Welcome to Variety’s 2006 Screening Series!
Each film becomes available for reservation two weeks prior to the screening. Please call an IndieVest representative at 1-888-299-9961 to find out about attending screenings. This schedule will change often, so please return to this website for updates and additional films.
All films will screen at the ArcLight unless otherwise noted.
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Little Children ALREADY SCREENED Q&A: Co-Writer / Director Todd Field, Producer Albert Berger, Producer Ron Yerxa & Noah Emmerich Studio: New Line Centers on a group of young marrieds, whose lives intersect on the playgrounds, town pools and streets of their small community in surprising and potentially dangerous ways. Dir: Todd Field Writer: Todd Field & Tom Perrotta; Based on the novel by Tom Perrotta Cast: Kate Winslet, Patrick Wilson, Sadie Goldstein, Ty Simpkins, Jennifer Connelly, Noah Emmerich |
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The Queen ALREADY SCREENED Q&A: Helen Mirren & Michael Sheen Studio: Miramax An intimate, behind the scenes glimpse at the interaction between HM Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Tony Blair during their struggle, following the death of Diana, to reach a compromise between what was a private tragedy for the Royal family and the public’s demand for an overt display of mourning. Dir: Stephen Frears Writer: Peter Morgan Cast: Helen Mirren, Michael Sheen, James Cromwell, Sylvia Syms |
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Deliver Us From Evil ALREADY SCREENED Q&A: Writer/Director Amy Berg Studio: Lions Gate Moving from one parish to another in Northern California during the 1970s, Father Oliver O’Grady quickly won each congregation’s trust and respect. Unbeknownst to them, O’Grady was a dangerously active pedophile that Church hierarchy, aware of his predilection, had harbored for over 30 years, allowing him to abuse countless children. Dir: Amy J. Berg Writer: Amy J. Berg |
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The Prestige ALREADY SCREENED Q&A: Co-Writer / Director Christopher Nolan, Hugh Jackman & Christian Bale Studio: Touchstone From acclaimed filmmaker Christopher Nolan (“Memento,” “Batman Begins”), comes a mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences. Dir: Christopher Nolan Writer: Jonathan Nolan and Christopher Nolan; Based on the novel by Christopher Priest Cast: Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Scarlett Johansson, David Bowie, Andy Serkis |
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Running with Scissors ALREADY SCREENED Q&A: Writer/Director Ryan Murphy & Annette Bening Studio: Sony Young Augusten Burroughs absorbs experiences that could make for a shocking memoir: the son of an alcoholic father and an unstable mother, he’s handed off to his mother’s therapist, Dr. Finch, and spends his adolescent years as a member of Finch’s bizarre extended family. Dir: Ryan Murphy Writer: Ryan Murphy; Based on the Personal Memoirs of Augusten Burroughs Cast: Annette Bening, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jill Clayburgh, Brian Cox, Joseph Fiennes, Evan Rachel Wood, Alec Baldwin, Joseph Cross, Kristin Chenoweth, Heather Clark, Beth Grant, Colleen Camp |
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Fur ALREADY SCREENED Q&A: Erin Cressida Wilson Studio: Picturehouse A chronicle of the life of Diane Arbus, the revered photographer whose images captured attention in the early 1960s. After her suicide in 1971, she became the first American photographer to be exhibited at the Venice Biennale. Dir: Steven Shainberg Writer: Erin Cressida Wilson; Inspired by the book Cast: Nicole Kidman |
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Pan’s Labyrinth ALREADY SCREENED Q&A: Writer / Director Guillermo Del Toro Studio: Picturehouse The story of a young girl that travels with her mother and adoptive father to a rural area up North in Spain. Dir: Guillermo Del Toro Writer: Guillermo Del Toro Cast: Ivana Baquero, Doug Jones, Sergi López, Ariadna Gil, Maribel Verdú, Álex Angulo, Roger Casamajor, César Vea |
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Catch a Fire ALREADY SCREENED Q&A: Writer Shawn Slovo, Producer Robyn Slovo, Patrick Chumusso & Bonnie Henna Studio: Focus Features A political thriller that powerfully tells the real-life story of a South African hero’s journey to freedom. In the country’s turbulent and divided times in the 1980s, Patrick Chamusso is an oil refinery foreman and soccer coach who is apolitical – until he and his wife Precious are jailed and tortured. Patrick is stunned into action against the country’s oppressive apartheid system, even as police Colonel Nic Vos further insinuates himself into the Chamussos’ lives. Dir: Philip Noyce Writer: Shawn Slovo Cast: Derek Luke, Tim Robbins, Bonnie Henna |
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Shut Up and Sing ALREADY SCREENED Q&A: Directors Barbara Kopple & Cecilia Peck Studio: MGM A documentary on the Dixie Chicks in the wake of singer Natalie Maines' anti-George W. Bush statement at a 2003 concert. Dir: Barbara Kopple & Cecilia Peck |
