Posted by Larry Gleeson
SUNNY SKIES AND WARM TEMPERATURES FOR FRIDAY, JANUARY 6TH
FILM SUGGESTIONS FOR SATURDAY, JANUARY 7
EVERYBODY LOVES SOMEBODY
Mexico – 2017 – 90 minutes
Director: Catalina Aguilar Mastretta
WORLD CINEMA NOW
World Premiere
Living a picture-perfect life while in the fog of heartbreak, successful Mexican-American obstetrician Clara is on the verge of letting love back into her life just as her ex, Daniel, unexpectedly reappears, forcing a major life reappraisal in this funny and bittersweet bilingual romantic comedy.
Sat, Jan 7 – 8:00 PM – Annenberg
Sun, Jan 8 – 10:00 AM – Mary Pickford
Fri, Jan 13 – 10:00 AM – Regal
Writer/Director, Catalina Aguilar Mastretta and Actors, Karla Souza, José María Yazpik and Ben O’Toole will be attending.
Purchase tickets HERE.
BOUNDARIES
Canada – 2016 – 100 minutes
Director: Chloé Robichaud
NEW VOICES/NEW VISIONS
Quebecois filmmaker Chloé Robichaud arrives with her anticipated sophomore feature after 2013’s acclaimed Sarah Prefers to Run. An ambitious feminist political satire, Boundaries follows three women as they negotiate a deal that will allow foreign companies access to natural resources on a tiny Canadian island.
Sat, Jan 7 – 1:30 PM – Mary Pickford
Director, Chloé Robichaud to attend.
Purchase tickets HERE.
On Wednesday, January 4th some fascinating conversations occurred at Book To Screen, an event that shines a light on the often complex, always invigorating ways in which the written word informs and inspires motion pictures.
NO LIGHT AND NO LAND ANYWHERE
U.S. – 2016 – 75 minutes
Director: Amber Sealey
WORLD CINEMA NOW
In this raw, sexually graphic and unsettling odyssey, a lost, lonely Londoner, her marriage over, flies to Los Angeles, where she holes up in a seedy motel and searches for the father who abandoned her when she was an infant.
Sat, Jan 7 – 2:30 PM – Regal
Sun, Jan 8 – 8:00 PM – Regal
Director, Amber Sealey to attend.
Purchase tickets HERE.
BRIMSTONE
Netherlands – 2016 – 148 minutes
Director: Martin Koolhoven
AFTER DARK
U.S. Premiere
A fiery reverend (Guy Pearce) terrorizes a mute midwife (Dakota Fanning) in Koolhoven’s grim, violent Western. Told in reverse chronological order, this dark drama doesn’t want for blood and thunder.
Sat, Jan 7 – 4:15 PM – Annenberg
Sat, Jan 14 – 7:00 PM – Mary Pickford
Purchase tickets HERE.
DREAM VACATION PALM SPRINGS
VACATION PALM SPRINGS “DREAM VACATION” WINNER WILL RECEIVE:
* A Four (4) night stay for up to 4 people in a luxury 3-bedroom Palm Springs vacation rental home during the 2018 Palm Springs International Film Festival. Winner will also receive the following:
* Opening -or- Closing Night Screening and Gala Reception – 4 Tickets
* Festival Screening Passes – 4 non-transferable passes, good for all regular screenings
Enter NOW through January 16, 2017
Must be at least 25 years of age to enter this contest.
No purchase necessary.
One entry per person; employees of PSIFF are not eligible.
X500
Canada/Colombia/Mexico – 2016 – 108 minutes
Director: Juan Andrés Arango
WORLD CINEMA NOW
U.S. Premiere
In Canada, Colombia and Mexico, three young migrants undergo familiar struggles with anguish, displacement and violence in this visually stunning sophomore film from acclaimed writer/director Juan Andrés Arango (La Playa DC).
Sat, Jan 7 – 6:30 PM – Regal
Mon, Jan 9 – 8:00 PM – Mary Pickford
Director, Juan Andrés Arango to attend.
Purchase tickets HERE
NELLY
Canada – 2016 – 100 minutes
Director: Anne Émond
WORLD CINEMA NOW
This inventive, non-linear biopic explores the life and work of the French Canadian author and former sex worker Nelly Arcan in explicit, sometimes erotic, sometimes anguished detail. “A movie every bit as racy, rough-edged and conflicted as the woman whose story it tells.” Montreal Gazette
Sat, Jan 7 – 7:00 PM – Camelot
Sun, Jan 8 – 10:30 AM – Mary Pickford
Mon, Jan 9 – 2:15 PM – Palm Canyon
Director, Anne Émond to attend.
Purchase tickets HERE
BREAKABLE YOU
U.S. – 2017 – 120 minutes
Director: Andrew Wagner
SPECIAL PRESENTATION
World Premiere
A smart and sophisticated movie about smart and sophisticated (but flawed and unfulfilled) people, this sensitive adaptation of Brian Morton’s novel about an over-the-hill writer, his ex and his fragile daughter is buoyed by beautifully calibrated performances from a terrific cast led by Holly Hunter and Tony Shalhoub.
Sat, Jan 7 – 7:30 PM – PSHS
Sun, Jan 8 – 10:00 AM – PSHS
Director, Andrew Wagner to attend
Purchase tickets HERE
THE GIRL WITH ALL THE GIFTS
UK/U.S. – 2016 – 110 minutes
Director: Colm McCarthy
AFTER DARK
When a viral outbreak transforms millions of people into flesh-eating predators, could the fate of civilization rest on the slender shoulders of Melanie, a young “hungry” who’s retained her genius-level IQ? Stylish and sophisticated, Colm McCarthy’s impeccably cast, post-apocalyptic thriller is calibrated for maximum tension.
Sat, Jan 7 – 10:00 PM – Mary Pickford
Sun, Jan 8 – 7:15 PM – PSHS
Fri, Jan 13 – 10:00 PM – Mary Pickford
Purchase tickets HERE
BONTA Restaurant & Bar
If you’re going to one of the great Festival films at the Mary Pickford (or even if you’re not) 
our friend Chef Hector Salvatierra at Bonta Restaurant & Bar, is offering a special discount to those attending the Palm Springs International Film Festival.
our friend Chef Hector Salvatierra at Bonta Restaurant & Bar, is offering a special discount to those attending the Palm Springs International Film Festival.10% off entire check includes all bar items and dinner menu!
Bonta is located at 68510 E Palm Canyon Drive, Suite 140, Cathedral City, CA 92234 (across the street from the Mary Pickford Theatres in the Desert Cinema building). Telephone: 760-832-6100.
Ticket and Pass holders need to show their pass or ticket they have purchased at any time during the Festival. Tickets will be honored throughout the festival dates, they expire at end of festival.
They will be serving lunch from 11:00 am until 2:00 pm, Happy hour from 2:00 pm until 7:00 pm, dinner from 4:00 pm. Cocktails $4.50, Wine $5.00. Martinis $5.50.
They will also have take-out lunch boxes:
Soup and Salad or soup and Sandwich combos
Our Famous Homemade Chips and Chef Hectors Famous Chili and Split Pea soup
Check out their full menu HERE.
Make sure to stop by and say hello to Chef Hector and enjoy his truly amazing food. Tell him Larry sent you for a special treat!
(Source: psiff.org)
