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Film world finds Sarasota

This year's Cine-World Film Festival lineup features many fine movies, from documentaries to student works.

By Times Staff Writer
Published November 3, 2005

Sarasota's Cine-World Film Festival has developed a reputation for gleaning the best feature films from the glitzy, big-name festivals - Cannes, Toronto, Venice - in addition to a well-chosen roster of student works, documentaries, film shorts and vintage works.

This year's festival, which begins Friday and runs through Nov. 13, includes four French films (Cote d'Azur, Clean, Merry Christmas and Nathalie); three films by German director Volker Schlondorff; documentaries on subjects ranging from singer Townes Van Zandt to soldiers in Falluja; more than a dozen international films; Abel Gance's 1927 classic Napoleon; a 25th anniversary look back at the much maligned Heaven's Gate; and eight Oscar-nominated shorts.

Among the domestic feature films on the schedule: Lonesome Jim, directed by Steve Buscemi; Last Days, based on the story of Kurt Cobain, by director Gus Van Sant; and the critically acclaimed The Squid and the Whale, starring Jeff Daniels and Laura Linney.

Tickets are $8.50 per film with multifilm passes available. Films are shown at Burns Court Cinemas, 506 Burns Lane, Sarasota. 941 955-3456 or www.filmsociety.org

This week's schedule:

FRIDAY: A Touch of Spice (Greece, 2003), noon; Trudell (documentary), 12:15 p.m.; Occupation: Dreamland (documentary), 2:15 p.m.; The Squid and the Whale, 2:30 p.m.; Cote d'Azur (France, 2005), 5 p.m.; Unknown White Male (documentary), 5:30 p.m.; Breakfast on Pluto (Ireland, 2005), 7:45 p.m.; When the Sea Rises (Belgium/France, 2004), 8:15 p.m.

SATURDAY: Academy Award-nominated shorts 2005, 12:30 p.m.; Breakfast on Pluto, 1:30 p.m.; The Weeping Meadow (Greece 2004), 2:30 p.m.; Fateless (Hungary/Germany, 2005), 4:30 p.m.; Occupation: Dreamland, 6 p.m.; The Squid and the Whale, 8 p.m.; Going Shopping (USA, 2005), 8:15 p.m.; Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (South Korea, 2002), 9:50 p.m.; Derailroaded (documentary), 10:30 p.m.

SUNDAY: Abel Gance's Napoleon, noon; student Academy Award shorts program, 12:30 p.m.; Going Shopping, 5 p.m.; Landless Dreams (documentary by Sarasota native Wilson McCourtney), 5:30 p.m.; The Weeping Meadow, 7:30 p.m.; Fateless, 8 p.m.

MONDAY: El Crimen Perfecto (Spain, 2004), noon; A Touch of Spice, 12:30 and 8:15 p.m.; Cote d'Azur, 2:15 p.m.; Last Days, 2:45 p.m.; Step by Step (Belgium, 2002), 5 p.m.; The Tin Drum (Volker Schlondorff, 1979), 5:15 p.m.; Clean, 8 p.m.

TUESDAY: Step by Step, 2:15 p.m.; The Tin Drum, 2:45 p.m.; Clean, 5 p.m.; The Ogre (Volker Schlondorff, 1996), 5:45 p.m.; El Crimen Perfecto, 8 p.m.; Last Days, 8:15 p.m.

WEDNESDAY: Nathalie, 2:15 p.m.; The Ogre, 2:30 p.m.; Why We Fight (documentary), 5 p.m.; Take My Eyes (Spain, 2003), 8 p.m.; The Southernmost Point (film by students and staff of Manatee Community College), 8:15 p.m.

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