★AFIPREVIEWAFIPREVIEWTHE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE GUIDE TO THEATRE AND MEMBER EVENTS

December12-January 22, 2003VOLUME 1 • ISSUE 7

IT’S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD

Krzysztof Kieslowski’s BLUE WHITE THE DECALOGUEand the North American premiere of

THE BIG ANIMAL

REDPlus: Washington Jewish Film FestivalTHE REAL OLD TESTAMENT THE SCHOOL OF ROCK TIBET: CRY OF THE SNOW LION THE LAST LETTERFROM HERE TO ETERNITY MODERN TIMES I VITELLONI Also: Celebrating Nicole Kidman, Judy Garland

Continuing: Iranian Film Festival, Old & New from Bill Murray

Films thatCapture the

Holiday Spirit

Films thatCapture the

Holiday Spirit

“Impeccably made… Breathtaking… A moreconcise and affecting summation of theTibetan crisis would be hard to imagine.”

—DAVE KEHR, NEW YORK TIMES

TIBET: CRY OF THE SNOW LIONOpens Friday, Dec 12 with daily shows through Thursday, Dec 18, including weekend matineesFilmed over nine years inTibet, India and Nepal,this is a thorough explo-ration of the Tibetanpeople’s legendarystruggle with oppressionand occupation by theChinese government,bringing audiences tothe long forbidden“rooftop of the world”with an unprecedented richness of imagery. Narrated by Martin Sheen,it includes moving testimony by Tibetans both renowned and obscure.The extraordinary Dali Lama in his non-violent approach to liberating

his people, personal stories of oppression told by ordinary citizens andnever-before-seen footage of brutalization in the region illuminate thetremendous will for Tibetan independence. English voice-over transla-tions of featured Chinese citizens by actors Susan Sarandon, TimRobbins and Ed Harris, plus a soundtrack featuring music by RageAgainst the Machine, R.E.M. and the Foo Fighters provide the voices ofthe American “Free Tibet” movement.

Directed by Tom Peosay; written by Sue Peosay and VictoriaMudd; produced by Maria Florio, Victoria Mudd, Sue Peosay andTom Peosay. US, 2003, color, 104 min.

CONTAINS GRAPHIC VIOLENCE; NOT SUITABLE FOR ALLVIEWERS

On the cover: Irène Jacob in Krzysztof Kieslowski’s RED, Photo Fest image; inset: IT’S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD, MGM Enterprise image

Information is correct at press time. Films and schedule subject to change. Check www.AFI.com/Silver for updates.

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Features 2-32 TIBET: CRY OF THE SNOW LION

3 IT’S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD

3 THE LAST LETTER

Special Seasonal Presentations 4-64 14th annual Washington Jewish Film Festival

4 Naughty and Nice: A wide range of films thatcelebrate, or at least acknowledge, the Yuletide

Special Event 55 Judy! Judy! Judy! THE WIZARD OF OZ

with John Fricke book signing

Series 7, 117 The films of Richard Linklater, through

THE SCHOOL OF ROCK

11 Nicole Kidman from FLIRTING to THE HOURS

Featured Showcase 12-1312 Krzysztof Kieslowski:

THE BIG ANIMAL, THE DECALOGUE, Three Colors Trilogy: BLUE, WHITE, RED

Calendar 8-9About AFI Silver 10DC Area Exclusives 14-Back Cover14 Chaplin’s MODERN TIMES

14 Fellini’s I VITELLONI

14 Mid-Atlantic Regional Showcase: FIVE LINES

15 Cine Latino: CUBA MIA: PORTRAIT OF AN ALL-WOMAN ORCHESTRA

back cover FROM HERE TO ETERNITY

back cover THE REAL OLD TESTAMENT

Continuing 1515 Iranian Voices Film Festival

15 Bill Murray: Found in Translation

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Director Tom Peosay has been invited to attend December 12.

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Exclusive Washington Area Premiere of the 40th Anniversary 70mm Print!IT’S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD Opens Friday, Dec 19 with daily shows through Thursday, Jan 1, including weekend matineesWhen you announce that your cast includes comedians JonathanWinters, Sid Caesar, Milton Berle, Buddy Hackett, Ethel Merman, JackBenny, Buster Keaton, Don Knotts, Carl Reiner, Spencer Tracy, Mickey

Rooney, Jimmy Durante, Eddie“Rochester” Anderson, DickShawn, Stan Freberg, Phil Silvers,Jerry Lewis, The Three Stoogesand Edie Adams, you had betterdeliver something funny. AndStanley Kramer does deliver—anddeliver and deliver—some of theall-time funniest moments inAmerican film history (including

the memorable Battle of the Gas Station with Jonathan Winters vs.Arnold Stang and Marvin Kaplan). Injected with what seems like amillion cameo appearances (Joe E. Brown, Andy Devine, Howard daSilva, Zasu Pitts, Sterling Holloway, Paul Ford, etc.), Stanley Kramer’s1963 classic spent more money on comedy “stuntmen” than any picturein motion picture history. Nominated for six Academy Awards,including sound, color cinematography, editing, score and song, andwinning for Best Sound Effects, this spectacular romp is presented inthe newly struck, 70mm wide-screen print.

Directed/produced by Stanley Kramer; written by Tani andWilliam Rose. US, 1963, color, 70mm, 183 min.

“IT’S A MAD, MAD,MAD, MAD WORLDis everything… that its extravagant titlesuggests.”

—BOSLEY CROWTHER,NEW YORK TIMES

THE LAST LETTER [La dernière lettre]Opens Friday, Dec 12 with daily shows through Thursday, Dec 18, including weekend matineesCinema Verité documentary guru Frederick Wisemanshifts gears and turns his unflinching camera towards adramatic, fictional story. Adapting the one-womanstage play he directed, Wiseman brings CatherineSamie to the screen as narrator Anna Semyonovna, whorecites letters from a chapter of Soviet writer VasiliGrossman’s posthumously published World War IInovel, Love and Fate. As Samie recites from the letters,the story unfolds on screen: She is an elderly woman, aRussian Jewish doctor living in a small Ukranian cityduring the war, writing a letter to her physicist son asGermans seize the city. Facing certain death, she tellshim the story of her life: her loves, discoveries,heartaches and truth—and just how much he means toher.

Directed by Frederick Wiseman; written byVéronique Aubouy; produced by FrederickWiseman and Pierre-Olivier Bardet. US/France,2002, color, 61 min. French with English subtitles.

TwoWeekRun!

“Primal in its effect, THE LAST LETTER demonstrates the

power of language, performance,and narrative to hold an audiencespellbound.”

—J. HOBERMAN, VILLAGE VOICE

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SPECIAL HOLIDAY PRESENTATIONS14th AnnualWashingtonJewish FilmFestival On Saturday, December 13, the AFISilver will host three of the films pre-sented during this year’s 14th annualWashington Jewish Film Festival. The2003 Festival, “An Exhibition ofInternational Cinema,” will showcase40 features, documentaries andshorts from more than a dozen coun-tries. The Festival is presented by theDC Jewish Community Center’s MorrisCafritz Center for the Arts and co-sponsored by the Embassy of Israeland Washington Jewish Week.

WOULD I LIE TO YOU, TOO?Sat, Dec. 13, 5:45Life is not great for the gregariousgroup of fast-talking but flailingentrepreneurs doing business in theJewish garment district of Paris. Theboys think they’ve scored big whenthey swing a promising partnershipwith a giant discount clothing chain,Eurodiscount. Instead, its unscrupu-lous executive takes them for a ride,and Eddie, Dov, Ivan and Patrickconcoct a devious scheme to teachthis swindler a lesson in swindling. Asequel to the huge French box officehit WOULD I LIE TO YOU? (11thWJFF), this film is high-speed, hilar-ious and full of heart.

