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CONTENTS PREMIERE SCREENING 2 Premiere Screening Oscar Winner Paul Haggis FREE EVENT: Mahalia Jackson Birthday Celebration Returns to AFI Silver with Membership News IN THE VALLEY 3 XVIII Washington Latin American OF ELAH Film Festival Saturday, September 8, 7:30 IN THE VALLEY OF ELAH tells the story of an s s r r e 9 Halloween Screams e h h t Army veteran, his wife and the search for their son, a t o o r r B B

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y riously gone missing, and the police detective who y s s e e t t r r u u o o c 10 2007 DC Labor FilmFest helps in the investigation.Starring Oscar-winners c Tommy Lee Jones, Susan Sarandon, and Charlize Theron, and inspired by true events, IN THE VALLEY 12 The Man Who Would Be King: OF ELAH is Paul Haggis’s directorial followup to Foster Hirsch on Otto Preminger CRASH—winner of three Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Editing and Best Screenplay for Haggis. 13 SPECIAL ENGAGEMENTS: SUMMER In addition, his recent screenwriting triumphs include PALACE; Two Classics by Director MILLION DOLLAR BABY, for which he received an Peter Greenaway Academy Award nomination for Best Screenplay, and recent releases THE LAST KISS, FLAGS OF OUR 14 OPENING NIGHT: Asian Pacific FATHERS, CASINO ROYALE and LETTERS American Film Festival FROM IWO JIMA. DIR/SCR/PROD Paul Haggis; s r e h PROD Laurence Becsey, Darlene Caamano, Steve t o r B

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15 Repertory Calendar—Full Schedule o Visit www.AFI.com/Silver for full event details. c at www.AFI.com/Silver MEMBERSHIP NEWS 16 Coming Soon: IN THE SHADOW OF THE MOON LAKE OF FIRE MADRID IN THE MOVIES LOOK FOR THE To celebrate the Madrid in the Movies Series, AFI AFI member passes accepted for designated Silver Members at the Affiliate level and higher screenings. To find out how to become a member of AFI, see page 14. were invited to a private reception and screening of EL MÉTODO, co-hosted by the Embassy of Spain. AFI PREVIEW is published by the American EL MÉTODO star Natalia Verbeke attended both Film Institute. the reception and screening. Many thanks to the Editorial Offices Embassy of Spain and Taberna Del Alabardero. Juame Matas, former President of the American Film Institute Balearic Islands and his wife Maite Areal with Silver Theatre and Cultural Center Natalia Verbeke 8633 Colesville Road Silver Spring, MD 20910 Actress Natalia Verbeke For address changes and subscription services, contact: American Film Institute 2021 N. Western Ave. FREE COMMUNITY EVENT Los Angeles, CA 90027 Attn: Membership The Fifth Annual On the cover: THE VIOLIN photo courtesy of Film Movement Editor: Caroline Small Mahalia Jackson Birthday Celebration Production Manager: Marie Figueredo Monday, October 8, 3:00 Design: Anna Joyce, Post-Newsweek Media, Inc. Sponsored by: Information is correct at press time. Films and Move on up a little higher with AFI Silver and the on-screen schedule subject to change. presence of one of the greatest voices in American music histo- Check www.AFI.com/Silver for updates. ry. Free to the public, this fifth annual tribute has become a the mighty AFI Silver organ, African-American sacred music You can also view a copy of this publication online at Washington tradition with the People's Community Baptist scholar Dr. Horace Boyer and rare footage of Mahalia Jackson Gazette.Net. Church Chancel Choir under the direction of Jonathan Davis, (she would have been 96 in October). 2 n TICKETS & FULL SCHEDULE at WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER SPECIIAL GUESTS IIN ATTENDANCE! VIISIIT WWW.AFII.COM/SIILVER

ARGENTINA CITY IN HEAT [Ciudad en Celo] Friday, October 5, 8:00; Saturday, October 6, 9:45 Gaffet’s character-driven comic debut, a light intelligent comedy, centers around Buenos Aires’s Garllington pub, the daily meeting place for Daniel Kuzniecka, who has recently instigated a spectacular break-up with his girlfriend, and his group of late thirty-something friends, all variously unlucky in love. Into their group comes tango September 18 through singer Dolores Sola, who’s one of the guys but also a cat- alyst for some emotional maturing. Her torchy singing October 7 adds spice to the movie’s cockeyed romance. Audience AFI, the Association of Ibero-American Cultural Award, 2007 Mar del Plata Film Festival DIR/SCR Attachés and the Inter-American Development Hernán Gaffet; PROD Mariela Besuievski, Gerardo Bank’s Cultural Center are proud to present the Herrero and Vanessa Ragone. Argentina, 2006, color, annual Washington Latin American Film Festival. 104 min. In Spanish with English subtitles. NOT Now in its 18th year, the Festival offers an RATED PRINT COURTESY OF LATIDO FILMS S extensive exploration of filmmaking throughout Latin America, Spain and Portugal. This year’s selection of over thirty films includes multiple t n

