The Real Estate Weekly | 10.26.2022

BY KEN WILSON

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Lovely, well maintained brick home nestled in a park-like setting in the City! Main level features an inviting foyer, large living room w/custom built-in shelving & fireplace, dining room, spacious kitchen and cozy sunroom.

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178 Bryan Ct | Charlottesville

Don’t miss seeing this great layout in the coveted neighbor hood of Mill Creek. This 3 bed, 2 1/2 bath home has a brand new Deck with built-in seating, new roof, new VELUX SKY LIGHTS, new gutters & paint with UPGRADED GARAGE.

$514,900 | montaguemiller.com/632520

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Langdon Woods Dr Lot 11 | Earlysville

Build your quality 2,830 sq ft custom home, by European Homes, on a beautiful 3.42 acre parcel of land in Langdon Woods ~ a nature preservation established community.

Convenient to Hollymead Town Center & Blue Ridge Mtns.

$875,000 | montaguemiller.com/617300

Anita Dunbar | 434.981.1421

Located on desirable Buck Mountain Road northwest of Charlottesville, this charming 1900 farmhouse is set on a 2 acres with streams and mountain views in a private rural setting. You’ll enjoy the large rooms & mountain views.

$360,000 | montaguemiller.com/631814

Anita Dunbar | 434.981.1421

3988 Mola Ln | Earlysville

In the country and close to town, 6 acres with pond, barn, and shop & 1 car garage with power. The house has hard wood floors, 3 BRs, 2 BAs with walk out apartment in the basement (one bedroom, full bath and kitchen).

$475,000 | montaguemiller.com/631898

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Exhilarating NIGHTS & DAYS

BY KEN WILSON

Afather’s funeral gives his sons a new lease on life. A Jewish family liv ing in an age when antiSemitism is still socially acceptable purchases Monticello.

Real life stories and true-to-life tales, deepdive documentaries, shorts, and sneak previews are just some of what the Virginia Film Festival brings to us each Fall, and packs into five ex hilarating nights and days.

First conceived of as a vehicle to educate and engage audiences, encour age discussion, and support films and filmmakers in the Commonwealth, the Virginia Film Festival is an annual feast of cinematic riches and related conversa tions, bookended by some of Charlot tesville’s greatest parties.

Now in its third decade, the Festival is one of America’s leading regional film festivals, and one of the premier cul tural events in the Mid-Atlantic region. Each Festival features some of the most anticipated and acclaimed films on the film festival circuit, including some from directors working right here in Virginia. It’s an embarrassment of riches that at tracts serious film buffs from far outside of the Commonwealth. Now here it is coming round again.

The 35th Annual (whirlwind) Virginia Film Festival is due to hit the big screens in Charlottesville from November 2 through November 6, and it pays to plan ahead. The program of films and guests has been announced, the full schedule released, and tickets are now available.

Between the Opening Night Gala on Wednesday, November 2 and the Late Night Wrap Party on Saturday, November 5, Festival Director Jody Kielbasa and his crew have more than 100 screenings lined up for us this year. But as ever, that isn’t all there is.

Who doesn’t walk out of the theater after a good movie eager to discuss it?

“The central character was clever, but why . . .” “I loved the ending but I don’t understand the significance of . . .” If you can’t quite find the words, if there is one aspect of the plot that eludes you, don’t look up the reviews just yet. Stay seated.

One thing that makes each Festival special is the eye-popping array of ac tors, directors, film industry insiders, and cultural critics who come out after screenings for panel discussions and Q &A’s. More than just entertainment, the Festival sparks new questions and pro motes new understandings of ourselves, our culture, and the world around us.

Raymond & Ray

The Festival gave a sneak peek screen ing of the upcoming Apple TV+ film Ray mond & Ray at the Paramount Theater on September 25. The highly anticipated film featured an in-person conversation with special guests: writer-director Ro drigo García, a past VAFF guest, and pro ducer Julie Lynn, a VAFF Advisory Board Member and graduate of the University of Virginia and UVA School of Law.

Raymond & Ray stars Ewan McGregor and Ethan Hawke as estranged halfbrothers who reunite at their father’s

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funeral. Despite their differences and the complexity of their relationship, they maintain their senses of humor, and the funeral becomes an opportunity to reinvent themselves. There’s anger, there’s folly, there might be love, and there is definitely grave digging.

Filmed in Virginia with support from the Virginia Film Office, Raymond & Ray is produced by Lynn alongside her long time producing partners Bonnie Curtis and Alfonso Cuarón. The film also stars Maribel Verdú, Tom Bower, Vondie Curtis Hall, and Sophie Okonedo. Raymond & Ray will have its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 12, and will be released on Apple TV+ on October 21.

