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Seattle International Film Festival 2001 Table of Contents
Film title Index.................................. 2
Special Archival Presentation............. 44
Drive-in Party....
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Directors Index ............................ ..... 4
Special Benefit Screening ............. .... 45
Edge of Midnight.
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Country Index.................................... 5
Secret Festival............................. ....47
SIFF 2001 S ta ff...
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Advertisers Index.......................... ..... 6
Jean-Jacques Beineix Tribute....... .... 48
Volunteers..........
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Governor's Address........................ .... .8
Archival Treasures.............. .......... .... 54
Members............
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Mayor's Address............................ ..... 9
Asian Beat: Spotlight on Thailand ...... 64
Acknowledgments
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Sponsors / Partners...................... ..... 11
Black Experience on F ilm .............. .... 72
Daily schedule....
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Flow to Festival / Tickets / Maps ........ 18
Emerging Masters......................... .... 80
Cinema Seattle.................................. 21
New Directors Showcase............... ..... 88
Poster Auction 2001..................... ..... 23
New American Cinema..................... 100
Golden Space Needle Award.......... ..... 25
Shooting in Seattle...................... ... 130
Filmmakers Forum........................ ..... 26
Documentaries: Truth with an Attitude 136
Talking Pictures............................ .... 29
Contemporary World Cinema............ 156
Opening Night.............................. .... 30
Shorts Programs.......................... ... 224
Closing N ight............................... .... 31
Shorts Print Sources..................... ... 230
Gala Presentations....................... .... 33
Films4Families................................. 232
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Film title index 101 Reykjavik 193 6ixtynin9 67 Adventures of Felix, The 89 Ali Zaoua 208 All Over the Guy 101 American Astronaut 101, 237 L'amour, L'argent, L'amour 189 ,/Amy's Orgasm 103 Angels of the Universe 195 Animal 157 Anita Takes a Chance 217 Anniversary Party, The 30 Are You Luigi? 225 Attic Expeditions, The 103 Audit 229 Baise-Moi (Rape Me) 178, 241 Bang Rajan 67 Bangkok: Dangerous 89 Banquet at Tetlapayac, A 137 Baraka 57 Barking Dogs Never Bite 215 Bartleby 105 Battle Royale 203, 239 Before the Storm 91 Better Than Sex 159 Betty Blue L'lntegral 53 Big Animal, The 85 Big Love 227 Blink 137 Block Party 131 Blue Diner, The 105 Body and Soul 73 Born in Absurdistan 159 Born Romantic 192 Borstal Boy 199 Boychick 229 Boys in the Bean, The 133 Brave New Land 163 V Bread and Tulips 202 Breaking the Silence 171 Brisket 227 Bronx-Barbes 75 Brother 206 Burnt Money 83 Business of Strangers, The 107 Butcher from the Fields, The 225 Camp Scott Ladies 138 Canone Inverso - Making Love 87 Captain's Daughter, The 213 Chain Camera 138 Chick Bloodhound 133 Chopper 91 Chronically Unfeasible 163 City of Lost Souls 238
Cleave 229 Closet, The 179 Cloud Nine 229 Clouds That Touch Us Out of Clear Skies, The 133 Clown Karma 227 Come Undone 179 Coming to Terms 145 Coronation 170 Crazy 189 Crimson Rivers, The 180 Cure 81 Cutting Room, The 227 Dead Or Alive 239 V Devils on the Doorstep 171 Diary of a Chambermaid 57 Dim Bulb 227 Dinosaur Hunter, The 233 »/Dirt Boy 107 Disappearing Girl Trick, The 227 Disco Pigs 93 Diva 53 Divided We Fall 175 Dog Food 209 Dora-Heita 204 ... (dot dot dot) 229 Drink 227 e-Dreams 139 Eat 227 Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition, The 45 England! 190 Escape to Life: The Erika & Klaus Mann Story 139 /Everybody's Famous! 161 Exploding Oedipus 108 Faat-Kine 75 Family Pack 161 Famous 109 v/Farewell to Harry 131 Film Noir 204 Final 109 Finder's Fee 111 Fleeing by Night 221 Foul King, The 215 Frank's Book 225 Fugitives 217 Fugue: AVery Short Film 227 / Gaudí Afternoon 111 Gen-X Cops 193 Ghost World 41 Ginger Snaps 165 Glamour 93 Go Tigers! 141
Greatest Show On Earth, The 227 Gulp 225 Haiku Tunnel 113 Hamlet 113 Hedwig and the Angry Inch 115 Heisenberg Principle, The 227 Heroine Helen 225 Hitdown 225 Hofmann House Project, The 131 Horrible Accident 225 Horses on Mars 227 Hotoke 203 Hybrid 141 I Love Beijing 172 I Prefer the Sound of the Sea 95 If... 59 If I Could 143 Ignorant Fairies 201 In Search of Mike 229 Innocence 157 Inugami 205 Investigating Sex 31 IP5 51 Iron Ladies 69 Jack & Diane 229 Jack the Dog 115 Jackpot 117 Jalla! Jalla! 220 Jeffery's Hollywood Screen Trick 229 Jin-Roh:The Wolf Brigade 205 Joint Security Area 95 Juilliard 143 Jump Tomorrow 117 King Is Alive, The 97 King Is Dancing, The 187 Kisses for Everyone 218 KM.0 218 LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton 143 Last Whiskey 133 Left Side Of The Fridge, The 167 Liam 37 Lift 73 Limited, The 225 Little Crumb 233 Little Otik 177 Little Senegal 77 Live Blood 97 Live Evil 133 Lost and Delirious 167 Love Inventory 144
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^Manhood and Other Modern Dilemmas 180 Manic 119 Marching On: Rainbow City Band 131 •J Marshal Tito's Spirit 1 7 5 ^ :4 Matter of Taste, A 181 ' Measure 133 Mechanism 223 Melancholy Chicken, The 177 Memento Mori 216 Middle Passage 79 Milk 133 Miracles 59 Mirror 227 Monkey's Mask 158 Mortal Transfer 49 Moscow 211 Moving Illustrations of Machines 227 Moving Pyramid, The 227 Mullitt 225 My Chorus 225 My First Mister 119 My Two Best Men 229 Nang Nak 69 National 7 181 New Country, The 221 Night Shift 183 No Place to Go 190 Not Waving But Drowning 225 Nuts and Bolts 131 V033 0 Fantasma 211, 240 Odd Litt|e Man 208 Okenka (Little Windows/FiIm Frames) 227 Other Girls, The 99 Our Lady of the Assassins 173 Out of the Closet, Off the Screen: The William Haines Story 153 Parsley Days 169 Peaches 199 Perfect Son, The 169 Phones 229 Place Nearby, A 178 Placebo 227 Plenilunio 219 Positive Reinforcement 133 Possible Loves 165 Princesa 202 Princess and the Warrior, The 191 Problem with Sharks, A 133 Punishment, The 144 Questions and Answers 227 Rain, The 227
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Top of the Food Chain 170, 237 Tortilla Soup 39 Treading Water 125 Turandot Project 151 Under the Sand 185 Vanaprastham:The Last Dance 197 Vengo 187 Vertical Ray of the Sun 222 Virgil Bliss 125 Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors 216 Viva Las Nowhere 127 Way Out West 153 Webcam Boys 153 Wedding, The 213 Week in the Life of a Man, A 85 Weight of Water, The 127 Wendigo 129 White Face 133 Wild Horses 83 Wild Zero 238 WillFull 158 Woman's a Helluva Thing, A 129 World Record Guy 225 Young and the Dead, The 155
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Directors index Ali, Christophe 183 Allahyari, Houchang 159 Anders, Allison 123 Anderson, Eric 227 Anderson, Lindsay 59 Appleberg, Ran 225 Assayas, Olivier 185 Ayouch, Nabil 208 Bailey, Fenton 153 Barbato, Randy 153 Bazan, James 133 Beatty, David 227 Bécue-Renard, Laurent 151 Behrman, Dana 227 Beineix, Jean-Jacques 49, 51,53 Bennett, Garrett 131 Bennett, Laura 229 Berman, Shari S. 155 Bernstein, Daniel 227 Bettauer, Nicole 229 Bianchi, Sérgio 163 Bigelow, Kathryn 127 Bizzio, Sergio 157 Black, Miriam Ruth 131 Bloom, Jason 127 Bloss, Rudi 227 Boetticher, Budd 55 Bonilauri, Nicolas 183 Bong Joon-hu 215 Borries, Achim 190 Bouchareb, Rachid 77 Brabec, Jaroslav 177 Breillat, Catherine 61,241 Bresan.Vinko 175 Bmggenthies, Stephan 225 Bunuel, Luis 57 Burns, Ed 123 Butler, George 45 Cahill, Joseph 227 Caiozzi, Silvio 170 Calopresti, Mimmo 95 Campbell, Darren 121 Capaldi, Peter 192 Carlson, Kenneth A. 141 Carlton, Wendy Jo 133 Chan, Benny 193 Chan, Gary 229 Chan, Jackie 59 Chavarri, Jaime 218 Chin.Wonsuk 139 Chinn, Casey P. 225 Corbiau, Gérard 187 Cox, Paul 157 Crokos, Christine 225 Cronin, Laura 131
Crowther, Dave 131 Cumming.Alan 30 Davis, DeMane 73 Davis, Julie 101,103 Davis, Kate 147 Debroise, Olivier 137 de Latour, Eliane 75 Deruddere, Dominique 161 Deslauriers, Guy 79 Despentes, Virginie 178, 241 Diaz-Abaya, Marilou 209 Dick, Kirby 138 Dickson, Deborah 143 Dissanayake, Somaratne 219 Doherty, Richard 225 Dominik, Andrew 91 Dorfman, Andrea 169 Downing, Todd 229 Ducastel, Olivier 89 Duffy, Martin 235 Dunne, Griffin 109 Dunye, Cheryl 79 Duong, Hoang A. 229 Egleson, Jan 105 Erdern, Reha 222
Haggerty, Dylan 227 Handagama, Asoka 220 Hanson, Anne T. 133 Hanson, Dayna 133 Harada, Masato 205 Harlan, Jan 149 Haußmann, Leander 191 Healy, Pat 225 Hegedus, Chris 149 Heide, John 133 Hermoso, Miguel 217 Herold, Kara 133 Himmel, Lauren 125 Hong Sang-soo 216 Hopkins, Joel 117 Hopkins, Karen Leigh 129 Hrebejk, Jan 175 Hsu, Li-kung 221 Hung, Tran Anh 222 Iborra, Juan Luis 218 Ichikawa, Kon 204 Jagmohan 195 Jeffcoat, John 133 Jiang, Wen 171 Jinsei, Tsuji 203 ' Jiynukul, Thanit 67 Jones, Christopher 227 Jörgensen, Geir Hansteen
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Falardeau, Philippe 167 Fares, Josef 220 Farlinger, Leonard 169 Farmanara, Bahman 197 Fawcett, John 165 Fessenden, Larry 129 Fisher, David 144 Frappier, Roger 160 Frasco, Jay 107 Fraser, Paul 133 Frears, Stephen 37 Frenzer, Joel 227 Fricke, Ron 57 Fridriksson, Fridrik 195 Frömke, Susan 143 Fukasaku, Kinji 203,239 Fusco, Marc 121
Kane, David 192 Karun, Shaji 197 Kassovitz, Mathieu 180 Kasten, Jeremy 103 Keaton, Buster 44 Kim Ji-woon 215 KimTae-yong 216 Kingsbury, Winston Augustus 131 Kitano, Takeshi 206 Kobayashi, Masahiro 204 Koch, Susan 138 Kormakur, Baltasar 193 Kornbluth, Jacob 113 Kornbluth, Josh 113 Kott, Alexander 183 Kurosawa, Kiyoshi 81
Gaelen, Dayna 133 Garrett, David 227 Gatlif, Tony 187 Gaylord, Glen 229 Girre, Ronan 180 Gödrös, Frigyes 93 Goldman, Henrique 202 Griffiths, Megan 225 Gröning, Philip 189 Grosso, Nick 199
Lafia, Marc 108 Lahti, Christine 119 Lancaster, Andrew 229 Lang, Samantha 158 Lanier, Lee 227 Lavenstein, Hollie 229 LeGuay, Philippe 183 Leigh, Jennifer Jason 30 Leikanger, Stein 208 Levring, Kristian 97 Lifshitz, Sébastien 179 Louter, Jan 145
Lowrey, Kevin 131 Lungin, Pavel 213 Maggio, Joe 125 Makinney, Katherine 225 Mancini, Chris 225 Martineau, Jacques 89 McAbee, Cory 101,237 McCollum, Monteith 141 McDonald, Brian 133 McGuinn, Patrick 229 Melamed, Jordan 119 Micheaux, Oscar 73 Miike, Takashi 238,239 Miller, Allan 151 Miller, Kerryn 227 Milosavljevic, Djordje 223 Min Kyu-Dong 216 Mitchell, John Cameron 115 Mohan, Ram 235 Moodysson, Lukas 99 Murat, Lücia 163 Nakagawa, Morgan 133 Nelson, Tim Blake 33 Nemeroff, Brett 225 Ng, Anthony 229 Niblo, Fred 153 Nimibutr, Nonzee 69 Noujaim, Jehane 149 O'Connell, Mark 131 Okiura, Hiroyuki 205 Ozon, François 185 Ozpetek, Ferzan 201 Paas, Anne 227 Paizs, John 170,237 Palansky, Mark 225 Pang, Danny 89 Pang, Oxide 89 Park Chan-Wook 95 Parker, Jonathan 105 Parsa, Reza 91 Penfold-Russell, Rebel 158 Peters, Maria 233 Petty,,Lori 225 Picard, Dane 131 Pineyro, Marcelo 83 Plympton, Bill 227 Polish, Michael 117 Pons, Ventura 217 Pool, Léa 167 Postoff, Shawn 145 Pray, Doug 147 Probst, Jeff 111 Proshkin, Alexander 213 Pulcini, Robert 155
RADD153 Rapp, Bernard 181 Ratanaruang, Pen-Ek 67 Rebic, Goran 144 Rees, Steve 121 Reisner, Charles 44 Reitman, Jason 225 Renders, Pierre-Paul 160 Requa, Kelly 133 Ripoll, Maria 39 Ripstein, Arturo 207 Rodrigues, Joäo Pedro 211.240 Roehler, Oskar 190 Rossen, Gregg 227 Rostrup, Kaspar 178 Roth, Bobby 115 Rudolph, Alan 31 Sako, Yugo 235 Salvatores, Gabriele 201 Samardzic, Ljubisa 223 Sasanatieng, Wisit 65 Saski, Koichi 235 Schmid, Hans-Christian 189 Schroeder, Barbet 173.240 Scott, Campbell 109,113 Seidelman, Susan 111 Sembene, Ousmane 75 Serrano, Antonio 207 Serrano, Yolanda García 218 Shapiro, Mike 133 Shelton, Lynn 133 Shepard, Tom 145 Sheridan, Kirsten 93 Sheridan, Peter 199 Siguion-Reyna, Carlos 209 Simonson, Eric 113 Sinapi, Jean-Pierre 181 Smith, Patrick 227 Soldini, Silvio 202 Solterbeck, Jeremy 227 Speck, Wieland 139 Spielmann, Götz 160 Stappen, Chris 161 Stettner, Patrick 107 Stevenson, Rick 233 Streeter, Khari 73 Stuhr, Jerzy 85 Sun, Zhou 171 Svankmajer, Jan 177
Takeuchi, Tetsuro 238 Teplitzky, Jonathan 159 Thompson, Chris 225 Thompson, Elizabeth 137 Thongkongtoon, Yongyooth 69 Thor, Cameron 229 Tilden, Leif 227 To, Brian 229 Tognazzi, Ricky 87 Trinh Thi, Coralie 178, 241 Truitner, Ian 225 Tsuruta, Norio 206 Tykwer, Tom 191 Uribe, Imanol 219 Van-S, Mark 131 Veber, Francis 179 Vignal, Caroline 99 Vogt, Peter J. 131 Ward, Jon 227 Weiss, Andrea 139 Werneck, Sandra 165 Werner, Jeff 138 White, R.A. 225 Whte, Patty Obrow 143 Wilkins, Wendy 229 Willis, David Jackson 227 Winspeare, Edoardo 97 Wirth, Billy 77 Witney, William 27 Xie Fei 173 Yin, Chi 221 Ying, Ning 172 Zeldovich, Aleksandr 211 Zhang Yimou 172 Zilber, Roee 225 Zwigoff, Terry 41
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Country index Algeria Little Senegal 77
Argentina Animal 157 Burnt Money 83 Wild Horses 83
Australia Better Than Sex 159 Chopper 91 Heisenberg Principle, The 227 In Search Of Mike 229 Innocence 157 Monkey's Mask 158 WillFull 158
Austria Born in Absurdistan 159 Punishment, The 144 Stranger, The 160
Belgium Everybody's Famous! 161 Family Pack 161 King Is Dancing, The 187 Thomas in Love 160
Brazil Brave New Land 163 Chronically Unfeasible 163 Possible Loves 165 Princesa 202
Canada Coming to Terms 145 Dinosaur Hunter, The 233 Family Pack 161 Ginger Snaps 165 Left Side Of The Fridge, The 167 Lost and Delirious 167 Parsley Days 169 Perfect Son, The 169 Top of the Food Chain 170, 237
Chile Coronation 170
China Breaking the Silence 171 Devils on the Doorstep 171 I Love Beijing 172 Road Home, The 172 Song of Tibet 173
Colombia Our Lady of the Assassins 173 Croatia Marshal Tito's Spirit 175
Czech Republic Divided We Fall 175 Little Otik 177 Melancholy Chicken, The 177 Okenka (Little Windows/Film Frames) 227
Denmark King is Alive, The 97 Place Nearby, A 178
France Adventures Of Felix, The 89 Baise-Moi (Rape Me) 178, 241 Better Than Sex 159 Betty Blue L'lntegral 53 Bronx-Barbes 75 Captain's Daughter, The 213
Closet, The 179 Come Undone 179 Crimson Rivers, The 180 Diary of a Chambermaid 57 Diva 53 Everybody's Famous! 161 Family Pack 161 I Prefer the Sound of the Sea 95 Ignorant Fairies 201 IP5 51 King Is Dancing, The 187 Maîtresse 240 Manhood and Other Modern Dilemmas 180 Matter of Taste, A 181 Middle Passage 79 Mortal Transfer 49 National 7 181 Night Shift 183 Other Girls, The 99 Rat, Le 183 Real Young Girl, A 61,241 Revenge Of The Red Balloon 227 Roselyne And The Lions 51 Sentimental Destiny 185 Such Is Life 207 That The Women Live 151 Thomas in Love 160 Under the Sand 185 Vengo 187 Vertical Ray of the Sun 222 Wedding, The 213 Weight of Water, The 127
Germany Are You Luigi? 225 Crazy 189 England! 190 Escape To Life: The Erika & Klaus Mann Story 139 Glamour 93 King Is Dancing, The 187 L'amour, L'argent, L'amour 189 No Place to Go 190 Princesa 202 Princess and the Warrior, The 191 Sun Alley 191 Turandot Project 151
Great Britain Bom Romantic 192 Borstal Boy 199 Disco Pigs 93 Escape To Life: The Erika & Klaus Mann Story 139 If 59 Liam 37 Little Otik 177 Peaches 199 Stanley Kubrick: A Life In Pictures 149 Strictly Sinatra 192 Testimony of Taliesin Jones, The 235
Hong Kong Gen-X Cops 193 Miracles 59
Hungary Glamour 93
Iceland 101 Reykjavik 193 Angels of the Universe 195
India Ramayana:Prince Of Light 235 Sandstorm 195 Vanaprastham: Last Dance 197
Iran Smell Of Camphor, Fragrance Of Jasmine 197
Ireland Borstal Boy 199 Disco Pigs 93 Peaches 199
Israel Butcher From The Fields, The 233 Love Inventory 144
Italy Bread And Tulips 202 Canone Inverso - Making Love 87 I Prefer the Sound of the Sea 95 Ignorant Fairies 201 Live Blood 97 Princesa 202 Sky Hook 223 Strangled Lives 87 Teeth 201 Together 99
Japan Battle Royale 203,239 Brother 206 City of Lost Souls 238 Cure 81 Dead Or Alive 239 Dora-Heita 204 Film Noir 204 Hotoke 203 Inugami 205 Jin-Roh:The Wolf Brigade 205 Ramayana:Prince Of Light 235 Ring 0 206 Seance 81 Wild Zero 238
Martinique Middle Passage 79
Mexico Banquet atTetlapayac, A 137 Sex, Shame & Tears 207 Such Is Life 207
Morocco Ali Zaoua 208
Netherlands Everybody's Famous! 161 Little Crumb 233 Sad Flower in the Sand, A 145
Norway Odd Little Man 208
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Russia Captain's Daughter, The 213 Moscow 211 Scarecrow 183 Wedding, The 213
Seattle Block Party 131 Boys in the Bean, The 133 Chick Bloodhound 133 Clouds That Touch Us Out Of Clear Skies, The 133 Farewell to Harry 131 Hofmann House Project, The 131 Last Whiskey 133 Live Evil 133 Marching On: Rainbow City Band 131 Measure 133 Milk 133 Nuts And Bolts 131 Positive Reinforcement 133 Problem With Sharks, A 133 Rock and Roll Won't Wait 133 Space Needle (Twice Around) 131 Strange Ships 131 Tesseract 131 Tit Chat 133 White Face 133
Senegal Faat-Kine 75
South Korea Barking Dogs Never Bite 215 Foul King, The 215 Joint Security Area 95 Memento Mori 216 Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors 216
Spain Anita Takes a Chance 217 Fugitives 217 Gaudi Afternoon 111 Kisses for Everyone 218 KM.0 218 Plenilunio 219 Such Is Life 207 Vengo 187
Sri Lanka Saroja 219 This Is My Moon 220
Sweden Before the Storm 91 Jalla! Jalla! 220 New Country, The 221 Together 99
Switzerland Bread And Tulips 202 Family Pack 161 Glamour 93
Dog food 209 Reef Hunters 209
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Big Animal, The 85 Week In The Life Of A Man, A 85
6ixtynin9 67 Bang Rajan 67 Bangkok: Dangerous 89 Iron Ladies 69 Nang Nak 69
Fleeing by Night 221
Tears Of The Black Tiger 65
Turkey Run For Money, A 222
USA All Over the Guy 101 American Astronaut 101,237 Amy's Orgasm 103 Anniversary Party, The 30 Attic Expeditions, The 103 Audit 229 Baraka 57 Bartleby 105 Big Love 227 Blink 137 Blue Diner, The 105 Body And Soul 73 Boychick 229 Brisket 227 Brother 206 Business Of Strangers, The 107 Camp Scott Ladies 138 Chain Camera 138 Cleave 229 Cloud Nine 229 Clown Karma 227 Cutting Room, The 227 Dim Bulb 227 Dirt Boy 107 Disappearing Girl Trick, The 227 ...(dot dot dot) 229 Drink 227 e-Dreams 139 Eat 227 Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition, The 45 Exploding Oedipus 108 Famous 109 Final 109 Finder's Fee 111 Frank's Book 225 Fugue: A Very Short Film 227 Gaudi Afternoon 111 Ghost World 41 Go Tigers! 141 Greatest Show On Earth, The 227 Gulp 225 Haiku Tunnel 113 Hamlet 113 Hedwig And The Angry Inch 115 Heroine Helen 225 Hitdown 225 Horrible Accident 225 Horses On Mars 227 Hybrid 141 If I Could 143 Investigating Sex 31 Jack & Diane 229 Jack the Dog 115 Jackpot 117 Jeffery's Hollywood Screen Trick 229 Jump Tomorrow 117 LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton 143 Lift 73 Limited, The 225 MacArthur Park 77 Manic 119 Mirror 227 Moving Illustrations of Machines 227
Moving Pyramid, The 227 Mullitt 225 My Chorus 225 My First Mister 119 My Two Best Men 229 Not Waving but Drowning 225 0 33 Okenka (Little Windows/Film Frames) 227 Out of the Closet, Off Screen: The William Haines Story 153 Phones 229 Placebo 227 Questions And Answers 227 Rain, The 227 Red Boot Diaries, The 225 Rennie's Landing 121 Revenge Of The Red Balloon 227 Richard Roe 225 Rock, Paper, Scissors 229 Sad Flower in the Sand, A 145 Same, The 225 Scout's Honor 145 Scratch 147 Second Coming 121 Seven Men From Now 55 Sidewalks Of New York 123 Soda Pop 229 Southern Comfort 147 Startup.com 149 Steamboat Bill Jr. 44 Stranger Inside 79 Things Behind the Sun 123 Tom Clay Jesus 229 Tortilla Soup 39 Treading Water 125 Turandot Project 151 Virgil Bliss 125 Viva Las Nowhere 127 Way Out West 153 Webcam Boys 153 Weight of Water, The 127 Wendigo 129 Woman is a Helluva Thing, A 129 World Record Guy 225 Young and the Dead, The 155
Vietnam Vertical Ray of the Sun 222
Wales Testimony of Taliesin Jones, The 235
Yugoslavia Mechanism 223 Sky Hook 223
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Capitol Club 174 Capitol Hill Community Arts Festival (Cirque de Broadway) 244 Chow Foods 92 Cinema Books 166 Cinemax 20 City of Seattle, Mayors Film Office 10 Citysearch 74 Clatter & Din 150 Clear Blue Sky/Vulcan Northwest 78 Delta Air Lines 24 Digital Film Group 124 Digital Forest 94 Dilettante 148 Dragonfish 108 Eastman Kodak 7 Evian 71 Flexcar 256 Freixenet 28 Gargoyles Statuary 155 Gordon Biersch 243 Gourmando 200 Greater Seattle Business Association (GBSA) 210 Halo 46 Hero Magazine 40 Hollywood Locations / Birns &
IATSE 194 II Fornaio 154 imdb.com 76 Independent Media Center 174 International Channel 66 Journal Newspaper 122 KBTB-FM 162 KEXP 58 KING FM 196 KIRO/KBSG/KNWX 52 KISS 106.1 60 KJR 210 KNDD 84 KPLU-FM 214 KUOW 50 KWJZ-FM 56 KYPT 96.5 The Point 126 Landmark Theatres 36 Linda's Tavern 166 Loudeye 126 Marco 82 Men's Journal 231 Metrocafl 47 Metropolitan Living 104 Midlakes Insurance 150 Modern Digital 128 Mondavi 226 Museum of Northwest Art 234 Museum Quality Framing 234 Natacha's Asian Talent 200
Nature's Inc. 106 New York Times 110 Pacific Science Center 38 Pagliacci Pizza 148 Paramount Hotel 112 Perry Ellis 114 Photonica 194 Pike/Pine Businesses 174 Port Townsend Film Festival 38 Put on the Dog 135 Pyramid Ale Back cover Resonance 146 Richard Hugo House 154 Rocket Pictures 118 Rosebud 61 Safeco 154 Screen Actors Guild 120 Screenplay 86 Scr(i)pt magazine 198 Seattle Central Community College 174 Seattle Magazine 6 Seattle Men's Chorus 62 Seattle Theatre Group 152 Seattle Weekly 102 Sedgwick Rd 43 Seniors Making Art/Chihuly Studio 162 Sheraton Seattle 120 Shuttle Express 128
Skyy Spirits 32 Sonic Boom 194 Space Needle Corporation 132 Starbucks Inside front cover Steve's News 194 Strange Engine 152 The Stranger 63 SuperGraphics 162 Tablet 134 Team Photogenic 35 Thai Airways 22 Thomas Kemper 140 Travelers 155 UW Educational Outreach 146 UW Summer Arts Festival 166 Valeo 186 Vancouver Film School 46 W Hotel 228 Warm 106.9 148 Washington State Film Office 188 Westwind Computing /Apple Computer 17,182 Wiese, Michael Productions 146 Women's Entertainment 184 WyEast 200 Yakima Grill 176
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From the Governor May 24, 2001
GREETINGS FROM THE GOVERNOR As governor of the state of Washington, I am pleased to welcome you to the Seattle International Film festival. For the past 27 years, the festival has provided an opportunity for a wide variety of filmmakers to share with the people of the Pacific Northwest the fruits of their creative labors. As the largest, longest-running film festival in the United States, this annual event allows audiences to experience more than 200 features and 75 short films from nearly 50 nations around the world. As we continue to meet the challenges of the 21st century, we must work together for a greater understand ing among individuals from different backgrounds. The Seattle International Film Festival is an outstanding cross-cultural celebration that serves to highlight the richness of our global diversity. To the filmmakers attending the Festival: I invite you to carefully consider the state of Washington for your production needs. In addition to our natural scenic beauty and geographic diversity, we offer the human resources necessary to help you complete your work successfully— from professional crews and rich acting talent to support services and post-production facilities. In addition, the Washington State Film Office can save you both time and money. We would welcome the chance to work with you. Best wishes for a successful festival! Sincerely,
Gary Locke, Governor
From the Mayor May 24, 2001
Greetings!
As Mayor of the City of Seattle, it is an honor and a pleasure to welcome you to the 27th Annual Seattle International Film Festival! I'd Like to thank the many volunteers, staff, and sponsors who work tirelessly to make this event the premier independent film destination in the Pacific Northwest This festival truly brings life into perspective: With more than 300 features, documentaries, and short films, the Seattle International Film Festival is a showcase for the rich tapestry of cultures, traditions, and people who compose our increasingly intercultural world. Audiences can gain insight into the past, catch a glimpse of the future, or get lost in the moment— all within a 10-minute short or a full-length feature. As you are navigating this cinematic expanse, I hope you find time to take in a movie from another part of the world. The 2001 Film Festival features a focus on Pacific Rim cinema, movies that illustrate the Black experience around the world, and films that represent more than 50 countries. Even if you prefer to stay closer to home, you can see the best movies that were filmed in and around the Emerald City. Seattle is extremely fortunate to be the home of this unique and amazing festival. With an abundance of artists and appreciative audiences, there is no lim it to the fun and excitement that the Seattle International Film Festival brings. On behalf of the people of Seattle, congratulations to all who have worked so diligently to make this event such an eagerly awaited celebration. Thank you for your hard work, and best wishes for a most successful Film Festival! Very truly yours,
Paul Schell, Mayor
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RUSH TICKETS
$3 handling charge per order.
When advance tickets are sold out, a limited
available Monday through Saturday, 11 am to 7
On the Web Visit www.seattlefilm.com
door. Rush tickets are available on a first-
pm, and Sunday, noon to 6 pm, at the Seattle
Subject to a $3 handling charge per order.
ADVANCE TICKETS In Person Advance tickets for all films and events are
number of rush tickets may be available at the
International Film Festival Center's two
come, first-served basis, depending on how many seats are available after passholders and advance ticketholders are admitted. Rush
outlets:
IN D IVID U A L TICKET PRICES $10 Filmmakers Forum events
tickets are normally sold 5-10 minutes prior to
SIFF Main Box Office Broadway Performance Hall
$8 Evening screenings (except where noted)
the screening. Cash only.
1625 Broadway
$7 Evening screenings for Cinema Seattle members when purchased in advance
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$5.50 Matinees and Midnights
Pacific Place Concierge Desk,
$4 Films4Families series only
First Floor Lobby 600 Pine St. (advance single tickets only)
DAY-OF-SHOW TICKETS the screening theater only, subject to avail ability. Theater box offices open a half-hour before the first screening of the day. If day-of-
A ll tickets and passes (excluding Cinematic Six-Packs, Student and Senior Reel Deal passes and membership for the Secret Festival) may be purchased by phone with Visa or MasterCard
screening is reserved for passholders. While a pass (with the exception of Platinum) does not guarantee seating, passholders are allowed
On the day of screening, tickets are for sale at
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PASSES A generous allotment of seats at every
show tickets are no longer available, rush tickets may be purchased, subject to avail
priority entry up to 20 minutes before showtime or until the passholder seat allot ment has been reached. Passholders are strongly encouraged to arrive 30 minutes before showtime. A ll passes are strictly nontransferable and photo ID must be shown at the theater.
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showtime. Limit: two per person. Secret
Cameras and recording devices are not
admission to all Festival screenings, the
Festival memberships are available in person
permitted in the theater. Please silence all
Filmmakers Forum, and Press screenings (with
only at the Broadway Performance Flail Box Office.
cellular phones, pagers and watches when in the theater.
Galas, and an invitation for the passholder and
SPECIAL EVENTS
SOUVENIRS
a guest to attend a private Festival reception.
Jean-Jacques Beineix: Tribute Presentation/ M ortal Transfer Screening: $12
souvenir items are available for purchase at
the exception of the Secret Festival), reserved seating at the Opening and Closing Night
Full Series Passes are $375 and include admission to a ll public screenings and press screenings, excluding Opening Night, the
($10 Cinema Seattle members) (Full series pass grants admission)
Limited-edition T-shirts, posters and other the Broadway Performance Hall Box Office and other Festival venues.
Secret Festival, the Filmmakers Forum, the
Alloy Orchestra /Steam boat B ill Jr.: $12
Alloy Orchestra /Steam boat B ill Jr. presentation
($10 Cinema Seattle members)
and the Endurance benefit screening.
Tarantino presents William Witney screenings $8
Weekly Passes are $125 and grant admission
Opening Night Gala: $35
up patrons at the end of one film and deliver
to all public screenings, excluding Opening
Closing Night Gala: $25
them in time to another theater for the next
Night, the Secret Festival, the Filmmakers
Endurance Benefit: $25
scheduled film. To take the shuttle, look for
Forum, the Alloy Orchestra /Steam boat B ill Jr.
($75 Patron, pre-screening reception and priority seating)
the Shuttle Express vans parked in front of the
presentation and the Endurance benefit screening. Matinee Passes are $125 and include admis sion to all public screenings prior to 5:30 pm excluding the Secret Festival, Filmmakers Forum and The Tarantino Tutorial. Filmmakers Forum Passes are $125 for admission to all Filmmakers Forum events, including The Tarantino Tutorial. Cinematic Six-Packs are $42 and include admission to any six films priced $8 or less, limited to a maximum of two tickets per film. Films must be selected at the time of pur
THE FINE PRINT A ll programs are subject to change without notice. No refunds or exchanges are given, except in the case of program cancellations.
theater, and simply show the driver your Festival ticket. Seats on the shuttles are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Please note: Shuttle service is not available for shows at Valley Drive-In.
first-come, first-served basis. Ticketholder seating is guaranteed up to 10 minutes prior to screening. No late seating. Each film w ill be shown in its original language with English subtitles, unless otherwise noted.
chase. A limited number of Six-Pack tickets are
No babes in arms and, with the exception of the Films4Families series, no children under six
may only be purchased in person at the
years old w ill be admitted. Please be aware
Broadway Performance Flail Box Office.
that films may not be suitable for ages 16 and
five films priced $8 or less, and are available
movies a snap. The free service is timed to pick
Seating is available at all performances on a
available for each film. Cinematic Six-Packs
Student & Senior Reel Deals are $25 for any
FREE SHUTTLE VANS Shuttle Express makes getting to and from the
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Films4Families are $4 for admission to each
CINERAMA 2100 Fourth Ave. • 206.441.3080
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Saturday's 12:30 p.m. Films4Families screen ing. Films4Families gives families and young people of a ll ages a chance to view the best
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any information about the films shown in the series. Film titles are not announced until
less disruptive to the rest of the audience if
PACIFIC PLACE CINEMAS 600 Pine St. • 206.652.2404
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movies by young-at-heart filmmakers from around the world. Secret Festival memberships are $25 for admission to the four Secret Festival screen ings on Sundays at 11:30 pm at the Egyptian
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Talking Pictures Designed for the entertainment and enlightenment of Cinema Seattle members and the general public. Talking Pictures hosts smart, provoca
MORE REASONS TO JO IN .
tive talk— discussion, argument, eloquence— on the subject of cinema.
Cinema Seattle produces the largest and best-attended international
Our "talking" stars include film critics, scholars, industry folk and pop-
film festival in the United States. We offer our members a rich selection
culture commentators. These talks— and occasional panels— follow
of films as we promote a deeper understanding of cinema with our programs and events throughout the year.
selected sneak previews, just-released movies and special film series
Women in Cinema For the past six years, Cinema Seattle has successfully staged a smaller
with themes such as pantheon directors, popular genres and classic movies. Depending on the venue, Cinema Seattle members receive free or discounted admission to Talking Pictures events.
version of the Festival, focusing specifically on the work of women
Membership
directors. Field in November, Women in Cinema showcases 25 features
Join Cinema Seattle and save on festival passes, ticket packages and
and short films from around the world, allowing Seattle audiences the
member benefits including: free year-round movie passes, festival
opportunity to see some of the best and brightest recent films by, for,
merchandise, discounted admission to Cinema Seattle educational
and about women— both mainstream and independent. During the
programs and a subscription to our quarterly publication as well as our
course of the week, Women in Cinema hosts a brunch and a panel
bimonthly email newsletter. Membership brochures are available at all venues and may be purchased at the Box Office.
discussion featuring filmmakers and industry representatives and focusing on issues affecting women working in contemporary cinema.
Screenwriters Salon Cinema Seattle's Screenwriters Salon is an ongoing public forum for the
Membership Levels: Goodwill $35
development and nurturing of Pacific Northwest writers. Each year,
Friend $50
nearly 100 actors and a dozen directors graciously lend their skills to
Friend Partner $75
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workshops and panels, novice writers, aficionados and the general
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To learn more about membership or any of our year-round programs, please check out our website at www.seattlefilm.com, call the Cinema Seattle offices at 206.464.5830, or em ailinfo@ seattlefilm .com . Or stop by the Information Desk at the Box Office or any of our Merchandise Tables at all of our venues May 24 - June 17.
dim Taylor (Election) and Christopher McQuarrie (The Usual Suspects). A ll Salons take place at the Richard Flugo House (1634 11th Ave., 11th and Pine on Capitol Hill). To learn more about the Richard Hugo House, visit www.hugohouse.org or call 206.322.7030. The Salons begin at 7 pm unless otherwise noted; admission is $5 general, $2 with any valid student ID and FREE for Cinema Seattle members.
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posters from around the world, this year's SIFF
Thai poster, John Woo
poster auction takes a new approach: Each of
Topsy Turvy
the posters selected for the auction has been
large French, Mike Leigh
framed, courtesy of Museum Quality Framing, and w ill be displayed at various Festival venues. To bid on the framed movie poster of
Tale o f the Vampire French subway poster A Night a t the Opera
your dreams, simply f ill out a bid form (available at a ll theaters). At the close of the
Belgian reissue
Festival, the winning bidders w ill be contacted
East o f Eden
and the coveted movie art delivered to their
rare French reissue, James Dean
door. Proceeds from the auction benefit
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Cinema Seattle and its year-round educational programs, including the Screenwriters Salon, the Filmmakers Forum, and our popular new program, Talking Pictures.
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POSTERS AVAILABLE INCLUDE: Harold and Maude Italian, very rare original, linen backed Wisdom o f Crocodiles Belgian mini-poster 2001: A Space Odyssey Original, French Silence o f the Lambs rare French subway poster Dark Habits Spanish, very rare early Almodovar Casablanca Belgian reissue Flowers o f Shanghai
French subway poster King Creole French reissue, subway poster (Elvis) Star Wars German original one sheet Lolita Belgian reissue, Kubrick version Chinatown extremely rare original French subway poster Gladiator French subway poster The Letter Belgian reissue
French one sheet L'Empire de la Passion French, Topor art, rare original (1978) Psycho French, rare reissue, Hitchcock version The Birds large French reissue The Day The Earth Stood S till Belgian reissue Jour de Fete rare French reissue Law o f Desire Almodovar, rare Spanish mini, Ceesepe art Belle de Jour rare U.S. reissue Andy Warhol's Flesh very rare French one sheet Wizard o f Oz Belgian reissue
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Golden Space Needle Award Since 1987, SIFF attendees have cast their votes for our prestigious Golden Space Needle awards in the categories of Best Film, Documentary Feature, Director, Actor, Actress and Short Film. Among past winners of this expression of Seattle filmgoers' esteem are films and talents who went on to win Academy Awards and Golden Globe Awards, as well as a large number of critical and theatrical hits first seen in the US at SIFF. Voting is easy: For Best Film or Documentary Feature, simply take a ballot from our ushers as you enter the auditorium for any screening; once the film’s presentation is over, tear your ballot by the appropriate grade listed (from 1 to 5), and give your completed ballot to an usher as you leave the auditorium. Ballots for each film will be tallied on the basis of scoring average throughout the Festival. For the categories of Best Director, Actor, Actress and Short Film, blank ballots are available next to the ballot boxes at each Festival venue; simply write in your choice for the winner in each of these other categories and place your completed ballots in the box. We ask that you fill out no more than five votes in any category.
Winners will be announced at our Filmmakers Awards ceremony on the closing day of the Festival, as well as at the Closing Night Gala. 2000 Golden Space Needle Aw ard Winners Best Film
Shower Director: Zhang Yang Best Director
Zhang Yang
Shower
Best Actor
Dan Futterman Urbania Best Actress
Nathalie Beye An Affair of Love / Venus Beauty Institute Best Documentary
Trade Off Director: Shaya Mercer Best Short Film
In God We Trust Director: Jason Reitman
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Filmmakers Forum IS DIGITAL THE DEATH OF CINEMA?
WHAT'S A DOCUMENTARY FOR?
The 7th Annual Filmmakers Forum Last year, Cineaste magazine published an
10-ll:30am , Saturday, May 26 Broadway Performance Hall Are low-budget digital movies the way to
10-11:30am, Saturday, June 9 Broadway Performance Hall Is the documentary designed to deliver truth
important symposium on film criticism in
democratize filmmaking, creating a "grassroots
24 frames a second? Should it aim for total
America today. Preeminent film reviewers
renaissance"? What kinds of movies can be
objectivity? Should the documentarían ever
talked frankly about their work, their critical
made, on the cheap, on the fly, on the streets
fictionalize? What motivates a filmmaker to
credos, the state of contemporary cinema.
or in one's livingroom? W ill digital break the
make a documentary? When should the
What was so striking in much of their testi
stranglehold of Hollywood studios? Or does
documentary be a polemic, a cinematic
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mony was a strain of disillusionment in the
digital signal the loss of celluloid's unique
weapon, and is it effective as such? Can a
whole idea of film as an art form. Again and
aesthetic? The degradation of reality into
documentary be as artful as a fiction film? Why
again, many spoke of the marginalization of
virtual reality? What happens to our celluloid
should documentaries be relegated to film
the critic, forced into becoming an irrelevant
heritage when theaters go digital? W ill
festivals and PBS?
cog in the great hype machine that grinds out
audiences already heading toward cultural
a new blockbuster every day.
amnesia lose access to classic films? More and more, it seems, directors make and audiences consume product, not primal expressions of a culture's dreams and nightmares.
The dumbing down of film writing contributes to the dumbing down of those who watch movies, who then pay big money for dumb movies, which, of course, ensures that more dumb movies roll off the assembly line. A perfect circle of waste and futility. On the other hand, there are many who feel that the 20th century art of cinema is merely suffering the aches and pains of evolution; that, for instance, the digital revolution w ill bring new blood into the old Hollywood forms. Is it possible that in the new millennium movies may morph, courtesy of technology, into a splendid new species of art— one we can't even yet imagine? In this year's Filmmakers Forum, join us for "2001: A Film Odyssey," a series of interroga tory panels and discussions focusing on issues of life and death and new birth in the cinema. A number of the film critics who participated in Cineaste's symposium are among our panelists. What better opportunity to wrestle with the multifaceted reality of contemporary filmmaking than in the heart of the Seattle International Film Festival?
WHAT IS THE BLACK EXPERIENCE ON FILM? 10-11:30am, Saturday, June 2 Broadway Performance Hall The purpose of this panel is to reflect on how
DRAGONS ON THE DOORSTEP: NEW ASIAN CINEMA 1-2:30PM, Saturday, June 9 Broadway Performance Hall This panel is devoted to a discussion of the current Asian explosion of filmmaking, evident in the many diverse movies SIFF has presented
classic and contemporary, Black and White
under the heading of Asian Beat, coming from
filmmakers have imagined the diverse experi
Thailand, South Korea, Japan, China, Sri
ences of Black Americans— past and present—
Lanka, and Taiwan. Why so much cinematic
and of Black people a ll over the world. Are
largesse at ju st this moment in time? Do these
there recognizable patterns of representation?
films strongly reflect cultural identity, or are
Why do they exist? Do they exist legitimately?
they part of the great globalization of
What constitutes breaking the mold and telling
filmmaking? Are there themes and/or styles
the truth?
and/or genres in common?
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Filmmakers Forum PART I. 4PM Wednesday, June 13 Stranger at My Door USA, 1956, 85 minutes; and Eyes o f Texas USA, 1948, 54 minutes
In a fascinating New York Times article last
to think that splitting the fine hairs of art
clearer eyes." -David Ansen, Newsweek
Introduction by Quentin Tarantino
cranks or reduced us to semi-irrelevance....
PART III. 4PM Friday, June 15 The Bonnie Parker Story
marketing studies in hand), may ask critics to
down, and William Witney was his most exciting discovery. In this very special
Editors, perhaps pressured by publishers (with shorten and punch up their reviews, assign
USA, 1958, 79 minutes; and
star or letter grades to the movies, omit
Paratroop Command
qualifying paragraphs, lines of reasoning,
USA, 1959, 77 minutes
evocation— everything that makes a review
PART IV. 10AM Saturday, June 16 Juvenile Jungle
criticism and not thumbs-up-or-thumbs-down hackwork." -David Denby, The New Yorker A pride of critics will discuss the present-day function, if any, of the film critic.
USA, 1958, 90 minutes; and Santa Fe Passage USA, 1955, 91 minutes
FLY FILMMAKING 5:30PM, Saturday, June 16 The Moore Theatre 1932 2nd Ave, Seattle 206.443.1744 Seattle's best crews, locations and actors,
Tarantino Talks William Witney with
indie directors. A camera, some lights and a
Richard T. Jameson
script.
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO TALKING PICTURES?
Some call it crazy. We call it the Annual SIFF
10-11:30AM, Friday, June 15 Broadway Performance Hall Last year's You Can Count on Me stood
Three directors— the "flyers"— have been
manship and excellence-beyond-the-call-of-
a year and a half to hunting some of them
the work— and by extension the world— with "The studios have either marginalized us as
Discussion follows (1-2:45PM):
critical caste system. He had recently devoted
takes us deeper into ourselves, can help us see
USA, 1949, 67 minutes
Introduction by Quentin Tarantino
duty had gone unheralded only because of the
us merely as consumer guides, but I still like
The Golden Stallion
Fiction, Jackie Brown) spoke of his suspicion there, job-of-work filmmakers whose crafts
informed by all the images that have passed
PART II. 4PM Thursday, June 14 The Outcast
year, Quentin Tarantino (Reservoir Dogs, Pulp that there were unsung American masters out
talks back to what it's reflecting, a mirror before it. Our readers and our editors may see
Introduction by Quentin Tarantino
June 13-16 Egyptian Theatre
1-2:30PM, Friday, June 15 Broadway Performance Hall "A movie critic is part mirror: a mirror that
Introduction by Quentin Tarantino
USA, 1954, 90 minutes; and
THE TARANTINO TUTORIAL: QUENTIN TARANTINO CELEBRATES UNSUNG AMERICAN MASTER WILLIAM WITNEY
WHAT'S A FILM CRITIC FOR?
Fly Filmmaking Challenge.
invited to cast, shoot, edit, score and present their films in ju st six days. This year, each
Filmmakers Forum event, we explore the
out as a contemporary American film
"flyer" w ill have the chance to fully explore
fascinating territory of creative cross
full of extraordinarily authentic talk.
the digital frontier as they shoot and project
fertilization as one contemporary American
Not talk as momentary interruptions
digitally. Only after the festival will they
genre director reacts to and is renewed by his
between explosions and car chases, but
transfer their work to 35mm film.
in-depth experience of another, earlier
talk as what humans mostly do to make
Think you could do it? Come see for yourself.
American genre director. Quentin Tarantino has
contact and sense of the world. The
curated four special retrospective programs.
"Talking Pictures" panelists w ill discuss
Following the Saturday double feature,
the decline of literate movies, the
Tarantino discusses William Witney's career and
disappearance of movies with anything
directorial style in conversation with film critic Richard T. Jameson.
like intelligent or witty or any dialogue
Fly Filmmaking kicks off with a press confer ence Sunday, June 10, at the Sheraton Hotel. The Fly films w ill be screened June 16 at The Moore Theater.
at all; as well as the possibility that the
Look for our new Fly Screenwriting program at
art of screenwriting is evolving, that
this year's Filmmakers Forum, too.
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Talking Pictures Cinema Seattle recently kicked off a year-round program for the entertainment and enlightenment of those starved for smart talk about the movies. "Talking Pictures" hosts discussions by critics, scholars, industry experts, and pop-culture commentators in its ongoing war against the decline of film reviewing and discourse into consumer-reports/gossip/box-office hype. During SIFF, several free screenings of films w ill be followed by special talks for high school students. Additional events include: A conversation with Elizabeth Thompson, director of Blink (June 8, 5PM, Egyptian Theatre) and Coded Language: Deconstructing Music Videos, a presenta tion of selected outstanding video clips with in-depth analysis by Armond White, New York Press film critic and author of The Resistance: Ten Years o f Pop Culture That Shook the World and Rebel For the Hell o f It: The Art-Life o f Tupac Shakur. A member of the National Society of Film Critics, White's writing on popular culture won the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award. Formerly the Arts Editor for The City Sun, he has written for a number of national and international publications from The New York Times and Film Comment to Essence, Rolling Stone, Vibe and The Nation. White surveys how personal expression has become more important— yet atypical— in music videos. These recent, rarely seen clips emphasize personality through surprising, imagina tive, meaningsaturated imagery: the coded language of pop. Against the increased corporate control of music and broadcast content, these directors and performers satirize, transcend or subvert increasingly conventional music video style. From Macy Gray to Krust, 01' Dirty Bastard to Mos Def, Trina to Bjork, these clips are so unconven tional, they create new rules, new visual language. By innovative content and style, these videos turn the popular back into the private. (5PM, Friday, June 1, Broadway Performance Hall)
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Thursday May 24 7:30 PM 5th Avenue Theatre 1308 5th Avenue 206.625.1900
US PREMIERE USA 2001
Director: Alan Cumming Jennifer Jason Leigh
Producers: Joanne Sellar Alan Cumming Jennifer Jason Leigh Mike Nelson Lila Yacoub
Screenwriters: Jennifer Jason Leigh Alan Cumming
Cinematographer: John Bailey, A.S.C.
Editors: Carol Littleton, A.C.E Suzanne Spangler
Music: Robin Urdang
Cast: Alan Cumming Jennifer Jason Leigh Gwyneth Paltrow Jennifer Beals Norizzela Monterroso Clara Demedrano John Benjamin Hickey Parker Posey Phoebe Cates Kevin Kline Owen Kline Greta Kline Denis O'Hare Mina Badie
You're invited to an fabulous, all-night La-LaLand party with a guest-list to die for— a raft of movie-folk playing characters very like them selves, dressed up in lots of in-jokes. Joe and Sally Therrian, a neurotic actress (Jennifer Jason Leigh) and her sexually ambivalent novelist-hubby (Alan Cumming), are joined by all their showbiz friends to celebrate the couple's sixth wedding anniversary, their recent reconciliation after a year apart and their plans to have a child. Old friends, past and possibly future lovers, litigious next-door neighbors— this wonderfully volatile mix of Beautiful People party from dusk to dawn, romping through barbed chit-chat, charades, theatrical testimo nials and E-flavored revelations. The satirical fun and games threaten to get very naked and nasty as all the "actors" in the Therrians' theater-in-the-round peel off layers of emo tional makeup— exposing their deepest professional and personal fears and desires. Broadway Cabaret costars Cumming and Leigh debut most auspiciously as Anniversary Party's writer-directors. Who can forget Cumming as the deliciously decadent emperor in Julie Taymor's Titus? And Leigh continues to deliver Oscarworthy performances almost every time she appears on screen— witness The King Is Alive, included in SIFF 2001.
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Running Time: 115 minutes
Print Source: Fine Line Features 888 Seventh Avenue, 20th Floor New York, NY 10106 Ph: 212.649.4800 Fax: 212.956.1942
Selected Filmography: Alan Cumming: Burn Your Phone (1996) Butter (1994) (TV)
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Sunday June 17 6:30 PM Pacific Place Cinemas
WORLD PREMIERE
USA 2001 Director: Alan Rudolph
Producers: Jana Edelbaum Jodi Lahaye Nick Nolte Klaus Rettig Alan Rudolph Greg Shapiro
Screenwriters: Jose Pierre Alan Rudolph Michael Henry Wilson
Cinematographer: Florian Ballhaus
Editor: John Heide
Cast: Jeff Caster Alan Cumming Hart Bochner Neve Campbell Jeremy Davies Julie Delpy Terrence Dashon Howard Dermot Mulroney Nick Nolte Kathleen Robertson Til Schweiger Robin Tunney Tuesday Weld
Running Time: 100 minutes
SIFF favorite Alan Rudolph (Choose Me, 1984; The Moderns, 1988; Afterglow, 1997) returns triumphantly with this wry comic delight, set in the libertine bohemian circles of New England at the end of the Roaring '20s. As the film opens, a wealthy mentor (Nick Nolte) is assembling a circle of young men intent upon a curious goal: purely academically, they intend to discuss sex, openly and without taboos. Two young stenographers— Alice (Neve Campbell) and Zoe (Robin Tunney)— are enlisted to record these frank and sexually charged discussions, but as the sessions progress and the group decides to allow women into their tightly knit circle, the lines between professional and personal interests soon blur. What ensues is a series of amusing romantic entanglements far beyond the scope of the original group's intentions. Writerdirector Rudolph, always at his best when traversing the battle lines and boudoirs of his characters' romantic dilemmas, has enlisted a dream cast to flesh out the wit and irony inherent in this deliciously wicked endeavor.
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Selected Filmography: Investigating Sex (2001) Trixie (2000) Breakfast of Champions (1999) Afterglow (1997) Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994) Equinox (1992) Mortal Thoughts (1991) Love at Large (1990) The Moderns (1988) Made in Heaven (1987) Trouble in Mind (1985) Choose Me (1984) Songwriter (1984) Return Engagement (1983) Endangered Species (1982) Roadie (1980) Remember My Name (1978) Welcome to L.A. (1977) Nightmare Circus (1973) (as Gerald Cormier) Premonition (1972)
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This contemporary update of Shakespeare's O t h e l l o is the long-awaited
Tim Blake Nelson
second film by writer/directorTim Blake Nelson, who won SIFF's American
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Betsy Danbury Zack Estrin Daniel Fried Eric Gitter Lisa Gitter Brad Kaaya Anthony Rhulen
Screenwriter: Brad Kaaya
Cinematographer: Russell Lee Fine
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The film opens by introducing us to "0" (Mekhi Phifer), a
new player on the high school basketball team who has quickly become "king of the courts." 0 has won the respect of Coach Duke (Martin to become the champion he's always dreamed of being, O's perfect world begins to come apart when he is befriended by Coach Duke's envious son Hugo (Josh Hartnett). Trapped in a web of deceit, 0 becomes convinced that Desi is cheating on him and his best buddies are betraying him behind his back. His game is beginning to slip, and as the situation spins out of control, the question arises: Just who is playing whom?
Kate Sanford
This cautionary tale about the competitive world of high school sports
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and social one-upmanship has repeatedly had its release date delayed
Jeff Danna
because of real-life events: Originally scheduled to open in October
Mekhi Phifer Josh Hartnett Julia Stiles Andrew Keegan Rain Phoenix Martin Sheen John Heard Anthony "AJ" Johnson Chris Freihofer Christopher Jones Chris Dong
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Sheen) and the love of the bright and beautiful Desi (Julia Stiles). Poised
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1999, the film was quickly shelved when the Columbine school shootings made the subject matter too hot to handle. (Always nice to know that Shakespeare remains timely enough to censor!) Rescheduled for theatrical opening early this year, the film was again yanked from release when similar killings occurred in California. Now set with a new distributor, which has rescued such controversial films as D o g m s from the same ill-advised oblivion, 0 is a bold and brash statement about the pitfalls of competition among American youth.
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Saturday June 2 9:30 PM Egyptian Theatre Monday June 4 9:30 PM Egyptian Theatre
US PREMIERE
Great Britain 2000 Director:
Stephen Frears returns to his realist roots as a filmmaker with this sharply
Stephen Frears
realized tale concerning a young Catholic lad who, growing up in Liverpool
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in the '30s, faces a confusing world of intolerance and grinding poverty.
Colin McKeown Martin Tempia
The semiautobiographical saga, adapted from Joseph McKeown's novel
Screenwriter: Jimmy McGovern
T h e B l a c k C r a c k B o y , has been written for the screen by Jimmy McGovern ( P r ie s t )
with an almost documentary-style veracity. Liam (the cherubic
Cinematographer:
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Andrew Dunn
a bleak future as he approaches his first communion. Filled with angst
Editor:
by his hellfire-preaching priests and schoolteacher, he becomes convinced
Kristina Hetherington
he's destined for damnation after seeing his mother naked. His stutter
Music: John Murphy
gets worse as he struggles to make his confession of carnal sin, while
Cast:
his teacher leads the class in bizarro incantations: "Your soul is filthy—
Anthony Borrows Ian Hart Claire Hackett David Hart Megan Burns Anne Reid Russell Dixon Julia Deakin
what is it, children?" "Filthy, Miss!" Then his father (Ian Hart) loses his
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affair. Sparked by terrific performances, especially from Hackett, Anne
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job at the local shipyard and, to make ends meet, Liam's sister Teresa (Megan Burns) becomes housemaid for the shipyard owners, a rich Jewish family. While their mother (Claire Hackett) fights to hold her family together, Dad finds an outlet for his anger and frustration by joining the local Fascist party targeting Jews and the Irish community. Teresa, meanwhile, finds herself an unwilling party to her employer's adulterous Reid (as the Bible-bashing schoolmarm) and Hart— with his raw, vulnerable face and indignant ears— this riveting rite-of-passage movie never loses its sense of humor, or perspective.
Awards: Mastroianni Awards, Venice Film Festival
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Selected Filmography: High Fidelity (2000) The Hi-Lo Country (1998) The Van (1996) Mary Reilly (1996) The Snapper (1993) Hero (1992) The Grifters (1990) Dangerous Liaisons (1988) Sammy and Rosie Get Laid (1987) Prick Up Your Ears (1987) Walter and June (1986) My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) The Hit (1984) Gumshoe (1971)
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Saturday June 9 6:30 PM Pacific Place Cinemas
WORLD PREMIERE
USA 2001 Director: Maria Ripoli
Producer: John Bard Manulis
This delicious new comedy from Maria Ripoli (winner of WIC's Best
Print Source:
Picture Award for her first film, T h e M a n
IDP 1133 Broadway Suite 926 New York, NY 10010 Ph: 212.367.9435 Fax: 212.367.0853 Email: michaels@idpfilm.com
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but single, adult daughters. Though he long ago lost his ability to taste, Martin still lives to cook incredibly lavish dinners for his loved ones and to serve them in a family-style ritual at traditional sit-down meals. Although the women humor their father's old-fashioned ways, each of
Selected Filmography:
them is searching for fulfillment outside the family circle. The college
Twice Upon a Yesterday (1998) Domain of the Senses (1996)
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student Is growing increasingly frustrated with the singles scene and
Hector Elizondo Jade Herrera Nikolai Kinski Constance Marie Tamara Mello Jacqueline Obradors Elizabeth Pena Raquel Welch
wants a steady man to give her life a sense of direction; the gorgeous career woman is fed up with her boyfriend and his wandering eye; meanwhile, the eldest daughter, who has suppressed her own romantic longings by burying herself in high school teaching, senses something missing in her life. Things take a turn for the romantic when dad— a widower— meets a vivacious divorcée (Raquel Welch) on the lookout for a mate and each of his daughters in turn finds someone to pique
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milieu of contempo Southern California; though the palate is altogether different, the humor, warmth and piquancy are as intoxicating as they were in the original.
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USA 2001 Director:
Based on the serialized comic book tale by Daniel Clowes and directed
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by Terry Zwigoff, who won acclaim for his dazzling and very strange
Producers: Lianne Halfon John Malkovich Russell Smith
documentary C r u m b (SIFF 1994), G h o s t W o r l d introduces us to Enid ( A m e r i c a n B e a u t y ' s Thora Birch) and Rebecca (Scarlett Johansson), two
supremely ironic, above-it-all teenagers who face the uncertainty of life
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after high school. Among other things, this places a considerable burden
Pippa Cross Janette Day
on their lifelong friendship. Their long-nurtured fantasy of getting an
Screenwriters:
relationships with teen hottie Josh (Brad Renfro) and painfully unhip
Daniel Clowes Terry Zwigoff
nerd Seymour (Steve Buscemi). And unbeknownst to the girls, they're
Cast: Thora Birch Scarlet Johansson Brad Renfro llleana Douglas Steve Buscemi
Running Time: 111 minutes
apartment on their own is threatened by complications stemming from
being shadowed by an undetectable eavesdropper— someone with the queasy detachment of a scientist who has grown fond of the prize microbes in his petri dish. Featuring a wonderful supporting cast (including SIFF favorite llleana Douglas) and enhanced byAffonso ( A l l A b o u t M y M o th e r)
Beato's atmospheric cinematography, this deliciously droll
excursion into the gossipy, cynical world of teen culture provides an amusing and otherworldly counterpoint to the usual rites-of-passage clichés.
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Selected Filmography: Crumb (1994) Louie Bluie (1985)
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Sunday June 10 6:30 PM Egyptian Theatre
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Producer: Joseph M.Schenck
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in many ways the culmination of all that came before— combining the
Carl Harbaugh Buster Keaton (uncredited)
conceptually Ingenious slapstick and daring stuntwork of S h e r l o c k , J r . (1924) with the nostalgicAmerlcan landscapes of O u r H o s p i t a l i t y (1923)
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and T h e G e n e r a l (1927). Buster plays the son of a crusty old riverboat
J. Devereaux Jennings Bert Haines
captain who, like his agihg vessel, is nearly washed-up. Junior hasn't
Editor: J. Sherman Kell
been home since he was a little tyke, and when his father gets a load of the effete fellow decked out in the trendiest of collegiate couture—
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ludicrous little beret, caterpillar moustache, striped sportcoat with a
Buster Keaton Ernest Torrence Tom McGuire Marion Byron Tom Lewis
white carnation, and ukulele— he doesn't even recognize Joe College as his grown-up son. And once Captain Bill does, he soon wishes he hadn't. After a series of humiliating mishaps, Junior must prove himself a chip off the old block by rescuing his girlfriend and his dad from a
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perilous hurricane. S t e a m b o a t B i l l , J r . sports a climactic sequence as
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surreally delightful as anything this side of Buñuel: With the entire universe in a whirl, Buster boldly throws himself into the vortex of the maelstrom and, by adeptly adapting to the indifferent but elastic laws of the universe— disintegrating libraries and flying hospitals included— emerges, astoundingly, unscathed. (Here, too, is the famous and harrowing falling housefront stunt to which Jackie Chan paid tribute in P r o j e c t A , P a rt 2
[1987]). It's fair enough to say that, almost three-quarters of a
century after it was made, S t e a m b o a t B i l l , J r . still has the power to blow audiences away. As an added Buster bonus, we wilt be showing O n e W eek,
a 20-minute charmer about newlyweds who acquire a build-it-
yourself house. The impeccable craftsmanship exemplifies Keaton's mastery of the physical within and around him.
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Selected Filmography: Travelling Saleswoman (1950) Big Store (1941) Manhattan Merry-Go-Round (1937) Hollywood Revue of 1929 (1929)
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Thursday May 31 7:15 PM Egyptian Theatre Saturday June 2 11:30 AM Egyptian Theatre
USA 2000 Director:
In 1914, four days after the First World War began, Sir Ernest Shackleton
George Butler
and his crew of 27 seamen and scientists set sail from England for
Producer: George Butler
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Antarctica on the 144-foot wooden ship E n d u r a n c e . They would not be heard from again for nearly two years. Just one day before they reached
Caroline Alexander Joseph Dorman
Antarctica, temperatures plummeted and the ship was entrapped in
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by the pressure. The crew was forced to abandon ship. What followed
Sandi Sissel Tom Hurwitz
were 22 grueling months of camping on ice floes, traversing uncharted
Editor: Joshua Waletzky
Music: Michael Small
pack ice. Frozen fast for 10 months, the E n d u r a n c e m s slowly crushed
mountains, and crossing some of the roughest seas in the world in an open lifeboat.The most astonishing feat of all was that everyone survived. This harrowing story is now relived in the striking feature-length docu mentary, T h e E n d u r a n c e : S h a c k l e t o n ' s L e g e n d a r y A n t a r c t i c E x p e d i t i o n .
Narrator:
Produced by George Butler and author Caroline Alexander, the film
Liam Neeson
resurrects astonishing Antarctic panoramas, the doomed ship, and the
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extreme hardships and miraculous climax of one of the greatest man-
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enthusiastic advance reviews— it was in competition at the Sundance Film Festival and won Best Documentary at the 24th Portland International Film Festival. This summer, the Burke also welcomes the landmark photographic exhibit T h e E n d u r a n c e : S h a c k l e t o n ' s L e g e n d a r y A n t a r c t i c E x p e d it io n .
Organized by the American Museum of Natural History, the
exhibit presents more than 150 compelling images of the expedition's ordeal taken by ship photographer Frank Hurley, plus vintage film footage and moving diary excerpts from the E n d u r a n c e crew. The exhibit runs from June 14 through December 31, 2001. For more information on the exhibit, please visit the Burke Museum's website at www.burkemuseum.org or call 206.543-5590. The Burke Museum is located at NE 45th St and 17thAve NE on the University of Washington campus. All proceeds from the 7:15 pm. May 31 Egyptian Theatre showing benefit the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture.
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Selected Filmography: In the Blood (1990) Pumping Iron II: The Women (1985) Pumping Iron (1977)
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SIFF pays tribute to the distinguished French director Jean-Jacques Beineix, on the occasion of the U.S. premiere of M ortal Transfer, a stylish black comedy and erotic thriller. (June 14, 7:15pm, Cinerama; June 17, 9:30pm, Pacific Place). With his very first film , Jean-Jacques Beineix achieved supernova status among international film directors and changed the face of French film forever. Diva (1981) simply pulsed with color, originality, high-style sensuality, Euro-cool humor— not to mention that fave Beineix theme of passion mutating into obsession. With The Moon in the Gutter, his next outing, he plunged into the rich surreality of film noir, leading stars Gerard Depardieu and Natassia Kinski deep into the badlands of the soul. Then Beineix took it to the lim it with his masterpiece Betty Blue, an erotic celebration of the kind of am our fou that consumes everything in its path, including sanity. SIFF-goers have always been delighted to follow Beineix into whatever mad, gorgeous terrain he has chosen to explore— witness their enthusiasm for Rosalyne and the Lions and IP5 (winner of two 1992 Golden Space Needle Awards.). As part of SIFF's tribute to Jean-Jacques Beineix, we are presenting free screenings of Diva, Betty Blue L'Integral, Rosalyne and the Lions, and IP5, as well as a very special on-stage interview with the distin guished French director once aptly described as "Hitchcock meets Truffaut on double-espressos."