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Development Bank, President Luis Alberto Moreno, u o Director, Cultural Center Félix Angel and the c Adapted Screenplay and Best Actress honors at Mexico’s GLUE Center’s Concerts, Lectures and Films Coordinator Ariel Awards as well as a GOYA nomination for Best Anne Vena, the Association of Ibero-American GLUE Foreign Film. Retired Bolivian teacher Maro dreams of Cultural Attachés, President Ada Hernandez, Vice Friday, September 28, 10:00; Saturday, September 29, 8:00 immigrating to America but is denied a visa through official President Patricia Abdelnour and Mariangela Shy and awkward teenager Lucas (watch-worthy Nahuel channels. He resorts to the black market, but begins to Betancourt for their invaluable support and rethink his decision after meeting kind-hearted prostitute collaboration in presenting this event. Perez Biscayart) spends his days hanging out with his best friend, heartthrob Nacho, and their bookish compan- Blanca. 2006 Oscar Selection from Bolivia for Best Foreign ion Andrea. Their tiny, remote Patagonia town offers little Language Film DIR/SCR/PROD Juan Carlos Valdivia, in the way of amusement, so they use drugs and each based on the novel by Juan de Recacochea; PROD other to satisfy their urges until the strangeness of puberty Felipe Galdo, Alejandro Gonzalez Padilla and Oscar passes. Critics Prize, 2006 Rotterdam Film Festival Quintela. Bolivia/Mexico, 2005, color, 100 min. Spanish DIR/SCR/PROD Nahuel Perez Biscayart; PROD with English subtitles. RATED R PRINT COURTESY OF Soledad Gatti-Pascual. Argentina/UK, 2006, color, 110 ONDAMAX S min. NOT RATED PRINT COURTESY OF PICTURE THIS! ENTERTAINMENT S D WHO KILLED THE WHITE LLAMA? [Quién Mató a la Llamita Blanca] DEVIL’S POINT [La Punta del Diablo] Wednesday, September 26, 7:00; Saturday, September 29, 3:15 Saturday, September 22, 1:00; Wednesday, September 26, 9:45 Upon its release in Bolivia, the wildly creative and fast- Marcelo Pavan’s debut feature, a must-see on the big paced WHO KILLED THE WHITE LLAMA shattered screen, boasts atmospheric sound design and a sharp script. domestic box office records, quickly becoming the must- Diagnosed with a brain tumor, a Buenos Aires doctor see film of the year. Jacinto and Domitila are happily (Manuel Callau) drops everything and takes to the road, married—as well as the most wanted criminals in the winding up in a remote coastal town in Uruguay. Smitten country. Under contract from “El Negro” to transport by a fellow traveler who resembles a former patient of his, fifty kilos of cocaine to the Brazilian border, they embark NOTE ON FILM RATINGS Callau is drawn into an uncertain love triangle in his unfa- on a journey through the jungles, mountains and deserts Because films in the Latin American Film Festival have not miliar surroundings. DIR/SCR Marcelo Pavan; SCR in a riotous adventure that will test their relationship. been submitted to the MPAA rating system in the US, AFI has made its best effort to inform audiences about any Enrique Cortés; PROD Martín Cortés, Pablo Rovito DIR Rodrigo Bellott; SCR Juan Cristobal Rios film containing content that could earn a restricted rating if and Fernando Sokolowicz. Argentina/ Uruguay/ Violand; PROD Alex Moreno and Donald Ranvaud. released in the US. The following is a guide: Venezuela, 2006, color, 90 min. Spanish with English Bolivia, 2006, color, 112 min. In Spanish with English V violence S sexuality D drug use subtitles. NOT RATED PRINT COURTESY OF PRIMER subtitles. NOT RATED PRINT COURTESY OF ONDAMAX LANO AFI member passes will be accepted at all screenings in P V D the Latin American Film Festival. SEE NEXT PAGE TICKETS & FULL SCHEDULE at WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER n 3 SPECIIAL GUESTS IIN ATTENDANCE! VIISIIT WWW.AFII.COM/SIILVER FOR DETAIILS!

artist’s personal musings with interviews, including a talk with David Byrne, who is credited with rediscover- ing Zé in the 1990s. (note courtesy of Miami Film Festival) DIR/PROD Decio Matos Jr.; PROD Elaine Ferreira, Omar Jundi and Matias Mariani. Brazil, 2007, color, 90 min. Portuguese with English subtitles. NOT RATED PRINT COURTESY OF BRAZIL ONDAMAX

FISH DREAMS [SONHOS DE PEIXE] Thursday, September 20, 7:00; Saturday, CHILE September 22, 7:15 A beautiful but impoverished Brazilian fishing village is the setting for director Kirill Mikhanovsky’s eloquent and detailed story of Jusce, an orphan who h scrapes together a living as a lobsterman. c n u B

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y s e nearly 100 feet underwater with rudimen- t r u o tary equipment, in hopes of a better life first of whiskey but soon of her own c CALLE SANTA FE with Ana, the girl he loves. But Jusce’s body, promising a night of paradise to simple ambitions may not be enough to the winner. Director Ainouz depicts Hermila as a proud nonconformist US Premiere win Ana’s affections. Youth Prize, 2006 CALLE SANTA FE Cannes Film Festival: Special Jury exploring the breadth and limitations of Sunday, September 30, 7:00 Award, 2007 Miami Film Festival (note her sexuality. (note courtesy of San courtesy of Miami Film Festival) Francisco Film Festival) DIR/SCR On October 5, 1974, in a house on Santa DIR/SCR Kirill Mikhanovsky; PROD Karim Ainouz; SCR Felipe Bragança Fe Street in the suburbs of Santiago, and Mauricio Zacharias, based on the Chile, Carmen Castillo is wounded by Fernanda De Capua, Eliane Ferreira, THE GREATEST LOVE OF ALL story by Simone Lima; PROD the secret police. Her companion, Matias Mariani, Emanuel Michael and past. Best Film, 2006 Montreal Film Thomas Häberle, Hengameh Panahi, Miguel Enriquez, leader of the resistance Jacob Michelson. US/Brazil/Russia, Festival DIR Carlos Diegues; PROD Mauricio Andrade Ramos, Peter against Pinochet’s dictatorship, is killed 2006, color, 111 min. In Portuguese with Renata Almeida Magalhães. Brazil, Rommel and Walter Salles. in combat. She embarks on a raw, English subtitles. NOT RATED PRINT 2006, color, 106 min. In Portuguese Portugal/Germany/France/Brazil, uncompromising journey without nostal- COURTESY OF BAVARIA FILMS with English subtitles. NOT RATED 2006, color, 90 min. In Portuguese gia or self-indulgence—a journey into PRINT COURTESY OF VEREDA FILMES with English subtitles. NOT RATED the memory of those who were defeated. PRINT COURTESY OF STRAND S (note courtesy of Cannes Film Festival) RELEASING DIR/SCR Carmen Castillo; PROD FABRICATING TOM ZÉ [Fabricando Sergio Gándara, Serge Lalou and

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u Feisty Brazilian septuagenarian Tom Zé o c subtitles. NOT RATED PRINT 7:00 has been making experimental music for SUELY IN THE SKY COURTESY OF WILD BUNCH Seasoned Brazilian director Diegues’s over 40 years. SUELY IN THE SKY [O Céu de solemn tale delves into the human search Lacking for- Official Selection, 2007 Tribeca Film Suely] for closure. At 55 years old and battling mal training, Festival x Friday, September 21, 8:00; Monday, September cancer, a middle-aged astrophysics profes- Zé insists his a m a d n

24, 7:00 O sor at an American university returns to FIESTA PATRIA compositions f o

y s e t Hermila returns from São Paulo to the the Rio slums to find out why his mother r Monday, October 1, 9:00; Wednesday, October 3, are better u o c 9:00 expansive rural landscape of her youth. abandoned him at birth. On the unpaved because he FABRICATING TOM ZÉ Eagerness fades to sorrow as she real- ghetto streets, he encounters a host of hears music in The ghosts of Chile’s Pinochet-era his- izes the father of her newborn son has characters, including his elderly adoptive vacuum cleaners just as much as in gui- tory, in the guise of family secrets, no intention of joining her. Seizing life father, a drug dealing street kid and a tars. This documentary, filmed during come back to haunt two families. on her own terms, she sets up a raffle— woman who may have the secrets to his Zé’s 2005 European tour, intercuts the Bride-to-be Macarena learns some star-

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COSTA RICA Please see Documentary Double Feature listing, page 8.

