In between hustling to all the screenings he introduced—and ensuring the Festival’s program ran on schedule “like a German train station”—Director of Programming Robert Koehler helped photographically document AFI FEST 2009; here are some of his pics and captions.
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THE MESSENGER opened in New York and Los Angeles on Friday, November 13. It opens across the country on Friday, November 20. Ticket information .
Our Opening Night film was THE FANTASTIC MR. FOX, and it paved the way for three more animated films.
For Tolstoy—and Michael Hoffman’s film about him—tensions reign supreme.
The New Lights jury—comprised of two actresses, two filmmakers and a writer—gives top honors to two equally deserving directors, plus a special jury prize.
These excerpts were taken from a press conference for our Closing Night film, A SINGLE MAN, with principle members of the cast and the films director.
Tom Ford’s film makes a poignant illustration of the climate of cinema at the moment; it is a work by a leading figure of an industry whose imprint transfers into the medium of cinema almost naturally.
Virtually every conversation in Corneliu Porumboiu’s film, be it about sports or popular music, is built on the slippery shoals of communication.
More than ten years in the making, this documentary highlights ordinary people seeking justice while living in limbo.
Three of this year’s films highlight the effort and creativity of rehearsals: are they preparation . . . or are they performance?
In front of a packed house on Wednesday at Grauman’s Chinese Theare, AFI FEST paid tribute to actor Viggo Mortensen before a gala screening of THE ROAD.
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