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TRIBUTE TO JEAN-JACQUES BEINEIX Mortal Transfer
Thursday June 14 7:15 PM Cinerama Sunday 17 9:30 PM Pacific Place Cinemas
US PREMIERE
FRANCE 2000 Director: Jean-Jacques Beineix
Producers: Jean-Jacques Beineix Reinhard Kloos
What a great pleasure to welcome Jean-Jacques Beineix back to SIFF
International Sales:
with the first feature he has directed in eight years! And M o r t a l T r a n s f e r
Cargo Films
truly brims with the best of Beineix. A shrink (played impeccably by B e t t y B lu e 's
Jean-Hughes Anglade) impulsively provides a false alibi for
Screenwriter:
a beautiful kleptomaniac patient (Helene de Fougerolles)— the first moral
Jean-Jacques Beineix based on the novel by Jean-Pierre Gattengo
stumble in that old Hitchcockian slide from small sinning into bigtime
Cinematographer: Benoît Delhomme
Editor: Yves Deschamps
bad behavior. Trained to plumb the darkest depths of the unconscious, Michel is so bored by Olga the shoplifter's endless accounts of S&M sex with her business-exec hubby, he literally nods off during the juiciest parts. So it's poetic— or Freudian— justice when the disengaged psychoanalyst finds himself plunged into a noir nightmare straight out
Music:
of Id-land, having awakened to find the curvaceous Olga very, very
Reinhardt Wagner
strangled and dead on his couch. In a physically grotesque, symbolically
Cast:
hilarious scene, Michel stuffs the stiff under the divan— but Olga's hand
Jean-HuguesAnglade Hélène de Fougerolles Denis Podalydes Miki Manojlovic Yves Renier Robert Hirsch Valentina Sauca
Running Time: 122 minutes
keeps flopping out. (Little do his clients realize "what lies beneath.") Trust us when we assure you that this is only the first and mildest example of Michel's extraordinary, black-humored difficulties in ridding himself of the lovely corpse. His passionate girlfriend grows impatient with her preoccupied lover, Olga's brutal husband wants his stolen money returned, and falling snow silently buries the city. Our deadpan hero finds himself pratfalling toward epiphany in a deliriously unstable Beineixian universe where every surface is ambient with sensual color and light— and potential malignancy: Sometimes erotic thriller, sometimes screwball comedy, sometimes a bone-chilling meditation on death and its attendant indignities—
M o r ta l T ra n s fe n s
above all simply brilliant.
The June 14 screening will be preceded by an on-stage tribute presentation with Jean-Jacques Beineix in attendance.
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Selected Filmography: Otaku (1994) IP5:The Island of Pachyderms (1992) Roselyne and the Lions (1989) Betty Blue (1986) Moon in the Gutter (1983) Diva (1981)
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Roselyne and the Lions ROSELYNE ET LES LIONS Friday June 1 5:00 PM Harvard Exit
Friday May 25 5:00 PM Harvard Exit
France
France
This haunting, enigmatic story of three outcasts who
Always idiosyncratic director Jean-Jacques Beineix
come together in a lush forest of fantasies is perhaps
focuses on a different kind of obsessive love in this
Beineix's most misunderstood film, though filmgoers
tale of two young lovers and the passion they share
Director:
at SIFF 1992 liked it so well they awarded it with
for jungle cats. Thierry works at the Marseilles zoo,
Director:
Jean-Jacques Beineix
audience prizes for Best Film and Best Director. I P 5
where he convinces the lion tamer to train him to
Jean-Jacques Beineix
Producer:
opens by introducing us to two unlikely soulmates:
work with the zoo's cats. Roselyne spends all of her
Producer:
Jean-Jacques Beineix
one, a young, world-weary graffiti artist who roams
free time at the lion cages as well, fascinated by the
Jean-Jacques Beineix
the streets of Paris creating exquisite temporal
grace and power of these exotic beasts. One day,
artworks on decaying urban buildings; the other an
when the lion tamer returns to the cages to find the
Editor:
antisocial black teenager who tags along with the
pair recklessly handling the lions, he fires Thierry. So
Joëlle Hache
young artist, recognizing in him a kindred spirit.
the feline-obsessed Thierry and Roselyne take to the
Jean-François Robin
Cast:
Alienated from the denizens of the bustling city that
road determined to break into the big time as circus
Music:
Yves Montand Olivier Martinez Sekkou Sail Géraldine Pailhas Colette Renard Sotigui Kouyaté Georges Staquet Arlette Didier
surrounds them, each of these lost souls is an outcast,
lion tamers. Beineix brings his customary visual flair
Reinhardt Wagner
though on one foray the young artist encounters a
and superb imagery to this whimsical story of youth
Cast:
beautiful young woman in whom he senses the
and innocence. Particularly striking are his fluid
possibility of love. This budding romance is abruptly
tracking shots of the magnificent cats and the magical
interrupted by a gang of street thugs who steal a
circus world Roselyne and Thierry come to inhabit.
1992
Screenwriters: Jacques Forgeas Jean-Jacques Beineix
Running Time: 119 minutes
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1989
Screenwriters: Jean-Jacques Beineix Jacques Forgeas
Cinamatographer:
photo album of the artist's works, leading him and
Isabelle Pasco Gérard Sandoz Phillipe Clevenot Giinter Meisner Wolf Harnisch
his delinquent young friend to pursue them in a
Running Time:
broken-down van.The chase leads into the deep forest surrounding the town and to an encounter with an
129 minutes
International Sales:
aging eccentric (the magnificent Yves Montand, in
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his final screen role) who seems to possess magical
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powers.... Gloriously idiosyncratic, I P 5 finds Beineix
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exploring the clash between urban chaos and the
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ordered world of nature. In its three central characters, he has created a microcosm for the struggle of the human spirit to find dignity and self-determination in the face of a hostile world.
Selected Filmography: Filmography: Mortal Transfer (2000) Otaku (1994) Roselyne and the Lions (1989) Betty Blue (1986) Moon in the Gutter (1983) Diva (1981)
Mortal Transfer (2000) Otaku (1994) IP5:The Island of Pachyderms (1992) Betty Blue (1986) Moon in the Gutter (1983) Diva (1981)
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Diva
Friday June 8 4:00 PM Harvard Exit
Friday June 15 5:00 PM Harvard Exit
France 1986/1991
One of the screen's steamiest explorations of love,
After a decade's on-the-job training as an assistant
passion and madness is now a lot steamier— and
director, Jean-Jacques Beineix rocketed to the top of
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more interesting. Director Jean-Jacques Beineix's
French cinema with this knockout feature debut—
Director:
director's cut of B e t t y B l u e adds an hour of unused
which, in return, changed the face and future of French
Director:
Jean-Jacques Beineix
footage to the original version. Included are several
cinema Itself. Few films have ever looked more
Jean-Jacques Beineix
Producers:
completely new characters and sequences that give
exhilaratingly at streets and colors and movement,
Producer:
Claudie Ossard Jean-Jacques Beineix
richer meaning and more logical progression to his
or made the business of overlapping and converging
Irène Silberman
tragic story of mad love. The film's heroine is a sexy,
plot possibilities so fresh and exciting. Jules (Frédéric
Screenwriters: Jean-Jacques Beineix Jean Van Hamme
Screenwriters: Jean-Jacques Beineix Philippe Djian (novel)
impulsive young woman who becomes convinced her
Andrei), a moto-riding postal carrier, is obsessed with
new lover, an odd-jobs man for a small beach colony,
opera star Cynthia Flawkins (the stunning Wilhelminia
Cinematographers:
has the makings of a great writer. In typically defiant
Wiggins Fernandez). He bootlegs one of her
Philippe Rousselot
Jean-Jacques Beineix Jean-François Robin
fashion, she burns their bungalow and insists they
performances and stashes the tape in his bag.
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move to Paris, where his long-suppressed genius can
Unbeknownst to
Editors:
be discovered. But Betty finds it increasingly hard to
incriminating evidence of a police scandal— has also
Monique Prim Marie-Josèphe Yoyotte
mold reality to her vision of happiness. Béatrice Dalle
been slipped into the bag, and soon two different
who made her film debut as
but equally sinister forces are on his tail: black-
Music:
Beineix's troubled Betty, is even more impressive in
marketeers who want to bootleg the bootleg, and
Gabriel Yared
this new version of the film. And, of course, there is
killers who need to recover the police tape. Philippe
Cast:
even more of the bold visual imagery, vibrant colors,
Rousselot's fluid camerawork and revolutionary
Béatrice Dalle Jean-Hughes Anglade Consuelo de Haviland Gérard Darmon
and unrestrained eroticism for which Beineix is known.
lighting techniques introduced another, behind-the-
(Who can forget this film's no-holds-barred, very blue
scenes star to international film audiences, and as
opening scene?!) This is your chance to experience
an improbable angel of deliverance, the ineffable
Monique Prim Marie-Amiée Debril (extended version)
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him,
another tape— with
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Betty's haunting, distinctive love story as it was meant
Richard Bohringer became one of the premier icons
c. 180 minutes
to be seen. "Beineix's romantic fantasy may be the
of the French screen. So, in his very eccentric way,
sexiest arthouse movie ever made." — Stephen Schiff,
did Dominique Piñón as a liver-lipped hit man with a
V a n it y F a ir
deadpan delivery. What a bonanza of a movie!
Print Source: Gaumont Distribution Internationale
Cinematographer:
Music: Vladimir Cosma
Cast: Wilhelmenia Fernandez Frédéric Andréi Richard Bohringer ThuyAn Luu Jacques Fabbri Chantal Deruaz Anny Romand Roland Bertin Gérard Darmon Dominique Pinon Jean-Jacques Moreau
Running Time: 123 minutes
Filmography: Mortal Transfer (2000) Otaku (1994) IP5: The Island of Pachyderms (1992) Roselyne and the Lions (1989) Moon in the Gutter (1983) Diva (1981)
Awards: Best First Feature, Cinematography, Music, Sound, Césars; Best Cinematography, National Society of Film Critics
International Sales: Cargo Films
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Selected Filmography: Mortal Transfer (2000) Otaku (1994) IP5: The Island of Pachyderms (1992) Betty Blue (1986) Moon in the Gutter (1983)
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SPECIAL ARCHIVAL PRESENTATION Seven Men from Now
Sunday June 10 11:30 AM Harvard Exit
USA 1956
Director: Budd Boetticher
Producers: Andrew V. McLaglen Robert E. Morrison John Wayne (uncredited)
Some films are born legendary; others have legendary status thrust upon
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them. You could say that both things happened to S e v e n
UCLA Film & Television Archive
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Coming out of nowhere in 1956, this B Western directed by Budd
Boetticher, written by first-timer Burt Kennedy and featuring "over the
Selected Filmography:
hill" cowboy star Randolph Scott was hailed as an instant classic.
My Kingdom For... (1985) Arruza (1972) A Time For Dying (1971) The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamonds (1960) Comanche Station (1960) Ride Lonesome (1959) Buchanan Rides Alone (1958) Decision at Sundown (1957) The Tall T (1957) The Killer Is Loose (1956) The Magnificent Matador (1955) Bullfighter and the Lady (1951)
Screenwriter:
Moviegoers loved it as a crackling-good Western that kept taking them
Burt Kennedy based on his original story
by surprise; critics from André Bazin to Andrew Sarris esteemed it as a masterpiece of pure cinema. And as if that weren't enough, the movie
Cinematographer:
inspired a string of sequels-in-spirit [ T h e T a l l T, R i d e L o n e s o m e , et al.)
William H. Clothier
that became classics in their own right and also, as variations on a
Editing: Everett Sutherland
Music: Henry Vars
theme and method, constitute a resonant collective work unique in film history. Over the years, the followup films have remained in circulation, but S e v e n
M en
F ro m
N ow ,
made for John Wayne's company Batjac,
Cast:
disappeared into limbo (along with other Batjac titles) after Waynes
Randolph Scott Lee Marvin Gail Russell Walter Reed John Larch Don "Red" Barry Fred Graham John Beradino John Phillips Chuck Roberson Stuart Whitman Cliff Lyons
death in 1979. Hence the second phase of the legend: S e v e n M e n F r o m
Running Time: 78 minutes
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became a kind of Holy Grail for movie buffs, the fabled masterpiece
no one could see. Happily, that's changed with UCLA Film and Television Archive's glowing restoration, which we are thrilled to showcase. What's it about? Well, such is Kennedy-Boetticher's ironical brand of storytelling that any synopsis is going to undercut your pleasure in the watching. What matters, gloriously, is when and how we and the characters come to know and understand things. It s fair to say that Randolph Scott is on a quest; something bad has happened, seven men were in on it, and seven men (at the very least) are going to have to die. But it's not that simple— not with Lee Marvin turning up as a scoundrel who knows Scott from way back, who has an agenda of his own, and who in his sardonic fashion lays a greater claim on our affections than the hero. He even has a certain sense of honor, though you'd be well advised not to take that to the bank. Budd Boetticher still regrets that he didn't cajole Wayne into going after a supporting-actor Oscar nomination for Marvin. The guy was never better than in a lamplit scene in a covered wagon where he makes love to leading lady Gail Russell without laying a hand on her— while her husband and Randolph Scott look on.
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Sunday June 3 9:30 PM Egyptian Theatre
Saturday May 26 1:45 PM Egyptian Theatre
USA 1992
W a t c h in g
Baraka, a n o n v e r b a l s y m p h o n y o f e x q u i s i t e
From its opening image— a French countryside at once
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1964
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1964 film by Luis Buhuel is one of the great man's
Director:
Ron Fricke
m a g n if ic e n t , y o u f e e l a s i f y o u c a n g o a n y w h e r e a n d
most elegant and enigmatic works. It also marked
Luis Buhuel
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s e e a n y t h in g . —
the start of his creative partnership with Jean-Claude
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Carrière (co-scenarist of B e l l e d e J o u r ,
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Cinematographer: Ron Fricke
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The title (a Sufi word) means both "breath" and
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O b je c t o f
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"blessing." After seeing Ron Fricke's extraordinary
D e s i r e , et al.), as well as a return to the land where,
film, you may feet like combining the two nuances
three and a half decades earlier, Buhuel had outraged
Luis Buhuel Jean-Claude Carrière
Cinematographer:
Ron Fricke Mark Magidson David E. Aubrey
into "inspiration." There is no plot and, arguably, no
all the right people with his Surrealist thunderbolts
theme— at least none that is insisted on through the
U n C h ie n A n d a lo u
Music:
narration, because there isn't any narration either.
heirs appreciated this tale of a shrewd cookie from
Editors: Luis Buhuel Louisette Hautecouer
Michael Stearns
Running Time: 96 minutes
and L f t g e d ' O r . It's doubtful their
Over a period of 14 months, Fricke, who also made
the city (Jeanne Moreau at the peak of her stardom)
the memorable IMAX film C h r o n o s and photographed
who becomes chambermaid at a slightly mouldering
Godfrey Reggio's K o y a a n i s q a t s i , took his 70mm
country manor for its even more mouldering owners.
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cameras to dozens of locations around the globe—
Nothing seems to faze her— not the master's groping
Norman Katz/The Norkat Company
many of them scarcely visited before— to record the
advances (Michel Piccoli is sublimely slimy), not the
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ongoing mystery of creation and evolution.
mistress's vaporous religiosity, and certainly not the
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Humankind is neither exalted by nor excluded from
old master's penchant for having her model his
the process. A whirlwind passage through Manhattan
favorite footwear ("Mes petites Roses du Vent!").
traffic claims equal poetic standing with the tumbling
But Joseph the brutish groundsman (Georges Géret)
of time-lapsed clouds over the canyonlands of the
is more of a challenge, and when she begins to suspect
American Southwest. A strikingly contemplative snow
he's committed a particularly heinous murder... well,
Roger Fellous
Cast: Jeanne Moreau Georges Géret Daniel Ivernel Françoise Lugagne Muni Jean Ozenne Michel Piccoli
Running Time: 101 minutes
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monkey "taking the waters" in a hot spring on a
Buhuel heroines do have the most peculiar ways of
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Sacred Site (1986) Chronos (1985)
Japanese mountainside coexists visually with the
forming bonds. Octave Mirbeau's novel has been
killing-showers of Auschwitz and the burning oilfields
updated to 1930, the better to hear the early
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Saddam Hussein left behind him in Kuwait. Supporting
rumblings of fascism just over the horizon (the film
Fricke's spectacular images is a richly textured music
ends with a right-wing rally in support of the very
score by Michael Stearns, who combines motifs from
censor who banned L À g e d ' O r l ) . Critics carped that
diverse ethnic and spiritual traditions with the living
Mirbeau's gallery of bourgeois grotesquerie was
sounds of the planet. B a r a k a has already become a
almost t o o perfect material for Buhuel— some of the
Selected Filmography:
classic on the arthouse, repertory and home-video
film's most "Bunuelian" images are right out of the
fronts, but it cries out to be encountered in the format
book— but such quibbles verge on ingratitude.
That Obscure Object of Desire (1977) The Phantom of Liberté (1974) The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972) Tristana (1970) The Milky Way (1969) Belle de Jour (1967) The Exterminating Angel (1962) Viridiana (1961) Nazarin (1957) Wuthering Heights (1954) Illusion Travels by Streetstar (1953) LosOlvidados (1950) L'Age d'Or (1930) The Andalusian Dog (1929)
it was made for— 70mm film projection on a giant theater screen. We are thrilled to be able to offer this all-too-rare opportunity for just that.
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Tuesday May 29 7:15 PM Harvard Exit
Saturday June 9 4:00 PM Cinerama
Great Britain
Is it possible that Lindsay Anderson's I f . . . won its
A unique combination of gangster film, comedic farce,
Hong Kong
standing as a British film classic and a totem of the
period drama and kung fu flick, Jackie Chan's M i r a c l e s
Zeitgeist by being misunderstood? That would befit
remains his personal favorite— and the most under-
Director:
a movie with such a title, which announces the
appreciated— of all his films. A retelling of the Frank
Director:
Lindsay Anderson
interplay of fantasy and reality throughout its edgy
Capra classic A P o c k e t f u l o f M i r a c l e s (itself a remake
Jackie Chan
Producer:
1968
1989
Producers:
narrative while also invoking Rudyard Kipling's hymn
of Capra's own L a d y f o r a D a f t , this deliriously enter
Lindsay Anderson Michael Medwin
to manly responsibility and self-knowledge. Every
taining romp utilizes a veritable cavalcade of past
Raymond Chow
schoolboy used to have to learn that poem. In
Chan performers as the characters who populate the
Screenwriters:
Screenwriters:
Jackie Chan
Anderson's film some schoolboys learn very different
Damon Runyonesque world of Chen Wan Kuo (Chan),
lessons, and it seemed to a lot of viewers in 1969
a Canton immigrant who arrives in Hong Kong with
Cinematographer:
that theii "graduation"— a violent uprising against
bright hopes and dreams, only to discover that life is
Editor:
Miroslav Ondricek
"the Establishment"— was meant as an exemplum
filled with unexpected surprises, both good and bad.
Peter Cheung
Music:
for contemporary youth. Yet, especially in retrospect,
Swindled by con man Bill Tung shortly after his arrival,
Music:
Marc Wilkinson
the movie appears well aware that revolutionaries
Chen Wan Kuo nevertheless spends some of his
Siu-Tin Lei
may be just a new breed of fascist, and some of its
dwindling dough to purchase a rose from flower
climactic images uncannily anticipate Columbine and
peddler Madame Rose. Through a twist of fate, he
David Sherwin John Howlett
Cast: Malcolm McDowell David Wood Richard Warwick Christine Noonan Rupert Webster Robert Swann Peter Jeffrey Arthur Lowe Mona Washbourne
Cinematographer: Freddie Young
Cast:
variously fatuous and bilious faculty, a sadistic and
Madame Rose, finds herself confronting a major crisis
Jackie Chan Michael Chow Man-Kin Kara Hui Anita Mui Richard Ng Feng Tien Bill Tung Dick Wei Ping-Ao Wei Isabella Wong MaWu Biao Yuen
Selected Filmography:
sexually opportunistic cadre of upperclassmen, and
in the coming visit of her newly engaged daughter
Running Time:
Is That All There Is? (1993) Robin Hood: Quest for the Crown (1991) The Whales of August (1987) Wish You Were There (1985) Britannia Hospital (1982) Look Back in Anger (1980) In Celebration (1975) 0 Lucky Man! (1973) The Singing Lesson (1967) Red, White and Zero (1966) This Sporting Life (1963) Every Day Except Christmas (1957) The Children Upstairs (1955) Green and Pleasant Land (1955) Thursday's Children (1954) 0 Dreamland (1953) Wakefield Express (1952) Meet the Pioneers (1948)
the abiding prospect of learning to play by the rules
and her daughter's wealthy beau, Kuo steps in to
105 minutes
of twisted tradition or being ground down to nothing.
save the day, setting the stage for an unexpected
But it's not quite that simple. For one thing, Mick's
confrontation with the members of the rival gang.
Running Time: 111 minutes
Jonesboro. At Cheltenham College— the public school
subsequently gets caught up in a gangland brawl
Lindsay Anderson himself attended— students return
that results in a dying crimelord naming Chen Wan
for a new year. Certainly the most arresting among
Kuo to succeed him. As the head of the Black Dragon
them in terms of personal flair and impish effrontery
gang, the newly christened "Mr. Kuo" finds himself
is Mick Travis (who also happens to be cinematic new
the owner of a nightclub, in which he meets a gor
boy Malcolm McDowell, an Instant icon and enduring
geous singer, Lu Min— leading to further complica
star). Cheltenham affords a microcosm of the shrinking
tions with both his love life and the rival gang. When
British Empire: a platitude-spouting headmaster,
his good luck charm, the faithful flower peddler
arguably as devious as his tormentors. For another,
Fairly bursting with color, vivid characters and Chan's
the film's breakthrough (and matter-of-fact) observa
usual virtuoso flourishes of humor-laced action set
tion of public-school homosexuality finds it at least
pieces, M i r a c l e s reaches its culmination in an awe
as tender and liberating, in several instances, as it is
some showdown inside a rope factory that has to be
an expression of personal predatoriness and the
seen to be believed.
generic, ongoing power struggle. I f . . . is a bold, endlessly inventive film— a worthy successor to Jean Vigo's spirited paean to boarding-school anarchy, Z é r o d e C o n d u it e .
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Selected Filmography: Who Am I? (1998) Drunken Master II (1994) Crime Story (1993) Armour of God II (1990) Armour of God (1986)
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Pierre Fattori
Editor:
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Music:
the same "sacred" theme: Whether her heroines are
Cast: Charlotte Alexandra Hiram Keller Rita Maiden Bruno Balp Georges Guéret Shirley Staler
Running Time: 92 minutes
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Screenwriter: Catherine Breillat
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Selected Filmography:
Hollywood's cartoon sexuality, Breillat's mesmerizing
For My Sister (2000) Romance (1999) Parfait Amour! (1996) Dirty Like an Angel (1990) 36 Fillette (1988) Nocturnal Uproar (1979)
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Thursday June 14 5:00 PM Cinerama Saturday June 16 6:30 PM Egyptian Theatre
US
PREMIERE Thailand 2000
Director:
A huge hit in Thailand, and winner of the Dragons and Tigers Award at
Running Time:
Wisit Sasanatieng
the Vancouver International Film Festival,' this madcap mating of the
110 minutes
Producers: Nonzee Nimibutr
chopsocky, western and soap genres tells the star-crossed story of a
Screenwriter:
dashing bandit in hot pursuit of the well-born lady he loves despite her
Wisit Sasanatieng
betrothal to another. The handsome Black Tiger (Chartchai Ngamsan)
Cinematographer:
belongs to a notorious gang of would-be Robin Floods who terrorize,
Nattawat Kittikhun
the rich and privileged. Fie has known— and loved— the gorgeous
Editor: Dusanee Puinongpho
Music: Amornpong Methakunawut
Rumploey since they were children, but her father has promised her hand to the gang's archenemy, Police Captain Kumjorn. Charged with destroying the gang, Kumjorn subsequently finds himself in fatal
Cast:
jeopardy— only to have his life sportingly saved by the marauding Black
Chartchai Ngamsan Stella Malucchi Supakorn Kitsuwon Arawat Ruangvuth Sombati Pairoj Jaisingha Naiyana Sheewanun Kanchit Kwanpracha Chamloen Sridang
Tiger. As the wedding day approaches, will Kumjorn be man enough to
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return the favor? Director Wisit Sasanatieng (screenwriter of Nonzee
Selected Filmography:
Nimbutr's N a n g N a k ) leaves no cliché unturned in this stylized homage,
Feature Film Debut
whose look and feel resembles nothing so much as D u e l i n
th e S u n
gone Far East. That said, given the sumptuous, at times almost hallu cinatory, richness of the imagery Sasanatieng provides, the viewer finds himself swept along on a dazzling, exotic and, finally, giddy rollercoaster ride through the collective conventions of a '50s swashbuckler, as reimagined for the Hong Kong-style action crowd. A truly twisted delight!
Awards: Winner of Dragons and Tigers Award, Vancouver Film Festival
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Saturday June 9 9:30 PM Pacific Place Cinemas
Wednesday May 30 9:30 PM Pacific Place Cinemas
Monday June 11 Noon Cinerama
US
PREMIERE Thailand 2000
One day at the bank where she works, Turn (Lalita
A heroic and exotic portrayal of a pivotal period in
Panyopas) literally gets the short end of the stick—
Thai history, this visually ravishing epic centers on
Thailand 2001
her cowardly bosses make the staff, mostly women,
the brave villagers of Bang Rajan, who rally against
Director:
draw straws to see who will be laid off. Kind of a shy,
the invading Burmese army at the turn of the 18th
Director:
Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
droopy type from the get-go, Turn sinks deeper into
century to make a stand for their violated homeland.
Thanit Jiynukul
Producer:
depression after she's fired and is only mildly curious
As the film opens, the invading Burmese troops are
Producers:
Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
when a noodle box is dropped at her apartment door.
on route to the country's capital, Ayudhya, intent upon
Screenwriter:
Then she discovers that the box is full of cash, and
capturing the city and quickly conquering the country.
AdirekWattaleela Nonzee Nimibutr
the Thai mouse decides to run away and live like a
Decimating several villages in Singburi province and
very fat cat. Problem is, two extremely nasty thugs
slaughtering men, women and children in their drive
bully their way into her apartment to reclaim the stash.
to subjugate the peaceful Thai nation, the marauders
Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
Cinematographer: Chankit Chamnivikaipong
Editor:
Screenwriters: Kongkait Komesiri Boontin Tuykaew Patikarn Petchmunee Thanit Jitnukul
Patamanadda Yukol
Purely by accident, our hapless heroine manages to
expect little resistance and indeed, initially, they meet
Cast:
off the bad guys, eventually packing the corpses into
with little. Among those who escape the early carnage,
Cinematographer:
La Iita Panyopas Tasanawalai Ongartittichai Black Phomtong Sritao Arun Wannardbodeewong Sirisin Siripornsmathikul LikitThongnak
huge wicker chests. But a truly demented chain of
Nai Jan "Nuad Khiaw" is filled with desperation and
Vichean Rungvichayakul
events tangles Turn up in more deaths, more corpses,
rage against the invading army. His village, Khao Nang
Running Time: 114 minutes
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and less and less room in her little apartment to hide
Buad, has been defeated, and his wife and children
all the carnage. Solemn-faced and practical, she does
murdered by Burmese troops. Vowing revenge against
Music:
her best^even when a cop shows up, a jealous
the invaders, he leads the survivors deep into the
Chartchai Phongpraphaphan
neighbor accuses Turn of sleeping with her boyfriend,
forest, launching sporadic forays against the Burmese,
Cast:
and the gangster from whom she's buying her fake
and eventually arriving at Bang Rajan village. Prepar
Vinai Kraibutr Bin Banloerit Jaran Ngamdee Chumpon Tappitak Attakorn Suwannaraj Bongkod Kongmalai Sontare Maila-Or Phutharit Prombandal Teerayuth Pratyabamrung Piset Sungsuwan Krit Suwannapaph Nattawut Suwannarat
passport turns out to be the owner of her windfall.
ing for battle with the approaching army, Nai Jan
Absurd, macabre, blackly funny, all that and more—
surrounds himself with ten brave men, and with the
the wholly engrossing 6 i x t y n i n 9 mixes the weird
support of the village's respected monk, organizes
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the inhabitants to defend themselves with swords,
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arrows and anything else at hand. The village forces,
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Editors: Sunit Asvinikul Thanin Tienkaew
S i m p l e . This smart little Thai hit also has something
led by Nai Jan and his men, ambush the Burmese
rather pointed to say about the double whammy of
army, defeating them three times. During a brief
economic woes and crowded urban living. (The title
respite, the commander of the Burmese forces calls
refers to the heroine's loose apartment number, a
for reinforcements, while the villagers of Bang Rajan
nine that keeps tumbling over to become a six.)
seek help from the capital Ayudhya. Receiving a tepid
Running Time:
response, and vastly outnumbered by their powerful
71 minutes
Selected Filmography:
Awards:
foes, the people of the village steel themselves for
Fun Bar Karaoke (1997)
Oscar Submission, Best Foreign Language Film; Don Quixote Award, Special Mention, Berlin International Film Festival; FIPRESCI Award, Hong Kong International Film Festival
the oncoming decisive battle. Filled with lush, exotic landscapes and brimming with heroic action, B a n g R a ja n
is a stately celebration of a people— and a
nation— who fought to preserve their peaceful way of life, even in the face of overwhelming odds.
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Thursday June 7 7:15 PM Pacific Place Cinemas
Friday June 8 5:00 PM Cinerama
Sunday June 10 4:00 PM Egyptian Theatre
Thailand 1999
it. In the 1860s, we find Mak (Winai Kraibutr) and
D e s e r t , has been a runaway hit throughout Asia; and
Thailand 2000
Nak (Intira Jaroenpura), a husband off to fight the
North America will soon succumb to its charms. The
Director:
film sparked a bidding war among distributors at the
Yongyooth Thongkongtoon
Producer:
other a protracted farewell. In the midst of a jungle
Toronto Film Festival and impressed the international
Producer:
Nonzee Nimibutr
so green and unspoiled it might be a new Eden, the
press corps, who named it runner-up for the Discovery
Visute Poolvoralaks
Screenwriter:
couple embrace on the river's edge as though their
Award. Based on a true story, I r o n L a d i e s follows the
Wisid Sartsanatieng
world were ending. The saturated colors of the idyllic
fates of the members of the 1996 Lampang volleyball
setting and the very spare script lend this scene—
team in their quest for the national championship.
Editor:
and much of the film— a heightened impact, as
When Bee, a female coach, is brought in, the team's
Cinematographer:
Sunit Ussavinikul
though we were witnessing a ritual drama or a dream
macho star walks out with most of his teammates.
Jira Maligool
Music:
that has been repeated many times. Mak barely
Three players, however, are willing to give Bee a
Editor:
survives the slaughter of battle and, after recuperating
chance: Chai, the team's captain, and Mon and Jung,
in a monastery, poles back up the river to discover
who happen to be drag queens. With their help, Bee
images of ruin and decay everywhere. But Nak—
recruits some new players and is soon leading a
Cast:
clasping their newborn son— is there to welcome him
winning squad of mostly "Khatuey" (ladyboys). As
Running Time:
home, and soon all seems to be as it once was. Or is
the players meld into a team, the resolutely straight
99 minutes
it? The neighbors insist that Nak perished in childbirth,
Chai learns a few things about tolerance, while his
but then the neighbors begin to die.... Nonzee Nimi
transvestite and transsexual teammates learn to put
International Sales:
butr has so inventively re-visualized a familiar folktale
team spirit before personal vanity. Flelmer-cowriter
Kokkorn Benjathikoon Giorgio Maiocchi Chaicharn Nimpulsawasdi Jesdaporn Pholdee Sahaphap Tor
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filmed many times before that N a n g N a k h a s become
YongyoothThongkonthun is one of Thailand's leading
Thailand's highest-grossing movie ever. Ravishing to
television advertising directors. I r o n L a d i e s marks his
the eyes, this eerie ghost story possesses the kind of
feature debut.
Nattawut Kittikhun
PakawatWaiwittaya Chatchai Pongprapun
Cast: Intira Jaroenpura Winai Kraibutr
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Selected Filmography: Dang Bireley's and the Young Gangsters (1997)
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and heartwarming answer to P r i s c i l l a , Q u e e n o f t h e
wars and his beloved pregnant wife, bidding each
Cinematographer:
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The wildly entertaining I r o n L a d i e s , Thailand's hilarious
is the story of love so strong death cannot end
N ak
Nonzee Nimibutr
Director:
r
Drawn from a very old and popularThai legend, N a n g
flesh grow cold. You might say that N a n g N a k climaxes in a very different species of A p o c a l y p s e N o w .
Awards: Netpac Award, Rotterdam; Best Art Director, Asia Pacific Film Festival; Best Director, Asia Pacific Film Festival; Best Sound, Asia Pacific Film Festival; Grand Prix, Asia Pacific Film Festival
Sunit Assavinikul
Music: Amornpong Methakunawut
Running Time: 104 minutes
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subtle horror (even in the look of a preternaturally silent baby) that makes the short hairs rise and the
Screenwriters: Visuttichai Boonyakarjana Jira Maligool Thongkongtoon
Awards:
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Body and Soul
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Sunday May 27 1:45 PM Egyptian Theatre
Saturday May 26 4:00 PM Pacific Place Cinemas
USA
Niecy (Kerry Washington, so good in S a v e t h e L a s t
Novelist and indie director Oscar Micheaux made
is a talented, intelligent woman with
some 40 movies for Black American audiences from
D a n c e fo r M e )
USA
a promising job as a window display artist with an
1919 through 1948. Because this remarkable pioneer
1925
Directors:
upscale department store chain in Boston. Her day-
labored with almost no funding, his movies often lack
Director:
DeMane Davis Khari Streeter
job, however, masks a more lucrative profession: she's
polish. Still, he bravely tackled topics of great interest
Oscar Micheaux
a shoplifter who uses stolen credit cards, forged
to African-American moviegoers at a time when white
Producer:
Producers:
checks, and plain, old-fashioned ingenuity to boost
Hollywood totally dominated theater screens. Some
Oscar Micheaux
Mark Hankey John Hart Robert Kessel Jeff Sharp Jonathan Starch
designer clothes. Niecy makes a swell living by selling
of his work contained themes that would be con
Screenwriter:
the clothes to a ready circle of friends and acquain
sidered racist in the hands of a white filmmaker: G o d ' s
tances^— except, that is, for the garments she gives
S t e p c h ild r e n
to her emotionally detached mother, whom she's
heroine's denunciation of her own people. Produced
Screenwriters:
obsessed with pleasing.Then she discovers that she's
in Harlem, B o d y a n d S o u l reflected Micheaux's aware
DeMane Davis Khari Streeter
pregnant by her boyfriend, Angelo— himself a former
ness of the dangers of Black communities' over
shoplifter now gone straight, depending on how you
reliance on their ministers and pastors, not only as
Cinematographer:
count dealing marijuana and talking up a good show
spiritual guides but also as role models in a world
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David Phillips
Editors:
was picketed due to its light-skinned
about developing a musical career. He does truly love
inimical to their race. Eugene O'Neill cast the magnifi
Niecy, but she's skeptical about what kind of father
cent Paul Robeson in his T h e E m p e r o r J o n e s a n d A l l
Peter Barstis Lee Percy
Angelo would make. Then there's her perplexity about
G o d 's C h illu n G o t W in g s a n d
Music:
whether to accept the offer of a job in her company's
an indelible screen performance in S h o w b o a t ( 1936/
Ryan Shore
new Manhattan outlet: should she have the child and
B o d y a n d S o u l stands as Robeson's screen debut in
Cast:
stay with Angelo, or leave him and hard-to-please
not one, but two terrific roles: an amoral con-artist
mother behind and make a new life in New York?
masquerading as a devout minister and his twin
This absorbing, well-crafted drama offers no easy
brother Sylvester, a paragon of virtue. In a nearly
solutions in its exploration of personal values, respon
hallucinatory vision of conscienceless corruption,
Kerry Washington Lonette McKee Eugene Byrd Barbara Montgomery Samantha Brown Sticky Fingaz
Running Time: 85 minutes
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Selected Filmography: Black & White & Red All Over (1997)
later he would deliver
sibility and, ultimately, family. A hit at this year's
Reverend Jenkins fleeces his congregation and ruins
Sundance Film Festival, L i f t is the latest work from
the life of a lovely young parishioner (Mercedes
the two producers of Y o u C a n C o u n t o n M e and B o y s
Gilbert, delivering a very strong performance). When
D o n ' t C r y , and the second film by the talented writing
Micheaux tried to release B o d y a n d S o u l as he had
directing team of DeMane Davis and Khari Streeter.
conceived it, with an uncompromising ending, the censors blocked him: a man of God could not be portrayed as a depraved, let alone successful, servant of evil. The director was forced to tack on an "It was only a dream" climax. A rare opportunity to view an archival African-American film made the same year as D.W. Griffith's epic A m e r i c a . This silent film will have a piano accompaniment by the superb musician Dan Grinstead.
Oscar Micheaux
Cast: Paul Robeson Mercedes Gilbert Julia Theresa Russell Lawrence Chenault Marshall Rogers Lillian Johnson Madame Robinson Chester A. Alexander Walter Cornick
Running Time: 102 minutes
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Selected Filmography: The Betrayal (1948) The Notorious Elinor Lee (1940) Lying Lips (1939) God's Stepchildren (1938) Murder in Harlem (1935) Temptation (1935) Harlem after Midnight (1934) Black Magic (1932) Darktown Revue (1931) A Daughter of the Congo (1930) Wages of Sin (1929) Body and Soul (1925) Son of Satan (1924) Jasper Landry's Will (1923) Deceit (1923) Within Our Gates (1920) The Homesteader (1919)
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PREMIERE France
French documentarian-ethnographer Eliane de Latour
Often called the father of African cinema, Senegal's
knows her way around contemporary West Africa.
Ousmane Sembene (born 1923) directed not only the
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One of her most fascinating documentaries, C o n t e s
first African feature film but also the continent's first
Senegal 2000
e t c o m p t e s d e l a c o u r (1983), showed the changing
color movie and the first shot in an indigenous
Director:
Eliane de Latour
lives of women in an African chieftain's harem on
language. A bestselling novelist and painter, as he
Ousmane Sembene
Producers:
the Niger river. She is no stranger to young criminals:
approached 40, Sembene turned his prodigious talents
Producer:
René Cleitman Serge Lalou
her S i b l e u , s i c a l m e (1998), a series of still photo
to cinema, recognizing its potential for reaching and
Wongue Mbengue
Screenwriter:
Director:
graphs on film, reflected the claustrophobic realities
influencing a far larger audience than literature. His
of a Paris prison as described by inmates. In her first
features and shorts have won prizes at festivals around
feature, de Latour takes us into the violent heart of
the world and brought international attention to the
Cinematographer:
the Ivory Coast's urban ghettos where kill-or-be-killed
work of other sub-Saharan African filmmakers. In F a a t
Stéphane Fontaine
is a way of life for young men like Toussaint (Antony
K in e ,
Editor:
Koulehi Diate) and Nixon (Loss Sylla Ousseni).
sharp critic of the internal problems of modern Africa
Music:
Anne Weil
(Gangster monikers run to Western power-names such
and a passionate advocate of African pride and
Yande Codou Sene
Music:
as Clinton, Capone,Tyson, Chirac, and Tu-Pac.) Work
autonomy. The eponymous Faat Kine is a spirited, sexy,
ing with nonprofessional actors speaking "Nushi," a
single working mother. Born the year that Senegal
vulgar, highly original street-slang, de Latour tracks
achieved its independence, she is as liberated as her
Screenwriters: Eliane de Latour Emmanuel Bourdieu
Philippe Miller
Cast: Antony Koulehi Diate Loss Sylla Ousseni Edwige Dogo Shang Lee Souleyman Kere David Cyril Guen
Running Time: 110 minutes
as in the rest of his oeuvre, he proves both a
the brutal rites-of-passage that Toussaint and Nixon
country. Sembene compares and contrasts the issues
undergo as they "graduate" from nobodies to high-
that his hard-working heroine faces with the problems
ranking toughs in the Bronx, the slums of Abidjan,
that plagued her parents' generation and those
then on to Barbés, the even more dangerous 'hood
confronting her children— who must deal with the
of San Pedro. And who can say where to for these
contradictory benefits of globalization in a post
Ousmane Sembene
Cinematographer: Dominique Gentil
Editor: Kahena Attia Riveil
Cast: Manama Balde Ndiagne Dia Marne Ndoumbe Venus Seye Awa Sene Sarr Tabata Ndiaye
Running Time: 90 minutes
boys after the dead-end Barbés? Toussaint's the
colonial nation scarred by poverty, disease and
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smarter of the two— Nixon gets caught and sent to
corruption. Outspokenly feminist but leavened with
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jail for burglary— but their friendship holds, and
humor, this rousing and realistic portrait of
Print Source:
Toussaint ups the ante on his criminal activities to
contemporary Dakar leaves audiences enlightened
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spring his pal from prison. Shot in widescreen with
and exhilarated.
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frequent use of a hand-held camera, B r o n x - B a r b è s records scenes it's difficult to stomach— a gang-rape, homeowners beating a young thief to death— but
Selected Filmography:
it's the young-old faces of de Latour's unforgettable
Guelwaar (1992) The Camp atThiaroye (1987) Ceddo (1978) Xala (1975) Emitai (1971) Tauw (1970) The Money Order (1968) Borom Sarret (1966) Black Girl (1966) Niaye (1964) The Sonhrai Empire (1963)
"stars" that really break your heart in this powerful testament to a lost generation.
Selected Filmography: Si bleu, si calme (1998) Contes et Comptes de la cour (1993)
Awards: Special Mention (Eliane De Latour), Locarno International Film Festival
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Saturday June 2 1:45 PM Broadway Performance Hall
Friday June 1 5:00 PM Egyptian Theatre
Sunday June 3 9:30 PM Harvard Exit
Algeria
A kind of R o o t s in reverse, L i t t l e
S e n e g a l follows
Actor Billy Wirth ( B o d y S n a t c h e r s ,
The
L o s t B oys)
USA
dignified widower Alloune, a guide at Senegal's Goree
makes a terrific directorial debut with this acutely
2000
Island slavery museum, on his quest to track down
observed urban drama, which boasts a gallery of sharp
Director:
relatives transported from Africa to America in the
performances, a fine visual alertness and remarkable
Director:
Rachid Bouchareb
early 1800s. Travelling from the lush plantations of
tonal control: his film manages to confront potentially
Billy Wirth
Producer:
South Carolina to the colorful streets of Harlem,
grim subject matter without either euphemizing it or
Producers:
Jean Bréhat
Alloune manages to trace a certain family called
wallowing in it. Indeed, as the camera takes its initial
Screenwriters:
Robinson, the name his ancestors were given by their
survey of the faces and figures crisscrossing MacArthur
Billy Wirth Maricel Pagulayan
Rachid Bouchareb Oliver Lorelle
slave owners. Feeling slightly wary in his new
Park— LA's ironically Edenic home to the homeless,
surroundings, where African values and customs seem
the addicted and the predators who feed off them—
Benoît Chamaillard Youcef Sahraoui
out of place, Alloune does not immediately identify
what's striking is how self-possessed everybody seems
himself to Ida Robinson, a feisty widow of his own
about being dispossessed. No one has his rap down
Billy Wirth Sherri Sussman Aaron Courseault Tyrone Atkins
Editor:
age who runs a small newsstand. Instead he
better than Cody (Thomas Jefferson Byrd in an
Cinematographer:
Sandrine Deegen
persuades her to hire him as extra help and soon
Oscarworthy performance), a jazz trumpeter who's
Kristian Bernier
Cinematographers:
Music: Safy Boutella
Cast: Sotigui Kouyaté Sharon Hope Roschdy Zem Karim Koussein Traoré Adetoro Makinde Adja Diarra Malaaika Lacario
Running Time: 120 minutes
International Sales: TF1 International
Editor:
manages to win her affections. When Ida's pregnant
traded his horn for a crackpipe and, in doing so, lost his music, his wife and his son. The possibility of
to be discouraged by the way African-American New
rapprochement and redemption reaches out like a
Yorkers dismiss native African instincts as naive and
soft breeze when the son (Brandon Adams) comes
Cast:
brings the accumulated wisdom of the old country to
seeking his dad's cooperation in settling some legal
bear on the family's problems. The first film in English
business. But Cody doesn't know whether to crave
by Paris-based Bouchareb, L i t t l e S e n e g a l provides a
rescue or fear it, and besides, the fates— and the
Thomas Jefferson Byrd Brandon Quintin Adams Tami Anderson Louis Freese BadAzz Ellen Cleghorne Sticky Fingaz Julie Delpy Balthazar Getty Rachel Hunte Cynda Williams
fascinating perspective on cultural differences and an
self-delusions of his fellow fringe dwellers— are about
unusual take on tracing a family tree.
to loose shrapnel in all directions. The peerless ensemble includes former S a t u r d a y N i g h t L i v e regular
Awards:
Ellen Cleghorne, Sticky Fingaz as a velvet-tongued
Oscar Submission, Best Foreign Language Film
pimp, SydneyTamiiaPoitier as his latest recruit, Nunez as Cody's jive-talking dealer pal, and Balthazar Getty as the latter's latest client— a coked-up, on-the-skids
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TV actor so recognizable, Charlie Sheen oughtta sue.
Selected Filmography:
Screenwriters:
granddaughter runs away from home, Alloune refuses
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L'honneur de ma famille (1997) Poussières de vie (1994) Cheb (1991) Bâton rouge (1985)
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Music: Stephen Perkins and SKY
Running Time: 87 minutes
On top of all this, there's a vivid hip-hop soundtrack. But Wirth's direction itself has plenty of rhythm.
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Selected Filmography: Feature Film Debut
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Saturday May 26 6:30 PM Harvard Exit
Monday June 4 5:00 PM Pacific Place Cinemas
Sunday May 27 11:30 AM Harvard Exit
Martinique/ France 2000
For centuries, from the 1500s onward, the Atlantic
In the long-awaited follow-up to her playful debut
was the highway over which shipment after shipment
feature film T h e W a t e r m e l o n Woman (1996), director
USA 2001
of valuable human cargo was transported. These
Cheryl Dunye takes on the much darker, grittier subject
"goods" were torn from their homeland, crammed
of life behind bars. S t r a n g e r I n s i d e reinvents the
Director:
into the filthy, cramped holds of slaveships, starved,
women-in-prison film, following the story of a young
Cheryl Dunye
Director:
raped, beaten, and dumped overboard when disease,
African-American woman who dreams of getting
Producers:
Guy Deslauriers
suicide, or a lightening of the load necessitated. Those
incarcerated. Treasure Lee (Yolonda Ross, in her film
Producer:
who survived the nightmare journey arrived in the
debut) has spent most her young life in juvenile
New World as strangers in a strange land,
detention. Finally, when she turns 21, she achieves
Jim McKay Michael Stipe Effie T. Brown
dehumanized further into brute muscle and laboring
her life goal and is transferred to the State Facility
"hands." As with Nazi genocide, it's difficult to enlarge
for Women, where she dreams of meeting her mother
Cheryl Dunye Catherine Crouch
Yasmina Hou-You-Fat
Screenwriters: Patrick Chamoiseau Claude Chonville
Screenwriters:
Cinematographer:
or give new eyes to our collective imagination so that
"Brownie," a seasoned convict serving time in the
Cinematographer:
Jacques Boumendil
we
and
same prison. Painstakingly researched over a period
Nancy Schreiber, ASC
compassion— the horrors experienced by millions of
of four years at Minnesota's Shakopee Women's
Africans who traveled the Middle Passage. In a
Correctional Facility, the film has an unflinching
heartbreakingly beautiful visual poem, Guy Deslauriers
authenticity in its portrayal of life inside prison walls. Several former convicts are cast in featured roles,
Editor: A'ilo Auguste
Music: Amos Coulanges
can
encompass— with
conscience
Cast:
offers a totally transformative way of seeing and
Maka Koto
embracing the fates of our fellow men. Overvoice,
including the scenes of group therapy where much
Running Time:
accompanied by a richly somber score, a long-dead
of the dialogue was based on improvisational sessions.
90 minutes
slave recounts the 18-week journey of just one
Produced by Michael Stipe ( B e i n g J o h n M a l k o v i c h ) ,
slaveship, while Deslauriers's camera— in stillness;
Jim McKay (O u r S o n g ) , and Effie T. Brown ( T h i n g s
International Sales:
the film also
Editor: Cecily Rhett
Cast: Yolonda Ross Davenia McFadden Rain Phoenix Ella Joyce Conchata Ferrell Lee Garlington Latonya Hagans Medusa
tracking shots; blurred, digitized records of physical
You Can
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movement— witnesses the way it was. We register
stars Davenia McFadden asthetough-as-nails "lifer"
Running Time:
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"parts" of men and women: ankles being shackled,
Brownie and Rain Phoenix in a fierce performance
96 minutes
black faces stacked like dark fruit in bins, flesh that
as rival prisoner Kit. Peppered with Dunye's trademark
might be dead wood or chaff. But Deslauriers's genius
sense of humor and intelligence, S t r a n g e r I n s i d e is
lies in simultaneously showing how humanity is stolen
nonetheless an uncompromising account of one
from this black cargo— and celebrating their enduring
young woman's quest to confront the secrets and
individuality. An archetypal lament, M i d d l e P a s s a g e
lies that have shaped and controlled her life.
Les Films du Raphia
Selected Filmography: L' Exil du Roi Béhanzin (1993)
T e ll b y J u s t L o o k i n g a t H e T ),
nonetheless thrums with immediacy, honoring the memories— happier lives are framed in flashback— and the heat and stench and rage and despair that
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Selected Filmography:
fills this particular slaveship's hellish hold. When the
The Watermelon Woman (1996) Greetings from Africa (1995)
grave gazes of these lost African heroes turn to meet our eyes, there is accusation, yes; but there's also shared humanity, an enduring contract never to forget, that such a thing should never happen again.
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Japan 2000 Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa Producers: Tanaka Takehiko Uemura Yasuki Screenwriters: Kiyoshi Kurosawa Tetsuya Onishi Cinematographer: Takahide Shibanushi Editor: Kikushi Juniki Music: Gary Ashiya Cast: Koji Yakusho Jun Fubuki Tsuyoshi Kusanagi Kitarou Hikari Ishida Running Time: 97 minutes International Sales: Mirovision Print Source: Mirovision 7FI. Garden Yesikjang Bldg. 45-18 Youido-dong Seoul, Youngdeungpo-gu 150-010 South Korea Ph: 82.2.737.1185 Fax: 82.2.737.1184 Email: kyunghee@mirovision.com Selected Filmography: Séance (2000) Barren Illusions (1999) Charisma (1999) Eyes of the Spider (1998) License to Live (1999) Serpent's Path Cure (1997) Door 3 (1996) The Guard from the Underground (1992) Abunai hanashi mugen monogatari (1989)
With S é a n c e , iconoclastic director Kiyoshi Kurosawa
The brutally murdered body of a prostitute is found in
(no relation to Akira) once again plays with audience
modern-day Tokyo; and when police detective Katabe
expectations, creating a disturbingly skewed ghost
arrives to investigate, he notes that, as with a series
story in which the true ghouls are not the dead, but
of other recent slayings, the body is marked with a
the living.Timid, polite Junco (Jun Fubuki) is so psychi
large "X" slashed across the chest. Soon a suspect is
cally gifted she can't hold down a job; she lasts one
found hiding nearby, but though the man readily
day as a waitress, thanks to the creepy apparition
admits to killing the prostitute, he cannot remember
sharing a booth with one of her customers. A gig as
the details of the crime nor what motive he had in
a research subject in a study on the paranormal has
committing it. So begins Kyoshi Kurosawa's moody
likewise fallen through, so she returns to her dreary
psychological thriller C u r e , which proved to be his
existence keeping house for her nice but dull husband.
breakthrough hit on the international stage when it
At this point our sympathies lie squarely with Junco—
was released in 1997. What sets this story apart from
we've seen her powers are both real and difficult to
other serial-killer films is not so much "whodunit" as
live with— and that's exactly where Kurosawa wants
how they were done— how a series of brutal murders
them. As this canny, genre-breaking director develops
can have such a random assortment of perpetrators
his story (the police ask for Junco's assistance in the
while the condition of the bodies is so spookily similar.
search for a kidnapped girl who, by a cinematic twist
And when Detective Katabe enlists the help of a
of fate, is much nearer than anyone suspects), he
psychologist in hopes of unraveling the mystery at
forces us to examine our allegiances and recognize
the core of these grisly killings, he soon uncovers a
that Junco is a very dangerous woman— not because
mind game— a game in progress, and one of the
she's psychic, but because she's vain, ambitious and
players not yet arrived. Undaunted by the earlier mile
greedy. The refreshing complexity of S é a n c e 's plot
stones of S e v e n and S i l e n c e o f t h e L a m b s , Kurosawa
(the script was adapted from Mark McShane's novel
invests this haunting exploration of contemporary
is well complemented
urban isolation and ennui with an intense and dis
Séance on
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by Kurosawa's skilled direction. He wisely eschews
quieting urgency. This film is the perfect introduction
the "boo! " for the longer lasting and ultimately more
to the work of a gifted and prolific talent.
unsettling "brrrr... "— the slow creep of horror that finally suffuses every frame of this unnerving film.
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Awards: Best Actor Award, Tokyo Film Festival
Japan 1997 Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa Producers: Tsutomu Tsuchikawa Atsuyuki Shimoda Screenwriter: Kiyoshi Kurosawa Cinematographer: Kikumura Noriaki Editor: Kan Suzuki Music: Gary Ashiya Cast: Yoriko Douguchi Masato Hagiwara Anna Nakagawa Tsuyoshi Ujiki Koji Yakusho Running Time: 111 minutes International Sales: Daiei Co. Print Source: Cowboy Booking International 6 W. 24th Street New York, NY 10010 Ph: 212.929.4200 Fax: 212.929.9786 Email: oliviu@cowboybi.com
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Selected Filmography: Séance (2000) Barren Illusions (1999) Charisma (1999) Eyes of the Spider (1998) License to Live (1999) Serpent's Path Cure (1997) Door 3 (1996) The Guard from the Underground (1992) Abunai hanashi mugen monogatari (1989) Sweet Home (1989) The Excitement of the Do-Re-Mi-Fa Girl (1985) Kandagawa Wars (1983)
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An acclaimed novel by Ricardo Piglia was the source
This Argentinean tragicomedy successfully mixes and
for this high-octane film-noir thriller, a dark and
matches the best bits of heist, road and buddy genres.
dazzling journey through the underworld of mid-'60s
When despondent José (Hector Alterio) enters a bank,
Director: Marcelo Piñeyro Producers: Ana Aizenberg Mariela Besuievski Diego Guebel Gerardo Herrero Óscar Kramer Mario Pergolini Screenwriters: Marcelo Flgueras Ricardo Piglia Marcelo Piñeyro Cinematographer: Alfredo F. Mayo Editor: Juan Carlos Macias Music: Osvaldo Montes Cast: Eduardo Noriega Leonardo Sbaraglia Pablo Echarri Leticia Brédice Ricardo Bartis Dolores Fonzi Carlos Roffé Héctor Alterio Daniel Valenzuela Running Time: 125 minutes
Argentina. The film opens in the bathroom of a Buenos
threatening to commit suicide if his misplaced funds
Aires train station, where the moody, unstable Angel
aren't located, his plans go terribly awry. Instead he's
(Eduardo Noriega) meets his match in bankrobber El
mistaken for a robber, his bag filled with American
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Awards: Best Spanish Language Foreign Film, Goya Awards; Best Spanish Language Foreign Film, Havana Film Festival
Argentina 2000
Selected Filmography: Ashes from Paradise (1997) Wild Horses (1995) Tango Feroz (1993)
Nene (Leonardo Sbaraglia), another small-time crook
dollars, his gun pointed at the back of the head of
with a yen for hot men. Drawn by Angel's smoldering
well-intentioned financier Pedro (Leonardo Sba
good looks and penchant for danger, Nene invites
raglia)— a surprisingly willing hostage, as it happens.
him back to his apartment and before long the two
We follow the pair's escapades partly through the
are inseparable— both in bed and "on the job."
lens of an aspiring correspondent, who serves as
Dubbed "the Twins" by the police and the tabloids,
chorus and clownish reminder of how the media can
they're hired by a gang of older mobsters in a plot to
be as much responsible for making the news as
hijack a payroll delivery car; things go seriously wrong
reporting it. José and Pedro, joined by the waifish
during the heist, Nene shoots a cop, and everybody
Ana (Cecilia Dopazo), unwittingly become folk heroes
takes it on the lam. One close call after another marks
nicknamed "The Untameables." Buoyed by a fatalistic
the Twins' flight into Uruguay with the authorities in
sense of freedom and kindred spirits that offer help
hot pursuit. Meanwhile, Angel— badly wounded
along the way, they form an improvised family, with
during the robbery— begins to lose his grip on reality.
José trying to pass on his communist sensibilities and
Cut off from their familiar milieu, and convinced
love of culture to Pedro, a yuppie-by-default. Director
they've been betrayed and are under surveillance, the
and co-writer Marcelo Pineyro complements his strong
Twins feel the world closing in on them. As tensions
cast with glorious scenery and his script with quick
between the two build to an unbearable pitch, the
silver editing and a whirlwind music score. W i l d H o r s e s
stage is set for a climax that is both outrageous and
won the audience award at the 1997 Lledia Latin
inevitable. Director Marcelo Pineyro, whose previous
America Film Festival. Small wonder.
SIFF hits T a n g o F e r o z ( 1993) and W i l d H o r s e s (1995) introduced us to a provocative talent with a distinctive vision and voice, here fulfills the promise of his earlier
Awards: Best Sound, Havana Film Festival; Audience Award, Lleida Latin American Film Festival
Argentina 1995 Director: Marcelo Piñeyro Producers: Natalio Koziner Claudio Pustelnik Screenwriters: Marcelo Piñeyro Aida Bortnik Cinematographer: Alfredo F. Mayo Editor: Juan Carlos Macias Music: Andrés Calamaro Cast: Héctor Alterio Leonardo Sbaraglia Cecelia Dopazo Fernán Miras Emelio Bardi Running Time: 122 minutes Print Source: INCAA Lima 319 (C.P. 1073) Buenos Aires, Argentina Ph: 54.11.4379.0946 Fax: 54.11.4379.0942
films with a richly atmospheric, operatically emotional tale of love on the edge of obsession.
Selected Filmography: Burnt Money (2001) Ashes from Paradise (1997) Tango Feroz (1993)
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Sunday May 27 1:45 PM Harvard Exit
Poland 1999 Director: Jerzy Stuhr Producers: Juliusz Machulski Jacek Moczydlowski Jacek Bromski Screenwriter: Jerzy Stuhr Cinematographer: Edward Klosinski Editor: Elzbieta Kurkowska Music: Wojciech Kilar Cast: Jerzy Stuhr Gozia Dobrowolska Running Time: 89 minutes International Sales: Telewizja Polski S.A / Film Polski Enterprise Print Source: Film Polski Mazowiecka 6/8 Warsaw, 00-048 Poland Ph: 48.22.826.4051 Fax: 48.22.826.4051 Email: jola@filmpolski.com.pl Selected Filmography: Big Animal (2000) Love Stories (1997) List of Lovers (1995)
Jerzy Stuhr is a multi-talented man whose films are
Working from an unfinished script written in 1973 by
full of wry, mysterious humor and deep insights into
the late Krzysztof Kieslowski, his sometime star Jerzy
human vulnerability. In A
W e e k in
t h e L if e o f M a n ,
Stuhr ( C a m e r a B u f f ,
T h r e e C o lo r s :
W h it e )
has fash
we meet Adam Borowski (Jerzy Stuhr), a distinguished
ioned a beguilingly gentle consideration of intolerance
man of the law who seems to have it all: a spotless
and stupidity. One night the Sawickis (Stuhr and Anna
reputation as a passionate prosecutor, a new book,
Dymna) look up from their supper to notice something
a wife celebrated for her charity work, a mistress, a
rather curious in their garden— a huge Bactrian camel.
new home and an upcoming trip to England. Starting
The creature has been left behind by a traveling circus;
with his brisk daily morning swim, Adam is always
the Sawickis never do know where he comes from,
on the go, always on the make; and in court he is the
but that doesn't stop them from taking "Rubio" into
eloquent avenger of wrongdoing and champion of
their hearts. In particular, husband Zygmunt, a bank
truth. But the bottom-line truth is, he can barely cope.
clerk and clarinet player, and Rubio bond famously,
And gradually his glib lifestyle is starting to come
taking long, almost ceremonial walks through the
unstuck. Make no mistake: Stuhr isn't out to do a
countryside. At first Rubio is a big attraction in the
complacent smear of an "Establishment phony."
town; schoolchildren want to pet him. But soon he
Adam is a fine fellow, mostly, immensely sympathetic,
becomes a problem— his very existence cues the
with a twinkling, ironical intellect. His moral and
bureaucracy to dream up special registration fees,
ethical lapses are not all that remote from the ambi
special taxes. And finally, a campaign against the
guities and self-delusions we all encounter, in our
Sawickis begins to well up in the community. Director
mileu and in ourselves. "Sometimes I think ill of
Stuhr said that one of the most difficult parts of filming finding a suitable camel. Originally
humans," says one of Stuhr's characters, and a choir
T he B ig A n im a lm s
bursts out with "What a piece of work is man ¡"This
they tried animals from the zoo, but zoo camels
is a wonderfully complex and witty portrait, not just
wouldn't follow instructions. The search for a quadru
of Adam but of Adam's race— and the breakout work
ped costar took the director to Ukraine and the Czech
of a brilliant director clearly destined to become
Republic. In the end, he found a circus in Poland with
invaluable.
eight tame camels and wound up paying the equiv
Awards: OCIC Special Award, Venice Film Festival
A n i m a l shows us the price of individuality and how
alent of a star's salary to rent two of them. T h e B i g sad it is to be attracted to something that isn't the norm. Awards: Award of Ecumenical Jury and Special Jury Prize, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Festival
Poland 2000 Director: Jerzy Stuhr Producers: Janusz Morgenstern Slawomir Rogowski Screenwriter: Krzysztof Kieslowski Cinematographer: Pawel Edelman Editor: Elzbieta Kurkowska Music: Abel Korzeniowski Cast: Anna Dymna Jerzy Stuhr Dominika Bednarczyk Blazej Wojcik Running Time: 75 minutes International Sales: TVP S.A. Print Source: TVP S.A. A7 J.P. Woronicza STR Warsak, 00-999 Poland Ph: 48.22.547.6779 Fax: 48.22.547.8070 Email: aiexsandra.biernacka@waw.tvp.pl Selected Filmography: A Week in the Life of a Man (1999) Love Stories (1997) The Register of Adulteresses (1994)
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Friday June 8 9:30 PM Pacific Place Cinemas
Saturday June 9 1:45 PM Harvard Exit
Sunday June 10 1:45 PM Pacific Place Cinemas
Italy 2000
Music provides the key to a mystery in this period
This tightly crafted, insidiously engrossing thriller
piece set against the backdrop of the Holocaust. The
deploys usury as a metaphor for what writer-director
haunting sound of an inverse canon— a musical score
Tognazzi perceives as an increasingly amoral world,
Italy 1996
Director:
that can also be performed back to front— connects
where man preys on his fellow man. His protagonist,
Director:
Ricky Tognazzi
the two stories told here, which unfold in a complex
the power-hungry Sergio, appears to be a respectable
Ricky Tognazzi
Producers:
double flashback structure. One takes place in pre-
financial advisor, but that's only the front he puts up.
Producers:
Vittorio Cecchi Gori Mario Cotone
World War II Czechoslovakia, and the other begins in
The operative reality is that he also serves as a loan
Prague, on a fateful night in August 1968, when a
shark for the Mafia and makes the bulk of his money
Rita Cecchi Gori Vittorio Cecchi Gori
Screenwriters:
melancholy violinist emerges from the shadows and
by scheming howto bankrupt vulnerable businesses.
plays the mysterious piece of music for Costanza, a
Architect Francesco, a childhood friend, now manages
Screenwriters:
Paolo Maurensig Simona Izzo Ricky Tognazzi Graziano Diana
young woman sitting with friends in a café. The
a construction company owned by his father-in-law,
Cinematographers:
haunting melody brings back strong memories of
whose speculating has all but run the firm into the
Alessio Gelsini Torresi
Cinematographer:
childhood for Costanza, and she hurries after the
ground. Desperate for money but unable to obtain a
Editors:
Fabio Cianchetti
performer, who tells her his name is Jeno Varga. Jeno
bank loan, Francesco turns to Sergio. And Sergio
Carla Simoncelli
grew up in the countryside during the '20s and '30s,
decides to help him— his own way. Aided by a sinister
never knowing his father, whose only legacy was a
Ennio Morricone score, sharp Cinemascope camera
Ennio Morricone
rare violin and lovely music that his mother hummed
work and a menacingly brilliant performance from
Cast:
to him as a baby. A natural musician, Jeno earned a
Luca Zingaretti as Sergio, S t r a n g l e d
Hans Matheson Mélanie Thierry Lee Williams II Gabriel Byrne Ricky Tognazzi Peter Vaughan
scholarship to an exclusive conservatory where he won
comparison with the great Gian Maria Volonté pictures
the friendship of aristocratic David Blau. His path also
of the '70s. Few films have better captured the com
Editor: Carla Simoncelli
Music:
plex and frightening relationship between executioner
As the Nazis overrun Czechoslovakia, the destinies of
and victim.
Jeno, David and Sophie intersect dramatically, creating a shadow that will fall on Costanza some three
107 minutes
decades later. Tognazzi, who has a parallel career as an actor and appears here as Baron Blau, shows a sure hand with his first English-language feature.
Cecchi Gori Distribuzione
Print Source: Cecchi Gori Distribuzione Via Valadier, 42 Rome, 00193 Italy Ph: 39.06.3247,2297 Fax: 39.06.3247.2296 Email: russo@cecchigori.com
evokes
crossed that of beautiful French pianist Sophie Levy.
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Awards: Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Music, Best Production Design, David di Donatello Awards; Silver Ribbon for Best Editing and Best Score, Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists
Simona Izzo Ricky Tognazzi
Music: Ennio Morricone
Cast: Vittorio Amandola Sabrina Ferilli Vincent Lindon Ricky Memphis Violante Placido Lina Sastri Luca Zingaretti
Running Time: Awards: Alfred Bauer Award, Berlin Film Festival
108 minutes
International Sales: Cecchi Gori Distribuzione
Print Source: Cecchi Gori Distribuzione Via Valadier, 42 Rome, 00193 Italy Ph: 39.06.3247.2297 Fax: 39.06.3247.2296 Email: russo@cecchigori.com
Selected Filmography: Selected Filmography: Commedia Sexy (2001) Excellent Cadavers (1999) Chicken, Chicken, Chicken (1997) Strangled Lives (1996) The Bodyguards (1993) Ultra (1990) Little Misunderstandings (1989)
Sexy Comedy (2001) Canone Inverso - Making love (2000) Excellent Cadavers (1999) Chicken, Chicken, Chicken (1997) Strangled Lives (1996) The Bodyguards (1993) Ultrà (1990) Little Misunderstandings (1989)
NEW DIRECTORS SHOWCASE AWARDS One of the most important and eagerly anticipated SIFF showcases each year contains a selection of international directors who are clearly emerging as major talents. SIFF programmers choose a dozen films from around the world to be spotlighted for special attention and competition. Each of the films must be a debut or second feature by the selected director, and each is chosen on the basis of its original conception, striking style and overall excellence. The jury for the New Directors Showcase will announce the winners at the Filmmakers Awards Brunch and at the Closing Night Gala.This year, a very special glasswork award has been contributed by artist Dale Chihuly. Specially created for the Seattle International Film Festival, the work is from the Piccolo Venetian series, achieved in the Venetian style of glass-blowing. It is fitting that this award be given to the director who has a unique cinematic vision. Chihuly views this artwork as one creative artist sharing his work with another.
NEW DIRECTORS SHOWCASE JURY Jami Bernard is an award-winning film critic for the N e w N ew s
and the author of four film books: C h i c k F l i c k s : A
G u id e t o t h e M o v ie s W o m e n L o v e , Q u e n t in
Y o r k D a ily
M o v ie
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T a r a n t in o : T h e M a n a n d H is
M o v ie s , T o t a l E x p o s u r e : T h e M o v ie B u f f 's G u id e t o C e le b r it y N u d e S c e n e s , a n d F ir s t F ilm s : I llu s t r io u s , O b s c u r e a n d E m b a r r a s s in g M o v ie D e b u t s .
Her
next book is "Breast Cancer: There and Back," due from Warner Books in October 2001. She is a member and former chair of the New York Film Critics Circle, a member of the National Society of Film Critics, and a frequent guest commentator on radio and television. Larry Estes has been a key player in the American independent movie scene, working on some of the most acclaimed films— and with some of the most acclaimed talents— to emerge from the independent film world in the last two decades. In 1984, he became senior vice president of Feature Film Acquisitions at RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, developing and operating Columbia TriStar Home Video's acquisitions arm, where he was responsible for such films as S e x , L i e s a n d V i d e o t a p e ; G a s F o o d L o d g in g ; a n d
P a s s i o n F i s h , among many others. In 1992, Larry
was honored with the IFP/West "Findie" Award, and was named one of the "100 Most Influential People in the Entertainment Business" by Entertainment Weekly and Premiere Magazine. In 1998, he joined ShadowCatcher Entertainment, where he has produced S m o k e S i g n a l s and T h e M a t i n g H a b i t s o f E a r t h b o u n d H u m a n s , and was the executive producer of T h e B o o k o f S t a r s and G e t t i n g t o K n o w
You.
