![]() Headlining the film is Denzel Washington as the good guy cop, and Clive Owen as the highly intelligent robber (with the screen-play thankfully avoiding the crazy/insane cliche' Bond movie villain characterization). Recommended viewing! No ordinary film maker, Lee taps his expertise in film making, applying superior cinematography, editing, and direction skills. One of the better Heist films one can watch, with an all-star cast of highly-accomplished actors delivering the goods. Adler and Joseph Erdman, Trustees).'Inside Man' engages the viewer from the opening scene through the credits. The 2017 Virginia Film Festival is presented by The Joseph & Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation (Richard M. Tickets will go on sale to the public on Sept. The full program of films and guests to be featured at the 2017 festival will be announced Sept. Last year’s special guests included actress Shirley MacLaine, actor Colin Firth, filmmaker Werner Herzog and actor-director Liv Ullmann. The festival typically draws an impressive roster of directors, actors, producers to Charlottesville for four days of screenings, workshops and discussions, often including many UVA faculty members. Screenings and discussions at the festival – where Lee will join other filmmakers, scholars and historians – will dovetail with Montpelier’s recently opened exhibition sharing stories from the slaves who lived and worked at the fourth president’s estate, and from their modern-day descendants. ![]() This year, the film festival will collaborate with James Madison’s estate, Montpelier, to explore how the legacies of slavery continue to affect the lives of African-Americans and how those legacies are depicted in cinema and the media. Lee in the spring to include him in our upcoming collaboration with Montpelier, and of course, the recent events in Charlottesville have made his participation more compelling, relevant and vital.” “We have for many years been interested in bringing Spike Lee to the Virginia Film Festival, as he remains one of the most talented, innovative and socially conscious filmmakers in our world today,” said Jody Kielbasa, the festival’s director and UVA’s vice provost for the arts. remains one of the most talented, innovative and socially conscious filmmakers in our world today.” ![]() Lee will also screen “I Can’t Breathe,” a short film juxtaposing Eric Garner’s 2014 chokehold death in police custody with scenes from Lee’s 1989 film “Do The Right Thing,” which also dealt with police brutality. Lee, who is also a prolific author and a film professor at New York University, has directed and produced more than 30 films and won Academy and Emmy awards, among others.Īt the festival, he will present his Oscar-nominated documentary, “4 Little Girls.” First released in 1997, the documentary focuses on the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, that killed four African-American girls: Denise McNair, Addie Mae Collins, Carole Robinson and Cynthia Wesley. ![]()
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