Celebrating our 15th Anniversary !

Celebrating 15 years of media arts programming, the Rutgers Film Co-op / New Jersey Media Arts Center, in association with the Rutgers University Program in Cinema Studies, the State Theatre and the New Brunswick Cultural Center, is proud to present the New Jersey Film Festival Fall 1996. Weaving together new international films, american independent films, classic features, animation films, experimental works and documentaries, the festival will include 35 film screenings on 37 evenings from September 6 through November 26.

Seventeen films will have their New Jersey or Area Premiere screenings as part of the festival. We will be premiering : Mark Rappaport's From the Journals of Jean Seberg; Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man; Nicholas Roeg's Two Deaths; Jane Campion's Two Friends; Sara Driver's When Pigs Fly starring Marianne Faithful; Helen DeMichel's Tarantella; Yale Strom's Carpati; the beautifully restored The Umbrellas of Cherbourg by Jacques Demy; Quentin Tarantino's reissue of Jack Hill's Switchblade Sisters; James Mangold's Heavy starring Liv Tyler; Jon Blair's Academy Award winning documentary Anne Frank Remembered; Almodovar's The Flower of My Secret; Sonke Wortmann's Maybe ... Maybe Not; and many others.

This fall we are pleased to host a number of visiting filmmakers including Mark Rappaport presenting his critically acclaimed film From The Journals of Jean Seberg on September 6, Sara Driver introducing her ghost story When Pigs Fly on September 22 and others to be announced.

The festival will feature a number of special events including Women's Works V, a continuation of our very popular series featuring new films by or about women directors. Films to be screened as a part of Women's Works V include : Mary Harron's visceral I Shot Andy Warhol; Sara Driver's charming ghost story starring Marianne Faithful, When Pigs Fly; Helen DeMichel's Tarantella starring Mira Sorvino; Jane Campions first feature Two Friends; and The Silent Feminists -- the ground breaking documentary about America's first female filmmakers. Women's Works V is co-sponsored by the Voorhees Assembly Board of Douglass College.

We are also proud to present a selection of French Films produced under the German Occupation in conjunction with Rutgers University's French Department, which is presenting a conference on this period. Films to be screened include : Marcel Carne's classic Children of Paradise; Jean Delannoy and Jean Cocteau's updated version of Tristan and Isolde legend, The Eternal Return; Marcel Pagnol's hilarious The Well Digger's Daughter; Jacques Becker's Goupi-Mains Rouges; and Robert Bresson's sensual Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne starring Maria Casares.

The festival will include our 4th annual special Halloween program entitled Droogie Night featuring Danny Boyle's critically acclaimed film Trainspotting, Stanley Kubrick's classic A Clockwork Orange and a costume competition on Sunday, October 27, at the State Theatre.

In addition, we will be presenting a retrospective of films by pioneering African-American director Oscar Micheaux including Body and Soul (starring Rutgers graduate Paul Robeson in his first screen role) and Murder in Harlem.

Also look for our special revival screenings of Hitchcock's Notorious and Psycho; Godard's New Wave classic Breathless and Joseph Lewis's stunning film noir Gun Crazy.

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