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CONTENTS KOREAN FESTIVAL DC 2007 2 Korean 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: 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 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 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. Ave. A DIRTY CARNIVAL [BIYEOLHAN [GEUDDAE GEUSARAMDEUL] than the average crime flick. This story , 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- 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 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 , 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

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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 cinema, including Jean al espionage ring and imminent danger. DIR Alfred Hitch- Renoir, , 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 . 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

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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

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In turn-of-the-century , 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 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 ’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 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 and . DIR Ingmar Bergman. traveler Dame May Whitty. Their search for clues among a Sweden, 1953, b&w, 92 min. In Swedish with English subti- parade of bizarre and sinister passengers uncovers an internation- tles. NOT RATED

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“American film culture without Janus Films is unthinkable.” —KENT JONES, FILM SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER

SEVEN [SHICHININ NO SAMURAI] Friday, May 25, 8:30; Saturday, May 26, 8:30; Sunday, May 27, 5:30; Monday, May 28, 8:00; Tuesday, May 29, 8:00 Hailed as one of the greatest Japanese films of all time, SEVEN SAMURAI has spawned imitations, including and , but remains unsurpassed in its virtuosity—due in large part to Kurosawa’s collaborator, actor Toshiro Mifune, who cites this role as his all-time favorite.

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y s e t food in payment, each samurai takes on the near-suici- r u o dal mission for his own personal reasons. DIR/SCR c Akira Kurosawa; SCR and SEVEN SAMURAI [Shichinin No Samurai] ; PROD Sojiro Motoki. Japan, 1954, b&w, 206 min. In Japanese with English subtitles. ry, is set in a small Danish village during the 1620s. NOT RATED An elderly woman, sentenced to death for witchcraft, curses her persecutors before dying. Soon, the elderly pastor who condemned her finds himself in the mid- THE SEVENTH SEAL [DET SJUNDE INSEGLET] dle of a family drama as his young and beautiful sec- Saturday, June 2, 10:30; Wednesday, June 6, 9:20; Thursday, June ond wife falls in love with his adult son- and her 7, 9:20 moral transgressions result in devastation. DIR Carl Ingmar Bergman’s best-known and most iconic film is a Dreyer. Denmark, 1943, b&w, 97 min. In Danish touchstone of international cinema’s golden age of the with English subtitles. NOT RATED t s e f o t

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y every film buff. Knight Max von Sydow, returning from s e t r u o crusading, discovers his country ravaged by plague and WILD STRAWBERRIES [SMULTRONSTÂLLET] c comes to face with Death himself. Unwilling to go Saturday, June 9, 1:00; Sunday, June 10, 5:45 WILD STRAWBERRIES quietly, von Sydow challenges Death to a game of Ingmar Bergman’s masterpiece is to cinema what Ekelund. Sweden, 1957, b&w, 91 min. In Swedish chess. An allegorical parade of human foibles and suf- Marcel Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past is to with English subtitles. NOT RATED fering passes by as the two match wits. DIR Ingmar the novel: the definitive “memory piece” of the art Bergman; PROD Allan Ekelund. Sweden, 1957, form. Silent-era director Victor Sjöstrom—an idol of b&w, 92 min. In Swedish with English subtitles. Bergman’s—gives a remarkable performance as an THE MAKIOKA SISTERS [SASAME-YUKI] NOT RATED elderly professor traveling by car to receive an hon- Tuesday, June 19, 6:45; Wednesday, June 20, 6:45; Saturday, June 23, 1:45 orary degree, an old man for whom the past seems as One of the cinema’s finest elegies for a passing era, Kon DAY OF WRATH [VREDENS DAG] present as the countryside outside his car window. Ichikawa’s colorful, clever adaptation of Junichiro Sunday, June 3, 8:45; Monday, June 4, 9:05; Tuesday, June 5, 9:20 The cinematic conjuring of memory, using dream Tanizaki’s novel is a rich drama of incident and a touching Filmed under Nazi occupation in Denmark, this fasci- sequences and flashbacks, evokes a bittersweet nos- comedy of manners that will appeal to Jane Austen fans nating film, often read as political and feminist allego- talgia. DIR/SCR Ingmar Bergman; PROD Allan

