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AFI Preview16 2/4/05 4:30 PM Page 1 THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE GUIDE February 25-April 14, 2005 ★ TO THEATRE AND MEMBER EVENTS VOLUME 2 • ISSUE 2 AFIPREVIEW

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from the book by Peter Maas; AFI member passes will be produced by . US, Sidney Lumet accepted at all screenings 1973, color, 130 min. RATED R ●M in the Lumet Retrospective March 9–April 3 Despite the more than 50 Oscar nominations his films have received over a career Wed March 23, 7:00; Sun Mar 27, 1:00 spanning nearly as many years, Sidney Lumet has never himself received an As scorching day unravels into night in Gotham, the motive for ’s Academy Award—until his Honorary Award this year. His career itself has botched bank robbery and hostage- eschewed categorization, with its evolution from “stereotypic” television director taking is revealed to be the funding of to startling filmic innovator, and from theatrical adaptation specialist to gritty his second (male) wife’s sex-change operation. Lumet’s ultimate exercise chronicler of the city’s underside. But throughout his career, Lumet has garnered in realism was based on a real-life FAIL-SAFE the respect of his peers as a consummate professional and ’ director who only-in- incident. Directed by Sidney Lumet; written

Directed by Sidney Lumet; • TICKETS: WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER ORDER • TO consistently crafts powerful performances. In an age of youth-oriented cinema, by , from articles by written/produced by Reginald P.F. Kluge and Thomas Moore; the depth and intensity of Lumet’s mature body of work represent an oeuvre Rose; co-produced by . produced by Martin Bregman and US, 1957, b&w, 96 min. RATED that will place him in the pantheon of American directors. Martin Elfand. US, 1975, color, 130 APPROVED min. RATED R SERPICO SERPICO Wed March 16, 7:00; Sun March 20, 12:45 FAIL-SAFE Al Pacino is volcanic as real-life under- Wed March 9, 8:20; Sun March 13, 12:45 cover cop Frank Serpico, whose unwill- “That will be the sound of your tele- ingness to be on the take and phone melting.” The ultimate Cold War willingness to testify for the head- nightmare, with President Henry Fonda rolling Knapp Commission made him a desperately getting on the Moscow Hot target among his corrupt fellow-officers. Line after US bombers get the very Lumet delivered his first full-throttle wrong message. Featuring expression- action picture to a chorus of Oscar istic camerawork, intense long takes nominations, with Pacino’s performance alternating with sharp montages, and vaulting him to ranks of DOG DAY AFTERNOON the most painful of freeze-frames. What American actors. “A portrait of a real DR. STRANGELOVE was to black rebel with a cause.”—Sidney Lumet. humor, this is to suspense—and, ulti- Directed by Sidney Lumet; written 12 ANGRY MEN mately, gut-wrenching horror. Wed March 30, 8:30; Sun April 3, 1:00 by Waldo Salt and Norman Wexler, Directed by Sidney Lumet; written Twelve jurors sequestered in a pre-air by Walter Bernstein, from the novel conditioning room try to knock off this by Eugene Burdick and Harvey “open-and-shut” murder case quickly Wheeler; produced by Max E. SPECIAL EVENT —but Henry Fonda’s Juror #8 keeps Youngstein. US, 1964, b&w, 112 min. raising objections. In his multi- RATED PG awarded debut work, Lumet carefully OSCAR NIGHT Screenwriter Walter orchestrated angles, lenses and lighting ® Bernstein will appear live AMERICA PARTY to keep the claustrophobia and tension on-stage with a special growing. Honored from Hollywood Sunday, February 27 March 12 screening of (three Oscar nominations) to Berlin THE FRONT (see page 15). Reception: 7:00 p.m.; (the Berlin Film Festival ) Live Broadcast: 8:00 p.m. to Tokyo (Kinema Jumpo Award). Celebrate Hollywood’s most honored tradition this Oscar Night® in a glamorous evening under the searchlights. AFI Silver and First Star present Washington, DC’s exclusive OSCAR NIGHT AMERICA® PARTY, a live multi-screen broad- cast of the Academy Award® ceremonies hosted by noted Washington Post/Z-104 movie critic Desson Thomson. The Hollywood fanfare includes a red carpet arrival, cocktails, hors d’oeuvres from Washington’s choice chefs, prizes, a silent auction of Hollywood and other memo- rabilia, and more. First Star—a Washington- DESSON THOMSON based charity dedicated to improving the lives of POST OF THE WASHINGTON COURTESY America’s abused and neglected children—joins with AFI Silver to keep alive Hollywood’s long-standing commitment to charitable causes. The evening’s proceeds benefit First Star and AFI Silver. Tickets ($75) may be purchased on-line at www.AFI.com/Silver or at the AFI Silver box office. (Please note: Tickets for this event are expected to sell quickly.) 12 ANGRY MEN

