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ASSION rêpa have been friendsrêpa have since partner business (brothel rêpa’s rapher, Foreign Prize, Critics’ and rapher, randdaughter of original author randson. Operatic melodrama arage-owner’s wife and his assistant ue, May 13, 8:50; Thu, May 15, 8:50 13, 8:50; Thu, May ue, May swept the awards at the 1998 the awards swept taking Best Week, Hungarian Film Ac g visually Prize.the Grand powerful “A and dramatically potent treatment of a timeless story”— V Directed/written by György Fehér. Hu Hu P 14, 8:40 11,May Sun, May 2:00; Wed, In herwoman dance—at watching command. brooding, Dark, husband’s hy RINGS THE POSTMAN ALWAYS TW g nose, carry on an affair under hubbie’s out. But until murder is the only way wh years in tensionThree only increases. the making by the producer of Bela Ta THE UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE [O Princípio da Incerteza] T Ivor Scion of the manor house, son Ricardo and servant’s Canelas, T dream girl, Trêpa’s childhood, until Leonor Baldaque, marries Canelas for But then the reversals keep the money. coming—Canelas philanders with T while keeper Leonor Silveira), Baldaque fine tunes the saintliness aggression.and/or Casting passive Baldaque is the nepotism: g is Oliveira’s Trepa while Bessa-Luís, g intersperses with freewheeling cover, ime . Dazzling, sweeping, large-scale. Dazzling, sweeping, jda. Poland, 1999, color, scope, color, jda. 1999, Poland, anski. Poland, 1962, b&w, 94 min. anski. 1962, Poland, b&w, is in the 1830s), begins to recite his is in the 1830s), poet Adam Mickiewicz (in exilepoet Adam in ay l
ajda regular Olbrychski Daniel plays ung wife Jolanta Umecka are Umecka ung wife Jolanta r aptation of the Polish national aptation of the Polish me, until a moment of violence AN TADEUSZ istracted from their bickering en ilemma, visualized by an imported portswriter and Leon Niemczyk ad classic, done in the original rhymed (listencouplets throughout carefully!). W the role of a lifetime as a bald, scarred Wajda’s Andrzej Perhaps retainer. production, capped by his 2000 biggest and, more even honorary Oscar, his first film post-near- amazingly, mortal illness. Directed/co-written by Andrzej Wa with154 titles. min. Polish Roman Polankski’s KNIFE IN THE WATER [Nóz w wodzie] 11,Sun, May 5:15 S yo d they when route to their lake holiday runnearly over hitchhiker Zygmunt Malanowicz, then take him along on their boat. moves Macho power between the generations and between the classes ensue, highlighted by a switchblade-between-the-fingers ga to a classic lady-or-the-tigerleads d motionless at an intersection, car, three-person drama Tense undecided. led to an Oscar nomination, T P 12, 11, Mon, May Sun, May 8:40 7:30*; for has taped an introduction Wajda Andrzej of his film. our screenings to *Alicja Bachleda-Curus has been invited appear at this screening. As Pa epic poem to friends, two decades we’re countryside Polish back in the sunny with the gentry as a tender romance for Napoleon— patriotsblossoms, wait and some decide to take on the oppressors right bumbling Russian aw and Polanski’s international career. and Polanski’s Directed/co-written by Roman Po . y l eek W ian ... A charming debut he Guard occurs it’s clear that Dad’s not coming clear that Dad’s it’s [Meisje]
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randma in Dad’s name …randma in Dad’s but then anayotopoulou. Greece, 2002, anayotopoulou. rst-feature director den Berghe. van estival) idolizes his traveling sales- idolizes his traveling estival) an den Berghe. Belgium/Flanders, itles. ue, May 13, 6:40; Thu, May 15, 6:40 13, 6:40; Thu, May ue, May European Cinema East and West and Eastern from 10 countries Union welcomed On April 16, 2003 the European Ce shared celebrating a cause for Europe, throughout the beginning of a new era EU FILM SHOWCASE AFI’s regular to As a prelude heritage and culture. history, a brief series of classic and present to take this occasion we in November, co Directed/written by Penny P min. Greek with 113 titles. color, Girl 14, 6:40 12,May Mon, May 6:40; Wed, Eynde Vanden 20 year-old Charlotte her herhas made move—leaving parents, dumping her boyfriend, and villageleaving that sleepy for Brussels, wh HARD GOODBYES: MY FATHER [Diskoli apocheretismi: O babas mou] T In swinger Els Dottermans, who is Els Dottermans,swinger who hearing the biological clock ticking. mom Frieda Pittoors But Charlotte’s dream sees her own forgotten girl’s coming to life Somehow they again. all end up living in the same building in the big city…but do all their aspirations come to the same end? psychological dramaSensitive from fi Jury Amiens;Best Actress, Youth Aw Directed/co-written by Dorothée v 94 min. Dutch with 2002, color, t Karayannis (Best Actor, Locarno Film (Best Actor, Karayannis F to the annoy- somewhat man father, ance of his mother But and brother. wh back from his latest trip, Yorgos just back from Yorgos his latest trip, be accept that they won’t can’t the Americanstogether to watch land the meantime, he on the moon. In himself by writingamuses letters in to G the landing work by Panayotopoulou, in work by Panayotopoulou, reminiscence of her own parents. “Beautifully a acted—and and subtly —Peter humane film” lovely, T Bradshaw, FEATURED FILMS
“Do not forsake me, oh, my darlin,’ on this, our The New 35mm Print of weddin’ day…” But there’s more than nuptials ahead for retiring sheriff Gary Cooper: the noon train is HIGH NOON bringing Ian MacDonald’s revenge-minded Frank Fri-Thu, May 30-Jun 5, 6:30 & 8:15; Miller back from the pen, with three gun-packing henchmen (including spaghetti western star-to-be weekend matinees 12:45, 2:45, 4:45 Lee Van Cleef) as his welcoming committee. But, of [no 8:15 show on Sat, May 31] course his Quaker bride Grace Kelly will know he’s got to stay and fight it out, and the townspeople he’s protected will stand with him at the showdown—or will they? On just about everybody’s check list for Greatest Western Ever Made, but also a biting metaphorical indictment of McCarthyism (“hotel clerk” Howland Chamberlain and screenwriter Carl Foreman were both blacklisted soon after). A scintillatingly suspenseful screen experiment in “real time,” the screen story spans only the same 85 minutes as the film, the effect reinforced by repeated close-ups of inexorably ticking clocks. And, in the cold sweat forming on the hero’s haggard face, Cooper the actor used the bleeding ulcer he suffered during the shoot to win his second Academy Award, achieving one of the screen’s starkest portraits of fear and loneliness. Seven Oscar nominations, including Best Film, Direction, and Screenplay, winning for Cooper, Editing, and the legendary score and Tex Ritter-performed song by thickly-accented Russian expat Dimitri Tiomkin. This brand-new 35mm print restores the “19th-century newsreel” look of Floyd Crosby’s photography, lost in high school classroom 16mm projection. Directed by Fred Zinnemann. USA, 1952, b&w, 85 min.