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c on walkabout: a tribal initiation into manhood. Initially, the three inhabit a dream-like Eden, but tension mounts with tragic consequences as modern city attitudes are juxtaposed with nature in all of its terror and beauty. DIR Nicolas Roeg; SCR THE MAKIOKA SISTERS [Sasame-yuki] Edward Bond, based on the novel by James and Ozu devotees. Four daughters in a wealthy merchant Vance Marshall; PROD Si Litvinoff. UK, 1971, family debate marriage and money during cherry blossom color, 100 min. RATED R time in 1938 . Prospective suitors come for tradi- tional-minded sister Sayuri Yoshinaga, while headstrong youngest sister Yûko Kotegawa prefers to use her dowry HIGH AND LOW [TENGOKU TO JIGOKU] money to start her own business. DIR/SCR Kon Saturday, June 30, 3:45; Sunday, July 1, 1:00; Monday, July 2, Ichikawa; SCR Shinya Hidaka, based on the novel by 7:00; Thursday, July 5, 7:00 Junichirio Tanizaki. Japan, 1983, color, 104 min. In Akira Kurosawa’s powerful adaptation of American Japanese with English subtitles. NOT RATED crime master Evan Hunter’s novel King’s Ransom makes for a thriller of the highest order, and provides intellectually rich, pulse-pounding entertainment. Powerful businessman Toshiro Mifune receives a ran- Thursday, June 21, 7:00; Saturday, June 23, 7:00; Tuesday, June 26, LA STRADA 7:00 som letter for his son, only to discover the kidnappers 1954, b&w, 110 min. In Italian with English subtitles. The film that brought director Fellini international mistakenly grabbed the son of his chauffeur. Along NOT RATED acclaim and his first Academy Award for Best Foreign with chief detective , Mifune becomes Film. Simple, kind-hearted Gelsomina (Fellini’s wife personally involved in the case, journeying from his ) is sold by her poverty-stricken family WALKABOUT castle-in-the-sky penthouse to the lower depths of to the brutish Zampano (Anthony Quinn), the strongman Friday, June 29, 9:45; Monday, July 2, 9:45; Tuesday, July 3, 7:00; Tokyo’s squalid slums. DIR/SCR Akira Kurosawa; in a shabby traveling circus. When Zampano’s temper Thursday, July 5, 9:45 SCR Eijirô Hisaita, Ryuzo Kikushima, Hideo Oguni erupts, tragedy unfolds. Martin Scorsese, who based the Nicolas Roeg’s strange, beautiful, and nightmarish and Hayakawa Shobo, based on the novel by Evan Jake LaMotta character in on Zampano, of two siblings who become stranded in the Hunter; PROD Ryuzo Kikushima and Tomoyuki says "I was enthralled by the film's resolution, where the Australian outback after their father inexplicably Tanaka. Japan, 1963, color, 143 min. In Japanese power of the spirit overwhelms brute force." DIR/SCR goes mad. As the adolescent sister and 6-year-old with English subtitles. NOT RATED ; SCR Tullio Pinelli and Ennio Flajan; brother wander, they join a teenaged Aborigine boy PROD Dino De Laurentis and Carlo Ponti. Italy,

TICKETS & FULL SCHEDULE at WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER n 5 THE DUKE: JOHN WAYNE CENTENNIAL May 12 through July 4 ostar Richard Widmark called him the “ideal Western hero,” and John ure. Sometimes he wore badges or stripes, sometimes it was just in the way CWayne’s screen persona indeed projected authority, assurance and he walked. He played younger than he was throughout the , but won resolve. Though the image was carefully calculated, it largely avoided the his first and only Oscar for TRUE GRIT in 1970, by then an old man playing clichés and easy formulations of the Western genre and put Wayne in a old man roles and excelling at them. This ten-film series of the Duke’s best class by himself. Nearly three decades after his death, he still dominates the work celebrates the centennial of a true screen icon. popular idea of the Old West. All films Not Rated Perennially underrated as an actor, Wayne made up for his limited range AFI member passes will be accepted at all screenings in the of roles with virtuoso portrayals of his signature character: the authority fig- John Wayne Centennial Series.

SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON Friday, May 25, 4:00; Saturday, May 26, 3:00; Monday, May 28, 3:30 John Wayne's favorite role—YELLOW RIBBON's Cavalry Captain Nathan Brittles—inaugurated a major element of the Wayne persona: the beloved leader of men with an air of easy authority. Brittles, set to retire, takes on a final mission to protect both his fort community and the local Indian tribe from impending attack by hostile Indians. DIR ; SCR Frank Nugent and Laurence Stallings. US, 1949, color, 103 min. NOT RATED t s e f o t o h P

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y s e t r u o FORT APACHE c Sunday, May 27, 9:30; Monday, May 28, 1:00; Monday, May 30, 9:20 ed son , setting up an Oedipal ous than merciful. DIR John Ford; SCR Frank S. John Ford’s two greatest leading men, Henry Fonda showdown. DIR/PROD ; SCR Nugent, based on the novel by Alan Le May; PROD and John Wayne, are pitted against each other as Borden Chase and Charles Schnee. US, 1948, b&w, C.V. Whitney. US, 1956, color, 119 min. NOT RATED rivalrous officers in the 7th Cavalry of 1870s Texas. 133 min. In English and Spanish with English sub- When Fonda’s bull-headedness and glory-seeking lead titles. NOT RATED him and his men into a massacre, Wayne must race the to avert disaster. The superb supporting cast THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE #76 on AFI’s 100 Years…100 Passions includes Ford stalwarts , George O’Brien Friday, June 29, 4:30; Sunday, July 1, 8:30; Wednesday, July 4, 1:00 and Victor McLaglen. DIR John Ford. US, 1948, THE QUIET MAN “When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.” John b&w, 125 min. NOT RATED Friday, June 8, 4:00; Saturday, June 9, 3:30; Sunday, June 10, 1:00 Ford’s haunting tribute to the men who built the Old West. Seven Oscar nominations and wins for photography and Sharp-shooter John Wayne is a well-respected but rough- Best Director—John Ford’s sixth and last Oscar. After a and-tumble individualist in love with pretty waitress Vera mishap in the ring, American boxing champ John Wayne Miles. When Jimmy Stewart comes to town armed only returns to his native Ireland and falls for the charms of with a law degree and idealism, the two men quickly butt fiery redhead Maureen O’Hara. Her shifty brother Victor heads, but when outlaw Lee Marvin threatens the peace, McLaglen is eager to marry her off, but when McLagen they unite—and in the process usher in statehood and mod- fails to deliver the dowry, O’Hara informs Wayne there’ll ern ideals of law and order. DIR John Ford; SCR James be no peace until he gets it for her—amid much comic Warner Bellah and Willis Goldbeck; PROD Willis mayhem. DIR/PROD John Ford; SCR Frank S. Goldbeck. US, 1962, b&w, 123 min. NOT RATED Nugent; PROD Merian C. Cooper, G.B. Forbes, and L.T. Rosso. US, 1952, color, 129 min. In English t s e f and Irish Gaelic with English subtitles. NOT RIO BRAVO o t o h P

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TUYA’S MARRIAGE [TUYA DE HUN SHI] DATE TIME TK Winner of the Golden Bear at this year’s Film Festival. Though conditions in her village are unforgiv- t ing, Tuya refuses to migrate to the city, preferring to s e f o t o h P stay with her disabled husband Bater, two children and f o

