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HOLLYWOOD
JESUS NEWSLETTER #28
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October 09, 2001
Greetings from David Bruce, Web Master
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City of Angels Film Festival
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1. City of Angels Film Festival
2. Latest Reviews
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1. CITY OF ANGELS FILM FESTIVAL
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 HORROR
MASTER WES CRAVEN TO LEAD OFF EIGHTH ANNUAL CITY OF THE ANGELS
FILM FESTIVAL, OCT. 25-28
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Festival to examine the problem and consequences of evil --
Again
this year I am happy to call your attention to one of the best
film festivals in the world, The City of
the Angels Film Festival
This
year master
Wes Craven will lead off its eighth annual event, this
year focusing on classic films examining the theme "Touches
of Evil." The festival is open to the general public and will
be held Thursday - Sunday, October 25-28, 2001, at the Directors
Guild of America, 7920 Sunset Blvd. in Los Angeles.
 In
a special pre-festival event on Thursday night, two of Craven's
movies, "Dracula 2000" (Thu. 7:15
p.m.) and "Wes Craven's New Nightmare" (Thu. 10:00 p.m.)
will be screened. In between the two screenings, Craven, who has
haunted audiences worldwide with such terror tales as "The
Last House on the Left," "A Nightmare on Elm Street,"
and "Scream," will discuss the spiritual influences that
have driven his movies.
 The
purpose of the City of the Angels Film Festival is to bring
together filmmakers with a spiritual sensibility, theologians
who are media competent, and movie viewers who desire to view
and discuss films that raise vital religious and social questions.
"Our festival is about screening great films that stimulate imagination,
and alter our thinking. This year we will probe the manifestations
and consequences of evil in society, in neighborhoods, in families,
and individuals," said festival chair Scott Young. "Our pre-Halloween
date is especially appropriate, as we look for flashes of light
in the extremes of darkness."
"From
the mass horrors of war, genocide, and terrorism in places like
New York City and Bosnia, to the more localized acts of terror
inflicted by mass murderers such as Jeffrey Dahmer, evil dominates
our headlines and our individual attention," said festival producer
Craig Detweiler. "Horror films
like Craven's challenge us to look more closely at these evils."
"We've
put together a scary slate of classic films that ask timeless
questions to better understand our world today. Where does evil
come from? What makes it so fascinating? Are things getting worse?
Do movies promote violence or offer a chance to purge our most
destructive impulses? This is what we hope to discuss during the
festival," Detweiler said.
On
Friday night, the festival shifts its focus from horror films
to examine the realities of institutionalized evil, in "The
Manchurian Candidate" (Fri. 7:00 p.m.), and inner-city gang
life, in "Menace II Society" (Fri. 9:45 p.m.). Other films
during the weekend festival include the 1931 German film classic
"M" (Sat. 1:30 p.m.), the early Dracula movie "Vampyr"
(Sat. 4:10 p.m.), the Academy Award winning "Fargo" (Sat.
6:30 p.m.), the devilish "Rosemary's Baby" (Sat. 9:00 p.m.),
the updated Vietnam nightmare "Apocalypse Now Redux" (Sunday
1:00 p.m.), the timeless Japanese film by famed director Akira
Kurosawa, "Throne of Blood" (Sun. 5:00 p.m.), and the closing
night film, "Night of the Hunter" (Sun. 7:30 p.m.), a theologically
loaded finale about hypocrisy.
In
addition, the festival organizers are planning a special day
of documentaries focusing on the Holocaust. The films they
hope to screen include "Night and Fog," "Triumph of
the Will," "The Wanasee Conference," and "The Trial
of Adolph Eichmann." Planners also hope to include a few Holocaust
survivors in post-screening discussions.
Festival
tickets went on sale September 5. The cost of admission to
each film screening is $7.50 for general admission and $6.50 for
seniors and students with ID. Ticket costs for groups of 10 are
discounted by $1 per ticket. A limited number of all-festival
passes are also available for $50.00. Admission is free to any
or all of the short films and documentaries with the purchase
of any ticket to a feature film. An all-festival pass for the
shorts and documentaries is only $5.00. Tickets are $10 for double-features,
and for the opening and closing night receptions (with discounts
for students, seniors, and groups).
To
order City of the Angels Film Festival tickets with a credit
card, call (626) 584-5633. Tickets can also be purchased at one
of the following festival box offices: Fuller Theological Seminary
Bookstore at Los Robles and Union in Pasadena; and Central Ticket
Agency at Loyola Marymount University, Malone 101, 7900 Loyola
Blvd. in Los Angeles. Additional festival information is available
by telephone (626) 304-3775 or online at www.cityofangelsfilmfest.org.
The City of the Angels Film Festival draws participants and audiences
from all over the country. In addition to having the opportunity
to see these films on the big screen for perhaps the first time,
audiences can stay after the films to listen to - and participate
in - discussions led by expert panels of filmmakers and members
of the religious and academic communities in Southern California.
The
coalition of groups responsible for this year's festival are:
Fuller Theological Seminary, Catholics in Media Associates, Act
One: Writing for Hollywood, BuyOLogic, Cine & Media, Focolare,
Inter-Mission, Intervarsity, Loyola Marymount University, Open
Call, Reel Spirituality, Sanctuary, Showtime Networks, Tribe,
USCC Office of Film and Broadcasting, Water's Edge, Windhover
Forum. And of course, Hollywood Jesus will be there too.
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IF...
Subject: newsletter_28
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001
From: Chris Utley
What if your
child, son, daughter, brother, sister, mother, father, best friend,
husband or wife died in the 9-11 tragedy. Would you be so quick
to pull out Scripture and blame what happened on God?
Chris Utley
I
WOULD BE INTERESTED IN YOUR REACTIONS
TO ANY OF THESE FILMS
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