Guys, have you seen the Ebertfest 2010 lineup? Drool city. According to his Rogerness,
The 12th annual festival will be held April 21-25 at the landmark 1,600-seat Virginia Theater in Champaign-Urbana, and for the first time ever, all festival Q&A sessions and panel discussions will be streamed live on the Internet.
Eeeeee! That means those of us unable to come on and feel the Illinoise won't have to miss out on Barbet Schroeder, Michael Tolkin, my polymath boyfriend Walter Murch, or Charlie freakin' Kaufman [does Filmbrain know about this]? What we will not get to experience, however, is Alloy Orchestra accompanying Man with a Movie Camera. Oh, and just "the only surviving 70mm print of Pink Floyd the Wall (1982), the rock opera by Roger Waters. It's a loan from the British Film Institute." Plus, robot Roger: "Thanks to my computer-generated voice, I plan to play a larger role onstage this year."
But the film I'm saddest about not seeing -- again* -- is the doc Song Sung Blue. Here's Ebs:
The festival traditionally closes on Sunday afternoon with a film followed by a live musical performance, and do we have a discovery this year! We'll show Greg Kohs' documentary "Song Sung Blue" (2008), about a Milwaukee husband and wife duo named Lightning and Thunder, whose tributes to Neil Diamond and Patsy Cline won large, loyal audiences. Then "Thunder," Claire Sardina, will perform, and trust me on this: She's dynamite.
*I stupidly chose to see something else at IFFBoston when it played. Speaking of which, that's where I'll be during Ebertfest again this year. More on that soon.