At the AFI Silver and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts The Restored 35mm Print of BEAUTY AND THE BEAST [La Belle et la bête] With All-New Titles AT THE SILVER: Fri-Thu, May 16-29, 6:45 & 8:45;
• TO ORDER WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER TICKETS: • weekend matinees 12:45, 2:45, 4:45 AT THE KENNEDY CENTER: Fri-Sun, May 23-Jun 1, 6:45 & 8:45; weekend matinees 12:45, 2:45, 4:45 From Cocteau to Disney is ... but one step. Cocteau’s 1946 treatment of the folk tale of the village beauty who must give herself up to a fearsome beast as sacrifice for her father’s taboo transgression has long been a classic in its own right, striving through use of live-action and a minimum of special effects to Jean Marais’s magnificent look as the Beast can achieve a “realism of the unreal”—Cocteau. Set in induce disappointment when he changes to ... the seventeenth century of the story’s first telling, (Garbo reportedly demanded “Give me back my the magnificent sets and costumes evoke both beast!”) This brand new 35mm print restores the Vermeer and Doré, while the subtle fast and slow lustrous b&w tones—so long unseen in inferior motion effects of cameraman Henri Alekan reinforce copies—that make the unreal real. a truly magical atmosphere. Cocteau’s use of dual Directed/written by Jean Cocteau. France, 1946, b&w, roles adds another set of undertones to the tale; but 96 min. French with titles. • TO ORDER TICKETS: WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER • OBE ON GL T ON HERALD S T S ant-garde ry wit rules, sharp CARRIE RICKEY, CARRIE RICKEY, PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER —JOAN ANDERMAN, BO —JOAN SHERMAN, BO —PAUL — left turns are absurd encouraged, running jokes abound, and a vaguely goofy, av the colors aesthetic whole thing” Gigantic is big in all sorts of small ways.” undistributed Best film of the year” “D “ “ are-there Surround 5.1 Sound. can’t And you fus Thomas’s hilarious radio show—with Thomas’s fus nnebaker proclaimed AFI’s sound “better than nnebaker proclaimed AFI’s t an April preview and screening, Hegedus u- oup whose early stunt “Dial-A-Song”—run early was oup whose ome in Brooklyn—TMBG have remained poetic have ome in Brooklyn—TMBG om a Flansburgh home answering machine— rst time they performed with a full band? From pinal Tap) delivering their lyrics as dramatic Tap) pinal ideo footage; famous friends famous ideo footage; (including members of ight? Yes, but also former Illinois Senator Paul ight? Yes, Ru performances,scorching live vibrantly recorded in yo hear it better than at the state-of-the-art AFI Silver (A Pe Cannes!”) Directed by Chris Hegedus and D.A. Pennebaker. 2003, and D.A. Pennebaker. Hegedus Directed by Chris 95 min. color and b&w, a videotaped discussion with the will feature showings Selected at the recorded previously Moore, filmmakers and Sam & Joyce AFI Silver. “Everybody dies frustrated inside and that is beautiful.” Hmmm, rockumentary about John Linnell, Might They the groupFlansburgh and John Be Giants—performance talking footage, heads, r met in grad Johns Simon talking about Lincoln (the school in Lincoln, Mass.); animation; vintage home v S recitations; and talk about talking heads—Syd incredible to expect rants. from But what a Straw’s gr fr that writes lyrics and toupees, about puppets, fans picketed their show the nightlights… and whose fi Soul” in Your “Birdcage their Big Break-performing with the Doc Severensen orchestra on Johnny their theme to “Boss of Me,” Show, Tonight Carson’s “Malcolm in the Middle,” to TVfor the hit show, their performance for this film National at the Polish H and surreal, as is this rockumentary about them. 102 min. 2002, color, Schnack. USA, Directed by AJ edus and D.A. Pennebaker (DON’T and D.A. edus LOOK ur,” “Soul Man,” “Walking the Dog,” “Night Time the Dog,” “Night “Soul Man,” “Walking ur,” CK, MONTERREY POP, DOWN FROM THE FROM DOWN CK, MONTERREY POP, g u Seen Her?,” “Someday We’ll Be Together”—and u Seen Her?,” Be We’ll “Someday ashington-area premiere! eats of 1960s and ’70s soul music—Wilson Pickett, soul music—Wilson eats of 1960s and ’70s ho realized shot film that no one had of these eekend matinees 1:00, 3:00, 5:00 eekend matinees at 1:00, 3:00. 5:00 homas. But when his fellowhomas. But when performers are the eebles, eebles, Carla Thomas (“Gee Whiz”), and “The am Moore (Sam & Dave), MaryWilson (the & Dave), am Moore (Sam ri-Thu, May 9-22, 7:00 & 9:00; 9-22, 7:00 May ri-Thu, & 9:15; 15, 7:00 30-Jun ri-Sun, May ceman” Jerry Butler—that impliedceman” question BA [original cast album], COMPANY MOUNTAIN, with co-producer Friedman, Roger Working etc.) w and Pennebaker mix in artists Hegedus in years, interviews—as footage, well as bitsarchival from W Center for the Performing Arts, May 9-22. Kennedy and the John F. 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Some Films Of The US Theatrical Premiere of Aki Kaurismaki JUHA With three awards at the Cannes Fri, May 30 6:45; Sat-Sun, May 31-Jun 1, 1:30, 5:15, and Festival, and Cesar, European Film, 8:30; Mon-Thu, Jun 2-5, 6:45 and Oscar nominations for his “In the cinema there should be fewer words. So now I have made a totally just-released MAN WITHOUT A PAST, silent film”—Aki Kaurismäki. Farmer Aki Kaurismäki has cemented his Juha (former Leningrad Cowboy Sakari position as Finland’s most celebrated Kuosmanen) leads an idyllic life with director ever—and one of the world’s The Exclusive DC Engagement of wife Kati Outinen (“they are as happy as children”), but then charismatic stranger- most consciously, and hilariously DRIFTING CLOUDS from-the-city André Wilms (EUROPA, eccentric. (Sample statements: “My [Kauas pilvet karkaavat] last film [JUHA] was b&w and silent, Fri-Thu, May 23-29, 7:00 and 8:00; weekend matinees 1:00, 3:00, 5:00 which clearly shows that I am a man Recession hits hard for Kati Outinen (Best Actress, Cannes, of business,” and, “I’m just a MAN WITHOUT A PAST) and hubbie Kari Väänänen: soon medium class of director. I may never after he proudly presents her with the color TV he’s bought on the installment plan (next to their still-unpaid-for sofa make a masterpiece, but