DOUBLE FEATURE: HORTON FOOTE: THE ROAD TO HOME (2020) and TENDER MERCIES (1983) #ICFTXFF
HORTON FOOTE: THE ROAD TO HOME (2020) [North Texas Premiere]
Director: Anne Rapp (in attendance)
Filmed in Wharton, TX; New York City, NY; and Hartford, CT
Chronicles the creative journey of acclaimed Texas writer Horton Foote - a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and winner of two Academy Awards for screenwriting - through his own eyes and voice at the end of his life. (IMDb)
TENDER MERCIES (1983)
Director: Bruce Beresford
In attendance: Jeannie Oppewall (Art Director); Anne Rapp (Script Supervisor)
Filmed in Palmer, Waxahachie, and Arlington, TX
Featuring an Oscar-winning screenplay by Horton Foote, Tender Mercies tells the story of a broken-down, middle-aged country singer who gets a new wife, reaches out to his long-lost daughter, and tries to put his troubled life back together. (IMDb) It stars Robert Duvall in his Best-Actor Oscar-winning performance.
The IT CAME FROM TEXAS Film Festival makes its triumphant return to the Plaza Theatre in Garland, located at 521 W. State Street. The second annual IT CAME FROM TEXAS Film Festival, which celebrates films made either wholly or in part within the Lone Star State, will kick off on Friday, September 13 and continue through Sunday, September 15, taking place entirely within the Plaza Theatre, on the recently remodeled square in downtown Garland. As with last year’s inaugural edition of this new fest, IT CAME FROM TEXAS will be sponsored by the City of Garland and Garland Cultural Arts.
