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CONTENTS SPECIAL ENGAGEMENTS 2 ’S original THE DEPARTED’s Hong Kong Original 3 Cenntennial INFERNAL AFFAIRS 5 Masterworks The complete trilogy! 7 Sundays at the Silver With Arch Campbell artin Scorsese’s smash hit THE DEPARTED 8 The Cool World of Shirley Clarke was based on this incendiary Hong Kong original, now coming to AFI Silver for a Triple Feature!!! 9 The Films of M special limited engagement. The trilogy boasts the Friday, March 9 10 Environmental Film Festival mega-talents of director/writer/superstar See All THREE Films in the INFERNAL AFFAIRS TRILOGY as the dirty cop and superstar Tony Leung as the for one Admission! 11 Cinema Tropical undercover cop in too deep with the . The INFERNAL AFFAIRS 7:00 smash hit original stands alone as action-packed 12 Shakespeare in the Cinema INFERNAL AFFAIRS 2 9:10 entertainment, while the two sequels it spawned INFERNAL AFFAIRS 3 11:30 Special Guest move forward and backward in time, exploring $12/$9 AFI MEMBERS Keith Baxter with other characters’ story arcs and angles. 13 THE GUATEMALAN HANDSHAKE; CATCHING THE MUSIC

14 What is AFI Silver, HOW DO I JOIN?

15 Repertory Calendar—Full schedule at www.AFI.com/Silver

16 TWO OR THREE THINGS I KNOW ABOUT courtesy of Photofest courtesy of Photofest HER -- One Week Only! courtesy of Photofest INFERNAL AFFAIRS [Mou Gaan Dou] devised an ingenious prequel, set during the moles’ formative LOOK FOR THE member years at the police academy as they are making names for them- Friday, March 9, 7:00; Saturday, March 10, 6:15 & 8:20; Wednesday, passes accepted for designated selves among the cops and the Triad. Powerful back-stories fur- March 14, 7:00; Thursday, March 15, 7:00 screenings. To find out how to ther illuminate the characters’ relationships and conflicts, as the become a member of AFI, see A cop goes undercover as a gangster while, simultaneously, a plot moves with chess-like precision to the point where the origi- page 14. gangster infiltrates the police force. These sleeper agents live nal story begins. DIR/PROD and ; underground for a decade before a series of mistakes clues in SCR and Alan Mak. Hong Kong, 2003, color, The AFI PREVIEW is published by the American all the wrong people. Torn between conflicting father fig- 119 min. In English, Thai, Mandarin and with Film Institute. ures—an avuncular, paranoid gang boss and a morally com- Editorial offices English subtitles. RATED R American Film Institute promised police superintendent—the two moles struggle with Silver Theatre and Cultural Center their dual identities and conflicted loyalties, each one a mis- 8633 Colesville Road take away from a bullet to the head. DIR/PROD Andrew INFERNAL AFFAIRS 3 [Mou Gaan Dou III: Jung Gik Silver Spring, MD 20910 Lau and Alan Mak; SCR Felix Chong and Siu Fai Mak. Mou Gaan] For address changes and subscription services, Hong Kong, 2002, color/b&w, 101 min. In English, Thai contact: Friday, March 9, 11:30; Sunday March 11, 9:30; Monday, March 12, 9:00 and Cantonese with English subtitles. RATED R American Film Institute The final installment of the Hong Kong trilogy plays like an 2021 N. Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90027 extended version of THE DEPARTED’s epilogue, teasing out Attn: Membership INFERNAL AFFAIRS 2 [Mou Gaan Dou II] the time between dirty cop Andrew Lau’s murder/frame-up of his opposite number and his ultimate comeuppance. Dizzying On the cover: INFERNAL AFFAIRS photo courtesy of Friday, March 9, 9:10; Saturday March 10, 10:30; Sunday, March 11, Photofest 7:20; Tuesday, March 13, 9:00; Wednesday, March 14, 9:05; Thursday, flashbacks revisit the tangled skein of the trilogy’s story line March 15, 9:05 and its many vibrant characters—a dreamlike farewell to its Editor: Susan Cooke Anastasi high-octane precursors. DIR/PROD Andrew Lau and Alan Production Coordinator: Marie Figueredo As anyone familiar with THE DEPARTED’s bloody finale Design: Anna Joyce, Post-Newsweek Media, Inc. might guess, the runaway success of the original INFERNAL Mak; SCR Felix Chong and Alan Mak. Hong Kong, 2003, Information is correct at press time. Films and schedule AFFAIRS presented problems for creating a sequel. So the writ- color, 119 min. In English, Thai, Mandarin and Cantonese subject to change. ing/directing team of Andrew Lau, Alan Mak and Felix Chong with English subtitles. RATED R Check www.AFI.com/Silver for updates. 2 TICKETS & FULL SCHEDULE at WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER FRED ZINNEMANN CENTENNIAL courtesy of Photofest March 23 through April 24 pril 29 marks the 100th anniversary THE SEARCH of director Fred Zinnemann’s birth. The Friday, March 23, 4:45 & 9:50; Monday, A career of one of Hollywood’s most March 26, 7:00; Tuesday, March 27, 8:45; distinguished directors is even more remarkable Thursday, March 29, 9:30 in light of his early struggles. As an Austrian Nominated for five Academy émigré in 1930s Hollywood, Zinnemann couldn’t get hired based on his sole credit Awards including Best Actor for directing the German MENSCHEN and Best Director AM SONNTAG. (In time, this credit took on for Zinnemann, THE SEARCH went greater luster: the creative team on this film on to win two awards for Best included future expats Curt and Robert Screenplay and a special honorary Siodmak, Edgar G. Ulmer and .) Oscar for Ivan Jande. Clift is devas- Zinnemann bounced around the studios tating in his film debut as a compas- working as a camera assistant, and even as sionate American GI in postwar an extra on the classic ALL QUIET ON THE courtesy of Photofest WESTERN FRONT, where he was fired after Germany who finds Jande wander- arguing with an assistant director. A project ing the streets. As Clift nurses the with documentary trail-blazer Robert Flaherty boy back to health, he makes plans HIGH NOON never panned out, but Flaherty’s influence to adopt him and take him back to Friday, March 30, 7:00; Saturday, March 31, 6:30; Sunday, April 1, 5:00; Wednesday, April 4, proved powerful on Zinnemann’s next project, the States, not knowing that Jande’s 5:30 ; Thursday, April 5, 7:00 the proto-neorealist REDES (THE WAVE), shot in mother is alive and searching franti- Nominated for seven including Best Director and Best with photographer Paul Strand. The cally for her son. DIR Fred Picture. won Best Actor for his turn as a retired marshall forced picture received positive notices, earning Zinnemann; SCR Richard to defend himself against a vengeful nemesis let out of jail on a technicality. Zinnemann a humble break: a job in MGM’s Schweizer and David Wechsler; This classic Western unfolds in real time, as the minutes count down to a duel short subjects department. He graduated to B at high noon. Penned by the blacklisted , HIGH NOON also features, battled for better material (going as PROD Oscar Duby and Lazar serves as an allegory of the terror that paralyzed Hollywood during far as refusing assignments and going on Wechsler. /US, 1948, McCarthyism. DIR Fred Zinnemann; SCR Carl Foreman, based on the suspension) and finally broke through in b&w, 105 min. NOT RATED story by John W. Cunningham; PROD . US, 1952, b&w, 1948 with THE SEARCH. The film benefited 85 min. NOT RATED from Zinnemann’s penchant for realism (shot on location in war-ravaged central Europe with refugee children as actors) and his remarkable eye for promising young talent, Friday, March 30, 5:00; Sunday, April 1, 1:00; Monday, April 2, 7:00; Tuesday, April 3, 9:00 in this case Montgomery Clift in his screen Respected family man and successful contractor is a World War debut. Other discoveries and debuts included II veteran who is building and dedicating a war monument to his fallen , and . comrades. When arrives in Van Heflin’s sleepy hometown The film earned Zinnemann the first of his seven Oscar nominations for Best Director. wild-eyed and determined to kill him, it becomes clear that there may be In a career spanning almost 50 years, some secrets that Van Heflin would do anything—even kill—to keep. Mary Zinnemann earned 11 Oscar nominations and Astor as a lady of the night and as Van Heflin’s unsuspecting five wins (including Best Picture and Best wife round out the superb cast. DIR Fred Zinnemann; SCR Robert L. Director for 1966’s Richards and Collier Young; PROD William H. Wright. US, 1948, and Best Director for 1952’s FROM HERE TO b&w, 82 min. NOT RATED ETERNITY).