CUBA

THE BENNY [El Benny] Friday, October 5, 10:10; Saturday, October 6, tling facts about her parents when her 7:20 fiancé’s uncle recognizes her mother as Cuba’s candidate for the Best Foreign a fellow leftist from the early 1970s— Film Oscar was this colorful biopic of bringing up uncomfortable questions one of the biggest legends in Cuban about how her mother and her army music, 1950s bandleader and all-around officer father met during the 1973 mambo king Benny Moré. Exciting coup.Official Selection, 2007 Tribeca music and dance numbers sparkle against Film Festival DIR/SCR/PROD Luis the darker passages in Moré’s life, includ- R. Vera; PROD Gustavo Sánchez. ing his hard drinking and struggles to Chile, 2006, color, 102 min. In retain his artistic integrity in the face of Spanish with English subtitles. NOT those who would manipulate him for eco- RATED PRINT COURTESY OF LUIS R. nomic or political gain. DIR/SCR Jorge VERA S Luis Sánchez; SCR Abrahán Rodríguez; PROD Iohamil Navarro. CITY OF PHOTOGRAPHERS [La Cuba/UK/Spain, 2007, color, 132 min. Ciudad de los Fotógrafos] Spanish with English subtitles. NOT Saturday, October 6, 11:30 AM; Sunday, October RATED PRINT COURTESY OF RIVE 7, 9:30 GAUCHE FILMS V S D s

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r DOMINICAN REPUBLIC u o on Chile’s streets, taking pictures was c A TON OF LUCK resistance—a way of being more than JUNIOR (Yuniol) spectators. Fearless photojournalists consumed with the need to catch his A TON OF LUCK [Soñar no Cuesta Thursday, October 4, 9:30 honed their craft, creating many of the former employer cheating on his ex. Nada] Writer/director/producer Alfonso When indiscretion arrives in the form now-legendary images that helped Friday, September 28, 8:00; Saturday, September Rodriguez’s issue-oriented film packs in focus world attention on the Pinochet of an aspiring actress, Nicolas con- 29, 10:10 plenty of action and drama with an opti- regime’s repressive tactics. DIR/SCR fronts Pablo and threatens blackmail, What do you do with $46 million of mistic message about the resilience of the Sebastián Moreno; SCR Claudia but the boss suggests something more untraceable loot? Testosterone-fueled sol- Dominican people. Thrown together in the Barril and Nona Fernández; PROD insidious: murdering Margarita. diers in a Colombian antiguerrilla patrol same university class, child-of-privilege Viviana Erpel. Chile, color, 2006, 80 DIR/SCR Felipe Martínez; PROD face this tough dilemma when they stum- Alberto “Junior” Rios (Frank Perozo) and min. In Spanish with English subti- Alessandro Angulo. Colombia, 2007, ble upon a staggering cache of drug working-class scholarship kid Juan tles. NOT RATED PRINT COURTESY color, 102 min. Spanish with English money. Their answer is to shirk their “Yuniol” Perez (Shalim Ortiz) get off to a OF SEBASTIAN MORENO V subtitles. NOT RATED PRINT duty, divvy-up the treasure and—if they rocky, even violent start, before coming to OURTESY OF LABERINTO C can—keep it a secret. Based on a true a better understanding of one another. PRODUCCIONES V S story of military corruption, this morality Charytin Goico, host of Escándalo TV COLOMBIA tale expands a local incident into a smart from Telefuturo, shines as Alberto’s icy and witty look at the ravages of greed. mother. DIR/SCR/PROD Alfonso BLUFF (note courtesy of Miami Film Festival) Rodriguez; PROD Kendy Yanoreth. Friday, September 21, 10:00; Saturday, DIR Rodrigo Triana; SCR Jorge Dominican Republic, 2007, color, TRT. September 22, 9:45 Hiller, based on an idea by Clara In Spanish with English subtitles. NOT s

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other in this moody and atmospheric hardboiled melodrama from AFI Alum Gerardo Naranjo. Beautiful Fernanda is happy with her kind-hearted but hapless boyfriend Gonzalo, but her ne’er-do- well ex’s bold attempt to win her back has unforeseen consequences. Mean- while, suicidal middle-aged paperpusher Jaime strikes up an unusual friendship ECUADOR with a member of a local girl gang. DIR/SCR Gerardo Naranjo; PROD HOW MUCH FURTHER [Qué Tan Gabriel Garcia, Santiago Paredes and Lejos] Miriana Moro. Mexico, 2006, color, Sunday, September 23, 1:00; Tuesday, September 25, 7:10 92 min. Spanish with English subti- Esperanza (“Hope”), a Spanish tourist tles. NOT RATED PRINT COURTESY OF IFC FIRSTTAKE t V S D looking for exotic adventure, meets h g i l h c r a e S

