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Film Program Fall 2007 National Gallery of Art, Washington Art Films and Events

Fall Series 16 Tues December In addition to the films listed below, two 11:00 Art Film: Edward Hopper films produced by the National Gallery of Art, film 12:00 Art Film: J. M.W. Turner 1 Sat Edward Hopper and J. M. W. Turner, are shown Scenes from a Life: 2:00 : Death of Mr. Lăzărescu 17 Wed several times each week in the large audito- rium and daily in the small auditorium. 11:00 Art Film: Edward Hopper 4 Tues 12:00 Art Film: J. M.W. Turner 11:00 Art Film: Edward Hopper : 12:00 Art Film: J. M.W. Turner 18 Thurs Other People’s Pictures Music for American Movies 1:00 Art Film: Other People’s Pictures 5 Wed October 11, 12, 18, 19 at 1:00 11:00 Art Film: Edward Hopper November 21, 23 at 1:00 19 Fri 12:00 Art Film: J. M.W. Turner November 24 at 11:00 Edward Hopper and 12:00 Art Film: J. M.W. Turner 7 Fri American Movie Culture 1:00 Art Film: Other People’s Pictures The serious collecting of amateur snapshots 12:00 Art Film: J. M.W. Turner 20 Sat is a relatively new pursuit in America. On Sat Stories: 2:00 Edward Hopper: , preceded by 8 location at New York’s Chelsea Flea Markets, 2:30 Romania: Dreamin’ New Films from Romania discussion, , Edward Hopper, and the documentary Other People’s Pictures trails the Spaces of Unease 9 Sun nine collectors as they track down their one- of-a-kind ephemeral images. Shown in asso- 21 Sun 2:00 Event: Phillip Lopate Lecture: In Search of the Essay Film; Night and Fog; Nobody’s Business ciation with The Art of the American Snapshot, 12:00 Art Film: J. M.W. Turner Art Films and Events 1888 – 1978. (Lorca Shepperd and Cabot Phil- 4:00 Event: French Festival 11 Tues brick, 2004, 16 mm, 53 minutes) Other People’s Pictures 23 Tues 11:00 Art Film: Edward Hopper 12:00 Art Film: J. M.W. Turner 11:00 Art Film: Edward Hopper Wisconsin Death Trip Wisconsin Death Trip: 27 Sat 12 Wed 11:00 Art Film: Edward Hopper How a Town in Wisconsin Went Mad (Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress) 12:30 Edward Hopper: Deadline at Dawn, In the Beginning Was the Image 12:00 Art Film: J. M.W. Turner October 14 at 4:30 preceded by discussion, New York-: Très bien, merci Art, Culture, and Commerce in the 1930s 14 Fri Michael Lesy’s 1973 book of vintage photo- 3:00 Art Film: In the Beginning Was the Image: 12:00 Art Film: J. M.W. Turner graphs and vignettes about a strange and Très bien, merci restoration from the , Conversations with Peter Whitehead deadly calamity that consumed the town of Washington premiere New York. (D. W. Griffith, 1920, silent with The MacDowell Colony 15 Sat Black River Falls, Wisconsin, in the late nine- Emmanuelle Cuau in person live accompaniment, 145 minutes) Presented 28 Sun 1:00 Romania: The Great Communist Way Down East 12:00 Art Film: J. M.W. Turner Bank Robbery teenth century was adapted to film in the October 28 at 4:30 in association with the Library of Congress and the late 1990s. Using documentary reportage, publication of Peter Kobel’s Silent Movies: The 4:30 Event: Très bien, merci 2:30 Romania: California Dreamin’ Office worker Gilbert Melki can no longer reenactments, and period images, Wisconsin Birth of Film and the Triumph of Movie Cul-

abide the silly absurdities of the modern

16 Sun Death Trip recounts the tale of a town that National Gallery of Art, Washington Art, of Gallery National ture. Special thanks to Christel Schmidt.

