 2012

In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the discovery of X-ray difraction, this exhibition displays twenty key texts from over 500 years in the history of crystallography. Curated by Gregory Girolami & Vera Mainz

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86 15th Annual Roger Ebert’s Film Festival By Jeff Kirshman, Daily Illini staff writer

ORoger Ebert’s 1997 review of cinematographers created a film the film “Days of Heaven,” we whose look remains unmistakably learn that director Terrence in the memory.” Malick’s complex love story Perhaps that possible slight is between laborers in Texas had why, 35 years later after the film comparable drama away from the was released, Ebert has invited camera. Wexler to be his guest at this Nestor Almendros is credited year’s Ebertfest, which will feature for the film’s cinematography that a 7 p.m. showing of “Days of eventually earned him an Oscar® Heaven” on April 17. in 1978. Colleague Haskell Wexler, Wexler, 91, is one of the most meanwhile, receives lesser credit revered cinematographers in at the end of the film despite the history of the medium. He stepping in when Almendros was is a two-time Academy Award®- Film industry veteran Haskell Wexler, winner of two Academy Awards®, is losing his eyesight: “Additional winning cinematographer and was this year’s Festival honoree. He was the director of photography of “Days photography by Haskell Wexler.” also named one of the top-10 most of Heaven.” “That credit has always rankled influential cinematographers of (Wexler), and he once sent me a all-time, according to a survey of by the American Society of loneliness and beauty of the letter in which he described sitting International Cinematographers Cinematographers for his career limitless Texas prairie.” in a theater with a stopwatch Guild members. Wexler won his that has spanned six decades. “Days of Heaven” is slated to be to prove that more than half of Oscars® for the films “Who’s Afraid “’Days of Heaven’ is above all the first film shown at Ebertfest, the footage was shot by him,” of Virginia Woolf?” and “Bound one of the most beautiful films which runs from April 17-21 at Ebert writes in his review. “The for Glory,” and he has received ever made,” Ebert continues in the Virginia Theater. The film’s run reason he didn’t get top billing five total Oscar® nominations his review of the film. “Malick’s time is 95 minutes — and at least is a story of personal and studio for his cinematography. Wexler purpose is not to tell a story of half of the cinematography may or politics, but the fact remains that was additionally selected for a melodrama, but one of loss. His may not be attributed to Wexler. between them, these two great Lifetime Achievement Award tone is elegiac. He evokes the

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