if I make and bookcase), the restaurant where she’s previously many quite good films, together disarmed a knife-wielding cook closes, and he’s fired by the they’re something.” Or, on an early streetcar company (everybody drives cars now). An work—“it’s the worst film in the unsentimentally tender and droll look at the lives of the EUROPA; M. HIRE) arrives. In the desperate, with Kaurismäki’s trademark stylization (when history of the cinema...”) Masterful fourth adaptation of the classic 1911 Väänänen demands his money back after a crummy movie, Juhani Aho novel of the eternal triangle parodist of road films, film noir, rock it’s noted that he hadn’t paid in the first place, and his dog is (“few of them can beat JUHA for musicals, and overripe opera plots, gravely handed back), topped by the most suspenseful deepness of emotions and understanding his humor is so deadpan it some- restaurant opening in film history (hint: the ‘Helsinki of all three parties”—AK) Finnish lord of Workers’ Wrestlers’ make a reservation for 30). Bound at one lowkey Kaurismäki reverts to purity in times whizzes past the uninitiated, end by the grief of THE BICYCLE THIEF and at the other by the primitive (or is it clarity in the while his treatment of the poor and the joy of IT’S WONDERFUL LIFE, with “the Finnish cutting edge?) in this b&w silent with down-and-out is suffused as well reality” somewhere in between—AK. Prize of the Ecumenical music. With Markku Peltola of MAN Jury, Cannes; Audience Award, São Paulo Festival. with a deep tenderness. On the WITHOUT A PAST. Directed/written by Aki Kaurismäki. Finland, 1996, color, 96 min. Directed/written by Aki Kaurismäki. occasion of his widest US release, we Finnish with titles. Finland, 1999, b&w, 78 min. Silent with look at two recent, previously- titles. undistributed works, and some earlier classics. ARIEL LA VIE DE BOHÈME THE MATCH FACTORY GIRL Sat, May 31, 6:50; Mon, Jun 2, 8:30; Fri, May 30, 8:30; Sat-Sun, May 31-Jun 1, 3:15 [Tulitikkutehtaan tyttö] Thu, Jun 2, 8:30 Playwright André Wilms refuses to Sun, Jun 1, 6:50; Tue, Jun 3, 8:30; An expected cataclysmic explosion cut down his 21-act masterpiece, Thu, Jun 5, 8:30
• TO ORDER WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER TICKETS: • becomes just a silent puff of smoke composer Kari Väänänen’s opus is “A bottle of rat poison, please”… curling from an abandoned mine; a obviously headed for the scrapheap, “Small or large?” is the minimalist friend’s suicide causes the blank and Matti Pellonpää’s artist “Rodolfo” response. It’s about 15 minutes into lightup of a cigarette. Turo Pajala romances Evelyne Didi’s “Mimi”: the the film before a word is said, but inherits a convertible—then can’t get lives of the artists unfold in Paris, then in the world of assembly-line the top down in freezing weather; his until one suddenly realizes—with checker Kati Outinen (who has to instant romance with parking meter seeming ineptitude instantly turning rent her own room in Mom and attendant Susanna Haavisto into raucous deadpan—that this is Stepdad’s flat), not much needs to be occasions: “Are you always this the original of Puccini’s opera, its said. With offscreen actions often as confident?” “No,” he replies, “this is floridly romantic 19th century important as those on, this is rivetting the first time.” Obviously we’re in the dialogue being performed absolutely storytelling of seemingly the bleakest world of the king of deadpan, Aki straight. With New Wave icon Jean- of lives, but since this is Kaurismäki, Kaurismäki, topped by the clumsiest Pierre Léaud, and directors Louis humor is always lurking… and bank robbery in film history (don’t Malle and Samuel Fuller in cameos. Outinen can signal imminent hurling drop the money!). Best Foreign Film, Pellonpää won Best Actor and Wilms without twitching a muscle. When National Society of Film Critics. Best Supporting Actor, European Film “romance” blossoms, the results are Directed/written by Aki Awards. both dire ... and hilarious. Kaurismäki. Finland, 1988, color, 73 Directed/written by Aki Directed/written by Aki min. Finnish with titles. Kaurismäki. Finland, 1992, b&w, Kaurismäki. Finland, 1989, color, 70 105 min. Finnish with titles. min. Finnish with titles. NEW FILMS FROM ISRAEL Israel at 55 Israel has already had a vigorous film industry out of all proportion to its size; but in recent years there's been an outburst of new filmmakers and award-winning films. New legislation expanding film funding? a new generation of filmmakers coming of age? For whatever reasons, there is a new excitement to Israeli films; what we're presenting is just a OODRTCES W.F.O/IVR• TICKETS: WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER ORDER • TO core sample. Our thanks to Arnona Shir-On of the Embassy of Israel, and Katriel Schory of the Israel Film Fund for their aid in making this series possible. The New 35mm Print of EXODUS Fri-Sat, May 16-24, 7:15; weekend matinee 2:00 [no 7:15 show on Sat, May 24] Cyprus, 1947. Thousands of Jewish Displaced Persons are interned behind the British blockade… Sympathetic General Ralph Richardson starts to reconsider, while Haganah officer Paul Newman packs six hundred aboard the old freighter “Exodus” and begins a “the whole world is watching” hunger strike. The birth of Israel, as adapted from the bestseller by Leon Uris (who disavowed Preminger’s adaptation), with romance amid the conflicts: between Newman and widowed American nurse Eva Marie Saint; and between fiery Irgun terrorist-with-a-terrible-secret (Oscar nominated) Sal Mineo and tragic waif Jill Haworth. And conflicts within as well as without: Newman’s father, Lee J. Cobb, battles his own brother, David Opatoshu, over the use of terror in the cause of freedom. Preminger’s sweeping, old-style widescreen epic was shot on spectacular locations in Cyprus and Israel, with its dramatic highpoint—the actual celebrated breakout from the Acre prison—filmed at the actual site. Dalton Trumbo’s on-screen screenwriting credit was the first to break the blacklist. With an Oscar to Ernest Gold for his haunting, hit score. Directed by Otto Preminger. USA, 1960, color, scope, 213 min.
