The Gold Coast Arts Center’s summer Furman Film Series is beginning June 26. These films are showing exclusively in Great Neck on June 26, July 10, July 17, July 24, August 7 and August 21. The first three screenings are programmed, and a fourth film confirmed, though the date has not been set yet.
Subscriptions are now available for $75 / $65 for seniors. Subscriptions include five screenings, plus a bonus screening. Subscribers also get perks including priority seating and discounts at local restaurants (full list available on our website goldcoastfilmfestival.org/furman). Individual tickets are $15 ($10 for students) when purchased in advance; $20 at the door. Subscriptions and tickets can be purchased by calling (516) 829-2570 or visiting goldcoastfilmfestival.org/furman).
All films start at 7:30 p.m. and are at the Bow Tie Squire Cinemas, 115 Middle Neck Road, Great Neck. Bonus screening will be at the Gold Coast Arts Center, 113 Middle Neck Road, Great Neck.
June 26:
ADVANCED STYLE
Directed by Lina Plioplyte. USA, 2014, 72 min.
Special Guests Ari Seth Cohen, the blogger behind Advanced Style, and several women who are featured in the film.
A hat-obsessed, bike-riding, part-time vintage store employee who trades shifts for clothing items. A mild-mannered lounge singer with the longest, most carefully groomed eyelashes you’ve ever seen. The advice-spouting owner of the popular boutique Off Broadway. These are the subjects of director Lina Plioplyte’s inspiring documentary Advanced Style. Pulled from the strongest entries on renowned fashion photographer Ari Seth Cohen’s popular blog, Advanced Style tells the fabulous true tales of seven of New York’s most stylish elderly women. Ranging in age from 62 to 95, these women refuse to fade into the background of society and instead flaunt their eclectic styles and embrace their individuality through their clothes and personal stories. Thanks to their exposure on Cohen’s blog, they’ve now obtained a devoted by legendary fashion labels, NY Fashion Week and much younger fashion mavens who aspire to pull off clothes with the ease of these ladies. Filled with colorful vitality, each vignette bursts with life, humor and, of course, style. Like the mantra for its characters, Plioplyte’s affirming doc reminds us that age is just a number and beauty is forever.
Official Selection: Hot Docs International Film Festival, Montclair International Film Festival, Melbourne International Film Festival
July 10:
MOOD INDIGO
Directed by Michel Gondry. France, 2013, 95 min. In French with English subtitles.
Starring Audrey Tautou and Romain Duris
Eminently inventive Michel Gondry (Oscar Winner, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) finds an ideal counterpart in Boris Vian, whose novel Foam of the Daze provides the foundation for this manic, visionary love story. Romain Duris plays wealthy bachelor Colin, whose hobbies include developing his pianocktail (a cocktail-making piano) and devouring otherworldly dishes prepared by his trusty chef Nicolas (Omar Sy). When Colin learns that his best friend Chick (Gad Elmaleh), a fellow acolyte of the philosopher Jean-Sol Partre, has a new American girlfriend, our lonely hero attends a friend’s party in hopes of falling in love himself. He soon meets Chloé (Audrey Tautou) and, before they know it, they’re dancing to Duke Ellington and plunging headfirst into a romance that Gondry rapturously depicts as only he can. Nominated for three 2014 César Awards (French Academy Awards).
Official Selection 2014 Rendezvous with French Cinema
Opening Night Film of the 2013 Karlovy Vary Film Festival
July 17:
SUMMER SHORTS
Short attention span when the temperature climbs above 80? We’ve got just the thing! These short films will make you laugh, cry, or fall in love in less time than it takes to fry an egg on the sidewalk.
*BONUS screening for subscribers. Individual tickets also available.
Date TBA:
A PLACE IN HEAVEN
Directed by Yossi Madmony. Israel, 2013, 117 min. In Hebrew with English subtitles.
A sweeping, deeply allegorical story of an admired war hero and his conflicted relationship with his son. When a retired general lies on his deathbed, bitter and alone, his estranged son, an ultra-orthodox Jew, tries to save his soul from hell. This quasi-Biblical, epic drama spans the history of Israel through 40 years and three wars, yet, like director Yossi Madmony’s previous film Restoration, it is, at its heart, about the relationship between a father and a son.