12:00 Art Film: J. M.W. Turner cosmopolitan routine. Even the Métro police

Show People November literally went mad with rampant murder, Fall 2007 Fall 4:00 Romania: The Way I Spent the End Program Film annoy him. Staging a quiet rebellion, he suicide, and occult fanaticism. Shown in 3 Sat of the World finds himself suddenly enmeshed in a series Evangeline association with the exhibition The Art of the The Merry Widow 3:30 Event: The MacDowell Colony of Kafkaesque contretemps until he must 18 Tues American Snapshot, 1888–1978. (James Marsh, Andrew Simpson on piano either lose what’s left of his life or find a way In Search of the Essay Film 4 Sun 11:00 Art Film: Edward Hopper 1999, 35 mm, 76 minutes) November 17 at 2:00 2:00 Edward Hopper: Edward Hopper Goes 12:00 Art Film: J. M.W. Turner to beat the system. Director Cuau is present Matinee idol and the “girl with to the Movies — Silence and Sound in Painting to introduce the Washington premiere of her The Strange Madame X 19 Wed the bee-stung lips,” , star in a and Film French Short Film Festival acclaimed new tragicomic portrayal of con- 11:00 Art Film: Edward Hopper black comedy based on Franz Lehár’s oper- Fully Awake: 4:00 Edward Hopper: Little Caesar; I Was a October 21 at 4:00 temporary French life. (Emmanuelle Cuau, 12:00 Art Film: J. M.W. Turner etta. Erich von Stroheim’s second film for Communist for the FBI 2007, 35 mm, French with subtitles, 106 min- Black Mountain College A selection of French shorts from the Festival mgm studios proved critically and commer- 21 Fri utes) Shown in association with C’est Chic: 6 Tues de Cannes and the annual Clermont-Ferrand cially successful for this Austrian-born direc- 12:00 Art Film: J.M.W. Turner A Festival of French Film 11:00 Art Film: Edward Hopper Short Film Festival includes a group of award- tor, whose continental sensibilities were pop- October 12:00 Art Film: J. M.W. Turner 22 Sat wining works from 2005 through 2007, many ular with American moviegoers. At the time, 2:30 Event: The Strange Madame X set in North Africa and Asia. Among the titles The MacDowell Colony: Photoplay Magazine described the film as “the 2 Tues 11 Sun National Gallery of Art 11:00 Art Film: Edward Hopper 4:00 Event: Way Down East 23 Sun screened are Bonne nuit, Malik, La Leçon de danse, Centennial Celebration most sophisticated love story ever presented 4th Street and Non-Profit Org. 12:00 Art Film: J. M.W. Turner 12:00 Art Film: J. M.W. Turner Les Volets, Bonsoir Monsieur Chu, and Ming d’Or. November 3 at 3:30 on the screen.” (Erich von Stroheim, 1925, 16 Fri U.S. Postage Paid 2:00 Art Film: Fully Awake: Black Constitution Avenue nw Shown in association with C’est Chic: A Festival of 35 mm, 137 minutes) Presented in association 3 Wed 4:00 Romania: In celebration of the centennial of The Mac- Mountain College Washington, dc Washington, DC French Film (approximately 120 minutes) with the Library of Congress and the publication of 12:00 Art Film: J. M.W. Turner Permit # 9712 Dowell Colony — the oldest creative artists’ 17 Sat 4:00 Romania: ; Tertium Peter Kobel’s Silent Movies: The Birth of Film Mailing address residency program in the United States — 5 Fri 2:00 Event: The Merry Widow non datur and the Triumph of Movie Culture. 2000b South Club Drive In the Beginning Was the Image: this program opens with the Washington 12:00 Art Film: J. M.W. Turner 26 Wed 18 Sun Landover, md 20785 Conversations with Peter Whitehead premiere of Seasons of MacDowell, an hour- 4:00 Romania: The Paper Will Be Blue 11:00 Art Film: Edward Hopper 6 Sat October 27 at 3:00 long film that features four short works by 2:00 Ingmar Bergman: 12:00 Art Film: J. M.W. Turner www.nga.gov 20 Tues Michael Almereyda, George Griffin, November 24 at 1:00 4:30 Ingmar Bergman: Bergman Island Legendary 1960s British counterculture fig- 11:00 Art Film: Edward Hopper 27 Thurs Petersen, and Elisabeth Subrin. Selected ure Peter Whitehead was one of the first film- Released at the end of the silent era, Show 7 Sun 12:00 Art Film: J. M.W. Turner 1:00 