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★ VOLUME 1 • ISSUE 5 September 18–October 28,September 18–October 2003 Latin America Film Festival September 18–28 NEW! Members Advance Screenings THE HUMAN STAIN and VERONICA GUERIN Meet THE ! Director, HUMAN STAIN’s PREVIEW PREVIEW arry Levinson in Person arry Levinson ributes to , to ributes SHANE ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA SUCKER DUCK, YOU T , Charles Guggenheim B Films of Czech 10 Years • A MIDSUMMER’S NIGHT DREAM Also: HOTEL Jeff Krulik from New Work Much More! THE GUIDE AND MEMBER EVENTS TO THEATRE AFI AFI 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: 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. Signed articles do not necessarily reflect the official institute policy. © 2003 American changes to: American Film Institute, 2021 N. Ave., , CA 90027, Attention: Membership. Periodicals Film Institute. All rights reserved. Reproduction in part or whole without permission is prohibited. Editorial, publishing postage paid at Silver Spring, and at additional mailing offices. and advertising offices: AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center, 8633 Colesville Rd., Silver Spring, MD 20910 Postmaster: Send address changes to AFI PREVIEW at American Film Institute, Membership Department, (301.495.6720). Subscription price: $50.00 per year. All subscriptions also include membership in the American 2021 N. Western Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90027. 2 Information is correct at press time. Films and schedule subject to change. Check www.AFI.com/Silver for updates. FREE EVENT! Latino Cinema Day/El Dia de Cine Latino summoned them in the first place, STAR. 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. Spanish with English subtitles. AFI Silver’s first-ever Latino Cinema Day will take place on Saturday, THE ARCHANGEL’S FEATHER September 13, from noon to 4 p.m., to kick off the September 18–28 TAXI FOR THREE [La pluma del arcángel] Latin American Film Festival and the celebration of Hispanic Heritage [Taxi para tres] VENEZUELA Month, which begins on Monday, September 15. Co-sponsored by CHILE *AFI Silver Theatre: Fri, Sep 19, 6:40; Comcast, Discovery En Español, the Latin American Folk Institute, and *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 the Silver Spring Regional Center, El Dia De Cine Latino/Latino Cinema Kennedy Center: Wed, Sep 24, 6:30 “A word loaded with power, and the Day is a free celebration of Latin American heritage with Latino film After punks Daniel Muñoz and Earth will begin to change.” In a and music, specialAll guests are andwelcome/los free gifts. 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 • TICKETS: WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER ORDER • TO 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). too embarrassed to wear hers, and a Arturo Uslar Pietri. Directed by Edgardo Guerra. Peru, newborn takes his first look... Directed by Luis Manzo. Venezuela, 2002, color, 127 min. In Spanish Audience, International Jury Award, 2002, color, 92 min. Spanish with only. São Paulo Festival. English subtitles. Directed by Walter Carvalho. option to dragoon him into being MIDNIGHT SOULS Brazil, 2001, color, 73 min. their driver for stickups, he’s amazed Portuguese with English subtitles. when they share their spoils with THORNS OF THE SOUL [Almas de la media noche] him. When the prospect of paying off [Mirame no me tokéi] HONDURAS his cab looms, Trejo starts joining in, PARAGUAY *AFI Silver Theatre: Fri, Sep 19, 9:00; even as the boys contemplate rehabili- *AFI Silver Theatre: Fri, Sep 19, 8:45; Sun, Sep 21, 3:30; Sun, Sep 28, 8:15 MIDNIGHT SOULS tation while enjoying his family life Wed, Sep 24, 8:15; Sun, Sep 28, 1:00 Kennedy Center: No screenings with wife and kids… but then those Kennedy Center: No Screenings cops start moving in. Biting comedy/ 1987, and a journalist on the trail of a Saturday night at the local bar—and drama about the desperation of the legend comes upon a crashed police stories interlock: Humberto Gulino poor, with vibrant score and shock car... Today, and it’s just another finally spills a big secret to pal Ramon ending. Best Film, San Sebastián assignment for Professor Zola’s jour- del Río; innocent-looking Katherine Festival; Best Screenplay, Cartagena, nalism students Juan Fernando Lobo Catolino, who painfully talks about Havana Festivals. and his pals, more interested in babes, MICAELA: A MAGICAL FILM her past with her mom, is Luis beers and partying than school. But [Micaela: Una película mágica] Directed by Orlando Lübbert. Chile, Zorilla’s fiancée but dreams of the professor has confidentially - Films for Children 2001, color, 90 min. Spanish with running off with José Pérez Chávez offered them just the extra credit they English subtitles. (who’s afraid to divorce his wife for *AFI Silver Theatre: Sat, Sep 20, 2:00; need if they’ll track down some local Sun, Sep 21, 12:45; Sat, Sep 27, 2:00; financial reasons); while Zorilla and legends in a mysterious village Sun, Sep 28, 12:45 his equally broke pal yearn to get out A HIDDEN LIFE involved in mysterious deaths over a Kennedy Center: No screenings [Uma vida em segredo] of town. Striking debut work from decade ago. Why does this sound like internationally known artist Collar. a bad idea? Genuinely creepy, home- Young Micaela (Micaela Casotto) BRAZIL enjoys drawing and having chats with AFI Silver Theatre: Thu, Sep 25, 6:30 Directed by Enrique Collar. grown BLAIR WITCH-type project. Paraguay, 2002, color, 112 min. Directed by Juan Carlos Fanconi. birds (they understand each other). *Kennedy Center: Fri, Sep 19, 6:30; But when directed by a tv cartoon Sun, Sep 21, 4:30 Spanish with English subtitles. Honduras, 2001, color, 125 min. Spanish with English subtitles. figure to enter the World of Fantasy It’s tough for country cousin Sabrina via the Tree of Knowledge, she gets a Greve when she’s taken in by town TOTALLY IN LOVE tough assignment from its King to foil relations. Used to working the family [Muerto de amor] WINDOW TO THE SOUL the sinister plans of Dr. Black and his farm with her now-deceased dad, PERU [Janela da alma] assistants (human and animal), whose she’s got to turn into an heiress, wear AFI Silver Theatre: Fri, Sep 26, 8:20 BRAZIL evil formula will drain the world of fine turn-of-the-century clothes, use a *Kennedy Center: Fri, Sep 19, 8:45; *AFI Silver Theatre: Sat, Sep 20, 1:00; color. Only problem is—she’ll have to fork, maybe even get married. But Sat, Sep 20, 3:45 Wed, Sep 24, 6:40 become a cartoon herself! Striking combination of live action, flat and 3D what if she’s a lot happier in the Life looks good for super-yuppie Kennedy Center: Sun, Sep 28, 5:15 animation in commercial specialist kitchen with the help, and better at Diego Bertie—he wakes up in a cool cooking up biscuits than serving the Nineteen people talk about the way Manfredi’s first feature. apartment and drives to work in a they see, and how they see them- men? Poignant and wrenching tour- Directed by Rosanna Manfredi. cool car. But when he meets funky selves, in this fascinating documen- de-force for debuting Greve and the Argentina, 2002, color, 90 min. Vanessa Robbiano, he realizes right tary about vision as a window to the first in 17 years for director Amaral away he’s in for something else (he’s Spanish with English subtitles. since her classic HOUR OF THE soul. From their eyes: a near-blind stopped during their first intimacies photographer snaps Hanna Schygulla, 3 LATIN AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL

