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CronenbergTHE COMPLETE RETROSPECTIVE NOW PLAYING AWARD NIGHTS AT AFI 2 Oscar® and Grammy® Night Galas! 3 : The Visceral BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND! and the Cerebral ® 6 A True 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 and , 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 ’s THE NEW WORLD non-profit 14 One Week Only! public charity and SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE dedicated to 14 Exclusive Washington Engagement! improving life 15 Montgomery College Film Series for child victims 15 Membership News: It Pays to of abuse and Be an AFI Member! neglect. Tickets 15 Talk Cinema Returns to AFI Silver are $75 and are 16 The Classic Still Rules: KING KONG available ONLY through First Star at LOOK FOR THE ● M ! Member passes accepted for designated screenings. www.FIRSTSTAR.org. To find out how to become a member ● M of AFI, see page 10.

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DEAD David Cronenberg: RINGERS A Complete Retrospective January 13 through February 22 The success of David Cronenberg’s most recent film, , 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 • R E V L I S / M O C . I F A . W W W : S T E K C I T R E D R O O T • 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 , Christopher Walken in THE DEAD ZONE, Jeff Goldblum and in THE THE FLY DEAD RINGERS FLY and as twins in DEAD RINGERS. Once a director of low-budget Friday, January 13, 6:30, 11:05; Saturday, Friday, , 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 FIELDS. is one of his signature achieve- Mantle, leading gynecologists at a AFI would like to thank David Cronenberg and Carolyn Rohaly of 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, ; Michael Schlesinger, 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, 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 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 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 Beijing, Jeremy Irons’s mysterious Interzone, plunging and for which they may be willing French Embassy accountant falls 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 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. Cronen- uses a role-playing talking cure. It’s on technology, sexuality and the DIR/SCR/PROD David Cronen- berg brings provocative notions of too cult-like for Art Hindle, whose creative process. DIR/SCR/PROD berg. Canada/US/France, 1999, identity and the power of desire wife, , is Reed’s David Cronenberg, from the novel color, 97 min. RATED R M to this examination of one man’s ● prize patient. When Eggar’s mother by William S. Burroughs. Canada/ is bludgeoned in her home by a UK/Japan, 1991, color, 115 min. mysterious mutant dwarf, Hindle RATED R ●M suspects that the family’s history of emotional violence might be haunting them—in a form he could RABID never imagine. DIR/SCR/PROD Saturday, Feb. 4, 11:00; Monday, Feb. 6, 9:00 David Cronenberg. Canada, 1979, After the success of SHIVERS, color, 92 min. RATED R ●M Cronenberg and executive pro- ducer stunt-cast VIDEODROME adult star Marilyn Chambers in Saturday, January 28, 12:30; Monday, this tale of plastic surgery gone January 30, 8:40; Wednesday, February 1, 8:40 very, very wrong. Her flesh badly burned in a motorcycle accident, “Long live the new flesh!” Is TV Chambers undergoes experimental EXISTENZ bad for you? In this case, very. grafts of artificial skin. But these Sleazy cable TV head James cells grow in unexpected ways: Woods catches a pirate broadcast namely, into a mysterious gash in NAKED of an ultra-violent show called her armpit that conceals a phal- LUNCH VIDEODROME and thinks he’s lic-like stinge—perfect for extract- found the edgiest new program ing the blood she now craves. for his station. Girlfriend Deborah Apologetic Chambers can’t help Harry likes it so much she wants herself, but her victims develop an to audition. But the show’s ori- even more rabid form of blood- gins are masked in secrecy, and lust. DIR/SCR David Cronenberg; the producers vaguely cult-like.

• TO ORDER TICKETS: WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER • PROD John Dunning. Canada, And the more Woods watches, 1977, color, 91 min. RATED R ●M the more hallucinatory side effects kick in. DIR/SCR/PROD David Cronenberg. Canada/US, 1983, EARLY WORKS: STEREO AND color, 89 min. RATED R ●M CRIMES OF THE FUTURE Sunday, Feb. 19, 6:45; Wednesday, Feb. 22, 6:30 NAKED LUNCH These experimental short features Friday, February 3, 9:15; Saturday, foreshadow many of Cronenberg’s February 4, 8:40; Tuesday, February 7, 8:45 abiding ideas as a feature film- “Exterminate all rational thought.” maker, while showing him to be plays William Bur- an already accomplished scenar- roughs–surrogate Bill Lee, extermi- ist. In STEREO, volunteers at nator and wannabe writer, whose the Canadian Academy for Erotic junkie wife Judy Davis has been Enquiry undergo psychic and getting high on her husband’s bug aphrodisiacal tests. (Guess what? powder. After a mishap involving Something goes wrong.) DIR/SCR/ drug use and ill-advised gunplay, PROD David Cronenberg. Canada, Weller goes on the lam into the 1969, b&w, 65 min.

