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Virginia- Oliver Stone, Larry Flynt, Sissy Spacek and Rodrigo Garcia are among the luminaries for this year’s Virginia Film Festival, which will bring more than 100 movies to Charlottesville.
Tickets will go on sale Friday at 12:01 a.m. for the 24th annual festival, which opens Nov. 3 with a screening of “The Descendants” starring George Clooney and an opening gala at the University of Virginia’s Alumni Hall. A detailed schedule of events is available at www.virginiafilmfestival.org.
Stone will discuss his Academy Award-winning film “JFK” with Larry J. Sabato of the UVa Center for Politics.
Flynt will be back for a 15th-anniversary screening of Milos Forman’s “The People vs. Larry Flynt” organized by the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression. The Hustler publisher, who has been at the center of First Amendment controversies, appeared at the 1997 festival.
Both events take place on Nov. 4. “There should be a lot of fireworks that evening,” said Jody Kielbasa, festival director, as he unveiled this year’s highlights Wednesday at the X Lounge.
Other features of the festival, presented by UVa’s College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, include:
» The centerpiece film will be “Albert Nobbs,” directed by Garcia and starring Glenn Close.
» The closing-night film will be “Thin Ice,” starring Greg Kinnear.
» Oscar winner Spacek and her husband, art director Jack Fisk, will present a restored print of “Badlands,” Spacek’s first film. The couple met on the set.
» Turner Classic Movies host Ben Mankiewicz will be part of a series of films from the National Film Registry presented by TCM and the Library of Congress. Films from the registry to be screened at the festival include “The General,” “National Velvet,” “McCabe and Mrs. Miller,” “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre” and “Badlands.”
» A 45th anniversary celebration of Kartemquin Films will include a screening of “A Good Man,” which focuses on famed choreographer Bill T. Jones. Jones will be in residency at UVa.
» The Embassy of Israel and Congregation Beth Israel will team up with the festival to present Israeli films.
» This year’s Food on Film program will include “Cafeteria Man” with chef Tony Geraci, who overhauled New Orleans school food, and “Farmageddon,” a film about the struggles family farms are facing. Farmer, author and activist Joe Salatin will take part in a panel discussion.
» “The Loving Story” will be screened for more than 850 high school students at Martin Luther King Jr. Performing Arts Center. The documentary tells the story of Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple whose marriage and court battles led to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down anti-miscegenation laws.
The festival winds up at 10 p.m. Nov. 5 with a Bollywood-themed Late-Night Wrap Party at Main Street Arena.
Tickets will be available online at www.virginiafilmfestival.org