Borges and Estela Canto, inspired by forced exile, Jean-Pierre Noher (A Hitchcock’s SUSPICION and OGU AND MAMPATO ON her book, and directed by the son of LOVE OF BORGES) brings back a NOTORIOUS. EASTER ISLAND the great Leopoldo Torre Nilsson. Best family unfamiliar with his country— Directed by Juan Carlos Desanzo. [Ogú y Mampato en Rapa Nui] Actor and Director, Miami Latin wife Margarita Musto, herself an Argentina, 2000, color, 115 min. CHILE - Films for Children Festival. Argentine exile, and their two chil- In Spanish only. AFI Silver Theatre: No screenings Directed by Javier Torre. Argentina, dren. But they’re building their new *Kennedy Center: Sat, Sept 20, 2:00; 2000, color, 92 min. Spanish with home on top of a powder keg—liter- ally, because Noher left a big cache of ILLUSION OF MOVEMENT Sun, Sep 21, 1:00; Sat, Sept 27, 2:00; English subtitles. [Ilusión de movimiento] Sun, Sep 28, 1:00 arms on the site before he left. Although he keeps his wife in the ARGENTINA Dimension-hopping tyke Mampato THE BIRTHDAY [El cumple] dark, Noher tells son Roger AFI Silver Theatre: Thu, Sep 25, 8:30 logs onto the Internet and makes ARGENTINA Casamajor (WARRIORS, EU Fest *Kennedy Center: Sat, Sep 20, 8:45; some adjustments to his magic belt, *AFI Silver: Sat, Sep 20, 4:40; Sat, Sep 27, 9:50 ’02) his secret. Big mistake—as the Sun, Sep 21, 8:30 then picks up his friend Ogú the past returns in a violent way. Caveman en route to the distant past Kennedy Center: Sun, Sep 28, 8:00 Argentina, 1978, and a young woman Directed by Luis Nieto. Uruguay, on Rapa Nui (Easter Island), where During a big bash for Raúl Calandra, collapses while seemingly under 2002, color, 97 min. Spanish with young native girl Marama shows them two friends compete in naming jazz “escort.” Rosario, 1996, and Carlos English subtitles. the ways of her people—and how they greats and red wines, then debate Resta returns after being “away” to carved those gigantic statues. But scatology. Raúl’s ex-wife, persuaded reclaim the family home and hang out there’s the SCOOBY-DOO-esque bad to stay after dropping off their son, MERCANO, THE MARTIAN with friends—including one obvi- guy stylings of the Great Ariki and his falls back into the same arguments, as [Mercano, el marciano] ously off the deep end—but most another friend and his wife battle importantly, meet Matías Grappa, the dangerous taboos to contend with. ARGENTINA Latest adventure of the comic book over work pressures inhibiting love- young son he’s never known. But as *AFI Silver Theatre: Sat, Sep 20, 6:50; the highly introverted Grappa regulars in Chile’s first ever—and making (followed by his disquisition Wed, Sep 24, 6:30 visually striking—animated film. on bathroom tile colors), and a back- (touching in his first role) begins to Kennedy Center: Sun, Sep 28, 6:40 make friends and reach out, Resta Directed by Alejandro Rojas Téllez. in-town buddy recounts his own Stranded on earth, Martian Mercano flashes back to the moment that has Chile, Animation: 2002, color, 74 tortured relationship—as Calandra’s heads straight for the Internet. While haunted and forever changed his trou- min. Spanish with English subtitles. 18-year-old records it all for her docu- mentary. An Argentine “night of his Martian friends blow off his bled friend. The poignant aftermath of rescue pleas, the “virtual planet” he the “dirty war”—which, in fact, is WAITING [La espera] truth” in the Danish Dogma style. Directed by Gustavo Postiglione. creates online catches the eye of both never mentioned. URUGUAY Argentina, 2002, b&w/color, 80 a grotesquely-toothed computer geek Directed by Héctor Molina. *AFI Silver Theatre: Sat, Sep 20, 2:45; min. Spanish with English subtitles. and his dad, who decides a deal with Argentina, 2001, color, 110 min. Sat, Sep 27, 10:15 the alien is the short route to plane- Spanish with English subtitles. Kennedy Center: Fri, Sep 26, 6:30 DESTINY HAS NO tary commercial domination. Brutal It’s a life of routine for still-young (NOT FOR CHILDREN) satire of SHORTS FROM Verónica Perrotta: care for her FAVORITES sci-fi films, this biting parody features ARGENTINA & VENEZUELA bedridden mother Elena Zuasty in the [El destino no tiene favoritos] Martian films with human invaders and caricatures of the Net, globaliza- *AFI Silver Theatre: Mon, Sep 22, 6:30; small apartment they share, then off PERU Sun, Sep 28, 9:50 to tend a hot sewing machine in a tion, consumerism, even musicals, in *AFI Silver Theatre: Sat, Sep 20, 6:00; an assortment of animation styles— Kennedy Center: Sat, Sep 27, 7:15 clothing factory, then back home for Sun, Sep 21, 7:00 traditional, sketch and 3D computer the evening cleanup. Occasional help Kennedy Center: Thu, Sep 25, 6:30 ■ SUNBURN [Las insoladas] comes from family friend and next graphics. Special Jury Prize, Annecy door neighbor, middle-aged Walter Her husband’s gone off to tend to the Animation Festival; Audience Award, ARGENTINA Reyno, himself sitting alone, typing farm, there’s nobody around but those Catalonian Festival. As the temperature heads toward away. Then Perrotta meets Roberto two servant girls, and then those NOT APPROPRIATE FOR CHILDREN. 100°F, two sunbathers Suárez at a dance—but is this a way vulgar telenovela people arrive to Directed by Juan Antín. Argentina, dream of Cuba, then decide to get out? Or is there another conclusion location shoot on her estate—what’s 2002, color, 72 min. Spanish with some fast travel money. bored housewife Monica Steuer to do? waiting? First feature for documen- English subtitles. Directed by Gustavo Taretto. But as she observes from her tarist Garay Dutrey. FIPRESCI Award, Argentina, 2002, color, 22 min. windows the turgid story progressing Miami Festival. Spanish with English subtitles. below, soap opera mania starts to set LOVE AND FRIGHT Directed by Aldo Garay. Uraguay, in… And then there’s this casting call. [El amor y el espanto] PLUS • TO ORDER WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER TICKETS: • 2002, color, 65 min. Spanish with Impersonation, illicit romance, jeal- ARGENTINA ■ English subtitles. ousy (personal and professional), the *AFI Silver Theatre: Sat, Sep 20, 8:00; TOUGH GUYS’ DAY lure of stardom, even the class ques- Sun, Sep 21, 9:00 [Tarde de machos] A LOVE OF BORGES tion of brunettes versus blondes—it’s Kennedy Center: Wed, Sept 24, 8:15 VENEZUELA all here in this hilarious parody and [Un amor de Borges] 1946, and dictator-to-be Juan Perón Loco boxing saga, including Tyson- evocation of that near-universal soap ARGENTINA has become president (or has he?), style ear-biting, an opera-singing hit craze. *AFI Silver Theatre: Sat, Sep 20, 3:40; and Jorge Luis Borges (Miguel Ángel man, blind men in a shoot-out and a Sun, Sep 21, 8:40 Directed by Alvaro Velarde. Peru, Solá) and his mother comment on the pacifist Hare Krishna in the ring. Kennedy Center: Mon, Sep 22, 6:30 2002, color, 90 min. Spanish with shouts outside their window, when Directed by Carlos Caridad English subtitles. Buenos Aires, 1946: forceful 20ish suddenly the life of the great writer Moreno. Venezuela, 2002, b&w, 12 translator Inés Sastre (THE BEST and some of his works are inter- min. Spanish with English subtitles. MAN, EU Showcase ’98) takes a SOUTHERN STAR twined—in the National Library, he’s PLUS break from her two jobs to fall for [Estrella del Sur] threatened by a government goon, then later fantasizes beating him in a ■ ROSA, A DESILUSION 40ish librarian and writer Jean-Pierre URUGUAY Noher, who’s dominated by his knife fight. In this Borgesean inter- [Rosa Un Delirio] AFI Silver Theatre: Sun, Sep 28, 3:20 weaving of texts, he romances Blanca mother (he checks in by phone during VENEZUELA their dinners), is starting to lose his *Kennedy Center: Sat, Sep 20, 6:30; Oteyza’s Beatriz Viterbo, then believes Sun, Sep 21, 6:30 Julie Restifo (as Rosa) has it all, nice sight and is afraid of sex. The real-life she’s slowly being poisoned by her home and family, but that darned romance of the great writer Jorge Luis Back in Uruguay after many years in husband in a situation reminiscent of

4 THE of Gotham through foreign eyes in slow takes, with sinuous camera WORLD this emotional rollercoaster—from movements, all with natural light and OF THE the touchingly human to the horrific a non-professional cast, culminating ONQUI TONQUI —keyed by two towering perform- in a “final shot that could itself be ances. Not for everyone, but a considered among the wonders of social conscience and middle-class powerful experience. Best Actress, creation.”—J. Hoberman, Village guilt has her taking drastic steps with Director, Screenplay, Brasilia Festival. Voice. Grand Prize, Bratislava; Best shoes. Directed by José Joffily. Brazil, 2002, Actor, Buenos Aires; Golden Camera, Directed by Carlos Villegas Rosales. color, 100 min. Portuguese with Cannes; Audience Choice, Stockholm; Venezuela, 2002, color, 13 min. English subtitles. Best Director, Thessaloniki Festival. Spanish with English subtitles. Directed by Carlos Reygadas. Mexico, 2002, color, 132 min. PLUS LOOKING FOR YOU [Te busco] Spanish with English subtitles. ■ MIGUELINA COLOMBIA VENEZUELA *AFI Silver Theatre: Thu, Sep 25, 8:40; A BRAND NEW START Is a tiny village’s searing drought really Fri, Sep 26, 8:30; Sat, Sep 27, 6:15 performances by the mostly debuting cast. Terrific photography and music [Borrón y cuenta nueva] the fault of the old lady who, since her Kennedy Center: No screenings husband disappeared, compulsively highlight this amazing change of pace VENEZUELA As the adult ‘William’ narrates, his from the director of the often-hilar- *AFI Silver Theatre: Fri, Sep 26, 6:40;

