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CONTENTS SPECIAL SCREENING 2 Special Screening: THE EDGE OF 2007 Official Oscar Submission from for Best Foreign Language HEAVEN

3 The Complete THE EDGE OF HEAVEN [Auf der Anderen Seite]

6 Remembered

8 The of Charles Burnett

9 SILVERDOCS presents: BILLY THE KID Best of INPUT

10 MARS: Mid-Atlantic Regional Showcase HAMILTON AFI and Montgomery

11 Special Presentation: EL CID

12 The Year in Review 14 Free Community Event: KING: A FILMED RECORD…MONTGOMERY TO MEMPHIS WHAT IS AFI –HOW DO I JOIN? y y r Repertory Calendar Full Schedule at r o o t 15 t c — c a a F www.AFI.com/Silver F h h c c t t a a M M e e h Now Playing: h T 16 T f f o o y y s s e e t t r r u u o LOOK FOR THE o c c AFI member passes accepted for designated screenings. To find out how to become a est member of AFI, see page 14. Winner, B y, Screenpla Friday, January 25, 7:00 es AFI PREVIEW is published by the American 2007 Cann Director Fatih Akin’s poignant tale al Film Institute. ilm Festiv is an epic melodrama of intersecting F Editorial Offices lives, families and cultures, crisscross - Silver Theatre and Cultural Center ing Germany and . In Hamburg, 8633 Colesville Road life-changing events occur for a Turkish- Silver Spring, MD 20910 German pensioner and his university y y r r o For address changes and subscription services, o t professor son after the father’s favorite t c c a a F contact: F h prostitute becomes his live-in girlfriend. h c American Film Institute c t t a a M 2021 N. Ave. In Istanbul, the prostitute’s radical stu - M e e h h T , CA 90027 dent daughter, after being involved in a T f f o Attn: Membership o y y s police riot, flees to Hamburg. The char - s e e t t r r u u o acters’ efforts to find each other, their o c On the cover: FARGO Wi c nner, Best photo courtesy of Photofest failures, sidetracks, and the impact they S creenplay, Editor: Caroline Small have on the lives of the other charac - Eur opean Film Production Manager: Marie Figueredo ters they encounter, all create a mes - daughters, and the forging of new rela - PROD Andreas Academ y Awards Design: Anna Joyce, Post-Newsweek Media, Inc. merizing tapestry of a story. But the tionships between friends and lovers. Thiel, Klaus Maeck. Information is correct at press time. Films and heart and soul of the film reside in the Fans of German cinema will recognize 2007, Germany/ schedule subject to change. fine exploration of the relationships Check www.AFI.com/Silver for updates. Fassbinder muse , here Turkey, color, 122 min. In English, You can also view a copy of this publication online at between the exquisitely realized charac - giving a remarkable —and surprising — German and Turkish with English Gazette.Net. ters: fathers and sons, mothers and performance. DIR/SCR/PROD Fatih Akin; .

2 n TICKETS & FULL SCHEDULE at WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER THE COMPLETE COEN BROTHERS Visser, a sleazy private eye hired by road - hoop). -set but 1930s-styled, the films house proprietor Dan Hedaya to catch his boasts elaborate art deco sets, natty cos - cheating wife Frances McDormand. Greedy tuming and a bravura performance by x x a a double-crossing and inventive plot twisting Jennifer Jason Leigh, who, as a newshound m m a a r r i i M M lead to a memorably thrilling climax. sniffing out the dope on Hudsucker’s new f f o o y y s s DIR/SCR Joel Coen; SCR/PROD Ethan Coen. chief, channels Rosalind Russell in HIS GIRL e e t t r r u u o o US, 1984, color, 94 min. RATED R FRIDAY by way of in c c MEET with a Katharine February 8 through Hepburn veneer. DIR/SCR Joel Coen; SCR/PROD Ethan Coen; SCR Sam Raimi. March 6 UK/Germany/US, 1994, color, 111 min. The Coen Brothers have created a dozen RATED PG entertaining, often dazzling films over the past 20-odd years, and in this they are without peer among contemporary American filmmak - ers. In genre and tone, setting and period, Thursday, February 14, 9:10; Friday, February they have roamed wild and free —across film 15, 9:15, Saturday, February 16, 9:45 noir, , gangster movies and Criminally underrated, this screwball thrillers, often in period settings and with t t t t s s s s e e e e comedy with a mean streak delivers big f f f regionalism in the foreground. Whether ’s f o o o o t t t t o o o o h h h the Texas neo-noir of their debut, BLOOD h laughs, sure to please Valentine’s Day cele - P P P f f f f o o o SIMPLE; the colorful Capraesque of o y y brants and detractors alike. Hotshot y y s s s e e e e t t t t r contrasted with the r r r u u divorce attorney goes u u o o o o c c c thoroughly noir of THE MAN WHO c ga-ga for golddigger Catherine Zeta-Jones, WASN’T THERE (two films set in the1950s that THE HUDSUCKER PROXY couldn’t be more unalike); or their take on even while successfully defending husband Homer’s The Odyssey, O BROTHER, WHERE RAISING ARIZONA THE HUDSUCKER PROXY against her. Later, han - ART THOU?, set in the Depression-era South Friday, February 8, 7:00; Saturday, February 9, Saturday, February 9, 3:05; Sunday, February 10, dling the pre-nup for her second mar - with bluegrass songs; the Coens’ films put an 9:30; Sunday, February 10, 1:00; Tuesday, 3:05 riage to Texas oil magnate Billy February 12, 9:10; Thursday, February 14, 7:00 original spin on any topic with which they goes from mailroom clerk to Thornton, he’s gulled into thinking she’s a engage. Quirkily comedic in the president of Hudsucker Industries in a sin - changed woman —making him the perfect The Coens have written the scripts for every mold and a left-field hit, the film helped gle day, as the patsy in VP ’s candidate for husband number three. one of their films, and their love of dialogue— launch the careers of future Oscar win - especially the argot of the underworld and the scheme to devalue Hudsucker’s stock DIR/SCR/PROD Joel Coen; SCR Robert local vernacular of rubes—may be their most ners Cage and Hunter. Big-hearted before making a big grab. But Robbins’s Ramsey, Matthew Stone and Ethan abiding trademark. Genre-wise, they can’t be policewoman and goofy product ideas—“you know, for Coen; PROD . US, 2003, pegged down as making a certain kind of reformed criminal make kids”—actually pan out (namely the hula color, 100 min. RATED PG-13 film, but stylistically, they only make one: the perfect misfit couple, but no baby Coen Brothers films. blesses their union (“Her insides were a They’ve been regularly assisted by a team of place where my seed could find top-notch collaborators, including five-time Oscar-nominated cinematographer Roger no purchase.”) The solution: redistribute Deakins, production designers Dennis Gassner one of the local celebrity quintuplets and Rick Heinrichs, composer , into their family. steals and, of course, editor “Roderick Jaynes” (a his scenes as Cage’s ne’er-do-well broth - pseudonym for the brothers themselves) —not er with family issues of his own. DIR/SCR to mention an old-fashioned fondness for the character actors they’ve steadily employed in Joel Coen; SCR/PROD Ethan Coen. US, multiple films: splenetic Jon Polito; Steve 1987, color, 94 min. RATED PG-13 Buscemi, leering and lurking; John Goodman, at his creepiest and often funniest; straight 1985 Grand Jury Prize, man ; a surprisingly ballsy ; and , in roles both large and small, always at his best. Friday, February 8, 9:15; Sunday, February 10, In the months between the anticipated Oscar 9:30; Monday, February 11, 9:00; Wednesday, glory for NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN and February 13, 9:20 the release later this year of their - The Coens’ uncommonly assured debut set spy spoof (starring — George Clooney and Brad Pitt), take a look film was a bona fide indie hit in fact, it t t s e helped pioneer what an “indie hit” was. A e back at the many signs and wonders to be f o o t t o o h found in the Coen Brothers’ filmography. Texas-set neo-noir full of grisly humor and h P P f f o o y a page or two stolen from the y s s e AFI member passes will be accepted at e t t r playbook, the film features the Coens’ first r u u o all screenings in the Coen Brothers o c great screen villain in M. Emmet Walsh’s c Series. INTOLERABLE CRUELTY

