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2 Madrid in the Movies July 6 through September 5 4 Totally Awesome! of the The culture, architecture and personality of Madrid figure FREE SCREENINGS! NIH Science in prominently in films from , 7 just as is a recurring the Cinema character in French cinema. As appreciation for Spanish and 8 AFI Life Achievement Award: Spanish-language cinema grows A Tribute to in the US, it’s time for a look at an outstanding series of films set in and starring Madrid—cine- 9 PROGRAM THE SILVER Contest matic tourism at its best. Winner The series features a host of t s e renowned Spanish directors, f o t o h P

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too-rarely-seen masters such as u o , Luis García c WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN 12 50 Years of Janus Films, Part II Berlanga and . Recent Spanish cinema is repre- WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A spans 17 years, from the time Otto and Ana sented by the lyrical Julio 14 What is AFI Silver, HOW DO I JOIN? NERVOUS BREAKDOWN [MUJERES AL meet as elementary school children in Medem and enfant terrible Álex Madrid to their unlikely reunion in the wilds de la Iglesia. BORDE DE UN ATAQUE DE NERVIOS] of northern Finland. The lyrical, circular 15 Repertory Calendar—Full Schedule Saturday, July 7, 8:30 ORGANIZED AND PRESENTED BY: narrative blends comedy and tragedy with at www.AFI.com/Silver A landmark for Almodóvar, a defini- near encounters and uncanny coincidences, LAWRENCE OF ARABIA in 70mm! tive film of the 1980s and a worldwide hit, anchored by particularly strong performanc- receiving Five (including es by the two enchanting leads. DIR/SCR Best Film), an Oscar nomination, and the Julio Medem; PROD Fernando Bovaira 16 Harry Potter and the Silver Screen SPONSORED AND CO-ORGANIZED BY: Audience Award from the Film and Enrique López Lavigne. Festival. Dumped by her cad lover, soap Spain/, 1998, color, 112 min. LOOK FOR THE actress considers suicide RATED R AFI member passes accepted for designated by barbituate-laced gazpacho. But she gets screenings. To find out how to become a comically distracted by a series of guests member of AFI, see page 14. and the search for the perfect pair of shoes. DIR/SCR/PROD Pedro Almodóvar. Spain, 1988, color, 90 min. AFI PREVIEW is published by the American RATED R Film Institute. Editorial Offices GENEROUS SUPPORT PROVIDED BY: Silver Theatre and Cultural Center Solaz Osborne

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c Monday, July 9, 9:30 AND WARNER BROS ENTERTAINMENT On the cover: FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH ESPAÑA. THE LOVERS FROM THE NORTH POLE Set around the first gay wedding in Spain, photo courtesy of Universal Studios All films in Spanish with English subtitles QUEENS is a touching and contemporary unless otherwise noted. Check THE LOVERS FROM THE NORTH POLE Editor: Caroline Small ensemble comedy. As five very different but Production Manager: Marie Figueredo www.AFI.com/Silver for information on panel discussions and other special [LOS AMANTES DE CÍRCULO POLAR] Design: Anna Joyce, Post- Media, Inc. headstrong women (, programs accompanying the films as it Saturday, July 7, 3:00 Information is correct at press time. Films and becomes available. Veronica Forque, Carmen Maura, Mercedes schedule subject to change. Nominated for four Goyas and the Venice AFI member passes will be Sampietro and Betiana Blum) prepare for the Check www.AFI.com/Silver for updates. accepted at all screenings in the Film Festival’s , this love story marriages of their sons, they deal with their Madrid in the Movies Series. See next page 2 n TICKETS & FULL SCHEDULE at WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER MADRID IN THE MOVIES own desires, prejudices and histories. Sex, anger, big- WELCOME MR. [MUERTE DE UN CICLISTA] otry and love hilariously clash in this ultimate wed- MARSHALL Saturday, September 1, 1:30; Monday, September 3, 1:00; ding film about the strength of love and the impor- [BIENVENIDO MR. Wednesday, September 5, 9:15 tance of family. (Note from AFI FEST.) DIR Manuel When this film received the International Gómez Pereira; SCR Yolanda García Serrano and MARSHALL] Critics Award at Cannes, director Juan Monday, July 16, 6:00;

Joaquín Oristrell. Spain, 2005, color, 107 min. t Antonio Bardem was unable to accept the s e , July 17, 6:00 f o t o

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Winner of the y s e t prison sentences meted out by Francisco Franco’s r u o International prize at c regime. His scathing social criticism contrasts an affluent [EL DÍA DE LA BESTIA] Cannes, this surreal WELCOME MR. MARSHALL adulterous couple with Tuesday, July 10, 9:30 comedy is considered a watershed in Spanish cinema— the poor bicyclist they One of the highest-grossing films in Spain’s history, THE and remarkably audacious for a film made under strike with their car. DAY OF THE BEAST won six Goyas, including Best Franco’s repressive regime. Misinterpreted initially as Realizing that the Director and Best New Actor. In this high-octane cult clas- anti-American, it is actually a biting and dark satire of the cyclist is badly injured, s m l sic blending comedy, action and supernatural thriller, a Spanish government’s subservience to larger countries i F

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will be born on Christmas Day in Madrid in 1999. The o ing their affair. Upon c natured lampooning of American and Spanish stereotypes only people that believe him are a heavy metal enthusiast their return to Madrid, DEATH OF A CYCLIST mixed in. DIR Luis García Berlanga; SCR J.A. and a TV psychic. DIR/SCR Álex de la Iglesia; SCR guilt grabs them with more tragic consequences. Bardem, L.G. Berlanga, Miguel Mihura. Spain, 1953, Jorge Guerricaechevarría; PROD Claudia Gaeta, DIR/SCR , based on the story b&w, 95 min. NOT RATED André Vincente Gómez and Antonio Saura. by Luis Fernando de Igoa; PROD Georges de Spain/Italy, 1995, color, 99 min. RATED R THE BEEHIVE [LA COLMENA] Beauregard and Manuel J. Goyanes. Spain/Italy, 1955, b&w, 88 min. NOT RATED Sunday, July 22, 6:10; Monday, July 23, 7:00 ÓPERA PRIMA Winner of the at the Berlin International Saturday, July 7, 5:30 Film Festival, this film shows Madrid at its most poverty- Academy Award-winning director Fernando Trueba stricken in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War. Based puts an Iberian spin on the "disaffected young man" on an immensely popular novel, the story centers on a character made popular by the French New Wave. group of villagers who meet in a café to discuss the emo- Recently divorced, opinionated 20-something journalist tional fallout of the conflict. DIR ; Matias begins an affair with his cousin after meeting SCR/PROD José Luis Dibildos, based on the novel by her again on the subway. Full of wry humor, the film's Camilio José Cela. Spain, 1982, color, 105 min. NOT