Art Film: Fully Awake: Black Films are shown in the films by other MacDowell fellows — includ- makers to record Allen Ginsberg, Pink Floyd, People is ’s side-splitting spoof of 4:00 Ingmar Bergman: Sunday’s Children Mountain College East Building Auditorium ing shorts by Jane Aaron, Louise Bourque, 21 Wed and Jimi Hendrix, and such phenomema as Hollywood’s fledgling film business and a Meredith Holch, Aviva Kempner, Kakyoung 9 Tues 11:00 Art Film: Edward Hopper 28 Fri student rebellions at Columbia University and clever hurray-for-Hollywood tribute to movie- 12:00 Art Film: J.M.W. Turner Cover image from Little Caesar Lee, Christa Parravani, Stacey Steers, Michael 11:00 Art Film: Edward Hopper 12:00 Art Film: J. M.W. Turner Robert Kennedy’s campaign tour. Whitehead, making. Comedic charmer 1:00 Art Film: Other People’s Pictures 1:00 Art Film: Fully Awake: Black (Photofest) Wilson, and others — follow the premiere. 12:00 Art Film: J. M.W. Turner however, has also been a publisher, invest- does her legendary (both on and off screen) Mountain College (Total running time approximately 160 23 Fri ment banker, artist, and falconer who saved impressions of the cinema’s biggest luminar- 10 Wed minutes, with intermission) 11:00 Art Film: Edward Hopper 12:00 Art Film: J. M.W. Turner 29 Sat a species from extinction. Now, as the bril- ies while a number of other stars, including 12:00 Art Film: J. M.W. Turner 1:00 Art Film: Other People’s Pictures 2:30 Romania: C Block Story; Occident liant and biting raconteur of an engaging and , make new documentary, he reflects on art, nature, Way Down East cameo appearances. (King Vidor, 1928, 35 11 Thurs 24 Sat 30 Sun collecting, and countless other spheres. Andrew Simpson on piano mm, silent with music track, 82 minutes) 1:00 Art Film: Other People’s Pictures 11:00 Art Film: Other People’s Pictures 12:00 Art Film: J. M.W. Turner 1:00 Event: Show People 2:00 Romania: Short Films “Visuals from his own drool-worthy archives November 11 at 4:00 Presented in association with the Library of Con- 12 Fri 3:30 Event: Evangeline; Longfellow Poetry 4:30 Romania: The Rest Is Silence enliven the non-stop flow of tantalizing gress and the publication of Peter Kobel’s Silent D. W. Griffith adapted his epic 12:00 Art Film: J. M.W. Turner Reading observations” — Lisa Nesselson. (Paul Cronin, Movies: The Birth of Film and the Triumph of from a popular Victorian stage play. Lillian 1:00 Art Film: Other People’s Pictures 2006, digital beta, 196 minutes) Movie Culture. Sun 25 Films are shown in original format in the auditorium Gish, tricked into a bogus marriage, is aban- 13 Sat 4:00 Romania: Humanitarian Aid; 12:08 East of the National Gallery’s East Building at 4th Street doned by her “husband” when he discovers 2:00 Aaron Copland: The Cummington Story; of Bucharest and Constitution Avenue nw. Seating is on a first- a child is on the way. Celebrated for its dra- Of Mice and Men come basis. To ensure a seat, please plan to arrive matic climax — a rescue on an ice floe during 4:30 Aaron Copland: The North Star 27 Tues 11:00 Art Film: Edward Hopper at least ten minutes before showtime. a blizzard — Way Down East was one of the 14 Sun 12:00 Art Film: J. M.W. Turner silent cinema’s most commercially success- Programs are subject to change. 12:00 Art Film: J. M.W. Turner ful endeavors. This 35 mm print is a tinted Fri For current information, visit our Web site: 4:30 Event: Wisconsin Death Trip 30 12:00 Art Film: J. M.W. Turner www.nga.gov/programs/film.htm or call (202) 842-6799. Film Program Fall 2007 Evangeline of a wealthy publisher and lover of a naive Bergman Island Little Caesar 12:08 East of Bucharest and Longfellow Poetry Reading cabinetmaker, discovers she must endure the October 6 at 4:30 also I Was a Communist for the fbi preceded by Humanitarian Aid Layne Longfellow, Joanna Seaton, and disenchantment of the real world. “From a November 4 at 4:00 November 25 at 4:00 The contemplative Bergman Island, directed Donald Sosin in person rare category of films which echoes