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Heartland Film Festival
Sep. 23rd, 2021 01:49 pmHeartland Film Festival is back! I'm so excited! I've spent all morning going through the films they're screening and marking down all the ones I'd like to see, including:
Petite Maman, by Celine Sciamma (the director of Portrait of a Lady on Fire, which I ALSO saw at the Heartland Film Festival, Before It Was Cool as the kids say); this one about two girls becoming friends and building a treehouse in the forest and it sounds absolutely delightful.
It's a Summer Film!, a Japanese film about a trio of teenage girls making the samurai film of their HEARTS. Again: doesn't that sound delightful? (The festival has a lot of serious films this year - indeed, it does every year - but this year I've really gone hard for "Does this sound like it will make my heart SING?")
Firebird, an Estonian film about gay Soviet airmen. YES. WANT. It will probably break my heart but I want it anyway.
Alien on Stage, a documentary about "bus drivers from rural England make an amateur stage show of Ridley Scott's "Alien" and accidentally take it to London's famous West End theatre district." I'm getting distinct wacky theater vibes from this description, and I LOVE wacky theater.
Set!, a documentary about competitive table setting, which is so eccentric that I fell in love with the idea instantly.
...All of this is quite a separate question from whether or not I will actually ATTEND these films. Well, okay, actually I did already by a ticket to Petite Maman, because that one is not available online - many of them do have online showings this year - I suppose I could always do the online showings for the ones where that's available... Except, let's be real, I will probably not get around to watching most of them if I don't have the discipline of an actual screen time in a literal movie theater. The Heartland Film Festival was entirely virtual last year and I went through the schedule with great excitement (there was a documentary about stuntwomen! and a Finnish movie about 70-year-old sisters on a madcap road trip!) and then didn't watch ANY of the movies. It just didn't feel like a festival to sit home and watch them alone.
Petite Maman, by Celine Sciamma (the director of Portrait of a Lady on Fire, which I ALSO saw at the Heartland Film Festival, Before It Was Cool as the kids say); this one about two girls becoming friends and building a treehouse in the forest and it sounds absolutely delightful.
It's a Summer Film!, a Japanese film about a trio of teenage girls making the samurai film of their HEARTS. Again: doesn't that sound delightful? (The festival has a lot of serious films this year - indeed, it does every year - but this year I've really gone hard for "Does this sound like it will make my heart SING?")
Firebird, an Estonian film about gay Soviet airmen. YES. WANT. It will probably break my heart but I want it anyway.
Alien on Stage, a documentary about "bus drivers from rural England make an amateur stage show of Ridley Scott's "Alien" and accidentally take it to London's famous West End theatre district." I'm getting distinct wacky theater vibes from this description, and I LOVE wacky theater.
Set!, a documentary about competitive table setting, which is so eccentric that I fell in love with the idea instantly.
...All of this is quite a separate question from whether or not I will actually ATTEND these films. Well, okay, actually I did already by a ticket to Petite Maman, because that one is not available online - many of them do have online showings this year - I suppose I could always do the online showings for the ones where that's available... Except, let's be real, I will probably not get around to watching most of them if I don't have the discipline of an actual screen time in a literal movie theater. The Heartland Film Festival was entirely virtual last year and I went through the schedule with great excitement (there was a documentary about stuntwomen! and a Finnish movie about 70-year-old sisters on a madcap road trip!) and then didn't watch ANY of the movies. It just didn't feel like a festival to sit home and watch them alone.
