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THE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE GUIDE June 21-July 29, 2004 ★ TO THEATRE AND MEMBER EVENTS VOLUME 1 • ISSUE 11 AFIPREVIEW FANNY AND Featured ALEXANDER Showcase PERSONA Ingmar And Many More Bergman

Plus: Retrospective AFI Life Achievement Award Recipient Showcase Brothers Romp ORWELL ROLLS IN HIS GRAVE British Horror Films FEATURED FILM

Features 2ORWELL ROLLS IN HIS GRAVE 4 THE THIRD MAN 13 LAWRENCE OF ARABIA AFI Life Achievement Award Recipient Showcase 3Two-time Oscar winner Meryl Streep in some of her most memorable films Film Series 4 The Films of Orson Welles 11 Marx Brothers Revue 12 Bloody Hell: British Horror Films “Skewers the news media and its owners Featured Showcase in a way that chills and disturbs, and is 6 City-Wide Retrospective the best rabble rousing piece of its kind I’ve ever seen.” Calendar 8-9 —Jeffrey Wells, ELSEWHERE About AFI Silver/Kennedy Center Theatres 10 US Theatrical Premiere Engagement! Special Screenings and Events ORWELL ROLLS IN HIS GRAVE 13 Members’ Only Event: THE BOURNE SUPREMACY Opens Friday, June 25 13 Sam Raimi’s EVIL DEAD 2: DEAD BY DAWN “WAR IS PEACE,” “FREEDOM IS 14 Slow Food on Film Festival SLAVERY,” “IGNORANCE IS 15 The National Institutes of Health’s Science in the STRENGTH…” Has America entered Cinema, with MISS EVERS’ BOYS an Orwellian world of double-speak where outright lies can pass for the DC Area Exclusive truth? Are its citizens being sold a bill of goods by a handful of transna- 15 Mid-Atlantic Regional Showcase (MARS): tional media corporations and polit- OFF THE CHARTS: THE SONG-POEM STORY ical elites whose interests have little in common with the interests of the GEORGE ORWELL American people? Director Robert Kane Pappas uses searing testimony from the best and the brightest to suggest this is the case. Pappas asks some troubling questions about the size of media monopolies, how they got that way, who decides what airs and what doesn’t, and why some news

• TO ORDER WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER TICKETS: • stories go unreported (or underre- ported) by the mainstream media. Featuring interviews with Congressman Bernie Sanders, Charles Lewis, Mark Crispin Miller, Vincent Bugliosi, Robert McChesney On the cover: Bertil Guve and Pernilla Allwin in and an appearance by Michael MICHAEL MOORE Information is correct at press time. Films and schedule subject to change. Moore, ORWELL ROLLS IN HIS Check www.AFI.com/Silver for updates. GRAVE questions whether Americans are being given the informa- AFI PREVIEW (ISSN-0194-3847) is published every six weeks by the American Film Institute’s office at 8633 Colesville tion a democracy needs or whether they’ve been electronically Road, Silver Spring, MD. Signed articles do not necessarily reflect the official institute policy. © 2004 American Film lobotomized into loving Big Brother. Institute. All rights reserved. Reproduction in part or whole without permission is prohibited. Editorial, publishing and Directed, written and produced by Robert Kane Pappas. US, advertising offices: AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center, 8633 Colesville Rd., Silver Spring, MD 20910 (301.495.6720). 2004, color, 95 min. Subscription price: $50.00 per year. All subscriptions also include membership in the American Film Institute. Send all remittances and correspondences about subscriptions, undelivered copies and address changes to: American Film Institute, 2021 N. Ave., , CA 90027, Attention: Membership. Periodicals postage paid at Silver Spring, “A marvel of passionate succinctness… Maryland and at additional mailing offices. Postmaster: Send address changes to AFI PREVIEW at American Film Institute, Membership Department, 2021 N. Western Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90027. refrains from preaching to the choir.” —Ronnie Scheib, VARIETY