The Levys of Monticello

“I am as happy nowhere else, and all my wishes end where I hope my days will end, at Monticello” said Thomas Jeffer son in 1787. But by the time he died on July 4, 1826, so heavily was he in debt, that his beloved home had fallen into a state of serious disrepair. Eight years later his heirs had to sell it.

Here’s where the story of Jefferson’s cherished home and estate takes a re markable turn. Director Steven Press man’s The Levys of Monticello tells the astonishing and little-known story of a Jewish family that purchased Monticello in the 1834 and held onto it until 1923, far longer than the Jeffersons themselves. All this time, generations of the Levy family were faithful stewards of history, devoting themselves to the restoration and preservation of the iconic home, saving it from ruin.

Recounting this story of a Jewish con nection to Monticello, the film focuses on its two principal owners during the Levy years. Uriah Phillips Levy, who strongly admired Jefferson for his views on reli gious freedom, had a 50-year career in the United States Navy and rose to be come the navy’s first Jewish commodore, while enduring persistent anti-Semitism throughout his career.

Levy, like Jefferson, was also a slave owner, and was responsible for maintain ing the bitter legacy of slavery at Mon ticello until the Civil War finally put an

end to it. After Uriah Levy’s death, own ership of Monticello eventually passed to his nephew, Jefferson Monroe Levy, a wealthy New York businessman and stock speculator who also served two terms in the United States Congress.

Like his uncle, Jefferson Levy also en dured anti-Semitism. Of particular note were the unfair charges and suggestive rhetoric of a woman named Maud Little

ton, who mounted a national campaign in the early 1900s to wrest ownership of the home away from Levy and turn it into a museum.

While focusing on the story of the Levy family ’s 89-year ownership and preservation of Monticello, The Levys of Monticello also tells a broader story about anti-Semitism that runs throughout the course of American history, right up

to the present day. The film also ad dresses the pivotal role that enslaved people played at Monticello, during both Thomas Jefferson’s and Uriah Levy’s years as owners.

“The Levys of Monticello is an incred ibly timely, poignant, and educational film,” said VAFF Senior Programmer Ilya Tovbis. “The legacy of Thomas’ Jef ferson’s historic home has received a lot of serious and worthy media treat ment. Until now, however, the story of the Levys—a Jewish family who owned and restored this American treasure over a period much longer than Jefferson inhabited it—has not had the spotlight it deserves.

“I am very pleased we are partner ing with Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello to present this insightful and evocative documentary to our community. It manages that rare feat of celebrating Jefferson’s heritage, while simultaneously tackling head on complicated questions of antisemitism, racism, and the enslaved laborers’ role in building and maintain ing Monticello.”

The Levys of Monticello is Steven Press man’s third feature-length documen tary. His first film, 50 Children: The Rescue Mission of Mr. and Mrs. Kraus, premiered on HBO in 2013 and was nominated for a News and Documentary Emmy in the category of Outstanding Historical Programming.

My Father’s Dragon

In addition to these 2022 highlights, the Festival will also show the highly an ticipated NETFLIX animated family film My Father’s Dragon, which was produced by UVA alum and VAFF Advisory Board member Julie Lynn.

From five-time Academy Award®nominated animation studio Cartoon Saloon (The Secret of Kells, Song of the Sea, Wolfwalkers) and Academy Award-nomi nated director Nora Twomey (The Bread winner), My Father’s Dragon is an exquisite film inspired by the Newbery-honored children’s book from author Ruth Stiles Gannett. Struggling to cope after a move to the city with his mother, Elmer (Jacob Tremblay) runs away in search of Wild Island and a young dragon called Boris (Gaten Matarazzo) who waits to be res cued. Elmer’s adventures introduce him to ferocious beasts, a mysterious island, and the friendship of a lifetime.

“We are always excited to share the magic of the movies with a new gen eration,” Kielbasa said, “and to welcome back UVA’s own and VAFF Advisory Board Member Julie Lynn to share the latest work in her extraordinary career.”

To help promote the screening to local youth and families, the VAFF announced that it will partner with the Jefferson Madison Regional Library and the Cen tral Library’s Children’s Department to host an October book group and discus sion around the book. Further details on the event will be announced soon.

Filmmaker Magazine, among others. He is a member of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA).

The 35th Year

The Covid-19 pandemic necessitated online and old-fashioned drive-in theater screenings in 2020, but the Festival re turned to regular live audience showings in 2021. “Throughout the course of the Festival weekend,” said Kielbasa of the 2021 event, “we were so heartened by how grateful our audiences were to be able to once again enjoy the full, in-person VAFF experience.”

