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The Summer of Walter Hacks

The Summer of Walter Hacks

Last year, Waterbury filmmaker / musician / organic dairy farmer George Woodard presented some excerpts of his long-awaited film. This year, George presents the premiere of the completed film. The year is 1952, and every country boy’s summer is supposed to be idyllic, but 11-year-old Walter is forced to grow ...

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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

The international best-selling novel by Steig Larsson has been turned into a gripping film thriller, starring Noomi Rapace as the punk-fashioned, computer-hacking misfit who teams up with a discredited journalist to investigate a decades-old crime. Cinema Signals: "It's evident from the film that director Niels Arden Oplev had the respect ...

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The Damned United

The Damned United

Set in 1960s and 1970s England, THE DAMNED UNITED tells the darkly humorous story of Brian Clough's doomed 44-day tenure as manager of the reigning champions of English football--Leeds United. The New York Times: “THE DAMNED UNITED is the rare sports movie that deals with—indeed positively relishes—humiliation and disappointment. Its ...

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The Most Dangerous Man in America

The Most Dangerous Man in America

Rick Goldsmith and Judith Ehrlich’s eye-opening documentary has been nominated for this year’s Best Documentary Oscar. “I just say that we’ve got to keep our eye on the main ball. The main ball is Ellsberg. We’ve got to get this son-of-a-bitch,” said Richard Nixon in conversation with Attorney General John ...

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The Secret of Kells

The Secret of Kells

In this spectacular Irish animated film (nominated for this year’s Best Animated Feature Oscar), taking place in medieval times, young Brendan plays a role in preserving the ancient Book of Kells, an intricately illuminated Latin gospel that is considered to be Ireland’s greatest national treasure. Screen Daily International: “Visually ravishing ...

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A Sea Change

A Sea Change

Barbara Ettinger’s film follows the journey of retired history teacher Sven Huseby on his quest to discover what is happening to the world’s oceans. After reading Elizabeth Kolbert’s The Darkening Sea, Sven becomes obsessed with the rising acidity of the oceans and what this “sea change” bodes for mankind. His ...

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Conversations with My Gardener

Conversations with My Gardener

In this poignant 2007 film, never released in the United States, a Parisian artist (Daniel Auteuil) taking refuge in the countryside forms a powerful friendship with the gardener (Jean-Pierre Darroussin) he knew as a child. The two men are not reduced to mere city sophisticate and rural innocent stereotypes; they ...

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Soul Power

Soul Power

A. O. Scott, The New York Times: “A partial list, in alphabetical order, of the reasons to see SOUL POWER might go as follows: James Brown, Celia Cruz and the Fania All-Stars, B. B. King, Miriam Makeba, the Spinners and Bill Withers. A partial list, as I say, of performers ...

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Earth Days

Earth Days

EARTH DAYS’ secret weapon is a one-two punch of personal testimony and rare archival media. The extraordinary stories of the era’s pioneers—among them Former Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall, biologist/Population Bomb author Paul Ehrlich, Whole Earth Catalog founder Stewart Brand, Apollo Nine astronaut Rusty Schweickart, and renewable energy pioneer ...

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Welcome to the 13th Green Mountain Film Festival

*FLASH*
Delivery of programs mailed to 056** zipcodes has been delayed and they are only now reaching mailboxes!
Please note that the Ticket Office will be open for phone orders (802 262-3456) each day this week INCLUDING SATURDAY MARCH 13 from Noon until 5 PM.

On Monday, March 15, the Ticket Office will open at 10 AM for walk-in orders.

The 13th Green Mountain Film Festival presents more films than ever before and, as always, an exciting list of guests, including many filmmakers coming to Montpelier to discuss their work.

New features for 2010 include the following-

  • 129 events!
  • the “Pink Pass” – save $15 with this DAYTIME 5-pass (weekdays only)
  • a third film venue at the Pavilion Auditorium, off State Street.
  • satellite screenings in St. Johnsbury on April 9, 10 and 11.
  • tickets for the satellite screenings are available only from Catamount Film and Arts.

Special announcement – Pavilion Tickets

GMFF is not permitted to sell tickets on the premises at the Pavilion Auditorium. Tickets for all Pavilion shows (including The Summer of Walter Hacks) may be purchased by mail-order, by telephone (beginning Monday, March 8 ) or in person at the Ticket Office (beginning Monday, March 15.)

Fifty three years after Sputnik, GMFF launches its own satellite…

This year’s festival, in collaboration with Catamount Arts, will add a satellite location in St. Johnsbury, expanding its reach into the Northeast Kingdom. Read more…

Films & Events

Afghan Star  ·  Among Farmers  ·  Amreeka  ·  Art Bell presents  ·  Before Tomorrow  ·  Bliss  ·  Bombay Summer  ·  Bonnie and Clyde  ·  The Bothersome Man  ·  Burma VJ  ·  Charulata  ·  Champlain: The Lake Between  ·  Circus in Cinema: A Presentation by Rob Mermin  ·  Conversations with My Gardener  ·  The Damned United  ·  La Danse  ·  Deer Tick: To the City of Sin  ·  Departures  ·  Don’t Know We’ll See  ·  Earth Days  ·  Four Friends  ·  For the Love of Movies  ·  Ghost Bird  ·  The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo  ·  The Good Soldier  ·  Herb and Dorothy  ·  The Heretics  ·  Honor  ·  The Horse Boy  ·  The Investigator  ·  Last Stand Farmer  ·  Lemon Tree  ·  Life in Washington County  ·  Lorna’s Silence  ·  M. Hulot’s Holiday  ·  The Maid  ·  Mary And Max  ·  The Messenger  ·  The Most Dangerous Man in America  ·  The Necessities of Life  ·  The North Face  ·  Numen: The Nature of Plants  ·  Orgasm Inc.  ·  A Sea Change  ·  The Secret of Kells  ·  Séraphine  ·  Shugendô Now  ·  The Sky Below  ·  Snowflake Bentley  ·  Soul Power  ·  The Summer of Walter Hacks  ·  Sunday Shorts  ·  That Evening Sun  ·  Tibet in Song  ·  To be Announced  ·  To Inform and Delight: The World of Milton Glaser  ·  A Town Called Panic  ·  Uncertainty  ·  Under Our Skin  ·  Vermont Farm Films  ·  Vermont History Films  ·  Vermont Student Films  ·  Vermont’s George Aiken: Balancing Freedom and Unity  ·  Warriors’ Women  ·  William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe  ·  XXY  ·  The Yes Men Fix the World  ·  Yoo Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg  ·  You, the Living