TICKETS & FULL SCHEDULE at WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER n 3 THE COMPLETE COEN BROTHERS t t s s e e f f o o t t o o h h P P f f o o y y s s e e t t t t r r s s u u e e o o f f c c o o t t o o h FARGO h P P f f o o y 1997 Best Oscar y s s e e t t r r u Best Actress Oscar: Frances McDormand u o o c c FARGO O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? Friday, February 15, 7:00; Saturday, February 16, 7:30; Sunday, olitions expert/klutz J.K. Simmons. Irma P. Hall has many of 1991 Palme d’Or winner, February 17, 3:00, 7:30; Tuesday, February 19, 9:00; Wednesday, the best lines as the not-so-frail little old lady, a perform - February 20, 9:00; Thursday, February 21, 7:00 ance that won her a Jury Prize at the 2004 Cannes Film The Coens’ signature film is a hardboiled crime drama Friday, February 22, 9:15; Sunday, February 24, 9:15; Monday, Festival. DIR/SCR/PROD Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, based February 25, 9:10 laced with flaky humor, local color and deliriously mem - on the movie by William Rose; PROD John Cameron, This “writer’s nightmare” from the not-so –Golden Age orable character grotesques. Hard-up used car dealer Tom Jacobson, Barry Josephson and . of plays like Nathaniel West crossed with William H. Macy engineers the kidnapping of his own US, 2004, color, 104 min. In English and Vietnamese with Lynch, and its Cannes win launched the Coens’ wife to ransom to his in-laws, but his hired goons Steve English subtitles. RATED R international reputation. New York playwright and Buscemi and Peter Stormare botch the job. Macy might “champion of the common man” John Turturro tries his O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? have gotten away with the cover-up, too, if not for sharp- luck writing for Hollywood and soon finds himself toiling eyed, quick-thinking and very pregnant Detective Marge Friday, February 22, 7:00; Saturday, February 23, 7:00; Sunday, hopelessly on a “wrestling picture” for Wallace Beery. February 24, 7:00; Wednesday, February 27, 9:30 Gunderson. “You betcha.” Nominated for seven Oscars, Panic-stricken, he begs for help from his novelist hero with the brothers winning for Best Screenplay and George Clooney mugs and charms his way through the John Mahoney, a Faulkneresque souse who’s slumming in Frances McDormand winning Best Actress for her Depression-era South, escaping from a chain gang with much-loved turn as Marge. DIR/SCR Joel Coen; SCR/PROD fellow cons John Turturro and Tim Blake Nelson and cir - Ethan Coen. US, 1996, color, 98 min. RATED R cuitously making his way back to wife Holly Hunter in a winking parody of Homer’s The Odyssey . Along the way THE LADYKILLERS Clooney and company pull a bank job with Baby Face Sunday, February 17, 9:40; Monday, February 18, 9:20; Thursday, Nelson, encounter backwoods , escape one-eyed February 21, 9:10 Bible-selling maniac John Goodman, break up a Ku Klux The Coens director Alexander Mackendrick’s Klan rally in high style and cut a hit single as the Soggy

