O'Toole will screen the movie version of the stage play Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell, a film he co-directed. Turner will be on hand as two of her movies - Peggy Sue Got Married and Romancing the Stone - are shown. And Ebert will offer a frame-by-frame discussion of the classic Citizen Kane.

The festival, sponsored by the Savannah College of Art and Design, is in its seventh year and has a growing reputation with movie buffs and industry insiders for screening upcoming independent and Hollywood releases without the hype and crowds of larger festivals.

This year's slate of new films includes Alexander Payne's Sideways, starring Paul Giamatti and Thomas Haden Church, and Finding Neverland, a biopic about Peter Pan author J.M. Barrie, which stars Johnny Depp.