Directed by Thomas Gilou; writtenby Gérard Bitton and Michel Munz;produced by Aïssa Djabri, FaridLahouassa and Manuel Munz.France, 2001, color, 105 min. Frenchwith English subtitles.

JULIE WALKING HOME Sat, Dec. 13, 7:30 Agnieszka Holland (EUROPA,EUROPA; 11th WJFF’s THEDYBBUK) is back with another filmexploring the psycho-sexual intersec-tion of the Jewish and Polish experi-ence. Julie’s (Miranda Otto, LORD OFTHE RINGS) father, a devout PolishCatholic, has never approved of herJewish husband Henry and cursestheir relationship. But it’s Henry’s infi-delity and their son Nicholas’s suddenillness that set her family on a down-ward spiral. In a quest to cureNicholas, Julie travels to Polandwhere she meets Alexis, an intro-verted Russian faith-healer withwhom she falls in love. When Alexis

follows Julie home to Canada, herfamily is forced to confront issues offaith, betrayal, love and compassion—without taking the easy way out.

Directed by Agnieszka Holland;written by Agnieszka Holland,Raman Gren and Arlene Sarner;produced by Christopher Zimmer,Iwona Ziulkowska and Karel Dirka.Poland/USA, 2002, color, 78 min.

JAMES’ JOURNEY TO JERUSALEM Sat, Dec. 13, 9:45 In this Cannes Film Festival audiencefavorite, James, a devout pilgrim fromthe small African village ofEntshongweni, is sent by his peopleto see Jerusalem. On arriving at theIsraeli airport, James is mistaken for

an illegal guest worker and sent toprison, where he catches the attentionof Shimi (Salim Daw) who bails himout of jail and puts him to work asone of his gang of guest workers.Living in the shadows of Tel Aviv,James cleans the homes of yuppiesand performs menial labor once doneby Palestinians. When he learns the“rules” of how business is done in theIsraeli “West,” he heeds a word ofadvice from Shimi’s father (“Don’t be afryer (sucker).”) that changes thecourse of this moral fairytale aboutthe obsessions and character ofcontemporary Israeli society.

Directed by Ra’ananAlexandrowicz; written by Ra’ananAlexandrowicz and Sami Duenias;produced by Amir Harel. Israel,2003, color, 87min. English, Hebrewand Zulu with English subtitles.

Naughty&NiceFri, Dec 19 – Thu, Jan 1AFI Silver Theatre will celebrate itsfirst holiday season by showcasing awide array of Yuletide and NewYear’s films, exploring this festivegenre and expanding it to includesome unlikely additions to the canon.Which ones are naughty and whichones are nice? That’s for you to figureout. Happy Holidays!

Opening in AFI Silver’s historic theatre!A CHRISTMAS STORYFri, Dec 19, 6:45; Sun, Dec 21, 9:00; Fri, Dec 26, 4:15 All Ralphie wants forChristmas is a Red RyderBB gun, but the onlyresponse he gets from hismother is, “You’ll shoot your eye out.”For those who’ve experienced ACHRISTMAS STORY, it’s hard toimagine that phrase without hearingthe voice of Jean Shepherd, thenarrator and writer of this classicChristmas tale. No matter how manytimes audiences see this film, theykeep coming back for the brilliantcomedic turns by Peter Billingsley,Melinda Dillon and Darren McGavin.

Directed by Bob Clark; written byLeigh Brown, Bob Clark and JeanShepherd; produced by Bob Clark,René Dupont and Gary Goch.US/Canada, 1983, color/b&w, 94min. Rated PG

THE NIGHTMARE BEFORECHRISTMAS Fri, Dec 19, 9:00; Mon, Dec 22, 9:30Tim Burton’s most creative piece ofanimated artwork to date, this beauti-fully rendered unearthing of the warmheart behind a devilish exterior issimultaneously visually stunning,macabre and funny, confirmingbeyond a doubt that animated filmsare not just for kids. Featuring the

Co-writer Arlene Sarner (PEGGY SUE GOTMARRIED, BLUE SKY) has been invited to

attend the screening and participate in a livediscussion of the film.

Director Ra’anan Alexandrowicz will attend thescreening and participate in a live discussion

of the film.

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NEW 35mm Print!

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voices of Chris Sarandon and DannyElfman.

Directed by Henry Selick; writtenby Tim Burton, Michael McDowelland Caroline Thompson; producedby Tim Burton, Denise Di Novi,Danny Elfman, Kathleen Gavin, JillJacobs, Diane Minter Lewis, PhilipLofaro and Jeffrey Katzenberg. US,1993, color, 76 min. Rated PG

THE MUPPET CHRISTMASCAROL Sat, Dec 20, 12:30In the Muppets’ incarnation of thisDickens classic, Michael Caine isScrooge, the unyielding employer ofBob Crachit, played by Kermit.Everybody’s favorite frog is joined byMiss Piggy as wife Emily, and Robinthe Frog as Tiny Tim. A ChristmasCarol + the Muppets: we’ve grown upon both of them. A film everyone canenjoy.

Directed by Brian Henson; writtenby Jerry Juhl; produced by MartinG. Baker and Brian Henson. US,1992, color, 85 min. Rated G.

A CHRISTMAS CAROL[Scrooge/UK] Sat, Dec 20, 2:30; Sun, Dec 21, 6:30

In 19th century London,notorious skinflint EbenezerScrooge gets a surprise

Christmas Eve visit from theghost of his partner—but that’s

just the beginning. Arguably the all-time favorite version of the Dickensclassic, thanks to the great AlastairSim’s tour-de-force performance asScrooge.

Directed/produced by BrianDesmond Hurst; adapted by NoelLangley from the Charles Dickensnovel. UK, 1951, b&w, 85 min.

Opening in AFI Silver’s historic theatre!IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE Sun, Dec 21, 12:15; Mon, Dec 22, 6:45 What would it be like if you hadnever lived? Fed up, frustrated, at-his-wits-end smalltowner James Stewartfinds out on a snowy Christmas Eve,thanks to guardian angel Henry

Travers. What began as a greetingcard story has become an Americanperennial and lives on in posterity asthe late Frank Capra’s and JimmyStewart’s favorite film.

Directed/produced by Frank Capra;written by Frances Goodrich,Albert Hackett, and Frank Capra.US, 1946, b&w, 130 min.

HOME ALONETue, Dec 23, 6:45; Sat, Dec 27, 1:45Christmas is a very hectic time of year,so it’s hard to blame the McCallisterfamily for accidentally leaving one oftheir kids at home when they jet offto Paris for the holidays. A funny,highly entertaining and perfectly castmixture of naughty and nice,featuring top-notch comedic turns byMacauley Culkin, Roberts Blosson,Joe Pesci, John Heard and Marylandnative Daniel Stern.

Directed by Chris Columbus;written by John Hughes; produced

by Tarquin Gotch, John Hughes,Mark Levinson, Mark Radcliffe andScott M. Rosenfelt. US, 1990,color/b&w, 103 min. Rated PG.

MIRACLE ON 34th STREET Wed, Dec 24, 6:45; Fri, Dec 26, 2:15Macy’s executive Maureen O’Harathinks she’s found the ideal depart-ment store Santa in bewhiskeredEdmund Gwenn (Oscar, BestSupporting Actor). The only troubleis, he claims he is Santa! Looks like it’sthe asylum for Gwenn until JohnPayne summons the Post Office tocourt as a witness.

