Atlanta Film Fest lineup
February 27th, 2008 by Felicia Feaster in FilmThe Atlanta Film Festival has announced its lineup for the April 10-19 event, available on its website.
I am especially excited to see that the opening film, The Lena Baker Story, about the first and only woman sentenced to die in the electric chair in Georgia and which was shot in Colquitt, Ga., features Jasper, Ala., native Michael Rooker, who made such a creepy film debut in John McNaughton’s 1986 film Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer.
The closing-night film is from the wonderful The Station Agent director (and actor in Michael Clayton and Year of the Dog) Tom McCarthy. McCarthy’s The Visitor is about a college professor (Richard Jenkins) who returns to NYC to find his apartment has been rented to two illegal immigrants. Variety called it “this year’s humanistic indie hit.â€
February 27th, 2008 at 5:12 pm
‘The Vistor’ director Tom McCarthy’s current claim to fame is that he plays the conniving Scott Templeton, a newspaper reporter with a “Jayson Blair problem” on the current, final, awesome season of ‘The Wire.’