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SCR Óscar Ladoire; PROD and u o Sunday, July 29, 5:10; Monday, July 30, 7:00 c José Esteban Lasala. Spain/France, 1980, color, 94 CRIA CUERVOS min. NOT RATED When the coveted critics prize at the went to this searing black comedy, Berlanga’s place in CRIA CUERVOS international cinema histo- , August 31, 3:15; Sunday, September 2, 1:15; Monday, THE HOOLIGANS [LOS GOLFOS] September 3, 3:00; Wednesday, September 5, 7:00 Saturday, July 7, 1:00; Sunday, July 8, 7:30 ry was secured. Arguably the director’s finest film, Winner of the Grand Jury Award at Cannes, Director Carlos Saura’s first feature film used almost the plot centers on a hand- this acclaimed international hit by renowned exclusively non-professional actors and marked a true some but romantically father of Spanish modern cinema Carlos t s e

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TICKETS & FULL SCHEDULE at WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER n 3 Viisiit www..ontaponlliine..com and www..947thegllobe..com to wiin passes!! July 6 through September 6 What did the 1980s mean for came the American independent Sponsored by OnTap Magazine movies? The answer would film movement, and with it new and 94.7 The Globe. include prestigious titles like REDS, perspectives on film and filmmak- , GANDHI and ing, while the major studios dis- OUT OF AFRICA—Oscar winners covered that a flop on release all. But some of the most influen- could be reborn as a cult classic tial films of the 1980s came from in the new frontiers of cable TV semi-disreputable teen genres like and home video. horror films, music films, and that This diverse selection of films signature genre of the 1980s, sex attempts to capture the zeitgeist of AFI member passes will be accepted comedies, where many future that era, one that seems in some at all screenings in the Totally stars made their earliest appear- ways distant, in others like it Awesome! Films of the ‘80s Series. ances. Up from the underground never really went away. VALLEY GIRL the splatter-fest movies. Less a Sunday, July 8, 1:00; Thursday, July 12, 9:00 sequel to the original than a bigger-budget It originated as a low-budget cash-in to , EVIL DEAD 2: DEAD BY DAWN the enormously successful FAST TIMES takes the premise of Raimi’s original zombie AT RIDGEMONT HIGH, but VALLEY film to such outlandish extremes that it was GIRL’s genuine charm, perverse period threatened with an X rating. Even toned flavor, and breakout performance by down to R level, the slapstick gore—The ensured its enduring cult Three Stooges by way of George Romero status. Can downtown punk Cage find and Herschell Gordon Lewis—delivers a love with “truly dazzling” valley girl wallop that justifies its well-earned cult rep- Deborah Foreman? Will there be a big utation. DIR/SCR ; SCR Scott finale at the prom? Like, ohmigod, totally, Spiegel; PROD Robert G. Tapert. US, fer sure. DIR ; 1987, color, 85 min. RATED R SCR/PROD Wayne Crawford and Andrew Lane. US, 1983, color, 99 min. RATED R

FRIDAY THE 13TH Friday, July 13, 10:00, 12:00 midnight The quintessential 1980s slasher flick, t s e f o t o t h

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FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH t r u o 25th Anniversary! genre and gave one of his c earliest roles. DIR/PROD Sean S. PURPLE RAIN FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH Cunningham; SCR Victor Miller; PURPLE RAIN Friday, July 6, 9:15; Saturday, July 7, 10:30; Sunday, July 8, 9:30; Thursday, July 12, 7:00 PROD Alvin Geiler and Steven Miner. Friday, July 27, 9:10; Tuesday, July 31, 9:10; AFI alumna ’s quintessential 1980s teen sex comedy, hugely popular US, 1980, color, 95 min. RATED R Thursday, August 2, 7:00 upon release, and an influence on every teen movie since. Sex, drugs and rock’n’roll, Fueled by one of the best soundtracks of the as good girl follows friend ’s bad advice about 20th Anniversary! decade, Prince is mesmerizing as he struts, boys; her brother loses his girlfriend, his fast-food and his dignity EVIL DEAD 2: DEAD BY DAWN pouts and flaunts his extraordinary musical in comically quick succession; and stoner surfer dude lights up every chops in this semi-autobiographical tale. scene he’s in, displaying real comic genius. The outstanding cast includes early per- Friday, July 20, 12:00 midnight; Saturday, July 21, 12:00 midnight Amid a crumbling home life and some seri- formances by , , and “Nicolas ous band drama, “the kid” meets the new Before directing the blockbuster SPIDER- Coppola”—now Nicolas Cage. DIR Amy Heckerling; SCR ; starry-eyed beauty in town, the buxom PROD Irving Azoff and Linson. US, 1982, color, 90 min. RATED R MAN franchise, Sam Raimi cut his teeth on Apollonia. Enter the scene-stealing Morris See next page 4 n TICKETS & FULL SCHEDULE at WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER | SPECIAL EVENTS AND CONTESTS! www.AFI.com/Silver Viisiit www..ontaponlliine..com and www..947thegllobe..com to wiin passes!!

