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A Chinese Cinderella and a Car with a Dangerous Appetite
Day Two at the Asheville Film Festival
November 14th, 2007 | Darren Dahl
At the Asheville Film Festival, big-name films such as The Savages and When The Devil Knows You're Dead fail to impress, while an animated film from China wins the top honors. A mob comedy wowed the crowd, as did a horror film about a very hungry car. And did we mention Marisa Tomei's commitment to her craft? Also, check our recap on Day One at the festival.
The Asheville Film Festival wrapped up this weekend. The Year of the Fish, an animated take on a Chinese version of the Cinderella story garnered top film honors. Given America's perpetual fascination with gangsters, though, the comedy Randy and the Mob, a runner-up best feature award-winner, may prove to have the most legs.
For "The Savages," Many Restrictions Apply
Day One at the Asheville Film Festival
November 9th, 2007 | Darren Dahl
Tamara Jenkins's film The Savages is getting a lot of buzz. But the buzz at the Asheville Film Festival, where the film was screened on opening night, was mostly from the handheld wands that the security guards used to make sure that absolutely no mobile phones or recording devices made it into the Diana Wortham Theatre. The Independent's Darren Dahl reports on the scene. Visit our film festival page for more festival news.
The fifth annual Asheville Film festival kicked off last night with The Savages, the eagerly anticipated film directed by Tamara Jenkins and starring Philip Seymour Hoffman and Laura Linney. In contrast with typical standards of Southern hospitality, the film's producers made festival goers run a gauntlet at the screening at the Diana Wortham Theatre.
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