2 AFI LIFE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT’S WOMAN Celebrating Wednesday, June 30, 8:50; Saturday, July 3, 4:00 In 19th century , affianced Meryl loses himself in a passionate affair with fallen woman June 23 through July 4 Meryl Streep—even as we see the actors portraying them engage in an MERYL STREEP: off-screen affair. ’s adap- tation of ’ “unfilmable” 32ND AFI LIFE bestseller presents a complicated interweaving of past and present. Five ACHIEVEMENT Oscar nominations, including Best Actress. AWARD RECIPIENT Directed by ; written by Arguably the definitive American Harold Pinter from the book by actor of our time, Meryl Streep’s John Fowles; produced by Leon Clore. UK, 1981, color, 127 min. unique empathy for a variety of Rated R women has led us into the lives of some of the most memorable charac- SOPHIE’S CHOICE Thursday, July 1, 8:40; Sunday, July 4, 1:00 ters on film. She has brought to life In postwar , budding writer the rich textures of a sweeping range Peter MacNichol befriends “utterly, of intricate women—on the plains of fatally glamorous,” yet volatile and his Polish girlfriend Meryl SOPHIE’S CHOICE Africa, in the Outback of Australia, in Streep—but they’ve both got past a Manhattan courtroom, an Iowa secrets that haunt the present. Streep finding love with hunter Robert often returns in her mind to the Redford. This sweeping adaptation of KRAMER VS. KRAMER farmhouse, a nuclear production line camps of the Final Solution and Wednesday June 23, 6:45; Isak Dinesen’s memoir garnered seven Thursday June 24, 6:45 and a Nazi concentration camp—all relives the worst choice a mother can Oscars, including Best Picture, be forced to make. A Best Actress Direction, Photography, Screenplay Ill-equipped for motherhood and with authenticity, honesty and intelli- Oscar, among five total nominations. and Music; with Streep and matrimonial bliss, a twenty-some- gence that remain unparalleled. Directed/written/produced by Alan Brandauer nominated. thing Meryl Streep walks out on husband and young J. Pakula; adapted from the novel by Directed/produced by Sydney Beyond her uncanny ability to make son Justin Henry, but returns later for ; co-produced by Pollack; written by . a climactic custody battle featuring audiences laugh, cry, think and feel, Keith Barish. US, 1982, color, 150 US, 1985, color, 150 min. Rated PG min. English, German, and Polish courtroom scenes re-tooled by Streep she can sing. In of the with English subtitles. Rated R herself. and Jane 32nd AFI Life Achievement Award, AFI THE BRIDGES OF Fonda turned down the role, opening OUT OF AFRICA MADISON COUNTY the way for Streep’s first Oscar win. Silver proudly presents a half-dozen Saturday, July 3, 8:45; Sunday, July 4, 8:45 Four other statuettes for the film of the greatest roles of this legendary Just when life couldn’t seem more included Best Picture and Best Actor. two-time Academy Award winner and monotonous for Italian-American Directed/written by ; Iowa housewife Meryl Streep, who produced by Stanley R. Jaffe. US, recipient of a record thirteen Oscar should drive up but… ! 1979, color, 105 min. Rated PG nominations. Streep, impeccably accented as In the words of AFI Board always, shows a longing sensuality SILKWOOD that blossoms with the arrival of her Wednesday June 23, 8:55; Chairman Sir Howard Stringer, “Meryl weekend visitor. One of her best Thursday June 24, 8:55 performances, with Eastwood Based on the real-life events of nuclear Streep is one of the great artists in matching her as the emotional plant worker Karen Silkwood, Streep’s temperature rises. “Leanness and the history of American film. Her tal- portrayal of the Oklahoma whistle- surprising decency, a moving, elegiac ent, range and determination to blower who disappeared under myste- love story”—Janet Maslin, New York rious circumstances earned the actor Times. master her craft bring out perform- her fifth Oscar nomination in six ances that sometimes border on the Directed/produced by Clint years. Four other Oscar nominations, Eastwood; written by Richard including a Best Supporting nod for ethereal. In that sense, she is truly OUT OF AFRICA LaGravenese, from the book by Friday, July 2, 8:40; Saturday, July 3, 1:00 , and one for then-novice screen- peerless. It is AFI’s great honor to Robert Waller; co-produced by writer Nora Ephron. In colonial Kenya circa 1913-1931, Kathleen Kennedy. US, 1995, color, Directed by ; written present its Life Achievement Award to Danish noblewoman Meryl Streep 135 min. Rated PG-13 by Alice Arlen and Nora Ephron; this truly gifted actor.” struggles to run a coffee plantation in the absence of husband-of-conven- produced by Mike Nichols and ience , while Michael Hausman. US, 1983, color, 131 min. Rated R