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In CRIMES OF THE FUTURE, a major cosmetics-related catas- A HISTORY OF trophe has all but wiped out the VIOLENCE North American female popula- tion, causing male behavior to compensate for nature’s imbalance. But inside a mysterious research institute, an even more radical experiment takes place. DIR/SCR/ PROD David Cronenberg. Canada, 1970, color, 70 min. ●M CRASH Friday, February 10, 9:45; Saturday, February 11, 8:25; Tuesday, February 14, 9:00 James Spader and wife Deborah • R E V L I S / M O C . I F A . W W W : S T E K C I T R E D R O O T • Kara Unger have a chilly open , mainly devoted to hav- ing sex with other people and clinically comparing notes. Then Spader crashes his car into ’s, killing her husband. After he and Hunter are dis- charged from the hospital, they meet in the impound lot, strangely drawn to the they’ve wrecked—and to each other. They discover a group of car- crash fetishists led by a limping Elias Koteas and his leg-braced girlfriend, Rosanna Arquette. Soon they’re acting out bizarre sexual fantasies involving dangerous driv- ing and body trauma. DIR/SCR/ PROD David Cronenberg, from the book by J. G. Ballard. US, 1996, color, 100 min. RATED R ●M “Challenging, courageous FAST COMPANY recognizes Mortensen from back and original—a dissection Sunday, February 12, 3:45; Friday, Jan. 27, 11:00; Sunday, Jan. 29, 8:45 in Philly—not as family man Tom Wednesday, February 15, 8:20 Stall, but as “Crazy” Joey Cusack. of the mechanics of Cronenberg’s paranoid, sci-fi Mistaken identity, or a double life? pornography.” Cronenberg’s first foray outside thriller put him on the mainstream Cronenberg expertly directs one of the horror genre was this drag- map, leading to his first major his finest casts, including a feisty — racing melodrama, a rewarding studio-backed films. Homeless Ste- Maria Bello, and William Hurt in and well-made B picture. Racer phen Lack, seemingly schizophrenic an impressive turn as a mob boss. William Smith clashes with oil but actually hyper-telepathic, is DIR/PROD David Cronenberg; company exec and team sponsor picked by CONSEC agents after SCR Josh Olson, from the graphic , who wants to replace causing a snotty shopper extreme novel by John Wagner and Vince the champion with a younger mental anguish in a mall. Treated Locke. US, 2005, color, 96 min. face. Cult queen Claudia Jennings by “psycho-pharmacist” Patrick RATED R ●M lends moral support as Smith’s McGoohan, Lack learns to keep the girlfriend, in her final role before voices at bay and focus his “scan- an auto accident claimed her life. ner” powers. But an underground SHIVERS David Cronenberg, Phil Savath Friday, Feb. 17, 10:30; Saturday, Feb. 18, 10:45; movement led by Michael Ironside Wednesday, Feb. 22, 5:30 (see page 15) and Courtney Smith, from a story has its own agenda. DIR/SCR Cronenberg’s first feature and a by Alan Treen; PROD Michael David Cronenberg; PROD Claude landmark . Residents Lebowitz, Peter O’Brian and Heroux. Canada, 1981, color, 103 of the Starliner Towers have been Courtney Smith. Canada, 1979, min. RATED R M ● acting a little strange lately. Maybe color, 91 min. RATED PG M ● it’s those slug-like parasites they’re WITH A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE passing to one another, causing Friday, Feb. 17, 6:40; Saturday, Feb. 18, 1:00 & their hosts to act like sex-crazed 7:00; Sunday, Feb. 19, 9:40; Monday, Feb. 20, maniacs. Cronenberg spins sexual THE ITALIAN MACHINE 8:55; Wednesday, Feb. 22, 9:20 An episode of the CBC series revolution politics and everyday TELEPLAY. Three dedicated bik- After he bravely—and surprisingly sexual anxiety into a provocative ers attempt to liberate a prized capably—confronts two would-be nightmare of what happens when motorcycle from an art collector stickup men in his small-town everybody’s doing it—not a pretty who has mounted it in his living Indiana diner, ’s sight. DIR/SCR David Cronenberg; room, never riding it. picture is in the paper and on PROD Ivan Reitman. Canada, 1975, color, 87 min. RATED R ●M CRASH TV. But then mobster Ed Har- ris comes to town, insisting he

5 OTTO PREMINGER Otto Preminger: A Centennial Celebration January 14 through February 23 Otto Preminger, so fond of ambiguity, must enjoy this mystery: his centennial year either just ended or is just beginning—the records are unclear. Born in during the twilight of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Preminger studied law but was an actor/director prodigy in theater, quickly moving up under men- tor . The 1930s forced Jewish Preminger to France, then Hollywood. A promising start was almost sidetracked when he resisted

