Aspen Film Announces Line-up for 30th Annual Academy Screenings Opening with Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, followed by an in-person Q+A with Kate Hudson

From big-name features to fresh independent voices, Aspen Film Academy Screenings celebrates 30 years showcasing awards season contenders of high-profile, prominent end-of-year titles 

ASPEN, Colo. - Nov. 29, 2022 - Aspen Film is excited to announce the program for its 30th Annual Academy Screenings coming to Aspen’s Wheeler Opera House and its recently acquired Isis Theatre from Dec. 19-23, 2022. The 17-film showcase kicks off with GLASS ONION, followed by a special, in-person Q+A with part-time Old Snowmass local actor Kate Hudson on Opening Night. There will also be an in-person Q+A on Tuesday, December 20 with director Scott Cooper following the screening of THE PALE BLUE EYE.

Aspen has long been a favorite winter destination for voting members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), and other various entertainment guilds. From big-name features to fresh independent voices, Aspen Film’s 30th Edition Academy Screenings brings the most highly anticipated and accoladed films of the year, vying for award attention. What began as an industry-focused event for voting members of AMPAS, BAFTA, DGA, PGA, SAG-AFTRA, WGA, and other entertainment guilds, has grown into a winter tradition, showcasing the year’s highest-quality cinematic achievements from here and abroad. 

“Spanning three decades, Aspen Film’s Academy Screenings continues to present films that enlighten, enrich, educate, and entertain. We are proud to present a diverse and outstanding selection of 17 of the year’s most highly anticipated and celebrated films from around the globe,” says Aspen Film Executive + Artistic Director, Susan Wrubel, “We are also excited and honored to have Kate Hudson in-person for a Q+A following her Opening Night film, GLASS ONION, which is a total crowd-pleaser.”

 

30TH ASPEN FILM ACADEMY SCREENINGS OFFICIAL PROGRAM

PUSS IN BOOTS: THE LAST WISH - Mon, Dec 19 | 2 PM | Isis Theatre

Puss in Boots discovers that his passion for adventure has taken its toll: he has burned through eight of his nine lives. Puss sets out on an epic journey to find the mythical ‘last wish’ and restore his nine lives. (US, 2022) 100MIN

DIRECTOR Joel Crawford, Januel Mercado    WRITTEN BY Paul Fisher

WITH Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek Pinault, Olivia Colman, Harvey Guillén, Samson Kayo,

Wagner Moura, Anthony Mendez, John Mulaney, Florence Pugh, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Ray Winstone

COMMUNITY PARTNER Buddy Program

 

GLASS ONION: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY.  -  Mon, Dec 19 | 6 PM | Wheeler Opera House

In the follow-up to Rian Johnson’s KNIVES OUT, Detective Benoit Blanc travels to Greece to peel back the layers of a mystery involving a new cast of colorful suspects.

(US, 2022) 139MIN

FOLLOWED BY Q+A WITH ACTOR KATE HUDSON

FESTIVALS | AWARDS 2022 Toronto International Film Festival, Mill Valley Film Festival, Hamptons International Film Festival

DIRECTOR Rian Johnson     WRITTEN BY Rian Johnson

WITH Daniel Craig, Kate Hudson, Edward Norton, Janelle Monae, Kathryn Hahn, Leslie Odom Jr., Jessica Henwick, Dave Bautista, Madelyn Cline

 

THE WHALE  -  Tues, Dec 20 | 1 PM | Isis Theatre

From Darren Aronofsky comes THE WHALE, the story of a reclusive English teacher who attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter. Starring Brendan Fraser and based on the acclaimed play by Samuel D. Hunter.

(US, 2022) 117MIN

FESTIVALS | AWARDS 2022 Venice International Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival

DIRECTOR Darren Aronofsky    WRITTEN BY Samuel D. Hunter

WITH Brendan Fraser, Hong Chau, Sadie Sink

COMMUNITY PARTNER Aspen Strong

 

LIVING    -    Tues, Dec 20 | 4 PM | Wheeler Opera House

LIVING is the story of an ordinary man, reduced by years of oppressive office routine to a shadow existence, who at the eleventh hour makes a supreme effort to turn his dull life

into something wonderful. (UK, 2022) 102MIN

FESTIVALS | AWARDS 2022 Sundance Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Hamptons Film Festival

DIRECTOR Oliver Hermanus   -   WRITTEN BY Kazou Ishiguro, Akira Kurosawa (original screenplay)

WITH Bill Nighy, Aimee Lou Wood, Alex Sharp, Tom Burke,

 

THE PALE BLUE EYE    -     Tues, Dec 20 | 7 PM | Wheeler Opera House 

West Point, 1830. A world-weary detective is hired to discreetly investigate the gruesome murder of a cadet. Stymied by the cadets’ code of silence, he enlists one of their own to help unravel the case — a young man the world would come to know as Edgar Allan Poe. (US, 2022) 128MIN