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TICKETS & FULL SCHEDULE at WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER n 9 REDISCOVER NORTHERN IRELAND May 31 through June 5 One of the regions featured in this year’s ma at the AFI Silver. This terrific lineup of “fil- Special thanks. Special thanks TK. Special thanks Smithsonian Folklife Festival, Northern Ireland’s lums” includes more than a few familiar faces, Tk. Special thanks.Special thanks TK. Special rich artistic and cultural heritage—from ceramics as well as some promising new talents. thanks Tk. to music to poetry—will be on display in the Special thanks TK. Special thanks Tk. Special Nation’s capital beginning this spring, with cine- thanks.Special thanks TK. Special thanks Tk. AFI member passes will be accepted at all screenings in the Northern ireland Film Series.

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BREAKFAST ON PLUTO OMAGH ed performances from Liam Neeson, CHILD casts a critical eye on Irish family TKCredits TKCredits TKCredits Brendan Gleeson, and Gavin Friday. life as the discovery of a wild child, kept TKCredits TKCredits TK THE CRYING GAME DIR/SCR/PROD , based Saturday, June 2, 5:00 on novel by Pat McCabe; PROD Alan in a garden shed, exposes the hypocrisies Fifteen years ago, Neil Jordan’s THE Moloney and Stephen Woolley. of a rural Irish family. DIR/SCR CRYING GAME parlayed an ingenious Ireland/UK, 2005, color, 135 min. Bernard MacLaverty; PROD Andrew and unprecedented plot twist into a word- RATED R Bonner. UK, 2003, color, 15 min. of-mouth sensation, becoming a sleeper hit and culminating in six Oscar nominations and a Best Screenplay win for Jordan. MIDDLETOWN OMAGH IRA grunt Stephen Rea has a bonding Monday, June 4, 7:00 Tuesday, June 5, 7:00 experience with his British soldier hostage An extraordinarily sensitive examination of Forest Whitaker. Later, Rea finds himself When zealous young priest Matthew the “Real IRA’s” bombing in the border becoming involved with Whitaker’s girl- MacFadyen (PRIDE & PREJUDICE) friend, calling into question his identity— returns to his Irish hometown from mis- town of Omagh in 1998, written and pro- as well as hers. Miranda Richardson daz- sionary work abroad, he begins an aggres- duced by (BLOODY zles as an icy IRA enforcer, intent on test- sive campaign for church-going and pub- SUNDAY, UNITED 93). Gerard McSorley ing Rea’s loyalties. DIR/SCR Neil avoiding, throwing him into conflict with gives a powerful performance as the leader Jordan; PROD Stephen Woolley. his pub-owner brother and independent- of the victims’ families, seeking justice in UK/Japan, 1992, color, 112 min. minded sister-in-law. Gerard McSorley the delicate political climate of the early (THE CONSTANT GARDENER, days after the peace treaty. DIR Pete OMAGH) is the father torn by his love Tavis, SCR Paul Greengrass and Guy for two warring sons in this neo-Gothic BREAKFAST ON PLUTO thriller, reminiscent of the psychological Hibbert; PROD Paul Greengrass and Saturday, June 2, 7:45 Westerns of . DIR Brian Ed Guiney. Ireland/UK, 2004, color, 106 Cillian Murphy shines in Neil Jordan’s Kirk; SCR Daragh Carville; PROD min. RATED PG-13 Candide-like tale set during the 1960s Michael Casey. UK/Ireland, 2006, color, and 1970s in Ireland and England. As 88 min. NOT RATED WITH Patrick “Kitten” Braden, Murphy grows from a foundling in small-town Ireland TELL IT TO THE FISHES into a female impersonator in , WITH A Beckett-like black comedy, featuring relying on his wit and good heart in BYE-CHILD Gerard McSorley and comedian Dylan ever-harsher circumstances, ultimately Directed by Northern Irish Booker Moran as two small-time crooks standing learning that sometimes you can go Prize–nominated novelist Bernard on a beach in concrete boots as the tide is home again. A fanciful, colorful epic MacLaverty and based on a poem by coming in. Credits TK Credits that manages to be both pointedly polit- Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney, BYE- TKCredits TKCredits TKCredits ical and lightly comic, with high-spirit-

