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THE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE GUIDE April 15-June 12, 2005 TO THEATRE AND MEMBER EVENTS VOLUME 2• ISSUE 3 AFIPREVIEW Don Cheadle & Director Paul Haggis LIVE with CRASHWith an ensemble including Don Cheadle, Sandra Bullock, Matt Dillon, Brendan Fraser, Ryan Phillippe, Jennifer Esposito and more! Plus Andrei Tarkovsky Retrospective John Le Carré Series Luis Bun˜uel Showcase Henry Fonda Centennial Series 48 Hour Film Project MAY IS MEMBERS MONTH Free popcorn and more! The Films of Jacques Demy THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG NOW PLAYING FEATURE PRESENTATION 2 Actor Don Cheadle & Writer/Director Oscar Nominees Don Paul Haggis Live with CRASH Cheadle & Paul Haggis 3 Russian Icon: Andrei Tarkovsky Live On Stage! ANDREI RUBLEV, SOLARIS & more CRASH 4 Nollywood and Beyond: cinemAFRICA VUGA & YELLOW CARD Sunday, April 17, 4:30 5 Master of Intrigue: John Le Carré on film A challenging, unflinching look at the com- THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD, plexities of racial tolerance in contemporary THE RUSSIA HOUSE & more America from MILLION DOLLAR BABY writer/producer Paul Haggis in his directo- 6 Discreetly Charming: rial debut. The colorful Los The Golden Years of Luis Buñuel Angeles characters—portrayed by THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE a brilliant ensemble featuring BOURGEOISIE, BELLE DE JOUR & more Sandra Bullock and Don Chea- 8 About AFI dle—include a Brentwood house- wife and her DA husband, a Per- 9 Calendar sian store owner, two white 10 New Wave Romantic: Jacques Demy police detectives, an African- THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG, American television director, a LOLA, DONKEY SKIN & more Mexican locksmith, two carjack- ers, a rookie cop and a Korean 11 An American Legend: Henry Fonda Centennial couple—all of whom collide over THE GRAPES OF WRATH, JEZEBEL & more the course of 36 hours, with 12 Western Original: Sam Peckinpah thought-provoking results. DIR THE WILD BUNCH, MAJOR DUNDEE & more Paul Haggis; SCR Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco (from a story by Haggis); PROD Cathy 13 Digital Maverick: Hal Hartley Schulman, Don Cheadle, Bob Yari, Mark R. Harris, Bobby THE GIRL FROM MONDAY Moresco, Paul Haggis; EXEC PROD Andrew Reimer, Tom 13 Back By Popular Demand: Nunan, Jan Körbelin, Marina Grasic; DP J. Michael Muro; The 48 HOUR Film Festival MUS Mark Isham; CAST Sandra Bullock, Don Cheadle, Matt Dillon, Jennifer Esposito, William Fichtner, Brendan 13 Coming Soon Fraser, Terrence Howard, Chris “Ludacris” Bridges, Thandie MEMORIES OF MURDER Newton, Ryan Phillippe, Larenz Tate. US, 2005, color, 100 AFTER MIDNIGHT min. RATED R 14 Mid-Atlantic Regional Showcase Tickets for this screening are $50. Currently WINTERLUDE available online or at the box office to AFI ALL CRASH PHOTOS: LOREY SEBASTIAN 14 Mongomery College Film Series members (who need to show membership cards when picking up tickets), HOUSE OF GAMES tickets will go on sale to the general public Thursday, April 7. 14 From the Brothers Grimm *We are hoping to arrange a very special AFI Silver private fundraising Davenport Films’ FAIRYTALES event with Paul Haggis and Don Cheadle. If we are able to do so, informa- tion will be posted on the AFI Silver website no later than Friday, April 8th, 14 Pare Lorentz Classics with LIVE and members will be notified by e-mail. Orchestral Accompaniment *Passes Excluded THE PLOW THAT BROKE THE PLAINS and THE RIVER 15 SILVERDOCS 2005: A Preview May is Members Month! ●M Special Members Screenings Sign up for AFI Silver's weekly e-mail at Honoring and Celebrating Members AFI.com/Silver for special member advance To thank Members for their much-appreciated screening notices. A valid member card must be On the cover: Don Cheadle in CRASH, courtesy of continued support of the AFI Silver, special offers Lions Gate Films presented to retrieve tickets. Box office transac- have been created for the month of May. Look for tions only. Inset: Catherine Deneuve in THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG, the ●M icon for special member offers. courtesy Zeitgeist Films, LTD 50% Discount on Gift AFI Preview designer: Melissa Kelly, Auras Design Popcorn—It's On Us! No movie-going experience is complete without Memberships in May Information is correct at press time. Films and schedule subject to something to snack on. Members can receive a There is no need to think any longer about what to change. Check www.AFI.com/Silver for updates. free small popcorn