Now in his 14th year directing the Festival, Kielbasa is excited about its milestone 35th anniversary.

Amidst the changes in the film in dustry wrought by new technology, he voices the Festival’s commitment to the core values and tenets that have made it so successful. “While streaming has pro vided a level of convenience that seemed impossible just a few years ago, there remains no substitute for the communal experience of watching a film and sharing your impressions with your fellow audi ence members,” Kielbasa says.

“As anyone who has been to the Festi val knows, there is an electricity created by our audience engagement that simply cannot be replicated anywhere else. We cannot wait to bring that back to Char lottesville this year.”

So isn’t that enough incentive? Take your eyes off your 65-inch home screen

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Critic In Residence

The Festival has also announced that it will welcome acclaimed film critic Carlos Aguilar as its inaugural Critic in Residence.

“It is an honor to inaugurate our Critic-in-Residence program with Car los Aguilar,” Tovbis said. “Carlos’ wealth of film knowledge spans the history of the medium, and his interests hit upon nearly every genre, cinematic movement, and form of film storytelling. It has been a pleasure—not to mention a humbling and educational experience—to curate major portions of the 2022 VAFF pro gram alongside Carlos. I cannot wait for Charlottesville audiences to discover first-hand his genius and knack for cu rating films and artist conversations.”

Carlos Aguilar, originally from Mexico City, was chosen as one of six young film critics to partake in the first Roger Ebert Fellowship organized by RogerEbert.com, the Sundance Institute, and Indiewire in 2014. Aguilar’s work has appeared in prestigious publications such as The Los Angeles Times, Variety, The New York Times, The Wrap, Indiewire, Vulture, RogerEbert. com, MovieMaker Magazine, Remezcla, and

and focus them on the really big screens at the Violet Crown Cinema, Vinegar Hill/Lighthouse Studio, and one of Char lottesville’s original movie palaces, the Paramount.

“We strive,” Kielbasa says, “to be a festival that matters—a cultural experi ence that goes far deeper than the mov ies we screen and that consistently and intentionally forges connections both within and between our communities, all while facilitating conversations around the most important issues of our time.”

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PEA RIDGE FARM

317 acre estate that has it all: location, views, water, a spectacular 5-BR residence, event center and more!

The 15+ acre lake is centered among lush rolling fields of rich grass and unparalleled views. Additional acreage available. 25 minutes west of Charlottesville.

MLS#631962$8,875,000SteveMcLean,434.981.1863

GATEWAY CIRCLE

Prime end-unit residence in a quiet Forest Lakes community. The main level has eatin kitchen, great room with dining and living room with cathedral ceiling and fireplace, half bath and primary bedroom with bathroom and laundry. Upstairs are two bedrooms, full bathroom, walkin storage and flexible loft area. Enjoy the outdoors through views from the many windows, miles of walking trails and recreational activities. Private living with easy access to Charlottesville, NGIC, Hollymead Town center and Airport. MLS#635657 $319,000 Charlotte Dammann, 434.981.1250

BLACKBERRY HILL FARM

Attractive, self-sustaining 5,525 finished square foot residence on 38± acres with 3-car garage, barn and Blue Ridge Mountain views. A peaceful oasis easily accessible to Charlottesville and Washington DC. MLS#634846 $1,550,000 Charlotte Dammann, 434.981.1250

EVERGREEN HILL

A private 18 acre horse farm, with 4-bedroom main residence, 1 bedroom cottage, beautiful 8 stall center aisle barn, outdoor riding ring, and several fenced pastures and hay fields. With access onto 570 plus acres of parkland with trails. MLS#632164 $1,295,000 Jim Faulconer, 434.981.0076

WOLFCREEK FARM

Situated near the Blue Ridge Mountains in Madison County on 333 acres. Currently runs as grazing farm for beef cattle. There are 2 homes on the property and a complement of necessary farm buildings. NOT IN CONSERVATION EASEMENT! MLS#630435 $3,200,000 Jim Faulconer, 434.981.0076

BELMONT LOFTS

This 3-bedroom, 3.5 bath condo features extra high ceilings, a modern and open floor plan with huge windows and doors, and a large rooftop terrace with views of the Downtown Mall all the way around to Monticello. MLS#634149 $1,950,000 Jim Faulconer, 434.981.0076

RIVER LAWN FARM

A majestic 540± acre southern Albemarle estate with 1.5 miles of frontage on the James River. A historic farmhouse dating to the late 1700s is perfectly sited on a knoll offering extensive views of the river. The interior exudes character with wood ceilings and beams, heart pine flooring, stone and brick interior walls, and fireplaces with beautiful mantels. The exterior features a large covered rear porch overlooking the lawn. The land is open and wooded with a barn and equipment building. Under conservation easement with the VOF. MLS#630470 $4,865,000 Steve McLean, 434.981.1863