Fox’s Darryl F. Zanuck’s overtures to direct a big-bud- Andrews is a charming drifter who . In this dark side of cons local heiress Alice Faye for the city, adapted from the crime get version of the book Kidnapped. Seven years later, Zanuck replaced director enough cash to run off with Linda novel by William L. Stuart, Prem- with Preminger on LAURA. Preminger made it a hit—and Darnell, a sultry waitress. But Dar- inger remains coolly objective in nell is murdered. With Andrews his exposure of the characters’ delivered a string of urban thrillers and zesty melodramas throughout the 1940s. the prime suspect, he must now moral trajectories under extreme In the 1950s, he realized his greatest successes as an independent. Only Alfred depend on his former prey to clear stress. DIR/PROD Otto Preminger; his name. DIR/PROD Otto Prem- SCR , from the novel by Hitchcock was more recognizable—making the relative obscurity today of some inger; SCR Harry Kleiner, from the William L. Stuart. US, 1950, b&w, of Preminger’s memorable films all the more troubling. Rediscover the ground- novel by Marty Holland. US, 1945, 95 min. ● M b&w, 97 min. ● M breaking, wide-ranging work of a true Hollywood auteur. ANGEL FACE Special thanks to the following institutions and individuals for making this DAISY KENYON Saturday, Jan. 21, 3:00; Thursday, Jan. 26, 6:30 series possible: Twentieth Century Fox Film Library, UCLA Film and Television Sunday, Jan. 15, 6:40; Wednesday, Jan. 18, 6:30 Unbalanced teenager Archive, and Victoria Preminger. ALL FILMS UNRATED UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED Censured by the Production Code wanders through the huge man- for its frank depiction of adultery sion that is her home, babbling and implied skepticism about mar- on about “not knowing” and “not AFI Member Passes will be accepted at all riage, this classic ’40s “women’s understanding.” Obsessed with her ●M screenings in the Otto Preminger Series. picture” was the perfect vehicle father, she holds a grudge against for . She’s a head- her stepmother. Tierney with , strong fashion designer in a love is the ambulance-driver-turned- LAURA , Judith Anderson, triangle between brash attorney chauffeur who becomes her accom- Saturday, January 14, 3:30; Monday, Dana Andrews and honest WWII plice—and victim. “ANGEL FACE January 16, 4:45; Thursday, Janaury 19, 6:40 —and David Raksin’s music (#7 on AFI’s 100 Years of vet . Preminger makes must be the one lyrical nightmare This irresistibly haunting thriller a typically sober case for each man in the cinema.”—Ian Cameron,

• TO ORDER TICKETS: WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER • Film Scores). Five Oscar nomina- (#73 on AFI’s 100 Years . . . 100 tions, including Preminger’s first and holds back Daisy’s choice to Thrills) put Preminger on the the very end, transforming a routine THE MOON for Best Director. Named to the IS BLUE map. Featuring the stunning Gene , 1999. melodrama into a probing study of DIR/PROD Otto Preminger; SCR postwar sexual politics. DIR/PROD LAURA Jay Dratler, Samuel Hoffenstein Otto Preminger; SCR David Hertz, and Betty Reinhart, from the from the novel by Elizabeth Jane- novel by . US, 1944, way. US, 1947, b&w, 98 min. ● M b&w, 85 min. ● M WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS FALLEN ANGEL Saturday, Jan. 21, 1:00; Wednesday, Jan. 25, 6:30 Saturday, Jan. 14, 5:25; Wednesday, Jan. 18, 8:30 Dana Andrews is a violent, neu- Based on a piece of popular pulp rotic cop with unshaken moral fiction by Marty Holland, this conviction—until his “interroga- darkly beautiful film elicits post- tion” kills a mobster suspect. war Hollywood, when good and Andrews tries to save himself by bad were temporary character framing mobster Gary Merrill, definitions. The second film of while trying not to fall in love Preminger’s “Fox Quintet.” Dana with his victim’s estranged wife,

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ens the bleaker aspects. ’s groundbreaking title design became a Preminger trademark. DIR/PROD Otto Preminger; SCR Walter New- man and Lewis Meltzer, from the novel by . US, 1956, b&w, 119 min. ●M Sunday, Jan. 29, 6:50; Monday, Jan. 30, 6:45 Ex-con Robert Mitchum wants to start all over again, out West with his son, . They run into , who’s look- ing for her no-account husband

(). The quests flow • R E V L I S / M O C . I F A . W W W : S T E K C I T R E D R O O T • together on the fatefully named BONJOUR TRISTESSE river, with Preminger bringing his theatrical sensibility to the National Film Theatre, London. nuanced plot and symbolic stag- Barbet Schroeder cited the film as ing. Shot on location in the Cana- a strong influence for his paranoid dian Rockies, Preminger’s first SINGLE WHITE FEMALE. DIR/ attempt at wide-screen aesthetics PROD Otto Preminger; SCR Ben was the first CinemaScope west- Hecht, from novel by William L. ern. “Somehow it embraces more,” Stuart. US, 1950, b&w, 95 min. M he said. “We see more widely, ● and it fits into long takes better.” DIR Otto Preminger; SCR Frank Fenton; PROD Stanley Rubin. US,

Tuesday, Jan. 31, 6:30; Wednesday, Feb. 1, 6:30 1954, color, 91 min. ●M PHOTOFEST OF COURTESY “I am not a crusader,” said Prem- inger of his refusal to make the BONJOUR TRISTESSE edits required for a Production Seal, Saturday, Feb. 4, 6:40; Tuesday, Feb 7, 6:45; “but it gives me great pleasure to Thursday, Feb. 9, 6:45 fight for my rights.” Today con- A major inspiration to the French sidered the first shot in the fight New Wave (François Truffaut against the film community’s anti- loved this movie). The controver- RIVER OF NO RETURN quated self-censorship system, THE sial Arthur Laurents adaptation of MOON IS BLUE helped propel its director to household-name status. Preminger wouldn’t remove forbid- THE MAN WITH den words—virgin, pregnant, seduce— THE GOLDEN ARM from this light romantic comedy with , and Maggie McNamara. It was his first film as an independent producer, based on the play he’d directed on stage. DIR/PROD Otto Preminger; SCR F. Hugh Hubert, from the play by F. Hugh Hubert. US, 1953, b&w, 99 min. ●M New 35mm Print! THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM Saturday, January 28, 4:40; Sunday, January 29, 1:00 Preminger’s second challenge to the MPAA Production Seal system, in black and white to underscore the seriousness of the subject. Coke

addict tries to get PHOTOFEST OF COURTESY clean—hindered by his neurotic wife, . He’s accused of killing a drug dealer, and turns to girlfriend to clear him and finally kick his habit. In this controversial adaptation of Nelson Algren’s award-winning novel, Preminger’s treatment soft-