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RETROSPECTIVE All The Rage: The Films of Martin Scorsese February 25 to March 22 From the very beginning of his career, Martin Scorsese was marked as the new hope of American cinema. Director, producer, editor, writer, , historian, movie buff, film preservationist and champi- on of artists’ rights, Martin Scorsese has left his mark on virtually every aspect of filmmaking. Honored with AFI’s 25th Life Achievement Award and plaudits from critics and filmmakers TAXI DRIVER alike, he is among the finest and most influential of American directors, past MEAN STREETS . Scorsese’s controversial, and present. His body of work covers Feb 25, 4:20; Feb 26, 9:45; March 1, 6:50; Feb 25, 6:30; Feb 26, 5:00; March 2, 6:50; electrifying film (there is currently talk March 3, 4:30; March 7, 6:40 March 5, 3:30; March 6, 4:40; March 7, 8:55 of a sequel) features the great Bernard a wide range of genres and subjects- Herrmann’s final score—he died the “You don’t pay for your sins in church, Scorsese’s profanity-packed blow- day after recording it. including New York street-smart sto- but in the streets.” Waking to the torch biopic of the middleweight Directed by Martin Scorsese; sound of the Ronettes, guilt-ridden legend has consistently topped ries, a genteel literary adaptation, a written by ; produced small-time hood tries critics’ Best of the Decade lists, while by Julia and Michael Phillips. US, scandalous religious epic, a “woman’s to keep a low Mafioso profile, but winning a Best Actor Award for De 1976, color, 114 min. RATED R picture” and a work on the Dalai loco pal just doesn’t Niro. never hits the Lama. Enjoy some of the most pas- seem to give a damn about those canvas in the ring, but his battles gambling debts. Scorsese’s frenzied with wife Cathy Moriarty and THE KING OF sionate and exciting films ever breakthrough work was “a true orig- brother are a war of attri- Feb 26, 2:50; Feb 28, 4:00; March 2, 9:20; made—all by Martin Scorsese. inal of our period, a triumph of tion with no winners. Supporting March 3, 6:50 personal filmmaking.”—. nominee Pesci was managing a The dream of Robert De Niro’s Rupert Directed/written/produced by Mar- restaurant when De Niro suggested Pupkin, a 34-year-old messenger boy AFI member passes tin Scorsese; co-written by Mardik him for the role. who lives with his mother, is to do his will be accepted at all standup routine on Jerry Lewis’s late screenings in the Martin, from a story by Scorsese; Directed by Martin Scorsese; ● co-produced by Jonathan T. Taplin. written by Paul Schrader and night talk show and become the “king M Scorsese Retrospective US, 1973, color, 110 min. RATED R , from the book by of comedy”—and he moves to stalking Jake La Motta, Peter Savage and and kidnapping to achieve it. A horri- Joseph Carter; produced by Robert fying and hilarious skewering of Chartoff and . US, celebrity worship, highlighted by 1980, b&w, 129 min. RATED R Lewis’s serious, icy cold performance

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• BUY FEE • • NEVER A SERVICE ONLINE: WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER TICKETS New 35mm Print! Bernhard’s over-the-top portrayal of a certifiably star-struck society girl. TAXI DRIVER Feb 25, 9:00; Feb 26, 7:30; Feb 28, 9:10; THE KING OF March 2, 4:30; March 3, 9:00; March 5, 10:20; COMEDY March 6, 9:15 “You talkin’ to me?” Robert De Niro’s super-alienated Vietnam-vet Gotham hack yearns for a rain that’ll “wash all the scum off the streets,” blows his big date with Cybill Shepherd, then turns mohawked MEAN crusader at the sight of pimp Harvey STREETS Keitel slapping around child prostitute

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Directed by Martin Scorsese; ambiguous ode to the great musical CASINO written by Paul D. Zimmerman; films of his youth—and in its produced by Arnon Milchan. US, haunting, unresolved final scene. 1983, color, 109 min. RATED R Directed by Martin Scorsese; written by Earl Mac Rauch and THE AGE OF INNOCENCE Mardik Martin; produced by Feb 26, 12:10; March 13, 3:00 and Irwin Winkler. US, 1977, color, 167 min. In Scorsese’s adaptation of Edith RATED PG Wharton’s hyper-formalized society of upper-crust 1870s New York, it’s clear, although no one actually says GOODFELLAS anything, that Daniel Day-Lewis will March 11, 6:10; March 12, 9:40; March 13, 5:40; be heading to the altar with seemingly March 17, 8:20; March 19, 9:10 quiet and mousy — Based on the true story of Henry Hill, until distant relation this is a “Hitman’s Progress” as Ray arrives. Memorably intense (if clothed Liotta goes from numbers runner to and unspoken) passion, amidst government squealer. After a late-

