This week the Michigan Theater, located in downtown Ann Arbor, will be acting as the special host to a Sundance Film Festival world premier of the film, “For a Good Time Call”.
For several years the Michigan Theater has had the honor of hosting special Sundance Film Festival events and premiers. The Festival selects nine theaters each year from around the country to act as extensions of Sundance and show premiers. “For a Good Time Call”, the selection for the Michigan this year, is a comedy by director Jamie Travis, who is being hailed as a modern version of the young Steven Soderbergh. The premier in Ann Arbor will also feature a special Q and A session afterward with Mr. Travis and the screenwriters Katie Anne Naylon & Lauren Anne Miller.
For a Good Time Call
Thursday, January 26 at 7:30 PM
“Lauren and Katie, college frenemies with a mutual good friend, move in together at age 28 in order to afford an amazing Gramercy Park apartment. The unlikely pair start a phone sex line and become best friends while learning about this hilarious world of nighttime callers. When the hot line is hung up and reality comes calling, the most meaningful relationship of their lives is put to the test.” – Michtheater.org
Sundance Shorts
Sunday, January 29 at 7:00 PM
The Michigan will also screen the Sundance Film Festival’s selection of short films from 2011. The shorts will include live action and animated films covering a wide range of genres and topics. According to the Festival’s program categories a short film is, “limited only by run time, and driven by innovation and experimentation.” The category also hails short films as having the ability to raise above the traditional means of story telling through film. “From cutting-edge animation to the best in Native and documentary cinema, these Shorts Programs call out filmmaking’s most original imaginations.”
Why Ann Arbor?
This year Ann Arbor, MI and the Michigan Theater were selected along with theaters in; Boston, MA. Brooklyn, NY. Chicago, IL. Houston, TX. Nashville, TN. Orlando, FL. San Francisco, CA. and Tuscon, AZ.
In preparation for Sundance’s arrival in Ann Arbor, the staff at the Michigan Theater put together a video where Theater Director Russ Collins explains during last years Festival what exactly make the Michigan fit to host an internationally acclaimed film festival.
It’s not just the Michigan Theater’s beauty and age old charm that attracts Sundance, but also the atmosphere and cultural climate of downtown Ann Arbor.
Ticket information for the both screenings can be found at ticketmaster or by calling 800-745-3000. Δ John Fenton
