SIFF Cinema is hosting three benefit screenings that just happen to be of films hoping to garner some bigtime buzz this season (and perhaps take home an award or two). The first up Sunday is A Single Man, the debut feature from Tom Ford, which got high praise at Toronto and Venice for Colin Firth’s touching portrayal of a gay man dealing with his partner’s death, along with luminous fag hag Julianne Moore. Not bad for a director previously best known for ads featuring him naked.
Coming up Wednesday, December 2nd is Me and Orson Welles, Richard Linklater’s take on the early life of the auteur. I like Linklater, but I’ve got a hard time buying Zac Efron as a teenage actor who’s lucked into working with Welles. And come Sunday, December 13th, the series rounds out with Emily Blunt as The Young Victoria, which is, yes, a period piece about the Queen of England.
- Award-Buzz Benefit Screenings at SIFF Cinema: A Single Man, November 22nd at 2 p.m., Me and Orson Welles, December 2nd at 7 p.m., The Young Victoria December 13th at 3:30 p.m. Individual tickets go for $10 a pop, or see all three films for the bargain rate of $25. All proceeds benefit SIFF.
