[Gloucester, MA * October 26, 2012] – Cape Ann Community Cinema, the unique, living room-style digital movie theater at 21 Main Street in Gloucester, has earned a reputation as “the film festival that never ends,” and from November 1-18, they up the ante with 32 films, plus visiting filmmakers, live events and music, HD operas from Europe, and one Bond girl via satellite.
The CAFF’s Guest of Honor is character actor extraordinaire Stephen Tobolowsky, aka “The Guy Who Everybody Knows (But Nobody Knows They Know).” He has appeared in over 200 movies and TV shows, and is known best as Ned Ryerson in “Groundhog Day” and Sammy Jankis in “Memento,” plus series like “Deadwood,” “Glee” and “Californication.” He appears at the Festival on Monday, November 12th at 6:30pm, when he will perform a story from his new book, “The Dangerous Animals Club” (which he will sign copies of) and host a Q&A.
Former 007 girl and “X-Men” star Famke Janssen will appear via satellite after the Saturday, November 3rd at 7:30pm screening of her first film as writer-director, “Bringing Up Bobby.” The film features “Resident Evil” star Milla Jovovich as a con artist who moves with her young son to a conservative neighborhood in Oklahoma. It has been called “sensitively acted, carefully written and directed with heartfelt compassion” and “an engrossing little independent film.”
A more local guest visits on Sunday, November 4th, when Cape Ann’s own professional prankster and Presidential candidate Vermin Supreme brings his film “Vote Jesus: The Chronicles Of Ken Stevenson.” The political satirist’s documentary details his trip behind the moral iron curtain and into the steamy viscera of American Fundamentalism, disguised as a right-wing politician. Speaking of politicians, voters are invited to watch the election results come in starting at 6:30pm on Tuesday, November 6th (presented by The Gloucester Democratic City Committee). On Thursday, November 15th at 6:30pm, the Festival hosts “The JFK Experience,” a live, multimedia encounter with history featuring historic performer Mike Lowe as John F. Kennedy. Lowe’s presentation is impressive, immersive, and interactive, with audience members able to actually ask questions of the 35th President of the United States.
A quartet of local filmmakers makes up the Thursday, November 8th at 7:30pm “ArtShorts” line-up, with “Boo,” “Citgo Dance” and “The Builder” by Elizabeth Cornaro; “Princess” and “Icarus” by Christy Park; “No More Gloomy Sundays” by Robert Newton & Kristen Miller; ”Où est Fleuri Rose?” by Mark Warhol.
The Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church hosts the classic 1973 crime drama “The Harder They Come” starring reggae legend Jimmy Cliff on Wednesday, November 14th at 7:30pm. Rockport artisan Leslie Wind has partnered with the CACC in bringing folk musicians Debra Cowan and John Roberts on Friday, November 16th at 7:30pm. Later the same evening at 10:00pm, Manchester’s Allison Sigrist and her all-girl Queen tribute band, Gunpowder Gelatine, hit the stage, followed by a special movie treat. Additionally, two HD operas from Europe are also part of the Festival line-up – Wagner’s “Siegfried” (from Milan’s La Scala) on Sunday, November 11th at 12:00pm and Tuesday, November 13th at 2:00pm, and Mozart’s “The Marriage Of Figaro” (from London’s Royal Opera) on Sunday, November 18th at 2:00pm.
The Healthy Gloucester Collaborative debuts “Our Town,” their new teen-made PSAs on Saturday, November 17th at 12:00pm.
The other films in the 5th Annual Cape Ann Film Festival are: “An Affair Of The Heart,” “Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry,” “All Together,” “The American Scream,” “Arrugas (Wrinkles),” “Atlas Shrugged – Part II: The Strike,” “Beloved,” “The Best Of The New York Children’s Film Festival,” “Compliance,” “Detropia,” “FDR: American Badass,” “Fear and Desire,” “Holy Motors,” “The Invisible War,” “The Island President,” “Kumaré,” “Nine Nation Animation,” “Samsara,” “Searching For Sugar Man,” “Tales Of The Night,” “Trade Of Innocents,” “The Well-Digger’s Daughter,” and “Wuthering Heights.”