the gran- by the director’s friend and confidante Marie Mobster Rico Bandello (Edward G. Robinson) During the days following December 22, November 24 at 3:30 deur of the monumental classics and pres- Nyreröd, is a fascinating and highly personal schemes to take over ’s crime 1989 — the date Romania’s Stalinist tyrant ages the emergence of the ” — James On the occasion of Henry Wadsworth Long- portrait of a man whose introspective nature empire in Little Caesar’s celebrated adaptation Ceau¸sescu was executed — there was no Travers. (Jean Grémillon, 1951, 35 mm, fellow’s bicentennial, his descendant Layne distinctively inspired his filmmaking. Shot of the W. R. Burnett novel. Warner Broth- real consensus about what had actually French with supertitles, 90 minutes) Critic Jay Longfellow will read excerpts from Longfel- on the small Swedish Island of Fårö, where ers’ low budgets and even lower production transpired. With unassuming, tongue-in- Carr introduces the film. Special thanks to cnc and low’s poetry, accompanied by live piano and he spent the last years of his life, the film values only added to the charm of the studio’s cheek humor, 12:08 East of Bucharest offers Il Cinema Ritrovato. voice. Ann Hutchinson Guest, Longfellow’s finds the artist musing about his work and Depression-era gangster films, arguably the a resolutely proletarian yet satirical view of oldest living direct descendant and current failed relationships with considerable wit best of the genre. Warts and all, Robinson’s Romania’s recent past as local talk-show host matriarch of the family, will attend this spe- Fully Awake: Black Mountain College and a sense of mournfulness. (Marie Nyreröd, hoodlum was a tragic hero. (Mervyn LeRoy, Jderescu (Teo Corban) tries to solicit answers cial event. December 23 at 2:00 2006, digital beta, Swedish with subtitles, 1930, 35 mm, 80 minutes) to the question, “Was there, or was there not, One of several Hollywood adaptations of December 27, 28 at 1:00 85 minutes) Twenty years after Little Caesar, Warner a revolution in our town?” (Corneliu Porum- Longfellow’s epic, Evangeline tells the tale of Brothers released I Was a Communist for the fbi, boiu, 2006, 35 mm, Romanian with subtitles, Fully Awake combines archival photographs a young French-Canadian woman (Mexican a film in which the good guy–law enforcers 89 minutes) and interviews to focus on the college’s influ- Sunday’s Children actress Dolores del Río was cast in the part) do no wrong. The film’s anticommunist Cold In the short filmHumanitarian Aid, three ential role in the development of American art October 7 at 4:00 severed from her arcadian home and forced War narrative was based on the case of Matt young men from Europe arrive in a of the twentieth century. The geodesic dome, to search for her lover in the American wil- The director’s youngest son Daniel surveys Cvetic who, at the fbi’s request, joined a Romanian mountain village to (they think) John Cage’s first happening, and countless derness. (Edwin Carewe, 1929, 35 mm, silent his father’s childhood in Sunday’s Children. Pittsburgh branch of the Communist Party distribute the goods according to need. other events are part of this institution’s leg- with piano accompaniment by Donald Sosin, (Ingmar himself provided the film’s power- usa and earned the moniker “Pennsylvania’s (Hanno Höfer, 2003, 35 mm, Romanian with acy. Presented in conjunction with the exhibi- 86 minutes) ful script.) Set in the Swedish countryside most important mole.” (Gordon Douglas, subtitles, 16 minutes) tion Let the World In: Prints by Robert Rauschen- Deadline at Dawn (Photofest) of the , the film’s memoir-like narra- 1951, 35 mm, 83 minutes) berg. (Cathryn Davis and Neeley House, 2007, tive explores complex feelings directed at 12:08 East of Bucharest (42 Km Film) Lecture: In Search of the Essay Film digital beta, 53 minutes) Death of Mr. L˘az˘arescu Bergman’s own parents, as images flash The North Star Waits, , , Fred Ward, also Night and Fog December 1 at 2:00 forward to 1968 when an