7 OTTO PREMINGER COURTESY OF PHOTOFEST OF COURTESY important to cast singers in the roles. They know how to ‘sell’ a song. If you have an actor do it he merely mouths the words without feeling.” DIR/PROD Otto Prem- inger; SCR Harry Kleiner, from the musical by Oscar Hammerstein II. US, 1955, color, 105 min. M COURTESY OF PHOTOFEST ● Friday, Feb. 10, 3:30; Saturday, Feb. 11, 3:30; Sunday, Feb. 12, 6:15; Thursday, Feb. 16, 6:30 Edge-of-your-seat courtroom drama unfolds to ’s Grammy Award–winning score. Nervously hilarious interludes give only intermittent relief from JONES the emotional pyrotechnics. leads a distinguished cast as the small-town ex-prosecutor teenager Françoise Sagan’s explo- who’s defending for sive first novel stars , the murder of wife ’s and David Niven in alleged rapist. His opponent is a sordid, incestuous love triangle. powerful prosecutor George C. DIR/PROD Otto Preminger; SCR Scott, with real-life McCarthy Arthur Laurents, from the novel adversary Joseph N. Welch as the by Françoise Sagan. US, 1958, judge and Duke Ellington doing b&w/color, 94 min. ●M a cameo as Pie Eye. Seven Oscar nominations. DIR/PROD Otto CARMEN JONES Preminger; SCR , Saturday, Feb. 4, 4:30; Sunday, Feb. 5, 3:45; from the novel by Robert Traver. Monday, Feb. 6, 6:45 US, 1959, b&w, 161 min. ●M and lead an all-black cast in ADVISE AND CONSENT Oscar Hammerstein’s adaptation of Sunday, Feb. 12, 1:00; Monday, Feb. 13, 6:30 Bizet’s classic opera Carmen—with One of the greatest of all Wash- their voices dubbed. Director Otto ington films, a “masterpiece of Preminger explained his choice of ambiguity and objectivity.”— Marilyn Horne and Le Vern Hutch- Andrew Sarris. A Senate confirma- erson: “The music is still Bizet—I tion struggle to the death whose Henry Fonda, Charles Laughton, Oscar for his haunting hit score. can’t change that. The two leads astonishing all-star cast includes , Gene Tierney, ’s on-screen screen- are not operatic singers. But it is , Paul Ford, writing credit was the first to , , break the blacklist. DIR/PROD Will Geer and Betty White. And Otto Preminger; SCR Dalton yes, that’s Frank Sinatra singing in Trumbo, from the novel by Leon the club. DIR/PROD Otto Prem- Uris. US, 1960, color, 208 min. ●M inger; SCR Wendell Mayes, from the novel by . US, 1962, b&w, 140 min. ●M Saturday, February 18, 4:45; Monday, February 20, 6:45; Tuesday, February 21, 6:45; EXODUS Thursday, February 23, 6:45 Friday, February 17, 1:00; Sunday, • TO ORDER TICKETS: WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER • Unwed mother , of February 19, 1:00; Monday, February 20, 1:00 questionable mental stability, des- The 1947 birth of , as perately tries to track down her adapted from Leon Uris’s best- missing four-year-old daughter. seller (he disavowed Preminger’s plays her seemingly work). A sweeping widescreen supportive brother, and Laurence epic shot on spectacular loca- Olivier is the detective assigned to tions in Cyprus and Israel, with the case. A critical and commercial the breakout from Acre prison failure upon its release, BUNNY filmed at the actual site. Thou- LAKE deserves to be reevaluated sands of Jewish Displaced Persons as a darkly poetic paranoid thriller are interned behind the British and “a reflective mid-’60s return blockade in Cyprus. General Ralph to the ghostly style Richardson is sympathetic, and [Preminger] developed at Fox in Haganah officer the ’40s.”—Dave Kehr. DIR/PROD packs 600 aboard the old freighter Otto Preminger; SCR John Mor- Exodus for a hunger strike. timer and Penelope Mortimer, ANATOMY OF Romances and personal conflicts from the novel by Evelyn Piper. A MURDER abound. nabbed an UK, 1965, b&w, 107 min. ●M

