Leonard Oakland Film Festival

Schedule for the fifth annual Leonard A. Oakland Film Festival, Feb. 21-23, 2013

• Thursday, Feb. 21
  7 p.m., Robinson Teaching Theatre
  Film No. 1: Footnote
  Director: Joseph Cedar, 2011
  
  An Israeli professor and his son enter into a heated competition when their roles are reversed. The son has relied on recognition to fuel his sense of self-worth, while his father has shunned the spotlight. But a prestigious honor reveals the father’s vanity, and the son’s intense jealousy drives him to consider the unthinkable.
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  Friday, Feb. 22
  7 p.m., Robinson Teaching Theatre
  Film No. 2: Get Low
  Director: Aaron Schneider, rated PG-13, 2009
  A recluse (Robert Duvall) emerges from the Tennessee woods after 40 years; he is the topic of much town gossip – including rumors that he’s a cold-hearted killer. He walks into a funeral parlor, announces plans to throw himself an epic party before his impending death, and surprises everyone at the much-anticipated gathering by revealing why he shunned society for life in the woods.

The program opens with winners of the 2013 student-made short-film contest.

• Late Night Movie No. 1: Jackie Brown*
  10 p.m., Robinson Teaching Theatre
  Director: Quentin Tarantino, rated R, 1997
  A flight attendant gets caught smuggling gun money and has to choose whether to rat out her murderous boss or keep quiet and do time. She meets a burned-out older guy whose marriage has fallen apart, and he becomes instrumental in both her life and her plan to stay out of jail and cop a million-dollar payoff.
  
  
• Saturday, Feb. 23
  7 p.m., Robinson Teaching Theatre
  Film No. 3: 4 Little Girls
  Director: Spike Lee, rated NR, 2001
  In 1963, four girls, ages 11-14, were killed in an infamous church bombing in Birmingham, Ala. This movie, Lee’s first feature-length documentary, examines not only the crime, its aftermath, and its pivotal place in civil-rights history, but the lives of the four girls as their family and friends remember them.

This program opens with the 2007 documentary Act Six Leadership Development Program by North by Northwest Productions.

• Late Night Movie No. 2: Bill Cosby: Himself
  10 p.m., Robinson Teaching Theatre
  In this concert movie from the zenith of Cosby’s on-stage comedic career, the Cos holds court on subjects ranging from childbirth to substance abuse. While his subjects can be serious, his perspectives are usually hilarious and always entertaining.