<<

AN ADVERTISING SUPPLEMENT TO ISSUE 61

AFI SILVER THEATRE AND CULTURAL CENTER APRIL 19– JULY 2, 2013 Silent cinema showcase H , Part 2 H H H Ten Years of Film Movement H L. a. Rebellion: creating a New Black cinema

Tribute special premieres this June on TNT with an encore broadcast on (TCM)

FILM FESTIVAL

PRESENTED BY

Look for the full schedule on June 7 in The Washington Post

AFI.com/Silver Contents Howard Hawks, Part 2

Howard Hawks, Part 2...... 2 April 19—July 2 Special Engagements...... 4, 7, 12, 14, 16 Howard Hawks was one of ’s most consistently entertaining directors, and one of the L.A. Rebellion: Creating most versatile, directing exemplary comedies, melodramas, war pictures, gangster films, films a New Black Cinema...... 5 noir, westerns, sci-fi thrillers, and musicals, with several being landmark pictures in their genre. The Films of Olivier Assayas...... 6 Visionario: The Films of Hawks never won an Oscar—in fact, he was nominated only once, as Best Director for 1941’s Guillermo del Toro...... 8 Courtesy of Everett Collection SERGEANT YORK (he and both lost to that year)—but his critical stature grew over the and ‘70s, even as his career was winding down, and in 1975 the Ten Years of Film Movement...... 9 Academy awarded him an honorary Oscar, declaring Hawks “a giant of the American cinema AFI Life Achievement Award whose pictures, taken as a whole, represent one of the most consistent, vivid and varied bodies Retrospective: ...... 10 of work in world cinema.” Robert Gardner Documentaries...... 11 “I consider Howard Hawks to be the greatest American director. He’s the only director I know to have made a great movie in Silent Cinema Showcase...... 13 every genre…In my opinion, the man literally invented American cinema. He showed us ourselves, the way we are, the way we should be.” – Calendar...... 15 Opera & Ballet in Cinema...... 16 “Howard Hawks is the supreme storyteller and entertainer. He’s just too damn enjoyable.” – “If one does not love the films of Howard Hawks, one cannot love cinema.” – Eric Rohmer LOOK FOR THE AFI Member passes will be accepted at all films in the Howard Hawks series. To become a Member of AFI visit AFI.com/Silver/JoinNow Restored “Pre-Release” version! TICKETS THE BIG SLEEP • $11.50 General Admission Sat, Apr 27, 7:00; Tue, Apr 30, 7:00 • $9 Seniors (65 and over), students Looking to recapture the Bogie-Bacall magic of TO HAVE AND with valid ID, and military personnel HAVE NOT, Hawks selected this whodunit as a vehicle to showcase more of the pair’s smart talk. Hired to investigate • $8.50 AFI Members (2-Star level & up) the blackmailing of society wild child Carmen Sternwood (Martha • $7 Children (12 and under) Vickers), private dick (), falls for • $8.50 Matinee tickets, weekdays her classy, sassy older sister Vivian (). The famously before 6:00 p.m. (holidays excluded) byzantine plot—murders proliferate, solutions do not—and the lurid hint of drug use and pornography behind Carmen’s blackmailing AFI PREVIEW is published by the provide ample intrigue, but it’s all a backdrop for the stars’ racy, . innuendo-laced repartee. DIR/PROD Howard Hawks; SCR , , , from the novel by Raymond Chandler. US, 1946, b&w, 116 min. NOT RATED All screenings take place at the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center: 8633 Colesville Road Silver Spring, MD 20910 For address changes and subscription Sat, Apr 27, 11:00 a.m.; Sun, Apr 28, 8:00; Mon, Apr 29, 5:15; services, contact: Wed, May 1, 7:00 “You know how to whistle, don’t you Steve? You just put your lips American Film Institute together and blow.” Lauren Bacall’s sultry come-ons to Humphrey 2021 N. Ave. , CA 90027 Bogart made her a star overnight, and began one of Hollywood’s Attn: Membership great on- and off-screen love affairs. Bogart plays an American fishing boat captain in 1940 Martinique, unwilling to take On the cover: SAFETY LAST!, chances running local fighters on dangerous courtesy of The Trust nighttime missions. Bacall plays a woman with a shady past whom Bogart falls for. The film famously bears little resemblance The big sleep Editor: Julie Hill to Hemingway’s source novel and a conspicuous one to the recent to have and have not DIR/PROD Howard Hawks; SCR Jules Furthman, Production Manager: Rebecca Lentz-Fernandes Bogart smash hit CASABLANCA. 65th Anniversary! William Faulkner, from the novel by . US, 1944, b&w, 100 min. NOT RATED Production Coordinator: Anjuli Singh Sat, May 4, 11:00 a.m.; Sun, May 5, 2:00; Mon, May 6, 5:15; Director of Programming: Todd Hitchcock AIR FORCE Tue, May 7, 5:15; Wed, May 8, 5:15 Fri, Apr 19, 3:00; Sat, Apr 20, 11:00 a.m.; Mon, Apr 22, 7:10 Hawks’ musical remake of his own features Danny Associate Programmer: Josh Gardner Hawks’ abiding passion for group dynamics and professional Kaye as the leader of a troupe of ivory-tower musicologists whose Design: Lauren Bellamy, Washington Post Media excellence was perfectly deployed in this WWII actioner, following decade-long work on an encyclopedia of music history has left Information is correct at press time. the crew of a B-17 Flying Fortress departing for Hawaii them woefully out of touch with the modern world in general, and Films and schedule subject to change. on the morning of December 6, 1941. Learning midflight of the music in particular. is the nightclub chantoozy Pearl Harbor bombing, the crew spend the ensuing weeks and who helps get these squares hip, with noteworthy assistance from Check AFI.com/Silver for updates. months going where the action is, island-hopping . the likes of , , , , as embittered gunner and flight school washout Joe Charlie Barnet, Mel Powell and the Golden Gate Quartet. Jazz AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center is funded Winocki, is the star attraction in the ensemble cast that includes Arthur great delights as Kaye’s associate, Professor by an operating grant from the Maryland State Kennedy, , and George Tobias. An effective Magenbruch, an able clarinetist who easily learns how to swing. Arts Council, an agency dedicated to cultivating a action-packed wartime propaganda picture. DIR Howard Hawks; SCR Dudley DIR Howard Hawks; SCR , Thomas Monroe, from their story “From A to Z”; PROD Samuel vibrant cultural where the arts thrive. Nichols; PROD Hal B. Wallis. US, 1943, b&w, 124 min. NOT RATED Goldwyn. US, 1948, color, 113 min. NOT RATED

2 Daily Listings: 301.495.6700 Courtesy of MGM

Red River

RED RIVER Tue, May 7, 7:30; Wed, May 8, 7:30; Sat, May 11, 11:30 a.m.; Sun, May 12, 11:30 a.m. Arguably Howard Hawks’ greatest film, it established once and for all as a major star, after some two decades of variable success; he’d remain a box office force for the next 25 years. Wayne plays a swaggering cattle baron, riding his men, his herd and himself hard across the range to the railhead in Kansas. On the verge of THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD THE BIG SKY a crackup and having descended into tyranny, Wayne is Fri, May 17, 5:15; Sat, May 18, 11:00 a.m.; Sun, May 19, Sat, May 18, 1:10; Mon, May 20, 4:15 relieved of his command by adopted son , 6:45; Tue, May 21, 5:00 Unique among Westerns, this film takes place in 1816 setting up a Western-style Oedipal showdown. DIR/PROD Howard Although officially directed by longtime Howard Hawks editor (most are set closer to the Civil War years) and concerns Hawks; SCR , . US, 1948, b&w, 133 min. NOT RATED , by all accounts producer Hawks was calling not a wagon train of homesteaders but a Missouri the shots, and the film bears his personal stamp —a close- River keelboat crew making a perilous journey from the I WAS A MALE knit team of professionals performing risky work in an exotic frontier town of St. Louis deep into the Montana territory Sat, May 25, 11:00 a.m.; Mon, May 27, 11:00 a.m.; environment, an all-male world save for a single savvy female to trade with the Blackfoot Indians. Captain Frenchy Tue, May 28, 7:10 and, above all, a flip attitude in the face of danger. Scientists (Steven Geray) heads a crew that includes friendly rivals In post-WWII working at a remote Arctic army base discover a crashed Jim Deakins () and Boone Caudill (Dewey Germany, French flying saucer, its alien encased in ice. Bringing the Martin), Boone’s frontiersman uncle Zeb (Arthur Hunnicutt) Captain Henri Rochard spaceman specimen back to base in hopes of further study plus an ace in the hole: Blackfoot princess Teal Eye () and instead unleashes terrible danger. Remade spectacularly as (Elizabeth Threatt), sprung from enemy captors, whose American WAC THE THING in 1981 by Hawks acolyte John Carpenter. DIR/ return the crew hopes will curry favor with her tribe. DIR/ Lieutenant Catherine PROD Howard Hawks; DIR Christian Nyby; SCR , from the novella “Who Goes PROD Howard Hawks; SCR , from the novel by A. B. Guthrie, Jr. US, Gates () There?” by John W. Campbell, Jr. US, 1951, b&w, 87 min. RATED PG 1952, b&w, 140 min. NOT RATED go from antagonistic co-workers to MONKEY BUSINESS passionate lovebirds Sun, May 26, 11:00 a.m.; Mon, May 27, 11:05 a.m.; while on assignment Tue, May 28, 5:10; Wed, May 29, 7:10 out in the field, and Howard Hawks’ madcap 1952 comedy was a throwback get married. But the to the screwball territory of the , staked out by his own Kafka-meets-“Catch-22” , and HIS GIRL bureaucracy of military FRIDAY. With an accidental assist from a lab chimp, brilliant regulations keeps their but absent-minded professor Cary Grant ingests a serum wedding night on that restores youthful vitality by reversing the aging process. perpetual hold, the Grant rediscovers his vim and vigor; his patient but weary first of many comic wife , overmedicated on the stuff, regresses to indignities visited upon full-on childhood. With supporting players Charles Coburn as Grant in this wickedly Grant’s taskmaster boss and —already the clever comedy of picture of youth—as Coburn’s non-typing secretary. DIR Howard DIR Howard Hawks; SCR Charles Lederer, Leonard Spigelgass, Hagar Hawks; SCR , Charles Lederer, I. A. L. Diamond, from a story by ; PROD humiliation. the big sky Wilde; PROD Sol C. Siegel. US, 1949, b&w, 105 min. NOT RATED Sol C. Siegel. US, 1952, b&w, 97 min. NOT RATED

Tickets & Full Schedule at AFI.com/Silver 3 Howard Hawks, Part 2 Special Engagements

GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES MAN’S FAVORITE SPORT? KILLER OF SHEEP Sat, Jun 1, 11:05 a.m.; Fri, Jun 14, 4:45; Sat, Jun 15, 11:00 a.m.; Sun, Jun 16, 1:15; Fri, Apr 19, 5:30; Sun, Mon, Jun 3, 7:10; Wed, Mon, Jun 17, 4:45 Apr 21, 1:00; Mon, Apr Jun 5, 5:00; Thu, Jun 6, Roger Willoughby () is Abercrombie & Fitch’s foremost 22, 9:20; Tues, Apr 23, 5:00 angling expert, the author of “Fishing Made Simple” and a sharp 7:15; Wed, Apr 24,