3 RETROSPECTIVE The Films Of FEATURED FILM “One great scene after another! One great Orson Welles shot after another! I’ve seen it 50 times June 23 through July 13 and it’s still magic”— By the time he was 26, Orson Welles [1915-1985] had mastered , radio and cinema and was already a TIME cover boy—and he spent the rest of his life trying to top himself. OTHELLO Lean or fat, broke or in the money, OTHELLO pitching wine in TV commercials or Thursday, July 1, 6:45; Monday, July 5, 3:00; plumbing the depths of such charac- Wednesday, July 7, 7:00 ters as Kane, Othello and Harry Lime, As Othello lies dead, a horrified Iago is hoisted above the crowd in an iron Welles dominated every project, cage—and then the play begins. defining FILMMAKER in the public Shakespeare’s classic tale of jealousy and retribution may well be Welles’s mind like no one else. As the com- most dazzingly visual work, from its plete film auteur, his lush dynamic baroque Venetian beginning to the windy, sun-splashed battlements of visuals, deep-focus long takes, Mogador and the riveting murder in a sweeping camera movements and Turkish bath. Despite perhaps “Quite simply one of the finest films ever Welles’s most chaotic shooting sched- scintillating editing created a signa- made!”—ELVIS MITCHELL, NEW YORK TIMES ule, it won the Grand Prize at Cannes. ture style so bold it was considered Directed/written/produced by Orson Welles. US/France, 1952, revolutionary at the time—and still New 35mm Print! b&w, 91 min. is. His dominant themes: vanished THE THIRD MAN innocence, the heavy hand of time, New 35mm Print! Opens Wednesday, June 23, with daily shows through THE MAGNIFICENT the changing of eras, and ultimately, Tuesday, June 29 loss. Of Welles’s journey to producing AMBERSONS In rubble-strewn post-World War II Vienna, ’s Friday, July 9, 7:00; Saturday July 10, 1:30 & a body of work that earned him pulp-Western writer Holly Martins arrives to meet up with old 9:15; Sunday, July 11, 6:45 recognition as one of the world’s friend Harry Lime, only to find he’s been killed in an accident. Joseph Cotten pursues lost love , despite her whipper- greatest directors, collaborator But who was that nameless third man at the scene? With Viennese locations including the gigantic Prater Ferris wheel and the drip- snapper son Tim Holt, amidst lavish Herman Mankiewicz once said, “There balls in elegant mansions and sleigh ping sewers, Carol Reed/’s noir thriller is a rides through Currier & Ives land- but for the grace of God goes God.” triumph of atmosphere with its tilted camera angles, looming scapes at the turn of the century. The shadows and unforgettable Anton Karas zither theme. With its only one of Welles’s films in which he stars in their most iconic roles: Trevor Howard at his most did not appear chronicles the decline Britishly military; Alida Valli, enigmatic and Garboesque; and of a family and the end of an era, high- Orson Welles’s Harry Lime in one of the greatest star entrances lighted by dazzling sets, photography and ’s award- ever. Three Oscar nominations, winning for Cinematography; winning performance—despite studio- Grand Prize at Cannes. The only film on both the AFI and BFI shearing of nearly an hour. “Even in top 100 lists of the greatest American and British films. this truncated form, it’s amazing and Directed/produced by Carol Reed; written by Graham Greene. memorable”—.

• TO ORDER WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER TICKETS: • UK, 1949, b&w, 104 min. Directed/produced/written by Orson Welles. US, 1942, b&w, 88 min.

New 35mm Print! including would-be-lovers discussing The 1998 a murder plot as a shark in an Restoration Print! THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI aquarium swims behind them—high- Friday, July 2, 6:45; lighted by a now-legendary hall-of- TOUCH OF EVIL Monday, July 5, 1:00 & 8:55 mirrors shootout finale. Saturday, July 3, 6:30; Sunday, July 4, 6:30; Monday, July 5, 6:30; Tuesday, July 6, 8:55 Footloose Irish sailor Orson Welles Directed/written/produced by gets mixed up in murder with Orson Welles. US, 1947, b&w, Police corruption and murder on the crooked and disabled lawyer Everett 86 min. Mexican border, starting with a bril- Sloane and his sultry wife Rita liant opening crane shot that follows Hayworth (then Mrs. Welles). the actors for blocks, continuing with THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI Byzantine plot complications ensue— a dark-wigged Marlene Dietrich’s