8 NORMAN JEWISON COMMUNITY EVENT! NPR and Fox newsman Juan Williams will lead a post-screening discussion Special Free Event! with Norman Jewison! Annual Martin Luther King, Jr., Day Celebration, Sponsored by Comcast and TV ONE LIVE! In Person: KING: A FILMED RECORD... MONTGOMERY TO MEMPHIS Norman Jewison Monday, January 16, 1:00 Friday, February 10, 6:45 A riveting compilation of documentary footage of Dr. Martin Canadian-born Norman Jewison has Luther King, Jr., from the Montgomery bus boycott to the “I directed more than 20 feature films, gar- Have a Dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial, from the dogs of Selma to the Nobel Prize and the fateful motel balcony nering a remarkable 46 Oscar nominations in Memphis. With narration and commentary from Sidney • TO ORDER TICKETS: WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER • • R E V L I S / M O C . I F A . W W W : S T E K C I T R E D R O O T • COURTESY OF PHOTOFEST and 12 wins, including Best Picture for IN Poitier, , Paul Newman, , THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT. His recently published memoir, This Terrible Business Charlton Heston, Harry Belafonte, Ruby Dee, Clarence Wil- liams III and others. Co-directed and produced by Hollywood Has Been Good to Me, recounts working with , Steve McQueen, notables and Joseph L. Mankiewicz. DIR Sidney , , and during six decades Lumet and Joseph L. Mankiewicz; SCR/PROD Ely Landau and in television and film. Jewison will appear at AFI Silver to introduce IN THE HEAT Richard Kaplan. US, 1970, b&w, 185 min. UNRATED OF THE NIGHT (Friday, February 10, 6:45 p.m.). Join us for a post-screening Q & Tickets available at the AFI Silver Box Office on the day of show only, limit 7 tickets per guest. A with director Norman Jewison and special guest speaker Juan Williams, senior NPR correspondent and Fox newsman. Special thanks to Anne Delaney and the Canadian Embassy, Washington, DC, for making this event possible.

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IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT COURTESY OF PHOTOFEST IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT AFI Life Achievement Award recipient Sidney Poitier stars as a Philadelphia homicide detective passing through rural Mississippi, wrongly detained by bigoted sheriff on a murder charge. Once cleared, he helps the sheriff solve the case. Poitier and Steiger’s mutual antipathy and begrudging respect electrify the screen; with outstanding supporting work by as the victim’s angry widow, and as a creepy deputy. Winner of five Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Actor for Steiger. DIR/PROD Norman Jewison; SCR Stirling Silliphant, from the novel by John Ball. US, 1967, color, 109 min. UNRATED 9 • TO ORDER TICKETS: WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER • integral part of the AFI mission. best possible screening environment, is ofan watching a film on the big screen, inStates. the Providing the communal experiencenonprofit presenter of film in the Unitedin dedicated theatres, making it the largestnerships with other organizations and somevidual screenings a year, some throughAFI part currently presents thousands of indi Screen On AFI About government and foundations. on support from individuals, corporations, organization, and AFI and AFI Silver rely has to offer. AFI is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) nects audiences to the best the art form film, television and digital media, AFI con the ongoing celebration of excellence in vative screen education programs and Offering the finest in film exhibition, inno (AFI) Institute Film American AFI ABOUT ADNME EXPIRATION Silver Spring, MD 20910 Mail to: Membership, AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural ZIPCenter, 8633 Colesville Road, SIGNATURE STATE CARD NUMBER E-MAIL (ESSENTIAL FOR ONLINE BENEFITS) ❑ PHONE (INCLUDE AREA CODE) CITY ADDRESS NAME more screening passes for a total of eight ($74 value) and more. priority ticketing for select screenings, $1.75 discount on up to four tickets, four ❑ Films Feature mailings, of tickets to all regular screenings, members-only screenings, AFI❑ Preview calendar Membership RSVP

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Y R A U N A J SUN MON TUES WED THURS FRI SAT 10 11 12 14 ★ THE NEW 6:30 SABRINA 6:30 THE FLY 6:30 13 HELLO, DOLLY! 1:00 The Ernest Lehman Series continues WORLD 7:30 THE SWEET SMELL OF THE KING AND I 8:45 WHO’S AFRAID OF LAURA 3:30 into January. See the previous issue of SUCCESS 8:30 WOOLF? 8:30 FALLEN ANGEL 5:25 AFI PREVIEW for film descriptions. THE FLY 11:05 WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? 7:30 THE FLY 10:10

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HELLO DOLLY 1:00 ★ KING: A FILMED SPIDER 9:00 DAISY KENYON 6:30 LAURA 6:40 NIGHTS OF • R E V L I S / M O WHERE C . I F A THE . W W SIDEWALK W : S T E K C I T R E D R O O T • WHO’S AFRAID OF RECORD... FALLEN ANGEL 8:30 WHO’S AFRAID OF CABIRIA 6:30 ENDS 1:00 VIRGNINIA WOOLF? 4:00 MONTGOMERY TO VIRGINIA WOOLF? 8:30 DEAD RINGERS 8:50 ANGEL FACE 3:00 DAISY KENYON 6:40 MEMPHIS 1:00 DEAD RINGERS 5:00 SPIDER 8:45 LAURA 4:45 7:20 THE FLY 10:45 THE FLY 6:40 THE DEAD ZONE 9:50 SPIDER 8:40 HELLO, DOLLY! 8:30