BLIND DATE BROKEN WINGS DESPERADO SQUARE [Pgisha Iveret] [Knafayim Shvurot] [Kikar Ha-Halomot] Tue, May 27, 8:30; Thu, May 29, 6:30 Thu, May 29, 8:30; Sat, May 31, 9:00 Sun, May 25, 8:30; Tue, May 27, 6:30 Back from his Paris posting, Israeli A year after their husband and father’s Despite their mother’s objections a diplomat Yaron Fink finds Shiraz Tal’s death (from a bee sting!), Orly Zilber- year after their father’s death, brothers calling card at a Tel Aviv cafe. Soon shatz Banai and her four children are Nir Levy and Sharon Raginiano after, film translator Tal starts still trying to pick up the pieces, espe- decide to reopen the neighborhood receiving a series of anonymous cially teenage daughter Maya Maron. cinema Dad closed down three postcards that—taken together— Can they go on? Maybe a new shock decades ago with the ideal opener, begin to mosaic a very definite picture will provide the catalyst. Bergman’s ancient Indian smash “Sangam.” Only with a beautiful story line. All first feature was partly inspired by his trouble is, the only print is held by intriguing enough that when an being the child of divorced parents, their black sheep uncle, himself back invitation to a Paris hotel arrives, Tal with all the child actors also the pro- after a 25 year absence. And tensions decides to take a chance. Does an duct of broken homes: “It’s much more grow… As the premiere approaches, it unusual love affair ensue, or … ? than simple sadness, it’s a film about becomes clear there’s a family secret Directed/written by Haim being released from sadness”—Berg- about to be revealed. Six Israeli Bouzaglo. Israel, 2003, color, man. Nine Israeli Academy Awards, in- Academy Awards, including Best 106 min. Hebrew with titles. cluding Best Picture, Director, Screen- Director, Music, and Supporting play, Actress and Supporting Actress. Actor. Directed/written by Nir Bergman. Directed/written by Benny Torati. Israel, 2002, color, 87 min. Hebrew Israel, 2001, color, 98 min. Hebrew Israeli films are unconfirmed at press time. with titles. with titles. ISRAELI FILMS CHOICE PIX
Giraffes The Silver Goes Silent “The Man (in spectacles and skimmer) Hanging from the Clock,” Harold Lloyd was a true icon of the 20s, making more films than Chaplin and Keaton combined, out-pacing both at the box office, and as for gags and laughs, “Few people have ever equaled him, nobody has ever beaten him”—James Agee.
“One of the three supreme masters of the silent comedy film” —KEVIN BROWNLOW FOREIGN SISTER PROVENCE UNITED [Ahot Zara] [Beitar Provence] Sun, May 25, 3:45; Wed, May 28, 8:30 Mon, May 26, 6:30; Wed, May 28, 6:30 Tamar Yerushalmi may seem to have it Small town boy Itay Turgeman is nuts all—nice home, good job, husband about soccer and nuts about Israel’s and two children—but she can’t help top team, Maccabi Tel Aviv—only trying to Do It All … with not too trouble is his Givat-Tzurim team is much aid from the family. When her the cellar dweller of the third league. mother-in-law starts to lose it, it’s But guess who they draw for their finally time to bring in some help, but opponents for the quarter-finals of when Yerushalmi begins to get know the National Cup? Can hard-driving the Christian Ethiopian illegal, Askala coach Zeev Revach get them to shape Marcus, whom she’s hired to clean, up in the ten days before the her own problems start to seem ... legendary Tal Banin and his relative. Both a feminist film and a hard teammates arrive in their dusty little look at Israel’s illegal worker problem; town? An Israeli HOOSIERS? Come filmed with “a documentarian’s and see. Ten Israeli Academy Award frankness and keen eye for detail; an nominations, with Revach and incisive glimpse into one woman’s Turgeman winning as Best Actor and inner transformation”—Leslie Camhi, Best Supporting Actor. Village Voice. Best Film, 2000 Directed by Ori Inbar. Israel, 2002, Jerusalem Film Festival. color, 85 min. Hebrew with titles. Directed/written by Dan Wolman. Israel, 2000, color, 124 min. Hebrew, Amharic with titles. YELLOW ASPHALT PHOTOFEST [Asphalt Zahov] Sun, May 25, 6:30; Mon, May 26, 8:30 GIRAFFES [Girafot] Harold Lloyd in Sat, May 24, 9:10*; Sun, May 25, 1:15 Three stories centering on Bedouin life in Israel—a sudden road accident SAFETY LAST *Actress Liat Glick has been invited to attend with a Bedouin boy in the midst of this screening. Fri, May 9, 7:30; Sat, May 10, 2:30 • TO ORDER WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER TICKETS: • the desert; the tragic love affair Artist Meital Dohan, actress Liat between a Bedouin woman and her Salesclerk Harold’s “human fly” publicity stunt goes sour Glick, and journalist Tinkerbell are Israeli boss and multiple betrayals when (with the real climber on the run from a cop) he gets 20ish singles all living in the same that ensue; and “what happens” when stuck climbing the building himself. Shot without trick apartment building in Tel Aviv. But a German woman finds her marriage photography but via high angles on a normal building set on a mixups ensue one night when all are with a Bedouin going sour… can she very high hill (“but who wants to fall three storeys?”), the oft- heading out: Glick ends up with keep her children? Filmmaker Verete Dohan’s blind date, Tinkerbell gets lived for several years among the excerpted skyscraper climb is a deserved legend, but only the driven to Glick’s film set, and an Bedouin to earn the trust that made topper to a relentless succession of gags starting with the apparently stood-up Dohan decides to this film possible. Karlovy Vary, opening shot, a subtly deceiving visual pun. “To see it today just take a walk… When one gets Edinburgh, and Mannheim Film with an audience alternately roaring with laughter and involved in violence and death—and Festivals. gasping is one of the greatest experiences of cinema” then disappears—the complications Directed/written by Danny Verete. —David Shipman. are only beginning. Eleven Israeli Israel, 2001, color, 87 min. Hebrew Directed by Fred Newmeyer, Sam Taylor. USA, 1923, b&w, silent Academy Award nominations, and Arabic with titles. including Best Film, Director, Actor with titles. and Actress, for Grad’s debut work. Directed/written by Tzahi Grad. With Michael Britt on the AFI Silver Theatre organ Israel, 2001, color, 115 min. Hebrew with titles. Israeli films are unconfirmed at press time. • TO ORDER TICKETS: WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER • . . um tfor azine r ag ork M . ew Y imes T ork sula Andress is the sole spectator t, Jun 14, 8:30; Sun, 15, 5:10 ew Y ve pigeons. ve pigeons. “Ravishing stretch of Directed/written by Matthew 182 min. 2002, color, USA, Barney. with the showdown coming at the with the showdown “Endlessly Museum. 