He is currently
co-chairman of Outrider Pictures, which he co-founded with producer Scott Rosenfelt and longtime indie distribution guru Richard Abromowitz. Stephen Farber is a film critic and contributing editor of M o v i e l i n e magazine. He has written reviews and articles on film for T h e N e w
Y o rk
T i m e s , E s q u i r e , P r e m i e r e , F i l m C o m m e n t and other national publications.
Farber is the author of several acclaimed books, including H o l l y w o o d D y n a s t ie s ,
O u tra g e o u s
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Bangkok: Dangerous Wednesday June 13 9:30 pm Cinerama
Saturday June 2 6:30 PM Harvard Exit
Saturday June 16 4 PM Egyptian
Monday June 11 7:15 PM Pacific Place Cinemas
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PREMIERE France 1999 Directors: Olivier Ducastel Jacques Martineau Producer: Phillippe Martin Screenwriters: Olivier Ducastel Jacques Martineau Cinematographer: Matthieu Poirot-Delpech Editor: Sabine Mamou Cast: Sami Boujila Patachou Ariane Ascaride Pierre-Loup Rajot Charly Sergue Maurice Benichou Running Time: 97 minutes International Sales: Flach Pyramide International Print Source: Winstar Cinema 419 Park Ave South, 20th Floor New York, NY 10016 Ph: 212.686.6777 Fax: 212.545.9931 Email: sfedak@winstar.com
Félix is a carefree guy who meets life's challenges
We know you sometimes suspect that festival
with resilience and a sunny disposition. The film's
programming can turn into a game of "another
relaxed tone is set right from the breezy opening, a
country heard from." Well, forget that right now,
long tracking shot of Félix cycling along the beachfront
because with the turn of the millennium Thai cinema
of the northern coastal town where he lives. Though
has arrived bigtime— something nowhere more
HIV-positive and an occasional victim of racism (he's
evident than in this pulse-pounding co-directing debut
half-Arab, abandoned by his father at birth), Félix has
from the brothers Pang.Though these twins hail from
found happiness in an affectionate relationship with
Hong Kong where they both worked in HK cinema
his boyfriend, Daniel. Our hero is addicted to a trashy
(Oxide as a digital colorist, Danny as an editor), and
soap opera, L a p o f L u x u r y , which appears as a running
though B a n g k o k D a n g e r o u s undeniably carries echoes
joke throughout the film, with various characters
of HK crime thrillers, this movie stakes out a territory
revealing their true colors via their reactions to the
all its own. Partly it's a matter of a lush and vibrant
sudser. Laid off from work, Félix determines to take
sensitivity to the unique atmosphere and rhythms of
advantage of his new freedom and sets off to find his
the title location, one of the most exotic and mys
unknown father, last heard of in Marseilles. Making
terious cities on the planet. Partly it's the nonstop
his way across France, the "orphaned" quester falls
dynamism of the Pangs' style, which takes the electric
into a series of adventures, encountering little brother,
colors and slipstream camerawork of Wong Kar-wai
grandmother, cousin and sister— all of whom might
and Chris Doyle into the stratosphere, while also
well constitute the family he never had. As sweet,
adding astonishing new moves to the international
fatherless Félix, Sami Bouajila delivers a wonderfully
syntax of film editing. The scenario has to do with a
endearing performance. And in only their second film,
professional hitman who, mute since a childhood
directors Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau
street fight, glides silently through the urban jungle
display a masterfully
like an unforgiving ghost. He allows tenderness into
light touch, as they tackle tough issues within a
his life only in the form of the young woman at the
consistently charming comedy.
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order to function. But even a ghost accumulates Awards: Jury Prize, Berlin International Film Festival
ghosts of his own, and eventually the hitman feels annihilation closing in from every side— the police, the various factions of the underworld, and.... Well, see for yourselves. To keep faith with their hero and also, perhaps, to unleash their own spectacular gifts as visual storytellers— the Pangs have conceived
Selected Filmography: Jeanne and the Perfect Guy (1998)
whole reels of B a n g k o k D a n g e r o u s to play entirely without dialogue. You'll never miss it. Awards: International Film Critics' FIPRESCI Award, Toronto Film Festival; Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Screenplay, BangkokCritics' Assembly
H A m erican A irlin es
Thailand 2000 Directors: Oxide Pang Danny Pang Producer: Nonzee Nimibutr Screenwriters: Oxide Pang Danny Pang Cinematographer: Decha Srimantra Editors: Oxide Pang Danny Pang Music: Orange Music Cast: Pawalit Mongkolpisit Premsinee Ratanasopha Patharawarin Timkul Pisek Intrakanchit Korkiate Limpapat Piya Boonnak Running Time: 105 minutes International Sales: Fortissimo Film Sales Print Source: Fortissimo Film Sales Cruquiusweg 40 Amsterdam, 1019 AT The Netherlands Ph: 31.20.627.3215 Fax: 31.20.626.1155 Email: info@fortissimo.nl Selected Filmography: Oxide Pang: Ta fa likit (1997) Danny Pang: ‘ Feature Film Debut
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Chopper
Before the Storm FORE STORMEN Tuesday May 29 9:30 PM Egyptian Theatre
Sunday May 27 9:30 PM Egyptian Theatre
Thursday May 31 5:00 PM Pacific Place Cinemas
Monday May 28 1:45 PM Harvard Exit
Sweden 2000 Director: Reza Parsa Producers: Johan Falemark Peter Hiltunen Screenwriters: Mikael Bengtsson Reza Parsa Cinematographer: Eigil Bryld Editor: Louise Brattberg Cast: Per Graffman Maria Lundqvist Sasha Becker Anni Ececioglu Emil Odepark Tintin Anderzon Martin Wallstrom Running Time: 102 minutes International Sales: Nordisk Film Inti. Print Source: Swedish Film Institute Borgvagen 1-5 Stockholm, S-102 52 Sweden Ph: 46.8.665.1100 Fax: 46.8.666.3698 Email: gunnar.almer@sfi.se
In B e f o r e t h e S t o r m , co-writer and director Reza Parsa
Australians have long had a way with prison pictures
has crafted an intricate thriller, carefully balancing
(so many of them started out as convicts, doncha-
elements of violence, suspense and morality in two
know), and this cockeyed biopic about a notorious
connected stories— one concerning the insular world
reprobate is the best and creepiest to date. Mark
of junior high school, the other international terrorism.
"Chopper" Read confirmed his nickname not only by
Ali is an Arabian immigrant living in Sweden with his
the depredations he visited upon fellow criminals but
wife Clara, a native Swede, and their two daughters.
also by his cheerful willingness to part with chunks of
One day after dropping his daughters off at school
his own anatomy when it suited his malefic purposes.
he meets two people who will have a profound effect
There are scenes in this movie that make R e s e r v o i r
upon his life. One is Leo, a much-bullied boy infatuated
D o g s look like a tea party by comparison. But C h o p p e r
with one of Ali's daughters; the other an old woman
isn't just a study in true-life Grand Guignol. It's a
from his native country, who blackmails Ali with
fiercely funny and deeply unsettling meditation on
information about his guerilla past in order to enlist
the way one man built a personal legend and the
his aid in the assassination of a prominent industrialist.
equally disturbing ways that the media and the public
She presents him with a videotape— containing the
ate it up. The towering Eric Bana, who lends new
captive pleas of his first wife, believed dead, and the
meaning to the term "killer smile," gives a tour-de
son he's never known— and an ultimatum: Perform
force— indeed, force-of-nature— performance in the
the assassination or they will die. Meanwhile, Leo's
title role, and Andrew Dominik's brilliantly edgy
problems with his tormentor, Danne, escalate after a
directorial debut creates a scary, insuperably whack
humiliating incident in the girls' locker room. Seeking
showcase vehicle for him.
protection, Leo steals the gun belonging to his policeofficer mother and smuggles it into school. But when
Awards:
he confronts Danne, Leo is unprepared for the
Best Actor, Best Director, Best Film, Best Supporting Actor, Australian Film Critics Circle Awards; Best Achievement in Direction, Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role, Best Performance by an an Actor in a Supporting Role, Australian Film Institute
inevitable consequences of his actions. As Parsa cuts between the two stories, each subtly illuminates the other. And at the heart of both dramas lies the conflict between violence and conscience, a conflict that can lead either to redemption or tragedy.
Awards: Best Director and Youth Jury Award, San Sebastián International Film Festival; Best Actor, Stockholm Film
Selected Filmography: Tigerhjarta (1999) Den 8:e sangen (1998) Gransen (1995)
Australia 2000 Director: Andrew Dominik Producer: Michele Bennett Screenwriter: Andrew Dominik Cinematographers: Kevin Hayward Geoffery Hall Editor: Ken Sallows Music: Jacoui Dennis Cast: Eric Bana Simon Lyndon David Field Dan Wyllie Bill Young Vince Colosimo Kenny Graham Kate Beahan Running Time: 94 minutes International Sales: Beyond Films Print Source: First Look Pictures 8800 Sunset Blvd. Suite 302 Los Angeles, CA 90069 USA Ph: 310.855.1199 Fax: 310.855.0719 Email: mjpckos@flp.com
Festival Selected Filmography: Feature Film Debut
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Disco Pigs
Saturday May 26 6:30 PM Egyptian Theatre
Friday June 15 7:15 PM Harvard Exit Saturday June 16 4:00 PM Pacific Place Cinemas
Monday May 28 4:00 PM Egyptian Theatre
US
PREMIERE
Kirsten Sheridan
later, on the instantaneous bond that sparks between
risks qualified G l a m o u r as this year's Hungarian sub
Hungary/ Germany/ Switzerland
Producer:
her and the just-hatched boybaby in the crib beside
mission for Best Foreign Film Oscar. Symbol of the
2000
Ed Guiney
her. Sheridan frames two pudgy arms reaching toward
Vendel family struggle is their home, which is also
Screenwriter:
each other to clasp tiny hands. That handclasp is
their place of business— a furniture shop where they
Enda Walsh
forever: self-styled "Pig" (Cillian Murphy, reprising
sell reproductions of period furniture. Sometimes the
Producer:
his stage role) and "Runt" (Elaine Cassidy, from
family lives in tasteful comfort; other times, sparsely,
Kornel Sipos
F e l i c i a ' s J o u r n e f i , King and Queen of PorkTown, grow
boarding the widows and hiding in the basement from
Screenwriter:
Ben Yeates
up symbiotically, fabricating their own language and
warring neighbors and passing invaders, like the
Music:
treating the rest of the world's inhabitants as though
people in Kusturica's U n d e r g r o u n d . G l a m o u r begins
Gavin Friday Maurice Seezer
they were a lesser, foreign species, good only for nasty
one Passover night when the rowdy young Vendel
fun and games. Then adolescence threatens to distract
brothers question the traditions they've grown up
Maria Rigo
Sinead from single-minded appreciation of her other
with. The bearded Orthodox patriarch, played by
Music:
half; and parents and the authorities decide to put a
veteran actor Gyorgy Barko ( W i t m a n B o y s ) , pleads in
Laszlo Metis
stop to the "unhealthy relationship" by packing her
vain for respect. There are omens that make him fear
Cast:
off to a school in Donegal. While Sinead slowly flowers
for the future— and, indeed, when handsome eldest
in her new environment, Pig almost literally implodes
son Imre (Karoly Eperjes) grows up and takes over
Running Time:
and soon takes to the road to find his raison d'etre.
the business, he makes a radical decision to "marry
93 minutes
What happens when these enfants terribles are
out." He chooses a German nursery school teacher,
reunited— on their 17th birthdays— is both shocking
Gerda (Eszter Onodi, S u n s h i n e ) , from the match
Ireland/UK 2001 Director:
Cinematographer: Igor Jadue-Lillo
Editor:
Cast: Elaine Cassidy Cillian Murphy Bryan O' Byrne Tara Lynne O' Neill Darren Healy
In the opening moments of D i s c o P i g s , director Kristin
Five years in the making, G l a m o u r is an elegant,
Sheridan's adaptation of Enda Walsh's smash play,
powerful tale of endurance— a hundred-year look at
baby Sinead, snug in a warm, pink womb, ruminates
three generations of a Jewish Hungarian family. Writer-
on the process of getting popped out of "Mam," and
director Frigyes Godros is an original storyteller whose
Director: Frigyes Godros
Frigyes Godros
Cinematographer: Sandor Kardos
Editor:
International Sales:
and heartbreaking. The performances by the young
maker's photos. Soon the arranged bride arrives from
Karoly Eperjes Eszter Onodi Gyorgy Barko Antal Cserna Katinka Cseke Lajos Szucs Janos Derzsi
Renaissance Films
leads are truly unique and unforgettable— their faces,
Vienna. It's love at first sight, but Gerda is a citizen of
Running Time:
yearning towards each other's light, are by turns alien
the Reich and, as such, is not allowed to marry a Jew.
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and unbearably human. Kristin (Jim Sheridan's
Godros has created a family epic that reflects the
talented daughter) infuses her richly imagined rite-
history of a nation— though ultimately, G l a m o u r is a
of-passage film with a Grimm's fairy tale quality, full
romantic film about undying love.
of magic and brutal realism.
Awards: Oscar Submission, Best Foreign Language Film; Jury Special Prize, Festroia-Troia International Film Festival; Grand Prize, Hungarian Film Week
Selected Filmography: The Case of Majella McGinty (1999)
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115 minutes
Print Source: Magyar Filmunio Varosligeti fasor 38 Budapest, 1068 Hungary Ph: 36.1.351.7760 Fax: 36.1.351.7761 Email: filmunio@elender.hu
Selected Filmography: Privathorvat es Wolframbarat (1993)
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Saturday June 9 9:30 PM Broadway Performance Hall
Friday June 15 7:15 PM Pacific Place Cinemas
Wednesday June 13 Noon Cinerama
Saturday June 16 1:45 PM Pacific Place Cinemas
US PREMIERE Italy/France 2000
The poetic sentim ent of the title represents the
This moving and intimate epic explores the impact
position of self-contained teen Rosario, a native of
of large-scale international tensions from a deeply
South Korea 2000
Calabria, on the tip of the Italian peninsula. Rosario
personal perspective. Joint Security Area is set in the
stubbornly insists on remaining in his seaside home
demilitarized no-man's-land between North and South
D irector:
Mimmo Calopresti
tow n, even after his presence there has become
Korea. On the "Bridge of No Return" linking the guard
Chan-wook Park
P ro d u cers:
problematic. With Rosario's father in prison and his
station of the North Korean army with that of its
Producer:
Donatella Botti
mother suddenly dead as collateral damage during a
counterpart to the south, shots ring out in the night;
Eun Soo Lee
Roberto Cicutto
Mafia hit, he has no one to hold him in check. Distant
and the body of a North Korean sentinel is found
S cre e n w rite rs: Seong-san Jeong Hyeon-seok Kim
D ire cto r:
Luigi Musini
relative Luigi, a southerner who has moved to Turin
dead in his guardhouse, with a wounded South Korean
and made good, impetuously decides that Rosario
guard lying not far away. A member of the neutral
Mimmo Calopresti
should come north for a spell at a home for troubled
Swiss forces overseeing the DMZ— a female army
S c re e n w rite rs : Francesco Bruni
Mu-yeong Lee
Heidrun Schleef
youths. Accustomed to issuing orders in his business
captain of Korean descent— is sent to interrogate
Chan-wook Park Cinem atog rapher:
C in e m a to g ra p h e r:
and personal life, Luigi tries to force a relationship
the other soldiers in the two commands. At first,
Sung-bok Kim
Luca Bigazzi
between his spoiled son Matteo and Rosario, but is
neither army officers from the South nor communist
E d ito r:
so out of touch with w hat the boys think and want
officials from the North will cooperate. Although this
Massimo Fiocchi M usic:
^
E d ito r: Sang-beom Kim M usic:
that he ends up offending both. Meanwhile, things
seems like deliberate political provocation on both
Franco Piersanti
are not going so well in Luigi's nouveau-riche world.
sides, w e soon learn that it has its roots in a much
C a st:
He's separated from his wife, but unable to commit
more human— albeit forbidden— interaction between
C ast:
Silvio Orlando
to his mistress. At the office, his colleagues and father-
the soldiers involved in the incident. Based on a novel
Yeong-ae Lee Byung-heon Lee
Jun-seok Bang Yeong-wook Jo
Michele Raso
in-law are setting him up to take the fall in a corruption
by Korean author Park Sang-yeon, this dazzling,
Fabrizia Sacchi
scandal. Offering many contrasts— life in Italy's north
visually inventive exploration of humanity in an
versus the south, the pure, uncorrupted beliefs of
inhumane place is the work of a striking new talent.
Rosario versus the compromised values of Luigi— this
Director Park Chang-wook founded a film club called
Running T im e:
Enrica Rosso
emotionally resonant film reflects on life's big ques
Movie Gang at Sogan University, then went on to
110 minutes
Marcello M azzarella
tions and, in keeping with its refreshing honesty, lets
create two experimental films before embarking on
Eugenio Masciari
audience members work out their own answers. An
this audacious, emotionally complex mystery-drama.
In tern atio n al Sales:
R unning Tim e :
official selection of Cannes 2000, / Prefer the Sound
A huge hit in Korea, the film has provoked much
CJ Entertainment
90 minutes
o f the Sea is a work of sober intelligence that will
discussion of the issues raised in its exploration of
linger in the mind.
North-South relations.
Paolo Cirio Mimmo Calopresti Andrea Occhipinti
In te rn a tio n a l S a le s:
Kang-ho song Tae-woo Kim Ha-kyun Shin
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Sunday June 3 6:30 PM Pacific Place Cinemas
Saturday June 9 1:45 PM Cinerama
Tuesday June 5 9:30 PM Pacific Place Cinemas
Denmark 2000
A broken compass causes a half-full bus to go dra
Two brothers lead less-than-upstanding lives in this
m atically off course by hundreds of miles in the
film shot in Puglia, the boot-heel of Italy. Zimba is a
Namibian Desert, stranding a group of European and
hot-blooded fru it-an d -ve g e tab le vendor-cum -
Italy 2000
American travelers literally in the middle of nowhere.
musician who smuggles cigarettes in from Albania.
D irector:
Kristian Levring
Running out of gas at an abandoned mining village,
Donato is an ex-drug addict and musician who is being
Edoardo Winspeare
Pro d u cers:
the group awaits the return of one passenger who
seduced back into his old ways. Their passionate
Producers:
Patricia Kruijer Vibeke Windelov
volunteers to make the five-day w alk to the nearest
relationship is a virtual lexicon of fraternal tensions:
Tore Sansonetti
town for help. As the days pass and the promise of
Both brothers are traumatized by the death of their
Gianluca Arcopinto
rescue becomes more remote, somebody suggests that
father; both are held back by their circumstances; yet
they stage Shakespeare's King Lear to pass the time.
each feels somehow responsible for the welfare of
The p ro d u ctio n b eg in s to b lu r into re a lity as
the other.This is director Edoardo Winspeare's second
Jens Schlossser
relationships break down and growing psychological
feature film, a portrayal of ordinary people unable to
Giorgia Cecere Cinem atog raphers:
E d ito r:
and sexual tensions threaten to destroy the mini
escape perpetual unemployment, poverty and the
Paolo Camera
Nicholas Wayman Harris
society. Using scripted dialogue and improvisation,
oppressive subculture of southern Italy. A distinct and
E d ito r:
C a st:
director Kristian Levring elicits great performances
pervasive sense of place is captured through the
from an outstanding ensemble that includes Janet
narrow streets, graffiti-covered walls and hillsides filled
D ire cto r:
S c re e n w rite rs : Kristian Levring Anders Thomas Jensen C in e m a to g ra p h e r:
Miles Anderson Romane Bohringer
McTeer, Bruce Davison, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and the
with olive groves. Music is an integral part of the film;
David Calder
late Brion James (who died days after filming ended).
it is, after all, the passion of the entire family. The
Bruce Davison
With its gritty camerawork and starkly beautiful desert
regional musical group Zoe won the music award at
Brion James
setting, The King Is Alive is a harrowing tale depicting
the San Sebastián Film Festival for their soundtrack
Jennifer Jason Leigh
the deterioration, both in mind and body, of humans
of lively, tarantella-like folk tunes.
David Bradley
Janet McTeer R unning T im e : 108 minutes In te rn a tio n a l S a le s:
trapped in the most desperate of situations. The fourth
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Luca Benedetti M usic: Gruppo Zoé C ast: Pino Zimba Lamberto Probo Claudio Giangreco Alessandro Valenti Ivan Verardo Lucia Chiuri
title to officially be stamped with the Dogme 95 seal
AW ARDS:
of approval, The King Is Alive, a visually stunning work,
New Directors Prize, San Sebastián International Film
Nico Cirasola
raises the bar for digital moviemaking.
Festival; only Italian feature selected for the World
Running Tim e:
Cinema category, Sundance Film Festival; Best Picture,
95 minutes
Good Machine, NY P rin t So u rce:
Maurizio Tini S cre en w rite rs:
Addolorata Turco
43rd Grolle d'Oro Awards A w a rd s: Best Actress (Leigh), Tokyo International Film Festival
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Sweden/ltaly
It's no news that the French excel at movies about
A vastly entertaining and moving comedy about
young women (can't say "g irls" anymore) coming of
communal life in '70s Sweden, this new work from
age. However, Caroline Vignal's wonderfully fresh and tender first feature about a virgin intent on changing
Swedish wunderkind Lukas Moodysson (Fucking A m il, aka Show Me Love, SIFF 1999) weaves a rich
her status seems like a revelation after the last few
and complex portrayal of human nature. A group of
Lukas Moodysson
seasons of mindless teen romances from Hollywood.
young people deal with the strains inherent in the
Producer:
Milena Poylo S c re e n w rite r:
Julie Leclercq gives an endearingly grave performance
course of brushing aside their individual differences
as Solange, a trainee hairdresser in Toulouse just
to pursue an idealistic lifestyle. As the film opens,
Lars Jonsson S cre e n w rite r:
Caroline Vignal C in e m a to g ra p h e r:
crowding 16 and seriously distracted both by her own
Goran, the would-be "leader" of a commune, moves
Lukas Moodysson Cinem atog rapher:
hormonal urges and by w hat she takes as the greater
his unhappily married sister Elizabeth and her two
Ulf Brantas
sophistication of the other girls in her set. In particular
young children into the chaotic communal home he
Annick Raoul M usic:
she is impressed w ith Gary (the delightfully w ry
shares with a ragtag assortment of free-thinking, free-
Ed ito rs: Michal Leszczylowski
Benoîte Sapim), a black girl trying to avoid an arranged
spirited and free-loving men and women in urban
FredrikAbrahamsen
Jean-Stéphane Brosse
marriage back in Africa, w ho lives on her own in a
Stockholm. While his housemates in this alternative
C ast:
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hotel and has the grit to stand her ground against
home share lofty ideals, the finer points of social and
patronizing, racist clients. Still, one of the virtues of
sexual differences between the members of the motley
Emma Samuelsson
Les Autres Filles is that it's not an us-against-them
crew inevitably emerge, spurred on by the arrival of
Sam Kessel
Jean-François Gallotte
movie. Solange's parents (C aro lin e Baehr, Jean-
these innocent newcomers. Poor Elizabeth and her
Gustaf Hammarsten
Bernard Menez
François Gallotte)— who respectively work as at-home
children, used to suburban simplicity and newly
Running Tim e:
babysitter and ostrich farmer— aren't the standard-
separated from insensitive boozing hubby/father Rolf,
102 minutes
issue dopey, strident elders, and her boss (Bernard
find their lives turned upside down as they are cast
Menez— he of the improbable schnozz In Truffaut's
adrift in the confusion and chaos of this hilariously
Trust Film Sales P rin t Source:
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Jeanne Lapoirie E d ito r:
Julie Leclercq Benoîte Sapim Caroline Baehr
R unning T im e : 95 minutes In te rn a tio n a l S a le s:
2000 D irector:
Lisa Lindgren Michael Nyqvist
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Day for Night) is at least as droll and kind as he is
eccentric group of housemates. W hat emerges from
fussy and preposterous. Solange's various encounters
this alternately sw eet and sour experience is an
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understanding that social, political and, above all,
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with a wedding guest, are all beautifully observed, com plex in th e ir grasp of hum an m otives and possibility. This sm all, lovely film just may wind up being one of your happiest discoveries of the Festival
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NEW AM ERICAN CINEM A AWARDS New American Cinema Award The field of American independent filmmaking has undergone a long-awaited rebirth, w ith newly emerging talents and them atically rich, original approaches to storytelling abundantly evident. Many of the films this year's New American Cinema lineup are w ildly original, and the stories they tell defy categorization, eschewing genre conventions in favour of a fresh, more personal expression of vision and voice. In celebration of this talent and vibrancy, w e offer SIFF's New American Cinema Aw ard, in a juried competition encompassing all of the U.S. films marking their world or North American premieres at this year's Festival. Our distinguished jury members w ill select the film they feel best represents creative vision and filmmaking excellence among the debuting films in the New American Cinema section, and the winner will be announced at our Awards Ceremony on the closing day of this year's event.
NEW AM ERICAN CINEM A JU R Y Fred Roos filmography Producer, Town And Country (2 0 01 ); Co-producer, The Virgin Suicides (2 0 00 ); Executive Consultant, Rain Maker (1 9 97 ); Executive Consultant, 7ac/c (1 9 96 ); Producer, Radioland Murders (1994); Producer, The Secret Garden (1993); Executive Consultant, Wind( 1992); Producer, Heart o f Darkness, A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1 9 91 ); Co-producer, The Godfather Part III ( 1990); Producer, Montana (1990); Producer, Wait Until Spring, Bandini {\990); Executive Producer The OutsidersTV series (1 9 90 ); Producer, New York Stories (1 9 89 ); Producer, Tucker (19 88 ); Producer, 5arf/y(1987); Producer, Gardens o f Stone (1987); Producer, Seven Minutes
In Heaven (1986); Executive Consultant, Peggy Sue Got Married (1 9 86 ); Producer, One Magic Christmas(1 9 85 ); Producer, The Cotton Club (1984); Producer, Rumble Fish (1 9 83 ); Producer, The Outsiders (1 9 83 ); Producer, The Black Stallion Returns (19 83 ); Producer, The Escape Artist (1 9 82 ); Producer, One From the Heart {\982); Producer, Hammett (1 9 8 2 ); Producer, The Black Stallion (1 9 7 9 ); Producer, Apocalypse Now []979); Producer, The Godfather Part II (1 9 74 ); Producer, The Conversation (1 9 74 ); Associate Producer, Drive, He 53/(7(1971); Producer, Flight
to Fury (1 9 64 ); Producer, Back Door to Hell{ 1964). Fred Roos has also served as the Casting Director on such films as The Godfather, American Graffiti, Five Easy
Pieces, King o f Marvin Gardens, Travels With my Aunt, Petulia, Zabriskie Point, Fat City and many others.
Marjorie Baumgarten Marjorie Baumgarten is a journalist and senior editor at The Austin Chronicle, the 20-year-old alternative newsweekly of Austin, Texas, where she serves as the
Chronicle's Screens editor, chief film critic, and editor of its online Movie Guide (www.austinchronicle.com). Her work has also appeared in The Hollywood Reporter,
The Independent, Film Comment, Monterey's Coast Weekly, The Anchorage Press, Birmingham's Black & White, and other publications, and she is the consulting editor of Peckinpah, a monograph published by the Austin Film Society in 2000. She also assists with the South by Southwest Film Festival as a special consultant, and has contributed over the years to numerous film festival program books and juries.
Mark Caro Movie reporter/critic for the Chicago Tribune; he w rites reviews, news and feature stories and the weekly " Behind the Screen" column. He's been on the movie beat since 199S and has written for the Tribune since 1989. Previously, he covered film and cultural news for The Boston Phoenix.
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American Astronaut Thursday June 7 9:30 PM Harvard Exit
Friday May 25 7:15 PM Egyptian Theatre
Friday June 1 10:00 PM Valley Drive-In Theatres
Sunday May 27 1:45 PM Pacific Place Cinemas
USA 2001
Sometimes in the search for love, the least likely
Mix a splash of cult-movie David Lynchian-absurdity
candidate ends up being "the one." Such is the case
into the lowest-budget sci-fi F/X this side of Plan 9
USA 2001
for urban 20-somethings Eli and Tom, thrown together
from Outer Space, situate a space cowboy in the
on a blind date by their respective best friends Brent
asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, and you might
D irector:
and Jackie (who use their friends as a ploy to get
get an inkling of the truly hilarious and bizarre The
Cory McAbee
together themselves). Eli is an eternally single guy
American Astronaut. Throw in rock 'n' roll musical
Producers:
Dan Bucatinsky
w ho refuses to answ er the phone during X-Files
numbers, a few dance sequences, deadpan comic
William Perkins
Susan Dietz
marathons and dreams of finding a mint Planet o f
delivery, and a spaceship that for all practical purposes
Donnie Land
the Apes Cornelius action figure. Tom is a handsome
is a flying single-wide mobile home, and you've got
sw inging single, a struggling alcoholic given to
one of the most unforgettable films to come out of
Dan Bucatinsky Cinematographers:
uninvolving one-night stands who is secretly afraid
the Sundance Film Festival in recent seasons. Samuel
of settling down. During one of those blind dates from
Curtis (writer/director Cory McAbee) is a renegade
Cory McAbee Cinem atog rapher:
Goran Pavicevic
hell, Eli and Tom can't seem to find any common
interplanetary trader from Nevada, showing up at a
W. Mott Hupfel III
C a st:
ground— except a fight to pay the bill to get the date
remote Old-West-style asteroid saloon (filled with
Ed ito r: Pete Beaudreau
over as fast as possible. And that is just the beginning
"roughnecks and thugs," of course) with a special
of a relatio n sh ip b etw een tw o people w ho do
delivery: a cat named Oscar. There he meets up with
everything possible to NOT fall in love. All Over the
his old pal the Blueberry Pirate who strikes a deal for
Bobby Lurie
Tony Abatemarco
Guy is a witty, romantic, and sometimes painfully
Curtis to deliver some valuable cargo (a real live girl!)
C ast:
D ire cto r: Julie Davis Pro d u cers:
Juan A. Mas S c re e n w rite r:
Dan Bucatinsky Richard Ruccolo Adam Goldberg Sasha Alexander
Joshua Taylor Robert Lurie Michael Krantz S cre en w rite r:
M usic: The Billy Nayer Show
Joanna Kerns
tru th fu l ta le of modern d atin g . Featuring Dan
to Jupiter, an all-male mining colony, in exchange for
Cory McAbee
Andrea Martin
Bucatinsky, who wrote the original screenplay based
a strapping young boy toy to be delivered to the all
Doris Roberts
female planet of Venus. If the trade is successful, much
Rocco Sisto Gregory Russell Cook
on his stage play, the film also stars Richard Ruccolos
R unning T im e :
(Two Guys and a Girl), Sasha Alexander (Twin Falls Idaho) and Adam Goldberg ( Saving Private Ryan), with
dinero will change hands. But to make matters a bit trickier, Curtis is being chased across the Solar System
Joshua Taylor
cameos by Lisa Kudrow, Christina Ricci and scene
by the sinister Professor Hess, who has a serious score
Peter McRobbie
stealing Doris Roberts.
to settle. Filmed in noirish black-and-white, The
Bill Buell Mark Manley
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American Astronaut comes across as an old-school sci-fi romp, kick-started with a postmodern ro c k 'n ' roll 'tude for the new millennium.
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Annie Golden James Ransone
Ned Sublette Joseph McKenna R unning Tim e: 91 minutes
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Am y's Orgasm (2001)
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PREMIERE USA 2000
W hile promoting her book, Why Love Doesn't Work,
A complex and intelligent screenplay that draws upon
self-help author Amy Mandell starts to doubt her own
the works of H.R Lovecraft, The Cabinet o f Dr. Caligari
advice (stay single and celibate) when she begins to
and Dario A rg ento's Suspiria m akes The A ttic
USA 2000
fall for hunky shock jock Matthew Starr. But can an
Expeditions one of the best works of psychological
D irector:
Julie Davis
Ivy-League-educated feminist seriously date a man
horror to arrive in years. Trevor Blackburn emerges
Jeremy Kasten
P ro d u cers:
with a bad rep for macho-pig repartee and a penchant
from a four-year coma with only two memories intact:
Producers:
Julie Davis Fred Kramer
for hitting on bimbo guests? Seeking guidance,
a failed occult ritual, which ended in the death of
Daniel Gold
Mandell, who is Jewish, forgoes therapy in favor of
Faith, his aptly named fiancée, and some kind of
Melissa Balin
Catholic confession with a young, slightly confused
bizarre medical procedure he's endured. Fie finds
priest who occasionally emotes in epithets and owns
himself under the care of creepy Dr. Ek— Jeffrey Combs
Rogan Russel Marshall
a laserdisc copy of The Thorn Birds. To further mix
of Re-Animatoriame— a man whose odd demeanor
C inem atog raphers:
D ire cto r:
S c re e n w rite r: Julie Davis C in e m a to g ra p h e r: M ark Mervis
Dan Griffiths S cre en w rite r:
E d ito r:
matters up, Amy's friends— a too-cute married couple
can only cloak ulterior motives. When Trevor is sent
Glenn Garland
and an acerbic lesbian publicist— are not afraid to
to convalesce under the tutelage of Ek's colleague Dr.
Michael Negrin A.S.C. Greg Littlewood
M usic:
express their feelings, including offering misguided
Thalama at a halfway house for recovering psychotics
Ed ito r:
Jonathan Weiss
advice, spilling sexual secrets and committing amusing
(c ry p tic a lly nam ed th e "H o u se of L o v e " ), he
faux pas. An amusing, hit-filled soundtrack and clever
encounters a collection of truly weird souls. There's
tongue-in-cheek editing support the playful mood of
beautiful but untouchable Amy, Ronald and his sock
Caroline Aaron
this romantic comedy. Not only does multitalented
puppet Lizzie, and Douglas (Seth Green, of Buffy the
Stephen Donovan
Mitchell Whitfield Jennifer Bransford
Julie Davis make her acting debut as Amy but she
Vampire Slayer and Austin Powers fame), whose
Jeffrey Combs
also d irected , w ro te, produced and edited this
incoherent ramblings frequently yield lucid insights
Andrew Ggem
delightful winner of the Santa Barbara International
into Trevor's condition. Shortly after his arrival, Trevor
Film Festival Audience Choice Award for Best Feature
begins to have nightmares about Faith's murder, a
Andras Jones Ted Raimi
Lovecraftian tome of black magic and a mysterious
Wendy Robie
C a st: Julie Davis Nick Chinlund
Jeff Cesario R unning T im e : 86 minutes
Film.
trunk in the attic. Meanwhile, as the residents of the
P rin t Source: Serious Dan Films 4514 Van Noord Ave
"House of Love" are murdered, one by one, Trevor
A w a rd s:
Audience Award, Santa Barbara Film Festival
looks like the chief suspect. Nightmare and reality
Studio City, CA 91604
coalesce within Trevor's unraveling psyche, and an
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hinting that insanity, or something infinitely worse,
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waits just beyond the attic door.
Barbara Kaplan M usic: Michele Wernick C ast:
Seth Green
Alice Cooper Shannon Hart Cleary Running Tim e: 100 minutes P rin t Source: Tse Tse Fly Productions 14540 Hesby Street Sherman Oaks, CA 91405
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USA
Back in 1856, Herman Melville, perhaps America's
A vivacious young Puerto Rican, Elena (Lisa Vidal)
greatest novelist, published a "tale of Wall Street"
grapples with three competing existential realities: the
entitled "Bartleby the Scrivener." Melville's despairing
yuppiefied Boston that her Irish-American boss and
Everyman, surrogate for humanity, responded to every
current boyfriend represent; the much-loved homeland
D irecto r:
Jonathan Parker
order or invitation to action with "I would prefer not
of which her former boyfriend, a recently emigrated
Jan Egleson Producer:
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to." If Melville's outraged Ahab was driven to extremes
painter and poet; reminds her; and her mother's past,
Jonathan Parker
of action by the assaults of a w h ite w hale, the
full of steadfast devotion mixed with lies and secrets.
Natatcha Estébanez
Catherine di Napoli
aggressively passive Bartleby shuts down in the face
A small stroke reveals Elena's true allegiances when
S cre en w rite rs:
o f ...w h a t ? The universe's utter indifference? The
her ability to speak Spanish paradoxically disappears,
S c re e n w rite rs : Jonathan Parker
Natatcha Estébanez Jan Egleson
d ead -en ding of hum an hopes and d esire s, as
destroying her usefulness as a bilingual salesperson
Cinem atog rapher:
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symbolized by the dead-letter office in which he once
of high-end caskets. Able to remember only Spanish
Teresa Medina
Rick LeCompte
worked? In Jonathan Parker's updated Bartleby, the
songs, Elena must confront origins previously taken
E d ito r:
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part of the man who simply stops is taken by the
for granted; she looks for the truth about her phantom
Jeannie Jordan
David Paymer
deeply strange Crispin Glover, inhabiting a role he
father, "El Canario" (The Canary), a small-time singer
Crispin Glover
may have been born to play. Lank-haired, pallid, with
who abandoned his family to come to America to seek
the face of a mournful mortician, Glover is hired to
fame and fortune. Director Jan Egleson juxtaposes
Catherine di Napoli
Glenne Headly Joe Piscopo
M usic: Claudio Ragazzi C ast: Miriam Colon
file in an office full of oddballs, including Glenne
opinionated and often hilarious interviews with Elena's
Seymour Cassel
Headly as a sexpot secretary, Joe Piscopo as a macho
extended entourage of friends (a la Paul Auster's Blue
Lisa Vidal José Yenque
Carrie Snodgress
desk fixture, and Maury Chaykin as an ineffectual
in the Face) at the local diner with Elena's own furtive
William Marquez
Dick Martin
ditherer. The superb David Paymer plays the Boss, a
inquiries and increasingly desperate attempts to regain
R unning T im e :
decent man with some very human vices. Bartleby's
her first language. A penetrating insight into the nature
Running Tim e: 100 minutes
w o rkin g en viron m en t is a n tith e tica l to human
of linguistic memory, Egleson's film stands as a
creativity— in color and design— and there seems
convincing attempt to present a truly bilingual story.
In tern atio n al Sale s: Blue Diner Productions
Maury Chaykin
83 minutes P rin t So u rce: Parker Film Company
no real point to the w ork itself; but no matter, the
The Blue Diner celebrates a democratic vision of the
P rin t Source:
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pretense that there is significance in all this activity
East Coast that is honest, sexy and entertaining.
Blue Diner Productions
San Rafael, CA 94901 Ph: 415.456.4465
must be maintained. But one day Bartleby refuses a
Fax: 415.456.2414 Email: catherine@bartlebythemovie.com
task: "I would prefer not to." The refusals escalate, become unacceptable. Soon he simply droops in space, staring up at an air conditioning vent. He's fired and to." Watching Paymer's increasing frustration, the
Zen Dog (1996)
puzzlement of Bartleby's colleagues, and the eternal,
Hugo and Hilda (1994)
immovable droop— you feel a kind of mad hoot of
Mashie Niblick (1991)
hilarity rising in your throat. Read this sad, funny
K. Goes Surfing (1984) I Could Be Wrong (1983)
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ordered to vacate the premises: "I would prefer not
S e le c te d Film o g ra p h y:
My Mine (1987)
10 Mt, Auburn st W atertow n, MA 02772
parable how you w ill— even as an indictment of corporate dehumanization in a global economy— something existentially subversive in all of us applauds Bartleby's stubborn retirement from the fray.
Selected Film og raphy: A Shock to the System (1989) The Dark End of the Street (1981) Billy in the Lowlands (1979)
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Sunday June 17 1:45PM Broadway Performance Hall
WORLD PREMIERE USA 2001
A biting, deliciously edgy exploration of life in the
After a series of tragedies has left Matty Matthews
corporate food chain, Patrick Stettner's The Business
despondent and alone, he retreats to a small seaside
o f Strangers features Stockard Channing and Julia
town on Cape Cod for introspection. The town is
Stiles at the center of a danse macabre of sex, revenge
Atwater Commons, home to, and renamed for, best
Patrick Stettner
and professional one-upmanship. As the film opens,
selling mystery-writer Atwater Bridges. Bridges has
D ire cto r:
USA 2001 D irector: Jay Frasco
Pro d u cers:
40-something careerwoman Julie Styron (a bravura
recently had a runaway success with his latest novel,
Producers:
Susan A. Stover
performance by Channing) is not having a good day.
entitled Dirt Boy, the story of a conscienceless serial
John V. Smalley
Robert H. Nathan
First, cryptic signals convince her that she's about to
killer who stalks the woods outside a rural New
Jay Frasco Scott Findley
S c re e n w rite r: Patrick Stettner C in e m a to g ra p h e r: Teodoro Maniaci
be fired; then she has to go it alone at a presentation
England town. Atwater Commons is also home to
when her technical assistant, young novice Paula
Dr. Klugard, a renowned criminal pathologist; each
(Stiles), fails to show up. When Paula does finally arrive,
year for six weeks he holds the Klugard Conference
Jay Frasco Cinem atog rapher:
S cre e n w rite r:
E d ito r:
Julie fires her. Believing her own firing is near, Julie
on crim inal investigations. M atty him self is the
Jeffrey Greeley
Keiko Deguchi
sets up a meeting w ith an oily corporate headhunter
youngest person ever allow ed to enroll in the
E d ito rs:
M usic:
in hopes of finding another job; but when she meets
conference. When not attending seminars, Matty
with her company's CEO, fully expecting the axe to
spends his time listening to the book-on-tape version
fall, she's startled to learn she's being promoted to
of Dirt Boy that his sister has given him. But all is not
M usic: Robert Robertson
run the business. Initially too dumbstruck to respond,
well among the town's picturesque fishing boats and
C ast:
Frederick W eller
she begins reflecting on how empty her life has
Colonial houses. Matty soon begins to notice certain
Jacob Lee Hedman
R unning T im e : 84 minutes
become, shunting from one boardroom meeting to
events in town that appear to be mimicking incidents
Luca Bercovici
the next, checking in and out of luxurious but sterile
in the book. Intrigued, he starts to investigate. But
Arthur J. Walsh
hotel rooms in pursuit of success. She's subsequently
the closer he draws to the truth, the more endangered
surprised to run into Paula at an airport hotel bar.
his own life becomes as the tenuous line between
Chagrined at her treatment of her former assistant,
fiction and reality grows thinner. A cleverly constructed
Marybeth Holland
Julie apologizes for her abrupt dismissal and the two
comedic thriller exploring the connections between
Mike Zammitto
of them proceed to share drinks and intimacies. Then
obsession and art, Dirt Boy m arks the assured
Eddie McCabe
directorial debut of Jay Frasco.
Virginia Polack
Alexander Lasarenko C a st: Stockard Channing Julia Stiles
P rin t So u rce: IFC Films PO Box 642539 Los Angeles, CA 90066 Ph: 310.287.1481
Richard Moos Jay Frasco
Michelle Guthrie Lonnie Farmer Fran Devasto
Fax: 310.287.2603
the headhunter with whom Julie had met turns up in
Email: reschwartz@ rainbow-
the hotel bar, and she's stunned to be told by Paula
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that she too knows him— as the frat guy who raped
Running Tim e:
her girlfriend during a party. Thus begins a journey
90 minutes
S e le c te d Film o g ra p h y: Flux (1996)
Dossy Peabody Robert C. Rubin
of revenge and devious twists, an escalating game of cat and mouse with unexpected consequences.
In tern atio n al Sale s A g en t: Menemsha Entertainment P rin t Source: Cool Blue Pictures Ph: 617.782.0050x21 Fax: 617.779.9512 Email: jfrasco@hotmail.com Se lecte d Film og raphy: Feature Film Debut
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WORLD PREMIERE In this coming-of-age tale, a young man ditches the real world for that of film, but eventually comes to
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realize that running aw ay is no substitute for the sublime beauty of everyday life. When Hilbert's father
USA 2001 D ire cto r:
has a near-fatal heart attack, he falls into a downward
Marc Lafia
spiral of introspection, re-evaluating and restructuring
Pro d u cer:
his life. The despondent young man turns aw ay from
Kenneth Peralta
his fam ily and his girlfriend toward the comfort of an
S c re e n w rite r:
alternative world. Taking up residence in a cheap, downtown San Francisco hotel, he experiments with
Marc Lafia C in e m a to g rap h e r: Joplin Wu
drugs and bisexuality— and art. On an 8mm projector,
E d ito r:
he o b sessively an alyze s hom e m ovies from his
Joe Bini
childhood, comparing these films with his recollections
M usic:
of his youth. Memory and desire— spawned from
Petey Reniche
w hat he imagined w as reality versus w hat he sees in
Juliana Hatfield C a st:
these movies— encourage Hilbert to create his own film, to re-write the past and blow the Oedipal triangle
Bruce Ramsay
apart. Exploding Oedipus' memorable score enhances
Juliana Hatfield Charlotte Chatton
the emotional and sensual texture of the film as Hilbert
Tania Meneguzzi
co m es
in to
his o w n — s lo w ly ,
p a in fu ly , but
Michael Jacob James Cotton
definitively— as an adult.
John Detwiler M attW eim er Boris Eckey Tomoko Oku R unning T im e : 75 minutes P rin t So u rce: FD Films 175 Pfeiffer #3 San Francisco, CA 94133 Ph: 415.398.1291 Fax: 415.986.6882 Email: irenarogo@yahoo.com
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Final
Monday June 11 9:30 PM Harvard Exit
Friday June 8 9:30 PM Broadway Performance Hall
Wednesday June 13 9:30 PM Pacific Place Cinemas
Sunday June 10 2:45 PM Broadway Performance Hall
WORLD PREMIERE
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PREMIERE USA 2000
A raucous, in-your-face m ockum entary featuring
Life holds many mysteries for Bill (Denis Leary): Waking
cameos by a delicious assortment of screen luminaries,
from a drug-induced stupor in an antiseptic hospital
Famous follows a budding young actress poised on
facility, he has recurring flashbacks of cracking up
USA 2001
D ire cto r: Griffin Dunne
the edge of her 15 minutes as she makes her bid for
his truck in some kind of government installation and
fame and fortune. Young Lisa Pickard (Laura Kirk) is
being found at the base of a cliff, hypothermic and
Campbell Scott
P ro d u ce rs:
a pleasant-enough actress with a modicum of talent
unconscious.These "memories" also include a young
Producers:
Dolly Hall
and looks. Best known for her work in a surprisingly
woman, to whom he fancies himself engaged, though
Celeste Peterka
racy W heat Chex commercial, Lisa anticipates her big
she's obviously not part of his current situation. Bill's
Mary Frances Budig Steve Dunn
Mira Sorvino
D irector:
Campell Scott
break is right around the corner as her new made-
flash backs are intermingled w ith the seem ingly
for-television movie, featuring Mira Sorvino and
delusional conviction that he's been cryogenically
Laura Kirk
Charlie Sheen, is readied for airing. As she makes
frozen by the government, and is being prepared for
E d ito r:
C in e m a to g ra p h e r:
the rounds with her best friend Tate (Nat DeWolf)—
a lethal injection— a conviction that causes him to
Andy Keir
W illiam Rexer
a gay activist actor/writer w ho is currently prepping
violently resist the orderlies who occasionally appear
M usic:
E d ito r:
a one-man show about homophobia and his coming-
in his room to minister to him. Into his Kafkaesque
Linda Cohen
out trau m as— Lisa crosses paths in a series of
world walks Ann Johnston (Hope Davis), a prim though
Guy Davis
seemingly random incidents with the likes of Sandra
attractive young doctor w ho's been ordered to
C a st:
Bullock, Spike Lee, Buck Henry, Carrie Fisher and
evaluate him and provide some kind of recovery
Denis Leary
Laura Kirk
Penelope Ann Miller. The resulting exploration of life
therapy through a series of interviews focusing on
Guy Davis
S c re e n w rite rs : Nat DeWolf
Nancy Baker M usic: Evan Lurie
S cre en w rite r: Bruce McIntosh
C ast: Hope Davis
Nat DeWolf
in the fast lane, show-biz style, is a seriocomic delight.
his perceptions of his past and present realities. Ann
Running T im e:
Daniel London
Director/actor Griffin Dunne, whose polished romantic
tells him that he's in the Sumner Hospital in Hartford,
111 minutes
Griffin Dunne
comedy Addicted to Love opened the 23rd Seattle
where he's been declared a ward of the state. Clearly
Linda Blair
P rin t Source:
International Film Festival, here returns to the screen
dubious about Ann's role in w hat he perceives as his
w ith an amusingly provocative exploration of the
incarceration and preparation for death, Bill alternately
Joelle Carter
thespian life style, as seen from an actor's point of
confronts and cooperates with the doctor during a
Carrie Fisher
view.
series of emotionally charged meetings. What emerges
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Buck Henry
from these sessions is a wicked game of cat-and-
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Spike Lee
mouse in which the ultimate question facing Bill is:
Penelope Ann M iller
Will Ann help him find sanity, or has she been sent
Sandra Bullock L.M . Kit Carson
Charlie Sheen Mira Sorvino
here to wield the needle that does him in? While
James Yaegashi
there's been much buzz about the ability of digital
R unning T im e :
technology to revolutionize the process of filmmaking,
90 minutes
few films w e've seen are actually enhanced by the
P rin t So u rce:
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use of d ig ita l c a m e ra w o rk . W ith th is ta u t, First Look Pictures 8800 Sunset Blvd. Suite 302 Los Angeles, CA 90069
(co-director of Big Night) utilizes the new technology in perfect service to his story, further graced with a
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dazzling performance by Leary as the desperate man
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at the center of this enigmatic psychic storm.
S e lec te d F ilm o g ra p h y: Practical Magic (1998) Addicted to Love (1997)
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Selected Film og raphy: Hamlet (2000) Big Night (1996)
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Gaudi Afternoon /
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Friday June 1 9:30 PM Egyptian Theatre
Sunday June 17 1:45 PM Pacific Place Cinemas
Saturday June 2 1:45 PM Egyptian Theatre
WORLD PREMIERE USA 2001
It's night in M anhattan; rain is bouncing in the streets
Cassandra (Judy Davis) just wants to make ends meet,
like BBs.Tepper (E.R.'s Erik Palladino), a decent young
keep to herself and finish translating a Latin American
fello w anticipating an evening of poker w ith his
novel. But then she receives a mysterious call. Frankie
USA/Spain 2001
D ire cto r:
buddies— and just maybe popping the question to
(Oscar-winner Marcia Gay Harden) has to locate her
Jeff Probst
his girl later on— finds a w allet. No money, but
ex-husband and retrieve her kidnapped daughter—
P ro d u cers:
somebody might want it back, so he calls the phone
or is there something more? Cassandra reluctantly
Producer:
Katy Wallin
number inside and gives his address. Only then does
agrees to play detective, and the film noir-ish comedy
Andrés Vicente Gomes S cre e n w rite r:
Brad Van Arragon Shawn Williamson S c re e n w rite r: Jeff Probst
he notice something else: a lottery ticket, today's—
morphs into a zany gender-bender about motherhood.
and it's the $6 million jackpot winner. Originally
As each new character enters the picture, hes often
workshopped at SIFF, this crackerjack screenplay by
prove to be shes (or dressing as shes) while shes
D irector: Susan Seidelman
James Mhyre C inem atog rapher: Josep M .Civit
C in e m a to g ra p h e r:
first-time director Jeff Probst (of Survivor fame) and
may be hes masquerading as shes. The director takes
Ed ito rs:
Francis Kenny
Seattle's own Jim Gulian does a relentless job of
the theme even further by casting a woman to play a
E d ito r:
turning the thum bscrews. Tepper's poker buddies
man living as a woman. Lili Taylor (/ Shot Andy Warhol)
Craig McKay Deirdre Slevin
Brian Berdan
(M atthew Lillard, Dash Mihok, Ryan Reynolds) show
p resents an am using ly h istrio n ic butch w hose
M usic:
up as expected, but so does Avery Phillips, the wallet's
girlfriend, April, is an equally humorous New Ager
owner. Avery appears not to notice that Tepper—
(Juliette Lewis). Davis' Cassandra is just odd enough
Erik Palladino
usually a solid citizen— has switched his own lottery
to remain as delightfully elusive as the characters
James Earle Jones
ticket with the winning ticket, which only he knows is
she grudgingly follows around. By the end of the wild
Marcia Gay Harden Lili Taylor
M usic: B.C. Smith C a st:
Bernardo Bonezzi C ast: Judy Davis
Robert Forster
the winner. What's more, Avery decides to stick around
goose chase, everyone seems a little surer of their
Juilette Lewis
M atthew Lillard
and join the game. About this time the cops (led by
roles in life— a plus for the poor child at the center
Christopher Bowen
Ryan Reynolds
Robert Forster) lock down the building and start
of the madness. Set in Barcelona, the film's colors
rapping on doors. Seems they're looking for a guy—
are bright, crisp, almost garish— the perfect match
and suddenly the jovial Avery (he's James Earl Jones,
for the plot, the characters and even the city's famous
fergodsake!) starts behaving very suspiciously. This
Gaudí structures.
Dash Mihok Carly Pope R unning Tim e : 102 minutes
palm-sweater will keep you guessing motives and In te rn a tio n a l S a le s:
Maria Barranco Courtney Jones Pep Molina Victor Alvaro Running Tim e: 93 minutes
stratagems right up to w hat you think is the end. In tern atio n al Sale s:
Silverline Pictures P rin t So u rce:
Lola Films UK
First Generation Off The Negative
P rin t Source:
Ph: 604.874.4300 x l 15
Lola Films UK 19 Garrick Street
Fax: 604.874.4305 Email:
Covent Garden, London WC2E 9AX England
andrew@shavickentertainment.com
Ph: 44.207.545.7900 Fax: 44.207.845.7909 Email: cecilia.fajardo@lolauk.co.uk S e lected Film og raphy: A Cooler Climate (1999) Tales of Erotika (1996) The Dutch Master (1995) Confession of a Suburban Girl (1992) She-Devil (1989) Cookie (1989)
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Hamlet
Sunday June 10 6:30 PM Harvard Exit
Sunday June 10 11:00 AM Broadway Performance Hall
Tuesday June 12 Noon Cinerama
USA 2001
Haiku Tunnel, the first film from directors Josh and
Actor-director Campbell Scott infuses a snappy pre-
Jacob Kornbluth, is a Generation X fairy tale about
Civil War American sensibility— costumes, accents and
w ork, set in pre-dot-com San Francisco. Josh works
attitude— into the classic tragedy, while retaining
USA 2001
D ire cto rs:
a t"S & M " law firm asatem p fro m Uniforce. The temp
Shakespeare's complexity and original text. You can't
Jacob Kornbluth
life suits Josh to a " T " : Our hero, a happy layabout
get enough Hamlet, according to Scott. "The play is
Campbell Scott
Josh Kornbluth
and novel writer, is particularly good at impermanence.
so large, so strong, so resonant, that, as with all great
Eric Simonson
P ro d u cers:
Imagine Josh's shock and surprise when his boss at
writing and great works of art in general, the question
Producers:
Brian Benson
S&M asks him to go "perm ." The moment his status
is not 'Why should we revisit it?' but 'How can we
changes, the ex-temp can't keep his performance up
not revisit it? '" The riveting Lisa Gay Hamilton
and becomes embroiled in an hilarious chain of events
invigorates vulnerable Ophelia with a new strength,
Doria Summa
th at sends his professional life down the toilet.
and Roscoe Lee Browne gives Polonius a delightful
Stephanie Weisman
Following a Woody Allen-esque personality who tells
crustiness. Blair Brown's Gertrude w afts between
Dan Gilham E d ito r:
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motherly concern— she seems closer to Ophelia than
Andy Keir
John Bellucci
Tunnel has the feel of a brilliant theatre piece (Haiku Tunnel actually started life as a monologue that Josh
her own son— and has such an ethereal aloofness
M usic:
that it's hard to pin blame on her. Jamey Sheridan
Gary DeMichele Cast:
Nancy Carlin Jacob Kornbluth Josh Kornbluth
Jacob Kornbluth Josh Kornbluth
D irecto rs:
Mary Francis Budig Jonathan Filiey Campbell Scott Cinem atog rapher:
Kornbluth performed around San Francisco in the early
plays the smarmy Uncle Claudius as a man hell-bent
Don M atthew Smith
'90s) with zesty infusions of Ferris Buller's Day Off.
on gaining power and the love of his queen, in that
Campbell Scott Jamey Sheridan Blair Brown
C in e m a to g ra p h e r: E d ito r:
V\le watch a pile of letters that must go out get put
order. Scott endows the title role with a mercurial
Robin Lee IV
aside one too many times, see the re-enactment of
humor: As Hamlet deftly slips in and out of various
Roscoe Lee Browne
M usic: Marco D'Ambrosio
the company orientation (how to clear a paper jam
stages of sanity, he never quite gets a firm footing in
Lisa Gay Hamilton Sam Robards
under p re ssu re ), and w itn e ss Josh desperately
his new role as a man without a father. And in this
prevaricate while bedding a high-powered lawyer.
version, Hamlet is not so Oedipally obsessed as
Everyone has jobs-from-hell stories, bringing Josh's
vengefully pissed at the new familial order, practically
Michael Imperioli
Helen Shumaker
corporate horrorshow that much closer to home. Haiku
giving up on his mother. Scott played Hamlet at the
Marcus Giamatti
Amy Resnick
Tunnel finds its groove in the endearing nature of its
Old Globe Theatre in San Diego in 1990 and at
Byron Jennings
Brian Thorstenson
main character, the fabulous ensemble cast (Warren
Boston's Huntington Theatre in 1996. Even after the
Dan Moran
June Lomena
Keith plays lawyer "B ob " without a flaw and the
shows closed, the role and the play lingered within
Denis O'Hare
fabulous Harry Shearer is on site) and sharp one-liners
him. "When you work on something and ostensibly
(Uni-balls are the "Cam ille of pens" because they die
finish it, if it won't leave your brain/heart/body, then
Bill Buell John Campion
so discreetly).
you go back to w ork. If for no other reason then to
C a st: Josh Kornbluth Warren Keith
Sarah Overman Harry Shearer Brian Keith Russell Joshua Raoul Brody R unning Tim e :
John Benjamin Hickey Roger Guenveur Smith
Running Tim e: 178 minutes
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USA 2001
Tim Curry's long reign as king of androgyny in The
A brave, complex look at a couple of 30-something
Rocky Picture Show may be over with the introduction
friends and their relations with the women they desire
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of Hedwig, a mesmerizing transgender rock singer
and/or throw away, Bobby Roth's much-honored
from East Berlin who performs across Middle America
Heartbreakers (S IFF 1 9 8 4 ) w a s one of those
D irector:
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in a Farrah Fawcett wig. Smart, funny, lovable and
unforgettable movies that are authentically honest
Bobby Roth
P ro d u cers:
weird, Hedwig and the Angry Inch brings new life to
through and through. Every moment confirmed
Producers:
Pamela Koffler
the cinematic rock opera genre. We first meet Hedwig
directorial "been there, done that," without recourse
Bobby Roth
Katie Roumel
and her pan-Slavic band, the Angry Inch, performing
to politically correct pap. Now Roth steps up to the
Jeffery White
Christine Vachon S c re e n w rite r:
from behind the salad bar at w hat could be any of
plate to make another autobiographical movie that,
D ire cto r:
Jack Baran Margie Glick
the anonymous strip-mall restaurants that scar the
in his own words, he hoped would "feed my soul,"
C in e m a to g ra p h e r:
U.S. landscape. As the group proceeds on their worse-
one that shows the tragicomic evolution of a "dog"
Frank DeMarco
than-Spinal Tap tour, the story of Hedwig comes out
into "a good m an." (How refreshing to hear a
Bobby Roth C inem atog rapher:
John Cameron Mitchell
S cre en w rite r:
E d ito r:
through musical numbers, flashbacks and animated
filmmaker talk about cinema as though it was a vehicle
Georg Fick
Andrew Marcus
sequences. Her former identity was Hansel, an East
for something more than box-office grosses!) Jack's
E d ito r:
M usic:
German man who fell in love with an American Gl.
a successful professional photographer, a handsome
The plan w as that Hansel undergo a sex change
guy (Nestor Carbonell, from TV's Suddenly Susan) who
Stephen Trask C a st:
Margaret Guinee M usic: Christopher Franke
operation so they could officially get married after
enjoys sexual largesse w ithout half trying. When
C ast:
Miriam Shor
fleeing the Eastern Bloc and moving to America. But
midlife angst hits, he marries an older woman aptly
Nestor Carbonell
Michael Pitt
the operation is botched and the G I leaves her for
named Faith (Barbara William s), fathers a son with
Barbara Williams
Andrea Martin
another guy the very day the Berlin Wall falls down.
her, and tries to settle down. No go. Jack the Dog is
Andrew J. Ferchland
Alberta Watson
Stuck in a Kansas trailer park, Hedwig ends up
soon up to his old tricks, and Faith looks elsewhere
composing songs. Along comes a 17-year-old born-
for connubial fidelity— off to Europe to marry a stable
again Jesus freak whom she takes as her lover and
sort, threatening to take their precocious kid (Andrew
Travis Fine
John Cameron Mitchell
Ben Mayer-Goodman Stephen Trask Theodore Liscinski Rob Campbell
Peter Coyote Jurgen Prochnow Barry Newman
protégé; he steals her heart and her music, too,
J. Ferchland, once a very bad little boy on Buffy the
Anthony LaPaglia
Michael Aranov
becoming a big rock star. Following his lead (and tour
Vampire Slayer) away with her. Roth neither celebrates
Thomas Gibson
Gene Pyrz
dates), Hedwig hits the road with her own band,
nor condem ns nor co ndescend s to his hero's
Running T im e:
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setting up her own gigs at diners next to his stadium
womanizing, his pleasure in his own attractiveness.
85 minutes
performances. Through all life's setbacks, Hedwig
The idea here isn't to set up a straw man and mow
valiantly keeps on singing. Writer-director-star John
him down with easy platitudes; this is a movie about
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growing up, about recognizing that we accomplish
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this in small, sometimes silly increments not in one
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of the acclaimed off-Broadway musical to the screen,
great epiphany with fanfare. Roth tells hard truths
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WORLD PREMIERE USA 2001
Yet another foray down the twisted backroads of life
As this modern-day variant of the classic screwball
by the Polish brothers, who brought us the endearingly
comedy genre opens, socially straitjacketed George
odd hit Twin Falls Idaho (SIFF 1999), Jackpot charts
is headed to the airport to pick up his future bride, a
USA 2001
the strange odyssey of would-be country star Sunny
childhood friend from Nigeria whom his parents are
D irecto r:
Michael Polish
Holiday and his hilariously inept manager on a cross
flying in for a long-prearranged marriage. The plan
Joel Hopkins
P ro d u cers:
country singing tour in search of fame and fortune.
calls for them to meet at the Buffalo airport and drive
Prod ucers:
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Sunny (John Gries) is so intent upon achieving his
to George's parents' house in upstate New York, where
Tim Perell
D ire cto r:
Michael Polish
Paul Webster
dreams of stardom that he abandons his gorgeous
the wedding will take place in three days. But George
w ife Bobbi (Daryl Hannah) and their baby to set off
is in for two decisive encounters that will alter things
with his manager Lester "L es" Irving (Garrett Morris)
radically: Instead of his bride-to-be, who has arrived
C in e m a to g ra p h e r:
on a nine-month, 43-city tour in Sunny's 1983 pink
the day before and gone directly upstate, he meets
Patrick Cady
M. David Mullen
Chrysler. Fueled by their American Dream fantasies,
an intriguing, vivacious Latina by the name of Alicia,
Ed ito r: Susan Littenberg
S c re e n w rite rs : Mark Polish Michael Polish
S cre e n w rite r: Joel Hopkins Cinem atog rapher:
E d ito r:
Sunny performs at one redneck bar after another,
herself soon to be married to her former professor
Shawna Callahan
propelled along by the rhythm of George Jones'
from England; Alicia promptly invites George to a
M usic:
"Grand Tour"— constantly playing on the car's tape
party that same evening. He then finds him self
deck— and the paycheck they receive at the end of
inadvertently involved with a boisterous, lovelorn
Cast: Tunde Adebimpe
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M usic: Johm Kimbough
each night's gig. Barely scraping by, Sunny does
Frenchman, Gérard (Hippolyte Giradot), who's incon
Hippolyte Giraoiat
Daryl Hannah
manage to send Bobbi the occasional lottery ticket—
solable after being rejected by a woman he barely
Natalia Verbeke
Garrett Morris
the ultimate jackpot if one ticket hits, but a poor
knows. George tries to lift Gérard's spirits by suggest
Patrica Mauceri
Kool Mo Dee
replacement for child support if none does. He's intent
ing they attend Alicia's party that night. And thus
James Wilby
Ricky Trammell
upon making it to Los Angeles to hit the big time,
begins a journey from buttoned-down predictability
Jon Gries
Allen Fawcett
Running Tim e: 97 minutes
but Les constantly reminds him that he must pay his
to a veritable carnival of romantic self-discovery. First
dues first. Les ought to know: he's the one choosing
time director Joel Hopkins invests this sweet comedic
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Sunny's music, negotiating for the gigs at the dives
tale w ith an eye-popping visu al design and an
Larry W. Hunter
where Sunny performs and handling all manner of
abundance of mirth-filled incidents.
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other chores necessary to the grooming of a star in
Frazer Smith
the making. There's no shortage of women, though
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each encounter with a willing groupie leaves Sunny
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emptier than the last. Things finally come to a head
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Tuesday June 12 5:00 PM Harvard Exit
USA 2001
This engrossing, superbly directed exploration of
Christine Lahti, who won an Oscar for Best Short
teenage rage and redemption centers on 17-year-
Subject with her directorial debut Lieberman in Love
old Lyle Jensen (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), who finds
(SIFF 1996), returns triumphantly with this funny,
USA 2001
himself committed to a juvenile psychiatric facility
poignant story about two unlikely souls who enrich
D irector:
after an explosive confrontation with another teen
each other's lives im m easurably, despite cle ar
Christine Lahti
during a game of baseball— obviously just the latest
differences in their ages and approaches to life.
Prod ucers:
in a long line of similar incidents. Fueled by a fury
Seventeen-year-old Jennifer Benson (Leelee Sobieski)
Kirk Hassig
that erupts uncontrollably when provoked, Lyle at first
is a death-obsessed Goth princess whose tattoos and
Sukee Chew Anne Kurtzman
S c re e n w rite rs :
resists every attempt by other teens in the psychiatric
body piercings provide the external evidence of her
ward to befriend him, and refuses to cooperate in
rebellious relationship with her divorced parents and
D ire cto r: Jordan Melamed P ro d u cers: Trudi Callon
Michael Bacall Blayne W eaver C in e m a to g ra p h e r: Nick Hay
the group therapy sessions led by the patient but
of her general cynicism about life. Jennifer's attitude
exhausted therapist Dr. Monroe (Don Cheadle). Slowly,
tow ard the w orld begins to change w hen she
Carol Baum Jane Goldenring S cre e n w rite r: Jill Franklyn C inem atog rapher: Jeffrey Jur E d ito r:
E d ito rs:
however, he forms an alliance with Chad, a troubled
encounters m iddle-aged Randall Harris (A lbert
Madeleine Gavin
teen w ith a bipolar disorder who is woefully un
Brooks), the genial, fastidious owner of a men's
Gloria Rosa Vela
prepared for his imminent release upon turning 18.
clothing store, whom she spies one day preparing a
Lyle also finds himself drawn to Tracy, a shrinking
window display. Despite their outward dissimilarity,
M usic: Steve Porcaro
violet whose screaming night-terrors and self-mutila
each finds in the other a respite from the alienation
C ast:
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
tion are the outward signs of her subterranean sense
that pervades their lives. Ultimately, their shared
Don Cheadle
of self-esteem. As these unwilling, deeply troubled
confidences and opposing perspectives provide the
Albert Brooks Leelee Sobieski
Michael Bacall
teens are forced to confront the emotional wounds
catalysts needed to transcend their awkward approach
Zooey Deschanel
which have landed them in this institution, a current
to the very separate worlds they inhabit. The superb
of confederacy begins to emerge, and each of them
supporting cast includes John Goodman in a delirious
slowly learns to come to grips with the source of
performance as attenuated hippie Mr. Benson and
Michael McKean Desmond Harrington
their torment. Director Jordan Melamed spent a year
Carol Kane as the utterly oblivious Mrs. Benson. This
Running Tim e:
w o rk in g c lo se ly w ith ch ild p sy ch o lo g ists and
wise and witty rendering of redemptive love provides
109 minutes
interviewing kids who had themselves spent time in
a tonic for the cynical soul.
