FILMS - BY DATE - SUNDAY, JANUARY 30TH, 2005

10:30AM
Feature
Holiday Village Cinema II
BALLETS RUSSES
Directors: Dan Geller, Dayna Goldfine
(USA, 2005, 120 min., color & b/w, Sony HD Cam) BALLETS RUSSES brilliantly captures the glitz, glamour, and ultimate downfall of the modern dance troupe that galvanized ballet as an art form and collaborated with some of the most influential artists of the 20th century, including choreographers George Balanchine and Agnes De Mille, and artists Picasso and Cocteau.

11:15 AM
Short
Main Street Mall, 2nd floor
HET
Director: Peter Bedard
(USA, 2004, 9 min., color, MiniDV ) An “upside-down” look at a young couple making the transition from city life to life in a small conservative town.

11:15AM
Short
Main Street Mall, 2nd floor
EVERYONE, EVERYWHERE: THE INTERNATIONAL GAY AND LESBIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION
Director: Renee Rosenfeld
(USA, 2004, 14 min., color, Sony HD Cam) Sir Ian McKellen narrates this documentary investigating human rights violations suffered by sexual minorities all over the globe.

1:00PM
Feature
Holiday Village Cinema III
ROOM*
Director/Screenwriter: Kyle Henry
Cast: Cyndi Williams, Kenneth Wayne Bradley, Alexandra Kiester, Jacqui Cross, Gretchen Krich, Carlos Treviño
(USA, 2004, 80 min., color, Sony HD Cam) Kyle Henry fashions a surreal, psychological landscape in which a working mother of two, trapped in a dead-end existence in Texas, begins having visions of a room, both stark and industrial. As her visions become more powerful, she abandons her life and family to pursue something that may or may not be imagined.

1:30PM
Feature
Holiday Village Cinema II
STRANGERS WITH CANDY
Director: Paul Dinello
Screenwriters: Stephen Colbert, Paul Dinello, Amy Sedaris
Cast: Amy Sedaris, Stephen Colbert, Paul Dinello, Gregory Holliman, Sara Jessica Parker, Matthew Broderick, Allison Janney, Philip Seymour Hoffman
(USA, 2004, 97 min., color, 35mm) In the feature length version of the cult television show, 46-year-old former junkie Jerri Blank (Amy Sedaris) is back, emerging from prison looking for a new start in high school, only to find it’s not much different from the slammer.