The Third Hamptons International Film Festival

Documentaries

Also new this year is a juried competition for Best Documentary Feature, sponsored by the Eastman-Kodak Company. Jurors for the new award will include Academy Award Winner Barbara Koppel (Harlan County, USA; American Dream), Michael Moore (Roger and Me; T.V. Nation), the Executive Director of the Global Village Documentary Film Festival, John Reilly (Waiting for Beckett; The Pursuit of Happiness). (America: Black and White; In Motion: Amir Baraka) and George Nierenberg (Say Amen Somebody; No Maps on My Taps), and John Freidman, founder of Documentary Center at Columbia University.

ANNE FRANK REMEMBERED
Director: Jon Blair - Great Britain 1995 US Premiere.

A riveting chronicle of the life and legacy of Anne Frank, featuring personal testimony from those who were close to her, extremely rare photos and archival footage, previously undisclosed family letters and excerpts from her diary read by Glenn Close. Narrated by Kenneth Branagh.
THU, 10/19, 6:30PM, UA4

CHINA: THE WILD EAST
Director: Peter Kaufman. United States 1995.
Narrated by Phillip Kauf man (who also executive produced and provided some camerawork), this new documentary provides a fascinating and quite revealing overview of China's headlong rush into the 21st Century, addressing the historical background, societal mind-set and contemporary changes enveloping the world's most populous country.
FRI, 10/20, 9:30PM, UA4

DELITS FLAGRANTS (CAUGHT IN THE ACT)
Director: Raymond Depardon - France - 1995 - US Premiere.
A wholly original documentary about the events following the arrest of a young Parisian criminal, Delits Flagrants takes us behind the scenes of the French criminal justice system to provide a fascinating and provocative portrayal of the judicial system as seen from the convict's point of view.
FRI, 10/20, 4:00PM, UA2

THE HAUNTED WORLD OF EDWARD D. WOOD JR.
Director: Brett Thompson - United States - 1995 - World Premiere.
A witty reconstruction of the filmmaking life and times of cult director Ed Wood, featuring rare footage and outtakes from his works, and a series of revealing interviews with long-time collaborators. A deliciously bizarre documentary staged and shot in the style of an Ed Wood movie. The screening will be accompanied by a presentation of Woods' "lost" 1948 debut short, "Crossroads of Laredo".
SAT, 10/21, 3:4SPM, UA4

HEIDI FLEISS HOLLYWOOD MADAME
Director: Nick Broomfield - United States - 1995 - World Premiere.
An unexpectedly engrossing account of the trials and tribulations of Hollywood's most notorious purveyor of sex in the nineties, this endlessly entertaining documentary includes jaw-dropping interviews with Miss Fleiss herself, as well as the infamous Madame Alex, Ivan Nagy and a host of other characters who were closest to the action leading up to Fleiss' very public comeupance.
SAT. 10/21, 7:00PM, UA4

RICHARD AVEDON: DARKNESS AND LIGHT
Director: Helen Whitney - United States - 1995 - World Premiere
Arguably the most influential fashion photographer of the 20th Century, Richard Avedon is himself the subject of this insightful exploration of an artist's life and work, focusing on the ways in which he revolutionized the whole concept of fashion photography, beginning with his seminal fashion spreads for Vogue in the 1940's and 50's.
SAT, 10/21, 9:15AM, UA4

PUNK
Director: /Screenwriter: Ted Haimes-United States-1995.
In the 70's when Rock and roll went corporate, young musicians in England couldn't stand the status quo. "I wanna be an Anarchist," sang Johnny Rotten and meant it. On the other side of the pond, Iggy Pop "hated school, hated being confined in office clothes, hated the guys in the fraternity in the college town where I lived. Hated the whole American dream." The New York Dolls, Velvet Underground, The Ramones, Talking Heads, Slash, Bono, Elvis Costello, Patti Smith and other formative figures in this Epochal Rock movement contribute fascinating interviews and performances to this film; the result is a vivid and surprising portrait of an overhyped, but highly underrated era in Rock History.
SUN, 10/ 22, 9:30PM, UA4

SURVIVORS OF THE HOLOCAUST
Director: Alan Holzman - United States - 1995.
The first in a projected series of films based on Steven Spielberg's Shoah Project, this gripping collection of interviews with living survivors of the Holocaust presents an indelible, first-person account of the horrors inflicted upon humankind by the perpetrators of Hitler's 'final solution'. Spielberg himself provides an eloquent coda to the interviews contained in the film, adding a historical perspective to the resonant voices of those who lived through Hitler's atrocities.
THU, 10/19, 11:00AM, UA4 - FREE ADMISSION

WAR STORIES OUR MOTHERS NEVER TOLD US
Director: Gaylene Preston - New Zealand - 1995.
A revealing and memorable overview of those women left behind on the homefront (in this case, New Zealand) during World War II, Gaylene Preston's "War Stories.." paints a vivid portrait of seven women whose lives, like those of their countrymen and women, were turned upside down when their loved ones went off to fight in battlefields far from home. Unexpectedly provocative, the film captures the spirit of seven singular, vibrant souls who were forced to sacrifice the security of their homelives for the greater good of humankind.
SUN, 10/22, 3:30PM, UA5