at the concession stand on get your favorite film lover for their birthday, • BUY FEE • • NO SERVICE ONLINE: WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER TICKETS AFI PREVIEW (ISSN-0194-3847) is published every six weeks by the American Film any day in the month of May. Just show a mem- anniversary, or special occasions. AFI Silver mem- Institute’s office at 8633 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, MD. Signed articles do not ber card and ticket stub to enjoy this special bership, which is tax-deductible and includes free necessarily reflect the official institute policy. ©2004 American Film Institute. All benefit. Limit of two bags per day. theatre passes, AFI PREVIEW, subscriptions to film- rights reserved. 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Periodicals postage paid at *Special events and engagements, or when a bership price at all levels. Offer restricted to new Silver Spring, Maryland and at additional mailing offices. Postmaster: Send no-pass policy is listed at the box office or the gift memberships from current members only. address changes to AFI PREVIEW at American Film Institute, Membership AFI Silver Web site, are excluded. Offer cannot be used for renewing memberships. Department, 2021 N. Western Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90027. 2 RETROSPECTIVE The Complete Feature NOSTALGHIA Films of Andrei Tarkovsky Saturday, April 16 through Saturday, April 30 From his first internationally exhibited film, IVAN’S CHILDHOOD, it was clear that Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky’s (1932-1986) warmth and humanity, dazzling visuals—even religious imagery in the Communist Soviet Union—signaled an exceptional talent. But it was his second, long-suppressed film, ANDREI RUBLEV, that revealed a genius for epic sweep combined with subconscious probings—on a level reached by Ingmar Bergman—that created a whole moved by a mystical sen- sibility unique to film. Tarkovsky maintained this epic, mystical vision throughout • TO ORDER WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER TICKETS: • his all-too-brief career, creating the most personal works without slipping into obscurity—and remaining an eerily gripping narrator. ANDREI RUBLEV THE SACRIFICE [Offret] ANDREI TARKOVSKY Sat, Apr 16, 3:00; Sun, Apr 17, 5:15 Mon, Apr 18 6:20; Wed, Apr 20, 8:40; “Andrei Tarkovsky Tue, Apr 19, 7:45 Fri, Apr 22, 8:30 Tarkovky’s most spectacular work: a Tarkovsky’s final film, shot in Swe- is for me the greatest, sweeping, medieval epic set in 15th- den, at first evokes Ingmar Bergman the one who invented century Russia. Icon-master Rublev with its small group isolated in a observes the ambiguities and hor- tense situation, but soon expands a new language, true rors of his era from the artist’s to Tarkovsky’s more epic, cosmic point of view, including the hair- view. Faced with nuclear holocaust, to the nature of film, raising sack of Vladimir by the a mystic sacrifice must be offered as it captures life Tartars. In the final, tour-de-force to restore the world—with unfore- sequence, a novice bell-caster (Kolya seen results. In perhaps the as a reflection, life Burlyaev, grown since his portrayal supreme example of his disciplined as a dream.” of Ivan in IVAN’S CHILDHOOD) mastery, a burning building col- attempts to mold an enormous bell, lapses on cue to devastating dra- —INGMAR BERGMAN restoring Rublev’s faith in life and matic effect. (How did he do it? art. The screen turns to color with For an answer, see DIRECTED BY Rublev’s real-life icons in the tran- ANDREI TARKOVSKY.) DIR/SCR scendent climax. DIR Andrei Andrei Tarkovsky; PROD Anna-Lena Tarkovsky; SCR Andrei Mikhalkov- Wibom. Sweden, 1986, color/b&w, Konchalovsky and Tarkovsky; PROD 145 min. In Swedish with English Tamara Ogorodnikova. USSR, 1965, subtitles. UNRATED ●M b&w with a color sequence, scope, 205 min. In Russian with English ● THE MIRROR [Zerkalo] subtitles. UNRATED M Sun, Apr 24, 7:15; Mon, Apr 25, 6:20 Tarkovsky’s most personal and auto- NOSTALGHIA biographical film features his father’s Wed, Apr 20, 6:15; Thu, Apr 21, 6:15 poems studded throughout the A Russian expatriate wanders win- soundtrack, and some actual loca- try Italian landscapes while return- tions from his childhood. A collage ing in memory to his homeland. of diverse elements, the story moves An inspired madman finds the fate back and forth among three time of the world hanging on a candle’s frames, with the same actress play- flight across a dry pool—arguably ing both the protagonist’s mother the most agonizingly suspenseful and wife.