A selective guide to some of the highlights from the third day of the Indie Memphis Film Festival. For a full schedule and ticketing info, see indiememphis.com:
The retrospective of Memphis-bred filmmaker Ira Sachs kicks into full drive. Earlier in the day, a selection of Ira Sachs Shorts (Circuit Playhouse, 11 a.m.) will screen, followed by Sachs’ made-in-Memphis coming-of-age debut, The Delta (Brooks Museum of Art, 2 p.m.).
And then, the gala screening tonight is, in my mind, the signature event of the festival, the Memphis debut of Sachs’ newest and best film, Keep the Lights On (Playhouse on the Square, 7 p.m.), a delicate, richly textured epic about the troubled, decade-long relationship between two New Yorkers that’s been hailed as “landmark in gay cinema” and one of the year’s best films. You can read my profile of Sachs in this week’s Flyer here.
Keep the Lights On trailer:
