Maryland Film Festival
Guest-host presentations
In addition to forty or more new features and a favorite film presented by John Waters, each Maryland Film Festival has invited guest-hosts to present a favorite film.

Maryland Film Festival

Section Title: Guest-host presentations
Table Section Text: In addition to forty or more new features and a favorite film presented by John Waters, each Maryland Film Festival has invited guest-hosts to present a favorite film.

Festival Year	Guest Host	Film Title	Film Director	Notes

1999	Kurt Schmoke	The Godfather	Francis Ford Coppola

1999	Marc Steiner	The Cool World	Shirley Clarke

2000	Jonathan Richman	Cyrano de Bergerac	Michael Gordon

2000	Joyce Scott	The Long, Hot Summer	Martin Ritt

2000	Taylor Branch	One-Eyed Jacks	Marlon Brando

2000	J.D. Considine	The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle	Julien Temple

2000	Scott Erickson	Predator	John McTiernan

2001	Will Oldham	The World's Greatest Sinner	Timothy Carey

2001	Herschell Gordon Lewis	The Gore Gore Girls and 2,000 Maniacs	Herschell Gordon Lewis

2001	Martin O'Malley	Into the West	Mike Newell

2002	Julian Bond	Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song	Melvin Van Peebles	Bond was joined in his presentation by director Melvin Van Peebles, who delivered his own print of the film for the screening.

2003	Barry Levinson	On the Waterfront	Elia Kazan	This screening was the Opening Night selection for MFF 2003, held in the historic Senator Theater.

2003	Margaret Carlson	Notorious	Alfred Hitchcock

2004	Marc Steiner	The Battle of Algiers	Gillo Pontecorvo

2005	Dorothy Hamill	Mary Poppins	Robert Stevenson	The audience was encouraged to sing along with the songs for this screening.

2005	Harvey Pekar	The Bicycle Thief	Vittorio De Sica

2005	Barbara Mikulski	To Kill a Mockingbird	Robert Mulligan

2006	Branford Marsalis	The Scent of Green Papaya	Tran Anh Hung

2007	Lodge Kerrigan	A Sense of Loss	Marcel Ophüls

2007	Henry Rollins	Maxed Out	James Scurlock

2009	Ian MacKaye	Nina Simone: La Légende	Frank Lords	The famed post-punk musician (of Minor Threat, Fugazi, The Evens, and Dischord Records) presented a rare screening of this 1992 French documentary about Nina Simone.

2009	Laura Lippman	Funny Bones	Peter Chelsom

2010	Bill Callahan	Faces	John Cassavetes	Callahan (formerly known as Smog), read an original, poetic appreciation piece for this landmark 1968 independent film. He was joined in his presentation by Al Ruban, the film's cinematographer and frequent Cassavetes collaborator.

2010	Dan Deacon	Total Recall	Paul Verhoeven	This screening led to a subsequent year-round Maryland Film Fest series called Gunky's Basemement featuring 35mm prints of films selected and hosted by Dan Deacon and Jimmy Joe Roche.

2011	Marin Alsop	The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly	Sergio Leone	A 35mm presentation of this 1966 Sergio Leone spaghetti western noted for its Ennio Morricone score, hosted by the music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.

2011	members of Animal Collective	The Boxer's Omen, aka Mo	Chih-Hung Kuei	Avey Tare, Deakin, and Geologist hosted this 1983 Shaw Brothers production, and noted that another favorite film of the group was House.

2013	Frank Bruni	Absence of Malice	Sydney Pollack

2014	Matmos	Barbarella	Roger Vadim	The Baltimore-based electronic-music duo will present the film from which they derived their band name.

2014	DJ Spooky	Putney Swope	Robert Downey, Sr.

2015	Alan Resnick and Dina Kelberman	Showgirls	Paul Verhoeven

2015	Abdu Ali	Do the Right Thing	Spike Lee

2016	DeRay Mckesson	Fresh	Boaz Yakin

2017	Beach House	Vagabond	Agnès Varda	The Baltimore-based duo's introduction on Saturday, May 6, 2017 marked the first 35mm print presented in the newly restored Parkway Theatre.

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Prior to Gunky’s Basement, Dan Deacon was a guest host in Maryland Film Festival 2010, selecting Total Recall.

final_sentence: Prior to Gunky’s Basement, Dan Deacon was a guest host in Maryland Film Festival 2010, selecting Total Recall.