The Rosa Goddard International Film Festival

 

Since 2011, SQecial Media has sponsored the Rosa Goddard International Film Festival every fall at the Kentucky Theatre. Rosa Goddard was a longtime fan of international film and the festival was originally founded to celebrate her love of cinema. We have been proud to continue the tradition in her name.

The posters for our festival are designed by local artist Ed Franklin, who also curates each year's films. 

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COMING IN SEPTEMBER

Tighten the airlock, fasten your seatbelts, and join us on a journey through space and time at this year's Rosa Goddard International Film Festival! All films will show on Wednesday evenings at 7:15 PM. Tickets are available on the Kentucky Theatre's website at thekentuckytheatre.org or at the box office.

September 11: Barbarella (1968, dir. Roger Vadim) - CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS

The film that launched a thousand drag queens: Roger Vadim and Jane Fonda's 1968 shag-carpeted intergalactic sex romp that gave Duran Duran their name, based on the comic series by Jean-Claude Forest, and featuring cinematography by Renoir's grandson -- yes, that Renoir! Also has an appearance by Blow-Up's David Hemmings as a planetary rebel.

September 18: Fantastic Planet (1973, dir. René Laloux) - CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS

René Laloux's French/Czechoslovakian allegorical animated classic about the conflict between the eerie Draags and the human-like Oms was winner of the Special Jury Prize at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival. With a psychedelic score composed by French jazz pianist Alain Goraguer and production design by post-surrealist artist, actor, and writer Roland Topor.

September 25: Ghost in the Shell (1995, dir. Mamoru Oshii) - CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS

Violent, pretty, and philosophical, director Mamoru Oshii's 1995 futuristic neo-noir anime is set in fictional New Port City, Japan, in the year 2029. The film gathered a cult following and has inspired directors such as the Wachowskis, exploring questions of consciousness that have perhaps even more relevance today with the rise of AI.

 

 

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PAST FILMS BY YEAR

2023

  
Monsoon Wedding, (2001, dir. Mira Nair) - Drylongso, (1998, dir. Cauleen Smith) - A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT,
(2014, dir. Ana Lily Amirpour)
 

2022

  
Good Morning (1959, dir. Yasujiro Ozu) - Mirror (1975, dir. Andrei Tarkovsky) - The Spirit of the Beehive (1973, dir. Víctor Erice)
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2019

  
In memory of director Agnès Varda: La Pointe Courte (1955) - Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962) - Faces Places (2017)
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2018

  
La Notte - The Double Life of Veronique - Ida
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2017

   
Tampopo - Stalker - The Lure - Funeral Parade of Roses
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2016

  
A Man Escaped - La Haine - Wings of Desire

2015

   
Hiroshima Mon Amour - Solaris - Heartbeats - A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
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2014

   
Last Year at Marienbad - Valerie and Her Week of Wonders - Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962, dir. Agnès Varda) 
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2013

  
L'Atalante & Zéro de conduite (double feature) - Black Orpheus - Orpheus
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2012

   
Diva - Knife in the Water - Band of Outsiders - Weekend
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2011

  
La Belle et la Bete - Wings of Desire - Fantastic Planet

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