The Venice, Telluride and Toronto Film Festivals have come and gone, and the New York Film Festival is nearing the midway point — but for fall movies and awards contenders, the festival road trip is never-ending.
The latest festivals to chime in with their programming lineups are a pair of highly regarded regional fests: the Savannah Film Festival in Savannah, Ga., and the Napa Valley Film Festival in Northern California’s wine country. And for the Weinstein Company’s Toronto-winning, Oscar-contending “The Imitation Game,” a stop is in order in Savannah in late October and Napa Valley in mid-November.
Another film in the Weinstein family, RADiUS/TWC’s “Escobar: Paradise Lost” starring Josh Hutcherson and featuring Benicio del Toro as the Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar, will also show up at both festivals.
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Other notable films that will screen in Savannah between Oct. 25 and Nov. 1 include Victor Levin’s “5 to 7,” a love story with a cast that includes Anton Yelchin, Berenice Marlohe, Frank Langella, Glenn Close and Eric Stoltz, and the fest’s opening-night film; Disney’s new animated adventure “Big Hero 6”; Bennett Miller’s “Foxcatcher,” Tommy Lee Jones‘ “The Homesman” and the Dardenne brothers’ “Two Days, One Night,” which premiered in Cannes; Barry Levinson‘s “The Humbling,” a Philip Roth adaptation with Al Pacino and Greta Gerwig; and Damien Chazelle’s Sundance hit “Whiplash.”
The Napa Valley festival will open with “The Imitation Game” on Nov. 12, and also will include a gala screening of Mike Binder’s “Black and White,” with Kevin Costner and Octavia Spencer; “Alex of Venice,” actor-turned-director Chris Messina’s drama starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead; “Match,” a Broadway adaptation with Patrick Stewart, Carla Gugino and Matthew Lillard; “The Last 5 Years,” Richard LaGravanese’s film from the off-Broadway musical, with Anna Kendrick and Jeremy Jordan; “The Better Angels,” with Jason Clarke and Diane Kruger in director A.J. Edwards’ story of the childhood of Abraham Lincoln; the documentaries “Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me” and “Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon”; and back-to-back screenings of the “Him” and “Her” versions of Ned Benson’s “The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby.”
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Additionally, Napa Valley will present a 10th anniversary screening of Alexander Payne’s “Sideways,” and tributes to Kevin Costner, Shailene Woodley and Jeremy Jordan.
Additional information about the Savannah Film Festival program can be found at http://filmfest.scad.edu.
The Napa Valley Film Festival lineup is at http://nvff.org.