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George Lucas: 33rd AFI Life Achievement Award Recipient , and more! JARMUSCH Hitchcock in 3-D —’s comic genius W.C. Fields, , , & Slovenia’s Damjan Kozole Big Screen Summer Fun: JAWS 30th Anniversary LAWRENCE OF ARABIA in 70mm • BUY TICKETS ONLINE: WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER • NO SERVICE FEE • 2 14 10 Institute, MembershipDepartment, 2021 N.Western Avenue, ,CA90027. ing offices. Membership. Periodicalspostagepaid atSilver Spring, Marylandandatadditionalmail- American FilmInstitute, 2021 N.Western Ave., Los Angeles, CA90027, Attention: correspondences aboutsubscriptions,undelivered copies andaddress changesto: tions alsoincludemembership in theAmericanFilmInstitute. Sendallremittances and Silver Spring,MD20910(301.495.6720). Subscriptionprice: $50.00 peryear. Allsubscrip- lishing andadvertising offices: AFISilver Theatre andCultural Center, 8633Colesville Rd., reserved. Reproduction inpartorwholewithout permissionisprohibited. Editorial, pub- sarily reflect theofficialinstitute policy. Institute’s office at8633Colesville Road, Silver Spring, MD. Signedarticles donotneces- AFI PREVIEW change. Checkwww.AFI.com/Silver for updates. Information iscorrect atpress time.Filmsandschedulesubjectto Preview designer: AFI Ltd. W Inset: STAR PARADISE THAN On thecover: JimJarmusch’sSTRANGER April 17specialadvance screening ofCRASH. Brendan Fraser reads AFIPREVIEWbefore the N 12 15 15 13 11 4 2 9 8 6 3 7 7 7 Big ScreenSummerFun: Special Fundraising Event! Hitchcockin3-D Cinema Tropical Presents urcaMre’ LACIENAGA Lucrecia Martel’s MEMORIES OFMURDER JAWS 30 at LAWRENCE OFARABIA Korean Thriller CompleteRetro :A Douglas Sirkinthe1950s Magnificent Reflection: Happy 100th,MyrnaLoy!THETHINMANReturns World-Class Entertainer:W.C. Fields Damjan Kozole: Slovenia’s RisingStar Calendar About AFI Science intheCinema CinemAfrica James DeanRemembered Massimo Troisi: ComedyAuteur Achievement Award Honoree Life :2005AFI O Postmaster: Sendaddress changesto AFIPREVIEWatAmericanFilm (ISSN-0194-3847) ispublishedevery sixweeks by theAmericanFilm R:EIOEVTEEPR TIE BACK, STRIKES EMPIRE ARS: EPISODEVTHE W PLAYING Melissa Kelly, Auras Design © 2005 AmericanFilmInstitute. Allrights courtesy

PHOTO BY/COURTESY OF PATSY LYNCH 105 min. SCR Frederick Knott, from hisplay; PROD . color, US,1954, seeming toreachoutus,theaudience, forhelp. murder. Hitchcock’suseof3-DwithintheconfinesaLondonflat hasKelly Kelly’s Cummings,thinkshe’s friendshipwithRobert plannedtheperfect your chance. Flat-brokehusbandRayMilland,jealousofrichwifeGrace here’s Ifnot, original SilverTheatre—you’ll wanttorecapture theexperience. were luckyenoughtoseea3-Dmoviebackintheday—maybe evenatthe hors d’oeuvres) andtheHitchcockthrillerDIALMFORMURDER.Ifyou evening: Drinks,Dinner(well, Joinusfora 3-D the process. AFISilverin and helpsupport astonished, and entertained Be Screening: 9:00p.m. Reception: 8:00p.m. Saturday, June25 MURDER DIAL MFOR Extravaganza! 3-D Fundraising First Annual AFI Silver’s sell quickly.) AFI Silver box office. (Pleasenote: Tickets for thisevent are expected to Tickets ($75) may bepurchased onlineatwww.AFI.com/Silver oratthe Admission includespre-screening reception. Proceeds benefitAFISilver. HITCHCOCK IN3-D “This is one of the pictures I see I pictures the of one is “This over and over again. I enjoy it enjoy I again. over and over more every time I see it.” see I time every more RATED PG —FRANÇOIS TRUFFAUT DIR Alfred Hitchcock; BIG SCREEN BLOCKBUSTERS Back by Popular Demand! 70mm Spectacular! LAWRENCE OF ARABIA Monday, July 4 through Sunday, August 21 AFI Silver audiences have told us for two summers that the state-of-the-art big screen presentation of David Lean’s peerless 1962 epic is a movie lover’s treat, so here it is all summer long. British Colonel T.E. Lawrence leads the Arab revolt in World War I’s Middle East—though sheik Anthony Quinn still grouses, “He is not perfect.” As Lawrence, then rela- tive unknown Peter O’Toole created one of cinema’s great enigmatic character studies, earning the first of his seven Best Actor nominations (he holds the bitter- sweet record for almost-wins). Featuring spectacular action and cinematography that demands large-scale viewing, plus Omar Sharif’s English-language debut. “One of the peaks of narrative cinema—storytelling raised to its highest form”—film critic Stephen Farber. Seven Oscars, including Best Picture, Director, Photog- raphy and Score (the first of four stirring collabora- tions by Lean with composer Maurice Jarre). DIR David Lean; SCR Robert Bolt; PROD Sam Spiegel. UK, 1962, color, 70mm, 226 min. RATED PG GM

30th Anniversary Engagement! JAWS Friday, July 22 through Thursday, July 28 TICKETS: ORDER • TO “You’re gonna need a bigger boat.” ’s monster hit, adapted from the Peter Benchley bestseller, didn’t merely set box office records. It reshaped the funda- mentals of the movie world, setting the template for how future summer block- busters would be released. Though it spawned numerous sequels, not to men- tion countless rip-offs, Spielberg’s origi- nal remains as deliciously unsettling today as it was on June 20, 1975. DIR Steven Spielberg; SCR Peter Bench- ley and Carl Gottleib; PROD and Richard D. Zanuck. US, 1975, color, 124 min. RATED PG GM

