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Show '85 Film Festival is a celluloid banquet by Rick Brough In its seventh year, the U.S. Film Festival shows no signs of winding down. This year it offers a veritable banquet of movies to the film-goer. With more than 80 films on the program, the festival shows there are still many independent movies, and other areas of film, to explore. It almost seems to challenge us, "Try and keep up! This year, under the direction of the Sundance Institute, the festival features some 24 independent features; dramatic or documentary; in competition. An international program will present 29 international films, from Canada to Japan, that follow an independent path. The festival also examines the work of three men who, in diverse ways, contributed to the independent movement New Wave filmmaker Francois Truffaut, producer director Roger Corman and Czech director Ivan Passer. In addition, there's a program of seminars, premieres of new Hollywood features, and a special look backward at cinema's roots with the screening of a reconstructed version of D.W. Griffith's classic "Way Down East." Without any further delay, let's look at the smorgasbord. The menu is bigger than ever this year! ' 4 . |