Nov. 13–One hundred thirty feature films. Forty countries. Ten days.
The 18th annual St. Louis International Film Festival runs through Nov. 22 at the Tivoli, Hi-Pointe and Plaza Frontenac theaters, the St. Louis Art Museum, Webster University and Washington University, and it’s all about choices.
To guide you, the organizers from Cinema St. Louis have grouped the lineup into more than 30 geographic and genre “sidebars.”
Are you hot for Hollywood? The studios are previewing at least eight of their big year-end releases, including three probable best-picture finalists: “Precious,” “An Education” and the St. Louis-lensed “Up in the Air.”
Are you dedicated to documentaries? There are more than 40 of them. Mad about music? There’s an app for that. Wild about Westerns, sentimental for silents, fond of the French? Bienvenue. There’s even a sidebar devoted to Bosnian cinema.
To mark the festival’s 18th birthday — voting age — we hereby vote for the best of the fest in 18 categories.
BEST USE OF A ST. LOUIS HEARTTHROB “Stolen Lives” “Mad Men” Golden Globe winner, Clayton native and Mizzou alum Jon Hamm makes his big-screen starring debut as a cop and grieving father investigating a 50-year-old case of a kidnapped child. Think Miller High Life, not dry martinis. (7:15 p.m. Saturday and 7 p.m. Sunday at Plaza Frontenac.)
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