Directed/written by George Seaton;produced by Albert Perlberg. US,1947, b&w, 96 min.

THE GODFATHERThu, Dec 25, 7:30; Thu, Jan 1, 2:15 & 8:15Francis Ford Coppola’s adaptation ofMario Puzo’s bestseller about the gangwars that ensue among New York’s

SPECIAL EVENTS!JUDY! JUDY! JUDY!

BOOK SIGNING & FILM Emmy Award-winning producer John Fricke will signhis new, illustrated book, Judy Garland: A Portrait inArt & Anecdote, featuring a special forward byMs. Garland’s daughter Lorna Luft and more than400 illustrations and photographs of the legendarystar. Mr. Fricke will introduce two screenings of themost celebrated of Ms. Garland’s repertoire of greatfilms, THE WIZARD OF OZ.

These special events are sponsored by Borders Books and Music.

THE WIZARDOF OZSun, Dec 14,1:00; Mon,Dec 15, 6:30“Toto, I don'tthink we're inKansas any-more,” says 16-year-old JudyGarland’sDorothy as she begins her post-tornado adventures with Good and BadWitches and the Munchkins in the magical land of Oz. With pals the TinMan, the Scarecrow and the Cowardly Lion, a young Ms. Garland createsscreen moments that have passed beyond literature and film into theAmerican national consciousness. Production details (like the temporaryremoval of the now-classic Over the Rainbow, the shenanigans of thediminutive actors and Margaret Hamilton's Bad Witch near-incinerationon the set) have followed the same path in the annals of film history.Amazingly, the film lost money on its initial release (BABES IN ARMSoutgrossed it.) See this American classic on the big screen for the first—or twentieth—time. With unforgettable songs by Harold Arlen.

Directed by Victor Fleming; written by Noel Langley, FlorenceRyerson and Edgar Allan Woolf, from the novel by L. Frank Baum;produced by Mervyn LeRoy. US, 1939, color, 102 min.

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Five Families (of the Mafia—a wordnever spoken in the film) was madeover the studio’s objections to itsperiod setting (including Christmas in1940s Manhattan) and the casting ofMarlon Brando and Al Pacino—asCoppola has pointed out, the majorelements making it the modern classicit has become. Although Brando’s on-screen time is less than Pacino’s star-making performance, it dominates thefilm and marks his comeback from anear-decade long dry spell.

Directed by Francis Ford Coppola;written by Coppola and MarioPuzo, from Puzo’s novel; producedby Albert S. Ruddy. US, 1972, color,175 min.

TRADING PLACES Fri, Dec 26, 6:15; Sat, Dec 27, 9:15Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd (in aSanta Claus suit) star in this modernPrince and the Pauper with a twist. On abet, millionaire investors RalphBellamy and Don Ameche engineerthe rise of Murphy’s con man and thedemise of Aykroyd’s trader. Revenge issweet, aided by butler DenholmElliott and Jamie Lee Curtis as thehooker with the heart of gold.

Directed by John Landis; written byTimothy Harris and HerschelWeingrod; produced by AaronRusso. US, 1983, color, 118 min,Rated R

METROPOLITAN Fri, Dec 26, 8:45; Sun, Dec 28, 6:15Whit Stillman’s first film captures avery exclusive ritual rarely seen onfilm: the “holiday season” of the young,preppy, spoiled, New York elite.Stillman crafts his characters withsuch great precision that every wordthat comes from their mouths seemstotally believable, yet hystericallyunbeliebabble. With then-newcomersCarolyn Farina, Edward Clements,Chris Eigeman and Taylor Nichols.

Directed/written by Whit Stillman;produced by Brian Greenbaum,Whit Stillman and PeterWentworth. US, 1990, color, 98 min.Rated PG-13

GREMLINS Sat, Dec 27, 4:15; Sun, Dec 28, 8:50Joe Dante’s spooker parody features ateenager’s highly unusual petspawning a host of vicious littlemonsters who turn a picturesquetown dressed up for the holidays intoa hellish nightmare. A movie satire tobe sure (executive-produced bySteven Spielberg), but those little crit-ters sure are creepy. NOT SUITABLEFOR SMALL CHILDREN.

Directed by Joe Dante; written byChris Columbus; produced byMichael Finnell; executiveproduced by Kathleen Kennedy,Frank Marshall and StevenSpielberg. US, 1984, color, 111 min.Rated PG

MEET JOHN DOESat, Dec 27, 6:45; Mon, Dec 29, 6:30; Wed, Dec 31, 7:15Bum Gary Cooper gets recruited to bethe “I’m-going-to-jump-off-City-Hall-on-New-Year’s-Eve-if-no-one-believes-in-me” John Doe, invented for acirculation-boosting campaign for thenewspaper of would-be fascist,Edward Arnold, and his sob-sister,Barbara Stanwyck. When Coopertakes the job seriously, it’s time to calla few bluffs. Capra shot five differentendings to the “will he or won’t he”

question to find his solution.

Directed/produced by Frank Capra;written by Robert Riskin. US, 1941,b&w, 135 min.

DIE HARD Sun, Dec 28, 1:00Alan Rickman and his “terrorist”hijackers are not on the guest list forBonnie Bedelia’s office Christmasparty in a near-empty LA high-rise.Then again, neither is Bedelia’sestranged spouse, New York City copBruce Willis, in this nerve-shreddingholiday thriller.

Directed by John McTiernan;written by Jeb Stuart and Steven E.de Souza; produced by LawrenceGordon and Joel Silver. US, 1988,color, scope, 131 min.

DIE HARD 2 [Die Harder]Sun, Dec 28, 3:45; Thu, Jan 1, 5:45Boy, does ex-NYC cop Bruce Willishave problems with Christmas! Aswife Bonnie Bedelia is about to landat Dulles Airport for a holiday visit

with relatives, a band of thugs tryingto spring drug lord Franco Nero fromthe Feds shut the place down. Part IIof the DIE HARD holiday thrillerseries—with snow this time.

Directed by Renny Harlin; writtenby Steven E. de Souza and DougRichardson; produced by CharlesGordon, Lawrence Gordon and JoelSilver. US, 1990, color, scope, 124min.

CHRISTMAS VACATION[aka NATIONAL LAMPOON’SCHRISTMAS VACATION]Tue, Dec 30, 6:45Chevy Chase and Beverly D’Angeloreturn in their recurring role as theGriswolds in the third installment ofthis beloved, and sometimes raunchyseries. All they’re trying to do is havea nice Christmas holiday with theirfamily, but everything conspiresagainst them—yule crack up! Of note:daughter Audrey is played here by apre-CAPE FEAR Juliette Lewis.

Directed by Jeremiah S. Chechik;written by John Hughes; producedby John Hughes and Tom Jacobson.US, 1989, color, 97 min. Rated PG-13

STRANGE DAYS Mon, Dec 29, 9:00; Tue, Dec 30, 8:45In this hi-tech mystery set on NewYear’s Eve at the turn of theMillennium, Ralph Fiennes, a formercop who now deals black-marketvirtual reality disks, enlists the helpof Angela Bassett to protect his punkrock ex-girlfriend Juliette Lewis—allthis before the clock strikes midnight.

Directed by Kathryn Bigelow;written by James Cameron;produced by James Cameron andSteven Charles-Jaffe. US, 1995, color,145 min. Rated R

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The School of Rick Richard Linklater’s breakthroughindependent film, SLACKERannounced the emergence of a majorinnovative voice in American cinema.In the years since, Linklater has con-tinued to explore the film medium,breaking new ground with smallerindependent films, ambitious experi-mental projects, and most recentlyhis mainstream hit, THE SCHOOL OFROCK. AFI Silver’s complete retro-spective of Linklater’s career traceshis evolution, including a rarely seen,pre-SLACKER Super-8mm feature.