3 GEORGE LUCAS AFI Life Achievement Award: George Lucas “A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away…” Accompanied by ’ striking score, this now legendary scroll introduced to the world an evil empire, a heavy-breathing villain and a ragtag band of freedom-fighting rebels before fading into the infinite space beyond. It was 1977 and George Lucas, best known at that point as the creator of the futuristic THX 1138 and the nostalgic smash hit AMER- ICAN GRAFFITI, launched a cultural phenomenon. With its fusion of epic myth, sci-fi wonder, special effects and old-fashioned good vs. bad guys story- STAR WARS: EPISODE V

telling, STAR WARS captured the imagination of LTD. LUCASFILM COURTESY adults and children alike. As Lucas is honored with STAR WARS: EPISODE I the AFI Life Achievement Award and the final STAR THE PHANTOM MENACE WARS installment unspools this summer, AFI Silver proudly showcases the full body of his work, includ- ing rare public screenings of the five previous STAR WARS films—the first three re-mastered with digi-

tal effects—as well as the entire INDIANA LTD. LUCASFILM COURTESY JONES trilogy, produced by Lucas and directed by Steven Spielberg. COURTESY LUCASFILM LTD. LUCASFILM COURTESY STAR WARS: EPISODE I THE PHANTOM MENACE Friday, July 1, 6:00; Monday, July 4, 6:00 DIR/SCR George Lucas; PROD Rick McCallum. STAR WARS: EPISODE V US, 1999, color, scope, 133 min. RATED PG THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK STAR WARS: EPISODE II ATTACK OF THE CLONES STAR WARS: EPISODE IV Friday, July 1, 9:00; Monday, July 4, 9:00 A NEW HOPE Saturday, July 2, 3:00; Sunday, July 3, 3:00 DIR George Lucas; SCR George Lucas and Jonathan Hales; PROD Rick McCallum. US, DIR/SCR George Lucas; PROD . US, 2002, color, scope, 143 min. RATED PG 1977/1999, color, scope, 125 min. RATED PG STAR WARS: EPISODE V THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK Saturday, July 2, 6:00; Sunday, July 3, 6:00 DIR Irvin Kershner; SCR Leigh Brackett and ; PROD Gary Kurtz. US, 1979/1999, color, scope, 129 min. RATED PG STAR WARS: EPISODE VI Saturday, July 2, 9:00; Sunday, July 3, 9:00 DIR ; SCR Lawrence STAR WARS: EPISODE II Kasdan and George Lucas; PROD Howard STAR WARS: EPISODE IV ATTACK OF THE CLONES Kazanjian and Rick McCallum. US, 1983/1999, COURTESY

A NEW HOPE LUCASFILM LTD. LTD. LUCASFILM COURTESY color, scope, 135 min. RATED PG LTD. LUCASFILM COURTESY 4 GEORGE LUCAS Friday, July 8, 7:00; Saturday, July 9, 6:15, 11:15; SPECIAL MEMBERS’ EVENT FOR Sunday, July 10, 2:00; Monday, July 11, 7:00; Tuesday, July 12, 7:00 G Every Saturday afternoon serial rolled into one M CONTRIBUTOR LEVEL MEMBERS & ABOVE picture. The year is 1936: ’s archaeologist Indiana Jones tries to find the Bib- lical Ark of the Covenant ahead of the Nazis. RD DIR Steven Spielberg; SCR Lawrence Kasdan; 33 AFI LIFE ACHIEVEMENT PROD Frank Marshall. US, 1981, color, scope, 115 min. RATED PG AWARD TELECAST HONORING GEORGE LUCAS INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM Monday, June 20, 9:00 Friday, July 8, 9:30; Saturday, July 9, 8:45; Sunday, July 10, 4:20; Join AFI Silver for a special upper-level members’

Monday, July 11, 9:30; Tuesday, July 12, 9:30 screening of the 2005 AFI Life Achievement • TICKETS: WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER ORDER • TO The prequel to RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK, Award tribute honoring film pioneer George with Indy taking on a human sacrifice specialist in Lucas. This special telecast will be hosted by AFI the Himalayas. DIR Steven Spielberg; SCR Willard Silver Director Murray Horwitz and other AFI Huyck and Gloria Katz; PROD Robert Watts. US, special guests. Enjoy free popcorn and soft drinks 1984, color, scope, 118 min. RATED PG while watching the highest honor given for a

career in film. Established in 1973, the AFI Life LTD. LUCASFILM COURTESY INDIANA JONES AND Achievement Award is presented each year to a THE LAST CRUSADE single honoree whose talent has in a fundamental way advanced the art of film. Saturday, July 9, 1:00; Thursday, July 14, 8:40 Indy’s on the road again—even in flashback, Attendance is limited to Contributor level members and above (two guests played by River Phoenix—but the topper is per membership). Tickets for this event are free and will be distributed on a first-come first-served basis. Members may RSVP to [email protected]. Please check our Web site for updates and more event details. RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK

Sean Connery as his father, in search of the Holy Grail. DIR Steven Spielberg; SCR Jeffrey Boam; PROD Robert Watts. US, 1989, color, scope, 127 min. RATED PG-13 AMERICAN GRAFFITI Saturday, July 9, 3:40; Thursday, July 14, 6:30 “Where were you in ‘62?” Dusk to daylight on a summer night in a small town, as

COURTESY LUCASFILM LTD. LUCASFILM COURTESY recent or about-to-be high school graduates— among them Richard Dreyfuss, , Charles Martin INDIANA JONES AND Smith, Paul LeMat, Cindy AMERICAN GRAFFITI THE TEMPLE Williams, Harrison Ford and OF DOOM Suzanne Somers as the “blonde Lang’s METROPOLIS, Orwell’s 1984 and Huxley’s in the T-Bird”—cruise the Brave New World resonate throughout. DIR George streets and contemplate impend- Lucas; SCR George Lucas and Walter Murch; ing college and real life, backed PROD Lawrence Sturhahn. US, 1971/2004, color, by a near-continuous classic 95 min. RATED R oldies score. DIR George Lucas; SCR George Lucas, Gloria Katz and Willard Huyck; PROD Fran- THX 1138 cis Ford Coppola. US, 1973, color, scope, 110 min. RATED PG THX 1138 Tuesday, July 5, 8:40; Thursday, July 7, 6:00 A complete digital restoration of Lucas’ bold first feature, set in a 25th century dystopia beneath the earth’s surface. plays the title role, a human who inadvertently defies anti-sex laws by falling in love with his roommate after she tampers with his government-adminis- tered medication. Shades of Fritz