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“A “A PHOTOFEST Matthew Barney’s arhol? Lusher Kenneth Anger? arhol? Lusher Kenneth as conceived. as conceived. arney himself as an apprentice, a himself as an apprentice, arney epically symbolic cycle?) encom- cycle?) epically symbolic omplete cycle, in order, on in order, cycle, omplete Busby Berkeley, and football Berkeley, Busby Gaelic and cheerleading—with races motorcycle Masonic arcana, in for and Norman Mailer thrown Shot on locations good measure… Budapest, with Boise to from B and Gary Gilmore. goat-boy, Macho W unlike anything Actually it’s quite being else, and is only now in which it in the order screened w children. Not suitable for NOTE: see the Marathons: Cremaster c June 7 and 14, starting at 1:30. Eight years in the making, Eight years installation artist epic symbolic mainly wordless ( as opera, as diverse passes genres [Le roi du coeur] and create their own Le roi du coeur Le roi omme. orld War I Scottish soldier and carrier pigeon War orld himsical society. But with Bates’ mission himsical society. brant color and Scope cinematography by Pierrebrant color and Scope cinematography eekend matinees at 12:45, 2:45, 4:45 H OLLES), and a very Genevieve young Bujold as a ismantle a time bomb left behind by Germans in a rench, German, with and English titles. ri-Sun, Jun 6-15, 6:45 & 8:45; ri-Sun, Jun 6-15, lop on first release here, but rebounded to become the The Complete 5-Film Cycle of CREMASTER With All New 35mm Prints w accomplished, the soldiers come back. Philippe De a was biting satire on the madness gently of war Broca’s f ultimate cult classic, notching year-long runs in college itstown final cinemas, a naked man carrying image a get clamoringof the asylum—to birdcage at the gates in. Featuring Delerue a haunting score by Georges and vi L’ New 35mm Print! Philippe de Broca’s KING OF HEARTS F w really crazy in an insane world? Alan Bates’ So who’s W suddenly Plumpick specialist Sgt.gets named Charles explosives’ expert and sent on a one-man mission to d French village, its only remaining inhabitants the insane inmates—including Gallic titans Jean-Claude asylum’s Brialy (CLAIRE’S KNEE), Micheline Presle (DEVIL THE FLESH), Michel Serrault (LAIN CAGE AUX F immediately parasol-twirling tightrope-walker—who crown him 102 min. 1966, de Broca. color, France, Directed by Philippe F CLASSICS ON FILM GALILEO From the Tue, May 13, 6:30; Wed, May 14, 9:15 SILVERDOCS Is Coming! “Lively script, colorful production, and strong supporting cast” (Michael American Film Feingold, Village Voice) key this SILVERDOCS: AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Festival is an adaptation of Bertolt’s Brecht’s classic, exciting new competitive Festival, created to celebrate, honor and Theater with Topol (FIDDLER ON THE ROOF) as the legendary scientist and showcase documentaries from around the world. SILVERDOCS has In 1973, producer Ely Landau (LONG astronomer in conflict with the Inquisition. Directed by Joseph (THE accepted over 1,000 entries from 68 countries in its inaugural year. DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT, THE GO-BETWEEN) Losey, nominal PAWNBROKER) launched a subscrip- director of the original Brecht/Charles Laughton stage production. With June 18 - 22 tion series of films—tickets to be Edward Fox and John Gielgud as bought in advance, with only select- Cardinals and Michel Lonsdale as the SILVERDOCS will present 60 of these provocative documentary films Pope. ed screenings—based on great plays, at the newly restored, state-of-the art AFI Silver Theatre and Directed by Joseph Losey. UK, 1975, with top casts and directors. color, 145 min. Cultural Center in downtown Silver Spring, MD. The festival will Obviously, a project against all the bring together filmmakers, international documentary professionals odds, but for two years Landau THE HOMECOMING Sun, May 11, 8:15; Tue, May 13, 9:15 brought it off, with often striking and the communities of the Greater DC Metropolitan area to debate Philosophy teacher Michael Jayston issues raised by these documentary films and celebrate their art. results. Long unavailable, a number brings wife Vivien Merchant home to of these films have been brought meet the family—dad Paul Rogers (repeating his Tony Award-winning Every year, SILVERDOCS will include selected program strands on back, in new prints—plus THE ICEMAN performance), creepy brothers Ian noteworthy topics. For 2003, the strands include: COMETH in an original IB three-strip Holm and Terence Rigby, and weird uncle Cyril Cusack—big mistake! Technicolor print—to produce the World View Tensely enigmatic and dreamlike experience Landau intended—great adaptation of Harold Pinter’s stage Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness hit, with knight-to-be Peter Hall works of literature, with casts you’d recreating his London and New York Inside Sports never see on a stage. productions with four of the original cast. “Masterpiece”—Michael SILVERDOCS is presented by the American Film Institute with the Feingold, Village Voice. support of our sponsoring partner, the Discovery Channel. For more Directed by Peter Hall. UK, 1973, color, 111 min. information on the festival schedule and ticket purchase, please go to www.SILVERDOCS.com.