makes baskets? But what if he comes • TICKETS: WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER ORDER • TO five-year-old self (played by Felipe Sat, Sep 27, 8:00; Sun, Sep 28, 6:30 back? ious adaptation of the popular 19th- Rubio) and his feckless babysitting century novel, LOVE AND CO. (’99 Kennedy Center: No screenings Directed by Reyther Ortega. uncle Robinson Díaz (MAXIMUM fest). Best Actor (Moreno). Special Riots, looting, a dangerous hostage Venezuela, 2001, color, 13 min. PENALTY, ’02 fest) are mesmerized Jury Granado Festival. situation, a daring rescue—but it’s Spanish with English subtitles. by Andrea Guzmán singing up a Directed by Helvecio Ratton. Brazil, that anonymous call about her PLUS storm in the park. It’s love, of course, 2002, color, 92 min. Portuguese husband’s cheating that concerns but Guzman only has eyes for little ■ with English subtitles. lingerie shop owner (who wanted to THE WORLD OF THE ONQUI Rubio. So, to win her heart, erstwhile be a dentist) Mimí Lazo. Infidelities music student Díaz decides to TONQUI [El mundo de los Onqui multiply as a police hero murders his assemble a “tropical music orchestra” A BEAUTIFUL SECRET Tonqui] cheating songstress mistress and a with her as lead singer. But that loan [Un secreto de esperanza] plaid-clad hitman can’t handle two VENEZUELA he has to take out might cost some- MEXICO panicky women. And Lazo’s husband Simple but charming animation illus- body an ear. Comical, bittersweet AFI Silver Theatre: No screenings keeps getting jailed for stealing his trates a parable about the dead-end coming-of-age story, with vibrant *Kennedy Center: Fri, Sep 26, 8:00; own truck, while soap star Carlos modern life of the Onqui Tonqui—but music and terrific teamwork by the Sat, Sep 27, 8:40; Sun, Sep 28, 2:45 Mata keeps escaping hairy situations are they us? three leads. Feeling footloose during a week-long when he gets star recognition from Directed by Alfredo J. Anzola. Directed by Ricardo Coral. suspension from school (he’s opened gun-toting looters and/or soldiers. Venezuela, Animation: 2002, color, 9 Columbia, 2002, color. 89 min. his mouth once too often, acting out Tour-de-farce performance by Lazo in min. Spanish with English subtitles. Spanish with English subtitles. against his mom’s friendship with her this debut work by brother Henrique. new boss), Imanol goes after the ball Directed by Henrique Lazo. TWO LOST ON A DIRTY SOMETHING IN THE AIR he’s knocked into the yard of the Venezuela, 2002, color, 90 min. NIGHT [Dois perdidos [Uma onda no ar] decrepit mansion of cranky Katy Spanish with English subtitles. numa noite suja] Jurado. The flashbacks unreel for BRAZIL now-grown-up Imanol (played by *AFI Silver Theatre: Fri, Sep 26, 6:30; BRAZIL Jaime Aymerich), who looks back at HARASSED ON AFI Silver Theatre: No screenings Sat, Sep 27, 6:00; Sun, Sep 28, 2:30 the crucial friendship he grew to CARNIVAL MONDAY *Kennedy Center: Tue, Sep 23, 8:15; Kennedy Center: No screenings share with Jurado while she remi- [Acosada en lunes de carnaval] Thu, Sep 25, 8:15; Sat, Sep 27, 5:15 As cops close in on a pirate radio nisced about a glamorous past—but VENEZUELA Dark underside of New York in this station in Belo Horizonte and deejay what was in the box she gave him? *AFI Silver Theatre: Sat, Sep 27, 8:15; Brazilian, heterosexual MIDNIGHT Alexandre Moreno laughingly Final film for the legendary Jurado Sun, Sep 28, 4:30 & 7:45 COWBOY, as immigrants Roberto discounts rumors of a United Nations (HIGH NOON; Oscar-nominated for Kennedy Center: No screenings Bomtempo (CANUDOS, ’98 fest), broadcast award, flashbacks segue to BROKEN LANCE) and a terrific hose dreams have turned to toilet four young friends—Moreno, techie debut for Imanol. Long ago in the small town of San Jorge, repression mounts along with cleaning, and Débora Falabella, a Benjamim Abras, musician Babu Directed by Leopoldo Laborde. the preparations for Carnival. Then hooker/Madonna wannabe who Santana and druglord wannabe Mexico, 2002, color, 130 min. 12-year-old Abril Scheiber must passes as “Paco,” hole up in an aban- Adolfo Moura—and their dreams of Spanish with English subtitles. doned warehouse while their starting an alternative voice for the watch as her telegrapher father is tormented relationship escalates to slums. Based on the true story of carted away by the authorities, and violent crime. Striking location shots Radio Favela, with charismatic JAPAN [Japón] must watch again as mom Mimi Lazo MEXICO must make tough (and unforgivable?) *AFI Silver Theatre: Wed, Sep 24, 8:00; decisions for their survival, including Sat, Sep 27, 1:30, Sun, Sep 28, 5:15 accepting a tortured, passionate rela- Kennedy Center: No screenings tionship with her husband’s jailor, sleazy military chief Luis Felipe Tovar. Suicide looks good for fed-up middle- But the fever of Carnival brings every- aged Mexico City painter Alejandro thing to a cataclysmic conclusion in Ferretis. But when he lodges with this poignant and painful coming-of- generous, understanding old lady age story. Magdalena Flores in the remote village he’s decided will be his last Directed by Malena Roncayolo. stop, he finds... ? Strikingly Venezuela, 2002, color, 106 min. Tartovskyan, director Reygadas’ first Spanish with English subtitles. JAPAN feature is shot in cinemascope in long,

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7 FAMILY CINEMA A Tribute to Jim Henson

THE MUPPET MOVIE Thu, Sep 25, 8:15 Few artists have affected as many people as profoundly—and as happily—as the late Jim Henson. To coincide with the unveiling of the new statue of Henson at his alma mater, the University of Maryland, AFI Silver will be showing six of his films at weekend family matinees, displaying his artistry in the lobby showcases, and presenting an evening of some of his finest television work—all in collaboration with The Jim Henson Legacy. The program will include and examples of Henson’s early television work here in the Washington area, including “Sam and Friends.” Henson Family Sat, Sep 20, 12:00 Harry Belafonte and other Henson friends, family and Their first foray onto the silver screen collaborators will be at AFI Silver to discuss the significance finds Kermit the Frog and his Muppet Matinees cohorts Fozzie Bear and Miss Piggy of his enormous output and share their recollections of the singing their way to Hollywood, master. NO PASSES WILL BE ACCEPTED AT THIS EVENT. As the University of Maryland honors hoping to make it big. But looking to Harry Belafonte Jim Henson, the AFI Silver proudly thwart Kermit’s plans is as Doc Hopper, an evil Frog- showcases some highlights from his Leg Restaurant magnate. Cameos THE MUPPETS TAKE Jareth the Goblin King, played with distinguished film career—as writer, galore, in the tradition of classic wicked abandon by chameleon-like Hollywood films, include Elliott MANHATTAN glam-rocker David Bowie. An imagi- Sat, Oct 11, 12:00 director, producer, Muppeteer and Gould, , , native fusion of fantasy, fairy tale and voice actor—featuring works both Carol Kane, Steve Martin, Richard If THE MUPPET MOVIE is an meta-fiction, Connelly must navigate Pryor, as well as the talents of the late homage to the golden age of THE BIG the obstacles of the menacing within and beyond the familiar , Telly Savalis, Milton BROADCAST-style celebrity show- Labyrinth to rescue her brother before Muppet oeuvre. Specially priced for Berle, Bob Hope, James Coburn and case, THE MUPPETS TAKE he is forever transformed into a MANHATTAN is the Muppet take on goblin. the family at $5.50 per ticket. Madeline Kahn. Directed by James Frawley. US, backstage musicals like BROADWAY Directed by Jim Henson. US/UK, 1979, color, 97 min. MELODY. Kermit and the troupe 1986, color, 101 min. decide to take their musical revue to the great white way, only to find that THE GREAT MUPPET CAPER making it in the big city takes team- THE WITCHES Sat, Sep 27, 12:00 work and determination. Along the Sat, Oct 25, 12:00 The second muppet movie finds way they run into the late Gregory Adapted from the book by Roald Kermit and the gang on the other side Hines and Art Carney, as well as Dahl, produced by Jim Henson and of the pond—all the way to London— Dabney Coleman, , Joan directed by auteur Nicholas Roeg hot on the trail of a jewel thief. When Rivers, , Brooke Shields, (PERFORMANCE, THE MAN WHO Miss Piggy is framed as the culprit, Frances Bergen, John Landis, Elliott FELL TO EARTH), THE WITCHES it’s up to Kermit and company to keep Gould and Mayor Ed Koch. is a twisted children’s tale of false the pig out of the pokey. Notable cast Directed by . US, 1984, appearances and evil plots. On vaca- members include Dianna Rigg, color, 94 min. tion in England with his grandmother, , John Cleese, Peter young Jasen Fisher uncovers the plan Ustinov and Jack Warden. by the Royal Society for the LABYRINTH Prevention of Cruelty to Children Directed by Jim Henson. US, 1981, Sat, Oct 18, 12:00 (a cover for their true identity as color, 95 min. Young Jennifer Connelly, fresh off her witches!) to turn all children into impressive acting debut in Sergio mice by feeding them laced chocolate. Leone’s ONCE UPON A TIME IN Anjelica Huston devours her role as Sat, Oct 4, 12:00 AMERICA, resentful of having to the Grand High Witch. • TO ORDER WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER TICKETS: • Written by Jim Henson and co- baby-sit her baby brother, inadver- Directed by Nicholas Roeg. UK, directed by fellow Muppeteer Frank tently casts him into the hands of 1990, color, 91 min. Oz, this sci-fi fantasy adventure is set in an imaginative, albeit dark, puppet world that is a decided departure from the light-hearted land of the Muppets. The story concerns two THE DARK CRYSTAL young Gelflings—the last of their kind—on their quest to thwart the dark rule of the evil, selfish Skeksis by mending the mythic Dark Crystal. With characters based on designs by fantasy artist Brian Froud, THE DARK CRYSTAL features puppet mastery that will both delight chil- dren and impress adults. Co-directed and written by Jim Henson. US, 1982, color, 93 min. LABYRINTH

