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ROWHOUSE FILM
FESTIVAL
The film festival is a free
ongoing Sunday evening event at our house where we show movies, serve flavored popcorn, and encourage a
lively discussion of the films afterwards. All we ask is that you let
us know in advance if you're coming and bring something to
drink
please.
Also, we have also about to launch
a
discussion
forum/blog for the festival! If you were too shy to
talk during the discussion, or if on your way home you thought
of something brilliant to say, then let this be your opportunity
to chime in by posting a comment. We hope the conversation
at the events can be continued on this blog. (This should
be up & running by the next film night.) Check it out
at
http://rowhousefilmfest.blogspot.com.

"ON THE ROAD"
Rowhouse Film Festival
Season Three
Season three was called "On The
Road." Starting with the
quintessential road movie, Easy Rider, we'll explored the
genre of the road movie as a manifesto for freedom & wandering,
and as the anti-establishment American dream.
NEXT SCREENING....
Season three just wrapped up, but
SEASON FOUR's theme (TBA) & schedule
will be
announced soon!
PAST SCREENINGS THIS SEASON

DARJEELING LIMITED
(2007), screened 12/14/08. Following the death
of their father, three brothers (Adrien Brody, Owen
Wilson and
Jason Schwartzman) embark on a journey on the cross-India train
the Darjeeling Limited and attempt to reconnect after years of
physical and emotional distance. The trip also opens up some old
wounds and proves that their sibling rivalry can never be
completely erased. Natalie Portman and Anjelica Huston co-star
in Wes Anderson's lyrical comic drama. (91 mins)
VIEW
THEATRICAL TRAILER HERE

ALICE DOESN'T LIVE HERE ANYMORE
(1974), screened 11/16/08. Undeniably one of the must-sees
of 1970s cinema, Martin Scorsese's film features Ellen Burstyn
in the Oscar-winning role of a widow who must find the strength
to go on in the face of loneliness and fear, all in the name of
her young son, Tommy (Alfred Lutter). Eventually, they land in
Tucson and she finds a job as a waitress at a diner, where
somehow, she's able to picture love again through the eyes of a
customer (Kris Kristofferson). (112 mins)

A PERFECT WORLD
(1993), screened 11/2/08. Film icons from two
generations meet when fugitive Butch Haynes (Kevin Costner)
takes a young boy hostage and goes on the lam across the Lone
Star state, hotly pursued by police chief Red Garnett and criminologist Sally Gerber
(Laura Dern). In this film (directed by Clint Eastwood)
robbery, murder and a haunting final confrontation
are the lynchpins of a remarkable movie that takes a close look
at the true nature of violence. (138 mins)
VIEW THEATRICAL TRAILER HERE

THE SEARCHERS
(1956), screened 9/7/08. John Wayne and
Jeffrey Hunter spend years searching for Wayne's niece (Natalie
Wood), who was abducted as a child by Comanches. Far from a
picaresque adventure yarn, The Searchers is director John
Ford's forceful meditation on racism, revenge and obsession
-- one of the most powerful ever filmed. And Wayne's portrayal
of a brutishly obsessed "savior" is downright frightening.
(119 mins)
VIEW
THEATRICAL TRAILER HERE

PEE WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE (1985),
screened 8/31/08. When
his treasured bike is stolen outside Chuck's Bike-O-Rama,
Pee-Wee Herman (Paul Reubens) is devastated -- and he'll do
anything to get it back. Working off a hot tip that his wheels
may be stashed in the Alamo's basement, Pee-Wee leaves his
girlfriend (Elizabeth Daily) and sets off on a whirlwind
cross-country adventure. Quirky filmmaker Tim Burton directs
this classic comedy with an all-star cast that's too long to
list. (90 mins)
VIEW
THEATRICAL TRAILER HERE

REPO MAN
(1984),
screened 8/10/08
This is a cult classic from Alex Cox (director of
Sid & Nancy). Lacking role models and a purpose, baby-faced
delinquent Otto (Emilio Estevez) finds a code of honor and a
higher calling when he hooks up with a band of contemporary
"knights": the repo men. A "seasoned" auto re-possessor (Harry
Dean Stanton) shows Otto the ropes, and when a big reward is
offered for an elusive 1964 Malibu, Otto dodges G-men, cops,
religious kooks, and more, in a frenzied quest for the
car. Does his fate lie in its trunk? (93 mins) VIEW
THEATRICAL TRAILER HERE

WILD AT HEART
(1990), screened 7/27/08: Barry Gifford's neo-pulp novel inspired this
controversial cult film from director David Lynch. A
star-crossed couple on the lam (Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern) is
in for the most gruesome ride of their lives when they encounter
a handful of bizarre, and perhaps murderous, strangers
on the road (played by the likes of Sheryl Lee and Willem Dafoe). (124 mins)
VIEW
THEATRICAL TRAILER HERE

BADLANDS
(1973), screened on 7/13/08: Young garbage man Kit Caruthers (Martin
Sheen) and his girlfriend, Holly (Sissy Spacek) hit
the road in South Dakota on the run from the law.
Writer-director Terrence Malick's script (for his feature
film debut), based on a real outlaw couple in 1958, does not
judge its characters as they make their way to the Badlands of
Montana, leaving a trail of senseless and random murders in
their wake. (95 mins)
VIEW THEATRICAL TRAILER HERE

TRUE ROMANCE (1993),
screened on 6/28/08:
In this darkly comic web of crime, murder and mayhem from writer
Quentin Tarantino and director Tony Scott, novice prostitute
Alabama Whitman (Patricia Arquette) and her lover, comic book
store clerk Clarence Worley (Christian Slater), become a Bonnie
and Clyde for the 1990s. When Clarence kills Alabama's pimp, the
newlyweds ride off into the sunset -- with $5 million worth of
cocaine in a suitcase and the police and the mob on their trail.
(123 mins)
VIEW
THEATRICAL TRAILER HERE

DOWN BY LAW
(1986), screened on 6/22/08: When fate
lands three hapless men -- an unemployed disc jockey (Tom
Waits), a small-time pimp (John Lurie) and a strong-willed
Italian tourist (Roberto Benigni) -- in a New Orleans prison,
their adventure toward escape and freedom begins. Director
Jim Jarmusch
delivers a twisted comedy filled with fine performances and
sharp black-and-white frames from cinematographer Robby Müller.
(107 mins)
VIEW
THEATRICAL TRAILER HERE

THELMA & LOUISE
(1991), screened on 6/8/08: Waitress Louise Sawyer (Susan Sarandon) and naive
housewife Thelma Dickinson (Geena Davis) take off for a simple
weekend free of men … and become outlaws blazing a cathartic
trail across America. (129 mins)
VIEW
THEATRICAL TRAILER HERE

EASY RIDER
(1969), screened on 6/1/08: This ultimate 1960s
counter-culture film was Dennis Hopper's anti-establishment road
movie (his directorial debut) which garnered widespread critical
acclaim. Flush with cash from a cocaine sale and looking for the
"real America," motorcycle mavericks Billy (Hopper) and Wyatt
(Peter Fonda) are joined by boozy American Civil Liberties Union
lawyer George Hanson (Jack Nicholson, in an Oscar-nominated
performance) as they hit the road. (95 mins)
VIEW
THEATRICAL TRAILER HERE
PAST
SEASONS....
For information about the
past seasons of the Rowhouse Film Festival go to:

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