TICKETS & FULL SCHEDULE at WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER n 11 THE BEST OF BUSTER KEATON May 6 through July 1 umor has it that as a very young child, Joseph Francis Keaton, Jr. tumbled down a flight of stairs, ending up unharmed and unfazed at the bottom. RHarry Houdini (a fellow Vaudeville performer with Keaton’s parents) remarked, “What a buster your baby took!” and the name stuck. A vaudevillian from the age of five, Keaton began his film career with Fatty Arbuckle at the age of 21, and began directing and starring in his own films a couple of years later. The films from this silent era are his most enduring—and are inventive, visionary, and as funny as anything that has followed. Unlike his contemporaries Chaplin or , Keaton does not mug; he does not implore his audience; he watches calmly along with the audience as chaos unfolds and reacts with his trademark smarts, physical skill and elegance.

#18 on AFI’s 100 Years…100 Live Musical Performances #62 on AFI’s 100 Years…100 Laughs Laughs “Boister’s performances of original scores for classic Buster Keaton films have won widespread praise from critics includ- SHERLOCK JR. THE GENERAL with THE BLACKSMITH ing . Boister’s spirited live shows have quickened Sunday, May 27, 3:30 Sunday, May 13, 3:30 pulses up and down the East Coast, and the band has Keaton’s most beloved comedic master- appeared at a variety of venues, including the World Cafe, the Movie theater projectionist and amateur detective Keaton is piece was a critical and box office failure Kennedy Center, numerous college campuses, and last years dejected when he is falsely accused of stealing the watch of his upon release. Proud confederate railroad engineer Keaton tries to join the army to NXNE Festival in Toronto.” best girl’s father. Framed by his romantic rival, the dastardly “sheik,” he unhappily goes back to the movie house and falls make his girlfriend proud. When they asleep in the projection room. Through a series of inventive reject him, deeming his profession a valu- camera tricks well ahead of their time, Keaton is transported able southern asset, she rejects him too. into the film onscreen, envisioning himself as the triumphant When Northern spies steal his locomo- tive—and along with it his girl—Keaton wooer and crack detective Sherlock, Jr. DIR Buster Keaton; springs into daring action. Deadpan, pitch- SCR , Jean Havez, Joe Mitchell; PROD perfect comedic timing and Keaton’s Joseph M. Schenck. US, 1924, b&w, 44 min. NOT RATED incredible physical talent result in one of Preceded by THE BLACKSMITH. When a blacksmith is the greatest silent-era comedies. DIR/SCR arrested, his apprentice Keaton must take over with laugh-out- Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton; loud results. PROD Buster Keaton and Joseph M. Schenck. US, 1927, b&w, 75 min. NOT #81 on AFI’s 100 Years…100 Laughs RATED THE NAVIGATOR Sunday, May 20, 4:00 After Keaton begged producer with THE PALEFACE Joseph Schneck to purchase an Live music by Boister old ocean liner to use as a prop Sunday, June 3, 2:00 OUR HOSPITALITY on a film, he and comedic part- Live music by Boister ner Clyde Bruckman came up Keaton is a young lawyer poised to inherit $7 million at 7 o’clock on his 27th birth- Sunday, May 6, 2:00 with the storyline of THE NAV- day—if he is married. Rebuffed by his In this spoof on family feuds and genteel codes of honor, IGATOR, Keaton’s biggest com- childhood sweetheart who thinks he only Keaton is a New Yorker surprised to learn he has inherited an mercial success. Pampered rich wants to marry her for the money, Keaton estate down south. On the train he meets pretty Virgina boy Keaton falls in love with a looks for a stand-in without success until Canfield (Natalie Talmadge) who invites him home for din- pampered rich girl. When she his buddy prints his story in the local ner. Keaton soon learns of his true lineage as the last surviv- rebuffs his marriage proposal, he paper. Soon he is up to his eyes in ing son of the McCay family, the Canfield’s sworn enemies. sails to on a whim— women as he is chased by hordes of A true family affair, Keaton’s wife plays the heroine, his son unaware that she is on the same boat due to some strange and wannabe brides down the Los Angeles plays Keaton as a baby and his father plays the locomotive very funny circumstances. DIR Donald Crisp and Buster streets. DIR Buster Keaton; SCR Clyde engineer. DIR Jack Blystone; SCR Clyde Bruckman. US, Keaton; SCR Clyde Bruckman, Jean Havez, Joseph Bruckman; PROD Joseph M. Schenck. 1923, b&w, 74 min. NOT RATED Mitchell; PROD Buster Keaton. US, 1924, b&w, 59 min. NOT RATED US, 1925, b&w, 56 min. English. NOT RATED

