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Sunday, April 30th, 2006
| Quiet Summer (Nin Jin Shah Ri) |
Shriver Hall
2:00 pm |
Director: Shuhei Fujita
Website: www.quietsummer.com
Running Time: 01:32:00
Production Format: 16mm
Director Shuhei Fujita's debut, QUIET SUMMER, tells a story of a young man raised in Japan, who comes to Taiwan to bury the ashes of his mother and finds his Taiwanese background. His travels quietly unfold the happiness and sadness of a middle-aged Filipino worker and an old Chinese teacher living alone in a poor veteran community. The film strongly reflects the personal experiences and backgrounds of the director and actors in the society of Taiwan.
Official Selection:
Philadelphia Film Festival
Pusan International Film Festival(Korea)
24th FAJR International Film Festival( Iran) | |  |
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| Francis |
Shriver Hall
3:30 pm |
Director: Ivan Kavanagh
Running Time: 01:24:00
Production Format: DV
This documentary style narrative is about Francis, an Irish hobo trying to make it on the rough streets of Dublin. The film’s focus is on the eye of the camera and how being in its gaze affects Francis, who becomes ashamed of his dispossessed and destitute condition. Gerry Shanahan acting skills as Francis make it all possible, throwing us into the heart of a Mulligan in depression. | |  |
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| Brain Pirates |
Shriver Hall
5:00 pm |
Director: Brooke Armstrong
Website: www.brainpirates.com
Running Time: 01:18:00
Production Format: DV
No one suspected the horror. Not even the neighbors suspected the unholy marriage of psychedelia and psycosurgery going on next door. Sex, salvation, and lobotamy! Outrageous, totally sick... I want one! While exploring the urban body mod scene in San Francisco, Stuart Silver, discovers a cult that preaches lobotomy as the sure-fire shortcut to eternal bliss. As the smug shokumentary filmmaker tries to expose this crazy California cult, things go terribly wrong. Stuart ends up being lured down a path that threatens his very identity and limits of sanity and neuroanatomy | |  |
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| Baltimore Showcase |
Shriver Hall
6:30 pm |
A selection of short films by local filmmakers.
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| The Hills Have Eyes (1977) |
Shriver Hall
8:00 pm |
Director: Wes Craven
Website: www.wescraven.com
Filmmaker will be attending.
Running Time: 01:19:00
Production Format: 35mm
Hosted by Wes Craven with a discussion about how the nature of filmmaking has changed from the making of the original The Hills Have Eyes to the recent remake
Low-budget and high quality, even though the original film’s budget of $325 thousand is dwarfed by the remakes $11 million, it doesn’t mean its any less of a horror film. This grim shocker found Wes Craven refining his theme of the thin line between civilization and savagery to a sharp, incisive point with a wicked tale of two very different families fighting each other for survival. The Hills Have Eyes pits the innocent, city-bred Carter family against a feral brood of radiation-mutated cannibals who attack when the Carters’ RV breaks down in an isolated tract of a Southwestern desert. After suffering terrible losses, the surviving Carters regroup and use their 'civilized' intelligence to deal out their own equally lethal brand of defense and then vengeance. Although the script is fictional, Craven drew his inspiration from the grisly deeds of the Sawney Beane family, a real-life clan of inbred cannibal killers that terrorized the Scottish countryside during the 15th Century. The resulting film is a tighter, more skillfully crafted affair than Last House on the Left but packs no less of a punch: the initial attack on the Carters by the mutant family is one of the most unsettling scenes in Craven filmography. | |  |
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