FILM PREVIEW
Atlanta Film Festival
Through March 29 at the Plaza Theatre (1049 Ponce de Leon Ave. N.E., Atlanta) and other sites. Tickets, $10 most screenings. www.atlantafilmfestival.com.
The 10-day Atlanta Film Festival hits the home stretch this weekend, but there are still plenty of independent feature-length (narratives and documentaries) and short films from which to choose. Here's a sampling (all screenings at the Plaza Theatre unless noted):
"Satanic Panic 2: Battle of the Bands." It turns out the electronic dance band behind tunes such as "6-6-Sexy" in Atlanta filmmaker Eddie Ray's film aren't Satan worshippers after all; they fight like the devil for the common good (6:30 p.m. Friday, 7 Stages).
"The Sisterhood of Night," a contemporary take on the Salem witch trials, based on the short story by Pulitzer Prize-winner Steven Millhauser about New York high school girls who form a secret society and are accused of sexual deviancy (7 p.m. Friday).
"Breathe" ("Respire"), a French drama from director-actress Melanie Laurent that charts an obsessive, and ultimately destructive, friendship between two teenage girls (9:30 p.m. Friday).
"Montedoro," a mystery in which a middle-aged American woman journeys to a remote southern Italy town hoping to discover her ancestry and, finding it abandoned, ends up on a magical voyage to self-knowledge (2:30 p.m. Saturday).
"Sunshine Superman," a documentary about Carl Boenish, considered the father of BASE jumping (parachuting from a skyscraper or a cliff), with director Marah Strauch appearing at the screening (7 p.m. Saturday).
"Love & Mercy," the Brian Wilson bio-pic with both John Cusack and Paul Dano playing the Beach Boy (12:15 p.m. Sunday).
"Apartment Troubles," a female buddy comedy in which writers-co-directors Jennifer Prediger and Jess Weixler also star as codependent struggling conceptual artists (2:15 p.m. Sunday).
"Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey," following now-90-year-old actor Hal Holbrook, who has performed a one-man Mark Twain show for six decades. Director Scott Teems and editor Anthony Innarelli are from Lilburn and studied film at Georgia State University (4 p.m. Sunday).
"Game of Thrones," a free preview of the season five debut episode of the HBO hit (7:30 p.m. Sunday at the Fox Theatre; limited tickets remain for walk-ups, with doors opening at 6 p.m.).
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