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OK Fellow Film Fiends - The Festival is coming...April 26 - May 10, 2007!

I've renewed my membership, and I'm also going to do a little volunteer work. I'm planning to attend several of the "Big Nights" events, as well as regular films.

BIG NIGHTS I'M PLANNING TO ATTEND/RECOMMEND

TH 4/26 Opening Night Film Golden Door, with the after party at City Hall. Budget be damned, I'm going!

SU 4/29 Fog City Mavericks - all the Bay Area Big Wigs will be there.

MO 4/30 The True Story of the World: On the Road at 50 - Homage to Kerouac

TU An Evening with Heddy Honigmann featuring Forever

WE 5/2 An Evening with Spike Lee featuring two of the four "acts" from When the Levees Broke (all four parts screen at MOMA on Friday, May 4th)

FR 5/4 An Evening with Robin Williams featuring Terry Gilliam's The Fisher King 

SA 5/5 Centerpiece featuring Delirious (with Steve Buscemi - I might work the event, since I've already seen the film - a riot at Sundance)

TH 5/10 La Vie en Rose with an afterparty at Mezzanine

There's more of course, but this is just the start of the madness!

An edgy pick might include something from the Live & Onstage category, including: Notes to a Tune Underground. (The True Story of the World: On the Road at 50 is in this group).

I've attached a miniguide that you can download, so you pick your favorites.

I'm still working on my actual schedule, but here's a first pass at the list of films I'm considering:

* These films have distribution, but it's fun to see them within a festival enviroment with Q & A sessions, and parties!
- Films in bold are definite

All This Tea (part of Cinema by the Bay)
Agua
Amour-Legende
Arrows of Time (from the Kinotec section)
Bamako
Black Sheep (completely whacky horror film) *
Broken English *
The Caiman
Carved out of Pavement (part of Cinema by the Bay)
Congorama (I'm seeing this at the Aquarius in PA with my mother, patron saint of the arts!)
Crisis and Opportunity (a collection of shorts including the Sundance favorite The Fighting Cholitas)
Desperately Seeking Images (more shorts - some explicit - it is a film fest, after all!)
The Devil Came on Horseback (an intense doc on Darfur)
Eagle vs Shark * (another Sundance fave)
Emma's Bliss
Everything's Cool (seen at Sundance - a toxic comedy about the rift between people who believe in global climate change, and those who think it's a myth)
Fabricating Tom Ze
Forever *
Frame by Frame (animated shorts)
Golden Door *
GrandHotel
Halou, Tarentel and the Greenworld
Heavenly Kings (twisted tale about the rise of a boy band)
Heaven's Doors
How is Your Fish Today (another Sundance alum)
Jindabyne
The Key of G
La Vie en Rose *
Lady Chatterly (a new and improved French version)
The Monastery (blah, blah...Sundance)
Murch (part of Cinema by the Bay)
The Old, Weird America: Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music (winner of longest title!)
Once * (more fun at Sundance)
Paprika * (anime)
Protagonist
The Rape of Europe (a "must-see" for me - a doc about how the Nazis looted and destroyed European artwork, and how many of the treasures survived)
Reprise
Rocket Science * (a fun award-winner at Sundance, well worth seeing!)
The Signal (more whacky horror)
Strange Culture (...Sundance)
Tierney Gearon: The Mother Project (a "must-see" for those of us with the Photo Bug)
Times and Winds
The 12 Labors
Why Didn't Anybody Tell Me it would Become This Bad in Afghanistan
Wonders are Many
Zolykha's Secret
Vanaja