12 n TICKETS & FULL SCHEDULE at WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER KEATON SHAKESPEARE CINEMA Preceded by THE PALEFACE. Keaton is a naïve butterfly collector who inadvertently stumbles into a May 12 through June 27 land dispute between a Native American tribe and AFI Silver concludes its Shakespeare Cinema series with one of the greedy oil tycoons. greatest screen adaptations of the Bard by one of his greatest inter- preters: Laurence Olivier’s HAMLET. In a lighter vein, look for Tom AFI member passes will be Stoppard’s clever gloss on the same play, ROSENCRANTZ AND accepted at all screenings in GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD, as well as ’s trailblazing cult the Shakespeare in the classic, MY OWN PRIVATE , a delirious love letter to, among Cimema Series. other things, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2.

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—MICHAEL ATKINSON, THE VILLAGE VOICE Saturday, May 12, 9:15; May 19, 9:30; Wednesday, May 16 COLLEGE Gus Van Sant audaciously transposes Shakespeare’s Sunday, June 10, 4:00 Henry IV into a male hustler’s demi-monde in When Keaton arrives at school he learns that jocks Portland, Oregon. gives a heartbreak- get all the girls. Attempting to impress pretty co-ed ing performance as a dreamy—narcoleptic, in fact— Anne Cornwall, he tries an assortment of sports with gay prostitute in love with rich kid —a varying degrees of hilarious failure. Out of pity, his dean gives him a shot on the rowing team where he naïve and penniless Ned Poins to Reeves’ calculatedly somehow manages to become victorious. Infuriated, slumming . Cult star William Richert his rival Harold Goodwin kidnaps Cornwall out of impresses as “Bob Pigeon,” the boys’ bad-influence revenge. Of course, Keaton comes to the rescue with Falstaff figure. Comically trashy and achingly his famed physical grace and athleticism. DIR James poignant, Van Sant’s vision remains true to the larger W. Horne; SCR Bryan Foy and Carl Harbaugh; themes of the source material. DIR/SCR Gus Van t

