Indie Memphis Film Festival gears up
06.10.11
The acclaimed Memphis high-school football documentary "Undefeated" and the made-in-Memphis period punk rock comedy-drama "Losers Take All" will be among the highlights of the 14th annual Indie Memphis Film Festival, set for the first weekend in November.
Also on the schedule is "Melancholia," the new end-of-the-world film from Danish director and controversy-magnet Lars von Trier, whose bizarre comments about Nazis at a post-screening press conference at this year's Cannes Film Festival earned more attention than the Best Actress Award earned by his star, Kirsten Dunst.
The festival also will screen a restored 35-millimeter print of Martin Scorsese's 1976 masterpiece "Taxi Driver" and two films from notable Memphis directors, Morgan Jon Fox's "This Is What Love in Action Looks Like," a documentary about a controversial local ministry that claimed to be able to "cure" gay people of their same-sex orientation; and Brian Pera's "Woman's Story," starring actress and 1980s New York scenester Ann Magnuson and local singer-songwriter Amy LaVere.
Source: DeSoto Appeal