SLACKER Fri, Dec 19, 9:15; Sun, Dec 21, 9:15 Director Linklater’s first widely-distributed film, about… nothing,really. An observant, fluid camerasimply follows characters aroundAustin, Texas, eavesdropping onconversations about anything fromMadonna’s pap smear to alien abduc-tions. Besides launching his career,this groundbreaking film incited anindependent filmmaking movementthat rejected the three-act structure,virtually defined the term “Genera-tion X,” and put Austin on the map asa mecca for misfits, malaise and filmabout much o’nothing… A real indiegem worth checking out.

Directed/written/produced byRichard Linklater. US, 1991,color/b&w, 97 min. Rated R

DAZED AND CONFUSED Sat, Dec 20, 9:15; Thu, Dec 25, 9:15; Fri, Dec 26 4:30It’s 1976, and the last day of school atRobert E. Lee High School. Linklater’sstoner epic follows an ensemble castof upperclassmen and terrorizedfreshmen through a day of hazing,hanging out and partying as theysurvive the hilarious rites of passagestanding between them and summervacation. Featuring vivid performancesby Ben Affleck as the ruthless bullyO’Bannion, Matthew McConaughey asWooderson, and Parker Posey as über-bitch Darla Marks.

Directed/written by RichardLinklater; produced by Sean Daniel,James Jacks, Richard Linklater andAnne Walker-McBay. US, 1993,color, 103 min. Rated R

WAKING LIFE Mon, Dec 22, 9:15; Sat, Dec 27, 4:30; Sun, Dec 28, 9:15A man is stuck in an altered state,unsure if he’s dreaming or in a newreality. A menagerie of charactersposes and ponders the meaning of lifeto try to help him make sense of thisnew strange world. Is it a dream or isit waking life? The cast includes suchnotables as Ethan Hawke, Steven

Soderbergh, Julie Delpy and WileyWiggins. This is the first project touse a revolutionary technique inte-grating live action with computer artand animation.

Directed/written by RichardLinklater; produced by CarolineKaplan, Tommy Pallotta, JonathanSehring, John Sloss, Jonah Smith,Anna Walker-McBay and PalmerWest. US, 2001, color/b&w, 99 min.Rated R

SUBURBIA Fri, Dec 26, 9:15Continuing his accurate portrayal ofGeneration X, Linklater turns his lenson five suburbanites who excel only athanging out in parking lots. On thisparticular night, they’re waiting forthe return of a classmate who success-fully escaped the confines of theirsmall town to become a rock star—inthe process demonstrating thatwasting time can often be very enter-taining. With a cast that includesJayce Bartok, Amie Carey, Nicky Katt,Ajay Naidu and Parker Posey.

Directed by Richard Linklater;written by Eric Bogosian; producedby Ginger Sledge, John Sloss andAnne Walker-McBay. US, 1996,color, 121 min. Rated R

BEFORE SUNRISE Sat, Dec 27, 9:15; Tue, Dec 30, 9:15French graduate student Julie Delpyand American backpacker-with-a-Eurail Pass Ethan Hawke share a 14-hour whirlwind romance, falling inlove as they talk all night on thestreets of Budapest. A sequel is dueout in early 2004.

Directed by Richard Linklater;written by Richard Linklater andKim Krizan; produced by AnneWalker-McBay. US/Austria/Switzer-land, 1995, color, 105 min. Rated R

THE NEWTON BOYS Sun, Dec 28, 4:30; Thu, Jan 1, 4:30Based on real-life 1920s Texas bank-robbers, Linklater favorites MatthewMcConaughey and Ethan Hawke arejoined by Skeet Ulrich and VincentD’Onofrio to form the crafty NewtonBrothers gang. Dwight Yoakam stealsthe show as safe-cracking BrentwoodGlasscock.

Directed by Richard Linklater;written by Richard Linklater,Claude Stanush and Clark Walker;produced by Anne Walker-McBay.US, 1998, color, 113 min. RatedPG-13

TAPE Mon, Dec 29, 9:15; Thu, Jan 1, 9:15Ethan Hawke and Robert SeanLeonard (who first appeared togetherin DEAD POET’S SOCIETY) arereunited as old high school friendswho meet up in a Michigan motelroom to share old times. But ex-girl-friend Uma Thurman, now an assis-tant D.A., has other plans.

Directed by Richard Linklater;written by Stephen Belber;produced by Anne Walker-McBayand Gary Winnick. US, 2001, color,86 min. Rated R

FILM SERIESTHE SCHOOL OF ROCK Opens Friday, Dec 12 with daily shows through Thursday, Dec 18,including weekend matineesJack Black delivers a tour-de-force, over-the-top, wildly hilariousperformance as a wanna-be rocker who’s out of luck when he’s cutfrom his band for too much guitar face and stage diving and toolittle talent or technique. To pay the rent, Black secretly poses ashis substitute teacher-roommate Mike White (CHUCK ANDBUCK, THE GOOD GIRL) at an upscale prep school. After a clue-less stint at teaching his far-wiser students the ABCs of school-work, he’s struck by the miraculous notion that his students havethe makings of a dazzling rock’n’roll band. To exact revenge on hisold bandmates, he concocts an elaborate scheme to beat them atthe battle-of-the-bands. With musical numbers performed by thekids themselves, Linklater’s box-office smash is a modern homageto kids’ films for grown-ups that celebrates the endless possibilitiesof childhood—without pandering to children.

Directed by Richard Linklater; written by Mike White;produced by Scott Rudin. US, 2003, color, 108 min. Rated PG-13

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Nicole Kidman The lanky Australian actress who firstcame to America’s attention in JohnDuigan’s Down Under coming-of-agepic, FLIRTING, and opposite Sam Neillin the top-notch sea-thriller DEADCALM, has been demonstrating of latean uncanny ability to stretch—andstretch: innocent school girl,resourceful-when-threatened seawife, sexy shrink, conniving weathergirl, haunted hausfrau, frustratedpotential adulteress, dance-hallperformer extraordinaire, melancholywriter—all with an emergingauthority reminiscent of AFI LifeAchievement Award Honoree MerylStreep. From Friday, January 2through Thursday January 8, AFISilver will present a number of Ms.Kidman’s benchmark performances.Keep watching—it’s a safe bet thosechameleon colors will just continue tobrighten.

FLIRTING Fri, Jan 2, 1:30; Sun, Jan 4, 3:30Noah Taylor (SHINE) returns asDanny Embling in director JohnDuigan’s sequel to THE YEAR MYVOICE BROKE. Now off at boardingschool, Taylor falls for ThandieNewton, a student at a neighboringschool and the daughter of a Ugandanstatesman. Nicole Kidman is a school-mate, as is a very young Naomi Watts.

Directed and written by JohnDuigan; produced by George Miller,Terry Hayes and Doug Mitchell.Australia, 1991, color, 99 min.Rated R

TO DIE FOR Fri, Jan 2, 3:45; Sun, Jan 4, 9:00Based on an outrageous-but-truestory, Gus Van Sant brilliantlyconstructs this sharp satire onAmerica’s obsession with celebrity.Kidman portrays Suzanne Stone, aconniving weather-girl-turned-murderess whose “performance” infront of the TV cameras is almost ashaunting and hilarious as Kidman’sreal performance in front of the moviecamera. First-rate cast includes MattDillon, Joaquin Phoenix and CaseyAffleck.

