Filmmakers Symposium screenings feature new films, stars, directors
Wednesday, August 23, 2006

AREA -- Beginning Monday, Sept. 18, Filmmakers Symposium will screen new films for a 12 week series at two area theaters: AMC Loews Mountainside and Multiplex Cinemas at Town Center Plaza in East Windsor, as well as at the Anthology Film Archives in New York. Subscribers to this series will see movies before they are distributed, and enjoy a post screening interview with film creators. See 20 not-yet-released movies during the series. Subscription is $166 for six weeks or $299 for 12 weeks. To register, call 1-800-531-9416 or visit www.PrivateScreenings.org

In the past 15 years, Filmmakers Symposium has hosted at least a thousand movie premieres. "The program will always be flexible in order to take advantage of opportunities as they arise," says Symposium director Chuck Rose. "Wonderful surprises and fantastic celebrities can pop up out of nowhere, so I try to keep the schedule as fluid as possible. In the past two years, we premiered 91 films which later earned a total of 38 Oscar, 44 British Academy, 39 Golden Globe, and 31 European Film Award nominations."

Confirmed films and those under consideration for the upcoming session include "All the King's Men" with Sean Penn, Jude Law, director Steven Zaillian; "Babel" with Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu; "Bobby" with Anthony Hopkins, Demi Moore, director Emilio Estevez; "Breaking and Entering" with Jude Law, Juliette Binoche, director Anthony Minghella; "The Departed" with Jack Nicholson, Leonardo DiCaprio, director Martin Scorsese; "Flyboys" with James Franco, Jean Reno, director Tony Bill; "For Your Consideration" with Michael McKean, Parker Posey, director Christopher Guest; "The Fountain" with Hugh Jackman, Rachel Weisz, director Darren Aronofsky; "Fur" with Nicole Kidman, Robert Downey, Jr., director Steven Shainberg; "The Good German" with Cate Blanchett, George Clooney, director Steven Soderbergh; "The Good Shepherd" with Matt Damon, Angelina Jolie, director Robert De Niro; "A Good Year" with Russell Crowe, Albert Finney, director Ridley Scott; "The Hoax" with Richard Gere, Marcia Gay Harden, director Lasse Hallstrom; "Infamous" with Toby Jones, Sandra Bullock, director Douglas McGrath; "Jesus Camp" directed by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady; "The Last King of Scotland" with Forest Whitaker, Gillian Anderson, director Kevin Macdonald; "Little Children" with Kate Winslet, Jennifer Connelly, director Todd Field "Marie Antoinette" with Kirstin Dunst, Rip Torn, director Sofia Coppola; "The Namesake" with Kal Penn, Tabu, Irfan Khan, director Mira Nair; "Notes on a Scandal" with Judi Dench, Cate Blanchett, director Richard Eyre; "The Painted Veil" with Edward Norton, Naomi Watts, director John Curran; "Pierrepoint" with Timothy Spall, Juliet Stevenson, director Adrian Shergold; "Renaissance" with Daniel Craig, Patrick Floersheim, director Christian Volckman; and "Running With Scissors" with Annette Bening, Gwyneth Paltrow, director Ryan Murphy.

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