In Howard Hawks’ salesman whose tips are eagerly sought out by fishing fanatics. 9:20; Thu, Apr 25, 7:15 Courtesy of Milestone Films wicked musical romp, But Willoughby has : he’s strictly an armchair angler who, Though it was one of best-friend lounge despite his erudition on casting and lures, has never been fishing in the first 50 films to be singers and his life. Pressured to participate in a high-profile fishing tournament by selected for the Library Marilyn Monroe, “Two resort publicist Abigail Page (), Willoughby undertakes of Congress’ National Little Girls from Little a crash course in outdoorsmanship to save face, and discovers Film Registry, Charles Rock,” are on a cruise animal magnetism with Page in the bargain. The catchy score is by Burnett’s landmark ship bound for Europe. . DIR/PROD Howard Hawks; SCR John Fenton Murray, Steve McNeil, from the story 1979 film remained an Russell is on the prowl “The Girl Who Almost Got Away” by . US, 1964, color, 120 min. NOT RATED underground sensation for a handsome hunk; for many years, until its Monroe is engaged to recent restoration by the marry fiancé Tommy UCLA Film & Television Archive and re-release by Milestone Noonan once they reach Films. Shot in crisp black-and-white on location in LA’s Watts , but tends to get neighborhood using mostly non-professional , the film distracted at the sight

Courtesy of chronicles the daily tribulations of Stan (Henry G. Sanders), of bling. Getting an a slaughterhouse worker, whose dissatisfaction with his eyeful of diamond magnate Charles Coburn’s rocks has her life and work threaten his happiness at home with his wife singing “Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend” in the famous, and (Kaycee Moore) and children. DIR/SCR/PROD Charles Burnett. US, 1977, famously referenced, show-stopping number. The movie version b&w, 83 min. NOT RATED adds songs by and Harold Adamson to man’s favorite sport? the stage musical’s originals by and Leo Robin. DIR “A masterpiece. One of the most insightful and authentic dramas about African-American life on Howard Hawks; SCR Charles Lederer, from the musical comedy by Joseph Fields and (based on her novel); PROD Sol C. Siegel. US, 1953, color, 91 min. NOT RATED film. One of the finest American films, period.” Sat, Jun 15, 1:30; Sun, Jun 16, 11:00 a.m. – Kehr, The Times Three daring stock-car drivers, three free-spirited women and their tangled love lives. Most found this 1965 film to be an unsuccessful Sun, Jun 2, 11:05 a.m.; Mon, Jun 3, 5:00; Tue, Jun 4, 5:00 bid by Hawks to make a “youth” picture, a sexed-up pastiche of “The Barbaric Love That Left the Pyramid as Its Landmark!” The story elements from THE CROWD ROARS and , Pharaoh (), obsessed with carrying his wealth marred by clunky performances from much of the cast (although into the , orders construction of an impervious pyramid, the young impresses, as does ; George designed and built by enslaved Vashtar (James Robertson Justice) Takei appears in a small role). Hawks expert is and his son Senta (Dewey Martin). But Khufu’s duplicitous wife among the film’s passionate defenders, declaring it “the most Nellifer () schemes to undermine his legacy. Shot on underestimated film of the sixties.” Quentin Tarantino partly based location in with a cast of thousands, the film impresses Jack Rabbit Slim’s nightclub in on a nightclub in this with its CinemaScope vistas, ingenious set designs and Dimitri film.DIR/PROD Howard Hawks; SCR George Kirgo. US, 1965, color, 110 min. NOT RATED Tiomkin’s rousing score. But this costly production has long divided critical opinion, some seeing a key film of the , EL DORADO others merely a camp spectacle. DIR/PROD Howard Hawks; SCR William Faulkner, Fri, Jun 28, 2:00; Sat, Jun 29, 12:00; Tue, Jul 2, 2:30 Harry Kurnitz, Harold Jack Bloom. US, 1955, color, 105 min. NOT RATED Newly arrived in El Dorado, gunfighter Cole Thornton (John Wayne) nothing but a man plans to work for cattle baron Bart Jason (Edward Asner), but sours on HATARI! the job after he’s asked to run the MacDonald family off their land. Fri, Jun 7, 2:00; Sun, Jun 9, 11:00 a.m.; Mon, Jun 10, 4:00 Gravely wounded after a scrape with the clan, Thornton heads back New 35mm Print! Hatari is Swahili for danger, which John Wayne and his team of to El Dorado to aid his old friend J. P. Harrah (), now NOTHING BUT A MAN African big-game catchers seek on a daily basis as they capture the town sheriff, who has become “a tin star with a drunk pinned on Sat, Jun 8, 7:30; Wed, Jun 12, 9:30; Thu, Jun 13, 7:00 animals in the wild for sale to zoo clients around the world. Shot it.” Great comedic chemistry between Wayne and Mitchum enlivens In 1960s Birmingham, Alabama, railroad man Duff on location in Tanganyika (now Tanzania), the film is distinguished Hawks’ late-career capper, which borrows heavily from his still-recent Anderson and schoolteacher Josie Dawson fall in love, by gorgeous wildlife photography, thrilling chase sequences RIO BRAVO (screenwriter Leigh Brackett jokingly called it “THE SON despite her preacher father’s misgivings. But in the pre-Civil trucking across the Serengeti plain and Harry Mancini’s famous OF RIO BRAVO RIDES AGAIN”). DIR/PROD Howard Hawks; SCR Leigh Brackett, from the Rights-era Deep South, economic and racial oppression score, including the song “Baby Elephant Walk,” now a novel “The Stars in Their Courses” by . US, 1966, color, 126 min. NOT RATED are facts of life. Worn down by slights and hassles both standard. With Elsa Martinelli, Red Buttons, Hardy Krüger, Gérard subtle and egregious, Duff must decide what kind of man Blain, Bruce Cabot, Valentin de Vargas and Michèle Girardon. he is and what kind of life he’s going to lead. A forerunner DIR/PROD Howard Hawks; SCR Leigh Brackett. US, 1962, color, 157 min. NOT RATED in the burgeoning American “new wave” of independent production, this important work of African-American-focused RIO BRAVO cinema was named to the ’ National Film Fri, Jun 7, 7:15; Sat, Jun 8, 1:15; Sun, Jun 9, 3:10 Registry in 1993. DIR/SCR/PROD Michael Roemer; SCR/PROD Robert M. Young; With the brother of a feared outlaw locked up in his jail, sheriff John PROD Robert Rubin. US, 1964, b&w, 95 min. NOT RATED Wayne hunkers down for the older brother’s attack. His deputies include a drunk , hot-headed teenager and cantankerous coot 35mm Print Restored by the Library of Congress . Howard Hawks’ high-spirited masterpiece has it all: comedy, Packard Campus for Audio-Visual Conservation. drama, action—even a musical number—plus career-best performances from Martin, Nelson and Brennan, and an eye-catching turn from “One of the most sensitive films about black life ever as gambling lady “Feathers.” DIR/PROD Howard Hawks; SCR Jules Furthman, Leigh Brackett, from the short made in this country.” story by B. H. McCampbell. US, 1959, color, 141 min. NOT RATED – Hal Hinson, The Washington Post

4 Daily Listings: 301.495.6700 Special Engagements L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema

April 21—May 13

AFI Silver joins the National Gallery of Art to present COMPENSATION A DIFFERENT IMAGE and Short Films a selection of films closely associated with the creative Sun, May 5, 6:20 Mon, May 13, 7:00 renaissance realized by a group of African and Director Zeinabu irene Davis’ first African-American students who entered the UCLA feature depicts two Chicago love A DIFFERENT IMAGE School of Theater, Film and Television during the stories featuring a deaf woman An African-American woman and ‘80s. Receptive to the legacies of black and a hearing man, one set at living in Los Angeles away communities, the films in the series are remarkable not the dawn of the from her family yearns to be only for their evocations of everyday life and attitudes, and the other in contemporary recognized for more than but even more for the revelation of the diverse talent times. Played by the same actors compensation her physical attributes. DIR/SCR pool and political resolve they represent. (Michelle A. Banks and John Earl Jelks), both couples face Alile Sharon Larkin; PROD Claudine Mitchell, Presented in association with UCLA Film & Television the specter of death when the man is diagnosed with Dankwa Khan. US, 1982, color, 51 min. Archive and supported in part by grants from the tuberculosis in the early story, and the woman with AIDS NOT RATED Getty Foundation and The Foundation in the contemporary one. One of the most striking aspects for the Visual Arts. The curators are Allyson Nadia of the film is its unusual narrative approach. Upon casting CYCLES Field, Jan-Christopher Horak, Shannon Kelley and deaf actress Banks, Davis and screenwriter Marc Arthur As a woman anxiously awaits her overdue period, she Jacqueline Stewart. Chéry modified the film to incorporate sign language and performs African-based rituals of purification.DIR/PROD Zeinabu title cards, making it accessible to both deaf and hearing irene Davis; SCR Doris-Owanda Johnson. US, 1989, b&w, 17 min. NOT RATED All film notes and pictures courtesy of UCLA Film & audiences. DIR/PROD Zeinabu irene Davis; SCR Marc Arthur Chéry. US, 1999, b&w, Television Archive. 95 min. NOT RATED New 35mm Restoration! AFI Member passes will be accepted at all films in WATER RITUAL #1: the L.A. Rebellion series. Preceded by: New 35mm Print! AN URBAN RITE OF PURIFICATION Made in collaboration with performer Yolanda Vidato, this DARK EXODUS AS ABOVE, SO BELOW and Short Films film examines black women’s ongoing struggle for spiritual Subjected to Jim Crow laws and an overtly racist white and psychological space through improvisational, symbolic Sun, May 12, 4:30 population that still sees blacks as property, an African- acts. Preservation funded with a grant from the National American family in the South sends its sons away to a better Film Preservation Foundation’s Avant-Garde Masters Grant MEDEA (1973) life. DIR/SCR Iverson White. US, 1985, b&w, 28 min. NOT RATED Program funded by The Film Foundation. DIR/SCR/PROD Barbara Filmmaker Ben Caldwell invokes Amiri Baraka’s poem McCullough. US, 1979, b&w, 6 min. NOT RATED “Part of the Doctrine” in this experimental meditation on art history, black imagery, identity and heritage. DIR/SCR/PROD New 16mm Print! Ben Caldwell; SCR Leroy Jones. US, 1973, color, 7 min. Digital Presentation. GREY AREA NOT RATED From yuppies to Black Panthers, several members of a blighted neighborhood debate the causes and experience New 16mm Print! the stresses of cyclical poverty, as a monolithic bank I & I: AN AFRICAN ALLEGORY commissions a film about its own supposedly good work Director Ben Caldwell designed this film as a “résumé in the community. New print funded by The Andy Warhol piece” to showcase his skills in experimental filmmaking, Foundation for the Visual Arts and the Getty Foundation. dramatic filmmaking and documentary. Drawing from DIR/SCR Monona Wali; SCR Thomas G. Musca. US, 1982, b&w, 38 min. NOT RATED Ayi Kwei Armah’s novel, “Two Thousand Seasons,” emma mae Caldwell meditates on reciprocity and on the concept of “I and I” which postulates no division between people, New 35mm Print! whereas the splitting of “you” from “I” is an invention EMMA MAE New 35mm Restoration! of the devil designed to brew trouble in the world. Sun, Apr 21, 5:00 BLESS THEIR LITTLE HEARTS Preservation funded in part by a grant from the National Originally released as BLACK SISTER’S REVENGE, the Sun, Apr 28, 6:00 Film Preservation Foundation. DIR/SCR/PROD Ben Caldwell. US, 1979, title EMMA MAE better captures the film’s status as a Chronicling the devastating effects of underemployment color, 32 min. NOT RATED sympathetic portrait of a young black woman from the on a family in the same Los Angeles community depicted South and her difficult adjustment to life in the big city. After in KILLER OF SHEEP, this film pays witness to the ravages UJAMII UHURU SCHULE the death of her mother, Emma Mae travels by bus from of time in the short years since its predecessor. Nate COMMUNITY FREEDOM SCHOOL Mississippi to Los Angeles, her rough country edges on Hardman and Kaycee Moore deliver gut-wrenching A day-in-the-life portrait of an Afrocentric primary learning full display. While Emma Mae’s proficiency in kicking ass performances as the couple whose family is torn apart academy located in South Los Angeles that teaches the echoes that of the super-mama heroines who populated by events beyond their control. If salvation remains, it’s importance of cultural values and self-defense. DIR/PROD other character-named films of this Blaxploitation era, she in the sensitive depiction of everyday life, which persists Don Amis. US, 1974, color, 9 min. Digital Presentation. NOT RATED is not presented as an impossibly glamorous vixen. On throughout. Preservation funded by the National Film the contrary, her plain looks and shy demeanor seem to Preservation Foundation and the Packard Humanities New 16mm Print! necessitate her physical and emotional strength. DIR/SCR/PROD Institute. DIR/PROD Billy Woodberry; SCR Charles Burnett. US, 1984, b&w, 84 min. AS ABOVE, SO BELOW Jamaa Fanaka. US, 1976, color, 100 min. NOT RATED NOT RATED One of the most Preceded by: politically radical films of Preceded by: the L.A. Rebellion, director Larry A DAY IN THE LIFE OF WILLIE FAUST, THE POCKETBOOK Clark’s rediscovered masterpiece or DEATH ON THE INSTALLMENT PLAN A young boy is forced to question the course of his life imagines a post-Watts Rebellion Jamaa Fanaka’s debut short employs a non-synchronous after a botched purse-snatching, in this adaptation of a state of siege and an organized soundtrack to splice together an adaptation of Goethe’s Langston Hughes . Preservation funded in part black underground plotting “Faust” with a hyperkinetic remake of SUPER FLY. DIR/SCR/PROD by a grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the revolution. DIR/SCR/PROD Larry Clark. US, 1973, color, 52 min. NOT RATED Jamaa Fanaka. US, 1972, color, 20 min. Digital Presentation. NOT RATED Visual Arts. DIR/SCR/PROD Billy Woodberry. US, 1980, b&w, 13 min. NOT RATED