older, embittered October 13 at 4:30 Robert Downey Jr., Madeleine Stowe, Andie The Way I Spent the End of the World Occident and Nobody’s Business Ingmar revisits his elderly father. The bond MacDowell, and others) effortlessly spins out A retired engineer shares his dour Bucha- December 16 at 4:00 preceded by C Block Story Phillip Lopate in person With a Oscar-nominated between parent and child is “so profoundly the epic sweep of the film’s disparate stories. Bucharest Stories: New rest apartment with three cats. One night December 29 at 2:30 December 9 at 2:00 script, The North Star was released in the Set during the final months of Ceau¸sescu’s dark,” writes one critic, “that Sunday’s Children “But the real star here is Altman, whose fluid, he becomes ill and calls an ambulance. No mid-1940s as a rare wartime pro-Soviet pro- communist dictatorship, The Way I Spent the An early work by (the recent Distinguished essayist and poet Phillip Scenes from a Life: inevitably prompts speculation about the clean camera style, free-and-easy editing, and Films from Romania hospital, however, is willing to accept him, paganda film from Hollywood. The stellar End of the World portrays the daily lives of radi- Cannes Palme d’Or winner), Occident is a nar- Lopate, author of American Movie Critics: An An- relations between Ingmar Bergman and his effortless organization are quite simply the and as the night wears on, his condition Ingmar Bergman cast of , , Anne During the past decade Romania has been ant young Eva, her brother, and her boyfriend rative triptych connected by overlapping thology from the Silents until Now, develops his son Daniel.” (Daniel Bergman, 1992, 35 mm, mark of a master” — Geoff Andrew. (Robert gets worse. This seemingly bleak scenario, Baxter, , , and quietly commanding the attention of critics as they grapple with coming-of-age issues. settings and by the premise that many young ideas on the cinematic essay, a form that fore- Three recent films focusing on director Swedish with subtitles, 118 minutes) The film Altman, 1993, 35 mm, 188 minutes) awarded Un Certain Regard at the 2005 Festival Erich von Stroheim — villagers in a Ukrainian and cineastes with a group of talented young Eva’s woes, though largely a consequence of Romanians are departing for the West (the grounds ideas rather than character or plot. Ingmar Bergman (1918 – 2007) consider is introduced by Ira Konigsberg, professor emeritus de Cannes, depicts a universal theme — death collective — finds the strength to endure a filmmakers from Bucharest. Corneliu Porum- her personal and family relationships, are Occident) in search of a better life. The char- Although a well-established genre and even varied facets of the private and public lives of film studies, University of Michigan. and hospitals — with humanity and dark Nazi invasion. ’s cinema- New York-Hollywood: boiu, , C˘at˘alin Mitulescu, still shaped by the era in which she is living. acters are sensitive and sometimes capricious, at times a commercially successful one, the of the late master filmmaker. The series is humor. “Inspired by real events, its appeal tography and Ira Gershwin’s lyrics (Song of Art, Culture, and Commerce in the 1930s , and Cristian Mungiu are a few of Actress Dorotheea Petre’s luminous perfor- and, to the outsider, encompass a snapshot of essay remains the most elusive of film forms. presented in association with the Forum for is the clever way it involves the viewer emo- the Guerillas) support Copland’s score, which followed by Deadline at Dawn the names at the center of this creative vortex. mance won the best actress award in the daily life in Bucharest. “It’s unusual to come Two essay films follow the lecture:Night Movies and Mind. tionally, keeping him breathless in a race increases in strength as it progresses. (Lewis October 27 at 12:30 Now celebrated by festival juries, including 2006 Un Certain Regard division of the Cannes across a script so accomplished. Cristian’s and Fog (Alain Resnais, 1955, 31 minutes), a against the