5 PAGEMASSIMO HEAD TROISI Massimo Troisi: Comedy Auteur June 21 through July 6 America first learned of Massimo Troisi (1953-1994) when he starred as the humble romantic in IL POSTINO. But this fame came after his tragically early death—and even then we saw only one of his formidable talents. Founder of a comedy troupe in Naples at the age of 17, Troisi was soon, via TV variety shows, one of the domi- nant forces in Italian humor. With his mumbled monologues, convulsing even Italian audiences unable to pene- trate his Neapolitan dialect, Troisi was the laidback opposite of his manic friend . In 1981, he I THOUGHT IT wrote, directed, and starred in his first film. Amid box office success and a slew of awards, he was launched on a WAS LOVE career as a complete auteur that would last a little over a decade. With thanks to Martin Stiglio of the Italian Cultural Institute, AFI Silver presents the complete films of a comic pioneer. ian Film Journalists’ Silver Ribbon Award for Best Screenplay. DIR Massimo Troisi; SCR Anna Pavignano. Italy, 1987, color, 84 min. In Italian with English subtitles. UNRATED GM I THOUGHT IT WAS LOVE [Pensavo fosse amore invece era un calesse] Tuesday, July 5, 6:20; Wednesday, July 6, 8:40 Looks like restaurant manager Troisi and book- seller Francesca Neri are finally going to tie the knot. But then come the mutual cold feet: she thinks he’s lazy and unfaithful, while he starts to think about all those other women in Naples. It’s civilized enough until Neri’s new love interest—Marco Messeri in a zany tour de force—arrives to make Troisi jealous, while giv- ing Neri more than she can handle. Italian Film Journalists’ Silver Ribbons for Best Actress and Best Score. DIR Massimo Troisi; SCR Massimo IL POSTINO Troisi and Anna Pavignano; PROD Gaetano Daniele. Italy, 1992, color, 113 min. In Italian G IL POSTINO [The Postman] camera. DIR Massimo Troisi and Roberto with English subtitles. UNRATED M Wednesday, June 22, 8:30; Saturday, June 25, 5:00; Benigni; SCR Massimo Troisi, Roberto Benigni Sunday, June 26, 3:15 and Giuseppe Bertolucci; PROD Mauro Berardi SORRY FOR THE DELAY and Ettore Rosboch. Italy, 1985, color, 113 min. On a small island off the coast of Italy in the In Italian with English subtitles. UNRATED GM [] early 50s, a semi-literate postman delivers the Tuesday, June 21, 8:30; Wednesday, June 22, 6:20 mail to poet-in-exile—and Nobel laureate-to- Pushing 30, Troisi is still a lay-about, mooching be—Pablo Neruda (Philippe Noiret). A labor of off his family and vicariously living through pal love for Troisi, who postponed a heart trans- Lello Arena’s tales of romantic victories and plant to complete the film, only to die the day defeats. But then he meets Lina Polito and that after production wrapped. Five Oscar nomina- darn lethargy starts to fall away. Dazzling tions—for Film, Director, Actor and Screenplay— Neapolitan locations, and Italian Film Journal- and a win for Luis Bacalov’s score. DIR Michael ists’ Silver Ribbons to Arena and Polito as Best Radford; SCR and Anna Pavig- Supporting Actors. DIR Massimo Troisi; SCR nano, Furio Scarpelli, Giacomo Scarpelli and Massimo Troisi and Anna Pavignano; PROD • TO ORDER WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER TICKETS: • Massimo Troisi, from the novel Ardiente Paciencia Mauro Berardi. Italy, 1982, color, 109 min. In by Antonio Skármeta; PROD Mario Cecchi Gori, Italian with English subtitles. UNRATED GM and Gaetano Daniele. Italy, 1994, color, 108 min. In Italian and Spanish with THE WAYS OF THE English subtitles. RATED PG GM LORD ARE LIMITED I’M STARTING FROM THREE [] NOTHING LEFT TO DO BUT CRY Tuesday, June 21, 6:20; Tuesday, June 28, 6:20 THE WAYS OF THE LORD ARE LIMITED Fed up with too much family, Neapolitan Mas- [Non ci resta che piangere] [Le Vie del Signore sono finite] simo Troisi breaks away to exotic—to him— Saturday, July 2, 12:30; Sunday, July 3, 12:30; Thursday, June 23, 6:15; Monday, June 27, 6:20 Wednesday, July 6, 6:20 Florence. The locals keep asking, is he an emi- In 1920s Italy, as psychoanalysis is becoming grant? “No, a tourist. Neapolitans travel, too.” Seeking refuge from a storm, Massimo Troisi fashionable, Troisi is a barber who turns into a But his landlady aunt has her own romantic and ’s Roberto Benigni national news story after his legs are para- problems, an Italian-American tries to involve emerge to find themselves back in 1492. After lyzed—for no apparent reason. His own doctor him in a cuckoo religious cult—and then he suggesting a few inventions to Leonardo da thinks he’s faking it for attention, while brother meets nurse Fiorenza Marchegiani. Troisi’s first Vinci and tangling with Savonarola, they decide Marco Messeri carts him off to Lourdes for a work was a smash hit, winning David di to try and thwart Columbus’ impending discov- miracle. Troisi knows it happened right after his Donatello Awards for Best Actor and Best Film. ery of America. But what’s that train doing dumping by Jo Champa—and now she’s having DIR Massimo Troisi; SCR Massimo Troisi and there? A memorable teaming of two great second thoughts. A biting sendup of modern Anna Pavignano. Italy, 1981, color, 110 min. In comedians, both in front of and behind the superstitions and of the rise of Mussolini. Ital- Italian with English subtitles. UNRATED GM 6 • TO ORDER TICK- 7 M G UNRATED M G SCARS OF WOMANHOOD UNRATED DIR/PROD/SCR Charles Novia. DIR/PROD/SCR DIR/SCR Ebere; Reginald CinemAfrica CinemAfrica to is proud AFRICA, AFI Silver xxiv/vii In partnership with highlighting the monthly showcase this regular present popular cinema. African best in contemporary Each month, CinemAfrica will present film a Nigerian film and a second anotherfrom in Africa, or from country the African dias- August titles. for Check www.AFI.com/Silver pora. HUSBAND & WIFE July 23, 5:25 Saturday, chronicles the crum- This intense ensemble piece of Segun Arinze and Bimbo Akin- bling marriage and scheming throw their infidelity tola. Jealousy, sometimes humorous, home-life into a tense, feud. One question OF THE ROSES-style WAR instigator of this remains: who is the Iago-like deadly squabble? 100 min. 2003, color, DV, Nigeria, SCARS OF WOMANHOOD July 30, 5:15 Saturday, In this acclaimed, emotional Nigerian film, Kate Hen- shaw plays a young woman who defies the tradition of her ancestors and community when she denounces the rite of “female cir- cumcision,” refus- ing to subject her- self to the practice and jeopardizing son of her pending nuptials to Sam Loco Efe, chief. the village 110 1998, color, DV, Nigeria, Ikem. John PROD min. Adult Content, and intended for a broad range of individuals M G OF EAST EDEN M G RATED G RATED RATED PG RATED DIR George Stevens; SCR Stevens; DIR George DIR Elia Kazan; SCR Paul Osborn, from the Osborn, from DIR Elia Kazan; SCR Paul NIH PRESENTS Those requiring other reasonable accommodations to participate should contact OSE at least five days five OSE at least should contact participate to accommodations other reasonable Those requiring 301.496.9706). TTY: 301.402.2470; tel: [email protected]; (email: the event prior to basis. first-serve on a first-come, of show the day office box the AFI Silver through available and are free are Tickets Free Series! Free SCIENCE IN THE CINEMA August 17 July 13 through at 7:00, Wednesdays of Health (NIH) Office of host The National Institutes This summer, AFI Silver will once again for public program, Science in the Cinema. Every (OSE) exciting Wednesday Science Education’s six weeks, a different film with a medical-science-related theme will be presented. Following will comment and participateeach screening, a guest expert in a Q&A session with the audi- Admission to the series is FREE! All films will be shown with open captions. American ence. interpreters will be available for the post-film discussions. sign-language Science in the Cinema is open to the general public lineup of films and more information on this year’s For and medicine. interested in movies, science, guest speakers, visit AFI.com/Silver or science.education.nih.gov/cinema. novel by John Steinbeck; PROD Elia Kazan. US, PROD Steinbeck; novel by John 115 min. color, scope, 1955, Brand New 35mm Print! 35mm New Brand EAST OF EDEN 12:30, 7:15; June 25, 8:45; Saturday, 4:10, June 24, Friday, 8:30; June 28, June 26, 5:30; Tuesday, Sunday, June 30, 4:00 Thursday, June 29, 4:00; Wednesday, I War as World Salinas Valley, In California’s looms, two sons battle for the love of father Ray- in his elec- The bad one is Dean, mond Massey. trifying starring debut. The real-life father trouble both he and director Elia Kazan had experienced stand reared its head on the set. Massey couldn’t Dean, and Kazan made sure Dean knew it. The resulting tension contributed to the sensitive the young star the target of that made image around the world. With hysteria bobbysoxers’ Julie Harris as the understanding girl. “Feverishly Dean seems to go just about as far as poetic... can in acting misunderstood.”—Pauline anybody Kael. money oil barons; is goaded both money oil barons; Rock rough-hewn Jett Rink and wife Eliza- by Dean’s conventions, (always ready to flout beth Taylor prejudice). Ten anti-Mexican especially Hudson’s BestOscar nominations, including Actor for both Hudson and Dean. the novel by Moffat, from Guiol and Ivan Fred and Henry Stevens George PROD Edna Ferber; color, 201 min. Ginsberg. US, 1956, GIANT

