AFI FEST 2009 Articles

Helen Mirren, Anne-Marie Duff, Paul Giamatti in The Last Station AFI FEST 2009, Sat., Nov. 7 at the Santa Monica Laemmle Theater 4 on 2nd Street in Santa Monica. AFI FEST 2009 comes to a close with the following screenings: Michael Hoffman's The Last Station, which is set near the end of Leo Tolstoy's life, has been getting lots of Oscar buzz for its stars: [...]

AFI FEST 2009 Awards AFI FEST 2009: Hollywood/Santa Monica, Oct. 30-Nov. 7, 2009   Andrea Arnold's Fish Tank focuses on a working-class teenager (Katie Jarvis) frustrated that her mother has found a new beau (Michael Fassbender); Javier Rebollo's Woman Without Piano is a dramatic portrait of 24 hours in the life of a Madrid housewife (Carmen Machi); and Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani's Ajami (above) [...]

To Die Like a Man by João Pedro Rodrigues (top); Police, Adjective by Corneliu Porumboiu (bottom) AFI FEST 2009 continues in a more compact version on Friday and Saturday at the Santa Monica Laemmle Theater 4 on 2nd Street in Santa Monica. There'll be only four screenings per day, with the last one starting at 5:00 p.m. The screening films on Friday, Nov. 6, are: [...]

Colin Firth, Julianne Moore in A Single Man (top); Steve Evets, Eric Cantona in Looking for Eric (bottom) AFI FEST 2009 highlights on Thursday, Nov. 5: Robert Barry Ptolemy's Transcendent Man sounds fascinating: Futurist Ray Kurzweil discusses the just-around-the-corner impact of human technology, which has been growing exponentially. Imagine a world without death, hunger, disease. (Well, I'm assuming all those great things will happen if [...]