FEATURE FILMS
WORLD CINEMA DOCUMENTARY
NARRATIVE COMPETITION
VARDA BY AGNÈS
THE VAST OF NIGHT
DOCUMENTARY | FRANCE | 2019 | 115 MINUTES | FRENCH/ENGLISH
EAST COAST PREMIERE | NARRATIVE | USA | 2019 | 90 MINUTES | ENGLISH
For her final film, the late Agnès Varda leaves us with a playful, profound, and personal summation of the extraordinary career that earned her the title of godmother of the French New Wave. With her characteristically impish wit and wisdom, the beloved filmmaker and feminist icon leads an insightful and free-associative tour through her six-decade artistic journey—from classics like CLEO FROM 5 TO 7 and VOYEUR up to her more recent, Academy Award®-nominated FACES PLACES. Suffused with the people, places, and things she loved, this wonderfully idiosyncratic work of imaginative autobiography is a tender and bittersweet parting gift from one of cinema’s most luminous talents.
With a summer night descending over 1950s New Mexico, the residents of a small town congregate for a high school basketball game. Amidst the action, the local radio DJ’s planned interviews with attendees are halted by the discovery of a strange frequency over the town’s airwaves by a local switchboard operator, leading the pair on an investigation deep into the darkness of their sleepy hometown. Paying loving homage to THE TWILIGHT ZONE and early Spielberg in equal parts, Andrew Patterson’s imaginative debut is a singular piece of original sci-fi, traveling through the unknown corners of our collective history.
DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER Agnès Varda PRODUCER Rosalie Varda
DIRECTOR Andrew Patterson SCREENWRITERS James Montague, Craig W. Sanger PRODUCERS Adam Dietrich, Melissa Kirkendall, James Montague CAST Sierra McCormick, Jake Horowitz, Gail Cronauer, Bruce Davis
10/11 5:00 PM BAY STREET 10/12 6:00 PM SOUTHAMPTON ARTS CENTER
10/11 6:30 PM EAST HAMPTON UA4 10/12 3:45 PM EAST HAMPTON UA4
COMPASSION, JUSTICE AND ANIMAL RIGHTS
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SPOTLIGHT
WATSON
WESTERN STARS
DOCUMENTARY | USA/COSTA RICA/TONGA | 2019 | 99 MINUTES | ENGLISH/ FRENCH/JAPANESE/SPANISH
US PREMIERE | DOCUMENTARY | USA | 2019 | 83 MINUTES | ENGLISH
As a lifelong defender of underwater ecosystems and the wildlife within, Paul Watson has established himself over 40 years as one of the fiercest voices in the fight for marine conservation and environmental activism. Sitting down with Captain Watson to tell the story of his life, director Lesley Chilcott charts his path from being one of Greenpeace’s original cofounders (including his contentious ousting from the organization he helped to create) to his leadership of the pirate-like Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. Through the use of a treasure trove of archival footage and unparalleled access, Chilcott chronicles the remarkable and inspiring story of how Watson became one of the last guardians of the sea. Panel conversation to follow. Winner, 2019 Zelda Penzel “Giving Voice to the Voiceless” Award DIRECTOR Lesley Chilcott PRODUCER Louise Runge, Lesley Chilcott, Wolfgang Knöpfler
10/13 12:30 PM EAST HAMPTON UA1
Coming fresh off of the publishing of his memoir Born to Run and unprecedented success of his one-man show Springsteen on Broadway, Bruce Springsteen released his latest album Western Stars this summer to widespread critical acclaim. With this film of the same name, Springsteen acts for the first time as a director, working alongside his longtime collaborator Thom Zimny to capture the sole performance of the album’s 13 tracks for a private audience in his New Jersey farmhouse. Performing alongside his wife Patti Scialfa and a 30-piece orchestra, Springsteen alternates between the songs and the stories and observations that inspired them, providing an intimate and sensitive look at one of our greatest living songwriters. DIRECTORS Thom Zimny, Bruce Springsteen PRODUCERS Thom Zimny, Jon Landau, George Travis, Barbara Carr
10/13 5:00 PM SOUTHAMPTON SH1 10/14 4:30 PM GUILD HALL