Arts & Entertainment
High-Profile Flicks Added to Film Fest Lineup
"The Descendants," "The Deep Blue Sea," "My Week With Marilyn" and "Shame" will screen at the Hamptons International Film Festival.
A few late entries have joined the roster of the 2011 Hamptons International Film Festival, which begins Thursday. The films include celebrated stars of Hollywood and abroad.
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The Descendants
Starring George Clooney, The Descendants is about a family that inherits land in Hawaii, and what unfolds after the mother is put on life support and the father tries to reconnect with his estranged daughters, who reveal their mother had an affair with a real estate agent (Matthew Lillard).
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Director Alexander Payne is also the man behind acclaimed films About Schmidt, Sideways and Election. (There will be a special screening of Election Saturday at 1 p.m. at Guild Hall in East Hampton, following by "A Conversation with Matthew Broderick," moderated by Alec Baldwin.
The Descendants screens Monday at 7:30 p.m. at . To purchase tickets, click here.
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Shame
Shame is director Steve McQueen's followup to his first film, the highly lauded and highly controversial Hunger.
Starring Michael Fassbender of Inglourious Basterds, Shame is about a 30-something businessman with promiscuous nights whose drifting younger sister enters the picture with her own problems, as he struggles to control his compulsions. Shame won Best Film and Fassbender won best actor at the 2011 Venice Film Festival.
Shame screens Friday at 5 p.m. at and Sunday at 7 p.m. at Sag Harbor Cinema. To purchase tickets, click here.
The Deep Blue Sea
Directed by Cannes award-winner Terence Davies and starring Rachel Weisz and Tom Hiddleston, The Deep Blue Sea will have its U.S. premiere Friday at the Hamptons International Film Festival.
The film adopts British playwright Terence Rattigan’s masterwork, set in post-World War II England. Weisz is Hester Collyer, a woman is trapped between a stale marriage with a prominent judge (Simon Russell Beale) and a doomed love affair with an alcoholic pilot (Tom Hiddleston).
The Deep Blue Sea screens Friday at 7:15 p.m. and Saturday at 8 p.m. at East Hampton Theater. To purchase tickets, click here.
My Week With Marilyn
Oscar nominee Michelle Williams stars as the title character in My Week With Marilyn, which had its world premiere Sunday at the New York Film Festival. Set in 1957, the Simon Curtis-directed film is based on the memoir of Colin Clark, who worked as an assistant on the set of The Prince and the Showgirl, which Marilyn Monroe co-starred in with Laurence Olivier. Monroe was simultaneously on her honeymoon with Arthur Miller. The cast also includes Emma Watson of the Harry Potter films and Dame Judi Dench.
My Week With Marilyn screens Sunday at noon at . To purchase tickets, click here.
