JACKSON, September 12-- "Light, Heavy & In-Between," a Union University film festival, is scheduled for Sept. 30 through Oct. 2 in the University's W.D. Powell Theater.
"The festival's purpose is for viewers to see film as an art form, not just a pure entertainment medium," Julian Williamson, Union's technical director and a festival organizer, said. "The 'Light, Heavy & In-Between' theme reflects the moods of the films to be shown and our desire for variety in the festival. We hope to expose people to something beyond the mainstream films commonly available in Jackson."
The festival's "light" offering, featuring the animation of Nick Park, begins Monday, Sept. 30, at 7 p.m. Three claymation shorts, "A Grand Day Out," "The Wrong Trousers" and "A Close Shave" feature the misadventures of inventor Wallace and his dog, Gromitt. "A Grand Day Out" was an Academy Award nominee for Best Motion Picture Short in 1990, while "The Wrong Trousers" and "A Close Shave" won Academy Awards in 1993 and 1995, respectively.
The "in-between" film, "Tender Mercies," a 1983 drama about a troubled country singer trying to pick up the pieces of his shattered life, begins at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 1. The film received Academy Award nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Song, and received Oscars for Best Actor (Robert DuVall) and Best Screenplay Written for the Screen.
"The Seventh Seal," Ingmar Bergman's classic 1957 allegory, fulfills the "heavy" portion of the program at Wednesday, Oct. 2, at 8:30 p.m. The film stars Max Von Sydow as a knight who returns from the Crusades and challenges Death to a fateful game of chess. The film received international honors at the Cannes Film Festival and from the French Motion Academy, and was named by The New York Times as one of 1957's ten best foreign films.
The Union University film festival is sponsored by the University's Lyceum Committee. All showings are free and open to the public.
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