22 23 26 27 28 NIGHTS OF CABIRIA 1:20 THE DEAD ZONE 9:00 M. BUTTERFLY 6:30 24 WHERE THE 25 ANGEL FACE 6:30 6:30 VIDEODROME 12:30 THE DEAD ZONE 7:20 NIGHTS OF CABIRIA 8:40 SIDEWALK ENDS 6:30 NIGHTS OF CABIRIA 8:30 EXISTENZ 8:50 LA STRADA 2:20 M. BUTTERFLY 9:30 DEAD RINGERS 8:30 SCANNERS 11:00 THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM 4:40

Y R A U R B E F 30 31 1 2 THE MAN WITH THE 29 RIVER OF NO THE MOON IS THE MOON IS LA STRADA 6:30 3 CARMEN JONES 4:30 4 GOLDEN ARM 1:00 RETURN 6:45 BLUE 6:30 BLUE 6:30 EXISTENZ 8:50 6:30 BONJOUR TRISTESSE 6:40 RIVER OF NO RETURN 6:50 VIDEODROME 8:40 EXISTENZ 8:30 VIDEODROME 8:40 NAKED LUNCH 9:15 NAKED LUNCH 8:40 SCANNERS 8:45 RABID 11:00

6 7 8 9 10 11 ★ TALK CINEMA 10:00 a.m. 5 CARMEN JONES 6:45 BONJOUR BONJOUR ANATOMY OF A 1:00 JULIET OF THE SPIRITS 1:00 RABID 9:00 TRISTESSE 6:45 TRISTESSE 6:45 MURDER 3:30 ANATOMY OF A MURDER 3:30 CARMEN JONES 3:45 NAKED LUNCH 8:45 JULIET OF THE SPIRITS ★ IN THE HEAT OF CINEMA TROPICAL 8:45 THE NIGHT 6:45 PRESENTS CRASH 9:45 ANA Y LOS OTROS 6:40 CRASH 8:25 THE BROOD 10:30

12 13 14 15 16 17 18 ADVISE AND CONSENT 1:00 ADVISE AND GINGER AND CINEMA TROPICAL ANATOMY OF A EXODUS 1:00 SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXIPLASM FAST COMPANY w/ CONSENT 6:30 FRED 6:30 PRESENTS MURDER 6:30 SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXIPLASM 3:05 & 9:05 THE ITALIAN MACHINE 3:45 THE BROOD 9:20 CRASH 9:00 ANA Y LOS OTROS 6:30 CINEMA TROPICAL 5:00 & 8:40 BUNNY LAKE IS MISSING 4:45 ANATOMY OF A MURDER 6:15 FAST COMPANY w/ THE PRESENTS A HISTORY OF A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE CRASH 9:20 ITALIAN MACHINE 8:20 ANA Y LOS OTROS 9:35 VIOLENCE 6:40 1:00 & 7:00 SHIVERS 10:30 SHIVERS 10:45

19 20 21 22 24 25 EXODUS 1:00 EXODUS 1:00 BUNNY LAKE IS MONTGOMERY BUNNY LAKE IS 23 ★ CLASSE TOUS CLASSE TOUS RISQUES SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXIPLASM 5:00 SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXIPLASM MISSING 6:45 COLLEGE PRESENTS MISSING 6:45 RISQUES OPENS ONE WEEK ONLY SHIVERS 5:30 EARLY WORKS: STEREO & 5:00 SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXIPLASM SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXIPLASM CHECK ONLINE AT CRIMES OF THE FUTURE 6:45 BUNNY LAKE IS 9:00 EARLY WORKS: 9:00 WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE 9:40 MISSING 6:45 STEREO & CRIMES OF FOR DAILY SHOWTIME A HISTORY OF THE FUTURE 6:30 VIOLENCE 8:55 A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE 9:20 H C R A M

CLASSE TOUS RISQUES 26 CLASSE TOUS RISQUES27 CLASSE TOUS RISQUES28 CLASSE TOUS RISQUES 1 THE FRENCH 2 SE7EN—PUBLIC 3 DRAGNET—PUBLIC RECEPTION 4 ONE WEEK ONLY ONE WEEK ONLY ONE WEEK ONLY ONE WEEK ONLY CONNECTION— RECEPTION AT 7:30, AT 7:30, FILM AT 8:00 PUBLIC RECEPTION AT FILM AT 8:00 CHECK ONLINE AT CHECK ONLINE AT CHECK ONLINE AT CHECK ONLINE AT SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE & WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER 7:30, FILM AT 8:00 ★ SPIRIT OF THE FOR DAILY SHOWTIMES FOR DAILY SHOWTIMES FOR DAILY SHOWTIMES FOR DAILY SHOWTIMES KING KONG CLASSE TOUS RISQUES BEEHIVE OPENS ONE WEEK ONLY ONE WEEK ONLY ★ KING KONG OPENS CHECK ONLINE AT CHECK ONLINE AT WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER FOR DAILY SHOWTIMES FOR DAILY SHOWTIMES

