Courtesy Cinescoop
Cinema St. Louis Announces Lineup
21st Annual Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival (Nov.
8-18, 2012)
October
25, 2012 - The lights are about to go down, and the stars are getting
ready to shine.
The 21st Annual Whitaker St.
Louis International Film Festival (SLIFF) will be held Nov. 8-18. SLIFF will
screen more than 400 films: 110 narrative features, 73 documentary features,
and 226 shorts. This year's festival has a record 209 programs, with 50 countries
represented.
The fest will host more than
100 filmmakers and related guests, including honorees Joe Dante (Lifetime
Achievement Award), Ross McElwee (Maysles Bros. Lifetime Achievement Award in
Documentary), Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg (Women in Film Award), and Beau
Willimon (Charles Guggenheim Cinema St. Louis Award).
The festival opens with the St.
Louis premiere of "Silver Linings Playbook," a dazzling new comedy by
David O. Russell ("The Fighter," "Three Kings"). Starring
Bradley Cooper, Robert De Niro, Jacki Weaver, and Jennifer Lawrence (who's
generating significant Oscar® buzz), "Silver Linings Playbook" won
the People's Choice Award at the 2012 Toronto Film Festival.
Other prominent films featured
in the festival include "A Late Quartet" (SLIFF's Opening Weekend
Spotlight Selection), "Hyde Park on the Hudson," "Stand Up
Guys," "Jayne Mansfield's Car," "Quartet," "Rust
and Bone," "Struck by Lightning," "The Giant Mechanical
Man," and "The Sapphires."
The fest schedule, ticket information,
and a complete list of films (with descriptions) are available at the Cinema
St. Louis Web site (www.cinemastlouis.org).
SLIFF's primary venues are the
following theaters:
- Hi-Pointe Theatre, 1005
McCausland Ave.
- Plaza Frontenac Cinema, Plaza Frontenac,
Lindbergh Boulevard and Clayton Road
- Tivoli Theatre, 6350 Delmar
Blvd.
- Washington University, Brown
Hall Auditorium, Forsyth and Skinker boulevards
- Webster University, Webster
Hall's Moore Auditorium, 470 East Lockwood Ave.
- Wildey Theatre, 252 N. Main St.,
Edwardsville, Ill.
