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MOORE THEATRE Second and Virginia

C O N TE N TS

GENERAL IN F O R M A T IO N TITLES STAFF ACKNOW LEDGEMENTS FILM SOURCES TIC KET IN F O R M A T IO N

SPECIAL PROGRAMS PROGRAM N O TES AUSTRALIA AUSTRIA BRAZIL CANADA C H IN A CZECHO SLO VAKIA FRANCE GERMANY GREAT BRITAIN H O N G KONG ICELAND IN D IA IRAN

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SPECIAL PROGRAMS M ID N IG H T M OVIE MADNESS O UTLAND TH E M OVIE LOVERS KEN RUSSELL TRIBUTE

Australia

Japan

BACKROADS

H IM IK O

T H E C H A N T O F JIMM IE B L A C K S M IT H

T H E ID IO T

TH E CLUB

L O V E A N D F A IT H

T H E F R O N T L IN E

L O V E S U IC ID E A T S O N Z A K E

HO M ESDALE

Netherlands

T H E N IG H T T H E PR O W LE R

CHARLO TTE

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New Zealand Austria

Philippines

W O M A N R H Y M E S W IT H H U M A N /M E N S C H E N F R A U E N

Brazil

SQUEEZE

G E R M A N SP R IN G

Poland

G A IJIN SUMM ER SH OW ERS

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China Costa Rica Czechoslovakia France

T H E D R E A M N E V E R DIES

M A N O F M AR BLE

F IG H T IN G B A C K

O L Y M P IC S 1940

G O O D R ID D A N C E

P R O V IN C IA L A C T O R S

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Rumania

A N A S T A S IA PASSED BY

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T H E H A U N T IN G O F M

Spain

L O V E B E T W E E N T H E R A IN D R O P S

Sweden

L A DROLESSE

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Switzerland

O N E W IL D M O M E N T P R A C T IC E M A K E S PE RFE CT

T H E L IT T L E ESCAPES M E S S ID O R

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Germany

SOUPCON

Taiwan

T H E S T O R Y O F A SM A LL T O W N

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Turkey

HAZAL

C H IL D R E N O F N U M B E R 67

USSR

F A B IA N

M O S C O W D O E S N O T BELIEVE IN TE ARS

L E N A RAIS

OBLO M O V

A N T IC L O C K

T H E W IL D H U N T IN G O F K IN G S T A K H

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Great Britain

BLUE SU E D E SH O E S

USA

B R E A K IN G GLASS F A M IL Y LIFE

AG E E A L L Q U IE T O N T H E W E S T E R N F R O N T

M ELO DY

A T L A N T IC C IT Y

P R O S T IT U T E

T H E BEATS

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S E C O N D S T A R T O T H E R IG H T

T H E D A R K E N D O F T H E STREET T H E D E C L IN E O F W E S T E R N C IV IL IZ A T IO N

Hong Kong

R A IN IN G IN T H E M O U N T A IN S

E IG H T M IN U T E S T O M ID N IG H T

A T O U C H O F ZEN

EL S A L V A D O R : T H E SEEDS O F LIB E R TY

L A N D A N D SO NS

F O U R SE A S O N S

India

STEVEN

FROM M A O T O M O Z A R T

Iran

DEAD END

GAY YO U N G UN

SH ELLSHO CK R O C K

T H E H O W L IN G

FADE T O BLACK

Iceland

FR IE D SH O E S , C O O K E D D IA M O N D S THE FUNHO USE HEALTH

Ireland

T H E IM A G E B EFO RE M Y EYES

Israel

T H E T H IN L IN E

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Italy

BELLISSIMA

N I G H T C IT Y A N G E L S

K N IG H T R ID E R S C IT Y O F W O M E N

O N E T R IC K P O N Y

IM M A C O L A T A A N D C O N C E T T A

OUTLAND

A N IT A L IA N W O M A N

PO TO A N D CABEGNO

T H E L A D Y W IT H O U T C A M E L IA S

RO SIE T H E R IVETER

LEAP I N T O T H E V O ID

S O L D IE R GIRLS

L IT T L E A R C H IM E D E S

T H E TR IA LS O F A L G E R HISS

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T U C K E V E R L A S T IN G

S T O R Y W IT H O U T W O R D S

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Jamaica

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STAFF

JEFF D O W D , Festival Co-Director

D E B B IE M C A D A M , D A R R Y L M A C D O N A L D , P A U L A T R E N T ,

R U T H H A Y L E R , Festival Consultant

Festival Directors: Co-Directors: Assistant to the Directors:

T.C. R IC E , assistant to the

Darryl MacDonald, Daniel Ireland Jeff Dowd, Rajeeve Gupta

Business and Administration: Operations Manager:

Festival Consultant:

T.C. Rice Ruth Hayler

Hospitality and Press Coordinator:

Virginia DeNenno

A r t D irector Acoustics and Projection Supervisor: Assistant:

Paula Trent Debbie McAdam Pamela Sprowl Bill Counter, Aardvark Electric Company Pat Tennant

Program and Brochure Design and Graphics: Pamela Sprowl Program Cover, Photography and Coloring: Leonard Pollack

Projection equipment generously supplied by Bob McRae.

