Zero Bridge (top); I Sell the Dead (middle); Weather Girl (bottom)
Los Angeles Film Festival highlights on Wed., June 24:
- John Maringouin's Big River Man, about a middle-aged, pot-bellied Slovenian who decides to swim the length (or rather, the width) of the Amazon River, will have its second screening at the Landmark 8 at 2:15 pm.
- The panel "Poolside Chat: Reel Life LA" (W Los Angeles-Westwood Hotel, 7 pm) will feature Martin Landau, Larenz Tate, and others. Moderated by Taylor Hackford.
- Michael Cera and Charlyne Yi play versions of themselves in Nicholas Jasenovec's Paper Heart (Mann Festival Theatre, 7 pm), in which Yi sets out to discover what Americans think about the nature of love. Along the way, she finds herself becoming enamored with Cera.
- Set in Kashmir, Tariq Tapa's Zero Bridge (Landmark 4, 7 pm) follows a petty criminal and one of his victims as they craft a plan to flee the war-torn region. Last year, Zero Bridge was screened at the Venice Film Festival's Horizons sidebar.
- Glenn McQuaid's Slamdance 2009 opener I Sell the Dead (Landmark 8, 7:15 pm) tells the story of a professional grave robber who finds himself enmeshed with mad doctors, grave-robbing competitors, and assorted spooky creatures in 18th-century England. With Dominic Monaghan, Larry Fessenden, Angus Scrimm, Ron Perlman.
- Blayne Weaver's romantic comedy Weather Girl (Landmark 4, 9:30 pm) chronicles the emotional up-and-downs of a former weather girl in her quest for both a sense of self and true love. In the cast: Tricia O'Kelley, Patrick J. Adams, Ryan Devlin, Mark Harmon, Kaitlin Olson, Mark Harmon.