I have one pair of tickets to any one screening at the Flyover Film Festival next weekend June 12-14, 2009. The winner will pick up a certificate at Wild & Woolly video which can be redeemed at the Kentucky Center box office for the actual tickets (a little convoluted I confess but not that complex and you know, also, free).
I will choose the winner at random from all the entries I receive by 10PM Thursday June 4, 2009. To enter to win just leave a comment telling us your favorite film with some kind of Kentucky connection (set here, written here, filmed here, starring people from here, be creative).
You can see the complete Flyover Film Festival schedule here.
June 3rd, 2009 at 8:32 am
Wild at Heart…Kentucky connection? Mr. Harry Dean Stanton of West Irvine, Kentucky, USA
June 3rd, 2009 at 8:41 am
As cliche as it may be, I really liked “Nice Guys Sleep Alone”…plus some people i went to high school with are in it.
June 3rd, 2009 at 9:21 am
Harlan County, USA
June 3rd, 2009 at 9:23 am
All the King’s Men – actually, none of the movie versions were really that great but the book was terrific & written by KY native Robert Penn Warren
June 3rd, 2009 at 9:55 am
“I am the prophet of Juniper Creek!”
Sorry, distracted by the brilliance of Harry Dean Stanton. Great entries all so far.
June 3rd, 2009 at 9:59 am
Why, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, of course, which portrays the misadventures of Louisville native Hunter S. Thompson.
June 3rd, 2009 at 10:00 am
Stripes- Louisville, Fort Knox.
June 3rd, 2009 at 11:00 am
“June Bug”. Will Oldham a.k.a Bonnie “Prince” Billy, from Louisville, plays a part in it.
June 3rd, 2009 at 11:23 am
“Halloween.” John Carpenter, who grew up in Bowling Green and attended WKU, subtly references Hardin County and Russellville in the script.
June 3rd, 2009 at 11:26 am
Gus Van Sant, born in Louisville, made Good Will Hunting (and many other films). My arm was twisted to watch this film a few years ago…a few years too late. I was sad I had waited so long to see it. It’s excellent.
Also, D.W. Griffith, early filmmaker (Birth of a Nation, for example) was born in LaGrange. Which I think is darn cool.
June 3rd, 2009 at 12:50 pm
I love When We Were Kings, about the Ali / Foreman Rumble in the Jungle.
I can’t wait to see more of the concert footage in Soul Power.
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:30 pm
Dracula. 1931. Directed by Louisville native Todd Browining. Bela Lugosi rules the world.
June 3rd, 2009 at 2:20 pm
Stripes
Where is your drill sergeant. Blown up sir!
June 4th, 2009 at 1:27 am
Blade Runner, starring native Louisvillian Sean Young.
June 4th, 2009 at 4:06 pm
I’m going to go with Stripes.
June 9th, 2009 at 4:09 pm
ELIZABETHTOWN- directed by Cameron Crowe
Has to be… filming took place at local hotel…either
Seelbach or Brown.
Louisville’s My Morning Jacket covers “Freebird” in the film and performs on the soundtrack.
Orlando Bloom kisses Kristen Dunst in the parking lot of Hugh & Ed’s car repair at Clay & East Market Streets.
louisville, southern, sweet.