ArtHOUSE FILM FESTIVAL
The Longest Running Film Festival In New Jersey Will Screen at SOPAC
Featuring some of the best soon-to-be-released movies from around the world, Arthouse Film Festival will unspool for ten weeks beginning March 3rd at The Village at SOPAC in South Orange, New Jersey.
The selected films comprise award winners from Sundance, Cannes, Toronto, Telluride, Venice and SXSW film festivals, along with prestige studio films, screened in South Orange before their New York theatrical release dates.
Arthouse Film Festival has hosted 2,068 movie premieres with 1,303 guest appearances over the past 34 years. Oscar winners and nominees Ethan Hawke, Viggo Mortensen, Alan Arkin, Lee Daniels, Frank Darabont, Jesse Eisenberg, Melissa Leo, Chazz Palminteri, John Sayles, Aaron Sorkin, Fisher Stevens and David Strathairn have joined Dylan Baker, Famke Janssen, Danai Gurira, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Derek Luke, Mary Stuart Masterson, David Morse, Connie Nielsen, Joe Pantoliano and Kevin Smith as guest speakers who have come to share their insights with festival participants.
“The program will always be flexible in order to take advantage of opportunities as they arise,” said festival director Chuck Rose. “Wonderful surprises and fantastic filmmakers can pop up out of nowhere, so we try to keep the schedule as fluid as possible.”
Chuck Rose can also be seen discussing the movies screened in Arthouse Film Festival on the NYC Life TV series, Cinema Q&A With Chuck Rose. The Thursday night series features in-depth discussions with filmmakers and actors from here and abroad. NYC Life is available in 18 million cable homes, and is carried by Comcast, Optimum, Spectrum, Astound, FiOS, DIRECTV and Dish. Cinema Q&A can also be viewed on the NYC Media website: https://www.nyc.gov/site/media/shows/cinema-q-and-a.page or app https://www.nyc.gov/site/media/carriers/apps.page
Highlights from last year’s Arthouse Film Festival included pre-release screenings of recently Oscar nominated Porcelain War followed by Q&A with directors Brendan Bellomo and Slava Leontyev, and Sugarcane plus Q&A with directors Emily Kassie and Julian Brave NoiseCat.
Confirmed films for the upcoming festival include:
The Assessment with Elizabeth Olson, Alicia Vikander, director Fleur Fortune. Set in the not-too-distant future, where parenthood is strictly controlled, a couple’s seven-day assessment for the right to have a child unravels into a psychological nightmare.
Eephus directed by Carson Lund, nominated for two awards at the Cannes Film Festival, Eephus is a passion project about the game of baseball, not the Major League version, but what it’s like for those men, who play, only for the love of the game, and what it means to the fabric of America.
Eric LaRue with Judy Greer, Alexander Skarsgard, director Michael Shannon.
Adapted from Brett Neveu’s play about a mother coping with the fallout after her son murders three of his high school classmates, a film that pulses with emotionally gripping, top-of-their-game work from Michael Shannon and his cast.
Holy Cow with Clement Faveau, Maiwene Barthelemy, director Louise Courvoisier. Winner of the Youth Prize at Cannes, and nominated for three Lumiere Awards, a verite’ drama of the earthy challenges of French farming, youthful passion, and an ode to the love of cheese.
One to One: John & Yoko with John Lennon and Yoko Ono, directors Kevin Macdonald, Sam Rice-Edwards. Set in 1970’s New York, a turbulent time, amidst the chaos of Nixon, Vietnam, Attica and Willowbrook, intercut with a TV diet of Mary Tyler Moore, Tony the Tiger and the miracle of Tuperware, John and Yoko lend a hand with their One to One charity concert for special needs children.
Sally with Sally Ride, director Cristina Costantini. The life and legacy of Dr. Sally Ride, the first American woman to blast off into space, but not without facing the challenges of institutional critics and the prejudice of an American public who were skeptical that a woman could do the job of an astronaut.
The Shepherd and the Bear directed by Max Keegan. An aging shepherd struggles to find a successor as bears prey on his flock, and a teenage boy becomes obsessed with tracking the bears. A modern folktale that reveals tradition, community and humanity’s relationship with a vanishing natural world.
Ticket Price: $146 or $167 when purchased after Feb. 24th
More titles will be added soon.
For more information, or to register, contact The South Orange Maplewood Adult School, https://www.ssreg.com/som/classes/results.asp?string=arthouse 973-378-7620.
For updates and details, visit www.arthousefilmfestival.com