dazzling period evocation. night mob “whack,” Liotta and • BUY TICKETS ONLINE! • WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER • Directed/written by Martin Scorsese; mobster mentors Robert De Niro and co-written by , from the Joe Pesci drop by Mom’s to pick up a novel by Edith Wharton; produced forgotten shovel for the burial, then by Barbara De Fina. US, 1993. color, sit down to an obligatory meal. Pesci’s scope, 139 min. RATED PG portrayal of a psycho killer won him an Oscar. NEW YORK, NEW YORK Directed/written by Martin Feb 28, 6:10; March 5, 12:30 Scorsese; co-written by Nicholas CASINO Pileggi, from Wise Guy by Pileggi; March 13, 8:30; March 15, 8:15 On VJ Day, charming but irrespon- produced by Irwin Winkler. US, sible jazz saxophonist Robert De Niro In his re-teaming with 1990, color, 145 min. RATED R and mainstream singer Liza Minelli GOODFELLAS screen- meet. But the path of love was never writer , less smooth than in Scorsese’s THE LAST TEMPTATION Scorsese weaves the narratives of Robert De OF CHRIST Niro, Joe Pesci and THE AGE OF INNOCENCE March 12, 12:45; March 14, 8:15 to tell the ’s carpenter Christ sordid backstory of Las struggles with demons’ temptations Vegas in the days before and the confusions of the world to poker tournaments fulfill his mission. But even on the became a television cross, he must face a hallucination— staple and Sin City the ultimate temptation: a good man’s became a corporately normal life. Scorsese’s austere adapta- operated family destina- tion of Nikos Kazantzakis’s classic tion. Mob man Joe Pesci novel caused great controversy. “I remembers early Vegas: cannot think of another film on a reli- “A lot of holes in the desert, and a lot gious subject that has challenged me of problems are buried in those holes.” more fully.”—. Stone’s performance earned her an Directed by Martin Scorsese; Oscar nomination and a Golden written by Paul Schrader, from the Globe for Best Lead Actress. novel by Nikos Kazantzakis; Directed/written by Martin produced by Barbara De Fina. US, Scorsese; co-written by Nicholas 1988. color, scope, 164 min. RATED R Pileggi; produced by Barbara De Fina; 1995, US, color, 178 min. RATED R GANGS OF NEW YORK March 21, 8:25; March 22, 8:35 In a corrupt 1860s New York ruled by Tammany Hall and Irish gangs, Leonardo DiCaprio returns to Five Points to become protégé to Daniel Day-Lewis’s gang leader “Bill the Butcher”—the man who, years before, killed his dad (Liam Neeson). An epic recreation of Old New York—incred- ibly executed entirely on the Cinecittá written by Jay Cocks, Steven lot in Rome—electrified by Day- Zaillian and ; Lewis’s sensational return to the produced by Alberto Grimaldi and screen after a five-year hiatus. Harvey Weinstein. US, 2002, color, Directed by Martin Scorsese; scope, 166 min. RATED R GOODFELLAS

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• TO ORDER TICKETS: WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER • 6 world filmmaker:consistently innovative andmore emotionallyprofound withevery picture. acclaim ofsubsequentreleases HAPPY TOGETHER andINTHEMOODFOR LOVE secured Wong’s stature asa logues from characters soexquisitely lovesick asto findeven theirlonelinessblissful.Theinternational hand-held camerawork; color-coded symbolization andpopmusicleitmotifs;non-stop interior mono- lished: dreamy romanticism thatconceals politicalc hit DAYS OFBEINGWILDandbreakout-success CHUNGKINGEXPRESS,Wong’s aestheticwas firmlyestab- and (thedazzlingcameraman behindHEROandHOUSEOFFLYING DAGGERS). Withfirst- utterly uniquevisualandstorytelling style withregular collaborators WilliamChang(artdirector/editor) stock-in-trade Triad-gangster pics(AS TEARSGOBY) andmartialartsepics(ASHES OFTIME),perfecting his came upthrough HongKong cinema’sbooming’80sto direct subversively romantic versions ofHK’s now istheperfect timeto review theHongKong ’s bodyofwork. Theformer screenwriter-for-hire (2046 andTHEHAND, asegmentoftheSteven Soderbergh//Wong EROStrilogy), With theeagerlyanticipated 2005release ofnotonebuttwo newfilmsby writer/director Wong Kar-Wai, March 4through24 The FilmsOfWong Kar-Wai Days OfFuture Passed: “The MostRomanticFilmmakerintheWorld” SHOWCASE and Spanish with English subtitles. and Spanish English subtitles. with 1997, b&w/color, min.In 96 Mandarin, Ye-Cheng Chan andChan Yechang. Hong Kong, byWongDirected/written Kar-Wai; producedby Kong BestDirector, andabroad. CannesFilmFestival. Themainland. resultwas smashinHong abox office Hong Kong’s vis-à-vis and politics tothe 1997return thefilm’s over and controversy content homosexual LeungandCheung, from performances With heroic sticks. breakupnever instead breakup. Butthe first Hong start—and toseekafresh Kong Aires forBuenos Lovers Tony LeungChiu Wai Cheung andLeslie leave March 8,6:30; March 10,8:50 March 4,4:30 &8:50;March 5,8:10; March 6,1:00; [Cheun GwongTsa Sit] HAPPY TOGETHER RATED R ommentary; guerillanighttimeshootingandbravura and Cantonese with English subtitles. English subtitles. with and Cantonese Hong Kong, 2000, color, 98min.In byWongDirected/written/produced Kar-Wai. ? temptation,then… then friendship, anaffair.having leads toclose Their sharedgrief Leung Chiu Wai thattheirspouses are discover Hong Kong, neighborsMaggieCheung and Tony ofhisromance withnostalgia.In 1962 distillation thepurest both archandaccessible,perhaps Wong’s manages tobe todate mostacclaimedfilm March 8,8:40;March 10,6:45 March 4,6:45; March 5,6:00;March 6,7:10; [Fa Yeung NinWa] IN THEMOODFORLOVE ● M —RICHARD CORLISS, TIME HAPPY TOGETHER Wong Kar-Wai Showcase all screeningsinthe will beacceptedat memberpasses AFI RATED PG UNRATED eyes. our before anddying beingborn films different we forentirely seethepotential process unfold, Wong’s unused footage andwatching hiscreative Bypiecingtogether cutofthefilm. in thefinal thatwere included shotandnever the hoursoffilm by isilluminated andtirelessrevision screenwriting reputationforimprovisational sometimes criticized into Wong’s uniquecreative process. The director’s HAPPY thoughtfulTOGETHER insight provides “ March 6,3:10; March 8,5:00;March 10,5:15 [Sip silingdou—cheungwongtsasit] BUENOS AIRESZERODEGREE Cantonese and Spanish with English andSpanish subtitles. Cantonese with Lee. Hong Kong, 1999, color, 68min.In byKwan andAmos Directed/written Pun-Leung romance with country cousin MaggieCheung blos- country romance with Lau’s arealready inplace: romantic fixations hesitant but tosatisfyasagangsterWong’s film, violence don’t want tobesaved. There’s enough creative thehardway butlearns thatsome people destruction, Jackie brother” Cheungcannon “little self- from Triad toprotectloose AndyLautries brother” “big March 14,6:15; March 16,9:35 [Wong GokKaMoon] AS TEARSGOBY This behind-the-scenes look at the making of lookatthemaking This behind-the-scenes IN THEMOODFOR LOVE AS TEARSGOBY ” —Northwest FilmCenter, Oregon. Portland, AFI Preview16 2/4/05 4:30 PM Page 7