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o Saturday, October 6, 5:15; Sunday, October 7, strands them in the middle of nowhere. c 5:15 They start to hitchhike their way to the UNDER THE SAME MOON Called “a masterpiece” by Mexican Andean village of Cuenca and meet a Quito who reunite for the first time in tall, scrawny man carrying the ashes of 14 years. Screenwriter, co-director and MEXICO critics, Francisco Vargas’s rich and lay- his recently deceased grandmother. In star Anahí Hoeneisen’s tale gives us a ered debut feature melds compelling UNDER THE SAME MOON [La the nearly desolate landscape, the three rare portrait of the Ecuadorian middle social consciousness with a moving— Misma Luna] continue together in what becomes a class. DIR Daniel Andrade and and metaphorical—folk music score. A Sunday, September 23, 3:00 journey of friendship and self-discov- Anahí Hoeneisen; SCR/PROD Anahí peasant guerilla movement has risen in Hoeneisen; PROD Verónica Andrade. In director Patricia Riggen’s debut film, ery. (note courtesy of Philadelphia Film response to a tyranical regime. When Ecuador, 2007, color, 90 min. In nine-year-old Carlitos and his mother Festival) DIR/SCR Tania Hermida. his villagers and comrades are forced Spanish with English subtitles. NOT Rosario live parallel but separate lives in Ecuador, 2006, color, 92 min. In into hiding, street musician Don RATED PRINT COURTESY OF WIDE Mexico and the United States. Rosario Spanish with English subtitles. NOT Plutarco turns his violin into a Trojan MANAGEMENT works illegally in America, hoping to Horse, slipping into the good graces of RATED PRINT COURTESY OF make a better life for her son, but unex- a local regime representative and gain- LATINOFUSION pected circumstances drive mother and ing access to hidden ammunition. Best EL SALVADOR son in a desperate attempt to reunite. The heartwarming family story also Actor, 2006 Cannes Film Festival; Jury Prize, 2007 Miami Film Festival GLASS HOUSE offers subtle commentary on the con- DIR/SCR/PROD Francisco Vargas. Friday, October 5, 6:00; Sunday, October 7, 1:00 tentious issue of illegal immigration. Official Selection, 2007 Sundance Film Mexico, 2005, b&w, 99 min. Spanish From its consulate in Geneva, the tiny Festival (note courtesy of Fox with English subtitles. NOT RATED country of El Salvador issued life-saving t n e Searchlight) DIR/PROD Patricia PRINT COURTESY OF FILM MOVEMENT m e g

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SPAIN

DARKBLUEALMOSTBLACK [Azuloscurocasinegro] Wednesday, September 19, 7:00; Thursday, September 20, 9:20 In this stirring drama of lost opportunities and second chances, awarded Best documentary on the power of sports to European Film at the Venice Film uplift a nation. Through archive material Festival, youthful romance clashes with and exclusive interviews with Sugar claustrophobic family ties. Jorge dreams Ray Leonard, the film examines the par- of being a businessman, but when his allels between Duran’s meteoric career father suffers a stroke he has no choice and the history of conflict between the but to take over his janitorial job and n o

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2006, color, 75 min. Spanish with u o c ter. Best New Director, New Actor, English subtitles. NOT RATED PRINT BLACK BUTTERFLY Supporting Actor, 2007 Goya Awards COURTESY OF ONDAMAX Cueto, itself a “free interpretation” of tion and self-determination. (note courtesy of Miami Film Festival) real-life events surrounding former DIR/SCR/PROD Gianfranco DIR/SCR Daniel Sánchez Arévalo; PARAGUAY Peruvian president Fujimori's intelli- Quattrini; SCR Christopher Vazquez; PROD José Antonio Félez. Spain, 2006, gence chief Vladimir Montesinos, cur- PROD Óscar Azar, Diego Dubcovsky color, 105 min. Spanish with English PARAGUAYAN HAMMOCK rently awaiting trial on murder and drug and Ernesto González Quattrini. subtitles. NOT RATED PRINT COUR- [Hamaca Paraguaya] trafficking charges. Schoolteacher Argentina/Peru, 2006, color, 96 min. TESY OF STRAND RELEASING V S Saturday, September 29, 1:00; Wednesday, Melania Urbina suspects political moti- In Spanish with English subtitles. October 3, 7:00 vations behind her fiancé’s murder and NOT RATED PRINT COURTESY OF US Premiere! The first Paraguayan 35mm theatrical teams up with a muckraking journalist PRIMIQUATTRINI S THE INFLUENCE [La Influencia] release since 1978. At a rural Paraguana to investigate. The pair’s journey into Saturday, September 22, 5:15; Sunday, home, a Guarani couple sits waiting for Peru’s political heart of darkness leads PORTUGAL September 23, 5:15 their soldier son to return from the Urbina to the realization that she's capa- An official selection at Cannes Chaco War. With long shots reminiscent ble of anything in her quest for revenge. TRANCE [Transe] Director’s Fortnight, Pedro Aguilera’s of Michelangelo Antonioni, the film Official Selection, 2007 Tribeca Film Sunday, September 23, 7:00; Monday, September riveting debut feature recalls the ambi- beautifully captures the essence of rural Festival DIR Francisco J. Lombardi; 24, 9:00 tious work of Paraguay. FIPRESCI prize, 2006 SCR Giovanna Pollaroio, based on Provocative Portuguese director Teresa filmmaker Cannes Film Festival, Critics Prize, the story by Alonso Cueto; PROD Villaverde’s latest film is an abstract and Robert 2006 São Paulo Film Festival (note Gustavo Sánchez, Miriam Porte and dreamlike mood piece recounting the Bresson in its courtesy of Toronto International Film Pedro Pastor. Spain/Peru, 2006, color, abduction and forced prostitution of a sensibility and Festival) DIR/SCR Paz Encina; 118 min. Spanish with English subti- young Russian woman passed from hand observational PROD Ilse Hughan, Gabriella Sabaté tles. NOT RATED PRINT COURTESY to hand across Europe. Of a piece with acuity. and Marianne Slot. OF LATINOFUSION V S recent films on the subject like Lukas Depressive THE INFLUENCE Argentina/Paraguay/Netherlands/ Moodysson’s LILYA 4-EVER and single-mom Paloma sleepwalks through Austria/France/Germany, 2006, color, CHICHA TU MADRE Giuseppe Tornatore’s Donatello-winning life, unresponsive to the world around 78 min. In Guarani with English sub- Sunday, September 30, 1:00; Tuesday, October 2, THE UNKNOWN, TRANCE is more her. Eviction sends her spiraling into titles. NOT RATED PRINT COURTESY 7:10 detached and coolly enigmatic, anchored reckless despair, with the children ulti- OF SCALPEL FILMS Peruvian director Quattrini’s first feature by Ana Moreira’s fearless performance mately descending into anarchic self film follows taxi driver Julio César after and Joao Ribiero’s expressive, eye-pop- rule. Remarkable performances from PERU news of his teenage daughter’s pregnan- ping photography. DIR/SCR Teresa the young actors stand out in this unset- cy compels him to change his destiny Villaverde; PROD Paulo Branco and tling gothic psychodrama. DIR/SCR/ BLACK BUTTERFLY [Mariposa and become a Tarot reader. Guided by Andrey Deryabin. Italy/Russia/France/ PROD Pedro Aguilera; PROD Mafer Negra] the wisdom of the cards, he searches the Portugal, 2006, color, 126 min. Galindo Chico, Carlos Reygadas and Jaime Romandia. Spain/Mexico, Wednesday, September 19, 9:10; Tuesday, unpredictable streets of Lima, meeting a Portuguese with English subtitles. September 25, 9:20 young prostitute, an enigmatic NOT RATED PRINT COURTESY OF 2006, color, 84 min. Spanish with English subtitles. NOT RATED Veteran director Francisco Lombardi Argentine nurse and a second-tier soccer MADRAGOA FILMES V S PRINT FROM BAC FILMS freely adapts the novel by Alonso team—all on their own quests for salva- S D SEE NEXT PAGE