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AMES DEAN AMES Dean stalks the Texas horizon, to the thrumming Dean stalks the Texas The battle is hit pop score. of Dimitri Tiomkin’s on between old-money cattle ranchers and new- Brand New 35mm Print! New Brand GIANT 8:05 June 27, June 23, 8:00; Monday, Thursday, ”You’re tearin’ me apart!” wailed Dean to his tearin’ ”You’re apron-clad dad Jim Backus—and a generation of teens chimed in. Direc- frustrated Eisenhower-era fable of adolescent angst is tor Nicholas Ray’s a Cinemascope palette, heightened by a florid unfolds Unities—the action touch of the Tragic within 24 hours—and, in the celebrated planetar- the elevation of teen torment to a cos- ium scene, mic plane. June 25, 2:45; 6:30; Saturday, June 24, Friday, 4:00; June 27, June 26, 1:00; Monday, Sunday, June 30, 6:20 Thursday, June 28, 4:00; Tuesday, 111 color, scope, 1955, US, David Weisbart. PROD min. Brand New 35mm Print! New Brand When James Dean died in 1955 at the age of 24, Hol- 1955 at the age of 24, When James Dean died in key actor—a young its most promising lost lywood De Niro Robert from on modern performers influence image is Dean’s later, years Depp. Fifty Johnny to the until recently Yet over. the world recognized at risk. were features classic actual prints of his three is AFI Silver Bros., Warner of the efforts Thanks to happy prints of new 35mm present to Dean’s work adaptation of the Edna Stevens’ George in GIANT, REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE, featuring novel; Ferber angst released of teen Dean’s landmark portrayal OF EDEN, for his death; and EAST just a month after which a receive to ever he became the first actor films posthumous Oscar nomination. These three Dean. that is James the artist behind the icon reveal Remembered June 30 June 23 through James Dean James J HEAD PAGE ABOUT AFI DINNER AND A MOVIE SPECIAL! 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NEVER GIVE A SUCKER AN 28 JAWS Cinema Tropical LA CIENAGA 4 MEMORIES OF MURDER 23 Troisi Massimo ARE OF THE LORD THE WAYS James Dean GIANT 30 James Dean OF EDEN EAST REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE 7 Lucas George THX 1138 14 Lucas George AMERICAN GRAFFITI INDIANA JONES AND THE 18 Jim Jarmusch AND CIGARETTES COFFEE LAW BY DOWN E 8:40 6:20 6:00 5:00 6:00 8:20 4:00 8:30 6:20 9:45 Cinema: 7:00 Cinema: 7:00 Cinema: 7:00 Cinema: 7:00 Cinema: 7:00 6:20 Cinema: 7:00 GLASS OF BEER CRY 5:00 24 Myrna Loy THE THIN MAN GOES HOM Jim Jarmusch NIGHT ON EARTH 10 Myrna Loy in the NIH Science 20 Fields W.C. MY LITTLE CHICKADEE in the NIH Science 27 Fields W.C. 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UNE 21–AUGUST 25 21–AUGUST UNE INT. TRAILER NIGHT INT. Accompaniment 1:00 Accompaniment TEMPLE OF DOOM Accompaniment 1:00 Accompaniment EUROPA LIVE Accompaniment 1:00 LIVE Accompaniment 2:00 CRY NDIANA JONES AND THE JAWS OF ARABIA LAWRENCE LAWRENCE OF ARABIA LAWRENCE DEAD MAN OF ARABIA LAWRENCE ALL I DESIRE Jim Jarmusch NIGHT ON EARTH 21 Douglas Sirk PERMANENT VACATION + PERMANENT VACATION OF ARABIA LAWRENCE Douglas Sirk OBSESSION MAGNIFICENT Myrna Loy AFTER THE THIN MAN Jim Jarmusch LAWRENCE OF ARABIA LAWRENCE 7 W.C. Fields W.C. OLD MAN SO’S YOUR MEMORIES OF MURDER Cinema Tropical LA CIENAGA 31 24 Fields W.C. RUNNING WILD PORNO FILM PARTS SPARE FREEDOM + LABOR EQUALS 17 Fields W.C. IT’S THE OLD ARMY GAME Damjan Kozole 10 Lucas George ARK RAIDERS OF THE LOST I George Lucas George WARS STAR BACK THE EMPIRE STRIKES RETURN OF THE JEDI 3 Troisi Massimo DO BUT LEFT TO NOTHING REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE OF EDEN EAST Troisi Massimo IL POSTINO 26 James Dean J COFFEE OF ARABIA LAWRENCE Douglas Sirk OF LIFE IMITATION Myrna Loy OF THE THIN MAN SHADOW Jim Jarmusch 14 JUNE JULY AUGUST DAM JAN KOZOLE PORNO FILM Damjan Kozole: Slovenia’s Rising Star July 15 through July 19 In 1987, after he was rejected for a third time by the Ljubljana Film Academy, 22- year-old Damjan Kozole shot a no-budget, New Wave-influenced feature in protest: THE FATAL TELEPHONE, one of the first truly inde- pendent films in Yugoslavian history. Since then, Kozole has formed his own production company, working with a troupe of distinctive actors and setting box office records. In his films, some of the who stages mock violence to get Anzlovar and Miran Sustersic are most raffish, funky—even sordid—characters dis- material. DIR Damjan Kozole; SCR shooting their first film, a near ran- cover their own humanity. By implication, too, Damjan Kozole and Luka Novak; dom collage, on super 8mm. Then PROD Danijel Hocevar. Slovenia, they decide it needs sound. One of they deal with the emergence of Slovenia after the 1997, color, 90 min. UNRATED GM them talks on the phone every day breakup of Yugoslavia. Issues of immigration and to an unknown girl. Kozole’s debut has a sweet conclusion. DIR Dam- painful integration into Europe recur in his work, PORNO FILM Saturday, July 16, 8:20; Sunday, July 17, 2:40 jan Kozole; SCR Nebojsa Pajkic; often marked by dark humor. Thanks to the PROD Danijel Hocevar. Slovenia, Hefty brothel owner Primoz 1987, b&w, 70 min. UNRATED GM Slovenian Film Fund, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Slovenia, EMO- Petkovsek decides to make Slove- TIONFILM, and to Alissa Simon and Facets Multimedia, Chicago, for making this com- nia’s first homegrown porno film. But window-dresser Charlie (played REMINGTON plete retrospective possible. (All films in Slovenian with English titles.) by Slovenian stage director Matjaz Monday, July 18, 9:35; Tuesday, July 19, 9:10 Latin), the man chosen to oversee Kozole’s immensely assured second the project, gets caught up in his feature. With only five days to go Damjan Kozole In SPARE PARTS “artistic vision” and discovers real in prison, punk rocker (and smug- Person* With [Rezervni deli] affection—even as Roberto Mag- gler) Mario Selih breaks out and Saturday, July 16, 6:30; Sunday, July 17, 4:20 nifico’s hoods move in. Grand heads with his girlfriend for the LABOR EQUALS FREEDOM Prize, Best Actors, critics’ and audi- coast, looking to board a ship. The In Krsko—the director’s home town ence awards, Slovenian Film Festi- trouble comes when they arrive too [Delo osvobaja] and site of Slovenia’s only nuclear val. DIR/SCR Damjan Kozole; early for passage. Cop Jozef Roposa Friday, July 15, 8:30; Sunday, July 17, 6:40; power plant—Aljosa Kovacic goes to Tuesday, July 19, 7:30 PROD Danijel Hocevar. Slovenia, is on their trail—and maybe that work for an ex-speedway champ 2000, color, 80 min. UNRATED GM red Chrysler they’re driving is a lit- Europeanization stinks for machinist (Peter Musevski) helping to smuggle tle conspicuous. DIR Damjan Peter Musevski. He’s out of a job, refugees. At first he’s revolted by the Kozole; SCR Damjan Kozole and and his wife—a classy civil servant human misery. But a job’s a job, and THE FATAL TELEPHONE Nebojsa Pajkic; PROD Danijel Hoce- who’s become