AFI member passes will be accepted for courtesy of Photofest all films in the Zinnemann Series. ACT OF VIOLENCE

TICKETS & FULL SCHEDULE at WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER 3 FRED ZINNEMANN CENTENNIAL Friday, April 6, 3:00; Saturday, April 7, 1:00; Sunday, April 8, 1:30; Monday, April 9,1:30 This melodrama features Zinnemann’s most iconographic scene—adulterous lovers Burt Lancaster and kissing in the surf. Nominated for 13 Academy Awards, nabbing Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor for and Best Supporting Actress for . Set on an Oahu Army base in the days leading up to Pearl Harbor, the all-star cast includes Montgomery Clift and Ernest Borgnine, who trade punches and betray each other —unaware of the peril to come. DIR Fred Zinnemann; SCR , based on the novel by ; PROD Buddy Adler. US, 1953,

b&w, 118 min. NOT RATED courtesy of Photofest FROM HERE TO ETERNITY OKLAHOMA! whose wife (Deborah Kerr) and son want finds that his first wife Catherine of A first-rate suspense thriller about a fic- Sunday, April 8, 4:00; Monday, April 9, 4:00 to settle down and buy a family farm. DIR Aragon cannot produce an heir, he wants tional plot to murder the president of Fred Zinnemann; SCR Isobel Lennart, a divorce to pursue the young Anne , Charles DeGaulle. Code-named The first Rodgers and Hammerstein collab- based on the novel by Jon Cleary; Boleyn (). A man used the jackal, is an aristocratic oration to reach the silver screen was nom- PROD Gerry Blatner. UK/Australia, to operating with impunity, Shaw must British citizen who specializes in this sort inated for four Academy Awards, winning 1960, color, 133 min. NOT RATED overcome resistance from the pious and of intrigue for the right price. Fox is Best Score of a Musical Picture. Shirley much respected Scofield. pitch-perfect as he charms, forges, lies Jones makes her screen debut as a strong- and round out the superb cast. and steals his way toward his target while headed country girl who falls in love with A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS equally stubborn cowboy Gordon MacRae DIR/PROD Fred Zinnemann; SCR the doggedly determined French inspector Friday April 20, 4:30 & 7:00; Saturday, April 21, in turn-of-the-century Oklahoma Territory. . UK, 1966, color, 120 min. works to stop him. 5:15; Sunday, April 22, 1:00; Tuesday, April 24, When Gloria Grahame must choose RATED G DIR Fred Zinnemann; SCR Kenneth between stable sweetheart Gene Nelson 6:30 Ross, based on the novel by Frederick and the noncommittal, smooth-talking This multi_Academy Award_winning THE DAY OF THE JACKAL Forsyth; PROD John Woolf. Eddie Albert, musical mayhem ensues. adaptation of Henry VIII finds Robert UK/France, 1973, color, 145 min. Friday, April 20, 9:25; Monday, April 23, 8:45; Classic songs include Oklahoma and Oh, Shaw as Henry VIII and as RATED PG Tuesday, April 24, 9:00 What a Beautiful Mornin’. DIR Fred his rival Sir . When the king Zinnemann; SCR and William Ludwig, based on the play by Lynn Riggs and Oscar Hammerstein II; PROD Arthur Hornblow Jr. US, 1955, color, 145 min. RATED G

THE SUNDOWNERS Friday, April 13, 4:20; Saturday, April 14, 6:00; Monday, April 16, 6:30; Wednesday, April 18, 5:30 & 9:00 Nominated for five Academy Awards including Best Director and Best Picture. is the patriarch of a courtesy of Photofest nomadic Australian sheep-herding family courtesy of Photofest THE SUNDOWNERS A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS

4 TICKETS & FULL SCHEDULE at WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER KENJI MIZOGUCHI MASTERWORKS “If you have never witnessed the visual equivalent of perfect pitch, or understood how a single All New 35mm Prints! tracking shot can feel like a declaration of faith, here is your chance.”