ances from vets , and Tony Leung Chiu Wai, but pop star ’s blissfully unselfconscious dance to the Mamas and the Papas’ California Dreaming may represent the consummate Wong Kar-Wai moment. Directed/written by Wong Kar-Wai; produced by Yi-Kan Chan. Hong Kong, 1994, color, 102 min. In Cantonese with English Subtitles. RATED PG-13 FALLEN ANGELS [Duo Luo Tian Shi] March 18, 9:15; March 19, 5:05; March 20, 5:20 Originally the final of three story lines in , Wong spun off this tale of a lonely hit man and his lonelier business manager into a separate movie. A much darker take on the denizens of the Hong Kong night, it makes good on the promise of AS TEARS GO BY’s styl- ized violence, with expressionistic visual flourishes and Christopher Doyle’s camera whirling and whooshing at its FLYING DAGGER-fastest. Directed/written by Wong Kar-Wai; produced by . Hong Kong, 1995, color, 90 min. In Cantonese with English subtitles. RATED PG-13

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soms suddenly into a music video-like rapture, set to by Rover Tang. Hong Kong, 1991, a Canto-Pop cover of Berlin’s Take My Breath Away. color, 94 min. In Cantonese, Directed/written/produced by Wong Kar-Wai. Tagalog, Tamil, English and Hong Kong, 1988, color, 100 min. In Cantonese Mandarin with English subti- with English subtitles. UNRATED. INTERNATIONAL tles. RATED PG-13 SUGGESTED VIEWING AGE: 18 AND OVER. CHUNGKING EXPRESS [Chong Qing Sen Lin] [Dung Che Sai Duk] March 18, 7:10; March 19, 3:00; March 15, 6:15; March 20, 9:20; March 23, 9:30 March 20, 3:15; March 24, 6:30 Mythic and mysterious, Wong’s Song Dynasty period Broken-hearted cops, diva gang- piece has less to do with martial arts than aching sters, shop girl secret admirers and hearts, specifically that of lonely swordsman Leslie liberated stewardesses run riot in Wong’s buoyant, quirky romance. Cheung, who never confessed his love to Maggie CHUNGKING EXPRESS Cheung and suffered silently as she married his Featuring outstanding perform- brother. An existential meditation on affairs of the heart, memory and learning to forget, set in an other- worldly desert wasteland where warriors sometimes seek their fortune—and sometimes, oblivion. Directed/written by Wong Kar-Wai; from the novel The Eagle Shooting Heroes by Louis Cha; produced by Sung-Lin Chai. Hong Kong, 1994, color, 100 min. In Cantonese with English subti- tles. UNRATED New 35mm Print! New English Subtitles! DAYS OF BEING WILD [A Fei Jing Juen] March 18, 5:15; March 19, 7:10; March 20, 7:25; March 22, 6:20 In 1960s Hong Kong, idle playboy is kept in luxury by his retired courtesan foster mother, who gives him everything he needs but not the one thing he wants: the identity of his natural mother. Self-obsessed and careless with his own loved ones—including girlfriends and —Cheung bolts for the Philippines in search of his identity, and possibly his doom. Directed/written by Wong Kar-Wai; produced 7 AFI Preview162/4/054:30PMPage8

