2008 AFI Fest Lineup

By Craig Kennedy - October 8th, 2008; 2:56 pm Tickets for AFI Fest which runs October 30 - November 9 went on sale to AFI members this morning and tickets will be available to the general public beginning Friday. As reported previously, the opening night film is the world premiere of Joe Wright’s The Soloist starring Robert Downey, Jr. and Jamie Foxx. It tells the true story of an LA Times columnist (Downey, Jr.) and a gifted but schizophrenic violinist (Foxx) who has ended up homeless on the streets of LA. Closing the festival is the world premiere of Edward Zwick’s Defiance, the story of three Jewish brothers (Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber and Jamie Bell) who form a resistance to the Nazi occupation of Poland during World War II. In between, there will be gala screenings of Steven Soderbergh’s Che starring Benicio Del Toro;... [read full story]