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-- WHAT WE DO --
Idyllwild Film Festival is responsible for staging
regular cinema events in and around our town of
Idyllwild, California. Since 1997, we have had weekly
cinema showings, which we affectionately called Cafe
Cinema. We have have employed both large and small venues to show a tremendous variety
of films, old and new, domestic and international. If
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-- EVENT FRIDAY, July 23, 2010 --
We return to the dark world of film noir this Friday, July 23
at 7:00 PM with the showing of one of its masters, Jules
Dasin's THIEVES HIGHWAY from 1949. This noir classic deals
with a veteran's (Richard Conte) attempt to avenge the assault
of his father by a stop-at-0nothing produce kingpin (Lee J.
Cobb). We will begin the evening with episode 5, THE PALACE OF
PERIL, from the 1940 serial, FLASH GORDON CONQUERS THE UNIVERSE.
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-- EVENT FRIDAY, June 25, 2010 --
When Tol'able David premiered about a 100 years ago, it was a
major box office success. It has aged well as its still on of
the most revered of all American silent films. The film is
based on the Joseph Hergesheimer short story of the same name.
It was adapted to the screen by Edmund Goulding and directed
by Henry King for Inspiration Pictures.
In 2007, Tol'able David was selected for preservation in the
United States National Film Registry by the Library of
Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically
significant".
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-- EVENT FRIDAY, June 18, 2010 --
Classic film noir is on the plate for Friday nite as we will show
one of the seldom seen Glenn Ford gems, FRAMED, from the "Golden Age" of Hollywood.
Directed by Richard Wallace, this solid noir is quite a thriller, despite its
ultra low production cost.
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-- EVENT FRIDAY, June 4, 2010 --
This Friday, June 4, Cafe Cinema will show one of the best
stories ever transferred to the silver screen, THE MOST
DANGEROUS GAME. It is also one of the most imitated. The fast
paced story never lets up. It concerns a world class hunter
played by Joel McCrea who mysteriously gets shipwrecked near a
small island. He is taken in by Count Zaroff who has some big
plans for him. Count Zaroff really likes to hunt and he only
goes after the most dangerous of all game...HUMANS. Before the
main feature, we will show episode I of the most famous serial
of all time, FLASH GORDON. You may want to bring your ray gun
with you just in case.
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-- EVENT WEDNESDAY, May 26, 2010 --
This Wednesday night at 7:00, we thought it would be fun to show
another crowd-pleaser from the recent Art Lyons Film Noir Festival,
the gothic-romance-noir classic, THE STRANGE LOVE OF MARTHA IVERS
(1946). This is one of just a few big budget noirs to come out of the
Hollywood Golden Age. It sports one of the most scintillating casts
ever put on celluloid... Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Kurt Douglas,
Lizabeth Scott and Judith Anderson. Although this film is known
primarily as Kurt Douglas's first role, there are quite a few other
reasons it should be famous ... such as for the acting, direction,
writing and cinematography... all of which are to die for. Before the
main feature, we have a surprise short video showing. You won't want
to miss ITHER.
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-- EVENT FRIDAY, May 21, 2010 --
At the recent Art Lyons Film Noir Festival, we got to see quite a few
films. Probably the one that stuck out most for those who attended is
this week's Cafe Cinema offering, PITFALL. Directed by Hungarian
born director, Andre de Toth, PITFALL tells the startling tale of a
bored husband that on the surface, seems to have as idyllic an
existence as any man could want, a beautiful wife, home, kids and
lucrative job. For John Forbes, played by Dick Powell, the American
dream hasn't crossed his path. He feels trapped and longs for a less
routine life.
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-- EVENT FRIDAY, May 7, 2010 --
During the white man's drive to settle in California during
19th Century, very few "suitable" women made the trip. In
this terrific western western genre gem by famed director,
William Wellman, WESTWARD THE WOMEN follows 150 women who
make the pilgrimage from Chicago across the Great American
Desert. They are picked by farmer Roy Whitman so as they can
marry his lonely farm hands. The results are epic.