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• TO ORDER TICKETS: WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER • 10 English subtitles,except where noted. teams, asamplingofwhichwillbepresented here. resents oneofthegreatest andmostprolific ofscreen nine-film collaboration withactor PhilippeNoiret rep- ations to gritty contemporary socialcommentary. His from careful literary adaptationsto lavish periodrecre- constant—Tavernier’s subjectmatter hasranged widely narrative form—with consummate craftsmanship his eration hadreacted tion ofthe’40sand’50sthathisNouvelle Vague gen- collaborators—from thevery “cinema ofquality” tradi- new, neo-classicsensibility, drawing inspiration—and CLE ROUGE),Tavernier thenbroke away to definea Waver Jean-Pierre Melville(BOBLEFLAMBEUR,CER- the camera himself. Learning theropes from proto-New Positif cist for Hollywood filmsinFrance andasafilmcriticfor instead ofanexam),Tavernier firstworked asapubli- in law (when heturnedinablankpiece ofpaper Festival andaGoldenBearatBerlin.Eschewingcareer well ascapturingBestDirector attheCannesFilm twice for BestDirector andthree timesfor writing—as over 40Césarnominations—winning (among others) among themost-honored, hisfilmshaving garnered director/writer, has certainly been al work to Washington audiences. their invaluable helpinbringingTavernier’s exception- and Estelle CarpentieroftheEmbassy ofFrance for Silver thanksL’ARP’s MichelGomez,andRoland Celette LOLA, fresh from itsUSPremiere inLos Angeles.AFI stage appearance atAFISilver onApril18—with HOLY Bertrand Tavernier’s work, culminatinginhislive on- in France—presents ashowcase ofneo-classicdirector L’ARP—The Society ofAuthors,Directors andProducers conjunction with Celebration, AFI,in the Potomac city-wide Parison enjoys itsspring As Washington, DC, April 1-18 Bertrand Tavernier Maverick Classicist: Live OnStageApril18! FEATURED SHOWCASE ● M All filmsintheshowcase are inFrench with Perhaps thepre-eminent post-New Wave French and L es CahiersduCinéma Showcase, unlessotherwisenoted. all screeningsintheBertrandTavernier memberpasseswillbeacceptedat AFI against. Restlessly exploringthe —before goingbehind jazz thatyoureallyneedtoknow” “Teaches about youeverything ENGLISH. RATED R Winkler. France, 1986,color, scope,133 min. producedbyIrwin byDavid Rayfiel; written Tavernier; byBertrand Directed/written co- role. Gordon aBestActor nominationforhissolestarring Herbie HancockanOscarforBestScoreandDexter fan,winning bebop pianistBudPowell andaFrench between ofthefriendship telling this fictionalized jazzscorewas recordedlive in TheAmerica? terrific if Turner totheirfriendship happens goes backto FrançoisCluzet. Butwhat groupie saved byGallic and befriended in ’50sParis, butis addiction and drug battles alcoholism Gordon)Dexter jazzgiant real-life Turner by (played Saxophonist Dale 8:50; April14,6:15 April 9,8:00;11, MIDNIGHT ’ROUND RATED PG Cleitman. France, 1989, color, scope,135 min. byJean producedbyRenéwritten Cosmos; Tavernier; byBertrand Directed/written co- multipleawardsgarnering forNoiret’s performance. ofsweeping productiondesign, segments set between Anintimatedrama Soldier. Unknown for aparticular andthegovernment’scorpse need husband’sdemands tohuntforher Sabineto accommodate Azema’s dead (50,000 300,000 down, togo) France’s nameless1920 Word War I identifying take abreakfrom Noiret andhisteam Major Philippe 1:00 8:50;April2, April 1, [La vieetriend’autre] LIFE ANDNOTHINGBUT , after alosingbattlewith Bezace,after Didier ascop squad, ofa Parisian drug A yearinthelife April 3,9:05;5,6:20 L.627 France, 1999, color, scope,117min. andFrédéric Sarde Bourboulon. produced byAlain andTiffanyby DominiqueSampiero Tavernier; Tavernier; byBertrand Directed/written co-written power company.the plug-pulling and socialservices do-nothing bean-counters, ment Philippe teacher Torreton against govern- crusades school nursery town, an unemployment-riddled In Tavernier’s gritty, docu-style setin socialdrama 6:10 6:30;April2, April 1, [Ça commenceaujourd’hui] IT ALLSTARTS TODAY Comart’s slugs then squad, itoutwithred anti-vice cracy, Jean-Paul topracticaljoker transferred gets —ROGER EBERT UNRATED outstanding MIDNIGHT “Noiret [is] hundredth flic ANDREW, ’ROUND film role” TIMEOUT —GEOFF bureau- in his IN Pierre Bost. France, 1984, color, France, 1984, Bost. 90min. Pierre byColoTavernier,co-written thenovel from by Tavernier; byBertrand Directed/written/produced Cinematography, Writing, CèsarAwards. Director, CannesFilmFestival; BestActress, Best andlostopportunities. tion offamily politics who Papa examina- best?Aquietly beautiful likes shows up, admittedly Andguess unannounced. Sabine daughter Azema time, foronce,scapegrace Sunday. home,ashedoesevery country Butthis (realfather LouisDucreux) octogenarian athis hisagingartist hisfamily brings tovisit dutifully In Francebefore ,MichelAumont April 3,5:10; April6,8:40 [Un dimancheàlacampàgne] SUNDAY INTHECOUNTRY France, color, 1996, scope,130 min. andFrédéric Sarde Bourboulon. produced byAlain thenovelby Jean from byRoger Cosmos Vercel; Tavernier; byBertrand Directed/written co-written tions, oftheCésarAward winner forBestDirector. what’s Conantodo? ex-warrior With ninenomina- shadow war against Red anincipient Menace, Best Actor). amidsta theArmistice, Butafter ’s CaptainConan(CésarAward, warrior, Samuelteacher aborn LeBihan meets During World War IontheBalkan former front, 3:40 4:20; April2, April 1, [Capitaine Conan] France,Sarde. 1992,color, 145 min. producedbyAlain byMichelAlexandre; written Tavernier; byBertrand Directed/written co- detective.working bya Co-scripted agun. although nobodyfires tape, day-to-day burnout— drudgery, andpotential L.627 CONAN CAPTAIN UNRATED UNRATED RATED G AFI Preview16 2/4/05 4:30 PM Page 11

