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Image by Perry Maple Robert Zemeckis 3 See It Big! 4 Young Actresses, Big Roles 5 The Art of Rise of the Guardians 7 Making Movies in New York: 1912 9 The Cinema and Its Doubles 12 The End of Time 14 SEE IT BIG! 4 Fist and Sword 15 The Life of Pi 16 Bookstalls: Film, Poetry, and 16 Performance in Celebration of Joseph Cornell Korean Cinema Showcase: 17 Filmakers of the Future Phil Solomon: American Falls 18 Spacewar! Video Games Blast Off 19 Ming Wong: 20 THE ART OF RISE MAKING MOVIES Persona Perfoma Panorama OF THE GUARDIANS 7 IN NEW YORK: 1912 9 Pretty Loaded 21 DVD Dead Drop 21 Behind the Screen 22 Focus on the Collection 23 Drop-In Moving Image Studio 24 Host Your Event 25 Become a Member 26 Moving Image Salutes Hugh Jackman 27 PHIL THE CINEMA SOLOMON: SPACEWAR! Our Supporters 28 AND ITS AMERICAN VIDEO GAMES DOUBLES 12 FALLS 18 BLAST OFF Daily Schedule 29 19 Museum Information 30 2 Forrest Gump Sunday, October 28, 1:00 P.M. 1994, 142 mins. 35mm. With Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, Sally Field. The slow-witted Forrest Gump floats through his life—and a tumultuous period in American history— ROBERT somehow showing up as a bit player in one iconic moment after another. One of the most acclaimed and successful films of the past twenty years, and the focus of intense critical debate, Forrest Gump is both a technical marvel and a compelling blend ZEMECKIS of comedy and drama. Flight October 28–November 4, 2012 MONDAY, October 29, 6:30 P.M. AT THE ZiegfelD With Denzel Washington, Robert Zemeckis, John Goodman, John Gatins, and David Koepp in person Dir. Robert Zemeckis, 2012, 138 mins. Courtesy of Paramount. With Denzel Washington, Don Cheadle, John Goodman, Melissa leo, Bruce Greenwood. In Zemeckis’s action-packed and dramatically powerful mystery thriller, Academy Award winner Washington stars as Whip Whitaker, a seasoned airline pilot who miraculously crash-lands his plane after a midair catastrophe, saving nearly everyone on board. After the crash, Whip is hailed as a hero, but as more is learned, questions arise as to who or what was at fault and what really happened on that plane. A discussion with Zemeckis, actors Denzel Washington and John Goodman, and screenwriter John Gatins follows the screening, moderated by David Koepp. Back to the Future Friday, NOvEMBER 2, 2:00 AND 6:30 P.M. 1985, 116 mins. Digital projection. With Michael J. Fox, Christopher lloyd, Crispin Glover, lea Thompson. In this rollicking time-travel story about a 1980s teenager who travels back to the 1950s, where he must arrange his parents’ meeting, Zemeckis perfectly balances science fiction, spectacle, comedy, action, and emotional depth. Robert Zemeckis has directed some of the most entertaining, Cast Away inventive, and beloved movies of the past three decades, Sunday, NOvEMBER 4, 4:00 P.M. including Romancing the Stone, the Back to the Future trilogy, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, Forrest Gump, and Cast Away. As 2000, 143 mins. 35mm. With Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt. A Federal Express executive survives a plane crash and winds dazzling as his films can be, they are also marked by a mastery up on a remote Pacific island, where he must learn how to of cinematic language and emotional depth. Zemeckis’s survive. Hanks’s tour de force performance captures the latest film, Flight, is both an action thriller and an intense and grueling physical journey as well as the complex emotional deeply moving character study, with a bracing, audacious transformation. like all Zemeckis’s best films, this is a performance by Denzel Washington. The Museum members- cinematic triumph that is as deeply moving as it is entertaining. only screening of Flight at the Ziegfeld is the centerpiece of this retrospective featuring four of Zemeckis’s greatest films. The Museum’s scheduled screening of Flight at the Ziegfeld with Denzel Washington in person on Monday, October 29, was canceled due to Hurricane Sandy. This screening will All films directed by Robert Zemeckis. be rescheduled. 3 The Innocents ONGOING Curated by Reverse Shot editors Michael Koresky and Jeff Reichert, and the Museum’s Chief Curator, David Schwartz, and Assistant Film Curator, Rachael Rakes The Museum’s popular ongoing film series See It Big! celebrates the joys of large-scale moviegoing. It provides a chance to discover or revisit essential films in their full theatrical splendor in one of the finest film venues in the country. Great movies transport us into new worlds, and they immerse us visually and aurally. Despite the easy availability of movies on portable devices and small screens, there is only one way to really see a movie: BIG! The Museum always endeavors to show a film in the best available version, whether it is a stunning digital restoration, or a rare screening of a vintage Technicolor 35mm print. Projection formats are noted throughout. 