IFFB 2008 line-up is online
The Independent Film Festival of Boston goes into its sixth year from April 23 to 29, and the line-up of films has just been posted online.
It looks to be a strong group. Two of the better fictional films from this year's Sundance are here: "Ballast" and Azazel Jacobs' "Momma's Man," the first a bleak but brilliantly told slice of life in the Deep South, the latter a pleasingly minimalist comedy about a grown man who can't bring himself to leave his parents' house. Also on the line-up are two fine off-Sundance docs: "American Teen" and, from local filmmakers/Harvard profs Robb Moss and Peter Galison, "Secrecy."
There's new work from directors Brad Anderson (opening night film "Transiberian"), Guy Maddin ("My Winnipeg"), Harmony Korine ("Mister Lonely"), and Werner Herzog ("Encounters at the End of the World"). Roxbury-based filmmaker Robert Patton-Spruill chips in the doc "Public Enemy: Welcome to the Terrordome." Newbie superstar Ellen Page is featured in "The Tracey Fragments" (photo above), while actors Mary Stuart Masterson and Chris Eigeman turn director with, respectively, "The Cake Eaters" and "Turn the River." There are Asian epics ("Mongol") and Asian action flicks ("Triangle," directed by Johnnie To, Ringo Lam, and Tsui Hark). There's even a new movie from "Re-Animator" director and cult figure Stuart Gordon, and it sounds mighty weird.
This is a film festival, folks.