Bottom Boys. The smash hit bluegrass and country t t s London-set dark comedy in Biloxi, Mississippi, with Tom s e e f f o o t soundtrack won a Grammy for producer T-Bone t o Hanks essaying ’s famous role as a con-man o h h P P f Burnett. DIR/SCR Joel Coen; SCR/PROD Ethan Coen; f o who thinks he can deceive an elderly landlady long enough o y y s s e SCR based on Homer’s The Odyssey . UK//US, e t to pull a heist from her property. Hanks leads a gang that t r r u u o o c includes motor-mouth Marlon Wayans and dem - 2000, color, 107 min. RATED PG-13 c BARTON FINK

4 n TICKETS & FULL SCHEDULE at WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER THE COMPLETE COEN BROTHERS s s o o i i d d u u t t S S l l a a s s r r e e v v i i n n U U f f o o y y s s e e t t r r u u o o c c shaggy dog shenanigans and pixilated dialogue deliver gut-busting hilarity from to finish; and a stellar t t s s cast all with great comic gusto, including John e e f f o o t t o o Goodman, , and h h P P f f o o John Turturro as bad-ass bowler “.” DIR/SCR Joel y s s e t t

r Coen; SCR/PROD Ethan Coen. US/UK, 1998, color, 117 u o o c c min. RATED R MILLER’S CROSSING the studios himself and not above letting his secretary do his work for him. But if Turturro weren’t so self- involved, he might listen more closely to real common NOW PLAYING man John Goodman, his neighbor at the seedy Hotel JANUARY 2008 Earle, who “could tell you stories that would make your hair curl.” DIR/SCR Joel Coen; SCR/PROD Ethan Coen. The latest film from the Coen Brothers! US/UK, 1991, color, 116 min. RATED R NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN MILLER’S CROSSING visit www.AFI.com/Silver for daily showtimes Saturday, February 23, 9:15; Sunday, February 24, 3:00; Tuesday, t t s February 26, 7:00 s e e f f o o t t o The Coens’ ripping yarn of 1930s gang warfare boasts some o h h P P f f o of the most pyrotechnic gunplay to riddle the screen —and o y y s s e e t t r verbal fireworks to match. Italian mob boss Jon Polito wants r u u o o c to rub out Jewish gambler John Turturro, but he’s protected c THE MAN WHO WASN’T THERE by Irish Godfather , who’s sweet on Turturro’s sister Marcia Harden. Finney’s righthand man Gabriel cleaning scheme, secretly blackmailing department store x Byrne advises his boss against letting his heart interfere with magnate about his affair with x a a m m a a r business, but he’s hardly one to talk, as he’s got a thing with r

Thornton’s wife Frances McDormand. These things i i M M f f o Harden on the side. By turns frenetic and poetic, comedic never go right, of course, and the Coens delight in fol - o y y s s e e t t r and melodramatic, this one-of-a-kind crime saga was initially lowing down the dominos. The terrific cast also includes r u u o o c overlooked (it had the misfortune to be released the same Richard Jenkins, Tony Shalhoub and . c year as ), but now ranks as one of the Best Director, 2001 Cannes Film Festival—Joel’s third THE BEST FILM OF THE YEAR Coens’ greatest films. DIR/SCR Joel Coen; SCR/PROD Ethan such honor. DIR/SCR Joel Coen; SCR/PROD Ethan Coen. National Board of Review Coen. US, 1990, color, 115 min. RATED R US/UK, 2001, b&w, 116 min. RATED R New York Film Critics Circle 2001 Best Director, Cannes Film Festival THE BIG LEBOWSKI Washington DC Area Film Critics THE MAN WHO WASN’T THERE Friday, February 29, 9:30; Saturday, March 1, 7:30, 10:00; Sunday, Boston Film Critics March 2, 3:00; Tuesday, March 4, 9:00; Thursday, March 6, 9:00 Friday, February 29, 7:00; Saturday, March 1, 3:00; Sunday, March Chicago Film Critics 2, 9:15; Monday, March 3, 9:00 “The Dude abides.” A case of mistaken identity Shot in glorious black & white by the Oscar-nominated embroils slacker Jeff “the Dude” Lebowski (a sublimely 4 GOLDEN GLOBE NOMINATIONS , the Coens’ homage to novelist James M. comic ) in a kidnapping case and throws him Best Picture, Director, Screenplay and Actor in a Cain is a moody, existential meta-noir. Sad sack barber into the role of hapless detective in the Coens’ cock - Supporting Role— gets suckered into Jon Polito’s dry eyed homage to ’s THE BIG SLEEP. The

TICKETS & FULL SCHEDULE at WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER n 5 INGMAR BERGMAN REMEMBERED

