The 22nd Annual Roger Ebert’s Film Festival, co-founded and hosted by Chaz Ebert and also known as ‘Ebertfest”, announced today Ari Aster’s HEREDITARY will be joining this year’s lineup. What’s more, actor Alex Wolff will participate in a post-screening Q&A and will be presented with Roger Ebert’s “Golden Thumb Award”.
HEREDITARY will screen on Thursday, April 16th.
You already know that we regard Hereditary as one of the best horror films of its decade. In his Sundance Film Festival 2018 review, RogerEbert.com editor Brian Tallerico described HEREDITARY as “A deeply unsettling film, the kind of horror movie that pulls from relatable human emotions like grief and resentment to ultimately become an absolute nightmare,” while Matt Zoller Seitz called the film “creepy beyond belief” in his 4-star review.
“This is one of the greatest honors of my career if not the greatest,” said Alex Wolff. “Roger Ebert’s visionary, thoughtful, and riveting writing about film has in numerous ways informed my opinions and taste in film and what it means in the greater scheme of life. He was a true sorcerer of ideas, a wordsmith and an all-encompassing ambassador of movie-appreciation, which the world could REALLY use right now. I’m honored!”
The 22nd Anniversary of Ebertfest will be held April 15-18, 2019 at the Virginia Theatre in Champaign, IL with related talks and panel discussions to be held at the Hyatt Place in Champaign and at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The festival will open with a screening of Francis Ford Coppola’s THE COTTON CLUB ENCORE and performance by Kathryn Bostic and will close with The Farrelly Brothers’ THERE’S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY.