FOLLOWED BY Q+A WITH DIRECTOR SCOTT COOPER

DIRECTOR Scott Cooper     WRITTEN BY Scott Cooper

WITH Christian Bale, Harry Meling, Gilian Anderson, Lucy Boynton, Charlotte Gaisbourg, Toby Jones, Harry Lawtey, Simo McBurney, Hadley Robinson, Timothy Sprall, Joey Brooks, Brennan Cook, Gideon Glick, Fred Hechinger, Matt Helm, Jack Irving, Steven Maier, Charlie Tahan, Robert Duvall

COMMUNITY PARTNER Explore Booksellers

 

NO BEARS     -      Wed, Dec 21 | 12 PM | Isis Theatre 

In his new virtuosic sleight-of-hand completed shortly before his imprisonment in July, director Jafar Panahi plays a fictionalized version of himself, who has relocated to a rural border town in Iran to remotely direct a new film in nearby Turkey.

(IRAN, 2022) 107MIN

FESTIVALS | AWARDS 2022 Venice International Film Festival: Winner - Special Jury Prize, Toronto International Film Festival

DIRECTOR Jafar Panahi      WRITTEN BY Jafar Panahi

WITH Jafar Panahi, Naser Hasemi, Vahid Mobaser, Bakhtiyar Panjei, Mina Kavani

COMMUNITY PARTNER Aspen Daily News

 

SAINT OMER    -     Wed, Dec 21 | 2 PM | Isis Theatre

Successful journalist and author Rama (Kayije Kagame) attends the trial of a young Senegalese woman (Guslagie Malanda), who has allegedly murdered her own baby daughter. Rama’s plan to write about Laurence in a book inspired by the Medea myth increasingly unravels as she becomes overwhelmed by the case in Alice Diop’s arresting yet highly sensitive, superbly acted fiction feature debut. (FRANCE, 2022) 118MIN

OFFICIAL 2023 OSCAR® SUBMISSION, FRANCE - Best International Feature

FESTIVALS | AWARDS 2022 Venice International Film Festival: Winner - Grand Prix, Toronto International Film Festival, New York Film Festival

DIRECTOR Alice Diop      WRITTEN BY Alice Diop, Amrita David, Marie Ndiaye

WITH Kayje Kagame, Guslagie Malanda, Valerie Dreville, Aurelia Petit

 

ONE FINE MORNING    -     Wed, Dec 21 | 5 PM | Wheeler Opera House

Sandra lives in a small apartment in Paris with her eight-year-old daughter. She regularly visits her father, Georg, who suffers from a neurodegenerative disease that undermines his capacities day by day. While she embarks with her family on an obstacle course to install Georg in a safe place, Sandra runs into Clément. Although he is not free, a passionate relationship begins. (FRANCE/GERMANY, 2022) 112MIN

FESTIVALS | AWARDS 2022 Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, New York Film Festival

DIRECTOR Mia Hansen-Løve      WRITTEN BY Mia Hansen-Løve

WITH Léa Seydoux, Pascal Greggory, Melvil Poupaud, Nicole Garcia

 

THE SON     -     Wed, Dec 21 | 8 PM | Wheeler Opera House

A cautionary tale that follows a family as it struggles to reunite after falling apart. THE SON centers on Peter (Hugh Jackman), whose hectic life with his infant and new partner Beth (Vanessa Kirby) is upended when his ex-wife Kate (Laura Dern) appears at his door to discuss their son Nicholas (Zen McGrath), who is now a teenager. The young man has been missing school for months and is deeply troubled. Peter strives to take care of Nicholas as he would have wanted his own father (Anthony Hopkins) to have taken care of him. However, by reaching for the past, he loses sight of how to hold onto Nicholas in the present.(UK, 2022) 123MIN

FESTIVALS | AWARDS 2022 Venice International Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival

DIRECTOR Florian Zeller     WRITTEN BY Florian Zeller

WITH Hugh Jackman, Vanessa Kirby, Laura Dern, Zen McGrath, Anthony Hopkins

COMMUNITY PARTNER Aspen Strong

 

EO     -     Thurs, Dec 22 | 12 PM | Isis Theatre

EO, a gray donkey with melancholy eyes and a curious spirit, begins his life as a circus performer before escaping on a trek across the Polish and Italian countryside in a journey marked by absurdity and warmth in equal measure. (POLAND/ITALY,

2022) 88MIN

OFFICIAL 2023 OSCAR® SUBMISSION, POLAND - Best International Feature

FESTIVALS | AWARDS 2022 Cannes Film Festival: Winner -

Jury Prize, Toronto International Film Festival,

New York Film Festival

DIRECTOR Jerzy Skolimowski      WRITTEN BY Jerzy Skolimowski, Ewa Piaskowska

COMMUNITY PARTNER WindWalkers

 

CAIRO CONSPIRACY      -      Thurs, Dec 22 | 2 PM | Isis Theatre

Adam, the son of a fisherman, is offered the privilege to study at the Al-Azhar University in Cairo, the center of power of Sunni Islam. Soon after he arrives, however, Adam becomes a pawn in the conflict between Egypt’s religious and political elites.

