MFF 2011 films score big in year-end critic's polls and top ten lists! 15 MFF 2011 features appear on prestigious year-end lists like those of Roger Ebert, Jonathan Rosenbaum, The New Yorker's Richard Brody, Salon's Andrew O'Hehir, The Washington Post's Ann Hornaday, Indiewire's Critic's Survey, Village Voice and many, many more! Click the links to see the individual lists and click here for a compilation of year-end lists.
Tickets are still available for the DINER 30th Anniversary event, featuring an Open Conversation with Barry Levinson and cast. The event begins at 8PM at Shriver Hall on JHU's Homewood Campus. Tickets for the conversation are $35 and can be purchased here or at the door. The All-Access Pass is $275 and includes a reception and exclusive dinner after the event. All tickets to the conversation also grant admission to the Levinson's Baltimore film screenings Friday 12/9 and Saturday 12/10. See below for screening details.
SHOWCASE SCREENING of Barry Levinson's sensational 1982 film DINER (from 35mm print): Leading up to the Open Conversation, MFF will screen the film DINER at JHU's Shriver Hall at 5PM on SATURDAY December 10th.
Barry Levinson's documentary on the Colts' Marching Band, THE BAND THAT WOULDN'T DIE will screen at Hodson Hall 110 (on JHU's Homewood Campus) on Friday December 9th at 7PM.
Levinson's documentary about the group of friends that inspired the film DINER, ORIGINAL DINER GUYS will screen at Hodson Hall 110 (on JHU's Homewood Campus) on Saturday December 10th at 2:30PM.
Tickets for all screenings can be purchased individually at the door for $5.
ADMISSION TO ALL FILMS IS INCLUDED FOR OPEN CONVERSATION TICKET HOLDERS.
Directions from Mt. Vernon/Downtown HERE
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Few films in movie history — and maybe no other film by a first-time writer-director — proved to be the breakthrough moment for as many talents as a made-in-Baltimore comedy-drama called "Diner." Read more...
On Tuesday November 8th, Cinema Guild will release a two disc DVD set of Matthew Porterfield's acclaimed film PUTTY HILL (MFF 2010). The Baltimore native's first feature HAMILTON (2006) will also be included in the set. The set can be ordered directly from Cinema Guild HERE, and will also be available at other fine local and internet retailers.
Gunky's Season 2 will continue through December with a screening each month.
October 25th - David Cronenberg's VIDEODROME
November 29th - David Lynch's DUNE
December 13th - Harold Ramis' GROUNDHOG DAY starring Bill Murray
Gunky's Basement is curated by musician Dan Deacon and video artist Jimmy Joe Roche in conjunction with The Maryland Film Festival.
All screenings start promptly at 9PM, cost $5, screen from 35mm prints and are projected in Theater 1 (the largest screen) of the Charles.
Check out the Gunky's Facebook page for more details and updates.
Gunky's Season 2 will continue through December with a screening each month.
October 25th - David Cronenberg's VIDEODROME
November 29th - David Lynch's DUNE
December 13th - Harold Ramis' GROUNDHOG DAY starring Bill Murray
Gunky's Basement is curated by musician Dan Deacon and video artist Jimmy Joe Roche in conjunction with The Maryland Film Festival.
All screenings start promptly at 9PM, cost $5, screen from 35mm prints and are projected in Theater 1 (the largest screen) of the Charles.
Check out the Gunky's Facebook page for more details and updates.
Don't miss your chance to see this wonderful coming-of-age story directed by Azazel Jacobs (MOMMA'S MAN), opening this Friday at the Charles Theater. Leonard Maltin calls TERRI, "one of the most striking and satifying indie films of the year." If you saw it at the festival and loved it, please tell your friends.
Read Leonard Maltin's review here.
Watch the official trailer for TERRI
MFF 2011 Program Notes here.
MARYLAND FILM FESTIVAL ARTSCAPE SHORTS: 2011 LINE-UP
LOCATION: The Charles Theater, 1711 N. Charles St.
SCHEDULE
FRIDAY, July 15, 7pm: Orbit(film): A program of short films about our solar system
Co-produced by Mike Plante (Cinemad) and Mark Elijah Rosenberg (Rooftop Films).
In Orbit(film), every planet in our solar system is represented by a short film, each made by a different filmmaker, dealing with the science of outer space through creative and emotional storytelling and visual poetry. Some or all of the original source material will come from NASA footage, reinterpreted by each filmmaker to make a portrait of the respective planet.