Day intent on wooing her—and Prince’s musical stardom—away. With blowout music and energy, and Prince in his unparalleled prime. DIR/SCR Albert Magnoli; SCR ; PROD Robert Cavallo, Steven Fargoli and Joseph Ruffalo. US, 1984, color, 111 t

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u REPO MAN o 11:30; Wednesday, August 1, 10:20; Thursday, c parade down Dearborn Street and catch August 2, 9:20 Friday, August 3, 10:45; Saturday, August 4, SAY ANYTHING 10:45; Thursday, August 9, 9:10 a game at Wrigley Field. DIR/SCR/ “These go to 11.” Christopher Guest’s PROD John Hughes; PROD Tom uproarious spoof of heavy metal music, SAY ANYTHING One of the key underground zeitgeist films of the 1980s, Alex Cox’s cult classic boasts Jacobson. US, 1986, color, 102 min. artistic vanity, lower-rung celebrity and Friday, August 3, 8:30; Saturday, August 4, 8:30; Thursday, August 9, 7:00 a scorching soundtrack including , RATED PG-13 music docs themselves launched Guest The iconic ’80s romantic comedy that Black Flag, and Suicidal Tendencies. and company on their careers as mocku- ensured John Cusack’s place as the ulti- Disaffected "white suburban punk" Emilio mentarians (and sometime musicians). THE mate geek crush. Cusack is a recent high Estevez finds his calling repossessing autos One of the funniest movies ever made, a Friday, August 10, 11:30; Saturday, August 11, school graduate with little plan for the in the seedier parts of LA, apprenticed to 10:00 stalwart of the midnight movie and col- future (“I don’t want to sell anything, buy coke-snorting repo man Harry Dean “I’ll be back.” The first of the classic lege circuit through the 1980s and ’90s, anything or process anything as a Stanton. He's on the lookout for a mysteri- series and ’s and one with far-reaching influence— career.”) except for getting pretty class ous 1964 Chevy Malibu with a $25K career-defining role. A cyborg is sent Ricky Gervais frequently acknowledges valedictorian Ione Skye to be his girl. To bounty, but so are Estevez’s evil punk from the future to kill , its influence on his own groundbreaking the surprise of everyone, including Skye’s (led by ), rival repo out- mother-to-be of the leader of the resist- TV hit THE OFFICE. DIR/SCR Rob overprotective father , the fit the Rodriguez brothers and the FBI. Oh, ance against Skynet, a supercomputer Reiner; SCR Christopher Guest, two begin an intense relationship that and don’t look in the trunk... DIR/SCR threatens to crumble when Mahoney gets Michael McKean and ; Alex Cox; PROD Peter McCarthy and that waged war against and nearly involved. DIR/SCR Cameron Crowe; PROD Karen Murphy. US, 1984, color, Jonathan Wacks. US, 1984, color, 92 destroyed the human race. In a race PROD Polly Platt. US, 1989, color, 100 82 min. RATED R min. RATED R against time, the flesh and blood min. RATED PG-13 Michael Biehn is also dispatched as her See next page SPECIAL EVENTS AND CONTESTS! www.AFI.com/Silver | TICKETS & FULL SCHEDULE at WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER n 5 Viisiit www..ontaponlliine..com and www..947thegllobe..com to wiin passes!! t s e f o t o h P

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y s e t r u o c COMING TO AMERICA PRETTY IN PINK W.D. Richter; PROD Larry J. Franco. US, 1986, color, 99 min. In English friend holds her together absurdist view of everyday life under a and Cantonese with English subtitles. while he secretly pines for her. James shadowy but painfully inept Big Brother. RATED PG-13 Spader rounds things out as McCarthy’s and star. snobby creep of a best friend. DIR DIR/SCR ; SCR Tom Howard Deutch; SCR John Hughes; Stoppard and Charles McKeown; COMING TO AMERICA PROD Lauren Shuler and Jane PROD Arnon Milchan. UK, 1985, Friday, August 24, 4:00; Saturday, August 25, 12:30; Monday, August 28, 4:20, 7:00; Tuesday, Vickerilla. US, 1986, color, 96 min. color, 131 min. RATED R August 28, 4:20; Wednesday, August 29, 4:20, RATED PG-13 9:20; Thursday, August 30, 4:20 Oscar nominations for Costume Design t s e f and Makeup, with standout comic per- o BRAZIL t o h P

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Harlan Ellison. DIR/SCR James direction nomination. Gilliam’s magnifi- c Cameron; SCR/PROD Gale Anne cently imaginative vision of a totalitarian Humorist Art Buchwald sued success- BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA Hurd. US, 1984, color, 108 min. future is both funny and shocking in its fully for a story credit. DIR John RATED R BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA Landis; SCR David Sheffield, Barry Saturday, August 18, 8:40; Sunday, August 19, W. Blaustein; PROD Robert D. PRETTY IN PINK 12:40; Thursday, August 23, 9:30 Wachs, George Folsey Jr. US, 1988, Sunday, August 12, 3:05; Thursday, August 16, Years before Quentin Tarrantino’s KILL color, 116 min. RATED R 9:10 BILL, John Carpenter brought us the The classic flick with the role East-meets-West action-adventure mish- that Molly Ringwald cites as one of her mash of BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE Friday, August 24, 10:00; Sunday, August 26, favorites. Her out-of-step art-school girl CHINA. Hugely entertaining and 5:20; Thursday, August 30, 9:45 from the wrong side of the tracks har- arguably Carpenter’s greatest film, the Director (a guest at last bors a major fascination with handsome movie flopped on release but became a year’s SILVERDOCS) conveys a cult hit on cable and video. Carpenter detached new cool for the 1980s in this t s

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y s e t BLUE VELVET PORKY’S r u o c STRANGER THAN PARADISE BLUE VELVET , whose tastes run to Pabst in 1982 just had to see this raunchy come- Blue Ribbon, nitrous oxide and Roy dy for themselves. The 1950s-era sexual Screamin’ Jay Hawkins’s I Put a Spell On Friday, August 31, 7:15; Saturday, September 1, Orbison. DIR/SCR ; shenanigans of the boys of Angel Beach You—belies the film’s sophisticated 7:15; Monday, September 3, 9:00; Tuesday, September 4, 8:45; Thursday, September 6, 8:45 PROD Fred Caruso. US, 1986, color, High may be crude, but Bob Clark’s script underpinnings. Lead actor , David Lynch’s signature film earned him 120 min. RATED R also includes a refreshing call for toler- founder of the experimental fusion his second Oscar nomination for Best ance. (The late director would make his band , also provided Director. “It’s a strange world,” says Kyle 25th Anniversary! most enduring mark a year later with A the original score. DIR/SCR Jim MacLachlan, a nice young man who finds CHRISTMAS STORY). Look for a young Jarmusch; PROD . PORKY’S a severed human ear in a grassy meadow. Kim Cattrall as “Honeywell.” DIR/SCR/- US/Germany, 1984, b&w, 89 min. In Friday, August 31, 9:45; Saturday, September 1, His obsession with it leads him into the 9:45 PROD Bob Clark; PROD Don English and Hungarian with English lives of night club singer Isabella Carmody. US/Canada, 1982, color, 94 subtitles. RATED R The most sneaked-into movie ever? Critics Rosellini and her sadistic blackmailer disapproved and parents forbad it, but teens min. RATED R NIH SCIENCE IN THE CINEMA FREE SCREENINGS July 11 through August 15