Tickets & Full Schedule at AFI.com/Silver 5 The Films of Olivier Assayas

May 2—July 1

Hailed by many as the most important of contemporary French filmmakers, Olivier Assayas has made more than 20 films across a diversity of genres, including features, documentaries and shorts. Courtesy of IFC Courtesy of Zeitgeist Films His style and subject matter have varied widely from film to film, but are united by a pleasurably inventive engagement with the formal aspects of cinematic storytelling, one constant being his inspired use of rock music to elevate a scene, memorable examples including the likes of , John Cale and the Pixies.

While never overtly political, Assayas’ recent films have engaged on this subject in refreshing ways: his biopic on the Jackal was a sensation the world over, an eye-opening account of a mysterious and little-understood underworld. And SOMETHING IN THE AIR promises to be his most autobiographical film to date, a portrait of radicalized youth in post-1968 , the slow unraveling of their politically charged idealism and unity giving way to individuality and maturity. IRMA VEP Sat, May 18, 8:10; Sun, May 19, 9:00; Mon, May 20, 7:00 Special thanks to the Embassy of France in Washington, DC, and the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs in New Washed-up filmmaker Henri Vidal (Jean-Pierre Léaud) plans to remake a crime thriller serial in a bid to reclaim relevance. He York for making this series possible. imports Hong Kong’s top star (gamely playing herself) to play the iconic role of Irma Vep, the story’s formidable, AFI Member passes will be accepted at all films in the Olivier Assayas series. catsuit-clad master thief. But the production is a comedy of errors, beginning with the fact that no one thought to ask whether Cheung spoke any French. One of the great movies about LATE AUGUST, EARLY SEPTEMBER moviemaking, IRMA VEP established Assayas as a world-class [Fin août, début septembre] filmmaker, with its key themes of globalism, money, integrity and Sat, May 11, 4:30; Wed, May 15, 7:00 compromise now having been revisited by the filmmaker time Critically respected but commercially unrewarded novelist Adrien and again. DIR/SCR Olivier Assayas; PROD Georges Benayoun. France, 1996, color, 99 min. In (François Cluzet) is diagnosed with a terminal disease. Adrien is English and French with English . NOT RATED much admired and a little envied by his friend Gabriel (), an aspiring novelist himself, though perhaps he lacks the necessary discipline and talent. Gabriel’s confusion extends to his love life, involved with his long-time girlfriend () Courtesy of IFC and a new flame (Virginie Ledoyen). Facing Adrien’s final days, Gabriel must decide what matters most in his own life. With Mia Hansen-Løve, Arsinée Khanjian, Nathalie Richard and Eric Elmosnino. DIR/SCR Olivier Assayas; PROD Georges Benayoun, Philippe Carcassonne. France, 1998, color, 112 min. In French with English subtitles. NOT RATED

carlos

Special Full-Length Roadshow Edition! cold water LES DESTINÉES CARLOS Fri, May 24, 1:00; Sun, May 26, 1:00 COLD WATER [L’eau froide] LES DESTINÉES [Les destinées sentimentales] Assayas’ celebrated, epic biopic of the notorious international terrorist Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, known as Carlos the Jackal, a Sat, May 4, 5:30; Sun, May 5, 8:45 Sat, Jun 8, 4:05; Sun, Jun 9, 6:00 political radical from Venezuela who masterminded a wave of Teen lovers Gilles (Cyprien Fouquet) and Christine (Virginie This film spans three decades, beginning at the turn of the 20th terror attacks in Europe and the Middle East in the 1970s and Ledoyen) are a refuge to each other from their disinterested century, to tell the story of a Protestant minister, Jean (Charles ‘80s, was hailed for its probing look at the life of this shadowy bourgeois families. They share a dream of escape, perhaps to Berling), who leaves his wife () and daughter, figure, and features a breakout performance by Venezuelan live in an artists’ colony. But are they destined to do so together? his vocation and his small community in southwest France for a Édgar Ramírez (ZERO DARK THIRTY). Best Foreign Language The film’s pièce de résistance is a dazzling all-night party, “where younger wife (Emmanuelle Béart) and more idyllic, unrestricted Film of 2011, National Society of Film Critics and NY Film a horde of teens group, groove and get off to the sounds of Janis life in the Swiss Alps. When he receives word of his uncle’s Critics Circle; Official Selection, 2010 , Telluride and Joplin, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Leonard Cohen and Alice death, Jean is called back to helm and revive the family’s New York Film Festivals. DIR/SCR Olivier Assayas; SCR/PROD Daniel Leconte; SCR Dan Cooper.” – Tom Charity, Time Out. “Assayas’ sustained treatment porcelain business. Though a stylistic departure for Assayas, Franck. France/Germany, 2010, color, 334 min incl. 15 min intermission. In English, Spanish, French, of this event—the raging bonfire, the dope, the music and the film’s motifs—family and legacy, commerce and modernism German, Arabic, Japanese, Hungarian and Russian with English subtitles. NOT RATED dancing—truly catches you by the throat…One of the key French and the passage of time—presage the thematic sensibility of later films of the 1990s.” – , Chicago Reader. films like .DIR/SCR Olivier Assayas; SCR Jacques Fieschi, from “A spectacular achievement. Bravura narrative DIR/SCR Olivier Assayas; PROD Georges Benayoun, Paul Rosenberg. France, 1994, color, 92 min. In the novel by Jacques Chardonne; PROD Bruno Pésery. France/Switzerland, 2000, color, 180 min. In filmmaking on a hugely ambitious scale.” French with English subtitles. NOT RATED French with English subtitles. NOT RATED – Justin Chang, Variety

6 Daily Listings: 301.495.6700 Special Engagements

Two by Bresson

Exclusive Advance Screening! SOMETHING IN THE AIR [Après mai] Courtesy of IFC Thu, May 2, 7:15 At the beginning of the seventies, Gilles, a high school student in

Paris, is swept up in the political fever of the time. Yet his real dream Courtesy of The Film Desk is to paint and make films, something that his friends and even his girlfriend cannot understand. For them, politics is everything, the political struggle all consuming. But Gilles gradually becomes more comfortable with his life choices, and learns to feel at ease in this the devil, probably new society. Best Screenplay, 2012 . Official Selection, 2012 AFI Fest, and New York Film Festivals. New 35mm Print! DIR/SCR Olivier Assayas; PROD Nathanaël Karmitz, . France, 2012, color, 122 min. In THE DEVIL, PROBABLY French with English subtitles. NOT RATED [Le diable probablement] Sat, Jun 8, 11:05 a.m.; Mon, Jun 10, 9:00; Tue, Jun 11, 9:10 Told in flashback after the suspicious suicide of Charles (Antoine Monnier), a brilliant but aimless young summer hours man, this film is ’s splenetic portrait of 1970s France, a nation crippled by doubt, distrust SUMMER HOURS [L’heure d’été] and the pervasive, corruptive influence of money. The carefully composed, detail-laden images are by Sat, Jun 15, 6:00; Sun, Jun 16, 3:45; Tue, Jun 18, 7:00 cinematographer Pasqualino De Santis, a frequent After their mother dies, three siblings reunite to settle her estate, collaborator for both and Francesco including the dispersal of her valuable art collection. Starring Rosi. Often cited as a key influence by filmmaker , and Jérémie Renier as the siblings, Olivier Assayas, whose latest film, SOMETHING IN and Edith Scob as the family’s matriarch, Assayas’ thoughtful and THE AIR, owes much to this one in both its setting and nuanced family drama never veers into melodrama, but is all the protagonist’s search for identity. Special Jury Prize, more touching for its engagement with the real-world practicalities of 1977 Film Festival. DIR/SCR Robert Bresson; PROD Stéphane death—the work to be done, the things that no longer need doing Tchalgadjieff, Daniel Toscan du Plantier. France, 1977, color, 95 min. In French with and the dawning realization of loss. “Almost Ozu-like in its evocation Fri, Jun 28, 9:15, Sun, Jun 30, 9:20 English subtitles. NOT RATED of a parent’s death and the dissolving bond between the surviving Assayas’ subversive, erotic thriller wallows in the seedy, sleazy side of children.” – J. Hoberman, The Village Voice. DIR/SCR Olivier Assayas; PROD international business, a lower-rent, analog version of ’s Charles Gillibert, Marin Karmitz, Nathanaël Karmitz. France, 2008, color, 103 min. In French with English sleek world of high-tech corporate espionage. is Sandra, subtitles. NOT RATED a woman whose resume includes prostitution, industrial espionage, drug-dealing, Web entrepreneurship and, in time, assassination. Her