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rected by Welles to conclude his Welles rected by turday, July 10, 5:00; Sunday July 11, July 10, 5:00; Sunday 5:00 turday, mbler intrigue partially was ncredited, Orson Welles); written ncredited, Orson Welles); ears… 100 Movies riday, July 9, 8:50; Saturday July 10, 6:45; July 9, 8:50; Saturday riday, acknowledged inspiration to a variety inspiration acknowledged of filmmakers. brilliant As and star- as in 1941, it remained tling today masterpiece and Welles’s both Orson great his nemesis. “More fun than any movie I can think of”—Pauline Kael. Directed/produced/written by co-written by Orson Welles; He Y b& From its Gothic opening at looming to itsXanadu legendary final line, this is the most electrifying directorial named by AFI debut in screen history, as the greatest movie of the 20th Ce JOURNEY INTO FEAR Sa In and complaining about being unable Cotten’s to phone his wife, Joseph armaments expert from is saved murder by his disappearance during a magic act, trapped on a blacked-out ship with his nemesis (Welles’s accepted the part on who manager, then condition of remaining mute), held at gunpoint on a window ledge sometimes in a drivingThis rain. bizarre semi-spoof of vintage Eric A di contract. RKO (and Directed by u b&w, 1942, Cotten. US, by Joseph min. 71 F July 12. 8:45 July 11, 8:45; Monday, Sunday, MR ARKADIN [LE PROCES] 99 min. rave’s swish antique dealer to rave’s les’s idiosyncratic view of the les’s unfolds locations in against les) sian Gare d’Orsay. sian Gare d’Orsay. many, 1962, b&w, 120 min. 1962, b&w, many, l l r dg ri ance/Spain/Switzerland, 1955, he only they all trouble is, wind up uesday, July 13, 8:45 uesday, CITIZEN KANE July 11, 1:00; July 8, 8:55; Sunday, Thursday, T K enters a Perkins as Joseph Anthony nondescript door and an immense detectives risesTwo to itscrowd feet. room lit by a beat a third in a tiny a gigantic swinging bulb. In single, office stretch on and on... the desks We classic Kafka tale of meaningless persecution (“I consider him guilty”— We Zagreb deserted and in the vast, Pa Directed/written by Orson Welles, produced by Alexander and Michael Salkind. France/Italy/ Ge circus magnatecircus and Michael Re ’s retired crime boss. Katina Paxinou’s T dead! Directed /written by Orson Welles, produced by Louis Dolivet. Fr b&w, . eek sw obinson tracks the supposed obinson tracks R ung, as well 124-foot as a looming ar Crimes Commissionerar Crimes Edward ance/Iran/West , 1973, Germany, ance/Iran/West

otesques, from Mischa Auer’s flea from Mischa Auer’s otesques, ew obert Arden is recruited by myste- ednesday, June 30, 6:45 ednesday, ous zillionaire Orson Welles to zillionaireous Welles Orson memoirs” hoaxer Clifford Irving, uesday, July 6, 7:00; Thursday, July 8, 7:00 Thursday, July 6, 7:00; uesday, uesday, June 29, 9:25; June 29, 9:25; uesday, raud and fakery, starting with raud and fakery, Directed/written Orson Welles; by Reichenbach. produced by François Fr 85 min. color, MR ARKADIN [CONFIDENTIAL REPORT] July 13, 6:45 July 12, 6:45; Tuesday, Monday, CITIZEN KANE in reverse, as drifter R ri witnesses The research his past. provide a memorable procession of gr New 35mm Print! New F FOR FAKE T A skilledWelles magician in real life, the filmmaker keeps the rabbits coming in this documentary extolling f of by François Reichenbach footage effort- art de Hory forger Elmyr (who tosses off a Picassolessly drawing on Hughes’s and Howard screen) “ adding his own visual Welles with and verbal sleight-of-hand. “One of the most dazzling, and equivocal Kroll, personal films made”—Jack ever N T W W G. mastermind of the Final Solution to a quiet Connecticut village, the of Welles school professor Orson boys’ and his all-American bride Loretta Yo tall clock tower—the scene of the directorial -raising climax.Welles’ return after his firing from RKO produced his only “very profitable” film. written Directed by Orson Welles; produced by Veiller; by Anthony 1946, b&w, US, . 95 min. New 35mm Print! New THE STRANGER OUCH OF EVIL T . ut imeO produced by Albert , ican, but are here fully restored es rlton Heston over, under, around under, over, rlton Heston ll er make the perennial tall tale of the the gloomy, claustrophobic atmos- claustrophobic the gloomy,