This , AFI Silver once again hosts the Science in the Cinema is open to the general pub- interpreters will be available for the post-film National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of lic and intended for a broad range of individuals discussions. Those requiring reasonable Science Education’s (OSE) exciting public program. interested in movies, science and medicine. For accommodations to participate should contact Science in the Cinema offers a different film with a more information on this year’s lineup of films OSE at least five days prior to the event (e-mail: medical/science-related theme every Wednesday and guest speakers, visit AFI.com/Silver or [email protected]; tel: 301.402.2470; TTY: for six weeks. Screenings feature an audience www.science.education.nih.gov/cinema. All films 301.496.9706.) Tickets are available through Q&A session with a guest expert following each will be shown with open captions for the deaf and the AFI Silver box office the day of the show on screening. Admission to the series is FREE! hard of hearing and American Sign Language a first-come, first-served basis.

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SCARFACE Friday, July 13, 6:45; Saturday, July 14, 10:00 Saturday, July 14, 5:15; Sunday, July 15, 3:20 “Say hello to my lit- “Attica! Attica!” Based on a real-life incident, director Sidney tle friend!” Pacino’s Lumet’s classic earned six Oscar nominations, winning for over-the-top, crazed AFI Conservatory Artistic Director ’s screen- and utterly magnetic play. As scorching day unravels into night in Gotham, inces- performance in sant television coverage of Pacino’s botched bank robbery ’s gives him 15 minutes of fame and makes him a surprise folk epic of the 1980s hero—but the real surprise lies in his motive for the heist. t s e

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Pacino’s career-defining roles in this y testify for the headrolling s by US audiences. Pacino and co-star had e t r u o tribute retrospective. Please join in Knapp Commission made c remarkable freedom in developing their characters, aimless honoring this cinematic icon. him a target among his corrupt fellow officers. DIR Sidney drifters and dreamers whose friendship falls victim to AFI member passes will be accepted Lumet; SCR and , based on the intruding reality. Hackman has called this his favorite role. at all screenings in the Al Pacino book by Peter Maas; PROD Martin Bregman. Italy/US, DIR Jerry Schatzberg; SCR Gary Michael White; Series. 1973, color, 129 min. In English, Spanish and Italian with PROD Robert M. Sherman. US, 1973, color, 112 min. English subtitles. RATED R RATED R.

8 n TICKETS & FULL SCHEDULE at WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER AFI LIFE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: A TRIBUTE TO AL PACINO

THE INSIDER Friday, August 3, 3:00; Saturday, August 4, 3:30; Monday, August 6, 3:45; Tuesday, August 7, 3:45; Wednesday, August 8, 3:45; Thursday, August 9, 3:45 Nominated for seven Academy Awards including Best Director and Best Picture. Pacino leads Mann’s adapta- tion of this true story of journalistic ethics and corpo- rate secrecy. A producer goes head-to- head with senior correspondent () and network brass when they quash an interview with fired whistle-blowing tobacco company scientist . DIR/SCR/PROD ; SCR ; PROD Pieter Jan Brugge. US, 1999, color, 157 min. In English, Japanese and Arabic with English subtitles. RATED R

DONNIE BRASCO Friday, August 10, 4:20; Saturday, August 11, 3:05; Monday, August 13, 4:20; Tuesday, August 14, 4:20, 9:00; Wednesday, August 15, 4:20; Thursday, August 16, 4:20 Pacino plays against type as a low-level Mafioso who befriends ’s undercover FBI agent. The t s

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repertoire of underworld characters: vulnerable, sad o c and movingly human. DIR ; SCR Paul THE GODFATHER Attanasio, based on the book by Joseph D. Pistone THE GODFATHER Corleone. The don and Richard Woodley; PROD Louis DiGiamimo, Friday, August 24, 6:30; Saturday, August 25, 6:00; Tuesday, establishes his Mark Johnson, and Gail Mutrux. August 28, 7:00 family’s place in US, 1997, color, 127 min. RATED R With 11 Oscar nominations, including Supporting Actor the rough-and-tum- for Pacino, and and wins for ble immigrant HEAT Best Picture, and Actor—for the iconic ghetto of old New Friday, August 17, 7:00; Monday, August 20, 7:00; Wednesday, Brando—Francis Ford Coppola’s darkly sympathetic York through a mix August 22, 7:00 family drama transformed the way we think about the of savagery and icons Pacino and De Niro onscreen togeth- Mafia and made Pacino a star. Coppola’s cinematic smarts. The er for the first time in this highly intelligent and sus- vision is in full flower, from the inspired casting of Corleones’ rise is penseful thriller from Oscar-nominated director Brando and Pacino to the deep hues of ’s eloquently crosscut Michael Mann (LAST OF THE MOHICANS, ALI). and the moving score by . with their fall, as Pacino’s seasoned LA detective is obsessed with track- DIR/SCR Francis Ford Coppola; SCR , new don Pacino ing master De Niro who wants to make one last based on his novel; PROD Albert S. Ruddy. US, 1972, weathers crushing score before retirement. Mann weaves their two stories color, 175 min. In English, Italian and Latin with setbacks and famil- together, setting the noisy action of pursuit against the English subtitles. RATED R ial disintegration. t s e quiet humanity of the moment, when detective meets f o

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THE GODFATHER: PART II e t r u o PROD . US, 1995, color, 188 min. In Saturday, September 1, 3:30; Sunday, September 2, 3:30; Monday, Coppola; SCR c English and Spanish with English subti- September 3, 5:15 Mario Puzo, THE GODFATHER, PART II tles. RATED R Eleven Oscar nominations and six wins, including based on his novel. US, 1974, color, 200 min. In Best Picture, Director, Screenplay and Supporting English, Italian and Latin with English subtitles. HEAT is PROGRAM THE SILVER winner John Albers’ s pick. See page 14 for details. Actor for Robert De Niro as the young Don Vito RATED R