the family breadwin- he and the chain-smoking, cancer-be- [Usodni telefon] var. Slovenia, 1988, color, 80 min. ner—is starting to stay out late. devilled Musevski eventually become Saturday, July 16, 10:00; Tuesday, July 19, 6:00 G Even his frosty employment coun- UNRATED M friends. Kozole addresses a major Movie-buff roommates Vinci Vogue selor unloads her problems on him. social problem—in 2000, police A tragicomic slice-of-life with ter- caught 36,000 illegal immigrants at rific central performances. DIR/SCR the border—from an unusual angle. REMINGTON Damjan Kozole; PROD Danijel Slovenia’s Best Film of the Year Hocevar. Slovenia, 2005, color, 71 award. DIR/SCR Damjan Kozole; min. UNRATED GM PROD Danijel Hocevar. Slovenia, • TO ORDER WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER TICKETS: • Plus 2003, color, 87 min. UNRATED GM EUROPA STEREOTYPE Kozole’s segment from omnibus film VISIONS OF EUROPE. [Stereotip] Saturday, July 16, 4:40; Monday, July 18, 7:45 [2004, 5 MIN. UNRATED] GM Tina Gorenjak is at a SPARE PARTS turning point. About to hit 30, she looks back on a decade with Max (pop star Roberto Magnifico, who won Slovenia’s award for Best Actor), an artist who’s always about to make it big. But then Slovenia is a country of would-be artists, includ- ing Peter Musevski’s ubiquitous, lyrical cabbie and a theater director 10 W.C. FIELDS NEVER GIVE A SUCKER W.C. Fields: AN EVEN BREAK Saturday, July 16, 1:00; Thursday, July 21, 6:30 World-Class Fields at his most surreal. Diving from a plane to retrieve his whiskey bottle, he lands on man-hating Mar- Entertainer garet Dumont’s mountain top and teaches her virginal daughter a kiss- July 15 through August 2 ing game. But “He played straight man to a malevolent isn’t buying his idea for a screenplay. DIR Edward F. Cline; SCR Prescott universe which had singled him out for Chaplin and John T. Neville. US, destruction.”—Kenneth Tynan. W.C. 1941, b&w, 71 min. UNRATED GM MILLION Fields came late to films, after decades as DOLLAR LEGS Silent with Live a headliner in vaudeville and on Broad- Accompaniment by IT’S A GIFT Zukor and Jesse L. Lasky. US, 1927, way. But early on, he created a universe Ray Brubacher! b&w, 69 min. UNRATED GM uniquely his own. Henpecked and put IT’S THE OLD ARMY GAME Saturday, July 23, 1:00; Wednesday, July 27, 6:00 Sunday, July 17, 1:00 Sleep is again a problem for store- upon, he responded with sarcastic asides keeper Fields, not to mention his DAVID COPPERFIELD Small-town druggist Fields can’t get nagging wife and annoying family, Monday, July 25, 6:00; Monday, August 1, 6:00 while retaining unabashed self-esteem. • TICKETS: WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER ORDER • TO a good night’s sleep, what with all including Baby Le Roy, in their first An all-star adaptation of Dickens’s And in his later films, Fields launched a those customers, a feckless fire co-starring vehicle. But then the semi-autobiographical novel, with kind of American surrealism. Grand- brigade and a bogus land deal to lure of an orange ranch in Califor- Fields in a rare straight part as Mr. sort out. DIR Edward Sutherland; nia beckons. A talkie remake of IT’S Micawber, always waiting for daughter and Washingtonian Dr. Harriet SCR Tom J. Geraghty and J. Clark- THE OLD ARMY GAME. DIR Nor- “something to come up” as he A. Fields will appear during the series. son Miller; PROD man McLeod; SCR Jack Cunning- dodges bill collectors. DIR George and Jesse L. Lasky. US, 1926, b&w, ham; PROD William LeBaron. US, Cukor; SCR Howard Estabrook, 77 min. UNRATED GM 1934, b&w, 73 min. UNRATED GM from the novel by Charles Dickens; Plus PROD David O. Selznick. US, 1935, MY LITTLE CHICKADEE b&w, 133 min. UNRATED GM Monday, July 18, 6:00; Wednesday, July 20, THE FATAL GLASS OF BEER 6:00; Thursday, July 21, 4:45 ”It ain’t a fit night out for man nor New 35mm Print! beast.” [1933, 18 min. UNRATED] GM “If a thing’s worth having, it’s MILLION DOLLAR LEGS worth cheating for.” Irresistible Saturday, July 30, 1:00; Tuesday, August 2, 6:45 Silent with Live force meets immovable object as In the country of Klopstockia, all , drummed out of town Accompaniment by the women are called Angela, by local witch Margaret Hamilton, Ray Brubacher! everyone’s a world-class athlete fakes marriage with Fields. He’s and Fields is the Indian-wrestling Cuthbert J. Twillie, a medicine RUNNING WILD Sunday, July 24, 1:00 president. Joseph Mankiewicz, who man, sheriff and suspected Masked later wrote ALL ABOUT EVE, came Bandit who may be heading to the Milquetoast Fields gets browbeaten up with the original story. DIR gallows. Last request: “I’d like to by boss, wife, stepson and dog Edward Cline; SCR Henry Myers see Paris before I die… until a vaudeville hypnotist acci- and Nick Barrows. US, 1932, b&w, “Arguably the best dentally transforms him into a will do!” DIR Edward F. Cline; SCR 64 min. UNRATED GM comic since talkies Mae West and W.C. Fields; PROD Tarzan. Featuring Mary Brian as his Lester Cowan. US, 1940, b&w, 83 sympathetic daughter. DIR/SCR Plus came in.” min. UNRATED GM Gregory La Cava; PROD Adolph THE GOLF SPECIALIST —DAVID SHIPMAN, THE Fields sets a new record for dis- STORY OF CINEMA MY LITTLE CHICKADEE traction before that first shot. [1930, 20 min. UNRATED] GM THE BANK DICK Friday, July 15, 6:30; Saturday, July 16, 2:40; Silent with Live Thursday, July 21, 8:10 Accompaniment by “I shall repair to the bosom of my Ray Brubacher! family, a dismal place I must admit.” Fields’ archetypal Edgar SO’S YOUR OLD MAN Souse (that’s “soo-ZAY”) holds up Sunday, July 31, 1:00 the bar at the Black Pussy Cafe First his daughter’s prospective and becomes a local hero after he mother-in-law catches him with sar- accidentally foils a bank robbery. saparilla on his breath. Then, trying DIR Edward Cline; SCR Mahatma to demonstrate his unbreakable auto Kane Jeeves (Fields, of course). US, glass, he throws rocks at the wrong 1940, b&w, 74 min. UNRATED GM car. Guess it’s time for Fields to Plus end it all. But his poison vial’s bro- ken! DIR Gregory La Cava; SCR J. THE DENTIST Clarkson Miller; PROD Adolph Would you want to be Fields’ Zukor and Jesse L. Lasky. US, 1926, patient? [1932, 21 min. UNRATED] GM b&w, 71 min. UNRATED GM 11 THE THIN MAN Happy 100th, Myrna Loy! The Thin Man Returns August 5 through August 24 Adapted from a novel about retired detective Nick Charles and his heiress wife Nora solving crimes in between cocktails, THE THIN MAN helped launch the “screwball” genre in America’s greatest era of screen comedy. Five top- drawer sequels followed over a 13-year period. Blessed throughout with the screen team of and Myrna Loy, who reportedly loved acting together as much as the audience loved watching them, the series advanced the revolutionary idea, for , that marriage could be fun. It’s perfect late-summer enter- tainment and the ideal tribute to the great Loy, born August 2, 1905 and forever Nora Charles—“the perfect wife.”