obsessive and violent sexual relationship with her former employer, Courtesy of Janus Films shady businessman Miles (Michael Madsen), and the duplicitous one with her current boss, Lester (Carl Ng), a crooked import-exporter from whom she steals, will lead Sandra to a desperate, dangerous bid for independence. DIR/SCR Olivier Assayas; PROD François Margolin. France/Luxembourg, 2007, color, a man escaped 106 min. In English, French and Cantonese with English subtitles. RATED R New 35mm Print! A MAN ESCAPED [Un condamné à mort s’est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut] Sun, Jun 9, 1:00; Tue, Jun 11, 7:00; Thu, Jun 13, 9:00 Robert Bresson’s moving existential masterpiece, too rarely screened in the past, returns in a beautiful new demonlover 35mm print from Janus Films. Lyons, Occupied France, 1943: Sentenced to prison for his resistance activities, DEMONLOVER lieutenant François Leterrier’s unsuccessful attempt to Sat, Jun 15, 10:20; Sun, Jun 16, 6:00; Tue, Jun 18, 9:10 CLEAN leap from the car carrying him to Fort Montluc prison One of Assayas’ most ambitious projects, a stab at representing teaches him that he’ll need to plan carefully and cinematically the bleeding edge of the high-tech industry, and the CLEAN practice absolute patience if he’s to succeed. Step by ruthless individuals among the business elite. , Charles Sat, Jun 29, 5:10; Mon, Jul 1, 7:10 painstaking step—a spoon refashioned into a chisel; Berling, Chloë Sevigny and are jet-setting business After her rock-star boyfriend Lee Hauser (James Johnston) dies from a bits of cloth woven into rope; close observation of executives in pursuit of a lucrative deal with a Japanese company heroin overdose, junkie Emily Wang (Maggie Cheung) faces a stint the guards’ routine in hopes of detecting the smallest that specializes in pornography Web sites. Their world of private jets, in prison, public condemnation and the loss of custody of the couple’s advantage—Leterrier draws closer to the time he must chauffeured limos and four-star suites also includes corporate 6-year-old son. Upon her release from prison she begins putting her make his move, and meet his destiny. DIR/SCR Robert Bresson, espionage, double crosses, dual allegiances, backstabbing, drugs life back together, in the face of abandonment by former friends, the from the memoirs of André Devigny; PROD Alain Poiré, Jean Thuillier. France, 1956, and murder, all cloaked in secrecy and justifiable paranoia. The temptation for relapse and painful separation from her son, now living b&w, 99 min. In French with English subtitles. NOT RATED dread-filled, droning score is by Sonic Youth.DIR/SCR Olivier Assayas; PROD Xavier with his paternal grandparents, Albrecht and Rosemary ( and Giannoli. France, 2002, color, 116 min. In English, French and Japanese with English subtitles. NOT RATED “A marvelous movie! Bresson’s hero’s ascetic, Martha Henry) in Vancouver. Cheung won the Best Actress prize at the single-minded dedication to escape is almost “An exasperating, irresistible, must-see mess of a movie about 2004 for her intense performance. With Béatrice mystic, and the fortress constitutes a world as life in the modern world and so very good that even when Dalle, Jeanne Balibar and Tricky. DIR/SCR Olivier Assayas; PROD Niv Fichman, Xavier Giannoli, impersonal and as isolated as Kafka’s.” its story finally crashes and burns the filmmaking remains Xavier Marchand, Edouard Weil. France//UK, 2004, color, 90 min. In English, French and Cantonese with – unscathed.” – Manohla Dargis, English subtitles. RATED R

Tickets & Full Schedule at AFI.com/Silver 7 Visionario: The Films of Guillermo del Toro

April 19—July 2

With his ambitious new film PACIFIC RIM set to open July 12, this spring is the perfect time to celebrate and explore the unique artistry of

Mexico’s Guillermo del Toro. Courtesy of Repertory

An avid fan of comic books, and horror while growing up, del Toro started in movies as a special effects makeup artist. His films are distinguished by exquisite art direction, makeup effects and cinematography (PAN’S LABYRINTH won Oscars in all three categories), and a strong visual sensibility well acquainted with pulp fiction, genre tradition and folklore. This spring, come visit the weird and wonderful world of Guillermo del Toro at AFI Silver. II HELLBOY AFI Member passes will be accepted at all films Sat, Apr 27, 9:30; Mon, in the Guillermo del Toro series. Sat, May 18, 10:20; Sun, May 19, 4:15; Mon, May 20, 9:10 Apr 29, 9:20; Wed, Del Toro proved an inspired choice to bring ’s May 1, 9:10 acclaimed character to the big screen, as did 20th Anniversary! Guillermo del Toro returned casting as the gruff but big-hearted red demon, CRONOS to the vampire lore of his Hellboy. Summoned from the fiery depths by Nazi occultists, first film (CRONOS) to put Fri, Apr 19, 9:45; Sat, rescued by an Allied platoon and raised by kindly Professor his own audacious spin Apr 20, 9:45; Sun, Apr Bruttenholm () to fight for good, Hellboy is now the 21, 9:20; Tue, Apr 23, on the sequel to BLADE, premier agent in the top-secret Bureau for Paranormal Research 9:20; Thu, Apr 25, 9:10 based on the half-vampire, and Defense. Hellboy faces his greatest test when several of the Jesus Gris (Federico half-human superhero Nazis return from a sojourn in hell, intent on turning him against Luppi), a kindly old from Marvel Comics. the human race and unleashing an apocalyptic evil. With Selma City antiques Dedicated vampire hunter Blair, , and Jeffrey Tambor. DIR/SCR Guillermo dealer, discovers a Blade (Wesley Snipes) del Toro, from the comic book by Mike Mignola; PROD Lawrence Gordon, Lloyd Levin, Mike Richardson. mysterious artifact: a must join forces with his US, 2004, color, 122 min. RATED PG-13 gilded mechanical enemies (including del scarab containing Toro favorite Ron Perlman) a still-living insect. to fight the greater threat Accidentally, Jesus trips off the device’s mechanism and learns of the Reapers, a mutated its terrible secret: it injects its holder with an immortality potion, super-race of bloodsuckers one with vampiric side effects. Del Toro’s debut displays all of intent on destroying both humans and vampires alike. Screenplay his cinematic trademarks—an innovative take on established by THE DARK KNIGHT’s David S. Goyer. “BLADE II is a really tropes in horror, fantasy and folklore; captivating imagery; Gothic rather brilliant vomitorium of viscera, a comic book with dreams of atmospherics leavened with droll humor; and emotionally affecting becoming a textbook for mad surgeons.” – . DIR Guillermo characters and storytelling. DIR/SCR Guillermo del Toro; PROD Arthur Gorson, Bertha del Toro; SCR David S. Goyer, based on the character created by Marv Wolfman and Gene Colan; PROD Peter Frankfurt, Patrick J. Palmer, Wesley Snipes. US/Germany, 2002, color, 117 min. RATED R Navarro. Mexico, 1993, color, 94 min. In English and Spanish with English subtitles. RATED R the devil’s backbone

MIMIC THE DEVIL’S BACKBONE [El espinazo del diablo] Fri, Apr 26, 10:20; Tue, Apr 30, 9:20 Fri, May 3, 9:30; Sat, May 4, 9:30; Tue, May 7, 9:20 Although Hollywood interference left del Toro disillusioned “What is a ghost? A tragedy doomed to repeat itself time and at working within the studio system, his first US film is an again?” Produced by Pedro Almodóvar’s El Deseo company and imaginative and suspenseful creature feature. inspired by the popular Spanish comic “Paracuellos,” Guillermo stars as entomologist Susan Tyler, who famously saved New del Toro’s -set ghost story deftly mixes Gothic York from a deadly cockroach epidemic by genetically horror, psychological suspense and rich allegory. Orphaned engineering a “Judas Breed” to infiltrate and eliminate the bug during the last days of the Civil War, a 12-year-old boy named population. But three years later, the Judas Breed has survived, Carlos looks for refuge at a home for children of the Republican evolved at an exponential rate and taken up residence in militia. Despite warnings about the presence of ghosts, Carlos New York’s labyrinthine subway system. And these critters explores the rambling hacienda and its grounds, but soon comes aren’t just cockroaches anymore—they’ve learned to mimic face to face with a spirit from the next world, and uncovers a the appearance and behavior of any other creature, including horrible secret from this one. DIR/SCR Guillermo del Toro; SCR Antonio Trashorras, humans. DIR/SCR Guillermo del Toro; SCR Matthew Robbins, from the story by Donald A. David Muñoz; PROD Agustín Almodóvar, Bertha Navarro. Spain/Mexico, 2001, color, 106 min. In mimic Wollheim; PROD Ole Bornedal, B. J. Rack, Bob Weinstein. US, 1997, color, 105 min. RATED R Spanish with English subtitles. RATED R Del Toro headshot by: Mary Evans/UNIVERSAL PICTURES © Universal Studios. ALL/Ronald Grant/Everett Collection Del Toro

8 Daily Listings: 301.495.6700 Ten Years of

April 27—July 2 HELLBOY II: THE GOLDEN ARMY Founded in 2003 as a DVD-of-the-month club, Fri, May 24, 7:15; Sat, May 25, 9:15; Sun, May 26, 9:15 New York-based distributor Film Movement has Del Toro’s sequel outdoes the original, with eye-popping, jaw-dropping special effects, a story with deep-dish folkloric brought US audiences some of the most acclaimed

underpinnings, brisk pacing and a breezy sense of humor. Courtesy of and unique films from around the world. To With the exiled elf Nuada () seeking to start a celebrate Film Movement’s tenth anniversary, war with the human race, Hellboy (Ron Perlman) and his pals AFI Silver presents a selection of some of Film Liz Sherman (Selma Blair) and Abe Sapien (Doug Jones) must Movement’s most significant releases, drawn from use not only their mighty powers but also their wits to stave off across the past decade and including films by disaster. “This spectacular movie seethes and fizzes with wit such innovative directors as Maren Ade, Götz and energy, absorbing and transforming influences such as Spielmann and Shane Meadows. and even and the secret world of Diagon Alley.” – Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian. DIR/SCR Guillermo del Toro, from the comic book by Mike Mignola; PROD Lawrence Gordon, Lloyd Levin, AFI Member passes will be accepted at all Mike Richardson. US/Germany, 2008, color, 120 min. RATED PG-13 screenings in the Film Movement series. BEN X Sat, Apr 27, 11:05 a.m.; Thu, May 2, 9:30

ADAM’S APPLES the orphanage Sat, May 4, 12:00; Mon, May 6, 7:30

THE ORPHANAGE [El orfanato] THE BOTHERSOME MAN Fri, Jun 14, 9:20; Sat, Jun 15, 3:45; Mon, Jun 17, 7:10 Sat, May 11, 11:00 a.m.; Mon, May 13, 9:20 Guillermo del Toro executive produced this accomplished debut feature from director Juan Antonio Bayona and screenwriter Sergio WELCOME G. Sánchez (THE IMPOSSIBLE). Laura (Belén Rueda), a former Thu, May 16, 7:20 resident of an orphanage where an unspeakable tragedy once occurred, returns to the abandoned property with her husband and THE GROCER’S SON son. But the family soon discovers that they are not alone there. Sat, May 18, 11:05 a.m.; Sun, May 19, 11:05 a.m. Sensitive performances and exquisite attention to detail make for an artfully creepy and atmospheric tale. Winner of seven THE VIOLIN and the Audience Award, 2008 European Film Awards; Official Sat, May 25, 11:05 a.m.; Wed, May 29, 5:05 PAN’S LABYRINTH Selection, 2007 Cannes, Toronto and New York Film Festivals. DIR Juan Antonio Bayona; SCR Sergio G. Sánchez; PROD Álvaro Augustín, Joaquín Padró, Mar Targarona. Spain/ THE FOREST FOR THE TREES PAN’S LABYRINTH [El laberinto del fauno] Mexico, 2007, color, 105 min. In Spanish with English subtitles. RATED R Sun, May 26, 11:05 a.m.; Thu, May 30, 5:10 Fri, Jun 7, 10:00; Sat, Jun 8, 9:30; Sun, Jun 9, 9:30; Wed, Jun 12, 7:00 Guillermo del Toro’s Gothic tells a parable in two ANTARES worlds: one, rural Spain during the early postwar dictatorship of Mon, May 27, 9:10; Thu, May 30, 9:45 Franco; the other, a magical realm of legend and folklore. Lonely Ofelia, unhappy that her widowed mother has remarried the MOTHER OF MINE cruel Captain Vidal and relocated them to a desolate part of the Fri, May 31, 2:00; Sun, Jun 2, 11:00 a.m. country, discovers a portal to a fantasy world hidden beneath their home. Ultimately, Ofelia must learn to navigate both worlds, to HOW I ENDED THIS SUMMER distinguish between danger and delights, and to defend herself Fri, May 31, 4:20; Sat, Jun 1, 11:00 a.m.; against both real and imagined. Nominated for six Mon, Jun 3, 9:05 Oscars, winning for Cinematography, Art Direction and Makeup. DIR/SCR/PROD Guillermo del Toro; PROD Álvaro Augustín, Alfonso Cuarón, Bertha Navarro, A SCREAMING MAN Torresblanco. Spain/Mexico/US, 2006, color, 118 min. In Spanish with English subtitles. RATED R Tue, Jun 4, 7:15; Wed, Jun 5, 9:00