M usic: Diedra O'Hara C a st:
Cody Lightning Elden Henson Sara Rivas R unning Tim e : 100 minutes P rin t S ource:
mental institutions. The experience he gained in the
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Second Coming
Friday June 15 7:15 PM Broadway Performance Hall
Saturday June 16 9:30 PM Broadway Performance Hall
Sunday June 17 4:00 PM Harvard Exit
Sunday June 17 4:00 PM Broadway Performance Hall
WORLD PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE USA 2001
If S t Elmo's Fire, The Wizard o f Oz and Dog Day Afternoon collided in Los Angeles, the result would
If the savior landed in El Lay and everybody already had a life, would they line up to get saved? The Second
USA 2001
be Rennie's Landing. Four friends reunite a year after
Coming follows the rise and fall of Jesus— in buzz
D ire cto r:
college and realize that the past Is a nice place to
cut and blue jeans— treating with quiet restraint a
D irecto rs:
Marc Fusco
visit, but they can't live there rent-free. This intro
character historically portrayed as beyond human ken.
Darren Campbell Steve Rees Producers:
Pro d u cers:
spective comedy has a cast that does justice to the
This is less a "religious" film than a broadside, citing
Michael Garrity
script's zingy one-liners and, at the same time, feels
the d ifferen ce b etw een in stitu tio n al truth and
Michael Gabrawy Tony Ramano
comfortable crawling around in the darker corners
perennial truth, a difference too subtle for Science
of the psyche. In order to climb out of his or her
and Religion. Nor is this savior even out to save others.
respective em otional potholes, each friend must
Fie is bemused at best by his messianic call and now
Marc Fusco
complete a spiritual task. Sharp-dresser Alec (Peter
w aits to find out w h at the job w ill be. Darren
Michael Garrity C in e m a to g ra p h e r:
Facinelli), diagnosed with a brain tumor, decides that
Campbell, who wrote the script and codirects with
Darren Campbell C inem atog rapher:
telling people he cares for about his condition is more
Steve Rees, plays his messiah with ineffable patience
Christos Moisides
Stephen Sheridan
difficult than keeping his terrible secret. Idealistic Sam
as everyone tries to make sense of him. Raising the
(Charlotte Ayanna), bent on becoming a social worker
dead in the barrio brings only heartfelt gratitude.
in Mexico, learns that hard w ork is the only w ay to
Standing before a gilded statue that cries real blood
Peter Facinelli
make her dreams a reality. Bleached-blond Trevor
gets him wired and prodded by the high priests of
Ethan Embry
(Ethan Embry), an aspiring actor "because it's fun,"
academe, then whisked away by the Pope's Swiss
Scott Foley
must find the courage to finish w hat he starts. Casey
Guard goon squad to languish in the bowels of the
Cast: Darren Campbell
Charlotte Ayanna
(Scott Foley) has to face up to the responsibility he's
Vatican. To the writer's credit, this well-researched
Jay Boyer
Annalouise Paul
eluded in his adult life. When Alec challenges the
film is not just a showcase for themes. At the human
others to take control of their lives by participating
level, our urban savior falls in love with a hooker
in an elaborate, fatally flawed bank heist, the group
(just like The First Time) and laughs a little hysterically
Running Tim e:
learns to how to break through the childlike illusions
when betrayed (by his lawyer, a guy named Jude—
95 minutes
that have been holding them back.
corruption of "Judas," of course, and also patron saint
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Debra Christofferson Sean Patrick Murphy Shane Brolly R unning Tim e : 103 minutes
Christos Moisides Darren Campbell Steve Rees S cre e n w rite r:
Ed ito rs: Steve Rees Darren Campbell M usic: George Baetz
JJ. Donier Lucie Laurier Arthur Rouidoulas
of hopeless cau ses). Production designer Scott
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foreboding tone reminiscent of early Lynch. And was
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USA 2001
Inspired by M ax O phuls' classic La Ronde, this
A highly personal, emotionally charged film from
delicious dramatic comedy by Ed Burns (The Bothers
writer-director Allison Anders (Gas Food Lodging, Mi
USA 2001
McMullen) follows the interweaving romantic fates
Vida Loca), this Sundance Film Festival hit traces the
of seven New Yorkers as their lives and loves ebb
ways in which unresolved events in an individual's
D irecto r:
Ed Burns
and flow to the pulsing rhythms of the city they share.
past inform every aspect of their present-day lives.
Allison Anders
D ire cto r: P rod ucers:
The film first introduces us to Tommy (Burns), a
Rising alt-rock singer Sherry McGrale (Kim Dickens)
Producers:
Margot Bridger
"bridge-and-tunnel" guy who's a midtown success
has a song that is currently climbing the college charts,
Dan Hassid
Edward Burns
but yearns for a stable relationship after his breakup
and she seems on the verge of stardom, though her
Cathy Schulman
with a longtime girlfriend. Tommy gets counseling
bad-girl ways threaten to bring her notoriety rather
from the macho Carpo (Dennis Farina), a seasoned
than fame. As the film opens, Sherry is arrested yet
Allison Anders
seducer w ith a low regard for his female prey, but
again on a drunken trawl of a quiet neighborhood in
C a st:
cruising the bars with Carpo is not w hat Tommy has
the coastal Florida town where she performs at a
Kurt Voss C inem atog rapher:
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in mind. On a subsequent visit to the videostore, he
beachfront tavern. Her music and her hard-drinking
Terry Stacey
Heather Graham
encounters the gorgeous Maria (Rosario Dawson), a
antics grab the attention of an LA rock rag, and young
spirited young teacher at an upscale grammar school;
hotshot reporter Owen (Gabriel Mann) convinces his
sparks are struck, but Maria is still smarting from the
editors to let him pursue the story, given his long-ago
breakup of her disastrous teen m arriage to the
relationship with the singer and his claim to know
Nadia Dajani
lovestruck Benjamin (David Krumholtz). Benjamin, in
the details behind her raucous reputation. Initially
R unning T im e :
turn, has transferred his affections to sexy Ashley
spurned by Sherry and her protective manager/ex-
Kim Dickens
108 minutes
(Brittany Murphy), a 19-year-old student and waitress
lover Chuck (the superb Don Cheadle), Owen finally
Gabriel Mann Don Cheadle
Rick Yorn S c re e n w rite r: Edward Burns
Stanley Tucci David Krumholtz Brittany Murphy Rosario Dawson
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manages to gain access to her. Their ensuing encoun ters gradually uncover a shared past and a life-altering
(Stanley Tucci), a dentist whose blooming midlife crisis
incident that has haunted each of them in very
Elizabeth Peña Rosanna Arquette
has not gone unnoticed by his beautiful, Upper East
different ways. Director Anders has always shown a
Alison Folland
Side-born and -bred wife, Annie (Heather Graham).
special gift for capturing the inner lives and com
Patsy Kensit
Things come full circle when Annie, a real-estate agent,
plexities of her female characters; with Things Behind
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show s a loft to Tommy, kindling a flirtation that
the Sun, perhaps her most personal work to date, she
threatens to turn into full-blown seduction. In the
is equally revealing about the details of her own
course of this scintillating romantic rondelay, destinies
distant past, basing the heart of the story on her early
intertwine and hearts are broken as kismet has its
adolescent experience of rape.
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Treading Water
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WORLD PREMIERE USA 2001 D ire cto r: Lauren Himmel
USA
There's nothing like the holidays to bring out the
As Virgil Bliss's wrjsts are released from their metal
neuroses of the average dysfunctional fa m ily ... and
cuffs, a guitar twangs, signaling both freedom and
Casey Olsen's (Angela Redman) fam ily has more
the possibility of tragedy. Determined to shed the
neuroses than most. She and her lover, Alexandra
violent tendencies that landed him in a New York
D irector:
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Manny, his halfway-house roommate. When he drags
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choose between explaining himself and implicating
years apart, the unwrapping of presents takes a back
another. His decision sets his path for the rest of the
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film. This believable post-prison drama stars a real
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prostitute he solicits, believing he can save himself
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accompanied by stunningly forlorn original music. But
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(Kirsten Russell), Virgil's rescue mission, laughs and
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hugs one of his shirts behind a closed door. In this
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WORLD PREMIERE USA 2001 Director: Jason Bloom Producers: Demitri Samaha Tracee Stanley Josh Miller Screenwriters: Richard Uhlig Steve Seitz Cinematographer: James Glennon Editor: Luis Colina Music: Andrew Gross Cast: Daniel Stern James Caan Patricia Richardson Lacey Kohl Sherry Stringfield Running Time: 97 minutes Print Source: Franchise Pictures 8228 Sunset Blvd, Suite 305 Los Angeles, CA 90046 Ph: 323.848.3444 Fax: 323.822.2165
When exactly was it that Daniel Stern, Breaking Awatfs Cyril and Shrevie the compulsive LP indexer of Diner, morphed into Randy Quaid? Stern bestrides this loopy American indie like a pop-eyed colossus. His character, Frank Jacobs, is the co-owner of the Middle o' America Motel and Petting Zoo, located plumb where the name says, in the geographical center of the USA. There's nothing else around it (except the USA), but that doesn't stop Frank from dreaming of making it big as a country-western singer and songwriter. Of course, it would be nice if his wife Helen (Patricia Richardson) liked him as much as Mar guerite (Sherry Stringfield), the bartender at the honky tonk down the road where he tries out his act— and where, one fateful evening, his jaw drops at witnessing the talent and pulchritude of Miss Julie Mitchell (Lacey Kohl). Julie's a real singer, but she's also at the mercy of her lizard of a manager, Roy (James Caan, who by now has these "and James Caan" roles nailed). Frank'd be a fool to get mixed up with her. He gets mixed up with her, and pretty soon things get out of hand, and corpses begin to accumulate on— which is to say, in— the big blank plain that is the motel (and petting zoo)'s backyard. Viva Las Nowhere is sorta like a Jim Thompson novel as reimagined by Chuck Jones, featuring the song stylings of Julie London and Mel Tillis. No cover charge, but don't pet the cougar.
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From r/?e¿ove/ess through Near Darkto Strange Days, Kathryn Bigelow has displayed a strong, painterly eye for visual weather that unerringly "places" environ ment and emotions, along with a potent grasp of sexual dynamics and the controlling power of POV. Adapted from Anita Shreve's novel, The Weight of Water interweaves past and present realities, eliding from a modern-day drama shot through with possi bilities of infidelity into a 19th-century tale of lust and murder— and back again, finally climaxing in a terrible intersection of timelines. Photojournalist Jean Janes (Catherine McCormack) means to sift through evidence to discover the truth about that terrible night 127 years ago when two Norwegian immigrant women (Katrin Cartlidge and Vinessa Shaw) were axed to death, leaving only Maren (Sarah Polley) alive to accuse the killer. Aboard a sailboat just off the New England island where the long-forgotten crime occurred, Jean retreats deeper and deeper into her search for the real murderer, while her womanizing poet-husband (Sean Penn) trades smoldering glances with sexy Adaline (Elizabeth Hurley), his athletic brother's (Josh Lucas) girlfriend. Bigelow's vision of claustrophobic life on bleak Smuttynose Island is mesmerizingly moody, foreboding, rife with repressed passions: Unhappy young Maren, trapped in a loveless marriage, nurses an ailing, lascivious German boarder (Ciarán Hinds), then grows even more conflicted when her incestuously adored brother arrives with a buxom new wife. As Jean begins to discover a dangerous affinity with Maren, the borderline between Nowand Then begins to blur dangerously. Bigelow takes us into the very dark places where rejected femininity mutates into rage, while unraveling a never-less-thanfascinating murder mystery.
USA/France 2000 Director: Kathryn Bigelow Producers: Janet Yang Sigurjon Sighvatsson A. Kitman Ho Christopher Zimmer Sean Wimmer Screenwriters: Alice Arlen Christopher Kyle Cinematographer: Adrian Biddle Editors: Howard E. Smith Daniel Craven Music: David Hirschfelder Cast: Catherine McCormack Sarah Polley Sean Penn Joshua Lucas Elisabeth Hurley Ciarán Hinds Ulrich Thomsen Anders W. Berthelsen Katrin Cartlidge Vinessa Shaw Running Time: 113 minutes Print Source: Lions Gate Films 4553 Glencoe Avenue Marina Del Rey, CA 90292 USA Ph: 310.314.2000 Fax: 310.396.6041 Email: spokluda@lgecorp.com Selected Filmography: K-19: The Widowmaker (2001) Strange Days (1995) Point Break (1991) Blue Steel (1990) Near Dark (1987) The Loveless (1983) The Setup (1978)
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Monday May 28 1:45 PM Pacific Place Cinemas
Saturday June 16 1:45 PM Broadway Performance Hall
WORLD PREMIERE USA 2001 Director: Larry Fessenden Producer: Jeff Levy-Hinte Screenwriter: Larry Fessenden Cinematographer: Terry Stacey Editor: Larry Fessenden Music: Michelle DiBucci Cast: Patricia Clarkson Jake Weber Erik Per Sullivan John Speredakos ChirtopherWynkoop Lloyd E. Oxendine Running Time: 90 minutes Print Source: Antidote Films 200 Varick St #515 New York, NY 10014 Ph: 646.486.4344 Fax: 646.486.5885 Email: jeff@antidotefilms.com Selected Filmography: Habit (1997) No Telling (1991) Hollow Venus: Diary of a Go-Go Dancer (1989) Experience Movers (1985) Jaws (1978)
The third in writer-director Fessenden's unofficial trilogy of moody, revisionist horror films, Wendigo injects urban paranoia, alienation and metaphysical dread into a realistic setting for a compelling explo ration of mankind's need for explanatory myths. Busy Manhattanites Kim (Patricia Clarkson of High Art) and George (Jake Weber) have made time to take their imaginative young son Miles (Erik Per Sullivan) for a winter weekend in the country, little imagining that a fluke event and a chain of repercussions will alter their lives forever. As they drive deep into the woods, a huge buck runs across their path, hitting theirVolvo and sending them spinning into a ditch. Shaken but unhurt, the shocked family watches as a trio of orangedad hunters appear and, instead of helping them, express resentment over the damage to the dying animal's magnificent antlers. When the out-of-towners finally arrive at the isolated farmhouse they are borrowing, the promise of a pleasant holiday is further eroded by an ever-escalating series of sinister vibrations. The film takes its title from a creature of Native American legend, a shapeshifting half-man, half-deer— a miniature carving of which Miles is given at a local shop. Metaphorically, however, the Wendigo represents the conflict between the primal countryside and the developed city, and between animal instincts and civilization. Fessenden's complex and intelligent script carefully builds an eerie tension, and his stunningly inventive camerawork and editing are truly unnerving.
Houston Blackett is having a helluva time. All three of his steady girlfriends are miffed at him, the men's magazine he owns is taking heat from feminist groups for hosting a wet T-shirt contest, and his late mother has left him a most unpleasant surprise in her will. When Houston (Angus MacFadyen) attempts to re connect with ex-girlfriend Zane (Penelope Ann Miller) at his mother's memorial service, it's as if all the women in the world— including his devilishly sexy stepmother (Ann-Margret)— have conspired to re educate him into real, true manhood. Poor guy. All he wants is to kick ass in the boardroom and slap ass in the bedroom, but Houston's boyish good looks and Irish charm are no longer opening doors— or legs— for him. Is there any redemption for such a shameless womanizer short of complete emascu lation? We can only imagine the many lively dis cussions— make that knock-down, drag-out arguments— Helluva Thing is sure to prompt. Incidentally, if the name Angus MacFadyen doesn't place him for you, he played Robert the Bruce in Braveheart and Orson Welles in Cradle Will Rock.
USA 2001 Director: Karen Leigh Hopkins Producers: Paul Colichman Mark Harris Screenwriter: Karen Leigh Hopkins Cinematographer: Barry Parrell Editor: Tom Costain Music: Louis Febre Thomas Kilzer Cast: Angus MacFadyen Penelope Ann Miller Paul Dooley Kathryn Harrold Nicole Nieth Jonas Chermick Running Time: 89 minutes Print Source: Regent Entertainment 1401 Ocean Avenue, Suite 300 Santa Monica, CA 90401 Ph: 310.260.3330 Fax: 310.395.5953 Email: jalambert@earthlink.net Selected Filmography: The Rose Sisters (1998)
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WORLD PREMIERE USA 2001 Director: Garrett Bennett Producers: Garrett Bennett Neil Weinberger Co-Producer: Ann Wilkinson Screenwriters: Garrett Bennett Steve Edmiston Neil Weinberger Cinematographer: Antonio Calvache Editor: Johnna Turiano Cast: Joe Flanigan William Hall, Jr. Lysette Anthony Brent David Fraser John Gilbert John Procaccino Carl Ballantine Running Time: 100 minutes Print Source: Lynnwood Pictures 310 S Madison Ave Bainbridge Island, WA 98110 Ph: 206.842.3632 Email: neilweinberger@earthlink.net Selected Filmography: Feature Film Debut
Situated in a time and place not bound by mortal constraints, Garrett Bennett's Farewell to Harry is a lovely, evocative fable that centers on the attempt by two singular men — one a young, idealistic writer, the other a cynical, hard-drinking iconoclast — to build a bridge between the past and the present, resurrecting a simpler and sweeter way of life in the process. The film opens by introducing us to Nick Sennett (Joe Flanigan), a young man who has returned home to a small island community outside of a major city, where he runs an old movie house and occasionally pursues his ambitions as a writer. Having heard stories about an eccentric, irascible local legend, one-time hat maker Harry Hoffstetter, Nick is startled to run into Harry — literally - one day on a drive through the countryside. The two men forge a bond of sorts when Harry takes Nick to his home in a nowrundown old hat factory, and as the eponymous Harry tells Nick about the factory's glory days, Nick finds himself drawn to this evocation of a simpler and better time spun by the charismatic older man. Determined to make Harry the focus of his efforts at rural renewal, Nick sets about learning all that he can about the old hat factory and the way of life that surrounded it. In the process he also learns much that he did not know about Harry and his former associates, and it is this knowledge - together with his ongoing friendship with the inscrutable Harry - that informs his own journey to the realization of his dreams. Together these two men discover a secret that will bring the past to life - if only for a moment in time. Gorgeously shot on locations in and around Port Townsend and modern-day Seattle, Farewell to Harry is an unforgettable exploration of places in the heart and secrets of the soul.
A complexity of neighborhoods, architecture, organizations, and individuals shape our beautiful city into a unique melange on the edge of the Puget Sound. Space Needle (Twice Around) Dane Picard 9 seconds The title says it all!
Block Party Laura Jean Cronin 23 minutes Two lesbian friends throw a groovy block party on Capitol Hill, experience girlfriend trouble, and have a heck of a good time.
The Hofmann House Project Dave Crowther 22 minutes Several people diagnosed with mental illness obtain a wrecked house and completely remodel it for themselves.
Marching On: Rainbow City Band Miriam Ruth Black, Kevin Lowrey 10 minutes A heartfelt chronicle of the creation of Capitol Hill's Gay & Lesbian Marching Band.
Nuts and Bolts Peter J. Vogt, MarkVan-S 27 minutes A mesmerizing depiction of a locale we've all driven by a hundred times— and the amazing couple who have created it. A place called an artwork by some, an atrocity by others. You'll call it unforgettable.
Tesseract Winston Augustus Kingsbury 9 minutes A pixilated, hyperreal Seattle as we see it every day... for the first time in our lives!
Shown with: Strange Ships Mark O'Connell 3 minutes A brief meditation on uncertainty, anxiety and busy hallways.
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Love, fear, elation, panic— these are the landmarks that chart the territory of the heart, the soul and the psyche.
On the surface, Seattle is a beautiful, world-class city with an unbeatable quality of life. Beneath that shiny veneer, however, lies a world of contradictions and personal struggle— a world where a visceral rock music scene, porno theaters and heroin inform a different lifestyle altogether.
The Boys in the Bean Wendy Jo Carlton, Anne T. Hanson 6 minutes
Measure Dayna Hanson, Gaelen Hanson 7 minutes
Rock and Roll Won't Wait James Bazan 58 minutes, world premiere
An evening in front of the telly turns into a meditation on the plight of a favorite childhood diversion: the Mexican Jumping Bean.
33 Fainting Spells' Dayna Hanson and John Dixon make a foray from the stage to the screen in this experiment in abstract dance set in a decaying turn-of-the-last century boarding school on Bainbridge Island.
This rock-hard, in-your-face documentary captures the chaotic lives and music of one of Seattle's most celebrated rock bands, the Murder City Devils.
The Clouds That Touch Us Out of Clear Skies Lynn Shelton 26 minutes A filmic meditation on a subject that is common to many women— but rarely discussed openly, this haunting rendering of the emotional aftermath of miscarriage puts the topic in perspective.
Live Evil Morgan Nakagawa 9 minutes Our perception of reality gets a makeover when the story of a fateful road trip unfolds in reverse.
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Milk John Jeffcoat 5 minutes A simple shopping trip turns into a bureaucratic nightmare at the supermarket from hell.
Positive Reinforcement John Helde 9 minutes It takes a heap o' motivation to confront the tasks we love to put on hold; if winter comes, can mowing the lawn be far behind?
Tit Chat Kara Herold 3 minutes An animated exploration of a "favorite" feminine topic.
White Face Brian McDonald 14 minutes This mockumentary explores the problems dovyns might have if they were a real race of people living in America.
A Problem with Sharks Mike Shapiro 12 minutes When a shark alarm clears the beach at high tide, Sylvia and skin-diver Frank head for dry land, only to find there are bigger fish to fry...
Last Whiskey Kelly Requa 38 minutes An addict answers his grandpa's call and travels to the Skagit Valley for a "last whiskey"... and a whole lot more than he bargained for.
Chick Bloodhound Paul Fraser 38 minutes, world premiere Join Chick Bloodhound as he obsessively stalks the girl of his dreams through the streets of Seattle, little knowing that his plan to win her love has a fatal flaw.
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UN BANQUETE EN TETLAPAYAC Wednesday May 30 5:00 PM Broadway Performance Hall
Friday June 8 5:00 PM Broadway Performance Hall Sunday June 10 9:30 PM Broadway Performance Hall
US PREMIERE Mexico 1999 Director: Olivier Debroise Producer: Oil and Water Hubert Bals Found San Pedro Post Screenwriter: Olivier Debroise Cinematographer: Rafael Ortega Editor: Olivier Debroise Music Cast: Roberto Turnbull Laureana Toledo Lutz Becker Javier de la Garza Dmirti Leninovich Dudin Andrea Fraser Silvia Gruner Serge Guilbaut Astrid Hadad Antonio Saborit Sally Stein Claudette Maillé Cuauhtémoc Medina Alfonso Morales James Oles Enrique Ortiga Running Time: 110 minutes International Sales: Whamo Entertainment Print Source: Oil and Water Director's Filmography: Feature Film Debut
Director Olivier Debroise, one of Mexico's leading writers on art and culture, explores the actual and imagined facts behind the making of Sergei Eisenstein's unfinished Que Viva Mexico!. In 1931, with some financial backing from Upton Sinclair, Eisenstein left Hollywood to shoot a film in Mexico. As soon as he walked into the Tetlapayac Hacienda— a colonial monastery converted in the 19th century into an estate for the production of pulque, an alcoholic beverage made from cactus— he knew he had found the place he'd been looking for his whole life. Debroise spent two years studying archives in Mexico, the United States and Europe, collecting many previously unpublished documents, which he utilizes along with footage from Que Viva Mexico! Part documentary, part symposium and part lyrical recreation of actual events, A Banquet at Tetlapayac begins with the murder of Rosalita, sister of one of the actors. Debroise speculates on what might have happened during the days following the death as Eisenstein and his guests (including Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo and Katherine Anne Porter) passed the time with meals and endless conversations. Debroise invited 14 contemporary artists, filmmakers and historians from all over the globe to join him in this exploration and the result is a fascinating analysis of one of the most intriguing failures in the history of cinema. A Banquet at Tetlapayac is an homage to Eisenstein, as well as meditation on the story of the hacienda and the unfinished film that became a legend.
It took Elizabeth Thompson four and a half years to make this unusually intelligent investigation of the ugliest kind of racism and the transformative journey of one man from white supremacist leader to loving husband of a Latina and enthusiastic member of the Society for Creative Anachronism. When the film was completed, Thompson, a Bay Area documentary producer whose credits include David Collier's For Better or Worse, says she felt like she had given birth to Rosemary's Baby\ In 1996, Thompson read an article in San Francisco Focus about Greg Withrow, the poor, white son of an abusive father who founded the White Student Union when he went to college; headed the resulting multi-campus Aryan Youth Movement; became the handpicked protégé of Tom Metzger, leader of the White Aryan Resistance; and played a high-profile role in the California branch of the KKK. At the height of his power in the movement, Withrow fell in love with the daughter of native Germans who opposed Hitler's hateful, genocidal antiSemitism. Publicly announcing a change of heart and mind, he dropped out of all racist organizations— and was shortly found nearly dead, slashed and nailed to a board crucifixion-style. To this day, who perpetrated the crime is in question. Thompson isn't after easy explanations of character here— Blink's no satisfying cartoon about sin and redemption. What this insightful documentarían pursues is the daunting complexity of personality, the nature of the self-serving masks worn by a redheaded strongman who remembers vividly the addictive excitement of hate and continues to deal with a soul full of rage.
USA 1999 Director: Elizabeth Thompson Producer: Elizabeth Thompson Screenwriter: Elizabeth Thompson Cinematographers: Michael Anderson Adam Beckman Thomas Harting Editor: Elizabeth Finlayson Music: Spencer Critchley Marco D’Ambrosio Running Time: 60 minutes International Sales: Elizabeth Thompson, Director Print Source: Elizabeth Thompson, Director Ph: 650.948.9374 Fax: 650.947.9374 Selected Filmography: The Car (1977)
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Thursday May 31 5:00 PM Egyptian Theatre
Sunday June 10 4:30 PM Broadway Performance Hall
USA 2001 Directors: Jeff Werner Susan Koch Producers: Lauren Lazin Susan Koch Cinematographers: Brett Wiley Brian Palms Susan Koch Jeff Werner Jerry Feldman Editor: Jeff Werner Running Time: 89 minutes Print Source: Cabin Films 620 Milwood Ave Venice, CA 90291 Ph: 213.793.8719 Fax: 310.821.3629 Email: cabinfilms@mindspring.org
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What is the purpose of a criminal justice system? Is it meant to punish, rehabilitate, or merely contain those who break the law? These questions provide the fascinating lens through which the audience views Los Angeles County's Camp Scott— a juvenile boot camp for girls ages 12 to 18. Dressed in army fatigues, the inmates of Camp Scott are drilled as if in basic training by their probation officers. Every moment of their day is regimented: eating, sleeping, bathroom breaks. The documentary follows the lives of four girls through their stay: Sheree's drug addiction has led her to the brink of hard time; Melissa arrives pregnant, with 16 arrests on her record; Teesha's own father testified for the prosecution at her assault trial; and Reanell, at 17, is a five-year veteran of the streets, earning money through prostitution. Each girl postures with a combination of defiant attitude and street smarts, but none is prepared for the intensity of the probation officers or the camp's physical demands. When their façades crack, the camera captures physical and emotional scars with a rare, painful intimacy. Is this their last chance at rehabilitation? Or just another stop in a continuous cycle of release and incarceration? Raw and brutal, Camp Scott Ladies asks tough questions about tough girls.
A video collaboration nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival, Chain Camera was created at John Marshall High School, two miles east of Hollywood, where ten students were given video cameras to film their lives. After a week, the cameras were passed on to ten new students, who continued the process, then passed the cameras on to another ten students. The cameras moved through the student body for one year, producing 16 edited video diaries. In contrast to current trends toward measuring public education by standardized test results, the images in Chain Camera allow the viewer to enter into the almost impenetrable reality of contemporary high school students. Although the social and ethnic environment of John Marshall High School differs significantly from many schools, much of what this work is about transcends these distinctions. The pathos, innocence, spontaneity, raw humor and honesty of the adolescent personality are evoked in an artfully edited montage that is disturbing, insightful and, ultimately, powerful. In its entirety, Chain Camera explores the internal landscape of American youth while subtly challenging the values of the adults who "grow" these kids. This excellent documentary, raw and uneuphemized, has the beauty of truth and honesty, delivering an insightful perspective on American culture. Awards: Nominated for Grand Jury Prize, Sundance Film Festival
USA 2001 Director: Kirby Dick Producers: Nancy Abraham Kirby Dick Dody Dorn Sheila Nevins Eddie Schmidt Editor: Matt Clarke Music: Blake Leyh Cast: Ethan Adagio Silva Arzunyan Leo Diaz Timothy Docherty Amy Hattemer Cinammon Hunter Mena Mulat Victor Naranjo Jesse Ramon Manuel Ramirez Lisa Reyes Fernando Santillana Rosemary To Shannon Whitmore Winfred Wilson Running Time: 89 minutes International Sales: Mette Hoffman-Meyer Print Source: Cowboy Booking International 6 W. 24th Street New York, NY 10010 Ph: 212.929.4200 Fax: 212.929.9786 Selected Filmography: Sick: The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Super Masochist (1997) Private Practices: The Story of a Sex Surrogate (1986) Men Who Are Men (1981)
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USA 2001 Director: Wonsuk Chin Producers: Wonsuk Chin Cinematographer: Joia Speciale Editor: Wonsuk Chin Running Time: 94 minutes International Sales: Startup, LLC Print Source: Startup, LLC 264 West 19th Street, Suite 34 New York, NY 10011 Ph: 646.486.4706 Fax: 212.202.6059 Email: wchin@nyc.rr.com Selected Filmography: Too Tired To Die (1998)
The recent "new" economy with its unprecedented highs and frantic reversals of fortune is rife with fascinating true stories. eDreams turns its focus to the recently defunct Kozmo.com. Once upon a time, a story like this would have been unbelievable, even among those intimate with the workings of Wall Street. But Kozmo.com is now a case study of how an entire economic sector went awry. Just three years ago, Kozmo.com was little more than an idea in the minds of two 20-something Korean American investment bankers: an online convenience store that made deliveries of snacks, videotapes and other products within a half hour. Beginning in an unfurnished warehouse, cofounders Joseph Park and Yong Kang and their small group of employees did everything from building the website to making deliveries on bicycle. Over the following year their business grew from 10 employees to 3,000 and expanded into 11 cities. Like so many other dot-coms, Kozmo.com's growth was something hitherto unseen: It raised more than $250 million for the sensational IPO and attracted the attentions of Starbucks and Amazon.com. But in the tough times following the April 2000 stock market crash, Kozmo.com found itself in a perilous position— unprofitable and struggling to keep its operations going; and the formerly ubiquitous bicycle-delivery people in orange became an endangered species. eDreams stands as an invaluable documentary about the feeding frenzy of success and failure that nearly consumed the nation's economy.
This dramatic documentary looks at the life of Erika and Klaus Mann, the eldest children of German-Jewish writer Thomas Mann. Born less than two years apart, Erika and Klaus were inseparable through the first part of their lives. They grew up in idyllic splendor in and around Munich during the early years of the last century. When they reached their late teens, the pair moved to Berlin and joined The Youth Movement— essentially, the hippies of the day. Both became accomplished writers, actors and personalities-abouttown as they wrote and starred in some of the most politically irreverent comedy of the day. But after World War II drove them out of the country, they landed in the United States, where Erika took on a new political activism, and they slowly grew apart. Escape to Life is not your average documentary, all talking heads and archival footage. Interspersed among scenes with friends and family are black-and-white footage and the words of Erika and Klaus, performed by Vanessa and Colin Redgrave (themselves a notable sister and brother with a famous-artist father), to set the scene for each period. In addition, dramatic vignettes done in hyperreal colors reminiscent of David Lynch highlight the ever-growing emotionality of these two remarkable lives.
Great Britain/ Germany 2000 Directors: Andrea Weiss Wieland Speck Producers: Greta Schiller Thomas Kufus Screenwriters: Andrea Weiss Weiland Speck Cinematographer: Uli Fischer Editors: Andrea Weiss Prisca Swan Music: John Eacott Cast: Cristoph Eichmann Maren Kroymann Cora Frost Jean Loup Guido Kleineidam Corin Redgrave, Narrator Vanessa Redgrave, Narrator Running Time: 84 minutes International Sales: SND Films Print Source: Jezebel Films 153 Waverly PL 6th FL New York, NY 10014 Ph: 212.691.8838 Fax: 212.691.8838 Email: ¡nfo@jezebel.com Selected Filmography: Wieland Speck Among Men (1991) Westler (1985) Andrea Weiss Bit of Scarlet, A (1997) International Sweethearts of Rhythm (1988) Tiny and Ruin: Hell Divin' Women
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USA 2001 Director: Kenneth A. Carlson Producers: Todd Robinson Executive Producer Sidney Sherman Kenneth A. Carlson Screenwriter: Kenneth A. Carlson Cinematographer: Curt Apduhan Editor: Jeff Werner Music: Randy Miller Running Time: 104 minutes Print Source: IFC Films PO Box 642539 Los Angeles, CA 90066 Ph: 310.287.1481 Fax: 310.287.2603 Email: reschwartz@rainbowmedia.com Selected Filmography: Special Delivery (1999)
A jaw-dropping exploration of a small Ohio town and its fanaticism about its high school football team, Go Tigers! has been cited as "arguably the best sportsoriented documentary since Hoop Dreams. "The town of Massillon, Ohio is a crumbling Rust Belt hamlet, long past its "sell-by" date save for one celebrated distinction: the Massillon Tigers, "the greatest show in high school football." For 10 weeks each fall, the Tigers galvanize the entire town, and on any given Friday, 20,000 of the town's 33,000 citizens can be found at the team's staggeringly well-equipped stadium, a facility that would be the envy of virtually any college football team. For 106 years, the local high school has fielded a team, winning the Ohio state championship in 22 of those eagerly awaited seasons. But this particular season is something of a watershed year: While the team itself is hoping to rebound from a dismal 6-4 showing the previous fall, the town is faced with a school tax levy which could eviscerate the vaunted football program. Faced with an uncertain future, the members of this highly motivated team need to win— and keep on winning— in hopes that civic pride will inspire the financially troubled town's deeply divided citizenry to support the thrice-defeated levy. In the course of the ensuing season, three young stars emerge to lead their team in the pursuit of glory. Much more than a simple sports doc, Go Tigers! distills the essence of an American way of life.
A Variety reviewer quipped that "given a sensibility somewhere between David Lynch and the Brothers Quay, perhaps [director Monteith] McCollum's next project should be a Bible Belt noir." Winner of innumerable awards, Hybridis one weird documentary, the kind of movie that reviewers twist themselves in knots trying to describe. Here's the spine of the story: Agricultural pioneer Milford Beeghly spent his working life cross-fertilizing corn stock, trying to come up with a hardy, tasty hybrid. Mostly he loved corn; his grown up kids testify he lacked the knack for family life. Now the crusty old fellow is 100 and grandson McCollum has created this black-and-white meditation not only on granddad and his eccentric career, but on the mystery of nature and the haunted Heartland where a whole way of living and seeing has slipped away, leaving husks of memory, the shells of old things. Hybrid is film aching to be visual poetry; McCollum summons ghostly— and not always benign— significance out of snapshots, old '50s TV commercials, snowy landscapes and derelict machinery, crop duster views of fields like patterned carpets, an old man's hands, a strange little ditty about drowning kittens. Even a bale of hay illuminated by sunlight projects unsettling mystery, and it gets downright eerie when tasselled corncobs (did you know corn is sexually self-sufficient and fertilizes itself?) begin stripping and bouncing about in a decidedly lubricious manner. There's something both awful and quite beautiful abroad in McCollum's Hybrid, but when his enigmatic grandfather looks out over his land and speaks of "a real good yield," it's a true measure of both his life and his times. Awards: FIPRESCI Award, 2000 Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival Jury Award, 2001 Ann Arbor Film Festival Grand Jury Prize, 2001 Slamdance International Film Festival
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Monday May 28 1:45 PM Egyptian Theatre
US PREMIERE USA 2000 Director: Patti Obrow White Producers: Patti Obrow White Michael I. Miller Cinematographer: Patti Obrow White Editors: Jim Green Music: Ron Riddle Running Time: 119 minutes Print Source: Filmsters 444 Waggamon Circle Annapolis, MD 21403 310.288.0000 email: daviddiz@aol.com
If I Could tells the engrossing story of a courageous young woman who confronts the ghosts of her troubled past in a fight to keep her 12-year-old son from falling prey to the same demons that nearly destroyed her. In doing so, she must reveal many of her own painful secrets to him. Covering a 20-year time span, the film introduces us to 14-year-old Tracy, who was the focus of a CBS Reports one-hour documentary when she was in an alternative program for troubled kids. Now 35, Tracy is a single mother of four children, struggling to help her own family. She calls upon the same man whom she credits for helping her as a teen to help her save her son. Clips from the original 1979 CBS film are interwoven with the new footage of the battle to triumph over intergenerational cycles of abuse, abandonment, drugs and rage. Narrated by Sally Field.
Selected Filmography: Feature Film Debut
LaLee's Kin shows the effects of a system that keeps people illiterate. This documentary from veteran filmmaker Albert Maysles, in collaboration with Susan Froemke and Deborah Dickson, presents a nearly incomprehensible cycle of poverty perpetuated by ignorance still found in the deepest South. The Wallace family, descended from slavery, lives in the impoverished Mississippi Delta. When Matriarch LaLee reached the sixth grade, she traded her formal education for a lesson in near hopelessness that can only be learned in abject, relentless poverty. Now, at 62, she is relied upon as adviser to not only her children but also her grandchildren and great grandchildren, since her progeny seem unprepared to take care of their own. When the cameras shift to Reggie Barnes, superintendent of the West Tallahatchie School District, we see he is faced with either raising test scores— some of the kindergartners don't know their own names— or turning the district over to the control of the state. The film alternates between Barnes' efforts to inflate grades and LaLee's struggle to eke out a living. There are small victories over impossible conditions, duly and reverently recorded, but the heart of this tale— the value of the film— is how LaLee opens her life and how the filmmakers present that life.
USA 2001 Directors: Susan Froemke Deborah Dickson Producer: Sheila Nevins Screenwriters: Susan Froemke Deborah Dickson Albert Maysles Cinematographer: Albert Maysles Editor: Deborah Dickens Music: Gary Lucas Running Time: 88 minutes Print Source: Maysles Films Inc. 250 West 54th Street New York, NY 10019 USA Ph: 212.582.6050 Fax: 212.582.6050 Email: xparker@mayslesfilms.com Selected Filmography: Susan Froemke: Concert of Wills: Making the Getty Center (1998) Letting Go: A Hospice Journey (1996) Abortion: Desperate Choices (1993) Soldiers of Music (1991) Christo in Paris (1991) Horowitz Plays Mozart (1987) Deborah Dickson: The Art of Influence (1997) Letting Go: Hospice Journey (1996) Suzanne Farrell: Elusive Muse (1996) Sex,Teens and Publics Schools (1995) Absorbtion: Desparate Choices (1993) Christo in Paris (1991)
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US PREMIERE Israel 2000 Director: David Fisher (Reshimat Ahara) Producer: Yahaly Gat Screenwriter: David Fisher Cinematographer: Itzik Portal Editor: Tali Halter Shenkar Music: Amnon Fisher Running Time: 90 minutes Print Source: Muse Productions 16 Tchernichowsky St Kfar Saba, Israel 44281 Switzerland Ph: 972.9.744.5666 Fax: 972.9.744.3323 Email: fg_prod@netvision.net.il Selected Filmography: Little Big Sister (1998) A Shepherd's Affair (1997) Buried Alive (1996) Shining Eyes (1997) Lost Days in November (1996) Missing (1995) The Mediator (1994) In the Line of Duty (1994) Parallel Tracks (1993) Landscapes of Memory (1993) It's a Deal (1993)
The working title of this provocative, autobiographical piece was A Sister Without a Name, which describes its theme and structure. As the documentary took its final form and was screened for outsiders, director David Fisher gave it the more resonant appellation Love Inventory, realizing that it actually narrates his relationship to his siblings after the death of their parents. A multilayered introspective journey into the past as well as an intimate portrait of the present, the film tries to solve a family mystery. Fisher's parents were Holocaust survivors from Eastern Europe who immigrated to Israel. In 1951, at the age of 18, his mother Mali gave birth to fraternal twins. The boy died at ten months, but the girl had disappeared from the hospital a few days after her birth in mysterious circumstances that Mali never discussed. Now, after Mali's death, the siblings assume that the authorities must have decided that the teenage mother couldn't take care of twins and took one baby for adoption. As the new family patriarch, David tries to organize his siblings to help with the search for this shadowy sister. At first, they don't share his enthusiasm for the project, involved as they are with their own lives and problems, but David's obsession and desire to unite the family around this common goal lead to some startling revelations.
Awards: Best Documentary, Jerusalem Film Festival; Best Documentary, DocuNoga; Best Documentary, Israeli Academy Award
Belgrade once was a lovely city on the Danube - but NATO air strikes changed that. In 1999, director Goran Rebic (Jugofilm) - born in Vojvodina but reared in Vienna - became the first "foreign" filmmaker allowed into Belgrade. The Punishment takes us on a journey through three postwar seasons, revealing conditions up to the 2000 millennium New Year's celebrations. "The things I tell about in The Punishment ate things I've experienced myself," says Rebic; "it's my own history." Working in an "anti-journalistic way," striving for a kind of "transparency" (he is visible filming, asking questions), Rebic delivers much more than mundane coverage. We met people who never got a chance to speak up, intellectuals as well as ordinary people testifying for themselves. The film's title refers to the "punishment" the West visited on the Serbs, a "collective punishment, not only for the guilty but for all the people." A young woman passionately asks why she should be punished? A small boy in a Mickey Mouse T-shirt tells us calmly that Americans are his enemies, while the camera picks up everywhere the vestiges of American culture. How do Serbs live with the stigma of evil that was applied to them over the course of the Balkan wars? How will they come to terms with the collective guilt assigned them for the atrocities committed against the Albanians? Is there such a thing as an ethical bombardment? The Punishment recounts how war throws people off balance, deprives them of loved ones, homes and dreams - the film all the while, as Varietys Eddie Cockrell put it, "striking a tone of equal parts dignity and despair."
Awards: Vienna Film Award,Viennale 2000
Austria 1999 Director: Goran Rebic Producer: Franz Novotny Screenwriter: Goran Rebic Cinematographer: Jerzy Palacz Editor: Martin Matusiak Music: various Cast: Zivota Neimarevic Dragan Jovanovic Nebojsa Glogovac Biljana Srbljanovic Tijana Mandic Vlado Gavrilovic Bratislav Zrnzevic Natasa Kandic Sonja Savic Running Time: 91 minutes International Sales: First Hand Films Bulach Print Source; Novotny & Novotny Film Production GMBH Weimarerstr 22 Vienna, A - 1180 Austria Ph: 43.1.526.3323 Fax:43-1.526.6801 Email: afilmco@magnet.at, Selected Filmography: Jugofilm (1996) Am Rande der Welt (1992) Domovina (1990) Sissi, Schwarzes Schiff (1989) Gekommen bin ich (1987)
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Netherlands/ USA 2001 Director: Jan Louter Producer: Tamara Vumrmans Running Time: 55 minutes Print Source: Viewpoint Productions C/0 Nieuwendammeroch 5381023 Box Amsterdam, Netherlands Ph: 31.20.636.3678 Fax: 31.20.636.7716 Email: info@viewpointdocs.com Selected Filmography: Jean Rhys: They Destroyed All the Roses (1996)
A documentary about the almost forgotten story of John Fante and his 1939 novel Ask the Dust. Writer Charles Bukowski said about the book, "Nothing I read ever got to me like this man who wasn't afraid of emotion." In 1972, while Robert Towne, screenwriter and director, was writing his screenplay Chinatown, he discovered John Fante. Looking for writing that would suggest the way people spoke in the 30s, he found the "best piece of literature I've read on Los Angeles." Fante's writing was true and honest, and it "sang." A Sad Flower in the Sand unfolds as a road trip through Fante's LA, mainly Bunker Hill, and depicts the hopes and deceptions he experienced. Fante arrived in town when he was 20, with $150 in his pocket and a typewriter in his arms. Auturo Bandini, the protagonist of the novel, lived a life close to Fante's - a poor but passionate writer living in a seedy hotel downtown. "Learn about life," he wrote. Fante's love for this city where he dreamt of fame and fortune provides the film's unifying thread. "Los Angeles give me some of you! Los Angeles come to me the way I came to you, my feet over your streets, you pretty town I loved so much, you sad flower in the sand, you pretty town." Archival footage heightens the feeling of being in the '30s, and even the contemporary footage of old façades seems straight out of Edward Hopper paintings. Ask the Dust, out of print for forty years, was republished in 1980 by Black Sparrow Press and has sold several hundred thousand copies.
A timely documentary about an explosive topic, Scout's Honor chronicles the Boy Scouts of America and the raging controversy about the institution's exclusionary anti-gay policies. Director Tom Shepard focuses on two Petaluma, California, individuals, heterosexuals who are outspoken against the policy: Steven Cozza, a 12-year-old on the verge of becoming an Eagle Scout, and Dave Rice, the 69-year-old co founder of Scouting for All. While delving into the well-known cases of gay ex-Scouts Tim Curran and James Dale, Shepard also highlights the pressures on straight BSA members who oppose the discrimination. Scout's Honor contextualizes the struggle for acceptance historically, offering personal accounts from the people this emotionally charged issue has hurt the most— the men and boys who have a true reverence for scouting, yet have been rejected by the organization they love. Through a critical lens, Shepard takes a closer look at the fundamentals of scouting— highlights include segments of what are deemed "wholesome" outdoor scouting activities— and how the ideals of the organization have been twisted to support the anti gay policy. Though this may sound like a one-sided consideration of the issue, it is noted in the end credits that the Boy Scouts of America repeatedly refused requests for interviews, making the film's arguments that much more empowering and valid. Shown with Coming to Terms(directed by Shawn Postoff, Canada, 17 minutes). A young man struggles with his family's reaction when he is pressured into coming out over the telephone. Awards: Audience Award for Documentary Feature and Freedom of Expression Award, Sundance Film Festival
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USA 2001 Director: Tom Shepard Producer: Tom Shepard Screenwriter: Meg Moritz Cinematographers: Tina Defeliciantonio Andy Black Howard Shack Philipe Roques Frank Green Hrafnhildur Gunnarsdottir Editor: Jim Klein Running Time: 74 minutes Print Source: Tom Shepard 611 Guerrero #8 San Francisco, CA 94110 Ph: 415.641.5700 Fax: 415.643.6132 Email: tomshepard@earthlink.net
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USA 2001 Director: Doug Pray Producers: Brad Blondheim Ernest Meza Heidi Addison Cinematographer: Robert Bennett Editor: Doug Pray Music: Carol Sue Baker Jonathan Hafter Featuring: Qbert Invisibl skratch Piklz Rob Swift The X-ecutioners DJ Shadow Steve Dee Cut Chemist & NuMark DJ Craze and the Allies Running Time: 85 minutes Print Source: Palm Pictures 4 Columbus Circle 5th Floor New York, NY 10019 USA Ph: 212.506.5800 Fax:212-506.5809 Email: evan@islandflife.com Selected Filmography: Hype (1995)
Filmmaker Doug Pray, who vividly captured the essence of the indie-rock "grunge" music scene (and a Golden Space Needle for Best Documentary) with his 1996 music doc, Hype, returns to the field with this upbeat exploration of DJ culture and the influential innovators who gave rise to it. Charting the DJ art form from its roots in the 70s onward, Scratch begins by tracing the distinctions between rap and hiphop, introducing us to such giants of the genre as Afrika Bambaataa, Grand Wizard Theodore and Jazzy Jay. The film then delves further into the elements of "turntablism," focusing on the techniques employed— "scratching," reversing and speed controlling— while hiphopping through a series of interviews with some of the genre's best practitioners. Especially exhilarating is the performance footage, both archival and new, of mix-masters Cut Chemist and Numark (of hiphop group Jurassic 5), the Beastie Boys' Mix Master Mike, Qbert, DJCraze and Invisibl Skratch Piklz, among others, working the tables while galvanizing a growing throng of followers. The film provides plenty of footage of the world's best DJs at work, creating an infectious celebration of sound and beats, even as it provides a vivid picture of the personalities who bend the artistry of others into their own reinvented artwork. Even if you've never paid much attention to the men behind the music in this explosive, emerging art form, we guarantee you'll find it impossible to keep your seat from rocking and your feet on the floor while Scratch is on screen.
Winner of a Grand Jury Prize at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival, Kate Davis' second film, Southern Comfort, is one of that breed of heartbreakingly honest documentaries that start to seem completely unreal. In the woods of Toccoa, Georgia, Davis introduces us to Robert Eads. Robert is unofficial patriarch of an extended, self-chosen family whose members he has met at an annual transgender conference called Southern Comfort. The telling of Robert's amazing story (as well as those of his family members) begins on a spring morning at sunrise with a cry against the "they" who have left him face to face with death. By the time "they" are identified, it no longer matters— the injustice and the irony of the cancer in his only remaining female part have been made painfully clear. Davis takes her viewers through the last year of this brave man's life as he fights for the time to attend just one more Southern Comfort— the only place, besides his farm, where he truly feels at home. The lush, rolling green hills of Robert's farm provide the backdrop to a warm gathering— unique in its Southern flair— of both biological and chosen family members; they also seem to embrace the love for Robert of his city-slicker girlfriend Lola, and finally to elicit an awesome tug at the heartstrings as Robert visits the farm for the last time. Though most of us complacently rely on certain verities from birth, Robert constantly reminds us that in life we should take nothing for granted.
Awards: Grand Jury Prize, Documentary, Sundance Film Festival; Golden Gate Award, Best Biography, San Francisco International Film Festival
USA 2001 Director: Kate Davis Producers: Kate Davis Elizabeth Adams Cinematographer: Kate Davis Editor: Kate Davis Music: Joel Harrison Running Time: 90 minutes International Sales: Film Transit / Jan Rofekamp Print Source: Kate Davis / Q-Ball Productions 412 West End Ave #3E New York, NY 10024 Ph: 212.362.3128 Selected Filmography: Girltalk (1987)
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Great Britain 2001 Director: Jan Harlan Producer: Jan Harlan Cinematographer: Manuel Harlan Editor: Melanie Viner Cuneo Featuring: Christiane Kubrick Woody Allen Martin Scorsese Steven Spielberg Tom Cruise Sydney Pollack Malcolm McDowell Keir Dullea Arthur C. Clarke Jack Nicholson Running Time: 142 minutes Print Source: Warner Bros. Home Video 998, Theobald's Road London, WCIX 8WB Great Britian Ph: 44.207.494.3297 Fax: 44.207.494.3441 Selected Filmography: Feature Film Debut
When Stanley Kubrick died last year, shortly after finishing Eyes Wide Shut, he left behind one of the most esteemed and controversial bodies of work in the 20th century, and a reputation as one of the cinema's true eccentrics. In this fascinating new documentary tracing Stanley Kubrick's life and work, longtime collaborator Jan Harlan provides a vivid overview of the director's personal world and his films, exploring the singular vision of alternately revered and reviled masterworks as Lolita, Dr. Strangelove and 2001: A Space Odyssey. Harlan charts Kubrick's precocious gift for striking visual imagery soon led him to experiment in film. Making his first short at the age of 22, Day of the Fight, Kubrick broke into feature filmmaking three years later with Fear and Desire, a gritty, inventive war picture financed by his father's life insurance policy. A modest critical and commercial success, Fear led to Killer's Kiss and The Killing, which in turn provided the impetus for Kubrick's breakthrough work Paths of Glory, a devastating anti-war film. The success of his next picture, Spartacus, allowed Kubrick to call his own shots, and after moving to England he began the most controversial phase of his career with his adaptation of Nabokov's Lolita, condemned by the Legion of Decency. Dr. Strangelove followed, and Kubrick's reputation for eccentricity was cemented with his next film, 2001: A Space Odyssey, hailed as the reinvention of cinema and deplored as the most inept science-fiction film in memory. Featuring clips from these and the subsequent films in Kubrick's incredible body of work, and using interviews with Kubrick family members, collaborators and admirers such as Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg and Woody Allen, Harlan paints a vivid portrait of the screen's ultimate iconoclast: a singular talent blessed with a wholly unique vision that required a screen far larger than life could provide.
Charting the tumultuous rise and fall of a typical dot.com startup from conception to demise, filmmakers Chris Hegedus and Jehane Noujaim take us on an amazing journey through the hyperreal world of internet ventures, vividly depicting the riches-torags trajectory of so many once-promising players in the "new economy." They begin by introducing us to the two idealistic founders of Govworks.com. Investment banker Kaleil Isaza Tuzman and tech wiz Tom Herman have been friends since high school. Armed only with a business plan and no practical experience, they join forces to launch an internet company aimed at saving ordinary citizens the time spent dealing with government bureaucracy, by handling such mundane tasks as paying a parking ticket or getting a driver's license renewed online. The real pot of gold, of course, will come down the road, when the company realizes its ultimate goal, an IPO, and the partners see their investment multiply dramatically.The camera captures each milestone on the road to wealth, from the inception of the idea to the courting of venture capitalists. We are privy to random setbacks and moments of exhilaration as our charismatic entrepreneurs fly from coast to coast, dealmaking with potential funders and preparing to launch their site. Ultimately, the film is also about friendship and loyalty, as financial setbacks and risks take their toll on the years-long relationship between the two friends and partners. What emerges from this riveting, true-life portrayal of near-triumph and ultimate folly is a cautionary tale as fresh as a newborn public offering: while anything in the new economy can look great on paper, security relies on cold, hard cash.
USA 2001 Directors: Chris Hegedus Jehane Noujaim Producer: D.A. Pennebaker Cinematographer: Jehane Noujaim Editors: Chris Hegedus D. A. Pennebaker Erez Laufer Jehane Noujaim Music: Sherief El Katasha Kit Pennebaker Cast: Tom Herman Kaleil Isaza Tuzman Running Time: 96 minutes Print Source: Artisan Entertainment 2700 Colorado Ave., 2nd Floor Santa Monica, CA 90404 Ph: 310.255.3728 Fax: 310.255.3740 Selected Filmography: Hegedus: Woodstock Diary (1999) Moon Over Broadway (1997) Keine Zeit (1996) The War Room (1993) Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock (1992) The Music Tells You (1992) 101 (1988) Jimi Plays Monterey (1986) Town Bloody Hall (1979) Nouhaim: Feature Film Debut
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US PREMIERE France 2001 Director: Laurent Bécue-Renard Producer: Michel Rotman Running Time: 83 minutes Print Source: Laurent Bécue-Renard 32, bd Roosevelt Le Vésinet, F-78110 France Ph: 33.6.07.98.46.54 Fax: 33.1.45.49.96.76 Email: lbr@compuserve.com Selected Filmography: Feature Film Debut
Survive? How to survive when your world has fallen apart - when your home and your country have been swept away by war? Life itself stands still. Since the atrocities committed in the war, countless Bosnian women and children have asked themselves these questions. In Tuzla, so close to the action, fifteen women leave the refugee camps every year in search of answers. They come together to live in one house, provided by aid agency Viva Zena, and are helped by psychotherapist Fika Ibrahimefendic and physical therapist Fatima Babic. The therapists try to help the women, if not to forget, at least to continue to live. Still in shock over what has happened to them (many witnessed the deaths of their husbands or brothers or fathers), we focus on three - Sedina, Jasmina and Senda - going through their mourning process. Using different therapeutic methods, the women are guided into the abyss and try to find a way to heal. If you ever thought lightly of massage or other alternative methods of healing, these women attest to how these processes help. Director Laurent Becue-Renard was chief editor of the Internet magazine Sarajevo Online, based in Sarajevo during the last year of the war in Bosnia. A graduate of Paris Institute of Politics, he was also a Fulbright visiting scholar at Columbia University, New York. He says that the Europeans of his generation, raised with ideals of peace, progress and modernity, "felt that the war in Yugoslavia shocked the very foundation of our world."
In 1998, Puccini's 1926 opera Turnadotmatie its way home to the Forbidden City of Beijing— and director Allan Miller was there to capture the whole process. His documentary appeals to both opera lovers and history buffs, who will all thrill to see the tale of the Ice Princess set in the opulence of the former home of Chinese emperors. Of course, asking the government for permission to perform in the sacred location was akin to Turnadots leading man, Calaf, foolhardily bargaining with his betrothed— both succeeded, but at a cost. In Calaf's case, it was the loss of his loving servant Liu. In the case of producer Zhang Yimou (Raise the Red Lantern) and conductor Zubin Mehta, staging the opera in the authentic 15thcentury site meant hiring hundreds of locals, many of whom had never heard Western opera, let alone performed in one. As assistant director Chen Weiya explained, the extras likened the music to a cow's moaning. Pleasing them was easy, compared with keeping the cast contented. Even after spending $600,000 on new costumes, one of the three divas playing the eponymous character balked at wearing a specific headdress, turning to Mehta with a petulant "You wear it." By bringing us backstage, Miller gives us the opportunity to become personally involved with the mounting of the Italian composer's final opera. Thus, as the massive cast takes its place and the grand music swells, we understand the risks one will take for love.
Awards: The 16th Peace Film Prize, Berlin Film Festival; Besti First Documentary Award, Canadian International Documentary Festival
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WORLD PREMIERE USA 2001 Directors: RADD Producer: Perry Dance ANT Bob Read Jim Dobson Editor: Tim Ralston Running Time: 60 minutes Print Source: Jim Dobson 5225 Wilshire Blvd #514 Los Angeles, 90036 Ph: 323.964.0700 Fax: 323.964.0704 Email: fourguysprods@aol.com
With the ubiquitous presence of reality television and voyeur cams, the savvy viewer might wonder: Why do these people agree to be public spectacles? That's the question RADD, a quartet of L.A.-based producers, asked— and then went out to spent four weeks documenting the lives of 10 subjects, trying to determine why these men were willing to share their most intimate and mundane experiences with the world. Among the more poignant vignettes are those of Dad, a has-been porn star who discusses his ongoing issues with his molestation; bisexual Zach, whose life is slowly being consumed by the pregnancy of his girlfriend; a male prostitute named Matt whose only outlet for his affections are his pet mice; and Cory and Cody, twin brothers battling drug addictions and dark sexual practices. There's also Kip, whose sexual appetites lead him to an Internet sex convention in New Orleans; Pierre, a French-Canadian preoccupied by his physical appearance; Dino, an aging porn star who fights against his decline; and Rick and Jeremy, a couple dealing with the pain of coming out. Webcam Boys editor Tim Ralston took digital footage shot by Ant, Perry Dance, Jim Dobson, and Bob Read and created a tight, intense piece about men who might live their lives in front of the camera, but who keep their feelings deep within. Slowly, it becomes apparent that what these men have in common is their desire to open themselves up completely, in both a physical and psychological sense.
Preceded by: Tom Clay Jesus (Hoang A. Duong, 2001,18 minutes) The classic tale of love found and lost told in the creepiest of ways.
If you've never heard of William Haines— and how would you?— you may have difficulty believing that a 1930 poll named him the number-one male star in Hollywood. Born into a well-to-do Virginia family, he grew up handsome, witty and, from age 14, proudly and nonchalantly gay. In Hollywood from 1922, and an MGM star as of 1926, he was a new kind of leading man: neither macho dreamboat nor Continental sophisticate nor Chaplinesque clown, but an allAmerican wisecracker— his personal style offscreen as well. Everybody in Tinseltown knew Billy Haines was gay; it was no big deal, and relationships among the beautiful people were ever open to improvisation (Billy also got it on with "It" girl Clara Bow and, so they claim, the 10O-percent-hetero Clark Gable). But he was exceptional in living openly with another man, Jimmy Shields, and the couple became social lions— pillars of "the younger degeneration," in Haines' phrase— hosting fabulous dinner parties for the likes of MGM supervisor Irving Thalberg. Haines' stardom came to an abrupt end in 1933 when, at the start of the repressive Hays Code era, Louis B. Mayer ordered him to give up either Jimmy or his studio contract. Haines retorted, "When you get rid of your wife." He soon became the most sought-after interior decorator in town. At the time of his death 40 years later, he and Jimmy Shields were still together. Haines' life, career, and meaning as a gay icon were limned in the recent biography Wisecrackerby William Mann. The question is, where in our enlightened age is the gay Hollywood star willing to measure up to Billy's courage and forthrightness?
Followed by: Way Out West [tied Niblo, 1930,71 minutes), which features Haines' most outrageous performance (" I'm the wildest pansy you ever picked!").
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USA 2001 Directors: Fenton Bailey Randy Barbato Producers: Fenton Bailey Randy Barbato Screenwriter: Gabriel Rotello Cinematographer: Teodoro Maniaci Editor: Jeremy Simmons Music: Derek Brin Featuring: Stockard Channing Christopher Lawford Chris Allen Herb Gore BobWildman Running Time: 44 minutes Print Source: American Movie Classics 200 Jericho Quadrangle Jericho, NY 11753 USA Ph: 516.803.4378 Fax: 516.803.4395 Email: namckenna@rainbowmedia.com Selected Filmography: 101 Rent Boys (2000) The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2000) Party Monster (1998)
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USA 2000 Directors: Robert Pulcini Shari Springer Berman Producers: Ellin Baumel Julia King Cinematographers: Michael Barrow Sandra Chandler Editor: Robert Pulcini Music: Mark Suozzo Cast: Tyler Cassity William Obrock Jay Boileau Tom Cory Michelle Best Paul Schreibman Running Time: 91 minutes International Sales: Tail Slate Pictures Print Source: Tail Slate Pictures 65 Weat 96th Street, #17G New York, NY 10025 Ph: 212.222.0621 Fax: 212.222.6677 Email: dex123@aol.com Selected Filmography: Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's (1997) Pulcini: Love After Death (1993) Springer Berman: Velvet Elvis (1992)
A team of techno-geeks purchase a crumbling Hollywood cemetery and transform It Into the most innovative burial ground in the world. The Hollywood Memorial Park Cemetery, renamed Hollywood Forever, was the final resting place for many celebrities, including Clifton Webb, Marion Davis, Jayne Mansfield, Peter Lorre and Rudolph Valentino. When the languishing cemetery, located on Santa Monica Boulevard, next to Paramount Studios, went up for auction in 1998, a good-looking Missouri mortician came to town and snapped up the valuable property, renovating it so impressively that even the locals dropped their jaws. Tyler Cassity, a 28-year-old from St. Louis, and a group of his college friends forever altered America's death industry: Not only did they revive the cemetery but they also created a virtual mini-movie studio on the grounds.There, they produce Forever Memorials, TV-style biographies that allow families to compile and access an archive of remembrances about their dearly departed. "Cemeteries are libraries of life," Cassity tells us, demonstrating his research on the past owner and the golden-era actors resting there. He and his team even try to right historical wrongs: Hattie McDaniel (Gone with the Wind), the first African-American actress to win an Academy Award (1939), requested burial in these "sacred grounds" when they were segregated. A pink pillar now stands in her memory. Neighborhood regulars enjoy Hollywood Forever,-an "oasis of quiet" in the midst of the City of Dreams and Dreamers. The Young & the Dead is a lighthearted look at the way we worship death, or try to outwit it.
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Thursday June 14 2:30 PM Pacific Place Cinemas
Monday June 11 5:00 PM Egyptian Theatre
WORLD PREMIERE Argentina 2001 Director: Sergio Bizzio Producer: Rolo Azpeitia Screenwriter: Sergio Bizzio Cinematographer: Hernan Bouza Editor: Lorenzo Bombicci Music: Sergio Pangaro Cast: Carlos Roffe Cristina Banegas Walter Quiroz Carolina Fal Pepe Monje Running Time: 92 minutes Print Source: Vibus Producciones Ugarteche 2868 2° 5 Buenos Aries, 1425 Argentina Ph: 54.1.1489.90158 Fax: 54.1.1489.90158 Selected Filmography: Planet (1998) They're from Africa (1995) Beyond the Goodness and Slowly (1993) Albino Inferno (1992) Divine Convertible (1990)
Sergio Bizzio, novelist, poet, playwright, scriptwriter and TV producer is expecting two new books to be published in Argentina this year, a novel, En Esa Epoca, and a book of poems, 100% Despierto. His first film, Animal, is about two aristocrats, Alberto (Carlos Roffe) and Natalie (Cristina Banegas), who have been married for 29 years. In the summer they live on their ranch. Alberto, ex-polo star and big-game hunter, seems distracted and lives in his own head. Natalie is an editor of a fashion magazine, and her hobby is painting portraits of Frida Kahlo, which hang all over the summer ranch. One night, a lamb wanders away from her flock and Alberto finds her sniffing at the window. One smell of her is enough to awaken longforgotten desires. Alberto separates her from the flock, provides a special place for his inamorata in the barn and calls her Fanny. So obsessed is he with his eweish love, he kills a ranch hand in a fit of jealousy. When Natalie discovers Alberto and his mistress, she runs to tell her children. But they don't believe her and quickly pack her off to a mental hospital. While Alberto's wife is locked up, he really gets down to the business of wooing his wooly sweetheart, bringing Fanny breakfast in bed and taking her out for picnics. Things all come to a head in this black comedy— played out in perfect deadpan— when Alberto's children come to visit him. Will Alberto and Fanny be left in peace?
Paul Cox's paean to the power of love opens on a boy and a girl (Kenny Aernouts and Kristine van Pellicom) biking down a country path, so magnetized by youthful lust they must hold hands even as they ride. Forty years, two marriages and several children later, Claire (Julia Blake) and Andreas (Charles Tingwell) reunite and find they've fallen in love a second time, not as old, fading folk but as continuations of the joyful boy and girl they once were. Innocence plays out in an eternal Now for these four characters, mixing memory with present rediscovery: lovemaking in the woods as kids and in a home filled with a lifetime's accumulated treasures; ripe with fallen flesh. There's no sentimental coyness here— no false, feel-good, Hollywoodized "Aren't old people cute when they try to get sexy?" offensiveness. These two fully realized human beings share grown-up, hard-won wisdom in literate conversation— about the.way life becomes more "real" the closer one comes to its denouement. Claire's shattered husband (Terry Norris) and wise son, Andreas' instantly empathie daughter— each is warmed in his/her fashion at the hearth of this lateburning passion. The colors red and blue punctuate the film: blue for the innocence of virginity, of brandnewness; red for the bloodstream in full spate, the ripe harvest of full, unblighted lives. Take our word for it, savoring the seasoned faces of Claire and Andreas, you'll see more radiance and sensuality than a dozen Brad Pitts and Gwyneth Paltrows could ever deliver! Awards: Grand Prix of Americas (tie), People's Choice Award, Montréal World Film Festival; FIPRESCI Award, Taormina; Best Femal Actor (Julia Blake), Best Male Supporting Actor (tie), Australian Film Critics Circle Awards
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Tuesday June 5 5:00 PM Pacific Place Cinemas
WORLD PREMIERE Australia 2000 Director: Samantha Lang Producers: Robert Connolly John Maynard Screenwriter: Anne Kennedy Cinematographer: Gary Philips Editor: Dany Cooper Music: Andrew Kotatko Cast: Kelly McGillls Susie Porter Marton Csokas Deborah Mailman Abbie Cornish Jean-Pierre Mignon Caroline Gillmer Brendan Cowell Running Time: 91 minutes International Sales: Le Studio Canal+ Print Source: Strand Releasing 1460 Fourth St, Ste 302 Santa Monica, CA 90401 Ph: 310.395.5002 Fax: 310.395.2502
In this offbeat mystery from Australia, Golden Globe nominee Kelly McGillis (Witness) plays Diana, a professor. One of her students, Mickey, turns up missing after she reads her sexually explicit poetry aloud at a coffeehouse. The story is adapted from Dorothy Porter's non-rhyming verse novel that has, since publication in 1995, acquired an international cult following. When Mickey's body is found, her parents hire private investigator Jill Fitzpatrick (Susie Porter, no relation to the author) to find the murderer. The investigation draws Jill into Mickey's seamy under world— unknown territory for Jill, fraught with jeal ousy and seduction. When Jill enlists Diana's help in the quest, their immediate sexual attraction launches the pair into an increasingly wild affair. Jill's investi gation turns dangerous when one of Mickey's rivals leaves threatening messages— in verse— on the answering machine. Monkey's Mask is permeated by an atmospheric '40s noir mood. The film's primary setting— Jill's apartment/office— could serve as a workspace for detective Philip Marlowe, and the shadowy corners of coffeehouses where hifalutin erotic poetry is the drug of choice elide into the usual dives— seedy bars and tacky lounges— where private dicks and their clients hang out. In the guise of a murder mystery, Monkey's Mask explores the risks associated with the allure of power.
