The 2000 Season of the Town Hall Feature Film Seminar
 The 2000 season opened on Feb 7th with Trimark Pictures: Beautiful People Winner of the Prix Un Certain Regard - 1999 Cannes Film Festival and the Official Selection of the 1999 Toronto Film Festival. "BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE" is a comic collision of chaos and coincidence! Auteur Jasmin Dizdar constructs an absurd world with colorful, contradictory and moving inhabitants whose lives haphazardly, and often humorously, intertwine.
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Subsequent films were:
Feb 21st (Fox Searchlight Pictures) The Closer You Get
The tiny village on Ireland's craggy Donegal coast holds few prospects for romance. So Kieran O'Donnagh (Ian Hart) and his lovelorn friends hatch a plan to bring true love into their midst at last. But their scheme to entice American beauties to their annual village goes awry. The result is an unexpected round of romances with the most unlikely of women.
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Mar 6th (Jersey Films/Sony Pictures) Erin Brockovich
 Erin Brockovich is a stirring, funny and unconventional drama based on true events, starring two-time Academy Award* nominee Julia Roberts as the twice-divorced mother of three young children who sees an injustice, takes on the bad guy and wins. |
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Mar 20st (USA Films/October Films): Joe Gould's Secret
 Joe Gould's Secret where filmmaker Stanley Tucci takes you into the poignant and sometimes humorous world of New York City in the 1940s. JOE GOULD' SECRET is the true story of two men, one of whom would tell the other's story: famed The New Yorker writer Joseph Mitchell and New York bohemian Joe Gould. |
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Apr. 3rd (Magic Latern Inc's) Into My Heart
Two childhood best friends grow up and go to Cambridge University together where they meet a young woman (Claire Forlani) at the local bar. One (Jake Weber) marries her. After several failed relationships and a bad marriage, the other (Rob Morrow) falls into an affair with his friend's wife. |
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Apr. 17th (USA Films) Up at the Villa
 Up at the Villais a love story that combines elements of danger, heroism, sensuality and violence in a luxurious Tuscan setting. Starring Kristen Scott Thomas, Anne Bancroft and Sean Penn. |
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May 1st (Sony Pictures) Centre Stage
 From Nicholas Hytner, the acclaimed director of THE MADNESS OF KING GEORGE, THE CRUCIBLE and THE OBJECT OF MY AFFECTION, and Academy Award®-nominated producer Laurence Mark (JERRY MAGUIRE, AS GOOD AT IT GETS) comes CENTER STAGE, a drama with heart and energy that follows the hopes and dreams of a tight-knit group of young dance students as they try to make a name for themselves and become stars in the fiercely competitive world of professional dance. |
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May 15 (Paramont Classics) Passion of the Mind
 From the Golden Globe Winner Alain Berliner (MA VIE EN ROSE) comes the story about a woman who must choose between love and illusion. Marie is a beautiful but lonely American widow living with two daughters in the south of France who creates an imaginary existence in her dreams; Marty is a glamorous New York career woman dreaming of a life in Provence. But the question soon becomes: which life is real and which is the dream? In this psychological romantic drama where fantasy and reality become indistinguishable, Demi Moore plays both Marie and Marty, both of whom are reluctant to reveal their increasing confusion to the men in their lives. PASSION OF MIND deftly explores the world below the surface of what each woman believes to be reality. |
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June 5 (Sony Pictures) Shower
 Shower is the story of a father and his two sons. Abandoned by his eldest son, who left in search of fortune, the father remains in Beijing raising his retarded son and clinging to his chosen profession as the master of a bath-house. Mistakenly believing that his father has passed away, the eldest son returns to Beijing to diescover the magic of teh bath-house and its importance to the surrounding community. |
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June 19 (Fine Line) Five Senses
 Five Senses a film that explores all five senses. In THE FIVE SENSES, Mary-Louise Parker stars as Rona, a young cake baker in Toronto who suffers from a poor sense of taste not only in her angel food layers but in her love life as well. Rachel, a rebellious teenager played by Nadia Litz is wracked with contradicting feelings after losing sight of the child she was babysitting in the park, Rachel is drawn into a daring game of voyeurism that helps her to gain a new point of view. Richard, a middle-aged French eye-doctor no longer has that luxury. He is slowly going deaf and resolves to spend all his time collecting the sounds he will miss the most. Illuminated by the story of Ruth Seraph, the widowed massage therapist played by Gabrielle Rose. She is mother, one who watches in disbelief as her rebellious teenage daughter accidentally loses a client's 2 year-old. From the moment the child goes missing, Robert believes that love itself has a smell, one he has learned at last to detect, although its absence in his life leaves him flummoxed. "Robert has become so highly attuned to smells that he can sniff out of there's any love being emitted from a person," explains Daniel MacIvor. "He decides to use this well-developed sense to go on a mission to see if any of his ex's still care about him." |