Directed by Gus Van Sant; writtenby Joyce Maynard and Buck Henry;produced by Joseph M. Caracciolo,Sandy Isaac, Leslie Morgan,Jonathan T. Taplin and LauraZiskin. US/UK, 1995, color, 106 min.Rated R

MOULIN ROUGE! Fri, Jan 2, 6:45; Sat, Jan 3, 1:30; Thu, Jan 8, 9:10What starts as a farcical, madcapromp turns into a beautiful andtender love story—thanks toKidman’s performance as the showgirlwho dreams of becoming a respect-able actress and singer, and EwanMcGregor’s dead-on performance asKidman’s admirer. Baz Luhrmann’s(STRICTLY BALLROOM, ROMEOAND JULIET) direction againdazzles, particularly in the musicalnumbers, as does Kidman’s ability tosing and dance the wildly anachro-nistic “show tunes.” Don’t miss theopportunity to witness this creativetour-de-force on the big screen.

Directed by Baz Luhrmann; writtenby Baz Luhrmann and Craig Pearce;produced by Steve E. Andrews,Fred Baron, Martin Brown,Catherine Knapman, Baz Luhrmann,and Catherine Martin. US/Australia,2001, color, 127 min. Rated PG-13

THE OTHERS Fri, Jan 2, 9:00; Sat, Jan 3, 9:00Nicole Kidman gives an Oscar-worthyperformance as Grace, an austereBritish woman waiting with her chil-dren and servants for the return ofher husband after World War II. She’seither slowly going mad or beingtaunted by ghosts, the servants or herchildren—and there’s a twist certainto enthrall. Masterful cinematographyand production design pay homage toboth classic Hollywood horror and toKidman as an emerging star.

Directed/written by AlejandroAmenábar; produced by FernandoBovaira, Eduardo Chapero-Jackson,Tom Cruise, José Luis Cuerda,

Miguel Ángel González, EmilianoOtegui, Rick Schwartz, ParkSunmin, Paula Wagner and Bob andHarvey Weinstein. US/France/Spain, 2001, color, 104 min. RatedPG-13

EYES WIDE SHUTSat, Jan 3, 4:00; Tue, Jan 6, 7:30Director Stanley Kubrick’s final film,and Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman’sfinal collaboration. This three-years-in-the-making cinematic treatise onthe impact of adultery (merely imag-ined) on a marriage deals with thesexual dysfunction of Dr. WilliamHarford (Cruise), who embarks on abizarre erotic odyssey in the wake ofhis wife’s confession of near-infidelityyears before.

Directed/produced by StanleyKubrick; written by StanleyKubrick and Frederic Raphael. UK,1999, color, 159 min. Rated R

DEAD CALMSat, Jan 3, 7:30; Mon, Jan 5, 9:15A top-notch thriller shot almostentirely at sea, with Nicole Kidman asa young wife recovering from thedeath of her child. Kidman’s “get awayand recover” period aboard the sail-boat she shares with husband SamNeill is shortened when mysteriouscastaway Billy Zane enters thepicture. While Neill is off exploringthe castaway’s sinking ship, Kidman

kicks into high gear to save herselfand, later, her returning husband.

Directed by Phillip Noyce; writtenby Charles Williams and TerryHayes; produced by Terry Hayes,George Miller and Doug Mitchell.US/Australia, 1989, color, 95 min.

THE HOURSSun, Jan 4, 6:45; Mon, Jan 5, 6:45Nicole Kidman earned an Oscar forthis melancholy portrayal of suicidalauthor Virginia Woolf, in an adapta-tion of Michael Cunningham’s cele-brated novel tracing Woolf’ssemi-autobiographical character “Mrs.Dalloway” through three generations.Also featuring stellar performances byJulianne Moore, Ed Harris and therecipient of the 2003 AFI LifeAchievement Award—Meryl Streep.

Directed by Stephen Daldry;written by David Hare; producedby Robert Fox and Scott Rudin. US,2002, color, 114 min. Rated PG-13

New wide-screen 70 mm print inAFI’s historic theatre!DAYS OF THUNDER Sun, Jan 4, 1:00; Thu, Jan 8, 7:00This prototypical Jerry Bruckheimer/Don Simpson (THE ROCK, BEVERLYHILLS COP) production attempts todo for NASCAR racing what theirTOP GUN did for Navy aviation.With Tom Cruise as the hot-shotracecar driver and Nicole Kidman asthe sexy shrink who’s brought in todeal with his temper problems.

Directed by Tony Scott; written byRobert Towne and Tom Cruise;produced by Jerry Bruckheimer andDon Simpson. US, 1990, color,70mm, 107 min. Rated PG-13

New 70mm print to screen in AFI Silver’s historic theatre!FAR AND AWAYWed, Jan 7, 7:30An epic tale of Irish immigration atthe end of the 19th Century, with TomCruise as the plucky Joseph Donnellyand Nicole Kidman as ShannonChristie, his rich-girl love interest.The Oklahoma Land rush provides atour-de-force backdrop for virtuosicbig-budget filmmaking.

Directed by Ron Howard; writtenby Bob Dolman; produced by RonHoward and Brian Grazer. US, 1992,color, 70mm, 140 min. Rated PG-13

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FEATURED SHOWCASEKrzysztof Kieslowski

The great Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Kieslowski’s claim—inthe wake of the triumphant 1994 release of his TROISCOULEURS trilogy-concluding ROUGE—that he would nowretire and smoke cigarettes, became brutally ironic with theimminence of his early death. But 14 years of feature film-making had already made him one of the dominating talentsin world cinema and “arguably the most gifted filmmakerworking in Europe”—Hal Hinson, Washington Post. Beginningon the traditional path of obliquely political filmmaking in hisnative Poland before the Fall, he progressed to the legendaryTHE DECALOGUE series (based on applications of the TenCommandments to modern life), and to the THREE COLORStrilogy (inspired by the French flag and the accompanyingslogan “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity”), cementing his positionas a master filmmaker of subtlety, ambiguity, pictorial evoca-tiveness, psychological penetration and perverse black humor.

In the words of film critic Roger Ebert, “[Kieslowski]has still not received the kind of recognition given those hedeserves to be named with, like Bergman, Ozu, Fellini, Keatonand Buñuel. He is one of the filmmakers I would turn to forconsolation if I learned I was dying, or to laugh with on find-ing I would live after all.”

To honor one of cinema’s true visionaries, AFI Silverwill highlight Krzystof Kieslowski this month as it presents theNorth American Theatrical premiere of THE BIG ANIMAL, a newfilm by Jerzy Stuhr from Kieslowski’s final screenplay.Accompanying this premiere engagement, AFI Silver will pres-ent the fabled 10-part THE DECALOGUE series and the break-through trilogy, THREE COLORS: RED, WHITE and BLUE.

An introduction to the master in his own words: “I always think on a small scale. I certainly don’t want tomake a film about things on a macro scale, on a global scale.That doesn’t interest me in the least because I don’t believesocieties exist; I don’t believe nations exist. I think that theresimply are, I don’t know, 60 million individual French or 40million individual Poles or 65 million individual British. That’swhat counts. They’re individual people.”—KrzysztofKieslowski

“A short feature with a big heart. THE BIG ANIMAL is agift from the great beyond: Working from a recentlydiscovered unfinished 1973 screenplay by the lateKrzysztof Kieslowski, vet Polish actor-helmer Jerzy Stuhrhas made a rueful, yet gentle fable about a piece ofindividuality and the value of dignity… and will appeal toanyone old enough to read the subtitles.”