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TICKETS & FULL SCHEDULE at WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER n 13 SPECIAL ENGAGEMENTS SUMMER PALACE [YIHE YUAN] #51 on AFI’s 100 Years…100 Movies instead. Enter journalist Stewart who also falls head over Friday, May 4, 9:10; Sunday, May 6, 4:45 #15 on AFI’s 100 Years…100 Laughs heels for Hepburn as the three men vie for her affections. DIR George Cukor; SCR Donald Ogden Stewart, This erotically charged epic of the post–Cultural THE STORY based on play by Phillip Barry; PROD Joseph L. Revolution generation made waves at the 2006 Cannes Friday, May 11, 4:00; Saturday, May 12, 1:00; May 13, 7:10 Mankiewicz. US, 1940, b&w, 112 min. NOT RATED Film Festival and recently appeared in the “Distributor Nominated for 6 and 's Wanted section of Film Comment. Director Lou Ye sole Oscar win, this intensely likeable screwball comedy marked Katherine MONTEREY POP (SUZHOU RIVER; PURPLE BUTTERFLY) charts the Hepburn's return to the top Saturday, June 30, 6:30 & 11:00; Tuesday, July 3, 9:05; sentimental education of Yu Hong—played by stunning of the Hollywood food Wednesday, July 4, 6:30, 8:15, & 10:00 newcomer Hao Lei—from small town life in the border- chain. Hepburn plays a MONTEREY POP is the definitive documentary record of lands through wild years at Beijing University to the demanding socialite about The Monterey International Pop Festival, June 16–18, 1967, a hard-earned wisdom of adulthood. Generational sign- to put her first marriage to window in time that still shapes our culture today and was the key event of the “Summer of Love.” Produced by Lou Adler posts—Tiananmen Square, the Berlin Wall, cell arrogant play-boy Cary Grant behind her with an and John Phillips of The Mamas and The Papas, Monterey phones—give Yu’s story global resonance. DIR/SCR Ye impending marriage to THE PHILADELPHIA STORY was the first major rock festival. Multi-racial and international, Lou; SCR Feng Mei, and Ma Yingli; PROD Sylvian boring, but reliable, self-made man, John Howard. When it presented a pantheon of new rock stars to the world—per- Bursztejn, Li Fang, and An Nai. China/France, 2006, Grant learns that 'Spy formers including Jimi Hendrix, Otis Redding, Jefferson color, 140 min. In Mandarin and German with Magazine' intends to scandalize her philandering father, he Airplane, The Who, and Simon and Garfunkel. (Note courtesy English subtitles. NOT RATED promises the editor the scoop of a lifetime on the wedding SXSW) DIR D.A. Pennebaker; PROD Lou Adler John Phillips. US, 1968, color, 78 min. NOT RATED

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18 19 n THE MAKIOKA SISTERS 6:45 20 n THE MAKIOKA SISTERS 6:45 21 n LA STRADA 7:00 22 n THE SEARCHERS 7:00 23 n THE MAKIOKA SISTERS 1:45 n MURDER TAKE ONE 9:30 n THE PRESIDENT’S LAST n MURDER TAKE ONE 9:20 n THE PRESIDENT’S LAST n THE SEARCHERS 4:30 17 BANG 9:30 BANG 9:30 n LA STRADA 7:00 n ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD 9:30 24 n STEAMBOAT BILL JR. W 25 n THE SEARCHERS 7:00 26 n LA STRADA 7:00 27 n THE SEARCHERS 7:00 28 n THE SEARCHERS 7:00 29 n THE MAN WHO SHOT 30 n THE MAN WHO SHOT THE SCARECROW 2:00 n ROSENCRATZ AND n A BITTERSWEET LIFE 9:20 n ROSENCRANTZ AND n A BITTERSWEET LIFE 9:25 LIBERTY VALANCE 4:30 LIBERTY VALANCE 1:00 GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD n RIO BRAVO 7:00 n HIGH AND LOW 3:45 9:20 9:20 n WALKABOUT 9:45 n MONTEREY POP 6:30, 11:00 n RIO BRAVO 8:15 JULY 1 n HIGH AND LOW 1:00 2 n HIGH AND LOW 7:00 3 n WALKABOUT 7:00 4 n THE MAN WHO SHOT 5 n HIGH AND LOW 7:00 6 n THE CAMERAMAN 4:00 n WALKABOUT 9:45 n MONTEREY POP 9:05 LIBERTY VALANCE 1:00 n WALKABOUT 9:45 n RIO BRAVO 5:45 n RIO BRAVO 3:30 n THE MAN WHO SHOT n MONTEREY POP 6:30, 8:15, LIBERTY VALANCE 8:30 10:00 COLOR KEY n Korean Films n Janus n John Wayne n China Film n Northern Ireland n Keaton n Shakespeare n Special Centennial Festival Cinema Engagements

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