The 9th annual Woodstock Film Festival has announced its line-up. The fest which runs October 1-5 boasts an impressive 150 films. We’re actually thinking of going this year, as its not that far. IndieWire does a breakdown of the bigger named films, so all credit to them:
Gavin O’Connor’s “Pride and Glory,” Mike Leigh’s “Happy-Go-Lucky” and Marc Abraham’s “Flash of Genius,” while the fest will close with two, the East Coast Premieres of Kevin Smith’s “Zack and Miri Make a Porno” and Sean McGinly’s “The Great Buck Howard.” Other films screening at Woodstock include Kelly Reichardt’s “Wendy and Lucy,” starring Michelle Williams, the U.S. Premiere of Erick Zonca’s “Julia,” Larry Charles’ “Religulous,” Joo-ho Bong, Leos Carax and Michel Gondry’s “Tokyo!,” Barry Jenkins’ “Medicine For Melancholy,” Joe Swanberg and Greta Gerwig’s “Nights and Weekends,” Tom Gustafson’s “Were The World Mine,” PJ Raval and Jay Hodges’ “Trinidad,” and Wendy Key’s “Milton Glaser: To Inform and Delight.
It’s interesting to note that Michel Gondry, Joo-ho Bong and Leos Carax’s vignettes film, “Tokyo!” will be there. It completely bypassed the rest of the fall film circuit. We were told it was being reserved for the Toronto film festival, but they must have eventually passed on it.
Not mentioned in the list above, but a film we’re deeply looking forward to is “Visioneers” that stars our bff Zach Galifianakis who we heart. The main dude from the Polyphonic Spree, Tim DeLaughter played much of the score for that wacky-sounding film. “The Great Buck Howard” is another interesting-sounding film seemingly lost in the shuffle. It premiered earlier this year at Sundance, but buzz has been non-existent despite a cast of Tom and Colin Hanks, John Malkovich and a score written by hyped-up indie-rocker Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!
