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AFI PREVIEW Is Published by the American of the Dynamics of Relationships—Stars Police Go in Search of the Killer—But the Film Institute CONTENTS KOREAN FILM FESTIVAL DC 2007 2 Korean Films May 26 through June 28 3 50 Years of Janus Films ome of the most creative film- Museum of Natural History and the sible by support from the Korea Smaking in the world today hap- National Museum of Women in the Foundation, the Korean Film 6 The Duke: John Wayne Centennial pens in Korea. DC’s third Korean Arts. Council, and the US-Korea Business Film Festival will take place during Organized by Tom Vick, film pro- Council. 8 China Film Festival an area-wide celebration of Korean grammer for the Smithsonian’s All films are in Korean with English 10 Rediscover Northern Ireland art and culture in May and June, Freer and Sackler Galleries, and subtitles. For complete program with screenings at AFI Silver, the Hyunjun Min of the University of information, please visit 12 The Best of Buster Keaton Freer Gallery of Art, the National Maryland, the festival is made pos- www.asia.si.edu/KoreanFilm2007. 13 Shakespeare Cinema SA-KWA erous gangsters he works for. Chock full 14 Special Engagements Saturday, May 26, 6:00; Monday, May 30, 7:00 of great characters and exciting action scenes, this movie delivers the goods. What is AFI Silver, HOW DO I JOIN? By turns heart- DIR/SCR Ha Yu. South Korea, 2006, breaking and 15 Repertory Calendar—Full schedule at color, 141 min. In Korean with English humorous, subtitles. NOT RATED www.AFI.com/Silver Kang Ki- 16 SilverDocs, June 12-17 kwan’s debut film features a MURDER, TAKE ONE powerhouse [BAKSU-CHILTAE DEONAR] THE PRESIDENT’S LAST BANG performance by LOOK FOR THE Tuesday, June 19, 9:30; Thursday, June 21, 9:20 the phenome- Park’s repressive regime. Im Sang- member passes accepted for A giddy mix of comedy, suspense, action designated screenings. To find out nally gifted soo’s film is bold, thrilling, and full of and drama, this film from director Jang how to become a member of AFI, actress Moon pitch-black humor. DIR/SCR Im see page 14. So-ri. This sub- Jin is a murder mystery with a twist. Sang-soo; PROD Chul Shin. South tle drama of SA-KWA When a beautiful executive is found Korea, 2005, color, 102 min. NOT shifting moods—with acute observation murdered in a luxury hotel room, the RATED The AFI PREVIEW is published by the American of the dynamics of relationships—stars police go in search of the killer—but the Film Institute. Moon as a woman who, after being crime, it turns out, is much more than it Editorial Offices dumped by her fiancé, marries another seems. Not only that, their investigation A BITTERSWEET LIFE American Film Institute man but wonders if she’s made the right is being broadcast on a reality television Silver Theatre and Cultural Center [DALKOMHAN INSAENG] choice. DIR/SCR Yi-kwan Kang; show. DIR/SCR Jin Jang. South 8633 Colesville Road Tuesday, June 26, 9:20; Thursday, June 28, 9:25 PROD Yong-bae Choi. South Korea, Korea, 2005, color, 115 min. NOT Silver Spring, MD 20910 RATED Sleek and stylish, this gangland saga For address changes and subscription services, 2005, color, 118 min. In Korean with from director Kim Ji-woon delivers the contact: English subtitles. NOT RATED shootouts, vengeance and betrayal, but American Film Institute THE PRESIDENT’S LAST BANG it also brings more depth to the screen 2021 N. Western Ave. A DIRTY CARNIVAL [BIYEOLHAN [GEUDDAE GEUSARAMDEUL] than the average crime flick. This story Los Angeles, CA 90027 of an assassin who discovers his con- Attn: Membership GEORI] Wednesday, June 20, 9:30; Friday, June 22, science just a bit too late is a prime 9:30 Saturday, June 9, 9:30; Sunday, June 10, 8:15 example of Korean action movies at On the cover: THE SEVENTH SEAL, photo courtesy A recreation of the events surrounding of Photofest A true gangland epic, Yoo Ha’s sprawl- their best. DIR/SCR Kim Ji-woon; the 1979 assassination of Korean presi- Editor: Caroline Small ing film charts the dangerous trajectory PROD Yo-jin Lee and Jeong-wan dent Park Chung-hee, this biting, bitter Production Coordinator: Marie Figueredo of a tough-but-honest young hoodlum Oh. South Korea, 2005, color, 120 Design: Anna Joyce, Post-Newsweek Media, Inc. who has to balance his devotion to fami- political satire pulls no punches in its min. NOT RATED Information is correct at press time. Films and ly and friends with his duty to the treach- attack on corruption and cronyism in schedule subject to change. Check www.AFI.com/Silver for updates. Mark