THE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE GUIDE June 21-July 29, 2004 ★ TO THEATRE AND MEMBER EVENTS VOLUME 1 • ISSUE 11 AFIPREVIEW FANNY AND Featured ALEXANDER Showcase CRIES AND WHISPERS PERSONA Ingmar And Many More Bergman Plus: Orson Welles Retrospective AFI Life Achievement Award Recipient Meryl Streep Showcase Marx Brothers Romp ORWELL ROLLS IN HIS GRAVE British Horror Films FEATURED FILM Features 2ORWELL ROLLS IN HIS GRAVE 4 THE THIRD MAN 13 LAWRENCE OF ARABIA AFI Life Achievement Award Recipient Showcase 3Two-time Oscar winner Meryl Streep in some of her most memorable films Film Series 4 The Films of Orson Welles 11 Marx Brothers Revue 12 Bloody Hell: British Horror Films “Skewers the news media and its owners Featured Showcase in a way that chills and disturbs, and is 6 Ingmar Bergman City-Wide Retrospective the best rabble rousing piece of its kind I’ve ever seen.” Calendar 8-9 —Jeffrey Wells, HOLLYWOOD ELSEWHERE About AFI Silver/Kennedy Center Theatres 10 US Theatrical Premiere Engagement! Special Screenings and Events ORWELL ROLLS IN HIS GRAVE 13 Members’ Only Event: THE BOURNE SUPREMACY Opens Friday, June 25 13 Sam Raimi’s EVIL DEAD 2: DEAD BY DAWN “WAR IS PEACE,” “FREEDOM IS 14 Slow Food on Film Festival SLAVERY,” “IGNORANCE IS 15 The National Institutes of Health’s Science in the STRENGTH…” Has America entered Cinema, with MISS EVERS’ BOYS an Orwellian world of double-speak where outright lies can pass for the DC Area Exclusive truth? Are its citizens being sold a bill of goods by a handful of transna- 15 Mid-Atlantic Regional Showcase (MARS): tional media corporations and polit- OFF THE CHARTS: THE SONG-POEM STORY ical elites whose interests have little in common with the interests of the GEORGE ORWELL American people? Director Robert Kane Pappas uses searing testimony from the best and the brightest to suggest this is the case. Pappas asks some troubling questions about the size of media monopolies, how they got that way, who decides what airs and what doesn’t, and why some news • TO ORDER WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER TICKETS: • stories go unreported (or underre- ported) by the mainstream media. Featuring interviews with Congressman Bernie Sanders, Charles Lewis, Mark Crispin Miller, Vincent Bugliosi, Robert McChesney On the cover: Bertil Guve and Pernilla Allwin in FANNY AND ALEXANDER and an appearance by Michael MICHAEL MOORE Information is correct at press time. Films and schedule subject to change. Moore, ORWELL ROLLS IN HIS Check www.AFI.com/Silver for updates. GRAVE questions whether Americans are being given the informa- AFI PREVIEW (ISSN-0194-3847) is published every six weeks by the American Film Institute’s office at 8633 Colesville tion a democracy needs or whether they’ve been electronically Road, Silver Spring, MD. Signed articles do not necessarily reflect the official institute policy. © 2004 American Film lobotomized into loving Big Brother. Institute. All rights reserved. Reproduction in part or whole without permission is prohibited. Editorial, publishing and Directed, written and produced by Robert Kane Pappas. US, advertising offices: AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center, 8633 Colesville Rd., Silver Spring, MD 20910 (301.495.6720). 2004, color, 95 min. Subscription price: $50.00 per year. All subscriptions also include membership in the American Film Institute. Send all remittances and correspondences about subscriptions, undelivered copies and address changes to: American Film Institute, 2021 N. Western Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027, Attention: Membership. Periodicals postage paid at Silver Spring, “A marvel of passionate succinctness… Maryland and at additional mailing offices. Postmaster: Send address changes to AFI PREVIEW at American Film Institute, Membership Department, 2021 N. Western Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90027. refrains from preaching to the choir.” —Ronnie Scheib, VARIETY 2 AFI LIFE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT’S WOMAN Celebrating Wednesday, June 30, 8:50; Saturday, July 3, 4:00 In 19th century England, affianced Meryl Jeremy Irons loses himself in a passionate affair with fallen woman June 23 through July 4 Meryl Streep—even as we see the actors portraying them engage in an MERYL STREEP: off-screen affair. Harold Pinter’s adap- tation of John Fowles’ “unfilmable” 32ND AFI LIFE bestseller presents a complicated interweaving of past and present. Five ACHIEVEMENT Oscar nominations, including Best Actress. AWARD RECIPIENT Directed by Karel Reisz; written by Arguably the definitive American Harold Pinter from the book by actor of our time, Meryl Streep’s John Fowles; produced by Leon Clore. UK, 1981, color, 127 min. unique empathy for a variety of Rated R women has led us into the lives of some of the most memorable charac- SOPHIE’S CHOICE Thursday, July 