Starting September 20th, Filmmakers Symposium's Arthouse Film Festival will run for 12 weeks at two New Jersey theatres: AMC Loews Mountainside and AMC Loews Monmouth Mall. The festival has hosted 1,393 movie premieres with 926 live guest appearances over the past 20 years.
Oscar winners and nominees Danny Aiello, Alan Arkin, James Cromwell, Frank Darabont, Tony Gilroy, Ethan Hawke, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Jon Kilik, Melissa Leo, Viggo Mortensen, Chazz Palminteri, John Sayles, Marc Shaiman, Howard Shore, Fisher Stevenss and David Strathairn have joined Dylan Baker, Al Franken, Famke Janssen, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Delroy Lindo, 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 celebrities can pop up out of nowhere, so I try to keep the schedule as fluid as possible.
In the past three years, we have premiered 101 films that later earned a total of 21 Oscar, 32 Spirit, 26 British Academy, and 16 European Film Award nominations." "Even before we started 20 years ago, I have worked to create an international VIP network of filmmakers, actors, journalists, critics and film industry pros whose jobs involve finding and evaluating the cream of Sundance, Cannes, Toronto, Venice, Berlin, Tribeca and the other important film festivals. We also work to ferret out potential hits in the development and production stages so we are ready to pounce on the best films first," explained Rose.
For information or to register, call 1-800-531-9416 or visit: www.PrivateScreenings.org
The festival is open to anyone, but seating is limited, so early enrollment is advised. Subscription is $171 for six weeks or $309 for 12 weeks. Discounts will be available for early registration. Also being offered is a �Bring Your Friends' special: for each friend (new subscriber) who signs up with you, you get $50 off your subscription for 12 weeks (or $25 off for six weeks); or bring four friends and your subscription is free.
Confirmed films and those under consideration for the upcoming festival include: "Bride Flight" with Karina Smulders, Waldemar Torenstra, director Ben Sombogaart; "Blue Valentine" with Ryan Gosling, Michelle Williams, director Derek Cianfrance; "Brotherhood" with Trevor Morgan, Lou Taylor Pucci, director Will Canon; "The Company Men" with Ben Affleck, Chris Cooper, director John Wells; "Conviction" with Hilary Swank, Sam Rockwell, director Tony Goldwyn; "The Debt" with Helen Mirren, Sam Worthington, director John Madden; "The Descendents" with George Clooney, Judy Greer, director Alexander Payne; " The Double Hour" with Flippo Timi, Kseniya Rappoport, director Giuseppe Capotondi; "Gerrymandering" with Howard Dean, Arnold Schwarznegger, director Jeff Reichert; "How Do You Know" with Paul Rudd, Reese Witherspoon, director James L. Brooks; "How to Live Forever" with Ray Bradbury, Suzanne Somers, director Mark Wexler; "Jack Goes Boating" with Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Ryan, director Philip Seymour Hoffman; "The King's Speech" with Colin Firth, Helena Bonham Carter, director Tom Hooper; "Largo Winch" with Tomer Sisley, Kristin Scott-Thomas, director Jerome Salle; "Love and Other Drugs" with Jake Gyllenhall, Anne Hathaway, director Edward Zwick; "Miral" with Willem Dafoe, Freida Pinto, director Julian Schnabel; "The Next Three Days" with Russell Crowe, Liam Neeson, director Paul Haggis; "The New Year" with Trieste Kelly Dunn, Ryan Hunter, director Brett Haley; "Night Catches Us" with Kerry Washington, Anthony Mackie, director Tanya Hamilton; "Nowhere Boy" with Aaron Johnson, Kristin Scott-Thomas, director Sam Taylor-Wood; "127 Hours" with James Franco, Lizzy Caplan, director Danny Boyle; "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan" with Li Bing Bing, Hugh Jackman, director Wayne Wang; "Tree of Life" with Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, director Terrence Malick; "True Grit" with Matt Damon, Jeff Bridges, directors Coen Brothers; "Vision" with Barbara Sukowa, Hannah Herzsprung, director Margarethe Von Trotta; "Waste Land" with Vik Muniz, director Lucy Walker; "Welcome to the Rileys" with Kristen Stewart, James Gandolfini, director Jake Scott; and "Win Win" with Paul Giamatti, Amy Ryan, director Tom McCarthy.
