Wednesday, June 25-------Jerry Rudes is a man on a mission. For the past quarter century, he has lived with one foot in New York and the other in the lovely Provence city of Avignon, France. Reflecting his own dual domiciles, he founded the Avignon Film Festival in 1984 as a “transatlantic crossroads of independent cinema”. When asked to comment on his original inspiration for founding the event, Rudes told of a memorable encounter with filmmaker Agnès Varda. “When I first went to Cannes ...

Specials Screenings / Séances Spéciales BALLETS RUSSES (USA, 2005, 120 min) de Dan Gellar & Dayna Goldfine DISAPPEARENCES (Disparitions, USA, 2006, 118 min) de Jay Craven LA MAIN DE L'HOMME SANS TETE (The Hand Of Headless Man, Belgique, France, Hollande 2007, 100 min) de Guillaume et Stéphane Malandrin POULTRYGEIST (La Terreur des Volailles, USA, 2006, 103 min) de Lloyd Kaufman TIED TO A CHAIR (Ligoté à une Chaise, USA, 2008, 115 min) de Michael Bergmann ...

The 2006 Rural Route Film Festival will take place at Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Avenue (at 2nd Street), from Friday, July 28 through Sunday, July 30. Tickets are $8.00 for all films.Programs include: a special screening of the acclaimed PBS series COUNTRY BOYS (chronicling the lives of two Kentucky high school students) w/award-winning PBS documentarian DAVID SUTHERLAND in person for Q&A, music documentary "HOMEMADE HILBILLY JAM", and the New York premiere of "DISAPPEARANCES", starri...