2006 Imaginarium @ Cornerstone Festival

Movies

Produced by Val Lewton A pair of films showcasing the subtle and stylish touch Val Lewton brought to the B-picture horrors he produced for RKO, plus a film directed by a Lewton protege bearing an unmistakeable Lewton influence. In conjunction with the seminar series "Unseen Horrors: Produced by Val Lewton," led by Paul Leggett. This series includes a special Film Study session on Lewton's Cat People (Thursday night at 7:30 PM)

Death Takes a Holiday A film series to go with our Days of the Dead celebration, in which we spotlight a different day of the dead in films and activities on each night of Imaginarium 2006: "All Saints Day," Dia de los Muertos, "All Hallows Eve" and a Celtic harvest festival.

Note: The "All Saints Day" film, The Flowers of St. Francis, is also part of a series on the films of Roberto Rossellini, featured at the Imaginarium's sister program, Flickerings. For additional film-related programming at Cornerstone Festival, see the Flickerings website.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 5th

Death Takes a Holiday: All Saints Day
Millions
Danny Boyle, 2004; 98 mins.
Wednesday, 8:30 PM

Saints and sinners converge when two young brothers find a bag of money which, as ever, tends to do, brings out the best and worst of everyone involved.

Death Takes a Holiday: All Saints Day / Roberto Rossellini
The Flowers of St. Francis
Roberto Rossellini, 1950; 87 mins.
Wednesday, 10:00 PM

For hope in a war-torn world, Rossellini turned to St. Francis. This simple depiction aptly conveys the humility and faith of the saint. In Italian with English subtitles

THURSDAY, JULY 6th

Produced by Val Lewton
I Walked With a Zombie
Jacques Tournier, 1953; 69 mins
Thursday, 8:30 PM

The gothic romance of Jane Eyre reset in the West Indies: a gorgeously creepy Lewton mood-piece, terror as poetry.

Death Takes a Holiday: Dia de los Muertos
Macario
Roberto Gavaldon, 1960; 91 mins.
Thursday, 10:00 PM

A sweet fantasy about a woodcutter who meets God, the Devil and Death and strikes a Faustian bargain during Day of the Dead. In Spanish with English subtitles

FRIDAY, JULY 7th

Produced by Val Lewton
The Body Snatcher
Robert Wise, 1945; 77 min.
Friday, 8:30 PM

A doctor needs cadavers for medical studies and Boris Karloff provides them - somehow - in this adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's novel.

Death Takes a Holiday: Halloween
Donnie Darko
Richard Kelly, 2001; 113 mins.
Friday, 10:00 PM

Delusions (or visions?) of a troubled high school student lead him through Tangent Universes to a surreal vortex of destiny at Halloween. Rated "R"

SATURDAY, JULY 8th

Death Takes a Holiday: Celtic Harvest
Dancing at Lughnasa
Pat O'Connor, 1998; 95 mins.
Saturday, 8:30 PM

The delicate balance of a magical Irish summer teeters on the brink of the pagan harvest festival of Lughnasa.

Produced by Val Lewton
Curse of the Demon
Jacques Tourneur, 1957; 82 mins.
Saturday, 10:00 PM

Yeah, we know: Lewton didn't actually produce this one. But director Jacques Tourneur drew upon what he learned in Val Lewton's school of Unseen Horrors in this cult classic featuring a Seen Horror rising out of the Druid mists.