Heartland Film Festival
Sep. 17th, 2022 12:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
osprey_archerAnother autumn is upon us, and with it another Heartland Film Festival!
This year I have a QUANDARY, as the first Saturday of Heartland Film Festival conflicts with the IU Cinema's showing of Ernst Lubitsch's menage a trois film Design for Living (truly shocking that I haven't seen this before), and if I miss Design for Living now I may never again have the opportunity to see it on the big screen! But if I go to see Design for Living, I may miss my chance to see Scrap, a documentary about "the vast and strangely beautiful places where things go to die"...
Not to mention the cascading knock-off effects as I attempt to tetris movies into my schedule. I simply want to see too many movies this year!
Other films include:
The Moon and Back, in which a high school senior films her dead father's space opera screenplay with an old VHS camera and some pocket change. Heartland has a LOT of movies about dead relatives this year, but this one sounds hilarious rather than heart-wrenching, and I'm weak for movies about making movies. (One of last Heartland's highlights was It's a Summer Film, in which a Japanese high school girl rallies her friends to make a samurai film.)
Butterfly in the Sky, a documentary about the making of Reading Rainbow.
R.M.N., a movie by Romanian director Christian Mungiu, whose career I have been following since 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days knocked my socks off back in college. Not sure what this one is about, but 100% sure it will be harrowing.
Pinball: The Man Who Saved the Game, "the unbelievable true story of Roger Sharpe, the young Midwesterner who overturned New York City's 35-year-old ban on pinball machines." FASCINATED to learn why New York City had a thirty-five-year ban on pinball machines.
And The Lost King, a comedy-drama based on the discovery of Richard III's remains beneath a car park in 2012. This one is the centerpiece of the festival (literally it is billed as such) and it sounds like a goddamn delight.
This year I have a QUANDARY, as the first Saturday of Heartland Film Festival conflicts with the IU Cinema's showing of Ernst Lubitsch's menage a trois film Design for Living (truly shocking that I haven't seen this before), and if I miss Design for Living now I may never again have the opportunity to see it on the big screen! But if I go to see Design for Living, I may miss my chance to see Scrap, a documentary about "the vast and strangely beautiful places where things go to die"...
Not to mention the cascading knock-off effects as I attempt to tetris movies into my schedule. I simply want to see too many movies this year!
Other films include:
The Moon and Back, in which a high school senior films her dead father's space opera screenplay with an old VHS camera and some pocket change. Heartland has a LOT of movies about dead relatives this year, but this one sounds hilarious rather than heart-wrenching, and I'm weak for movies about making movies. (One of last Heartland's highlights was It's a Summer Film, in which a Japanese high school girl rallies her friends to make a samurai film.)
Butterfly in the Sky, a documentary about the making of Reading Rainbow.
R.M.N., a movie by Romanian director Christian Mungiu, whose career I have been following since 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days knocked my socks off back in college. Not sure what this one is about, but 100% sure it will be harrowing.
Pinball: The Man Who Saved the Game, "the unbelievable true story of Roger Sharpe, the young Midwesterner who overturned New York City's 35-year-old ban on pinball machines." FASCINATED to learn why New York City had a thirty-five-year ban on pinball machines.
And The Lost King, a comedy-drama based on the discovery of Richard III's remains beneath a car park in 2012. This one is the centerpiece of the festival (literally it is billed as such) and it sounds like a goddamn delight.