4 Suspiria and Alexander is a lush banquet of a film. Shown here in Bergman’s preferred version, which aired as a four-part FRIDAY, NOvEMBER 2, 7:00 P.M. Unforgiven (Photofest) SATuRDAY, NOvEMBER 3, 7:00 P.M. miniseries on Swedish television, the first fourth is devoted to an extravagant and warm Christmas party, Dir. Dario Argento. 1977, 98 mins. Imported 35mm certainly the most remarkable holiday gathering ever Technicolor print. With Jessica Harper, Stefania committed to film. Casini, udo Kier. Italian director Argento has created some of the most imaginative, gory, and Bonjour Tristesse downright gorgeous horror films of all time, but FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28, 7:00 P.M. Suspiria—a bizarre tale of an American dancer who SATuRDAY, DECEMBER 29, 3:00 P.M. arrives at a gothic European ballet school after it SuNDAY, DECEMBER 30, 3:00 P.M. has experienced a spate of mysterious murders— is his most beloved. Once you see the first ten Dir. Otto Preminger. 1958, 94 mins. DCP. With Jean minutes of this impeccable horror classic, with its Seberg, Deborah Kerr, David Niven. Seventeen-year-old astonishing use of color and its vivid, elaborately Celine (Seberg) and her suave father, Raymond (Niven), staged gore, you will be hooked. maintain a father-daughter relationship just this side of appropriate, sharing everything and treating each other Unforgiven largely as equals. However, when Raymond’s stylish old Suspiria (Photofest) flame Anne (Kerr) pops up on their summer vacation SuNDAY, DECEMBER 9, 3:00 P.M. in Saint Tropez, and romance blossoms again between Introduced by Robert Kapsis, co-editor of Clint Eastwood: Interviews the two adults, Celine begins scheming, with disastrous Dir. Clint Eastwood. 1992, 131 mins. 35mm. With Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, Gene Hackman, Richard consequences. Preminger’s widescreen frames elevate Harris. Clint Eastwood’s recent co-starring role with a wooden chair aside, this grim revisionist western may all the human foibles on display to the level of tragedy. be his finest moment. An old gunslinger heads out with a motley crew to collect one last bounty, but the gang’s motivations quickly turn murky as a simple righting of a wrong for a fee gives way to bloodthirsty revenge and wanton killing. For Eastwood, the simple pleasures of the classic, cheeky western always came with a violent hidden cost; the best-picture-winning Unforgiven is cinematic debt paying at its finest. Followed by a book signing. Children of Paradise All That Heaven Allows FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 7:00 P.M. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2012, 7:00 P.M. SATuRDAY, DECEMBER 15, 6:30 P.M. Dir. Douglas Sirk. 1955. 89 mins. 35mm. With Jane Dir. Marcel Carné. 1945, 190 mins. DCP presented with Wyman, Rock Hudson, Agnes Moorehead. An indictment intermission. In French with English subtitles. With of 1950s small town America, and a heartbreaking May– Arletty, Jean-louis Barrault, Pierre Brasseur. An actor, December romance—played with melting intensity Bonjour tristesse (Photofest) a shady criminal, a count, and a mime all vie for the by Hudson and Wyman—All That Heaven Allows is hand of a beautiful and enigmatic woman in Carné’s perhaps the greatest of Sirk’s glorious melodramas. epic yet intimate vision of nineteenth-century Paris, Brilliantly shot with expressionistic hues and elaborate set in a meticulously recreated Boulevard du Crime. compositions, and with one of the most affecting holiday La Dolce Vita The Innocents This moving example of classic storytelling has been scenes committed to film, Dave Kehr called All That SATuRDAY, DECEMBER 29, 6:00 P.M. SuNDAY, NOvEMBER 4, 2:00 P.M. deemed by many critics the greatest achievement of Heaven Allows “a masterpiece by one of the most SuNDAY, DECEMBER 30, 6:00 P.M. pre-New Wave French cinema, and now it looks better inventive and recondite directors ever to work in Dir. Jack Clayton. 1961, 101 mins. 35mm. With Dir. Federico Fellini. 1960, 174 mins. 35mm. In Italian than ever thanks to a new digital restoration. Hollywood.” Deborah Kerr, Peter Wyngarde, Michael Redgrave. with English subtitles. With Marcello Mastroianni, Anita This exquisitely eerie adaptation of Henry James’s Children of Paradise Ekberg, Anouk Aimée. A city symphony, personal epic, The Turn of the Screw stars a brilliantly cracked Kerr Fanny and Alexander and pinpoint-accurate portrait of a specific moment SATuRDAY, DECEMBER 22, 3:00 P.M. as a governess who arrives at a secluded house to in time, La Dolce Vita may be Fellini’s grandest SuNDAY, DECEMBER 23, 3:00 P.M. take care of two strange children, whom she grows achievement. Over the course of one hedonistic week, convinced are haunted by a ghost.