SXSW08 favorite and shortlist contender for this past year's Academy Award for Best Feature Documentary In a Dream (reviewed here) opens today at the Cinema Village in NYC. Buy tickets here, because you must see this theatrically if you have the opportunity.

Isaiah and Julia Zagar

An excerpt from my review last March:

"Jeremiah's film charts his family history beginning with his father's relationship with his mother Julia, proceeding to pick up characters as we go and constantly touching back on the past and completing the detail work around the whole picture. The symbiotic joys and pressures of maintaining the family Isaiah and Julia built frame the film, always centered around the destructive elements of their life together repairing and reconstructing it through all the crises they face. The film picks up in real-time at a decisive moment when that capacity to rebuild comes into question."

Showtimes (daily 4/10-4/16):
12:50p, 2:30p, 4:20p, 6:15p, 8:00p, 10:00p

Director Jeremiah Zagar will appear with his parents (subjects from the film) at the 8pm and 10pm shows tonight, 4/10.
Jeremiah will appear on his own at the 8pm and 10pm shows on Saturday and the 4:20pm and 6:15pm shows on Sunday.