—EDDIE COCKRELL, VARIETY

THE BIG ANIMALOpens Friday, Jan 9, with daily showsthrough Thursday, Jan 15, includingweekend matinees

This poetic film, from a long-lost and forgotten script byKrzysztof Kieslowski, was directed by and stars thewriter/director’s longtime friend and collaborator JerzyStuhr (CAMERA BUFF, WHITE, THE DECALOGUE 10).Joining Stuhr and his wife Anna Dymna (as his wife) isRubio, a camel they adopt as a house pet. His presencearouses animosity, envy and suspicions in the neighborswho seek to exploit Rubio. A gentle allegory about unifor-mity, eccentricity and tolerance, Stuhr’s film showcasesKieslowski’s uncanny knack for scripting moral tales inclear, visual and understated terms. Though filmed posthu-mously, the script is a clear precursor to his accomplishedwork in THE DECALOGUE series.

Directed by Jerzy Stuhr; written by Krzysztof Kieslowski; produced by SlawomirRogowski. Poland, 2000, b&w, 78 min. In Polish with English subtitles.

North AmericanTheatrical PremiereEngagement!

THE DECALOGUE[Dekalog]Opens Friday, Jan 9, with dailyshows through Thursday,Jan 22, including weekendmatineesEach of the ten hour-long films in thisseries originally shot for Polish televi-sion tackles one of the TenCommandments, challenging and ulti-mately asserting the relevance of thecornerstone of Judeo-Christian ethicsby forming the commandments intoan episodic series of contemporarymorality tales, all set inside the samehigh-rise apartment complex. Fate—combined with Kieslowski’s knack forirony and bone-dry humor pluschance encounters and intersectionsamong characters and chapters—elevates what would in lesser handsseem like pretentious philosophicalmeditation into a complex, accom-plished masterpiece.

Directed by Krzysztof Kieslowski;written by Krzysztof Kieslowskiand Krzysztof Piesiewicz; producedby Ryszard Chutkowski. Poland,1988, color, each episode appx.58 min. In Polish with Englishsubtitles.

DECALOGUE 1 “I am The Lord Thy God; ThouShalt Have No Other God Before Me.”Henryk Baranowski plays Krzysztof,an arrogant man who trusts hiscomputer’s calculations above all else.Wojciech Klata delivers a hauntingperformance as the man’s trusting son.

DECALOGUE 2 “Thou Shalt Not Take the Lord’sName in Vain”Krystyna Janda plays a doctor whomust decide between life and death,and Olgierd Lukaszewicz is the wifewho wants to know her husband’schances. He is in a coma, and shouldhe live, she will abort the illegitimatechild she is carrying.

DECALOGUE 3 “Thou Shalt Remember theSabbath Day, to Keep it Holy”Set on Christmas Eve, Maria Pakulnishopes her ex, Daniel Olbrycgski, willhelp her find a missing lover.

DECALOGUE 4 “Honor Thy Father and Mother”Adrianna Biedrzynska opens a letterthat causes her to question her rela-tionship with her father, with whomshe has lived since the death of hermother.

DECALOGUE 5 “Thou Shalt Not Kill”Expanded into A SHORT FILMABOUT KILLING, this chapterfeatures a cold-blooded murder andfollows the thug who did it to hisexecution—ruminating on thevalidity and sanity of the deathpenalty.

DECALOGUE 6 ”Thou Shalt Not CommitAdultery”Expanded into A SHORT FILMABOUT LOVE, 19-year-old OlafLubaszenko spies on and then stalksmarried artist neighbor GrazynaSzapolowska.

DECALOGUE 7 “Thou Shalt Not Steal”A 22-year-old ill-fit mother kidnapsher daughter from her own mother,the child’s grandmother (whom thechild mistakenly believes to be hermother). But she learns she can’t copewith the responsibility of mother-hood.

DECALOGUE 8 “Thou Shalt Not Bear FalseWitness”Teresa Marczewska, a Polish-American woman, confronts MariaKoscialkowska, a famed ethicslecturer, to ask why she refused toshield her from the Nazis as a child byfalsifying her baptism.

DECALOGUE 9 “Thou Shalt Not Covet ThyNeighbor’s Wife”Philandering husband PiotrManchalica—now impotent—encour-ages his wife Ewa Blaszczyk to take alover.

DECALOGUE 10 “Thou Shalt Not Covet ThyNeighbor’s Goods” Jerzy Stuhr (BIG ANIMAL, WHITE)and Zbigniew Zamachowski(WHITE) star as brothers whoinherit their father’s stamp collection.

NOTE: The DECALOGUE can be enjoyed in anysequence, because each film is self-contained.AFI Silver will offer a one-day marathonscreening—a rare opportunity to see theentire series in order.

THREE COLORSTRILOGYOpens Tuesday, Jan 13, withdaily shows through Sunday,Jan 18, including weekendmatinees

BLUE [Trois couleurs: Bleu]Tue, Jan 13, 7:00; Thu, Jan 15, 9:15; Sun, Jan 18, 1:00 & 7:00 As composer’s wife Juliette Binoche(CHOCOLAT, THE ENGLISHPATIENT) regains consciousness, sherealizes she’s lost her husband anddaughter in a car crash and must nowremake her own life. The first ofKieslowski’s THREE COLORStrilogy, BLUE both examines itscorrelative in the flag—individual“liberty”—and its hue as a mood-setting leitmotif. Blue-beaded windchimes are Binoches’ only keepsakeafter she cleans out her old home.Winner: Best Picture, Best Actressand Best Cinematography, VeniceFilm Festival.

Directed by Krzysztof Kieslowski;written by Krzysztof Piesiewiczand Kieslowski, with AgnieszkaHolland, Edward Zebrowksi andSlawomir Idziak; produced byMarin Karmitz. France/Poland,1993, color, 97 min, in French withsubtitles.

WHITE [Trois couleurs: Blanc]Tue, Jan 13, 9:15; Wed, Jan 14, 7:00; Sun, Jan 18, 3:30 & 9:30Okay, so your suitcase is lost atWarsaw’s airport, but how to explainit held 165 pounds of “clothes?” PartTwo of the THREE COLORS trilogyfocuses on the correlative of “equality”and on the misadventures ofZbigniew Zamachowski’s haplessKarol Karol, always making the rightmoves at the wrong time and vice

versa: when sued for divorce by wifeJulie Delpy (BEFORE SUNRISE) ongrounds of non-consummation, heprotests he did just fine before theywere married. His farcical return fromParis to Poland and rise to slicked-back sharpie evolves into “a love storywith a happy ending, and maybe theonly one I’ve ever seen that’s bothtouching and perverse at the sametime.”—Hal Hinson, WashingtonPost. Silver Bear, Berlin Festival.

Directed by Krzysztof Kieslowski;written by Krzysztof Piesiewiczand Kieslowski; produced by MarinKarmitz. France/Poland, 1994, color,92 min. In Polish and French withEnglish subtitles.

RED [Trois couleurs: Rouge]Wed, Jan 14, 9:15; Thu, Jan 15, 7:00; Sun, Jan 18, 4:30Geneva model Irène Jacob hits a dog,and when she returns it to its owner,retired judge Jean-Louis Trintignant,she finds his hobby is spying on andwiretapping his neighbors. If onlythere weren’t forty years between

them. The final film in the trilogy andthe director’s farewell—with thetheme of “fraternity” and the complexinterconnections of people, includingcharacters from his previous BLUEand WHITE. Three Oscar nomina-tions for Director, Screenplay, andCinematography. Best Foreign Film,New York, Los Angeles, Chicago FilmCritics and National Association ofFilm Critics.