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-- EVENT FRIDAY, April 16, 2010 --
"You're Norma Desmond. You used to be in silent pictures.
You used to be big," William Holden barks at the aging
former movie star, Norma Desmond. Real life actress, Gloria
Swanson, playing Norma, reflexively bites back in one of
cinema's most espressive and certainly one it's most famous
comebacks, "I am big. It's the pictures that got small." No
single reponse could so accurately capture the self
absorbing nature of the many who work in Hollywood. So, with
satire clearly on our minds and to help cure the headaches
caused by the obligatory tax filing day, we at Cafe Cinema
thought it would be appropriate to show the 1950 film noir
classic and Oscar winner for Best Picture, director Billy
Wilder's SUNSET BLVD.
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-- EVENT FRIDAY, MARCH 26, 2010 --
This Friday, March 26 at 7:00 PM, we will show the quite hillarious
1948 Preston Sturges black screwball comedy/romance classic, UNFAITHFULLY YOURS,
starring Rex Harrison and Linda Darnell.
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-- EVENT FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 2010 --
This Friday, March 26 at 7:00 PM, we will show the
winner this year's Oscar for Best Documentary, THE
COVE. If you would like to get involved with
stopping of this senseless slaughter of over
20,000 dolphins, which will resume this September
unless something is done now,
please visit their website, The Cove.
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-- EVENT FRIDAY, JAN 29, 2010 --
Our next film event is the 1945 classic film noir from
England, DEAD OF NIGHT.
DEAD OF NIGHT (1945) is a very scary HORROR
film from Alberto Cavalcanti. There is not much blood
but your back will have a major tingle throughtout the
film. A collection of four stories, the film centers
around a architect who's suffering from deja vu while
visiting a country house. He is forced to listen to the
guests' stories about their own paranormal experiences
and the nightmares begin.
The film shown at the Green Cafe Theatre at the corner
of Saunders Meadow and Highway 243 and is directly
across from the Elementary School. Showtime is at 7:00
PM.
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-- EVENT FRIDAY, JAN 8, 2010 --
THE WOMAN ALONE (1936) is a very underated
THRILLER from the Master of Suspense, Alfred Hitchcock.
Even in 1936, England was suspicious of Hitler's
military machine. British filmmakers began making films
warning England's citizens of the dangers that lurk in Germany.
In THE WOMAN ALONE, Nazis have infiltrated England and
plan to destroy much of its industrial infrastructure.
The government is keen to this, and through extremely
clever means, attempt to trap the Nazis. Hitchcock manages
to keep us at the edge of our seats throughout in this seldom seen early
thriller.
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-- EVENT WEDNESDAY, DEC 16, 2009 --
When I was growing up, it was fairly common for me to
watch a film starring Fred MacMurray. After all, he was
in alot of Disney flicks and there were the reruns of
MY THREE SONS. If my dad checked out what I was
watching, he would break out with his "You know,
I discovered HIM" routine. Dad's story went something
like this. While my dad was a radio announcer in New
York City, when he took breaks, he would let the
janitor cover the mike for a bit. Well, the janitor was
Fred MacMurray and my dad, and apparently quite o few
of his listeners (who wrote in) thought he was
hysterically funny with his no-nonsense and
well-intentioned delivery.
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-- CALLING ALL NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL FILMMAKERS --
The 2010 Idyllwild Film Festival committee would like to hear from you.
EMAIL
us and we will send you the required information
for submitting your film(s) for consideration for
the Idyllwild Film Festival planned for Summer 2010. The rules for film
submission will be emailed to you. There is a
modest entry fee per film and we will not accept
any films via mail, internet or otherwise until
your application has been accepted. If you feel
you qualify and would like to take part in the
Idyllwild Film Festival, please follow the
instructions carefully and submit your
application. If your film is selected to be
screened, you will be notified of your film's
showing date, time and location.
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all walks of life, ages and backgrounds. Our
festival is located in the spectacular San Jacinto
National Forest in Southern California which is
approximated only two hours from Hollywood, California and
1 hour from Palm Springs, California.
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