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10 • TO ORDER TICKETS: WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER • 11 2. b&w, 96 min. 2. b&w, THE PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO istopher), with highlightsistopher), David is waking, blended into a complex is waking, r mar and the Ry Cooder score. mar and the Ry r eat Polish actor”).eat Polish “So they call me ames and Stacy), the Younger ames and Stacy), ed, Nov 19, 6:30 ed, Nov ed, Dec 3, 6:30 he story of the Jesse James gang, he story James of the Jesse fetime as Joseph Tura (“that great, Tura fetime as Joseph hakespeare.” With Carole Lombard McDonald at her chateau. The memo- The McDonald at her chateau. rable opening with the sounds of Pa shot to a metronome, was rhythm, complete with smoke from chimneys coming in “musical” puffs. “If there is one Thirties, a better of the musical it can be.” —John wonders what Baxter. Mamoulian. Directed by Rouben 193 US, THE LONG RIDERS W T by brothers played with the various brothers the James themselves: brothers brothers by the Keach (J brothers by the Carradine brothers the Miller and Robert), (David, Keith brothers by the Quaid brothers and the (Randy and Dennis), murdering Ford brothers by the Guest brothers (Nicholas and Ch knife fight with James Carradine’s Re 1980, Hill. US, Directed by Walter 99 min. color, TO BE OR NOT W And now for the greatest of Dane in the role of a Benny them all—Jack li gr Concentration Camp Erhardt?” gloats to a Gestapo man Sig Rumann then proceeds to masquerading Benny, Hamlet: “What we criticizing Jack’s did you are doing to Poland, to S wife/ in her last role as Benny’s comedic master- Ophelia, Lubitsch’s excoriated in its time for piece was taste, but now enshrinedbad as a classic. belly-laughing Directed by Ernst US, Lubitsch. 99 min. b&w, 1942, ate… Ratsky-Watsky?! Crusty dad ate… Ratsky-Watsky?! isian pedestrians to train passen- mantic?” passed along from he son of a gun is nothing but a r iv rs to marching soldiers to annette McDonald, all to the tunes om a date with a soldier, but it’s om a date with a soldier, ed, Nov 12,ed, Nov 6:30 ubrey Smith, but Maurice Chevalier cop’s daughter Trudy KnockenlockerTrudy daughter cop’s comes back pregnant (Betty Hutton) fr Complete with a curtain ring on okay. her left hand, she actually married Pr William Demarest enlists her peren- Eddienially Bracken hapless swain to the rescue in ’ freneti- cally hilarious small town version of Conception—except the Immaculate tuplets? how many this time it’s... Directed/written by Preston 99 min. Sturges. 1944, b&w, US, LOVE ME TONIGHT W “T grumpily venerabletailor,” sings C. A carries off his aristocratic masquerade to beguilelong enough princess Je It and Hart, withof Rodgers “Isn’t Ro Pa ge ing the Depression, New Jersey ing the Depression, New , 1985, b&w and color, 84 b&w min. , 1985, and color, r eatest of silent films, as F.W. Murnau eatest of silent films, as F.W. aitress Mia Farrow, married to aitress Mia Farrow, out of the off the screenalks (and ed, Sep 24, 8:15 ed, Sep 24, ed, Oct 15, 6:30 ed, Oct 29, 6:30 an Johnson and , have an Johnson lm he’s in) and into her life. Daniels in) lm he’s onservatory Fellows, as well as Conservatory alumni discussing their as Conservatory as well Fellows, onservatory amp from the city that he contem- inds his movie money no good, while ights and dawn marshes, and a hair- ights marshes, and dawn C With Live Musical Accompaniment With Live SUNRISE W A simple story: the idylllic marriage of is Gaynor O’BrienGeorge and Janet he fallsthreatened when so hard for a v One of the last and plates murder. gr —fresh from his German success with an THE LAST LAUGH—created almost title-less visual poem with a Rosher’s city set, Charles gigantic shimmering of urban photography l raising storm on a studio-built lake. 1927, Murnau. US, Directed by F.W. min. 97 b&w, THE PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO W Du w Aiello,crumb-bum finds solace Danny at the local movie palace—but Daniels Jeff imagine her shock when w fi f his fellow film among them actors, V to mark time until he returns.When the part played the real actor who flies again) (Daniels in from Holly- wood, Aiello starts jealous. to get Allen. Directed/written by Woody US THE MIRACLE OF MORGAN’S CREEK W On the homefrontWWII, during

xperience in this internationally prestigious program. Admission materials program. prestigious in this internationally xperience am Grogg, motion picture producer and Dean of the AFI Conservatory, the and Dean of the AFI Conservatory, producer motion picture am Grogg, .800.774.4AFI; 323.856.7609 or via e-mail at [email protected]. 323.856.7609 .800.774.4AFI; or the AFI Conservatory and application forms will be available. and application forms or the AFI Conservatory S in film and television, program graduate professional nation’s foremost The evening at AFI Silver. p.m. presentation 13th, 7:00 will host an October completed winning AFI productions award of recent screenings will present by e f and a profes- training graduate in pursuing advanced All those interested are and television leader in motion pictures as a creative sional career J.J. Jackman at contact information, more For attend. to invited 1 An Evening with the Dean of AFI Conservatory October 13th, 7:00pm Monday, ollege film courses. Courses reflected Courses ollege film courses. ollege students with i.d. (plus one ors, followed by an instructor/audi- by ors, followed AFI CONSERVATORY SYMPOSIUM AFI CONSERVATORY SCREEN EDUCATION AT AFI SILVER AT SCREEN EDUCATION Montgomery College Film Series series of six films—cover- An exciting span of film history ing the entire the present—will to from this fall at the AFI Silver be screened with Montgomery in conjunction C include: in the screenings to Film, Film History to Introduction and Basic Movie 1950, Screenwriting, Each film will be intro- Production. instruc- one of the course by duced t discussion of the film. The gen- ence join in a lively to public is invited eral impact discussion of the historical of each these and artistic structure films. Montgomery for $5.00 Tickets are C admis- and standard guest at $5.00) audience. the general sion for BEGINNINGS ’s Directors’ BOTTLE ROCKET Charles Guggenheim Tribute Mon, Sep 29, 6:45pm; Tue, Sep 30, 6:45pm After his self-imposed stay at a mental Nearly a year ago, on First Features hospital for “exhaustion,” Anthony October 9, 2002, Charles It is always a great delight to discov- joins friend Dignan, whose sense of Guggenheim died after a adventure (or instability) leads them seven-month battle with er the rarely-seen “first feature” film to a life of petty burglary in hopes of pancreatic cancer. He dedi- that lurks on the bottom of a favorite someday making it to the big leagues cated the last six months of of gangsterdom. “This movie—which director’s filmography. AFI Silver’s could be described broadly as an off- his life to completing First Feature series has gone back to center, twenty-something comedy, but BERGA: SOLDIERS OF is far more interesting than that—is a ANOTHER WAR, a film those very beginnings to uncover the hilarious, inventive and goofy breath about his fellow Jewish source of some of today’s best film- of fresh air.”—Desson Howe, The Washington Post. The beginning of a American infantrymen making talent. The series will show- whom he discovered had successful career for not only case early films from Wes Anderson (THE ROYAL died in Nazi slave labor TENENBAUMS, RUSHMORE), but camps. In the wake of the SILVERDOCS: AFI/Discovery Channel and , both graduates of NYU also for co-writer/actor Owen Wilson Documentary Festival tribute, AFI Silver is proud to present the Film School and pioneers of the and Owen’s co-star and brother, Luke exclusive Washington DC Theatrical Engagement of the masterful Independent filmmaking trend, as Wilson. documentarian’s fitting swan song. Directed/co-written by Wes well as modern day auteurs Anderson. US, 1996, color, 92 min. Exclusive Washington DC Theatrical Engagement and Wes Anderson BERGA: SOLDIERS OF ANOTHER WAR (Martin Scorsese listed BOTTLE ROCKET Christopher Nolan’s Mon-Thu, Sep 29-Oct 2, 6:40 & 8:30 [no 8:30 show on Mon, Sep 29, no 6:40 show Tue, Sep 30] as one of his 10 favorite movies of FOLLOWING A documentary film revealing Nazi atrocities inflicted on 350 Mon, Sep 29, 8:45 pm; Tue, Sep 30, 8:45pm American POWs “classified” as Jewish, BERGA: SOLDIERS OF the 1990s). If you blinked and missed ANOTHER WAR is the final work in the long and distinguished career of them the first time in the theatres, An unemployed writer’s strange the late documentary filmmaker source of inspiration and observa- Charles Guggenheim. The four- take advantage of this rare opportu- tion—following random people in the time Academy Award winner nity to see these early “master- streets of London—begins to spiral out of control when he gets mixed up wrote and directed the film, and pieces” on the big screen. because of his personal connection with a professional burglar (a mentor, to the story, also narrated in the of sorts) and a beautiful blonde first person for the first—and burglary “victim.” He slowly discovers only— time in his career. that things may just not be as they Revealing the underreported story appear. A noble precursor to of imprisoned American GIs forced Christopher Nolan’s indie break- to work alongside slave laborers through MEMENTO, this super low- from Nazi concentration camps, budget first feature truly captures Guggenheim integrated on-camera Nolan’s talent for unconventional testimony by survivors and eyewit- storytelling, his beautiful cinematog- nesses and archival photographs raphy, and his indie spirit. To accom- with reenactments shot at real modate everyone’s “day job,” the locations using young East entire film was shot on a string of German locals to portray US soldiers. The recreations capture the Saturdays over the course of several inhuman boxcar transport, slave laborers tunneling through quartz rock, months. austere prison conditions, makeshift burials in bleak and snowy fields and Directed/written by Christopher • TO ORDER WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER TICKETS: • churchyards—not to mention the massive, forced slave labor march of Nolan. UK, 1998, b&w, 69 min. prisoners away from advancing Allies—and, ultimately, the liberation of the GIs. After two and a half years of extensive research, Guggenheim found 124 survivors and witnesses. Of the forty who agreed to be inter- viewed, many revealed that they had repressed their memories for over 50 years. Directed/written by Charles Guggenheim, US, 2003, b&w, 90 min.