Directed by Krzysztof Kieslowski;written by Krzysztof Piesiewiczand Kieslowski; produced by MarinKarmitz. France/ Poland, 1994,color, 99 min. In French withEnglish subtitles.

THREE COLORS TRILOGY SCREENINGSunday, Jan 18, starting at 1:00Like THE DECALOGUE, the THREE COLORS trilogycan be enjoyed in any sequence, as each filmis self-contained. For those interested inseeing the entire trilogy, AFI Silver willpresent all three films—BLUE, WHITE andRED—in the order in which they werereleased.

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MODERN TIMESOpens Friday, Jan 9, with daily shows through Thursday, Jan 15,including weekend matineesChaplin’s Little Tramp gets trapped in the coils of automation—at one pointliterally—so frenziedly tightening screws on the assembly line that, once off it,he compulsively tightens buttons on women—and later becomes the guinea pigfor an efficiency-promoting feeding machine gone amok. Inspired by René Clair’sÀ NOUS LA LIBERTÉ, this corrosive satire on the dehumanizing effects of tech-nology gives its screeches, groans, and grinds more lines than the actors. One ofChaplin’s most lighthearted works, as well, with highlights including his helpfulwaving of a red flag dropped by a departing truck just as a Communist demon-stration marches up behind him. That final shuffling walk into the distance wasthe last the Tramp would take—but this time in the vivacious company ofPaulette Goddard‘s “Gamin.” This sparkling new 35mm restoration print waspresented at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival’s closing night.

Directed/produced/written by Charles Chaplin. US, 1936, b&w, 85 min.

I VITELLONIOpens Friday, Jan 16, with daily shows through Thursday, Jan 22,including weekend matinees Federico Fellini’s first international success revisits memories of his youth inRimini, focusing on five layabouts (the title literally means “The Calves”) in asleepy seaside town during the winter off-season. What he remembers:skirtchaser Franco Fabrizi is forced into marriage butstill has eyes for his boss’s wife, Czech actress LidaBaarova (in real life, Nazi Paul Goebbels’s ex-mistress); would-be poet Leopoldo Trieste at last getsto read his poetry to an aged actor he idolizes—butgets a proposition instead; buffoon Alberto Sordi(Fellini’s WHITE SHEIK), costumed as a woman fora masked ball begs his sister not to leave; Fellini’s look-alike brother Riccardocroons and emcees at a seaside beauty pageant that’s interrupted by a storm;and only the youngest, Moraldo (the stand-in for Fellini), gets out. Winner ofthe Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival and a then-rare Oscar nomination forForeign Film Screenplay.

Directed by Federico Fellini; written by Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pinelli, andFellini; produced by Jacques Bar, Mario De Vecchi and Lorenzo Pegoraro.Italy, 1953, b&w, 103 min. Italian with English subtitles.

DC AREA EXCLUSIVES

Mid-Atlantic Regional Showcase (MARS)AFI Silver continues to partnerwith the DC Independent FilmFestival and the MontgomeryCollege Film Department topresent this monthly seriesshowcasing independent film-making from the Mid-Atlanticregion. Programs are selectedfrom submissions by local andregional filmmakers. (Seebelow for application infor-mation.) This ongoing month-ly showcase takes place at9:30 pm on the first Tuesdayof every month, following acasual, networking “Meet &Greet” in the AFI Silver Café.

MARS accepts entries for itsongoing program and is open tofilm/video productions shot onall formats. Its screenings are inthe following formats: 35mm,Beta SP, MiniDV, DVD, & VHS. TheShowcase is primarily looking forfilm shot in the mid-AtlanticRegion. Works in progress arewelcome.

To submit: Send cover letter,VHS, press info and registrationform to: “MARS” c/o DCIFF, 2950 Van Ness Street, NW,Washington, DC 20008, Phone: (202) 537 9493; www.dciff.org

FIVE LINESTuesday, Jan 6 8:00 – 9:30 p.m. Meet & Greet Filmmakers, AFI Silver Café9:30 p.m. Film Presentation

Filmed on location in Washington, DC andshot entirely on HDCAM, Nick Panagopulos’feature film travels a fascinating journeyinside the lives and deaths of five strangersconnected by Washington’s METRO subwaysystem. From beginning to end, this non-stop, emotional roller-coaster ride engagesviewers with unforgettable story lines andcharacters.Directed by directed Nick Panagopulos; writ-tenn by Nick Panagopulos and ChristianZonts; produced by Brainbox. US, 2000,color, 110 min.Nick Panagopulos at Union Station

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CONTINUINGIRANIAN VOICESFestival of films from IranSaturdays and Sundays through December 21This Festival of Films from Iran, sponsored by the ILEXFoundation and presented with the assistance of NilooFotouhi of the ILEX Foundation, Bo Smith of theMuseum of Fine Arts Boston, and Renée Wright of Lensto Lens, Inc., includes some of the latest personal andpolitical dramas from a changing Iran. All films are inPersian with English subtitles, except as noted.

BLACK TAPE: A TEHRAN DIARY—THEVIDEOTAPE FARIBORZ KAMBARI FOUND INTHE GARBAGE [Ravaryete Makdus]Sat, Dec 13, 12:45; Sun, Dec 14, 2:45This underground experimental film shot from thepoint of view of a fictitious 18-year-old Kurdish“trophy wife” provides a harrowing account of thecircumscribed world of a young woman married toa much-older former torturer.Directed by Fariborz Kamkari. Iran, 2002, DV to35mm, color, 83 min. In Persian and Kurdish withEnglish subtitles.

THE MAY LADY [Banoo-Ye Ordibehesht]Sat, Dec 13, 4:30; Sun, Dec 14, 12:45“Rakhshan Bani-Etemad, Iran’s foremost femaleauteur, has produced her most personal andhaunting film. Telling the tale of a divorced, 42-year-old woman director who wages a war of nerveswith her teenage son concerning her desire to date,the film is a beautifully shaded mood piece thatprovocatively, movingly connects the outer andinner lives of women, and recognizes their aware-ness of difficulty…”—VarietyDirected/written by Rakhshan Bani-Etemad.Iran, 1997, color, 85 min.

THE TWILIGHT [Gagooman]Sat, Dec 13, 2:45; Sun, Dec 14, 4:45An authentic prison drama that blurs the bound-aries between fact and fiction by casting prisoners,their families, the guards, and the warden as them-selves— reenacting a real-life event. When a well-intentioned warden decides to conduct his ownbrand of prison reform by facilitating a marriagebetween a male and a female inmate, he inadver-tently complicates their already sad, hard lives.(From a Mill Valley Film Festival description.)Directed by Mohammad Rasoulof. Iran, 2002,color, 79 min.

IRAN, VEILED APPEARANCES [Iran Sous Le Voile Des Apparences]Sat, Dec 20, 6:30; Sun, Dec 21, 12:45Belgian director Thierry Michel (MOBUTU, KINGOF ZAIRE) gained access to both the inner work-ings of Iran’s paramilitary religious sects and theincreasingly modernized youth culture to producethis insightful documentary of life in contemporaryIran. Deeply troubling and “among the most impor-tant documentaries to be shown in this year’sSundance Film Festival, [the film] should be seen byanyone still wondering why September 11 happened,and where lies the fate of the world”—SundanceFilm Festival.Directed/written by Thierry Michel. Belgium,2002, DV, color, 94 min.

DEEP BREATH [Nafas-e amigh]Sat, Dec 20, 4:45; Sun, Dec 21, 2:45Two young men from different backgrounds inpresent day Tehran—university student Kamranand casual thief and vandal Mansour—become bestfriends, scrape together enough money to share acheap hotel room, then ramble through life aim-lessly until they meet Ayda, a student whose freeand easy spirit captivates Mansour, igniting a sparkof hope in his otherwise empty life.Directed/written by Parviz Shahbazi. Iran, 2002,color, 86 min.