– ANTHONY LANE, THE NEW YORKER

“There’s more experience, more beauty and more elegant craftsmanship in these half-dozen pictures than most directors manage to get onto a movie screen in a lifetime.” courtesy Janus Films/Criterion Collection – TERRENCE RAFFERTY, March 16 through April 26 enji Mizoguchi is universally [Gion No acknowledged as one of the K masters of Japanese cinema, Shimai] and for many, his name is included Friday, March 16, 6:00; Saturday March 17, on the short list of world greats. 5:45; Tuesday, March 20, 7:00; Thursday, March Mizoguchi made the use of long-take 22, 7:30 scenes, long-shot compositions and a The first true burgeoning of Mizoguchi’s gently tracking camera his stylistic trademarks, his only peer being the long-shot, long-take, fluidly tracking great Max Ophuls. Mizoguchi's visual camera style, and his only film to win flair alone makes his films must-sees ’s Oscar equivalent. In the Gion, on the big screen, and when you Kyoto’s traditional pleasure quarter, sib- consider his compelling stories and lings and geishas Yoko Umemura and signature themes—characters’ the great Isuzu Yamada (later cast as romantic idealism pitted against the Kurosawa’s Lady Macbeth) bring differ- constraints of society—the Japanese ent attitudes to their work, the first tradi- auteur’s works become essential viewing. Despite Mizoguchi’s reputa- tional, the latter cynically modern—until tion as a stern taskmaster on set, the Yamada’s smart mouth brings big trou- great actress Kinuya Tanaka worked ble. DIR/SCR Kenji Mizoguchi; SCR with him more than a dozen times, in , based on the novel by

some of her greatest roles, including Aleksandr Kuprin; PROD Masaichi courtesy Janus Films/Criterion Collection UTAMARO AND HIS FIVE WOMEN, Nagata. Japan, 1936, b&w, 95 min. THE STORY OF THE LAST CHRYSANTHEMUM [Zangiku Monogatari] THE LIFE OF OHARU, , and NOT RATED . A landmark retrospective of Mizoguchi films “Kenji Mizoguchi’s grand, ambitious melodrama has the toured North America 10 years ago; timeless poignancy of legend. Mizoguchi sustains a faith in now AFI offers seven of his most THE STORY OF THE LAST accomplished films, all in stunning art even as he tallies its unbearable real-life price.” new 35mm prints. CHRYSANTHEMUM [Zangiku Monogatari] [Notes adapted from the National Gallery – RICHARD BRODY, THE NEW YORKER of Art] Friday, March 23, 7:00; Saturday, March 24, 3:30 & 9:30 fices all to make him great. Supposedly scene, one-shot method. DIR Kenji All films in Japanese with English subtitles. Arguably Mizoguchi’s greatest master- based on a true story, the film includes Mizoguchi; SCR Matsutaro strong performances (especially from Kawaguchi and Yoshikata Yoda, based AFI member passes will be piece, and one of the great films of the stage legend Shotaro Hanayagi, in his on the novel by Shofu Muramatsu; accepted at all screenings in 1930s, this (Japanese) STAR IS BORN the Mizoguchi Series. tells the tale of a young Kabuki actor first film role), a rich evocation of an PROD Nobutaro Shirai. Japan, 1939, who finds his only honest critic is a sim- unfamiliar theatrical world and the ulti- b&w, 148 min. NOT RATED ple servant maid who eventually sacri- mate expression of Mizoguchi’s one-

TICKETS & FULL SCHEDULE at WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER 5 KENJI MIZOGUCHI MASTERWORKS THE LIFE OF OHARU [Saikuku Ichidai Onna] Friday, April 6, 7:00; Saturday, April 7, 3:30 & 8:20; Tuesday, April 10, 6:30 Mizoguchi considered this his own master- piece, adapted from a classic 17th-century novel by Saikaku. Edo Period court lady —the great actress whose career was synonymous with Mizoguchi’s for 15 films—is cast out for dallying with lower- class Toshiro Mifune (in his only Mizoguchi appearance). Sold to a feudal lord, Tanaka is subject to a series of humiliations and ends up a broken streetwalker. Winner of the Silver courtesy Janus Films/Criterion Collection Lion, 1952 Film Festival. UTAMARO AND HIS FIVE WOMEN [Utamaro o Meguro Gonin No Onna] DIR/SCR/PROD Kenji Mizoguchi; SCR UTAMARO AND HIS FIVE WOMEN [Utamaro o Meguro Gonin No Onna] Yoshikata Yoda, based on the novel by

Saikaku Ihara; PROD Hideo Koi. Japan, courtesy Janus Films/Criterion Collection Saturday, March 31, 4:20; Sunday, April 1, 9:35; Wednesday April 4, 8:20 1952, b&w, 133 min. NOT RATED THE LIFE OF OHARU [Saikuku Ichidai Onna] Legendary 18th-century ukiyo-e printmaker Utamaro (Minosuke Bando) is the neutral center of a series of emotional intrigues among the five courtesans who are his favorite models. A rare period film from the early Occupation, this fic- “I have seen SANSHO THE BAILIFF only once, a decade ago, tionalized portrait provides obvious parallels with its director—a painter in pri- emerging from the cinema a broken man but calm in my conviction vate life—as well as correlations to attitudes toward love and censorship. DIR Kenji Mizoguchi; SCR Yoshikata Yoda, based on the novel by Kanji that I had never seen anything better.” Kunieda; PROD Isamo Motoki. Japan, 1946, b&w, 106 min. NOT —ANTHONY LANE, THE NEW YORKER RATED SANSHO THE BAILIFF [Sansho Dayu] Friday, April 13, 7:00; Saturday, April 14, 1:00; Monday, April 16, 9:10; Thursday, April 19, 9:10 “No one will ever make a better ghost story than UGETSU.” Epic in sweep but poetic in its consideration of revenge and forgiveness. In medieval Japan, the family of a disgraced aristocrat is dispersed when the father is , the son and daugh- – BRUCE BENNETT, THE NEW YORK SUN ter are enslaved and the mother is sold into prostitution. After many years, the grown son assumes his rightful post as provincial governor and sets about deposing the cruel bailiff who UGETSU [Ugetsu brought tragedy upon his family. Winner of the , 1954 . DIR Monogatari] Kenji Mizoguchi; SCR Fuji Yahiro and Yoshikata Yoda, based on the story by Ogai Saturday, March 31, 8:30; Sunday, Mori; PROD . Japan, 1954, b&w, 120 min. NOT RATED April 1, 3:00; Tuesday, April 3, 7:00; Thursday, April 5, 9:00 [Akasen Chitai] During the 16th-century civil wars Saturday, April 21, 3:15; Sunday, April 22, 9:15; in Japan, ambitious potter Thursday, April 26, 6:30 Masayuki Mori leaves his wife With this, his last film, Mizoguchi Kinuyo Tanaka to sell his wares in reportedly had a strong influence on town, only to be seduced by the Japan’s anti-prostitution laws passed the ghost princess Machiko Kyo. But year after his death. The Japanese title is when Kyo’s spell is finally broken, courtesy Janus Films/Criterion Collection Akasen Chitai, literally, Red Light Mori returns to a devastated vil- UGETSU [Ugetsu Monogatari] District. As rumors buzz about an lage. The illusory nature of ambi- impending anti-prostitution law, the lives tion and desire is reinforced by the superb photography of and of the ladies of Tokyo’s Dreamland courtesy Janus Films/Criterion Collection powerful acting from the star trio. Winner of the Silver Lion, 1953 Venice Film brothel unfold—from bespectacled STREET OF SHAME [Akasen Chitai] Festival, and number four on the ’s 1962 Top Ten Poll. DIR housewife Michiyo Kogure to yen-counting Ayako Kenji Mizoguchi; SCR Yoshikata Yoda, based on the stories of Akinari Ueda; Wakao, to veteran period heroine Machiko Kyo’s raucously Americanized “Mickey.” DIR PROD Masaichi Nagata. Japan, 1953, b&w, 94 min. NOT RATED Kenji Mizoguchi; SCR Masashige Narusawa, based on the novel by Yoshiko Shibaki; PROD Masaichi Nagata. Japan, 1956, b&w, 87 min. NOT RATED