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Joe Blotnick and Jill Higgins. Dominican Republic/US, 2007, color, 30 min. Spanish with English subtitles. NOT RATED PRINTS COURTESY OF THE FILMMAKERS with

RECYCLERS OF RIO AZUL THE NIGHT OF THE SUNFLOWERS [Los Recicladores de Río Azul] [La Noche de los Girasoles] Two recyclers watch as their plant, Rio Thursday, September 27, 9:30; Sunday, September Azul, is closed down. DIR Felipe 30, 9:30 Calvo. Costa Rica, 2007, color, 46 Spain’s isolated backwoods provides the min. setting for this noir thriller told in six interconnected “episodes” whose time- SPECIAL PRESENTATION lines and characters overlap. The inno- n o i t u b

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r Friday, September 28, 6:00; Monday, October 1, u o ing menace provide the real allure. A c 7:00 THE NIGHT OF THE SUNFLOWERS traveling salesman rapes a young urban Filmmaker Camila Guzmán Urzúa was unthinkable—actually work for a living. system has become one of the most woman.When her husband and his raised and schooled in Cuba in the seven- (note courtesy of Miami Film Festival) important and beautiful social experi- assistant confront the man they believe ties and eighties during the “golden DIR/SCR/PROD Manolo Nieto; ments in modern history. Audience to be the rapist, the consequences are years” of the Cuban revolution, when the PROD Parviz Yazdani. Award, Best Documentary, 2007 Miami life-altering for everyone involved. state provided education, health care and Uruguay/Argentina/Canada/Spain, Film Festival DIR/SCR Alberto Audience Award, Miami Film Festival housing for “pioneers” enthusiastically 2006, color, 109 min. Spanish with Arvelo Mendoza; SCR Carlos Díaz; (note courtesy of Miami Film Festival) working toward the revolutionary vision. English subtitles. NOT RATED PRINT PROD Pedro Mezquita Arcaya and DIR/SCR Jorge Sánchez-Cabezudo; In this autobiographical documentary, COURTESY OF ONE EYED FILMS Nestor L. Lopez-Duran. Venezuela, PROD Enrique González Macho. Urzúa captures both the disillusionment 2006, color, 70 min. Spanish with Spain, 2006, color, 123 min. In that infected Cuba after the collapse of VENEZUELA English subtitles. NOT RATED PRINT Spanish with English subtitles. NOT the Soviet Union and the nostalgia of a COURTESY OF EXPLORART FILMS RATED PRINT COURTESY OF FILMS shared dream. TVE Award, 2006 San TO PLAY AND TO FIGHT [Tocar Y DISTRIBUTION V Sebastian Film Festival DIR/SCR/ Luchar] SPECIAL FEATURES PROD Camila Guzmán Urzúa; PROD Sunday, September 30, 3:00 Richard Copans. Spain/France, 2006, URUGUAY This captivating documentary of the Documentary Double Feature color, 82 min. Spanish with English Venezuelan Youth Orchestra System— subtitles. NOT RATED PRINT an incredible net- Saturday, September 22, 11:30 AM; Sunday, THE DOG POUND [La Perrera] September 23, 11:30 AM COURTESY OF FIRST RUN FILMS Sunday, September 23, 9:30; Tuesday, September work of hundreds of 25, 7:00 town and village CHOCOLATE COUNTRY Failed college exams lead to academic orchestras—portrays Winner of the Grand Jury exile for David Olivera (Pablo Riera), a the inspirational sto- Prize–Documentary Short at the Seattle EVENTS STILL hapless student who longs to head back ries of world-class International Film Festival, CHOCO- to university in musicians trained by LATE COUNTRY tells the fascinating, BEING ADDED! Montevideo. His the system, includ- triumphant and music-filled story of the businessman ing the Berlin struggling Dominican farmers who pro- including vide the bulk of the world’s chocolate father, disdainful Philharmonic’s Filmmaker Roundtable hosted of higher educa- youngest player crop. With help from two Peace Corps volunteers, they form a chocolate collec- by the Inter-American tion, is sick of see- Edicson Ruiz and world-renowned con- THE DOG POUND tive to capitalize on the first-world’s Development Bank ing his son mooch ductor Gustavo Dudamel. Once a mod- demand for “organic” and “fair trade” off everyone, including the Uruguayan est program designed to expose rural products. DIR Robin Blotnick; PROD Visit www.AFI.com/Silver for details state, so he forces him to do the children to the wonders of music, the

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Rare 35mm Print THE WICKER MAN The Halloween Classic! Saturday, October 27, 7:30; Sunday, October 28, 12:30 PM, 8:00; Tuesday, Featuring LIVE musical accompaniment by October 30, 7:30; Wednesday, October 31, 7:30 A remote Scottish isle inhabited by neo-pagans practicing fertility Silent Orchestra rites and sexual magic provides the setting for THE WICKER NOSFERATU, A MAN, one of the coolest, creepiest cult classics from the 1970s, written by Tony Award–winner Anthony Shaffer (SLEUTH). SYMPHONY OF HORROR Devout, uptight constable Edward Woodward comes to Summerisle Friday, October 26, 7:00, 9:30 following an anonymous tip about a missing girl but is puzzled by Casting a long and terrifying shadow the islanders’ lack of concern, truly alarmed by their beliefs—and over the genre, German silent-film oblivious to the danger he’s in. A seductive nude dance by Britt master F. W. Murnau’s uncredited Ekland is the film’s best-known scene. DIR Robin Hardy; SCR appropriation of Bram Stoker’s Anthony Shaffer; PROD Peter Snell. UK, 1973, color, 88 min. DRACULA set the standard for all RATED R vampire flicks to come. Max Schreck’s monstrous Count Orlock is The 1974 Original! singularly frightening, repulsive and THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE beastly where Bela Lugosi was courtly Iconic movie murderer Leatherface and his grotesque family ter- t