TICKETS & FULL SCHEDULE at WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER n 9 JOHN HUSTON: AMERICAN MAVERICK THE MALTESE FALCON Friday, July 6, 2:15, 7:00; Sunday, July 8, 3;00; Monday, July 9, 2:15; Tuesday, July 10, 2:15; Thursday, July 12, 2:15 Huston’s astonishing debut was nominated for three Academy Awards, including a nomination for himself for Best Screenplay, and helped define the genre of . ’s hard-boiled private eye ’s life is turned upside down when femme fatale walks through his door. When Bogart’s partner is murdered hours t s e

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c Greenstreet—with more double crosses and betrayals than you can shake an elusive jewel-encrusted falcon at. DIR/SCR July 6 through John Huston, based on the novel by . US, September 6 1941, b&w, 101 min. NOT RATED Prize fighter, artist, ex-pat, actor, big-game hunter, Academy THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE Award–winning director and Friday, July 6, 4:20; Sunday, July 8, 5:00; Tuesday, July 10, 4:20, 7:00; screenwriter and recipient of the Wednesday, July 11, 4:20; Thursday, July 12, 4:20 THE MALTESE FALCON 21st AFI Life Achievement award Huston directs his father Walter to Oscar gold for Best John Huston was one of the most Supporting Actor, nabbing Best Screenplay and Best Direction starts to go wrong. DIR/SCR John Huston; SCR , colorful, bankable and brilliant honors for himself. This treasure-hunting classic finds Walter based on the novel by W.R. Burnett; PROD Arthur Hornblow directors in Hollywood history. Huston, , Jr. US, 1950, b&w, 112 min. In English and German with His five decades–long legacy and Humphrey English subtitles. NOT RATED spans gritty noir (THE MALTESE Bogart obsessively FALCON) and poetic allegory pursuing gold in (). He propelled . TREASURE Friday, July 13, 4:40; Saturday, July 14, 3:10; Thursday, July 19, 1:00 Humphrey Bogart into stardom is that rare combina- won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role with THE TREASURE OF THE SIER- tion of action-adven- as the faded, alcoholic torch singer girlfriend of Edward G. RA MADRE, KEY LARGO and THE ture and astute char-

t Robinson, a holding war vet Humphrey Bogart and the s e AFRICAN QUEEN. He acted, most acter study: greed and f o t o h

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Noah Cross in CHINATOWN. c Friends with ture performance as THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE to blow in. DIR/SCR John Huston; SCR , and , his screenwrit- the volatile and mur- based on the play by ; PROD . ing was never less than consum- derous prospector, Fred C. Dobbs. DIR/SCR John Huston, US, 1948, b&w, 100 min. NOT RATED mately literate, whether adapting based on the novel by B. Traven; PROD Henry Blanke. US, literature like Rudyard Kipling’s 1948, b&w, 126 min. In English and Spanish with English HEAVEN KNOWS, MR. ALLISON The Man Who Would Be King or subtitles. NOT RATED Friday, July 27, 4:45; Saturday, July 28, 3:00; Monday, July 30, 2:45; Tuesday, like W.R. Burnett’s July 31, 4:45; Wednesday, August 1, 2:15; Thursday, August 2, 4:45 Asphalt Jungle. He is the only per- Oscar nominations for and co-scripters Huston son to direct both his father and Friday, July 13, 2:30; Saturday, July 14, 7:45; Thursday, July 19, 3:00 and . Salty marine and nun his daughter in Oscar-winning The ultimate and the template for all that came after— Kerr are marooned on a small Pacific island during World War roles. from the assembly of the team to the painstakingly chronicled II, battling each other until they have to put their heads togeth- AFI presents a retrospective of break-in to the tell-tale slip up. Huston’s expertly orchestrated er to outwit an expedition of Japanese soldiers. The pairing of some of Huston’s most beloved urban crime story is one of the rare film noirs to attract Oscar Kerr and Mitchum—the Scottish beauty’s favorite leading films. recognition, garnering four nominations. Crooked lawyer Louis man—produced terrific screen chemistry. DIR/SCR John Calhern, desperate to keep nubile mistress , Huston; SCR John Lee Mahin, based on the novel by AFI member passes will be employs just-out-of-jail and small timers Anthony Charles Shaw; PROD and Eugene Frenke. accepted at all screenings in Caruso, and for a big score. US, 1957, color, 108 min. In English and Japanese with the John Huston Series. Everything goes right the break-in—until everything English subtitles. NOT RATED

10 n TICKETS & FULL SCHEDULE at WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER JOHN HUSTON: AMERICAN MAVERICK , who smolders as an alcoholic minister eking out a living as a tour guide in Mexico after being defrocked due to impropriety with a young woman. DIR/SCR John Huston; SCR , based on the play by ; PROD John Huston, . US, 1964, b&w, 125 min. In English and Spanish with English subtitles. NOT RATED

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P Based on James injured rodeo rider and widowed f o

y s e t WWII . Miller’s densely metaphorical r Joyce’s classic u o c and ahead-of-its-time screenplay was penned as an hom- FAT CITY novella, this was age to his wife Monroe, but the marriage disintegrated Huston’s last film before the film began shooting. DIR John Huston; SCR FAT CITY before his 1987 Saturday, August 11, 1:00; Sunday, August 12, 1:00; Monday,

death from emphy- t Arthur Miller; PROD Frank E. Taylor. US, 1961, s e f

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penned the adapted u o tal and fiercely underrated tale of two boxers slugging screenplay, and c their way through a down-and-out amateur boxing cir- THE DEAD Saturday, August 4, 1:00; Monday, August 6, 7:00 daughter Angelica cuit for chump change. Iconoclastic actress Susan is directed to perfection in a quiet but powerful perfor- Huston’s Academy Award–winning adaptation of Tyrell’s portrayal of a feisty barfly brought her a Best Tennessee Williams’s Tony Award–winning play mance in this poetic meditation on the transience of Supporting Actress nomination. DIR/PROD John memory, lost love and death. DIR John Huston; SCR received three Oscar nominations—Art Direction, Huston; SCR Leonard Gardner, based on his Cinematography, and Best Supporting Actress for Tony Huston; based on the novella by ; novel; PROD Ray Stark. US, 1972, color, 100 min. —in addition to a Best Costume win. The PROD Wiseland Schulz-Keil and Chris Sievernich. RATED PG all-star cast includes , Deborah Kerr and UK/Ireland/US, 1987, color, 83 min. RATED PG