clock” — Alex ¸Serban. (Cristi Milestone, 1943, 35 mm, 108 minutes) this year’s Festival de Cannes (the Palme d’Or Festival. (C˘at˘alin Mitulescu, 2006, 35 mm, strength clearly lies in his writing” — Neil masterful cinematic study of the Holocaust, The popular culture of the United Sates Puiu, 2005, 35 mm, Romanian with subtitles, Aaron Copland: Music for was awarded to Mungiu’s 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 106 minutes) Young. (Cristian Mungiu, 2002, 35 mm, and Nobody’s Business (Alan Berliner, 1997, Saraband during the 1930s, notably the relationship 150 minutes) and 2 Days), the acclaim is echoed in film Romanian with subtitles, 105 minutes) 60 minutes), a work that, similar to Night October 6 at 2:00 American Movies between New York and Hollywood, affected journals that note a new and very successful In C Block Story, shy teenager Andrei falls and Fog, reflectively interweaves past and Dedicating his final film to his late wife the career of Edward Hopper. In this discus- The Reenactment Starting with the documentary The City national film movement. While its character- California Dreamin’ hopelessly in love with neighbor Monica. present — in this case, a portrait of the film- and naming it after a seductive dance, Berg- sion, National Gallery of Art lecturer David also Tertium non datur (created by Ralph Steiner, Willard Van Dyke, Edward Hopper and istics may be difficult to catalogue, the defin- December 8 at 2:30, December 15 at 2:30 Completely clueless about what to do, Andrei maker’s father. This program is made possible by man made Saraband as a television sequel to Gariff develops three themes: radicalism, December 23 at 4:00 Pare Lorentz, and Lewis Mumford for the ing features include a matter-of-fact realism, relies on a telephone hotline to find out how funds given in memory of Rajiv Vaidya. his , a 1973 theatrical American Movie Culture nationalism, and modernism. The Workers Lauded at this year’s Festival de Cannes, 1939 New York World’s Fair), Aaron Copland accomplished casting and composition, and A key Romanian artist from the period before to seduce Monica in his building’s elevator. tour de force that exposed the instability Theater, the Group Theater, and left-leaning director Cristian Nemescu (tragically killed embarked on a promising career composing a generous bit of Balkan . This the end of communism, (b. (Cristian Nemescu, 2003, 35 mm, Romanian and breakup of married couple Johan and Edward Hopper is famously connected to actors and directors such as Lee Strasberg, in a crash before the film’s final postpro- The Strange Madame X (L’Étrange Madame X) scores for American film. This program con- series comprises ten programs of features 1933) works in opera and theater as well as with subtitles, 14 minutes) Marianne. Erland Josephson and Liv Ullman America’s visual and literary history. As an Harold Clurman, , and Clifford duction) was inspired by an event that had December 22 at 2:30 sists of three rarely screened productions fea- and shorts and was organized with assis- cinema. His earlier films have been compared reprise their original roles, meeting after artist, he was intrigued by the cinema of the Odets were all part of this scene. occurred in the late 1990s during the Kosovo turing Copland’s music from the 1930s and tance from the Romanian Cultural Institute to the plays of Chekhov, his favorite writer. Director Jean Grémillon is an artist who, decades of separation. Using a succession of 1930s and 1940s. His multifaceted contribu- In Deadline at Dawn, “actress” Susan war. A village station master in a Bucharest Short Films from Romania 1940s. It is presented in association with the and the Embassy of Romania. Special thanks Upon its completion in the late 1960s, The together with Marcel Carné, , potent images to focus on their power strug- tions to filmmakers who followed him have Hayward and cabbie Paul Lukas navigate the suburb blocks a train filled with military December 30 at 2:00 orchestral revival of The City on October 14 to