SLIFF 2012 Special Events
Gremlins/Gremlins 2 Double Bill
Gremlins/Gremlins 2 Double Bill
With director Joe Dante
Regular ticket price of $12 (single admission for double bill)
SLIFF offers a double dose of late-night comic mayhem from Lifetime Achievement Award honoree Joe Dante. Audiences can delight again as an army of miniature green monsters gleefully tear through the small town of Kingston Falls, wreaking outlandishly entertaining destruction.
10 p.m.(“Gremlins”) and midnight (“Gremlins 2”).
The Movie Orgy
The Movie Orgy
With director Joe Dante
Regular ticket price of $12
Before SLIFF’s 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award honoree established his Hollywood career, Joe Dante traipsed around the country with “The Movie Orgy,” an epic seven-hour compilation film. Largely unseen since its original tour, “The Movie Orgy” entered the realm of film legend, but Dante recently transferred his decaying 16mm original to a digital format, and a slimmed-down version – now a mere 270 minutes – is making a welcome return to highly select venues. SLIFF is pleased to offer this Sunday matinee, allowing film fans to have a nooner with “The Movie Orgy.”
The Anniversary Party
The Anniversary Party
With editor Carol Littleton and cinematographer John Bailey
Free
SLIFF offers a free screening of this seriocomic riff on the barbed husband-wife verbal sparring of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” The all-star cast includes co-directors Jennifer Jason Leigh and Alan Cumming, Kevin Kline, and Gwyneth Paltrow. Editor Carol Littleton (“E.T.”) and cinematographer John Bailey (“Mishima”) introduce the program and discuss the film and their careers in a post-screening Q&A.
Georgia Frontiere Cinema for Students Program
Georgia Frontiere
Cinema for Students Program
Multiple Locations
Free
SLIFF offers free daytime screenings for children and teens from participating St. Louis-area schools. For more information, click here.
Sponsored by:
Lucia Rodriguez and Chip Rosenbloom (in honor of their mother, Georgia Frontiere) and the St. Louis Rams
Busing sponsored by the Middle Fund
The Enemy Among Us Screenplay Reading
The Enemy Among Us Screenplay Reading
Free
Fondly known as the Godmother of St. Louis film, Bobbie Lautenschlager – a longtime member of the SLIFF family – died this summer, and the festival is paying tribute with a reading of her screenplay “The Enemy Among Us.” Bobbie generously gave advice to and shared her industry contacts with any filmmaker who asked, and at the St. Louis International Film Festival, she was the driving force behind the annual New Filmmakers Forum. In addition to helping others achieve their Hollywood dreams, Bobbie had her own filmmaking aspirations, and “The Enemy Among Us,” a World War II-era drama about German POWs imprisoned in Missouri’s wine country, is currently in active development. Actors will read the screenplay in its entirety, and at its conclusion, SLIFF is inviting all those who loved and worked with Bobbie to offer some words of remembrance.
Floating Oceans
Floating Oceans
With a live performance by animator/composer Alexis Gideon
Regular ticket price of $12
“Floating Oceans” is the surrealistic third installment in musician/composer/animator Alexis Gideon’s critically acclaimed multimedia opera series. The dialogue and narration for the stop-motion-animated opera are delivered entirely through lyrics and music that Gideon performs live in front of the projected image. St. Louis’ one-man-band Googolplexia opens the show.
New Filmmakers Forum
New Filmmakers Forum
Regular ticket price of $12 per film
The New Filmmakers Forum, a juried competition of works by first-time feature filmmakers, is an annual highlight of SLIFF. The featured films this year are “Faith in Destiny,” “Faith, Love and Whiskey,” “Finding Virginia,” “The Silent Thief,” and “Sun Don’t Shine.”
Co-sponsored by:
Pat Scallet and friends of Bobbie in memory of Bobbie Lautenschlager
Human Rights Sidebar
Human Rights Sidebar
Free
SLIFF offers a free weekend of documentaries focused on human-rights issues in the U.S. and the world. The 11 programs all feature accompanying directors/subjects and/or post-film discussions with experts.
Co-sponsored by:
Institute for Human Rights & Humanitarian Studies at Webster University, Monsanto Human Rights, Sigma Iota Rho Honor Society for International and Area Studies at Washington University, and International Institute of St. Louis
Knuckleball!
Knuckleball!
With Women in Film Award winners Annie Sundberg and Ricki Stern
Regular ticket price of $12
SLIFF presents the latest masterwork from directors Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg, whose diverse filmography includes “Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work,” “The Devil Came on Horseback,” and “The Trials of Darryl Hunt.” Stern and Sundberg will receive SLIFF’s Women in Film Award.
Josephine Baker Double Bill
Josephine Baker Double Bill
With live musical accompaniment by the Poor People of Paris
Regular ticket price of $12 (single admission for double bill)
SLIFF pays tribute to native St. Louisan Josephine Baker with a pair of films: the new French documentary “The Other Josephine,” co-written by her son Brian Bouillon-Baker, and the Baker silent “Siren of the Tropics,” which features live musical accompaniment by the Poor People of Paris.
7 p.m. (“Siren of the Tropics”) and 8:30 p.m. (“The Other Josephine”)
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