Press / Post archive for ‘2007’

Film Flyers now online

Flyers are now available in .pdf format for 49 of the festival’s films. Feel free to print, email, and distribute these to interested audiences!
A Walk Into The Sea
Autism: The Musical
Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead
Brand Upon The Brain
Crocodile Dreaming and Yellow Fella
Daughter of Keltoum
Dirty Dancing
EVENT: Family Day

Profiles of 2007 Festival Guests

Read about the featured guests of the 2007 Virginia Film Festival here.

Final Guests and Films Announced!

We’ve just put out our final announcement, and slotted three more films in the 2007 Film Festival program. John Turturro will be our featured guest on November 3 at the Paramount with his rude and remarkable new musical on marriage and infidelity, Romance and Cigarettes. The following morning, he will screen [...]

Persepolis

Winner of the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival,
Persepolis is an animated featured based on the autobiographical graphic novels of Marjane Satrapi. Satrapi, precocious and outspoken, grew up wearing sneakers and beating up boys. When she was ten years old, her world changed overnight. Girls and boys had to use different doors to [...]

The Savages (2007)

with writer/director Tamara Jenkins and David Edelstein
Having wriggled their way out from beneath their father’s domineering thumb, the two Savage siblings are now firmly cocooned in their own complicated lives. Wendy (Laura Linney) is a struggling East Village playwright and. Jon (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is a neurotic college professor writing books on obscure subjects [...]