“Charles Guggenheim devoted his life to documentary film. No other filmmaker achieved a higher level of quality or maintained a deeper sense of integrity.” —, JR., The Eighteenth Annual IDA Awards 2002

BOTTLE ROCKET

12 THE INIMITABLE KATE A Tribute to Katharine Hepburn On June 29, 2003, the world lost its First Lady of Cinema: Katharine WHO’S THAT KNOCKING AT MY DOOR? Hepburn, or simply, Kate. The great- est actress to grace the screen (she is Martin Scorsese’s ranked #1 Woman in the AFI’s “50 WHO’S THAT KNOCKING AT MY DOOR? Greatest Movie Legends”), Katharine Hepburn reigns as the only four-time Wed, Oct 1, 6:45 pm; Thu, Oct 2, 6:45 pm GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER J.R., a young Italian-American, finally Oscar recipient for acting. (She is • TICKETS: WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER ORDER • TO meets a nice girl he wants to marry second in nominations only to Meryl money to be made legitimate”). Soon and settle down with, but when he THE AFRICAN QUEEN enough she’s taking on tennis pro Streep, who passed her in 2002 with Fri, Sep 26, 6:45; Sat, Sep 27, 3:50; learns something about her past, a Sun, Sep 28, 2:45 Gussie Moran, who wields a gigantic lifetime of Catholic guilt is too over- her 13th nod). Hepburn’s career met racket from Kate’s POV, and in the whelming to let true love win. There “Dear, what is your first name?” East final sequence goes toe to toe with is no mistaking this quintessential with requisite ups and downs Africa during World War I, and gin- golfing legend Babe Didrikson Scorsese—from the great acting debut sodden boatman Zaharias. (including rebounding from the discovers his passenger, prissy spin- by Keitel as J.R. (and the first Directed by . US, 1951, ster Katharine Hepburn, has a formi- film cameo by Mrs. Scorsese), to the moniker of “box office poison”), as b&w, 95 min. mind-altering use of classic rock she continued to break new ground dable agenda of her own. (Huston music in the soundtrack. A must-see claimed the script lacked humor until for anyone who loves film and film and defy convention with strong por- he told Hepburn to play her part as SUDDENLY, LAST SUMMER history. trayals of striking women. Hepburn .) Shot on location Sat, Sep 27, 8:30; Sun, Sep 28, 5:00 in Africa; Best Actor Oscar to Bogart Directed/written by Martin “Suddenly, last summer, Cathy knew was once quoted as saying, (over Brando in STREETCAR). “There Scorsese. US, 1968, b&w, 90 min. she was being used for something is no other screen romance as rich as “Wouldn’t it be great if people could evil,” ran the ad lines. So what did Unconfirmed at press time. this.”—David Shipman. get to live suddenly as often as they happen to the unseen “Sebastian” on Directed by . US, 1951, the beach last summer, as shrink Spike Lee’s Student die suddenly?” Fortunately, color, 103 min. Montgomery Clift probes hysteric Academy Award-Winning Hepburn’s act of “living suddenly” is cousin ’s wounded psyche and blocked memory, with captured often in an impressive body A DELICATE BALANCE JOE’S BED-STUY Fri, Sep 26, 9:00; Sat, Sep 27, 1:00; hindering help from aunt-from-hell BARBERSHOP: of work. AFI is honored to present a Sun, Sep 28, 7:30 Katherine Hepburn, here, in a rare unsympathetic role, entering the WE CUT HEADS representative selection of work from It's bad enough that Paul Scofield and Wed, Oct 1, 8:45 pm; Thu, Oct 2, 8:45 pm hothouse atmosphere feet-first via her magnificent seven-decade career, Katharine Hepburn are facing old age private elevator. Both Taylor and When Joe is without a clue. The boozing sister Kate Hepburn garnered Oscar nomina- killed for trying including—from AFI’s June 2002 list Reid, the much-married daughter Lee tions. Adapted by Gore Vidal from to rip off his of 100 Passions, in which Hepburn led Remick; the neighbors Joseph Cotten Tennessee Williams’ one-act. “investor,” Mr. and Betsy Blair who drop by to unload Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Lovejoy, Zach all actresses with six films— their problems: the ultimate venomous US, 1959, b&w, 114 min. Homer takes over PHILADELPHIA STORY (#44), BRINGING house party from Edward Albee the barbershop [WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA and vows to turn UP BABY (#51), AFRICAN QUEEN (#14), WOOLF], adapted from his play, for GUESS WHO’S the place into an ON GOLDEN POND (#22), GUESS Ely Landau's American Film Theater. COMING TO DINNER upstanding and successful business. Terrific performances, with direction Sun, Sep 28, 12:30; Mon, Sep 29, 6:30 Unfortunately, Joe is behind the times WHO’S COMING TO DINNER (#58) and by the maker of TOM JONES. For programming information on with the fashions and when Lovejoy Directed by . USA, WOMAN OF THE YEAR (#74). GUESS WHO’S COMING TO comes knocking, Zach has a hard 1973, color, 133 min. time refusing his business proposi- DINNER, see “AFI’s 100 Years ... tion. Many student films are clearly 100 Movies” listings, page 18. influenced by the styles of great film- PAT AND MIKE Directed by Stanley Kramer. US, makers of the past, but JOE’S BED- Sat, Sep 27, 6:20; Mon, Sep 29, 8:40 1967, color, 108 min. STUY BARBERSHOP: WE CUT Phys-ed instructor Katharine HEADS, Spike Lee’s NYU student Hepburn (“There ain’t much meat on thesis film, proves that Lee has had HOLIDAY her, but what there is is cherce”) is Tue, Sep 30, 6:30; Thu, Oct 2, 6:30 his distinctive and exceptional vision too busy self-doubting (helped by her from the very beginning. nerd fiance) to use those athletic Complications ensue when erstwhile Directed/written by Spike Lee. US, skills, but then she meets Damon poor-boy Cary Grant, welcomed as a 1983, b&w, 60 min. Runyonish-promoter snooty rich girl's suitor when it’s (“I never knew there was so much learned he knows how to make a