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Don’t Miss AFI On Television The Homecoming The 6th in the series of AFI’s celebration of THE ICEMAN COMETH Sat, May 10, 6:45; Sun, May 11, 1:30; the motion picture centennial: Thu, May 15, 6:30 In Harry Hope’s 1912 flophouse/ AFI’s 100 Years . . . 100 Heroes & Villains saloon, down-and-outers live on their Tuesday, June 3, on CBS • 8:00 - 11:00 p.m. “pipe dreams” until Hickey the salesman’s legendary monologue brings them back to reality—but is The 31st Life Achievement Award that an improvement? John (THE A Tribute to Robert De Niro MANCHURAIN CANDIDATE) Frankenheimer’s adaptation of Eugene Monday, June 23, on USA • 9:00 - 11:00 p.m. O’Neill’s giant masterpiece boasts a legendary cast—from Lee Marvin as SPECIAL EVENT!
“This is one of the most pleasurable of all concert films” —PAULINE KAEL The Iceman Cometh
Hickey, Robert Ryan as an aging THE MAIDS anarchist, guilt-ridden Jeff Bridges, Fri, May 9, 6:30; Sun, May 11, 6:15 Tom Pedi’s bartender in the role he created, to Fredric March, boozily If there’s one thing worse for Glenda OODRTCES W.F.O/IVR• TICKETS: WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER ORDER • TO spry in the final role of a great career. Jackson and Susannah York than just “Dazzling array of performances”— being maids, it’s having Vivien Michael Feingold, Village Voice. Merchant (then Mrs. Harold Pinter) Directed by John Frankenheimer. as their Madame. But the employers USA, 1973, color, 239 min. Newport Jazz Comes to IN CELEBRATION Silver Spring Fri, May 9, 8:30; Wed, May 14, 6:30 Three brothers—Alan Bates, James George Wein, jazz impresario, pianist, Bolam, and Brian Cox (the first and founder of the Newport Jazz Hannibal Lecter, in MANHUNTER), back in their native coal mining town Festival (as well as the Newport Folk for their parents’ 40th wedding Festival and many others) in anniversary, painfully thrash out their relationships while Mum Constance conversation with the AFI Silver’s Chapman dithers. Strikingly adapted Murray Horwitz. Wein will sign copies by Lindsay Anderson (THIS SPORT- ING LIFE) from his original stage of his memoir, MYSELF AMONG OTHERS, production of the David Storey play. are away… they can try on clothes, and introduce the film JAZZ ON A Directed by Lindsay Anderson. UK, trade vicious insults—but then...! SUMMER'S DAY. 1975, color, 131 min. Terrific acting by the stars in this biting adaptation of the play by Jean LUTHER Genet. A co-production with Borders Books & Music. Sat, May 10, 1:15; Mon, May 12, 9:15 Directed by Christopher Miles. UK, As Martin Luther, “Stacy Keach’s fire- 1974, color, 95 min. breathing, sinewy performance is the JAZZ ON A SUMMER’S DAY glowing core” (Michael Feingold, THE MAN IN THE Village Voice) of this adaptation of Sun, Jun 8, 2:00 John Osborne’s stage hit on the GLASS BOOTH Sat, May 10, 4:00; Mon, May 12, 6:30 “The 1958 Newport Jazz Festival, with Anita O’Day, Big Maybelle, beginning of the Reformation. Guy Green’s production moves freely in Reclusive Jewish millionaire Dinah Washington, Gerry Mulligan, Thelonious Monk, Chico time and space within a single Maximilian Schell (Oscar nominated massive cathedral interior, with Hugh for Best Actor) subjects assistant Hamilton, Louis Armstrong and Jack Teagarden, and other joys. Griffith’s sales pitch for indulgences a Lawrence Pressman to paranoid rants, comic highlight. but then he’s snatched by the Mossad Bert Stern’s camera style infectiously conveys the festival’s happy, Directed by Guy Green. UK, 1975, and put on trial as a Nazi war lazy-day atmosphere. The America’s Cup observation trials, which color, 112 min. criminal. Is he or isn’t he? And if he isn’t, why then…? Disturbing are also going on, are an unstressed part of the film’s visual tex- courtroom drama with a stunning final twist, adapted from the novel ture. In the evening, when Mahalia Jackson, with her majestic and play by superstar Robert (JAWS) Shaw. chest tones, sings the word ‘soul,’ she defines it for all time. This Directed by Arthur Hiller. USA, isDirected one of by the Bert most Stern. pleasurable 1960, color, of 85 all min. concert films”—Pauline Kael. 1975, color, 117 min.
