14 at a brief ceremony at Crown Center’s Kaleidoscope art experience at Crown Center. To help celebrate the release of the stamps, local Postal Service representatives will unveil the four new stamps at 1:30 p.m.
14, the Postal Service continues its tradition of issuing beautiful yet unique 46 cent floral stamps that are good for mailing domestic 1-ounce First-Class letters. With the issuance of Kaleidoscope Flowers on Jan. “There will be a lot of happy people who get to see a lot of great films.KANSAS CITY, MO – Flowers are one of the most popular subjects in art - and on stamps. “We hope to achieve a film festival without any mayhem being committed, and maybe make a small profit,” Shipp says.
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Tickets and full festival passes can be purchased in advance at For more information and a full schedule of events, check out the Web site or call (816) 474-7100. “It’s about these guys who should have grown up and gone to college, but they’re still at home, hanging out at the local pool hall. “It’s not the same genre as ‘Napoleon Dynamite,’ but it’s a very funny movie,” Runyan says. Kansas City native Jeff Runyan has a small role in the film and worked his local connections to arrange the screening. Brian Peterson, who plays triple duty as writer, director and star of “Think Tank,” will be at the festival with two of the movie’s producers for tonight’s world premiere and a Q&A session.
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It means something to win our Best Picture award.”įor moviegoers with an interest in more mainstream films sans subtitles, some of the creative team behind indie hit “Napoleon Dynamite” is screening its latest movie about geeks who try to save their favorite pool hall by inventing the ultimate game: frictionless pool. “We’ve gained some stature in the independent film world. “We’ve been able to bring a number of films that played in Toronto and other, larger film festivals,” Rigby says. “‘Europa, Europa’ is a masterpiece and we’re just delighted to have a director of that caliber in Kansas City.”īecause FilmFest is the oldest and largest film festival in the KC area, the organizers are annually challenged to come up with something fresh and new to attract viewers and participants. “We have one of the world’s leading European directors,” Shipp says. She’ll also be screening her newest film, “Julie Walking Home,” on Thursday evening. One of the most highly anticipated events of the week, Shipp says, is the screening of the Oscar-nominated “Europa, Europa” with Agnieszka Holland, a Polish director who studied in Prague before making films in the United States. We’ve also reached out into the community more than in the past.” Those are two countries in African that a lot of people don’t even know exist and we have films from there. “We have 23 different countries represented, from Mali to Burkina Faso. “We have some wonderful films that are going to appeal to people going to the university AND to people who are 75-years-old,” says John Shipp, founder of FilmFest Kansas City and chairman of the board.
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The festival’s other sidebars include series devoted to French films and documentaries, as well as a symposium of film commissioners and a script reading of a film that will be shooting in Kansas City next spring. The festival, running through Thursday at the Cinemark Palace on the Plaza, will feature other themed miniseries and more than 50 foreign, independent and studio films. Eastwood loaned his own archival prints of his films for the festival at Ricker’s request. Other entries in FilmFest Kansas City’s Blues and Jazz series are “The Last of the First,” a 1973 jazz documentary (hosted by Lawrence Journal-World entertainment editor Jon Niccum), and “Bird,” Clint Eastwood’s 1988 drama about Kansas City native and alto sax legend Charlie Parker. Typically we’re going for international and foreign films, but we wanted to achieve some diversity within the American culture, as well.” “We always try to bring a very diverse selection of films to the festival. “We have such a great history of jazz in this city,” says Bruce Rigby, President of FilmFest KC. And tonight, he’ll be on hand at FilmFest Kansas City to watch himself and other big names of the big band era in a 25th anniversary screening of “Last of the Blue Devils.”īruce Ricker’s 1979 documentary about a reunion of legendary jazz musicians in Kansas City is part of a miniseries of films about Kansas City jazz history within the 11th annual FilmFest Kansas City. He helped invent its foot-tapping rhythms and boogie-woogie beats. Jay McShann didn’t just play Kansas City jazz.
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