'O BROTHER,' WHERE ART THOU?' WHY, AT THE AFI FEST!Byline: Valerie Kuklenski Staff Writer ``O Brother, Where Art Thou?'' the Coen brothers' comedic odyssey of three escaped convicts in the South, opens AFI AFI American Film Institute AFI Awaiting Further Instructions AFI Armed Forces Insurance AFI A Fire Inside (band) AFI Air Force Instruction AFI Australian Film Institute AFI Agencia Federal de Investigación Fest 2000 tonight with its U.S. premiere at the El Capitan El Cap·i·tan A peak, 2,308.5 m (7,569 ft) high, in the Sierra Nevada of central California. Its dramatic exposed monolith rises some 1,098 m (3,600 ft) above the floor of the Yosemite Valley. Theatre in Hollywood. The opening of the American Film Institute's annual festival has emerged as a plum spot in recent years; it seems to have brought good luck to ``Life Is Beautiful'' and ``The Cider House A cider house is an establishment, often little more than a room in a farmhouse or cottage, selling cider only, for consumption on the premises. The cider sold is usually brewed on the premises, from apples grown in a local cider orchard. Rules,'' both of which went on to box-office and awards success. ``O Brother,'' written by Joel and Ethan Coen and directed by Joel, stars George Clooney George Timothy Clooney (May 6, 1961) is an American actor, director, producer and screenwriter who gained fame as the lead doctor in the long-running television drama, ER , Tim Blake Nelson, Michael Badalucco, Charles Durning and Coen stock players John Turturro and John Goodman. It garnered good reviews at its premiere last spring at the Cannes festival. Touchstone Pictures has been promoting it as the latest from the makers of ``Fargo,'' not as a Clooney star vehicle. Tickets for the opening-night gala cost $100 and include the star- studded premiere and the party following it at the neighboring Disney Entertainment Center. Los Angeles' largest international film festival has mushroomed this year from about 50 to more than 90 titles under the leadership of its new director, Christian Gaines, formerly of the Hawaii International Film Festival. The lineup includes featured Latin, European, Asian and anime programs, as well as forums on screenwriting and digital production. One title of local interest in the Latin series is ``Bread and Roses,'' director Ken Loach's new verite vé·ri·té n. Cinéma vérité. documentary about the Justice for Janitors Justice for Janitors is a janitor organization movement and part of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). Justice for Janitors started in Denver, Colorado in 1985. labor movement. The festival centerpiece on Monday is Julian Schnabel's ``Before Night Falls Before Night Falls (ISBN 1-852-42808-2) is the 1992 autobiography of gay Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas, describing his life in Cuba, his time in prison, and his ultimate escape to the United States. ,'' based on the memoirs of exiled Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas from childhood to his death from AIDS in 1990. The AFI will pay tribute to director Philip Kaufman on Wednesday with highlights from the films ``Invasion of the Body Snatchers,'' ``The Right Stuff,'' ``The Unbearable Lightness of Being'' and ``Henry & June.'' Kaufman's latest, ``Quills,'' will have its Los Angeles premiere Thursday following the festival's awards ceremony. The controversial film stars Geoffrey Rush as the infamous Marquis de Sade Noun 1. Marquis de Sade - French soldier and writer whose descriptions of sexual perversion gave rise to the term `sadism' (1740-1814) Comte Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade, de Sade, Sade , Joaquin Phoenix as the priest who encourages his blasphemous blas·phe·mous adj. Impiously irreverent. [Middle English blasfemous, from Late Latin blasph writings as a means to cure his mental illness, and Kate Winslet as a chamber maid who smuggles de Sade's writings out of the asylum. Tickets for the awards program, ``Quills'' screening and party are $50 each. Most of the AFI Fest events take place in Hollywood. Tickets for most evening screenings are $8.50 and for matinees $5. Passes affording varying privileges cost $50-$600. Discounts are available to seniors and students as well as members of AFI, American Cinematheque, Women in Film and the entertainment guilds. For tickets and other information, call (323) 520-2000 or go to www.afifest.org on the Web. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Tim Blake Nelson, left, John Turturro and George Clooney's ``O Brother, Where Art Thou?'' premieres tonight at AFI Fest 2000. |
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