Do you want to meet The Daily Show's Rob Corddry? (Like Bostonist and Abigal Adams, a native of Weymouth, MA!) Because he's going to be at The Somerville Theater on Friday night along with Brant Serensen, Darren Goldberg, and the ever-funny DJ Hazard promoting their festival film Blackballed: The Bobby Dukes Story. It features Upright Citizens Brigade members and paintball.
That's just one of the options that you, gentle reader, have at the Independent Film Festival of Boston, an up and coming festival that just gets better each year. While you have the opportunity to catch new films by Hal Hartley, Gregg Araki (his best feature yet, supposedly, Mysterious Skin--with Joseph Gordon "Third Rock From The Sun" Levitt as a teenage hustler!), and a midnight screening of Asia Argento's adaptation of JT Leroy's The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things, there are also a ton of fantastic looking local films and documentaries.
JP filmmaker Andrew Bujalski has his new film, Mutual Appreciation, which if it's anything like his diverting and eerily accurate Funny Ha Ha, should be an apt portrait of twenty-something ennui, but in an entertaining, awkwardly funny matter. (Also, if you adore indie-pop, members of Bishop Allen can be seen in his films.) There's also The Hole Story, about a local filmmaker, Alex Karpovsky, which should be hilariously about Minnesota and "a study of an artistic vision that refuses to be hampered by mundane realities", according to the website.
Some of the documentaries include Amazing Grace: The Life Of Jeff Buckley and Stolen, which is about the Isabella Stuart Gardner heist. There is a wealth of interesting filmic opportunity here--in all honesty, Bostonist is barely skimming the surface. There's also the shorts program, which has acting turns by Eugene Mirman and John C. Reilly!--so check out the website and carpe diem. What else are you going to see, A Lot Like Love?
The Independent Film Festival runs from today, the 21st of April to Sunday, and screenings are at The Brattle, The MFA, The Coolidge Corner Theater, and The Somerville Theater. Bostonist encourages you to check out the website and schedule to learn more.