Stromberg. US, 1934, b&w, 93 min. THE THIN MAN G Friday, August 5, 5:00; Saturday, August 6, 1:00; RATED APPROVED M Tuesday, August 9, 5:00; Saturday, August 13, 1:00 Nick takes a break from Christmas AFTER THE THIN MAN activities, including shooting orna- Sunday, August 7, 3:10; Monday, August 8, 6:20; ments off the tree with his new air Wednesday, August 10, 5:00 pistol (“The best present you ever After Nora’s cousin Elissa Landi is got me!” he tells Nora) to crack discovered standing over the body the case of a missing inventor—the of her no-good husband with Stromberg. US, 1936, b&w, 110 search for suspects through a actual Thin Man of the series title. smoking gun in hand, Nick is once G The killer is revealed in what was again called back from liquor- min. RATED APPROVED M whole series of jazz joints. With a to become a classic suspect soaked retirement. With a young very young Dean Stockwell as roundup. DIR W.S. Van Dyke; SCR as Landi’s most Nick, Jr., now a budding detective and Frances helpful brother. DIR W.S. Van Friday, August 12, 5:00; Sunday, August 14, 3:25; wannabe. DIR Edward Buzzell; Goodrich, from the novel by Dyke; SCR Albert Hackett and Wednesday, August 17, 5:00 SCR Steve Fisher and Nat Perrin; PROD Nat Perrin. US, 1947, b&w, Dashiell Hammett; PROD Hunt ; PROD Hunt Nick switches from martinis to 86 min. RATED APPROVED GM milk, hoping to be a good example THE THIN MAN to his eight-year-old son. But he can’t stay away from the races, SHADOW OF THE THIN MAN where a jockey’s demise gets him back to sleuthing. Among the sus- pects is ’s legendary acting teacher, Stella Adler, in a rare screen appearance. DIR W.S. Van Dyke; SCR Irving Brecher and Harry Kurnitz; PROD . US, 1941, b&w, 97 min. RATED APPROVED GM

