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13th
ANNUAL
JAMES RIVER
FILM FESTIVAL
Virginia’s
Festival
for the
Independent-
Minded |
ALL ADMISSIONS FREE
UNLESS NOTED; DONATIONS ENCOURAGED
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Let’s
Rock Again!
(2005, 50 min.)
1 pm, The Firehouse Theatre
Admission $5
Actor Dick Rude (Repo Man, Sid and Nancy) turned director for this
moving and intimate portrait of mentor-friend-punk icon, the late
Joe Strummer. Following Strummer and his last band the Mescaleros
across America and Japan, the film also recalls his Clash days with
clips and music. A true working class hero, Strummer was the heart
and soul of British punk. Director Rude studied at the Lee Strasberg
Acting Institute in LA and later attended UCLA’s film school,
which he left to co-author Straight to Hell with director Alex Cox.
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Say
Amen, Somebody
(1983, 100 min.)
2:30 pm, The Firehouse Theatre
Admission $5
Director George Nierenberg’s rousing get–the-spirit documentary
focuses on two of black gospel’s biggest names—“Mother”
Willie Mae Ford Smith and “Professor” Thomas Dorsey—tracing
their careers from unknowns to legends. Say Amen… premiered
in Richmond in 1984 at the venerable Biograph Theatre in ’84
and had a three week run! Among the audience, actor Martin Sheen
attended two nights in a row, in town portraying JFK for a TV movie.
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The
Last Home Movie
with David Williams
(2005, 85 min.)
5 pm, The Firehouse Theatre
Admission $5
Hometown director David Williams (Lillian, Thirteen, Long Art)
presents the Richmond premiere of his latest work. A film more personal
perhaps than any of his previous, it focuses on his parents’
last years as they combat old age and Alzheimer’s with duty,
love and patience. Done in a Cassavetes style, mixing actors
with non-actors, part scripted, part ad-lib, the real life chemistry
and Williams’ mise-en-scene all click to capture moments of pure
genius. |
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 My
Architect
(2003, 116 min.)
7 pm, The Firehouse Theatre
Admission $7
Director Nathaniel Kahn’s architect in this case is his very
famous father, Louis Kahn, who died in 1974 in NY’s Penn Station.
The filmmaker explores the multiple private lives and acclaimed public
art of his father, who although married with a wife and children,
had long-term girlfriends and illegitimate children, one of whom is
the filmmaker. Son Nathaniel travels worldwide in an attempt to understand
the father, the man, and the work. (Kahn was in the company of Frank
Gehry and Philip Johnson, among others.) |
Let’s
Rock Again!
(2005, 50 min.)
9 pm, The Firehouse Theatre
Admission $5
See description above. |
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