INDEPENDENTS DAY IN APRIL FESTIVAL SHOWCASES SMALLER MOVIES.Byline: Valerie Kuklenski Staff Writer No need to wait for July 4 - for an estimated 30,000 film buffs, today is Independents Day. The Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Independent Film Festival opens tonight at the Directors Guild of America, kicking off five days and nights of top-notch indie films of the past and present. The festival opens with a 7:30 p.m. showing of ``Lakeboat,'' actor Joe Mantegna's feature directing debut. Written by David Mamet Noun 1. David Mamet - United States playwright (born in 1947) Mamet , it is an autobiographical coming-of-age story about a college student who joins the world-weary crew of a freighter on the Great Lakes Great Lakes, group of five freshwater lakes, central North America, creating a natural border between the United States and Canada and forming the largest body of freshwater in the world, with a combined surface area of c.95,000 sq mi (246,050 sq km). . The cast includes Charles Durning, Peter Falk, George Wendt, Robert Forster and Denis Denis, king of Portugal: see Diniz. Leary. Other new titles on the program: --``Beat,'' starring Courtney Love as Joan Burroughs, the witty, rebellious wife of '50s bad-boy beat poet William Burroughs. --``Bruno,'' actress Shirley MacLaine's directing debut. Alex D. Linz plays an 8-year-old boy who wears dresses in order to feel more ``spiritual,'' outraging his Catholic school's mother superior (Kathy Bates Bates , Katherine Lee 1859-1929. American educator and writer best known for her poem "America the Beautiful," written in 1893 and revised in 1904 and 1911. ). The cast also includes MacLaine, Gary Sinise, Joey Lauren Adams and Jennifer Tilly. --``Citizen James,'' a comedy directed, written, produced by and starring ``Cosby'' alum Doug E. Doug Doug E. Doug (born January 7 1970) is an American actor and comedian. Doug was born Douglas Bourne in Brooklyn, New York. He attended Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School in Brooklyn. , who plays a young filmmaker trying to make ``The Angela Davis Story'' on a Super-8 camera in his Brooklyn neighborhood. --``The Photographer,'' with Reg Rogers as Max Martin, a critically praised art photographer stricken with a massive creative block the night before an important gallery opening. He hits the streets of New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. searching for the scenes and subjects of 10 photographs that could save his career. ``Five Easy Pieces,'' which brought Jack Nicholson his first Academy Award nomination, gets a 30th anniversary screening Sunday, with director Bob Rafelson discussing the film afterward. Festival organizers praise the 1970 movie, about a malcontent mal·con·tent adj. Dissatisfied with existing conditions. n. 1. A chronically dissatisfied person. 2. One who rebels against the established system: leaving his wealthy family to work in a Texas oil field, as ``an important precursor to the films of the American Independent movement.'' Audience awards will be presented at Tuesday's closing-night gala, along with ``Big Eden,'' writer-director Thomas Bezucha's feature film debut about a New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of photographer who returns to his small hometown in Montana. The festival also is offering seminars on financing, music, documentaries, shorts, distribution and, of course, film festivals. Neil LaBute (``In the Company of Men'') and Agnieszka Holland (``The Secret Garden'') are set to speak at the directing seminar, while Robert Forster is slated to appear at the program on acting. Most screenings are at the DGA DGA Directors Guild of America (movie directors union) DGA Délégation Générale pour l'Armement (France) DGA Directeur-Grootaandeelhouder (Dutch: Managing Director and Major Shareholder) , 7920 Sunset Blvd. in Los Angeles, with some at the Laemmle Sunset 5, 8000 W. Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood. Screenings are $8.50 each, except for opening and closing galas. Passes combining screenings, parties and seminars are available for $125 to $500. For schedules and additional information, call (323) 937-9155 or go to www.laiff.com on the Web. To order tickets, call (888) 386-8497 or go to www.etm.com on the Web. CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1 -- 2) ``The Photographer,'' starring Marisa Berenson, Anthony Michael Hall, Reg Rogers and Kristen Wilson, makes its debut at the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival, opening tonight. At right, Rogers roams the streets of New York for visual inspiration. |
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