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NY Daily News
For a cheap vacation, make a movie
festival getaway
Friday, November 7th 2008, 4:00 AM |
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'Slumdog Millionaire'
If this year's vacation is looking more and more like a stay-at-home affair, it's time to
travel the easy way: with a movie ticket. There are so many interesting options every
weekend, you can go pretty much anywhere you'd like. And it won't cost more than a few
bucks.
Despite the unwieldy title, this weekend's first stop ought to be the MIAAC Film Festival
(www.iaac.us; all those letters in the name stand for Mahindra Indo-American Arts
Council). A celebration of Indian filmmaking, the fest features both major Bollywood
directors and up-and-comers. Tomorrow also brings an excellent opportunity to catch one
of the likely crowd-pleasers of the season, Danny Boyle's "Slumdog Millionaire," which
takes place in Mumbai.
For insight into the Middle East, the Other Israel Film Festival (www.otherisrael.org)
focuses on the country's Arab citizens, in documentaries like "Sons of Sakhnin United,"
about the members of a diverse soccer team, and "Desert Brides," in which three women
cope with the challenges of their polygamous marriages.
The 92Y Tribeca (www.92ytribeca.org) takes us to France on Sunday, for the kidfriendly
program "Reel Paris: Short Films in the City of Light." France is also the setting
for Francois Truffaut's based-in-truth "The Wild Child," playing at Film Forum
(www.filmforum.org). And you can head for England, too, thanks to the IFC's midnight
screenings of "An American Werewolf in London" tonight and tomorrow
(www.ifccenter.com).
As its title suggests, the Queens International Film Festival
(www.queensfilmfestival.com) splits its focus between the local and far-flung.
In "P.J.," for example, John Heard plays a Brooklyn doctor trying to help a traumatized
patient while tackling his own considerable issues. And Ben Gazzara is an L.A. expat
who settles into a Guatemalan community in "Looking for Palladin."
No matter where else you choose to go this weekend, at least one trip should be close to
home. Tonight, New Yorkers bid farewell to the East Village's Two Boots Pioneer
Theater (www.twoboots.com/pioneer).
Stop by anytime after six for cinematic surprises, free popcorn and a last chance to
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