13 KATHARINE HEPBURN TRIBUTE buck, decides instead on a holiday in WOMAN OF THE YEAR tells the deceptively simple order to find his values—a move Thu, Oct 2, 8:40; Mon, Oct 6, 8:40 tale of the Thayers, an applauded by his intended's rebellious elderly couple played by sister Katharine Hepburn (who Off-screen opening lines: “I’m afraid Katharine Hepburn and understudied in the original 1928 I’m too tall for you, Mr Tracy.” “Don’t (in their first Philip Barry stage production) and worry, Miss Hepburn, I’ll soon cut screen pairing), who are boozing brother Lew Ayres. Biting you down to my size.” The first of a spending their 48th satire of the rich, spiced by acrobatics nine-film, quarter-century partner- summer at their New from Grant and Hepburn. ship on screen and off paired Spencer England country home Directed by George Cukor. 1938, Tracy’s down-to-earth sportswriter with the extended family, b&w, 94 min. with Katharine Hepburn’s renowned including Fonda’s own political columnist. Hepburn bought daughter Jane. The hat Lardner/Kanin’s first produced—and Henry Fonda wears in the ADAM’S RIB Oscar winning—screenplay herself, film was a gift from Tue, Sep 30, 8:40; Sat, Oct 4, 1:00 then sold it to MGM as a vehicle for Hepburn—it belonged to So who’s wearing the pants in the herself, specifying George Stevens to Spencer Tracy, and, before family? Manhattan Assistant DA direct. The classic breakfast-disaster Tracy, to Western director Spencer Tracy finds out when he’s conclusion was a late, audience-molli- , who gave Henry pitted in court against wife Katharine fying addition (even though Fonda his start. The film Hepburn, defender of husband- Hepburn’s need to cook strikes won three Academy shooting housewife Judy Holliday, husband Tracy as silly). Awards: Best Actress for whose single-shot five-minute deposi- Directed by George Stevens. US, Hepburn (her last), Best tion proves a comedic tour-de-force. 1942, b&w, 114 min. LONG DAY’S Actor for Fonda (his last), Holliday filmed during the day while JOURNEY INTO NIGHT and Best Screenplay for appearing on Broadway at night in LONG DAY’S JOURNEY Thompson. . And Hepburn BRINGING UP BABY Directed by Mark Rydell. US, 1981, persuaded Cukor to focus only on INTO NIGHT Sat, Oct 4, 9:00; Sun, Oct 5, 7:30; color, 105 min. Holliday during their scene together. Fri, Oct 3, 8:00; Sat, Oct 4, 5:40 Tue, Oct 7, 8:40 Directed by George Cukor. US, August, 1912, a sunny summer day at Light-headed heiress Katharine the family vacation home—and the LITTLE WOMEN 1949, b&w, 95 min. Hepburn (in her first comedy) Sun, Oct 5, 4:50; Wed, Oct 8, 6:30 beginning of a day in the death of the reduces bespectacled dinosaur-recon- Tyrone family, with miserly, aging structing paleontologist Cary Grant Daddy leaves Concord, Mass., to go THE PHILADELPHIA STORY matinee idol father Ralph Richardson, to frilly-aproned hysteria (“I went gay off to fight the Civil War, leaving Wed, Oct 1, 8:00; Sat, Oct 4, 3:20 boozing son Jason Robards, consump- suddenly”), as they pursue pet Marmee (Spring Byington) behind Katherine Hepburn’s spoiled rich girl tive son Dean Stockwell, and secret leopard “Baby” though the wilds of with Aunt March (Edna May Oliver), Tracy Lord casually enchants reporter drug addict Katharine Hepburn. The Connecticut. But as the cops move in, and daughters Beth (Jean Parker), James Stewart (in his only Oscar- top-drawer cast won collective Best she allows (between cigarette puffs), Meg (Frances Dee), Amy (a just- winning role), who’s around to report Actor Award at Cannes in Eugene she’ll “unzip” the cat and “shoot the starting Joan Bennett, considered on her second marriage, while fiance O’Neill’s autobiographical classic (he works.” “The American movies’ adventurous casting by Cukor) and John Howard and ex-husband Cary was the character played by closest equivalent to Restoration Katharine Hepburn as tomboyish Grant wait in the wings. Voted “box- Stockwell). Arguably Hepburn’s Comedy… no paleontologist ever got budding writer Jo. Author Louisa May office poison” by national exhibitors greatest performance, completely hold of a more beautiful set of bones.” Alcott’s admitted self-portrait. after appearing in a string of flops, submerging that high profile person- —Pauline Kael. Outstanding casting and lovingly- Kate returns triumphantly here, after ality into the character. recreated Victorian atmosphere made Directed by Howard Hawks. US, this a smash for Cukor—although Hollywood had come begging for the Directed by . 1962, 1938, b&w, 102 min. Broadway smash Philip Barry had b&w, 174 min. Hepburn teased him that he never written for her (and for which she had read the book. cannily retained the movie rights). ON GOLDEN POND Directed by George Cukor. US, 1933, Directed by George Cukor. US, Sun, Oct 5, 2:40; Thu, Oct 9, 8:40 b&w, 117 min. 1940, b&w, 112 min. Adapted by from his own play, ON GOLDEN POND LOVE AMONG THE RUINS • TO ORDER WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER TICKETS: • MORNING GLORY Tue, Oct 7, 6:30; Thu, Oct 9, 6:30 Wed, Oct 1, 6:30; Fri, Oct 3, 6:30 In Edwardian England, stage diva Stagestruck Broadway star wannabe Katharine Hepburn is sued for breach Katharine Hepburn (“Of course, I of promise by much-younger Leigh shall die at my zenith”) pitches herself Lawson. Hepburn’s defender is distin- to producer Adolphe Menjou and guished barrister Laurence Olivier, playwright Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., but who in their youth shared a romantic only makes an impression when she fling with her he’s never forgotten— drunkenly performs Shakespeare at a and she claims not to remember. First party. That storybook big break and a television for George Cukor, and first love triangle ensue, but will she be a and only collaboration for the three- flower that blooms brightly but some, an experience Olivier described quickly fades—a “morning glory?” as “a lovely pink shooting-star, so Hepburn’s first Best Actress Oscar memorable but quickly gone.” Emmys performance—“you can see that she is to Cukor, the stars, and author James stage struck by the back of her head.” Costigan. —David Shipman. Directed by George Cukor. UK, Directed by Lowell Sherman. US, 1975, color, 100 min. 1933, b&w, 70 min. ON GOLDEN POND

14 FILMS OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC

BUTTONERS [Knoflíkári] AN AMBIGUOUS REPORT Screenplay Buenos Aires; International Fri, Oct 10, 6:30; Wed, Oct 15, 8:15 Jury Prize, Sao Paulo Festival. The First ABOUT THE END OF THE Directed/written by Sasa Gedeon. 1945: Japanese beef about the crummy WORLD 1999, color, 100 min. Czech with Ten Years weather, unaware that it’s saving [Nejasná zpráva o konci sveta] English subtitles. them from the Bomb. 1995, Czech Sat, Oct 11, 1:00; Thu, Oct 16, 8:15 Republic: a cab driver has consecutive In the tenth year of the Czech sets of sex-seeking passengers all on A man carries the body of a woman to DIVIDED WE FALL Republic, it’s a good time to look the same night—two cuckolds a snowy cliff’s edge… Twenty years earlier, in a remote village, wolves [Musíme si pomáhat] chortling over the other’s dilemma, Sat, Oct 11, 8:30; Sun, Oct 12, 9:10 back at a vibrant decade of film. two sets of prospective in-laws fatally attack women guests at the already being compared to the Czech discussing each other’s perversions, a wedding of Deana Jakubiskova Under the Nazis, childless couple retired railway worker whose greatest (director Juraj’s wife). Saved by a boy, Bolek Polívka and Anna Sisková agree New Wave. Two Oscar nominations joy is spitting at trains—in all, six Jakubiskova promises him the hand of to hide their Jewish employer’s son, for Best Foreign Film (with subtly interrelated, often blackly her unborn daughter. Years later, as an escapee from the Theresianstadt hilarious stories from the zany their engagement is celebrated, concentration camp—but only winning), several art house hits amid director of YEAR OF THE DEVIL. Jakubiskova wins a troupe of female because the alternatives are worse. increasing American distribution, a Multi-awarded at Thessaloniki, circus performers in a card game and Only trouble is, their pal Jaroslav Rotterdam, Bergamo Festivals. the village, now replete with women, raft of awards from international can be repopulated… then things get DIVIDED WE FALL Directed/written by . • TICKETS: WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER ORDER • TO festivals—evidence of a new group of 1997, b&w and color, 102 min. complex. Comic, tragic, beautifully shot fable from Czech cinema’s great Czech filmmakers (with still produc- Czech and Japanese with English subtitles. surrealist. Best Photography, Montreal tive veterans) all with a fresh but still Festival. clearly Czech style and point of view. Directed/written by Juraj Jakubisko. KOLYA [Kolja] 1997, color, 152 min. Czech with Thanks to Jakub Skalník of the Fri, Oct 10, 8:30; Sun, Oct 12, 3:00 English subtitles. Embassy of the Czech Republic for Reduced to playing cello at crema- tions after being kicked out of the LONERS [Samotári] making this series possible. Philharmonic for his “subversive” Sat, Oct 11, 4:00; Thu, Oct 16, 6:30 Dusek, a Nazi sympathizer busy mouth, ladies’ man Zdenek Sverák Travel agent Mikulás Kren arranges seizing the assets of Jewish deportees, (the scriptwriter and director’s father) scenes of “ordinary” Czech families as likes to drop in unannounced… he’s can’t even make his marriage-of- a Japanese tourist attraction, and got a thing for Sisková. Gripping convenience work—after his “bride” helps break up Sasa Rasilov (who combination of nerve-shredding farce skips, he’s stuck with her Russian records “real life” scenes for a radio and hilarious suspense—with five-year old, Andrei Chalimon. But station) and Jitka Schneiderová coming-out-of-the-closet having a do they eventually bond? Does the (who’s pursued by married brain very different meaning here. Complete Wall fall? (It’s 1988.) Of course, but surgeon Ivan Trojan)—and then with flawed heroes and surprisingly striking photography, terrific Labina Mitevska arrives from human villains. 2001 Oscar nominee, performances, and those poignant and Macedonia in search of UFOs. Zany Best Foreign Film. hilarious human touches reminiscent relationship comedy co-scripted by Directed/co-written by Jan Hrebejk. of the “Prague Spring” films make this Petr Zelenka (YEAR OF THE DEVIL) “a work of love”—Roger Ebert. 1997 2000, color, 122 min. Czech and and directed by the son of famed German with English subtitles. Oscar, Best Foreign Film. cameraman Miroslav Ondricek Directed by Jan Sverák. 1996, color, (AMADEUS, RAGTIME). Audience 105 min. Czech and Russian with Award, Warsaw, Thessaloniki WILD BEES [Divoké vcely] English subtitles. Festivals. Sun, Oct 12, 7:15; Mon, Oct 13, 2:30 Directed by David Ondricek. 2000, In an out of the way Moravian village, color, 103 min. Czech with English shy, awkward forester Zdenek Rauser subtitles. yearns for store clerk Tatiana Vilhelmová, but she’s got this thing RETURN OF THE IDIOT for Michael Jackson-impersonator [Návrat idiota] Pavel Liska (RETURN OF THE Sat, Oct 11, 6:30; Sun, Oct 12, 5:15 IDIOT). Looks like things will only get resolved at the annual Firemen’s Back from years in a mental hospital, Ball (an allusion?). Bittersweet slice- Pavel Liska is released (because “he of-village life, packed with full-blown has no reason to hide from life any- characters and complicated action in more”) and travels back to a village this “lusty and poetically absurdist family reunion during the holidays, comedy”—Leslie Camhi, Village WILD BEES landing right in the middle of a love Voice. (The director has noted that square (two brothers and two sisters). they did drink extensively during the What is normal? What is sane? Can shooting.] Tiger Award, Rotterdam; pure, vulnerable Liska handle family SKYY Prize, San Francisco Film dogfights over the dinner table? Subtly Festivals. humorous, low key adaptation—both Directed/written by Bohdan Slama. free and faithful—of Dostoyevsky’s 2001, color, 94 min. Czech with THE IDIOT, from the director of English subtitles. INDIAN SUMMER. Best Actress,