6 TICKETS & FULL SCHEDULE at WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER SUNDAYS AT THE SILVER WITH ARCH CAMPBELL

March 18 through April 22

ello, Fellow Film Lovers! As an entertainment One of the first things I did upon moving to reporter with WRC-TV for the past 32 years, I Washington, DC was to become a member of AFI, H have viewed more than 5,000 films. This and since then I have spent many happy hours at year, as I move to WJLA-TV, ABC 7 News as their AFI Silver Theatre watching the best in cinema. So new entertainment and arts reporter, I invite you to let’s make a date—join me Sundays at the Silver! join me at AFI Silver Theatre every Sunday evening VISIT WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER FOR FULL FILM beginning March 18 to watch some of my favorite films and join me in discussion afterward. DESCRIPTIONS AND SERIES INFORMATION.

#26 on AFI’s 100 Years…100 Laughs #1 on AFI’s 100 Years…100 Heros & Villains BEING THERE #5 on AFI’s 100 Years…100 Thrills #65 on AFI’s 100 Years…100 Movies Sunday, March 18, 7:00 THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS The classic Sunday, April 8, 7:00 Hal Ashby/Jerzy Kosinski One of the few Oscar sweeps in history: comedy with an Oscar- Best Film, Director, Actor, Actress and nominated performance from Peter Sellers. Screenplay. With Jodie Foster and the classically evil .

BIG NIGHT Sunday, March 25, 7:00 AMERICAN BEAUTY A smash hit bittersweet comedy about a Sunday, April 15, 7:00 struggling Italian restaurant. Tony Director 's feature film debut Shalhoub, Stanley Tucci, Ian Holm and won a Best Director Oscar—and four WEST WING's Allison Janney star. more, including a Best Actor for .

#64 on AFI’s 100 Years…100 Laughs THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA BROADCAST NEWS Sunday, April 22, 7:00 Sunday, April 1, 7:00 Last year's highly successful devastating The multi-Oscar-nominated satire starring social satire, featuring one of AFI Life William Hurt, and Albert Achievement Award honoree Meryl Brooks as ambitious Washington network Streep's greatest performances. newsies.

I’ll be sharing some of my favorite movies with Washington audiences at AFI Silver this spring. But this summer, the programmer could be YOU! AFI Silver is giving away one night this summer where YOU get to choose the films! For more information, go to www.afi.com/Silver.

TICKETS & FULL SCHEDULE at WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER 7 THE COOL WORLD OF SHIRLEY CLARKE courtesy of Photofest courtesy of Photofest March 16 through THE COOL WORLD April 10 “It gives the shattering details of rmed with the eye an excellent newspaper exposé of an Italian neo- and binds it with the conviction A realist and a New of staggering imagery.” York sensibility, Shirley – THE NEW YORK TIMES Clarke’s films stand as THE COOL WORLD benchmarks of the Friday, March 30, 9:00; Saturday, March 31, 10:30; American new wave, Monday, April 2, 9:00 influencing directors Produced by famed documentarian Frederick from John Cassavetes to Wiseman and propelled by the sounds of

courtesy of Photofest Dizzy Gillespie, this fictional snapshot of . Initially THE CONNECTION teenagers surrounded by pimps, prostitutes trained as a dancer, THE CONNECTION and corrupt cops in turbulent 1960s Harlem packs a punch still undiminished several Clarke intuitively dis- Friday, March 16, 10:10; Saturday, March 17, 12:45; Sunday, March 18, 9:35; Monday, March 19, 9:00; decades later. The enigmatic Duke is a plays a synchronicity Tuesday, March 20, 8:30 wannabe gangster who dreams of procuring among on-screen per- This beat-inflected study depicts a documentarian’s efforts to capture the drug scene as guns so he can walk tall with the thugs he formance, camera, seen through a group of heroin addicts waiting for their connection, Cowboy—the idolizes. DIR /SCR Shirley Clarke, based audio and editing. supercool Carl Lee who plays an interviewer in PORTRAIT OF JASON, a priest in on the novel by Warren Miller; PROD Continually exploring THE COOL WORLD, and was Clarke’s on-again, off-again partner of 30 years. Taken Robert Hughes. US, 1963, b&w, 52 min. from the renowned Living Theater stage play with music performed on-screen by jazz NOT RATED the boundaries between great Jackie McLean, Clarke opened THE CONNECTION to a rapturous audience in fiction and documentary, Cannes, but faced an uphill censorship battle back in the US that delayed the film’s Clarke’s lens was more release by a year and a half. DIR/PROD Shirley Clarke; SCR Jack Gelber; PROD “The most fascinating film I’ve than a recording device; Lewis M. Allen. US, 1962, color, 110 min. NOT RATED ever seen.” – it was a provocateur exploring the cinematic ROBERT FROST: A LOVER’S mentary achieves remarkable insight PORTRAIT OF JASON bond between actor, QUARREL WITH THE WORLD into an American icon. Preceded by Monday, April 9, 8:45; Tuesday, April 10, 9:20 SKYSCRAPER, this Academy Award- An unflinching portrait of Jason Holliday, an filmmaker and viewer. Sunday, March 25, 3:30; Tuesday, March 27, 7:00; Wednesday, March 28, 7:00 winning short features a jazzy score of openly gay African-American hustler who AFI member passes will _ beat-style poems and songs blended speaks frankly and explicitly of his childhood be accepted to all screen- Clarke’s Academy Award winning doc- with the voices of actors playing con- in Alabama, his life as a prostitute and his ings in the Clarke Series. umentary is an intimate portrait of struction workers as they construct the dreams of cabaret stardom. Through a cloud Robert Frost completed before his Tishman Building on Fifth Avenue in of marijuana smoke and a bottle of vodka, death at age 88. Crosscutting his pro- New York. DIR /SCR Shirley Clarke; Jason performs, philosophizes and wails fessional life as a public figure and PROD Robert Hughes. US, 1963, through this compelling and challenging clas- honored poet laureate with the private b&w, 52 min. NOT RATED sic. DIR/SCR/PROD Shirley Clarke. US, man at his home in Vermont, this docu- 1967, b&w, 105 min. NOT RATED