By reckoning with her past, she gains the at her mother’s country estate. Guests strength to face the challenges of the include her former lover Gunnar present, including the demands of Björnstrand and her current lover Jarl taskmaster ballet director Stig Olin, the Kulle, as well as the two men’s ill- amorous advances of new suitor Alf matched spouses and maid Kjellin and opening night. DIR/SCR Harriett Andersson. After much wicked t t s s e e f f Ingmar Bergman; SCR Herbert flirtation and romantic gamesmanship, the o o t t o o h h Grevenius; PROD Rune Waldekranz. tangle of husbands, wives, old mistresses P P f f o o t t s s y y e e f f , 1951, b&w, 96 min. and new lovers resolves itself, gracefully, s s o o t t e e t t o o r r h h P P u u f f into four new couples. DIR/SCR Ingmar o o o o c c y y s s e e 1956 Jury Award for “Best Poetic Humor,” t t r r Bergman; PROD . Sweden, u u o o c c Cannes Film Festival 1955, b&w, 108 min. SUMMER WITH MONIKA February 8 through [Sommaren med Monika] [Sommarnattens leende] aka NAKED March 4 Friday, February 8, 4:45; Saturday, February 9, NIGHT [Gycklarnas afton] With Ingmar Bergman’s in the 7:20; Sunday, February 10, 7:20 Thursday, February 14, 4:45; Friday, February 15, 4:45; Saturday, February 16, 2:45; Sunday, Saturday, February 16, 12:45; Tuesday, February summer of 2007, the world lost one of An important influence cited by filmmakers February 17, 12:45 19, 7:00; Wednesday, February 20, 7:00 the greatest artists in the history of cine - from Jean-Luc Godard to to Bergman’s breakthrough on the interna - A key early film featuring frighteningly , Ingmar Bergman’s moving ma. His filmography numbers over 60 tional stage and the source for both intense performances and bravura techni - story was many years ahead of its time and works, most of them fairly described as ’s cal work prefiguring Bergman’s landmark the director’s international breakthrough. Two “great” and many of them landmarks in and Woody Allen’s A MIDSUMMER film PERSONA. Fleabag circus owner Åke young lovers (Lars Ekborg and an 18-year-old film history, representing the pinnacle of NIGHT’S SEX COMEDY, SMILES OF A Grönberg is tempted to abandon his life , in her star-making role) sustained work by a master at his craft. SUMMER NIGHT may be the master - on the road with circus-tramp girlfriend spend a summer idyll together only to see it The first installment of AFI Silver’s multi- work of romantic farce, the one that all Harriet Andersson when his caravan wither in the light of real-world responsibili - others must measure themselves against. arrives in the hometown of his estranged part retrospective of the best of ties. The film’s frank—and frankly glorious— In frothy, fin-de-siècle Sweden, stage wife and children. Peeved at Grönberg Bergman’s films focuses on work from depiction of sexuality made it an art house actress arranges a weekend and looking to climb the showbiz ladder, the 1950s. These films brought Bergman sensation. DIR/SCR Ingmar Bergman, based his first international acclaim at the on the novel by Per Anders Fogelström; Cannes and film festivals, after he PROD Rune Waldekranz. Sweden, 1953, had honed his craft in the late 1940s. As b&w, 96 min. Bergman scholar has noted, these films often explore ethical themes using period settings, in contrast with the hard psychological turn and contempo - s rary settings Bergman favored in the s m m l l i i F F s . s u u n n a a J J f Bergman’s developing stock company of f o o y y s s e e t actors during this time includes t r r u u o o c Bergman’s first great discovery Harriet c Andersson, , Gunnar SUMMER INTERLUDE Björnstrand, and the signature Bergman “SUMMER INTERLUDE was actor, . All films in this my first film in which I felt I was series were photographed by the great functioning independently, with a —except 1960’s , the first Bergman film style of my own, making a film shot entirely by master cinematographer all of my own.” , Bergman’s regular pho - — DIRECTOR INGMAR BERGMAN tographer from then on. All films are in Swedish with English SUMMER INTERLUDE [Sommarlek] subtitles. Saturday, February 9, 1:00; Tuesday, February 12, t s s e 7:00 e f f o o t ALL FILMS NOT RATED t o o h Ballerina Maj-Britt Nilsson opens the h P P f f o AFI member passes will be accepted o y diary of her deceased first love, and y s s e e t at all screenings in the Ingmar t r r u memories of their perfect summer in the u o o c Bergman Series. c Swedish archipelago come flooding back. SMILES OF A SUMMER NIGHT

6 n TICKETS & FULL SCHEDULE at WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER INGMAR BERGMAN REMEMBERED Death himself. Unwilling to go quietly, von Sydow challenges Death to a game of chess. An allegorical parade of human foibles and suffering pass by as the two s s match wits. DIR/SCR Ingmar Bergman; m m l l i i F F s s PROD Allan Ekelund. Sweden, 1957, u u n n a a J J b&w, 92 min. f f o o y y s s e e t t r r u u THE VIRGIN SPRING [Jungfrukällan] o o c c THE MAGICIAN aka THE FACE Sunday, March 2, 1:00; Monday, March 3, 7:00 Wifstrand, purveyor of potions; coachman This powerful tale of morality, , and Lars Ekborg, skilled at getting out of town revenge in medieval Sweden won quickly; and show barker Åke Fridell, a sil - Bergman the first of his three Oscars for ver-tongued persuader. Detained in a Best Foreign Language Film. Max von small town by suspicious police, they are Sydow performs with near-demonic pos - ordered to give a command performance session as the family patriarch out to for the local authorities, eager to expose avenge the violation and murder of his them as fakes. But von Sydow comes up daughter in a world on the cusp with his greatest trick yet... DIR/SCR of pagan tradition and the re cently arrived s s Christian faith. Bergman’s first collaboration m l l Ingmar Bergman; PROD Allan Ekelund. i i F F with cinematographer Sven Nykvist is a s s u u Sweden, 1958, b&w, 100 min. n n a a tour-de-force of outdoor shooting, natural J J f f o o y y light and mobile camerawork. DIR/PROD s s 1957 Special Jury Prize, Cannes Film Festival e e t t r r u u Ingmar Bergman; SCR ; o o c c [Det sjunde PROD Allan Ekelund. Sweden, 1960, SAWDUST AND TINSEL aka NAKED NIGHT inseglet] b&w, 89 min. Andersson goes off with cynical local the - novel, the definitive “memory piece” of Friday, February 29, 4:45; Saturday, March 1, ater director Gunnar Björnstrand. The the art form. Victor Sjöstrom —himself an 1:00; Sunday, March 2, 7:15; Tuesday, March 4, 7:00 characters’ wanderings and returns, accomplished director, and mentor to romantically and professionally, begin in Bergman —gives a remarkable perform - Bergman’s best-known and most iconic cold practicality but escalate to fevered ance as an elderly professor traveling by film is a touchstone of international cine - s ma’s golden age in the 1950s and 1960s — s m m l passion. DIR/SCR Ingmar Bergman; car to receive an honorary degree, an old l i i F F s and has been essential, rite-of-passage s u PROD Rune Waldekranz. Sweden, 1953, man for whom the past seems as present u n n a a J viewing for every film buff since. J f b&w, 93 min. as the countryside outside his car win - f o o y y s Max von Sydow returns from crusading s e e t dow. The uniquely cinematic conjuring of t r r u u o 1958 , Film Festival to discover his country ravaged by o c memory, using dream sequences and c plague —and comes face to face with WILD STRAWBERRIES flashbacks, evokes a bittersweet nostalgia THE VIRGIN SPRING [Smultronstället] of successes savored and regrets that still Friday, February 22, 4:45; Saturday, February 23, sting. DIR/SCR Ingmar Bergman; PROD 3:10; Sunday, February 24, 1:00; Tuesday, Allan Ekelund. Sweden, 1957, b&w, 91 February 26, 9:20 min. A milestone in motion pictures, Bergman’s WILD STRAWBERRIES is to 1959 Special Jury Prize, cinema what Marcel Proust’s THE MAGICIAN aka THE FACE Remembrance of Things Past is to the [Ansiktet] Saturday, February 23, 1:00; Monday, February 25, 7:00; Wednesday, February 27, 6:30 (Montgomery College Show) Bergman deftly blends the eerie with the comedic in this philosophical battle of wits. In 19th-century Sweden, mesmerist s s m m l l t t i i s F Max von Sydow leads a troupe of travel - F e f f s s o u u t t n n o ing mountebanks, “Vogler's Magnetic a a h J J P P f f f f o o o o Health Theater,” that includes his wife y y y y s s s e e e t t t r r r Ingrid Thulin, disguised as his male assis - u u u o o o o c c c tant; his witchy old grandmother Naima WILD STRAWBERRIES THE SEVENTH SEAL