WOOD’S END

Striking residence on 5+ acres in the heart of Keswick. Architecturally-designed with numerous high-end custom features. Gracious one-level living with 3,471 fin. sf. Minutes from the world class Keswick Hall, Charlottesville, UVA, and Pantops. MLS#626196 Charlotte Dammann, 434.981.1250

STONY POINTE

4-bedroom, 5.5-bath Manor home on 57 acres of tranquility, and panoramic views of the Southwest Mountains and to the west are winter views of the Blue Ridge Mountains, 6 miles from Charlottesville. MLS#626941 $2,650,000 Jim Faulconer, 434.981.0076

HATTON RIDGE FARM

A most tranquil and private 278+ acre grazing and hay farm with two-thirds mile of James River frontage. The centerpiece of Hatton Ridge Farm is an impressive 4-5 bedroom, brick Georgian home, built circa 2000. MLS#634311 $3,675,000 Jim Faulconer, 434.981.0076

RAGGED MOUNTAIN FARM

Two wonderful estate parcels comprised of 185.01± acres in coveted Ragged Mountain Farm. Excellent elevated building site, complete privacy, and beautiful views. Murray/Henley/Western school district. MLS#621083 $1,895,000 Steve McLean, 434.981.1863

ALBEMARLE

BRIDLEWOOD TRAIL

Private Keswick residence on 18.6 acres with views of the Southwest Mountains. 3-bedroom, 1.5-bath with wood floors, screen porch and 2-car garage. Open and wooded land. Easy access to Charlottesville and UVA. MLS#634905 $695,000 Charlotte Dammann, 434.981.1250

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MISSION HOME ROAD

146.88 acres in Albemarle & Greene County, adjacent to the Shenandoah National Park! Full division rights and multiple homesites. Extraordinary timberland. Views of the mountains, along with easy access to trails and Skyline Drive. MLS#620276 $1,100,000 Steve McLean, 434.981.1863

SIMMONS GAP/ ESTES RIDGE

10 acres of mature woods. Property has long road frontage and consists of two parcels being combined and sold as one. No HOA! Design and build your dream residence on this very well-priced parcel. MLS#621178 $189,000 Charlotte Dammann, 434.981.1250

OWENSVILLE ROAD

residence on 2 acre lot in Meriwether Lewis Elementary District! Stunning home has top quality finishes & many features include: an open floor concept on all levels; cathedral & vaulted ceilings; fully loaded chef’s kitchen; and so much more! MLS#632111 $1,675,000 Will Faulconer, 434.987.9455

GARTH ROAD

11.73-acre, buildable lot in Western Albemarle! One of a kind location and a rare opportunity to purchase a large lot in an estate neighborhood 10 minutes to town. 2 division rights and is gently rolling with a small stream bisecting the property. MLS#628219 $795,000 Steve McLean, 434.981.1863

ECOVILLAGE CHARLOTTESVILLE

The Owner has been working with planners and the County of Albemarle to develop on this prop erty an environmentally sensitive and sustain able housing community. 6.5 acre site with two houses. MLS#633951 $1,750,000 Jim Faulconer, 434.981.0076 www.ecovillagecharlottesville.org

GIBSON’S HOLLOW

Ivy area! A 249 + acre hidden, private Arcadia controlling its own little valley up to the mountain ridge top building sites. Multiple parcels and subdivision rights make it a conservation easement candidate. MLS#634183 $4,000,000 Tim Michel, 434.960.1124 or Steve McLean, 434.981.1863

EDNAM FOREST

Wonderfully large 1.5+ acre building lot in Ednam Forest. Build your dream home on this elevated, wooded lot located in a single family community, minutes from UVA and within walking distance to Boar’s Head Resort. MLS#598537 $289,500 Steve McLean, 434.981.1863

THERE WERE 107 SALES IN THE 11 COUNTY AND CITY AREAS

n 37 were in Albemarle with an average price of $516,342

n 8 were in Charlottesville with an average price of $469,838

n 15 were in Fluvanna with an average price of $439,565

n 3 were in Greene with an average price of $332,333

n 9 were in Louisa with an average price of $533,607

n 5 were in Madison with an average price of $330,000

n 5 were in Nelson with an average price of $443,760

n 12 were in Orange with an average price of $396,779

n 7 were in Staunton with an average price of $481,929

n 6 were in Waynesboro with an average price of $295,242

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