http://www.greenmountainfilmfestival.org Sat, 27 Mar 2010 17:17:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://www.greenmountainfilmfestival.org/2009-films-events/alexandra http://www.greenmountainfilmfestival.org/2009-films-events/alexandra#comments Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:43:25 +0000 donald http://www.greenmountainfilmfestival.org/2009-films-events/alexandra

Monday, March 23; 8:30 pm . Wednesday, March 25; 12:00 pm . Thursday, March 26; 6:00 pm .

Savoy Theater An elderly woman travels to the Chechen war zone to see her soldier grandson in Alexander Sokurov’s powerful film. “A film of startling originality and beauty that feels like a communiqué from another time and another place.... Mr. Sokurov has said that ALEXANDRA is about the eternal life of Russia, a sentiment that might [...]]]> http://www.greenmountainfilmfestival.org/2009-films-events/alexandra/feed 0 http://www.greenmountainfilmfestival.org/2009-films-events/all-this-in-tea http://www.greenmountainfilmfestival.org/2009-films-events/all-this-in-tea#comments Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:43:14 +0000 admin http://www.greenmountainfilmfestival.org/2009-films-events/all-this-in-tea

Saturday, March 21; 12:00 pm goingfast.

City Hall Arts Center Directors Les Blank and Gina Leibrecht follow the American tea importer, David Lee Hoffman, to some of the most remote regions of China in search of the finest handmade teas in the world. As the Chinese open their doors to the global marketplace, Hoffman opens their eyes to their own ancient tradition [...]]]> http://www.greenmountainfilmfestival.org/2009-films-events/all-this-in-tea/feed 0 http://www.greenmountainfilmfestival.org/2009-films-events/anita-oday-the-life-of-a-jazz-singer http://www.greenmountainfilmfestival.org/2009-films-events/anita-oday-the-life-of-a-jazz-singer#comments Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:43:05 +0000 admin http://www.greenmountainfilmfestival.org/2009-films-events/anita-oday-the-life-of-a-jazz-singer

Friday, March 20; 6:15 pm available. Thursday, March 26; 2:00 pm available. Friday, March 27; 10:30 pm available.

City Hall Arts Center Anita O’Day, who debuted with the Gene Krupa Band in the 1940s and performed right up to her death two years ago, was one of the greatest of American jazz singers. This is her astonishing story—a journey of survival told in a number of frank interviews with her and with those who [...]]]> http://www.greenmountainfilmfestival.org/2009-films-events/anita-oday-the-life-of-a-jazz-singer/feed 0 http://www.greenmountainfilmfestival.org/2009-films-events/at-the-death-house-door http://www.greenmountainfilmfestival.org/2009-films-events/at-the-death-house-door#comments Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:42:53 +0000 admin http://www.greenmountainfilmfestival.org/2009-films-events/at-the-death-house-door

Wednesday, March 25; 8:15 pm . Thursday, March 26; 12:00 pm .

City Hall Arts Center This documentary from Steve James and Peter Gilbert (HOOP DREAMS) is a personal look at the death penalty through the eyes of Pastor Carroll Pickett, who served 15 years as the death house chaplain to the infamous "Walls" prison unit in Huntsville, Texas, presiding over 95 executions. After each execution, Pickett recorded [...]]]> http://www.greenmountainfilmfestival.org/2009-films-events/at-the-death-house-door/feed 0 http://www.greenmountainfilmfestival.org/2009-films-events/awake-my-soul http://www.greenmountainfilmfestival.org/2009-films-events/awake-my-soul#comments Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:42:40 +0000 admin http://www.greenmountainfilmfestival.org/2009-films-events/awake-my-soul

Saturday, March 21; 4:30 pm . Sunday, March 22; 10:00 am .