TICKETS & FULL SCHEDULE at WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER n 11 50 YEARS OF JANUS FILMS, PART II

July 22 through "American film culture without Janus Films is unthinkable." September 5 —KENT JONES, FILM SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER The classic distribution “Arguably one of the great Italian company Janus Films brought films of the , it cries out for to America many of the rediscovery.” greatest movies ever made —FILM CRITIC by the now legendary directors who defined THE ORGANIZER (I COMPAGNI) European cinema, Sunday, July 22, 1:15; Tuesday, July 24, 7:00; including François Truffaut, Thursday, July 26, 7:00 Luis Buñuel, Agnes Varda Nominated for an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay, this film gives Marcello and . One Mastroianni one of his best roles, as a late half-century later, the name 19th-century labor leader orchestrating a Janus Films is synonymous strike at a Turin textile plant. With an with the groundbreaking exquisite handling of period, the film had a foreign language films it sizable impact when it came out in 1963, championed. This retrospec- though it’s been curiously neglected ever tive celebrating the 50th since. DIR ; SCR anniversary of Janus Films Agenore Incrocci, Mario Monicelli, Furio JULES AND JIM premiered as a sidebar Scarpelli; PROD Franco Cristaldi. Italy/France/Yugoslavia, 1963, b&w, 126 presentation at last year's JULES AND JIM [JULES ET JIM] Shohei Ooka’s autobiographical novel fol- min. In Italian with English subtitles. lows a ragtag group of Japanese soldiers Film Festival and Friday, July 27, 7:00; Saturday, July 28, 7:15; NOT RATED Sunday, July 29, 3:00; Tuesday, July 31, 7:00 during the final days of WWII, out of sup- will tour North America This worldwide success catapulted plies, mad from starvation and on the run throughout 2007. All films KNIFE IN THE WATER [NÓZ W WODZIE] from advancing American forces. Eiji 29-year-old François Truffaut from New shown are stunning new Saturday, July 28, 5:15; Sunday, July 29, 1:00; Funakoshi plays Japanese deserter Pvt. Monday, July 30, 5:00 Wave phenomenon to the front line of 35mm prints. Look for the Tamura, a living ghost wary of both forces. Nominated for the Best Foreign Language international directors. In the classic finale of this one-of-a-kind DIR Kon Ichikawa; SCR Shohei Ooka, Film Oscar in 1964, the remarkable feature ménage à trois, best friends Henri Serre series at AFI Silver this based on his novel, and Natto Wada; debut by the 29-year-old Roman Polanski, (the French “Jeem”) and (the PROD Masaichi Nagata. Japan, 1959, autumn. co-written with fellow Austrian “Jules”) alternate in the affections b&w, 108 min. In Japanese with English Lodz grad- of before, during and after AFI member passes will be subtitles. NOT RATED accepted at all screenings in the uate Jerzy Skolimowski . Moreau’s own analysis of her 50 Years of Janus Films Series. (DEEP END), repre- greatest role: “she’s not immoral; she’s sented a new kind of absolute.” DIR/SCR François Truffaut; thriller for its time— SCR Jean Grualt, based on the novel by taut, tense and cere- Henri-Pierre Roché. France, 1962, b&w, bral—and one with 105 min. In French and German with enormous influence on English subtitles. NOT RATED future filmmakers. KNIFE IN THE WATER When a young hitchhiker joins a couple on a weekend yacht trip, psychological warfare FIRES ON THE PLAIN [NOBI] breaks out as the two men compete for the Friday, August 3, 6:15; Sunday, August 5, 1:00; Tuesday, August 7, 9:15 woman’s attention, culminating in an act of A landmark film from postwar Japan and violence. DIR Roman Polanski; SCR VIRIDIANA one of Kon Ichikawa’s greatest achieve- Jerzy Skolimowski; PROD Stanislaw Saturday, August 4, 6:30; Sunday, August 5, 5:20; ments, this ferociously bleak film offers a Zylewicz. Poland, 1962, b&w, 94 min. In Monday, August 6, 9:30 barbarous vision of was as hell that still Polish with English subtitles. NOT Luis Buñuel’s triumphant return to Spain marks it as one of cinema’s most gut- RATED after nearly three decades in exile won the wrenching pacifist works. The adaptation of See next page 12 n TICKETS & FULL SCHEDULE at WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER 50 YEARS OF JANUS FILMS, PART II Palme d’Or at Cannes in 1961 but earned scandalous sound design and a truly haunting score by legendary disapproval in Spain from both the exiled left and composer Toru Takemitsu. Special Jury Prize, 1965 Franco’s right for its blackly comic nihilism. Silvia ; Best Screenplay, 1965 Kinema Pinal returns from convent studies to the estate of her Junpo Awards; and nominated for Best Foreign overly fond uncle . Hoping to convert the Language Film, 1966 Academy Awards. DIR Masaki house and grounds to a home for the poor, she soon Kobayashi; SCR Yoko Mizuki, based on the book learns that no good deed goes unpunished. DIR/SCR by Lafcadio Kobayashi; PROD Shigeru Wakatsuki. Luis Buñuel; SCR Julio Alejandro; PROD Gustavo Japan, 1964, color, 125 min. In Japanese with . Mexico/Spain, 1961, b&w, 90 min. In English subtitles. NOT RATED Spanish with English subtitles. NOT RATED

