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SPECIAL EVENT – ONE DAY ONLY – SUNDAY, MAY 19 AT 11:30 AM

2019 EUGENE CHILDREN’S FILM FESTIVAL

CELEBRATING THE BEST STUDENT FILMMAKERS SINCE 2015

2019 will be the five year anniversary of the first Eugene Children’s Film Festival. It is difficult to believe that time has skipped by so quickly.  From 2015 to 2018 the ECFF has grown up. In 2015 we started to walk. Former actor and entrepreneur, Will Adler heard about the event and its potential and joined us, as we experienced the creativity and talent of young local filmmakers sharing their voice for the first time on the big screen. In 2016 we moved out of the crib. The city mayor encouraged us, and the Wildish Theater gave us more room to grown. In 2017 we lost the diapers and started to figure things out. 70 plus films were submitted and the Oregon timber industry took an interest in the event. Trees, trees, and more trees, please! 2017 saw the first, of hopefully many chances for the ECFF to support the education of students as we awarded a $1,000 college assistance scholarship. In 2018 we just got too big for our own good. 15 films were shown last year, instead of ten. We had to divide the program into two parts due to the outpouring of high school submissions. And 2019 looks to be no different – as we expand our screenings and will hold our main event at the Bijou Art Cinemas.

Website: www.eugenefilm.org

Tickets $5 General Admission

SPECIAL EVENT – ONE DAY ONLY – SUNDAY, MAY 19 AT 11:30 AM

SPECIAL EVENT – ONE NIGHT ONLY – TUESDAY, MAY 21 AT 7 PM

GOOD BOYS

Comedy – 2019 – USA – 95 Minutes – Universal Pictures – Rated R

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After being invited to his first kissing party, 12-year-old Max (Room‘s Jacob Tremblay) is panicking because he doesn’t know how to kiss. Eager for some pointers, Max and his best friends Thor (Brady Noon, HBO’s Boardwalk Empire) and Lucas (Keith L. Williams, Fox’s The Last Man On Earth) decide to use Max’s dad’s drone — which Max is forbidden to touch — to spy (they think) on a teenage couple making out next door. But when things go ridiculously wrong, the drone is destroyed. Desperate to replace it before Max’s dad (Will Forte, The Last Man on Earth) gets home, the boys skip school and set off on an odyssey of epically bad decisions involving some accidentally stolen drugs, frat-house paintball, and running from both the cops and terrifying teenage girls (Life of the Party‘s Molly Gordon and Ocean’s Eight‘s Midori Francis).

Directed by Gene Stupnitsky

***This is a free advance screening. Tickets will be released one hour prior to showtime. Seating is first come, first served.***

SPECIAL EVENT – ONE NIGHT ONLY – TUESDAY, MAY 21 AT 7 PM

ONE NIGHT ONLY – WEDNESDAY, MAY 22 AT 6:00 PM

LEONARDO

From The National  Gallery, London

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Directed by Phil Grabsky

Running Time: 81 Minutes

A remarkable event at London’s National Gallery assembled the largest ever collection of Leonardo’s surviving paintings for a unique exhibition ‘Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan.’

Given exclusive access to the opening night of the exhibition the film captures the excitement of the occasion and provides a fascinating exploration of Leonardo’s great works. Art historian and broadcaster Tim Marlow offers his insight into the great masterpieces and invites the opinions of the curators, restorers and other specially invited guests. Interwoven is an insightful biography filmed at the locations of Leonardo’s life as well as exclusive behind-the-scenes access to the preparations of what was undoubtedly a once-only exhibition which also included the first newly attributed Leonardo in over a century.

Tickets: $8 General Admission. 

ONE NIGHT ONLY – WEDNESDAY, MAY 22 AT 6:00 PM

Presented by

Working with top international museums and galleries, EXHIBITION ON SCREEN create films which offer a cinematic immersion into the world’s best loved art, accompanied by insights from the world’s leading historians and arts critics. Since launching in 2011, EXHIBITION ON SCREEN have released 19 films which have been shown in over 60 countries worldwide.

COMING IN JUNE

ALL IS TRUE

Biography/Drama/History – 2019 – UK – 101 Minutes – Sony Pictures Classics – PG-13

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The year is 1613, and Shakespeare is acknowledged as the greatest writer of the age. But disaster strikes when his renowned Globe Theatre burns to the ground. Devastated, Shakespeare returns to Stratford, where he must face a troubled past and a neglected family. Haunted by the death of his only son, Hamnet, he struggles to mend the broken relationship with his wife and daughters. In so doing, he is ruthlessly forced to examine his own failings as a husband and father. His very personal search for the truth uncovers secrets and lies within a family at war.