• TO ORDER WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER TICKETS: • ANOTHER THIN MAN Monday, August 15, 6:20; Tuesday, August 16, 6:20 Munitions manufacturer C. Aubrey Smith calls on Nick for help, but soon winds up dead on a lavish family estate jam-packed with sus- pects. The first appearance of infant Nick, Jr.—during whose raucous baby party the killer is once again THE THIN MAN GOES HOME unmasked. DIR W.S. Van Dyke; Monday, August 22, 6:20; SCR Albert Hackett and Frances Wednesday, August 24, 6:20 Goodrich, from The Farewell Murder Back home in Sycamore Springs for by Dashiell Hammett; PROD Hunt a visit to Nick’s elderly parents, the Stromberg. US, 1939, b&w, 105 min. Charles team goes to work linking RATED APPROVED GM a slain local boy’s amateur paintings to a wartime espionage ring. DIR SONG OF THE THIN MAN ; SCR Robert Riskin Friday, August 19, 5:00; Tuesday, August 23, 6:20 and Dwight Taylor; PROD Everett A bandleader dies aboard a gam- Riskin. US, 1944, b&w, 100 min. bling ship and Nick and Nora RATED APPROVED GM 12 PAGEDOUGLAS HEAD SIRK

Stack, backed by parachutist wife and faithful Magnificent mechanic , flirts with flying and death. No trashy source Reflection: here: the film is adapted from ’s Pylon, which Sirk had dreamed of filming since Douglas Sirk in the 1930s. DIR Douglas Sirk; SCR William Faulkner and George Zuck- erman, from the novel by Faulkner; the 1950s PROD . US, 1958, August 6 through 23 b&w, scope, 91 min. UNRATED GM Three years ago, Todd Haynes’ MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION acclaimed FAR FROM HEAVEN brought Sunday, August 7, 1:00; Monday, August 8, 8:35 us porcelain Julianne Moore as a 1950s Brace yourself. Rock Hudson quits his reckless playboy lifestyle after a suburban housewife whose just-so boating accident fatally injures a saintly doctor and blinds the doc- coiffure and matte-red lips masked • TICKETS: WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER ORDER • TO tor’s wife, Jane Wyman. Aiming to inner agony. In part, Haynes’ film was redeem himself, Hudson enrolls in paying tribute to Douglas Sirk, the Ger- medical school to learn the surgery that could restore Wyman’s sight— man-born director whose work all the while courting the blind throughout the 1950s has become the widow under a secret identity. A box-office hit and the first pairing benchmark for screen melodrama. of an unlikely romantic duo in 30- Always a flashpoint for critics, Sirk’s year-old Hudson and 40-something PHOTOFEST COURTESY ALL PHOTOS films vibrate with weepy, over-the-top Wyman. DIR Douglas Sirk; SCR boyfriend. Amidst a flurry of fabu- novel by Ursula Parrott; PROD Robert Blees, from a novel by lous wardrobe changes, Sirk remarks . US, 1956, b&w, 84 Lloyd C. Douglas; PROD: Ross “women’s picture” style, all the while on America’s investment in racial min. UNRATED GM Hunter. US, 1954, color, 108 min. serving up subversive comments on G separateness and the sacrifice of the RATED APPROVED M dutiful woman. DIR Douglas Sirk; American conformity and materialism. ALL I DESIRE SCR Eleanore Griffen and Allan Sunday, August 21, 1:00; Monday, August 22, 8:20 To fully enjoy Sirk is to revel in the lav- WRITTEN ON THE WIND Scott from a novel by Fannie Hurst; Saturday, August 13, 5:00; PROD Ross Hunter. US, 1959, color, Barbara Stanwyck, in a role that ish color, pointed shadows, campy dia- Tuesday, August 16, 8:30 125 min. RATED APPROVED GM Sirk called a “pre-study of the logue and moralist tone. AFI presents ‘actress’ in IMITATION OF LIFE,” Sirk called this one “social criticism plays a woman who abandoned her six of Sirk’s 1950s efforts, including of the rich and the spoiled and the husband and child to pursue a American family.” A Texas oil clan archetypal classics like IMITATION OF career on stage. Ten years later she competes for the love of stable, returns home at the request of her LIFE and a few lesser-known gems. employee Rock Hudson. With daughter, who’s performing—of as the dysfunctional Don’t miss these time capsules in all of course—in a school play. Without son whose taste for the sauce is Sirk’s signature Technicolor, but their big-screen glory. fueled by his possible sterility, Lau- fraught with emotionalism and sub- ren Bacall as Stack’s long-suffering urban scandal. DIR Douglas Sirk; bride and Dorothy Malone as the SCR Robert Blees, from a novel by unforgettably over-sexed heiress to Carol Brink; PROD Ross Hunter. the family fortune. DIR Douglas US, 1953, b&w, 79 min. RATED Saturday, August 6, 4:50; Tuesday, August 9, 7:00 Sirk; SCR George Zuckerman, from IMITATION APPROVED GM In Depression-era New Orleans, a novel by Robert Wilder; PROD OF LIFE reporter Rock Hudson looks on as Albert Zugsmith. US, 1956, color, war ace and stunt pilot Robert 99 min. UNRATED GM THERE’S ALWAYS MAGNIFICENT IMITATION OF LIFE TOMORROW OBSESSION Sunday, August 14, 1:00; Monday, August 15, 8:30 Saturday, August 20, 3:30; Lana Turner is a young widow Tuesday, August 23, 8:10 chasing dreams of Broadway star- What can you say about a middle- dom while her stoic African-Ameri- aged man who makes toys? Fred can housekeeper (Juanita Moore) MacMurray plays husband and rears Turner’s daughter (Sandra Dee) father to a picturesque American alongside her very own “light- family. But as always in Sirk’s skinned” child (Susan Kohner)— world, all is not as it seems. Feel- whose desire to “pass” as white ing ignored by wife Joan Bennett leads her to move to the big city, and their children, MacMurray abandoning values and eventually takes to the companionship of old her mother. The film was a career- flame Barbara Stanwyck. Could boost for Turner, coming off her there finally be a happy ending for daughter’s high-profile trial for the couple? DIR Douglas Sirk; SCR THERE’S ALWAYS fatally stabbing the actress’ mobster Bernard C. Schoenfeld, from a TOMORROW

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Wright, Tom Waits with Iggy Pop and with herself; The Sad and Beautiful plus star Bill Murray hanging out with GHOST DOG composer RZA and his Wu World of Jim Jarmusch Tang Clan-mate GZA. DIR/SCR Jim August 5 through 25 Jarmusch; PROD Jason Kliot, Deme- tra J. MacBride, Rudd Simmons, Jim Debuting in in the fall of 1984, Jim Jarmusch’s Stark and Joana Vicente. US, 2003, helped point the way to later independent films. Jarmusch offers a minimalist style and b&w, 95 min. RATED R GM a low-key but empowering do-it-yourself aesthetic—visually sharp and relentlessly DOWN BY LAW stoic, with characters as likely to be played by a musician as an actor and laconic dia- Friday, August 12, 7:00; Saturday, August 13, 7:00; logue that crackles with bone-dry wit. Through a variety of formats (black-and-white, PERMANENT VACATION Thursday, August 18, 8:30 color, super 8mm and digital video) and gen- A postmodern Marx Brothers jail- pre-Giuliani downtown New York. break set in the Louisiana Bayou (or res (the buddy picture, screwball comedy, A bored protagonist wanders as singer/songwriter and frequent western, rockumentary and gangster film), the through a spare urban landscape Jarmusch collaborator Tom Waits populated by such oddball charac- later described it, “a Russian neo- crux of Jarmusch’s work has remained: he casts ters as a Vietnam vet, a car thief fugitive episode of THE his wry eye on a small, seedy, diverse world and Lounge Lizard , who HONEYMOONERS”). Slick pimp also provides a moody sax score. John Lurie and gravel-voiced DJ where fleeting moments of connection trump Punctuated with quirky humor, the Waits are cellmates doing time for the pervasive loneliness of life. To accompany encounters only serve to increase crimes they didn’t commit. Joining the sense of alienation, a theme up with Roberto Benigni, whose lim- the forthcoming release of BROKEN FLOWERS that will permeate Jarmusch’s ited command of English accentuates (which won the Grand Prix at Cannes in May), career. DIR/SCR/PROD Jim Jar- his frenetic gifts as a physical come- musch. US, 1980, color, 77 min. dian, they go on the lam. Robby AFI Silver presents a comprehensive look at the Müller’s high-contrast cinematogra- UNRATED GM career of an American original. Plus phy imbues the swamps with an INT. TRAILER NIGHT STRANGER THAN PARADISE MYSTERY TRAIN Actress Chloe Sevigny tries to take Friday, August 5, 7:00; Saturday, August 6, 3:00; a ten-minute break in her trailer, Thursday, August 11, 8:45 but the crew keeps knocking. DIR/SCR Jim Jarmusch; PROD slacker John Lurie and his Cecilia Kate Roque. US, 1992, b&w, dim-but-chatty sidekick, Richard 10 min. UNRATED G Edson, decide to take , M Lurie’s visiting Hungarian cousin, on a road trip to visit Aunt Lotte COFFEE & CIGARETTES in . Filmed in long takes, Saturday, August 13, 3:00; Sunday, August 14, with an apparent simplicity that 5:25; Thursday, August 18, 6:30 belies its sophisticated underpin- This omnibus collection of vignettes nings, this triptych of tales, shot by shot over the course of Jarmusch’s Tom DiCillo (who would go on to MYSTERY TRAIN Friday, August 5, 8:50; Saturday, August 6, long career features a who’s-who direct LIVING IN OBLIVION), 6:40; Thursday, August 11, 6:30 hipster cast expounding on, and employs a starkly minimalist black- indulging in, the merits of nicotine and-white urban industrial land- Jarmusch pays homage to the Mem- and caffeine. Memorable scene duos scape—contrasting with Screamin’ phis of Sun Studios, a town haunted include Roberto Benigni with Steven COFFEE AND Jay Hawkins’s over-the-top rendi- by the ubiquitous ghost of Elvis and CIGARETTES tion of I Put a Spell on You—to con- the no less important soul of Carl • TO ORDER WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER TICKETS: • vey a detached new cool for the Perkins. Screamin’ Jay Hawkins man- DOWN 1980s. Lurie also provides the origi- ages a fleabag hotel where several BY LAW nal soundtrack. DIR/SCR Jim Jar- stories intersect, including Japanese musch; PROD . US, teens on a pop culture pilgrimage 1983, b&w, 89 min. RATED R GM and a botched heist attempt by and The Clash’s late frontman, Joe Strummer. Shades of DOWN BY LAW, with Tom Waits returning to play the voice on the radio and John Lurie once again pro- viding the original score. DIR/SCR Jim Jarmusch; PROD Jim Stark. US, 1989, color, 113 min. RATED R GM PERMANENT VACATION Saturday, August 6, 8:55; Sunday August 7, 5:25; Tuesday, August 9, 8:55 Jarmusch’s rarely seen, ultra-low- STRANGER THAN PARADISE budget debut, set in the blight of