Corina ¸Suteu, Ilinca Ilie, and Oana Radu. Reenactment was banned because, according , and a few others, made the gles, Bergman noted without nostalgia that inspired a word — Hopperesque — that sum- mean streets of Manhattan in the wee hours equipment and American marines for lack at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, to one critic, “It was dominated by a sense Creativity in the recent French cinema the most distinguished in the this was his “parting gift to the medium that mons a melancholy mood or a tense mise-en- to help clear sailor Bill Williams of a murder of legitimate customs papers. The scenario featuring the Post-Classical Ensemble under of the tragic . . . and nourished by a profound has not been limited to works of feature world before and after World War ii. With made him famous” — Phillip Lopate. (Ingmar scène. , Sam Shepard, David rap. The sole film-directing assignment for The Paper Will Be Blue unfolds over the course of several days, as the direction of Angel Gil-Ordóñez and civil and cultural awareness.” Ripu and length. Displaying a flair for the shorter form, touches of poetic realism and boulevard the- Bergman, 2003, digital beta, Swedish with Lynch, John Dahl, Terrence Malick, and many stage legend Clurman (who at the time was November 16 at 4:00, November 18 at 4:00 village locals mingle with the stranded Joseph Horowitz. Vuica are students who celebrate one eve- this program includes the following works: ater, L’Étrange Madame X tells a bittersweet tale subtitles, 115 minutes) others openly admit to adapting Hopper’s moonlighting in Hollywood following the troops. Forced to live side by side, both “From an armored squadron patrolling the ning by drinking too much. They attack the Cigarettes and Coffee (Cristi Puiu, 2004, 13 min- of a double life. Irène (Michèle Morgan), wife imagery. The National Gallery will present collapse of his Group Theatre), Deadline at groups discover that life can never again be sedate Bucharest suburbs to an impetuous sol- bar owner and break a window. Days later utes); Traffic (C˘at˘alin Mitulescu, 2004, 15 min- Of Mice and Men three programs of discussions and screenings Dawn, with its tawdry Odets dialogue and quite the same. Pascale Ferran, awarding the dier who need not search too hard for the bat- a policeman, a judge, and a film crew take utes); The Apartment (Constantin Popescu, preceded by The Cummington Story that explore a range of intersections between taut sets, was dismissed at the time as a film top prize for Cannes’Un Certain Regard, tle he craves, The Paper Will Be Blue strikingly them to the crime scene — instead of spend- 2004, 20 minutes); The Tube with a Hat (Radu October 13 at 2:00 Edward Hopper and American cinema. minor rko release. (Harold Clurman, 1946, said, “far and above, California Dreamin’ is recreates the emotions that boiled over dur- ing time in jail, they will work as actors in a Jude, 2006, 23 minutes); and Liviu’s Dream 35 mm, 83 minutes) the most lively and liberated film proposal ing the . An adept blend state-sponsored documentary about alcohol- (Corneliu Porumboiu, 2004, 39 minutes). All Copland’s first official Hollywood project was we’ve seen in our entire ten days.” (Cristian Robert Altman, Edward Hopper, of docudrama and wry humor, told from a ism. (Lucian Pintilie, 1968, 35 mm, Roma- films are 35 mm, Romanian with subtitles. an adaptation of the famous Nemescu, 2007, 35 mm, Romanian with sub- and the Spaces of Unease Edward Hopper Goes to the Movies — memorably ground-level point of view” — nian with subtitles, 106 minutes) novella about migrant workers in Depression- titles, 150 minutes) era California. “Here was an American theme,” followed by Short Cuts Silence and Sound in Painting and Film Seattle Film Festival. (Radu Muntean, 2006, Pintilie describes his new short film The Rest Is Silence said Copland, “by a great American writer, October 20 at 2:00 November 4 at 2:00 35 mm, Romanian with subtitles, 95 minutes) Tertium non datur as “a tragicomic parable Washington