Past Films
TIBET IN SONG (SPRING 2009)
Q&A with director Ngawang Choephel
CLOSING NIGHT OF SPRING SEASON Winner of a Special Jury Prize at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, TIBET IN SONG goes beyond familiar sloganeering about Tibet to explore the country’s cultural repression from the inside. Director Ngawang Choephel ...More info »
THE GLASS HOUSE (SPRING 2009)
Q&A with director Hamid Rahmanian and producer Melissa Hibbard
Filmmakers Hamid Rahmanian and Melissa Hibbard have been regular visitors to STF screenings and bar gatherings. Now they bring their latest documentary THE GLASS HOUSE, shot for nearly a year in Iran, fresh from its premieres at IDFA and Sundance ...More info »
PETER DAVIS TRIBUTE (SPRING 2009)
Discussion with Peter Davis
Last year, Peter Davis came to STF with his rarely seen documentary THE SELLING OF THE PENTAGON. Now the Oscar-winning director of “Hearts & Minds” returns for a rare showing of his film SECOND TIME AROUND. The film was first released in 1982 as ...More info »
SWIMMING TO CAMBODIA (SPRING 2009)
Q&A with director Jonathan Demme; co-presented by the Woodstock Film Festival
THIS SCREENING IS SOLD OUT. Jonathan Demme returns to STF after his memorable appearance last year with THE AGRONOMIST. This time he brings an older work that marked the breakthrough of monologist Spalding Gray. Here’s a selection from Janet ...More info »
ART & COPY (SPRING 2009)
Q&A with director Doug Pray
TWO SCREENINGS AT 6 & 8 PM to celebrate the One Club Festival. Doug Pray, director of BIG RIG and SURFWISE, returns to STF with his latest film that chronicles the real life Mad Men. This is the first New York sneak preview following the film’s ...More info »
THE WAY WE GET BY (SPRING 2009)
Q&A with director Aron Gaudet and producer Gita Pullapilly; Co-presented by Camden International Film Festival and POV
This screening is SOLD OUT. Winner of the Audience Award at the Full Frame Film Festival, THE WAY WE GET BY takes us inside a small airport in Bangor, Maine, where nearly one million U.S. soldiers have been sent off and welcomed home from war. A ...More info »
NATIVE LAND (SPRING 2009)
Q&A with Tom Hurwitz (Leo's son) and Manny Kirchheimer
Cinematographer Tom Hurwitz has shot numerous acclaimed docs ranging from HARLAN COUNTY USA (1976) to VALENTINO: THE LAST EMPEROR (2008). Now he visits STF to pay tribute to the career of his father with this presentation of NATIVE LAND (1942), ...More info »
AL FRANKEN: GOD SPOKE (SPRING 2009)
Q&A with directors Chris Hegedus and Nick Doob
The makers of THE WAR ROOM turn their cameras on yet another burgeoning political career. Filmmakers, Nick Doob, Chris Hegedus and D A Pennebaker followed former Saturday Night Live comedian Al Franken during the election year of 2004 as he joined ...More info »
FALLEN CHAMP: THE UNTOLD STORY OF MIKE TYSON (SPRING 2009)
Q&A with director Barbara Kopple
When FALLEN CHAMP first appeared in 1993, director Barbara Kopple won both the Emmy and DGA award, but the film has rarely been screened since then. Now with the upcoming release of James Toback’s film TYSON, the time is right to look back on ...More info »
NURSERY UNIVERSITY (SPRING 2009)
Q&A with director Marc Simon and co-director Matthew Makar
“NURSERY UNIVERSITY may seem like science-fiction: Strange, possessed beings stumble sleepless through a landscape of plenty, willing to sell their kidneys to get their kid into the proper preschool. All this cutthroat competition is (sur)real ...More info »
THE ENGLISH SURGEON (SPRING 2009)
Q&A with director Geoffrey Smith and surgeon Henry Marsh
JURY PRIZE WINNER AT HOTDOCS & SILVERDOCS; AUDIENCE WINNER AT SHEFFIELD Nominated for two Cinema Eye Honors for Best International Documentary and a soundtrack by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis, THE ENGLISH SURGEON openly confronts moral and ethical ...More info »
AMERICAN SWING (WINTER 2009)
Q&A with directors Mathew Kaufman & Jon Hart
Opens at New York’s Quad Cinema on March 27. The STF screening sold out in record time. This film was a huge crowd-pleaser at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival. Here’s the description from the TIFF catalogue by programmer Colin ...More info »
ARGUING THE WORLD (WINTER 2009)
Q&A with director Joseph Dorman and editor Jonathan Oppenheim
“Enthralling…Wonderful…One of the deepest portraits ever filmed about the fluidity of ideas.” - Stephen Holden, New York Times When this film was first released in 1998, people lined up around the block to attend its sold-out performances at the ...More info »
GIRLS LIKE US (WINTER 2009)
Q&A with directors Jane C. Wagner and Tina DiFeliciantonio
A fluid hand held camera follows an ethnically diverse group of four working class teenage girls who strut, flirt and testify in GIRLS LIKE US, an hour long documentary exploring female teenage sexuality. Filmed in South Philadelphia over a period ...More info »
INTIMATE STRANGER (WINTER 2009)
Q&A with director Alan Berliner
When INTIMATE STRANGER first debuted at the New York Film Festival in 1991, Janet Maslin wrote in the New York Times, “Mr. Berliner’s arrival [is] worth heralding, since his is the kind of fresh, inventive talent on which any film festival would ...More info »
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Upcoming Screenings
Feb 7: UNFINISHED SPACES
by Alysa Nahmias and Benjamin Murray“Cuba will count as having the most beautiful academy of arts in the world.” —Fidel Castro (1961) Cuba’s ambitious National Art Schools project, designed by three young artists in the wake of ...
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Feb 14: ZELIG
by Woody Allen”[Allen’s] new, remarkably self-assured comedy is to his career what… Berlin Alexanderplatz is to Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s and… Fanny and Alexander is to Ingmar Bergman’s ... Zelig is not only ...
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Feb 21: TOOTIE’S LAST SUIT
by Lisa Katzman“Tootie represented a kind of soulfulness in the community, and a certain type of style, and everybody loved him.” – Wynton Marsalis TOOTIE’S LAST SUIT explores the complex relationships, rituals, ...
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Feb 28: THE PROMISE: THE MAKING OF DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN
by Thom ZimnyDescription from TIFF 2010 catalog by Thom Powers: The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town takes us into the studio with Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band for the recording of ...
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Mar 6: SMASH HIS CAMERA
by Leon Gast“Famously and successfully sued by Jackie Onassis, and slugged just as famously and successfully by Marlon Brando, denounced from the pulpits of punditry for decades, Galella has been a man easy to ...
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Mar 13: THE MAN NOBODY KNEW: IN SEARCH OF MY FATHER, CIA SPYMASTER WILLIAM COLBY
by Carl ColbyA son’s riveting look at a father whose life seemed straight out of a spy thriller, THE MAN NOBODY KNEW: IN SEARCH OF MY FATHER, CIA SPYMASTER WILLIAM COLBY uncovers the secret world of a legendary ...
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Mar 20: GIRL MODEL
by Ashley Sabin and David Redmon Description from TIFF 2011 catalog by Thom Powers: Girl Model shows a rarely seen side of the fashion industry. The film brings a novelist’s eye for emotional and psychological complexity to its ...
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