Cine LatinoAFI Silver continues its presentation of the latest from LatinAmerica, with noteworthy guest speakers, visiting filmmakers, abilingual moderator and a discussion following each Cine Latinoprogram. The presentation of CUBA MIA: PORTRAIT OF AN ALL-WOMAN ORCHESTRA has been made possible by Carol Bidault, exec-utive director of Cine Latino, and Mary House, an institution dedi-cated to providing housing and other related services for predomi-nantly Latin American homeless families and particularly womenand children in distress. Look for a special Cine Latino presentationon the third Tuesday of every month.

From CUBA/CHILE CUBA MIA: PORTRAIT OF AN ALL-WOMAN ORCHESTRATue Dec 16, 8:15 pm

This Award-winning musicdoc introduces theCamerata Romeu, an extraordinary group of ten brilliant womanmusicians, conducted by a woman and currently one of the mostpopular musical groups in Cuba. In the tradition of THE BUENA VISTASOCIAL CLUB, this stunningly visual, insightful documentary show-

cases a delightful cross-section of Cuban and Latin American musicperformed by the popular chamber group. Awarded the 2003 SilverPlaque at the Chicago Film Festival and the 2003 Silver Award at theWorld Media Festival, Hamburg, Germany.

Directed by directed/written/produced by Cecilia Domeyko.Cuba/Chile. 2003, color, 90 min. In Spanish with English subtitles.

Director/writer/producer Cecilia Domeyko has been invited to attend.

Tuesday, January 20 The January 2004 Cine Latino Film, co-presentedby the Mt. Pleasant Higher Achievement Program, will be announced andposted online at www.AFI.com/Silver in December.

SpecialFilmmakerAppearance!

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more than 70 films from around the world.

Filmmakers: CALL FOR ENTRIES—Documentary Features andShorts. Apply online now at www.SILVERDOCS.com

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From a Miami Festival viewer:

“I wanted to write andtell you how wonder-ful I thought yourdocumentary, CUBAMIA, was. I likedeverything about it—the music, the pacing,the voice-overs, thephotography. A realwow.”—Betty Francis

BILL MURRAY: FOUNDIN TRANSLATIONContinued from last month: This seriesexamines the evolution—so far—ofMurray’s ever-more-notable career.

LOST IN TRANSLATIONFri, Dec 12, 6:45; Sat, Dec 13, 6:45Directed/written bySofia Coppola. US,2003, color, 97 min.

THE ROYALTENENBAUMSSat, Dec 13, 9:00 Directed by WesAnderson/co-writtenby Wes Anderson andOwen Wilson. US,2001, color, 109 min.

HAMLETThu, Dec 18, 9:00 Directed/adapted byMichael Almereyda.US, 2000, color, 112min.

RUSHMORETue, Dec 16, 6:45Directed by WesAnderson/co-writtenby Wes Anderson andOwen Wilson.US,1998, color,93 min.

SPACE JAMSat, Dec 13, 2:45Directed by Joe Pytka,written by LeonardoBenvenuti and SteveRudnick. US, 1996,color, 81 min.

KINGPINMon, Dec 15, 9:00Directed by Bobbyand Peter Farrelly,written by BarryFanaro and MortNathan. US, 1996,color, 117 min.

ED WOODFri, Dec 12, 9:00;Wed, Dec 17, 9:00Directed by TimBurton, written byScott Alexander, US,1994, b&w, 127 min.

MAD DOG ANDGLORYSun, Dec 14, 6:45Directed by JohnMcNaughton, writtenby Richard Price. US,1993, color, 97 min.

GROUNDHOG DAY AFI 100 Funniest #34Mon, Dec 15, 6:45Directed by HaroldRamis, written byDanny Rubin. US,1993, color, 101 min.

QUICK CHANGESat, Dec 13, 4:30Directed by BillMurray and HowardFranklin, written byHoward Franklin. US,1990, color, 89 min.

SCROOGEDSun, Dec 14, 2:30; Thu, Dec 18, 6:45Directed by RichardDonner, written byMitch Glazer andMichael O’Donoghue.US, 1988, color,101 min.

GHOSTBUSTERS AFI 100 Funniest # 28Sat, Dec 13, 12:30Directed by IvanReitman, written byDan Aykroyd andHarold Ramis. US,1984, color, 107 min.

THE RAZOR’S EDGESun, Dec 14, 9:00 Directed by JohnByrnum, written byJohn Byrnum and BillMurray. US, 1984,color, scope, 128 min.

TOOTSIEAFI 100 Funniest # 2Wed, Dec 17, 6:45Directed by SydneyPollack, written byLarry Gelbart andMurray Schisgal. US,1982, color, 116 min.

STRIPESTue, Dec 16, 9:00Directed by IvanReitman, written byLen Blum and DanielGoldberg. US, 1981,color, 101 min.

CADDYSHACK AFI 100 Funniest # 71Sun, Dec 14, 12:30Directed by HaroldRamis, written byBrian Doyle-Murrayand Harold Ramis.US, 1980, color, 99min.

MEATBALLSSun, Dec 14, 4:45Directed by IvanReitman, written byJanis Allen and LenBlum. US, 1979, color,99 min.

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DC AREA EXCLUSIVESFROM HERE TO ETERNITYOpens Friday, Jan 2, with daily shows throughThursday, Jan 8, including weekend matineesIn 1941’s Schofield Barracks in Hawaii, in-for-life armyPrivate Montgomery Clift (“If a man don’t go his own way, he’snothin’.”) first refuses to box for the company team despite intensepressure from his slimy captain, then finds romance with club “hostess”Donna Reed (later the most wholesome of sitcom moms). And on otherfronts, 1st Sergeant Burt Lancaster “hates officers,” but memorably endsup in the surf with officer’s wifeDeborah Kerr, while scrawny but big-mouthed Frank Sinatra heads for ashowdown with sadistic stockade chiefErnest Borgnine’s Sgt. “Fatso.” Thensuddenly it’s December 7th and theJapanese invade Pearl Harbor. Winner ofeight Academy Awards, including BestPicture, Director,Screenplay (DanielTaradash) andsupporting Oscars forReed and Sinatra.Meticulously restoredfrom its camera nega-tive for its 50thanniversary, the newprint features digitallyre-mastered sound.

Directed by FredZinnemann; adaptedby Daniel Taradashfrom the novel byJames Jones;produced by BuddyAdler. US, 1953,b&w, 118 min.

THE REAL OLD TESTAMENTOpens Friday, Jan 2, with daily shows through Thursday, Jan 8,including weekend matineesImagine THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD shot MTV-style, likethe popular dis-and-dish reality program, “The Real World,” and youget some idea of what THE REAL OLD TESTAMENT has in store,including direct confessionals (“Yeah, I guess you could say I’m ajealous God…”), cheesy wall-to-wall music cues (What if God Was One ofUs?), and the inevitable reunion show where the spurned Serpent picksa fight with a fellow cast member. Chronicling the Book of Genesis—from the story of Adam and Eve to Cain and Abel, Sodom andGomorrah and Abraham and Sarah—this totally improvised compila-tion film features hilarious dialogue inspired directly by Scripture, witha talented cast that includes Kate Connor, Andy Hirsch, Jill Tracy,“Scrubs”-regular Sam Lloyd (nephew to Christopher) and CurtisHannum as God.

Directed and produced by Curtis and Paul Hannum; written byGod; improvised by the cast. US, 2003, color, 85 min.

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