Cat, a New Age motivational speaker, seems to take her mother's death a little too easily until a luscious bouquet of roses appears on the doorstep of mum's house. When the roses inexplicably multiply, covering the livingroom in a tangled jungle of red blooms, Cat doesn't know if she's witnessing a small miracle or simply hallucinating. These mysterious flowers signal the end of an orderly, sensible life for Cat, and the beginning of a magical personal journey guided by the flamboyant (think Aussie Auntie Marne!) ghost of her dead mother, Katya— and a clutch of her mother's old friends. With the help of Katya, Cat looks into the past to find egregious misreadings of parental good guys and villains, reassesses her values, and gets a clearer view of the present. Does she want to maintain an exciting life-on-the-run with her celebrity boyfriend, or does she want to put down roots, perhaps return to her love of raising horses? Slowly, Cat learns to trust herself rather than the platitudes she preached as a success coach. Directed by Rebel Penfold-Russell (producer of The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert), this beautifully shot film exhibits a lush sense of color that reflects the Katya's vitality and the emerging vibrancy of Cat. With humor, tragedy and a healthy dose of magical realism, Will Full measures the healing process between an estranged mother and daughter, the steps all of us must take in order to forge our own identities.
Australia 2001 Director: Rebel Penfold-Russell Producer: Vicki Watson Screenwriter: Harry Cripps Cinematographer: Steve Arnold Editor: Nicholas Beauman Music: Anthony Partos Cast: Anna Lise Phillips Anne Looby C. Thomas Howell Charles "Bud"Tlngwell John Gaden Running Time: 95 minutes International Sales: Latent Image Productions Pty Print Source: Latent Image Productions Pty 82 Glenmore Road, Paddington Sydney, NSW 2021 Australia Ph: 61.2.9331.4155 Fax:61-2.9331.4135 Email: latent@latentimage.com.au Selected Filmography: Feature Film Debut
Selected Filmography: The Well (1997) Audacious (1995) Out (1995) God's Bones (1993)
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Monday May 28 9:30 PM Broadway Performance Hall
Wednesday June 13 5:00 PM Pacific Place Cinemas
Tuesday May 29 5:00 PM Broadway Performance Hall
Australia/France 2000 D ire cto r:
Jonathan Teplitzky Pro d u cers:
Bruna Papandrea Frank Cox Mark Bonduel S c re e n w rite r:
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Josh (David Wenham), a footloose, London-based wildlife photographer, and Cin (Susie Porter), a spirited young woman, meet at a party in Sydney and go back to her apartment. He seems a nice enough guy, he makes her laugh, and she's feeling sexy— so why not? It can hardly amount to anything more than a onenight stand, since Josh is leaving the country in three days. But the morning after, Josh is reluctant to go, and soon the one-night stand turns into a three-day binge. Writer-director Jonathan Teplitzky treats the eternal question of boy-girl relations with cheeky freshness. We hear the characters' thoughts— much at variance with their words— and two Greek cho ruses, his and her friends, comment critically on the action. During one hilarious climax we hear Josh's concern about premature ejaculation (he tries thinking of a cake recipe to slow the proceedings) and Cin's unspoken instructions ("Go left, please!"). The two young leads are terrifically appealing: David Wenham (cast as Faramir in the upcoming Lord of the Rings) is sexy and humorous; Susie Porter, showing more freckles than were ever seen on a Hollywood actress, is sunny and warm. Their step-by-step discovery of each other is a lot of fun to watch.
This clever satire of the Austrian government's muchcriticized immigration policy and of contemporary culture-collisions begins when a junior bureaucrat is outraged to find his wife sharing her hospital room with another new mother and her extended, very noisy Turkish family. Then, perhaps as a result of the angelic machinations of an elderly nurse, Austrian and Turkish newborns accidentally go home with the wrong parents. Ironically, the Austrian dad is a functionary in the department of immigration, while his wife is the daughter of a senior minister. By the time the mixup comes to light, the Turkish family has been deported, mostly due to the Austrian official's in difference. The desperate Austrians set out from Vienna to find the unsuspecting Turkish couple in their remote small town. Convincing them— along with suspicious relatives and interested villagers— of the mistake and the necessity for its remedy is another matter entirely. Funny and pointed, Bom in Absurdistan uninsistently proves that human beings ultimately share basic drives and emotions that sweep aside geographical borders and cultural differences. Psychiatrist and filmmaker Houchang Allahyari was born in Tehran in 1941 and has been resident in Vienna for more than two decades.
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Houchang Allahyari Tom-Dariusch Allahyari Agnes Pluch C in e m ato g rap h e r:
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EPO-Film Productions CES H.B.U Edelsinnstr. 58 Vienna, 1070 Austria Ph: 43.1.526.6801 Fax:43-1.526.6801 Email: afilmco@magnet.at Se lecte d Film o g rap hy:
Black Flamingos (1998) Deadly Love (1995) Fear of Heights (1994) Tag, an dem sie Jack Unterweger Der Fingen (1992) Und Morgen der Opernball (1992) I Love Vienna (1991) Fleischwolf (1990) Borderline (1988) Pasolini Inszeniert Seinen Tod (1985) Thing 84 (1984) Trotz Alledem (1982) I Like to Be in America (1981)
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Götz Spielmann Roger Frappier Producer:
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The seedy underbelly of Vienna provides the nocturnal backdrop for this stylish film noir, Austria's official submission for the Foreign-Language Film Oscar. Mercedes (Spanish actress Goya Toledo) is a femme fatale from Mexico, newly arrived at the Vienna airport with her German boyfriend Rainer (Martin Feifel), where they have smuggled a kilo of cocaine through customs. Unfortunately for them, the city has just had a major drug crackdown, leaving them without buyers— and money. Disgusted with Rainer, Mercedes ditches him and hooks up with Harry (Harry Prinz), a lonely and bored cab driver who agrees to help her find a buyer for the drugs so she can get some cash and go home. She offers Harry a deal he can't refuse. Is he just another pawn for Mercedes— or will her promises help him achieve his hope and dreams? With sleek cinematography and an evocative sound track, The Stranger careens through the night streets of Vienna, following two amateurs navigating their way through the treacherous world of the drug trade. A mood piece with the backdrop of a stifling urban loneliness, The Stranger is full of twists and turns, deceit and double-crossings, leaving the audience guessing until the end.
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A wholly original treat with an invisible, agoraphobic hero at the center of its strangely moving story, Thomas in Love introduces us to its title character only through his voice and his predicament: trapped in his self-sustaining, computer-equipped apartment for eight years because of an acute affliction, Thomas emerges only through the speaker in his videophonic computer connection with the outside world. His insurance agency, the aptly named, somewhat in sidious Globale, takes care of every aspect of his life, from the daily delivery of food and services to his occasional need for cybersex through an interactive sex game featuring Clara, a big-breasted, computer generated cutie. Even his domineering mother— perhaps herself most responsible for Thomas' self-imposed exile— visits with him only via video phone. One day, however, Thomas' carefully con structed world begins to unravel, as his agency tells him that he is eligible to receive, gratis, the services of prostitutes trained by the state to help the disabled, and his on-air shrink signs him up simultaneously for a digital dating service. Worlds subsequently collide, as the dubious Thomas encounters both cheerful cyberdate Melodie and the sweet-natured but de cidedly unhappy hooker Eva. As Thomas' attraction to the lonely, state-controlled "sexual-therapist" Eva unexpectedly grows, he is tempted to break out of his self-imposed cocoon/prison to meet her in the flesh.... Debuting director Pierre-Paul Renders has crafted a remarkably assured first feature in this inventive fable that falls somewhere between fast forward and future shock.
Selected Film og raphy:
Götz Spielman: Fear of the Idyll (1994) Dieses Naive Verlangen (1992) Der Machbar (1991) Erwin and Julia (1990) Vergiss Sneider! (1987) Abschied Von Hölderlin (1985) Fremdland (1984) Roger Frappier: Last Glacier, the (1984) Ventre de la Nuit, Le (1978) Great Ordinary Movie, The (1971)
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Grand Prize, Gerardmer Film Festival; Best Actress (Aylin Yay), Paris Film Festival; FIPRESCI Award for Best First Feature, Laterna Magica Prize, Venice Film Festival
Belgium/France 2000 D ire cto r:
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Diana Elbaum S c re e n w rite r:
Philippe Blasband C in e m a to g ra p h e r:
Virginie Saint Martin E d ito r:
Ewin Ryckaert M usic:
Igor Sterpin C a st:
Benoît Verhaert Aylin Yay Magali Pinglaut Micheline Hardy Alexandre Von Sivers Frédéric Topart Serge Larivière R unning Tim e :
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Urgence Sud Soudan (1999) Sommeil Trompeur (1998) Paroles sans Frontières (1997) La Crise du Kivu (1997) Journal de L'année (1996) La Tendresse (1992) Désiré Attend son Patron (1989) Le Secret de Frère Gustave (1988) Twins (1987)
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Belgium/France/ Canada/ Switzerland 2000 D ire cto r:
Chris Vander Stappen P ro d u cers:
Fréréric Bernard Catherine Burniaux François Charlent Jean-Louis Porchet Gérard Ruey Jean-LucVan Damme Claude Veillet Arlette Zylberberg S c re e n w rite r:
Chris van der Stappen C in e m a to g ra p h e r:
Michel Houssiau E d ito r:
France Duez M usic:
Frédéric Vercheval C a st:
Marie Bunel Hélène Vincent Tsilla Chelton Mimie Mathy Macha Grenon Christina Crahay R unning T im e :
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Banana Films Rue Philomenestraat, 83BIS Brussels, 1030 Belgium Ph: 32.2.219.9190 Fax: 32.2.219.9410 Email: Frederic@banana.be S e lec te d Film o g ra p h y:
Feature Film Debut
Chris Vander Stappen, screenwriter of the charming gender-bending film Ma Vie En Rose, takes the directorial reins for the first time with Family Pack. Sacha (Marie Bunel) has been living happily with another woman in Montreal, pursuing a career as a photographer after dropping out of medical school. Her family back in Brussels is completely in the dark about her personal life, and her increasingly impatient girlfriend issues an ultimatum: when "a man walks on the moon" Sacha must finally come out. It's the summer of 1969, and Sacha has to move fast. Hopping a plane, she's mistakenly welcomed home as a doctor by a family that hasn't changed a bit since she left them two years earlier. But her time away allows her to see her family from an outsider's point of view: the family business is failing, her mother drops hints of health problems, her dwarf sister is increasingly bitter for not being the family favorite, and her grandmother has secrets of her own. A touching and funny portrait of a family struggling against changing times, Family Pack delves beyond surface dysfunction to find the generation-spanning ties that bind. Director Vander Stappen painstakingly captures the tumult and exu berance of the late '60s, when modern changes were overtaking traditional ways— from a man walking on the moon to an independent daughter choosing her own path in life. A w a rd s:
Best Artistic Contribution, Chris Vander Stappen, Namur International Festival of French-Speaking Film
An hilarious blend of cultural satire and social commentary, Everybody Famous! explores the way a society constructs and worships its pop icons and, at the same time, illustrates just how far a father obsessed with making his child a star will go. Flemish factory worker Jean Vereecken composes music in his free time, but the only encouragement he gets for this hobby comes from his amiable coworker Willy. Jean's wife and shy, overweight daughter Marva tend to pooh-pooh his musical dreams. Named after a '70s Belgian pop star, Marva has musical aspirations of her own, but they involve lip synching to Madonna and other chart-toppers. Believing that his girl just needs the right song, Jean launches a seriously auda cious scheme to give her one of his own composing. Writer-director Deruddere says, "Today, people wor ship television above all else. Fame and money are everything. Becoming a star! That's all that counts for many people today. Everybody Famous! is about those kinds of people and about the blind ambition they nourish." This gentle exposé of media cynicism was an Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Film. Warning: After you've seen it, you won't be able to stop hum ming "Lucky Manuelo" for a very long time! A w a rd s:
Oscar Submission, Best Foreign Language Film; Best Belgian Actor (Josse De Pauw), Flanders International Film Festival
Belgium/ Netherlands/ France 2000 D ire cto r:
Dominique Deruddere Prod ucers:
Dominique Deruddere Loret Meus Volkert Struycken Errol Nayci Anne Dominique Toussaint Pascal Judelwicz S c re e n w rite r:
Dominique Deruddere C in e m ato g rap h e r:
Willy Stassen E d ito r:
Ludo Troch M usic:
Raymond van het Groenwoud C ast:
Josse de Pauw Victor Low Gert Portael Eva van der Gucht Werner De Smedt Thekla Reuten Running Tim e:
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Hombres Complicados (1997) Suite 16 (1995) Wait Until Spring, Bandini (1989) Crazy Love (1987) Wodka Orange (1982) Killing Joke (1980) Bedankt Ma (1979) Oranje Licht (1975)
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Friday June 1 9:30 PM Broadway Performance Hall
Tuesday June 12 Noon Pacific Place Cinemas
Monday June 4 5:00 PM Broadway Performance Hall
Brazil 2000 D ire cto r:
Lucia Murat Pro d u ce rs:
Lucia Murat Christina Ache S c re e n w rite r:
Lucia Murat C in e m a to g ra p h e r:
Antonio Luiz Mendes E d ito r:
Mair Tavares M usic:
Livio Trachtenberg C a st:
Diogo Infante Floriano Peixoto Luciana Rigueira Leonardo Villar R unning T im e :
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Taiga Films P rin t So u rce:
Taiga Films Rua Jao Afonso, 60-A Humaita Rio de Janeiro, RJ Brazil Ph: 55.21.579.3895 Fax: 55.21.537.0651 Email: taiga@visualnet.com.br
Brave New Landis a "beautiful anti-epic" in which two cultures clash— Europeans and the indigenous peoples of the Pantanal, a vast expanse of wetlands in the mid-section of South America shared by Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay. Employing fresh cinematic strat egies to re-imagine Brazil's colonial past, the film pre sents a compelling chronicle of history observed from the point of view of a conquered people. The idea for the film came when director Lucia Murat came across a 1778 military report about a massacre of 54 soldiers by Guaicuru Indians. Deciding to work with the Kadweu tribe— standing in for their forefathers the Guai curu— she had to put together a budget that would cover casting producers and linguists. (The mystery of the Kadweu was maintained by not translating their words on screen, and the only Indian part cast with a professional actress was Luciana Rigueira's Anote.) Diogo (Diogo Infante)— astronomer, naturalist and cartographer whose job it was to map the new fron tiers— is escorted through the forest by a group of soldiers who rape and kill a group of Guaicuru, capturing two prisoners: Anote and a boy of mixed blood. Soon Diogo must face the fact that he's falling in love with a woman whose people he and his culture have sorely abused. Says B. Ruby Rich in The San Fran cisco Bay Guardian: "Murat has shuffled the deck— of language, of culture, of race— and deals a new hand, one that forces us to give up our cherished fantasies and confront a history of misunderstandings, violence and revenge. Bravo for a brave new film."
S e lec te d F ilm o g ra p h y:
Doces Poderes (1997) Que Bom Te Ver Viva (1989)
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Candango Trophy Best Actress (Luciana Rigueira) and Best Music, Brazilia Festival of Brazilian Cinema
Some cinematic sage called Sérgio Bianchi's incendiary indictment of Brazil's sociopolitical decay and in equality "a film with the lucidity of a Bunuel, the cinematic intelligence of a Godard, and the comic grotesquerie of a John Waters." Chronically Unfeasible is truly a cinematic provocation of virulent power, and when it was released in Brazil the film caused an intense brouhaha among critics and audiences alike. Shot over a five-year period in all five regions of the country, this fictionalized documentary follows the experiences of six characters— of quite different origins and class— trying to survive the chaotic, brutal inequities of everyday Brazilian life. The stories revolve around a trendy restaurant in Sao Paulo owned by Luis (Cecil Thire), a refined 50-year-old with a rather sad sense of irony. Polish émigré Adam (Dan Stulbach) has just arrived to work as a waiter in Luis' estab lishment, where he harbors some strong opinions about labor-management relations. Restaurant man ager Amanda (Dira Paes) is a charmingly ambitious climber who regales customers and friends with possibly fictional tales about her mysterious past. Alfredo's a famous writer traveling around his home land, trying to grasp how and why Brazil has become so corrupt and exploitative ("Keep them poor, put on some music and that's that"). Other players include an upper-class couple, frequent restaurant customers, with interesting notions on how to treat the servant class. Everyone's a target in this hot, frenetic, colorful, often claustrophobic take on one country's cultural hypocrisy and corruption. Bianchi challenges with Brechtian agitprop rather than taking a conventional narrative approach; his vision though corrosive is never hopeless. Chronically Unfeasible is tough and thought provoking— a cinematic jeremiad applicable to urban life in almost any modern nation. A w a rd s:
Youth Jury Award: Environment Is Quality of Life, Locarno International Film Festival
Brazil 2000 D irecto r:
Sérgio Bianchi Prod ucers:
Sérgio Bianchi Gustavo Steinberg Alvarina Souza e Silva S c re e n w rite rs:
Sérgio Bianchi Gustavo Steinberg Cinematographers: Marcelo Coutinho Antonio Penido E d ito r:
Paulo Sacramento M usic:
Tom Jobim Arrigo Barnabe Helena Meirelles Carlos Lyra C a st:
Cecil Thiré Betty Goffman Daniel Dantas Umberto Magnani Dan Stulbach Dira Peres Running Tim e:
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A Causa Secreta (1994) Romance (1988) Did I Kill Them? (1982)
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Possible Loves Thursday May 31 9:30 PM Pacific Place Cinemas
Saturday June 2 9:30 PM Pacific Place Cinemas
Sunday June 3 11:30 AM Pacific Place Cinemas
Tuesday June 5 9:30 PM Egyptian Theatre
Brazil 2000 D ire cto r:
Sandra Werneck Pro d u cer:
Sandra Werneck S c re e n w rite rs :
Paulo Halm Maya Werneck Da-Rin C in e m a to g ra p h e r:
Walter Carvalho E d ito r:
Isabelle Rathery M usic:
Joao Nabuco C a st:
Murilo Benicio Carolina Ferraz Emilio de Mello Beth Goulart Irene Ravache Alberto Szafran Drica Moraes R unning T im e :
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Menemsha Entertainment P rin t So u rce:
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Pequeño Dicionario Amoroso (1997)
How would his life have turned out if Julia (Carolina Ferraz) has shown up for her date with Carlos (Murilio Benicio) 15 years earlier? Three outcomes are explored in this sophisticated and sexy romantic comedy that shows how our lives are shaped by chance— by mun dane rather than monumental events. The film begins and ends on a rain-drenched night at a Rio de Janeiro cinema, where we first meet Carlos, our striking hero replete with piercing eyes and a gorgeous mop, as he waits outside for a blind date with Julia. For reasons unexplained, she never shows up. A small annoyance in the course of one's life, yet.... In the first of three versions of Carlos's future, he is a wealthy lawyer with a comfortable but low-key marriage that has produced no children. His desire for passion is re ignited when he reencounters old flame Julia and begins an affair, although he cannot bring himself to leave one woman for the other. In the second variation, Carlos is divorced and places passion above all else, romantically attaching himself to Pedro, a hunky soccer player. However, the lingering attraction for his rejected ex-wife creates conflict. In the third possibility, Carlos unsuccessfully looks for love through a series of dis astrous relationships, relentlessly sneaking his onenight stands into his overly protective mother's house. Until, that is, former college friend Julia is located as his ideal soulmate by a computer-dating service. In each scenario a different facet of Julia and her relation to Carlos is explored— and each variation is affecting and genuine. Sexy and seductive, Possible Loves dares to explore the chance opportunities that we are normally afraid to claim.
Those who love George Romero's peerless Martin and David Cronenberg's early horror films will welcome the creepy GingerSnaps, a cult favorite-in-the-making. Teen sisters Brigitte and Ginger Fitzgerald stick out like sore thumbs among their yuppie classmates in bland Bailey Downs. Truly disgruntled with their lives, these morbid misfits find satisfaction in cementing their outsider status. They deliver an art project that documents their gruesome mock suicides, wear frumpy, unfashionable clothes and poke poisonously sarcastic fun at their peers. From the film's memorable opening scene, it's clear that something dark and dangerous is troubling the Fitzgerald's well-groomed suburb: A wild beast is eviscerating dogs and other small animals. Out walking late one night, the sisters are pursued by the mysterious creature and Ginger is seriously mauled.The attack coincides with the onset of her first period, and Ginger is strangely affected. Her wounds miraculously heal and she transforms into a femme fatale— with lots of body hair and an incipient tail! Shades of / Was a Teenaged Werewolf! Has Ginger been attacked by lycanthrope? Horror films about hormonally challenged teens are all too common, but truly intelligent manipulation of the genre's conventions are rare. The refreshingly inventive Ginger Snaps strikes the right notes, cleverly tying the plot to the terrifying mutations of adolescence. A w a rd s:
Best Canadian Feature Film - Special Jury Citation, Toronto International Film Festival
Canada 2000 D ire cto r:
John Fawcett P rod ucers:
Tina Goldist Karen Lee Hall Steven Hoban S c re e n w rite rs:
John Fawcett Karen Walton E d ito r:
Brett C Sullivan M usic:
Mike Shields C a st:
Emily Perkins Katharine Isabelle Kris Lemche Mimi Rodgers Jesse Moss Running Tim e :
107 minutes In te rn a tio n a l S a le s:
Lions Gate Films P rin t S ource:
Copper Heart Entertainment 55 Mont-Royal Ave West #303 Montreal, QC H2T 2S6 Canada Ph: 514.286.4266 Fax: 514.286.9995 Email: mark@sandde.com S e lec te d F ilm o g rap h y:
The Boys Club (1997)
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Latin American Cinema Prize, Sundance Film Festival
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Friday June 1 7:15 PM Egyptian Theatre Sunday June 3 4:00 PM Harvard Exit
Thursday June 7 5:00 PM Harvard Exit
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Canada 2000 D ire cto r:
Philippe Falardeau P ro d u ce rs:
Luc Déry Josée Roberge S c re e n w rite r:
Philippe Falardeau C in e m a to g ra p h e r:
Philippe Falardeau E d ito r:
Sophie Leblond C a st:
Paul Ahmarani Stéphane Demers Geneviève Néron Jules Philip R unning Tim e :
90 minutes In te rn a tio n a l S a le s:
Film Tonic P rin t So u rce:
Film Tonic International 5130 Boul. St-Laurent Montreal, QC H2T1R8 Canada Ph: 514.272.4425 Fax: 514.274.0214 Email: psarti@filmtonic.com S e le c te d Film o g ra p h y:
Feature Film Debut
Writer-director Philippe Falardeau serves up a mockumentary about joblessness that's so deft, so quirkily deadpan, some might mistake it for the real thing. Thirty-year-old Christophe (Paul Ahmarani) gets canned because he doesn't fancy a new assignment; that rather cavalier attitude complicates the mop haired mechanical engineer's chances of getting unemployment checks, not to mention another job. Every waking (and even sleeping) instant in his dryly hilarious quest for work in Montreal and environs is recorded via an in-his-face camcorder by roommate Stéphane (Stéphane Demers): "This film is like a thriller ...it ends when I find a job! " Along the way, we run through a gallery of employed and unemployed folk, ranging from a Vietnamese veterinarian who's reduced to running a Canadian convenience store to the fellow — sporting various scary signs of side-effects— who tries out new drugs for money. Stephane's jittery cam era eye registers Christophe's buddy as he earnestly explains how an alteration in the size of a sanitary napkin utilizes his engineering expertise; an un flappable exec's acid response to Christophe's Marxist rant ("You're a little late, ill-informed, and you make a very poor Michael Moore"); and a sweetly evolving love affair with Odile, a supermarket cashier (Gene viève Néron) with punk charm to spare. And make no mistake, it's flat-out charm and smarts that turn Falardeau's playful fiction about a clueless Candide— abroad in the world of getting-and-spending, haves and have-nots— into such an unforgettable hoot.
Acclaimed Québécois filmmaker Léa Pool marks her English-language debut with an evocative portrayal of adolescent love in the lives of three boarding-school girls. Based on Susan Swan's novel The Wives ofBath, the film begins as Mary (Mischa Barton, of The Sixth Sense and Lawn Dogs) is forcibly dropped off at school by her uncaring stepmother and father. Her small town naiveté shines forth as she gets to know her two roommates: Paulie (Coyote Uglÿs Piper Perabo), haunted by her desire to find her birth mother, and Tori (Stardom's Jessica Paré), a defiant child of affluence. As Mary— or "Mouse," as she prefers to be called— gets to know them better, it becomes apparent that behind closed doors Tori and Paulie are more than just friends. Only a bed away, they kiss, then gradually get more physical with each other, wrongly assuming that Mouse is unaware. Eventually, they boldly make love with Mouse pretending not to notice. Being somewhat confused, a little curious, but mostly just happy to have two friends, Mouse remains quite nonchalant about the whole affair, content to keep it between the three of them. However, when Tori's sister walks in at just the wrong moment one morning, the stage is set for tragedy. Lostand Delirious is a sobering look at young girls suffocated by society's pressures to shape all women with the same cookiecutter.
Canada 2001 D ire cto r:
Léa Pool Prod ucers:
Lorraine Richard, Greg Dummett, Louis-Phillppe Rochon S c re e n w rite r:
Judith Thompson C in e m ato g rap h e r:
Pierre Gill E d ito r:
Gaetan Huot M usic:
Yves Chamberland C a st:
Piper Perabo Jessica Paré Mischa Barton Jackie Burroughs Graham Greene Mimi Kuzyk Running T im e:
100 minutes P rin t Source:
Lions Gate Films 4553 Glencoe Avenue Marina Del Rey, CA 90292 USA Ph: 310.314.2000 Fax: 310.396.6041 Email: spokluda@lgecorp.com S e lected Film o g rap hy:
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Citytv AWARD for Best Canadian First Feature Film, Toronto International Film Festival; Best Canadian First Feature Film, Genie Awards; Claude Jutra Award, Genie Awards
Set Me Free (1999) Desire in Motion (1994) Rispondetemi (1992) Montreal Sextet (1991) Straight for the Heart (1988) Anne Trister (1986) A Woman in Transit (1984) Strass Café (1980) Laurent Lamerre, Portier (1978)
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Thursday June 14 9:30 PM Broadway Performance Hall
Saturday June 9 4:00 PM Pacific Place Cinemas
Friday June 15 Noon Egyptian Theatre
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Canada 2000 D irector:
Andrea Dorfman Producers:
Andrea Dorfman Kimberly Boyd Screenw riter:
Andrea Dorfman C inem atographer:
Andrea Dorfman Editor:
Scott Simpson Music:
Ian McGettigan Rob Benvie Cast:
Megan Dulop Michael LeBlanc Marla McLean Kenneth Wilson Harrington Shannon Cunningham Marcia Connolly Running Tim e:
84 minutes Print Source:
a.d. Pictures 2035 Bauer St Halifax, NS B2K 3W2 Canada Ph: 902.422.6810 Fax: 902.431.7427 Email: andreadorfman@hotmail.com Selected Film ography:
Swerve (1998)
A hipster comedy from smalltown Canada brimming over with kitsch, indie tunes and a dose of publichealth awareness. Kate (Megan Dunlop) teaches a bike-maintenance class at a cooperative while her longtime boyfriend Ollie (Mike Le Blanc) doles out advice and a stunning array of free contraceptives as "The Condom King" of the local clinic.They have been the model couple for years, admired by everyone in their idiosyncratic coterie of friends— including lesbian performance artists, herbalists, hustlers, pop crooners and retired folk— for their enduring love. The story's dilemma, however, hinges on the fact that when Kate finds out she's pregnant, her plans for a long life with the Condom King suddenly lose their luster; Kate no longer loves Ollie. Determined to munch her way to a natural abortion— a steady diet of parsley apparently does the trick— will Kate and Ollie's relationship sur vive? First-time director Dorfman delivers irresistible montage sequences of thrift-store shopping sprees, slow motion shots of banana seaters and BMX lowriders, set to a score of Casio keyboard solos, horns, acoustic guitars and falsetto poetry. Dorfman's comic, quirky vision transforms slackers into grown-up, wellinformed, conscientious and employed Canadians. A delightful salute to first loves, socialized medicine and catchy songs.
From the ominous opening line, "I have a body for you to pick up," first-time feature director Leonard Farlinger has crafted a taut script that reminds one foremost of the theater. The body in question belongs to one of two brothers— and over the course of the film we're never sure which it will turn out to be. In flashback, the estranged Ryan and Theo are reunited at the funeral of their father, an aloof man who nevertheless always seemed to "expect" something of them. Ryan (a captivating performance by Colm Feore, of 32 Short Films About Glenn Gould) is the meticulous and successful sibling, with a law career and a fashionable house in a nice Toronto suburb, while little brother Theo (David Cubitt) unravels everything he touches. Having just left rehab yet again, Theo girds himself for more upbraiding from his sib. But Ryan has a surprise in store: he reveals that he's been HIV positive for 10 years— "way past my expiry date." His secret life as a gay man is gradually dis closed after Theo agrees to become his primary care giver over his last months. The prospect of death seems to grant the punctilious Ryan permission to show some weakness, which in turn allows Theo, in consoling him, the opportunity to find his own strength and renewal. For his part, Ryan belatedly takes a real interest in his brother for the first time, including his floundering relationship with his girlfriend (Chandra West). In its quiet, understated, and beautifully performed way, this well-crafted AIDS drama fulfills the mission drawn from aspiring-writer Theo's favorite passage from Wuthering Heights— to "divide the isolation between us"— and delivers a bracing emotional impact.
Canada 2000 Director:
Leonard Farlinger Producer:
Jennifer Jonas Screenwriter:
Leonard Farlinger Cinem atographer:
Barry Stone Editor:
Glen Berman Music:
Ron Sures Cast:
Colm Feore David Cubitt Chandra West John Boylan Juan Chioran Running Time:
93 minutes International Sales:
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New Reel Films 669 Shaw Street Toronto, M6G 3L8 Canada Ph: 416.536.1696 Fax: 416.536.6090 Email: jjonas@interlog.com Selected Film ography:
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Suzanne L. Berger Larry Lalonde Screenwriters:
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Campbell Scott Fiona Loewi Bernard Behrens James Allodi Peter Donaldson Maggie Butterfield Hardee T. Lineham Tom Everett Scott Nigel Bennett Elisa Moolecherry Kathryn Kirkpatrick Running Time:
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If you recall with guilty pleasure '50s sci-fi creaturefeatures such as Them!, The Mole People and The Blob, you won't be able to resist the inspired silliness of Top of the Food Chain, John Paizs's brilliant spoof of an already fairly demented genre. (One reviewer described it as a recipe borrowed from "Ed Wood, David Lynch and Leave It to Beaver\ *) Something Very Strange is happening in Exceptional Vista, an eco nomic ghost town since the nut-and-bolt factory closed down: folks ordinarily obsessed with sex, fishing and watching TV are disappearing, leaving behind bodies that look like steak tartare. It's been determined they have been masticated by something with 200 to 202 teeth. Investigating this fast-food insanity from outer space is Dr. Karel Lamonte, a pipe-smoking, pompous, relentlessly optimistic atomic scientist (super-hilarious Campell Scott); Sandy Fawkes, a voluptuous heroine with a yen for the visiting brainiac and a strangely close relationship with her slow-witted brother Guy; and a police chief who composes and performs his own TV cop-show theme while on duty. These are the troops who must somehow save the world from alien monsters. Be assured that all heroic posturing, cliched dialogue and other comedic homages to sci-fi flicks are played strictly deadpan in this Canadian invasion of the body snackers. Known for The Big Crimewave, Paizs' additional film credits include The Obsession ofBilly Botskiand Three Worlds ofNick. His television credits include John Woo's Once
a Thief, Forever Knight, The Adventures of Shirley Holmes and the CBC/HBO series Kids in the Hall.
A potent tale of the decadence of the local Chilean aristocracy is told in Silvio Caiozzi's adaptation of José Donoso's 1958 first novel Coronation. Winner of the William Faulkner prize in 1963, Donoso is part of the "boom" of Latin American fiction that includes such writers as Carlos Fuentes and Gabriel García Márquez. Recipient of Chile's National Prize for Literature in 1990 and considered one of Latin America's finest living authors, Donoso has twice previously collab orated with director Caiozzi. Coronation centers on Don Andres, the sad, bookish heir of the wealthy Avalos family who feels that his 58 years of life has been wasted in philosophical speculation. When he contracts with 17-year-old peasant girl Estela to care for his 97-year-old grandmother, Don Andres' con templative life begins to disintegrate. His grandmother suffers from advanced senility, but nonetheless man ages to delight and shock us with her memories and observations of her son's growing obsession with Estela. At the same time, Don Andres discreetly ob serves the growing attraction between Estela and handsome, scheming Mario. In a sort of caricature of the repressed older man— hovering between human and grotesque extremes— Don Andres risks all for a chance at love, driven by his renewed sense of passion. The movie moves between the anguish of the upper class and the despair of the lower class. Eddie Cockrell of Variety writes that Coronation "has a keen sense of rhythm and atmosphere which invigorates the familiar story of loneliness and obsession."
2000 Oscar Submission, Best Foreign Language Film; Best Director, Montreal World Film Festival; Best director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Vina del Mar International Film Festival; Best Director, Best Film, Best Music, Latin American Film Festival of Trieste
Selected Film ography:
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Silvio Caiozzi Producer:
Carlos Necochea Screenw riter:
Silvio Caiozzi Cinem ato g rap her:
David Bravo Editor:
Fernando Guariniello Music:
Luis Advis Cast:
María Cánepa Julio Jung Adela Secall Paulo Meza Gabriela Medina Myriam Palacios Jaime Vadell Luis Dubó R unning Tim e:
140 minutes Print Source:
Andrea Films S.A. Federico Froebel 1755 Santiago, Chile Ph: 562.209.9031 Fax: 562.204.8988 Se lected Film ography:
Aw ards:
The Big Crime Wave (1985) The International Style (1983) Oak, Ivy, and Other Dead Elms (1982) Springtime in Greenland (1981)
Chile 2000
Fernando ha vuelto (1998) La Luna en el espejo (1990) Historia de un roble solo (1982) Julio comienza en julio (1977) A la sombra del sol (1974)
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Thursday June 7 7:15 PM Egytian Theatre
Sunday June 3 6:30 PM Broadway Performance Hall
Sunday June 10 1:45 PM Cinerama
Saturday June 9 3:30 PM Broadway Performance Hall
China 1999 Director:
Zhou Sun Producer:
Yong Huang Screenw riters:
Heng Liu Xiaoli Shao Zhou Sun C inem atographer:
Yue Lu Editors:
Nancy Muqing Ru Zhai M usic:
Jiping Zhao Cast:
Gong Li Gao Xin Shi Jing-Ming Guan Yue Running Tim e:
104 minutes International Sales:
Beneath the veil of oppression, great art flourishes. Witness the films that have emerged from Iran and China in recent years: personal stories told against a backdrop of subtle, often subversive, political com mentary. At the center of Sun Zhou's Breaking the Silence is China's restrictive policy on reproduction. Gong Li (Raise the Red Lantern, To Live) plays Sun Liying, a divorced mother trying to raise her hearingimpaired son, Zheng Da, on her own. She blames herself for her son's handicap, as well as for the break up of her marriage: "I couldn't give him a normal child." In addition, her son's handicap has contributed to a speech impediment, which keeps him from being accepted at school. When Zheng Da is involved in a fight, his hearing aid is smashed by bullies, and Sun Liying must raise 5,000 yuan to buy him a new one. Her first effort is to establish an underground book stall; but when it is raided and closed by the police, she must resort to poorly paid jobs such as delivering newspapers and becoming housekeeper for a businessman whom she must constantly fend off. Throughout, Gong Li gives a masterly, understated performance— all the more powerful for the depth and passion she instills in her simple character.
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Near the end of WWII, in a small Chinese farming village close by the Great Wall, the routine of farmer Ma Dasan (director and star Jiang Wen) is suddenly disrupted when two Japanese prisoners of war are dumped at his door in the middle of the night. A mysterious figure instructs Ma to guard and interro gate the prisoners for a few days, after which the Chinese resistance will pick them up again.The Japa nese— a fanatical soldier and his interpreter— are subjected to a chaotic interrogation by the ignorant villagers, who suddenly feel very important thanks to their new responsibility. Their attitude changes, however, when months pass and no one shows up to claim the prisoners. Fearing retribution by the Japanese troops who remain in the area, and with food running short, the villagers make a clumsy attempt to do away with the two men. When this fails, they hatch a plan to turn them over to the Japanese after exacting a letter from their captives testifying to the villagers' good treatment of them. But the Japanese regional commander proves to be a paranoid fanatic, and the situation turns dire. Jiang Wen, best-known for his striking performances in Red Sorghum and The Emperor's Shadow, won the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes for this startling, widescreen blend of black comedy and historical drama.
Best Actress, Montreal World Film Festival Aw ards:
Grand Prize of the Jury, Cannes Film Festival
China 2000 Director:
Wen Jiang Producers:
Sally Browning Wilson Da Silva Screenwriters:
Wen Jiang Haiying Li Xing Liu Jianquan Shi Ping Shu Fengwei You Cinem atographer:
Changwei Gu Editors:
Zhang Yifan Folmer Weisinger Music:
Cui Jian Li Haiying Liu Xing Cast:
Jiang Wen Kagawa Teruyukl Jiang Hongbo Chen Qiang Sawada Kenya Yuan Ding Running Time:
162 minutes International Sales:
Fortissimo Film Sales Selected Film ography:
Heartstrings (1993)
Print Source:
Fortissimo Film Sales Cruquiusweg 40 Amsterdam, 1019 AT The Netherlands Ph: 31.20.627.3215 Fax: 31.20.626.1155 Email: ¡nfo@fortissimo.nl Selected Film ography:
In the Heat of the Sun (1994)
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I Love Beijing
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The Road Home
XIARINUANYANGYANG Saturday June 16 6:30 PM Broadway Performance Hall
Friday June 8 7:15 PM Cinerama Tuesday June 12 5:00 PM Egyptian Theatre
Sunday June 17 9:30 PM Broadway Performance Hall
US PREMIERE
China 2001 Director:
Ning Ying Producers:
Sanping Han Zhonglei Wang Ning Ying Screenwriters:
Dai Ning Ning Ying Cinem atographer:
Fei Gao Editor:
Ning Ying Cast:
Yu Lei Zuo Baitao Hong Tao Yi Gai MiaoLiu Running Time:
97 minutes International Sales:
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Celluloid Dreams 24, rue Lamartine Paris, 75009 France Ph: 33.1.49.70.03.70 Fax: 33.1.49.70.03.71 Email: info@celluloid-dreams.com Selected Film ography:
On the Boat (1995) For Fun (1992) Somebody Falls in Love with Me (1990)
An atmospheric, emotionally charged tour through the rapidly changing face of the modern Chinese capital, Ning Ying's / Love Beijing begins by introducing us to Desi, our guide for this restless excursion. Young Desi is a recently divorced taxi driver who drifts be tween encounters with women, on a timeless search for love in this ever-evolving city. Like many newgeneration Chinese, he seems at a loss to find his compass in a world that holds little regard for tra ditional values: In adventures that are alternately amusing and beguiling, Desi busies himself with the pursuit of fares— especially good-looking ones with pretty legs— and has little interest in anything outside of work or his libido. We accompany him as he en counters a cross-section of the city's denizens, from the hucksters and hustlers who populate parks once filled with practitioners of Tai Chi and massage to the bored glamour girls of the shopping malls who fill their time in a relentless quest for new acquisitions. And always, there is Desi, cruising the streets in his quixotic search for something to fill the void left by his lack of a family or home. Director-coscreenwriter Ning Ying, whose graceful comedies For Fun and On the Beat enlivened past SIFFs, perfectly captures the tenor of this brave new China, revealing in long, seduc tive sequences just how much Beijing has changed since her earlier films. Her moving new work completes the trilogy in an altogether soulful, contemplative way.
This exquisite historical love story— unfolding in ravishing, widescreen color tableaux bookended by black-and-white segments set in the present day— draws us into a lost world where tradition, respect and love are the paramount values, and even the power of the state in postrevolutionary China cannot thwart the course of true love. As the film opens, Luo Yusheng returns to his parents' village home for the funeral of his father. His mother Zhao Di insists that, in accord with tradition, the father's coffin be carried along the road that leads to the old well. This is the same road on which, as a young man, Yusheng's father used to meet Zhao Di when he would return illicitly from his job as a schoolteacher in the city to court her. The task of transporting his father turns out to be much more difficult than Yusheng expects, and while he makes the complicated arrangements for the journey, his mother weaves the funeral cloth for her husband's coffin. In the interim, Luo Yusheng begins to reflect on the origins of his parents' long courtship, a romance interrupted by the first faint stirrings of the Cultural Revolution. Thus begins Zhang Yimou's stunning romantic saga of love in a time of upheaval, a deeply moving story in which a son rediscovers his own roots even as he contemplates the burial of his father. Zhang Ziyi, so breathtaking in Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, is radiant as Zhao Di. Winner of the Silver Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival.
Awards:
Don Quixote Award - Special Mention, Berlin International Film Festival
Aw ards:
Audience Award, World Cinema, Sundance Film Festival
China 2000 Director:
Zhang Yimou Producer:
Zhao Yu Screenw riter:
Bao Shi C inem atographer:
Hou Yong Editor:
Zhai Ru M usic:
San Bao Cast:
Zhang Ziyi Sun Honglei Zheng Hao Zhao Yuelin Li Bin Chang Guifa Sung Wencheng Liu Qi Ji Bo Zhang Zhongxi Running Tim e:
89 minutes Print Source:
Sony Pictures Classics 550 Madison Avenue New York, NY 10022 Ph: 212.833.8846 Fax: 212.833.4190 Email: Patricia_Hickey@spe.sony.com Se lected Film ography:
Not One Less (1999) You hua hao hao shuo (1997) Lumière et compagnie (1995) Shanghai Triad (1995) To Live (1994) Qiu Ju da guan si (1992) Raise the Red Lantern (1991) Ju Dou (1990) Daihao meizhoubao (1989) Hong gao liang (1987)
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Our Lady of the Assassins
YIXIZHUOMA
LA VIRGEN DE LOS SICARIOS
Saturday May 26 9:30 PM Pacific Place Cinemas
Sunday June 10 9:30 PM Egyptian Theatre
Monday May 28 9:30 PM Egyptian Theatre
Tuesday June 12 5:00 PM Cinerama
China 2000 D ire cto r:
Xie Fei P ro d u cers:
Han Sanping Wang Ping S c re e n w rite r
Xie Fei E d ito r:
Feng Sihai C a st:
Danzengzhuoga Laqiong Dawangdui Renqingdunzhu Dazhen Cirenduoii Basang Qunpeiluosang Tiehai Zhou R unning T im e :
104 minutes In te rn a tio n a l S a le s:
The Film Library P rin t So u rce :
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An epic, picturesque melodrama that spans much of the 20th century, Song of Tibet is the latest film from award-winning director Xie Fei (A Girl from Hunan, The Women From the Lake of Scented Souls). The story unfolds as a tale told in flashback. A young woman visits her grandparents in Lhasa; her grand father is dying and, while sitting together at his bedside, her grandmother Yixizhuoma begins to tell the story of her life, recounted like a lyrical storybook. Against the backdrop of the stunningly picturesque Tibetan landscape, a portrait of Yixi's youth unfolds. A beautiful young woman with a golden voice, she captivates three different men: the proud warrior-type Jiacuo, the young nobleman Gongsa, and her child hood friend who becomes a monk, Songqui Lama. Jiacuo kidnaps Yixi in battle and claims her as a bride, their relationship eventually evolving into a decadesspanning love affair. Over the years, with a backdrop of a half-century of political and social tumult, Yixi struggles to survive within and apart from the love of Jiacuo and the other men who shape her life. Tales of tragic separations and even more amazing reunions propel this moving journey to its culmination in the present day. Shot solely with Tibetan actors and with 90 percent of the dialogue in Tibetan, Song of Tibet is a rich, breathtaking journey into a culture rarely represented on the silver screen.
Se lecte d Film o g ra p h y:
A Mongolian Tale (1995) Women from the Lake of Scented Souls (1992) Black Snow (1990) A Girl from Hunan (1982)
In Barbet Schroeder's deeply affecting South American variation on Death in Venice, a world-weary writer (German Jaramillo) returns after 30 years abroad to Medellin in Colombia, his hometown. (Schroeder himself lived as a child in Colombia, and Assassins was adapted by Fernando Vallejo from his autobio graphical novel.) Everyone in the prodigal son's family has passed away, and he himself seems to have lost his will to live: "I have done all that I wanted to do." Medellin, drug-soaked capital of continual random violence, would seem to be the perfect place for a jaded Euro sophisticate to pack it in. But Fernando meets Alexis, a good-looking gangkid (Anderson Ballesteros), at a gay party and they start a casual affair. The odd couple— an educated, acerbic cosmo politan and an illiterate 16-year-old who knows nothing but Medellin's mean streets— drift around the places Fernando remembers from his youth, mostly corrupted now, and become more and more attached to each other. Strangely, the adrenaline jolt from life experienced on the edge— every time they go out there's the chance Alexis will be shot down by a rival gangmember— resurrects Fernando's existential and emotional appetite. Things go very wrong, as they must, but Schroeder's tale of unexpected love and modern barbarism never stoops to titillating shock tactics. The tough truth about a soul's surprising rebirth and redemption is generated by the impeccable performances of— and chemistry between— theatre actor Jaramillo and actual streetkid Ballesteros; and the sometimes jumpy digital cinematography (Schroeder's choice in order to shoot fast under extremely dangerous conditions) documents a vision of chaos, hell on earth, out of which a terrible beauty is born. A w a rd s:
Best work Non-Latin American Director and Subject, Havana Film Festival; President of the Italian Senate's Gold Medal, Venice Film Festival
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Barbet Schroeder Prod ucers:
Jaime Osorio Gomez Margaret Menegoz Barbet Schroeder S c re e n w rite r:
Fernando Vallejo C in e m ato g rap h e r:
Rodrigo Lalinde Ed ito r:
ElsaVasquez M usic:
Jorge Valencia C a st:
Gérman Jaramillo Anderson Ballesteros Juan David Restrepo Manuel Busquets R unning T im e :
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Desperate Measures (1998) Before and After (1996) Kiss of Death (1995) Single White Female (1992) Reversal of Fortune (1990) Barfly (1987) Tricheurs (1983) Koko, le gorille qui parle (1977) Maîtresse (1976) ldi Amin Dada (1974) La Vallée (1972) More (1969)
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Divided We Fall
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Friday May 25 7:15 PM Broadway Performance Hall
Friday May 25 9:30 PM Pacific Place Cinemas Saturday May 26 1:45 PM Pacific Place Cinemas
Saturday May 26 12:30 PM Broadway Performance Hall
Croatia 2000 D ire cto r:
Vinko Bresan P ro d u ce rs:
LjuboSikic Ivan Maloc S c re e n w rite rs :
Ivo Bresan Vinko Bresan C in e m a to g ra p h e r:
Zivko Zalar E d ito r:
Sandra Botica Bresan M usic:
Mate Matesic C a st:
Draz en Kuhn Linda Begonja Llija Ivezic Ivo Gregurevic Boris Buzancic R unning T im e :
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A serious contemporary topic— how people in Croatia and elsewhere in former Yugoslavia live with the spirit of Marshal Tito— is treated here in a memorably droll and humorous manner. Events unfold on a small island off the Croatian coast that has been in a sorry state since the Balkan wars.Things change when the ghost of Marshal Tito puts in an appearance at the funeral of an elderly partisan. Further ghostly sightings give the former Communist veterans the encouragement they need to dust off their ancient uniforms and come out in the open. New-style capitalist Mayor Luka, wheeler-dealer owner of the island's only hotel and restaurant, profits from the situation by introducing "socialist spiritualistic tourism." Soon the island is invaded by partisans, secret agents (watch for the hilarious X-Files parody), junkies, nationalists and communists. Stipan, a poker-faced young policeman, is sent over from the mainland to investigate. Ulti mately a couple of World War II medals provide a key to the mystery— and lead to love. Director Bresan was born in 1964 on the Croatian island of Sibenik. He made his feature debut with the prize-winning satire How the WarStarted on My Little Island(1996), which, like this gem, was also co-written by his father Ivo.
Achab Film P rin t So u rce:
Achab Film Viale Gorizia 24/c Rome, 00198 Italy Ph: 39.06.854.7230 Fax: 39.06.8535.5692 Email: jef.nuyts@tiscalinet.it S e lec te d F ilm o g ra p h y:
How the War Started on My Island (1996)
A w a rd s:
Best Director, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival; Oscar Submission, Best Foreign Language Film; Wolfgang Staudte Award, Berlin International Film Festival
Jan Hrebejk and Petr Jarchovsky— the team behind last year's popular Cosy Dens— bring us Divided We Fall, a black comedy based on a true story about how heroes can be cowards and cowards can be heroes. Finalist for the 2001 Academy Award for Best Foreign Picture, the action takes place in a small town in Czechoslovakia occupied by German forces during the last years of World War II. A childless couple, Josef (Boleslav Pollvka, A Forgotten Light, Cosy Dens) and Marie Cizek (Anna Siskova), find themselves respon sible for a precious burden— not a new baby, but the Jewish son (Csongor Kassai) of Josef's former boss, who has escaped from a concentration camp and is looking for a place to hide. Despite the danger, Josef and Marie hide him in a storage closet in their home, even though Horst (Jaroslav Dusek), a Nazi collabo rator and ex-coworker of Josef's, keeps sniffing around suspiciously— not to mention amorously, when it comes to the lovely Maria. In order to divert the eagleeyed German authorities as well as to protect the neighbors from reprisals, Josef reluctantly takes a German office job. Plot twists pile up at a drastic pace; people in extremis do the strangest things! Divided We Fall is saturated with complex ethical dilemmas and tragicomic solutions that demonstrate the strengths and weaknesses of human beings facing the worst hand history has to deal. A w a rd s:
Oscar nominee, Best Foreign Language Film; FIPPRESCI Award, Cottbus Film Festival of Young East European Cinema; Golden Kinfisher, Pilsen Film Festival; Most Popular Film, Vancouver International Film Festival
Czech Republic 2000 D irecto r:
Jan Hrebejk Prod ucer:
Ondrej Trojan S c re e n w rite r:
Petr Jarchovsky C in e m ato g rap h e r:
Jan Malir E d ito r:
Vladimir Barak M usic:
Ales Brezina C ast:
Boleslav Polivka Anna Siskova Jaroslav Dusek Csongor Kassai Jiri Pecha Simona Stasovä Martin Huba Jiri Kodet Vladimir Marek Running Tim e:
117 minutes In te rn a tio n a l S ale s:
Czech Television TELEXPORT P rin t S ource:
Sony Pictures Classics 550 Madison Avenue New York, NY 10022 Ph: 212.833.8846 Fax: 212.833.4190 Email: Patricia_Hickey@spe.sony.com S e lec te d F ilm o g rap h y:
Cosy Dens (1999) Sakali leta (1993) Nedelejte nie, pokud k tomu nernate väzny duvod (1991) Co vsechno chcete vedet o sexu a bojite se to prozit (1988)
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Little Otik
KURE MELANCHOLIK
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Monday June 4 7:15 PM Harvard Exit
Tuesday June 12 7:15 PM Egyptian Theatre
Saturday June 9 11:30 AM Harvard Exit
Wednesday June 13 5:00 PM Harvard Exit
US PREMIERE
Czech Republic 2000 Director:
Jaroslav Brabec Producer:
Milos Remen Screenw riters:
Jaroslav Brabec Vladimir Korner C inem atographers:
Jaroslav Brabec Martin Cech Jiri Macak Editor:
Filip Issa Music:
Jan Jirasek Cast:
Karel Roden Anna Geislerova Vilma Cibulkova Vlasta Chramostova Martin Huba Lubomir kostelka Running Tim e:
116 minutes International Sales:
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Beltfilm s.v.o. Sekaninova 52 Praha 2,128 00 Czech Republic Ph: 420.2.692.6564 Fax: 420.2.692.6536 Email: beltfilm@iol.ck Selected Filmography: A Bloody Romance (1993)
Yes, The Melancholy Chicken does sound like the most preposterous title of the year, but don't let that throw you. This Czech fable, set in some of the most spec tacular countryside you'll ever see and captured through truly visionary cinematography, is a spell binding experience. As seen largely through the eyes of Loyzik, a five-year-old boy, the film feels like a fairy tale that keeps being waylaid by the impulses and susceptibilities of the adults surrounding the lad. His father in particular (Karel Roden, the wacko killer in Fifteen Minutes) means well enough by his family and their ancestral farmstead, but he can't keep his pants up whenever he sets eyes on the voluptuous barmaid in the village. After Loyzik loses his mother in an astounding stroke of ill fortune, even the idyllic nature that wraps round the farm begins to seem poisoned, turned on end, poised to slide into infinity.The chicken from which the film takes its title is a remnant of the past for Loyzik and also a symbol of the present. It maintains the power of dream for the boy when he is threatened most, and remains his only companion as the adults are caught up inexorably in intrigues that spiral toward a devastating conclusion. Throughout, the visuals are transporting. They bring to life a gor geous, ethereal world that resides at the edge of all our collective intuitions, or dreams— or perhaps memories— of lost paradise.
Filmmaker, animator, poet, sculptor, designer, graphic artist, author and card-carrying Surrealist, Jan Svankmajer has shocked, mesmerized, repulsed and de lighted audiences across the world. Svankmajer's films are rich and diverse technically, utilizing live action along with puppets, collage, animation and montage. His Conspirators of Pleasure blended the grotesque, gothic and fantastic in its exploration of the many weird ways men and women find delight in the world. Svankmajer's most accessible film to date, Little Otik is a fairy tale— but this is no ordinary bedtime story. Everything is charged with a life of its own (even the oatmeal bubbles forth from the screen), and the world of "nature" is scary and without limits. Based on a classic fairy tale by Karel Jaromir Erben, a 19th century Czech writer, Little Otik is a wild ramble through Svankmajer's imagination. The story focuses on a childless couple, the Horaks (Jan Haiti and Veronika Zilkova) who receive the sad news that they cannot conceive a child. To distract themselves, they buy a summer home. One day, Mr. Horak is digging in the garden and uncovers a tree root. He pretends it's a baby to placate his wife, who immediately adopts it as her own. At first they hide this ruse, knowing that their curious neighbors might think them crazy for dressing a stump in frilly white baby things. Eventually little Otik comes to life at his mother's breast, growing exponentially with a Herculean hunger, and begins to really shake up the neighborhood. Precocious Alzbetka (Kristyna Adamcova), the neighbor's wise kid, is the only one who knows what's going on with Otik and that's because she's read the story and knows the ending.
Czech Republic/ Great Britain 2000 Director:
Jan Svankmajer Producers:
Keith Griffiths Jaromir Kallista Jan Svankmajer Screenwriter:
Jan Svankmajer Cinem atographer:
Juraj Galvánek Editors:
Marie Zemanová Music:
Carl Maria von Weber Cast:
Veronika Zilková Jan Haiti Kristina Adamcová Jaroslava Kretschmerová Pavel Novy Joseph Cahill Tomás Hanák Dagmar Stríbrná Running Time:
125 minutes International Sales:
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Zeitgeist Films 247 Centre Street, 2nd Floor New York, NY 10013 U.S.A. Ph: 212.274.1989 Fax: 212.274.1644 Selected Film ography:
Conspirators of Pleasure (1997) Faust (1994) Food (1992) The Death of Stalinism in Bohemia (1990) Animated Self-Portraits (1989) Flora (1989) Meat Love (1989) Darkness/Light/Darkness (1989) Another Kind of Love (1988) The Male Game (1988)
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A Place Nearby
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Baise-moi (Rape Me)
HER IN AERH ED EN Monday June 4 7:15 PM Pacific Place Cinemas
Wednesday June 13 9:30 PM Egyptian Theatre
Wednesday June 6 5:00 PM Pacific Place Cinemas
Saturday June 16 Midnight Egyptian Theatre
Denmark 2000 D irector:
Kaspar Rostrup Producer:
Tina Dalhoff S cre e n w rite r:
Kaspar Rostrup C inem atog rapher:
Eric Kress Editor: Grete Moldrup M usic:
Fuzzy C ast:
Ghita Norby Thure Lindhardt Frits Helmuth Henning Moritzen Magnus Stahl Jacobsen Bodil Lindorff Hannah Bjarnhof Running Tim e:
98 minutes
The magnificent Danish actress Ghita N0 rby (Freud Leaving Home, Hamsun) takes center stage in this unconventional thriller, offering an intense portrayal of an overly protective single mother worried that her autistic son may have murdered a young girl. Mrs. Nielsen, who runs a store in a small provincial town, loves her 20-something son Brian to the point of suffocation, and takes endless pains to control his contact with the rest of the world. One hot summer night, Brian is late returning from a walk. The next morning news spreads of a murder in the park. Mrs. Nielsen immediately suspects Brian and begins to destroy potentially incriminating evidence. Afraid to know the truth, she doesn't question her son, but tells him to say he was in bed, asleep. When wily veteran Detective Jesperson (known as "The Fox") takes up the case, his relentless investigation threatens to drive mother and son to the breaking point. The claustrophobia and oppression felt by the characters is underscored by Eric Kress's brilliant cinematography. Selected as Denmark's Oscar submission for Best Foreign Film, A Place Nearby tells the story of an overpowering love that exacts a terrible price.
In tern atio n al Sales:
Nordisk Film International Sales P rin t Source:
Danish Film Institute Vognmagergade 10 Copenhagen, DK-1120 Denmark Ph: 45.3374.3400 Fax: 45.3374.3435 Email: lngemerete@dfi.dk Selected Film og raphy:
Waltzing Mad Regitze (1989) Jeppe pa Bjerget (1981)
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Oscar Submission Best Foreign Language Film; Johan Ankerstjernes Cinematography Award, Bodil Awars; Special Award of the President of Polish State Film Commitee, Camerimage; Hollywood Discovery Award for Best Feature, Hollywood Film Festival
Imagine Thelma and Louise stripped of glamour, palatable political message, euphemized sex and violence— and you're well-embarked in the contro versial territory of Baise-moi(translated by co-directors Virginie Despentes and CoralieTrinh Thi as Rape Me). Called radical and revolutionary by some, ugly and revolting by others, it's an exhilarating film that incontrovertibly breaks new ground in the cinematic treatment of female rage and aggressive sexuality. Like Catherine Breillat's Romance, Rape Me (adapted from Despentes' successful 1995 novel) employs and empowers— sans regrets— the transgressive feminine point of view. This down-and-dirty woman's actionfilm opens with a brutal rape: Victim Manu (Raffaela Anderson) deals with her violation by refusing to assign value to what her assailants have looted from her. Not much later, she casually offs a guy, then hooks up with Nadine (Karen Bach), who's just strangled a nagging roommate. (Both Anderson and Bach, as well as other castmembers, are porn-movie vets.) This dangerous duo explodes across France, one step ahead of the cops, casually murdering the innocent and the guilty alike, bedding down with pick-ups in graphically portrayed sexual scenarios: "The more you screw, the less you think, and the better you sleep." Because Despentes andTrinhThi refused to sugarcoat their relentlessly subversive movie, censors have had their day in France and in Canada. Rape Me is the kind of anarchic, visceral film-experience that ener gizes the viewer into wrestling mano a mano with tough questions about art and pornography, freedom of expression, the darkside of the distaff psyche.
France 2000 D ire cto rs:
Virginie Despentes Coralie Trinh Thi P ro d u cers:
Dominique Chiron Phillippe Godeau S c re e n w rite r:
Coralie Trinh Thi C in e m a to g rap h e r:
Benoît Chamaillard E d ito r:
Ailo Auguste M usic:
Varou Jan C a st:
Raffaëla Anderson Karen Lancaume Delphine MacCarty Lisa Marshall Estelle Isaac Herve P. Gustavé Marc Rioufol Ouassini Embarek R unning T im e :
76 minutes In te rn a tio n a l S a le s:
Wild Bunch P rin t So u rce:
FilmFixx 1620 Broadway Suite C Santa Monica, CA 90404 Ph: 310.453.4933 Fax: 310.829.0599 Email: mail@filmfixx.com S e le c te d Film o g rap h y:
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Come Undone
The Closet
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LE PLACARD Saturday June 9 7:00 PM Egyptian Theatre
Tuesday June 12 7:15 PM Pacific Place Cinemas
Monday June 11 2:30 PM Cinerama
Thursday June 14 2:30 PM Cinerama
France 2000 D ire cto r:
Francis Veber P ro d u cers:
Patrice Ledoux Alain Poiré S c re e n w rite r:
Francis Veber C in e m a to g ra p h e r:
Luciano Tovoli E d ito r:
Georges Klotz M usic:
Vladimir Cosma C a st:
Daniel Auteuil Gérard Depardieu Thierry Lhermitte Michèle Laroque Michel Aumont Jean Rochefort Alexandra Vandernoot Stanislas Crevillén Edgar Givry Thierry Ashanti Armelle Deutsch Irina Ninova Marianne Groves Michèle Garcia R unning T im e :
Two years ago Francis Veber's The Dinner Game opened the Seattle International Film Festival and had the gala audience rolling in the aisles. Now Veber returns to the fest with his newest work, The Closet, an equally hilarious romp in the same tradition as La Cage Aux Folles (on which he worked as screenwriter). François Pignon (the usually somber Daniel Auteuil in a rare comic part) lives a very dull life. He spends his days as an accountant in a condom factory and his nights doing nothing much. But soon his life begins to unravel: his wife and 17-year-old son abandon him, and his position at the factory becomes endan gered. Slated to be laid off, Pignon is desperate to keep his job. Then his neighbor Belone, a retired psychologist, proposes a solution: Pignon should start a rumor around the factory that he is gay, so that his employers won't fire him for fear of being slapped with a sexual discrimination lawsuit. It works only too well: Pignon soon finds everyone intrigued by his "hidden" lifestyle. His formerly simple life becomes complicated as he attracts unwanted attention— especially from Santini (Gérard Depardieu at his macho best), a homophobe forced to work with Pignon in order to keep his own job. The plot twists intertwine gloriously, rising to a climax with all the comic hallmarks of Veber's past triumphs. The Closet is a can't-miss for anyone who loves uproarious Gallic comedy.
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Miramax Films Inc 375 Greenwich Street, 3rd Floor New York, NY 10013 USA Ph: 212.941.3800 Fax: 212.941.3928
A summer at the seaside takes brooding 18-year-old Mathieu (Jérémie Elkaôm) from numbed adolescence into uncertain adulthood in director-cowriter Sébas tien Lifshitz's gay coming-of-age film.Told in a shifting narrative that intermingles past, present and future, Come Undone introduces us to Mathieu as he bakes, expressionless, on the beach with his sister. The cure to his catatonia lies just a few feet away in the impossibly handsome form of Cédrlc (Stéphane Rideau— France's answer to Jude Law). At first, Mathieu responds tentatively to Cédric's attentions, enjoying nighttime make-out sessions but keeping his distance by day. After all, what will his family think of Mathieu's newfound gay identity? Soon, however, the two are having a full-blown affair, punctuated by raucous singing and body-thumping sex. Lifshitz uses his time-jumping narrative to good effect, showing the past forces that have shaped Mathieu and giving us glimpses of him several months in the future. That future is not all sweetness and light, but neither is it unremitting darkness— in fact, it's a lot like life. Very well acted, with Perry Blake's melancholy score nicely underlining Mathieu's journey from emotional iso lation to the heights— and depth— of adult feeling.
France 2000 D ire cto r:
Sébastien Lifshitz P rod ucers:
Marion Hansel Christian Tison S c re e n w rite rs:
Sébastien Lifshitz Stéphane Bouquet C in e m ato g rap h e r:
Pascal Poucet E d ito r:
Yann Dedet M usic:
Perry Blake C a st:
Jérémie Elkaïm Stéphane Rideau Dominique Reymond Marie Matheron Laetitia Legrix Nils Ohlund Réjane Kerdaffrec Guy Houssier Running Tim e:
98 minutes P rin t Source:
Picture This! Entertainment 7471 Melrose, Ste # 7 Los Angeles, CA 90046 Ph: 323.852.1398 Fax: 323.658.7265 Email: funnagan@aol.com S e lec te d Film o g rap h y:
Les Corps ouverts (1998)
S e lec te d Film o g ra p h y:
Dinner for Shmucks (2001) The Dinner Game (1998) Le Jaguar (1996) Out on a Limb (1992) Three Fugitives (1989) Les Compères (1983)
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Friday June 8 9:30 PM Cinerama
Thursday June 14 7:15 PM Broadway Performance Hall
Sunday June 10 1:45 PM Egyptian Theatre
Friday June 15 2:30 PM Harvard Exit
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France 2000 D irecto r:
Mathieu Kassowitz Producers:
Alain Goldman Catherine Morisse S cre e n w rite r:
Mathieu KassoVitz Cinem atog rapher:
Thierry Arbogast E d ito r:
Maryline Monthieux M usic:
Bruno Coulais C ast:
Jean Reno Vincent Cassel Nadia Fares Dominique Sanda Karim Belkhadra Jean-Pierre Cassel Didier Flamand François Levantal Francine Bergé Running Tim e:
105 minutes P rin t Source:
Screen Gems 10102 West Washington Blvd Culver City, CA 90232 USA Ph: 310.244.7846 Fax: 310.244.0046 Email: jason_geffen@spe.sony.com
Based on the best-selling novel Les Rivieres Pourpres by Jean-Christophe Grange, Mathieu Kassovitz's pal pably brutal thriller stars Jean Reno and Vincent Cassel as cops investigating separate crimes in the icy French Alps. Described as Se7en French-style, the film opens with the gruesome discovery of a university professor's mutilated body hog-tied on a mountain in the alpine city of Guernon. Not used to handling such atrocities, the local police call in Pierre Niemans (Jean Reno), the legendary crime-solver from Paris. The hawknosed, cigarette-smoking icon of unshaven cool arrives to begin investigations at the mountaintop campus where the victim used to work. Meanwhile, another mystery is taking place a few hundred miles away in Sarzac, where a young girl's grave has been desecrated with swastikas. In this case, the investigator is Max Kerkerian (Vincent Cassel), a leather-jacketed loner who can hold his own in karate or trading barbed dialogue. The film cuts back and forth between these two men and their investigations until the mysterious circumstances that surround their violent and bizarre cases are linked together with astonishing revelations. Filled with a healthy dose of car chases, plot twists, red herrings and fight scenes, and set against the breathtaking backdrop of the Alps, Crimson Rivers is a provocative thriller of a complexity and texture rarely achieved in Hollywood.
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Ronan Girre debuts with an endearing modern ro mance about two Parisian 20-somethings, an under achieving type and a hard-driving careerwoman who are most certainly not meant for each other— and that's where the fun in this offbeat comedy begins! Alexis (Bruno Putzulu), a sometime actor, is perfectly content to make a minimal living as a night watchman so that he can indulge his addictions: watching horror movies and cutting a wide swath through the various neurotic girlfriends he beds and leaves behind. His older, wiser friend (Emmanuelle Meyssignac), a suc cessful actress who has chosen to remain unattached, introduces him to the formidable Laura (Estelle Skornik), a very successful CEO who literally breathes fire when she's crossed— or when she has to fire large numbers of hapless employees. Alexis fears commit ment; better at work than love, Laura's just been dumped...again. The fire-breather transforms the slacker and he becomes a hot ticket as an actor. In his newfound arrogance, Alexis assumes that his success is of his own devising— writing off Laura's contribu tion. Not a good move. Manhood and Other Modern Dilemmas takes a bracing plunge into the difficulties of contemporary relationships, utilizing ironic over voice commentary by the characters, title cards that reflect the couple's emotional ups and downs, and wild color to suggest states of mind— think cinematic mood-ring! In this effervescent comedy, Putzulu and Skornik are so real, so engaging as Alexis and Laura that we happily stick with them through all their modern dilemmas.
