Blog From The Bench

After a little bit of cajolling, I've managed to secure some creds to go to The Virginia Film Festival this coming weekend down at the University of Virginia. Aside from some showings of older films like Dirty Harry, The Wrong Man and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, the newer films that are included are:

The Fever, starring Vanessa Redgrave

Green Street Hooligans, with Elijah Wood as a soccer enthusiast/badass

Manderlay, Lars von Trier's 2nd part of his USA trilogy and follow-up to Dogville

The Matador Pierce Brosnan and Greg Kinnear in a dark comedy?

The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till, documentary based on the murder of a young black boy in 1955

The Ice Harvest John Cusack and Billy Bob Thornton in another dark comedy, this one set in 1979 Wichita, Kansas.

Unfortunately, there's a Q & A with John Grisham and another film called Nine Lives with Sissy Spacek, directed by Rodrigo Garcia, which I can't get into. I'm down for The Ice Harvest because it's also directed by Harold Ramis, Green Street Hooligans looks appealing and I'm a von Trier fanboy and am looking forward to Manderlay. I'm open to any suggestions for other films you would like to hear about.

Oh Mike, I'll have those two DVDs done before I leave Friday.