american independent visions: claire dolan February 25 -- March 2, 2000 photo: claire dolan

monthly calendar At the Walter Reade Theater, 165 West 65th Street: telephone: 212-875-5600 tickets can be ordered through 777-film 2 weeks in advance. box office and ticket information (when using moviefone.com, you can search by title to locate the showings) Fri Feb 25: 1, 3, 5 and 9 Wed Mar 1: 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9 Thurs Mar 2: 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9 Sat Feb 26: 3:45, 5:45 7:40 and 9:35 Sun Feb 27: 3:45, 5:45 and 7:45 Tues Feb 29: 1 and 3 THE FILM SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER and THE INDEPENDENT FEATURE PROJECT present CLAIRE DOLAN in association with TIME WARNER CABLE and SUNDANCE CHANNEL

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American Independent Visions, a new joint initiative by the Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Independent Feature Project in association with Time Warner Cable and Sundance Channel, provides New York audiences with an opportunity to see American independent films with diverse and unique points of view. The series will feature one film per season: a film that has had a successful festival life, but has not yet been released theatrically. American Independent Visions is an outgrowth of Independents Night, a long-running monthly program organized jointly by the Film Society and the IFP. In 2000, American Independent Visions will focus on narrative features four times a year (February 25-March 2; June 2-8; September 15-21; and December 1-7), and Independents Night will showcase documentary films every other month starting in March. Partial support provided by the National Endowment for the Arts. CLAIRE DOLAN Lodge Kerrigan, France / USA, 1998; 95 minutes: "...imaginative visual style and some boldly ambiguous touches in the narrative. Katrin Cartlidge gives an impressively unsentimental performance as the heroine, supported by Colm Meaney as her high-class pimp and Vincent d'Onofrio as her well-meaning boyfriend. Every element of the movie reconfirms Kerrigan as a strong and original young talent--the unexpected final scene is especially fine...." -- David Sterritt, Film Scouts. Director Lodge Kerrigan and producer Ann Ruark will be present to introduce the film on Friday, February 25 at 9 pm. Lodge Kerrigan will hold a Q & A session after the film on Saturday, February 26 at 7:40 pm and on Sunday, February 27 at 7:45 pm. Katrin Cartlidge will join the director on Saturday. Kerrigan follows up his critically acclaimed ....Clean / Shaven (1993) with this haunting film of an Irish immigrant in New York who works as a prostitute to pay back an escalating debt to her pimp, played with understated menace by Colm Meaney (The Snapper). When her mother dies in a local nursing home, Claire attempts to extricate herself from her life as a call girl. She starts a relationship with a cab driver (Vincent D'Onofrio) who agrees to have a child with her and help her end her debt. In the end, however, she realizes that she has only herself to rely on. Cartlidge gives a pitch-perfect performance as the title character, quietly and precisely gaining strength against a richly textured, yet isolating urban backdrop. CLAIRE DOLAN premiered in Competition at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival among such illustrious works as Thomas Vinterberg's The Celebration, Erick Zonca's The Dreamlife of Angels, Hal Hartley's Henry Fool and Hou Hsiao-hsien's Flowers of Shanghai. CLAIRE DOLAN went on to garner critical success in its international release, and was nominated for three IFP / West Independent Spirit Awards -- confirming Kerrigan's promise as an intriguing and original new director. Look for an article on Lodge Kerrigan's CLAIRE DOLAN by Mark Olsen in the Jan / Feb 2000 issue of FILM COMMENT magazine.