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15 FEATURES Exclusive Washington Engagement The restored director’s cut of ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA [C’era una volta in America] Fri, Oct 3-Thu, Oct 16, 7:15; weekend matinee 2:00; Mon, Oct 13, 2:30 Killers burst in looking for Robert DeNiro, but he’s not there, he’s getting high at an opium den—and this phone keeps ringing, and then dead bodies are displayed after a shootout, and somebody leaves a dance to make a call—and the ringing stops. That’s just the startup for Sergio Leone’s epic of Jewish gangsters in New York—growing up in 1921, bootlegging in the 30s, with De Niro returning, heavy with regret, in the 60s, all intercut via flashbacks, flashforwards—or is it all just De Niro’s opium dream in 1933? Over a decade in preparation, ’s score featuring Gheorghe Zamfir on panpipes was largely complete seven years before shooting began. This is one of the most complex works of popular—or any other—cinema, yet Leone’s hypnotic style and lavish production values make it a puzzle that’s got to be solved. Famously shorn of ninety minutes and rearranged in ultimately incomprehensible chronological order by the studio on first release, this recent restoration restores even more footage than the previous “director’s cut” reissue, allowing Leone’s final work to be seen as he intended. Directed/co-written by Sergio Leone. US/Italy, 1984, color, 238 min.

US Premiere! The restored print of DUCK, YOU SUCKER [Giù la testa] Fri, Oct 17, 7:30; Sat-Sun, Oct 18-19, 2:00, 5:00, 8:00; Mon-Thu, Oct 20-24, 7:30; Sat-Sun, Oct 25-26, 2:00, 5:00, 8:00; Mon-Tue, Oct 27-28, 7:30 During the Mexican Revolution, an armed stagecoach packed with fatcats condescends to give big-familied peon Rod Steiger a ride—big mistake!— while self-exiled Irish rebel James Coburn uses the latest in modern technology to wipe out an entire armored column. Eventually they grudgingly team up, but Steiger’s ideology consists of lusting for that Mesa Verde bank, while Coburn confesses, “Finally I believe only in • TO ORDER WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER TICKETS: • dynamite.” In the wake of the revolu- tions of 1968, this was Leone’s most overtly political film: “And what happens to the poor people? They’re DEAD! That’s your revolution.” But as the betrayals and their mortal conse- quences proliferate, a humanity and a sense of friendship unique to Leone emerges. Based on a recent Italian restoration, the print includes more than 20 minutes of footage not in the original US release, plus a newly discovered final sequence, making it the most complete English version ever of Leone’s final vision of the West. Directed/co-written by Sergio Leone. Italy, 1971, color, scope, 160 min.

16 • TO ORDER TICKETS: WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER • 17 timing moll and ex-wrestler nteur” marked his decisive o- nice, while then stage-star nice, while nre by concentrating on the hile talking about retirement). anne Moreau’s turn as Dary’s anne Moreau’s eekend matinees 12:40, 2:40, :40 [Sun, Oct 19, 4:40 matinee Oct 19, 4:40 :40 [Sun, ri-Thu, Oct 17-28, 6:40 & 8:40; Oct 17-28, ri-Thu, icing his fortune for his friend) New 35 mm Print, New Subtitles TOUCHEZ PAS AU GRISBI the Loot] [Don’t Touch F w 4 only] Gabin buddiesGangland Jean Dary team up to heist a and René million for franc grisbi (argot but then... ? Jacques loot), thrillerBecker’s boasts the requi- climaxed by a duel site gunplay, by machine gun and grenade as cars meet on a deserted country road. But it also set the standard for the nascent gangster postwar ge theme of friendship sacri- (Gabin f and character study middle- (the diggingaging gangster in to a paté midnight snack with Dary w of “Max le portrayal Gabin’s Me from to post-war change pre-war at winning him Best Actor image, Ve Je tw Lino Ventura’s portrait of a drug- Ventura’s Lino dealing slimeball marked steps their eventualtoward super- Wiener’s stardom. Jean harmonica theme proved a world- wide hit. subtitles by Lenny New Borger capture the flavor and of the crackling dialogue.irony Directed/co-written by Jacques b&w, 1953, France, Becker. 94 with min. French English subtitles. t ear or non- unting in screen history). Enjoy again Loyal Enjoy again unting in screen history). rectors Lars von Triet and Thomas Vinterberg (and made famous made Vinterberg (and Thomas and Triet rectors Lars von ian Sands, Selma Hayek, Max Beesley, Saffron Max Beesley, Selma Hayek, ian Sands, naissance drama, THE DUTCHESS OF MALFI— THE DUTCHESS naissance drama, l ohn Malkovich round out the and Burrows, David Schwimmer and Lucy Liu. Cameos by and Lucy Schwimmer David Burrows, J mayhem. Set in a quaint Venice hotel, a British film crew shoots Venice Set in a quaint Webster’s a *Dogme 95 picture version of John Re perhaps a first be erring clue that Figgis may closer to as shooting a self-parody than pretentiousness, Dogme-style period film is actually a flagrant viola- With a star- “vowtion of Dogme’s of chastity.” studded international Ifans, cast, including Rhys Ju , the first director of , the first director —JAMIE RUSSELL, BBC RUSSELL, —JAMIE rsonally demonstrating all the saloon-brawl punches) and elaborate production of Jack Schaefer’s and elaborate production of Jack rsonally punches) demonstrating all the saloon-brawl iggs’ Oscar-winning photography of the magnificent scenery of Jackson Hole, Wyoming in this of the magnificent Oscar-winning photography Wyoming iggs’ scenery Hole, of Jackson ashington Area Premiere Engagement e pal iconography of the traditional Western (Ladd’s buckskin clad Good-Bad Man, villain Palance’s all- Man, villain Good-Bad buckskin clad Palance’s (Ladd’s Western of the traditionalpal iconography atches wideyed as father Van Heflin, Van atches wideyed as father eekend matinees 2:20 & 4:30; Mon, Oct 13, 2:20 & 4:30 eekend matinees 2:20 & 4:30; eekend matinees: Sat, Oct 18, alance—but is there Arthur? a potential triangle with wife Stevens’ painstaking and mother George Jean alance—but ibrantly restored 35mm print of a Western classic, perhaps the greatest of all time. Western restored 35mm printibrantly of a nded up in a museum, gunshotsnded up in a museum, and the arche- mimed by jerking by wires) shooting victims backwards ri, Oct 3-Thu, Oct 16, 6:40 & 8:50; ri, Oct 3-Thu, 6:30 & 8:50; Oct 17-23, ri-Thu, SPECIAL ENGAGEMENT SPECIAL EVENT! Filming this surreal ensemble comedy-drama-horror on digital video, Figgis has created this year’s most original and striking piece of cinema… HOTEL pulls the conventions of conventional film- making apart right before our eyes and gives a glimpse of the future narrative cinema.” Directed/written by . US/Italy, 2001/3, color, Digital 93 Video, color, 2001/3, Directed/written Figgis. by Mike US/Italy, min. AND EXPLICIT SEXUALITY SOME NUDITY shooting, speciallynovel stresses realism costumes, aged (all-weather shabby sets so authentic they e ty black outfit and the nastiest horse mounting dismo Gr v 118 min. color, 1953, Directed by George US, Stevens. AFI and an award-winning director, will director, AFI and an award-winning at the opening his father’s work introduce of 17th screening night, October W HOTEL F w Cannibalism, kinky sex, role-playing, secret rendezvous, and an age-old coma-as- betrayal tabloid journalism, murder, melodrama plot twist a few of the disparate are just elements meditation on the that intermingle Mike Figgis’s in HOTEL, an arsenal of techniques—the simultaneous Figgis employs Video, state of art on Digital cinema. Shot split shotsTIMECODE, infra-red screen à la he pioneered negative night vision in inverted sequences, cubist puzzle. fast motion and the hand held camera—to create a meta-cinematic Rubick’s NOSFERATU, the cinematic movement established di*Dogme by cheeky Danish 95, that includes shooting on location, relying only of Chastity” on direc filmmakers in which submit to a “Vow THE CELEBRATION) in abstaining from and shooting in non-lin optical filters, “superficialsound, hand-held camera, using shooting in color, action” present time. Jr. Stevens, George Newly-Restored 35mm Print SHANE F w Sun, Oct 19, 4;10 1:30 & 4:10; on Mon, Oct[no 6:30 show 20] cowpunchersSodbusters vs. the through eyes of a child: Brandon DeWilde w the ranchers’ Ladd), hired gun squares off against Jack (Alan Stranger Shane aided by Mysterious P (p “ AFI’S 100 YEARS ... 100 MOVIES THELMA AND LOUISE Two of a Kind (100 Heroes and Villains #24) Sun, Oct 12, 12:30; Mon, Oct 13, 4:20 As AFI honors the passing of and star Katharine Hepburn with a tribute that as the eponymous gal pals on an inno- cent road trip gone bad after a fatal includes many of her collaborations encounter with a rapist. Fugitives with Spencer Tracy, this seems a from the law, on the lam in the scenic Southwest in a ’66 T-bird convertible, fitting time to celebrate some other Thelma and Louise are the post- memorable screen pairings, modern feminist answer to cult heroes like Bonnie and Clyde or Butch assembled from the complete and Sundance. plays the collection of AFI 100 lists. thankless role of the understanding law man hell bent on doing his job. Brad Pitt beat out George Clooney for the breakthrough role of the slick HAROLD AND MAUDE cowboy J.D., object of Thelma’s affec- tion. Sarandon and Davis both HAROLD AND MAUDE GUESS WHO’S COMING received Academy Award nominations (100 Laughs #45) for acting, while won TO DINNER the Oscar for Best Original Sun, Sep 21, 12:30; Mon, Sep 22, 6:30 (100 Greatest #99) Screenplay. No matter how he fakes suicide—by Sun, Sep 28, 12:30; Mon, Sep 29, 6:30 Directed by Ridley Scott, US, 1991, hanging, throat slashing, drowning, Katharine Hepburn and Spencer color, 129 min. gunshot, etc., etc.—poor little rich Tracy (in his final role) play a liberal boy Harold (Bud Cort) just can’t seem white couple who must put their to get mom Vivian Pickles’ attention. platitudes to the test when their THE ODD COUPLE But when he pursues his fun hobby— daughter (Hepburn’s real-life niece, (100 Laughs #17) funeral watching—meets Ruth Katharine Houghten) introduces them Sun, Oct 19, 12:30; Mon, Oct 20, 6:30 Gordon’s going-on-80 Maude, to her black fiancé. Good thing Two years after first sharing the sparking one of the oddest romances Sidney Poitier is a doctor. And lives in screen in ’s FORTUNE in screen history. Ignored upon initial Switzerland. This picture, which COOKIE, THE ODD COUPLE release, HAROLD AND MAUDE received ten Academy Award nomina- reunited the team of Jack Lemmon slowly found its following, becoming tions including Best Picture, Best and Walter Matthau, perfectly the Cult Hit of the 70s. Director and a Best Actor nod for exploiting the comic tensions Directed by Hal Ashby. US, 1971, Spencer Tracy, remains an interesting between Lemmon’s buttoned-up neat- color, 90 min. look into a 1960s discussion of race. freak Felix Ungar and Matthau’s Directed by Stanley Kramer. US, slovenly slob Oscar Madison. Adapted 1967, color, 108 min. by from his own play, the film inspired the long-running televi- SPECIAL BOOK SIGNING & FILM sion series and countless knock-offs, Washington Post reporter Will Haygood will sign his new biography, WHEN HARRY MET SALLY including Matthau and Lemmon’s (100 Laughs #23) , and will senior citizen revivals stints as In Black and White, the Life and Times of Sammy Davis, Jr. Sun, Oct 5, 12:30; Mon, Oct 6, 6:30 GRUMPY OLD MEN. introduce what is probably the best Sammy and the film. In this beloved New York romantic Directed by Gene Saks. US, 1968, This special screening is sponsored by Borders Books. comedy scripted by Nora Ephron and color, 105 min. directed by Rob Reiner in the tradi- tion of ’s MANHATTAN and ANNIE HALL, plays BONNIE AND CLYDE the Woody Allen role and Meg Ryan (100 Greatest #27; 100 Heroes and Villains #32; • TO ORDER WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER TICKETS: • the . Espousing the 100 Passions #65) theory that “No man can be friends Sun, Oct 26, 12:30; Mon, Oct 27, 6:30 with a woman he finds attractive “We rob banks.” The saga of Bonnie because he always wants to have sex Parker and Clyde Barrows, real-life with her,” Crystal’s Harry ultimately bank robbers in the 30s dust bowl, puts his hypothesis to the test as he begins in near farce to the tunes of befriends Ryan’s Sally—and then finds Flatt and Scruggs, and ends in hair- that he is, in fact, falling in love with raising violence (the laughs stop after ROBIN AND THE 7 HOODS her. Perhaps most remembered for its kidnappee says, “I’m an Sun, Oct 19, 1:30 delicatessen scene (in which Ryan undertaker”). A watershed in 30’s Chicago—and yes, that’s “”—as ’s gives the performance of her career), American filmmaking—it was good gangster “Robbo” finds ’s “Guy Gisborn” aiming to take WHEN HARRY MET SALLY features initially condemned in The New York over. So it’s time to form his own gang with ’s “,” a swingin’ soundtrack of jazz stan- Times—and still an overwhelming Sammy Davis, Jr.’s “Will,” with as “Allen A. Dale.” The Rat dards performed by Harry Connick Jr. experience today. Ten Oscar nomina- Pack plus Der Bingle does the story—but this time with Directed by Rob Reiner. US, 1989, tions, including the five principal machine guns instead of bows—and Davis singing, “Bang! Bang!” color, 96 min. actors, with Oscars to Parsons and Burnett Guffey for cinematography. Directed by Gordon Douglas. US, 1964, color, scope, 123 min. Directed by Arthur Penn. US, 1967, color, 111 min.