City Hall Arts Center Matt and Erica Hinton’s documentary explores the history, music, and traditions of the sacred harp, considered to be the oldest surviving American music style. This haunting music has survived for over 200 years tucked away from sight in the rural deep south (and since the early 1970s, in central Vermont), where [...]]]> http://www.greenmountainfilmfestival.org/2009-films-events/awake-my-soul/feed 0 http://www.greenmountainfilmfestival.org/2009-films-events/blindsight http://www.greenmountainfilmfestival.org/2009-films-events/blindsight#comments Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:42:32 +0000 admin http://www.greenmountainfilmfestival.org/2009-films-events/blindsight

Sunday, March 22; 10:00 am available. Tuesday, March 24; 12:00 pm available. Wednesday, March 25; 6:00 pm soldout. Saturday, March 28; 9:30 am available.

Savoy Theater “Featuring exceptional people doing extraordinary things, BLINDSIGHT is one of those documentaries with the power to make you re-examine your entire life — or at least get off the couch. Filmed primarily in and around the cascading Tibetan Himalayas, Lucy Walker’s astonishing film follows six blind Tibetan teenagers as they attempt to scale the [...]]]> http://www.greenmountainfilmfestival.org/2009-films-events/blindsight/feed 0 http://www.greenmountainfilmfestival.org/2009-films-events/the-brother http://www.greenmountainfilmfestival.org/2009-films-events/the-brother#comments Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:42:22 +0000 admin http://www.greenmountainfilmfestival.org/2009-films-events/the-brother

Wednesday, March 25; 6:00 pm soldout.

City Hall Arts Center "THE BROTHER WHO SENT HIS SISTER TO THE ELECTRIC CHAIR” is the full title of this documentary, produced for French television and presented here as a world premiere, which explores the role of the enigmatic David Greenglass, whose testimony sent his sister and brother-in-law, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, to their deaths in [...]]]> http://www.greenmountainfilmfestival.org/2009-films-events/the-brother/feed 0 http://www.greenmountainfilmfestival.org/2009-films-events/close-up http://www.greenmountainfilmfestival.org/2009-films-events/close-up#comments Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:42:12 +0000 admin http://www.greenmountainfilmfestival.org/2009-films-events/close-up

Saturday, March 28; 1:45 pm .

City Hall Arts Center We asked visiting critic Godfrey Cheshire to choose an Iranian film, and his pick is Abbas Kiarostami’s mock-documentary (1990), in which a film buff assumes the identity of his favorite director. The film offers an insightful look into contemporary Iran and the nature of filmmaking. Stephen Holden, The New York Times: “A [...]]]> http://www.greenmountainfilmfestival.org/2009-films-events/close-up/feed 0 http://www.greenmountainfilmfestival.org/2009-films-events/the-collector-of-bedford-streetthe-apartmentbills-bill http://www.greenmountainfilmfestival.org/2009-films-events/the-collector-of-bedford-streetthe-apartmentbills-bill#comments Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:41:58 +0000 admin http://www.greenmountainfilmfestival.org/2009-films-events/the-collector-of-bedford-streetthe-apartmentbills-bill

Saturday, March 28; 9:30 am .

City Hall Arts Center THE COLLECTOR (40 minutes) is an award-winning documentary about director Alice Elliott's neighbor, Larry Selman, a community activist who has an intellectual disability. When Larry’s primary caregiver becomes unable to care for him, his New York City neighborhood rallies to protect his independence. THE APARTMENT (28 minutes), closer to home, is about [...]]]> http://www.greenmountainfilmfestival.org/2009-films-events/the-collector-of-bedford-streetthe-apartmentbills-bill/feed 0 http://www.greenmountainfilmfestival.org/2009-films-events/constantines-sword http://www.greenmountainfilmfestival.org/2009-films-events/constantines-sword#comments Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:41:51 +0000 admin http://www.greenmountainfilmfestival.org/2009-films-events/constantines-sword

Saturday, March 21; 8:45 pm available. Sunday, March 22; 12:00 pm goingfast. Friday, March 27; 2:00 pm available.

City Hall Arts Center “At the heart of Oren Jacoby’s screen adaptation of James Carroll’s book Constantine’s Sword lies a question to which each person of faith must his find own answer: When your core beliefs conflict with church doctrine, how far should your loyalty to the church extend? At once enthralling and troubling, the film [...]]]> http://www.greenmountainfilmfestival.org/2009-films-events/constantines-sword/feed 0