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Jacob is a native West Virginian and has been making films for more than 18 years. Jacob is responsible for the cult hit films "The Dancing Outlaw" and its sequel "The Dancing Outlaw II: Jesco Goes to Hollywood." One of his first films, "American Junkumentary," mined the quirky bounty of the already litter-strewn areas of the junkyard business. The
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SOUPY
SALES is one of America's best-recognized television personalities
and comedians. He was the first true zany to dominate national television
and estimates he has received more than 19,000 pies in the face
since his debut on Detroit television in the 1950s. His work in
television has garnered him an Emmy award and a Grammy nomination.
Soupy's alma mater, Marshall University (Huntington, WV), bestowed
on him an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters. He appears at the
WVIFF for the Opening Night Fundraising Reception & Silent Auction
and a special screening of the film ". . . AND GOD SPOKE,"
in which he plays Moses.
Based
on the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography "Jackson Pollock: An
American Saga," by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith, Ed
Harris scores a personal triumph, as actor and director, in this uncommonly
moving story of the painter Jackson Pollock. Beset by the demons of
alcoholism and manic-depression, he is lucky to find the painter Lee
Krasner (Marcia Gay Hardin) as a wife and cheerleader, and gets support
from the art critic Clement Greenberg and the millionaire art patron
Peggy Guggenheim. Convincing about both the painting and the period;
one of the year's best films. Marcia Gay Harden won an Oscar for Best
Supporting Actress for her performance and Ed Harris was nominated
for Best Actor.
A
"mocku-docu-mentary" comedy, …And God Spoke is the
story of two low-budget filmmakers who get in over their heads by
trying to film the Bible. Michael Riley is Clive, the one who deludes
himself into thinking he's a director and Stephen Rappaport is Marvin,
Clive's producer and best friend, who is not above taking The Lord's
Prayer in vain. Biblical invocations tend to get mixed up with the
filmmakers' own pompous rhetoric, while the screenwriter claims to
have been divinely inspired: "God wrote it through me."
Writer/director
Darren Aronofsky follows up his successful and acclaimed feature debut,
Pi, with Requiem for a Dream, based on the 1978 novel by literary
legend Hubert Selby, Jr. (whose credits include Last Exit to Brooklyn).
The modern-day fable is set on the rusted mean streets of Coney Island,
Brooklyn. The dual storyline parallels four people who set out in
pursuit of a better life. On the one hand, there is Sara, portrayed
by Oscar® winner Ellen Burstyn (and nominated here for Best Actress),
a lonely widowed mother who is galvanized by the prospect of appearing
on television. Then there is her son Harry, his beautiful girl Marion
and his best friend Tyrone, who want to go into business for themselves.
Soon their beautiful dreams begin to fall apart as they take on horrifying
dimensions, yet Sara, Harry, Marion and Tyrone refuse to abandon hope.
Even when everything falls apart, they refuse to let go, plummeting
with their dreams in a nightmarish gut-wrenching freefall.
A
film of great tender truth and humor, about a divorced woman who works
at a bank, raises her son, and despairs of her half-baked brother.
The writer-director does not force these characters into a formula
family story, but sets them free to make mistakes, learn from them,
and bumble into the future. One of the best films of the year, co-starring
Matthew Broderick as the callow bank manager and Rory Culkin as Linney's
son. Linney was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress.
The
Stanley sound is true old-time, mountain style bluegrass music. This
film tells Ralph's story through interviews with Ralph, fellow musicians,
and those who know Ralph best. "Rank Stranger," "White
Dove," "Pretty Polly," "Man of Constant Sorrow,"
and over twenty other songs help tell the story. Ralph performs with
Dwight Yoakam, Patty Loveless, Junior Brown, Larry Sparks, George
Shuffler, Ricky Skaggs, and members of the Clinch Mountain Boys. Filmmaker
Herb E. Smith has been making award-winning documentary films about
people in the Appalachian Mountains for over 30 years.
Shared
last year's Camera d'Or at Cannes. A band of stoical children, saddled
with adult responsibilities, compete for menial jobs in the village
marketplace or, more arduously, serve as smugglers transporting contraband
goods across the Iran-Iraq border. Gradually, it emerges that the
protagonists are four or five orphaned siblings, one of whom, 15-year-old
Madi, has failed to grow beyond the size of a small toddler and cries
like a baby when the doctor gives him a shot. Cared for by his younger
brother and sister (the performers are dramatizing actual relationships),
Madi is doomed to die in 10 days unless money can be raised for an
operation to keep him alive for another six months.
What
State and Main has, and what makes it distinctly Mamet, is brilliant
dialogue. Mamet's writing is an illustration of how the best dialogue
in movies often doesn't mirror the way people really talk. A Hollywood
film crew descends upon a quaint New England town hoping to make their
movie, only to find various complications disrupting and impeding
their shoot. With only a few days before his cast arrives, the director
needs a locale to pass for the 19th century setting of his film, "The
Old Mill." Unfortunately, and despite what the brochures say,
the town hasn't had an old mill since it and other structures mysteriously
burned down in the 1960s. Unfazed and ever resourceful, the director
simply tells the novice screenwriter to write the old mill out the
movie. Complications begin to amass when the cast begins arriving
in town.
Based
on the memoirs of Reinaldo Arenas, "Before Night Falls"
tells the story of Arenas' life through the words of his work and
the images of Julian Schnabel's imagination. Born in poverty but surrounded
by natural beauty in 1943 Cuba, a young boy, Reinaldo, finds himself
without a father, but with a natural talent for writing. Arenas soon
joins revolutionaries in overthrowing dictator Fulgencio Batista.
While he then enjoys the spoils of the new government's educational
programs in the early 1960s, Reinaldo also begins exploring his homosexuality
through a range of lovers. Yet, after securing a prestigious job at
the National Library and writing his first novel, Reinaldo soon finds
the same government he helped push into power suddenly beginning a
crackdown on both artists and homosexuals. Despite being persecuted,
eventually imprisoned and interrogated, the young man keeps writing,
much to the chagrin of the government. As the years pass and Reinaldo
finds a kindred spirit, he faces various challenges such as that offered
by trying to escape the island country, further persecution and harassment,
and the specter of AIDS.
The
touching and emotional story of a student, Chaja, who accepts a job
as a nanny with a Hassidic Jewish family. She has little knowledge
and sympathy for their many century-old rules. Through her love for
the family's five year old son, she learns to accept and respect a
culture steeped in traditions, finding the true values of life.
Terence
Davies, who wrote and directed this fine adaptation of Edith Wharton's
novel, The House of Mirth, called Wharton "Jane Austen with the
gloves off." Her 1905 novel followed the fate of Lily Bart, a
once-wealthy socialite whose parents go broke and die, leaving her
without any money of her own and in search of a husband in the era
that, in rose-colored nostalgia, we call the Belle Epoque. Envied
by wealthier women, the beautiful Lily falls victim to unfounded rumors
that her rivals spread, and ends up abandoned and penniless in a boarding
house. Those were the good old days.
Starring
Barbara O. Jones, Amandina Lihamba, Samahari Kijieri, Waigwa WachiraA
spiritual journey of the soul.A story about three women -- a doctor,
her patient, and an ancient and mysterious ancestor who brings them
together -- who seek to reclaim the connection between Africa and
Diaspora. It is a story that dares to represent the histories of two
continents as it peels away layers upon layers of pain and ultimately
brings healing of the soul.