18 SILVER THREADS AFI Silver Welcomes Joel Grey ... Right: AFI Silver member Ginny Hillhouse with Sam Hillhouse meet Joel Grey at a special event for members. Far right: Actor Joel Grey joined AFI Silver Theatre Director Murray Horwitz at the July 11 film series kick-off with a post- screening on-stage Q & A audience discussion of PHOTOS BY KEVIN KENNEDY CABARET.

... and Pat Hitchcock • TICKETS: WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER ORDER • TO Pat Hitchcock—daughter of the late “Master of Suspense,” director Alfred Hitchcock— joined AFI Silver Director Murray Horwitz on stage July 25 to open the HITCHCOCK AT UNIVERSAL series with a special screening of STRANGERS ON A TRAIN, in which she co-starred. The sold-out audience engaged Ms. Hitchcock in an enlightening post- screening discussion about her father (“he loved a good story... that was what he really cared about... ”), her mother’s story-editing contribution (“my father ran all his story ideas by her”) and treasure of personal experiences as actress and producer. The keen Hitchcock sense of humor—clearly passed from father to daughter—was in evidence throughout. SPECIAL EVENT! HITLER’S HAT Shocked and Amazed: Fri, Oct 24, 6:30; Sat, Oct 25, 4:45; Sun, Oct 26, 4:00 & 8:15; Tue, Oct 28, 6:30 New Works from Hitler must have committed suicide after he found out a skinny Jewish kid from Brooklyn Jeff Krulik stomped on his hat, recalls a WWII vet, referring to how company cut-up Richard Marowitz—the Hailed as the “king of pop culture crevices” by day after liberating Dachau—stormed Adolph Hitler’s Munich apartment and found the Führer’s IndieWIRE, a “genius” by skateboard magazine black top hat. A. O. Scott in The New York Times WARPED, and maker of “the strangest films observes: in this “witty and touching documen- tary, Jeff Krulik is sensitive to the ironies and you've never heard of” by The Washingtonian, swallowed swords, ate fire, and exhibited them- absurdities of even the most terrible episodes in selves as freaks—as well as the stunning new DC-based director/producer Jeff Krulik, who Jewish history.” wave of current practitioners of those very same chronicles the world unlike any other, is back Directed by Jeff Krulik. US, 2002, 50 min. arts today. with new projects. PLUS: I CREATED LANCELOT LINK Directed by Jeff Krulik. US, 2003, color, 50 min. (US, 1999, 15 min.) The cult television show’s PLUS: GO GO GIRLS DON‘T CRY, ERNEST creators recall their crowning achievement; and JEFF KRULIK will be in attendance for all BORGNINE ON THE BUS, MR. BLASSIE OBSESSED WITH JEWS (US, 2000, 8 min.) GOES TO WASHINGTON or other shorts from programs. A look at one fanatical memorabilia collector. the Krulick archive. Approx. 20 min. HITLER’S HAT World Premiere! SPECIAL SCREENING: One show only! TRAVELING SIDESHOW: THE PARKING LOT ODYSSEY SHOCKED AND AMAZED Sat, Oct 25, 9:00 Fri, Oct 24, 8:30; Sat, Oct 25, 2:30 & 7:00; Jeff will present a special program chronicling the Sun, Oct 26, 6:00; Mon, Oct 27, 8:45; Tue, Oct 28,8:30 complete retrospective of the phenom that began Hurry, Hurry Hurry! Step right up and witness with HEAVY METAL PARKING LOT, the fran- tales of wonder and amazement behind the chise he created with John Heyn. Recent addi- 20th century's most unique entertainment insti- tions will include never-before-screened tution—the Carnival Sideshow!! SHOCKED AND selections from the upcoming Trio network series AMAZED! TRAVELING SIDESHOW is a journey PARKING LOT, as well as the demolition of the into dime museums and carnival midways past U.S Air Arena, nee Capitol Center. and present, meeting the still-living greats who

19 • TO ORDER TICKETS: WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER • AT SPECIAL EVENT! Silver Spring,MD20910 8633 Colesville Rd. sion appearances. from Jackson’smany filmandtelevi- selection ofgreat performances culled singers andscholars—as well asa program thatwillinclude live gospel 9 birth month(she would have been live-music tribute inMahaliaJackson’s historic Silver combine for afilmand stage, andthemighty organ ofthe the 20thcentury. Thescreen, the tion ofonethegreatest voices of in whatisplannedasayearly celebra- AFI Silver moves onupalittlehigher, 2). Detailswillbeannounced ona Mahalia Jackson Monday, October13th,12:00

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