Orbit(film) includes:
THE SUN - Brent Hoff
MERCURY - Ben Coonley
VENUS - Jessica Oreck
EARTH - Mike Plante
THE MOON - Brian Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky
MARS - Mark Elijah Rosenberg
COMETS - Deborah Stratman
JUPITER – Kelly Sears
SATURN – Michael Gitlin and Jacqueline Goss
NEPTUNE - Poseidon
URANUS - Bill Brown
PLUTO and RE-ENTRY- Travis Wilkerson
SATURDAY, July 16
NOON: Narrative Shorts
1pm: Animated Shorts
2pm: Documentary Shorts
3pm: Experimental Shorts
4pm: Drama Shorts
5pm: Narrative shorts
6pm: Animated Shorts
SUNDAY, July 17
NOON: Documentary Shorts
1pm: Experimental Shorts
2pm: Drama Shorts
3pm: Narrative Shorts
4pm: Animated Shorts
5pm: Documentary Shorts
6pm: Experimental Shorts
SATURDAY AND SUNDAY SHORTS PROGRAM CONTENTS:
Animated Shorts (32 minutes)
Bottle (Kirsten Lepore) 5minutes
The Cow Who Wanted to Be a Hamburger (Bill Plympton), 6 minutes
Honeysuckle Blue (Miranda Pfeiffer), 5 minutes
Kidnap (Sijia Luo), 4 minutes
Wonder Hospital (Beomsik Shimbe Shim), 12 minutes
Documentary Shorts (31 minutes)
Missed Connections (Mary Robertson), 9 minutes
Just About Famous (Jason Kovacsev and Matt Mamula), 15 minutes
Seltzer Works (Jessica Edwards), 7 minutes
Experimental Shorts (35 minutes)
Once it Started It Could Not End Otherwise (Kelly Sears), 8 minutes
This Room Is White (Karen Yasinsky), 4 minutes
Heliotropes (Michael Langan), 3 minutes
Ghost Mall (Nathan Duncan), 8 minutes
X.O. Genesis (Rowan Wernham), 12 minutes
Narrative Shorts (36 minutes)
Parts + Labor (Sean O’Malley), 10 minutes
Raymond + Lina (Mark Pagan), 11 minutes
The Strange Ones (Christopher Radcliff and Lauren Wolkstein), 15 minutes
Drama Shorts (36 minutes)
Flow (Christina Choe), (8 minutes)
Pioneer (David Lowery) (15 minutes)
We’re Leaving (Zachary Treitz), 13 minutes
SATURDAY AND SUNDAY SHORTS PROGRAMS DETAILS
--All programs are comprised of titles that played within Maryland Film Festival 2011.
--Shorts programs begin each hour, on the hour, and run between 30 and 40 minutes apiece.
--Some programs will have one or more filmmaker present to answer questions.
--Some programs may contain material not appropriate for all ages.
--Program content may be subject to last-minute changes.
-- ALL PROGRAMS ARE FREE TO ALL.
Our latest discussion, entitled "Are Documentary Filmmakers The New Journalists?" was the third event in our series of unique, intimate conversations with filmmakers about their craft. Esteemed journalist Meredith Vieira moderated the discussion in MICA's Falvey Hall with three Oscar-nominated documentary filmmakers - Rachel Grady (THE BOYS OF BARAKA, 12th AND DELAWARE), Laura Poitras (THE OATH, MY COUNTRY, MY COUNTRY) and Marshall Curry (STREET FIGHT, RACING DREAMS) - all of whom have exhibited work at the Maryland Film Festival. At the close of the discussion, Maryland Film Festival board member John Waters presented each participant with a specially-designed MFF statue.
This annual event served not only as a fundraiser for the Maryland Film Festival, but as a networking opportunity for everyone in the the Mid-Atlantic region interested in film and filmmaking. Generous donations by several sponsors provided university students the opportunity to attend this once-in-a-lifetime experience.
In 2009, we presented "Three Movie Visionaries,"
Bringing together hometown heroes Barry Levinson, John Waters and David Simon in one place for the first time ever, in a conversation hosted by film critic Elvis Mitchell. In 2007, we presented "The Rothmans: An Insider's Look at the Movie Business," a conversation with Baltimoreans Donald Rothman, actor John Rothman (DEVIL WEARS PRADA, UNITED 93) and 20th Century Fox studio head Tom Rothman, often called "the most powerful man in Hollywood."
"For anyone who was there-filmmaker, industry representative, staff member, volunteer, general attendee-an overriding consensus has already been reached: the 2011 Maryland Film Festival (13 and counting) was one for the ages. Not only am I here to fully support that claim, but I have the photographic evidence to prove it (see below). But first, we must address what makes the MDFilmFest so special." - Read More
"A young woman with bee-stung lips takes a shower, while a young film director pokes his head in and choreographs her movements. Meanwhile, her boyfriend is having sex with her best friend, on another film location. The girl in the shower is actor Kate Lyn Sheil, and both guys (Ti West and Joe Swanberg) are actors playing film directors, but they are also film directors playing actors. The film is Siver Bullets, its director (and male lead) is Swanberg, and it's one of three Swanberg films screened at the Maryland Film Festival. And those are only three of seven films Swanberg made in the last year or so. Seven." - Read More
