Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Swank Takes Off As "Amelia"...

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As Sneak Peek first reported October 2007, "Amelia" is the Canadian-lensed feature, based on the life of aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart, starring actors Hilary Swank, Richard Gere, Ewan McGregor and Virginia Madsen, directed by Mira Nair based on a script by Ronald Bass.

Bass wrote the script using several books on Earhart as sources including author Susan Butler's "East to the Dawn", Mary S. Lovell's "The Sound of the Wings" and Elgin Long's "Amelia Earhart: The Mystery Solved."

The new film chronicles Earhart's rise to fame and her relationship with husband 'George Putnam'.

Historically, Earhart was the first woman to receive the 'Distinguished Flying Cross' for flying solo across the Atlantic Ocean, authored best-selling novels about her flying experiences and was instrumental in the formation of 'The Ninety-Nines' organization for women pilots.

Earhart disappeared over the central Pacific Ocean near Howland Island during an attempt to make a circumnavigational flight of the globe in 1937.





TIFF 2009: Romero @ Free Screening Of "Night Of The Living Dead"...

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Genre director George A. Romero, will host a free screening of his classic feature film "Night Of The Living Dead" @ this year's Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF).

TIFF will also be launching a series of free films, with director Jonathan "Silence Of The Lambs" Demme, @ Toronto's Yonge-Dundas Square.

Romero will appear at the screening of his 1968 feature "Night of the Living Dead', Sept 12, Demme will host the screening of his concert film "The Neil Young Trunk Show", Sept. 14 and Baez will perform Sept. 18 at the screening of her new doc "American Masters - Joan Baez".


Other screenings include concert/musical films "Stop Making Sense", "Rattle and Hum", "The Last Waltz" and "Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man".

Actress Isabella Rossellini has adapted her shorts, "Green Porno", about how insects mate, into a special installation including video/sculptures of sea creatures, offering a free talk/screening, Sept. 10.

The 34th Toronto International Film Festival runs Sept. 10 to 19.


Sneak Peek the 1968 trailer of Romero's "Night Of The Living Dead" and a trailer for Rossellini's "Green Porno"...


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