The 2010 Fall season of the 3rd Eye Film Series begins on September 13th. All films are shown at 7 p.m. Here is the complete lineup:
Monday, Sept. 13th: Get Low
Directed by Aaron Schneider, and starring Robert Duvall, Bill Murray, Sissy Spacek, Lucas Black and Gerald McRaney
Robert Duvall stars in this American folktale about pain, guilt, loss and loneliness. A recluse living in the Tennessee backwoods decides it is time to die and, more importantly, to have a funeral party while he’s still alive. So he approaches the local funeral director about organizing a wake for his friends and enemies in his shack in the woods. An audience favourite at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival.
Monday, Oct. 11th: Winter’s Bone
Directed by Debra Granik, and starring Jennifer Lawrence, John Hawkes and Dale Dickey
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize for Dramatic Feature at the Sundance Film Festival, Winter’s Bone follows seventeen-year old Ree Dolly in her struggle with poverty, adult responsibility and community traditions. It is also a quest narrative, as Ree embarks on a cross-country journey in pursuit of her dead-beat dad—and her own emancipation.
Monday, Nov. 8th: The Kids Are All Right
Directed by Lisa Cholodenko, and starring Annette Benning, Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo and Mia Wasikowska
Paying close attention to the nuances of everyday family life, this film centres on the mid-life parenting crisis of a lesbian couple whose lives are thrown upside down when the anonymous sperm donor and ‘father’ of their two teenaged children suddenly enters their lives. With an intelligent script and strong comic performances from Annette Bening, Julianne Moore and Mark Ruffalo, The Kids Are All Aright has garnered wide critical acclaim.
Monday, Dec. 13th: Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie
Directed by Sturla Gunnarsson
Suzuki is an iconic figure of Canadian documentary-film-making. In his documentary Gunnarson plays on Suzuki’s familiar public role by moving between a sold-out speaking engagement in Vancouver, where Suzuki is speaking about climate change, and a narrative about Suzuki the private figure. The film is a fitting tribute to a Canadian public intellectual, now in his seventy-fifth year.