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SILVERDOCS PRESENTS “Pure and heartbreaking; if you don’t relate to this film, you were never a kid.” – CHICAGO TRIBUNE 2ND ANNUAL “A sweeter, more unassuming movie isn't likely to come our way anytime soon. BEST OF THE INTERNATIONAL – NEW YORK POST DOCUMENTARY CHALLENGE Director Sarah Price in Person with TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 7:00 SUMMERCAMP! The International Documentary Challenge is a timed Monday, October 8-visit www.AFI.com/Silver for showtimes filmmaking competition where teams from around the This nostalgic charmer follows the day-to-day drama when 90 kids world have just 5 days to make a short documentary are let loose in the woods at Swift Nature Camp in northern Wisconsin. At camp, kids can be kids, their real lives momentarily film. This past March, 95 filmmaking teams from 10 fading against the highs and lows of adolescent rituals: sing-alongs, countries participated with the finalists premiering at Hot talent shows, homesickness, counselor mutiny—and first love. Docs. This showcase includes nine Washington, DC- Submerging themselves into this curious camp subculture, filmmakers area produced films presented with several of the Bradley Beesley (THE FLAMING LIPS) and Sarah Price (AMERI- CAN MOVIE) capture an array of campers, archetypes familiar from international winners. s m l i F

our own adolescence yet eccentric and distinctive. Featuring music by o g r For more information visit www.docchallenge.org A

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TICKETS & FULL SCHEDULE at WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER n 9 2007 DC LABOR FILMFEST October 11 through 17 Organized and presented by the Metropolitan Washington IT’S A FREE WORLD: Council of the AFL-CIO, the Debs-Jones-Douglass Institute THE FILMS OF KEN LOACH and the American Film Institute, DC Labor FilmFest 2007 Acclaimed filmmaker Ken Loach’s films have moved and boasts an array of new films and beloved classics about inspired audiences for over five decades. A tireless activist, work and workers, from the American office to the far-flung Loach has continually championed the world’s underprivi- factories of the global economy. For more information, visit leged and working-class citizens while challenging the dclaborfilmfest.org. establishment and oppressors of human rights. In honor of AFI member passes will be accepted at all screenings in the DC LaborFilmFest except Opening Night. his visit, AFI Silver and DC Labor FilmFest proudly present a collection of his films including WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON?, LAND AND FREEDOM, RIFF-RAFF, KES, POOR COW, and his latest, the Cannes Palme d’Or winner THE WIND THAT SHAKES THE BARLEY, starring Cillian Murphy. Special thanks to Jim Healy at the George Eastman House and Mike Mashon at the Library of Congress for their invaluable support and collaboration in presenting this series.

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10 n TICKETS & FULL SCHEDULE at WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER 2007 DC LABOR FILMFEST theatrical release, the film (with a young was commissioned during the strike to POOR COW Jennifer Aniston) has become a cult clas- make a film about the music and poetry Saturday, October 13, 1:00; Monday, October 15, 9:30 sic. DIR/SCR Mike Judge; PROD arising from it, but when he included Loach set his first feature film in the dark underbelly of Swinging London, with Daniel Rappaport and Michael footage of police brutality, the networks Terence Stamp in a lead role and a soundtrack by Donovan. Eighteen-year-old Joy Rotenberg. US, 1999, color, 89 min. balked and the program was pulled for (Carol White) has a life that’s anything but joyful. When her abusive husband Tom RATED R being too political. DIR/PROD Ken (John Bindon) is imprisoned, his best friend Dave (Stamp) takes her and her infant Loach. UK, 1984, color, 53 min. NOT son in, but his arrest leaves Joy back where she started—and unable to protect her OUR DAILY BREAD (Unser Täglich RATED son. DIR/SCR Ken Loach; SCR Neil Dunn, based on his novel; PROD Joseph Brot) Janni. UK, 1967, color, 101 min. NOT RATED Saturday, October 13, 5:20 In stunning slow-moving images, direc- “One of the great adolescent portraits in cinema” tor Geyrhalter’s unsettling and artistic –MIKE ROBBINS, SENSES OF CINEMA documentary unveils the places where KES food is grown and processed: the disori- Sunday, October 14, 9:45; Tuesday, October 16, 7:00 enting landscapes of agricultural Seventh on the British Film Institute’s list of the greatest British films, KES is machinery, processing plants, slaughter- t s

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Billy Casper is bullied at school and at home, but his zest, intelligence and hopeful- c ness surface when he raises and trains a kestral (falcon). DIR/SCR Ken Loach; ironic dehumanization and brutality of a OUTSOURCED SCR Tony Garnett and Barry Hines, based on his book A Kestrel for a Knave; process intended to sustain life. OUTSOURCED PROD Tony Garnett. UK, 1969, color, 110 min. NOT RATED DIR/SCR/PROD Nikolaus Geyrhalter; SCR Wolfgang Friday, October 12, 7:00 Widerhofer; PROD Markus Glaser, Telemarketer Todd (Josh Hamilton) sells Michael Kitzberger and Wolfgang cheap novelty products over the phone "Among the finest films of the decade" Widerhofer. Germany/Austria, 2006, from Seattle, until his entire Order – THE OBSERVER color, 92 min. In German and Polish Fulfillment Department is outsourced to LAND AND FREEDOM with English subtitles. NOT India. Todd keeps his job by agreeing to Saturday, October 13, 3:00; Tuesday, October 16, 9:15 RATED train his replacements in Mumbai. Here Recipient of the European Film Award for Best Film and awarded two prizes he meets young people as mystified by the at Cannes, Loach’s controversial epic of the Spanish Civil War blends political RIFF-RAFF American desire for hot dog grilling drama with brutally compelling action scenes. Unemployed Liverpool laborer Friday, October 12, 5:00, *Sunday, Oct. 14, 12:30 machines and hats in the shape of Swiss Ian Hart attends a Communist meeting and is persuaded to join a volunteer cheese as he is by the cow that just wan- The European Film Award for Best militia fighting the brutal Fascist regime in Spain. The bonds of camaraderie dered in from outside. DIR/SCR John Picture went to this film’s deft combina- tighten as he finds himself falling for fellow soldier Rosana Pastor and learning Jeffcoat; SCR George Wing; PROD tion of earthy humor with a bluntly realis- the bitter lessons of political reality. DIR Ken Loach; SCR Jim Allen; PROD Tom Gorai. US, 2006, color, 98 min. tic depiction of British working-class life Rebecca O’Brien. UK/Spain/ Germany/ Italy, 1995, color, 109 min. In NOT RATED in the 1990s. Scottish ex-con Robert English, Spanish and Catalan with English subtitles. NOT RATED Carlyle tries to start anew by working construction in North London. He can’t STRIKE [Strajik—Die Heldin von Winner of the Palme d’Or at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival afford a flat, so his coworkers arrange a Danzig] THE WIND THAT SHAKES squat for him where he falls for an aspir- Sunday, October 14, 5:40 Loosely based on the true story of Anna THE BARLEY ing singer. Carlyle and his mates navigate Walentynowicz, a Polish welder who Monday, October 15, 4:30, 7:00; low pay and dangerous working condi- Tuesday, October 16, 4:30; Wednesday, tions, while a bleak reality constantly became politicized after an industrial acci- October 17, 4:30 encroaches. DIR Ken Loach; SCR Bill dent left several men dead and their fami- In 1920s Ireland, workers form Jesse; PROD Sally Hibbin. UK, 1990, lies uncompensated, STRIKE explores the

