Vallarta Film Festival Film Schedule

December 3th.

19:00 hrs. The Imaginariun of Dr Parnassus. Dir: Terry Gilliam
Canada-United Kingdom, 2009 Prod: Amy Gilliam, Samuel Hadida, William Vince, Terry Gilliam Cast: Heath Ledger, Christopher Plummer, Johnny Depp, Jude Law, Colin Farrell Fantasy, Drama 122 Min.
Delayed but not defeated by the untimely death of its star, Heath Ledger, the new fantasy adventure from auteur Terry Gilliam parlays the legend of Faust into an elaborate modern morality tale. The ‘Imaginarium’ is a traveling show that gives its audiences a fascinating choice between Light and Darkness. Meanwhile, the
show’s mysterious and ageless creator has struck his own deal with the devil and his bill has now come due. Can Dr. Parnassus take one last risk and save his
16-year-old daughter from damnation?

21:30 The Imaginariun of Dr Parnassus. Dir: Terry Gilliam
Canada-United Kingdom, 2009 Prod: Amy Gilliam, Samuel Hadida, William Vince, Terry Gilliam Cast: Heath Ledger, Christopher Plummer, Johnny Depp, Jude Law, Colin Farrell Fantasy, Drama 122 Min.
Delayed but not defeated by the untimely death of its star, Heath Ledger, the new fantasy adventure from auteur Terry Gilliam parlays the legend of Faust into an elaborate modern morality tale. The ‘Imaginarium’ is a traveling show that gives its audiences a fascinating choice between Light and Darkness. Meanwhile, the
show’s mysterious and ageless creator has struck his own deal with the devil and his bill has now come due. Can Dr. Parnassus take one last risk and save his
16-year-old daughter from damnation?

14:00 Home Versión en Español: Dir: Yann Arthus-Bertrand France, 2009 Prod: Luc Besson, Denis Carot Narrator: Glenn Close (English version); Salma Hayek (Spanish version) Documentary 118 Min. Shot in 54 countries and 120 locations over 217 days, Home presents the many wonders of planet Earth from an entirely aerial perspective. In our 200 thousand years on Earth, humanity has hopelessly upset Mother Nature’s delicate balance. Some experts claim that we have less than ten years to change our patterns of consumption and reverse the trend before the damage is irreversible. Produced to inspire action and encourage thoughtful debate, Home poses the prospect that unless we act quickly, we risk losing the only home we may ever have.

16:30 The Donner Party Dir: T.J. Martin USA, 2009 Prod:John Moore, Mark Costa, Ted Meyer Cast: Crispin Glover, Clayne Crawford, Michele Santopietro, Mark Boone Junior Drama 95 Min.
During the winter of 1846, a group of westward bound settlers is stranded in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. They must reach California for salvation, but without food and a guide, the group becomes disillusioned and decisions must be made so that others can stay alive. Inspired by the infamous Donner Party tragedy, the film is a harrowing look at survival and how far some will go to achieve it.

19:00 Crude / Crudo (105 min.) Dir: Joe Berlinger USA, 2009 Prod: Joe Berlinger, Michael Bonfiglio, J.R. DeLeon, John Kamen, Richard Stratton Documentary.
Three years in the making, this riveting documentary tells the epic story of one of the largest and most controversial legal cases on the planet. An inside look at the infamous $27 billion ‘Amazon Chernobyl’ case, Crude is a real-lift, high stakes legal drama involving global politics, the environmental movement, celebrity activism, human rights advocacy, multinational corporate power, and the fate of disappearing indigenous cultures.

21:30 No Turning Back Dir: Guillermo Iván México-Colombia, 2009 Prod: Rosendo Garza, Héctor Bañaga, Mario García, Otilia González Cast: Guillermo Iván, Rossana Nájera, Erik Hayser, Mario Zaragoza Thriller 103 Min.
Mau and Chespi, two lifelong friends, find themselves at a critical moment in their lives. Both are on the verge of their 30th birthday, and both empty-handed. An unexpected event gives them the opportunity they have always been waiting for, to have “everything” overnight. Mau and Chespi embark on a journey that has no map and no turning back. In less than 24 hours they find eight hundred thousand dollars and gain the power to access the impossible. However, not everything is destined to fall their way, and their prize turns out to be nothing but payment for a shipment that never arrives.

14:00 Motherhood Dir: Katherine Dieckmann USA, 2009 Prod: Jana Edelbaum, Rachel Cohen Cast: Uma Thurman, Anthony Edwards, Minnie Driver Comedy 90 Min.
Shot entirely on location in New York’s West Village, this bittersweet comedy distills
the dilemmas of the maternal state (marriage, work, self, and not necessarily in that order) into the trials and tribulations of one pivotal day. Motherhood forms a genre of one –no other movie has dedicated itself in quite this way to probing exactly what it takes to be a mother, with both wry humor and an acute sense of authenticity.

16:30 Law Abiding Citizen, Dir: F. Gary Gray USA, 2009 Prod: Gerard Butler, Lucas Foster, Mark Gill, Robert Katz, Alan Siegel Cast: Gerard Butler, Jamie Foxx, Leslie Bibb, Viola Davis Thirller.
Clyde Shelton is an upstanding man whose family is brutally murdered. When the killers are caught, Nick Rice, a hotshot young Philadelphia prosecutor, is assigned to the case. Over his objections, Nick is forced to offer one of the suspects a light sentence in exchange for testifying against his accomplice. Ten years later, the killer is murdered and Clyde coolly admits guilt whilst warning Nick that he and the system will pay the price for letting him down.

19:00 New York I Love You. Dir: Jiang Wen, Mira Nair, Shunji Iwai, Yvan Attal, Brett Ratner, Allen Hughes, Shekhar Kapur. USA, 2009 Prod: Emmanuel Benbihy, Marina Grasic.
Cast: Natalie Portman, Orlando Bloom, Christina Ricci, Hayden Christensen, Andy Garcia
Drama, Romance 103 Min.
Delayed but not defeated by the untimely death of its star, Heath Ledger, the new fantasy adventure from auteur Terry Gilliam parlays the legend of Faust into an elaborate modern morality tale. The ‘Imaginarium’ is a traveling show that gives
its audiences a fascinating choice between Light and Darkness. Meanwhile, the show’s mysterious and ageless creator has struck his own deal with the devil and his bill has now come due. Can Dr. Parnassus take one last risk and save his 16-year-old daughter from damnation?

21:30 Taking Woodstock. Dir: Ang Lee USA, 2009 Prod: James Schamus, Ang Lee. Cast: Emile Hirsch, Liev Schreiber, Imelda Staunton, Eugene Levy, Paul Dano Comedy, Musical 103 Min.
Elliot Tiber is a New York interior designer. His parents own a small motel and pequeño pueblo. hold the only musical festival permit in the entire town of Bethel, New York. Tiber offers both, the motel and the permit to the Woodstock Festival’s organizers, and
inadvertently sets in motion the generation-defining concert in the summer of 1969.

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