HOLLYWOOD JESUS NEWSLETTER #18
September 06, 2000
Greetings from David Bruce, web master

City of Angels Film Festival

Greetings from David Bruce, web master ___________________________________

I would like you know about the best film festival in the world! It combines faith with film -a fantastic event If you live near the Hollywood area or can take some vacation time, this is the place to be.

People of faith from Hollywood, America and even from overseas attend. The panel discussions following each film always include some well known guests. They discuss the spiritual connections, symbolism, and message of each film. I will be there, of course, and would love to meet you.
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HOLLYWOOD JESUS is a proud sponsor of the
Seventh Annual CITY OF ANGELS FILM FESTIVAL

Three days of Film & Faith
Director's Guild of America Theater Complex
Los Angeles, California

November 10-12, 2000

"one of the top ten coolest things to do in LA..." -Los Angeles Magazine

"A rare opportunity!" -LA Weekly

It might be for family. It might be for love. Whatever the reasons, people hit the road searching for something. ROAD TRIP: Moving with the Spirit follows eight distinct cinematic 'journeys'. From classic westerns like THE SEARCHERS, to kinetic techno trips like RUN LOLA RUN, join the 7th Annual City of the Angels Film Festival for a memorable movie going weekend, November 10-12, 2000 at the Directors Guild of America, Los Angeles.

Friday, Nov. 10 2000

7:30 PM
The Searchers 1956
Directed by John Ford
Screenplay by Frank S. Nugent,
based on the novel by Alan Le May
The genre defining "quest" movie in which an ex-Confederate soldier spends years searching for a niece who was stolen by Indians. Finding her, he is forced to come to grips with his own hatred and intolerance. (120 minutes)

8:35 - Panel

9:00 PM
Run Lola Run (79 minutes; German with English subtitles)
Written & directed by Tom Tykwer
Lola has twenty minutes to save her boyfriend's life. The film unfolds as three delirious plans of action that pass before her mind as she runs through the streets. A tense and visually fascinating film.

10:25 PM - Panel

Saturday, Nov. 11

3:30 PM
Grapes of Wrath, The (1940) (128 minutes)
Directed by John Ford Screenplay by Nunnally Johnson;
based on a novel by John Steinbeck
A family of dispossessed farmers migrate westward from the 1930's Oklahoma dustbowl. Tested by tragedy and betrayal, they learn compassion and tenderness.

5:45 - Panel

6:30
The Wages of Fear (Le Salaire de la Peur)1953 (141 minutes;
French with English sub-titles)
Written by Henri-Georges Clouzot and Jérôme Géronimi
Based on the Novel by Georges Arnaud
Directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot
A stark and beautiful thriller about a group of men risking their lives to transport an urgent shipment of nitroglycerine across the Venezuelan countryside.

9:00 PM Wages Panel

9:30 PM
The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980) (109 minutes)
Written and directed by Jamie Uys
Misery is brought to a small tribe of African bushmen in the form of a cola bottle. In his quest to throw the evil object over the edge of the earth, one bushman encounters western "civilization", in a haphazard doctor and a tyrannical despot.

11:25 - Panel

Sunday, Nov. 12

3:30 PM
Badlands (1973) (95 minutes)
Written and directed by Terrence Malick
In 1959, two innocent teenagers bumble into a killing rampage across the Badlands of North Dakota. A haunting and brilliant exploration of the sources of good and evil choices in human life.

5:15 Panel

6:30 PM
Paris, Texas 1984 (150 minutes)
Directed by Wim Wenders
Screenplay by L. M. Kit Carson and Sam Shepard
A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. As his memory returns, he makes contact with various people from his past and uncovers the truth about the man he was.

9:05-Panel

9:30 PM
Central Station (1998)
(115 minutes, Portuguese with English subtitles)
story by Walter Salles,
screenplay by Marcos Bernstein, João Emanuel Carneiro
directed by Walter Salles
A the end of the twentieth century a woman with no hope and a child in desperate need of it set out on a journey through the squalor and beauty of Brazil.

11:30-Panel

Plus documentaries and short subjects
the Lloyd C. Douglas Film and Religion workshops
Reel Spirituality
Daughter's of St.Paul Media & Film Bookstore.

To find out more
go to the City of Angels Film Festival web site http://www.cityofangelsfilmfest.org/

TICKETS ARE LIMITED -ACT QUICKLY!
The Hollywood Jesus Newsletter subscribers are among first to know. Tickets go on sell Sept 19. Make arrangements now and get your tickets as soon as they are available. Only 25 people will be able to get the $50 ticket pack to all events and short films. There are only be approx 120 single tickets for each of the event at $10 each. A $10 ticket also gives you admission to all the short films and discussions. Students are $8 per event This is the best film deal anywhere. But it is very limited.

Here is the ticket order number, 310-338-7588 but do not call until Sept 19 (ticket prices may change)

For general info call 1-626-304-3775 any time
Please email me if you are planing to go so I can be looking for you: I_am_going_E-mail

If you would like, include a brief description of yourself, so I can be looking for you. I'll be wearing a black shirt with 'Hollywood Jesus' written on it.