Michael Mann’s “Public Enemies” starring Johnny Depp and Christian Bale is set for a July 1 release, but will premiere a few weeks early as the centerpiece film in the L.A. Film Fest line-up which runs June 18 – 28, according to the festival’s website.
In Narrative Competition:
“Harmony & Me” – Any film starring co-starring Kevin Corrigan is at least worth a second glance.
“Dear Lemon Lima” – produced and starring Melissa Leo from “Frozen River”
“Hollywood, je t’aime”
“Passenger Side”
“Turistas”
“Wah Do Dem”
“Zero Bridge”
In Documentary Competition:
“After the Storm”
“Bananas!*”
“Branson”
“Convention” – AJ Schnack’s new documentary (he directed the doc, “Kurt Cobain: About A Son”)
“The Last Beekeeper”
“October Country”
“Those Who Remain”
The International line-up includes the excellent and hallucinatory “Bronson,” by Nicolas Winding Refn (we still need to write our IFFBoston review; the magnetic lead star Tom Hardy just got added to Christopher Nolan’s “Inception”), Mercedes Stalenhoef’s “”Carmen Meets Borat,” which is basically about the aftermath of what happens when Hollywood comes to shoot in your Romanian village (namely Sacha Baron Cohen’s “Borat”), and the “Summer Showcase” features more of the names: Clair Denis’ “35 Shots of Rum” (which features a score by the Tindersticks), Sophie Barthes’s Michel Gondry-esque, “Cold Souls” which features Paul Giamatti, Lynn Shelton’s bromance mumblecore film, “Humpday,” the British political satire “In The Loop,” featuring James Gandolfini, the modern guitarists documentary “It Might Get Loud,” starring Jack White, Jimmy Page and U2’s The Edge; the quasi-documentary “Paper Heart” starring Michael Cera and real-life girlfriend Charlyne Yi, (Beirut and an an ex-Unicorn member are contributing to the soundtrack), Hirokazu Kore-eda’s incredible intimate family drama “Still Walking” (another IFFB review we have to kick-out), Jeff Levy-Hinte’s “Rumble In The Jungle Concert doc, “Soul Power,” the blaxploitation spoof, “Black Dynamite,” the concert doc “All Tomorrow’s Parties” and Ondi Timoner’s Internet doc, “We Live In Public,” just to name a few. The complete line-up is huge.
The full line-up is on the L.A. Film Festival website.