Premiere demanding appropriate music.” According The Great Communist Bank Robbery about the integration of the poorest of the Stories by American writer Raymond Carver Edward Hopper’s paintings are often December 30 at 4:30 December 15 at 1:00 poor, tormented by complexes, into the fic- to historian Sally Bick, “The choice to use are known for their Hopperesque narratives. assumed to have been inspired by movies, but Copland was daring. An outsider to Holly- tion we provisionally call Europe.” Near the In 1911 Bucharest was the “Paris of the East.” Film historian Robert Kolker uses Robert what, exactly, did that inspiration amount A strange robbery at the Romanian National wood . . . his reputation had been based upon end of the war, two high-ranking German Grand receptions, lavish lifestyles, and Altman’s filmShort Cuts — a free adaptation to? In his lecture, historian Charles O’Brien Bank in 1959 triggered a massive police his prestige . . . as a modernist.” (Lewis Mile- officers visit a Romanian military unit in luxuriant architecture were all central to the of several Raymond Carver stories — as a will relate the filmic aspects of Hopper’s art search. When the alleged burglars were stone, 1939, 35 mm, 106 minutes) their schoolhouse headquarters. Warmed by city’s existence. If theater was the preferred springboard to probe Altman’s films. Finding to changes in the popular cinema in New caught and arrested, they reenacted their The Cummington Story was produced by the champagne, the German major shows his art form, the city’s nascent cinemas were still deeper connections between Edward Hopper York during the 1930s — a crucial time both crime for a television film in which they U.S. Office of War Information. An instruc- hosts his prize possession, the most expen- holding their own. In the midst of Bucha- and Robert Altman than one film would illus- for film and for Hopper’s painting. O’Brien’s played themselves. Although evidence sug- tional short about World War ii refugees sive stamp in the world, the Aurochs Head. rest’s theatrical life we find Grig, a would-be trate, Kolker goes on to discuss the overlap- discussion will encompass such films asLittle gests the criminals believed they would be adapting to life in a Massachusetts town, the As it passes around the table, the legendary film director for the French-based Gaumont ping spaces of their art. Robert Kolker’s most Caesar (1930) as well as the theaters depicted spared the death sentence by appearing in the film appealed to Copland’s populist sensibili- stamp disappears. (Lucian Pintilie, 2006, company. Grig manages to alienate his widely known book is A Cinema of Loneliness, in Hopper’s canvas New York Movie (1939) and film, their reality was otherwise. “A bizarre ties. He composed a simple score borrowing 35 mm, Romanian, German, and French with famous father, a celebrated Romanian stage now in its third edition. other works. Charles O’Brien is associate pro- recreation of a crime of which the motive themes from Down a Country Lane and Sunday subtitles, 39 minutes) actor who only has contempt for the new cin- Short Cuts is Robert Altman’s portrayal of fessor, School for Studies in Art and Culture, is still difficult to fathom and an astonish- Afternoon Music, both solo piano works. (1945, emas. The lavishly styled The Rest Is Silence viv- lives played out on society’s margins — the Carleton University. ing evocation of a lost world of Romanian 16 mm, 15 minutes) Copland scholar Neil Lerner, idly recreates turn-of-the-century Bucharest working-class wards around . In Stalinism” — Nick Fraser. (Alexandru Solo- associate professor of Music at Davidson College, and the turbulence of the early film industry. a brilliant illustration of ensemble acting, the mon, 2004, 70 minutes) Ingmar Bergman on set of The Venetian in 1958 (svt/Photofest) introduces the program. film’s huge cast (Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tom (Nae Caranfil, 2007, 35 mm, Romanian with The North Star (Photofest) subtitles, 140 minutes)