(SWEDEN/FRANCE/FINLAND/DENMARK, 2022) 126MIN

OFFICIAL 2023 OSCAR® SUBMISSION, SWEDEN - Best International Feature

FESTIVALS | AWARDS 2022 Cannes Film Festival: Winner - Best Screenplay

DIRECTOR Tarik Saleh          WRITTEN BY Tarik Saleh

WITH Tawfeek Barhom, Fares Fare, Mohammed Bakri, Makram J. Khoury, Sherwan Haji, Mehdi Dehbi

 

ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED      -     Thurs, Dec 22 | 5 PM | Wheeler Opera House

An epic story about artist and activist Nan Goldin, told through her groundbreaking photography and rare footage of her fight to hold the Sackler family accountable for the opioid crisis. (US, 2022) 113MIN

FESTIVALS | AWARDS 2022 Venice International Film Festival: Winner - Golden Lion

DIRECTOR Laura Poitras        WRITTEN BY Laura Poitras

COMMUNITY PARTNER Aspen Art Museum

 

CORSAGE      -     Thurs, Dec 22 | 8 PM | Wheeler Opera House

Empress Elisabeth of Austria (Vicky Krieps) is idolized for her beauty and renowned for inspiring fashion trends. But in 1877, ‘Sisi’ celebrates her 40th birthday and must fight to maintain her public image by lacing her corset tighter and tighter. While Elisabeth’s role has been reduced against her wishes to purely performative, her hunger for knowledge and zest for life makes her more and more restless in Vienna. 

(AUSTRIA/ LUXEMBOURG/GERMANY/FRANCE, 2022) 113MIN

OFFICIAL 2023 OSCAR® SUBMISSION, AUSTRIA - Best International Feature

FESTIVALS | AWARDS 2022 Cannes Film Festival: Winner - Vicky Krieps, Best Performance, Chicago International Film Festival: Winner - Vicky Krieps, Best Performance, London Film Festival: Winner - Best Film, Toronto International Film

Festival, New York Film Festival

DIRECTOR Marie Kreutzer          WRITTEN BY Marie Kreutzer

WITH Vicky Krieps, Florian Teichtmeister, Katharina Lorenz, Jeanne Werner, Alma Hasun, Colin Morgan, Ivana Urban

 

THE QUIET GIRL       -        Fri, Dec 23 | 12 PM | Isis Theatre

Rural Ireland. 1981. Nine year-old Cait is sent away from her overcrowded, dysfunctional family to live with foster parents for the summer. Quietly struggling at school and at home, she has learned to hide in plain sight from those around her. She blossoms in their care, but in this house where there are meant to be no secrets, she discovers one painful truth. (IRELAND, 2022) 95MIN

OFFICIAL 2023 OSCAR® SUBMISSION, IRELAND - Best International Feature

FESTIVALS | AWARDS 2022 Berlinale Film Festival: Winner - Best Feature Film, Dublin Film Festival: Winner - Audience Award, Denver International Film Festival: Winner - People’s Choice Award, Montclair Film Festival: Winner - Audience Award, Irish Film & Television Awards: Winner - Best Film

DIRECTOR Colm Bairead          WRITTEN BY Colm Bairead

WITH Carrie Crowley, Andrew Bennett, Catherine Clinch,

Michael Patric, Kate Nic Chonaonaigh

 

TURN EVERY PAGE       -        Fri, Dec 23 | 2 PM | Isis Theatre

TURN EVERY PAGE explores the remarkable fifty-year relationship between two literary legends, writer Robert Caro and his editor Robert Gottlieb, as they race to complete their life’s work. (US, 2022) 114MIN

FESTIVALS | AWARDS 2022 Tribeca International Film Festival, Denver International Film Festival

DIRECTOR Lizzie Gottlieb

WITH Robert Caro, Robert Gottlieb

COMMUNITY PARTNER Aspen Words

 

WOMEN TALKING      -       Fri, Dec 23 | 5 PM | Wheeler Opera House

Do nothing. Stay and fight. Or leave. In 2010, the women of an isolated religious community grapple with reconciling a brutal reality with their faith. (US, 2022) 104MIN

FESTIVALS | AWARDS 2022 Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, New York Film Festival, Hamptons Film Festival, Mill Valley Film Festival

