February 1, 2009, the Arkansas Arts Center will host a film festival at the Market Street Cinema in Little Rock.  Three films will be shown in January.  Show times are at 7:00 p.m., and tickets are $7.50 for each film. 

Factory Girl will be shown Thursday, January 15.  This movie, starring Sienna Miller, Guy Pearce and Hayden Christensen, imaginatively unfolds the comet-like rise and fall of  ‘60s “It Girl” Edie Sedgwick.  Sedgwick, a blue blood with a trust fund and a Harvard education, becomes Andy Warhol’s muse and finds herself lost in the center of the Pop Art universe bursting with sex, drugs, style and rock and roll.

Basquiat will be featured Thursday, January 22.  Youthful artist Jean Michel Basquiat started out as a street artist living in a cardboard box when he was “discovered” by Andy Warhol’s art world.  Starring Jeffrey Wright and David Bowie, Basquiat illustrates the high price of success, which Basquiat pays with friendship, love and, ultimately, his life.

I Shot Andy Warhol will be shown Thursday, January 29.  Starring Lili Taylor and Jared Harris, this film is based on the true story of Valerie Solanas, a '60s radical preaching hatred toward men.  I Shot Andy Warhol describes her life, relationship with Warhol and the events that led up to the shooting.

Tickets can be purchased at Market Street Cinema.  Location:  1521 Merrill Drive, Little Rock, Ark. 72211.

Contact:  501-312-8900

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