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Crazy Like a Fox
USA, 2003, 98 min., feature, 35 mm
Director: Richard Squires
Writer: Richard Squires
Producers: Patricia Foulkrod, Bill Warrell
Cast: Roger Rees, Mary McDonnell, Paul Fitzgerald, Christina Rouner

In modern Virginia, Nat Banks, the seventh-generation owner of historically significant Greenwood, must sell the house and farm that have been tied to his family for two centuries. When a big-city husband-and-wife team of real estate brokers buys Greenwood from a reluctant Banks, they get more than they bargained for.

Monday, Oct. 25, 10 a.m., Trustees Theater
Wednesday, Oct. 27, 3 p.m., Lucas Theatre

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Dandelion
USA, 2003, 94 min., feature, 35 mm
Director: Mark Milgard
Writers: Mark Milgard, R.D. Murphy, Robb Williamson
Producer: Molly M. Mayeux
Cast: Vincent Kartheiser, Taryn Manning, Arliss Howard, Mare Winningham, Blake Herron, Michelle Forbes, Marshall Bell, Shawn Reaves

Mason, a teenage rural midwesterner with a tense family life, doesn't speak much. Danny has moved around her entire life with a mother determined not to let her daughter make her same mistakes. Mason and Danny fall deeply and effortlessly in love, taking solace in each other amid the chaotic lives of their friends and family. A sudden accident, however, steals Mason's sense of well-being and threatens to overwhelm him.

Sunday, Oct. 24, 3 p.m., Trustees Theater
Saturday, Oct. 30, 12:30 p.m., Lucas Theatre

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Entertaining Vietnam
USA/Australia, 2002, 53 min., documentary, BetaSP
Director: Mara Wallis
Writer: Mara Wallis
Producer: Mara Wallis

War-ravaged Vietnam was a dangerous place not only for the soldiers who came to fight, but also for the musicians, actors and dancers who visited camps to entertain. Vintage footage of performances is interspersed with present-day interviews to reveal what a hazardous yet fulfilling job it was to make the troops forget their precarious situations, if only for a short while.

Monday, Oct. 25, 3 p.m., Trustees Theater
Friday, Oct. 29, 12:30 p.m., Lucas Theatre

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Finding Eléazar
USA, 2003, 78 min., documentary, BetaSP
Director: Paula Heil Fisher
Writer: Paula Heil Fisher
Producer: Paula Heil Fisher
Cast: Neil Shicoff

Legendary tenor Neil Shicoff discovers more than the role of his lifetime in the French opera "La Juive" (The Jewess). Through the filming of a music video of the production's grand aria to the opening night of the opera's first staging since being banned by the Nazis in 1936, Shicoff explores his ethnicity, religion, artistry and mortality. Shicoff is intimately filmed at rehearsals, in recording studios and backstage to record his process of internalizing the role.

Tuesday, Oct. 26, 3 p.m., Trustees Theater
Friday, Oct. 29, 10 a.m., Lucas Theatre

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Gravity
USA, 2004, 17:08 min., short, BetaSP
Director: Erik Weigel
Writer: Erik Weigel
Producer: Erik Weigel
Cast: Salvatore Interlandi, Ben Braun

Caught in the trees by their parachutes after failed missions during World War II, a German paratrooper and an American fighter pilot are forced to contemplate their shared humanity and likely fate. As the night progresses and the cold of the French countryside sets in, they are forced to rely on one another for strength and survival.

Sunday, Oct. 24, 3 p.m., Trustees Theater
Saturday, Oct. 30, 12:30 p.m., Lucas Theatre

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Infidelity
USA, 2003, 8 min., short, BetaSP
Director: Jacques Thelemaque
Writer: Jacques Thelemaque
Producer: Jacques Thelemaque
Cast: Warren Davis, Caryn Shalita, Steven Marraco

Playing on themes of faith, trust and love, this film explores the unraveling of a marriage and the deception of an affair through a three-sided, four-paneled storytelling technique.

Tuesday, Oct. 26, 3 p.m., Trustees Theater
Friday, Oct. 29, 10 a.m., Lucas Theatre

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Lift
USA, 2004, 30 min., short, 35 mm
Directors: Hugues Dalton, Jeff Garton
Writers: Hugues Dalton, Jeff Garton
Producers: Hugues Dalton, Jeff Garton
Cast: Dominique Pinon

An elevator operator is in love with a steno-pool worker who prefers to take the stairs to the 20th floor. He sends her letters and creative gifts that seem to evoke her innermost dreams, but he has no direct communication with her. People enter, ride and exit the elevator and life is frightfully normal around the two people whose correspondence brings some light into their lackluster jobs and lonely lives. When an opportunity arises for the two to go on a trip, they face a moment of transformation that could forever alter their lives.

Tuesday, Oct. 26, 10 a.m., Trustees Theater
Friday, Oct. 29, 3 p.m., Lucas Theatre

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Luke
USA, 2004, 11 min., short, 35 mm
Director: Michael Chaney
Writer: Michael Chaney
Producer: Michael Chaney
Cast: Gabe Brandt, Meqbel Salamah

A contemporary tale of the biblical Good Samaritan parable, Luke tells the story of a wounded American soldier who is left for dead during wartime.

Sunday, Oct. 24, 3 p.m., Trustees Theater
Saturday, Oct. 30, 12:30 p.m., Lucas Theatre

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Make 'Em Dance: The Hackberry Ramblers' Story
USA, 2003, 70 min., documentary, BetaSP
Director: John Whitehead
Writer: John Whitehead
Producers: John Whitehead and Ben Sandmel
Cast: Luderin Darbone, Edwin Duhone

Since 1933, the Hackberry Ramblers have played their blend of Cajun music and western swing. The band's cofounders, fiddler Luderin Darbone and accordionist Edwin Duhn, continue to lead the band today. Make 'Em Dance tells the story of the band and their 70-year odyssey.

