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RETURN TO OZ Screens Wednesday Night at Schlafly Bottleworks – ‘Strange Brew’

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“There’s no place like home”

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RETURN TO OZ screens Wednesday night February 4th at Schlafly Bottleworks at 8pm

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You never know what’s brewing at Webster University’s Strange Brew cult film series. It’s always the first Wednesday evening of every month, and they always come up with some cult classic to show while enjoying some good food and great suds. The fun happens at Schlafly Bottleworks Restaurant and Bar in Maplewood (7260 Southwest Ave.- at Manchester – Maplewood, MO 63143).

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Director Walter Murch’s 1985 sequel RETURN TO OZ is going to shock you if you think it’s going to be a carbon copy of the Oz you saw in the 1939 classic. There are no gay icons skipping down candy cane roads here. This Oz is more like that of a land in a Grimms’ fairy tale. RETURN TO OZ is set six months after Dorothy (Fairuza Balk) has returned from Oz. Dorothy keeps telling everyone about Oz, but nobody believes her. Dorothy has lost her ruby slippers, so her main evidence of Oz’s existence has gone. She is sent to a mental hospital to cure her mental state, but the people at the hospital are evil, so she tries to run away, but falls in the river instead, getting washed away back to Oz. The ruby slippers have been stolen by a stone giant who has used them to take revenge on the population of Oz. The yellow brick road is in pieces, the Emerald city has been reduced to rubble and the new head of state is Mombi, a witch who wears other people’s heads. This Oz is simply breathtaking, being twisted, dark and full of dust and sharp edges, brought perfectly to life with good art direction and excellent cinematography. The score fits the dark feeling, using serious classical music as opposed to the mostly happy soundtrack used in the musical.

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Now you can experience the weirdness that is RETURN TO OZ when it screens Wednesday night February 4th at Schlafly Bottleworks Restaurant and Bar in Maplewood (7260 Southwest Ave.- at Manchester – Maplewood, MO 63143). The movie starts at 8pm and admission is $5. A yummy variety of food from Schlafly’s kitchen is available as are plenty of pints of their famous home-brewed beer.

The Facebook invite for this event can be found HERE

https://www.facebook.com/events/643736682416274/

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Behind-the-Scenes with Legendary Film Editor WALTER MURCH at Palo Alto International Film Festival

Palo Alto, CA – The Palo Alto International Film Festival (PAIFF) has announced today that it will host “Behind the Scenes with Walter Murch,” and presented by FileMaker, Inc., on Saturday, October 1, 2011 at 12 (noon) at Talenthouse in Palo Alto. The three-time Oscar®-winning film editor will present a behind-the-scenes look at his post-production process.

Murch will be describing the integration of FileMaker Pro database management into his post-production process for numerous films, including “Jarhead,” “Apocalypse Now,” and “The Talented Mr. Ripley.” These techniques (read more at http://www.filemaker.com/solutions/customers/stories/291.html) were used during the editing of “Hemingway & Gellhorn,” directed by Phil Kaufman, scheduled to premiere on HBO in early 2012.

“What you’re presented with in film is simply a mountain of stuff that comes at you very, very fast,” Murch explains. “And as time goes on, it comes faster and faster, because it’s getting easier and easier to shoot film — in fact, we’re not even talking about film anymore, with the transition already underway to shooting in digital media.”

Murch has received nine Academy Award® nominations, most recently for the Film Editing on “Cold Mountain” (2003).  He won Oscars for Sound on “Apocalypse Now” (1979) and “The English Patient” (1996), as well as for the Film Editing on “The English Patient.”

FileMaker and Talenthouse are cardinal sponsors of the 2011 festival.

Tickets to “Behind the Scenes with Walter Much” are available now at http://www.paiff.net/index.php/festival/techofit

Individual tickets are $12. Festival Passholders (except Student Passholders) will also have access to the event.

Passes for the 2011 Palo Alto International Film Festival are now available at www.paiff.net. The complete program and festival schedule will be announced in August. To be notified when PAIFF’s Program and Schedule are announced in August 2011, text PAIFF to 80474.

PAIFF’s goal is to facilitate, fuel and ignite current and future cinematic revolutions through education and entertainment. PAIFF convenes artists, media and technology professionals, and attendees in an intimate environment where they can experience great cinema, learn about cutting-edge technologies and ideas, and celebrate the artists and innovators shaping the world of moving pictures.  Experience. Learn. Connect.

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