AN ADVERTISING SUPPLEMENT TO THE WASHINGTON POST ISSUE 61 AFI SILVER THEATRE AND CULTURAL CENTER APRIL 19– JULY 2, 2013 SILENT CINEMA SHOWCASE H Howard Hawks, Part 2 H Guillermo del Toro H Olivier Assayas H Ten Years of Film Movement H L.A. Rebellion: Creating A New Black Cinema Tribute special premieres this June on TNT with an encore broadcast on Turner Classic Movies (TCM) FILM FESTIVAL PRESENTED BY Look for the full schedule on June 7 in The Washington Post AFI.com/Silver Contents Howard Hawks, Part 2 Howard Hawks, Part 2 ......................... 2 April 19—July 2 Special Engagements ..... 4, 7, 12, 14, 16 Howard Hawks was one of Hollywood’s most consistently entertaining directors, and one of the L.A. Rebellion: Creating most versatile, directing exemplary comedies, melodramas, war pictures, gangster films, films a New Black Cinema ................................ 5 noir, westerns, sci-fi thrillers, and musicals, with several being landmark pictures in their genre. The Films of Olivier Assayas ................... 6 Visionario: The Films of Hawks never won an Oscar—in fact, he was nominated only once, as Best Director for 1941’s Guillermo del Toro ................................ 8 Courtesy of Everett Collection SERGEANT YORK (he and Orson Welles both lost to John Ford that year)—but his critical stature grew over the 1960s and ‘70s, even as his career was winding down, and in 1975 the Ten Years of Film Movement ....................9 Academy awarded him an honorary Oscar, declaring Hawks “a giant of the American cinema AFI Life Achievement Award whose pictures, taken as a whole, represent one of the most consistent, vivid and varied bodies Retrospective: Mel Brooks ....................10 of work in world cinema.” Robert Gardner Documentaries ..............11 “I consider Howard Hawks to be the greatest American director. He’s the only director I know to have made a great movie in Silent Cinema Showcase ......................13 every genre…In my opinion, the man literally invented American cinema. He showed us ourselves, the way we are, the way we should be.” – John Carpenter Calendar ............................................15 Opera & Ballet in Cinema ....................16 “Howard Hawks is the supreme storyteller and entertainer. He’s just too damn enjoyable.” – Quentin Tarantino “If one does not love the films of Howard Hawks, one cannot love cinema.” – Eric Rohmer LOOK FOR THE AFI Member passes will be accepted at all films in the Howard Hawks series. To become a Member of AFI visit AFI.com/Silver/JoinNow Restored “Pre-Release” version! TICKETS THE BIG SLEEP • $11.50 General Admission Sat, Apr 27, 7:00; Tue, Apr 30, 7:00 • $9 Seniors (65 and over), students Looking to recapture the Bogie-Bacall magic of TO HAVE AND with valid ID, and military personnel HAVE NOT, Hawks selected this Raymond Chandler whodunit as a vehicle to showcase more of the pair’s smart talk. Hired to investigate • $8.50 AFI Members (2-Star level & up) the blackmailing of society wild child Carmen Sternwood (Martha • $7 Children (12 and under) Vickers), private dick Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart), falls for • $8.50 Matinee tickets, weekdays her classy, sassy older sister Vivian (Lauren Bacall). The famously before 6:00 p.m. (holidays excluded) byzantine plot—murders proliferate, solutions do not—and the lurid hint of drug use and pornography behind Carmen’s blackmailing AFI PREVIEW is published by the provide ample intrigue, but it’s all a backdrop for the stars’ racy, American Film Institute. innuendo-laced repartee. DIR/PROD Howard Hawks; SCR William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett, Jules Furthman, from the novel by Raymond Chandler. US, 1946, b&w, 116 min. NOT RATED All screenings take place at the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center: 8633 Colesville Road Silver Spring, MD 20910 TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT For address changes and subscription Sat, Apr 27, 11:00 a.m.; Sun, Apr 28, 8:00; Mon, Apr 29, 5:15; services, contact: Wed, May 1, 7:00 “You know how to whistle, don’t you Steve? You just put your lips American Film Institute together and blow.” Lauren Bacall’s sultry come-ons to Humphrey 2021 N. Western Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90027 Bogart made her a star overnight, and began one of Hollywood’s Attn: Membership great on- and off-screen love affairs. Bogart plays an American fishing boat captain in 1940 Martinique, unwilling to take On the cover: SAFETY LAST!, chances running local French resistance fighters on dangerous courtesy of The Harold Lloyd Trust nighttime missions. Bacall plays a woman with a shady past whom Bogart falls for. The film famously bears little resemblance THE BIG SLEEP Editor: Julie Hill to Hemingway’s source novel and a conspicuous one to the recent TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT DIR/PROD Howard Hawks; SCR Jules Furthman, Production Manager: Rebecca Lentz-Fernandes Bogart smash hit CASABLANCA. 