THE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE GUIDE September 18–October 28, 2003 ★ AFITO THEATRE AND MEMBER EVENTS PREVIEWVOLUME 1 • ISSUE 5 Latin America Film Festival September 18–28 SHANE ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA DUCK, YOU SUCKER Tributes to Katharine Hepburn, Jim Henson, Charles Guggenheim Barry Levinson in Person 10 Years of Czech Films Also: HOTEL • A MIDSUMMER’S NIGHT DREAM NEW! Members Advance Screenings New Work from Jeff Krulik THE HUMAN STAIN and VERONICA GUERIN Much More! Meet THE HUMAN STAIN’s Director, Robert Benton! LATIN AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL SHORTS FROM PANAMA *AFI Silver Theatre: Thu, Sep 18, 6:30; A Celebration for Sun, Sep 21, 3:15; Mon, Sep 22, 6:40 All Audiences Kennedy Center: No Screenings ■ MY GRANDMOTHER’S September 18–28 GRANDFATHER: CAYUCO STORY A concentrated look at the latest and [El abuelo de mi abuela: best from Latin America, with special La historia de Cayuco] thanks to Anna Milena de Gaviria of PANAMA In a tiny fishing village, a little girl the Cultural Foundation of the starts running into—are they spirits? Americas, the Organization of —on the beach, but can her initially disbelieving mom take care of things? American States, and the embassies Directed by Jose Vega. Panama, of the participating countries. Many 2002, color, 35 min. Spanish with of the films will screen at both the English subtitles. PLUS AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center PASSIONATE WOMEN ■ MY GRANDMOTHER’S GRAND- and the AFI National Film Theater at gained for—his reporter contact is FATHER: BETWEEN DREAMS AND missing and nobody’s looking for him, PASSIONATE WOMEN the Kennedy Center. Every year, the LOTTERIES [El abuelo de mi plus his first assignment is to meet [Mujeres apasionadas] Latin American Festival presents abuela: Entre sueños y loterías] with priest Jorge Pupo, who’s so COSTA RICA fevered with the advent of Satan that *AFI Silver Theatre: Thu, Sep 18, 8:45; numerous filmmaker appearances. PANAMA he clobbers an altar boy he fears is Mon, Sep 22, 8:00; Sat, Sep 27, 3:40 This year, many filmmakers have A girl who likes to play nurse to her possessed. But there’s also love in the Kennedy Center: No screenings dolls gets a big job with the small- form of nurse Arloa Reston—yet who After years apart, old acquaintances— been invited to attend and we expect town lottery, and dreams come true. is she meeting in the jungle? Cosmic stockbroker Claudia Catania, sculp- Directed by Carlos Aguilar. Panama. discussions of good and evil between most to do so. Special appearances tress Moy Arburola, forensic scientist Short, 2002, color, 35 min. Spanish Pupo and a nihilistic colleague turn will be announced in September. Alejandra Portillo, and TV journalist with English subtitles. into a battle for survival with the Grettel Cedeño—have all been *Denotes opening location. still-lurking forces of repression. summoned to the study of four-years- A GAME OF OUT OF BOUNDS Directed by Alejandro Castillo ago mysteriously-deceased sculptor [Fuera de juego] Close. Guatemala, 2001, color, 102 Carlos Mata at the same hour on the CAT AND MOUSE min. Spanish with English subtitles. ECUADOR same day. And then, after a stranger— [Como el gato y el ratón] *AFI Silver Theatre: Thu, Sep 18, 6:40; businesswoman Mimí Lazo—appears, COLOMBIA Sun, Sep 21, 5:00 BEDTIME FAIRY TALES FOR the memories of Mata come flooding AFI Silver Theatre: Thu, Sep 25, 6:45 Kennedy Center: Sat, Sep 27, 3:40 CROCODILES [Cuentos de back, revealing that all four were engaged to him simultaneously! Who *Kennedy Center: Thu, Sep 18, 6:30; In the wake of his country’s social, hadas para dormir cocodrilos] Sat, Sep 21, 2:45 economic and financial collapse—and MEXICO After endless petitions, street lighting its effects on his family—innocent kid AFI Silver Theatre: Sat, Sep 27, 4:00 comes at last to La Estrella, near Manolo Santillán feels as though he’s *Kennedy Center: Thu, Sep 18, 8:30; Bogotá, but it doesn’t bring unity. got just one way out to his big dream: Mon, Sep 22, 8:15 After pals Jairo Camargo and Gilberto to try his luck on another continent Insomniac and nightmare-ridden Ramirez wire up their homes, a cable “up north.” But what if that big heist Arturo Ríos, hearing that his father is comes too close to a power line, and goes wrong? First feature for former dying, hurries back to his crumbling somebody pulls the plug during that director of photography then