The
Fest
The Best Films of 2007 that Never Came to Kansas City!
COMING JANUARY 25- 31
EXCLUSIVELY TO THE TIVOLI
Seven films cited among the year’s best by a consensus of national film critics
are featured in a special week-long festival showcase.
Each film has earned a prominent place among the most lauded of 2007,
but their subject matter or country of origin made it challenging for them to compete in today’s film market.
Here’s your opportunity to see these exceptional films in a real theater...the way they were intended to be shown.
BAMAKO
Abderrahmane Sissako / Mali / 115 minutes
A unclassifiable film that wound up on a large number of
critics, lists, Andrew O’Hehir of Salon picked this much
lauded film as the best of 2007. He called it “a wry, witty and
tragic experience with a dynamite emotional payoff. “ The
film is part courtroom drama of international proportions,
part philosophical discussion, part story of a crumbling
marriage, and it even contains a mock western called “Death
in Timbuktu” starring Danny Glover! It has sparked intense
discussion everywhere it has shown.
Saturday JAN 26 2:00 pm
Sunday JAN 27 7:15 pm
SYNDROMES
AND A CENTURY
Apichatpong Weerasethakul / Thailand / 105 minutes
Salon Magazine called this film, “the gentlest,
loveliest nonlinear narrative puzzler you’ll ever
see.” SYNDROMES topped one national critics poll
as the best film of the 2007. On others it was listed
in the top ten. It has been called “a film which
sounds like a movie only a critic could love, it plays
like something entirely different, funny, light on
its feet, and delicately human. The astonishing
art work offers nothing less than the most joyful,
rapturous movie going experience of the year.”
Friday JAN 25 - 4:45 pm
Saturday JAN 26 - 7:15 pm
FOREVER
Heddy Honigmann / Netherlands / 95 minutes
Revered documentary filmmaker Heddy
Honigmann has created a life affirming
film about the fabled Pere Lachaise
cemetery in Paris where the likes of Proust,
Jim Morrison, Chopin, Maria Callas and
Modigliani rest. The director seeks out not
only the graves of the legendary but the graves of now forgotten artists. Along the way she speaks to the
living who tend to the graves of their idols as well as those who come to honor their beloved relatives.
“Out of this apparently simple and even trite subject—the evanescence of human life; the supposed
permanence of art—Honigmann develops a few unforgettable character studies and one
of the purest, most moving motion pictures of the year. FOREVER is a poetic
meditation on death, yeah, but it’s also
a joyful experience.
Tuesday JAN 29 5:15 pm
Thursday JAN 31 7:45 pm
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HALF MOON
Bahman Ghobadi / Iraq / 107 minutes
This fourth film by Kurdish director Ghobadi (TIME FOR
DRUNKEN HORSES) is a moving and beautiful film about
an iconic Kurdish musician who in his twilight years
leads a dozen of his sons to Iraq for a concert as an act
of freedom to celebrate the fall of Saddam Hussein and
the end of his repression of Kurdish music. The New York
Times calls the film “Funny, haunting and magical. The
filmmakers find an unearthly beauty amid the gambling
frenzy of a cock fight and the silent ranks of exiled female
singers lining the rooftops of a mountain village.”
Friday JAN 25 2:00 pm
Sunday JAN 27 2:00 pm
DANS PARIS
Christophe Honore / France / 92 minutes
The latest film by writer director Honore, who is the
latest critical darling from France, tells the story of
two brothers, their troubled family life and feckless
love affairs. Aaron Hills of Premiere Magazine says of
Dans Paris, “there’s something breathtaking about this
melodically melancholic homage to the French New
Wave and the City of Lights herself…as modernly
poignant as it is retro-seductive.”
Wednesday JAN 30 2:30 pm
Thursday JAN 31 5:15 pm
The
Fest
GREAT WORLD
OF SOUND
Craig Zobel / United States / 106 minutes
An audience pleasing riff on the dirty underbelly
of the American Idol phenomenon, that, like the
early films of Jim Jarmusch and John Cassavetes, is
a true American independent no budget wonder.
Stars Pat Healy and Kene Holliday play Martin
and Clarence, two normal southern guys who get
caught up in the excitement of a record industry
talent scouting scheme. Director Zobel, using
hidden cameras, films real people performing in
what they think are auditions. A unique blend of
fact and fiction.
Friday JAN 25 - 7:15 pm
Saturday JAN 26 - 4:45 pm
The Best Films of 2007 that Never Came to Kansas City!
KING CORN
Aaron Woolf / United States / 88 minutes
“A we-are-what-we-eat” documentary KING CORN is a
lively introduction to the corn industrial complex. Like
Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma, it’s about how
corn, raised on vast corporate farms, has become the
starchy DNA of American diets. Woolf follows two college
chums as they go to Iowa to harvest one acre of yellow ears,
which they then trace through the system.”
Owen Gielberman, Entertainment Weekly.
Sunday JAN 27 4:45 pm
Tuesday JAN 29 7:45 pm
With a “Best of Fest” Festival Pass you get
4 Admissions for just $20.
Festival pass admissions can be redeemed
one at a time, or bring a friend and use your
redeem your pass for their tickets.
DISCOUNT FESTIVAL PASSES
and Regularly Priced Single Tickets
ON SALE JANUARY 25
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