'Swing' to preem in Taos
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Among the offerings are 13 world premieres and eight U.S. premieres of features and documentaries. There will be salutes to "The Simpsons," which is celebrating its 10th anniversary, and to Scottish writer-director Bill Forsyth, actor-director Dennis Hopper, docu filmmaker Phil Lucas and experimental docu filmmaker Lourdes Portillo.
Screening as its world preem, the opening night film will be "Swing," starring Hugo Speer ("The Full Monty") along with musicians Clarence Clemons and Lisa Stansfield. Pic is a romantic comedy about a group of misfits who start a swing band.
'Timothy Leary' lives
Other films skedded are "The Red Violin," with Samuel Jackson and Greta Scacchi in a love story that spans three centuries; "This Is My Father," with John Cusack, James Caan and Aidan Quinn, whose brothers Paul and Declan are the film's director and cinematographer, respectively; "Oxygen," a thriller starring Adrien Brody ("Thin Red Line") and Maura Tierney ("Forces of Nature"); and "Beyond Life With Timothy Leary," a documentary exploring Leary's radicalizing effect on society.
Also showing is "The Unspoken," the first feature from Frederick Marx, the Oscar-nominated maker of "Hoop Dreams"; "A Voice From Heaven," the first docu on Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, the late Sufi singer who collaborated with Peter Gabriel and Eddie Vedder; and "The Stolen Years," a Spanish road movie set during the Franco era.