8 TICKETS & FULL SCHEDULE at WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER THE FILMS OF JACQUES TATI Monsieur Hulot first appeared in LES VACANCES DE M. HULOT. Arriving at a seaside hotel in his battered old car, M. Hulot’s series of adventures reduce his vacation to chaos. DIR/SCR/PROD Jacques Tati; SCR Henri Marquet; PROD Fred Orain. France, 1953, b&w, 85 min. NOT RATED courtesy of Photofest

March 24 through April 23 hough Jacques Tati directed and acted in only 5 hilarious feature courtesy of Photofest T PLAY TIME films in 25 years, his greatest contribution to cinema was Restored 70mm Print

his brilliant use of counter- courtesy of Photofest PLAY TIME MON ONCLE [My Uncle] point—between foreground and background, and sound Saturday, March 24, 1:00; Sunday, March 25, 1:00; Monday, March 26, 9:10; Wednesday, March 28, 8:45; Thursday, March 29, 7:00 and image. As early as the MON ONCLE [MY UNCLE] 1940s Tati was critiquing In this gloriously choreographed, nearly wordless comedy about confusion in the age of Saturday, April 21, 1:00; Monday, April 23, 6:30 technology and mass culture technology, the endearingly clumsy, resolutely old-fashioned Monsieur Hulot, with a and was one of the first host of other lost souls, is thrust into a bafflingly modern Paris. Crammed with hilarity Tati’s Monsieur Hulot goes to visit his nephew (a plastics manufacturer) in an auteurs to recognize the and inventiveness, PLAY TIME is a lasting testament to a modern age tiptoeing on the ultramodern “functional” house where the struggles inherent in the edge of oblivion. A monumental achievement, nearly three years in the making, this residents are often prisoners of their own “Americanization” of society. bank-breaking production represented the creative apex of this genre by Tati. (Note from gadgets: the kitchen resembles an operat- The soundtracks in Tati’s Environmental Film Festival.) DIR/SCR Jacques Tati; SCR Jacques Lagrange; ing room, and the garden is all straight films are striking, mixing PROD Bernard Marice. France/Italy, 1967, color, 120 min. NOT RATED lines. DIR/SCR/PROD Jacques Tati; noises, dialogue, advertise- SCR Jacques Lagrange and Jean ments, and song, well in JOUR DE FÊTE [HOLIDAY] L'Hote. Italy/France, 1958, color, 110 advance of other filmmakers’ Friday, April 6, 5:15; Saturday, April 7, 6:30; min. NOT RATED experimentation with sound. Monday, April 9, 7:00; Wednesday, April 11, 7:00 [Notes adapted from the When the traveling fair arrives in the TRAFIC [TRAFFIC] National Gallery of Art, sleepy village of Saint Sévere-sur-Indre,` all Sunday, April 8, 9:15; Wednesday, April 11, 8:45 except where noted.] of the townsfolk are excited, none more so Thanks to Janus Films, Marie In the last of the Hulot series, Tati’s imagi- than the local bicycle-riding postman Losier of the Alliance nation is captured by the predictable François. A bumbling but earnest worker delights of urban traffic, and he milks Française in New York, the with a keen sense of responsibility, every possible behavioral twist, witty rou- French Ministry of Culture François (Tati) sees a promotional film at tine and clever gimmick from the car cul-

and the Embassy of France in courtesy of Photofest the fair about postal service à l’Américaine ture. DIR/SCR Jacques Tati; SCR Washington, DC. LES VACANCES DE M. HULOT [M. Hulot’s Holiday] and tries at once to institute reforms. Jacques Lagrange and Bert Haanstra; DIR/SCR Jacques Tati; SCR Henri All Films in French with English LES VACANCES DE M. HULOT [M. PROD . Italy/France, Marquet and Rene Wheeler; PROD subtitles unless otherwise noted. HULOT’S HOLIDAY] 1971, color, 96 min. In French and Fred Orain and Andre Paulve. France, Saturday, April 14, 3:30; Sunday, April 15, 1:00; Dutch with English subtitles. AFI member passes will 1949, b&w, 70 min. NOT RATED Tuesday, April 17, 6:30 RATED G be accepted at all screen- ings in the Jacques Tati Series. The archetypal Tati character, the straight- backed, well-meaning, pipe-thrusting

TICKETS & FULL SCHEDULE at WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER 9 ENVIRONMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital—with shows at AFI Silver!

The 15th Annual Environmental Film Festival will be held in the Nation’s Capital, March 15 through 25. For a complete schedule, visit the Festival Web site at www.dcenvironmentalfilmfest.org or call 202.342.2564.

Director GEORGE BUTLER Featured in Person with Showcase: IN THE BLOOD Sunday, March 18, 1:30 George Butler The savage beauty of Africa comes to life Mini- through two hunting safaris separated by 80 years. The first, taken by Theodore Retrospective Roosevelt in 1909, is captured through vin- tage footage and photographs. In the second, in 1986, Roosevelt’s great-grandson shoulders the famed president’s rifle and sets out to hunt elephants and crocodiles with his young son. Spotlighting the beauty and danger of the hunt and the bond between a father and his son, this film also explores the close rela- tionship between hunting and conservation and how hunting can lead to an understand- courtesy of White Mountain Films ing and love of animals. DIR/SCR/PROD Renowned George Butler. US, 1989, color, 90 min. documentarian RATED PG courtesy of White Mountain Films George Butler THE LORD GOD BIRD Director GEORGE BUTLER (PUMPING IRON; “It’s the Holy Grail of ornithology. If America had a bird of paradise in Person with GOING UPRIVER: this would be it, and its history is the story of American conservation.” THE ENDURANCE : SHACKLETON’S LEGENDARY ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION THE LONG WAR OF — WRITER GEORGE PLIMPTON JOHN KERRY) will Sunday, March 18, 4:00 Director GEORGE BUTLER hope for threatened species and environ- Although the South Pole had already been dis- appear at each of presents his work in progress: ments everywhere. As a work in progress, covered, Captain Ernest Shackleton set out these three special THE LORD GOD BIRD this film tells the story of the Ivory-bill not with a crew of 27 to attempt the first successful crossing of Antarctica to claim the continent screenings including merely as a quaint piece of natural history, Saturday, March 17, 7:30 but as a story of faith and doubt, despair and for England. The expedition meets disastrous a sneak preview of In April 2005, a report that the spectacular hope, mirroring our own relationship with results when its ship, The Endurance, becomes a very special work Ivory-billed Woodpecker, supposedly the environment. DIR/SCR/PROD George trapped in ice, eventually breaks apart and extinct, had been rediscovered in the Butler; PROD Bob Nixon. US, 2007, sinks. Remarkably, the entire crew is rescued. in progress about Arkansas swamps made front-page news color. NOT RATED The film relies on astonishing footage that the the rediscovery of across the country and around the world. Presented by White Mountain Films and ship’s , Frank Hurley, shot and preserved with great difficulty, as well as inter- The rarest of rare birds, the Ivory-bill was National Geographic Films. Introduction by the Ivory-billed views of surviving relatives. DIR/PROD once common throughout the southeastern Dr. John Fitzpatrick, the Louis Agassiz George Butler; SCR Caroline Alexander Woodpecker, THE United States, but it vanished over the past Fuertes Director at the Cornell Lab of and Joseph Dorman. /UK/ LORD GOD BIRD. century as its forest habitat was devastated. Ornithology. Discussion with filmmaker It has reappeared periodically to reawaken Germany/US, 2000, color, 97 min. George Butler follows screening. RATED G