Directed by Kenneth Branagh

Starring Kenneth Branagh, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen

Slowly, as the thematic center of the film begins to take shape, so does Branagh’s character – and in those moments the audience is treated to what amounts to nothing short of a Christmas gift for any Anglophile or Shakespeare lover. – Entertainment Weekly

An ambitious attempt to turn the older Shakespeare into a real man by exploring the juxtaposition between creative genius and human fallibility. – The Mail

Whether thundering at his family in a grief-fueled outburst or conversing quietly with the Earl of Southampton in a fireside chat, Branagh’s performance carries exactly the sort of weight you would expect when a lifelong devotee embodies his idol. – The Lamplight Review

COMING IN JUNE

ONE NIGHT ONLY – WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5 AT 6:00 PM

MATISSE

From MoMA and Tate Modern

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Directed by Phil Grabsky

Running Time: 97 Minutes

Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs was hailed the most successful exhibition in Tate Modern’s history. See this show again at your local cinema, featuring exclusive footage from the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Audiences are invited to enjoy an intimate, behind-the-scenes documentary about this acclaimed exhibition with contributions from people who knew Matisse and experts such as curators, historians and Tate director Nicholas Serota and MoMA director Glenn D. Lowry. Plus there are breathtaking, specially commissioned performances by Royal Ballet principal dancer Zenaida Yanowsky and jazz musician Courtney Pine. Acclaimed British actor Simon Russell Beale brings insight and emotion to the words of Henri Matisse himself, while actor Rupert Young (Merlin) narrates.

‘The way the film captured Matisse at work, bringing his artistry to life – including resonant readings from Simon Russell Beale – was genuinely inspiring’ – Apollo Magazine

Tickets: $8 General Admission. 

ONE NIGHT ONLY – WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5 AT 6:00 PM

Presented by

Working with top international museums and galleries, EXHIBITION ON SCREEN create films which offer a cinematic immersion into the world’s best loved art, accompanied by insights from the world’s leading historians and arts critics. Since launching in 2011, EXHIBITION ON SCREEN have released 19 films which have been shown in over 60 countries worldwide.

ONE NIGHT ONLY – WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19 AT 6:00 PM

GOYA: VISIONS OF FLESH AND BLOOD

From the National Gallery, London

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Directed by David Bickerstaff

Running Time: 90 Minutes

Heir to Velázquez, hero to Picasso. Discover Spain’s celebrated artist with this cinematic tour de force based on the National Gallery’s must-see exhibition Goya: The Portraits.

“Breath-taking detail” The Daily Mail

“Immersive and enriching” The Guardian

“The show of the decade” The Telegraph on Goya: The Portraits

Francisco Goya is Spain’s most celebrated artist and considered the father of modern art. Not only a brilliant observer of everyday life and Spain’s troubled past, he is a gifted portrait painter and social commentator par excellence. Goya takes the genre of portraiture to new heights and his genius is reappraised in a much-anticipated landmark exhibition at The National Gallery, London. The film uses this exhibition to look in depth at Goya’s eventful life.

Through extensive location footage, Goya’s revealing letters and a unique exhibition of masterpieces from great collections across the world, this film builds a fascinating portrait of the painter and the colourful world he painted. Influenced by Rembrandt and Velázquez, Goya explored a new realism where he did not flatter and was not afraid to reveal what he saw physically and psychologically. Yet this did not stop him securing major commissions from powerful individuals seeking the prestige of being painted by the best artist of the day. Royalty, aristocrats, politicians and close friends were subjected to his highly modern approach that captured rapid changes of expression, gesture and emotion. Goya’s powerful vision and technical brilliance makes him one of the most admired and revered artists in the world today and indeed among the greatest painters to have lived.

Tickets: $8 General Admission. 

ONE NIGHT ONLY – WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19 AT 6:00 PM

Presented by

Working with top international museums and galleries, EXHIBITION ON SCREEN create films which offer a cinematic immersion into the world’s best loved art, accompanied by insights from the world’s leading historians and arts critics. Since launching in 2011, EXHIBITION ON SCREEN have released 19 films which have been shown in over 60 countries worldwide.

SPECIAL EVENT – ONE NIGHT ONLY – TUESDAY, JUNE 25 AT 7 PM

PHOENIX, OREGON

Comedy – 2019 – USA – 112 Minutes – Joma Films – Unrated

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Defying the haze of mid-life, two friends seize an unlikely opportunity to reinvent their lives, quitting their jobs to restore an old bowling alley and serve the “world’s greatest pizza.”

Phoenix, Oregon stars James Le Gros (Drugstore Cowboy, Living in Oblivion), Lisa Edelstein (Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce, House), Jesse Borrego (Fame, Blood In Blood Out), Diedrich Bader (Napoleon Dynamite, Office Space, Veep), and Kevin Corrigan (The Departed, Pineapple Express, True Romance).

The film takes a comedic look at the existential crisis many face when trying to find meaning and relevancy at mid-life. Despite controlling bosses, dead-end jobs, and broken relationships, the two leads must awaken hibernating courage and resilience in order to take new risks and keep dreams alive.

Shot entirely in Klamath Falls, Phoenix, Oregon is written and directed by Gary Lundgren (Calvin Marshall, Redwood Highway, Black Road) and produced by Annie Lundgren and Luis Rodriguez.

Filmmaker Q&A after the film.

SPECIAL EVENT – ONE NIGHT ONLY – TUESDAY, JUNE 25 AT 7 PM