SUMMER CINEMA SIZZLES
as the school year winds down and students look forward to long days filled with absolutely nothing, summer blockbusters come to mind as a way to spend endless hours between may and september. for graduates, these summer flicks provide recluse from franti
Keith Carne / Inside Beat Staff Writer
Issue date: 4/26/07 Section: Inside Beat
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The best of artistic and independent cinema comes to the silver screen of Scott Hall this summer, as a part of the New Jersey Film Festival's summer season. The event, which kicks off Friday, June 1, will hold over 47 film screenings and workshops; over 30 films will have their New Jersey or area premieres at this season's festival, from experimental shorts to feature-length psychological thrillers- good luck trying to find them at the AMC 18 on Rt. 1. The film's subjects run the gamut from humorous to horrific, heart-warming to hopeless, each delivering a new and original cinematic experience. Numerous artist guest-appearances have also been scheduled, for which directors and writers alike will be in attendance to introduce their films and field questions from the audience. With a different film each night, there is a lot to see, but here are a couple of the highlights:
The Classics:
These films, among others, comprise a series within the festival known as the Cinema 101 film appreciation course. This series represents the films better known to mainstream audiences (sort of) and are essential viewing for anyone who considers themselves a film buff.
Disney's sugarcoated version of Beauty And The Beast pales in comparison to Jean Cocteau's evocative realization of the timeless fairytale. The romance is richer and, like his earlier experimental works, the story opens portals to worlds of deeply rooted emotion. Thursday, 6/6
Gone To Earth: the emotionally towering Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger masterpiece about an introverted English gypsy whose best friend is a fox, and the hunting squire that vies for her affection. Thursday, 6/14
Lost Highway: David Lynch's disturbing dance of emotionally charged horror, film noir, and surrealist shock cinema. Coded in Lynch's characteristic jumbled narrative, the stories of jealous jazz musician Fred Madison and teen mechanic Peter Dayton collide and wrap themselves around the viewer's brain, pulling it apart at the seams. Lynch, of course, reassembles it…backwards and inside out. Thursday, 7/19
The Classics:
These films, among others, comprise a series within the festival known as the Cinema 101 film appreciation course. This series represents the films better known to mainstream audiences (sort of) and are essential viewing for anyone who considers themselves a film buff.
Disney's sugarcoated version of Beauty And The Beast pales in comparison to Jean Cocteau's evocative realization of the timeless fairytale. The romance is richer and, like his earlier experimental works, the story opens portals to worlds of deeply rooted emotion. Thursday, 6/6
Gone To Earth: the emotionally towering Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger masterpiece about an introverted English gypsy whose best friend is a fox, and the hunting squire that vies for her affection. Thursday, 6/14
Lost Highway: David Lynch's disturbing dance of emotionally charged horror, film noir, and surrealist shock cinema. Coded in Lynch's characteristic jumbled narrative, the stories of jealous jazz musician Fred Madison and teen mechanic Peter Dayton collide and wrap themselves around the viewer's brain, pulling it apart at the seams. Lynch, of course, reassembles it…backwards and inside out. Thursday, 7/19