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rchive. “Purerchive. cinema “—Geoff iolentlysketched charcoal drawing reeting to Welles’s memorably bloated memorably Welles’s reeting to Directed/written/produced by 107 1948, b&w, US, Orson Welles. min. To THE IMMORTAL [Histoire Immortelle] 10, 3:30; July July 5, 5:00; Saturday, Monday, July 11,Sunday 3:30 Andrew, T Andrew, by the UCLA Film and Television by the UCLA Film and A of a great play.” Shot in three weeks, in Shot of a great play.” then mutilated by the studio,its Scottish brogues dubbed into were Am 8:55 July 7, Wednesday, July 4, 4:00; Sunday, In phere of a studio-shot primitive world, for a feudal lord decides to go with horrificallythe kingship, fated described his version Welles results. classic as “aof the Shakespeare v Restored Cut of Director’s g You’ve honey. a mess, police chief: “You and been candy,” eating too much concluding elaborately with an intercut chase by Mexican detective Cha Venice, the canals of and through first American film California.Welles’s A his last ever. in a decade—and mile- of bizarre camera angles, festival and baroque lighting. long shots, Directed/written by Orson We 112 min. 1958, b&w, US, Zugsmith. title come true, aging Macao hires a handsome Welles merchant hired) sailor to sleep with his (also Moreau. But then the wife Jeanne elaborate setup starts to take on a life first color film, Welles’ of its own. ad by Erikwith music Satie. Directed/written by Orson Welles; co-written by Louise de Vilmorin; produced by Micheline Rozan. Fr FEATURED SHOWCASE