The Man in the Glass Booth SILVER THREADS The Doors Re-Open: AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center For nearly 20 years, the doors of the historic Silver Theatre were sealed, locking inside some five decades of memories: a gala 1938 opening, the Miss Silver Spring beauty pageants, and countless A Sterling Opening Night evenings of laughter, tears and 7:00 P.M., APRIL 4, 2003. IT’S MAGIC HOUR ON Colesville Road, the evening of the Silver’s second romance. This spring, those opening. Silver Springers gather spontaneously doors opened again for the across the street. Camera crews, photographers and reporters vie for space along the red carpet carefully first time since 1985, adding a laid to welcome guests—including a silver screen few more moments of magic legend known to all by his first name. He’s scheduled to arrive at any moment to christen the to the rich treasure that is now celebration already humming inside. the AFI Silver Theatre and The AFI Silver’s marquee—nearly destroyed by the now-infamous wrecking ball—beams “GRAND Cultural Center. OPENING” in gold letters against the night sky. A string of notables continues up the red carpet— Motion Picture Association of America President AFI Director and CEO Jean Picker Firstenberg Jack Valenti; Montgomery County Executive escorts Clint Eastwood on arrival. Douglas M. Duncan, who spearheaded the effort to refurbish the Silver; former Secretary of Defense who’ve stood outside for hours in the brisk April air William Cohen; media luminary Cokie Roberts; for a Silver Spring word with the Hollywood legend. others associated with the theatre’s monumental WRC TV’s Arch Campbell, for years a Silver Theatre rehabilitation project; and AFI trustees. enthusiast, smiles as Clint approaches to chat for a The air on Colesville moment before disappearing through the outer suddenly grows thick with lobby door. anticipation as police officers Following the reception, a hush falls over the edge towards the theatre’s crowd still gathered outside the theater as entrance, and a black Montgomery County motorcycle officers close limousine pulls up. When a Colesville Road briefly to set the stage for the familiar silver head emerges, Silver’s special opening moment. Inside, a full house the crowd across the street watches as the theatre’s state-of-the-art technology calls out an affectionate brings live video of a special “film cutting” ceremony welcome, “Clint, Clint… we to the screen. County Executive County Executive love you!” Joined on the red Duncan snips a wide strip of film held by Eastwood, carpet by AFI Director and Firstenberg, AFI Co-Director and COO James CEO Jean Picker Firstenberg Hindman, and AFI Silver Deputy Director Ray Barry, and AFI Silver Director as their image appears inside the magnificent 1938 Murray Horwitz, Clint Art Moderne theatre—officially inaugurating the Eastwood—AFI Silver’s guest AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center. All smiles: Ray Barry, Deputy Director, AFI Silver; of honor—answers questions On stage, Horwitz pays tribute to representa- Montgomery County Executive Doug Duncan; and Murray Horwitz, Director, AFI Silver from the many reporters tives of the Silver Theatre’s past seated in the front In safe hands: Clint poses with Montgomery’s finest. Media frenzy on the red carpet, right.
row—John “Jack” Clarke, a Silver Spring resident attending his second Silver Theatre opening as a follow-up to September 15, 1938’s opening night screening of FOUR DAUGHTERS—and former Silver Theatre ushers Bob Mitchell, Keith Pierce and Richard Player. The magic continues with a special screening of one of Eastwood’s favorite films, now celebrating its 60th anniversary—THE OX-BOW INCIDENT—a film about the dangers of mob rule screened for this 2003 audience in its original 4/4 aspect ratio screen format. A conversation between Eastwood and noted Time film critic and Eastwood biographer Richard Schickel follows, concluding with a special preview of footage from Eastwood’s current directorial project, the Sean Penn/Tim Robbins co- starrer, MYSTIC RIVER. Concluding the evening’s ceremony with yet another significant moment, Firstenberg honors Eastwood with the first AFI Silver Legacy Award, which honors artists whose respect and appreciation for the heritage of the American For Openers: County Executive Duncan cuts film with, left to right, James Hindman, Jean Picker film enriches Firstenberg, Clint Eastwood and Ray Barry. their work and advances the moving image. To the AFI Silver, Eastwood gives a nod at parting: “This Two-time opening night theatre is a work celebrant, John “Jack” Clarke of art. I’m very pleased to have had the opportunity to come here and see this restoration.” Honoring his own film legacy as a tough hero, Clint shares a laugh with Jack Valenti, left. The Silver wins Clint Eastwood pauses on his way out for a last approval from Time film critic photograph with the uniformed officers who kept Richard Schickel, above. the law on this historic night. SILVER THREADS Special Opening Week Screenings Notable film producers, directors, writers, actors and musical artists joined AFI on stage for a week of exciting (sometimes new, sometimes classic) sights and sounds in the Silver’s state-of-the-art historic and newly created theatres. Special invitational screenings included:
ONLY THE STRONG SURVIVE Journalist/producer Roger Friedman, musical film documentarians Chris Hegedus and D.A. Pennebaker (director of the Bob Dylan chronicle, DON’T LOOK BACK), soul icon Sam Moore (of “Sam and Dave” fame) and wife Joyce Moore joined Murray Horwitz in an on- The strong do stage discussion of this enthralling documentary of soul legends Jerry survive.... Cast, Butler, The Chi-Lites, Isaac Hayes, Sam Moore, Ann Peebles, crew & friends: Wilson Pickett and others, intercutting footage of their left to right, Sam ("Soulman") & legendary past performances with stunning Joyce Moore, contemporary renditions of their standards. The AFI Ray Barry, D.A. Pennebaker, Silver audience gave Sam Moore a standing ovation for Murray Horwitz, his on-screen heartfelt performance of When Something Chris Hegedus Goes Wrong With My Baby. and Roger Friedman. SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN National Public Radio Special Correspondent Susan Stamberg and Horwitz (who co-wrote Broadway’s Fats MIGHTY WINDers Christopher Waller-inspired Ain’t Misbehavin’) prepped the audience Guest, Mike with background SINGIN’ stories before a special McKean and big-screen presentation of this classic, perpetually-fresh Eugene Levy blow into town. American musical. Donald O’Connor’s timeless sight gags evoked an enthusiastic audience response—so enthusiastic, in fact, you would have thought they were filmed yesterday. A MIGHTY WIND Director Christopher Guest, co-writer Eugene Levy and actor Michael McKean, who comprise half of a noted ensemble cast of “mockumentarians” (BEST OF SHOW, WAITING FOR GUFFMAN, THIS IS SPINAL TAP), brought their deadpan humor to the stage of the AFI Silver to warm the audience up for a special advance screening of A MIGHTY WIND, the new Guest/Levy “co-written” (well, slightly ad-libbed) mockumentary of aging folksingers reassembled for a stage tribute to a now-deceased folksinger from “back in the day.” LAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI JUKES Silver Spring native and leading blues documentarian Robert Mugge graced the AFI Silver’s public opening with a special advance screening of LAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI JUKES, a chronicle of Mississippi juke joints featuring the recollections of Mississippian Morgan Freeman and performances by current blues artists Vasti Jackson and Patrice Monsell. After the screening, Jackson and Monsell unleashed red-hot live performances on-stage that blew the Patrice Monsell sings the blues, left; audience away. Jukes director Robert Mugge, above ROBERT MUGGE ROBERT ABOUT AFI
