Get your Cinefest tickets soon — some of the most popular films are already selling out, said Cinefest managing director Patrick O’Hearn Tuesday.
Overall, tickets are selling briskly for the movie festival, starting this Saturday evening (Sept. 19) at 7 p.m. and continuing until Sunday, Sept. 27 at SilverCity.
“The first gala film, Cooking With Stella, screening Sept. 19, is selling a lot of tickets,” said O’Hearn. The gala afterwards will be held at the Sudbury Theatre Centre, on Shaughnessy Street downtown.
The film, written by siblings Dilip and Deepa Metha and set in New Delhi, is a satire about different cultures clashing in India.
Another hot ticket-seller, according to O’Hearn, is Chloe, an erotic thriller, being presented Sept. 26 at 7 p.m.
“Chloe is now taking off at the Toronto International Film Festival this week,” the director said. “Get your tickets for this one. It is Atom Egoyan’s best film yet.”
The gala afterwards is at the Cambrian College Student’s Centre.
Other movies, playing Sunday, Sept. 20, include The Cove, at 12 p.m., A Shine of Rainbows, at 12:30 p.m., Departures, at 2:30 p.m, and Precious: Based on the novel Push by Sapphire, at 7 p.m.
“Departures was the best foreign film at the 2008 Oscars. A Shine of Rainbows is a beautiful film set in Ireland,” noted O’Hearn. The scenery is magnificent as is the story, he added.
The film Precious is also on the verge of selling out.
The Sunday gala film plays at 7 p.m., with the reception afterward at the Radisson Hotel’s Palladium Room. The film, set in Harlem in 1987, is the story of Claireece Precious Jones, an illiterate African American teenager, who is pregnant for the second time by her absent father. Struggling to get out of her situation, she enrolls in an alternative school where possibilities open up for her.
It Might Get Loud, an American film directed by Davis Guggenheim, is about three generations of musicians The Edge (U2), Jack White (The White Stripes) and Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin). The film is also creating a lot of attention by movie fans, admitted O’Hearn.
“Everybody is talking about this one. It is about three guitarists growing up and even features them jamming together.”
The movie screens Monday, Sept. 21 at 8 p.m.
An Education, a British film which screens at 9:30 p.m. the same evening, could be an Oscar winner, said O’Hearn.
Set in London, in 1961, the film features a smart 17-year-old girl who has just met an attractive male newcomer.
Cinefest now has movie schedules and write-ups available at its office at 49 Durham St. Passports for all Cinefest events are $200. Gala film presentations, including receptions afterward, are $19.50. A single ticket is $10. A book of 10 tickets is $85.50 or a book of four is $38.50. Phone 688-1234 or visit www.cinefest.com
