Our First 2 Showings: Literature and Film Saturdays in March

On March 5th we kicked off our film festival with Big Fish: a 2003 American fantasy adventure film based on the 1998 novel: Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions by Daniel Wallace. The film was directed by Tim Burton and stars Albert Finney, Ewan McGregor, Billy Crudup, and Jessica Lange. Finney plays Edward Bloom, a former traveling salesman from the Southern United States with a gift for storytelling, now confined to his deathbed. Bloom's estranged son, a journalist played by Crudup, attempts to mend their relationship as his dying father relates tall tales of his eventful life as a young adult, played by Ewan McGregor.



On Saturday March 11 we watched 2 films:

Street of Crocodiles

Directed by             Brothers Quay

Music by             Leszek Jankowski

Release date(s)             1986

Running time             21 minutes

Street of Crocodiles is a 21-minute-long stop-motion animation short subject directed and produced by the Brothers Quay and released in 1986.

It was originally a short novel written by Bruno Schulz, from a story collection published under that title in English translation. Rather than literally representing the childhood memoirs of Schulz, the animators used the story's mood and psychological undertones as inspiration for their own creation. ref.Wikipedia

Everything is illuminated - Elijah Wood, Eugene Hutz, Boris Leskin, Liev Schreiber (screenwriter and director) 2005

Based on the acclaimed, best-selling novel by Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is illuminated tells the story of Jonathan (Elijah Wood), a young American Jewish man's quest to find the woman who saved his grandfather - in a small Ukrainian town that was wiped off the map by the Nazi invasion.

The journey begins as a comic nightmare - with an eccentric trio of paid "expert" guides sorely lacking in expertise: a cranky grandfather who insists on bringing his unruly seeing-eye dog to help him drive, and his over-enthusiastic grandson, whose fractured command of English, passion for retro American pop culture, and inability to shut up threaten to make the worst of every situation....ref.Wikipedia