Washington, CLEAN SLATE DC Area Premiere SAFE CONDUCT [Laissez-Passer] April 2, 8:30; April 7, 8:35 During the Occupation, assistant director Jean-Devaivre (, Best Actor, Berlin) works for the German-controlled film company—but also for the Resistance, and scenarist Jean SAFE CONDUCT Aurenche (Denis Podalydès) relent- lessly dodges collaborationist writing assignments while pursuing une vie d’amour. Two CLEAN SLATE blackly comic adaptation of ’s noirer- true stories; screenwriter Aurenche later regularly [] than-noir Pop, 1280. Ten César nominations. worked with Tavernier. A kaleidoscope of the April 9, 5:30; April 10, 12:30 forgotten cinema of the ’40s. Directed/written by Bertrand Tavernier; co- In a French West African colony in 1938, cop written by , from the novel by Jim Directed/written by Bertrand Tavernier; co- is nobody’s idea of Wyatt Earp, Thompson; produced by Henri Lassa and Adolphe • TICKETS: WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER ORDER • TO written by Jean Cosmos, from the book by Jean- humiliated by wife Stéphane Audran and sneered Viezzi. France, 1981, color, 128 min. UNRATED Devaivre; produced by Frédéric Bourboulon. at by pimp Jean-Pierre Marielle. Then he decides France, 2002, color, scope, 170 min. UNRATED the worm has to turn. But isn’t he going too far? A THE PASSION OF BÉATRICE [La Passion Béatrice] SPECIAL EVENT April 10, 5:45; April 14, 8:50 In medieval France, young (BEFORE Bertrand Tavernier in person with the SUNSET) can’t wait for dad Bernard-Pierre Washington, DC premiere of Donnadieu to get back from the Crusades. When he "A film pairing of does, the results are horrific beyond imagining (But of course, we’ve already witnessed, in a prologue, the HOLY LOLA astonishing force... Each younger Donnadieu forced to murder his mother’s Monday, April 18, 7:30 scene of this emotional lover.). A harshly brutal view of the Middle Ages film is a decisive, scripted by the director’s ex-wife, with a wonder- Jacques Gamblin and Isabelle Carré travel to Cambodia fully effective jazz score by bassist Ron Carter. to adopt a baby girl, and the trouble begins. Red tape meaningful battle” Directed by Bertrand Tavernier; written by Colo and bureaucracy—both French and Cambodian—and —TÉLÉRAMA Tavernier; produced by Adolphe Viezzi. France, danger from human traffickers ultimately drive them to 1987, color, 132 min. RATED R a journey of realization as the couple confronts problems in their own relationship. Directed/written by Bertrand Tavernier; co-written by Dominique Sampiero and Tiffany DADDY NOSTALGIA/ Tavernier; produced by Frédéric Bourboulon. France, 2004, color, 128 min. In French, Italian, THESE FOOLISH THINGS Khmer and English with English subtitles. UNRATED. INTERNATIONAL SUGGESTED VIEWING AGE: 10 AND OVER [] April 3, 7:00; April 6, 6:30 Special event—member passes not accepted. In the wake of her father’s life-threatening surgery, Jane Birkin arrives at dad’s Riviera retirement home hoping at last to break through his elegant elusive- ness. In a role seemingly tailor-made—and, as he planned, his last—the legendary is as ironically witty as ever, this time in two languages. Directed/written by Bertrand Tavernier; co-written by Colo Tavernier; produced by Adolphe Viezzi. France, 1990, color, scope, 105 min. RATED PG THE CLOCKMAKER [L’Horloger de Saint-Paul] April 3, 3:00; April 7, 6:30 Bad news for quiet Lyons clockmaker Philippe Noiret: Inspector arrives with news that the son who-lives-but-doesn’t-live-with-him has committed murder. In the course of the case, Noiret finds new understanding with the son he realizes he didn’t really know, and a new friendship with the understanding cop. Tavernier’s first feature won the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, launching his career. Directed/co-written by Bertrand Tavernier; co- written by Jean Aurenche and Pierre Bost, from the novel by ; produced by Raymond Danon. France, 1974, color, 105 min. UNRATED

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SEASONAL CINEMA FROM JAPAN

AFI member passes will be accepted at all ●screenings in the Cherry M Blossom Cinema Series Cherry Blossom Cinema April 8–12 Anticipating the Washington, DC area’s favorite harbinger of spring, the blooming of its cherry blossoms, AFI Silver presents the Japanese classic most associated with cherry blossom time, THE MAKIOKA SISTERS, as well as two new pictures repre- senting what’s young and vital in Japanese cinema today.

The Classic Returns!

THE MAKIOKA SISTERS THE MAKIOKA SISTERS [Sasameyuki] April 8, 7:10; April 9, 12:30; April 10, 3:00 Tanizaki’s classic novel with ravishing 114 min. In Japanese with English unmotivated monotony—until a In 1938 Osaka, four daughters of an pictorialism and insidious black subtitles. UNRATED seemingly random murder fractures old merchant family all unknowingly humor in a throwback to the Golden their existence. What follows: shifting Age of Japanese cinema. Washington, DC Oedipal triangles and sibling rivalries, Directed/written/produced by Kon Area Premiere! sin-eating scapegoats and transcen- “Swooningly beautiful, Ichikawa; co-written by Shinya dental suicide, and a mysteriously probably the most visually Hidaka, from the novel by BRIGHT FUTURE evolving red jellyfish that represents beautiful single film I can Junichiro Tanizaki; co-produced by [Akarui Mirai] either the salvation or destruction of Tokyo. Instead of the cheery renewal remember seeing... BEST Tomoyuki Tanaka. Japan, 1983, April 8, 9:50; April 9, 10:30; color, 140 min. UNRATED April 12, 7:30 of cherry blossoms, a unique look at FILM OF THE YEAR” (1985) the pain and frustration of making Cult weird-meister Kiyoshi new beginnings. Official selection, —SHEILA BENSON, LOS Washington, DC Area Kurosawa’s latest is yet another 2003 . ANGELES TIMES Premiere! combination of characters living a dream-challenged reality, splintered Directed/written by Kiyoshi DOLLS [Doruzu] identity and stinging social commen- Kurosawa; produced by Takashi

