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For Your Consideration
Attend screenings for these award hopefuls and listen to what the film’s talent has to say at a special Q&A following each screening.
All screenings will be held at
The ImaginAsian Theater
239 East 59th Street
New York, NY 10022
8 PM
Parmount Vantage: 150 minutes
Q&A – talent to be announced
INTO THE WILD is based on a true story and the bestselling book by Jon Krakauer. After graduating from Emory University in 1992, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless (Hirsch) abandoned his possessions, gave his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhiked to Alaska to live in the wilderness. Along the way, Christopher encounters a series of characters that shape his life.
To receive a screening pass for two, RSVP to intothewildnytimes@yahoo.com
11 AM
Fox Searchlight: 113 minutes.
Q&A – talent to be announced
THE SAVAGES is an irreverent look at family, love and mortality, seen through the lens of one of modern life’s most bewildering experiences: when adult siblings find themselves plucked from their everyday, self-centered lives to care for an estranged elderly parent. The last thing the two Savage siblings ever wanted to do was look back at their difficult family history. Wendy (Laura Linney), a struggling East Village playwright, w steals office supplies and is dating her married neighbor. Jon (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is a neurotic college professor writing books on obscure subjects in Buffalo. Then comes the call that informs them that the domineering father they have long feared and avoided, Lenny Savage (Philip Bosco) is slowly being consumed by dementia and they are the only ones that can help. Faced with complete upheaval and battling over how to handle their father’s final days, they are confronted with what adulthood, family and, most surprisingly, each other are really about.
THE SAVAGES is written and directed by Tamara Jenkins (THE SLUMS OF BEVERLY HILLS) and produced by Ted Hope, Anne Carey and Erica Westheimer. Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor, Jim Burke and Anthony Bregman are executive producers.
To receive a screening pass for two, RSVP to 212-556-8257.
2 PM
New Line Cinema: 117 minutes
Q&A with Nikki Blonsky (actress)
The beat goes on during the New York Times Arts & Leisure Week 2008! Join us for a special screening of New Line Cinema's critically-acclaimed box office hit "Hairspray," the feature film adaptation of the Tony Award-winning Broadway production, which was itself inspired by John Waters' 1988 cult film. "Hairspray" follows an over-sized teenage girl's dream of dancing on a local Baltimore TV show which transforms her entire world and features a remarkable ensemble cast that includes John Travolta, Michelle Pfeiffer, Queen Latifah, Christopher Walken, Amanda Bynes, Zac Efron, Brittany Snow, James Marsden, Elijah Kelley, Allison Janney and newcomer Nikki Blonsky. The film is directed and choreographed by Adam Shankman and produced by Craig Zadan and Neil Meron.
To receive a screening pass for two, RSVP to hairsprayny@thaweb.com
5:30 PM
Lionsgate: 117 minutes
Q&A – talent to be announced
3:10 TO YUMA stars Russell Crowe, Christian Bale, Peter Fonda, Gretchen Mol, Ben Foster in a modern take on the classic Western short story by Elmore Leonard. In Arizona in the late 1800's, infamous outlaw Ben Wade (Russell Crowe) and his vicious gang of thieves and murderers have plagued the Southern Railroad. When Wade is captured, Civil War veteran Dan Evans (Christian Bale), struggling to survive on his drought-plagued ranch, volunteers to deliver him alive to the "3:10 to Yuma", a train that will take the killer to trial. On the trail, Evans and Wade, each from very different worlds, begin to earn each other's respect. But with Wade's outfit on their trail - and dangers at every turn - the mission soon becomes a violent, impossible journey toward each man's destiny.
