Upcoming Shows

After the Story Under the Stars Outdoor Film Series, the Bozeman Film Festival resumes its 2010-2011 season at the Emerson's Crawford Theater on Thursday, September 9th. See more information below.

Story Under the Stars

Showing Friday September 3rd
Meredith Willson's The Music Man
On the lawn of the Story Mansion

Pre-show events - live music, food, picnic - starts at 6:00. Arrive early for best lawn seating. Film starts at dusk - 8:30.

"A classic of corn, small town nostalgia and American love of a parade." - Variety

The Music Man was one of the last great movie musicals from any studio, and it proved to be that rarest of events: a Broadway show that was measurably improved by its transition to the screen. Robert Preston made his musical debut--both live and on film--as "Professor" Harold Hill, the upbeat charlatan who promises to teach a small-town boys band by the "think system." But it's the part Preston was born to play and the one for which he will always be best remembered. Composer Meredith Willson based The Music Man on his own small-town Midwestern boyhood, circa 1912, a quasi-mythical place where the old-maid librarian looks and sings like Shirley Jones. The boy himself is an adorable Ron Howard, lisp-singing "Gary, Indiana." Willson's entire score, featuring a combination of what are now standards, such as "Goodnight My Someone" and "Till There Was You" and show-specific numbers ("Trouble," "76 Trombones"), is never less than infectious. This dazzling special edition is also as bright and sunny as any 4th of July in Iowa could ever hope to be. Blu Ray and surround sound.

Starring:
"Professor" Harold Hill . . . . . Robert Preston
Marian Paroo . . . . . Shirley Jones
Mayor Shinn . . . . . Paul Ford
Eulalie Shinn . . . . . Hermione Gingold
Marcellus Washburn . . . . . Buddy Hackett

Rated G, Run Time: 151 mins

New York Times Review and Trailer from 1962
IMDB Reviews (7.6)
Trailers
Rotten Tomatoes 93%

Showing Thursday, September 9th - 7pm
The Secret In Their Eyes
At the Emerson

2010 Academy Award Winner - Best Foreign Language Film

Director: Juan Jose Campanella. Cast: Ricardo Darin, Soledad Villamil, Guillermo Francella.

The Secret in Their Eyes was the surprise winner of the Oscar for best foreign-language film. After finally getting to see it, I understood why the Argentine thriller beat the favorites, France's A Prophet and Germany's The White Ribbon. Juan Jose Campanella's drama about a retired investigator who decides to write a book about a 25-year-old murder case is much more than a noirish crime story. It's a piercing exploration of obsessive love, unfulfilled desire and fragmented memory. When Benjamin (Ricardo Darin) starts re-examining the rape and killing of a gorgeous young woman in 1974, he reconnects with Irene (Soledad Villamil), a classy former colleague who is now a married judge. Benjamin has been secretly in love with Irene for decades and his unrequited passion has left him with a hollow feeling. Told primarily in flashbacks, the film recounts how Benjamin and his alcoholic partner Sandoval (Guillermo Francella) tracked down the killer (Javier Godino), only to see him released from prison to become an informer for the repressive state police. Fearful that he will seek revenge, Benjamin leaves Buenos Aires without telling Irene that he loves her. He remains haunted by memories of her and the murder victim's husband, a bank worker who never recovers from the tragedy. A quarter-century later, Benjamin must resolve those lingering emotions before moving on with his life.

Rating: 129 minutes. Rated R ( for a rape scene, violent images, some graphic nudity and language.) In Spanish with subtitles.

Beautifully acted and imaginatively shot, The Secrets in Their Eyes is a murder mystery with a poetic soul.

Official web site
IMDB Reviews (8.4)
Trailers
Rotten Tomatoes 93%

Hatchfest 2010 - September 22-26
Check out Bozeman's Hatchfest.

Showing Thursday, September 30th - 7pm
Micmacs
At the Emerson

"Awesome! An exploded grandfather clock of a movie." -The Village Voice

Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet Cast: Dany Boon, Andrè Dussollier, Omar Sy, Dominique Pinon, Julie Ferrier, Nicolas Mariè 104 minutes. Rated R sex and violence. In French with subtitles.

View the Trailer

Micmacs is a whimsical whirligig of a movie filled with salvaged metal and salvaged lives, where a bullet to the brain brings insight and a bunch of clever misfits brings a couple of weapons-making giants to their knees. What fun. This good-versus-evil fable soon reveals itself to be a wide-ranging philosophical playground for French filmmaker Jean-Pierre Jeunet as he settles into a Paris junkyard where discards, human and otherwise, find a second life. Bazil is our hero. Orphaned when his father was blown to bits by a land mine, heros grown up to be a video-store clerk content to pass the time watching classic films. A stray bullet from a drive-by changes everything. Both Bazil and his world are infused with a surreal circus quality to start with, but that sensibility grows sharper when he's taken in by a collection of freaks who make their home in the scrapyard. In Paris, even the dumps are beautiful. As much sheer pleasure as there is to this comeuppance story, the look of the film pulls more than its weight in layering in context. But whatever the influences, Micmacs is ultimately shaped by Jeunet's unique creative vision -- a fun house of mirrors that is lovely to get lost in. (Excerpted from the Los Angeles Times reiew by Betsy Sharkey)

Official web site
IMDB Reviews (7.3)
Trailers
Rotten Tomatoes 74%

Spring 2010 Film Schedule - Bozeman Film Festival

Friday August 13th
Young Frankenstein

Friday September 3rd
The Music Man

Thursday September 9th
The Secret In Their Eyes

Thursday September 30th
Micmacs

Prices and Membership Information

• $7 - General Admission
• $6 - Emerson Center member or Museum of the Rockies member
• $5 - Students and Seniors

Two Membership Options

Cheap Seat Discount Pass
The pass costs $30 and includes admission to 6 BFF movies bringing the price down to $5 per film. There is no expiration date.

Patron Passes
The Bozeman Film Festival and Montana Ale Works have teamed up to offer a great deal. Purchase a BFF Patron Pass for $100 and receive a $25 gift certificate to Montana Ale Works.

Patron Pass holders also receive fabulous year-round benefits from Over the Tapas ($4 off food tab over $20 on Monday or Tuesday nights), Borders Books (20% off 1 book or CD per visit with a free Borders Reward Card) and The Emerson Grill (1 free appetizer with purchase of 2 dinners Monday &nights; Thursday evenings).

Patron Passes are valid for one year from the date of purchase and entitle the holder and a guest to admission to all regular BFF movies and reduced admission to Partner Films.

Purchase a Patron Pass by mailing a check made out to the Bozeman Film Festival to:

Bozeman Film Festival
Emerson Center for the Arts
111 S Grand Ave, Suite 112
Bozeman, MT 59715

Be sure to include the name, address, and email address of the pass holder. Passes can also be purchased at any BFF movie. For more information, please call 585.8881.

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As a non-profit organization, Bozeman Film Festival has brought quality independent and foreign films to Southwest Montana since 1978. For over 31 years BFF has been a mainstay in Bozeman's cultural community providing a cinematic venue year around. Today, we still strive to seek out and present those films and documentaries which engage, entertain, and foster an understanding of the world community around us. Keep em Flickering!

Bozeman Film Festival Board Members:
Lisa McGrory, Paula Mozen, Bill Neff, Brenda Papera, Michael McGough, Ron Gompertz, Billy Costigan, and Paula Posey.