• FOR PROGRAM INFORMATION: WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER • WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER • FOR PROGRAM INFORMATION: face the end of a gentler way of life. In April 8, 5:00; April 9, 3:10; tary. Slacker factory hands Tadanobu Asai. Japan, 2003, color, 92 min. In this Jane Austen-ish chronicle of inci- April 10, 8:20; April 12, 9:30 Japanese with English subtitles. dents, Kon Ichikawa adapts Junichiro Asano and Jô Odagiri live lives of Adapting and updating a classic tale UNRATED from Bunraku—Japanese puppet theater—into a live-action feature, DOLLS iconoclast auteur Takeshi “Beat” Kitano’s DOLLS is his eeriest, most contemplative film to date, and unlike anything he’s done before. The delicate balance between men and women, and the soul-shattering grief of its loss play out over three tales of the unexpected. Featuring seasonal scene changes and nature symbols— including a stunning trek through a cherry grove in bloom—Kitano’s latest is a meditation of cosmic melancholy. Official selection, 2002 . Directed/written by Takeshi “Beat” Kitano, after the play The Courier From Hell [Meido no Hikyaku] by Monzaemon Chikamatsu; produced by Masayuki Mori and BRIGHT FUTURE Takio Yoshida. Japan, 2002, color, 12 • TO ORDER TICKETS: WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER • 13 DIRECTOR DIRECTOR UNRATED DEBORAH KOONS corporations and decades to come.” —SILVERDOCS 2004 —SILVERDOCS “Director Deborah Koons government in agriculture we will eat in the years and Garcia highlights the role of and the role consumers have yet to play to determine what UNRATED In Person! Blank In Les YUM YUM, YUM, 11, March 9:00 Friday, down- explorationA mouth-watering into spicy, of home cooking Cajuns and Creoles and the create it, this filmFrench-speaking who features Prudhomme, Paul and other Marc Savoy great along with tangy cooks Ribbon A Blue music. winner at the AmericanVideo Festival. Film and Directed/produced 31 min. 1990, Les by Blank. US, UNRATED PLUS CHICKEN REAL An often-surrealistic look at a large-scale chicken farm that produces 156 million chickens a year! chicken favorite songs. Featuring the world’s Directed/produced 23 by Les 1970, Blank. US, min. PLUS GARLIC IS AS GOOD AS TEN MOTHERS greaterThe glories of garlic are illuminated in this lip-smacking into the culinary foray history and of allium powers curative film sativum.The visits the California kitchens of such restaurants as famed chef Alice where Panisse, Chez Berkeley’s is interviewed, Bar-B-Que Flint’s and La Waters at the A piquant stop VielleTruckee. Maison in is included, along with Gilroy Garlic Festival and a soundtrack Herzog commentaryWerner by of Cajun, French Provençal, Swiss, Flamenco, Troubling Moroccan and Mexican music. Italian, three ate trivia, like that Eleanor Roosevelt the fact is also cloves of garlic dipped in chocolate daily, Winner Ribbonoffered. of the Blue at the AmericanFestival. Video Film and Directed/produced by Les Blank with Maureen 51 min. 1980, Gosling. US, UNRATED e. Moderator: Marsha Moderator: e. UNRATED Eat Her Eat UNRATED Weiner, Regional Governor, Slow Food USA. Food Slow Governor, Regional Weiner, Presented in cooperation with in cooperation Presented and SILVERDOCS USA Food Slow THE FUTURE OF FOOD 19, 12:30 March Saturday, “The of genetically age modified and food is upon us, government direction the and consumers decide what must States.”—SILVER- of food willbusiness in the United go is the thinkingThis explored DOCS 2004. by Deborah Garcia in her insightful documentaryKoons about the direction of food and farming in America, illustrating how beenproblems arise, patenting how companies have new plant products and the impact of scientific experiments consumers. on global Directed/produced Garcia. by Deborah Koons US, 91 min. 2004, color, a panel by will be followed The screening Professor Belasco, Warren with Dr. discussion of Maryland, of American Studies, University Campus; director/writer/producer Baltimore and Brian Halweil, Garcia Koons Deborah and Institute Watch World Senior Researcher, author of GARLIC IS AS GOOD AS TEN MOTHERS GOOD AS GARLIC IS AS PLUS HIS SHOE EATS more garlic.”—Werner more boots, “More shoes, that he would eat his shoe vowed Herzog Herzog. if actually of the films one made he forever talking about.was Stung into action, a highly OF HEAVEN, Morris directed GATES And, trueacclaimed film to about a pet cemetery. his word, returned Herzog Berkeley to to UC film consume one of his desert boots. Blank’s strongly documentingrecords the event, Herzog’s expressed “the belief have that people must guts to they dream of.” attempt what color, Directed/produced by Les Blank. 1979, US; 22 min. despoiling the environment, but leaves the question, despoiling the environment, but leaves it worth it?” to the viewer. “Is Directed/produced by Les Blank and Maureen 94 min. 1982, color, Gosling. US, ORK TIMES AFI passes will be accepted member at all screenings in the Environmental at AFIFilm Festival Silver been anything else like it.” ever made of a motion picture “Remarkable… one of the most director at work… There’s never director at work… There’s candid, most fascinating portraits Discussions with filmmaker Les Blank will fol- Discussions with filmmaker Les M ● —, THE NEW Y CANBY, —VINCENT risks everything to build a grand opera in the house the movie Creating river portjungle of . and perilous as dubious an enterpriseproved just as to by Herzog based. Invited it was the one on which record his artistic experiment, Les Blank documents the making of the film plane crashes; through torrential by armed, rains; attacks hostile Indians; the loss of several leading actors; and the eruption of a full-fledged around him. Blank, border war questions about raises provocative Herzog, through it entails—includingthe pursuit of art and what For nearly five years, German fiveFor nearly years, directorWerner a desperate struggle to complete the waged Herzog Amazon-jungle shoot of the most difficult film of disaster after , In his career. disaster befalls dreamer opera-mad a penniless, who BURDEN OF DREAMS 12, March 4:00 Saturday, Les Blank In Person! Les The Environmental Film Festival The Environmental Capital In The Nation’s 11, 12, 19 March AFI Silver: director/producer/cinematog- Nationally acclaimed his own Blank, who has been following Les rapher in the United culture muse documenting folk of his most two present the ’60s, will since States as an philosophy films and discuss his celebrated Blank has received independent filmmaker. career, his five-decade over awards numerous Outstanding for Award Deren including the Maya AFI, and the 1982 from Achievement Lifetime Best Feature for Award British Academy retro- BURDEN OF DREAMS. Major Documentary for at been mounted Blank’s films have of spectives of Art, London’s Museum Metropolitan New York’s Angeles. in Los and FILMEX National Film Theatre all screenings. low DC ENVIRONMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL FILM ENVIRONMENTAL DC with in cooperation Presented and SILVER- USA Food Slow Channel DOCS: AFI/Discovery Festival Documentary AFI Preview16 2/4/05 4:30 PM Page 13 13 Page PM 4:30 2/4/05 Preview16 AFI AFI Preview162/4/054:30PMPage14

