Introduction Phillip Lopate
A celebration of the joyous possibilities of arts education. Telluride Film Festival
In 1979, Phillip Lopate directed a Broadway version of Uncle Vanya—starring New York City fifth and sixth graders. Lopate found that the “hidden agendas” beneath Chekhov’s dialogue resonated with the young actors’ lives. Filmmaker Sasha Waters Freyer was one of the students involved with that production. Making this film thirty years later, she reconnected with many of her former classmates, who are shown in footage from the era as well as in contemporary interviews. For Freyer, the film’s final message is that “childhood animates our adult lives and it is through the arts that we all connect to this living childhood within us.”
(72 mins, Color/B&W, Digibeta, From Pieshake Pictures)
7:00
A Soldier’s Daughter
Never Cries
James Ivory (U.S., 1998)
In Conversation James Ivory and Phillip Lopate
Kaylie Jones’s autobiographical novel, A Soldier’s Daughter Never Cries, is based on her life with her father, author James Jones (From Here To Eternity). James Ivory was drawn both to the saga of expatriate family life in Paris and to the character of Francis, a dramatic young boy. Told from the vantage point of the daughter, Channe, the film is broken into three chapters, each set in a different time and centered on an important person in Channe’s life—her adopted brother Billy, her school friend Francis, and her father. “Rarely has family life been presented with such refined precision” (TIFF).
Written by Ivory, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, based on the book by Kaylie Jones. Photographed by Jean-Marc Faber. With Kris Kristofferson, Barbara Hershey, Leelee Sobieski, Jane Birkin. (124 mins, Color, In English and French with English subtitles, 35mm, From Universal)
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