TICKETS & FULL SCHEDULE at WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER n 7 THE FILMS OF CHARLES BURNETT “Charles Burnett is the most gifted and important black filmmaker this country has ever had.” — FILM CRITIC JONATHAN ROSENBAUM

Charles Burnett February 9 through s s s March 5 s m m m m l l l l i i i i F F Born in 1944 in Mississippi, F F e e e e n n n n o o o o t t t t s s Charles Burnett grew up in Los s s e e e e l l l l i i i i M M M M f f Angeles. After receiving an f f o o o o y y y y s s s s e e engineering degree from Los e e t t t t r r r r u u u u o o o o c c Angeles Community College, he c c enrolled in the UCLA film KILLER OF SHEEP MY BROTHER’S WEDDING school in the . In what “A masterpiece. One of the most insightful and SHORTS SPECIAL PRICE : $5 would be coined “The LA authentic dramas about African-American life on film. Rebellion ,” Burnett—along with Saturday, February 23, 5:10; Sunday, February 24, 5:20 One of the finest American films, period.” (DAUGHTERS OF SEVERAL FRIENDS — DAVE KEHR, THE DUST), Haile Gerima The precursor to KILLER OF SHEEP, Burnett’s first film is a neo-realist- (HARVEST: 3,000 YEARS), and , Library of Congress 1990 inspired depiction of the frustrations and resilience of a group of friends. Billy Woodberry (BLESS THEIR KILLER OF SHEEP DIR Charles Burnett. US, 1969, b&w, 23 min. LITTLE HEARTS)—began making Saturday, February 9, 5:30; Sunday, February 10, 5:30; Monday, February 11, politically and socially engaged 7:00; Wednesday, February 13, 6:30 (Montgomery College Show) THE HORSE cinema in direct opposition to One of the first films to be selected as a national treasure by the This elegiac tale about a group of men and a young boy waiting on the mainstream media stereotypes Library of Congress, KILLER OF SHEEP is director Charles Burnett’s boy’s father to put down a horse received first prize at Oberhausen’s and the Hollywood UCLA thesis film, shot in crisp black and white on location in Watts festival. DIR Charles Burnett. US, 1973, color, 14 min. Blaxploitation that reigned over with mostly non-professional actors. Protagonist Stan (Henry G. the decade. Sanders) is a dreamy but weary family man who works at the local WHEN IT RAINS slaughterhouse. His pretty wife (Kaycee Moore) and children, unable Watts, 1960s. A man’s quest for money to save a mother and her chil - Despite his legendary status in to connect with him, try to take solace in small moments at , dren from eviction by the landlord turns into a superbly comical, outra - the film world and with all of his while outside the neighborhood churns with packs of roaming kids, geous expedition through the lives and attitudes of various characters. critical acclaim —the festival bizarre neighbors, and people narrowly scraping by. DIR/SCR/PROD A parable on the value of community. DIR Charles Burnett. US, 1995, awards, the MacArthur Charles Burnett. US, 1977, b&w, 83 min. color, 14 min. Foundation’s “genius” grant — Charles Burnett remains relatively QUIET AS KEPT “A film so firmly and organically rooted in a specific DIR Charles Burnett. US, 2006, color, unacknowledged in the main - A short on Hurricane Katrina. 6 min. stream press. Burnett’s films are time and place that it seems to contain worlds.” often compared to works by the — A.O. SCOTT, THE NEW YORK TIMES neo-realist masters Rossellini, MY BROTHER’S WEDDING BLESS THEIR LITTLE HEARTS Renoir, Ozu. Likewise, Burnett’s Saturday, February 16, 5:00; Sunday, February 17, 5:05; Monday, February 18, 7:00 Saturday, March 1, 5:30; Sunday, March 2, 5:30; Wednesday, March 5, 9:30 cinema is anchored in the realism Burnett’s follow-up to KILLER OF SHEEP has remained largely unseen One of the buried jewels of American independent cinema, this of everyday life but burns due to lack of distribution, a failure which film critic Armond White film has been aptly compared to neo-realist classics by Vittorio through to something more politi - called “a catastrophic blow to the development of American pop cul - De Sica. A poetically realist look at the life of the Banks family cally aware, more human(e), ture.” Beautifully restored by the Pacific Film Archive with a new re- in South Central Los Angeles during the 1980s, BLESS THEIR more uniquely American than edit by the director, MY BROTHER’S WEDDING tracks the intelligent LITTLE HEARTS centers on the way each family member deals almost ever put to but disaffected Everett Silas as he roams his Watts neighborhood and with the father’s inability to be a breadwinner for the house - celluloid. labors in his parents’ dry cleaning shop —aware of his few prospects hold. Burnett served as and cinematographer, and his children are onscreen talent. (note courtesy Museum of Fine ALL FILMS NOT RATED for the future —while his brother busily prepares himself for marriage Arts, Boston) DIR Billy Woodberry; SCR Charles Burnett. US, AFI member passes will be into the bourgeoisie. DIR/SCR/PROD Charles Burnett; PROD Gaye accepted at all screening in 1984, b&w, 80 min. the Charles Burnett Series. Shannon-Burnett. US, 1983, color, 115 min.