New 35mm Print! inexorably descends into outright madness. Even so, father Gunnar The Films Of Ingmar Bergman FANNY AND ALEXANDER Björnstrand tells his son, “God is love; [Fanny och Alexander] love is God.” With a four-person cast AFI Silver: Opens Wednesday, July 14, with that includes , this is A City-Wide Retrospective daily shows through Sunday, July 18 the first of Bergman’s “chamber” films July 14 through July 29 Kennedy Center: Opens Monday, July 19, with and the first of his “God and Man” RETROSPECTIVE daily shows through Thursday, July 22 trilogy. Oscar for Best Foreign Film, Perhaps the most pivotal event in OPENS ON JULY 14TH, It’s Christmas at the pleasure-loving plus a nomination for screenplay. the life of Ingmar Bergman [born INGMAR BERGMAN’S Ekdahls, circa 1907. The brother and Directed/written by Ingmar Bergman. sister of the title spectate as their clan , 1961, b&w, 89 min. 1918] occurred at age 10, when he BIRTHDAY! gathers for one of the cinema’s traded half his toy soldiers for a movie greatest-ever holiday celebrations. But / after their theater-manager father dies projector. From his earliest youth, Bergman has been among the most hardened and their actress mother Ewa Fröling THE COMMUNICANTS of film buffs, and from his university days, an enfant terrible of the theater. He marries bishop Jan Malmsö, their [Nattvardsgästerna] world constricts to stern family AFI Silver: Monday, July 19, 9:10; achieved his ambitions early, having a screenplay produced by Sweden’s top terrors. A tale of two families: one Tuesday, July 20, 7:00 director and heading a major European theater by 26 and making his first film theatrical, warm, loving, hedonistic; Kennedy Center: Wednesday, July 28, 6:30 by 28. An overview of the progression of his brilliant career in cinema might the other clerical, mean-spirited, cold, A day in the life of rural pastor self-righteous and vain. But there’s a Gunnar Björnstrand battling with his read: from an early focus on tormented, sensitive male protagonists, he moved secret friend to the rescue, Erland own loss of faith—from morning to strong female leads, to a series of God-haunted works, to island-location Josephson’s Jewish antique dealer, services through his failure to comfort bringing with him a taste of the super- a suicidal Max von Sydow, to his “chamber” works, to powerfully scathing examinations of intimate relationships natural. A dazzling period recreation anguished encounter with mistress (with romantic interspersed throughout), ending with the warmth and highlighted by ’s sump- (highlighted by her tuous photography. A gigantic world- monologue in tight closeup) and an charm of his later films, THE MAGIC FLUTE and FANNY AND ALEXANDER. wide success and one of Bergman’s evening high mass. Number two in Bergman’s work with his stock company made him arguably the greatest direc- warmest and most autobiographical the “God and Man” trilogy. “Masterly works. Oscars for Best Foreign Film, tor of actors in the history of the medium. His overall technical mastery, brutal even by Bergman’s own standards”— Cinematography, Art Direction, Shipman. honesty and relentless search for truth have earned him international Directed/written by Ingmar Bergman. acclaim as one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. Sweden, 1963, b&w, 80 min. The Ingmar Bergman retrospective will be presented at four THE RITE [Riten] Washington, DC-area locations: The AFI Silver Theatre AFI Silver: Tuesday, July 20, 9:10; (www.AFI.com/silver); the AFI National Film Theater at the Kennedy Sunday, July 25, 7:30 Kennedy Center: Thursday, July 29, 6:30 Center (same website); the of Art (www.nga.gov/pro- Powerfully intense (even by Bergman’s grams/films.htm); and the National Museum of Women in the Arts standards) chamber play on the interac- (www.nmwa.org). Check websites and newspaper listings for film tion of critics, the audience and the artist. When actors Ingrid Thulin, schedules and ticket information. Gunnar Björnstrand and Anders Ek are brought in for questioning on an All films in the retrospective are in Swedish with English subtitles. obscenity charge, magistrate Erik Hell subjects them to group and individual interrogations. As a response, the troupe performs their “act” for him, with FANNY AND ALEXANDER mortal results. Bergman’s first original work for TV was released in theaters abroad. The priest in the confessional is • TO ORDER WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER TICKETS: • none other than Bergman himself. Costumes, and nominations for direc- Directed/written by Ingmar Bergman. tion and screenplay. “If, as announced, Sweden, 1969, b&w, 72 min. this is the master’s last film, he leaves us in a blaze of glory”—David Shipman, The Story of the Cinema. THE [Tystnaden] Directed/written by Ingmar Bergman. AFI Silver: Wednesday, July 21, 7:00; Sweden, 1983, color, 188 min. Thursday, July 22, 9:25 Kennedy Center: Wednesday, July 28, 8:00 THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY In a stiflingly hot foreign city seem- ingly on the brink of war, sisters [Såsom I En Spegel] Ingrid Thulin and , AFI Silver: Monday, July 19, 7:00; haunted by the loss of their father, are Wednesday, July 21, 9:10 trapped in a hotel (deserted except Kennedy Center: Sunday, July 25, 2:00; for a dwarf troupe), unable to speak Tuesday, July 27, 8:15 the language or bear each other’s pres- During a family’s island summer holiday, ence. The most overtly allegorical of schizophrenic daughter Harriet Bergman’s works (Mind vs. Body? Andersson (in arguably the greatest Father=God?) and a tour de force of performance in Bergman’s entire oeuvre) sound effects orchestration. The final 6 • TO ORDER TICKETS: WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER • 7 . eek sw ew . id Bergman (in an Oscar-nomi- ck Kroll, N a long-planned collaboration,