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Washington, DC Premiere Director LARRY FESSENDEN in Person with THE LAST WINTER Friday, March 16, 7:30 courtesy of Alliance Atlantis Strange things happen immediately in this nervy ghost story that also cri- SHARKWATER tiques our disregard for the needs of our planet. In the Arctic region of Washington, DC Premiere vital to maintaining the sea’s ecological balance, northern Alaska, an oil company’s advance team struggles to establish a Director ROB STEWART in Person with but they face environmental catastrophe as long- drilling base that will forever alter the pristine land. The team includes line fishing devastates their populations, particu- gruff and ultra-macho leader Pollack (Ron Perlman), his right-hand SHARKWATER larly in Latin America, spurred by an endlessly woman and former lover, Abby (Connie Britton), their pothead mechanic Monday, March 19, 7:00 growing market for shark fin in East Asia. (Noah Motor (Kevin Corrigan) and rookie Maxwell (Zach Gilford), the wealthy Gifted underwater photographer Rob Stewart Cowan, Toronto International Film Festival.) son of a company executive. After one team member is found dead, dis- teams with Paul Watson of the Sea Shepherd DIR/SCR/PROD Rob Stewart; PROD Brian orientation begins to claim the sanity of the others. Why is the tempera- Conservation Society, capturing sumptuous high Stewart. Canada, 2006, color, 89 min. NOT ture rising in the dead of winter? Some people start seeing things out of definition images of sharks at rest and play. A RATED the corner of their eyes and are worried that nature might be getting back reasoned defense of the shark’s place in our at them as the film develops into a supernatural horror movie. (Steve ecosystem, the film also provides a horrifying PLAY TIME Gravestock, Toronto International Film Festival.) DIR/PROD/SCR illustration of the threat posed to them by the [see Tati Series, p. 9 ] Larry Fessenden; SCR Robert Leaver; PROD Jeffrey Levy-Hinte. global economy. As the ocean’s most important US/Iceland, 2006, color, 107 min. NOT RATED predator and the top of the food chain, sharks are

AFI Silver is proud to partner with Cinema Tropical, a nonprofit organization that promotes, programs and distributes Latin American cinema in the United States. For more information, visit www.cinematropical.com. AFI member passes with be accepted at all screenings in the Cinema Tropical Series THE MAGIC GLOVES [Los Guantes Mágicos] Fabulosos Cadillacs) it's a haven of peace. When the good-natured Saturday, March 10, 1:00; Monday, March 12, 7:00; Tuesday, March 13, 7:00 driver runs into fast-talking self-made “Piraña” one evening, In this absurdist comedy, legendary Argentine director Martín Alejandro spirals into an adventure he can't control when he sud- Rejtman once again gives life to endearingly obsessive characters denly finds himself rich from selling one-size-fits-all “magic and offers a unique and unromanticized view of Buenos Aires gloves,” which also bring porn, dog-walkers, health-spas and anti- while building a poetic coherence from apparently banal situations. depressants into his life. DIR/SCR/PROD Martín Rejtman; His Renault 12 may be old, decrepit and terribly uncool, but for PROD Hernán Musaluppi. /France/Germany/ 35-year-old car service driver Alejandro (played by "Vicentico," Netherlands, 2003, color, 90 min. In Spanish with English sub-

courtesy of Cinema Tropical titles. NOT RATED THE MAGIC GLOVES [Los Guantes Mágicos] singer and leader of the popular Argentine rock band Los TICKETS & FULL SCHEDULE at WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER 11 SHAKESPEARE IN THE CINEMA March 7 through April 29 The city-wide celebration “Shakespeare in Washington” continues, as AFI Silver presents four more of the best film treatments of The Bard’s work. THRONE OF BLOOD ing his two younger sons with smaller ter- ritories and castles. Quickly banishing the Friday, April 13, 9:30; Saturday, April 14, 8:45; youngest son for remarking that his father Sunday, April 15, 9:30; Tuesday, April 17, 9:00; had come to power by treachery, the king Thursday, April 19, 7:00 eventually descends into madness as his ’s adaptation of Macbeth remaining sons begin a blood feud fueled finds Toshiro Mifune in feudal Japan as a by desire for absolute power. DIR/SCR victorious warlord who becomes obsessed Akira Kurosawa; SCR Hideo Oguni and ultimately enslaved by his quest for and Masato Ide, based on the play by power. When he becomes lost in a William Shakespeare; PROD Masato labyrinthine forest, Mifune encounters an Hara and . old woman who prophesises that he will Japan/France, 1985, color, 160 min. ascend to the throne, but his calculating RATED R wife cajoles him into taking the throne by force, and a series of bloody events SHAKESPEARE BEHIND BARS ensues. DIR/SCR/PROD Akira Saturday, April 28, 1:00; Sunday, April 29, 1:00 Kurosawa; SCR Shinobu Hashimoto, Ryuzo Kikushima and Hideo Oguni, This film festival favorite takes us into the courtesy of Photofest heart of Kentucky’s Luther Luckett CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT [aka FALSTAFF] based on the play by William Shakespeare; PROD Sojiro Motoki. Correctional Center for a documentary Special Guest Actor Keith Baxter with Japan, 1957, b&w, 105 min. NOT look at the Shakespeare Behind Bars the- ater troupe as they prepare to perform The CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT [aka FALSTAFF] RATED Tempest. Under the direction of volunteer Wednesday, March 7, 8:30; Saturday, March 10, 3:00; Sunday, March 11, 5:00 director Curt Tofteland, the inmates cast Orson Welles’s unique and inventive take on Shakespeare’s Falstaff cribs from the RAN themselves in roles they believe reflect handful of plays the beloved character appears in to create a single work with Saturday, April 21, 7:45; Sunday, April 22, 3:45; their own troubled history. As the inmates Falstaff as the star, played by Welles with great comic brio and perhaps autobio- Thursday, April 26, 8:30 begin to understand their Shakespearean graphical pathos. The outstanding cast includes French icon as Doll characters we see glimpses of their past, Tearsheet, Sir as the vexed King Henry IV, and Shakespeare Theatre This universally acclaimed adaptation how they come to grips with it and their regular Keith Baxter as Prince Hal. Baxter will appear to share his remembrances of (and Kurosawa’s favorite of his own hopes for the future. DIR/SCR/PROD working with two creative giants—Shakespeare and Welles. DIR/SCR Orson films) of King Lear is an epic tragedy of Hank Rogerson; PROD Jilann Welles, after the plays by William Shakespeare; PROD Ángel Escolano, an aging warlord who decides to cede his Spitzmiller. US, 2005, color, 93 min. Emiliano Piedra and Harry Saltzman. France//Switzerland, 1965, b&w, kingdom to his oldest son while bestow- NOT RATED 115 min. NOT RATED RICHARD III dominated by Sir Ian McKellen’s Saturday March 17, 3:00; Wednesday, March 21, acclaimed performance as Richard, but 8:45; Thursday, March 22, 9:00 the top-notch cast also boasts , , Robert “Now is the winter of our discontent.” Downey Jr., Nigel Hawthorne, Kristin Shakespeare’s chronicle of the murder- Scott Thomas and . ous, grasping rise of Richard of York to DIR/SCR Richard Loncraine; SCR England’s throne is given a visionary Ian McKellen, based on the play by transposition from the late-1400s War of William Shakespeare; PROD the Roses to an alternative-history 1930s Stephen Bayly and Lisa Katselas Great Britain, swept by fascist tides. Paré. UK/US, 1995, color, 104 min. Full of dazzling visuals, impressive set