8 n TICKETS & FULL SCHEDULE at WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER SILVERDOCS PRESENTS: s s m m l l Winner of the SILVERDOCS 2007 Audience Award i i F F e e y y E E Back by popular demand! t t n n a a h h p p SOUVENIRS e e l l E E f f o o Monday, February 4, 7:00 y y s s e e t t r r u u Documentary Filmmaker Shahar Cohen attends a reunion with o o c c BILLY THE KID his father, a WWII veteran, who reveals a secret: while stationed in the Netherlands he paired up with a few young Dutch women, and may have left behind a "souvenir". The two embark on an Special Guests: Director Jennifer Venditti and author John Elder arduous, often humorous roadtrip to retrace the father's war Robison, Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger’s experiences, and discover if there may be a half-sibling—or two. DIR Shahar Cohen and Halil Efrat; SCR Shadar Cohen; Sharon BILLY THE KID Shamir. , 2006, color, 75 min. in English and Hebrew Wednesday, January 23, 7:00 with English subtitles. NOT RATED Director Venditti’s sensitive and humorous portrait of Billy Price, a 15-year-old in small-town Maine, challenges For the past 30 years, media producers from around the world attend INPUT viewers to imagine ourselves beyond labels. In many ways like other teenage boys, Billy’s into heavy metal and (the International Public Television Screening Conference) for a week-long screen - martial arts, is desperate to find a girlfriend and aspires to be an actor and rock star. But in other ways, Billy is ing and discussion showcase. Coming to DC for a fourth year and in collaboration unique. Behavioral issues have left Billy marked. He allows Venditti to observe him in school, witness candid with a number of partners including, American University’s Center for Social Media, Goethe-Institut/German Cultural Center, and and Video, conversations with his mother and film the budding romance between him and 16-year-old Heather. DIR/PROD SILVERDOCS will present BEST OF INPUT, with several evenings of screenings Jennifer Venditti; PROD Chiemi Karasawa. US, 2007, color, 84 min. NOT RATED selected from INPUT 2007 ().

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Be a student again! Join us at AFI Silver Theatre for these special educational screenings, each of which will be followed by a discussion with a film professor from Montgomery College. Tickets are $5 for students! Coming in the Next Issue Look for more information on the following films in our next issue of PREVIEW: THE TRAIN NIGHT OF THE HUNTER March 19 April 16 THE LUSTY MEN April 2 April 30

AFI Workshops at Montgomery College The popular and long-running AFI Workshops at Montgomery College return on March 1 and 2 with an introductory course on s s m m l l i i Final Cut Pro/Final Cut Express. For more information on AFI F e e n n o o Workshops and Montgomery College's film studies courses, visit t s s e e l l i i www.montgomerycollege.edu. M M f f o o y y s s e e t t r r u u About Montgomery College Film Studies Programs o o c c Film studies, offered only at the Montgomery College Takoma Park Campus,

KILLER OF SHEEP > includes courses in film history, introduction to film, , film act - DIRECTED BY CHARLES BURNETT ing, movie production, and independent study courses in and February 13 advanced movie production. Films studied in various film courses are See page 8 for full film note. screened at the AFI Silver Theatre in a 6-week series entitled Montgomery College at AFI. Hands-on workshops are offered each year in February, May, and July, providing students the opportunity to study with recognized pro - s THE MAGICIAN > s m m l l i DIRECTED BY NGMAR ERGMAN i fessionals in the field. Film production students shoot on state-of-the-art F I B F s s u u Canon XL1 miniDV cameras and edit in a digital editing lab with cutting n n a February 27 a J J f f edge equipment. o o y See page 6 for full film note. y s s e e For more information, please call 240.567.1407 or visit t t r r u u o o www.montgomerycollege.edu c c

MARS: Mid-Atlantic Regional Showcase AFI and Montgomery College continue their showcase of independent films by local and regional filmmakers. All MARS screenings are preceded by a casual “Filmmaker Meet and Greet” a half-hour before show time. Tickets to screenings in this series are $5. “Astonishing in its simple beauty, amazing performances and hypnotic pace. The real thing.” — DIRECTOR HAMILTON Sunday, January 27, 7:00 A minor miracle…barely an hour long, made for a pittance in director Porterfield’s native Baltimore with non-professional actors on 16mm film, HAMILTON is one of the most original, moving and accomplished American independent films in recent years. The story alone is touchingly simple —a teen-age mother, about to leave town r r e for a month, wants her baby’s young father to pay her a visit —but Porterfield’s e z z t t n n i genius is revealed above all in the way he brings it to life. The film builds to an i M M n n o o d unlikely, wondrous chase, and leaves the viewer astonished, hungry for more and d r r o o J J f eagerly anticipating what Porterfield, who is still in his 20s, will do next. ( note courtesy f o o y y s s e e t Richard Brody, ) DIR/SCR Matthew Porterfield; PROD Jordan Mintzer. t r r u u o o c US, 2006, color, 65 min. NOT RATED c HAMILTON