BALLAD OF A SOLDIER [BALLADA O SOLDATE] Saturday, August 11, 5:45; Monday, August 13, 7:00 Grigori Chukhrai’s poignant parable received the Special Jury Prize at Cannes, the Best Screenplay Oscar nomina- tion and the 1962 British Academy award for best for- eign film. Following the last days of a Russian soldier on a furlough home during WWII, it also stands as a remarkable recollection of life in the during the extreme deprivation of the . DIR/SCR Grigori Chukhrai; SCR Valentin Ezhov; PROD M. WR: MYSTERIES OF THE ORGANISM Chernova. Soviet Union, 1959, b&w, 89 min. In “As a ‘mainstream avant-garde’ movie, it Russian with English subtitles. NOT RATED merits [a] place in the pantheon.” CLEO DE 5 A 7 —FILM SCHOLAR RAYMOND DURGNAT THE CRANES ARE FLYING [LETYAT ZHURAVLI] CLEO FROM 5 TO 7 [CLÉO DE 5 A 7] Sunday, August 12, 5:10; Tuesday, August 14, 7:00 WR: MYSTERIES OF THE ORGANISM Saturday, August 18, 3:45; Sunday, August 19, 5:20; Tuesday, The only Soviet film Saturday, August 25, 9:30; Sunday, August 26, 12:30; Monday, August 21, 9:30 to win the Palme d’Or, August 27, 9:20 Pop chanteuse Cléo, awaiting the results of a medical this story of two lovers Confrontational, subversive, countercultural—Yugoslav examination and convinced she is going to die, spends who never give up Dusan Makavejev’s infamous film was banned by most two hours wandering the streets of Paris, her mood hope of reunion Communist bloc countries and shown in adults-only swinging from melancholic to merry as she is strangely despite separation by screenings in . Makavejev juxtaposes lewd comic enlivened by her existential quandary. Agnès Varda’s WWII was influential burlesque and allusive political essay with a documentary groundbreaking 1962 film is very much in the van- on the New Wave on iconoclastic psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich. The result is guard of the French Nouvelle Vague: shrewd, sparkling Soviet filmmakers an arty critique of Communist social structure and sexual and playfully subversive of cinematic conventions. working during the politics, drawing loose but striking parallels between sexual Look for cameos by New Wave mainstays Jean-Luc post-Stalin thaw of the repression and political oppression. DIR/SCR/PROD Godard, Anna Karina and Michel Legrand. DIR/SCR 1960s. The first of Dusan Makavejev. Yugoslavia/West Germany, 1971, Agnès Varda; PROD Georges de Beauregard and color, 85 min. In Serbo-Croatian with English subtitles. several dynamic col- Carlo Ponti. France/Italy, 1961, color, 131 min. In NOT RATED laborations between French with English Subtitles. NOT RATED Georgian director Mikhail Kalatozishvili THE CRANES ARE FLYING KWAIDAN [KAIDAN] CRIA CUERVOS and the great Russian Saturday, August, 25, 2:45; Friday, August 31, 3:15; Sunday, September 2, 1:15; Monday, Sergei Urusevsky is their most lyrical; Sunday, August 26, 2:15; September 3, 3:00; Wednesday, September 5, 7:00 Thursday, August 30, 6:45 their subsequent films, most memorably I AM CUBA, Also part of the Madrid in the Movies Series. See page 3. would reinvent what the camera could do. DIR/PROD Four ghostly tales brought Mikheil Kalatozishvili; SCR , based on to the screen by the great KWAIDAN DEATH OF A CYCLIST [MUERTE DE UN CICLISTA] his play. Soviet Union, 1957, b&w, 94 min. In Masaki Kobayashi [REBELLION, HARAKIRI], in rav- Saturday, September 1, 1:30; Monday, September 3, 1:00; Wednesday, September 5, 9:15 Russian with English subtitles. NOT RATED ishing color and breathtaking cinemascope. Featuring deliriously stylized visuals and art direction, complex Also part of the Madrid in the Movies Series. See page 3.

TICKETS & FULL SCHEDULE at WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER n 13 Congratulations to JOHN ALBERS Grand Prize Winner of AFI Silver’s PROGRAM THE SILVER Contest! Sundays at 7:15, July 29 As AFI Silver’s “programmer for a night,” John Albers, of Columbia, MD, selected the ’ THE BIG LEBOWSKI and Michael Mann’s HEAT. Both films will screen at AFI through Silver on Friday, August 17, 2007. September 2, THE BIG LEBOWSKI in the Historic Friday, August 17, 10:45; Saturday, August 18, 10:45 Silver Theatre! Shaggy dog shenanigans and gut-busting hilarity fill this popular ’90s classic, the Coen Brothers’ cock- eyed homage to ’s . 7 Oscars, 5 Golden A case of mistaken identity embroils slacker Jeff Globes, 4 BAFTA “the Dude” Lebowski (a sublimely funny Jeff awards and a Donatello. Bridges) in a kidnapping case and throws him into Internationally recog- the role of hapless detective. The stellar cast plays with great comic gusto, including John Goodman, nized as the Best Picture , , Philip Seymour of 1963, and arguably THE BIG LEBOWSKI Hoffman and John Turturro as bad-ass bowler ever. The summer classic “.” DIR/SCR Joel Coen; SCR/PROD Ethan returns to AFI Silver in AND THAT’S NOT ALL Coen. US, 1998, color, 117 min. RATED R AFI Silver’s PROGRAM THE SILVER sweepstakes is 70mm. over, but you can still connect with AFI to become an AFI Insider. AFI Insiders get “in” on all the latest HEAT news, screenings and special offers coming from Friday, August 17, 7:00 AFI’s Silver Theatre and Cultural Center. Sign up to become an Insider at www.AFI.com/Silver. See page 9. ABOUT AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE (AFI)