RATED R courtesy of Photofest design and clever costuming, the film is RICHARD III

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courtesy of Photofest “Convention-defying filmmaking that suggests what Jacques Tati may have done with CATCHING THE MUSIC 20th Anniversary! rural America.” Stephen Wade in Person! — ROBERT KOHLER, VARIETY THE GUATEMALAN HANDSHAKE CATCHING THE MUSIC Friday, April 27_Wednesday, May 2, 9:00 Sunday, March 11, 2:00 ONE WEEK ONLY Emmy nominated documentary CATCHING THE Fresh from his jury award at the Torino Film Festival, Silver Spring resident Todd Rohal’s debut feature has pre- MUSIC describes the passing of the banjo from one miered to rapturous audiences worldwide. Will Oldham is an awkward demolition derby driver who vanishes in the player to the next. The film includes footage of Kirk confusion following a massive power outage, setting into motion a series of events affecting his pregnant girlfriend, McGee, Hobart Smith, Fleming Brown, Doc Hopkins, his car-less father, a pack of wild boy scouts, a roller rink employee, an elderly woman and a ten-year-old girl. Roscoe Holcomb, Pete Steele, Uncle Dave Macon and DIR/PROD/SCR Todd Rohal; PROD Marissa Ronca and Jason Orfanon. US, 2006, color, 96 min. NOT Virgil Anderson. Written in 1987 by Stephen Wade, RATED. creator of the long-running stage show Banjo Dancing, and produced by Jackson Frost for WETA, CATCH- SCREENED WITH: ING THE MUSIC explores a family of musicians tied THE ALUMINUM FOWL together not by lines of kinship but by a continuing A cinematically beautiful but disturbing portrait of four brothers living on a rural Louisiana chicken farm, with too engagement with the music of the Southern five-string much time on their hands and too little to do. DIR James Clauer; PROD Harmony Korine and Agnes B. banjo. DIR/PROD Jackson Frost; SCR Stephen Wade. US/France, 2006, color, 13 min. NOT RATED US, 1987, color, 54 min. NOT RATED AND: Screening followed by a musical performance WILL YOU LATHER UP MY ROUGH HOUSE? by Stephen Wade and friends! In a sharp detour from his typically colorful and wide-screen productions, presents an "Odd Tickets are $15/$12 AFI members. Couple" relationship between two roommates and a church organ. DIR David Gordon Green. US, 1997, color, 12 Presented by Folkstreams (www.folkstreams.net) min. NOT RATED

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Go to www.AFI.com/Silver for current showtimes. Calendar lists all repertory dates and Special Events/Programs as of press time. Always check www.AFI.com/Silver and local listings for daily showtimes. Visit www.AFI.com/Silver for additional openings and register for AFI Silver’s weekly e-blast to receive up-to-the-minute program information. Montgomery College Series MARCH Selected Wednesdays at 5:30 p.m. FRI SAT Once again AFI Silver will screen a series of films in conjunction with Montgomery College film courses. A college instructor will introduce each film in the series and lead a post-film audience discussion. The general public is Triple Feature! THE MAGIC GLOVES 1:00 invited to attend. Tickets are $5. For more information, visit www.AFI.com/Silver. 9 INFERNAL AFFAIRS 7:00 10 INFERNAL AFFAIRS 2 9:10 CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT 3:00 INFERNAL AFFAIRS 3 11:30 INFERNAL AFFAIRS 6:15, 8:20 SUN MON TUES WED THURS INFERNAL AFFAIRS 2 10:30

FOLKSTREAMS, THE MAGIC GLOVES THE MAGIC GLOVES INFERNAL AFFAIRS INFERNAL AFFAIRS SISTERS OF THE GION THE CONNECTION 12:45 11 CATCHING THE MUSIC 12 7:00 13 7:00 14 7:00 15 7:00 16 6:00 17 RICHARD III 3:00 w/ STEPHEN WADE 2:00 INFERNAL AFFAIRS 3 INFERNAL AFFAIRS 2 INFERNAL AFFAIRS 2 INFERNAL AFFAIRS 2 THE LAST WINTER 7:30 SISTERS OF THE GION CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT 5:00 9:00 9:00 9:05 9:05 THE CONNECTION 10:10 5:45 INFERNAL AFFAIRS 2 7:20 INFERNAL AFFAIRS 3 9:30 THE LORD GOD BIRD 7:30

IN THE BLOOD 1:30 SHARKWATER 7:00 SISTERS OF THE GION MONTGOMERY SISTERS OF THE GION THE SEARCH 4:45, PLAY TIME 1:00 18 THE ENDURANCE 4:00 19 THE CONNECTION 9:00 20 7:00 21 COLLEGE: 22 7:30 23 9:50 24 THE STORY BEING THERE 7:00 THE CONNECTION 8:30 BEING THERE 5:30 RICHARD III 9:00 THE STORY OF THE LAST OF THE LAST CHRYSANTHEMUM RICHARD III 8:45 THE CONNECTION 9:35 CHRYSANTHEMUM 3:30, 9:30 7:00