Tuesday, Oct. 26, 12:30 p.m., Trustees Theater
Saturday, Oct. 30, 10 a.m., Lucas Theatre

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On the Cliffs
USA, 2004, 15 min., short, BetaSP
Director: Lisa Perry
Writers: Jessie Hutcheson, Lisa Perry
Producers: Lisa Perry, Jessie Hutcheson
Cast: Lisa Perry, Jessie Hutcheson, Joanna Rush, George Theodore

Best friends Penelope and Dora are the producers and stars of a local cable access show devoted to staging classics such as Macbeth and Moby Dick, only the productions are based of the CliffsNotes® version of the novels rather than the classics themselves. Problems arise, however, when Penelope and Dora attempt their interpretation of George Orwell's Animal Farm. This documentary-style short follows the friends as they deconstruct the plot-and each other.

Tuesday, Oct. 26, 12:30 p.m., Trustees Theater
Saturday, Oct. 30, 10 a.m., Lucas Theatre

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Sara Goes to Lunch
USA, 2003, 20 min., short, 35 mm
Director: Dean Kapsalis
Writer: Dean Kapsalis
Producer: Tommy Minnix
Cast: Sally Nacker, Harry Prichett, Richie Allan, Bunny Levine, Jo Ann Havrilla, Fiddle Viracola

In this darkly comic fable, a widow escapes her dreary office job for lunch against her tyrannical boss' orders. To prolong her lunch, she orders a bowl of alphabet soup, which leads to a surprising lunch and new decisions.

Sunday, Oct. 24, 12:30 p.m., Trustees Theater
Saturday, Oct. 30, 3 p.m., Lucas Theatre

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Seven's Eleven

USA, 2003, 12:56 min., short, DVD
Director: Amy Iorio
Writers: Stuart DeSpain, Ralph G. Barton
Producers: Denise Iorio, Ralph G. Barton, Amy Iorio
Cast: Jordan Garrett, Annie O'Donnell, Mikaila Valenzuela, Sierra Taylor, Eddie Velez, Christen Harper, Travis Philipsen, Nicholas Thompson, Dylan Lowenstein

A stylized crime drama--with preteens. All it takes is a little planning and careful casting, and "snack-jack" is on. If everything goes well, they'll get enough candy to last through high school. But are the stakes too high?

Monday, Oct. 25, 10 a.m., Trustees Theater
Wednesday, Oct. 27, 3 p.m., Lucas Theatre

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Standing Room Only
Australia/USA, 2003, 12 min., short, 35 mm
Director: Deborra-Lee Furness
Writer: Deborra-Lee Furness
Producer: Christopher Elsey
Cast: William Ash, Nicholas Audsley, Sophie Dahl, Michael Gambon, Hugh Jackman, Maureen Lipman, Joanna Lumley, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Andy Serkis

Outside an urban theater promising standing-room-only tickets to see a play, an unlikely group waits for tickets. As more people race to join the line for the remaining eight tickets, an older woman and her dog arrive too late and are disappointed that they won't get a seat. Inside the theater, a surprise twist reveals how the pair makes it in after all.

Monday, Oct. 25, 12:30 p.m., Trustees Theater
Thursday, Oct. 28, 3 p.m., Lucas Theatre

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Starlet
USA, 2003, 11:39 min., short, BetaSP
Director: Rick Kent
Writer: Rick Kent
Producer: Mimi George Kent
Cast: Daniele Ferraro, Kristin Erickson, Sonja Mobley, Jennifer Wexler, Anna Lane, Elizabeth Donovan, Lacey Bonner, Casie Waller, Jennifer Qualls, Laura Thorburn, Megan Molloy, Jeanne Lombardelli, Lucy Walsh, Piper Layton, Stephanie Medina, Emily Van Sonnenberg, Cricket Leigh

In this short documentary, actresses attempting to break into the film industry reflect on why they choose to pursue acting as a career, in spite of all the hardships. As they talk, they share stories about Los Angeles, the film industry and what it takes to succeed.

Monday, Oct. 25, 3 p.m., Trustees Theater
Friday, Oct. 29, 12:30 p.m., Lucas Theatre

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This is Not a Film
USA, 2003, 88 min., feature, BetaCAM
Director: Michael A. Nickles
Writer: Michael A. Nickles
Producer: Michael A. Nickles
Cast: Micheal Leydon Campbell, Nadia Dajani

A modern "message in a bottle" from Michael, a 30-something Manhattan shoe salesman looking for Grace, the ex-girlfriend who left New York and never contacted him again. He convinces Nadia, an actress acquaintance, to reenact scenes from their relationship to try to convince whomever sees the "message in a bottle" to help him find Grace. Through the reenactment, Nadia helps him understand what he should have done to keep the relationship together.

Sunday, Oct. 24, 12:30 p.m., Trustees Theater
Saturday, Oct. 30, 3 p.m., Lucas Theatre

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Under Fire: A Photographer at War
USA/Iraq, 2004, 49:06 min., documentary, BetaSP
Director: Maximilian Block
Writer: Maximilian Block
Producer: Maximilian Block

A photojournalist puts himself at risk in war-torn Iraq to capture images that illustrate the horrors of war. His life is endangered not only by suicide bombs and gunfire, but also by the precariousness of his situation, since nothing is what it seems in such a violent country. This intimate, sometimes disturbing look at a war photographer's life provides a haunting glimpse into the terrors of his job and the misery of war.

Tuesday, Oct. 26, 10 a.m., Trustees Theater
Friday, Oct. 29, 3 p.m., Lucas Theatre


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