gr he best time of my life.”he best time of my “A ennedy Center: Friday, July 23, 6:30; Monday, Friday, ennedy Center: THE MAGIC FLUTE THE MAGIC 35 min. New 35mm Print! New [Höstsonaten] K July 26, 6:30 July 28, 7:00 Wednesday, AFI Silver: In century DrottningholmTheater, Court Bergman dispenses with theatrical illusion to show the working parts of this production, including a youthful extra killinga comic book. time with his child- since A dream of Bergman’s making it hood marionette theater, “t wonderful bit of sorcery—passionate, and lighthearted...elegant most the beguiling offering of the year”—Jay TIME Cocks, Directed by Ingmar Bergman, from Die Zauberflöte by Mozart and Schikaneder. color, 1975, Sweden, 1 Directed/written by Ingmar Bergman. 93 1978, color, Sweden, min. nated performance) returnednated performance) to Swedish cinema after fortyyears for her feature last role, a concert pianist returning home to an anguished Liv daughter reunion with neglected Ullman. “The best Bergman film in filledyears, with his liberating mixture of violence and tenderness that is the sign truth” of emotional —Ja In . imes T . r ork orke ew Y ew Y he N ar Bergman. “Reduces almost ar Bergman. “Reduces ything else you’re likely to see this ything else you’re arded an Oscar for Cinematography arded an Oscar UTUMN SONATA uals, and benedictions”—Penelopeuals, ince Tamino must rescue the fair must Tamino ince daughter of the incess Pamela, er ownup love, with all its twists, gm turday, July 24, 2:00 July 24, turday, turday, July 24, 1:00 July 24, turday, ueen of . To do so, he must do so, To ueen of Night. t arastro and the Queen and husband ennedy Center Only: Friday, July 23, 8:20; Friday, Only: ennedy Center nter Sarastro’s Temple of Wisdom. In of Temple nter Sarastro’s A an Malmsjö and ’s Aw for Best Film, Director, and nominated and Costumes.Screenplay Directed/written by Ingmar Bergman. 91 1972, color, Sweden, min. season to the size of a smallseason to the cinder”— N , Directed/written by Ingmar Bergman. 282 min. video, color, 1973, Sweden, 35mm Print! New THE MAGIC FLUTE [Trollflöjten] K Sa Pr Pr Q e a characteristic twist, Bergman made S wife. on a replica Shot of the 18th In ev ORIGINAL, FULL VERSION! LENGTH [Scener ur ett Äktenskap] Only AFI Silver 23, 7:30; July Part 1: Friday, Sa 4:30; July 24, Part 2: Saturday, July 25, 1:00 Sunday, Bergman chronicles some ten years in Ullmannthe relationship of Liv and beginning with their , perfect two-career,seemingly two- children marriage—contrasted with J bickering—progressing an through extramarital affair and blunted recon- ciliations and remarriages to a final peace. “Bergman has never before made such an exhilarating film about gr ri Gilliatt, T [En Passion] [Skammen] . National Society of Film . National eek as seemingly major happenings as seemingly of-the-century mansion and the n rocky—then army the enemy sw

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Back by popular demand! In 70mm! LAWRENCE OF ARABIA Opening in July Check www.AFI.com/Silver or newspaper listings for dates and times WWI in the Middle East, and British Colonel T.E. Lawrence leads the Arab revolt, Even so, sheik still grouses, “He is not perfect.” ’s epic—still the standard by which others are measured—delivers both spectacular action and, in then-nearly- unknown Peter O’Toole’s title performance (the first of his seven non-winning Best Actor Oscar nominations), one of the most complex and enigmatic character studies in the cinema, summed up in the haunting, final shot. With stunning cinematography only experienced fully on the big screen. “One of the peaks of narrative cinema—tradi- tional movie storytelling raised to its highest form”—Stephen Farber. Seven Oscars, including Best Picture, Director, Photography (the first of ’s three Oscar-winning collaborations with Lean), and Score (’s first-of-four collaborations with Lean). Plus ’s first-of-three screenplays for Lean and ’s English language debut—coming out of a mirage. Directed by David Lean. UK, 1962, color, 70mm, 226 min.

13 SPECIAL EVENTS Thursday, July 15, 9:15 pm Slow Food On SLOW FOOD PROGRAM 1 Film Festival HETEROGENIC An animated film about a special corn made by a mad Thursday, July 15, 9:15 pm; scientist. Italy, 2003, Beta, 9 min., Saturday, July 17, 5:00 pm; dir, Raimondo Della Calce, Primo Sunday, July 18, 5:00 pm Dreossi. IDOLE MIO An animated short about In partnership with a woman chasing ideal beauty. Germany, 1991, 16mm, 7 min, dir. the Washington Barbara Marheineke. branch of Slow IDOLE MIO Food USA, AFI Silver showcases DE CHINESE MUUR selections from Italy’s CINEMA CORTO IN BRA International Festival of Slow Saturday, July 17, 5:00 pm Sunday, July 18, 5:00 pm Food on Film. The Slow Food on Film SLOW FOOD PROGRAM 2 SLOW FOOD PROGRAM 3