10 n TICKETS & FULL SCHEDULE at WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER SPECIAL PRESENTATION Special HD Digital Presentation:

The Digitally Restored Wide-Screen Epic "EL CID is one of the greatest epic films ever made. 's sense of composition, his use of space, and his graceful camera movements bring to life an ancient tapestry where the transformation of an ordinary man into a legend become almost a mystical experience." — DIRECTOR MARTIN SCORSESE

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EL CID arrives on two- disc DVD January 29, from Genius Products and The Weinstein t t s s e e f f o o t t o o Company. With digitally h h P P f f o o y y remastered picture and s s e e t t r r u u o o c c sound and an introduction by EL CID director Martin Scorsese, the two- Monday, January 28, 7:00 pm USA Today Film Critic Mike Clark in Person to give introduction disc Collector’s Edition DVD set Film legends and ignite the screen in this medieval tale of passion and chivalry. offers exclusive extras, including Heston plays the heroic Spanish knight, Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, or, to his followers, "El Cid" —Moorish for "one who multiple featurettes, reproductions of is both compassionate and a great warrior." Without compromising his strict sense of honor, he succeeds in driving the Moors from and becomes a legend. Loren plays the mysterious Chimene, a Moorish princess torn the original 1961 souvenir program between her desire for revenge against Heston —whom she blames for her father’s death —and her developing love and the original 1961 El Cid comic for him. Directed by the great Anthony Mann. DIR Anthony Mann; SCR Ben Barzman and , based on the story by Fredric M. Frank; PROD Samuel Bronston. /US, 1961, color, 182 min. NOT RATED book.

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How time flies when you’re having fun! 2007 was another year of great movies, fantastic events and numerous visits from world-renowned filmmakers. AFI Silver is proud to continue our mission of celebrating the best in film— in the region’s finest facilities. As we take a brief look at this past year’s events, we would like to thank our sup - porters, members and audiences—without whom none of this would have been possible.

Silver Spring accordion Filmmaker gives audiences a sample of his legend Merv Conn plays at multi-dimensional talent, playing the keyboards preceding a the screening Jeff Krulik’s screening of his latest film . THE LEGEND OF MERV CONN. 2007 Guggenheim Award recipient .

Attendees at the AFI’s First Annual Film Festival Opening Night screening of THE BANQUET were treated to a traditional lion dance prior to the film.

Audience at the SILVERDOCS free outdoor screening

R. Todd Ruppert, President and Chief Executive Actress/producer Elizabeth Shue and Officer of T. Rowe Price Global Investment Services husband/director/Oscar winner Davis Guggenheim at the premiere of GRACIE. Keynote speaker and NANKING producer Ted Ltd., presents Ambassador Zhou Wenzhong with a Leonsis addresses the audience. commemorative poster to celebrate the inaugural AFI China Film Festival.

12 n TICKETS & FULL SCHEDULE at WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER Spanish actress Natalia Verbeke, at Join the celebration! the in the Sign up for weekly programming and special event updates at Movies screening of EL METODO. www. AFI.com/Silver. Want to be invited to exclusive events? Become an AFI Silver member, more information on page 14.

Spanish Embassy Cultural Counselor Jorge Mid-Atlantic Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Sobredo, far left, and colleagues at the Latin President Jorge Ribas, far right, and friends at the Murray Horwitz, AFI Silver Director, American Film Festival’s Ceviche party. Closing Night of the Latin American Film Festival. right, with film composer and Grammy-award winning jazz great Terence Blanchard.

Czech New Wave legend Jiri Menzel, director of I SERVED THE KING OF ENGLAND .

Academy Award-winning writer and director signs autographs at an advance screening of IN THE VALLEY The New York Times film critic A.O. Scott and OF ELAH. Members at the Affiliate and director at the DC premiere of The Cultural Counselors of , up level were invited to the screening Cannes Palme d’Or Award winner, 4 MONTHS, 3 Greece and Portugal at the EU and post-screening reception. WEEKS & 2 DAYS. Closing Night reception.

Writer/director at April 2008-AFI Silver turns 5! the AFI Members’ 2008 will mark the 5th anniversary of AFI's reopening of the sneak preview historic Silver Theatre. Thank you to our audiences for making AFI of I’M NOT Silver a success over these five great years, and look for updates THERE. on our 5th anniversary celebration in our next issue of Preview.

TICKETS & FULL SCHEDULE at WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER n 13 ANNUAL MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. DAY CELEBRATION Special Free Event! Tickets available at the AFI Silver Box Office DAY OF SHOW ONLY; limit 4 tickets per person. Box Office opens a half hour before each .

KING: A FILMED RECORD…MONTGOMERY TO MEMPHIS Monday, January 21, 10:00am, 1:00 A riveting compilation of documentary footage of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., from the Montgomery bus boy - cott to the “I Have a Dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial, from the dogs of Selma to the Nobel Prize and the fateful balcony in Memphis. Includes narration and on-screen commentary from , , Paul Newman, , Charlton Heston, , Ruby Dee, Clarence Williams III and others. Co-directed by Hollywood notables and Joseph L. Mankiewicz. DIR Sidney Lumet and Joseph L. Mankiewicz; SCR/PROD Ely Landau and Richard Kaplan. US, 1970, b&w, 185 min. NOT RATED

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14 n TICKETS & FULL SCHEDULE at WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER REPERTORY PROGRAM January 11 through March 6, 2008 at AFI Silver JANUARY The calendar below lists all repertory dates and special events/programs as of press time. Always FRI SAT check www.AFI.com/Silver for updated daily showtimes, additional openings and to register for THERE WILL BE BLOOD 11 Opens Today 12 AFI Silver’s weekly eblast. Check www.afi.com/silver for showtimes