A w a rd s:
Assassin(s) (1997) Hate (La Haine) (1995) Métisse (Café au lait) (1993) Assassins (1992) Cauchemar blanc (1991) Fierrot le pou (1990)
Best Screenplay, Stockholm Film Festival
AmericanAiiünes
France 2000 D ire cto r:
Ronan Girre Pro d u ce r:
Gérard Jourd'Hui S c re e n w rite r:
Ronan Girre C in e m a to g rap h e r:
Dominique Colin E d ito r:
Anna Ruiz M usic:
Ronan Girre C a st:
Bruno Putzulu Estelle Skornik Sandrine Leberre Emmanuelle Meyssignac Olga Sekulic Philippe Nahon R unning T im e :
88 minutes P rin t So u rce:
Blue Dahlia Productions 20 rue de Bucarest Paris, 75008 France Ph: 33.1.44.69.31.41 Fax: 33.1.44.69.31.42 S e le c te d Film o g rap h y:
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National 7
UNE AFFAIRE DE GOÛT Friday May 25 9:30 PM Broadway Performance Hall
Tuesday June 5 7:15 PM Broadway Performance Hall
Tuesday May 29 5:00 PM Harvard Exit
Friday June 8 5:00 PM Pacific Place Cinemas
France 2000 D ire cto r:
Bernard Rapp Pro d u cers:
Catherine Dussart Chantal Perrin S c re e n w rite r:
GillesTaurand C in e m a to g ra p h e r:
Gerard de Battista E d ito r:
Juliette Welfling M usic:
Jean-Phillipe Goude C a st:
Bernard Giraudeau Jean-Pierre Lorit Florence Thomassin Jean-Pierre Leaud Artus de Penguern Charles Berling Laurent Spielvogel Anne- Marie Philipe R unning T im e :
Frédéric Delamont is a powerful industrial magnate in his 50s. He's at the peak of his success, and he flaunts his refined and peculiar tastes. Over lunch at a fancy restaurant he takes a liking to his waiter, Nicolas Rivière, a hot-tempered young man prone to odd jobs and adversity. Frédéric offers Nicolas a hand some salary to become his personal food taster. What begins as an unusual gastronomic adventure soon reveals itself to be a much more dangerous game for both men. Desiring Nicolas to conform to his prefer ences, Frédéric acts as a perverse Pygmalion, cruelly shaping the younger man's taste in food, wine and clothing. As played by the imposingly creepy Bernard Giraudeau (who brings further nuances to the sadisti cally domineering persona he introduced in François Ozon's Waterdrops on Burning Rocks), Frédéric be haves as if his enormous wealth can purchase any thing. The penniless Nicolas is soon seduced by Frédéric's lavish lifestyle, dismissing his girlfriend's worries about his changing personality and values. Sinister and captivating, and spiced with homoeroti cism, A Matter of Taste will have you on the edge of your seat, anticipating the final course.
95 minutes In te rn a tio n a l S a le s:
Artbox P rin t So u rce:
Attitude Films 300 Mercer St #26L New York, NY 10003 USA Ph: 212.995.9008 Fax: 212.254.5135 Email: andrew@attitudefilms.com S e lec te d Film o g ra p h y:
Limited Edition (1997)
A w a rd s:
Unravel Award, Critics Award and Grand Prix, Cognac Film Festival; Special Mention, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
Winner of audience awards at Berlin and San Sebas tián, Jean-Pierre's National 7 revolves around the neglected sexual desires of the handi-capped. Based on a true story— and made as a tribute to the di rector's sister and a handicapped friend whose desire for love was still bright at his death— the film man ages to provide a respectful yet humor-filled portrayal of disabled people with their passion and predis positions displayed alongside their courage and limitations. It centers on René, a resident in an assisted-living facility with a reputation for being a pain in the neck. He has an insatiable appetite for porn and insists that his foul moods are caused by lack of copulation. His calls for someone to find him a suitable partner go unanswered until a new nurse named Julie is persuaded to take up his cause. She sets out to get approval for prescribed sex with a prostitute for "medical reasons." Thwarted by the bureaucracy, she goes forward anyway and finds Florete, a whore with a heart of gold, at one of the rest stops along the National 7 freeway. (Of course, the nurses have to bring a ramp to wheel René into Florele's van.) When the other residents start to catch on to René's special treatment, they demand to have their needs taken care of. Intriguing and comical subplots include Rabah, a gay handicapped Muslim orphan who wants to convert to Catholicism but is in need of godparents, and Julie's dating tribulations with a suitor allergic to her cat. Whimsical, funny and genu inely touching, National 7 raises serious issues of equality and diversity without succumbing to political correctness.
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Panorama Audience Award, Berlin International Film Festival; FIPRESCI Award and Satyajit Ray Award, London Film Festival; Audience Award, San Sebastián Film Festival
BRITISH AIRWAYS T h e w o rld 's fa v o u rite a ir lin e
France 2000 D irecto r:
Jean-Pierre Sinapi Prod ucer:
Jacques Fansten S c re e n w rite rs:
Anne-Marie Catois Jean-Pierre Sinapi C in e m ato g rap h e r:
Jean-Paul Meurisse E d ito r:
Catherine Schwartz C a st:
Nadia Kaci Olivier Gourmet Lionel Abelanski Chantal Neuwirth Said Taghmaoui Gérald Thomassin Running T im e:
92 minutes In te rn a tio n a l S ale s:
Wild Bunch P rin t Source:
Remstar International 85 Saint Paul West Montreal, QC H2Y 3V4 Canada Email: adler@remstarcorp.com Se lecte d F ilm o g rap h y:
Boccetta revient de guerre ( 1987) Dossier dopage: Contre-la-montre (2000) (TV)
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Night Shift TROIS H UIT Tuesday May 29 9:30 PM Harvard Exit
Wednesday June 13 9:30 PM Harvard Exit
Wednesday May 30 5:00 PM Harvard Exit
Thursday June 14 5:00 PM Harvard Exit
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France 2001 Director: Philippe Le Guay Producers: Alain Rocca Bertrand Faivre Adeline Lecailler Screenwriter: Régis Franc Cinematographer: Jean Marc Fabre Editor: Emmanuelle Castro Music: Yann Tiersen Cast: Gérald Laroche Marc Barbe Luce Mouchel Bastien Le Roy Running Time: 96 minutes International Sales: Flach Pyramide International Print Source: Flach Pyramide International 5, rue Richepanse Paris, 75008 France Ph: 33.1.42.960.220 Fax: 33.1.40.200.551 Email: pricher@cybercable.fr Selected Filmography: L'année Juliette (1995) Les Deux Fragognards (1989)
When family man Pierre moves from the day shift to the night shift of a French provincial glass factory, he is singled out by a fellow worker for special treatment. At first the taunting resembles the typical hazing of a newcomer, but the harassment soon increases in intensity, moving toward violence. This psychological thriller pits a straightforward, though slightly goofylooking, worker against a loose cannon. It appears that Pierre and his nemesis, Fred, have come to an understanding when the former asks his workmates to help him lay a concrete floor for a house he's building. The film's genius lies in the way it repeatedly confuses the viewer as to the players' truest intentions. The undercurrent of unease becomes stronger as over and over again Pierre is convinced Fred has changed his ways; and then apparently genuine honesty and tenderness once more degenerate into threats of physical violence. While persuading everyone that Pierre is his friend, Fred takes every opportunity to crush him. It's no wonder that Pierre is pushed to the brink of insanity. Night Shift has a homoerotic, even sadomasochistic subtext. Based on a true story, this grim character study— with no frills and no stars — packs enough tension and emotion to keep the suspense building straight through to the teethgritting climax.
Eraserhead meets Silence of the Lambs in this fabu lously freaky debut by two French filmmakers previ ously known for their bizarre experimental short films. As this hallucinatory black-and-white nightmare opens, an old man is watched over by a rat that in habits the dark corners of a shack near the outskirts of a staid provincial town. On this particular day, the old man is hunched over his latest project: an homage to his dear, departed mother that requires him to lure young women back to his place to become a part of the artwork he's creating in her image. As he prepares to venture out into the cold spring air, he's unaware that this day will bring reconciliation with his childhood demons.... Eschewing dialogue and conventional narrative structure in favor of haunting imagery and a soundtrack that melds classical music and industrial noise, this bold foray into the territory of Lynch, Dreyer and Laughton is unlike anything you're likely to have seen on screen in recent years. And though its running time is unconventionally brief, its nightmarish visual images and sounds will play on in your head long after the curtain has closed on this gruesome tale's dark protagonist. Preceded by Scarecrow, directed by Alexander Kott (Russia, 2000, 15 minutes). In the middle of the steppes, a young boy spends his vacation with his grandfather, but there is no one to play with except the scarecrow. The boy's solitude, however, is inter rupted by the arrival of a truck driver and a little girl.
France 2000 Directors: Christophe Ali Nicolas Bonilauri Producer: Tom Dercourt Cinematographers: Christophe Ali Nicolas Bonilauri Editor: Nathalie Langlade Cast: Judith Cahen Marcel Fix Elsa Joly Florence Quiquere Leo Robin Running Time: 61 minutes International Sales: Les Films a Un Dollar Print Source: Les Films a Un Dollar 82 boulevard Ornano Paris, 75018 France Ph: 33.1.55.79.04.04 Fax: 33.1.55.79.01.00 Email: undollar@club-internet.fr Selected Filmography: Feature Film Debut
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Under the Sand
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Saturday May 26 3:00 PM Broadway Performance Hall
Wednesday June 6 7:15 PM Pacific Place Cinemas Friday June 8 9:30 PM Harvard Exit
Sunday May 27 9:30 PM Pacific Place Cinemas
France 2000 D ire cto r:
Olivier Assayas P ro d u ce r:
Bruno Pesery S c re e n w rite rs :
Jacques Fieschi Oliver Assayas C in e m ato g ra p h e r:
Eric Gautier E d ito r:
Luc Barnier M usic:
Guillaume Lekeu C a st:
Emmanuelle Béart Charles Berllng Isabelle Huppert Olivier Perrier Dominique Reymond André Marcon Alexandra London Julie Depardieu R unning T im e :
180 minutes In te rn a tio n a l S a le s:
Pathe International P rin t S ource:
Winstar Cinema 419 Park Ave South, 20th Floor New York, NY 10016 Ph: 212.686.6777 Fax: 212.545.9931 Email: www.winstarcinema.com S e lec te d Film o g ra p h y:
Late August, Early September (1998) HHH: A Portrait of Hou Hsiao-Hsien (1997) Irma Vep (1996) Cold Water (1994) A New Life (1993) Paris Awakens (1991) Winter's Child (1989) Désordre (1986)
From the winter of 1900 to a Depression springtime some 30 years later, Sentimental Destinies follows a family that weathers the seasons and storms of history: Central characters include Jean Barnery (Charles Berling), a Protestant minister in the mostly Catholic region of Charante, and Pauline (Emmanuelle Béart), a young woman who comes from England to live with her brandy-maker uncle after her father's death. Their separate and shared story arcs include Jean's divorce from his first wife, Nathalie (Isabelle Huppert); Jean's resignation from the ministry and his con tracting tuberculosis (more or less the same process); and the couple's marriage, followed by several idyllic years in Switzerland. Then the future of the Barnery family business, a porcelain factory in Limoges, is at risk, and of all the offspring only the lapsed bourgeois Jean can save it. It is the beginning of a new ministry — capitalist, but also aesthetic and spiritual. And also just about time for World War I.... The remarkable thing is how evocatively Olivier Assayas manages to individuate several dozen complex characters in a variety of interesting locations and situations without leaving the viewer feeling even slightly bogged down in details. Adapted from Jacques Chardon's famous novel, this is the rare saga in which you really believe the people age and alter over time. As Jean says late in the film, "It's odd having been a man you can't remember." By its end, we know all these folk several times over because they've been different men and women along the way. A visually sumptuous epic of French family and national history, with impeccable performances from a stellar cast, Sentimental Destinies represents a strikingly new direction for Assayas, who has previously focused on contemporary, urban worlds (see especially Irma Vep). It's dear he knows exactly where he's going!
Under the Sand is the most mature work yet by oftenflamboyant director François Ozon (Criminal Lovers, Water Drops on Burning Rocks), saluted as an Emerg ing Master at the 1999 Seattle International Film Festival. Marie (Charlotte Rampling) and Jean (Bruno Cremer) are a longtime happily married couple, returning to their summer cottage for an annual vacation. Jean seems a bit tired. On a beautiful day, while Marie dozes on the beach, Jean takes a swim— and vanishes. Panicking only gradually, Marie searches the beach, then calls the lifeguards, and then the police. Finally, she returns alone to Paris, numb with shock, undecided what to think. Did Jean drown? Was it suicide? Is he even dead? Months pass, but Marie clings to her past life, determined to deny Jean's death. She speaks about him— and even to him— as if he had never disappeared. Her friends gently urge her to resume living, and she even starts dating a man, but her heart is not in it.Throughout Charlotte Rampling's lengthy and interesting career (The Damned, Stardust Memories, Signs and Wonders), she has never given a better performance. As a woman pushed to the edge of madness by grief, she is unforgettably haunting.
France 2000 D ire cto r:
François Ozon Prod ucers:
Olivier Delbosc Marc Missonier S c re e n w rite rs:
Emmanuèle Bernheim François Ozon Marcia Romano Marina De Van C in e m ato g rap h e rs:
Antoine Héberlé Jeanne Lapoirie Ed ito r:
Laurence Bawedin M usic:
Philippe Rombi C a st:
Charlotte Rampling Bruno Cremer Jacques Nolot Alexandra Stewart Pierre Vernier Andrée Tainsy Running T im e :
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Celluloid Dreams P rin t S ource:
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Water Drops on Burning Rocks (1999) Criminal Lovers (1999) X 2000 (1998) Sitcom (1998) See the Sea (1998) A Summer Dress (1996)
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Vengo
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VENGO DEL MORO
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Gérard Corbiau P ro d u cers:
Dominique Janne Stéphane Moatti S c re e n w rite rs :
Andrée Corbiau Gérard Corbiau Didier Decoin Ève de Castro C in e m ato g ra p h e r:
Gérard Simon E d ito rs:
Philippe Ravoet Ludo Troch M usic:
Jean-Baptiste Lully C a st:
Benoît Magimel Boris Terrai Tchéky Karyo Colette Emmanuelle Cécile Bois Claire Keim Johan Leysen Idwig Stéphane
Everybody knows him as the Sun King, but who knew dreamy young Louis XIV of France could cut a rug? The director of The Music Teacher (1988) and the Oscar-winning Farinelli( 1994) returns with a visually arresting dramatic epic chronicling the volatile rela tionship of Louis XIV, the Italian composer JeanBaptiste Lully (Boris Terrai) and his playwright friend Molière (Tchéky Karyo). Opening with Lully on his deathbed, the film flashes back to his beginnings with the adolescent Louis XIV, who loves to perform dance solos to the composer's exquisite music. Although Louis is officially the monarch, his mother and her manipulative ministers actually rule the kingdom. However, after Cardinal Mazarin's death, Louis, now 22, claims the full power of the throne. The king decrees dance to be a major force in the court, and Lully flourishes. He is married to the beautiful Made leine, who, having no choice in the matter, must shun her true love, an older religious cleric. The spurned cleric now has good reason to go after Lully and Moli ère for their disgusting libertine ways— especially Lully's weakness for young men, which provides ready fodder for his critics and the religious right of the day. Throughout all this, Lully is protected by the king's patronage; but even Sun Kings grow older and less tolerant.. ..An impressive score and exquisite settings immerse viewers in another era, complete with power struggles, back-stabbing and feverish decadence— all the ingredients necessary for delicious cinema.
Tony Gatlif (Latcho Drom, Gadjo Dilo) returns to the world of the Rom (Gypsies) with a tragic tale, set in rural Andalusia, of two families locked in a blood feud. The clan of Caco (acclaimed flamenco dancer Antonio Canales) loathes the Caravacas— "that scumbag family!"— who all seem to dress in tacky black suits, carry cell phones and drive Mercedes. Caco's brother has offed one of the Caravacas and now they are bent on revenge, which probably means murdering Caco's retarded nephew Diego. One of the boy's few pleasures is his joy in music, and Caco seeks out special bands to entertain him. Driven by flamenco energy, Vengo is saturated with the passionate rhythms that are the lifeblood of the Rom community; indeed, the music becomes an important presence in the story, reflecting and intensifying the emotions of the narrative. (Indiewire's Andy Bailey confirms that "the runaway star of Vengo... is a firebrand flamenco singer from the gypsy ghetto of Estremadura called La Caita, whom Gatlif introduced in his previous film Latcho Drom.") In telling a stylized tale of a seemingly eternal cycle of violence, Gatlif offers a painfully clear metaphor for the spread of genocidal conflicts in today's world. A w a rd s:
Best Music Written for a Film, César Awards
France/Spain 2001 D ire cto r:
Tony Gatlif Prod ucer:
Tony Gatlif S c re e n w rite rs:
Tony Gatlif David Trueba C in e m ato g rap h e r:
Thierry Pouget E d ito r:
Pauline Dairou M usic:
Sheikh Ahmad Al Tuni La Caita C ast:
Antonio Canales Orestes Villasan Rodriguez Cousin Antonio Perez Dechent Bobote Juan Luis Corrientes Fernando Guerrero Rebello Francisco Chavero Rios El Moro Manuel Vega Salazar Maria Faraco Natasha Mayghine Maria Altea Maya Running T im e :
90 minutes P rin t S ource:
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S e lec te d Film o g ra p h y:
Farinelli the Castrato (1994) The Year of Awakening (1991) The Music Teacher (1988)
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L'amour, L'argent, L'amour
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Wednesday June 6 9:30 PM Pacific Place Cinemas
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Sunday June 10 4:00 PM Pacific Place Cinemas
Sunday June 10 9:30 PM Harvard Exit
Germany 2000 Director:
Philip Groning Producers:
Francoise Gazio Dieter Fahrer Res Balzli Philip Groning Screenw riter:
Philip Groning C inem atographers:
Sophie Maintigneux Max Jonathan Editors:
Valdis Oskarsdottir Max John Silberstein Cast:
Sabine Timoteo Florian Stetter Michael Schech Dierk Prawdzik Marquardt Bohm Running Tim e:
134 minutes International Sales:
Bavaria Film International
L'Amour, I'argent, Tamour is about trusting your instincts, even when they're wrong. The film centers on young lovers, Marie (Sabine Timoteo) and David (Florian Stetter), who together with the dog Kurt set off in an old car, looking for true happiness. Neither of them has ever had a serious relationship before, but they met on the street and fell in love. Now the sea beckons, seeming to offer rest from the confusion of their lives. But practical necessity keeps getting in the way. Marie is matter-of-fact when it comes to coping; David is less assured— but what's a guy to do when his girl is a prostitute and he hasn't a clue about what love really is? A road movie of sorts, ¡.‘Amour reminds us that America is not the only country with good roads to aimlessly drive. Winner of the Bronze Leopard for Best Actress at the 2000 Locarno Film Festival and Best Actor at the 2001 Max Ophuls Festival. Philip Groning studied medicine and psychology before turning to filmmaking in 1982, and his critically acclaimed features Summer and The Terrorists! won the Bronze Leopard at Locarno and screened at Sundance in 1993.
In 1998, 16-year-old Benjamin Lebert brilliantly fic tionalized his own experiences at boarding school and became Germany's youngest best-selling author. Benni wrestles with the adolescent problems common to his age, complicated by his odd inability to do math. His typical teenage insecurities are further compound ed by the fact that he is partially crippled, having been born with a paralysis of the left side. As he enters his latest boarding school in the Bavarian Alps, where he absolutely mustconquer math, Benni teeters between childhood and manhood, tripped up by all the conflict ing impulses generated by adolescent emotions and hormones: he wants to succeed, to have friends, to make love to a girl, to be with his family, and to decide things for himself. Hans-Christian Schmid's adaptation of Benni's story is shot in a quasi-documentary style at the very school Lebert attended, an atmospheric castle in a picturesque rural landscape. Like a latterday François Truffaut, Schmid adroitly directs his stand out young cast, striking just the right tone and level of tragedy and comedy. He especially excels at captur ing those small moments when happiness suddenly mutates into that sure feeling that the world has come to an end. Crazypresents a true-to-life, unpatronizing look at the problems teenagers face and succeeds in keeping its adult figures complex and realistic as well.
Se lected Film ography:
The Terrorists! (1992) Summer (1988)
Director:
Hans-Christian Schmid Producers:
Jakob Claussen Thomas Wöbke Screenw riters:
Hans-Christian Schmid Michael Gutmann C inem atographer:
Sonja Rom Editor:
Hansjörg Weissbrich Music:
Christoph M. Kaiser Cast:
Robert Stadlober Tom Schilling Dagmar Manzel Burghart Klaussner Oona-Devi Liebich Julia Hummer Can Taylanlar Christoph Ortmann Joseph Bolz Willy Rachow Mira Bartuschek Running Time:
Print Source:
Bavaria Film International Bavarlafilmplatz 8 Geiselgasteig, D-82031 Germany Ph: 49.89.6499.2686 Fax: 49.89.6499.3720 Email: bavaria.international@bavariafilm.de
Germany 2000
97 minutes Aw ards:
Best Young Actor, Bavarian Film Awards; Coup de Coeur, Festival International du Film d'Amour Mons/Belgium
International Sales:
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23 (1998) It's a Jungle Out There (1996) Die Mechanik des Wunders (1992) Sekt oder Selters (1989)
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UNBERUE
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Tuesday May 29 5:00 PM Egyptian Theatre
Germany 2000 D irector:
Achim von Borries Producers:
Judy Tosseil Susanne Marian S cre e n w rite r:
Achim von Borries C inem atog rapher:
Jutta Pohlmann Ed ito r:
Gergana Voigt M usic:
Daler Nazarov Ingo L. Frenzel C ast:
Ivan Shvedoff Merab Ninidze Anna Geislerova Chulpan Khamatova Dennis Burgazliev Maxim Kowalewski Fabian Busch Aykut Kayacik Sebastian Schipper Running Tim e:
98 minutes In tern atio n al Sale s:
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Halberstadt (1998)
In 1986, Reactor 4 of Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station in the Ukraine exploded. For months afterwards, thou sands of young soldiers were drafted and shipped there for decontamination operations. Working in those rich landscapes vibrating with life, few of the soldiers were aware of the dangers. Happy-go-lucky Valery Sikorski (astutely played by Ivan Shvedoff) and his pal Victor (Dennis Burgazliev) dream about going to England. Victor heads for Germany, and when doctors tell Valery that his days are numbered, he decides to pursue his dream of going to England, first picking up Victor in Berlin. On the trip, outgoing Valery chats with Yelena (Chulpan Khamatova, Land of the Deaf, Luna Papa, Tuvulu) until the bus nears the Polish-German border, where he gets off and swims across the Elbe. Arriving in Berlin, he finds Victor's apartment occupied by misanthropic icon painter Pavel (played by Georgian actor Merab Ninidze, Jugofilm), who has no idea where Victor is. Valery, determined to find Victor, exhibits his Russian gift for survival— come what may. But drifting aimlessly through the wintry city, seeking word of his friend, Valery's resolve begins to erode and the goal he dreamed of slips tragically from his grasp. England! is really a Berlin film in that it reveals the human impact of a transient existence— rootless, homeless, living on borrowed time. In a cruel life, it's hard not to forget that you're a good human being. Derek Elley ( Variety) calls England! a rarity, "a picture with a soul." A w a rd s:
Silver Iris for Best Actor, Brussels International Film Festival
No Place To Go is based on the true story of Gisela Eisner, a famous German author of the 1960s and mother of writer-director Oskar Roehler. Eisner was a beautiful and brilliant writer who thrived in the Ger man student uprising of the '60s and became famous through her novel Die Riesenzwerge, an "an elegant yet caustic satire on German backwardness." Actress Hannelore Eisner (no relation) brilliantly and subtly plays Hanna Flanders, Gisela's surrogate in the film. All her life Hanna struggles with the conflict between being a privileged daughter and a soldier in the Marxist class struggle. An uncompromisingly frank person, she antagonizes those who prefer polite hypocrisies. Paradoxically, this Marxist apologist spends her last dollars on a stylish Christian Dior coat and quits her apartment with no definite plan except to discover how to survive after the Berlin Wall has fallen— and all her hopes for a socialist Germany have been dashed. She moves from Munich to Berlin where those who are celebrating the end of a divided nation have no time for Hanna's worn-out left-wing ideas. Completely adrift, she wanders despairingly across a field in a dreary dawn, her paranoia fed by too many pills and cigarettes. Ironically, men and women heading for work pass this ghostly Marxist in her wig and sad designer coat— an anachronism moving across the landscape with nowhere to go. This richly visualized black-and-white film (her favorite colors) is a fascinating portrait of a middle-aged writer and woman who was a "monomaniac intellectual torn between her conflicting ideals and the new realities of a changing Germany." No Place to Go not only lays to rest director Roehler's mother— this powerfully moving film also stands as an "obituary for an entire generation."
Germany 2000 D ire cto r:
Oskar Roehler P ro d u cers:
Käte Ehrmann Ulrich Caspar S c re e n w rite r:
Oskar Roehler C in e m a to g rap h e r:
Hagen Bogdanski E d ito r:
Isabel Meier M usic:
Martin Todsharow C a st:
Hannelore Eisner Vadim Glowna Jasmin Tabatabai Michael Gwisdek Lars Rudolph Nina Petri Tonio Arango Charles Regnier R unning T im e :
103 minutes In te rn a tio n a l S a le s:
Bavaria Film International P rin t Source:
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Awards: 2000 Oscar Submission, Best Foreign Language Film; Best Film, 50th German Film Awards, Berlin; Best Actress, Bavarian Film Awards; Silver Hugo for Best Actress, Chicago International Film Festival
Gierig (1999) Silvester Countdown (1997) Gentleman (1995)
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Sunday June 17 4:00 PM Egyptian Theatre
Thursday June 7 5:00 PM Egyptian Theatre
Germany
Delving once again into the themes of fate and
This lively, comic look at coming of age in the German
2000
coincidence that fueled his previous critical hits R u n
Democratic Republic during the '70s provides a freshly
L o l a R u n and W i n t e r s l e e p e r s , directorTom Tykwer here
alternate view of an era usually portrayed through
Germany 2000
D ire cto r:
provides a more cerebral, though no less exhilarating,
depressing dramas and spy thrillers. Skinny, bespec
Tom Tykwer
romantic thriller with a pair of star-crossed lovers at
tacled Micha lives in East Berlin at the tail end of Sun
Leander Haußmann
P ro d u ce rs:
its core. The story begins by introducing us to two
Alley, a street that wends its way into the West. He
P rod ucers:
very different characters with widely divergent lives
shares a cramped apartment with his mother, father,
Claus Boje
and backgrounds: Sissi ( L o l a ' s Franka Potente) is a
uncle and a neighbor who might be working for the
Stefan Arndt Maria Köpf S c re e n w rite r:
D ire cto r:
Detlev Buck S c re e n w rite rs:
Tom Tykwer
nurse in a psychiatric hospital who sleepwalks through
Stasi (state police). Like teens everywhere, Micha and
C in e m ato g ra p h e r:
her life and her daily routine; Bodo (Benno Furmann),
his high school buddies love listening to forbidden
Leander Haußmann
Frank Griebe
recently released from the army, is a drifter who moves
pop music, flirting with girls, and generally goofing
C in e m ato g rap h e r: Peter-Joachim Krause
E d ito r: Mathilde Bonnefoy
Thomas Brussig
from job to job, occasionally dabbling in petty crime.
off. Although the Wall casts its shadow over all their
These two disconsolate loners are soon linked by
daily lives, they are not so concerned with politics,
unforeseen circumstances, as Bodo is pursued through
and delight in behaving rudely to the pompous
the streets of Wuppertal (Tykwer's hometown) by
neighborhood official, who tries vainly to restrain their
Reinhold Heil
attendants from the gas station he has just robbed,
youthful impetuousness. In spite of passport control,
C a st:
while Sissi is simultaneously en route to a bank to
the secret police and "Big Brother" Soviet Union, bell
Einstürzende Neubauten
Franka Potente
retrieve the contents of a friend's safe-deposit box.
bottoms and rock 'n' roll rule the roost. A kind of
C ast:
M usic: Tom Tykwer Johnny Kilmek
Benno Furmann Joachim Kröl M arita Breuer Jurgen Tarrach
"East Berlin Graffiti," crossed with F e r r i s B u e l l e r ' s D a y
Alexander Scheer
O ff,
the delightful S u n A l l e y looks back to Cold War
Alexander Beyer
the startled Sissi, crossing the road on her way to the
times with affection and nostalgia.
bank. The ensuing confusion provides a cover for Bodo to evade the police who have arrived on the scene, but he finds himself under the truck with the paralyzed
R unning T im e : 129 minutes
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Paul Lemp
Frantically rounding a corner, Bodo distracts the driver
Ludger Pistor
Sony Pictures Classics
M usic: Stephan Keusch
of a tanker truck, who fails to brake in time to avoid
Lars Rudolph Melchior Beslon
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E d ito r: Sandy Saffeels
Katharina Thalbach Henry Hübchen Detlev Buck
A w a rd s:
Teresa Weissbach
Film Award in Gold for Outstanding Individual
Tovert Stadlober
Sissi, who is unable to breathe. From this point on
Achievement: Production Design, Film Award in Silver for
Ignaz Kirchner
ward, fate follows its twisted course, as Sissi and Bodo
Outstanding Feature Film, German Film Awards;
Robert Stadlober
find themselves pawns in a near-mythic love story that
Certificate of Excellence for Best Director, Williamsburg
Elena Meissner
builds inexorably toward a wildly unexpected con
Brooklyn Film Festival
Annika Kühl
clusion. Director Tykwer once again displays his visual
Running Tim e: 90 minutes
New York, NY 10022
and technical mastery of the film medium, while telling
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Strictly Sinatra
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Wednesday June 6 5:00 PM Harvard Exit
Sunday June 17 11:30 AM Pacific Place Cinemas
WORLD PREMIERE Great Britain 2000
When the British cinema manages to pull off a
Writer-director Peter Capaldi, a droll actor ( L o c a l H e r o ,
romantic comedy, it's usually a delightful one, and
D a n g e ro u s
B o rn
R o m a n t ic
is just the latest to reach American
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who won an Oscar for his
inventive short film F r a n z K a f k a ' s I t ' s a
Great Britain 2000
W o n d e rfu l
D irector:
shores. It unfolds three tales of love and loneliness
L if e
David Kane
in the same London salsa-dancing club. There we meet
with this atmospheric tale of a naive young Scots-
Peter Capaldi
Producer:
Frankie (Craig Ferguson of TV's D r e w C a r e y S h o v ^ ) , a
italian crooner who falls in with local gangsters. Ian
Pro d u cer:
Michele Camarada
(SIFF 1995), makes his feature directorial debut
D ire cto r:
Ruth Kenley-Letts
divorcé who proudly claims to be Dean Martin's love-
Hart (excellent in so many and varied roles over the
child. True, his swinging lifestyle is hampered by
past decade) plays Tony Cocozza, a lounge singer
C inem atog rapher:
unemployment and the fact that he still lives with
who emulates his idol Frank Sinatra— though the
Robert Alazraki
his ex-wife— but that hardly seems to matter after
divesTony performs in are about as far from Las Vegas
Ian Hart
Ed ito r:
he meets the beautiful Eleanor (Olivia Williams),
as you can get. Performing his act one night, Tony
Kelly Macdonald Tommy Flanagan Brian Cox
S cre e n w rite r: Dave Kane
S c re e n w rite r: Peter Capaldi C a st:
Michael Parker
whose icy reserve only inflames their mutual attraction.
receives a request to sing Elvis' "In the Ghetto." He's
M usic:
Then there's Eddie (Jimi Mistry), who stumbles into
about to refuse when he realizes who's made the
the club quite accidentally after a botched mugging
request: Connolly, a notorious mobster who brooks
attempt and meets Jocelyn (Catherine McCormack),
no opposition. Tony later finds himself at Connolly's
Adrian Lester Catherine McCormack
a neurotic sort with a small business tending graves
table, and when Connolly's henchman Chisholm (Brian
on behalf of loved ones in absentia. Meanwhile, Fergus
Cox, the screen's first Hannibal Lecter) starts spinning
P rin t So u rce:
Olivia Williams
(David Morrissey), a struggling rock musician, has
tales of his time in Las Vegas, Tony is transfixed.
Universal Pictures
Craig Ferguson
come to London to find Mo (Jane Horrocks), the girl
Accompanying the gangster's party to the local casino,
100 Universal City Plaza Bldg
he abandoned eight years ago. The linchpin linking
and dazzled by the glamour of it all, he meets Irene
2 1 6 0 / Suite 2N
Simon Boswell Cast: Ian Hart
John Thomson
Jeff Vintar R unning T im e : 97 minutes
Jane Horrocks Jimi Mistry
all three couples is Jimmy, a taxi driver whose fidelity
(Kelly Macdonald), a cigarette girl with spunky charm.
David Morrissey
to his wife provides a poignant keynote for the film.
The two hit it off, but complications ensue when Tony
Running Tim e:
Writer-director David Kane has gathered an impressive
ends up doing Chisholm a "small favor" in hopes
S e lec te d Film o g rap h y:
97 minutes
ensemble of actors and given them a witty script with
that his newfound "friends" will help him achieve
Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life
which to fly. B o r n R o m a n t i c is a real charmer.
his dream of stardom.
(1993)
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Monday May 28 6:30 PM Egyptian Theatre
Thursday May 31 9:30 PM Harvard Exit
Wednesday May 30 5:00 PM Egyptian Theatre
Kong 1999
Jackie Chan has inspired a whole new generation of
Icelandic irony filtered through a riotous Catalan
Hong Kong filmmakers with the masterly blend of
sensibility produces a startling and very funny
furiously paced action, outrageous stunts and wry
directorial debut in Baltasar Kormakur's comedic tale
Iceland 2000
humor that infuses his best films. Although he merely
of slacker ennui interrupted by a brief but passionate
D ire cto r:
serves as a producer and makes a cameo appearance
fling with exotica. Twenty-eight-year-old Hlynur has
Baltasar Kormakur
Benny Chan
in this taut, action-filled crime thriller, his mark is
been coddled for far too long: Still living in his divorced
P rod ucers: IngvarThordarson
P ro d u ce rs:
D ire cto r:
unmistakable on every frame. The premise is simple:
mother's home, he collects unemployment checks and
three young rookies recruited from the police academy
remains locked into a daily routine— rise at noon,
are enlisted in a Special Ops unit in a bid to bring
log onto the internet for cyberporn or video games,
S c re e n w rite rs : Benny Chan
Akatura, a powerful Japanese crimelord, to justice.
occasionally slip out to the corner bar with his equally
Baltasar Kormakur
Infiltrating the Hong Kong underworld, they soon find
lethargic friends. He's a man-boy with little motivation
C in e m ato g rap h e r:
Bey Logan
themselves face to face with the archcriminal. In a
and absolutely no sense of responsibility. All that
Peter Steuger
C in e m ato g ra p h e r:
bid to gain his trust, they become his henchmen, intent
begins to change when his layabout life is interrupted
upon setting him up for the ultimate "sting." In the
by the unexpected arrival of gorgeous flamenco dancer
process, however, they lose the trust of their own
Lola (Victoria Abril), an "old friend" of his mother's
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police superiors, who declare them outlaws. Hoping
who has been invited to stay with them for a while.
Nicholas Tse Stephen Fung
to prove their honesty, the trio set about delivering
As this hothouse beauty flounces around their tiny
Einar Orn Benediktsson
Akatura to the police on a silver platter. But the
apartment in various stages of undress, Hlynur falls
C a st:
Sam Lee
ruthless gangster has plans of his own, involving a
for Lola bigtime; and while his mother is away over
Hilmer Snaer Guethnason
large amount of illicit rocket fuel.... Director Benny
New Year's, he and Lola share a drunken one-night
Victoria Abril
Benny Chan John Chong Solon So
Arthur Wong E d ito r: Ka-Fai Cheung
Grace Yip EricTsang
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E d ito rs: Stule Eriksen Sigvaldi Karason M usic: Damon Albarn
Hanna Maria Karlsdottir
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stand. Shaken out of his torpor by this unexpected
to-wall action set-pieces, a surplus of tongue-in-cheek
encounter, Hlynur is stupefied when his mother returns
Olafur Darri Olafsson
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from her trip and calmly announces to her son that
Thornruthur Vilhjalmsdottir
Francis Ng
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shocking turn when Lola turns out to be pregnant.
100 minutes
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Hlynur's carefully calibrated world degenerates into
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R unning T im e : 113 minutes
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Iceland 2000
To all outward appearances, Paul, the hero of Fridrik
Based on a shocking true incident, S a n d s t o r m tells
Thor Fridriksson's engrossing new film, seems a
the inspiring story of a courageous Rajasthani wo
normal, well-adjusted young man. Living with his
man's quest for justice. Sanwari, a rural wife from a
India 2000
D ire cto r:
parents, he has a gift for poetry and art, and has
low caste, is recruited by the government to work for
D ire cto r:
Fridrik Thor Fridriksson
recently begun a relationship with the girl of his
the women's development program Saathin. The job
Jagmohan
Pro d u cer:
dreams, vivacious Dagne, the coddled daughter of
requires her to educate and organize the village to
P rod ucers:
wealthy parents. Despite this outward normality, there
oppose child marriage and other feudal customs.
Jag Mundhra
are occasional warning signs of trouble, and when
Although a child bride herself, Sanwari responds to
C in e m ato g ra p h e r:
Dagne breaks off their romance after her mother
the Saathin training and becomes a resourceful
Harold Paulgaard
objects to Paul's lower social class, he plunges head
campaigner for women's rights. Her position and self-
E d ito rs:
long into despair. His condition soon deepens into
possession threaten the corrupt Gujar leaders in her
C in e m ato g rap h e r:
Sigvaidi J. Kärason
full-blown schizophrenia, and before long he must
village, who try various methods of humiliating her.
Ashok Kumar
Fridrik Thor Fridriksson S c re e n w rite r: Einar Mär Gudmundsson
Skule Eriksen M usic: Hilmarön Hilmarsson Sigur Rös
be institutionalized. Once committed, Paul becomes
When they are unable to prevent Sanwari from
friends with wardmates Oli, who's convinced he com
carrying out her Saathin mission, they resort to beating
municates telepathically with the Beatles, and Viktor,
her husband and gang-raping her. Instead of dis
Gaurang Doshi S c re e n w rite rs : Ashok Mishra Sudha Arora
E d ito r: Jag Mohan M usic: Vishwa Mohan Bhatt
C a st:
quite charming despite his occasional claim that he's
appearing in shame as they expected, Sanwari decides
C a st:
Ingvar Eggert Sigurdsson
Adolf Hitler. Together these three wounded souls scale
to bring her persecutors before a court of a law.
Nandita Das
Baltasar Kormakur
the heights and plumb the depths of their shared
Confronting a judicial system tainted by sexism,
RaghuvirYadav
Björn Jörndur Fridbjörnsson
affliction, adrift in a world that offers few alternatives
chauvinism, feudalism and political opportunism,
Deepti Naval
to medication and locked doors. Adapting the script
Sanwari undergoes a second, metaphorical, rape.The
Rahul Khanna
from his own book about his brother's battles with
intern ational media take up her story, and she
Hilmer Snaer Gudnason Margret Helga Jöhansdöttir Theodor Jüliusson
Laila Rouass Govino Namdeo
R unning T im e :
madness, screenwriter Einar Mar Gudmundsson
becomes a pawn in a political chess game between
97 minutes
perfectly captures the eccentric but coherent inner
the government's ruling party and the opposition.
Gulshan Grover Running Tim e:
logic of schizophrenia in his vividly drawn characters.
Nandita Das, one of the most exciting young actresses
125 minutes
Director Fridriksson invests this moving story with
working in India's contemporary realistic cinema, gives
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Sanwari a grave dignity and compelling presence. The
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Movie Days (1994)
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Cold Fever (1994)
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Devil's Island (1996)
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Vanaprastham: The Last Dance
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Tuesday June 12 9:30 PM Cinerama Sunday June 17 9:30 PM Harvard Exit
India 2000
A luscious period drama hailed as one of the best
A record seven Fajr Film Festival awards, including
Iran
Indian films of the decade. Set in the region of Kerala
best film, best director and best script, went to S m e l l
2000
written and
in southern India, this historical drama explores the
o f C a m p h o r,
D ire cto r:
effects of the rigid caste system on the life of a gifted
directed by Bahman Farmanara, known for his pre
Shaji Karun P ro d u ce rs:
artist born of an unknown father and a low-caste
revolutionary masterpieces P r i n c e E h t e j a b (1974) and
woman. The multilayered story is set in late 1930s,
T a l l S h a d o w s o f t h e W i n d ( ] 978). This moving medi
Pierre Assouline
when at the age of 10 Kunhikuttan begins the
tation on mortality, as well as a portrait of upper-
demanding training for classical Indian dance called
class privilege, is surely his most personal work ever.
K a t h a k a h ; a revered
500-year-old art that combines
Its scenario focuses on a veteran filmmaker, Bahman
C in e m ato g rap h e r:
Pierre Assouline
pantomime, opera and dance. As an adult, still
(played by Farmanara), who has not made a feature
Mahmood Kalari
Shaji Karun
suffering from his shrouded paternity, he is married
for more than 20 years. (Likewise the star-director
E d ito r:
Ragunath Paleri
off to a woman of his own caste with whom he lives
himself.) Depressed by the recent deaths of some close
Abbas Ghanjavi
C in e m ato g ra p h e rs:
unhappily. One night, the beautiful aristocrat Subhadra
friends, he decides to plan his own funeral; after all,
Suhasini comes to see him perform the part of Arjuna
he's currently making a documentary about Iranian
in the legendary dance of M a h a b a r a t a . Tragically, Sub
burial customs! Black humor and shocking incidents
C a st: Bahman Farmanara
Suresh Balaje Guy Marignane S c re e n w rite rs :
Renato Berta Santosh Sivan E d ito rs:
F ra g ra n ce
o f J a s m in e ,
D ire cto r: Bahman Farmanara P ro d ucer: Morteza Shayesteh S cre e n w rite r: Bahman Famanara
M usic: Ahmad Pejman
hadra becomes enamored of the epic-hero who loves
provide the cover for a critique of life in contemporary
Roya Nonahali
Joseph Guinvarch
a woman with her own name and fathers their child-
Iran. A woman hitchhiker tells Bahman a horrific story
M usic:
prodigy Abhimanu— but not with the real man who
of spousal abuse and leaves a package in his car. At
Reza Kianian Valiyollah Shirandami
Zakir Hussain
dances Arjuna. For Kunhikuttan, his art is both salva
the cemetery to honor his wife's grave, Bahman learns
C a st:
tion and curse. Full of mystery and astonishing faces,
that the plot he had purchased for himself has been
T h e L a s t D a n c e is graced with a stunning score written
sold to someone else. Fuming with frustration, he
by Zakir Hussain, international classical tabla genius
returns to his car, only to make a grisly discovery. This
Sreekar Prasad
Mohanlal Suhasini Mattanoor Shankara M arar
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leads to a visit to his lawyer, a wealthy Mr. Fixit, and
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ultimately to a Fellini-esque conclusion in which
P rin t Source:
R unning T im e :
cinematographer-turned-director Shaji Karun to be
Bahman's (and Bahman's?) life and art merge in a
New Yorker Films
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selected for the Cannes Film Festival. Visual honors
wild dream. The warm reception back home for the
Kukku Parameshwaram
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for this resplendently colorful film are shared by two
ironic and elegiac S m e l l o f C a m p h o r ,
top cinematographers, Renato Berta ( K i p p u r , K a d o s h ,
J a s m i n e indicates that this long-silent director has not
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Sunday June 3 4:00 PM Egyptian Tneatre
US PREMIERE
us
PREMIERE
Ireland/Great Britain
Adapted from the play that confirmed him as one of
Based on Brendan Behan's autobiographical novel,
Britain's hot young playwrights, Nick Grosso's
this moving drama charts the experiences of a young
directorial debut takes a candid, ironic look into the
Irish man imprisoned in the Borstal penal institute
Ireland/Great Britain
2000
slacker lives of three London lads who are content
during the early days ofWWII. Shawn Hatosy ( D o w n
2000
to spend a summer checking out the city's girls "before
t o Y o u , A n y w h e r e b u t H e r e ) is Behan, a young Repub
they're whisked away by the new breed." To mix
lican arrested at the age of 16 in Liverpool, having
metaphors, these wolves are on the prowl for
come to England with a briefcase full of explosives
P rod ucers:
Ronan Glennane
"peaches" (girls), but they've clearly gotten lost in
on a mission for the Irish Republican Army. At first
Judy Counihan
S c re e n w rite r:
the orchard. We're introduced to Frank (hot young
resisting any attempts at fraternization by the other
Nye Heron
Nick Grosso
Welsh actor Matthew Rhys, seen in T it u s ) , a recent
inmates, and rejecting efforts by the prison warden
Pat Moylan
C in e m ato g ra p h e r:
college dropout with charm to spare but, alas, "no
(Michael York) to reach out to him, Brendan undergoes
Brendan Galvin
cash, no flat." Enter Pete— "Works in Media," flashes
a subtle change over time; his relationships with the
one of the films funny title cards— who's offered Frank
other prisoners begin to grow and he is exposed to a
D ire cto r: Nick Grosso P ro d u ce r:
D ire cto r: Peter Sheridan
S c re e n w rite rs: Brendan Behan
M usic:
rent-free lodgings, perhaps out of his own self-interest:
world he has literally never known. Planning to escape
Nye Heron Peter Sheridan C in e m ato g rap h e r:
Ronan Glennane
Frank's the captive audience forced to listen to tales
at the first opportunity, Brendan unexpectedly be
Ciarán Tanham
C a st:
of world conquest. Cherry, "A Friend from College,"
comes fascinated by a book by OscarWilde, given to
M atthew Rhys
has disclosed her affection for Frank, to which he
him by the governor's enchanting daughter, Eva, with
E d ito r: Stephen O'Connell
Kelly Reilly
can only reply, "You're joking, right?" And Johnny,
whom he shares a flirtation. Simultaneously, he is
E d ito r: Niamh Fagan
Justin Salinger
M usic: Stephen McKeon
"Degree in Fine Art," invokes Oscar Wilde and
drawn into a relationship with a young sailor, Charlie
C a st:
Raymond Chandler while offering his loyal services
(Danny Dyer). Eventually, Brendan comes to realize
Shawn Hatosy
R unning T im e :
as the friend with a beat-up truck that seems to stall
the ambiguity of his personal and political beliefs.
Danny Dyer
84 minutes
at every busy intersection. Soon, however, develop
Spurred on by Eva's encouragement to explore his
Michael York
ments threaten to undermine Frank's insouciant style:
creative side and pursue his writing, and equally aware
Lee Ingleby
P rin t So u rce:
He makes an awkward play for Cherry, resulting in
of his growing homoerotic attraction to the love-struck
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humiliation. Pete has taken a live-in lover, but can't
Charlie, Brendan finds himself at a crossroads in his
seem to remember her name. And perhaps worst of
life: Can he maintain his staunchly anti-British and
Eva Birthistle R unning Tim e : 93 minutes
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naive but principled young Behan, undergoing singular
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rites-of-passage. Superbly directed by Peter Sheridan
Dakota Films P rin t So u rce:
of guys for whom "there's no use growing old, saying
— son of esteemed director Jim Sheridan ( M y L e f t
you've lived a little, talking about the war. You wanna
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Tuesday May 29 7:15 PM Broadway Performance Hall
Monday May 28 4:00 PM Pacific Place Cinemas
Saturday June 2 11:30 AM Harvard Exit
US
PREMIERE
Italy 2000
Boasting some of the most squirm-inducing dental
Although Turkish-bom Ferzan Ozpetek has lived in
Italy/France
scenes since M a r a t h o n M a n , this biting black comedy
Italy most of his life, his first two films S t e a m : T h e
2000
and H a r e m
T u r k is h B a t h
as the necessity of freeing oneself from the past.
sexual culture and history of Istanbul.This most recent
D ire cto r:
Gabriele Salvatores
Bucktoothed Antonio has suffered countless indig
effort focuses on the sexual politics of his adopted
Ferzan Ozpetek
P ro d u ce rs:
nities due to his oversized incisors. As a child, his peers
country, in particular the working-class quarter of
taunted him so mercilessly he was driven to take des
Rome. It revolves around a woman, Antonia, whose
perate measures. Now, as an adult, his relationship
husband of 15 years, Massimo, is killed in a bizarre
to dentists and dentistry borders on the bizarre. During
pedestrian-auto accident. A chance discovery of an
Giani Romolli
C in e m a to g ra p h e r:
an argument with his lover Mara (whom he suspects
inscription on the back of a painting leads her to
Italo Petriccione
of having an affair with her dentist), Antonio is on
suspect that her husband may have been living a
Ferzan Opzetek C in e m ato g rap h e rs:
E d ito r:
the receiving end of a blow to the face that breaks
double life with another woman. Turning from grief
Pasquale Marl
his front teeth. His visit to a variety of dental offices is
to anger, she emerges from her longtime zombie
punctuated with his experience of an altered mental
like state in an upper-class cocoon and embarks on
state where past, present, imagination and obsession
a journey to discover the details of his betrayal. What
Andrea Guerra C a st:
Vittorio Cecchi Gori Maurizio Totti S c re e n w rite rs : Gabriele Salvatores
Massimo Fiocchi M usic: Federico De Robertis Teho Teardo
S u a re
revolved around the
shows the connections between love and pain, as well
D ire cto r:
P rod ucers: Tilde Corsi Gianni Romoli S c re e n w rite rs:
E d ito r: Patrizio Marone M usic:
merge. Writer-director Salvatores says, "I wanted T e e t h
she eventually learns is that Massimo's lover is a man
C a st:
to be a really physical, almost pathological film. I
— who is, moreover, only one part of an extended
Margherita Buy
Sergio Rubini
wanted it to show love as a pathology, as a modifi
loving family, the bohemian inhabitants of an apart
Stefano Accorsi
Anouk Grinberg
cation of reality. I'm trying to give it a very dazed feel,
ment block in the Ostiense district. While they are
like when you're half-awake and half-asleep and you
initially suspicious of the motives behind Antonia's
don't know whether you're thinking or dreaming. I
intrusion, they ultimately provide support and compas
Serra Yilmaz
would like to public to be gradually caught up in the
sion for her attempts to make sense of her past and
Koray Candemir
R unning T im e :
mechanism which imprisons the character of Antonio.
future life. A cross between Almodovar and the Cuban
98 minutes
Thanks to his dental problems (and the effects of
hit S t r a w b e r r y a n d C h o c o l a t e , I g n o r a n t F a i r i e s is a
Lucrezia Valia Rosaria de Ciccio
alcohol and painkillers), he enters into another dimen
tender meditation on the theme of how our lives can
sion where the dead return and can speak and where
be affected by people we may never meet.The visually
his uncle appears to him in a glass of champagne."
lush settings were created by Oscar-winning set
Eraldo Bernocchi
Tom Novembre Anita Caprioli Fabrizio Bentivoglio Paolo Villaggio
In te rn a tio n a l S a le s: Cecchi Gori Distribuzione P rin t So u rce: Cecchi Gori Distribuzione Via Valadier, 42 Rome, 00193 Italy Ph: 39.06.3247.2297
designer and decorator Bruno Cesari ( T h e L a s t E m p e r o i) ,
who also contributed so much to the atmos
pheric T h e T a l e n t e d M r . R i p l e y .
Erika Blanc Gabriel Garko Andrea Renzi
R unning Tim e : 105 minutes In te rn a tio n a l S a le s: TF1 International P rin t S ource: TF1 International 305, Avenue Le Jour se Lève Boulogne, 92656 France Ph: 33.1.41.41.31.44
Fax: 39.06.3247.2296 Email: russo@cecchigori.com
Fax: 33.1.41.41.12.34 Email: mpesty@tf1 .fr
S e lec te d Film o g ra p h y: Calcutta Chromosome (2000)
S e le c te d Film o g rap h y:
Nirvana (1997) South (1993)
Harem Suare (1999) Steam: the Turkish Bath (1998)
Puerto Escondido (1992) Mediterraneo (1991 ) Turnè (1990) Marrakech Express (1989) Kamikazen - ultima notte a Milano (1987) Sogno di una notte d'estate (1983)
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Bread and Tulips
Princesa
PANE E TULIPANI Friday May 25 9:30 PM Harvard Exit
Wednesday May 30 9:30 PM Egyptian Theatre
Saturday May 26 11:30 AM Harvard Exit
Monday June 4 9:30 PM Broadway Performance Hall
Italy/ Switzerland
What begins as a thoughtless blunder leads to a
A comic and gentle exploration of identity based on
marvelous new lease on life. Hard to believe, but
a book co-written by Fernanda Farias de Albuquerque,
Rosalba's (Licia Maglietta) family is apparently so
P r in c e s a
1999
indifferent to her presence that it's easy for them to
Director Henrique Goldman uses a handheld camera
accidentally leave her behind at a rest stop during a
and natural lighting to create his story: 19-year-old
chartered tour of Roman ruins in southern Italy. On
Fernanda (newcomer Ingrid De Souza), a transvestite,
impulse, Rosalba decides not to wait for her husband
travels from Brazil to Italy with the goal of making
Daniele Maggioni
and two teenage sons to return to pick her up; she
enough money to pay for sex-reassignment surgery.
Rebecca O'Brien
S cre e n w rite rs:
starts hitchhiking homeward. A brief detour to Venice,
Her dream involves marrying a man and settling into
S c re e n w rite rs :
Doriana Leondeff
a city she's always wanted to visit, opens the door to
a normal, middle-class life as a woman. But she
Ellis Freeman,
Silvio Soldini
a series of adventures, colorful characters, and even
immediately encounters the prejudice of a bourgeois
to a brand-new sense of self. Settling in, she finds
world. The passport official— recognizing she is
employment in a florist shop run by an old anarchist
"different"— won't let her into the country until she
Carlotta Cristiani
and lodging with Fernando, the waiter at the res
sexually services him. In Milan, a city of luxury, wealth
M usic: Giovanni Venosta
taurant she visits on her first night in Venice. Played
and hip sophistication, Fernanda discovers the world's
M usic:
beautifully by Wim Wenders veteran Bruno ( W i n g s o f
largest transvestite prostitution market. The hot new
Giovanni Venosta
D irector: Silvio Soldini Producer:
C in em ato g rap h er: Luca Bigazzi E d ito r:
C ast:
is a fictionalized account of a real person.
Italy/Germany/ Brazil 2000 D ire cto r: Henrique Goldman Pro d u cer:
Henrique Goldman C in e m a to g rap h e r: Guillermo Escalon E d ito r: Kerry Kohler
Ganz, Fernando, a suicidal Icelander, decides
comer proves popular with the customers, but she
C a st:
to take down the noose that adorns his bedroom and
falls hard for one of them— a handsome prince of a
to live again— as Rosalba dusts off the accordion she
man who promises to fulfill all her fantasies. And
Ingrid De Souza Cesare Bocci
Giuseppe Battiston
finds in his closet, befriends the neighbors and solves
wonder of wonders! He leaves his wife and offers to
Felice Andreasi
the mystery of his past. Her distraught husband, a
pay for Fernanda's sex-change operation. Just as her
Biba Lerhue
Antonio Catania
macho distributor of plumbing parts, employs an out-
fairy-tale ending is within reach, Fernanda has a re
Sonia Morgan
Running T im e:
of-work, overweight plumber who dreams of being a
markable change of heart. True to both the lure of
Alessandra Acciai
private eye to track her down. Where will the Cinder
dreaming, and the inevitable necessity to wake up,
ella of B r e a d a n d T u l i p s fetch up as this sweetly comic
P r i n c e s a goes beyond the easy unreality of "and then
fairy tale careens through gorgeous piazzas and past
they all lived happily ever after."
Licia Maglietta Bruno Ganz Marina Massironi
105 minutes P rin t Source: First Look Pictures 8800 Sunset Blvd. Suite 302
D e s ir e )
Venetian canals toward its zany conclusion?
Los Angeles, CA 90069 USA Ph: 310.855.1199 Fax: 310.855.0719 Email: mjpckos@flp.com
Mauro Pirovano
R unning T im e : 90 minutes In te rn a tio n a l S a le s: The Sales Company P rin t So u rce:
A w a rd s: Winner of nine Davide di Donatello Awards, the Italian equivalent to the Oscars, including Best Film, Best
Selected Film og raphy:
Lulu Pecorari
Director, Best Actor and Best Actress.
Strand Releasing 1460 Fourth St, Ste 302 Santa Monica, CA 90401 Ph: 310.395.5002 Fax: 310.395.2502
Rom Tour (1999) L'acrobate (1997) Miracoli, storie per corti (1994) Femmine, folle e polvere d'archivio (1993) A Soul Split in Two (1993) Antonio e Cleo (1992) The Peaceful Air of the West (1990) Provvisorio quasi d'amore (1989) L'amico di Matilde (1987) Giulia in ottobre (1984) Paesaggio con figure (1983) Drimage (1982)
S e le c te d Film o g rap h y: Ken and Rosa (2000) Ixcan (1997)
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Battle Royale
Thursday June 7 7:15 PM Harvard Exit
Tuesday June 12 7:15 PM Cinerama
Thursday June 14 Noon Pacific Place Cinemas
Friday June 15 Midnight Egyptian Theatre
US PREMIERE Japan 2000
Japan is in the hands of fascists, unemployment has
a striking cinematic landscape of strong-willed charac
risen to 15%, and teenagers are in full revolt. The
ters through an unconventional tale of two brothers
government aims for a final solution: "Battle Royale."
D ire cto r: Kinji Fukasaku
D ire cto r:
on divergent life paths, trying to stay alive— spiritually
High school students dispatched on what may well
Tsuji Jinsei
and economically— in an ugly harbor town. Gentle
be their last field trip find themselves on a deserted
C a st:
Rai (nicknamed Hotoke, meaning Buddha) collects
jungle island to play a deadly game. For three days,
Shinji Takeda
scrap metal to methodically construct a huge statue
armed with food, water and a weapon, they must
of Buddha. He is an inexpressive sort with a Zen
battle each other until only one survivor remains.
Ryuichi Oura Shouki Jo
Japan
Japanese cult author and composer Jinsei Tsuji paints
2000
Prod ucers: Akio Kamatani Tetsu Kayama Masumi Okada
attitude who rarely shows any sign of negative
Should more than a single kid hold out, all are
Masao Sato
R unning T im e :
emotion, even when attacked. His main wish is to
executed. The horror of this controversial film is
S c re e n w rite rs:
131 minutes
dedicate the Buddha to his late mother, who drowned
exacerbated by the incredibly youthful faces of these
Kenta Fukasaku
herself in the sea after learning of her husband's
soon-to-be killers. Their shell-shocked expressions
Koshun Takami
adultery. In following Hotoke's story, we also meet
reveal innocence lost, grief over friends who have
C in e m ato g rap h e r:
his brutal older brother Shiba, who heads a vicious
become casualties of the rage to live at any cost. Those
criminal gang and pimps out a sight-impaired
who can't cope with the barbarity kill themselves
1-21-8 Nishi-Gotanda
masseuse named Yuma. Both brothers' lives converge
rather than others. With his powerful morality play,
Shinagana-Ku
in their love for the blind Yuma, who hides a dark
director Kinji Fukasaku begs the question: What
Masamichi Amano
Tokyo 141, Japan
secret. When gang warfare breaks out over illegal
would you do to survive, under these circumstances?
C a st:
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nighttime fishing, the violence spills into the trio's
The non-stop action of B a t t l e R o y a l e hardly gives time
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personal lives and leads to tragedy. The film was shot
to answer. Fukasaku has said he made the film to
Tatsuya Fujiwara Aki Maeda
Yuma
In te rn a tio n a l S a le s: KSS Inc. P rin t So u rce : KSS Inc.
Email: naoya.otsuka@kss-inc.co.jp Se lecte d F ilm o g ra p h y: Sennen Tabito (1999)
Katsumi Yanagishima Ed ito rs: Hirohide Abe M usic:
Taro Yamamoto
in the director's hometown of Hakodate City, on
exorcise the demons in his memory— during World
Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido, the subject
War II, two-thirds of his classmates were killed by
Kou Shibasaki
of his two novels, H a k o d a t e S t o r y and T h e W o r l d I s
American bombs. (But R o y a l e also hints at the next
Chiaki Kuriyama
Masanobu Ando
N o t an
I llu s io n .
Visually breathtaking throughout,
generation of TV reality-shows....) In this all-out
Running T im e:
H o to k e
is a minor masterpiece for Jinsei Tsuji, who
portrayal of mindless violence, Fukasaku successfully
113 minutes
not only directed but also wrote the script and
argues the insanity of it.
composed the music score.
In te rn a tio n a l S ale s: Toei Co., Tokyo P rin t Source: Toei Co. 3-2-17 Ginza, Chuo-ku Tokyo, 104-8108 Japan Ph: 81.3.3535.7621 Fax: 81.3.3535.7622 Email: international@toei.co.jp Se lecte d F ilm o g rap h y: The Geisha House (1998) Crest of Betrayal(1994) Double Cross (1992) Hana no ran (1988) Shanhai bansukingu (1988) Kataku no hito (1986) Satomi hakken-den (1983)
fileStranger
Fall Guy (1981) Samurai Reincarnation (1981) The Gate of Youth (1981) Day of Resurrection (1980)
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Dora-Heita
KOROSHI Wednesday June 6 7:15 PM Egyptian Theatre
Monday June 11 9:30 PM Cinerama Wednesday June 13 2:30 PM Cinerama
Friday June 8 2:30 PM Cinerama
Japan 1999
Based on the novel T h e D i a r y o f a
T o w n M a g is t r a t e
by Shugoro Yamamoto, this humorous samurai film
In M r . S h o w b i z , Richard T. Jameson writes: "Given world enough and time, Jim Thompson, the pulp
Japan 2000
tells the story of Dora-Heita (Koji Yakusho), the new
Camus ( T h e G e t a w a y , A f t e r D a r k M y S w e e t ) , would
D ire cto r:
D irecto r:
badboy magistrate determined to clean up the
have got round to writing about a poor Thompsonian
Kon Ichikawa
depraved town of Horisoto. His unique way of battling
schlub in Hokkaido, in the snowy north of Japan.
M asahiro Kobayashi
Prod ucer:
corruption combines his street smarts with his
Meanwhile, the protagonist of Masahiro Kobayashi's
Pro d u cer:
Yoshinobu Nishioka
charisma. He uses the bad reputation (which he him
A/o/rwill do. He lost his job some time ago but,
Seiichi Ono
S cre e n w rite rs: Kon Ichikawa
F ilm
S c re e n w rite r:
self has created and nurtured) to his advantage as he
instead of admitting it to his wife, has been leaving
begins cavorting with the gamblers, prostitutes and
their nifty A-frame every morning and pretending to
Masaki Kobayashi
criminals to get to the real perpetrators— the crime
drive off to work. Real destination: a mini-Las Vegas
Keisuke Kinoshita
bosses— to find out just how deep the corruption runs.
at a nearby mall, where he sits all day playing pachinko
C a st:
C inem atog rapher:
Koji Yakusho ( S h a l l W e D a n c e , T a m p o p o , T h e E e l ) stars
and hoping to win enough to keep them afloat. One
Ryo Ishibashi
Yukio Isohata
as the magistrate. This script was written by The
day the place is unexpectedly closed; as our hero sits
Nene Otsuka
Committee of Four Knights comprised of Akira Kuro
in his car trying to decide what else to do with his life,
Sansyo Sinsui
sawa, Kon Ichikawa, Masaki Kobayashi, and Keisuke
a spooky loner appears out of nowhere and makes
Kensaku Tanikawa
Kinoshita, a group formed in 1969 to collaborate and
him an offer. Why not turn hitman? Here's a guy's
C ast:
produce quality films. The four wrote D o r a - H e i t a with
picture, here's a gun, here's even a set of instructional
Koji Yakusho Yuko Asano
the plan that each of them would direct his favorite
videos to get you started....The videos, as it happens,
In te rn a tio n a l S a le s:
scene, but three of the four died before realizing their
are Jean-Pierre Melville movies, and Kobayashi's film
Mercure Distribution
Bunta Sugawara
goal. In 1999, director Ichikawa decided to make good
is dedicated to the auteur of L e S a m o u r a i ,
P rin t S o u rce : Mercure Distribution
Akira Kurosawa
Ed ito r: Chizuko Osada M usic:
Running T im e: 110 minutes
on this project and dedicated the film (his 74th) to his three deceased moviemaking partners.
B ob
le
F l a m b e u r . e X al. Kobayashi himself isn't in that league,
but he has a clean eye for absurdist compositions and gets some lustrous effects— especially with star
In tern atio n al Sale s: Nikkatsu Corporation
tling washes of color— amid the blue-white snow-
P rin t Source:
fields and always-empty landscape. Mostly the tone
Nikkatsu Corporation 3-28-12 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku
Thompson would have appreciated; indeed, much of F ilm
Ph: 81.3.5689.1026
N o i r plays less like its namesake and more as a
comedy. Still, the movie's metaphor for bourgeois
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frustration and the hopelessness of escape is an
Email: nobu@nikkatsu.co.jp
honorable addition to noir's glossary of despair." Selected Film og raphy: The 8-Tomb Village (1996) 47 Ronin (1994) The Return of Kogarashi Monjiro (1993) Noh Mask Murders (1991) Princess from the Moon (1987) Actress (1987) The Hall of the Crying Deer (1986) The Burmese Harp (1985) Ohan (1984)
E d ito r: Naoki Kaneko
Ken Ogata R unning T im e : 86 minutes
27, rue de la Butteaux Cailles Paris, 75013 France Ph: 3 3.1 .44.16.88.44 Fax: 33.1.45.65.07.47 Email: info@mercure-distribution.fr
of his storytelling is lighter than either Melville or
Tokyo, 113-0033 Japan
The Makioka Sisters (1983)
M asahiro Kobayashi
AmericanAirlines* CLASSIC
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K i n g f m 98.1
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Inugami
Tuesday May 29 7:15 PM Egyptian Theatre
Friday June 15 9:30 PM Pacific Place Sunday June 17 9:30 PM Egyptian Theatre
Sunday June 3 4:00 PM Broadway Performance Hall
us
PREMIERE
Japan 2000
The lush cedar woods and serene coastline of southern
Fatalism, fairy tales and ultrarealistic animation com
Japan's Shikoku Island are perfect cover for what roils
bine in this anime tale of doomed love in an alternate-
within the isolated village of Omine. Having devoted
history Japan. It's 10 years after the war, when
Japan 1998
D ire cto r:
her life to the painstaking art of fine papermaking,
economic strife has given rise to antigovernment
D ire cto r:
Masato Harada P ro d u ce r:
Miki finds herself an unmarried woman in her 30s.
guerilla groups and a Panzer-armored state militia
Hiroyuki Okiura
When 25-year-old Akira, a schoolteacher with a talent
formed to control them. A young cop named Fuse is
P rod ucers:
Masato Bando
for calligraphy, scoots into town, he unleashes not
nearly killed when he corners a young girl guerrilla,
S c re e n w rite r:
M itusuhikawa Ishikawa Tsutomu Sugita
only Miki's spinster passion but also the Inugami—
know as a "Red Riding Hood," who commits suicide
the dog spirits. The women in Miki's family have the
by detonating a bomb right in front of him. Haunted
Shigeru Watanabe
Junichi Fujisawa
unenviable responsibility of keeping the Inugami
by his inability to shoot her when he had a chance,
S c re e n w rite r:
E d ito r:
appeased, and to fail in that task is to subject the
Fuse meets the girl's twin sister with whom he forms
Soichi Ueno C a st:
town to the spirits' vicious wrath.This wrath manifests
a mysterious bond, one that might hold the answer
Mamoru Oshii C in e m ato g rap h e r:
itself both in the physical realm, bringing destructive
to the divisions between the various police groups,
Yuki Amami
winds and torrential rains, and in the psyches of the
including the rumored counter-intelligence unit known
people, prompting madness, violence and betrayal.
as "The Wolf Brigade." By turns dark and disturbing,
At one point, when the Inugami have bestowed bad
brutal and operatic, J i n - R o h mines the Red Riding
M usic: Hajime Mizoguchi
Masato Harada C in e m ato g ra p h e r:
Atsuro Watabe Kenichi Yajama Kanako Fukaura
Hidekazu Terakawa
Hisao Shirai E d ito r: Shuichi Kakesu
Eugane Harada
dreams on the denizens of Miki's household, her
Hood fairy tale for graphic novel gold, melding it with
C a st:
R unning T im e : 105 minutes
mother tells her, "Dreams are not good or bad. They
a tragic love story. Making his feature debut, Hiroyuki
Kazuki Fuse
ooze up through the cracks at the bottom of your
Okiura is best known for his character designs on
Kei Amemiya
heart. They're where your real self comes from." In
ground-breaking animes A k i r a and G h o s t i n t h e S h e l l ,
the same way it is useless to try to avoid bad dreams,
whose legendary director, Mamoru Oshii, provides the
the characters in I n u g a m i must accept the classic
screenplay for J i n - R o h . Since Okiura has an aversion
Hajime Handa
P rin t So u rce :
Oedipus lesson of destiny: The more circuitous the
to using computers, most of the movements in the
Shiroh Tatsumi
Kadokawa Shoten Publishing Co., Ltd.
route one takes to avoid fate, the more headlong one
film were done by hand, using more than 80,000
Isao Aniya
will run smack into it. In telling the story of Miki's
animation cels. Oshii has said that if he had directed
Nanami Agawa
2-13-3 Fujimi Chiyoda-Ku
struggle to balance love and duty, director Masato
the film, using the now standard digital techniques,
Harada paints an artful picture of those dangerous
he would have produced only 30,000 cels. Anime and
borderlines where cruelty and compassion blur, where
graphic novel fans will find the sumptuous result worth
In te rn a tio n a l S a le s:
old history and hard reality collide, and where destruc
all that extra effort.