JULIA’S EYES [Los ojos de Julia] mama SOMERS TOWN Sun, Jun 30, 7:00; Mon, Jul 1, 9:30 Fri, Jun 7, 12:20; Sat, Jun 8, 11:10 a.m.; Reuniting with the production team behind THE ORPHANAGE, MAMA Tue, Jun 11, 5:15 del Toro produced this ode to Hitchcockian suspense and Sat, Jun 29, 9:45; Mon, Jul 1, 3:00; Tue, Jul 2, 9:45 Argento-tinted giallo, anchored by a bravura performance This year’s surprise hit at the box office—like its close cousin THE XXY from THE ORPHANAGE star Belén Rueda. Suffering from the ORPHANAGE, executive produced by Guillermo del Toro—is a Sun, Jun 9, 11:05 a.m.; Mon, Jun 10, 7:00; same degenerative eye disease as her recently deceased twin supernatural thriller that boasts a charismatic turn by , Thu, Jun 13, 5:10 sister, Julia (Rueda) refuses to let her failing vision stop her from the nearly unrecognizable here as a raven-haired punk uncovering the truth behind her sister’s suspicious death. With rocker. Chastain unexpectedly finds herself playing stepmom to two KING OF DEVIL’S ISLAND suffocating cinematography by Óscar Faura (THE IMPOSSIBLE), badly traumatized little girls, her boyfriend’s nieces, reduced to a Fri, Jun 28, 11:30 a.m.; Sat, Jun 29, 11:00 a.m. the film puts viewers behind Julia’s eyes, the claustrophobia of near-feral state after going missing and mysteriously surviving five impending blindness ratcheting up the tension until the film’s gasp- years in a cabin in the woods. It turns out that a ghostly presence inducing finale.DIR/SCR Guillem Morales; SCR Oriol Paulo; PROD Guillermo del Toro, Juan cared for the girls during this time, a ghost mama who is not about to SHUN LI AND THE POET Carlos Caro, Joaquín Padró, Mar Targarona, José Torrescusa. Spain, 2010, color, 118 min. In Spanish relinquish custody. DIR/SCR Andrés Muschietti; SCR Neil Cross, Barbara Muschietti; PROD J. Miles Sun, Jun 30, 11:00 a.m.; Mon, Jul 1, 1:00; with English subtitles. Digital Presentation. NOT RATED Dale, Barbara Muschietti. Spain/Canada, 2013, color, 100 min. RATED PG-13 Tue, Jul 2, 12:30 Del Toro headshot by: Mary Evans/UNIVERSAL PICTURES © Universal Studios. ALL/Ronald Grant/Everett Collection Del Toro

Tickets & Full Schedule at AFI.com/Silver 9 AFI Life Achievement Award Retrospective: Mel Brooks

April 19—July 2

Mel Brooks will YOUNG be presented with Sat, May 11, 2:15; Sun, May 12, 2:15; Wed, May 15, 9:20; Thu, May 16, 5:10, 9:30

the 41st AFI Life Courtesy of MGM History repeats first as tragedy, then as farce, and that’s where Achievement Award Mel Brooks comes in, with the most artful of all his spoofs. at a gala tribute on

Courtesy of Everett Collection After years of trying to live down his family’s reputation, Gene Thursday, June 6, in Wilder’s “Dr. Fronk-en-steen” returns to the family castle and Los Angeles, to be embraces his destiny: to succeed where his grandfather failed broadcast on TNT and build a better (). He’s abetted in this later that month, effort by hunchback “Eyegor” () and peasant with encore airings girl/new love interest Inga (); is on TCM. delightfully creepy as the castle keeper Frau Blücher (cue THE PRODUCERS horse whinny), and sizzles as Wilder’s jilted Fri, Apr 19, 7:30; Sat, Apr 20, 11:05 a.m., 6:00; Sun, Apr fiancée Elizabeth.DIR/SCR Mel Brooks; SCR , based on characters from Brooks’ career has spanned more than 60 years, 21, 11:05 a.m.; Mon, Apr 22, 5:15, 9:40; Tues, Apr 23, 5:15; the novel “Frankenstein” by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley; PROD . US, 1974, from writing for television (for Sid Caesar on YOUR Wed, Apr 24, 6:30 (Montgomery College Show); Thu, Apr 25, b&w, 106 min. RATED PG SHOW OF SHOWS and CAESAR’S HOUR, where 5:15 his co-writers included , , Neil Long before “The Producers” became a Tony Award-winning Simon and ; and on GET SMART, which Broadway musical sensation, Gene Wilder and Brooks created with ), to acting on stage starred in Mel Brooks’ original, outrageous, Oscar-winning and screen, to directing and producing films (both farce. Down-on-his-luck theatrical impresario Max Bialystock (Mostel), reduced to romancing wealthy older ladies to his own work and that of other, strikingly different fund his decreasingly successful plays, teams up with clever filmmakers, such as and THE ELEPHANT accountant Leo Bloom (Wilder), and together they devise a MAN). With the enormous success of the Broadway plan to extract a big payday from a sure-fire flop: “Springtime adaptation of THE PRODUCERS, Brooks won a Tony for Hitler.” Best Original Screenplay Oscar for Mel Brooks. to go with his previous awards in television, film DIR/SCR Mel Brooks; PROD . US, 1968, color, 88 min. RATED PG and as a comedy recording artist, joining an elite company of artists who’ve earned the top award in Preceded by: each of four different entertainment arts—the “EGOT” 50th Anniversary! THE CRITIC (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony). An old man (Mel Brooks), puzzled by the abstract animated short Sat, Jun 1, 1:00; Tue, Jun 4, 9:15; AFI Member passes will be accepted at all films film screening before the feature he came to see, airs his opinions Thu, Jun 6, 9:00 in the Mel Brooks series. for all to hear. 1964 Oscar winner for Best Short Subject, Newly arrived at the Psychoneurotic Institute for the Very, VERY Nervous, Dr. Richard H. Thorndyke (Mel THE TWELVE CHAIRS Brooks) discovers some suspicious Sun, Apr 28, 11:00 a.m.; Mon, Apr 29, 7:20 Sat, May 4, 7:30; Sun, May 5, 4:20; Mon, May 6, 9:30; goings-on between his colleagues Former aristocrat Ippolit Vorobyaninov (), adjusting Wed, May 8, 9:20 Dr. Montague (Harvey Korman) and to life in the newfangled Soviet Union of the , is Coveting the land around the frontier town of Rock Ridge, Nurse Diesel (Cloris Leachman). delighted to learn at his mother-in-law’s deathbed that nefarious railroad magnate Hedley Lamarr (Harvey Korman) When he’s framed for murder, the family fortune wasn’t entirely lost during the Bolshevik resorts to scare tactics, recruiting a gang to terrorize the town, Thorndyke must confront his own revolution, and a stash of jewels was hidden inside one of and using his political influence to stick Rock Ridge with rookie psychiatric trauma—he suffers from her home’s twelve dining chairs. But Ippolit’s quest to reclaim sheriff Bart (), the town’s first black resident. Despite “high anxiety”—in order to clear his the family’s wealth won’t be easy—the ancestral mansion has long odds, the wily new sheriff flips the script with help from name. Lovingly poking fun at the been converted into an old-age home, and he must contend newly deputized drunk “The Waco Kid” (Gene Wilder) and Master of Suspense, Brooks works with a nosy Orthodox priest (Dom DeLuise), a greedy con Dietrich-esque saloon singer Lili Von Shtupp (Oscar-nominated in a host of Hitchcockian references. With Madeline Kahn, Ron artist (Frank Langella, in one of his earliest roles) and one of Madeline Kahn). Brooks’ spoof of the Western genre was a Carey, Dick Van Patten and co-screenwriter as a the family’s aggrieved ex-servants (Mel Brooks) to find the tremendous hit. DIR/SCR Mel Brooks; SCR Norman Steinberg, Andrew Bergman, Richard high-strung bellboy (“That kid gets no tip!”). DIR/SCR/PROD Mel Brooks; chair first.DIR/SCR Mel Brooks, from the novel by Ilya Ilf and Yevgeni Petrov; PROD Pryor, Alan Uger; PROD Michael Hertzberg. US, 1974, color, 93 min. RATED R SCR Ron Clark, Rudy De Luca, Barry Levinson. US, 1977, color, 94 min. RATED PG Ronald H. Gilbert, Michael Hertzberg. US, 1970, color, 94 min. RATED G 30th Anniversary! HISTORY OF THE WORLD: PART I TO BE OR NOT TO BE (1983) Fri, May 24, 9:45; Sat, May 25, 11:30; Sun, May 26, 7:10 Fri, Jun 7, 5:00; Sat, Jun 8, 11:00 a.m.; Wed, Jun 12, 4:45 “It’s good to be the king.” Having fun with Hollywood’s Mel Brooks and real-life wife take on the roles version of history, from prehistoric cave dwellers to the Roman originated by and in this remake Empire to the French Revolution, Mel Brooks achieves epic of ’s 1942 classic. After the Nazis overrun spoofery by riffing, zinging and punning his way through at the outbreak of WWII, Warsaw actors Frederick this omnibus of period pieces. Brooks is especially good and Anna Bronski (Brooks and Bancroft) and their troupe put here as “stand-up philosopher” Comicus, grand inquisitor/ their actorly wiles to work to outwit the Wehrmacht. With song-and-dance guy Torquemada (“Let’s face it, you can’t , Tim Matheson and in Torquemada anything”) and both French King Louis XVI an Oscar-nominated performance as Colonel Erhardt, the and his doppelganger, the lowly Jacques. Notable cameos role played so memorably by Sig Rumann in the original (on abound. Narrated by Orson Welles! With Harvey Korman, Bronski’s acting: “What he did to , we are now doing Dom DeLuise, Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman and Gregory to Poland.”). DIR Alan Johnson; SCR , Ronny Graham, based on the blazing saddles Hines. DIR/SCR/PROD Mel Brooks. US, 1981, color, 92 min. RATED R 1942 Ernst Lubitsch film; PROD Mel Brooks. US, 1983, color, 107 min. RATED PG