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JULIET OF THE SPIRITS LA STRADA The Mastery of [Giulietta degli Spiriti] Friday, Feb. 3, 6:30; Sunday, Feb. 5, 1:00; Thursday, Feb. 9, 8:45 Fellini’s first color feature is a visually rav- Fellini & Masina ishing tribute to his wife. It is also a male January 20 through February 14 director’s attempt to get inside the mind of a Some of the most memorable films directed by Fed- woman. Giulietta Masina plays a well-to-do housewife who learns that her husband is hav- erico Fellini (1920–93) were those starring his wife, ing an affair. She consults with mediums and Giulietta Masina escapes into a world of imagination filled with spirits of the past, present and future. While (1921–94). This 8 1/2 shows Fellini’s masculine dreams, this series features film portrays the very different dreams of his actress wife. DIR/SCR/PROD Federico Fellini; four of their SCR , , Tullio Pinelli best, including and Brunello Rondy. /France/West Ger- all-time clas- many, 1965, color, 137 min. ● M sics LA STRADA and NIGHTS OF CABIRIA. ALL FILMS UNRATED GINGER AND FRED Saturday, February 11, 1:00; Tuesday, February 14, 6:30 Here is Fellini at his warmest and most directly AFIAFI MMemberember PPassesasses wwillill bbee aacceptedccepted aatt aallll appealing, with superb performances by his two greatest stars. Giulietta Masina and Marcello ●M screeningsscreenings iinn tthehe Fellini & Masina series. Mastroianni play aging hoofers who, in the 1930s, imitated Astaire-Rogers on stage as “Gin- ger e Fred.” When a TV station invites NIGHTS OF CABIRIA them to restage their act for today’s home [Le Notti de Cabiria] viewing audience, they meet a hilariously weird Friday, January 20, 6:30; Saturday, January 21, 7:20; assortment of program participants. A nostalgic Sunday, January 22, 1:20; Tuesday, January 24, 8:40; look back—and a satiric survey of contemporary Thursday, January 26, 8:30 JULIET OF television. DIR Federico Fellini; SCR/PROD Fed- Prostitute Giulietta Masina dreams of happi- THE SPIRITS erico Fellini and . Italy/France/ ness while working in Rome’s drab outskirts. , 1986, color, 125 min. ● M After a movie star dumps her, she finds true love with a respectable man—who betrays and robs her. Throughout a touching ride both comedic and tragic, she holds on to her belief in the goodness of life. An Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language Film, Fellini’s second work with Masina followed the success of LA CINEMA TROPICAL STRADA and became the basis of the stage and film musical . DIR/PROD ANA Y LOS OTROS [Ana and the Others] Federico Fellini; SCR Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Saturday, February 11, 6:40; Wednesday, Pinelli and . Italy/France, February 15, 6:30; Thursday, February 16, 9:35 1957, b&w, 117 min. ● M Newcomer Camila Toker brilliantly plays 25-year-old Ana, who returns to Parana for LA STRADA [The Road] Christmas, for the first time since moving to • TO ORDERFriday, TICKETS: January 27, 6:30;WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER Saturday, January 28, 2:20;• Buenos Aires years earlier. Her friends have Thursday, February 2, 6:30 settled into small-town married life, and Ana becomes curious about an elusive ex-boyfriend, One of the most poetic films of world cinema, considering the world she left behind. Direc- LA STRADA established Fellini and Giulietta tor Celina Murga’s closely observed character Masina internationally. It was a breakthrough development and intimate cinematography for Italian cinema, moving away from strict present an engaging exploration of the path not neo-realism to a higher artistic realism. In a taken—and the suggestion that a new perspec- small traveling , Masina plays a young tive is not geographical but mental. DIR/SCR/ innocent whom strongman PROD Celina Murga. Argentina, 2002, color, 80 “buys” and makes into a clown. Gentle Rich- min. UNRATED ard Basehart befriends her. ’s music is unforgettable; the surrealistic images are today known as “Fellini-esque.” Certainly one of the most influential films ever made, it won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Cinema Tropical is a non-profit orga- Film. DIR/PROD Federico Fellini; SCR Federico nization that promotes, programs and Fellini, Ennio Flaiano and Tullio Pinelli. Italy, distributes Latin American cinema in AFI Member Passes will be the . For more information, 1954, b&w, 115 min. ● M visit www.cinematropical.com. ● M accepted for this engagement. 12 • TO ORDER TICKETS: WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER • 13 - DIR/SCR DIR/SCR !

RATED PG-13 RATED THE THE NEW WORLD brings to life unique Malick’s Starring Colin Farrell, , Christian Christian Plummer, Colin Starring Christopher Farrell, min. min. accepted passes no member now—sorry, available Tickets www. at online be purchased can Tickets event. this for Office. Box Silver AFI the or through AFI.com/Silver Washington, DC, Premiere Washington, Malick’s of Terrence WORLD NEW THE January 10, 2006, 7:30 pm The Film in American with Institute, New cooperation Line Cinema, is proud to present the latest from acclaimed and filmmaker Malick. AFI alumnus Terrence of the interpretation classic tale of and Pocahontas her with John adventurer Smith relationships and aristocrat journey of John remarkable Rolfe. This love woman’s lost and found takes to her wilderness pristine from Virginia’s upper as England’s crust society, we witness the dawn of a new America. , David Bale, August Thewlis Schellenberg, and Kilcher as Q’Orianka THE newcomer Pocahontas, NEW WORLD is a set adventure sweeping amid the first of encounter and European Native dur cultures American ing the 1607 of founding Virginia. Jamestown, Malick; PROD Sarah Green. US, Terrence 2005, color, 150 SPECIAL EVENT SPECIAL ------