14 KOREAN THRILLER Washington Premiere Engagement MEMORIES OF MURDER [Sarineui Chueok] Friday, July 29 through Thursday, August 4 When a young woman is found strangled in a drainage ditch in 1986, the local cops’ methods alternate between comic incompe- tence and Three Stooges brutality. But when they finally haul in a battered suspect, it doesn’t stop the murders. And then a smarty- pants Seoul detective arrives to do some actual detection. Based on Korea’s first actual serial killer case, this box office smash— alternating suspense and hilarity down to its bone-chilling final scene—won Best Film, Director and Actor prizes at the Korean Film Awards, plus others from France, Spain and the Asian Film Award at the Tokyo .

DEAD • TICKETS: WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER ORDER • TO MAN DIR/SCR Bong Joon-ho; SCR Shim Seong-bo; PROD Cha Seung-jae and otherworldly quality—proof of as well as tough guy icon Robert Romeo Noh. Korea, 2003, Benigni’s observation that it’s “a sad Mitchum in his final role. Neil color, 129 min. In Korean and beautiful world.” DIR/SCR Jim Young’s haunting distorted-guitar with English subtitles. Jarmusch; PROD Alan Kleinberg. US, soundtrack and Robby Müller’s bril- UNRATED G 1986, b&w, 107 min. RATED R GM liant black-and-white photography M ensure that this is not your father’s YEAR OF THE HORSE western. DIR/SCR Jim Jarmusch; Friday, August 12, 9:10; Saturday, August 13, 9:10 PROD Demetra J. MacBride. US, 1995, b&w, 121 min. RATED R GM Working on 16mm, Super 8mm film and Hi-8 Video, Jarmusch chronicles a year on the road with Neil Young GHOST DOG: THE WAY CINEMA TROPICAL and his reunited band Crazy Horse. OF THE SAMURAI AFI Silver and Cinema Tropical Present “Made loud to be played loud”— Friday, August 19, 9:35; Saturday, August 20, the grainy texture of the footage 10:05; Thursday, August 25, 6:20 LA CIENAGA mirrors the raucous, grungy, beauti- Forest Whitaker stars in the title ful distortion of the band’s trade- role as a hitman who coldly exe- DIR/SCR Jim Jar- [The Swamp] mark sound. cutes mafia contracts, yet lives by musch; PROD L.A. Johnson. US, the samurai’s ancient code of honor. Sunday, July 24, 5:00; 1997, b&w, 106 min. RATED R G M The tables turn when his former Monday, July 25, 8:30; bosses put out a hit on him. Highly stylized violence fuses this collision Thursday, July 28, 7:00 of Eastern and Western cultures, An unusually atmospheric while the original score by Wu exercise in hyperrealism, Tang Clan’s RZA adds “street cred.” writer/director Lucrecia DIR/SCR Jim Jarmusch; PROD Jim Martel’s assured debut Jarmusch and Richard Guay. US, merits comparison to the 1999, color, 116 min. RATED R GM work of Luchino Visconti and Luis Buñuel. February in northeast Argentina: the dog days NIGHT ON EARTH of summer. Mecha and Gregorio are vacationing at their once- Saturday, August 20, 1:00; Sunday, August 21, glorious estate—like their marriage, now a rotting wreck. As GHOST DOG 2:40; Wednesday, August 24, 8:20 Five stories in five taxis in five they drink the days away around a stagnant swimming pool, cities, all taking place simultane- their four teenagers run roughshod through the surrounding Archival Print! ously. Jarmusch’s formal exercise— jungle. Mecha’s cousin arrives with yet more children in tow, DEAD MAN which far pre-dates the TV series and tries to keep the family from slipping into dissolution. But Friday, August 19, 7:10; Saturday, August 20, 7:40; TAXICAB CONFESSIONS—segues the stupefying heat lays everyone in this extended clan low. Sunday, August 21, 5:10; Thursday, August 25, 8:40 from Los Angeles at twilight to Official Selection, 2001 Berlin Film Festival; awards for Best Helsinki at dawn, stopping along Film, Director and Actress (), 2001 Havana Film A weird, gritty trip into America’s the way in New York, Paris and past that divided critics. Johnny . With limited camera set- Festival. DIR/SCR Lucrecia Martel; PROD Lita Stantic. Depp stars as mild-mannered ups, the sequences feature charac- Argentina, 2001, color, 103 min. In Spanish with English subti- William Blake (an accountant, not ters at a turning point, the stellar tles. RATED R. GM the poet) headed west on a job, and cast including Gena Rowlands, Gary Farmer is his American Indian Winona Ryder, Armin Mueller- guide, Nobody. Wounded in an Stahl, Giancarlo Esposito, Rosie altercation, Depp turns into an out- Perez and Roberto Benigni. Cinema Tropical is a non-profit organization that promotes, law—and a killer. There’s also a pair DIR/SCR/PROD Jim Jarmusch. US, programs and distributes Latin American cinema in the United of marshalls named Lee and Marvin, 1991, color, 129 min. RATED R GM States. For more information, visit www.cinematropical.com. 15 INSIDEPAGE HEAD THIS ISSUE

Massimo Troisi’s NOTHING LEFT TO DO BUT CRY page 6

Douglas Sirk’s WRITTEN ON THE WIND page 13 COURTESY PHOTOFEST COURTESY

James Dean in REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE page 7 Washington Premiere Engagement MEMORIES OF MURDER page 15

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