To receive a screening pass for two, RSVP to yuma@thaweb.com
9 PM
Picturehouse: 100 minutes
Q&A with Belén Rueda (actress)
A woman discovers dark secrets hidden within her cherished childhood home in the supernatural drama THE ORPHANAGE, the feature film debut of acclaimed young Spanish director Juan Antonio Bayona. A superbly atmospheric and emotionally powerful tale of love, loss and guilt, THE ORPHANAGE is the first film ever to be presented by Academy Award®-nominated filmmaker Guillermo del Toro, who also produced Bayona and the gifted first-time screenwriter Sergio Sánchez deliver an elegant, shivery ghost story in the tradition of such classics as THE INNOCENTS, THE HAUNTING and THE OTHERS as they explore the shadowy places where human longing meets the unknown and unknowable. Anchoring the film is the fearless performance by its star, award-winning Spanish actress Belén Rueda (THE SEA INSIDE), portraying a mother desperate to rescue her family from the nightmare into which she has unwittingly led them. THE ORPHANAGE is a film about the fragility of life, the agony of loss and the depth of a mother's love .
To receive a screening pass for two, RSVP to OrphanageNY@thaweb.com
1:30 PM
Sidney Kimmel Entertainment: 106 minutes
Q&A – talent to be announced
Written by Six Feet Under scribe Nancy Oliver, Lars and the Real Girl is a heartfelt comedy starring Academy-Award nominated Ryan Gosling as Lars Lindstrom a loveable introvert whose emotional baggage has kept him from fully embracing life. After years of what is almost solitude, he invites Bianca, a friend he met on the internet to visit him. He introduces Bianca to his brother Gus (Paul Schneider) and his wife Karin (Emily Mortimer) and they are stunned. They don’t know what to say to Lars or Bianca – because she is a life-size doll, not a real person and he is treating her as though she is alive. They consult the family doctor Dagmar (Academy-Award nominee Patricia Clarkson) who explains this is a delusion he’s created – for what reason she doesn’t yet know but they should all go along with it. What follows is an emotional journey for Lars and the people around him.
To receive a screening pass for two, RSVP to LarsNY@thaweb.com
4:15 PM
The Weinstein Company: 123 minutes
Q&A – talent to be announced
From two-time Academy Award winner Denzel Washington and an ensemble cast lead by Washington that includes Academy Award winner Forest Whitaker, comes THE GREAT DEBATERS. Inspired by a true story, THE GREAT DEBATERS chronicles the journey of Professor Melvin Tolson (Denzel Washington), a brilliant but volatile debate team coach who uses the power of words to shape a group of underdog students from a small African American college in the deep south into a historically elite debate team. A controversial figure, Professor Tolson challenged the social mores of the time and was under constant fire for his unconventional and ferocious teaching methods as well as his radical political views. In their pursuit for excellence, Tolson's debate team receives a groundbreaking invitation to debate Harvard University's championship team The film is directed by Denzel Washington and stars Washington, Forest Whitaker, Jurnee Smollett, Nate Parker, Denzel Whitaker, and Kimberly Elise.
To receive a screening pass for two, RSVP to GreatDebaters@gmail.com
7:30 PM
ThinkFilm: 118 minutes
Q&A – talent to be announced
Master filmmaker Sidney Lumet directs this absorbing suspense thriller about a family facing the worst enemy of all - itself. Oscar-winner Philip Seymour Hoffman plays Andy, an overextended broker who lures his younger brother, Hank (Ethan Hawke), into a larcenous scheme: the pair will rob a suburban mom-and-pop jewelry store that appears to be the quintessential easy target. The problem is, the store owners are Andy and Hank's actual mom and pop and, when the seemingly perfect crime goes awry, the damage lands right at their doorstep. Oscar-winner Marisa Tomei plays Hoffman's trophy wife, who is having a clandestine affair with Hawke, and the stellar cast also includes Albert Finney as the family patriarch who pursues justice at all costs, completely unaware that the culprits he is hunting are his own sons. A classy, classic
heist-gone-wrong drama in the tradition of "The Killing" and Lumet's own "The Anderson Tapes," BEFORE THE DEVIL KNOW YOU'RE DEAD is smart enough to know that we often have the most to fear from those who are near and dear.
To receive a screening pass for two, RSVP to devilrsvp@thinkfilmcompany.com
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