DIRECTOR Sarah Polley              WRITTEN BY Sarah Polley

WITH Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, Rooney Mara, Sheila McCarthy, Judith Ivey, Ben Whishaw

 

WHITE NOISE            -          Fri, Dec 23 | 8 PM | Wheeler Opera House

At once hilarious and horrifying, lyrical and absurd, ordinary, and apocalyptic, WHITE NOISE dramatizes a contemporary American family’s attempts to deal with the mundane conflicts of everyday life while grappling with the universal mysteries of love, death, and the possibility of happiness in an uncertain world.(US, 2022) 135MIN

FESTIVALS | AWARDS 2022 Venice International Film Festival, New York Film Festival

DIRECTOR Noah Baumbach        WRITTEN BY Noah Baumbach

WITH Adam Driver, Greta Gerwig, Don Cheadle, Raffey Cassidy, Sam Nivola, May Nivola, Jodie Turner-Smith, Andre L. Benjamin, Sam Gold, Carlos Jacott, Lars Eginger, Barbara Sukowa, Francis Jue

COMMUNITY PARTNER Explore Booksellers

 

SCREENING VENUES

WHEELER OPERA HOUSE

320 East Hyman Avenue, Aspen

 

ISIS THEATRE

406 East Hopkins Avenue, Aspen

 

ACADEMY SCREENINGS EVENTS 

30th Academy Screenings Opening Reception

4:00 PM–5:30 PM, Wheeler Opera House

A private reception to kick off the 30th edition Academy Screenings for Aspen Film’s invited guests and members, bringing together industry professionals and passionate film supporters, engaging in thoughtful dialogue around the power of cinema.

 

POSTERFEST 22

Wheeler Opera House + Online

PosterFest is a unique opportunity to acquire a piece of Aspen’s Isis Theatre history, find a rare gem of movie memorabilia or snap up a poster embellished by a local artist, all in support of Aspen Film. Posters will be on display in the Wheeler Opera House bar lobby and may be purchased 30 minutes prior to each film screening taking place at the Wheeler. Offerings will include:

ISIS MEMORABILIA POSTERS

RARE ORIGINAL + AUTOGRAPHED POSTERS

ARTIST-EMBELLISHED POSTERS

All proceeds benefit Aspen Film. 

Pay in-person by cash, check or credit card. Or purchase online at: aspenfilm.org/posterfest-2022.

 

TICKETS

Festival Passes can be purchased here for $350 https://donorbox.org/academyscreenings-2022-pass 

Member tickets are on sale Dec. 6. General admission tickets will be on sale Dec. 9. 

 

ADMISSION - OPENING AND CLOSING NIGHT

$30 General Admission 

$25 Aspen Film Members

 

ADMISSION - ALL OTHER SHOWTIMES

$25 General Admission 

$20 Aspen Film Members

Tickets can be purchased at the Wheeler Opera House Box Office and through aspenshowtix.com Voting members of AMPAS, BAFTA, DGA, PGA, SAG-AFTRA, WGA, and other applicable entertainment guilds are eligible for a complimentary Industry Pass to Academy Screenings that must be reserved in advance. Industry pass holders are also allowed early entry into the theater 30 minutes prior to all screenings. To obtain an Industry Pass, please contact Aspen Film directly by email [email protected] or by phone 970.925.6882 by Dec. 16th.

Also, as a special promotion, and new this year, ticket buyers who purchase three or more tickets can bring their receipt to the Aspen Film merchandise table at the Wheeler to claim a special Aspen Film-branded gift.

 

SPONSORS

The 30th Annual Academy Screenings is made possible by the generous support of Aspen Times, Alpine Bank, Aspen Public Radio, AspenOUT, Aspen Thrift Shop, Colorado Creative Industries, Colorado Office of Film Television + Media, Les Dames d’Aspen, National Endowment for the Arts, Rotary Club of Aspen, Wheeler Arts Grant Program.

 

ABOUT ASPEN FILM:

Established in 1979, Aspen Film is one of Colorado's most active film arts organizations, presenting dynamic programs and featured guest artists throughout the year. Internationally recognized, Aspen Film organizes a major film event in every season, along with an extensive education program: Aspen Filmfest (fall), Academy Screenings (December 19-23, 2022), Aspen Shortsfest (April 10-16, 2023), Summer of Cinema, and FilmEducates. With a mission to enlighten, enrich, educate and entertain through film, Aspen Film stimulates thought, encourages dialogue, and broadens our understanding of our world and selves through the diverse spectrum of ideas presented by filmmakers worldwide. Aspen Shortsfest was voted one of the ‘top 25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World in 2022’ by Moviemaker Magazine. To learn more, visit aspenfilm.org.

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