AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE GUIDE Januaryuary 10–March 9, 2006 TO THEATRE AND MEMBER EVENTS VOLUMEVOLUME 32 • ISSUEISSUE 61 AFIPREVIEW PLUS: KING KONG: The Original! Fellini & Masina, Masterful Couple Martin Luther King: A Filmed Record Otto Preminger Centennial Norman Jewison LIVE! IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT FREE FILMS! The National Law Enforcement Museum at AFI Silver And More! David CronenbergTHE COMPLETE RETROSPECTIVE NOW PLAYING AWARD NIGHTS AT AFI 2 Oscar® and Grammy® Night Galas! 3 David Cronenberg: The Visceral BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND! and the Cerebral ® 6 A True Hollywood Auteur: Otto Preminger Oscar Night 2006! 9 Norman Jewison Presents Sunday, March 5 IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT AFI Silver is proud to host the only Academy®- 9 Martin Luther King Honored sanctioned Oscar Night® party in the Washington area, 9 SILVERDOCS: Save the Date! presented by First Star. On Sunday, March 5, at 6:30 10 About AFI p.m., AFI Silver will be abuzz with red carpet arrivals, 11 Calendar specialty cocktails, a silent auction and a celebrity- 12 Federico Fellini and Giulietta Masina, moderated showing of the Oscar® Awards broadcast— Masterful Pair presented on-screen in high definition! 12 ANA Y LOS OTROS, Presented by Cinema Tropical All proceeds 13 THE FRENCH CONNECTION, SE7EN, and DRAGNET! from this National Law Enforcement Museum’s exclusive event Inaugural Film Festival benefit First 13 Washington, DC, Premiere of Star, a national Terrence Malick’s THE NEW WORLD non-profit 14 One Week Only! CLASSE TOUS RISQUES public charity and SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE dedicated to 14 Exclusive Washington Engagement! SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXIPLASM improving life 15 Montgomery College Film Series for child victims 15 Membership News: It Pays to of abuse and Be an AFI Member! neglect. 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Postmaster: Send AFI Silver Box Office: $75 address changes to AFI PREVIEW at American Film Institute, Membership Depart- ment, 2021 N. Western Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90027. 2 DAVID CRONENBERG DEAD David Cronenberg: RINGERS A Complete Retrospective January 13 through February 22 The success of David Cronenberg’s most recent film, A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE, has shown newer viewers what his admirers have known from the start—that he is one of the most talented directors working today. Cronenberg’s ability to marry the visceral with the cerebral has resulted in an utterly • TO ORDER TICKETS: WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER • unique body of work, one whose shocks and sensations are more than matched by the wit, rigor and electricity of its ideas. Often praised for his eye for detail and precision storytelling, Cronenberg has coaxed memo- rable performances from such diverse actors as James Woods in VIDEODROME, Christopher Walken in THE DEAD ZONE, Jeff Goldblum and Geena Davis in THE THE FLY DEAD RINGERS FLY and Jeremy Irons as twins in DEAD RINGERS. Once a director of low-budget Friday, January 13, 6:30, 11:05; Saturday, Friday, January 20, 8:50; Saturday, (though highly inventive) splatter-fests like SHIVERS and RABID, in recent years January 14, 10:10; Sunday, January 15, 10:45; January 21, 5:00; Wednesday, January 25, 8:30 Monday, January 16, 6:40 Jeremy Irons plays the dual role Cronenberg has focused on literary adaptations of the likes of William Burroughs Cronenberg’s version of THE FLY of twin doctors Beverly and Elliot and J. G. Ballard; next will be Martin Amis’s LONDON FIELDS. is one of his signature achieve- Mantle, leading gynecologists at a AFI would like to thank David Cronenberg and Carolyn Rohaly of Toronto ments: a tragic love story, a disease Toronto fertility clinic. Elliot, more allegory about watching a loved confident, hustles grant money and Antenna, Ltd., for making this series possible. Additional thanks to the following one’s slow wasting and one of the women. Beverly’s