Cinema Paradiso 9:00 Jury Prize Winner Jury Prize Winner 9:15 9:30 Outdoor Films Mrs. Doubtfire Director: Chris Columbus Trailer Friday, 7:30 p.m., Taylor Street Outdoor Theatre Iconic comedian Robin Williams plays Daniel Hillard, an out-of- work actor whose recent divorce left him without the custody of his beloved three children. When he learns that his ex-wife needs a housekeeper, he applies for the job and disguises himself as a devoted British nanny, in order to see his kids everyday. USA/1993/125 min. Best Make-up at the 1994 Academy Awards Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture at the 1994 Golden Globes Ratatouille Director: Brad Bird Trailer Saturday, 7:30 p.m., Taylor Street Outdoor Theatre Remy is a determined young rat, gifted with highly developed senses of taste and smell. Inspired by his idol, the recently deceased chef Auguste Gusteau, Remy dreams of becoming a chef himself. When fate places Remy by Gusteau’s restaurant in Paris, he strikes an alliance with Linguini, the garbage boy. Torn between his family’s wishes and his true calling, Remy and his pal Linguini set in motion a hilarious chain of events that turn the City of Lights upside down. USA/2007/111 min. Cinema Paradiso (Nuovo Cinema Paradiso) Director: Giuseppe Tornatore Trailer Sunday, 7:30 p.m., Taylor Street Outdoor Theatre In a post-war Sicilian village, Salvatore is a cheeky young boy enchanted by the flickering images at the local Cinema Paradiso. Eager to learn about the secret of cinema’s magic, he frequently visits Alfredo, the projectionist and forms a deep bond with him. Based on screenwriter/director Giuseppe Tornatore’s life, Cinema Paradiso is the beautiful reminiscence of a filmmaker’s lifelong love affair with films. Italy, France/1988/124 min. Italian with English Subtitles Best Foreign Language Film at 1990 Academy Awards Best Foreign Language Film at 1990 Golden Globes Awards Grand Prix du Jury at 1989 Cannes Film Festival Back to top Special Events Join our 16th Opening Ceremony, Friday 4 p.m.! Come to the Haller Fountain on Taylor Street at 4 p.m. and welcome our filmmakers as they arrive in classic cars escorted by the Rakers Car Club. Watch Special Guests Beau Bridges and Chris Cooper cut the film ribbon and officially begin our 16th Annual Port Townsend Film Festival! Festival, Director, and Mogul Passholders are served salmon dinner on Taylor Street. 10th Anniversary Celebration: Sweet Land Trailer Synopsis Director Ali Selim and producer Jim Bigham join us this year to celebrate the decade-long love story that audiences have with their film, Sweet Land. After a stellar international Festival run in 2005, the movie opened theatrically (including an extended run at the Rose Theatre). In 2007, it won the 2007 Indie Spirit Award for “Best First Feature.” Based on Midwesterner Will Weaver’s short story of the same name, the screenplay languished while director and producer searched 16 years for funding. Only then the search began for a small prairie town with no power lines–or, a town so recently joining the 21st century that lines were underground. They found open skies in Montevideo, Minnesota, midway between the South Dakota border and Minneapolis. The quiet little town of Montevideo (pop. 5,000), surrounded by fields, was a perfect setting for the story of Inge, a post-World War I, German National, arriving in “Audubon, Minnesota” for her arranged marriage to Olaf, A Norwegian farmer. Says actress Elizabeth Reaser, who played the role of Inge, “It’s a story about listening, not about talking… describing the vulnerability of silence.” As work got underway, each day seemed to bring an array of gifts–from offers of free lodging for cast and crew to a resident sharing his collection of perfectly restored model T’s. The little town of 5,000 residents seemed intrigued by both the movie making and the authentic romance unfolding around them. The filmmakers are enjoying a resurgence of interest in Sweet Land, a full decade after its first release. Director Ali Selim and his wife have relocated to Portland, Oregon to be near family. He serves PTFF as a film juror, teaches screenwriting and is developing a Philip Seymour Hoffman screenplay. Producer Jim Bigham lives in Miami, Florida and also serves PTFF as a juror. He is considering a musical based on his award-winning documentary, For Once in My Life: The Story of the Goodwill Band. Back to top A Very Special Evening with Beau Bridges: The Fabulous Baker Boys Trailer Synopsis Friday, 6:30 p.m., American Legion Theatre Beau Bridges is back to Masters of Sex for his third