Pick apples, pick a pumpkin and find film treasures at HIFF

More and more current theater reflects the crises technological progress has created. But equally, in hark-backs to Shakespeare and Beckett and other iconic observers of human nature — Horton Foote, William Inge and their ilk, also represented in revivals this season — the comforting fact is that humanity has somehow persevered despite our selfish, self-serving often animalistic behavior.
The spate of new films that comprise the 21st Hamptons International Film Festival put an equally sharp focus on surviving and thriving and shoring up our world with their vivid explorations into man’s humanity and creative energies.
From Oct. 10-14, the festival will serve up a cornucopia of the best of new cinema from around the globe. There will be films from old masters to new wave talents in the four-day festival that includes 13 world premieres, 10 U.S. premieres and seven North American premieres. There will be a short films program, student showcase and a special “Views From Long Island” section. In three little words: Something for everyone! That includes celebrity hawks who may find themselves having a latte side by side with the likes of Rafe Fiennes, Anna Paquin, Bruce Dern, Renee Zellweger, Dakota Fanning, David Duchovny, Will Forte, Spike Jonze and more icons of the cinema world.
Saturday’s Southampton’s opening centerpiece film “August: Osage County” will be familiar to theatergoers. “Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom” will highlight the documentaries, and the festival will pay special tribute to Oscar-winning director Costa Gravas before the showing of his latest film “Capital.” Among the documentaries other “musts” include the world premiere of American Masters “Marvin Hamlisch, One Singular Sensation,” the U.S. Premiere of Alex Gibney’s “The Armstrong Lie,”— investigating Lance Armstrong’s illegal antics, and the Cannes 2013 Film Festival Palme d’or winner”Blue is the Warmest Color.”