Film, Music & Cinema Under the Stars this week in Sedona

Entertainment in Sedona
Sedona Film Festival & Studio Live Sedona
May 29th – June 3rd, 2012

When it comes to entertainment in Sedona, Studio Live Sedona and The Sedona International Film Festival always have something going on!

This week things kick off at Studio Live Sedona on Thursday, May 31st, when two dynamic performers, Bob Lind and Danny O’keefe, take to the stage. Then on Saturday, June 2nd, Singer/Songwriter Jane Siberry will have the audience mesmerized with her hauntingly beautiful music.

The Sedona International Film Festival will be screening two films this week: ‘We Have a Pope’ & “This Is Not a Film” starting today, May 29th and running through until June 1st, at the Mary D.Fisher Theatre. The Sedona Film Festival will also be presenting Cinema Under the Stars featuring a concert and the film “An American in Paris” – Musicals Under the Moon at the Tequa Marketplace on Sunday, June 3rd.

Studio Live Sedona

Singer/Songwriters Bob Lind & Danny O’Keefe
May 31st, 2012 (7:30 pm)
Tickets: $20/day of show and $15/advance

Bob Lind
Totally inimitable, Bob Lind writes, plays and sings like no one else – and he’s been doing it for more than four decades.His unique, touching lyrics have been taught in colleges and universities and translated into nine languages. But nothing equals the experience of watching this dynamic performer deliver his own songs.
Danny O’Keefe
In the 1970′s, Danny O’Keefe put out a string of albums that cemented his reputation as being among the best songwriters of his generation. These days, casual fans know him best for his Top Ten hit “Good Time Charlie’s Got The Blues” or Jackson Browne’s version of “The Road” from the classic Running On Empty album. But the story didn’t end in the 70′s. He continued to release the occasional album and recently returned with “In Time”, his first solo release in nine years.

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Singer/Songwriter Jane Siberry
June 2nd, 2012 (7:30 pm)
Location: Mary D. Fisher Theatre
Tickets: $30 day of show / $25 in advance

Studio Live Sedona is pleased to present singer/songwriter Jane Seberry at the Mary D.Fisher Theatre. More than twenty years after her first musical release, Jane Siberry has become renowned both for her hauntingly beautiful music and for her strength as a creative, innovative artist. With eleven major recordings, three poem books, her own independent label, and the acclaim of fans and peers alike, Siberry continues to redefine and challenge herself as one of contemporary music’s most original creative voices. Jane’s refusal to follow fads, trends and fashions has been her signature from the earliest days of her musical career.

For more information on these Sedona events please visit Studio Live Sedona.

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Sedona International Film Festival

‘We Have a Pope’ & “This Is Not a Film”
May 29th – June 1st, 2012
Location: Mary D. Fisher Theatre
Tickets:$12/$9 for Film Festival Members

“We Have a Pope”
In “We Have a Pope”, award-winning Italian director Nanni Moretti joins forces with the great French actor Michel Piccoli to tell the comedic and touching story of Melville, a cardinal who suddenly finds himself elected as the next Pope. Never the front runner and completely caught off guard, he panics as he’s presented to the faithful in St. Peter’s Square. To prevent a world-wide crisis, the Vatican’s spokesman calls in an unlikely psychiatrist,who is neither religious nor all that committed,to find out what is wrong with the new Pope. As the world nervously waits outside, inside the therapist tries to find a solution. But Cardinal Melville is adamant: he does not want the job, or at least needs time to think it over.
Showtimes: 4:00 pm on May 29th & 30th, 7:00 pm May 31st & June 1st.
“This Is Not a Film”
“This Is Not a Film” is the best reviewed film of the year, garnering the highest ratings from every critic around the globe!Acclaimed and renowned Iranian director, Jafar Panahi, received a 6-year prison sentence and a 20-year ban from filmmaking and conducting interviews with foreign press due to his open support of the opposition party in Iran’s 2009 election. “This Is Not a Film” — shot partially on an iPhone and smuggled into France in a cake for a last-minute submission to Cannes — depicts the day-to-day life of Panahi during his house arrest in his Tehran apartment.
Showtimes: 7:00 pm on May 29th & 30th, 4:00 pm on May 31st & June 1st.
For more information on either film please visit the Sedona International Film Festival

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“An American in Paris” – Musicals Under the Moon
June 3rd, 2012 (6:30 pm)
Tickets: $7

The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present “Cinema Under the Stars — Musicals Under the Moon” at Tequa featuring the Academy Award-winning, rousing crowd-pleaser “An American In Paris”. There will be one screening of the film outdoors at the Tequa Marketplace courtyard in the Village of Oak Creek. A live concert performance compliments of the Sedona Performing Arts Alliance and Studio Live will kick off the evening at 6:30 pm. Come early, bring lawn chairs and blankets and celebrate music and the movies at the festival’s first outdoor film of the summer season. “An American In Paris” will follow the concert at dusk. For more information please visit the Sedona International Film Festival.