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This year, Cinequest is proud to present the latest and greatest from Bart Cheever's highly entertaining and exciting world of new world movie making. Abbie Hoffman once said that freedom of the press only applies to those who can afford a printing press. Today anyone with a PC and a copy of Microsoft Word has, in effect, a printing press on their desktop. This same phenomenon is coming to the world of filmmaking, as for the first time in history, extremely powerful, extremely high-quality filmmaking tools become available on a mass level.
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Alex Laurant, ILM's Visual Effects Art Director for The Mummy, will present a detailed tour through the design and execution of the film's wide variety of effects. Starting with the pivotal involvement of ILM's Creature Design Group and their visualization of the many faces of the decomposing and regenerating anti-hero, Imhotep, Alex will explain many of ILM's unprecedented CG innovations that gave life to the film's carnivorous scarab beetles, ancient Egyptian vistas, supernatural sandstorms, and, of course, mummies.
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Academy Award nominated director/producer, Lorena Parlee, offers a rich and insightful journey into the magnificence and power that is the country of Mexico--"a country ancient and new, eternally called upon by the past and the future, the traditional and the modern, but capable in exceptional moment of [its] history of facing both." Using texts from Mexican novelist, Carlos Fuentes, and ancient Aztec and Mayan poetry and accompanied by an exhilarating musical score by Daniel Valdez, Mexico's culture and history are marvelously brought to life with visual testimonies of the past and current ce
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As part of its tenth anniversary celebration, Cinequest is very proud to present an Encore Maverick Spirit Award Winner.
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The world of movie making is most definitely changing, and right behind is the world of movie exhibition. Cinequest is proud to present a look into the very near future when digital projection will unite with digital filmmaking to give us a clarity and expansion of vision. Cinequest presents a breathtaking look at the world of digital filmmaking and exhibition. Digital Projection and Sony Electronics are creating a state-of-the art Digital Projection & Sound System for the weekend of March 3-5 at Cinequest. Then on Saturday, Laurence J.
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With pure intent and conviction and a graceful, delicate sincerity, Robert M. Young lights up the screen with movies that touch our hearts, our minds, and sum up the very fiber of the human soul. Oh, yeah! He'll even throw in a little fish once in a while. Lots of fish when it comes to his film, Caught, a gripping drama, charged with sculpted tension; incredible, subtle performances; and a powerful, engaging story...and fish. At the world premiere of Caught applause reverberated through the air. The director had to wait a while before he could even be heard above the appreciative audience.
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"Acting is acting, and there's going to come a moment when there's a great part, and it doesn't have to be pretty, but it has to be good." - Peter Fonda (Mr. Showbiz) 1969--the Summer of Love, the first men on the moon, Woodstock, and a Harley Davidson that guns onto the screen in Easy Rider, as Captain America blazes into America's hazy consciousness. Thirty years and over fifty films later, Peter Fonda continues to awaken audiences and breathe life into each of his roles, embracing them with an always-sincere and ever-stunning elegance which few actors have been able to match.
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"I believe the cinema is one of our principal forms of art. It is an incredibly powerful way to tell uplifting stories that can move people to cry with joy and inspire them to reach for the stars." - Wes Craven Wes Craven has been challenging audiences with his bold visions for more than 25 years. Marked by both creative and commercial milestones, Craven's career includes some of the most audacious films of the 70's and 80's, including his first film, Last House on the Left, which he wrote, directed, and edited in 1972.
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"You have actors who begin at a certain young age, and there's very little change in their technique and the depth of their performances; they're the same 30 years later. And then there are those who show gradations of change in their acting, and that's a great thing to witness. And then there are the rarest and the greatest actors who knocked you on your ass from a very early age--the level of self-awareness, the level of emotional complexity and understanding, of self-control, and presence. Great acting can be almost a psychotic mix of self-consciousness and unself-consciousness.
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"The process of writing and directing drives you to such extremes that it's natural to feel an affinity with insanity. I approach that madness as something dangerous and I'm afraid, but also I want to go to it, to see what's there...to embrace it. I don't know why, but I'm drawn." - Dario Argento It is said that Dario Argento's first memory is sitting on the knee of Sophia Loren. Not a bad way to begin one's life and career in film. Dario Argento is, to put it quite simply, the foremost Italian director of innovative and surreal thriller and horror movies.