Festival features short narrative and SAVING SEEDS Documentary about CRAPA PANSA To avoid ruining the documentary films that promote the a bean and tomato farmer fighting big annual Christmas feast, someone has cultural element of food through the business while farming the old fash- to keep a secret, but just until the ioned way. US, 2003, DV, 20 min., pudding comes. Italy, 2003, DV, freest, most daring and experimental dirs. Joe York and Mat Bruder. 15 min., dirs. Francesco Barbieri form of cinematic expression: short FISHTALE A boy catches his first and Andrea Canepari. fish, but is not prepared to prepare it. DE CHINESE MUUR [THE CHINESE films. , 2003, 16mm, 8 min, WALL] Get to know Aagt as she sits at VOCI DELLA MONTANA [VOICES OF dir. Paul Glynn. her usual table in a Chinese restau- THE MOUNTAIN] Cinematic anthropo- The first festival was shown in rant. Holland, 2001, 35mm, 11 min., logical study of the lives of shepherds 2002 at the International Short Film TUNANOODA An animated film about dir. Sytskey Kok. Francesco and Luigi Carta. Festival in Bra, Italy. This program, a big fish tale. US, 2002, 16mm, Italy, 1998, Beta SP, 18 min., 10 min., dir. David Sackin. PORK CHOP No one in Hong Kong dir. Antonello Carboni. the first of its type to screen in the loves pork chops more than Miyuki! China, Hong Kong, 2002, 35mm, LA ZUPPA DI ZIO LIUGI E ALTRE US, features selections culled from OYSTER GUANACA A Salvadorean dishwasher in a DC restaurant pur- 11 min., dir. Tim Barnes. RICETE [UNCLE LUIGI’S SOUP AND the second festival, which un-spooled chases six dozen oysters for his wife OTHER RECIPIES] Italy during World DESALINDA A mixed salad and a this spring in Bra. as a gift and is taunted and teased by War II, as described by those who his coworkers. US, 1992, 16mm, trout meet in a restaurant cold store. fought as well as those who waited at The three-day event features 11 min., dirs. Sarah Cohen and Spain, 2001, 35mm, 20 min., home. “That’s what life was like. It programs of short narrative, animat- Jennifer Bishop. dir. Gustavo Salmerón. was a hunt for food.” Italy, 2003, DV 20 min., dir. Gruppo Mannamanna. ed and documentary works about YUM YUM YUM Doc master Les DE LA TETE AUX PIEDS [FROM HEAD TO TOE] A culinary competition dur- DIOCHLANDA The musical journey of food from all over the world. Slow Blank’s exploration of Cajun and Creole culture and cooking. US, ing the Second World War. France, an ethno-rock band touring Food’s Washington branch plans to 1990, 16mm, 30 min., dir. Les Blank. 2002, 35mm, 18 min., dir. Pascal Calabrian restaurants in Germany. Lahmani. Italy, 2003, Betacam, 45 min., host many delectable food-related dir. Giuseppe Gagliardi. events around the Festival. Visit YUM YUM YUM EASY AS PIE Charlotte Baker’s sick • TO ORDER WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER TICKETS: • and tired of finishing second to her www.slowfood.com for more sister in the All American Grand Prix SAVING SEEDS information. Bakeoff! US, 2003, 35mm, 17 min., dir. Jon Berkowitz.

14 • TO ORDER TICKETS: WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER • 15 ns who set their words to ns who receive treatment and are led to believereceive they are don’t anessa Northington Gamble, M.D., Ph.D., Gamble, M.D., Northington anessa V uskegee Syphilis Study Legacy Committee) Study Legacy Syphilis uskegee Deputy Director for Education and Training, Morgan- and Training, Education for Deputy Director Health Disparities Solutions, for Hopkins Center School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg the Chair of Maryland (former , University, T Guest Speaker: Guest vernment-backed medical human fects of syphilis on patients who uesday, July 13, 7:00 July 13, uesday, Obba Babatunde). But when the govern- But when Obba Babatunde). ree treatment to those who test positive ree treatment to those who

being “cared for” when they’re actuallybeing “cared for” when being denied medicine that could cure them. Miss Everswith a terrible is faced dilemma: inform her patients and abandon the experi- ment or remain silent and offer only comfort. life-or-death Her decision impacts the course of not only excellent herThe life, of all cast also but the lives of Miss Evers’ boys. Marchall. and E.G. includes Ossie Davis Bernstein; and Walter Sargent; written Feldshuh by David Directed by Joseph 118 min. video, color, 1997, US, and Kip Konwiser. produced by Derek Kavanagh Rated PG MISS EVERS’ BOYS MISS EVERS’ T MISS Based on the shocking true story, exposesEVERS’ BOYS the 40-year US go research effort that led to tragic conse- Eunice Nurse 1932, devoted quences. In accepts an invita- Woodard) Evers (Alfre (Joe Dr. Brodus tion to work with Joe Sheffer) (Craig and Dr. Douglas Morton) on a federally funded Alabama program to treat syphilis programThe offers patients. f for the disease, including Caleb Humphries Willie and Johnson (Laurence Fishburne) ( its funding,ment money is withdraws Experiment,” will a studyoffered become known for what as “The of the Tuskegee ef

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