CineViews 2007 screening schedule
By Casey Gillis on Nov. 01, 2007
Riverviews Artspace’s third annual CineViews Film Festival kicks off at 9 p.m. Nov. 9 with a showing of Mike White’s “The Good Girl.” All the films will either be shown in Riverviews’ Craddock-Terry Gallery or its Reading Room, depending on how many people show up. Seating is limited, and advance ticket purchase is recommended. Admission to all shows is $5 unless otherwise noted.
Toby Tyler (10:30 a.m. Nov. 10), Riverviews Children’s Matinee Classic
Straight from the vault of Disney classics comes this 1960 family film about a boy who joins the circus. Based on a book of the same name by James Otis Kaler, it stars Kevin Corcoran (“Old Yeller,” “Swiss Family Robinson”) as Toby, an orphan who lives with his poverty-stricken aunt and uncle until he leaves to join the circus that’s come to town.
Admission is $1 for children and $5 adults.
The King of Hearts (10:30 a.m. Nov. 10)
Set during World War I, this 1966 film stars Alan Bates as a Scottish soldier separated from his unit in France. He eventually wanders into a small French village inhabited by residents of a nearby insane asylum, whose keepers have fled in the face of oncoming combat — a fact that escapes the innocent soldier, who assumes they are all regular folks. The film is in French, Italian and German with subtitles.
I’m Not Scared (1:30 p.m. Nov. 10)
While spending the summer in southern Italy, a 10-year-old boy named Michele finds a boy his own age kept captive in a pit near an abandoned farmhouse. He eventually bonds with the boy, feeding him and taking him out for air. At the same time, Michele tries to uncover the mysterious occurrences at his own house, where the adults quarrel viciously.
“It would have made a good Halloween movie,” says Mary Ann Racin, Riverviews executive director. “It’s terrifying.”
The film, released in 2003, is rated R and is in Italian with subtitles.
School of Rock (3 p.m., Nov. 10)
White wrote this comedy for pal Jack Black, who stars as Dewey Finn, a guitarist who gets kicked out of his band. Through an intercepted phone call, he gets a job as a substitute teacher for a fifth grade class, and neither teacher nor students quite know what to do with each other at first. But once Finn discovers his students can play instruments, he works to turn them into a rock n’ roll band that can crush his former one in an upcoming competition. Directed by Richard Linklater, the film also stars Joan Cusack and White as, respectively, the school’s uptight principal and Finn’s nerdy roommate, Ned Schneebly.
The film is rated PG-13. Admission is $1 for children and $5 for adults.
The Good Girl (3:15 p.m., Nov. 10)
Jennifer Aniston left all traces of Rachel Green, her popular “Friends” character, behind in this indie film. She plays Justine, an unhappy woman stuck in a dead-end retail who begins an affair with troubled co-worker Holden (Jake Gyllenhaal). The tryst soon turns into an obsession that threatens to destroy Justine’s marriage to Phil (John C. Reilly). White’s screenplay won the Independent Spirit Award in 2002.
(R)
Man on a Train (8 p.m., Nov. 10)
French singer Johnny Hallyday plays professional criminal Milan, who comes to a small town to commit a robbery in this 2002 film. By chance, he meets the talkative Monsieur Manesquier (played by Jean Rochefort), who invites him to stay at his house because the hotel is closed. The two form an unlikely friendship, each curious — and envious — about the other’s life.
(R/French with subtitles)
Cowboy Bebop, The Movie (8 p.m., Nov. 10)
This Japanese anime film, released in 2001, is based on the popular TV series of the same name. What should be the routine capture of a two-bit hacker by Faye escalates into a deadly game of cat and mouse as Spike and the gang struggle to prevent the villainous Vincent Volaju from murdering every human on Mars.
(R)
Moolaade (2 p.m., Nov. 11)
In this 2004 film, six young girls, about to be “purified” through their village’s tradition of female circumcision, are somehow able to escape before being cut. Two apparently make their way to the city; the other four seek the protection of Mama Colle, who opposes the practice and has not allowed her own daughter, Amsatou, to undergo the procedure. She takes the four girls into her house and protects them with a col-ored cord stretched across the entrance, which represents “moolaade,” or sanctuary.
(French with subtitles)
The Cats of Mirikitani (4:30 p.m., Nov. 11)
This 2006 documentary chronicles the friendship that developed between filmmaker Linda Hattendorf and Jimmy Mirikitani, an 80-year-old artist. Mirikitani was born in California, raised in Hiroshima, Japan, and in his youth, traveled the U.S. But by 2001, he was homeless and living on the streets of New York.
He spent his days on a corner in SoHo, drawing pictures of whimsical cats, bleak internment camps and the flames created by the atomic bomb.
Hattendorf stopped to ask him about his art one day, and the two soon formed a friendship. She came back time and again to document his drawings, trying to decipher the stories behind them, and she eventually began piecing together the story of Mirikitani’s past. Things changed for the pair again after Sept. 11, 2001, when Hattendorf invited him to live in her small apartment.
“It’s an amazing movie,” Racin says. “It’s perfect for Riverviews because (Mirikitani) is an artist. It’ll be a good way to end the festival.”
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