CONTENTS SPECIAL SCREENING 2 Special Screening: THE EDGE OF 2007 Official Oscar Submission from Germany for Best Foreign Language Film HEAVEN 3 The Complete Coen Brothers THE EDGE OF HEAVEN [Auf der Anderen Seite] 6 Ingmar Bergman Remembered 8 The Films of Charles Burnett 9 SILVERDOCS presents: BILLY THE KID Best of INPUT 10 MARS: Mid-Atlantic Regional Showcase HAMILTON AFI and Montgomery College 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: THERE WILL BE BLOOD 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 American Film Institute lives, families and cultures, crisscross - Silver Theatre and Cultural Center ing Germany and Turkey. 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. Western Ave. In Istanbul, the prostitute’s radical stu - M e e h h T Los Angeles, 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 Hanna Schygulla, 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; subtitles. 2 n TICKETS & FULL SCHEDULE at WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER THE COMPLETE COEN BROTHERS Visser, a sleazy private eye hired by road - hoop). 1950s-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 Barbara Stanwyck in c c MEET JOHN DOE 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 - INTOLERABLE CRUELTY 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, screwball comedy, 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 it’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 New York of o y y brants and detractors alike. Hotshot y y s s s e e e e t t t t r THE HUDSUCKER PROXY contrasted with the r r r u u divorce attorney George Clooney goes u u o o o o c c c thoroughly noir California of THE MAN WHO c ga-ga for golddigger Catherine Zeta-Jones, WASN’T THERE (two films set in the1950s that RAISING ARIZONA 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 Edward Herrmann 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 Bob February 12, 9:10; Thursday, February 14, 7:00 original spin on any topic with which they Tim Robbins goes from mailroom clerk to Thornton, he’s gulled into thinking she’s a engage. Quirkily comedic in the Preston Sturges 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 Paul Newman’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 Holly Hunter and goofy product ideas—“you know, for Coen; PROD Brian Grazer. US, 2003, pegged down as making a certain kind of reformed criminal Nicolas Cage 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 rocky 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 Carter Burwell, into their family. John Goodman 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, Sundance Film Festival man Richard Jenkins; a surprisingly ballsy Tony Shalhoub; and John Turturro, in roles BLOOD SIMPLE 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 Washington- The Coens’ uncommonly assured debut set spy spoof BURN AFTER READING (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 horror film 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.