Philly Film Festival

Come one, come all: the 20th annual Philadelphia Film Festival began yesterday! Two weeks of every kind of film under the sun: shorts. Foreign language films. Classics. Documentaries. Grab a friend, get your tickets, and experience something new!

How about something for tonight? The Artist is a French movie filmed in black and white that reinvents the timeless tale of an actor’s rise and fall in film against the backdrop of the golden age of Hollywood. Oh—and it’s a silent film!

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Feeling more like Shakespeare? This weekend check out Coriolanus, a faithful adaptation of Shakespeare’s tale of rivals, civil unrest and betrayal in ancient Rome (but set in the modern day, and starring Ralph Fiennes!). This is the first time this powerful, historical play highlighting war as an eternal human drama has been brought to the big screen.
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On Saturday or Monday, check out Green: an off-kilter, miniscule take on the erotic thriller. When two New York intellectuals move to the country for a writing project, the fabric of their relationship and reality is torn by a new friend. They’re green, of course! But the Quiana by Promiscuous is also a little off-kilter in its own right: crazy reptile-print stripes and mesh surround the foot over a 4.5-inch heel, with a zipper up the back and a cushy insole. Also available in beige, black, red, purple, and taupe from Zappos for $59.

Winter not coming fast enough to suit you? Race to the Bottom of the Earth is a bold documentary of endurance and survival about Philadelphia-based explorer Todd Carmichaels’ attempt to not only be the first American to solo trek the seven hundred miles across Antarctica to the South Pole, but to set the record for fastest trek at the same time. See it tomorrow or Wednesday, November 2.

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The Philadelphia Film Festival runs until November 3 and tickets seem to be $12. 


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