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TICKETS & FULL SCHEDULE at WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER n 11 OTTO PREMINGER:THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING OCTOBER 27 AND 28 Film historian Foster Hirsch, author of 16 books on film and theater, including the acclaimed Film Noir: The Dark Side of the Screen, will introduce and discuss this selection of Preminger films, a sampling of four of the most popular titles from our extensive Preminger retrospective in 2006. Hirsch's latest book, Otto Preminger: The Man Who Would Be King, comes out this October. All films Not Rated.

FALLEN ANGEL Film historian Foster Hirsch Sunday, October 28, 2:30 Preminger’s darkly beautiful film noir, based on Marty Holland’s popular pulp novel, evokes postwar Hollywood when good and bad were temporary character defini- tions. Charming drifter Dana Andrews cons local heiress Alice Faye t

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12 n TICKETS & FULL SCHEDULE at WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER SPECIAL ENGAGEMENTS TWO CLASSICS BY DIRECTOR PETER GREENAWAY September 14 through September 18

One of the screen’s purest pictorialists, painter-turned-filmmaker Peter Greenaway has long set the standard for high art in cinema. His work may blur the boundary between movie theater and museum movies, but there’s no question only the big screen will do when presenting his ravishing compositions. Herewith, AFI Silver screens new 35mm prints of two early triumphs: 1982’s THE DRAUGHTSMAN’S CONTRACT and 1985’s A ZED & TWO NOUGHTS.

exchange for twelve drawings of her husband’s estate. With its extravagant costumes, elegantly barbed dialogue and score by frequent Greenaway collaborator Michael Nyman, the film earned its writer/director international renown. DIR/SCR Peter Greenaway; PROD David Payne. UK, 1982, color, 103 min. In English, German and Dutch with English subtitles. RATED R

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Official Selection, 2006 Cannes Film Festival, 2006 Toronto Film Festival SUMMER PALACE [Yihe Yuan] One Week Only! Visit www.AFI.com/Silver for daily showtimes. This erotically charged epic of the post–Cultural Revolution generation made waves at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival and recently appeared in Film Comment’s “Distributor Wanted” section. Director Ye Lou (SUZHOU RIVER; PURPLE BUT- TERFLY) charts the sentimental education of Yu Hong—played by stunning new- comer Lei Hao—from small-town life in the borderlands through wild years at Beijing University to the hard-earned wisdom of adulthood. Generational signposts like Tiananmen Square, the Berlin Wall and cell phones give Yu’s story global reso- nance. DIR/SCR/PROD Ye Lou; SCR Feng Mei and Ma Yingli; PROD Sylvain Bursztejn, Li Fang, and An Nai. China/France, 2006, color, 140 min. In Mandarin and German with English subtitles. NOT RATED

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TICKETS & FULL SCHEDULE at WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER n 13 ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL Since its inception in 2000, the DC Asian Pacific American Film Festival has introduced more than 15,000 Washingtonians to the fresh new voices of Asian Pacific American (APA) filmmakers. Showcasing more than 75 short and feature-length films and videos, the 8th annual Festival runs from September 27th through October 6th at theaters throughout Washington, DC. AFI Silver Theatre proudly hosts Opening Night with director Justin Lin's FINISHING THE GAME. 2007 is a great year for APA filmmaking, with exciting new films from Chris Chan Lee (UNDOING), Eric Byler (TRE), Grace Lee (AMERICAN ZOMBIE) and Gene Rhee (THE TROUBLE WITH ROMANCE), plus the controversial DARK MATTER and Closing Night film OWL AND THE SPARROW. For more information, visit www.apafilm.org. Opening Night: FINISHING THE GAME IN PERSON: Director Justin Lin Thursday, September 27, 7:00 Fresh from big studio projects ANNAPOLIS, THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS: TOKYO DRIFT and following his 2002 indie breakthrough BETTER LUCK TOMORROW, Director Justin Lin offers a hilarious mockumentary challenging Hollywood stereotypes. How did they go about casting a Bruce Lee replacement in GAME OF DEATH? And who would dare replace him? Find some clues in this hys- terical film starring Sung Kang, Roger Fan, Dustin Nguyen, MC Hammer and many t s e f o t more. DIR/SCR/PROD Justin Lin; SCR Josh Diamond; PROD Julie Asato and o h P