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n KING: A FILMED n SILVERDOCS 20 21 RECORD 10:00am, 22 23 Presents: 24 25 26 1:00 BILLY THE KID 7:00

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n SILVERDOCS n SUMMER WITH n SUMMER 3 4 Presents: 5 6 7 8 MONIKA 4:45 9 INTERLUDE 1:00 Best of Input: n RAISING ARIZONA n THE HUDSUCKER SOUVENIRS 7:00 7:00 PROXY 3:05 n KILLER OF SHEEP 5:30 n BLOOD SIMPLE 9:15 n SUMMER WITH MONIKA 7:20 n RAISING ARIZONA 9:30

n RAISING ARIZONA 1:00 n KILLER OF SHEEP n SUMMER n KILLER OF SHEEP n SMILES OF A n SMILES OF A n SAWDUST AND 10 n THE HUDSUCKER 11 7:00 12 INTERLUDE 7:00 13 (Montgomery College 14 SUMMER NIGHT 4:45 15 SUMMER NIGHT 4:45 16 TINSEL 12:45 n PROXY 3:05 n BLOOD SIMPLE 9:00 n RAISING ARIZONA Show) 6:30 n RAISING ARIZONA n FARGO 7:00 SMILES OF A n KILLER OF SHEEP 9:10 n BLOOD SIMPLE 9:20 7:00 n INTOLERABLE SUMMER NIGHT 2:45 n MY BROTHER’S 5:30 n INTOLERABLE CRUELTY 9:15 n WEDDING 5:00 SUMMER WITH CRUELTY 9:10 n FARGO 7:30 MONIKA 7:20 n INTOLERABLE n BLOOD SIMPLE 9:30 CRUELTY 9:45 n SMILES OF A n MY BROTHER’S n SAWDUST AND n SAWDUST AND n FARGO 7:00 n WILD n THE MAGICIAN 1:00 17 SUMMER NIGHT 12:45 18 WEDDING 7:00 19 TINSEL 7:00 20 TINSEL 7:00 21 n THE LADYKILLERS 22 STRAWBERRIES 23 n WILD n FARGO 3:00, 7:30 n THE LADYKILLERS n FARGO 9:00 n FARGO 9:00 9:10 4:45 STRAWBERRIES n 3:10 n MY BROTHER’S 9:20 O BROTHER, n BURNETT SHORTS 5:10 WEDDING 5:05 WHERE ART THOU? n O BROTHER, WHERE n THE LADYKILLERS 9:40 7:00 ART THOU? 7:00 n BARTON FINK 9:15 n MILLER’S CROSS - ING 9:15 n WILD n THE MAGICIAN 7:00 n MILLER’S CROSSING n THE MAGICIAN n THE SEVENTH SEAL MARCH 24 STRAWBERRIES 1:00 25 n 26 27 28 29 1 n BARTON FINK 9:10 7:00 (Montgomery College 4:45 MILLER’S CROSSING n WILD Show) 6:30 n THE MAN WHO n THE SEVENTH SEAL 1:00 3:00 n n THE MAN WHO WASN’T n BURNETT SHORTS STRAWBERRIES 9:20 O BROTHER, WASN’T THERE 7:00 n THERE 3:00 5:20 WHERE ART THOU? THE BIG LEBOWSKI n BLESS THEIR LITTLE n O BROTHER, WHERE 9:30 9:30 HEARTS 5:30 ART THOU? 7:00 n THE BIG LEBOWSKI 7:30, n BARTON FINK 9:15 10:00 n THE VIRGIN SPRING 1:00 n THE VIRGIN SPRING n THE SEVENTH SEAL n BLESS THEIR LITTLE n THE BIG LEBOWSKI n 2 THE BIG LEBOWSKI 3 7:00 4 7:00 5 HEARTS 9:30 6 9:00 3:00 n n n BLESS THEIR LITTLE THE MAN WHO THE BIG LEBOWSKI HEARTS 5:30 WASN’T THERE 9:00 9:00 n THE SEVENTH SEAL 7:15 n THE MAN WHO WASN’T THERE 9:15 n Special Screenings, n The Complete Coen n Ingmar Bergman n The Films of Charles n SILVERDOCS Presents n AFI and Montgomery MARS: Montgomery Brothers Remembered Burnett College COLOR KEY Mid Atlantic Regional Showcase

TICKETS & FULL SCHEDULE at WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER n 15 Opens Friday, January 11 —Visit www.AFI.com/Silver for daily showtimes Award-winning director of MAGNOLIA and BOOGIE NIGHTS, P.T. centers around the Holy Roller church of charismatic preacher Eli Sunday Anderson’s sprawling epic of family, faith, power and oil is set on the incendi - (Paul Dano, best remembered as the teenage son in last year’s LITTLE MISS ary frontier of California’s turn-of-the-century petroleum boom. Upton SUNSHINE). Plainview makes his lucky strike – but nothing will remain the Sinclair’s story chronicles the life and times of one Daniel Plainview (Daniel same as conflicts escalate and every human value —love, hope, community, Day-Lewis), who transforms himself from a down-and-out silver miner raising belief, ambition and even the bond between father and son —is imperiled by a son on his own into a self-made oil tycoon. When Plainview gets a mysteri - corruption, deception and the flow of oil. DIR/SCR/PROD Paul Thomas ous tip about a little town where an ocean of oil is oozing out of the ground, Anderson, based on the novel Oil ! by Upton Sinclair; PROD Daniel Lupi, he and his son head for the hardscrabble spot, where the main excitement Joanne Sellar. US, 2007, color, 158 min. RATED R e e g g a a t t n n a a V V t t n n u u o o m m a a r r a a P P f f o o y y s s e e t t r r u u o o c c s s o o t t o o h h p p

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