10 Daily Listings: 301.495.6700 Robert Gardner Documentaries

April 20—28 Courtesy of MGM Courtesy of Studio7Arts Courtesy of Ned Johnston

25th Anniversary! SPACEBALLS A celebrated anthropologist, ethnographer and Fri, Jun 14, 7:15; Sat, Jun 15, 11:05 a.m., 8:15; Sun, Jun 16, filmmaker, Robert Gardner has traveled the world 8:45; Mon, Jun 17, 9:20; Tue, Jun 18, 5:00 “May the Schwartz be with you!” In Mel Brooks’ parody of in search of the universal human experience. saga (with a bit of , From Ethiopia to , Gardner has fixed his ALIEN and thrown in), mercenary camera on the customs and ceremonies of other Winnebago captain Lone Starr (Bill Pullman) and his loyal mawg peoples, exploring their beliefs and perspectives. sidekick Barf () are hired to find runaway “Druish But far from pretending towards objectivity, Princess” Vespa (Daphne Zuniga) before evil lord Dark Helmet Gardner often combines these observations with forest of bliss (Rick Moranis) does. Hiding out on the moon of Vega, they meet reflections on Western civilization and his own the diminutive, wizened Yogurt (Brooks again), who schools Lone sense of self. Starr on harnessing the power of “the Schwartz.” DIR/SCR/PROD Mel Brooks; SCR Thomas Meehan, Ronny Graham. US, 1987, color, 96 min. RATED PG FOREST OF BLISS A founder of the Harvard Film Archive and Film Sun, Apr 28, 4:00 Study Center, his prolific career includes work in THE ELEPHANT MAN Taking a meditative approach towards observing the Indian holy cinema, photography and literature. Lyric and Sat, Jun 29, 2:40; Sun, Jun 30, 12:00; Tue, Jul 2, 7:15 city of Benares, Gardner focuses on the bustling death-obsessed poetic in both their stunning cinematography and “I am not an animal! I am a human being! I…am…a man!” city from one sunrise to the next. Eschewing commentary, John Hurt gives a moving and powerful performance as editorial rhythms, his cinematic essays transcend subtitles and even dialogue, three individuals emerge to the John Merrick, a young man in Victorian afflicted traditional documentary forms and achieve their forefront of this participatory visual poem: a genial healer, with grievous physical deformations caused by a hereditary own distinct filmic language. the local boss of the cremation grounds and a conscientious condition. Having eked out a miserable existence for many priest. Each brings focus to the cycle of life and death; the ebb years as a circus freak dubbed “the Elephant Man,” Merrick On April 26, Robert Gardner will be awarded the and flow of the sacred Ganges River. “A work of genius… an eccentric masterwork. Gardner achieves moments of is rescued by Dr. Frederick Treves (), who James Smithson Bicentennial Medal, joining such restores Merrick’s dignity and provides him material comfort transcendence, quiet little epiphanies of the everyday.” filmmakers as George Lucas, , Steven – Los Angeles Times. DIR Robert Gardner. US, 1986, color, 90 min. NOT RATED he’s never known before…but his altruism contains shades Spielberg and in having made of professional exploitation as well. Nominated for eight “distinguished contributions to the advancement of . DIR/SCR David Lynch; SCR Eric Bergren, Christopher De Vore, RIVERS OF SAND areas of interest to the Smithsonian.” from the memoir of Sir Frederick Treves and the book by Ashley Montagu; PROD Mel Brooks, Sun, Apr 21, 3:00 Jonathan Sanger. UK/US, 1980, b&w, 124 min. RATED PG In the scrublands of southwestern Ethiopia, a geographically “His camera scans with precision and feels with isolated Hamar village has elevated archaic traditions of 84 CHARING CROSS ROAD sympathy; the objectivity of an anthropologist and male supremacy and masculine bravado into a perverse, Fri, Jun 28, 4:45; Sun, Jun 30, 4:45; Mon, Jul 1, 5:05; the fraternity of a poet.” – Octavio Paz highly performative cultural tradition. The men ritually “whip” Tue, Jul 2, 5:05 their womenfolk; hunters drink spurting blood from freshly New York writer Helene Hanff (Anne Bancroft) and “Gardner is at once the establishment Gauguin killed game; and decorative scarring is much in vogue. book shop proprietor Frank Doel (Anthony Hopkins), united by and the avant-garde Indiana Jones.” Gardner’s penetrating camera gaze keenly observes the their love of literature, carry on a decades-spanning transatlantic – J. Hoberman agriculture, herding, hunting and ceremonies of the Hamar relationship exclusively via letter writing. Bancroft won the BAFTA people, while interviews reveal some surprising insights and Best Actress award for her performance as Hanff; husband Mel critical viewpoints among the populace. Said Gardner: “I AFI Member passes will be accepted at all don’t think anthropology is doing its job by being value-free.” Brooks executive produced this adaptation of James Roose- screenings in the Robert Gardner series. Evans’ play, which was, appropriately, a hit both on Broadway DIR Robert Gardner. US, 1974, color, 83 min. NOT RATED and in the West End. Co-starring and Mercedes Ruehl. DIR David Hugh Jones; SCR Hugh Whitemore, from the play by James Roose-Evans and Robert Gardner: Revisions & Recollections the memoir of Helene Hanff; PROD Geoffrey Helman. UK/US, 1987, color, 100 min. RATED PG DEAD BIRDS In person: Robert Gardner Sat, Apr 20, 4:00 Sat, Apr 27, 4:30 In 1961, the Dani people of Papua New Guinea were This program of short films and works in progress includes among the last civilizations untouched by European STILL JOURNEY ON: AN UNFINISHED EXAMINATION colonization. Robert Gardner’s acclaimed documentary OF LIFE, where Gardner turns the camera inward to examines the daily lives of Weayak, a tribal warrior and create an intimate meditation on creativity, friendship and farmer, and Pua, a young swine herder. Gardner’s stunning self-knowledge; FORSAKEN FRAGMENTS, Gardner’s visuals and lyrical account of life and death in the Guinean refashioning of some of the finest footage from his unfinished

Courtesy of Sony Pictures Repertory highlands not only offers a portrait of the Dani people but projects; and DEAD BIRDS REVISIONED, where Gardner also holds up a mirror to Western society. In 1998, this explores previously unedited footage he shot in 1989 on a landmark film was added to the at to West Papua some 30 years after filming his landmark Library of Congress. DIR Robert Gardner; SCR Peter Matthiessen US, 1963, color, DIR Robert Gardner. Total running time 84 Charing Cross Road documentary DEAD BIRDS there. 85 min. NOT RATED approximately 105 min.

Tickets & Full Schedule at AFI.com/Silver 11 Special Engagements

Celebrating Record Store Day! New 35mm Print! RECORD PARADISE: 60th Anniversary! THE MUSICAL LIFE OF JOE LEE [Le salaire de la peur] Sat, Apr 20, 8:00 Sat, May 25, 6:30; Mon, May 27, 6:30; Wed, May 29, 9:15 Tickets $5 Henri-Georges Clouzot’s existential action masterpiece was Courtesy of Janus Films A product of two of Maryland’s seminal families—the Lees an international hit in its day, even in the truncated cut, and the Blairs—Joe Lee was kicked out of prep school and significantly shorter than the restored version available today. rejected the world of politics and business that so many in his Stuck in a remote South American outpost, four European oil family embraced. Instead, he opened a record store. This film riggers sign up for a dangerous job: drive two trucks laden documents the unique personality of a man who paved his with nitroglycerin across rough mountain roads to the site of own path, exploring both the history of Lee’s storied political a raging oil rig fire and snuff out the blaze. A star-making family and the deep musical traditions of the Baltimore- performance for chanteur-turned-tough guy ; Washington area. Rare archival footage, rollicking music and was named Best Actor at the 1953 Cannes poignant interviews help set the scene. From the writer and Film Festival, and the film nabbed the top prizes in both producer of JOHNNY CASH AT FOLSOM PRISON, which Cannes and Berlin that year. “The most original and shocking screened at AFI Silver in 2009. DIR/SCR/PROD Michael Streissguth. US, French melodrama of the ’50s.” – Pauline Kael. DIR/SCR/PROD 2012, color, 53 min. Digital Presentation. NOT RATED Henri-Georges Clouzot; SCR Jérôme Géronimi, from the novel by ; PROD Raymond Borderie. France/, 1953, b&w, 147 min. In English, French, Spanish, German, SECRETARIAT’S JOCKEY RON TURCOTTE Italian and Russian with English subtitles. NOT RATED In person: Secretariat owner Penny “EXPLOSIVE! Combines nail-biting action scenes— the wages of fear Chenery and jockey Ron Turcotte calibrated to the millimeter—with a Hawksian Tue, May 14, 7:30 command of earthy performances.” New 35mm Print! Secretariat’s legendary jockey Ron – Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out New York Turcotte is one of the few champions THE LONG DAY CLOSES to have won the prestigious Sun, Jun 2, 1:10; Wed, Jun 5, 7:00; Thu, Jun 6, 7:00 American Triple Crown. This is the Terence Davies’ semi-autobiographical account of 11-year- remarkable story of Turcotte’s rise old Bud, a working-class lad in 1956 Liverpool, who to fame in 1973, the fall that left escapes the fear and pain of his home and school life him a paraplegic in 1978 and through the transporting magic of music and the movies. his emotional journey back to the Courtesy of The Film Desk Gentle and genuinely moving, the film recalls THE PURPLE people and places that marked his ROSE OF CAIRO and CINEMA PARADISO in its nostalgia life. Featuring never-before-seen footage of Secretariat and for spiritually nourishing cinema. “Beautifully poetic, never appearances by Triple Crown winners Steve Cauthen and contrived or precious, the film dazzles with its stylistic Jean Cruguet, as well as Secretariat’s owner Penny Chenery, confidence, emotional honesty, terrific wit and all-round this road movie documents the thrilling and dangerous world audacity.” – Geoff Andrews, Time Out London. DIR/SCR Terence of horseracing, where Turcotte remains an enduring source Davies; PROD Olivia Stewart, Angela Topping. UK, 1992, color, 85 min. RATED PG of inspiration. DIR/SCR Phil Comeau; PROD National Film Board of Canada. Canada, 2013, color, 75 min. Digital Presentation. NOT RATED

THE COMEDY Fri, May 17, 9:30; Tue, May 21, 9:15; Wed, May 22, 9:15 Rick Alverson’s provocative film follows trust-fund slacker Courtesy of The Film Desk we won’t grow old together Swanson (Tim Heidecker) as he wanders aimlessly through his Brooklyn existence; a disaffected man who appears bored with himself but comes maniacally to life in the New 35mm Print! company of others. But Swanson never shows his true face; WE WON’T GROW OLD TOGETHER rather, he imposes a goading, pranky performance on family [Nous ne vieillirons pas ensemble] and strangers alike. He and his snarky friends communicate Sat, May 18, 3:45; Wed, May 22, 7:00 in insincere, outrageous put-ons; Alverson’s film remains coolly “Maurice Pialat’s second feature became an unlikely observational, yet seems attuned to the inherent waste— commercial success upon its release. Far from viewer-friendly, indeed, tragedy—of a life lived in air quotes. Official it tells the story of the endless breakups and makeups of a Selection, 2012 Sundance, Rotterdam Film Festivals. DIR/SCR highly unstable yet apparently indissoluble couple. It’s a sort Rick Alverson; SCR Robert Donne, Colm O’Leary; PROD Brent Kunkle, Mike S. Ryan. US, of love story told in inverted terms, depicting the protracted 2012, color, 90 min. Digital Presentation. NOT RATED end of a five-year affair, with its arbitrary disagreements, sudden mood shifts, moments of irrational anger, and displays of stinging contempt, presented with a genuine, unmeasured violence.” – Dave Kehr, . With Marlène Jobert (Godard’s MASCULIN FÉMININ) and Jean Courtesy of Tribeca Yanne (Godard’s WEEKEND, Chabrol’s LE BOUCHER). DIR/SCR/PROD Maurice Pialat, from his novel. France/Italy, 1972, color, 110 min. In French with English subtitles. NOT RATED