The Film Library
In te rn a tio n a l S a le s: Kadokawa Shoten Publishing Co., Ltd.
Tokyo, 102-8177 Japan Ph: 81.3.3238.8485 Fax:81.3-3238.8612 S e lec te d F ilm o g ra p h y:
Hachiroh Tohbe Atsushi Henmi Bunmei Muroto
Running Tim e : 103 minutes
P rin t So u rce:
tion and creation become inexorably tangled.
Tide Point Pictures
Jubaku: Spellbound (1999) Bounce koGALS (Leaving) (1997) Rowing Through (1996) Kamikaze Taxi (1995)
A w a rd s: Fantasia Section Award and International Fantasy Film
655 Bryant St
Special Jury Award, Fantasporto
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San Francisco, CA 94107 Fax: 415.546.7086
Plainted Desert (1993)
Email: info@tidepoint.com,
Ganheddo (GUNHED) (1993) The Heartbreak Yakuza (1993)
S e lec te d Film o g rap h y:
Paris/Dakar 1500 (1986)
Feature Film Debut
Uindii (1984) Saraba eiga no tomoyo: Indian sam aa (1979)
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Ring 0
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Brother
RINGU O Wednesday June 13 7:15 PM Cinerama
Friday May 25 9:30 PM Egyptian Theatre
Thursday June 14 Noon Cinerama
Saturday May 26 4:00 PM Egyptian Theatre
US
PREMIERE Japan
B
2000
Based on the best-selling horror novels of Koji Suzuki
Takeshi "Beat" Kitano has long been one of the most
(whose works have yet to be translated into English),
celebrated voices in Japanese cinema in general and
the wildly popular films R i n g and R i n g 2 concern a
in the yakuza genre, which he has elevated— both
Japan/USA
D irecto r:
deadly videotape that, once having been viewed,
in front of and behind the camera— with such classics
D ire cto r:
Norio Tsuruta
makes you die within seven days unless you get some
as S o n a t i n e and H a n a - B i . In this startling new film
Takeshi Kitano
Producers:
one else to view it. R i n g 0 : B i r t h d a y t a k e s us back 30
he again provides the riveting blend of explosive
P ro d u cers:
years to plumb the history of this vicious VHS. The
violent action, melancholy lyricism and mischievous
Ann Carli
origin of the curse is young Yamamura Sadako (Yuki
deadpan humor that characterizes his best work.
Nakama), an actress in a theater troupe. A reporter
Kitano himself portrays Yamamoto, a yakuza warrior
Masao Nagai
investigating Sadako's past discovers she moved to
forced into exile in America when his brethren are
Peter Waston
C inem atog rapher:
Tokyo after the death of her mother, who possessed
nearly wiped out by a rival clan. Arriving in California,
Takio Yoshida
Takahide Shibanushi
paranormal powers. Now the somber presence of
he seeks out his younger half-brother Ken (Claude
S c re e n w rite r:
M usic:
Sadako fills her fellow actors with foreboding as they
Maki), who's supposedly been attending college with
Takeshi Kitano
all begin having visions of a well, the same visions
money Yamamoto has provided. Instead we find that
that end up on that video 30 years later. When some
Ken's fallen in with the LA underworld. Indeed, he's
Katsumi Yanagijima E d ito r:
of the troupe die inexplicably, others blame the strange
running a rag-tag gang of drug dealers along with
Takeshi Kitano
Yoshiko Tanaka
Sadako, ganging up to beat her to death. But she is
his buddy Danny (Omar Epps). Wasting no time on
M usic:
Kumiko Aso
not so easily killed. R i n g 0 : B i r t h d a y adds Importantly
niceties, Yamamoto takes over their operation, teach
Joe Hisaishi
Running Tim e:
to the mythology of the ff/ngfranchlse while following
ing the younger men the yakuza code of brotherhood,
C a st:
its own stylistic road, informed by dark, murky interiors
a code that Danny^after an initial run-in with Yama
Takeshi Kitano
and cold swaths of indirect lighting. The fierce and
moto— is the quickest to adopt. The exile soon brings
Kadokawa Shoten Publishing Co.,
furious third act will give pause to those who think
a ruthless combination of efficiency and brutal violence
Ltd.
being double-jointed is a positive attribute. R i n g 0 :
to the gang's efforts, and it rapidly rises up the
Ren Osugi
P rin t Source: Kadokawa Shoten Publishing Co.,
also features two actresses who won the
foodchain of vice. Inevitably, this leads to a confron
R unning T im e :
Japan Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
tation with the local Mafia, who will do anything to
113 minutes
for their appearances in films by master filmmaker
maintain their grip on the territory. A veritable Arma
Shohei Imamura: Kumiko Aso for D r . A k a g i (1998)
geddon ensues— an exhilarating wave of action
Shinji Osgawa Masao Nagai S cre e n w rite rs: Shinji Ogawa
Shinichiro Ogata C ast: Yukie Nakama Seiichi Tanabe
98 minutes In tern atio n al Sale s:
Ltd. 2-13-3 Fujimi Chiyodaku Tokyo, 102-8177 Japan Ph: 81.3.3238.8485 Fax: 81.3.3238.8612
B ir t h d a y
and Yoshiko Tanaka for B l a c k R a i n (1989).
featuring Takeshi's trademark visceral violence, wry humor and stylized mayhem.
Shinji Komiya Masayuki Mori Jeremy Thomas
C in e m a to g rap h e r:
Claude Maki Omar Epps Masaya Kato
P rin t Source: Sony Pictures Classics 550 Madison Avenue New York, NY 10022 Ph: 212.833.8846
Selected Film og raphy: Akuryo kaidan norowareta bijotachi (1996) Borei gakkyu (1996)
Fax: 212.833.4190 Email: Patricia_Hickey@spe.sony.com S e le c te d Film o g rap h y: Kikujiro no natsu (1999) Fireworks (Hana-Bi) (1997) Kids Return (1996) Getting Any? (1994) Sonatine (1993) A Scene at the Sea (1992) Boiling Point (1990) Violent Cop (1989)
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Sex, Shame & Tears
Such Is Life
SEXO, PUDOR Y LÁGRIMAS
A S Í ES LA VIDA
Tuesday June 5 7:15 PM Egyptian Theatre
Saturday May 26 9:30 PM Broadway Performance Hall
Friday June 8 Noon Cinerama
Monday May 28 11:30 AM Harvard Exit
Mexico 1999
Originally a successful stage play, S e x , S h a m e a n d
Considered by many to be one of the finest filmmakers
T e a r s follows the comedic intrigues and small betray
currently at work, Arturo Ripstein started out as
Mexico/Spain/ France
als rife among six friends in an upscale neighborhood
Bunuel's assistant director on
D ire cto r:
of Mexico City. Two couples living directly opposite
A n g e l . The 23 films this Mexican auteur has directed
Antonio Serrano P ro d u ce rs:
one another in highrise apartments are fed up with
are spiced with more than a little Bunuelian black
their stalled careers, their social routines and each
humor, and he shares the master's sharp eye for lower-
other. When a past lover comes through town and is
class sleaze. Trust Ripstein to break new ground with
Prod ucer:
invited to crash for a few days, the scenario is set for
every film he makes: Here he reworks classic Greek
Alvaro Garnica
Matthias Ehrenberg Christian Valdelievre S c re e n w rite r:
The
E x t e r m in a t in g
2000 D ire cto r: Arturo Ripstein
a flurry of farcical comings and goings. Failed attempts
tragedy— specifically, M e d e a — in the slums of Mexico
Laura Imperiale
C in e m ato g ra p h e r:
at triangulations and revenge lead to the men holing
City. Julia (Arcelia Ramirez) ekes out a meager living
Jorge Sánchez
Xavier Peret
up in one apartment and the women in the other.
for herself and her children administering homeo
S c re e n w rite r:
E d ito r:
Directing a film that could easily be titled M e n a n d
pathic medicine and dabbling in witchcraft. Mean
Antonio Serrano
Samuel Larson M usic: Carlos Warman C a st:
Paz Alicia Garciadiego C in e m ato g rap h e r:
for
while her boxer husband (Luis Felipe Tover), a loser
all it owes to Almodovar's corrosive style, first-time
on all counts, takes up with the nubile daughter of
E d ito r:
director Antonio Serrano nevertheless exposes a
the local landlord (Ernesto Yanez), a porcine heap
Carlos Puente M usic:
W om en
on
th e
V e rg e o f a
N e rv o u s B re a k d o w n
Guillermo Granillo
Demian Bihir
peculiarly Mexican brand of humor, reveling in
who wanders around his crumbling domain in a tacky
Monica Dionne
adultery, impotence, machismo and self-loathing to
bathrobe. Soon Julia's facing the loss of her home
Victor Hugo Martin
the accompaniment of a hip, pulsing soundtrack.
and her kids. Her man-hating godmother (Patricia
Cecilia Suarez
Performances by a cast composed of some of Mexico's
Reyes Spindola) counsels castration for all of the
Susana Zabaleata
best young actors (particularly the pitch-perfect hys
masculine persuasion, but Julia has her own plans
terics of Demian Bichir and Cecilia Suarez) elevate
for revenge.... Shooting effortlessly on digital, Ripstein
Patricia Reyes Spindola
the script to delirious heights. One of the biggest
imagines his "Greek chorus" on TV in the persons of
R unning T im e:
a mariachi trio warbling their commentary on the
98 minutes
Jorge Salinas Angelica Aragon R unning Tim e : 109 minutes
box-office hits to cross the border in years.
action— at one point, the troupe jumps out of the P rin t So u rce: IMCINE
A w a rd s:
television set to get closer to the principals in this
Silver Ariel for Best Actress, Best Art Direction, Best
down-and-dirty tragedy. Along with the brilliant
Tepic 4 0 ,4th Floor Col. Roma Sur
Original Score, Best Sceenplay Adapted from Another
Mexico City, 06760 Mexico
Source, Best First Feature, Academy Awards (Mexico);
Ph: 52.5.584.7283
Audience Award, Guadalajara Mexican Film Festival
Fax: 52.5.564.4157 Email: difuinte@imcine.gob.mx
stylistic experimentation, handsome photography and
David Mansfield C a st: Francesca Guillén Loló Navarro Arcelia Ramirez
In te rn a tio n a l S ale s: Christa Saredi World Sales P rin t S ource:
excellent script of S u c h I s L i f e , Ripstein manages to
IMCINE Tepic 4 0 ,4th Floor Col. Roma Sur
mine authentic human dignity out of the pathetic
Mexico City, 06760 Mexico
lives of his suffering dregs.
Ph: 52.5.584.7283 Fax: 52.5.564.4157
S e lec te d F ilm o g ra p h y:
Email: difuinte@imcine.gob.mx
A w a rd s:
Feature Film Debut
FIPRESCI Award and Special Jury Prize, Havana Film Festival; Best Actress, Lleida Latin American Film Festival
S e lec te d F ilm o g rap h y: The Ruination of Men (2000) No One Writes to the Colonel (1999) Divine (1998) Deep Crimson (1996) The Queen of the Night (1994) The Beginning and the End (1993) Woman of the Port (1991) Love Lies (1987) The Realm of Fortune (1986) El Otro (1984)
EL £ ) M undo
EL m M undo
Hell W ithout Limits (1978) The Black W idow (1977) Castle of Purity (1973) Time to Die (1965)
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Odd Little Man
Ali Zaoua DA
JEG TRAFF JE S U S ... MED SPRETTERT Tuesday May 29 7:15 PM Pacific Place
Sunday May 27 9:30 PM Broadway Performance Hall
Wednesday May 30 5:00 PM Pacific Place
Monday May 28 4:00 PM Harvard Exit
Morocco 2000
Lyricism and harshness mix in this bittersweet portrait
"A year in the world of our childhood lasts longer
of Casablanca street children. In spite of the hardships
than a year anywhere else," proclaimed popular
Norway 2000
of his life and his daily struggle for survival, 12-year-
Norwegian humorist Odd Borretzen. His delightfully
D irecto r:
old Ali Zaoua refuses to let his spirit be broken, and
skewed vision of that special time provides the point
D ire cto r:
Nabil Ayouch
instead sustains himself and inspires his three friends
of view for O d d L i t t l e
Stein Leikanger
Prod ucers:
with his dreams. Ali yearns to be a sailor, to travel to
comic memories of growing up in the countryside
P ro d u ce rs:
Etienne Comar
a beautiful island with two suns where he will be a
outside Oslo during the late '30s/early '40s. The
Thomas Backstrom
Jean Cottin
M an,
which is based on his
Petter J. Borgli
royal prince and meet a lovely woman. Once part of a
central character, "Little Oddemann," knows his
S cre e n w rite rs:
gang of underage petty criminals, he's broken with
carefree boyhood days are coming to an end, but he
Nabil Ayouch
them and their leader, the terrifying Dib, taking the
has serious doubts about the value of growing up.
C in e m a to g rap h e r:
Nathalie Saugeon
scruffy, glue-sniffing urchins Kouka, Omar and Boubker
Adults don't seem to have much fun. They're angry
John Christian Rosenlund
C inem atog rapher:
with him. Dib, whose motto is "Life's a pile of shit,"
and serious all the time. Odd sees and hears things
E d ito r:
Vincent Mathias
does not take kindly to this insurrection. After a con
the adults have stopped noticing. This ability results
Sofie Hesselberg
frontation that accidentally turns deadly, the survivors'
in him trying to find Jesus. He holds nothing back in
bonds become all the stronger as they strive to give
his quest— he even uses a slingshot. He also dreams
Krishna Levy
their fallen comrade a suitable funeral. Holding its
of his heroes, the Arctic explorers Nansen and
Fredrik Stenberg Ditlev-Simonsen
C ast: Mouni'm Kbab
own with such classic dramas about marginalized
Johansen, and with his older brother and best friend
Martin Raaen Eidissen
children as P i x o t e and L o s O l v i d a d o s , A l i Z a o u a was
ventures on an exploration that nearly ends in disaster.
Fredrik Stengaard Paasche
Mustapha Hansali
Morocco's Oscar submission for Best Foreign Film.
Whimsical without being overly sentimental, O d d L i t t l e
Gjertrud Louise Jynge
Writer-director Ayouch spent three years living among
M a n joins the company of such gentle and intelligent
Anotoine Voituriez
E d ito r: Jean-Robert Thomann M usic:
Hicham Moussoune Abdelhak Zhayra Said Taghmaoui Amal Ayouch Mohamed Majd
and winning the trust of the street boys who star in
pastoral comedies as M y
this film. His patience has been amply rewarded, and
S l i n g s h o t . Debuting writer-director Stein Leikanger has
their faith in him justified.
been one of Scandinavia's leading advertising film
Hicham Ibrahimi Khalil Essaadi Abdessamad Tourab Seddam Karim Merzak Halima Frizi Nadia Ould Hajjaj Running T im e: 95 minutes
A w a rd s: 2000 Oscar Submission, Best Foreign Language Film; Best Feature, Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival; Bronze Horse for Best Film, Stockholm
L if e
as
a
D o g
and
Stein Leikanger
M usic: Randall Meyers C a st:
Gard B. Eidsvold Grethe Boe Otto Jespersen Grethe Nodra Rolf Arly Lund
directors over the past two decades and, as such, has
Peter Bredal
won a passel of awards. With his feature career now
R unning T im e :
off to a dandy start, he can probably look forward to
90 minutes
winning a lot more.
In te rn a tio n a l S a le s : Cottrell & Lindeman
International Film Festival; Prize of the Ecumentical Jury, Montréal World Film Festival
The
S c re e n w rite r:
A w a rd s: 2000 Oscar Submission, Best Foreign Language Film
P rin t So u rce: Norwegian Film Institute Dronningens Gate 16
In tern atio n al Sale s: TF1 International P rin t Source: TF1 International 305, Avenue Le Jour se Leve
PO Box 482 Sentrum Oslo, N-0105 NORWAY Ph: 47.2247.4575 Fax: 47.2247.4597 Email: stineo@nfi.no
Boulogne, 92656 France Ph: 33.1.41.41.31.44
S e le c te d Film o g rap h y:
Fax: 33.1.41.41.12.34 Email: mpesty@tf1 .fr
Feature Film Debut
Selected Film og raphy: Mektoub (1998)
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Dog Food
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AZUCENA
Friday June 1 9:30 PM Harvard Exit
Monday June 11 9:30 PM Broadway Performance Hall
Monday June 4 5:00 PM Egyptian Theatre
Tuesday June 12 5:00 PM Broadway Performance Hall
Philippines 2000
One of the boldest voices in Filipino cinema, Carlos
Several years ago, Marilou Diaz-Abaya gave us I n
Siguion-Reyna has consistently created vital characters
t h e N a v e l o f t h e S e a (WIC 1999), a film that captured
Philippines 2000
and shown a keen eye for the socioeconomic context
— visually and thematically— the primal magic of the
D ire cto r:
that constrains them. With his controversial new
Pacific as experienced by those who live in dose
D ire cto r:
Carlos Siguion-Reyna
drama, he challenges us to confront "hot-button"
harmony with its rhythms. Now Abaya testifies that
Marilou Diaz-Abaya
Pro d u cer:
topics such as domestic violence and incest, and at
her newest film,
P rod ucers:
Carlos Siguion-Reyna
the same time confounds our expectations of who
grossing movie in the Philippines), "is a very direct
the true heroes and villains are. As the story begins,
expression of my obsession and worship of the sea.
Jimmy Duavit C in e m ato g rap h e r:
smart and attractive teenage Lily worries that her
All of the characters in the film, including Fredo
Rody Lacap
aging dog will be caught and killed by Teban, the
(charismatic Cesar Montano), the master fisherman,
E d ito r:
neighborhood dog butcher who sells canine meat to
are composites of people I know." In the grand tra
Jess Navaro
M anet Dayrit
beer joints. Soon Lily has other fears. Her angry, frus
dition of M u t i n y o n t h e B o u n t y a n t i M o b y D i c k , T h e
M usic:
M usic:
trated father (who has been kicked off the police force)
R e e f H u n te rs
Ryan Cayabyab
is secretly molesting her and beating his pregnant,
outraged by the sea's murder of his wife and child.
common-law wife. Lily has no one to talk to except
Driven to catch more fish than any of his rivals, Fredo
Pen Medina
an unlikely new friend— Teban. Beautifully acted,
sails off on a forbidden expedition, heading for the
Jhong Hilario
S c re e n w rite r: Enrique Ramos C in e m ato g ra p h e r: Romulo Araojo E d ito r:
C a st: Ricky Davao Dante Rivero
The
R e e f H u n te rs
(the highest-
is set in motion by an obsessed hero,
Butch Jimerez
Nonong Buencamino C a st: Cesar Mantano
Alessandra de Rossi
rivetingly paced and with an astonishing climax, D o g
coral reefs where his free-divers— many scarcely more
Amy Austria
Glydel Mercado
F o o d is unforgettable. Born in the Philippines in 1956,
than poverty-stricken children— destroy the fragile
Rebecca Lusterio
Anjanette Abayari
Carlos Siguion-Reyna earned his master's degree in
coral structures as they drive fish into illegal nets.
Running Tim e :
R unning T im e :
film from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. He is the
Forcing his divers to go down more than ten times a
87 minutes
112 minutes
winner of numerous awards for best director and best
day, Fredo ignores all the signs of impending catas
film and is thought by many to have assumed the
trophe. Though his father (Pen Medina), best friend
mantle of the late, great Lino Brocka.
(Jhong Hilario) and a long-suffering prostitute (Amy
GM A Network Penthouse (#605), Providence Bldg,
1739 North Daniel Court
Austria) he's known for years all plead with Fredo to
55 Annapolis St
Brea, CA 92821
end his mad quest, this Filipino Ahab seems hell
Metro M anila, Phillipines
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bent on self destruction. Working with a small budget,
Fax:310-244.1442
Abaya has made a truly spectacular film of Pacific
P rin t So u rce: Reynafilms
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Elena's Redemption (1996) Harvest Home (1995) Wherever You Are (1994) Kailangan Kita (1993) Only Love (1992) I'll Wait For You In Heaven (1991)
Ph: 6 3 2 .7 2 2 .5 6 1 5 /1 8 Fax: 632.722.5609 Email: gmafilms@i-manila.com.ph
adventure and a quest for redemption, with breath taking underwater photography (she herself is a diver)
Se lecte d F ilm o g rap h y:
and stunning scenes on the high seas. Abaya's
José Rizal (1998) In the Navel of the Sea (1998)
acclaimed J o s e R i z a l played in SIFF 2000.
Milagros (1997)
The Man In Her Life (1997) They Call Me Joy (1997)
P rin t S ource:
A w a rd s: Best Cinematography, Best Director, Best Sound, Best Picture, FAMAS Awards; Best Child Performer, Best Cinematography, Best New Movie, Best Original Score, Best Sound, Best Supporting Actor, Star Awards for Movies.
Your W ife, My W ife (1988)
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Ipaglaban mo: The Movie (1996) Moral (1982) Brutal (1980)
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0 Fantasma
MOSKVA Sunday June 3 11:30 AM Harvard Exit
Saturday June 2 Midnight Egyptian Theatre
Tuesday June 5 9:30 PM Harvard Exit
Monday June 4 9:30 PM Harvard Exit
US
PREMIERE
Portugal 2000
Rarely has a first feature film raised the amount of
The opening scenes of M o s c o w have us flying high
controversy that surrounds 0
Having
over fields and forests. When we begin our descent,
F a n ta s m a .
Russia 2000
shocked audiences at the Venice Film Festival, this
we hear birds singing and a voiceover of a man and
D ire cto r:
dark, erotically charged tale of sexuality, obsession
woman discussing mink: "If an American mink were
D ire cto r:
Joao Pedro Rodrigues
and identity is now working its dark magic in the
released in Russia, it would replace its European
Aleksandr Zeldovich
P ro d u ce r:
United States. Sergio lives a mostly nocturnal
counterpart." Then the camera focuses on a luxurious
Amando Corado
existence, spending his nights as a garbage collector
mink coat and we find ourselves in a nightclub ...
and wandering from one emotionless sexual en
drinking tequila. Controversial in its homeland,
S c re e n w rite rs : Joao Pedro Rodrigues
is a film with purposeful pretensions: a
P ro d ucer: Arsen Gottlieb S c re e n w rite rs: Vladim ir Sorokin
counter to the next. Laconic and withdrawn, he is
M o sco w
Paulo Rebelo
careful to allow no one but a stray dog to get close to
Russian reflection of anticinema, a marginal "incorrect
Alexandr Zeldovich C in e m ato g rap h e r:
Alexandre Melo
his heart. Attempts to befriend him, like those of his
movie deliberately created that way." In this absolutely
Alexandr llkhovsky
C in e m ato g ra p h e r:
beautiful co-worker Fatima, are met with a practiced
artificial world, there is nothing sentimental or Soviet
Rui Pocas
and cold indifference. Then one night, he and his
except for the architecture that sticks out like leftover
E d ito r: Tatiana Yegorycheva
E d ito rs:
partner are called to a house for a special pickup—
dinosaurs— Stalinist buildings protruding over the
and there he meets Joao. Entranced by the man's
horizon, the huge Red October Chocolate Factory
Jose Neves
Paulo Rebelo
M usic: Leonid Desyatnikov
C a st:
unattainable beauty, Sergio begins to spy on Joao and
looking more like prison than confectionery. The film
C a st: Tatyana Drubich
Ricardo Meneses
follow him through the streets of Lisbon, stumbling
focuses on six characters, with two sisters and their
Ingeborga Dapkunaite
Beatriz Torcato
upon him in several "chance encounters." But such
errant mother replacing Chekhov's Three Sisters. Irina
Natalya Kolyakanova
Andre Barbosa
encounters do little to satisfy Sergio's deepening
(Natalia Koliakanova of T a x i B l u e s , T h e W e d d i n g , et
Viktor Gvozditsky
Eurico Vieira
obsession and he begins to lose himself in his efforts
al.) is a nightclub owner. Her unbalanced younger
to possess Joao, body and soul. Director Joao Pedro
daughter Olga (Tatiana Drubich) sings strange little
Rodrigues uses classic film noir conventions to explore
songs and is loved by her psychiatrist, Mark (Viktor
Sergio's increasingly deviant actions, with influences
Gvoziditsky). Mark lived abroad but now practices in
from such films as C a t P e o p l e and T h e
Joao Pedro Rodrigues
R unning T im e : 90 minutes In te rn a tio n a l S a le s: Kino Distribuicao
Stanislav Pavlov Alexandr Baluyev Running T im e : 139 minutes
S le e p
Moscow treating adults "who act like children" and
In te rn a tio n a l S ale s:
P rin t So u rce:
providing an important subtext to both the story and
bitterly regretting that Russia doesn't need him. Oldest
Intercinema-Art agency
Rosa Films
imagery. What emerges is a powerful— yet often
daughter Masha (Ingeborga Dapkunaite, B u r n t b y t h e
Largo Maria Isabel Abolm Ingles 2B
unsettling— piece of filmmaking that delves into the
S u n , S e v e n Y e a r s i n T ib e t } studies law and is engaged
darker corners of the heart.
to Mike (Alexander Baluev, M o s c o w P a r a d e , M u M u ) ,
Moscow, 123242 Russia
a dubious businessman with a passion for ballet.
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Masha is still attracted to Lev (Stas Pavlov), a chame
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leon representative of the perdurable New Russian.
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Lisboa, 1400-244 Portugal Ph: 351.21.303.1810
B ig
Fax: 351.21.303.1819 Email: rosafilmes@esoterica.pt S e lec te d Film o g ra p h y:
M o sco w
Viagem a Expo (1998)
is a great ensemble of actors and a provoca
tive, quasi-Chekhovian story.
Happy Birthday (1997)
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The Captain's Daughter
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Sunday June 3 6:30 PM Harvard Exit
Sunday June 10 4:00 PM Cinerama
Thursday June 7 5:00 PM Pacific Place
Tuesday June 12 9:30 PM Pacific Place
Russia/France
Once again, as in Martha Fiennes' O n e g i n , we enjoy
This tragicomedy is set in the tiny mining town of
an adaptation of Alexander Pushkin, this time by
Lipki, near Tula, south of Moscow. T h e W e d d i n g is a
Russian director Alexander Proshkin. T h e C a p t a i n ' s
collective portrait of a sleepy village, and the "plot"
an epic— on the grand historical scale—
is nothing less than the intertwining of everybody's
D ire cto r:
Aleksandr Proshkin
about the peasant rebellion of 1775 led by Pugachev,
lives. Mishka (Marat Bakharov) is set to marry Tanya
Pavel Lungin
Pro d u cer:
the legendary Spartcaus of Russia. Based on Pushkin's
(Maria Mironova), whom he's loved since childhood.
P rod ucers:
H is t o r y o f P u g a c h e v a n d
his short, lyrical 1836 novel
Everyone wonders just what Tanya's been up to in
T h e C a p t a in 's D a u g h te r ,
the film focuses on a small
Moscow in recent years, but these two have been in
Russia/France 2000 D ire cto r:
M ikhail Zilberman S c re e n w rite rs : Galina Arbuzova
D a u g h te rs
2000
Catherine Dussart S c re e n w rite rs : Aleksandr Galin
group of people at Fort Belogorsky on the Orenburg
love forever and are willing to take the plunge. Then,
Vladim ir Zheleznikov
Steppes. (Proshkin shot near Orenburg, Moscow and
a cloud on the horizon: the arrival of Tanya's ex-
Pavel Lungin C in e m ato g rap h e r:
Cinematographer:
Saint Petersburg.) Commencing after Catherine II has
boyfriend, who has ties to the Mafia. Against all odds,
Aleksandr Burov
Sergei Yurizditsky
had her husband Czar Peter III murdered, this
the wedding begins— without money, true, and
E d ito r:
E d ito r:
sweeping tale follows the adventures of 16-year-old
almost without the bridegroom.... Director Lungin
Sophie Brunet
Pyotr Grinyov (Polish actor Mateusz Damiecki). On
was born in Moscow and is a graduate of All-Russia-
Stanislav Govorukhin
Tatyana Yegoricheva M usic:
M usic: Valdimir Chekasin
the way to Fort Belogorsky, Pyotr is lost in a blinding
State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) in Moscow.
C a st:
snowstorm. A ragged peasant— Pugachev— helps to
His film T a x i B l u e s was selected for the 1990 Best
Vladim ir Mashkov
guide him through and Pyotr generously gives him
Director's Prize at Cannes. Whereas T a x i B l u e s tapped
Mariya Mironova
Karolina Gruszka
his coat. Once at the fort, Pyotr is accepted into the
into the dark undercurrents of perestroika and the
Andrei Panin
Vladim ir Martynov
C a st: Marat Basharov
Mateusz Damiecki
family of the fort's commander and competes with
uncertain implications of freedom, T h e W e d d i n g is a
Aleksandr Semchev
Sergei Makovetsky
fellow officer Shvabrin (Sergei Makovetsky, M o s c o w
more optimistic look at life far from the mad rhythms
Vladim ir Simonov Mariya Golubkina
P a r a d e , O f F r e a k s a n d M e n ) f o r his daughter Masha.
of Moscow. Says Lungin: "We live in an epoch when
Meanwhile grandly clad Pugachev proclaims himself
everyone worries about catastrophes— about the
Yelena Novikova R unning Tim e: 114 minutes
Vladim ir Ilyin R unning T im e : 130 minutes
Czar and masses his rebellious force to attack the
extinction of the Russian soul. But this film makes
In te rn a tio n a l S a le s:
fort, beginning a bloody rebellion that will spread
you think that not all is lost and that life can be normal."
Natalya Kolyakanova
Roissy Films
across the country. Director Proshkin writes: "Russian
P rin t So u rce:
life is an unpredictable chaos of coincidences. Our
Roissy Films
In te rn a tio n a l S ale s: Flach Pyramide International
age, like the times of Catherine H, is an age where
P rin t Source:
58 rue Pierre Charron Paris, 75008 France Ph: 33.1.53.53.5050 Fax: 33.1.53.75.24.35 Email: domirois@ club_internet.fr
morals have lost their value, an age of swift career making and instantaneous downfalls." Says V a r i e t y s Eddie Cockrell: "the kind of film in which the wind can be felt and the soil can be smelled."
S e lec te d Film o g ra p h y:
Skouras Pictures 11500 Tennessee Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90064 Ph: 310.268.1800 Fax: 310.966.4042 Email: pgardner@skourasfilms.com
Black Veil (1995) S e lec te d F ilm o g rap h y:
To See Paris and Die (1992)
The Life in the Red (1996) A Propos de Nice, La Suite (1995)
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The Foul King
Barking Dogs Never Bite
BANCHIKWANG Wednesday June 6 9:30 PM Harvard Exit
Sunday May 27 6:30 PM Broadway Peformance Hall
Saturday June 9 11:30 AM Cinerama
Monday May 28 11:30 AM Egyptian Theatre
South Korea
a
2000
When backed into a corner, there's no limit to what
Harangued and bullied by a sadistic boss prone to
desperate people will do. In Joon-ho Bong's first
using "the headlock of horror" as office discipline for
feature-length film, frustrated Yoon-ju reacts to his
chronic lateness, Dae-ho (Song Kang-ho) is one
South Korea 2000
^
D ire cto r:
situation with cruelty to dogs. A college lecturer
humiliated bank clerk who has had enough. His refuge
D ire cto r:
*
Bong Joon-Hu P ro d u ce rs:
stymied by South Korea's corrupt education system,
becomes Jang's gym, where he ingratiates himself with
Ji-woon Kim
Yoon-ju can't afford to "buy" a full professorship.
the once-formidable wrestler Ultra Tiger Mask, a
P ro d ucer:
Min-whan Cho
His pregnant wife— the sole breadwinner— orders
grumpy, alcoholic trainer who agrees to take him into
him around while he mopes in an apartment where
his sorry fold of amateur wrestlers after Dae-ho simply
dogs are both dinner and a symbol of status. There's
refuses to leave. The farce that ensues, with Dae-ho
Ji-woon Kim C in e m ato g rap h e r:
Sung-Jai Tcha S c re e n w rite rs : Ji-ho Song
one yipping mutt in particular that annoys him so
undergoing a hilarious training regimen of dirty tricks
Kyeong-pyo Hong
C in e m a to g ra p h e r:
much that he decides to kill it. Drastic? Yes— and
that leads to his eventual billing in the ring as "The
E d ito r:
Yong-kyou Cho
hard to watch. At first Yoon-ju isn't really so cold-
Foul King," showcases the talents of Song Kang-ho
lm-pyo Go
E d ito r:
hearted; it takes him three tries to kill the dog.Things
as Elvis Presley-wannabe and loveably misbegotten
Eun Soo Lee
turn eerier when he eavesdrops on two janitors telling
avenger. Balancing slapstick with pathos, performing
ghost stories in the basement, with the dog simmering
all the body-slamming moves without a stunt double,
nearby. A full-on chase ensues when Hyun-nam, a
Song— dominating almost every scene— achieves
Kang-ho Song
Jung-Jae Lee
kindly girl curious about all the dogs disappearing
nearly Keatonesque grace. Rather than barrage the
Jin-yeong Jang
Doo-na Bae
Hang-seon Jang Sang-myeon Park
Sung-woo Cho C a st:
from the vicinity, sees Yoon-ju throw one from a
audience with WWF-style doseups and reeling
R unning T im e :
rooftop. Then his unknowing wife makes yet another
cameras, Kim wisely stands back and allows his
106 minutes
decision for him— and turns him into a dog owner
talented cast to transform the mat into a place where
himself.... With its disturbing theme, brightly lit
comic timing and an odd sympathy reign. Neither
photography mixed with grim grays and a cast of
squeamish nor fatuous in its violence, Kim's F o u l K i n g
bizarre characters, this film commingles horror, fantasy
is a paean to the quixotic— acrobatic, absurd and full
and reality. You'll squirm— but you'll think about it
of charm.
In te rn a tio n a l S a le s: Mirovision P rin t So u rce: Mirovision 7FI. Garden Yesikjang Bldg. 45-18Youido-dong
for days.
M usic: Uh-Uh-Boo Chang Young-Kyu C a st:
Yeong-chang Song Ung-in Jeong Ki-yeong Lee Ha-kyun Shin Ho-kyeong Ko Su-ro Kim Weon-jong Lee R unning T im e: 109 minutes
Seoul, Youngdeungpo-gu 150-010 Ph: 82.2.737.1185
A w a rd s: Excellence in Editing, Slamdance International Film
In te rn a tio n a l S ale s:
Fax: 82.2.737.1184
Festival
Mirovision
South Korea
V
S c re e n w rite r:
Derek Son Tae-woong
M usic:
*n
Mi-yeon Lee
P rin t S ource:
Email: kyunghee@mirovision.com
Mirovision 7FI. Garden Yesikjang Bldg.
S e lec te d F ilm o g ra p h y:
45-18 Youido-dong Seoul, Youngdeungpo-gu 150-010
Feature Film Debut
South Korea Ph: 82.2.737.1185 Fax: 82.2.737.1184 Email: kyunghee@mirovision.com S e lec te d F ilm o g rap h y: Choyonghan kajok (1998)
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Memento Mori YEOGO GO EDAM II
OH! SOO-JUNG
Wednesday May 30 7:15 PM Harvard Exit
Monday June 11 7:15 PM Egyptian Theatre
Sunday June 3 1:45 PM Pacific Place Cinemas
Tuesday June 12 2:30 PM Pacific Place
South Korea 2000 Y>e
When Min-ah, a Japanese high school girl, discovers
According to Marcel Duchamp's posthumous notes,
South Korea
a scarlet diary— kept by Hyo-shin and Shi-eun, two
his sculpture V i r g i n S t r i p p e d B a r e b y H e r B a c h e l o r s ,
2000
of her fellow students— she falls under its hallu
Even—
D ire cto rs:
cinatory power. Within the hormonally charged pres
cylinders, bottles and other oddities— represents a
D ire cto r:
Min Kyu-Dong
sure-cooker of an all-girls school ruled by males, the
mechanized abstract of a bride, her suitors and their
Hong Sang-soo
Kim Tae-Yong
two diarists share a particularly strong passion for
celebrated "liberty of indifference"— in short, an ironic
Pro d u ce r:
S cre e n w rite rs:
each other. When one inexplicably suicides, a sort of
goodbye to the romantic familiarity of painting.
insanity infects the school and Min-ah seems to be
Director Hong Sang-soo's third feature parses the
possessed by the spirit of the lost girl. As madness
surrender of virginity into a similarly wry examination
C in e m a to g rap h e r:
leaks in everywhere, M e m e n t o
climaxes in a
of eros and its deceptions, stripping the romantic
Choi Youngtaek
E d ito r:
haunting of cataclysmic proportions. The striking
comedy of its naivete while continuing to use its
E d ito r:
Kim Sang-Bum
feature debut of two young graduates of the Korean
contours. Shot in a cold, grainy black and white, the
Hahm Sungwon
M usic:
Academy of Film Arts, this g o e d a m (ghost story)-cum-
film recounts— from differing perspectives— the
high-school-lesbian-romance is a powerful (stand
contorted "conquest" of Soo-jung, an affable 24-
alone) sequel to the 1998 hit W h i s p e r i n g C o r r i d o r s ' ,
year-old video production assistant, by gallery owner
C a st: Lee Eunjoo
Min Kyu-Dong Kim Tae-Yong C inem atog raphy: Kim Yoon-Soo
Sung-woo Cho C ast: Kim Min-sun
M o ri
two large plate-glass panels containing
Lee Yujin S c re e n w rite r: Hong Sangsoo
M usic: Ok Gilsung
Park Yeh-jin
also set in a girls school, with the supernatural element
Jae-hoon.The film is dissected into a five-part puzzle.
Jung Bosuk
Lee Young-jinn
working as a critique of Korea's militaristic educational
The first, third and fifth parts map out the consum
Moon Sunkeun
Running T im e:
system. But M e m e n t o M o r i is much more adventurous
mation: much pleading on a cell phone by Jae-hoon,
R unning T im e :
97 minutes
than its predecessor in its inventive visual and nar
sudden hesitation by Soo-jung to keep their date at
126 minutes
rative style: The film brilliantly interweaves past and
a luxury hotel frequented by honeymooners, and so
present reality and uses handheld camerawork to
forth. The rest of the film squeezes itself into enchanted
P rin t Source:
increase the sense of terrifyingly unstable space and
hole-in-the-wall restaurants to recount the subtle yet
Mirovision
time. The result is an incredible fever dream of a movie,
revealing differences within their respective versions
Mirovision
7FI. Garden Yesikjang Bldg.
a Japanese C a r r i e that gorgeously dissects the over
of courtship, begging the question who or what
7FI. Garden Yesikjang Bldg.
In tern atio n al Sale s: Mirovision
In te rn a tio n a l S a le s: Mirovision P rin t So u rce:
45-18 Youido-dong
heated, killing dynamics of high-school liaisons,
controls the seeming accidents that bring lovers
45-18 Youido-dong
Seoul, Youngdeungpo-gu 150-010
especially those among Lolitas just discovering their
together. A warning to all lovers of the self-deceptions
Seoul, Youngdeungpo-gu 150-010
hetero- and homosexuality.
that lurk within the search for happiness,
South Korea Ph: 82.2.737.1185 Fax: 82.2.737.1184 Email: kyunghee@mirovision.com Selected Film og raphy: Feature Film Debut
South Korea V ir g in
Ph: 82.2.737.1185
solidifies Sang-soo's growing reputation as perhaps
Fax: 82.2.737.1184
A w a rd s:
the most daring intellect of contemporary Asian
Email: kyunghee@mirovision.com
Vision Award for Cinematography, Slamdance International Film Festival
cinema. S e le c te d Film o g rap h y: A w a rd s: Special Jury Prize, Tokyo Film Festival
The Day a Pig Fell Into the Well (1996) The Power of Kangwon Province (1998)
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Anita Takes a Chance
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ANITA NO PERD EL TREN Friday June 1 7:15 PM Harvard Exit
Thursday June 14 7:15 PM Harvard Exit
Monday June 4 5:00 PM Harvard Exit
Sunday June 17 6:30 PM Egyptian Theatre
US
PREMIERE
Spain
Acclaimed for her supporting roles in such films as
F u g i t i v e s starts with the soulful moans of steamy sex
Almodovar's A l l A b o u t M y M o t h e r (1999), C a r e s s e s
between streetwise Tony (Laia Marull in her first lead
(SIFF1999) and A i r b a g ( SIFF 1997), Rosa Maria Sarda
role) and Juanjo. Cut abruptly to a second sex scene—
D ire cto r:
takes center stage as Anita, an independent 50-year-
a stony-faced prostitute checking her watch as her
D ire cto r:
Ventura Pons
old widow whose longtime routine is thrown for a
client finishes up. Seemingly unrelated, the two scenes
Miguel Hermoso
P ro d u ce r:
loop when the cinema where she has worked for 34
hint at the movie's theme: the struggle between
Ventura Pons S c re e n w rite rs :
years is demolished to make way for a multiplex. She
criminal and caretaker mindsets. The prostitute is
returns from a vacation to find an empty construction
Juanjo's sister who, fed up with having to look out
lot where the theater once stood. Distraught but
for her seven-year-old daughter— a real drag on her
needing to maintain some semblance of order in her
business— stashes the kid in Juanjo and Tony's car.
Mario Montera
life, Anita clings to her ritual, getting on the bus in
Trouble is, they've just taken part in a robbery and
Miguel Hermoso Óscar Plasencia C in e m ato g rap h e r:
E d ito r:
the morning, going to the construction site, and
their cold-blooded accomplices are on their tail. Soon
Tote Trena
Pere Abadal
returning home in the evening. It's not long before
Tony finds herself on her own, abandoned by her
M usic:
the workers notice; she is given a special seat to watch
boyfriend— and stuck with finding the little girl's
the proceedings, and the bulldozer driver starts to take
flamenco-singer dad. It doesn't help that the child is
Antonio Meliveo
Spain 2000
Ventura Pons Lluis-Anton Baulenas C in e m a to g ra p h e r:
Carles Cases C a st:
2000
P ro d ucer: Antonio P. Pérez S c re e n w rite rs: Raúl Brambilla
E d ito r: Blanca Guillén M usic:
a romantic interest in her. Should she take a chance
brutally honest to the point of betrayal. As they flee
C a st:
José Coronado
on love with the handsome young construction
across the gorgeous Spanish countryside (beautifully
Laia Marull
M aria Barranco
worker? What does she have to lose? Using amusing
framed by cinematographer Tote Trenas), Tony
Beatriz Coronel
Jordi Dauder
fantasy sequences (in one, Anita imagines herself as
becomes more protective and caring and the child
Roger Coma
Garbo in Q u e e n C h r i s t i n a ) , a home-movie flashback
becomes more loyal and tolerant. A haunting flamenco
Juan Diego M aría Galiana
of Anita as a child, and a hilarious animated nightmare
soundtrack culminates in a captivating live perform
about the end of the world as she dreams it, Ventura
ance toward the end, as both fugitives search fran
Rosa Maria Sardà
Albert Forner R unning T im e :
Miguel Hermoso Roberto Cairo
Pons once again claims pride of place as Catalonia's
tically for a place they can call home. With compelling
Jesús Olmedo Running T im e :
In te rn a tio n a l S a le s:
premier director. Turning the typical May-December
characters and gorgeous sight and sound, this movie
98 minutes
KW A - Kevin William s
affair upside-down, A n i t a T a k e s a C h a n c e \ s a refresh
is a must.
90 minutes
P rin t So u rce:
ing look at love and lust in Anita's fabulous 50s.
Els Films de La Rambla Casp, 5 9 ,3er 2a Barcelona, 8010 Spain Ph: 34.932.653.026 Fax: 34.932.323.870 Email: ponssala@ibernet.com S e lec te d F ilm o g ra p h y: To Die or Not (1999) Beloved/Friend (1998) Caresses (1997) Actresses (1996) W hat's It All About (1994) Rosita, Please! (1993) Aquesta nit o mai (1991) Què t'hi jugues, Mari Pili? (1990) Puta Misèra! (1989) La rossa del bar (1986) El vicari de Olot (1981) Ocana, retrat intermitent (1978)
A w a rd s: Best New Actress, Best Original Song, Goya Awards
In te rn a tio n a l S ale s: Sogepaq S.A. P rin t S ource: Sogepaq S.A. GranVia 3 2,1 st Floor Madrid, 28013 Spain Ph: 34.91.52.47.220 Fax: 34.91.52.10.875 Email: EdithB@Sogepaq.es
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Wednesday June 13 5:00 PM Cinerama
Tuesday June 12 2:30 PM Cinerama
US
PREMIERE Spain 2000
From the hip opening montages to the cheesy-but-
In this mistaken-identity romp, numbers and names
Spain
appropriate memory-sequence ending, this edgy
mean everything. Seven couples arrange to meet at
coming-of-age drama follows the drastic changes in
the same time and place on the same day— 6 p.m.
2001
D irecto r:
the life of straight arrow Ramon (Eloy Azorin of Almo
at Kilometer 0 in Madrid, the point in Spain from
D ire cto rs:
Jaime Chavarri
dovar's A l l A b o u t M y M o t h e r ) . He and his playboy
which all distances are measured. Only one couple
Yolanda Garcia Serrano
Prod ucer:
friends are studying for exams in Cadiz— until Alfonso
pairs up correctly. An ignored housewife (Concha
Juan Luis Iborra
Gustaveo Ferrada
brings home a woman as intriguing as she is scantily
Velasco) meets up with gigolo Miguel, but after their
clad. Soon three more women from the local dance
fling she realizes he may be her long-lost son. In the
club are lounging in the boys' apartment. Fascinated
next room Benjamin, Miguel's roommate, is trying to
Juan Luis Iborra C in e m a to g rap h e r:
C inem atog rapher:
but uncertain, the boys enjoy themselves in an
find love with dancer Bruno, who wants a lot less.
Angel Luis Fernández
Hans Burman
innocent, sheepish way, engaging in a hilarious
Meanwhile, wannabe film director Pedro (Carlos
E d ito r:
Ed ito r:
discussion of whether the girls are actually whores,
Fuentes), excited to meet wannabe star Silvia (Merce
José Salcedo
Guillermo Represa
because they allow kissing. Trying to ignore the
Pons), ends up instead with the hooker meant for
debauchery around him, Ramón attempts to date
Sergjo, an engaged virgin seeking some fast
Rodo, a conservative-seeming girl who wants to go
experience. Stood-up Sergio is left to vent to gay and
Emma Suárez
farther than he is ready to— from kissing to marriage.
interested Maximo, the supposed match for Benjamin,
Georges Corraface
Eloy Azorin
Played sympathetically by Pilar López de Ayala ( H a n d
while Sylvia happens across Gerardo (Georges
Silke
Roberto Hoyas
I n G l o v e ) , Rocio's plight is poignant as she pursues a
Corraface), the director of the musicals she has long
Carlos Fuentes
Chusa Barbero
man so straight that he tells his priest "I have sinned,"
coveted. The nuttiness spreads to a nearby café, where
Merce Pons
Iñaki Font
and the father answers "Bull!" All of this changes
Mario fields advances from Roma, the kid-sister of
one night when Ramón gets drunk and disdainfully
his fiancée, Amor, who is across town comforting a
calls Alfonso's Viky (Emma Suárez) a whore. Suárez
sentimental policeman who laments that his uniform
In te rn a tio n a l S a le s:
superbly conveys just how deeply his comment stuns
scares women away. Set to a moody jazz soundtrack
Sogepaq S.A.
Ana Malaver
Viky, who then seduces Ramón in a playful scene full
perfect for the coincidences and ironies of the script,
P rin t S ource:
Jacobo Dicenta
of surprises. Tensions arise as the boys discover the
the film uses subtle edits to mesh its many storylines.
Sogepaq S.A.
Josu Ormaetxe
consequences of sleeping with prostitutes, and Alfonso
Each "wrong" match points the characters not only
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begins to suspect the relationship between Ramón
toward their right match, but also to truths about
and Viky. But while the plot centers on sexual dis
themselves.
S cre e n w rite rs: José Ángel Esteba Carlos López
M usic: Carles Cases C ast:
Pilar López de Ayala Mónica Cano Luis Tosar Beatriz Bergamín
Antonio Cifo Blanca Portillo Joaquín Climent Running T im e: 99 minutes
covery, Chavarri's 23rd film, set in the mid-'60s, is
S c re e n w rite rs : Yolanda Garcia Serrano
M usic: Joan Bibiloni C a st: Concha Velasco
R unning T im e : 108 minutes
Madrid, 28013 Spain Ph: 34.91.52.47.220 Fax: 34.91.52.10.875 Email: EdithB@Sogepaq.es
actually about friendship, love and understanding. S e le c te d Film o g rap h y:
In tern atio n al Sa le s: Sogepaq S.A.
A w a rd s: Best Make-Up and Hairstyles, Goya Awards
P rin t Source: Sogepaq S.A. GranVia 32,1 st Floor Madrid, 28013 Spain Ph: 34.91.52.47.220 Fax: 34.91.52.10.875 Email: EdithB@Sogepaq.es
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Saroja
Plenilunio
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Monday May 28 9:30 PM Pacific Place Wednesday May 30 9:30 PM Harvard Exit
Tuesday June 5 5:00 PM Harvard Exit
Spain 2000
A potent mix of p o l i d e r and wistful love story, award
For the past 20 years, the Indian Ocean island of Sri
Sri Lanka
winning director Imanol Uribe's latest offering follows
Lanka has been troubled by ethnic conflict.
2000
an emotionally damaged police detective on the trail
Government forces continue to battle the Liberation
D ire cto r:
of a child-killer. After years in Spain's violent Basque
Tigers of Tamil Eelam, who want a separate Tamil
D ire cto r:
Imanol Uribe
region, detective Manuel Cervera (Miguel Angel Solé,
homeland in the north and east of the island. The
Somaratne Dissanayake
Pro d u cer:
radiating intelligence and g r a v i t a s ) has returned to
war is already two decades old, but the animosity
P ro d ucer:
the provincial city of his youth. Now a 40ish recovering
between Sri Lanka's minority Tamil population and
alcoholic with a wife in the local mental hospital,
the Sinhalese majority actually goes back many
Cervera throws himself into his first big case, the
centuries, a history as complicated as it is painful.
C in e m ato g rap h e r:
C in e m a to g ra p h e r:
particularly heinous murder of a schoolgirl. At the
S a r o j a offers a plea for tolerance and social harmony
Suminda Weerasinghe
Gonzole Berridi
same time he's gathering clues, Cervera finds himself
in the midst of this madness. It shows how differences
E d ito r:
E d ito r:
strongly drawn to the victim's teacher, Susana Grey
of language, race and religion might be bridges to
Stanly de Alw is
Teresa Font
(the luminous, Goya-nominated Adriana Ozores).
friendship rather than barriers of hatred. Sundaram
M usic:
Uribe has said he wanted to use this film, adapted
is a Tamil who was forced to join the Tiger soldiers.
Andres Santana S c re e n w rite rs : Elvira Undo Imanol Uribe
M usic:
Renuka Balasooriya S c re e n w rite r: Somaratne Dissanayake
Rohana Weerasinghe
from a popular novel by Antonio Muñoz Molina, to
During a battle he is badly injured, but manages to
C a st: Janaka Kumbukage
Miguel Angel Sola
examine the interplay between "horror and love,
escape into the jungle with his seven-year-old
Neeta Fernando
Andriana Ozores
which sometimes exist so close to one another"—
daughter Saroja. When her father can walk no further,
Pramudi Karunarathne
Juan Diego Botto
and so he has. While the horror part of the equation
Saroja appears on the outskirts of a Sinhalese village
Nithyavani Kandasamy
Fernando Fernán-Gómez
has some powerful moments— notably a long, almost
and is discovered by eight-year-old Varuni, daughter
Mervin Maheshan
Chete Lera
unbearable sequence in which the killer stalks his next
of the local schoolteacher. Varuni secretly brings food
victim, brutalizes her in her apartment building, then
and water to Saroja and her father, and begs her
walks with her through streets full of people oblivious
parents to bring them to the house. Her mother takes
Antonio Meliveo C a st:
Charo Lopez R unning T im e : 119 minutes
Mahendra Perera R unning T im e : 110 minutes
to her terror— it is the love story between Solá's and
an extremist approach and advocates handing them
P rin t Source:
In te rn a tio n a l S a le s:
Ozores' two wounded souls that resonates most
over to the army. But Varuni's father, as a humanist,
Rupareka Productions
Sogepaq S.A.
deeply. The tender, guarded scenes between these two
believes that the Tamils have an equal right to live
1 33 0 /2,10th Lane
P rin t S o u rce :
gifted actors skillfully portray two people, battered
on the island and that not all Tamils are Tigers. He
Sogepaq S.A.
by life, who must decide whether to drop their armor
conceals the Tamil family in his house, and he hopes
one last time.
to hide this secret from the village.
Fax: 94.74.304.332
A w a rd s: Audience Award, Best Asian Film, Dhaka International
Se lecte d F ilm o g rap h y:
GranVia 32,1 st Floor Madrid, 28013 Spain Ph: 34.91.52.47.220 Fax: 34.91.52.10.875 Email: EdithB@Sogepaq.es S e le c te d Film o g ra p h y: Extraños (1998) Bwana (1996) Numbered Days (1994) El rey pasmado (1991) Bilbao Blues (1986) Michael's Death (1984) El Proceso deBurgos (1982) Escape From Segovia(1981) Off (1976) De Oca a oca y tiro porque me toca (1974)
Film Festival; Best Director, Best Actress, Isfahan Children's Film Festival; Liv Ullman Peace Prize, Chicago International Children's Film Festival; Bronze Award, Worldfest Houston
Bogahawatta Panipitiya, Sri Lanka Ph: 94.74.304.332/153
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Monday June 4 7:15 PM Broadway Performance Hall
Sunday June 17 6:30 PM Broadway Performance Hall
Wednesday June 6 5:00 PM Broadway Performance Hall
US
PREMIERE Sri Lanka 2000
This year, for the first time, SIFF features two films
Many filmmakers today live and work in countries far
from Sri Lanka. Both S a r o j a and T h i s I s M y M o o n
from where they were born, amid cultural patterns
deal with the terrible inter-ethnic conflict blighting
different than their own. Just as this multicultural
Sweden 2000
D irecto r:
the island nation, but they do so in very different
experience has catalyzed interesting and provocative
D ire cto r:
Asoka Handagama
ways. S a r o j a 's straightforward narrative unfolds with
films from those of Indian and Pakistani heritage living
Josef Fares
Prod ucer:
a simple clarity, while T h i s I s M y M o o n seems more
in Britain, Turks living in Germany, and Arabs in France,
Pro d u ce r:
Iranthi Abeysinghe
stylized and experimental, capturing a maelstrom of
the Swedish cinema has recently been reinvigorated
Anna Anthony
emotion in its eerie visuals and music. It begins as a
by a number of young immigrant directors. The
C inem atog rapher:
Tamil woman falls into an army bunker during a battle
audience-pleaser J a l l a ! J a l l a ! by Lebanon-born Josef
C in e m a to g ra p h e r:
Channa Deshapriya
between the government forces and the Tamil
Fares focuses on 20-something slacker pals Roro and
Aril Wretblad
S cre e n w rite r: Asoka Handagama
S c re e n w rite r: Josef Fares
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separatists and is ravished by the Sinhalese soldier
Mans, trash collectors for the city. Roro has a Swedish
E d ito rs:
Ravindra Guruge
cowering there. After two nights alone with the
girlfriend but has been reluctant to introduce her to
M usic:
woman, the soldier throws away his gun and deserts
his traditional Lebanese family. When his father and
Andreas Jönsson Michal Leszczylowski
the army. Fie heads back to his village, and the woman,
grandmother push Roro towards an arranged mar
without speaking, follows him. The village is stricken
riage, and M3ns finds he can no longer "get it up"
with drought and despair; there are no jobs and little
with his longtime live-in girlfriend, issues of love, sex
Rohana Weerasinghe C ast: Saumya Liyanage Dilhani Ekanayake
M usic: Daniel Lemma C a st: Tuva Novotny
W. Jayasiri
money. The soldier's family is not happy to see him—
and cultural difference are explored in comically
Laleh Pourkarim
Linton Semage
when he was in the army, they could count on his
charming ways. A huge box-office hit in Sweden, the
Sofi Ahlström Helleday
Anoma Janadari
wages; had he died, they would be compensated. As
title means "hurry up," which might well describe the
Leonhard Terfelt
a deserter he has no value to his family or to the
film's vibrant pace. Something of a Fares family affair,
woman he was going to marry. Moreover, the beautiful
J a lla ! J a lla !
Jayasiri Chandrajith Jagath Chamila
Tamil woman puts everyone on edge. Her presence
sports amusing cameos from his father and grand
Abdulahad Fares
in this border village heightens the sense of un
mother.
Ingemar Carlehed
Nadee Kammellaweera
certainty brought about by the war and its unrelenting
Harry Goldstein
Naditha Dinesh
demands on the country's poorest people. Now
Tommy Andersson
Sunil Hettiarachchi
jealousy, betrayals, hatred and lust stalk the village.
Hemasiri Liyanage Somalatha Subasinghe Kaushalya Fernando
Running T im e:
stars the director's brother as Roro and
Benyam Eriksson Jan Fares Khatoun Fares
Christer Fjallstrom Jacob Tamm
104 minutes
Caroline Fares Lucy Wanes
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R unning T im e :
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88 minutes
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Thursday June 14 9:30 PM Pacific Place Cinemas Friday June 15 Noon Pacific Place Cinemas
Monday June 11 5:00 PM Broadway Performance Hall
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PREMIERE Sweden 2001
Originally made as four 60-mlnute episodes for
This absorbing tale of a love triangle, unrequited love
Taiwan
Swedish television, this poignant drama provides
and homosexuality centers around light-hearted, spirited Ing'er (Rene Liu), who eagerly awaits her
2000
another instance of how the theme of multiculturalism
D ire cto r:
has re-energized Swedish cinema. The story of 40-
fiancé Shaodung (Lei Huang) as he returns to Beijing
D ire cto rs:
Geir Hansteen Jorgensen P ro d u ce rs:
year-old Massoud from Iran and 15-year-old Ali from
to meet her. Acquainted only through letters but
Li-kung Hsu
Somalia starts at a center for refugees in pastoral
already feeling a deep connection, the two imme
Chi Yin
Christer Nilson
Skcine in southern Sweden. Having witnessed one
diately hit it off. Wanting to share her passion for the
unhappy deportation too many, the bitter Massoud
opera with him, Ing'er takes Shaodung to the Cloud
decides to make a break for it. As he takes off in a
Theater, her father's opera house. Shaodung, although
S c re e n w rite rs : Hui-Ling Wang
Gunnar Carlsson S c re e n w rite rs : Peter Birro
P rod ucers: Shi-Hao Chang Li-Kong Hsu
Lukas Moodysson
rusty car, he is persuaded, against his better judgment,
a talented cellist, is uninterested until he is nearly
C in e m ato g ra p h e r:
to let Ali ride along. Ali, a manic would-be track star,
brought to tears by the mesmerizing voice of vocalist
Ming-xia Wang
M arkW ieser
is wildly in love with all things Swedish and won't
Lin Chung (Chao-te Tai Yin). The use of slow motion
C in e m ato g rap h e r:
E d ito r:
shut up for a moment. Near the start of this road trip,
in this scene to convey mood and feeling is especially
Frank Morheden
the pair rescue buxom blonde Louise, a former Miss
effective. When the couple befriends him, the three
Sweden now fallen on hard times. Encountering her
become inseparable, spending all their free time
M usic:
again in Gothenburg, the two refugees decide to drive
together partaking in grand fun. Shaodung and Lin
Chris Babida
M usic: Esbjorn Svensson Trio Jonas Bohlin C a st:
Louise to her parents' home in the north.
Mike Almaheyu M ichalis Koutsogiannakis Lia Noysen Lars Varinger Niklas Riesbeck Evert Lindqvist Inga Alenius
A w a rd s: Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Berlin International Film Festival
Cheng-hui Tsai E d ito r: Po-wen Chen
Chung develop a potent attraction and sexual tension
C a st:
ensues. Lin Chung's identity issues also begin
Rene Liu
surfacing. He doesn't know how to connect with
Lei Huang
people. He's an orphan who's never possessed an identity of his own— it's always been transformed into the characters he plays in the operas. When Shaodung
Chao-te Yin Li-jen Tai Yaoxuan Shu
and Lin Chung attempt to confront their shared
Ya-lei Kuei Running Tim e : 123 minutes
Jan Astrom
passion, the situation takes a dramatic turn that
Simon Norrthon
changes all three of their lives and paths. Although
Nanette Lindback
set in 1930s China, F l e e i n g b y N i g h t has a modern
R unning T im e : 137 minutes
feel in the scenery and attitudes of the characters.
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In a Strange City (1996)
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Vertical Ray of the Sun À LA VERTICALE DE L'ÉTÉ
KAÇ PARA KAÇ
Wednesday May 30 7:15 PM Egyptian Theatre
Wednesday May 30 9:30 PM Broadway Performance Hall
Saturday June 2 1:45 PM Harvard Exit
Thursday May 31 5:00 PM Broadway Performance Hall
Turkey 2000
Is money truly the root of all evil? What would you
Awash in exotic color and luscious texture and filled
do If you found a small but clearly ill-gotten fortune?
with the sounds of rain, birds and insects, this story
When Selim— a happily married Istanbul shopkeeper
of three seemingly close-knit sisters unfolds in a serene
Vietnam/France 2000
D irecto r:
revered for his honesty— happens upon a large bag
and sensual flood of images that provide a feast for
D ire cto r:
Reha Erdem
of American dollars accidentally left in a taxi, his
the senses. The story opens in Hanoi, as three sisters
Tran Anh Hung
Producer:
scruples take a momentary holiday. He hesitates...
and their brother come together to celebrate the
P ro d u ce rs:
A. Om erAtay
and misses his opportunity to return the bag. Although
anniversary of their mother's death. As the gathering
the windfall (the result of a bank heist) weighs heavily
proceeds, the sisters exchange stories about the
on his conscience, the once-thrifty Selim cannot resist
current events in their lives, seeking advice from one
Tran Anh Hung C in e m a to g rap h e r:
S cre e n w rite r: Reha Erdem C inem atog raphers:
Benoît Jaubert Christophe Rossignon S c re e n w rite r:
spending some of the alluring greenbacks. He tells
another and sharing intimate details of relationships
Jean-Louis Vialard
his wife that their good fortune is the result of a
with the men in their lives. But as the tale unfolds
Pin Bing Lee
Ed ito r:
lottery win. Soon, however, Selim's ever-escalating
over the course of subsequent weeks, the relationships
E d ito r:
Nathalie Le Guay
lies lead to even greater betrayals. As the money
among the three women undergo upheaval and
Mario Battistel
insinuates itself into the place once filled by his ideals,
renewal, and we learn that they've been keeping
the film's gripping depiction of Selim's agony rises to
secrets from one another— that their lives are
Florent Herry
M usic: Pressure Drops Cast:
M usic: Tôn-Thât Tiêt C a st:
Taner Birsel Bennu Yildirimlar
levels of complexity and anxiety that would have done
markedly more complex than we've initially come to
Tran Nu Yên-Khê
Alfred Hitchcock proud. With the recent staggering
believe. Director Tran Anh Hung, who brought us the
Nguyen Nhu Quynh
Zuhal Gencer
downturn suffered by Turkey's currency, this com
ravishing S c e n t o f G r e e n
Lê Khanh
Engin Alkan
pelling morality tale about the high cost of living takes
serene, contemplative and exquisitely beautiful por
on added— and scathing— resonance. As icing on
trayal of the members of a tight-knit family who share
the cake, Istanbul-born, Paris-trained writer-director
the simple human desire to keep up appearances,
Erdem, a top advertising director, shows his native
even as the underlying strains in their individual
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city to distinct advantage.
relationships paint a picture less idyllic than at first
Sony Pictures Classics
seems apparent.
550 Madison Avenue
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S e lec te d Film o g rap h y: Je viens après la pluie (2001)
Selected Film og raphy:
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Feature Film Debut
The Scent of Green Papaya (1993)
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Mechanism
Sky Hook
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Saturday May 26 4:00 PM Harvard Exit
Tuesday May 29 9:30 PM Broadway Performance Hall
Monday May 28 6:30 PM Harvard Exit
Thursday May 31 5:00 PM Harvard Exit
Yugoslavia 2000 Director: Djordje Milosavljevic Producer: Ivana Mihic Screenwriter: Gordan Mihic Cinematographer: Zoran Petrovic Editor: Marko Glusac Musk: Aleksandar Sasa Habic Cast: Nikola Kojo Ivana Mihic Andrej Sepetkovski Gordan Kicic Sasa Ali Branko Vidakovic Running Time: 94 minutes Print Source: Centar Film Beogradska 71 Belgrade, 11 000 Yugoslavia Ph: 381.11.323.0252 Fax: 381.11.323.2139 Email: centfilm@EUnet.yu
A powerful and often harrowing parable about good
An inspirational mix of wartime drama and sports
and evil in the Republic of Yugoslavia, Mechanism
saga, Sky Hook unfolds during the height of NATO
shows w hat happens when those who believe in life
bombing against Serbia in the spring of 1999. The
collide with those w ho want to destroy it. The story
action is set in and around a shabby Belgrade apart
unfolds from dawn to dusk one winter day in a remote
ment block opposite a bombed-out factory. The central
spot of the country. Snezana, a schoolteacher, is
character is Kaja, a once-promising basketball player
heading for a distant village where she has been
who can't quite cope with the fact that his professional
assigned her first job after waiting for six years. Full
and personal life have fallen apart. He's no longer
of expectations, she is eager for her life to finally begin.
on the team, his am bitious w ife has left him, and
Like Snezana, Janko also cherishes hopes for the
their five-year-old son, traumatized by the bombings,
future. A former soldier and now a taxi driver, Janko
has stopped speaking.The life of Kaja's neighborhood
is still recovering from a severe wound. Unfortunately
buddies seems equally bleak. W ith no w ork and too
for these happy dreamers, their destiny intersects with
much time on their hands, they drown the memory
Mak, a professional hitman w ho embraces nihilism
of better days in mucho beer. The danger of being
with gusto and wit. Esteemed screenwriter Gordan
drafted threatens them all. Just as it seems they have
M ihic (77?e Time o f the Gypsies', Black Cat, White Cat,
run out of survival strategies, a spur-of-the-moment
When I Am Dead and White) provides a fascinating
bet w ith a war profiteer sets these local layabouts
showcase for his daughter Ivana, the film's leading
struggling against time and air raids to clear a rubble-
actress and producer. Director Milosavljevic wrote the
strewn basketball court. A huge hit in Belgrade, Sky
screenplay for Sky Hook (at right).