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n A ZED AND TWO NAUGHTS n A ZED AND TWO NAUGHTS n DARKBLUEALMOSTBLACK n FISH DREAMS 7:00 n AMERICAN VISA 6:00 n CHOCOLATE 16 n DRAUGHTMAN’S CONTRACT 17 18 n DRAUGHTMAN’S CONTRACT 19 7:00 20 n DARKBLUEALOMOSTBLACK 21 n SUELY IN THE SKY 8:00 22 COUNTRY/RECYCLERS OF RIO AZUL 11:30 AM n BLACK BUTTERFLY 9:10 9:20 n BLUFF 10:00 Visit www.AFI.com/Silver for Visit www.AFI.com/Silver for n DEVIL’S POINT 1:00 daily showtimes. daily showtimes. n AMERICAN VISA 3:00 n THE INFLUENCE 5:15 n FISH DREAMS 7:15 n BLUFF 9:45 n CHOCOLATE n SUELY IN THE SKY 7:00 n THE DOG POUND 7:00 n WHO KILLED THE WHITE n APA Opening Night: n THE SUGAR CURTAIN 6:00 n THE FISTS OF A NATION 23 COUNTRY/RECYCLERS OF 24 n TRANCE 9:00 25 n HOW MUCH FURTHER 7:10 26 LLAMA? 7:00 27 FINISHING THE GAME 28 n A TON OF LUCK 8:00 29 11:30 AM RIO AZUL 11:30 AM n BLACK BUTTERFLY 9:20 n DEVIL’S POINT 9:45 w/Justin Lin 7:00 n GLUE 10:00 n PARAGUAYAN HAMMOCK n HOW MUCH FURTHER 1:00 1:00 n UNDER THE SAME MOON n THE NIGHT OF THE n WHO KILLED THE WHITE 3:00 SUNFLOWERS 9:30 LLAMA? 3:15 n THE INFLUENCE 5:15 n DRAMA/MEX 6:00 n TRANCE 7:00 n GLUE 8:00 n THE DOG POUND 9:30 OCTOBER n A TON OF LUCK 10:10 n THE FISTS OF A NATION n THE SUGAR CURTAIN 7:00 n THE GREATEST LOVE OF n PARAGUAYAN HAMMOCK n JUNIOR 9:30 n GLASS HOUSE 6:00 n CITY OF PHOTOGRAPHERS 30 11:30 AM 1 n FIESTA PATRIA 9:00 2 ALL 7:00 3 7:00 4 5 n CITY IN HEAT 8:00 6 11:30 AM n CHICHA TU MADRE 1:00 n CHICHA TU MADRE 7:10 n FIESTA PATRIA 9:00 n FABRICATING TOM ZÉ 1:00 n TO PLAY AND TO FIGHT 3:00 n EL BENNY 10:10 n THE GREATEST LOVE OF ALL n DRAMA/MEX 9:05 n ANYTIME SOON 3:00 4:45 n THE VIOLIN 5:15 n CALLE SANTE FE 7:00 n EL BENNY 7:20 n NIGHT OF THE SUNFLOWERS n CITY IN HEAT 9:45 9:30 n GLASS HOUSE 1:00 FREE EVENT Mahalia Jackson n Best of the International n DC Labor Filmfest n RIFF RAFF 5:00 n POOR COW 1:00 7 n ANYTIME SOON 3:00 8 Concert 3:00 9 Documental Challenge 7:00 10 11 OPENING NIGHT 12 n OUTSOURCED 7:00 13 n LAND AND FREEDOM 3:00 n THE VIOLIN 5:15 SUMMERCAMP! OPENS TODAY IT’S A FREE WORLD w/Ken n OFFICE SPACE 9:30 n OUR DAILY BREAD 5:20 n FABRICATING TOM ZÉ 1:00 Visit www.AFI.com/Silver for Loach 7:00 n HULA GIRLS 7:30 n CITY OF PHOTOGRAPHERS daily showtimes n BREAD AND ROSES 9:45 n OFFICE SPACE 10:00 9:30

n WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON? & n THE WIND THAT SHAKES n THE WIND THAT SHAKES n THE WIND THAT SHAKES LAKE OF FIRE LAKE OF FIRE 14 RIFF RAFF 12:30 15 THE BARLEY 4:30, 7:00 16 THE BARLEY 4:30 17 THE BARLEY 4:30 18 19 OPENS TODAY 20 Visit www.AFI.com/Silver for n HULA GIRLS 3:20 n POOR COW 9:30 n KES 7:00 Visit www.AFI.com/Silver for daily showtimes daily showtimes n STRIKE 5:40 n LAND AND FREEDOM 9:15 n WORK HARD, PLAY HARD 7:45 n KES 9:45 21 LAKE OF FIRE 22 LAKE OF FIRE 23 LAKE OF FIRE 24 LAKE OF FIRE 25 LAKE OF FIRE 26 n NOSFERATU w/Live Musical 27 n ADVISE AND CONSENT 1:00 Visit www.AFI.com/Silver for Visit www.AFI.com/Silver for Visit www.AFI.com/Silver for Visit www.AFI.com/Silver for Visit www.AFI.com/Silver for accompaniment by Silent n BUNNY LAKE IS MISSING daily showtimes daily showtimes daily showtimes daily showtimes daily showtimes Orchestra 7:00, 9:30 4:45 n THE WICKER MAN 7:30 n THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE 9:30 NOVEMBER n THE WICKER MAN 12:30 PM, n THE TEXAS CHAINSAW n THE WICKER MAN 7:30 n THE WICKER MAN 7:30 EU Showcase 28 8:00 29 MASSACRE 9:30 30 n THE TEXAS CHAINSAW 31 n THE TEXAS CHAINSAW 1 Opening n FALLEN ANGEL 2:30 MASSACRE 9:30 MASSACRE 9:30 Night n ANGEL FACE 5:30 Look for n THE TEXAS CHAINSAW details in the MASSACRE 9:45 next PREVIEW in October!

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Official Selection, SILVERDOCS 2007 IN THE SHADOW OF THE MOON  OPENS FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 Rare interviews with Apollo and Mercury astronauts, including Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, add intimacy to the familiar-yet-epic story of the American quest to walk on the moon. Strikingly intelligent and insightful, the astronauts vividly communicate their daring, pride and passion—underscoring the remarkable achievement of this extraordinary era in American history. DIR David Singleton; PROD Duncan Copp. UK, 2006, color, 100 min. RATED PG

Official Selection, SILVERDOCS 2007 LAKE OF FIRE One week only! Opens Friday, October 19 The “lake of fire” is a Christian vision of hell where—according to antiabortion evangelists—those who perform and receive abortions have been doomed. This incendiary image belies the careful balance of filmmaker Kaye’s history of the abortion rights battle in America, the most definitive documentary on the subject to date. Interview subjects traverse the ideological spectrum: Norma McCorvey (the Jane Roe of Roe v. Wade), doctors and nurses on the front lines and the founder of Operation Rescue. (note courtesy of SILVERDOCS) DIR/SCR/PROD Tony Kaye. US, 2006, b&w, 152 min. NOT RATED

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