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Sep 16 09 10:06 PM
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Some festivals don't announce films until shortly before the fest, so I'm not concerned. The AFI Fest is just beginning to announce their lineup. Per Variety today:
AFI Fest has unveiled its first official selections with a dozen films including Lee Daniels' "Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Saphire," Werner Herzog's "The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans" and Bong Joon-ho's "Mother."
The festival will also debut its "See a Film on Us" initiative with free tickets to all films including a limited number of seats at the "gala" presentations.
The films will be screened at the Chinese Theater and Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel between Oct. 30 and Nov. 5 and then move to Santa Monica for the final two days of screenings in association with the American Film Market.
The lineup also includes French/Italian co-productions, "A Prophet" and "Vincere"; Claude Chabrol's "Bellamy"; Maren Ade's "Everyone Else"; Michael Hoffman's "The Last Station"; Ken Loach's "Looking for Eric"; Corneliu Porumboiu's "Police Adjective"; the "Red Riding" trilogy of films by Julian Jarrold, James Marsh and Anand Tucker; and Harmony Korine's "Trash Humpers."
"These first dozen titles offer a wonderful preview to our lineup which is a survey of the year's significant films," said festival artistic director Rose Kuo. "They represent a diversity of voices and we take great pride in being able to bring them to Los Angeles audiences for the first time."
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