content with institutions and individuals: Somerville House Securities, Ltd.; Laurem Produc- horror genre’s all-time grossest of research and occasionally posing as gorefests. Jeff Goldblum delivers an Elliot to sleep with his castoffs. But tions; The Film Reference Library, Toronto, Canada; Michael Schlesinger, Sony unforgettable performance as the when troubled actress Genevieve Pictures Repertory; and UCLA Film and Television Archive. Very special thanks to likable scientist whose experiments Bujold comes to the clinic, Beverly with teleportation go awry, with makes the first move. Soon he’s John Mhiripiri and Wendy Dorset, Anthology Film Archives. then–real life squeeze Geena Davis dangerously in love, engaging in as his deeply concerned girlfriend. risky sex and drugs on the job—and AFI Member Passes will be accepted at all DIR/PROD David Cronenberg; SCR now it’s his brother’s turn to follow screenings in the David Cronenberg Retrospecive. David Cronenberg and Charles suit. DIR/PROD David Cronenberg; ●M Edwards, from a story by George SCR David Cronenberg, Bri Wood Langelaan. US, 1986, color, 95 min. and Jack Geasland, from the book RATED R ● M by David Cronenberg and Norman SPIDER Snider. Canada/US, 1988, color, 115 SPIDER min. RATED R ● M Sunday, January 15, 8:45; Monday, January 16, 8:40; Tuesday, January 17, 9:00 THE DEAD ZONE Ralph Fiennes plays twitchy, mum- Saturday, Jan. 21, 9:50; Sunday, Jan. 22, 7:20; bling man-child Dennis “Spider” Monday, Jan. 23, 9:00 Cleg, who’s been institutionalized After five years in a coma, Chris- for the past 20 years. Released to topher Walken discovers that a halfway house in London’s East when he makes physical contact End, he realizes he’s back in the with people, he sees their past neighborhood of his childhood, and future. But his own previ- which brings back icky memories ous world is gone—job, health, of Ma, Da and seeing something pretty fiancée. Here Cronenberg nasty in the woodshed. Cronenberg displays a new sensitivity for emo- explores the slipperiness of memory, tion and character development, as Fiennes haunts his own past in aided considerably by Walken’s flashbacks and carries his ghosts eerie performance. Brooke Adams into the present, with Miranda is his lost love and Martin Sheen Richardson cast first as his loving a dangerous and conniving local mother, later his foul-mouthed step- politician, a far cry from his role mother. DIR/PROD David Cronen- in THE WEST WING. DIR/PROD berg; SCR Patrick McGrath (novel David Cronenberg; SCR Jeffrey and screenplay). Canada/UK, 2002, Boam, from the novel by Stephen color, 98 min. RATED R ● M King. US, 1983, color, 13 min. RATED R ● M 3 DAVID CRONENBERG capacity for projection and self- M. BUTTERFLY deception. David Henry Hwang adapted his Broadway hit for the screen. DIR David Cronenberg; SCR David Henry Hwang; PROD Gabriella Martinelli. US, 1993, color, 101 min. RATED R ●M EXISTENZ Friday, January 27, 8:50; Tuesday, January 31, 8:30; Thursday, February 2, 8:50 Jennifer Jason Leigh and Jude Law conduct a focus group beta-testing the latest in virtual reality gaming, eXistenZ. Its most startling inno- vation? Bio-engineered joysticks M. BUTTERFLY and spinally installed gameports! VIDEODROME Sunday, Jan. 22, 9:30; Tuesday, Jan. 24, 6:30 This is new technology that rival companies would love to steal, In 1950s Beijing, Jeremy Irons’s mysterious Interzone, plunging and for which they may be willing French Embassy accountant falls THE BROOD into addiction, paranoia, visions of to kill. Released about the same Saturday, Feb. 11, 10:30; Monday, Feb. 13, 9:20 for John Lone’s opera singer Song giant bugs and talking typewriters, time as mega-hit THE MATRIX, Liling, seemingly blind to the To release patients’ deep-seated and the writing life. Cronenberg Cronenberg’s take on virtual real- fact that Song is a man playing a resentments and anxieties, Oliver mutates Burroughs’s writings into ity easily ranks as the smartest woman’s role—who’s also stealing Reed’s Institute for Psycho-Plasmics his own hallucinatory meditation yet—and the most chilling. secrets for the Chinese.