“ ’Love’ is a quicksilver thing that can’t be held in the present tense. It is somewhere between nothing and everything, and no one pinned down more of its complexities and contradictions than Maurice Pialat.” the comedy – Nick Pinkerton, The Village Voice the long day closes 12 Daily Listings: 301.495.6700 Silent Cinema Showcase

: Queen of the Movies” New 35mm Print! Masters of Silent Comedy Published by the Library of Congress 90th Anniversary! Live musical accompaniment by the Snark Ensemble in association with the University SAFETY LAST! Sun, Apr 28, 1:30 of Kentucky Press, “Mary Pickford: Live musical accompaniment by Donald Sosin and Tickets $12/$10 AFI Members/$8 kids 12 and under Queen of the Movies,” edited by Joanna Seaton Christel Schmidt, sheds new light on Sun, Apr 21, 7:30 this icon’s life and legacy. Through New to the city, country boy Harold Lloyd hopes to work in THE GOAT essays by Schmidt and other eminent his way up the ladder at the De Vore Department Store. But Mistaken for the escaped murderer “Dead Shot Dan,” film historians, Pickford emerges having led his hometown sweetheart to believe that he’s Buster Keaton goes on the lam, narrowly escaping the cops from the pages in vivid detail. She already been promoted to a top spot in management, Lloyd time and again. While on the run, he meets a beautiful is revealed as a gifted actress, a must work overtime to make himself look like a big shot. Lloyd young woman, only to discover she’s the daughter of the DIR/SCR Buster Keaton, Malcolm St. Clair; PROD philanthropist and a savvy industry steadily piles on sight gags and stunts, culminating in his hair- police chief on his trail. Joseph M. Schenck. US, 1921, b&w, 27 min. NOT RATED leader who fought for creative control of her films and raising ascent of the building’s facade—the image of Lloyd ultimately became her own producer. A fascinating portrait hanging from the hands of the building’s clock has become a of a key figure in American cinematic history. comedic landmark and modernist icon. “To see it today with in THE RINK an alternately roaring with laughter and gasping is Charlie Chaplin skates circles around his antagonists, Sale and signing of “Mary Pickford: Queen of the one of the greatest experiences of cinema” – David Shipman. figuratively, waiting tables in a swanky restaurant, and Movies” in the lobby following each Pickford screening. DIR Fred C. Newmeyer; DIR/SCR Sam Taylor; SCR Tim Whelan; SCR/PROD . US, literally, at the rink next door, in one of his best-loved two- 1923, b&w, 70 min. NOT RATED reelers produced for the Mutual Film Corporation. DIR/SCR/ PROD Charles Chaplin; SCR Vincent Bryan, Maverick Terrell; PROD Henry P. Caulfield. US, STREET ANGEL 1916, b&w, 24 min. NOT RATED Live musical accompaniment by Ben Model Sat, Apr 27, 1:30 in LIBERTY Struggling to care for her sickly mother, Angela () Produced by Hal Roach, directed sacrifices her virtue and walks the streets of Naples to support by Leo McCarey (DUCK her family. When she’s arrested—not for soliciting but for SOUP), photographed shoplifting medicine for her mother—Angela eludes the law by and and joins a traveling circus. There she falls in love with Gino featuring a cameo by the (), a painter. But when her past threatens to young , this film is sparrows tear them apart, can their love survive? ’s lush considered by many romance won Gaynor the very first Academy Award for Best to be the funniest SPARROWS Actress in 1929 (awarded collectively for her performances of the Laurel and Hardy silent shorts. Live musical accompaniment by Andrew Simpson here and in two 1927 releases: Borzage’s SEVENTH DIR/SCR Leo McCarey; SCR H. In person: Christel Schmidt, editor, HEAVEN and F. W. Murnau’s SUNRISE: A SONG OF TWO “Mary Pickford: Queen of the Movies” HUMANS). DIR Frank Borzage; SCR Marion Orth, Philip Klein, Henry Roberts Symonds, M. Walker; PROD Hal Roach. US, Sat, Apr 20, 2:00 H. H. Caldwell, Katherine Hilliker, from the novel “Cristilinda” by Monckton Hoffe; PROD William 1929, b&w, 20 min. NOT RATED “[Mary] Pickford is ineffably moving as Molly, the oldest Fox. US, 1928, b&w, 102 min. Silent with live accompaniment. NOT RATED girl (and self-appointed protector) of a group of orphans being held as slaves in a ‘child farm’ deep in a Southern Wild and Weird Buster Keaton Shorts swamp…As Molly leads the children away from the ogrelike Live musical accompaniment by Alloy Orchestra Live musical accompaniment by Alloy Orchestra overseer (Gustav von Seyffertitz), across the quicksand and Fri, May 3, 7:30 Sat, May 4, 3:00 through the Expressionist swamp (a sequence beautifully Tickets $15/$12 AFI Members/$10 kids 12 and under Tickets $15/$12 AFI Members/$10 kids 12 and under detailed by director William Beaudine, and lighted by These films truly live up to the title! Working with noted film cinematographers— and —who preservationist David Shepard, Alloy Orchestra compiled THE BUTCHER BOY would shoot F. W. Murnau’s SUNRISE one year later), the this wide-ranging selection of unusually imaginative silent Buster Keaton’s screen debut allows him to flash his slapstick film seems to burrow into the viewer’s subconscious.” – Dave shorts dubbed “Wild and Weird,” many of which boast skills, honed since childhood on the vaudeville stage, in Kehr, . DIR William Beaudine; SCR Winifred Dunn; PROD clever special effects and dynamic camerawork. A soap a featured role as a clumsy customer in Fatty Arbuckle’s Mary Pickford. US, 1926, b&w, 84 min. NOT RATED opera played out with animated bugs; a pet that grows so general store. DIR/SCR Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle; SCR Joseph Anthony Roach; PROD 35mm print courtesy of the Library of Congress. big it stalks the city; a (real) fly doing macabre acrobatic Joseph M. Schenck. US, 1917, b&w, 25 min. tricks—this collection of ten shorts will shock and amaze! DOROTHY VERNON OF HADDON HALL Total program approximately 80 min. GOOD NIGHT, NURSE! Live musical accompaniment by Ben Model Ordered by his wife to check in to the No Hope Sanitarium In person: Christel Schmidt, editor, and get his drinking under control, Fatty Arbuckle is scared “Mary Pickford: Queen of the Movies” straight and then some by the sight of Buster Keaton’s blood- Fri, Apr 26, 7:30 splattered, cleaver-wielding surgeon. Attempting various England, 1550: Headstrong teenager Dorothy Vernon (Mary means of escape, Arbuckle finally succeeds in running Pickford) chafes at her nobleman father’s plans to arrange her

Courtesy of Alloy Orchestraz away—and right into the town’s Fat Man Foot Race. DIR/SCR marriage, instead falling in love with the son of her father’s Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle; PROD Joseph M. Schenck. US, 1918, b&w, 20 min. sworn enemy. But these affairs of the heart intersect with those of the state, and Dorothy soon discovers she has given offense to both Mary, Queen of Scots, and England’s Queen THE PLAY HOUSE Elizabeth! This grand historical drama was an adventurous Vaudevillian Buster Keaton dreams about his big night on change of pace for the enterprising Pickford. DIR ; SCR stage, which, by means of some clever multiple-exposure Waldemar Young, from the novel by Charles Major; PROD Mary Pickford. US, 1924, b&w, 135 camera wizardry, has Keaton playing all the parts on stage, in the band, and the audience, too. DIR/SCR Edward F. Cline, Buster min. NOT RATED GOOD NIGHT, NURSE! 35mm restoration print courtesy of the Cinematheque Keaton; PROD Joseph M. Schenck. US, 1921, b&w, 23 min. Royale de Belgique and the Library of Congress.

Tickets & Full Schedule at AFI.com/Silver 13 AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE

FILM FESTIVAL • JUNE 19–23, 2013

PRESENTED BY

AMERICA’S PREMIER DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL, SILVERDOCS, IS NOW AFI DOCS PRESENTED BY AUDI.

In the nation’s capital, powerful films serve as a catalyst for thought-provoking discussions between artists, audiences and thought leaders to confront critical topics of the day.

PASSES ON SALE APRIL 19 at AFI.com/AFIDOCS

AFI SILVER 2013 DC CARIBBEAN FILMFEST AND MONTGOMERY COLLEGE May 31–June 2 Be a student again — at any age! Join AFI Silver Theatre for this educational In recognition of Caribbean screening, to be followed by a discussion with Heritage Month in June, AFI a film professor from Montgomery College. For Silver is proud to once again The 48 Hour Film Project students with valid ID, discount tickets are only $6. host screenings of the DC Thu, May 9, 7:00, 9:30; Fri, May 10, 7:00, 9:30; Sat, Screening takes place at the AFI Silver Theatre. Caribbean Filmfest, now in May 11, 7:00, 9:30; Sun, May 12, 7:00, 9:30 THE PRODUCERS its 13th year. Best of 2013 48 Hour Film Project Wed, Apr 24, 6:30 The festival is co-presented by Caribbean Thu, May 23, 7:00, 9:30 Association of World Bank and IMF Staff (CAWI), A competition for do-it-yourself filmmakers: they’re Caribbean Professional Network (CPN), Institute of given a genre, a prop, a character and a line of di- Caribbean Studies (ICS) and TransAfrica Forum. alogue. The rest is up to them! AFI Silver welcomes talkcinema.com 1.800.551.9221 back the 12th edition of the wildly popular 48 Hour For updates on the festival, including the film Film Project, with this year’s Washington, DC-area schedule, visit AFI.com/Silver. films screening May 9 through 12, followed by the TALK CINEMA DC exclusively at “Best Of” 2013 screenings on May 23. AFI SILVER – SUBSCRIBE NOW! Talk Cinema’s Sunday morning sneak preview film Shows tend to sell out; tickets go on sale May 6 at series offers a unique selection of films independently AFI.com/Silver. curated by film critic Harlan Jacobson, a 30-year Each screening of the 48 Hour Film Project is industry veteran. different, featuring a unique program of films. For Spring 2013 Dates: individual show schedules and information about April 21 the 48 Hour Film Project, visit 48hourfilm.com. May 5 No passes accepted.

