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Jack Fisk (center) and Sissy Spacek met on the set of "Badlands." They have a chat with Turner Classic Movies' Ben Mankiewicz after the sold-out screening at the Paramount of the 1973 Terrence Malick film.

Packed houses: Scenes from a film festival

It was standing room only at this year's Virginia Film Festival. Now in its 24th year, the November 3-6 homage to cinema is more popular than ever, at least judging by the unprecedented 27 sell-outs on the 84-event program. And it wasn't just the headliners like Oliver Ston

Digital Media Gallery on the Downtown Mall

In association with the Virginia Film Festival University of Virginia students in Kevin Everson's advanced cinematography class project films outside on UVA's Arts Grounds and on the Downtown Mall. Pamphlet guides to the films and locations will be available in Ruffin Hall,

Some conspiracy theories never die, and following a 20th anniversary screening of JFK, director Oliver Stone and political pundit Larry Sabato will share their own theories.

Festival faces: Spacek, Stone, Sabato, and Wasikowska

Just in case the movies aren't enough, the Virginia Film Festival sprinkles in a few stars.

History in the making: Perseverance, preservation, and preserves

Before the 99 percent, there was the 50 percent. Protesters chanted and blew whistles outside the Whitney Museum, and painted “50% “on raw eggs surreptitiously left inside the galleries. The cause? Women artists’ under-representation in the Whitney’s annual exhibiti

Sarah Lyman Kravits didn't get as much screen time as another local: Sissy Spacek played Kevin Costner's wife in 'JFK.'

Hazardous act: UVA grad had 'JFK' moment

Sarah Lyman Kravits, UVA class of 1988, was in grad school in Washington when she was picked for a few moments of screen time in Oliver Stone's 1991 film, JFK. "Oliver Stone wanted everyone smoking," remembers Kravits, a nonsmoker. "I was trying to concentrate on not lookin

Jack Fisk gets to live in Charlottesville and still design gorgeous films.

Production values: Jack Fisk finds days of heaven

Cismont resident Jack Fisk has a charmed career. Few movie production designers have worked on so many critically acclaimed films or as consistently with extraordinary directors, such as Terrence Malick and David Lynch. Like them, Fisk favors art over commerce.

Rachael Harris was in Charlottesville five years ago making Evan Almighty.

'Natural Selection': Meanie 'Hangover' actress plays nice

Rachael Harris can play mean, and in the 2009 smash hit Hangover, she plays really mean as Melissa, the girlfriend of Ed Helms' character, Stu. "My agent was getting calls for me to play the shrew," says Harris. "You can get pigeon-holed." She's already been a bit pigeon-ho

Best o' the fest: What real filmmakers want to see

Salivation. That's what happens when you're a cinephile and you pick up the program for the 24th annual Virginia Film Festival and see all those unreleased new movies, and all those classics you've wanted to revisit, and all those films you really won't get to see anywhere

Film fest director Jody Kielbasa reports attendance more than doubled last year to 23,750.

Oliver Stone, Larry Flynt headline Film Fest

A month before the theaters darken for the 24th Virginia Film Festival, director Jody Kielbasa has revealed the special guests so attendees can nab tickets as soon as they go on sale October 7. And surely one of the sellouts will be legendary filmmaker Oliver Stone, here fo