docu- childhood home in the hills—only to soccer match—then the bickering mentary and commercial filmmaker be told by a mysterious old woman escalates from pranks, into dirty Arregui. • TO ORDER WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER TICKETS: • that dad died years ago. And then the tricks, into ... ? Comic debut work Directed by Víctor Manuel Arregui. from the son of longtime stage and family chronicle begins, dating back Ecuador, 2002, color, 82 min. to the 1860s and the French soldier’s screen director (and 1997 AFI guest) Spanish with English subtitles. Jorge Alí Triana (OEDIPUS gun and coat, carrying through ALCALDE). Best Colombian Film, succeeding wars and a pattern of frat- Bogotá Festival; Best Cinematography, INVISIBLE EVIDENCE ricide, dreams and insomnia. The old Cartagena Festival. [Evidencia invisible] woman barks, “Love doesn’t exist”— but if it does, can it break the cycle? Directed by Rodrigo Triana. GUATEMALA Seven Ariel Awards out of 14 nomina- Columbia, 2002, color, 93 min. *AFI Silver Theatre: Thu, Sep 18, 8:30; tions, including Best Film, Actor, Spanish with English subtitles. Sun, Sep 21, 1:00; Mon, Sep 22, 8:15 Director, Screenplay, Score. Kennedy Center: No screenings On the cover: THORNS OF THE SOUL from Directed by Ignacio Ortíz Cruz. Visiting American journalist Brandon Mexico, 2002, color, 100 min. Paraguay; inset: Nicole Kidman and Johnson finds more than he’s bar- Anthony Hopkins in THE HUMAN STAIN. Spanish with English subtitles. AFI PREVIEW (ISSN-0194-3847) is published every six weeks by the American Film Institute’s office at 8633 Colesville Film Institute. Send all remittances and correspondences about subscriptions, undelivered copies and address Road, Silver Spring, MD. 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Best Film, Actress, Cine Ceará, We invite you to celebrate Latino Cinema Day at AFI Silver and what is that big secret? Debut National Cinema Festival. Los invitamos a celebrar el Dia de Cine Latino en el AFI Silver film for director Jiménez. Directed by Suzana Amaral. Brazil, Directed by Maureen Jiménez. 2001, color, 95 min. Portuguese Saturday, September 13, noon–4 p.m. Costa Rica, 2002, color, 96 min. with English subtitles. AFI Silver’s first-ever Latino Cinema Day will take place on Saturday, Spanish with English subtitles. September 13, from noon to 4 p.m., to kick off the September 18–28 THE ARCHANGEL’S FEATHER Latin American Film Festival and the celebration of Hispanic Heritage TAXI FOR THREE [La pluma del arcángel] Month, which begins on Monday, September 15. Co-sponsored by [Taxi para tres] VENEZUELA Comcast, Discovery En Español, the Latin American Folk Institute, and CHILE *AFI Silver Theatre: Fri, Sep 19, 6:40; the Silver Spring Regional Center, El Dia De Cine Latino/Latino Cinema *AFI Silver Theatre: Fri, Sep 19, 6:30; Sun, Sep 21, 6:15 Sat, Sep 20, 9:00 Kennedy Center: Tue, Sept 23, 6:30 Day is a free celebration of Latin American heritage with Latino film and music, special guests and free gifts. Kennedy Center: Wed, Sep 24, 6:30 “A word loaded with power, and the After punks Daniel Muñoz and Earth will begin to change.” In a All are welcome/los invitamos a todos. Fernando Gómez Rovira give cabbie remote village in the 30s, all orders Alejandro Trejo the “wheel or trunk” from the Supreme Chief come by tele- graph, and bigwig’s wastrel son by noticing the kitschy angel figures Wim Wenders prefers glasses to TAXI FOR THREE Rolando Padilla takes whatever on her walls). After both shed earlier contacts, Agnès Varda remembers woman he wants. But then the new mates (Robbiano’s ex stops to strum filming the childhood of husband • TO ORDER WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER TICKETS: • telegrapher—enigmatic white-suited power chords during their spat), Jacques Demy while he watched, Iván Tamayo (CARACAS AMOR A they’re together working on her Nobel laureate José Saramago fanta- MUERTE, ’01 fest) arrives as outrageous theater project, which sizes receiving 500 newspapers a day, “Gabriel”—and everything starts to ultimately results in bullets and an director Walter Lima, Jr. (THE change. Striking sound design and asylum commitment. Romantic, OYSTER AND THE WIND, ’98 fest) musical score highlight this fable-like comedic change of pace for multi- recalls realizing he needed glasses debut film from TV director Luis media star Bertie (THE ELUSIVE while movie watching, a little girl is Manzo, adapted from the novel by GOOD, ’02 fest).