1, 8:40; Sunday, July 4, 1:00 ters on film. She has brought to life In postwar New York, budding writer the rich textures of a sweeping range Peter MacNichol befriends “utterly, of intricate women—on the plains of fatally glamorous,” yet volatile Kevin Kline and his Polish girlfriend Meryl SOPHIE’S CHOICE Africa, in the Outback of Australia, in Streep—but they’ve both got past a Manhattan courtroom, an Iowa secrets that haunt the present. Streep finding love with hunter Robert often returns in her mind to the Redford. This sweeping adaptation of KRAMER VS. KRAMER farmhouse, a nuclear production line camps of the Final Solution and Wednesday June 23, 6:45; Isak Dinesen’s memoir garnered seven Thursday June 24, 6:45 and a Nazi concentration camp—all relives the worst choice a mother can Oscars, including Best Picture, be forced to make. A Best Actress Direction, Photography, Screenplay Ill-equipped for motherhood and with authenticity, honesty and intelli- Oscar, among five total nominations. and Music; with Streep and matrimonial bliss, a twenty-some- gence that remain unparalleled. Directed/written/produced by Alan Brandauer nominated. thing Meryl Streep walks out on husband Dustin Hoffman and young J. Pakula; adapted from the novel by Directed/produced by Sydney Beyond her uncanny ability to make son Justin Henry, but returns later for William Styron; co-produced by Pollack; written by Kurt Luedtke. a climactic custody battle featuring audiences laugh, cry, think and feel, Keith Barish. US, 1982, color, 150 US, 1985, color, 150 min. Rated PG min. English, German, and Polish courtroom scenes re-tooled by Streep she can sing. In celebration of the with English subtitles. Rated R herself. Glenda Jackson and Jane 32nd AFI Life Achievement Award, AFI THE BRIDGES OF Fonda turned down the role, opening OUT OF AFRICA MADISON COUNTY the way for Streep’s first Oscar win. Silver proudly presents a half-dozen Saturday, July 3, 8:45; Sunday, July 4, 8:45 Four other statuettes for the film of the greatest roles of this legendary Just when life couldn’t seem more included Best Picture and Best Actor. two-time Academy Award winner and monotonous for Italian-American Directed/written by Robert Benton; Iowa housewife Meryl Streep, who produced by Stanley R. Jaffe. US, recipient of a record thirteen Oscar should drive up but… Clint Eastwood! 1979, color, 105 min. Rated PG nominations. Streep, impeccably accented as In the words of AFI Board always, shows a longing sensuality SILKWOOD that blossoms with the arrival of her Wednesday June 23, 8:55; Chairman Sir Howard Stringer, “Meryl weekend visitor. One of her best Thursday June 24, 8:55 performances, with Eastwood Based on the real-life events of nuclear Streep is one of the great artists in matching her as the emotional plant worker Karen Silkwood, Streep’s temperature rises. “Leanness and the history of American film. Her tal- portrayal of the Oklahoma whistle- surprising decency, a moving, elegiac ent, range and determination to blower who disappeared under myste- love story”—Janet Maslin, New York rious circumstances earned the actor Times. master her craft bring out perform- her fifth Oscar nomination in six ances that sometimes border on the Directed/produced by Clint years. Four other Oscar nominations, Eastwood; written by Richard including a Best Supporting nod for ethereal. In that sense, she is truly OUT OF AFRICA LaGravenese, from the book by Friday, July 2, 8:40; Saturday, July 3, 1:00 Cher, and one for then-novice screen- peerless. It is AFI’s great honor to Robert Waller; co-produced by writer Nora Ephron. In colonial Kenya circa 1913-1931, Kathleen Kennedy. US, 1995, color, Directed by Mike Nichols; written present its Life Achievement Award to Danish noblewoman Meryl Streep 135 min. Rated PG-13 by Alice Arlen and Nora Ephron; this truly gifted actor.” struggles to run a coffee plantation in the absence of husband-of-conven- produced by Mike Nichols and ience Klaus Maria Brandauer, while Michael Hausman. US, 1983, color, 131 min. Rated R 3 RETROSPECTIVE The Films Of FEATURED FILM “One great scene after another! One great Orson Welles shot after another! I’ve seen it 50 times June 23 through July 13 and it’s still magic”—ROGER EBERT By the time he was 26, Orson Welles [1915-1985] had mastered the stage, radio and cinema and was already a TIME cover boy—and he spent the rest of his life trying to top himself. OTHELLO Lean or fat, broke or in the money, OTHELLO pitching wine in TV commercials or Thursday, July 1, 6:45; Monday, July 5, 3:00; plumbing the depths of such charac- Wednesday, July 7, 7:00 ters as Kane, Othello and Harry Lime, As Othello lies dead, a horrified Iago is hoisted above the crowd in an iron Welles dominated every project, cage—and then the play begins. defining FILMMAKER in the public Shakespeare’s classic tale of jealousy and retribution may well be Welles’s mind like no one else.