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n SERPICO 12:50 n HARRY POTTER AND THE n HARRY POTTER AND THE n HARRY POTTER AND THE n KEY LARGO 1:00 n HARRY POTTER AND THE n HARRY POTTER AND THE 15 n DOG DAY AFTERNOON 3:20 16 SORCERER’S STONE 3:00, 8:15 17 CHAMBER OF SECRETS 2:45, 18 PRISONER OF AZKABAN 4:00 19 n THE ASPHALT JUNGLE 3:00 20 SORCERER’S STONE 12:00 21 SORCERER’S STONE 12:00 8:15 n HARRY POTTER AND THE n HARRY POTTER AND THE n WELCOME MR. MARSHALL 6:00 n THE LOST WEEKEND 7:00 n HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS 3:00 CHAMBER OF SECRETS 3:00 n WELCOME MR. MARSHALL 6:00 PRISONER OF AZKABAN 5:20, n HARRY POTTER AND THE n HARRY POTTER AND THE 8:15 PRISONER OF AZKABAN 6:10 PRISONER OF AZKABAN 6:10 n HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET n HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE 9:00 OF FIRE 9:00 n EVIL DEAD 2 12:00 n EVIL DEAD 2 12:00 n THE ORGANIZER 1:15 n …AND JUSTICE FOR ALL 4:30 n …AND JUSTICE FOR ALL 4:30 n …AND JUSTICE FOR ALL 4:30 n …AND JUSTICE FOR ALL 4:30, n HEAVEN KNOWS, MR. ALLISON n THE MISFITS 12:30 22 n …AND JUSTICE FOR ALL 3:45 23 n THE BEEHIVE 7:00 24 n THE ORGANIZER 7:00 25 n RORY O’SHEA WAS HERE 7:00 26 9:30 27 4:45 28 n HEAVEN KNOWS, MR. ALLISON n THE BEEHIVE 6:10 n SCARECROW 9:20 n SCARECROW 9:20 n THE ORGANIZER 7:00 n JULES AND JIM 7:00 3:00 n SCARECROW 8:30 n PURPLE RAIN 9:10 n KNIFE IN THE WATER 5:15 n THIS IS SPINAL TAP 11:30 n JULES AND JIM 7:15 n THIS IS SPINAL TAP 9:30, 11:30 AUGUST n KNIFE IN THE WATER 1:00 n HEAVEN KNOWS, MR. ALLISON n THE MISFITS 2:15 n HEAVEN KNOWS, MR. ALLISON n THE MISFITS 2:45 n THE INSIDER 3:00 n NIGHT OF THE IGUANA 1:00 29 n JULES AND JIM 3:00 30 2:45 31 n HEAVEN KNOWS, MR. ALLISON 1 2:15 2 n HEAVEN KNOWS, MR. ALLISON 3 n FIRES ON THE PLAIN 6:15 4 n THE INSIDER 3:30 n NOT ON YOUR LIFE 5:10 n KNIFE IN THE WATER 5:00 4:45 n THE MISFITS 4:20 4:45 n SAY ANYTHING 8:30 n VIRIDIANA 6:30 n LAWRENCE OF ARABIA 7:15 n NOT ON YOUR LIFE 7:00 n JULES AND JIM 7:00 n MOZART AND THE WHALE 7:00 n PURPLE RAIN 7:00 n REPO MAN 10:45 n SAY ANYTHING 8:30 n THE MISFITS 9:00 n PURPLE RAIN 9:10 n THIS IS SPINAL TAP 10:20 n THIS IS SPINAL TAP 9:20 n REPO MAN 10:45

n FIRES ON THE PLAIN 1:00 n THE INSIDER 3:45 n THE INSIDER 3:45 n THE INSIDER 3:45 n THE INSIDER 3:45 n DONNIE BRASCO 4:20 n FAT CITY 1:00 5 n REFLECTIONS IN A GOLDEN EYE 6 n NIGHT OF THE IGUANA 7:00 7 n REFLECTIONS IN A GOLDEN EYE 8 n THE SEA INSIDE 7:00 9 n SAY ANYTHING 7:00 10 n FERRIS BUELLER’S DAY OFF 9:25 11 n DONNIE BRASCO 3:05 3:10 n VIRIDIANA 9:30 7:00 n REPO MAN 9:10 n THE TERMINATOR 11:30 n 5:45 n VIRIDIANA 5:20 n FIRES ON THE PLAIN 9:15 n FERRIS BUELLER’S DAY OFF 7:45 n LAWRENCE OF ARABIA 7:15 n THE TERMINATOR 10:00

n FAT CITY 1:00 n DONNIE BRASCO 4:20 n DONNIE BRASCO 4:20, 9:00 n DONNIE BRASCO 4:20 n DONNIE BRASCO 4:20 n THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING n THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING 12 n PRETTY IN PINK 3:05 13 n BALLAD OF A SOLDIER 7:00 14 n CRANES ARE FLYING 7:00 15 n ON THE EDGE 7:00 16 n FERRIS BUELLER’S DAY OFF 7:00 17 4:20 18 1:10 n n CRANES ARE FLYING 5:10 n FAT CITY 9:00 n PRETTY IN PINK 9:10 n n HEAT 7:00 CLEO FROM 5 TO 7 3:45 n BRAZIL 5:45 n LAWRENCE OF ARABIA 7:15 n THE BIG LEBOWSKI 10:45 n BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA 8:40 n THE BIG LEBOWSKI 10:45

n BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA n THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING n THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING n THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING n THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING n COMING TO AMERICA 4:00 n COMING TO AMERICA 12:30 19 12:40 20 4:10 21 4:10 22 4:10 23 4:10 24 n THE GODFATHER 6:30 25 n KWAIDAN 2:45 n THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING n HEAT 7:00 n BRAZIL 6:45 n HEAT 7:00 n BRAZIL 6:45 n STRANGER THAN PARADISE 10:00 n THE GODFATHER 6:00 2:45 n CLEO FROM 5 TO 7 9:30 n BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA n WR: MYSTERIES OF THE n CLEO FROM 5 TO 7 5:20 9:30 ORGANISM 9:30 n LAWRENCE OF ARABIA 7:15 SEPTEMBER n WR: MYSTERIES OF THE n COMING TO AMERICA 4:20, 7:00 n COMING TO AMERICA 4:20 n COMING TO AMERICA 4:20, 9:20 n COMING TO AMERICA 4:20 n n CRIA CUERVOS 3:15 n n DEATH OF A CYCLIST 1:30 26 ORGANISM 12:30 27 n WR: MYSTERIES OF THE 28 n THE GODFATHER 7:00 29 30 n KWAIDAN 6:45 31 n THE DEAD 5:25 1 n THE GODFATHER PART II 3:30 n KWAIDAN 2:15 ORGANISM 9:20 n STRANGER THAN PARADISE 9:45 n BLUE VELVET 7:15 n BLUE VELVET 7:15 n STRANGER THAN PARADISE 5:20 n PORKY’S 9:45 n PORKY’S 9:45 n LAWRENCE OF ARABIA 7:15

2 n n CRIA CUERVOS 1:15 3 n n DEATH OF A CYCLIST 1:00 4 n THE DEAD 7:00 5 n n CRIA CUERVOS 7:00 6 n THE DEAD 7:00 n THE GODFATHER PART II 3:30 n n CRIA CUERVOS 3:00 n BLUE VELVET 8:45 n n DEATH OF A CYCLIST 9:15 n BLUE VELVET 8:45 n LAWRENCE OF ARABIA 7:15 n THE GODFATHER PART II 5:15 n BLUE VELVET 9:00

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