Media Coverage
The Denver Post
March 20, 2005
Celluloid glitterati flock to Vail
bill husted
The hills are alive — with Hollywood types.
The Vail Film Festival, now in its second year, has scored by bringing in Andrew Wilson, Luke Wilson, Owen Wilson, Seymour Cassel and Harry Dean Stanton with their film "The Wendell Baker Story." The flick also stars Will Ferrell - it's a comedy, of course, about a guy who gets out of prison and goes to work at a retirement hotel.
The fest, which runs March 31-April 3, also honors filmmaker Edward R. Pressman ("Badlands," "Wall Street," "American Psycho") and rising star Kip Pardue ("Driven," "Remember the Titans").
Parties will come down in town and on the mountain. Grammy winner Cary Brothers (for "Garden State") will perform. And Colorado filmmakers are well repped, notably by Cole Claassen and his movie "Fern Hill," shot last summer in Crested Butte with young actor Mackenzie Harden…