Public Parking Garage Silver Theatre Public Parking Surface Lot Kennedy Center Lee Building Lot Tickets Box Office Tickets are $8.50 general admission/ The AFI Box Office is located in the $7.50 for AFI Members, students and Kennedy Center Hall of States. Hours seniors (65 and over). A current are 5:30-9:00 pm weekdays and 1:00- membership card is required for all 9:00 pm Saturday & Sunday. The box member transactions. (Limit of two office is not open on days for which member-price tickets per show.) there is no scheduled screening. For pre-recorded program information call Tickets may be purchased either online 202-785-4600. at www.AFI.com/Silver or at the AFI Tickets (Georgia Avenue). The theatre is also All tickets are $8.50/$7.50 for AFI Silver box office. Both advance sale, convenient to the Bethesda area via garages offer free parking on week- Members, students and seniors (65 and day-of-show purchases are avail- East-West Highway, and a short drive ends and metered rates of 50¢ per and over). The AFI accepts American able online or in-person. There is no from downtown Washington via 16th hour weekdays. Express, VISA and MasterCard. • TICKETS: WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER ORDER • TO service fee for online ticketing at the Street, NW. A current membership card required AFI Silver. The AFI accepts American Box Office for all member transactions. (Limit of Express,Box office Visa, opens MasterCard one half-hour and Discover. before By Metro: The AFI Silver Theatre is two member-price tickets per show.). the first scheduled show each day. located on Colesville Road, just two blocks north of Metro’s Red Line For info call 202-888-AFIT. Information station in Silver Spring. Complete program information, Charter Membership RSVP including updates and changes, is By Ride-On Bus: The Silver Spring available at www.AFI.com/Silver. station is served by Ride-On routes YES! I want to join as a Charter Member and support the Members receive AFI PREVIEW—our 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center. monthly program guide—by mail. For 17, 18, 19, 20, 22, 28. ❑ FRIEND $50 Feature Films pre-recorded program information, By Metrobus: The Silver Spring station Four free screening passes ($32 value), $1 discount for two to all regular call 301.495.6700. screenings, members-only screenings, AFI PREVIEW calendar mailings, Concession & Café is served by Metrobus routes 70, 71, J5, members magazine, access to the online AFI Catalog of The AFI Silver’s concession and café F4, F6, JH1, J2, J3, J4, Q2, S2, S4, Y8, Z5. American Film , voting for the annual AFI’s 100 YEARS series and much more. offer a wide range of gourmet fare in ❑ addition to the full range of traditional CONTRIBUTOR $100 All above benefits, plus: sneak preview screenings, priority ticketing for theatre treats. Enjoy candy and pop- Parking select screenings, $1 discount on up to four tickets, four more screening corn (topped with real butter!), as Convenient parking is available to AFI passes for a total of eight ($64 value), and more. well as delicious coffee drinks and a patrons behind the Lee Building at the variety of homemade sandwiches, corner of Colesville Road and Georgia appetizers and baked goods (including Avenue ($3.00 for the entire evening). NAME several vegetarian and vegan-friendly The lot can be entered from either options).Location and Directions Georgia Avenue or Fenton Street. In ADDRESS The AFI Silver Theatre is located at addition, parking is available at 8633 Colesville Road—at the intersec- Gateway Plaza after 6:00pm (in front CITY STATE ZIP tion of Colesville Road and Georgia of the historic shopping center at the Avenue—in the heart of the new corner of Georgia and Colesville). The PHONE (INCLUDE AREA CODE) E-MAIL (ESSENTIAL FOR ON-LINE BENEFITS) downtown Silver Spring. AFI Silver is also within easy walking PAYMENT By Car: The AFI Silver Theatre is less distance of several public parking ❑ Check payable to AFI enclosed ❑ VISA than two miles south of Beltway exit decks. The closest is one-and-a-half 30 (Colesville Road) and exit 31 blocks from the theatre at Colesville ❑ MasterCard ❑ Discover ❑ AmEx THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS RoadAFI Silverand Spring Theatre Street. and CulturalThe public Center Staff Ray Barry Nina Gilden Seavey Joy Cooney John Sery CARD NUMBER EXPIRATION MV Dye Lori Sousa Amanda Fazzone Katie Stack Murray Horwitz Lisa Tropea SIGNATURE Michael Jeck Gabe Wardell Mail to: Charter Membership, AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center, Mary Kerr AFI PREVIEW Joan Kirby Design & Production 8633 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, MD 20910 Malkia Lydia AURAS Design Mary Claire Millies • TO ORDER TICKETS: WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER • MAY 9- 16 JUN 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 MAY 18 17 euyadteBat 6:45 8:50 8:40 6:30 7:00, 9:00 6:40 Beauty andtheBeast The Uncertainty Principle Only theStrong Survive 6:30 Hard Goodbyes: MyFather 7:00, 9:00 The Iceman Cometh 9:15 Galileo 9:15 Passion 8:50 Only theStrong Survive Girl 6:40 7:00, 9:00 In Celebration 6:40 8:40 The Homecoming The Uncertainty Principle Only theStrong Survive Hard Goodbyes: MyFather 7:00, 9:00 Galileo 6:30 7:30 8:15 6:15 6:30 Luther 9:15 2:00 Pan Tadeusz Only theStrong 5:15 Survive Girl 6:40 The ManintheGlassBooth 1:30 The Homecoming Pan Tadeusz The Maids Knife intheWater 6:45 Passion 1:00,3:00,5:00, The Iceman Cometh 4:00 Only theStrong Survive 8:30 Y The Iceman Cometh 6:30 The ManintheGlassBooth Sa 1:00,3:00,5:00, Luther 1:15 7:00, 9:00 Only theStrong Survive In Celebration Safe Only theStrong Survive The Maids Silver Spring,MD20910 8633 Colesville Rd. 5:00,7:00, 9:00 Only theStrong Survive Exodus 2:00, 12:45,2: Beauty andtheBeast 8:45 1:00,3:00,5:00, Exodus 2:00, Only theStrong Survive 12:45,2: 7:00, 9:00 Beauty andtheBeast Beauty andtheBeast 7:15 Exodus 7:15 Only theStrong Survive 7:15 a fteDvl 8:30 ear oftheDevil fe ty ty ty
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