J.K. Simmons and Miles Teller star in Oscar-winning film in flashback series The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present a “Festival Flashback” of “Whiplash” on Tuesday, April 27 at 4 and 7 p.m. at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre. “Whiplash” won three Academy Awards, including Best Supporting Actor for J.K. Simmons, Best Film Editing and Best Sound Mixing. The film was also nominated for Academy Awards for Best Motion Picture of the Year and Best Adapted Screenplay. Simmons also won a Golden Globe and SAG award for Best Supporting Actor for his role. Andrew Neiman (Miles Teller) is…
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Watch the Academy Awards live at the Mary D. Fisher TheatreEnjoy Tinseltown’s brightest stars on Hollywood’s biggest night LIVE right here in Sedona on Sunday, April 25 at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre at 5 p.m. Join in the fun and festivities of “Oscars on the Rocks”, the official spot to catch the 93rd Annual Academy Awards on the big screen. You will feel like you are right in the midst of the Oscar action. Roll out the red carpet, make your Oscar picks and join your fellow movie-lovers for a night out on the town. Think you can pick…
Powerful and thought-provoking drama comes to Mary D. Fisher Theatre The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Northern Arizona premiere of the acclaimed drama “Moffie” showing April 23-29 at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre. Oliver Hermanus explores the toxic masculinity of Apartheid-era South Africa and the twin forces of racism and homophobia that fed it in “Moffie” – a powerful drama about a young gay military conscript trying to remain invisible. To be a moffie is to be weak, effeminate, illegal. The year is 1981 and South Africa’s white minority government is embroiled in a conflict on…
Film nominated for Academy Award for Best Documentary shows at the Fisher Theatre The Mary D. Fisher Theatre is proud to present the Academy Award-nominated “Crip Camp” showing April 16-21 at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre. “Crip Camp” is nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at this year’s Oscars. In the early 1970s, teenagers with disabilities faced a future shaped by isolation, discrimination and institutionalization. Camp Jened — a ramshackle camp “for the handicapped” in the Catskills — exploded those confines. Jened was their freewheeling Utopia, a place with summertime sports, smoking and makeout sessions awaiting everyone,…
Judi Dench, Kate Winslet and Jim Broadbent star in film at Mary D. Fisher Theatre The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present a “Festival Flashback” of the sensational Academy Award-nominated film “Iris” on Monday, April 12 at 4 and 7 p.m. at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre. “Iris” is the second film in a month-long tribute to Dame Judi Dench with a special “Judi-Judi-Judi” series in April featuring a different Judi Dench film every Monday. “Iris” garnered three Academy Award nominations, including Best Leading Actress for Judi Dench, Best Supporting Actress for Kate Winslet and won the Oscar…
Film nominated for Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature shows at Fisher Theatre The Mary D. Fisher Theatre is proud to present the Academy Award-nominated “Time” showing April 9-14 at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre. “Time” is nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film at this year’s Oscars. In this intimate yet epic love story filmed over two decades, indomitable matriarch Fox Rich strives to raise her six sons and keep her family together as she fights for her husband’s release from the Louisiana State Penitentiary, commonly known as Angola. Fox Rich is a fighter. The entrepreneur,…
Film nominated for Academy Award for Best International Film shows at Fisher Theatre The Mary D. Fisher Theatre is proud to present the Academy Award-nominated “Quo Vadis, Aida?” showing April 9-15 at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre. “Quo Vadis, Aida?” is nominated for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film at this year’s Oscars. Bosnia, July 1995: Aida is a translator for the UN in the small town of Srebrenica. When the Serbian army takes over the town, her family is among the thousands of citizens looking for shelter in the UN camp. As an insider to the negotiations…
Film nominated for Academy Award for Best International Film shows at Fisher Theatre The Mary D. Fisher Theatre is proud to present the Academy Award-nominated “The Man Who Sold His Skin” showing April 11-15 at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre. “The Man Who Sold His Skin” is nominated for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film at this year’s Oscars. Sam Ali, a young sensitive and impulsive Syrian, left his country for Lebanon to escape the war. To be able to travel to Europe and live with the love of his life, he accepts to have his back tattooed…
Film nominated for two Academy Awards debuts at the Fisher Theatre The Mary D. Fisher Theatre is proud to present the Academy Award-nominated “Collective” showing April 16-21 at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre. “Collective” is nominated for two Academy Awards — Best Documentary Feature Film and Best International Feature Film — at this year’s Oscars. “Collective” is a gripping, real-time docu-thriller that follows a heroic team of journalists as they expose shocking corruption in the Romanian national health-care system. After an explosive fire claims the lives of 27 people at Bucharest nightclub, Colectiv, officials reassure the public that surviving victims…