Hook marks the directing debut of Ljubisa Samardzic, one of the most popular performers in post-WWII Yugoslavia. Screenwriter Djordje Milosavljevic is repre sented as a director at this year's SIFF with Mechanism, which also stars top Serbian actor Nikolo Koja. Awards: Audience Award for Most Popular Film, Palm Springs International Film Festival; Oscar Submission, Best Foreign Film
Yugoslavia/ltaly 1999 Director: Ljubisa Samardzic Producer: Ljubisa Samardzic Screenwriters: Dorde Milosavljevic Srdan Koljevic Cinematographer: RadoslavVIadic Editor: Marko Glusac Music: Vlatko Stefanovski Cast: Nebojsa Glogovac Ana Sofrenovic Ivan Jevtovic Katarina Zutic Nikola Kojo Sonja Kolacaric Dragan Bjelogrlic Irfan Mensur Nikola Duricko Nikjola Pejakovic Boris Milivojevic Nebojsa Llic Running Time: 95 minutes International Sales: A.G. Market Print Source: Cinema Design Ustanix, Ka 125/I Belgrade, 11000 Yugoslavia Ph: 381.11.4888.011 Fax: 381.11.4882.377 Email: sinema@eunet.yu
Selected Filmography: Wheels (1999)
Selected Filmography: Feature Film Debut
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Oddballs, Eccentrics and Misfits
Mind Games
Sunday June 3 1:45 PM Broadway Performance Hall
Friday May 25 5:00 PM Broadway Performance
Dreams, deceptions, memories, fantasies, hallucinations, nightmares— the brain can play
The protagonists of these offbeat adventures are some of the more peculiar and idio-
some crazy tricks on you. In these miniature mindscapes nothing is quite w hat it seems.
. syncratic characters you've ever encountered — on or off the screen.
My Chorus
Horrible Accident
Mullitt
Hitclown
U S A ,2000
USA, 2000
USA, 2000
USA, 2000 Chris Mancini, 13 minutes
Richard Doherty, 14 minutes
Lori Petty, 17 minutes
Pat Healy, 16 minutes
Talk about voices in one's head— this poor
Lori " Tank G irl" Petty directed, costarred
A crack addict roommate, an obese Holly
One's a clown, the other's a hit man, but
guy has a barbershop-style chorus that
in, and cowrote this caustic suicide note of
w ood memorabilia/comic book shop owner,
they have one thing in common: they're
criticizes and com m ents upon his every
a movie— a kind of harrowing two-person
a piece of Barbra Streisand's nuptial loaf,
both very bad at their jobs. Participants
thought, emotion, and action ... in metic
W ho's A fraid o f Virginia l/l/oo/f?Walpurgis-
and a very bad haircut all come together in
include alumni of The Simpsons and HBO's
ulously arranged harmony.
nacht in which (false) memories and twisted
this oddball adventure, a revenge story in
Mr. Show.
childhood fantasies are fueled by blood and
the classic tradition of Los Angeles lowlife
World Record Guy
cocaine.
fiction. Henry Gibson has a featured role.
R.A. White, 17 minutes
Are You Luigi?
Richard Roe
Chris Thompson, 20 minutes
John C. Reilly (Boogie Nights, Magnolia)
Germany, 2000
USA, 2000
A doggedly determined son sets out to break
stars as Frank, a w ould-be Great American
Stephan Bruggenthies, 8 minutes
Ian Truitner, 13 minutes
his estranged father's w orld's records—
Writer who struggles to create his magnum
A single question from a mysterious woman
A hard-boiled private eye takes on The
including longest shower and most marsh
opus despite the distractions of his office
aboard a train triggers endless reverbera
ultimate "m issing person" case— a search
m allows eaten at one sitting.
job.
tions in the mind of the man w ho is asked,
for the man know n, but not very w ell
The Red Boot Diaries
"Are you Luigi?"
remembered, as "Richard Roe."
USA, 2000
Not Waving But Drowning
The Same
Casey P. Chinn, 13 minutes
Frank's Book USA, 2001
The Limited
USA, 2000
USA, 2000
Katherine Makinney, 12 minutes
USA, 2000
USA, 2001
Two guys in a bar passionately debate the
A fte r a sudden fa ta l a ccid e n t, a man
Megan Griffiths, 12 minutes
M ark Palansky, 13 minutes
eternal question— "Beatles or Stones?"—
reassesses his life aboard a train taking him
A woman comes undone as she sifts through
A handsome dwarf in a surreal apartment
until it threatens to destroy their long-time
to his final judgement. Look for that nasty
the pieces of her broken life and shattered
building tries to get his beautiful neighbor
friendship.
actress Jerri from CBS's Survivor: The Aus
sanity.
to notice him.
Heroine Helen
tralian Outback!
The Butcher from the Fields
Gulp
USA, 2000
Israel, 2000
USA, 2001
Christine Crokos, 10 minutes
Ran Appelberg, Roee Zilber, 21 minutes
Jason Reitman, 7 minutes
Blaxploitation w ith a tw ist: H elen's the
On the way back from an acid party in the
This guy w ill do anything to save his ailing
baddest pimp in tow n and nobody— but
desert, Felix and Wanda run over a filthy
fish— even if it means speeding all across
nobody— had better cross her.
homeless man on the arid highway. Franti
Los Angeles to get help.
cally and desperately they try to save... themselves.
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A n im a tio n
E x tra V d Q d n Z d Tuesday June 5 9:30 PM Broadway Performance Hall
Thursday May 31 9:30 PM Broadway Performance
A good film creates a w orld of Its own— whether or not such a place actually exists in the
From abstract images to clever cartoons, squiggly low-tech drawings to sophisticated
so-called "real w orld." In this program, filmmakers transport you to places where the only
. computer graphics, here's a sampling of the wide spectrum of animated filmmaking,
borders are those of the imagination.
The Revenge of the Red Balloon
The Disappearing Girl Trick
USA, 2000
USA, 2001
Okenka (Little Windows/Film Frames)
Dim Bulb U S A ,2000
Gregg Rossen, 8 minutes
David Jackson W illis, 15 minutes
Czech Republic/USA, 2000
Kerryn Z. Miller, 8 minutes
The Parisian mega-star of the classic short
A magician's assistant discovers the strange
Joseph Cahill, 11 minutes
A not-so-bright incandescent bulb tests his
film The Red Balloon Is back— and this time,
truth about where things go w hen they
In the moments before the lights go down,
theory that the brighter you shine, the sooner
it's personal.
"disappear" from the stage during a routine.
a movie-goer fantasizes about the people
you burn out.
T h ere 's
sitting around him.
Moving Illustrations of Machines
The Heisenberg Principle
m ore
th a n
s le ig h t- o f-h a n d
involved...
Eat
Christopher Jones, 9 minutes
The Greatest Show on Earth
USA, 2001
USA, 2000
In a world of perpetual daylight, alongside
U S A ,2000
Bill Plympton, 9 minutes
Jeremy Solterbeck, 10 minutes
an endless highway to nowhere, a young
Anne Paas, 4 minutes
Bill Plympton (The Tune), a perennial SIFF
A hypnotic m editation on the beautiful
man ponders the nature of his existence and
A dw arf clown in a dilapidated carnival
favorite, explores various ways that grub
shapes and motions of enigmatic machinery.
asks him self: "W h a t's in th a t box over
prepares for his greatest performance— his
in te ra cts w ith hum an p h y s io lo g y and
Horses on Mars
there?"
own suicide.
im agination, as diners in a restaurant get a
The Rain
Clown Karma
U S A ,2000
USA, 2000
Drink
Australia, 2000
bit surreal about playing w ith their food.
USA, 2000 Eric Anderson, 8 minutes A single-celled creature takes an amazing
David Beatty, 15 minutes
David Garrett, 7 minutes
USA, 2001
interplanetary journey and ponders cosmic
According to Travis B ickle's apocalyptic
Send in the clowns! They say in comedy that
Patrick Smith, 5 minutes
questions.
prophesy: "Som eday a real rain w ill come
tim ing is everything, but in this film , as
One sip of this elixir brings out the person
The Moving Pyramid
along and w ash all the scum from the
clow ns celebrate the endlessly revolving
deep inside you. Really.
Canada, 2000
streets." Well, here it is, and it's heading
cycle of birth, life and death, so is camera
Mirror
Rudi Bloss, 10 minutes
across the desert toward Los A n g e le s...
placement.
U S A ,2000
A lead-footed Pharaohs rides a slave-driven
The Cutting Room
Fugue: A Very Short Film
Lee Lanier, 3 minutes
pyramid across the desert sands.
U S A ,2000
USA, 2000
A three-minute phantasmagorjc survey of
Placebo
Daniel Bernstein, 16 minutes
Jon Ward, 5 minutes
the attempts human beings have made to
In a trailer on an anonymous studio lot,
A man recalls the strange circumstances of
beautify their own bodies.
Dana Behrman, 5 minutes
banished characters w ait in lim bo as they
his wife's death.
Brisket
An animated pas de ciet/x featuring a pair
are rewritten, or even cut entirely, from
USA, 2001
Big Love
USA, 2000
of
USA, 2000
Joel Frenzer, 10 minutes
abandonment at the heart of their romance.
Questions and Answers
Lief Tilden, 8 minutes
A timid, shivering penguin tries to find some
USA, 2000
An otherworldly fairy tale about two neurotic
nice hot tea in a peculiar supermarket. Clean
Dylan Haggerty, 8 minutes
p a re n ts
up on Aisle B!
In the m o st a lie n (a te d ) e n v iro n m e n t
McCorm ack) w ho find odd ways of dealing
imaginable, the modern office, a worker
with their separation anxiety when their kids
drone wrestles w ith the protocols of inane
have to catch the school bus one morning.
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Modern Sex and Romance
Monday June 11 9:30 PM Broadway Performance Hall
Wednesday June 6 9:30 PM Broadway Performance Hall
Men may be from Mars and women from Venus, but these tales of love, loss, close encounters
Gay film m aking isn't just about coming out any more. These films are here, they're queer,
and missed connections could only happen on planet Earth.
and— w ith poignancy as well as empathetic humor and nasty w it
they look well beyond
the closet door.
Jack & Diane
Rock, Paper, Scissors
Soda Pop
Boychick
USA, 2000
USA, 2000
USA, 2001
USA, 2000
Wendy Wilkins, 7 minutes
Cameron Thor, 13 minutes
Patrick McGuinn, 7 minutes
Glen Gaylord, 12 minutes
A little ditty about Jack and Diane w ho've
A pair of very com p etitive tw in sisters
A m iniature m em oir about a summer of
W ith the help of his im aginary friend, a
had enough of silly love songs and find that
challenge each other to a madcap, life-or-
breakdancing, sipping sodas, and a hand
Britney Spears-type pop star, a nice, quiet
breaking up is hard to do.
death contest to see w h o'll be the first to
some young exchange student from Spain.
Jewish high school boy pursues his crush
bed an unsuspecting, randomly chosen guy.
Jeffrey's Hollywood Screen Trick
Phones
on a sexy debater.
... (Dot Dot Dot)
USA, 2001
In Search of Mike
Gary Chan, 8 minutes
USA, 2000
Todd Downing, 11 minutes
Australia, 2000
A girl, a guy, two payphones, and one eight-
Anthony Ng, 30 minutes
Imagine, if you will, a sort of gay Looking
Andrew Lancaster, 8 minutes
and-a-half-minute take that records the end
An uncoordinated, disconnected romantic
for Mr. Goodbar starring a cast of plastic
This is a darkly comic exploration of a man's
of one relationship and the beginning of
comedy— characterized by pauses, hesi
d olls— w ith nods to several other gay-
relationship w ith his mother.
another...
tations, and bad tim in g— in w hich tw o
themed film s of recent vintage. Well, you
Tom Clay Jesus
people struggle awkw ardly to bridge the
just have to see it to believe it.
em otional distance between them.
Audit
Hoang A. Duong, 18 minutes
USA, 2000
The classic tale of love found and lost told in the creepiest of ways.
USA, 2000
Cleave USA, 2000 Hollie Lavenstein, 15 minutes
Cloud Nine
An shell-shocked man whose wife has left
USA, 2000
Brian To, 28 minutes
him kidnaps her dog and saves her voice
Nicole Bettauer, 16 minutes
The things some people don't declare on
messages. A haunting, bitter and deeply
A special evening out degenerates into the
their 1040! A young married couple are
disturbing look at the emotional devastation
night from hell as events conspire to ruin a
subjected to an extremely personal audit
of divorce.
man's best-laid plans— from the car acci
by a horny accountant (Alexis Arquette) and
dent on the way to the restaurant to the
his lascivious secretary (Sally Kirkland).
inattentive waiter to the lack of etiquette displayed in the men's room.
My Two Best Men USA, 2000 Laura Bennett, 19 minutes A w om an's close ties to— and obsessive concern for— her slacker/soul-mate brother threatens to swamp her relationship with her fiancé.
U.S.A., 2001
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Last Whiskey Maury Duchamp Ph: 352-6926 Email: maury@maury.net
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Frank's Book R.A. White Ph: 328-459-2792 Email: bobofett@aol.com
Limited, The New Ground Productions 4259 Vinton Avenue Culver City, CA 90232 Ph: 310-815-8157 Email: kammm@aol.com
Chick Bloodhound Paul Fraser Ph: 206-524-5177 Email: bookoflov@aol.com
Fugue: A Very Short Film Paul Stetler Ph: 206-545-6939 Email: paulstet@aol.com
Cleave Hollie Lavenstein Ph: 410-480-9348 Email: hlaven@umbc.edu
Greatest Show On Earth, The Anne Paas Ph: 917.327.7808 Email: doogleverb@hotmail.com
Cloud Nine 20th Century Fox Ph: 310.369.5172 Fax: 310.969.3068 Email: lisasch@fox.com
Gulp Jason Reitman 269 South Beverly Drive #225 Beverly Hills, CA 90212 Ph: 310 276 2234 Fax:310-828-1707 Email: jason@woftb.com
Clouds That Touch Us Out Of Clear Skies, The Lynn Shelton 342 N.W. 84th St. Seattle, WA 98117 Ph: 206-706-7693 Fax: 206-706-7693 Email: seashel@earthlink.net Clown Karma David Garrett Ph: 310-314-8315 Fax: 310-566-7431 Email: strydersweb@ad.com Coming to Terms Frameline Distribution 346 9th Street San Fransisco, CA 94103 Ph: 415.703.8654 Fax: 415.861.1404 Cutting Room, The
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Live Evil Morgan Nakagawa Ph: 253.854.4049 Email: darksidefilms@hotmail.com Marching On: Rainbow City Band Miriam Ruth Black 6238 Woodlawn Ave. N Seattle, WA 98103 Ph: 206-524-6115 Fax: 206-523-2847 Email: ruthie6238@aol.com Measure Alice de Muzion Ph: 568-8640 Fax: 568-8640 Email: alice@33faintingspells.org Milk Kathleen Mdnnis Ph: 206.781.1077 Fax: 206.781.1077 Email: k.mcinnis@worldnet.att.net Mirror Lee Lanier Ph: 650-615-6700 Fax: 650-348-7462 Email: beezlbug@beezlebugbit.com Moving Illustrations of Machines Jeremy Solterbeck Ph: 415.752.5693 Fax: 415.752.5693 Email: js7@pacbell.net
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World Record Guy Mitch Braff Ph: 415-896-1415 Fax: 415-276-1848 Email: mltch@loustallion.com
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Little Crumb
The Dinosaur Hunter
KRUIMELTJE Saturday June 9 11:30 AM Pacific Place
Saturday June 16 11:30 AM Broadway Performance Hall
Canada 2000 Director: Rick Stevenson Producers: Gail Tilson James Brooke Screenwriters: Edwina Follows Cinematographer: Gerald Packer Editor: Jackie Dzuba Music: Ross Nykiforuk Jay Semko Cast: Alison Pill Bill Switzer Simon MacCorkindale Christopher Plummer Enuka Okuma Joely Collins Running Time: 90 Minutes Print Source: Independent Moving Pictures Distribution Company: Credo Releasing Watershed Films, 345 N Maple Drive #317 Beverly Hills, Ca. 90210 Phone: 310-550-2175 Fax: 310550-2178 Selected Filmography: Anthrax (2001) Question of Privilege (1999)
Based on the award-winning novel M y Daniel by Pam
To mark the 70th anniversary of the publication of
Conrad, The Dinosaur Hunter takes us back to the turn
Kruimeltje, one of the most beloved books in the Dutch
o f th e la s t century, w h en fo s s il fe v e r ru le d and
language, writer-director Maria Peters decided to bring
paleontologists fought practically to the death over rare
the adventures of resourceful orphan Harry Volker,
dinosaur bones buried deep underground.Thirteen-year-
a.k.a. "Little Crumb," to the big screen. Her handsome
old Julia (Alison Pill) and her older brother Daniel (Bill
adaptation became an instant hit and set box-office
Switzer) live where dinosaurs once roamed. When dinosaur
records throughout the Netherlands. Set in 1921 in
hunter Jack M cCabe (Simon MacCorkindale) comes to
the port city of Rotterdam, this delightful family film
their farm to search for one of the world's largest skeletons,
centers on a feisty ten-year-old w ho lives w ith his
a web of intrigue is set aspin. But intrigue soon turns to
bad-tempered guardian, Mrs. Koster. Like Huck Finn,
danger when the one-legged and unscrupulous Hump
the streetwise Little Crumb both attracts trouble and
Hinton— Jack's long-standing rival, and no stranger to
has a knack for getting out of it. Although he knows
avarice either— rides into their lives on a camel. Soon
more than is good for him about many things, he
the quest for mere bones becomes a battle in which the
doesn't know where his real parents are, and he
virtue of honesty is put to the test by the power of greed.
yearns to be reunited w ith them. The only tie to his
There is more than innocence at stake in this exciting
past is a locket containing his mother's photograph.
adventure, and Julia and Daniel must follow their own
One day he meets Chris Wilkes, a friendly grocer who,
quest to unearth the importance of trust and, above all,
it turns out, knew Little Crumb's father but hasn't
family.
heard of him since he w ent to American ten years before. Soon, clues about Little Crumb's maternal side also appear. W ho is Vera di Borboni, whose face seems strikingly similar to his mother's in the photo? W ill he fin d his fam ily in the end? Com e make the acquaintance of the boy hero whose legion of fans made him the Harry Potter of his day. In Dutch, with English subtitles. Awards: 2000 Oscar Submission, Best Foreign Language Film; Best Dutch Feature Film, Dutch Federation of Cinematography; Special Jury Award, Houston International Film Festival Winner; Special Audience Award, Sydney International Film Festival; Best Art Direction, Audience Award, Poznan International Film
Netherlands 1999 Director: Maria Peters Producers: Hans Pos Dave Schram Maria Peters Mignon Huisman MarkVandercruys Screenwriter: Maria Peters Cinematographer: Hein Groot Editor: Ot Louw Music: Henny Vrienten Cast: Rick Englekes Thekla Reuten Hugo Haenen Jan Dedeir Ruud Feltkamp John Kraaykamp Sr. Running Time: 119 minutes International Sales: Shooting Star Film Company Print Source: Holland Film Jan Luykenstraat 2 Amsterdam, 1071 CM Netherlands Ph: 31.20.570.7572 Fax: 31.20.570.7570 Email: info@hollandfilm.nl
Festival (Poland) Selected Filmography: Lovely Liza (1997) The Purse Snatcher (1995) All Birds Fly (1983)
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The Testimony of Taliesin Jones Saturday May 26 11:30 AM Pacific Place
Saturday June 2 11:30 AM Pacific Place
Japan/lndia 1992 Directors: Ram Mohan Yugo Sako Koichi Saski Producers: Krishna Shah Yugo Sako Screenwriters: Krishna Shah Yogo Sako Editor: Wayne Schmidt Music: Vanraj Bhatia Alan Howarth Running Time: 87 minutes International Sales: Movie Reps Print Source: Krishna Shah & Showcase Entertainment, Inc. 7135 Hollywood Blvd, Suite 104 Los Angeles, CA 90046 Ph: 323.876.4052 Fax: 323.876.4063 Email: moviereps@earthlink.net Selected Filmography: Taru (1984) Fire Games (1983) Human Body, The (1980) Swar Sangam (1980) Down to Earth Part III: The Island of Graph (1974) Down to Earth Part IV: The Fourth Revolution (1974) Down to Earth Part I: The Friendly Planet (1973) Down to Earth Part II: The Ravaged Elements (1973) Iska Kya Karen (1973) You Said It (1971) Baap Re Baap (1968) Chaos (1967)
A nim ation Film o f the Year at the Santa Clarita
performances from his youthful misfits as they make
Wales/Great Britain
International Family Film Festival last year. In this tale
th e ir w ay to w a rd u n d ersta n d in g the p u zzlin g ,
2000
of honor and war, young Prince Ram of Ayodhya is
sometimes painful, realities of grown-up life. In his A
chosen by the gods to conquer the demon-king Ravan,
Boy from Mercury (1996J, a little kid w hose father
w hose lust for pow er has spread p o llu tion and
dies suddenly copes with his feeling of alienation and
suffering across the land. A t every turn, demons and
grief by putting his faith in his having been sent from
A colorful retelling o f the ancient Hindu legend
Martin Duffy has true grit when it comes to directing
Ramayana, Yugo Sako's The Prince o f Lightw on Best
children. He's able to draw utterly unaffected, natural
illusions pose a great threat to the hero, but his pure
another planet to study earthlings. In Taliesin Jones,
heart and humble spirit are his secret protection. After
the titular hero loses his mother: She runs away from
an early victory over one of Ravan's hideous minions,
hardscrabble farm life to live in the city w ith her
Ram marries the beautiful and pious princess Sita.
hairdresser. Both his dad (Jonathan Pryce) and his
W hen the vengeful Ravan kidnaps Sita, it is up to
older brother (Matthew Rhys) are too preoccupied
Ram and his devoted brother Lakshman to rescue
w ith their own needs to comfort the 12-year-old.
the princess and restore peace to the land. They are
Adrift, Taliesin is primed for religious epiphany when
befriended by Hanuma, a winsome primate-hero with
he witnesses Billy Evans, his piano teacher (the late,
magical gifts, w ho enlists an army of courageous
great Ian Bannen, to whom the film is dedicated),
monkeys to fight on Ram's behalf. Once found, Sita
heal a woman by laying on his hands. Soon Taliesin
refuses to be rescued until her fellow captives are
and his pals have formed a secret club called "The
also freed, and the ensuing battle is heavy w ith
Believers" and are trying to heal their mates left and
casualties on both sides. Hanuma's antics and one-
right— all very endearing and harmless until they try
liners provide comic relief as the film touches upon
for a miracle w ith a diabetic boy w ho gives up his
the ponderous themes of grief, sacrifice, anger, justice
insulin. And then Taliesin's beloved teacher dies, and
and forgiveness. Victory comes at great cost, but
his faith is put to the test bigtime when the parish
harmony is at last restored. Com bining Japanese
priest w o n 't resurrect him. A s Taliesin, John Paul
manga-style anim ation with the artistry of classical Indian paintings, The Prince o f Light features lush
MacLeod gives a wonderful performance that never lapses into saccharine cuteness; on the verge of
landscapes and breathtaking attention to detail. Actor
puberty, he falls for God as any besieged teen might
James Earl Jones narrates the introduction.The film's
yearn toward some sign of order and meaning in a
com plex plot and brutal battle scenes make this
confusing universe. Stooping neither to mockery nor
feature more appropriate for older children.
self-righteous stridency, Duffy's coming-of-age film
Awards: Best Animation, Santa Clarita International Film Festival
faith.
is a gentle, refreshing celebration of a child's leap of
Director: Martin Duffy Producers: Guy Collins Micheál Ryan Screenwriter: Maureen Tilyou Cinematographer: Tony Imi Editor: Jonathan Rudd Music: Mark Thomas Cast: John Paul MacLeod Jonathan Pryce Ian Bannen Griff Rhys Jones Geraldine James Matthew Rhys Arwen Williams Running Time: 96 minutes International Sales: ICA Film Festival Print Source: IAC Film and Television Holdings 23 Ransomes Dock, 35-37 Park Gate Road London, SW11 4NP United Kingdom Ph: 44.171.801.9081 Fax: 44.207.801.9081 Email: general@ iacholdings.co.uk
Awards: Feature Film Award for Maureen Tilyou, Austin Film Festival; Glass Bear-special mention, Best Feature Film, Berlin International Film Festival; Best Director of Photography, Best Screenwriting, Santa Monica Film Festival; President's Award for Spirit of Independents, Ft. Lauderdale International Film Festival
Selected Filmography: The Bumblebee Flies Anyway (2000) The Boy from Mercury (1996)
Friday June 1 10 PM Valley Drive-In Theatres S 277th Place and Auburn Way N 253.854.1250 No lawn chairs here! Two years ago, we resurrected a lost SIFF tradition— the authentic drive-in experience. Viewers with a penchant for kitsch made it such a success that it has now become an annual event at the Valley 6 Outdoor Theaters in Auburn. This year's features include two films perfect for the setting: the hilarious '50s sci-fi spoof Top o f the Food Chain and the wacky sci-fi musical western The Am erican A stronaut
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Top of the Food Chain
The American Astronaut
INVASION Thursday June 7 9:30 PM Harvard Exit
Friday June 1 10:00 PM Valley Drive-In Theatres
Friday June 1 10:00 PM Valley Drive-In Theatres
Saturday June 9 11:30 AM Egyptian Theatre
Canada 1999 Director: John Paizs Producers: Suzanne L. Berger Larry Lalonde Screenwriters: Phil Bedard Larry Lalonde Cinematographer: Bill Wong Editor: Bert Kish Music: David Krystal Cast: Robert Bockstael Lorry Ayers Ron Gabriel Bernard Behrens James Allodi Peter Donaldson Fiona Loewi Campbell Scott Maggie Butterfield Hardee T. Lineham Tom Everett Scott Nigel Bennett Elisa Moolecherry Kathryn Kirkpatrick Running Time: 88 minutes
If you recall with guilty pleasure '50s sci-fi creature-
M ix a splash of cult-movie David Lynchian-absurdity
USA
features such as Them!, The M ole People and The
into the lowest-budget sci-fi F/X this side of Plan 9
2001
Blob, you w on't be able to resist the inspired silliness
from Outer Space, situate a space cowboy in the
of Top o f the Food Chain, John Paizs's brilliant spoof
asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, and you might
of an already fairly demented genre. (One reviewer
get an inkling of the truly hilarious and bizarre The
described it as a recipe borrowed from Ed Wood, David
American Astronaut. Throw in rock 'n' roll musical
Lynch and Leave It to Beavei1) Something Very Strange
numbers, a few dance sequences, deadpan comic
is happening in Exceptional Vista, an economic ghost
delivery, and a spaceship that for all practical purposes
town since the nut-and-bolt factory closed down: Folks
is a flying single-wide mobile home, and you've got
ordinarily obsessed with sex, fishing and watching
one of the most unforgettable film s to come out of
TV are disappearing, leaving behind bodies that look
the Sundance Film Festival in recent seasons. Samuel
like steak tartare. It's been determined that they have
Curtis (writer-director Cory McAbee) is a renegade
been masticated by something with 200 to 202 teeth.
interplanetary trader from Nevada, showing up at a
Investigating this fast-food insanity from outer space
remote Old West-style asteroid saloon (filled with
are Dr. Karel Lamonte, a pipe-smoking, pompous,
"roughnecks and thugs," of course) w ith a special
relentlessly optimistic atomic scientist (super-hilarious
delivery: a cat named Oscar. There he meets up with
Cam pell Scott); Sandy Fawkes, a voluptuous heroine
his old pal the Blueberry Pirate w ho strikes a deal for
with a yen for the visiting brainiac and a strangely
Curtis to deliver some valuable cargo (a real live girl!)
close relationship with her slow -w itted brother Guy;
to Jupiter, an all-m ale mining colony, in exchange for
and a police chief w ho composes and performs his
a strapping young boy toy to be delivered to the all
own TV cop-show theme while on duty. These are
female planet of Venus. If the trade is successful, much
the troops w ho must somehow save the w orld from
dinero w ill change hands. But to make matters a bit
alien monsters. Be assured that all heroic posturing,
trickier, Curtis is being chased across the Solar System
cliched dialogue and other comedic homages to sci-
by the sinister Professor Hess, who has a serious score
fi flicks are played strictly deadpan in this Canadian
to settle. Filmed in noirish black-and-white, The Amer
invasion of the body snackers. Known for The Big
ican Astronaut comes across as an old-school sci-fi
Crimewave. Paizs' additional film credits include The
romp, kick-started w ith a postmodern rock-'n'-roll
Obsession o f B illy Botski and Three Worlds o f Nick.
'tude for the new millennium.
His television credits include John W oo's Once a Thief,
Forever Knight, The Adventures o f Shirley Holmes and the CBC/HBO series Kids in the Hall.
International Sales: Victor Film Company Print Source: Victor Film Company 39/48 Brewer Street London, WIR3FD Ph: 44.207.535.3380 Fax: 44.207.535.3383 Selected Filmography: The Big CrimeWave (1985) The International Style (1983) Oak, Ivy, and Other Dead Elms (1982) Springtime in Greenland (1981)
Director: Cory McAbee Producers: William Perkins Joshua Taylor Robert Lurie Michael Krantz Screenwriter: Cory McAbee Cinematographer: W. Mott Hupfel III Editor: Pete Beaudreau Music: The Billy Nayer Show Bobby Lurie Cast: Cory McAbee Rocco Sisto Gregory Russell Cook Annie Golden James Ransone Joshua Taylor Peter McRobbie Bill Buell Mark Manley Ned Sublette Joseph McKenna Running Time: 91 minutes International Sales: The Billy Nayer Show/BSG Records Print Source: The Billy Nayer Show/BSG Records PO Box 998, Canal Street Station New York, NY 10013 Ph: 212.946.1682 Fax: 212.925.0023 Email: bns@macconect.com Selected Filmography: Feature Film Debut
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Friday June 1 Midnight Egyptian Theatre
Friday May 25 Midnight Egyptian Theatre
Japan 2000 Director: Takashi Miike Producers: Kazunari Hiashiguchi Toshiaki Kimura Screenwriter: Ichiro Ryu Cinematographer: Naosuke Imaizumi Editor: Yasushi Shimamura Music: Koji Endo Cast: MarioTeah Michelle Reis Patricia Manterola Mitsuhiro Oikawa Koji Kikkawa Ren Osugi Akaji Maro Anatoli Krasov Running Time: 100 minutes
Over the course of his career, M iike Takashi has
Typically, movies featuring rock stars are so bad they're
directed every genre imaginable: horror (Fudoh: The
good; think, Rock and R oll High School, w ith the
New Generation), disturbing eroticism (Audition), reflective arthouse fare (Bird People o f China) and blatant yakuza brutality (Dead or Alive, also in SIFF
Ramones. You get a minimal budget, a dubious plot line, and the spectacle of your musical gods either ham m ing it up or m um bling their ways through
2001). W ith City o f Lost Souls he combines elements
choppy lines until it's time for the requisite song. W ild
from all those genres— not to mention Sergio Leone
Zero is that kind of glorious, cheesy mess— w ith the
spaghetti westerns, the Hong Kong gangster genre,
added tang of '50s film schlock. Plus, be honest—
Quentin Tarantino, and a healthy infusion of Asian
any movie w ith the tagline "Rock 'n ' Roll JET m ovie"
mysticism— into a high-flying comic book actioner
begs to be seen. Our hero, Ace (Endo Masashi), sports
that even lampoons The Matrix. Set in the near future,
a leather jacket and enough grease on his hair to
the film follows Mario, a Japanese-Brazilian, as he
keep the Tokyo McDonald's going for a month. He's
extricates his true love Kei from a busload of convicts
motorcycling his way to see the band Guitar W olf
in the American Midwest, then miraculously sky-dives
and harbors hopes that he might get to perform, too.
into a bizarre version of Tokyo— you know, the one ■
Cut to the club, where a freak murder w ins Ace the
filled with Latino street parties, underground cock-
favor of his hipster idols. And then, ladies and gents,
fighting tournaments and a vast drug-running syndi
things get camp. A meteor strikes the next tow n on
cate. The duo just want to get married, but a botched
Guitar W olf's itinerary, turning the tow nsfolk into
robbery has both the Japanese yakuza and the Chinese
zo m b ie s — co m p lete w ith dop ey w alks, g lopp y
triads breathing down their necks. Supplemented by
makeup and a penchant for human flesh. Ace rides
a pounding rock score, City o f Lost SouIs is an adrena
in, meets the girl of his dreams and gets him self
line-filled ride with radical romance. W achow ski
wedged between a rock and a hard place, so that
brothers, eat your heart out!
the members of Guitar W olf can stride in and save th e d a y — d e s p ite ru m o rs th a t th e ir re a l-life counterparts were three sheets to the w ind during
International Sales: Tokuma Shoten Print Source: Tokuma Shoten 1-1-16 Higashi, Shimbashi Minatoku Tokyo, 105-8671 Japan Ph: 81.3.3573.8716 Fax: 81.3.3573.8720
shooting. Viva rock 'n ' roll!
Japan 2000 Director: Tetsuro Takeuchi Producers: Kaichiro Furata Katswaki Takemoto Tetsuro Takeuchi Screenwriter: Satoshi Takagi Cinematographer: Motoki Kobayashi Editor: Tomoe Kubota Music: Guitar Wolf Cast: Guitar Wolf Drum Wolf Bass Wolf Masashi Endo Makoto Inamiya Masao Sato Shiro Namiki Kwancharu Shitichai Naruka Nakajo Yoshiyuki Morishita Running Time: 98 minutes International Sales: Tohokushinsha Film Corporation Print Source: Tohokushinsha Film Corporation 4-17-7 Akasaka, Minato-ku Tokyo, 107-8460 Japan Ph: 81.3.3582.0211 Fax: 81.3.3584.2824 Email: kokusai@tfc-a.co.jp
Selected Filmography: Nihon kuroshakai (2000) Dead or Alive: Hanzaisha (1999) Odishon (1999) Chugoku no chojin (1998) Gokudo kuro shakai (1997) Kishiwada shonen gurentai: junjo chikemurihen (1997) Gokudo sengokushi: Fudo (1996) Shinjuku kuroshakai (1995) Kyoshu tenshin: Hit & Run (1991)
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Tuesday June 12 7:15 PM Cinerama
Friday June 8 Midnight Egyptian Theatre
Friday June 15 Midnight Egyptian Theatre
Japan 1999 Director: Takashi Miike Producers: Makoto Okada Katsumi Ono Screenwriter: Ichiro Ryu Cinematographer: Hideo Yamamoto Editor: Taiji Shimamura Music: Koji Endo Cast: Show Aikawa Renji Ishibashi Riki Takeuchi Hitoshi Ozawa ShingoTsurumi Kaoru Sugita Running Time: 104 minutes International Sales: Tokuma International Print Source: Tide Point Pictures 655 Bryant St San Francisco, CA 94107 Ph: 415.512.1924 Fax: 415.546.7086 Email: info@tidepoint.com,
"Warning: This film contains portrayals of violence,
Japan is in the hands of fascists, unemployment has
Japan
sex, violent sex, sexual violence, and dow ns." So reads
risen to 15%, and teenagers are in full revolt. The
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the press disclaimer for Dead or Alive, Miike Takashi's
government aims for a final solution:" Battle Royale."
high-octane jolt of new blood for the yakuza genre.
High school students dispatched on w hat may well
"C ontains" is hardly the word to describe the direc
be their last field trip find themselves on a deserted
tor's surreal visions of excess. In the opening sequence
jungle island to play a deadly game. For three days,
— set to a wicked guitar solo— w e're thrust into the
armed w ith food, water and a weapon, they must
neon underworld ofTokyo's Shinjuku district, a deliri
battle each other until only one survivor remains.
ous environment whose distractions include a knife
Should more than a single kid hold out, all are
throw ing act in a strip club, sodomy and stabbing in
executed. The horror of this controversial film is
the m en's room, an epic line o f cocaine, and a
exacerbated by the incredibly youthful faces of these
restaurant sho o to u t high in body count. Police
soon-to-be killers. Their shell-shocked expressions
detective Jojima (Show Aikaw a) arrives on the scene
reveal innocence lost, grief over friends w ho have
to discover a truly uncanny clue: someone's been
become casualties of the rage to live at any cost. Those
eating Chinese noodles.... The mean streets are up
w ho can't cope w ith the barbarity kill themselves
for grabs, with the Chinese mafia, led by tough guy
rather than others. W ith his powerful morality play,
Ryuichi (Riki Takeuchi), moving in on yakuza territory.
director Kinji Fukasaku begs the question: W hat
Genre conventions dictate that unspeakably nasty
would you do to survive, under these circumstances?
acts of violence be committed on behalf of family
The non-stop action of Battle Royale hardly gives time
honor: detective Jojima has an ailing daughter whose
to answer. Fukasaku has said he made the film to
heart operation he can't pay for, w hile killer Ryuichi
exorcise the demons in his memory— during World
can't get no respect from his schoolkid brother. The
War II, two-thirds of his classmates were killed by
bloody clash of cultures is distilled into a battle of
American bombs. (But Royale also hints at the next
retribution as Jojima and Ryuichi face off in the film's
generation of TV reality-show s....) In this all-out
unforgettable finale, with director Miike raising the
portrayal of mindless violence, Fukasaku successfully
stakes to apocalyptic proportions.
argues the insanity of it.
Awards: Asian Film Award, Special Mention, Tokyo International Film Festival
Selected Filmography: Nihon kuroshakai (2000) City of Lost Souls (2000) Odishon (1999) Chugoku no chojin (1998) Gokudo kuro shakai (1997) Kishiwada shonen gurentai: junjo chikemurihen (1997) Gokudo sengokushi: Fudo (1996) Shinjuku kuroshakai (1995) Kyoshu tenshin: Hit & Run (1991)
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Saturday June 2 Midnight Egyptian Theatre
Saturday May 26 12:00 AM Egyptian Theatre
Monday June 4 9:30 PM Harvard Exit
France 1976 Director: Barbet Schroeder Producer: Pierre Andrieux Screenwriters: Barbet Schroeder Paul Voujargol Cinematographer: Nestor Almendros Editor: Denise de Casablanca Music: Carlos d' Alessio Cast: Gérard Depardieu Bulle Ogier André Rouyer Nathalie Keryan Roland Bertin TonyTaffin Holger Lôwenadler Running Time: 112 minutes Print Source: Mike Kaplin PO Box 5730 Santa Monica, CA 90409 Ph: 310.823.4024 Fax: 310.574.1950
What other national cinema can rival France's for tales
Rarely has a first feature film raised the am ount of
of passion, romance and obsession? The French
controversy th a t surrounds
practically invented the notion of l'amour fou—
shocked audiences at the Venice Film Festival, this
O Fantasma. Having
literally "crazy lo v e "— and film m akers such as
dark, erotically charged tale of sexuality, obsession
Godard, Truffaut, Rivette, Chabrol, Carax, Breillat et
and identity is now w orking its dark magic in the
al. are aces at transporting us to the depths and
U n ited States. S erg io lives a m ostly n octurn a l
heights of mad romances. Producer Barbet Schroeder
existence, spending his nights as a garbage collector
made Eric Rohmer's Moral Tales possible (remember
and w andering from one em otionless sexual en
that wonderful Rohmerian obsession w ith Claire's
counter to the next. Laconic and withdrawn, he is
knee?), and director Schroeder has pursued his own
careful to allow no one but a stray dog to get close to
brand of I'amour fou into increasingly weird territory
his heart. Attem pts to befriend him, like those of his
(think of the von Bulows in Reversal of Fortune and
beautiful co-worker Fatima, are met w ith a practiced
Jennifer Jason Leigh and her roommate in Single White
and cold indifference. Then one night, he and his
Female). Maîtresse was one of Schroeder's first fiction
partner are called to a house for a special pickup—
films— he started out making documentaries— and
and there he meets Joao. Entranced by the man's
this witty and unsettling excursion into erotic exoticism
unattainable beauty, Sergio begins to spy on Joao and
showed a sure hand at the directorial tiller. Hunky
follow him through the streets of Lisbon, stumbling
Gérard Depardieu (once crucified by the press for
upon him in several "chance encounters." But such
casually confessing to having participated in a rape)
encounters do little to satisfy Sergio's deepening
maîtresse
obsession and he begins to lose himself in his efforts
(dominatrix), played by Bulle Ogier (Schroeder's close
to possess Joao, body and soul. Director Joao Pedro
breaks into the hom e of a beautifu l
friend), and is caught by the lady of the house— in
Rodrigues uses classic film noir conventions to explore
more ways than one. As their ensuing passion and
Sergio's increasingly deviant actions, w ith influences
sexual power games heat up, her profession becomes
from such film s as Cat People and
problematic, and she may have to choose between
providing an important subtext to both the story and
her possessive lover and her faithful clients (some of
imagery. W hat emerges is a pow erful— yet often
The Big Sleep
whom were actual S&M devotees). Critic Tom Milne
unsettling— piece of film m aking that delves into the
wrote that "Schroeder's classic of underground love—
darker corners of the heart.
a wickedly funny fable on the more demanding side of love— sits well alongside.. .Last Tango in Paris."
Selected Filmography: Our Lady of the Assassins (2000) Desperate Measures (1998) Before and After (1996) Kiss of Death (1995) Single White Female (1992) Reversal of Fortune (1990) Barfly (1987) Tricheurs (1983) Koko, le gorille qui parle (1977) ldi Amin Dada (1974) La Vallée (1972) More (1969)
Portugal 2000 Director: Joao Pedro Rodrigues Producer: Amando Corado Screenwriters: Joao Pedro Rodrigues Jose Neves Paulo Rebelo Alexandre Melo Cinematographer: Rui Pocas Editors: Paulo Rebelo Joao Pedro Rodrigues Cast: Ricardo Meneses Beatriz Torcato Andre Barbosa Eurico Vieira Running Time: 90 minutes International Sales: Kino Distribuicao Print Source: Rosa Films Largo Maria Isabel Aboim Ingles 2B Lisboa, 1400-244 Portugal Ph: 351.21.303.1810 Fax: 351.21.303.1819 Email: rosafilmes@esoterica.pt Selected Filmography: Viagem a Expo (1998) Happy Birthday (1997)
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Baise-moi (Rape Me)
UNE VRAIE JEU N E FILLE Saturday June 9 Midnight Egyptian Theatre
Wednesday June 13 9:30 PM Egyptian Theatre
Tuesday June 12 9:30 PM Egyptian Theatre
Saturday June 16 Midnight Egyptian Theatre
France 1975 Director: Catherine Breillat Producer: André Génovés Screenwriter: Catherine Breillat Cinematographer: Pierre Fattori Editor: Annie Charrier Music: Mort Shuman Cast: Charlotte Alexandra Hiram Keller Rita Maiden Bruno Balp Georges Guéret Shirley Staler Running Time: 92 minutes International Sales: Flach Pyramide International Print Source: Cinema Village 5 Rue Richepanse Paris, 75508 France Ph: 33.1.42.96.02.20 Fax: 33.1.40.20.05.51 Email: Cinvil@earthlink.net Selected Filmography: For My Sister (2000) Romance (1999) Parfait Amour! (1996) Dirty Like an Angel (1990) 36 Fillette (1988) Nocturnal Uproar (1979)
The director of last year's controversial Romance
Imagine Thelma and Louise stripped of glamour,
France
matured early, reading de Sade and Lautréamont
palatable political message, euphem ized sex and
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in her teens and writing about la vie sexuelle in a
violence— and you're well-embarked in the contro
half-dozen novels— beginning with the semiautobio-
versial territory of Baise-moi (translated by co-directors
graphical L'Homme facile (1968), banned as out
Virginie Despentes and CoralieTrinhThi as Rape Me).
rageously "dirty." The half-dozen films that Catherine
Called radical and revolutionary by some, ugly and
Breillat's written and directed in the last 26 years
revolting by others, it's an exhilarating film that
have singlem indedly pushed the envelope when it
incontrovertibly breaks new ground in the cinematic
comes to explicit, politically incorrect sex from a
treatment of female rage and aggressive sexuality.
woman's point of view. Acclaimed as ground-breaking
Like Catherine Breillat's Romance, Rape M e (adapted
cinematic art or denounced as pornography, Breillat's
from Despentes' successful 1995 novel) employs and
"erotic encephalogram s" are always variations on
empowers— sans regrets— the transgressive feminine
the same "sacred" theme: W hether her heroines are
point of view. This down-and-dirty wom an's action-
Lolitas, 20-som ethings or mature mothers, they in
film opens with a brutal rape: Victim Manu (Raffaela
carnate the mystery of female sexuality, and their
Anderson) deals w ith her violation by refusing to
fleshly rites-of-passage are as mesmerizing and potent
assign value to w hat her assailants have looted from
as any man's. A True Young Lady, adapted from Breil
her. Not much later, she casually offs a guy, then hooks
lat's own novel, was banned almost the moment it
up w ith Nadine (Karen Bach), w ho's just strangled a
was released; 25 years later, this foray into hormonally
nagging roommate. (Both Anderson and Bach, as well
, overheated hallucination opened in Paris, just across
as other castmembers, are porn-movie vets.) This
the street from the notorious Baise-moi. A schoolgirl
dangerous duo explodes across France, one step
(an unstated 14 or so years old) home for the summer
ahead of the cops, casually murdering the innocent
drifts aimlessly through a sunny, languorous haze of
and the guilty alike, bedding down w ith pick-ups in
perpetual arousal, fascinated by bodily fluids and every
graphically portrayed sexual scenarios: "The more you
possible point of physical penetration. For Alice (Char
screw, the less you think, and the better you sleep."
lotte Alexandra), the whole w orld is sexualized, and
Because Despentes andTrinhThi refused to sugarcoat
everything— from feathers to worms to spoons— is
their relentlessly subversive movie, censors have had
a potential tactile adventure. Her outrageous, "trans
their day in France and in Canada. Rape M e is the
gressive" eroticism is solipsistic rebellion against
kind of anarchic, visceral film-experience that ener
grown-up banality, repression, death itself. Not for
gizes the viewer into wrestling mano a mano with
im ag in atio ns in fa n tilize d (and m asculinized) by
tough questions about art and pornography, freedom
Hollywood's cartoon sexuality, Breillat's mesmerizing
of expression, the darkside of the distaff psyche.
paean to adolescent lust is replete with a distaff artist's
Directors: Virginie Despentes Coralie Trinh Thi Producers: Dominique Chiron Phlllippe Godeau Screenwriter: Coralie Trinh Thi Cinematographer: Benoît Chamaillard Editor: Ailo Auguste Music: Varou Jan Cast: Raffaëla Anderson Karen Lancaume Delphine MacCarty Lisa Marshall Estelle Isaac Herve P. Gustavé Marc Rioufol Ouassini Embarek Running Time: 76 minutes International Sales: Wild Bunch Print Source: FilmFixx 1620 Broadway Suite C Santa Monica, CA 90404 Ph: 310.453.4933 Fax: 310.829.0599 Email: mail@filmfixx.com
uncompromising honesty, unapologetic nudity and graphic sex scenes.
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5-Spot A Band Apart Eric Bonnoit
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Nick Licata Fidelma McGinn Kathleen McGinnis
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Businesses of Broadway Monica Moe
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Paul Yi
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IT Magazine Laurie Ray Michelle Escorcio
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Pinnacle Studios
Pine Street Group LLC Jane Lewis Louise Avery Lynn Beck Matt Griffin
Pyramid Breweries, Inc. Maggie Ward-Smith Quark XPress Lisa Wimbush Qwest Molly Teepe Red Bull Sasha Laman Reel West Magazine Paul Bartlett Regent Entertainm ent Mark Halperin Marla Halperin Renaissance Films Mlchaela Piper Resonance Magazine Andrew Monko Rialto Pictures Bruce Goldstein Richard Hugo House Richard Hugo Richmond Public Relations Hamilton McCulloh Louis Richmond Rocket Pictures Kelly Devlin Rosa Films Marlsa Cardoso Rosebud Restaurant and Bar John Busey Robert Sondheim Thomas Humphrey Rosenthal & Associates Public Relations Norma Rosenthal SAFECO Jenise Silva Sazerac Lawrence Chyall Scarecrow Video Norman Hill Schenker, Inc. Christine Cook
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Acknowledgments Screen Actors Guild Joan Kalhorn Shawna Brakefield Screen Gems Jason Geffen Script Magazine Kim Ropp Marisa Corona Seasonal Goods Catering
Sedgwick Rd. Adam Thomason Dona Ross Forrest Healy Jim Walker Katie Fabbro Mishy Cass Missy Culver Stacie Sauder Steve Johnston Zach Hitner Julia Blackburn Curtis Jackson
Vince Miller Seattle Arts Commission Susan Kunimatsu Seattle Central Community College Jeff Watts Michael Vu Pham Wes Sauers Seattle Foundation Anne Farrell Seattle Gay Standard Michael Bradbury Seattle Grip and Lighting David Frank Seattle Magazine Melissa Coffman Seattle Theatre Group David Allen Frank Lott Ida Cole Joe Tate Josh LaBelie Julia Buckley Patrick Harrison Seattle Times Doug Kim Kim Sharpe Yoko Kuromato-Eidsmo Seattle Weekly Julie Butterfield
seneda.com Tracy Recker Serafina Susan Kaufman
Sony Pictures Classics Michael Barker Tom Barnyard Tom Prassis Soundelux Chase Optical Bob Heiber Speakeasy.Net Edward Bender Jeffrey Sparks Spex Ida McClain
Terry Hines & Associates Mac Mdean Marci Nunn Rob McQuiston
Spicers Paper Tom Liotta
TF1 International Mathieu Pesty
Staging Techniques Jack Wolfe
Sheraton Seattle Roxy Inouye Tawny Paperd Doug Collins
Strand Releasing Jon Gerrans Marcus Hu Michael Bauer
The Space Needle Corporation Mary Bacarella Thomas Kemper Maggie Ward-Smith
United International Pictures Lauren Coleman
Trakker Technologies Josette Hernandez
Tango Danielle Philippa
U-Park Ken Phillips, Jr.
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Washington Wine Commission
Western Washington Betsy Meguro Westin Hotel Jerri Lane Krystal Pyon
Valeo Graphics, Inc.
Westwind Computing
Denise Bennett Quinton Alari
Debbie Koidahl Kelly Cote Michael Koidahl
Valley Drive-In Kieth Kiehl
Wild Ginger Ann Yoder
Venice Film Festival Alberto Barbera
Toei Company, Ltd. Tadayuki Okubo
Tamara Wilson Public Relations Tamara Wilson
Office Suzy Kellett Cathy Sanders
UW Summer Arts Festival Pace Ebbeson
Jeffrey Graves Raymond A. Doig Zoe Melendez
Town and Country John Cantrell Pamela Fiori
Washington State Film
Beverage Universal Focus Dennis O'Connor
Vulcan Northwest Inc.
Talk Magazine Lee Rosenbaum
Mary Frye
Jamie Peha
Tidepoint Pictures Tetsuki Ijichi
Torrefazione Italia John Morris
Washington State Arts Commission
United Talent Agency
Supercharge / Intrix Mark Passifione Matt Gentry
Tablet Fred Lopez
To everyone who helped make this Festival a success...
Antoine Khalife
Tia Lou's Greg Contreras
Skyy Spirits Kate Dwyer Sue Hearn
S.A. Ana Romani Sogepaq S.A. Maria Edith Briceno
UniFrance Film International
Stranger, The Kevin Patnik
Swedish Film Institute Gunnar Aimer
Sogepaq InternationAL
Thai Airways Robert LaGuardia The New York Times GuyTasaka Stephanie Feuer
Skouras Pictures Paul Gardner
Sloss Law Office John Sloss
UCLA Film and Television Archive Rob Stone
Howard Cohen
Starbucks Audrey Lincoff Elsa Kastner Kirsten Paulsen
Shuttle Express Paula Perryman
Team-Photogenic Duell Fisher Kirk Swink Telewizja Polska Aleksandra Biernacka
Seven Gables Theatres Teri White Bradley Mills Pete Kerchinsky Ryan Uhlhorn
Showtime Networks, Inc. Kate Meyer
Tarragon Signs Teresa Bower
Visionbox Pictures John Manulis
W Seattle Hayley King Jolene DiSalvo Terry Bucholz
William Morris Agency Shaun Redick Williams/VYVX Cy Bridges Winstar Suzanne Fedak Women's Entertainment Judith Orlowski Wy'East Color Grant Commings
Warner Brothers Home Video Pamela Godfrey
Yakima Grill David Jaster
Washington State Ferry
Zeitgeist Films Ltd.
Film Program Robin Herberger
Emily Russo Nancy Gerstman
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Scout's Honor p.145 (SCOUT25) All Over the Guy p.101 (ALLOV25) Brother p.206 (BROTH25) City of Lost Souls p.238 (CITY025) Scout's Honor p. 145 (SCOUT26)* Diary of a Chambermaid p.57 (DIARY26) Brother p.206 (BROTH26)* Glamour p.93 (GLAM026) O p.33 (OXXXX26) Maitresse p.240 (MAiTR26) Secret Festival p.47 Body And Soul p.73 (BODYA27) 0 p.33 (OXXXX27)* Farewell to Harry p. 131 (FAREW27) Chopper p.91 (CHOPP27) Barking Dogs p.215 (BARKI28)* LaLee'sKin p.143 (LALEE28) Glamour p.93 (GLAM028)* 101 Reykjavik p.193 (101RE28) Song of Tibet p. 173 (S0NG028)* No Place To Go p. 190 (NOPLA29)* Jin-Roh: Wolf Brigade p.205 (JINR029) Before the Storm p,91 (BEFOR29) 101 Reykjavik p.193 (101RE30)* Vertical Ray of the Sun p.222 (VERTI30) Princesa p.202 (PRINC30) Chain Camera p. 138 (CHAIN31) Endurance p.45 (ENDUR31) Bartleby p. 105 (BARTL31) Little Senegal p.77 (LITTL01)* Lost and Delirious p. 167 (LOSTA01) Gaudi Afternoon p.111 (GAUDI01) Wild Zero p.238 (WILDZ01) Endurance p.45 (ENDUR02)* Gaudi Afternoon p.111 (GAUDI02)* Turandot Project p.151 (TURAN02) Borstal Boy p.199 (BORST02) Liam p.37 (LIAMX02) OFantasma p.211,240 (OFANT02) Secret Festival p.47 Coronation p.170 (CORON03)* Borstal Boy p.199 (BORST03)* Born Romantic p.192 (BORNR03) Baraka p.57 (BARAK03) Reef Hunters p.209 (REEFH04)* Other Girls p.99 (OTHER04) Liam p.37 (LIAMX04)* TBA (TBAXX05)* Sex, Shame & Tears p.207 (SEXSH05) G in a e i^ n a j^ JS S (GINGE05)* Young and the Dead p.155 (YOUNG06)* Film Noir p.204 (FILMN06) Nang Nak p.69 (NANGN06) Sun Alley p.191 (SUNAL07)* Breaking the Silence p.171 (BREAK07) Southern Comfort p.147 (SOUTH07)
Mindgames p.225 (MINSH25) Marshal Tito p.175 (MARSH25) Matter of Taste p.181 (MATTE25)
IP5 p.51 Lift p.73 (LIFTX25) Bread And Tulips p.202 (BREAD25)
Vengo p.187 (VENG025) Week In Life of a Man p.85 (WEEKI25) Divided We Fall p.175 (DIVID25)
10AM Is Digital Death of Cinema? p.26 (FFDIG26) 12:30PM Marshal Tito p. 175 (MARSH26)* 3PM Sentimental Destiny p.185 (SENTI26) Amy's Orgasm p.103 (AMYS026) Such Is Life p.207 (SUCHI26)
Bread And Tulips p.202 (BREAD26)* Big Animal p.85 (BIGAN26) Sky Hook p.223 (SKYH026) Stranger Inside p.79 (STRAN26) Things Behind Sun p. 123 (THING26)
Testimony of Taliesin Jones p.235 (TESTI26) Divided We Fall p.175 (DIVID26)* Lift p.73 (LIFTX26)* Everybody's Famous! p. 161 (EVERY26) Song of Tibet p.173 (S0NG026)
Hybrid p.141 (HYBRI27) Emotional Landscape p.133 (EMOSH27) Amy's Orgasm p.103 (AMYS027)* Barking Dogs p.215 (BARKI27) Ali Zaoua p.208 (ALIZA27) Panel: From the Trenches p.130 (SHOOT28) Cityscapes p.131 (CITSH28) Hybrid p.141 (HYBRI28)* Where Worlds Collide p.133 (WHERE28) Born In Absurdistan p.159 (BORNI28) Born in Absurdistan p. 159 (BORNI29)* Teeth p.201 (TEETH29) Mechanism p.223 (MECHA29) Banquet at Tetlapayac p.137 (BANQU30) Blue Diner p.105 (BLUED30) A Run for the Money p.222 (RUNFO30) A Run for the Money p.222 (RUNF031)* Virgil Bliss p.125 (VBLIS31) Sense of Dislocation p.227 (SENSH31) Coded Language p.29 (FFCOD01) Saroja p.219 (SAROJ01) Chronically Unfeasible p.163 (CHRON01)
Stranger Inside p.79 (STRAN27)* Week in the Life p.85 (WEEKI27)* Things Behind Sun p. 123 (THING27)* Ignorant Fairies p.201 (IGNOR27) Wendigo p.129 (WENDI27) Such Is Life p.207 (SUCHI28)* Chopper p.91 (CHOPP28)* Ali Zaoua p.208 (ALIZA28)* Sky Hook p.223 (SKYH028)* No Place to Go p. 190 (NOPLA28) Matter of Taste p. 181 (MATTE29)* If... p.59(IFXXX29) Night Shift p.183 (NIGHT29) Night Shift p.183 (NIGHT30)* Memento Mori p.216 (MEMEN30) Plenilunio p.219 (PLENI30)* Mechanism p.223 (MECHA31)* Middle Passage p.79 (MIDDL31) Gen-X Cops p.193 (GENX31)* Roselyne and the Lions p.51 Anita Takes Chance p.217 (ANITA01) Reef Hunters p.209 (REEFH01)
Everybody's Famous! p.161 (EVERY27)* All Over the Guy p.101 (ALLOV27)* 6ixtynin9 p.67 (6IXTY27) Sidewalks of NY p.123 (SIDEW27) Sentimental Destiny p.185 (SENTI27)* Sidewalks of NY p.123 (SIDEW28)* Wendigo p.129 (WENDI28)* Ignorant Fairies p.201 (IGNOR28)* Vengo p.187 (VENG028)* Plenilunio p.219 (PLENI28) Stranger p. 160 (STRAN29) Odd Little Man p.208 (ODDLI29) Gen-X Cops p.193 (GENX29) Odd Little Man p.208 (ODDLI30)* Little Senegal p.77 (LITTL30) 6ixtynin9 p.67 (6IXTY30)* Before the Storm p.91 (BEFOR31)* Cure p.81 (CUREX31) Possible Loves p. 165 (POSSI31) Blue Diner p.105 (BLUED01)* Seance p.81 (SEANC01) Coronation p.170 (CORON01)
Black Experience p.26 (FFBLA02) MacArthur Park p.77 (MACAR02) e-Dreams p.139 (EDREA02) WillFull p.158 (WILLF02) Webcam Boys p. 153 (WEBCA02)
Teeth p.201 (TEETH02)* Vertical Ray of the Sun p.222 (VERTI02)* Punishment p.144 (PUNIS02) Adventures Of Felix p.89 (ADVEN02) Angels of Universe p.195 (ANGEL02)
Ramayana: Prince of Light p.235 (RAMAY02) Cure p.81 (CUREX02)* Seance p.81 (SEANC02)* King Is Dancing p.187 (KINGD02) Ginger Snaps p. 165 (GINGE02)
Virgil Bliss p.125 (VBUS03r Oddballs, Eccentrics p.225 (ODDSH03) Jin-Roh p.205 (JINRO03)* Devils on the Doorstep p.171 (DEVIL03) Left Side of Fridge p. 167 (LEFTS03) Chronically Unfeasible p.163 (CHRON04)* This Is My Moon p.220 (THISI04) Princesa p.202 (PRINC04)* Sad Flower In Sand p.145 (SADFL05) National 7 p.181 (NATIO05) Animation Extravaganza p.227 (ANISH05) This Is My Moon p.220 (THISI06)* Stranger p.160 (STRAN06)* Modern Sex and Romance p.229 (MODSH06) Camp Scott Ladies p.138(CAMPS07) Faat-Kine p.75 (FAATK07) Fleeing by Night p.221 (FLEEI07)
Moscow p.211 (MOSCO03) Bartleby p.105 (BARTL03)* Lost and Delirious p.167 (LOSTA03)* Wedding p.213 (WEDDI03) MacArthur Park p.77 (MACAR03)* Anita Takes Chance p.217 (ANITA04)* Melancholy Chicken p.177 (MELAN04) OFantasma p.211 ,2 4 0 (OFANT04)* Saroja p.219 (SAROJ05)* Perfect Son p.169 (PERFE05) Moscow p.211 (MOSCO05)* Born Romantic p.192 (BORNR06)* Family Pack p.161 (FAMIL06) Foul King p.215 (FOULK06) Left Side of Fridge p.167 (LEFTS07)* Hotoke p.203 (HOTOK07) American Astronaut p. 101,237 (AMERI07)*
Possible Loves p.165 (POSSI03)* Memento Mori p.216 (MEMEN03)* King Is Dancing p.187 (KINGD03)* Live Blood p.97 (LIVEB03) Young And Dead p. 155 (YOUNG03) Middle Passage p.79 (MIDDL04)* Place Nearby p.178 (PLACE04) Angels of Universe p.195 (ANGEL04)* WillFull p.158 (WILLF05)* Sun Alley p.191 (SUNAL05) Live Blood p.97 (LIVEB05)* Place Nearby p.178 (PLACE06)* Under Sand p.185 (UNDER06) L'amour, L'argent p.189 (LAMOU06) Wedding p.213 (WEDDI07)* Iron Ladies p.69 (IRONL07) Stanley Kubrick p.149 (STANL07)
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VALLEY DRIVE-IN THEATRES
Thursday May 24,7:30 PM • The Anniversary Party Opening Night Gala p. 30 (OPENI24)
Friday June 1,10 PM • Drive-In Party showing Top of the Food Chain & The American Astronaut p. 237 (DRIVE01)
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SATURDAY MAY 26
SUNDAY MAY 27
MONDAY MAY 28
TUESDAY MAY 29
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Noon 2:30 PM 5:00 PM 7:15 PM 9:30 PM Midnight 11:30AM 1:45 PM 4:00 PM 6:30 PM 9:30 PM Midnight 11:30 AM 1:45 PM 4:00 PM 6:30 PM 9:30 PM Noon 2:30 PM 5:00 PM 7:15 PM 9:30 PM No0n 2:30 PM 5:00 PM 7:15 PM 9:30 PM Noon 2:30 PM 5:00 PM 7:15 PM 9:30 PM Noon 2:30 PM 5:00 PM 7:15 PM 9:30 PM Noon 2:30 PM 5:00 PM 7:15 PM 9:30 PM Midnight
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Blink p.137 (BLINK08) Startup.com p.149 (START08) Final p.109 (FINAL08) 10AM What's a Documentary For? p.26 (FFDOC09) 1PM Dragons on the Doorstep p.26 (FFDRA09) 3:30PM Devils on the Doorstep p.171 (DEVIL09)* Jump Tomorrow p.117 (JUMPT09) I Prefer the Sound of the Sea p.95 (IPREF09) 11AM Hamlet p.113 (HAMLE10)* 2:45PM Final p.109 (FINAL10)* 4:30PM Camp Scott Ladies p.138 (CAMPS 10)* Manic p.119 (MANIC 10) Blink p. 137 (BLINK10)*
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HARVARD EXIT Betty Blue L'Integral p.53 Monkey's Mask p.158 (MONKE08) Under the Sand p.185(UNDER08)* * Melancholy Chicken p.177 (MELAN09)* Strangled Lives p.87 (STRAN09) Faat-Kine p.75 (FAATK09)* Smell of Camphor p.197 (SMELL09) Jack the Dog p.115 (JACKT09) Seven Men from Now p.55 (SEVEN10) Other Girls p.99 (OTHER 10)* That the Women Live p.151 (THATT10) Haiku Tunnel p.113 (HAIKU10) Crazy p.189 (CRAZY 10)*
Startup.com p. 149 (START 11)* Bronx-Barbes p.75 (BRONX11) J m o u y ) J 0 9 jF A M O U 1 1 )
Innocence p.157 (INNOC11)* Virgin Stripped Bare p.216 (VIRGI11) Hedwig and the Angry Inch p.115 (HEDWI11)*.
Fleeing by Night p.221 (FLEEI11)* Brave New Land p.163 (BRAVE 11) Dog Food j?.20^ (DOGF011)
Road Home p.172 (ROADH12)* Little Otik p.177 (LOTIK12) Real Young Girl p.61,241 (REALY12)*
Dog Food p.209 (DOGF012)* Love Inventory p. 144 (LOVE112) Queersville p.229 (GAYSH12)
Manic p.119 (MANIC12)* England! p.190 (ENGLA12) Weight Of Water p. 127 (WEIGH 12)*
4 PM The Tarantino Tutorial: Part 1 p.27 (FFTAR13) Together p.99 (TOGET13) Baise-Moi (Râpe Me) p.178,241 (BAISE 13)
Love Inventory p. 144 (LOVE113)* Sandstorm p.195 (SANDS 13) William Haines Story p.153 (OUTOF13)
Little Otik p.177 (LOTIK13)* Exploding Oedipus p.108 (EXPL013) Le Rat p.183 (RATXX13)
William Haines Story p.153 (0UT0F14)* Manhood & Other Dilemmas p.180 (MANH014) Parsley Days p. 169 (PARSL14) 10AM Talking Pictures? p.27 (FFTAL15) 1PM Film Critic? p.27 (FFCRI15) If I Could p.143 (IFIC015) Rennie's Landing p.121 (RENNI15) Dirt Boy p.107 (DIRTB15)
Le Rat p.183 (RATXX14)* Fugitives p.217 (FUGIT14) Attic Expeditions p. 103 (ATTIC 14) Peaches p.199 (PEACH 15)* Manhood & Other Dilemmas p. 180 (MANH015)* Diva p.53 Disco Pigs p.93 (DISC015) Viva Las Nowhere p.127 (VIVAL15)
Dinosaur Hunter p.233 (DINOS16) Woman's a Helluva Thing p. 129 (WOMAN 16)* Attic Expeditions p.103 (ATTIC 16)* I Love Beijing p.172 (ILOVE 16) Second Coming p.121 (SECON16)
Viva Las Nowhere p.127 (VIVAL16)* Wild Horses p.83 (WILDH16) Escape To Life p.139 (ESCAP16) Jackpot p.117 (JACKP16) JallalJalla! p.220(JALLA16)
Escape To Life p.139 (ESCAP17)* Dirt Boy p.107 (DIRTB17)* Second Coming p.121 (SECON17)* JallalJalla! p.220 (JALLA17)*
Jackpot p.117 (JACKP17)* Burnt Money p.83 (BURNT17)* Rennie's Landing p.121 (RENNI17)* Together p.99 (TOGET17)* Vanaprastham: Last Dance p.197 (VANAP17)*
4 PM The Tarantino Tutorial: Part 2 p.27 (FFTAR14) Treading Water p. 125 (TREAD14) Peaches p.199 (PEACH 14) Parsley Days p.169 (PARSL15)* Exploding Oedipus p. 108 (EXPL015)* 4 PM The Tarantino Tutorial: Part 3 p.27 (FFTAR15) Burnt Money p.83 (BURNT15) Princess and Warrior p.191 (PWARR15) Battle Royale p.203, 239 (BATTL15)* 11:30AM 10 AM The Tarantino Tutorial: Part 4 p.27 (FFTAR16) 1:45 PM Bangkok:Dangerous p.89 (BANGK16)* 4:00 PM Tears of the Black Tiger p.65 (TEARS 16)* 6:30 PM Ghost World p.41 (GHOST16) 9:30 PM Baise-Moi (Rape Me) p.178,241 (BAISE16)* Midnight 11:30AM Secret Festival p.47 Ghost World p.41 (GHOST17)* 1:45 PM 4:00 PM Princess and the Warrior p.191 (PWARR17)* Fugitives p.217 (FUGIT17)* 6:30 PM 9:30PM Inuoam i p .2 0 5 (IN U G A 171* An asterisk marks a repeat screening
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