PLAY TIME 1:00 THE SEARCH 7:00 ROBERT FROST: A ROBERT FROST: A PLAY TIME 7:00 ACT OF VIOLENCE 5:00 UTAMARO AND HIS 25 ROBERT FROST: A 26 PLAY TIME 9:10 27 LOVER’S QUARREL 28 LOVER’S QUARREL 29 THE SEARCH 9:30 30 HIGH NOON 7:00 31 FIVE WOMEN 4:20 WITH THE WORLD 7:00 WITH THE WORLD 7:00 LOVER’S QUARREL THE COOL WORLD 9:00 HIGH NOON 6:30 WITH THE WORLD 3:30 THE SEARCH 8:45 PLAY TIME 8:45 UGETSU 8:30 7:00 THE COOL WORLD 10:30 APRIL ACT OF VIOLENCE 1:00 ACT OF VIOLENCE 7:00 UGETSU 7:00 MONTGOMERY HIGH NOON 7:00 FROM HERE TO FROM HERE TO 1 UGETSU 3:00 2 THE COOL WORLD 9:00 3 ACT OF VIOLENCE 9:00 4 COLLEGE: HIGH 5 UGETSU 9:00 6 ETERNITY 3:00 7 ETERNITY 1:00 HIGH NOON 5:00 NOON 5:30 JOUR DE FETEˆ 5:15 THE LIFE OF OHARU BROADCAST NEWS 7:00 UTAMARO AND HIS THE LIFE OF OHARU 7:00 3:30, 8:20 UTAMARO AND HIS FIVE FIVE WOMEN 8:20 JOUR DE FETEˆ 6:30 WOMEN 9:35 FROM HERE TO FROM HERE TO THE LIFE OF OHARU JOUR DE FETEˆ 7:00 THE SUNDOWNERS 4:20 SANSHO THE BAILIFF 8 ETERNITY 1:30 9 ETERNITY 1:30 10 6:30 11 TRAFIC 8:45 12 13 SANSHO THE BAILIFF 7:00 14 1:00 OKLAHOMA! 4:00 OKLAHOMA! 4:00 PORTRAIT OF JASON THRONE OF BLOOD 9:30 LES VACANCES DE M. THE SILENCE OF THE JOUR DE FETEˆ 7:00 9:20 HULOT 3:30 LAMBS 7:00 PORTRAIT OF JASON THE SUNDOWNERS 6:00 TRAFIC 9:15 8:45 THRONE OF BLOOD 8:45

LES VACANCES DE M. THE SUNDOWNERS 6:30 LES VACANCES DE M. MONTGOMERY THRONE OF BLOOD A MAN FOR ALL MON ONCLE 1:00 HULOT 1:00 HULOT 6:30 7:00 SEASONS 4:30, 7:00 15 16 SANSHO THE BAILIFF 17 18 COLLEGE: THE 19 20 21 STREET OF SHAME AMERICAN BEAUTY 9:10 THRONE OF BLOOD SUNDOWNERS, 5:30 SANSHO THE BAILIFF THE DAY OF THE 3:15 7:00 9:00 THE SUNDOWNERS 9:00 9:10 JACKAL 9:25 A MAN FOR ALL THRONE OF BLOOD 9:30 SEASONS 5:15 RAN 7:45 A MAN FOR ALL MON ONCLE 6:30 A MAN FOR ALL STREET OF SHAME TWO OR THREE SHAKESPEARE 22 SEASONS 1:00 23 THE DAY OF THE 24 SEASONS 6:30 25 26 6:30 27 THINGS I KNOW 28 BEHIND BARS 1:00 RAN 3:45 JACKAL 8:45 THE DAY OF THE RAN 8:30 ABOUT HER - TWO OR THREE Opens Today THINGS I KNOW THE DEVIL WEARS JACKAL 9:00 ABOUT HER PRADA 7:00 THE GUATEMALAN Check www.AFI/Silver STREET OF SHAME 9:15 HANDSHAKE 9:00 for showtimes MAY THE GUATEMALAN SHAKESPEARE TWO OR THREE TWO OR THREE TWO OR THREE HANDSHAKE 9:00 29 BEHIND BARS 1:00 30 THINGS I KNOW 1 THINGS I KNOW 2 THINGS I KNOW 3 KEY TWO OR THREE ABOUT HER ABOUT HER ABOUT HER THINGS I KNOW Check www.AFI/Silver Check www.AFI/Silver Check www.AFI/Silver for showtimes for showtimes Special Engagements Jacques Tati ABOUT HER for showtimes Fred Zinnemann Environmental Film Check www.AFI/Silver THE GUATEMALAN THE GUATEMALAN THE GUATEMALAN Kenji Mizoguchi Festival for showtimes HANDSHAKE 9:00 HANDSHAKE 9:00 HANDSHAKE 9:00 THE GUATEMALAN Sundays at the Silver with Cinema Tropical HANDSHAKE 9:00 Arch Campbell Shakespeare in the Shirley Clarke Cinema TICKETS & FULL SCHEDULE at WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER 15 TWO OR THREE THINGS I KNOW ABOUT HER “The summit of Godard's work.” —FILM CRITIC RICHARD ROUD “One of the Top 10 Films of the 20th Century.” —J. HOBERMAN, THE VILLAGE VOICE “A must-see-now.” —MANOHLA DARGIS, THE NEW YORK TIMES

Opens Friday, April 27 ONE WEEK ONLY “In order to live in Paris today, on no matter what social level, one is forced to prostitute oneself in one way or another.” So said Jean-Luc Godard in 1966, as the narrator who addresses the audience in a conspiratorial whisper in TWO OR THREE THINGS I KNOW ABOUT HER. Ostensibly it’s the story of bored housewife Marina Vlady, a “typical high-rise dweller,” as she travels from the rapidly expanding suburbs into Paris to earn a little extra money turning tricks. What follows isn’t so much a plot as tangential plot fragments: Raoul Coutard’s camera follows Vlady on a typical day as she lunches, shops and goes off with johns; meanwhile the camera picks up conversations in the cafés, or follows a news crew interviewing a man on the street. The stunning cinemascope photography juxtaposes elegant Parisian landmarks against the jumble of cranes, scaffolding and concrete slabs going up at the city’s outskirts, while Godard as narrator delivers essays on architecture and modernity over images of both the city’s streetscapes and Vlady’s streetwalking. One of Godard’s most experimental and successful films, it’s thought-provoking, gorgeous to look at and occasionally quite funny—not least when the film, and Godard, poke fun at themselves. DIR/SCR Jean-Luc Godard; SCR Catherine Vimenet; PROD Anatole Dauman and Raoul Lévy. France, 1967, color, 90 min.

courtesy of Rialto Pictures In French with English subtitles. NOT RATED

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