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Oscar-Nominated Screenwriter Walter Bernstein Live! THE FRONT Saturday, March 12, 7:00 “Furthermore, you can all @#&* yourselves.” In the McCarthyite ’50s, “nebbish” puts his name on pal Michael Murphy’s scripts to get past the blacklists—but then a committee calls. With actual blacklistees (, Walter Bernstein, , , et al) behind and before the camera. Directed/produced by Martin Ritt; written by Walter Bernstein.* US, 1976, color, scope, 95 min. RATED PG

Member Passes will not be accepted. OODRTCES W.F.O/IVR• TICKETS: WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER ORDER • TO *See also Walter Bernstein’s FAIL-SAFE, Director Peter Raymont In Person! March 9, 13, page 3 A special SILVERDOCS: AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Festival presentation marking the 11th Anniversary of the Rwanda Genocide SHAKE HANDS WITH THE DEVIL: THE JOURNEY OF ROMÉO DALLAIRE Monday, April 11, 7:30 In the Spring of 1994, more than 800,000 Tutsis were brutally murdered by Hutus in Rwanda, as UN serviceman Roméo Dallaire stood watching—unable to help due to UN beaurocracy. Through a journey back to Rwanda with filmmaker Peter Raymont, Dallaire struggles to shake away the ghosts from his past. With this award-winning documentary (2005 World Audience Award) and his recently published book, Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda, Dallaire today remains committed to preventing other such massacres from happening. Directed/produced by Peter Raymont; co-produced by Lindalee Tracey. Canada, 2004, color, 91 min. In French and English with English subtitles. UNRATED, SUGGESTED FOR Co-Presented by: The DC Asian MATURE AUDIENCES Pacific American Film Festival The screening will be followed by a live discussion with director (www.apafilm.org) & Reel Peter Raymont. Affirmations: The Washington, DC International Gay and Lesbian Member passes will not be accepted. Film Festival, presented by One Peter Raymont will also appear on Sunday, April 10th at American University’s Harold and Sylvia Greenberg Theatre with his films, THE in Ten (www.reelaffirmations.org) WORLD IS WATCHING and THE WORLD STOPPED WATCHING, hosted by ABC’s John Quinones, as part of the AU Reel Journalism Film Festival. 15 AFI MEMBER See www.soc.american.edu for details. April 13, 8:30 ●M PASSES ACCEPTED “Twenty-six-year-old Royston Tan’s social (devel- oped from a multi-award winning short) has given local censors their biggest ever headache by focusing on Singapore’s ‘problem boys:’ the ones from broken homes, the ones who smuggle drugs, the drop-outs, those who tend to die young. But what could have been a grungy social-realist tract is actually a dizzying collage of teen experience. Keeping his scenes short and stylized, the director doesn’t shrink from the dark side: he looks at teen suicides with black humor, confronts the reality of self-harm and admits that boys prostitute themselves for pocket money. His introductory voice-over says it all: ‘I only wanted to make a film of their lives, but in shooting it I’ve reconnected with a part of myself that I’d forgotten.’”—Tony Rayns, SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL Directed/written/produced by Roystan Tan. Singapore, 2002, color, 95 min. UNRATED WITH SEXUAL CONTENT, NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN.

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THE MAKIOKA SISTERS page 12

Godard’s MASCULINE-FEMININE page 2

Germany’s Oscar-Nominated Wong Kar-Wai’s DOWNFALL FALLEN ANGELS page 2 page 7

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