Michael Madsen: 2011 AFF Maverick Award Recipient
Please join us as we welcome actor MICHAEL MADSEN to the 2011 Albuquerque Film Festival.
Mr. Madsen is the recipient of the 2011 AFF Maverick Award and will be honored at the Closing Night Award’s Ceremony on Sunday, August 21st at 8:00pm.
Mr. Madsen will also be presenting MIDNIGHT MOVIES with MICHAEL MADSEN at The KiMo Theatre during the festival. Don’t miss his exciting presentation of HELLRIDE in which he co-starred with AFF Alumni, the late Dennis Hopper and Quentin Tarantino’s cult classic RESERVOIR DOGS.
BOOK SIGNING EVENT:
We’re thrilled to announce that prior to taking the screen as Mr. Blonde, Mr. Madsen will appear at The KiMo Theatre on Saturday, August 20th at 8pm for a BOOK SIGNING and a POETRY READING. First, purchase a ticket to the screening of Reservoir Dogs and then one of Mr. Madsen’s books for him to personally autograph.
HELLRIDE with Special Guest MICHAEL MADSEN:
Friday, August 19th at 10pm. Tickets $10.
RESERVOIR DOGS with Special Guest MICHAEL MADSEN:
Saturday, August 20th at 10pm. Tickets $10.
CLOSING NIGHT AWARDS CEREMONY
Sunday, August 21st at 8pm. Tickets $40.
MICHAEL MADSEN is most notably recognized for his role as the sadistic killer, Mr. Blonde, in Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs. His career spans over 25 years and over 170 films. He has played memorable characters in myriad box office hits, including: Kill Bill, Sin City, Hell Ride, Die Another Day, Donnie Brasco, Species, The Getaway, The Doors, Thelma & Louise, and Free Willy. Recently, Michael Madsen has picked up numerous awards on the Indie circuit. In 2007 he received the Method Fest Independent Film Festival’s Maverick Award and in 2008 he scooped up several Best Actor awards for his role in the Irish boxing film Strength and Honour, including the New York International Film Festival, Boston Film Festival and the Downtown Los Angeles Film Festival. In 2009 Madsen received the Golden Dolphin Award at the 25th Festroia Festival in Portugal, an award also given to veterans Kirk Douglas and Robert Mitchum.
Michael Madsen is also an accomplished poet and has an international following, his first book Burning In Paradise(Foreword by Dennis Hopper) won the Independent Firecracker Award back in 1998 and was later translated in Norwegian in 2008. He has been recognized worldwide as a poet and invited to the International Poetry Festivals in Genoa, Italy and Mexico to be honored for his Bukowski style poetry. Madsen was most recently the Guest of Honor at the 2010 Crossing Border Festival in The Netherlands. The Complete Poetic Works of Michael Madsen, Vol. I 1995-2005( c. 2005 13 Hands Publications) has been an international bestseller that includes a decade of Madsen’s poetry dating up to 2005 followed by Signs of Life (c. 2006 13 Hands Publications), dedicated to Chris Penn; this was Michael’s first ever book of photography. His last book American Badass (c. 2009 13 Hands Publications) was released in September 2009. Madsen dedicated this book to the memory of the late David Carradine, his friend and Kill Bill co-star. Madsen is currently in preparation for his next book “Expecting Rain” (due out in 2012 by 13 Hands Publications).
“…for me, the real journey that Michael, the writer, is exploring is what it means to be a man in a world where the notions of ‘manhood’ that some of us grew up with are barely remembered at best, or ridiculed at worst. But then if everybody embarked on the Hero’s Journey, everybody would be a hero, wouldn’t they?” -Quentin Tarantino
“When you open these pages you will be astounded by his insight into the minds and hearts of regular folks like you and me. He’ll make you laugh and he’ll make you cry and things will never look the same to you again.” -David Carradine
“This actor is a poet…our best. I’m proud to know him a little. His words show me a lot about me. A laugh, a tear. He talks of now.” -Dennis Hopper
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