Roger Ebert’s Overlooked Film Festival
May 3rd, 2006 by Andre Soares
Via Time: "It’s not every day that 1,500 people come together to watch a movie generally regarded as a box office disaster.
"But at Roger Ebert’s Overlooked Film Festival, that’s precisely the kind of underdog spirit the crowd lives for — a spirit driven in part by their hunger for great films, but also partly by a desire to thumb their noses at movie studio executives who claim to know what audiences want. As Ebert said during a post-film discussion, reacting to a suggestion that a studio didn’t think one of the festival’s 12 selected titles would ‘appeal to the youth market’: ‘We cannot be held captive to a bunch of illiterate 16-year-olds.’"
Among the films being shown at the Overlooked Film Festival is Mark Danford-May’s U-Carmen e-Khayelitsha, winner of the Golden Bear at the 2005 Berlin Film Festival.
A review of U-Carmen e-Khayelitsha can be found at Antonio Pasolini’s The London Filter.
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Boris Karloff at San Francisco’s Balboa Theater
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