Your Calendars. It’s Back! May 8-11 AFI Silver thanks the Hong Kong The 7th Annual 48 Hour Film Project 7:00 & 9:30 Economic & Trade Office for A competition for do-it-yourself filmmakers;you’re given a genre, a prop, a character and a line of dialogue - the rest is up to you. Purchase tickets early, as all shows are expected to sponsoring the INFERNAL Best of May 24 SELL OUT. Advance tickets are available at www.AFI.com/Silver. NEVER A SERVICE FEE 7:00 & 9:30 AFFAIRS series, March 9-15, 2007. For more information about the project, visit www.48hourfilm.com 2 n TICKETS & FULL SCHEDULE at WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER 50 YEARS OF JANUS FILMS May 12 through July 5 he classic distribution T company Janus Films brought to America many of the greatest t s e f o t o h P movies ever made by the f o y s e t r u now legendary directors o c who defined the art of THE LADY VANISHES cinema, including Jean al espionage ring and imminent danger. DIR Alfred Hitch- Renoir, Ingmar Bergman, cock; SCR Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder, based on the book by Ethel Lina White. UK, 1938, b&w, 97 min. NOT Francois Truffaut and RATED Akira Kurosawa. One half-century later, the #34 on AFI’s 100 Years…100 Passions t name Janus Films is syn- s e f o t o h P f BEAUTY AND THE BEAST [LA BELLE ET LA BÊTE] onymous with the o y s e t r u Saturday, May 19, 2:30; Sunday, May 20, 9:30; Tuesday, May 22, 9:50 o groundbreaking foreign c THE EARRINGS OF MADAME DE… language films it champi- Rife with symbolism, allegory, and surreal- ism, this is not Disney’s version of the fairy oned. This retrospective "[A] romantic masterpiece!" tale, but instead Jean Cocteau’s masterpiece, celebrating the 50th – DAVE KEHR, THE NEW YORK TIMES conceived as a respite for weary post-war anniversary of Janus France. When the father of delicate beauty Films premiered as a THE EARRINGS OF MADAME DE… Josette Day is sentenced to death for picking a rose from beastly Jean Marais’s garden, she t s e Saturday, May 12, 7:00; Sunday, May 13, 1:00 & 5:00; Monday, May 14, 7:00 f o sidebar presentation at t o offers to go in his stead. Inevitably the beast h P & 9:10; Tuesday, May 15, 7:00 & 9:10; Thursday, May 17, 9:30 f o y last year’s New York s falls in love and proposes marriage, but she e t r u o In turn-of-the-century Paris, Madame de… (we never learn her c refuses out of love for a handsome but Film Festival and will tour name) sells her earrings—a wedding present from her husband the loathsome prince, also played by Marais. BEAUTY AND THE BEAST North America through- General—to erase a gambling debt. The jeweler betrays her and [La Belle et la Bête] DIR/SCR Jean Cocteau; SCR Jean- sells them back to the General, who gives them to his mistress, but out 2007. All films Marie Leprince de Beaumont. France/Luxembourg, 1946, b&w, she gambles them away too. When Madame de’s true love the shown are stunning new 93 min. In French with English subtitles. NOT RATED Baron (the great Vittorio de Sica) presents the earrings to her, the 35mm prints. Look for jewels take on deeper meaning as the web of deception unravels. Part II of this one-of-a- DIR/SCR Max Ophuls; SCR Marcel Achard, based on the SUMMER WITH MONIKA [SOMMAREN MED novel by Louise de Vilmorin. France/Italy, 1953, b&w, 105 min. kind series at AFI Silver MONIKA] this summer. In French with English subtitles. NOT RATED Friday, May 25, 6:30; Saturday, May 26, 1:00; Tuesday, May 29, 6:00; Thursday, May 31, 9:30; Saturday, June 23, 1:45 AFI member passes will THE LADY VANISHES Ingmar Bergman’s moving story of two young lovers (Lars Ekborg and 18-year-old Harriet Andersson,) who spend a sum- be accepted at all Friday, May 18, 7:00; Saturday, May 19, 9:30; Wednesday, May 23, 7:00 mer idyll together, only to see it wither in the light of real- screenings in the 50 The greatest of Alfred Hitchcock’s British films: not just the tem- world responsibilities. Handled with sensitivity, the film’s Years of Janus Films plate for his later Hollywood films in its deft blend of suspenseful frank depiction of sexuality made it an international sensation. Series. mystery and wry comedy, but a hugely influential film for all moviemaking. Brits Michael Redgrave and Margaret Lockwood Years—even decades—ahead of its time, MONIKA has been become embroiled in a mystery aboard a transcontinental train cited as an influence by filmmakers from Jean-Luc Godard to after Lockwood witnesses the strange disappearance of fellow Martin Scorsese and Woody Allen.
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