season as Barton Scully, a university provost and friend of sexuality researcher, Dr. William H. Masters. Ashamed of his homosexuality, Scully turns to Dr. Masters–who both blackmails him and tries to cure him. The role is complex, Scully is a married man and his wife loves him just the way he is. The critics love Beau Bridges too. He was nominated for a 2015 Emmy for his guest role in the series. If we were to list all the roles Bridges has played over his six- decade career, such as Nixon, P.T. Barnum and Col. Tom Parker, it would fill pages. The Fabulous Baker Boys, filmed in Seattle with Michelle Pfeiffer and his brother, Jeff Bridges, screens Friday night, with Bridges coming on stage for Q&A afterwards. He’ll speak with us in person again on Saturday with actor Chris Cooper in The Art of Acting: A Conversation with Beau Bridges and Chris Cooper, moderated by Rose Theatre owner, Rocky Friedman. The son of actor Lloyd Bridges and older brother of Jeff, Beau was on the sets of his father’s Sea Hunt series as a toddler. His first role in a feature film was The Red Pony, when he was six years old. “It was a small part,” he said, “just two or three lines.” The director, Lewis Milestone, was his father’s friend. The set was out in the sand dunes on a southern California beach, in a prefab one-room shack with no running water, electricity or telephone. “I knew how films were made at a very early age,” he said. Childhood was an apprenticeship (“I went to work in my father’s shop”). His subsequent acting career is “my job,” he said. “My dad gave me all my tools,” Bridges said. This included a small, six-lesson book on method acting by Konstantin Stanislavsky, which Bridges embraced early on and employs in all his roles. For the role of Maximum Bob Gibbs, he flew to Florida to meet the ultraconservative judge upon whom novelist Elmore Leonard had based his story. The judge is “saddled with a space-cadet wife, Leanne, who has a second personality, a 12-year-old black girl named Wanda Grace and he wants to get rid of both of them,” wrote the NY Times. For his role as Barnum & Bailey Circus owner, in P.T.Barnum, Bridges found only one recording of Barnum’s voice on a telephone – a Shakespearean voice. “I just don’t have that training,” he said. His son, Jordan, a classically trained actor who played the younger Barnum in the film, coached his father so that they could speak with consistent intonation. When he played Nixon, in Kissinger and Nixon, Bridges studied for the part with materials from the Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in nearby Yorba Linda. “I was not a big fan, but tried to ‘get into his choices’,” he says. Makeup was a three-hour ordeal each morning to cover prosthetic jowls and nose. “It felt like Japanese kabuki,” he said. Bridges won a Grammy in 2009 for Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth,” in the category of “Best Spoken Word Album.” It’s a subject close to his heart. He’s a board member of the Wishtoyo Foundation and has worked for more than 20 years to save both Chumash Indian sacred and cultural sites and environmentally sensitive areas on California’s coast. His father had earlier been involved with the American Oceans Campaign and Heal the Bay, based in Los Angeles. The Wishtoyo Foundation is a member of Waterkeeper Alliance, which began with fishermen identifying and suing polluters of the Hudson River. "One of the biggest successes of the Wishtoyo Foundation is keeping oil drillers out of the Santa Clara River riparian zone,” said Bridges. “They see us coming and settle out of court.” Bridges, the father of five children, lives with his wife, Wendy, near Los Angeles. Bridges is vegan, an avid organic gardener and raises orchids at home and on his property on the island of Kaua‘i, Hawaii. (By Jan Halliday) Back to top A Very Special Evening with Chris Cooper: Adaptation Trailer Synopsis Saturday, 6:30 p.m., American Legion Theatre Chris Cooper won both an Academy Award and Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Adaptation with Meryl Streep and Nicolas Cage. He also starred in John Sayles' film, Lone Star and was a supporting actor in American Beauty, October Sky, The Bourne Identity, Seabiscuit and many more. "I couldn't have asked for more than Lone Star, which was a great story," Cooper said. "I like good story ... human behavior, the study of human behavior and human interaction." PTFF filmgoers last year revisited Chris Cooper’s role of Sheriff Sam Deeds in Lone Star. The film was chosen by Special Guests, John Sayles and Maggie Renzi, as one of their best.