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for this engagement this for AFI Member Passes will be be will Passes Member AFI accepted SPECIAL ENGAGEMENTS New 35mm Print! One Week Only! New 35mm Print! New English Subtitles! One Week Only! THE SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE [El Espíritu de la Colmena] Opens Friday, March 3 CLASSE TOUS RISQUES [The Big Risk] The spellbinding debut feature from Spanish director Victor Erice, who, Opens Friday, February 24 like American Terrence Malick, has completed only a handful of features French gangster Lino Ventura, over the last three decades, each a masterpiece that blends history, phi- after years of hiding out in Italy “A stunning gangster flick! losophy and spirituality into richly moving allegories. with his wife and kids, decides The great discovery of A landmark film about childhood, and a dazzling treatment of a pain- things have gotten too hot and ful chapter in Spain’s history, Erice’s first film was released near the end it’s time to return to —even 2005!” of the Franco regime but set in the early 1940s, when Franco’s National- though he’s been sentenced to —NEW YORK MAGAZINE ists had just come to power after the Civil War. Precocious sisters Ana death there in absentia. Torrent, six, and Isabel Tellería, , live with their parents in a remote Sending his family ahead Castilian village. A traveling movie show comes to town and they go to by train, Ventura and CLASSE see James Whale’s horror classic FRANKENSTEIN in a makeshift theater. trusted pal Stan Krol pull TOUS Isabel fools her little sister into thinking that the monster is real. When a daylight robbery in RISQUES Ana discovers a wounded , make a breakneck Republican soldier hid- THE SPIRIT OF getaway, then hijack a ing in an abandoned THE BEEHIVE boat to the French Riviera. farmhouse, she spins her There Ventura contacts his own imaginative narrative old cronies, now enjoying combining the Franken- the spoils of their crimi- stein story with her barely nal exploits and leading understood notions of the comfortable, bourgeois recent Civil War. Golden lives. Considering their Shell, 1973 San Sebastian old chum too big a risk, Film Festival. DIR/PROD they hire hotheaded Jean- Victor Erice; SCR Paul Belmondo to drive Victor Erice, Angel him to Paris. Back home, Fernandez Santos and Ventura learns hard les- Francisco J. Querejeta. sons about friendship Spain, 1973, color, 95 and the irretrievability of min. UNRATED the past—but not before he settles scores with his former friends. Championed by directors as diverse as Jean-Pierre AFI Member Passes will be accepted for this engagement. Melville, Bertrand Tavernier and John Woo, CLASSE TOUS RISQUES ● M combines explosive action sequences with a creeping mood of existen- tial ennui, and has never properly been presented in the US until now. DIR/ PROD ; SCR Claude Sautet, Jose Giovanni Exclusive Washington Engagement! and Pascal Jardin, from the novel by Jose Giovanni. France/Italy, UNRATED SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXIPLASM (TAKE ONE) 1960, b&w, 110 min. Friday, February 17, 5:00 & 8:40; Saturday, February 18, 3:05 & 9:05; Sunday, February 19, 5:00; Monday, February 20, 5:00; Tuesday, February 21, 9:00, Thursday, February 23, 9:00 Director William Greaves is casting for a new film—or is he? Catego- rized as a documentary, SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXIPLASM follows the action TALK CINEMA behind the making of a film. But do the players know the cameras are still rolling? Three crews shoot one scene in Central Park, all under Greaves. There’s a student screen test, the making of the screen test, • TO ORDER TICKETS: WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER • and the making of Talk Cinema Returns to AFI Silver! Harlan Jacobson’s national Sunday morning film series, Talk Cinema, returns SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXIPLASM the making of the (TAKE ONE) screen test. This to AFI Silver for its Spring 2006 series! Talk Cinema showcases independent experimental film is a great snapshot of and foreign films, with discussions led by distinguished critics and filmmak- New York filmmak- ers immediately following the screenings. Fall 2005 patrons enjoyed such ing in the ’60s. An , titles as THE SQUID AND THE WHALE, MRS. HENDERSON PRESENTS and THE it draws on our WORLD’S FASTEST INDIAN. national voyeuristic tendencies. DIR/ SCR/PROD William SPRING 2006 SERIES Greaves. US, 1968, February 5, March 5, March 19, April 23, May 7, May 21, June 4. All b&w/color, 70 min. screenings begin at 10:00 a.m. UNRATED Subscriptions—$120—are available now ONLY through Talk Cinema at 800.551.9221, or at www.TALKCINEMA.com. ● M AFI Member Passes will be accepted for this engagement. 14 • TO ORDER TICKETS: WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER • 15 Montgomery College Montgomery Film Series p.m. 5:30 at Wednesdays Selected Montgomery College opens its spring semester with these screenings. two A College instructor will introduce each film in the series and lead a post-film audience discussion. The general public is invited to attend. Tickets are $5. For more information, visit www.AFI.com/silver. SHIVERS 5:30 22, February Wednesday, See page 5 for note program KONG KING 5:30 8, March Wednesday, See page 16 for note program Film historian Max ignites Alvarez discussion on the work of Jim Henson at AFI Silver’s Members Sunday Brunch, held November 20 at Jackie’s Restaurant. 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