65th Anniversary! William Faulkner, from the novel by Ernest Hemingway. US, 1944, b&w, 100 min. NOT RATED A SONG IS BORN Production Coordinator: Anjuli Singh Sat, May 4, 11:00 a.m.; Sun, May 5, 2:00; Mon, May 6, 5:15; Director of Programming: Todd Hitchcock AIR FORCE Tue, May 7, 5:15; Wed, May 8, 5:15 Fri, Apr 19, 3:00; Sat, Apr 20, 11:00 a.m.; Mon, Apr 22, 7:10 Hawks’ musical remake of his own BALL OF FIRE features Danny Associate Programmer: Josh Gardner Hawks’ abiding passion for group dynamics and professional Kaye as the leader of a troupe of ivory-tower musicologists whose Design: Lauren Bellamy, Washington Post Media excellence was perfectly deployed in this WWII actioner, following decade-long work on an encyclopedia of music history has left Information is correct at press time. the crew of a B-17 Flying Fortress departing California for Hawaii them woefully out of touch with the modern world in general, and Films and schedule subject to change. on the morning of December 6, 1941. Learning midflight of the jazz music in particular. Virginia Mayo is the nightclub chantoozy Pearl Harbor bombing, the crew spend the ensuing weeks and who helps get these squares hip, with noteworthy assistance from Check AFI.com/Silver for updates. months going where the action is, island-hopping across the Pacific. the likes of Louis Armstrong, Tommy Dorsey, Lionel Hampton, John Garfield, as embittered gunner and flight school washout Joe Charlie Barnet, Mel Powell and the Golden Gate Quartet. Jazz AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center is funded Winocki, is the star attraction in the ensemble cast that includes Arthur great Benny Goodman delights as Kaye’s associate, Professor by an operating grant from the Maryland State Kennedy, Harry Carey, Gig Young and George Tobias. An effective Magenbruch, an able clarinetist who easily learns how to swing. Arts Council, an agency dedicated to cultivating a action-packed wartime propaganda picture. DIR Howard Hawks; SCR Dudley DIR Howard Hawks; SCR Billy Wilder, Thomas Monroe, from their story “From A to Z”; PROD Samuel vibrant cultural community where the arts thrive. Nichols; PROD Hal B. Wallis. US, 1943, b&w, 124 min. NOT RATED Goldwyn. US, 1948, color, 113 min. NOT RATED 2 Daily Listings: 301.495.6700 Courtesy of MGM RED RIVER RED RIVER Tue, May 7, 7:30; Wed, May 8, 7:30; Sat, May 11, 11:30 a.m.; Sun, May 12, 11:30 a.m. Arguably Howard Hawks’ greatest film, it established John Wayne once and for all as a major star, after some two decades of variable success; he’d remain a box office force for the next 25 years. Wayne plays a swaggering cattle baron, riding his men, his herd and himself hard across the Texas range to the railhead in Kansas. On the verge of THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD THE BIG SKY a crackup and having descended into tyranny, Wayne is Fri, May 17, 5:15; Sat, May 18, 11:00 a.m.; Sun, May 19, Sat, May 18, 1:10; Mon, May 20, 4:15 relieved of his command by adopted son Montgomery Clift, 6:45; Tue, May 21, 5:00 Unique among Westerns, this film takes place in 1816 setting up a Western-style Oedipal showdown. DIR/PROD Howard Although officially directed by longtime Howard Hawks editor (most are set closer to the Civil War years) and concerns Hawks; SCR Borden Chase, Charles Schnee. US, 1948, b&w, 133 min. NOT RATED Christian Nyby, by all accounts producer Hawks was calling not a wagon train of homesteaders but a Missouri the shots, and the film bears his personal stamp —a close- River keelboat crew making a perilous journey from the I WAS A MALE WAR BRIDE knit team of professionals performing risky work in an exotic frontier town of St. Louis deep into the Montana territory Sat, May 25, 11:00 a.m.; Mon, May 27, 11:00 a.m.; environment, an all-male world save for a single savvy female to trade with the Blackfoot Indians. Captain Frenchy Tue, May 28, 7:10 and, above all, a flip attitude in the face of danger. Scientists (Steven Geray) heads a crew that includes friendly rivals In post-WWII working at a remote Arctic army base discover a crashed Jim Deakins (Kirk Douglas) and Boone Caudill (Dewey Germany, French flying saucer, its alien pilot encased in ice. Bringing the Martin), Boone’s frontiersman uncle Zeb (Arthur Hunnicutt) Captain Henri Rochard spaceman specimen back to base in hopes of further study plus an ace in the hole: Blackfoot princess Teal Eye (Cary Grant) and instead unleashes terrible danger. Remade spectacularly as (Elizabeth Threatt), sprung from enemy captors, whose American WAC THE THING in 1981 by Hawks acolyte John Carpenter. DIR/ return the crew hopes will curry favor with her tribe.