Thanks to Our Sponsors

14 Daily Listings: 301.495.6700 Repertoryxxxxxxxxxx Program

April 19 – July 2 april Fri Sat The calendar lists all repertory dates and special events/programs as of press time. Always check AFI.com/Silver for updated daily showtimes and additional openings, and to register to become an AFI Insider. Insiders receive AFI Silver’s weekly e-newsletter! ey Howard Hawks Ten Years of Film Movement AIR FORCE 3:00 AIR FORCE 11:00 a.m. K L.A. Rebellion Mel Brooks 19 KILLER OF SHEEP 5:30 20 THE PRODUCERS w/THE CRITIC Special Engagements Robert Gardner THE PRODUCERS w/THE 11:05 a.m., 6:00

Facebook.com/AFISilverTheatre @AFISilver Youtube.com/ Foursquare.com/AFISilver olor Olivier Assayas Silent Cinema Showcase CRITIC 7:30 SPARROWS 2:00 AFISilverTheatre C Opera & Ballet in Cinema CRONOS 9:45 DEAD BIRDS 4:00 RECORD PARADISE: THE MUSICAL LIFE OF JOE LEE 8:00 CRONOS 9:45 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu THE PRODUCERS THE PRODUCERS 23 THE PRODUCERS THE PRODUCERS w/THE THE PRODUCERS w/THE DOROTHY VERNON OF TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT 11:00 a.m. 21 w/THE CRITIC 11:05 a.m. 22 w/THE CRITIC 5:15, 9:40 w/THE CRITIC 5:15 24 CRITIC 6:30 25 CRITIC 5:15 26 HADDON HALL 7:30 27 BEN X 11:05 a.m. KILLER OF SHEEP 1:00 AIR FORCE 7:10 KILLER OF SHEEP 7:15 (Montgomery College Show) KILLER OF SHEEP 7:15 MIMIC 10:20 STREET ANGEL 1:30 RIVERS OF SAND 3:00 KILLER OF SHEEP 9:20 CRONOS 9:20 KILLER OF SHEEP 9:20 CRONOS 9:10 Robert Gardner: EMMA MAE w/A DAY IN THE Revisions & Recollections 4:30 LIFE OF WILLIE FAUST 5:00 THE BIG SLEEP 7:00 SAFETY LAST! 7:30 BLADE II 9:30 CRONOS 9:20 may THE TWELVE CHAIRS 11:00 a.m. TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT 5:15 30 THE BIG SLEEP 7:00 TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT 7:00 SOMETHING IN THE AIR 7:15 Wild and Weird 7:30 A SONG IS BORN 11:00 a.m. 28 Masters of Silent Comedy 1:30 29 THE TWELVE CHAIRS 7:20 MIMIC 9:20 1 BLADE II 9:10 2 BEN X 9:30 3 THE DEVIL’S BACKBONE 9:30 4 ADAM’S APPLES 12:00 FOREST OF BLISS 4:00 BLADE II 9:20 Buster Keaton Shorts 3:00 BLESS THEIR LITTLE HEARTS COLD WATER 5:30 w/THE POCKETBOOK 6:00 BLAZING SADDLES 7:30 TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT 8:00 THE DEVIL’S BACKBONE 9:30

Ballet in Cinema: “Alice’s A SONG IS BORN 5:15 7 Ballet in Cinema: “Alice’s A SONG IS BORN 5:15 The 48 Hour Film Project The 48 Hour Film Project THE BOTHERSOME MAN 11:00 a.m. 5 Adventures in Wonderland” 11:00 a.m. 6 ADAM’S APPLES 7:30 Adventures in Wonderland” 12:30 8 RED RIVER 7:30 9 7:00, 9:30 10 7:00, 9:30 11 RED RIVER 11:30 a.m. A SONG IS BORN 2:00 BLAZING SADDLES 9:30 A SONG IS BORN 5:15 BLAZING SvADDLES 9:20 YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN 2:15 BLAZING SADDLES 4:20 RED RIVER 7:30 LATE AUGUST, EARLY SEPTEMBER 4:30 COMPENSATION w/DARK EXODUS THE DEVIL’S BACKBONE 9:20 The 48 Hour Film Project 7:00, 9:30 6:20 COLD WATER 8:45

Opera in Cinema: A DIFFERENT IMAGE and 14 Opera in Cinema: “Nabucco” 12:30 LATE AUGUST, EARLY YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN THE THING FROM ANOTHER THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD 12 “Nabucco” 11:00 a.m. 13 Short Films 7:00 SECRETARIAT’S JOCKEY 15 SEPTEMBER 7:00 16 5:10, 9:30 17 WORLD 5:15 18 11:00 a.m. RED RIVER 11:30 a.m. THE BOTHERSOME MAN 9:20 RON TURCOTTE 7:30 YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN 9:20 WELCOME 7:20  THE GROCER’S SON 11:05 a.m. YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN 2:15 7:20 THE BIG SKY 1:10 AS ABOVE, SO BELOW and THE COMEDY 9:30 WE WON’T GROW OLD TOGETHER 3:45 Short Films 4:30 BLACK NARCISSUS 6:00 The 48 Hour Film Project 7:00, 9:30 IRMA VEP 8:10 HELLBOY 10:20

Ballet in Cinema: “Giselle” 11:00 a.m. Ballet in Cinema: 21 THE THING FROM ANOTHER BLACK NARCISSUS 5:00 BLACK NARCISSUS 4:45 CARLOS 1:00 11:00 a.m. 19 THE GROCER’S SON 11:05 a.m. 20 “Giselle” 12:30 WORLD 5:00 22 WE WON’T GROW OLD 23 Best of The 48 Hour Film 24 HELLBOY II: THE GOLDEN 25 THE VIOLIN 11:05 a.m. BLACK NARCISSUS 2:00 THE BIG SKY 4:15 BLACK NARCISSUS 7:10 TOGETHER 7:00 Project 7:00, 9:30 ARMY 7:15 GRAND ILLUSION 1:15 HELLBOY 4:15 IRMA VEP 7:00 THE COMEDY 9:15 THE COMEDY 9:15 HISTORY OF THE WORLD: 8 ½ 3:45 THE THING FROM ANOTHER HELLBOY 9:10 PART I 9:45 THE WAGES OF FEAR 6:30 WORLD 6:45 HELLBOY II: THE GOLDEN ARMY 9:15 IRMA VEP 9:00 HISTORY OF THE WORLD: PART I 11:30 june MONKEY BUSINESS 11:00 a.m. I WAS A MALE WAR BRIDE 28 MONKEY BUSINESS 5:10 THE VIOLIN 5:05 THE FOREST FOR THE MOTHER OF MINE 2:00 HOW I ENDED THIS SUMMER 26 THE FOREST FOR THE TREES 27 11:00 a.m. I WAS A MALE WAR BRIDE 7:10 29 MONKEY BUSINESS 7:10 30 TREES 5:10 31 HOW I ENDED THIS SUMMER 1 11:00 a.m. 11:05 a.m. MONKEY BUSINESS 11:05 a.m. GRAND ILLUSION 9:20 THE WAGES OF FEAR 9:15 8 ½ 7:00 4:20 GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES CARLOS 1:00 GRAND ILLUSION 1:15 ANTARES 9:45 11:05 a.m. HISTORY OF THE WORLD: PART I 7:10 8 ½ 3:45 HIGH ANXIETY 1:00 HELLBOY II: THE GOLDEN ARMY 9:15 THE WAGES OF FEAR 6:30 ANTARES 9:10

DC Caribbean Filmfest May 31–June 2 – See AFI.com/Silver for info MOTHER OF MINE 11:00 a.m. LAND OF THE PHARAOHS 5:00 4 LAND OF THE PHARAOHS 5:00 GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES SOMERS TOWN 12:20 TO BE OR NOT TO BE (1983) 2 LAND OF THE PHARAOHS 11:05 a.m. 3 GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES A SCREAMING MAN 7:15 5 5:00 6 5:00 7 HATARI! 2:00 8 11:00 a.m. THE LONG DAY CLOSES 1:10 7:10 HIGH ANXIETY 9:15 THE LONG DAY CLOSES 7:00 THE LONG DAY CLOSES 7:00 TO BE OR NOT TO BE (1983) THE DEVIL, PROBABLY 11:05 a.m. HOW I ENDED THIS SUMMER A SCREAMING MAN 9:00 HIGH ANXIETY 9:00 5:00 SOMERS TOWN 11:10 a.m. 9:05 RIO BRAVO 7:15 RIO BRAVO 1:15 PAN’S LABYRINTH 10:00 LES DESTINÉES 4:05 NOTHING BUT A MAN 7:30 PAN’S LABYRINTH 9:30 HATARI! 11:00 a.m. HATARI! 4:00 11 SOMERS TOWN 5:15 TO BE OR NOT TO BE (1983) XXY 5:10 MAN’S FAVORITE SPORT? 4:45 MAN’S FAVORITE SPORT? 11:00 a.m. 9 XXY 11:05 a.m. 10 XXY 7:00 A MAN ESCAPED 7:00 12 4:45 13 NOTHING BUT A MAN 7:00 14 SPACEBALLS 7:15 15 SPACEBALLS 11:05 a.m., 8:15 A MAN ESCAPED 1:00 THE DEVIL, PROBABLY 9:00 THE DEVIL, PROBABLY 9:10 PAN’S LABYRINTH 7:00 A MAN ESCAPED 9:00 THE ORPHANAGE 9:20 RED LINE 7000 1:30 RIO BRAVO 3:10 NOTHING BUT A MAN 9:30 THE ORPHANAGE 3:45 LES DESTINÉES 6:00 SUMMER HOURS 6:00 PAN’S LABYRINTH 9:30 DEMONLOVER 10:20

RED LINE 7000 11:00 a.m. MAN’S FAVORITE SPORT? 4:45 18 SPACEBALLS 5:00 16 MAN’S FAVORITE SPORT? 1:15 17 THE ORPHANAGE 7:10 SUMMER HOURS 7:00 19 20 21 22 SUMMER HOURS 3:45 SPACEBALLS 9:20 DEMONLOVER 9:10 DEMONLOVER 6:00 SPACEBALLS 8:45 FILM FESTIVAL

PRESENTED BY AFI DOCS Film Festival, June 19–23 – See AFI.com/AFIDOCS for info, tickets and showtimes 25 KING OF DEVIL’S ISLAND KING OF DEVIL’S ISLAND 11:00 a.m. 23 24 26 27 28 11:30 a.m. 29 EL DORADO 12:00 EL DORADO 2:00 THE ELEPHANT MAN 2:40 84 CHARING CROSS ROAD 4:45 CLEAN 5:10 7:00 THE GRADUATE 7:30 july BOARDING GATE 9:15 MAMA 9:45 SHUN LI AND THE POET 11:00 a.m. SHUN LI AND THE POET 1:00 2 SHUN LI AND THE POET 12:30 30 THE ELEPHANT MAN 12:00 1 MAMA 3:00 EL DORADO 2:30 THE GRADUATE 2:30 84 CHARING CROSS ROAD 5:05 84 CHARING CROSS ROAD 5:05 84 CHARING CROSS ROAD 4:45 CLEAN 7:10 THE ELEPHANT MAN 7:15 JULIA’S EYES 7:00 JULIA’S EYES 9:30 MAMA 9:45 BOARDING GATE 9:20

Tickets & Full Schedule at AFI.com/Silver 15 Courtesy of Rialto Pictures

½ New 35mm Print! 8 New 35mm Print! THE GRADUATE Sat, May 25, 3:45 Sat, May 25, 1:15 Fri, Jun 28, 7:00 Mon, May 27, 3:45 Mon, May 27, 1:15 Sat, Jun 29, 7:30 Thu, May 30, 7:00 Tue, May 28, 9:20 Sun, Jun 30, 2:30 Courtesy of Park Circus Courtesy of Focus Features

Powell & Pressburger’s BLACK NARCISSUS Fri, May 17, 7:20 Sat, May 18, 6:00 Sun, May 19, 2:00 Now Playing! Tue, May 21, 7:10 Wed, May 22, 5:00 Thu, May 23, 4:45

BALLET “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” Sun, May 5, 11:00 a.m.; Tue, May 7, 12:30 “Giselle” Sun, May 19, 11:00 a.m.; Mon, May 20, 12:30

OPERA Filmed performances of live ballets and operas from Europe’s top companies. “Nabucco” Ballet tickets $15; Opera tickets $20. Sun, May 12, 11:00 a.m.; Tue, May 14, 12:30