nov 10-14 2010 - Rehoboth Beach Film Society
nov 10-14 2010 - Rehoboth Beach Film Society
nov 10-14 2010 - Rehoboth Beach Film Society
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Originally premiering at Cannes, Eyes Wide Open is<br />
a taut tale of forbidden love. Equal parts first-rate<br />
independent art cinema and fascinating anthropological<br />
study of a tightly-knit conservative community, the<br />
film sparks against the backdrop of an Orthodox<br />
Jewish community in Jerusalem. Aaron runs a kosher<br />
butcher’s shop. When he hires Ezri (Israeli heartthrob<br />
Ron Danker), he is confronted by feelings he thought<br />
he dispensed with long ago. Steeped in the codes of<br />
religion, each interaction between Aaron and Ezri is rife<br />
with underlying tension. From its first frames, Eyes Wide<br />
Open establishes an array of impassioned emotions<br />
and a slow burn of unspoken eroticism that satisfyingly<br />
Three legendary Hollywood iconoclasts—Robert Duvall,<br />
Bill Murray and Sissy Spacek—anchor this Depressionera<br />
Southern-flavored tale of a Tennessee backwoods<br />
outcast who decides to throw his own funeral—while<br />
still alive. For over four decades the wily, much-feared<br />
hermit Felix Bush (Duvall) has been living alone in the<br />
wilds, guarding his privacy with a few well-placed “No<br />
Damn Trespassing” signs and, when those don’t work, a<br />
few better-placed shotgun blasts. One day, however, he<br />
hops on his mule and heads back into town, looking for a<br />
preacher to help him “get low,” or down to the business<br />
eyes Wide oPen<br />
(einayM PKuhot)<br />
Thurs Nov 11 2:50 PM-4:25 PM<br />
smolders throughout. With a surprising economy of means, director<br />
Haim Tabakman manages to communicate the intense stakes for the<br />
two men. The paranoiac community is insular, where one’s status is<br />
always scrutinized, “purity police” pay visits, and contradiction and<br />
vice continuously threaten one’s very soul. The beautifully measured<br />
film at surface matches the necessarily sober, reserved demeanor of<br />
the film’s characters. And, equally so, just a thin layer below resides a<br />
burning ring of anxiety that haunts every interaction.<br />
[dir. Haim tabakman, 2009, israel, video 91 mins. in Hebrew with English<br />
subtitles]<br />
Website: www.eyeswideopenfilm.com<br />
of getting buried. The catch? He’d like to be alive, so he can hear what<br />
people have to say. Shot in Georgia and rich with Southern myths and<br />
culture, Get Low combines gorgeous lensing and impeccable attention<br />
to period detail with a witty script. Sly, warm and comfortable in taking<br />
its own sweet time, the film benefits most of all from its fabulous cast,<br />
with Duvall shining spectacularly.<br />
[dir. aaron Schneider, 2009, uSa, 35mm, <strong>10</strong>0 mins]<br />
Website: www.sonyclassics.com/getlow<br />
Sponsored by:<br />
FrI Nov 12 12:00 PM-1:35 PM Super Snooper Home Improvement<br />
and Consulting<br />
Get loW<br />
Sponsored by:<br />
WEd Nov <strong>10</strong> 7:50 PM-9:35 PM Coast Press/<strong>Beach</strong>comber/delmarvanow!com<br />
FrI Nov 12 7:00 PM-8:45 PM Arena’s<br />
sAT Nov 13 2:30 PM-4:15 PM WXPN-FM<br />
suN Nov <strong>14</strong> 2:40 PM-4:25 PM Delaware National Bank