Film Fest 919

In our fall arts preview, we highlighted some festival-feted films that we’re hoping to see on local screens. Lo and behold, a bunch of them are at Silverspot in the second-annual Film Fest 919. There’s Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story, starring Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver. There’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Céline Sciamma’s Cannes best-screenplay-winning study of queer desire. There’s Pedro Almodóvar’s autofictional Pain and Glory, which snagged Antonio Banderas a best-actor award at Cannes. There’s Parasite, the Palme d’Or winner by Bong Joon-ho (Snowpiercer), and there’sWaves, which, according to The Ringer’s Sean Fennessey, incited “an emotional hysteria I haven’t felt in a movie theater in years” at Telluride. This is just scratching the surface—see also Taika Waititi’s TIFF audience favorite Jojo Rabbit and FernandoMeirelles’s The Two Popes; the latter’s screenwriter, Anthony McCarten, will be present to receive an award, among other events with industry professionals. Thanks are due to the festival’s cofounders—Randi Emerman, Silverspot’s vice president of programming; veteran publicist Carol Marshall; and LA Film Critics Association president  Carol Marshall—for making sure the Triangle isn’t left out of the liveliest cinema conversations of this fall.