Alexandre Philippe's The People vs. George Lucas (top); Quincy Jones (middle); Sylvester Stallone (bottom)
The panel discussion "The Power of the Tweet," Alexandre Philippe's The People vs. George Lucas, "An Evening with Sylvester Stallone," "Quincy Jones Presents: The Color Purple," and Gareth Edwards' Monsters are some of the highlights at the Los Angeles Film Festival on Tuesday, June 22.
Jon Chu (Step Up 2: The Streets, Step Up 3-D), Richard Kelly (Donnie Darko, The Box), Eli Roth (writer/director, Hostel; actor Inglourious Basterds), and Adam Shankman (director, Hairspray; judge on So You Think You Can Dance) will discuss the influence of Twitter on the film business. The discussion will be moderated by Ari Karpel (contributing writer Los Angeles Times, New York Times).
Alexandre Philippe's The People vs. George Lucas takes a look at the Star Wars phenomenon and the way fans see the man behind both the sci-fi classic and its sequels and prequels: filmmaker George Lucas.
Elvis Mitchell will chat with Sylvester Stallone, who will provide a sneak peek at the upcoming The Expendables, and Quincy Jones will introduce Steven Spielberg's 1985 melodrama The Color Purple, starring Whoopi Goldberg, Margaret Avery, Danny Glover, and Oprah Winfrey.
Gareth Edwards' Monsters sounds interesting: an American couple must return to the US from Mexico, a land now filled with dangerous alien forms as a result of NASA probe crash.
And finally: Cathryn Collins' Vlast / Power shows how Russian businessman Mikhail Khodorkovsky became a threat to Vladimir Putin's power, while Fernando Eimbcke, Diego Luna, Gael Garcia Bernal, Rodrigo Garcia, and Carlos Reygadas are some of the directors of ten shorts included in the omnibus feature Revolución, about the Mexican Revolution of 1910.
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