SUNDAY, April 15

Accordions and Heavy Metal: The Wacky World of Jeff Krulik
10 am
Byrd Theatre
Admission $7
 
Guest producer/director Jeff Krulik (Ernest Borgnine on the Bus, Hitler’s Hat) returns to the JRFF for a screening of his latest, The Legend of Merv Conn, the story of an accordionist extraordinaire, and his now classic, Heavy Metal Parking Lot. Krulik’s films are warm, humorous and, like other great documentarians (the Maysles, Frederick Wiseman), always sympathetic to his subject. Join Mr. Krulik for a Q&A after the screening.
Approximate running time 90 minutes.
See www.planetkrulik.com

The Devolution of Chuck Statler, Part 1
Noon
Byrd Theatre
Admission $7
 
Guest director Chuck Statler is considered by many to be the godfather of music video because of his seminal work from 1975 to the early 1980s with punk/New Wave groups Devo, Pere Ubu, Elvis Costello, Madness, Suicide Commandos, Nick Lowe, Graham Parker. Statler was honored with a retrospective at New York’s Museum of Modern Art in the fall of 2006. Join Mr. Statler for a walk on the wild side of devolution with a selection of his classic music videos, a behind-the-scenes tour of the making of (through productions stills and conversation) plus a Q&A. Introduction by friend and fellow filmmaker Jeff Krulik (Heavy Metal Parking Lot).
Approximate running time 2 hours.

American Splendor (2003)
2:30 pm
Byrd Theatre
Admission $7
 
Cynical graphic-author Harvey Pekar, best known for the world-weary stories of his own dreary life, i.e. American Splendor, is wonderfully and sympathetically played by actor Paul Giamatti (Sideways). Mr. Giamatti is currently on location in Virginia starring as John Adams for a television mini-series and this screening is dedicated to him! Directors/writers Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini successfully fuse dramatizations of the author's life with footage of Pekar and his family in a manner that complements and illuminates and actor Giamatti is at the top of his craft as Pekar's everyman. Emphatically more than just of cult interest, Harvey Pekar's world is the "sad city of the imagination which is the whole modern world."
Approximate running time 100 minutes.

The Devolution of Chuck Statler, Part 2
8 pm
1708 Gallery
Admission $7
 
Join festival guest Chuck Statler for Part 2 of a walk on the wild side of de-evolution with the second part of a retrospective of his seminal music videos for Devo, Madness, Elvis Costello, Tiny Tim and others which recently screened at the NY's MOMA.
Approximate running time 100 minutes.

American Hardcore (2006)
10 pm
1708 Gallery
Admission $7
 
Did you miss this when it flew in and out of the Westhampton a couple of months ago? Directed by Paul Rachman from, American Hardcore: A Tribal History by Steven Blush, relive the '80's hardcore scene from LA to NY to Richmond, starring the Bad Brains, Black Flag, Circle Jerks and more with appearances by locals Dave Brockie of Death Piggy and Gwar, Richard "Crispy" Cranmer of White Cross, and Greta Brinkman of Unseen Force. As a special bonus Richmond photographer Thurston Howes will show slides of his photos of the Richmond punk scene of that decade.
Approximate running time 100 minutes.