Typesetting/Boki Type, Inc./Doug Kahn The Egyptian Theatre Staff: The Sixth Seattle International Film Festival poster

Tamara Jones, Debbie Shibley, Ken Koehler, Chris Murrell, Eva Minato, Victoria Poynter, Cathy McCaddon, Chrissy McCaddon, Chris Conen, Jay Roberts, Ronnie Murdock, Felix Bertagna, David McCawley, Pat Tennant, Carla Stimer, Erich Roe, Karen Runstein

Design: Pamela Sprowl Photography and Coloring: Leonard Pollack Printer.: University Press Poster and Program Models: Dan Stone, Nina Milyakova

ACKNO W LEDGEMENTS

Special Thanks to Dan Bettis Bob Bond, Sterling R ecreation Fred D anz, Sterling R ecreation Randy Finley, Seven Gables T h e atres A n d re L eC laire, Landm ark T h e atres Stephanie O g le , C inem a Books O n e Reel Vaudeville Show W ilb u r P o rte r, Seven Gables T h e atres Bill Stanfield, U niversity Press

and R o b e rt A ltm an

Candace Manning, S eattle-P ortland Films

A rb u r Books

A le x Massis, Isram Film C o rp o ra tio n

Diane Baker

H ella M aum an, Austrian Consulate

Fred B aker, Fred B aker Films Inc.

G e rry M eadors, F IL M E X

G raham Belin

P e te r M e y e r, C o rin th Films

T o m Bernard, U n ited A rtis ts Classics

John M yhre

Giuseppe B ertolucci

Steve N a ify , U n ited Film D istribution

Ashley Bo one, T h e Ladd C o m p any

M.J. Peckos, W a r n e r B rothers Classics

Eileen Bow ser, M useum o f M o d ern A r t

M r. M . P o d h o rzer, U n ited Film Enterprises

David Bradbury

Leonard Pollack

Carlos B roullon, U nifilm

Laurel Potkin, Pike Place C inem a

Fabiana Canosa

Jeff Prill, W a r n e r B rothers

Micheline C harest, International Film Exchange

Jonathan Putnam , U n ited Artists Classics

Lloyd C ohn

John Q uin n, Nu lm age Films

Susanne C o rn ing , T h e Ladd Co m p any

G e rry R appaport, International Film Exchange

T im Cunningham , Universal Film Exchanges

M a rk Rappaport

M a tth e w C u rtis, C o rin th Films

Bob Rehm e, A v co Embassy Films

Florence Daum an, F IL M E X

Ruth Robbins, C inem a V

Jan D e Bont

David Rosen, Pike Place Cinem a

Dan Edelman, T h e H o p ew ell Foundation

Ray Sage

Fidelity Lane

H e n d rik Schmid, N etherland s Consulate, L.A .

Fifth A venue T h e a tre

David Scioli

Film Polski

G lenn Silber, C atalyst M edia

M ike Fisher

A r th u r Silverman, Ital Too ns

John G arten b erg , M useum o f M o d e rn A r t

Penelope Spheeris

T im G rady

Sunny Speidel

Jurgen H ellw ig, Independent Images

Fran Spielman, First-Run Features

Shantel H e rz o g

D ick S taffo rd , Cardinal Films

T e r r y House, W a r n e r B rothers Classics

Dan T a lb o t, N e w Y o rk e r Films

King Hu

Bob T a y lo r, Universal Film Exchanges

Vicki H y a tt

R. U eda, T o h o Film C om pany

C raig Hyland

M onique van de Ven

Susan Itkin, Australian Film O ffic e

G erald van d e r M olen, N etherland s C onsulate, T h e Hague

Michael Johnston, BBC London

M atthijs van H eyningen, Sigma Films B .V.

D o ug Kahn

Joe Vigil, Param ount Pictures

Fred K e ller

John W atson

Paul K ijzer

Ron W e in b e rg , International Film Exchange

D o n K rim , K ino International

Sylvia W ille m e z , N e therland s Consulate, L.A .

Jeff Lipsky, N e w Y o r k e r Films

C h risto p h e r W o o d , International Jilm Exchange

Jose Lop ez, N e w Y o r k e r Films

M rs. X ie , Chinese Consulate

th e fabulous staff o f th e Egyptian T h e a tre and all o f o u r w o n d erfu l volunteers, w ith o u t w h o m this Festival w ould n o t be as co m plete.

V e ry Special Thanks to L E O N A R D P O L L A C K , w ith o u t w h o m this Festival

HART & SOUL PRODUCTIONS (Larry Hart)

w ould n o t have nearly th e pizazz it has. M r. Pollack has assisted Ken Russell on his films w ith still photography and costum e design, and it was through him th a t o u r Ken Russell T rib u te was m ade possible.

P tL M S O W A C E S

D IS T R IB U T O R S

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F R ID A Y , M A Y I 8:00 EGYPTIAN THEATRE

THURSDAY, APRIL 30TH—8:00 P.M. OPENING NIGHT GALA, EGYPTIAN THEATRE

THE FOUR SEASONS USA Director/Screenw riter: Alan Alda

MOSCOW DOES NOT BELIEVE IN TEARS

Producer: Martin Bregman Cinematography: V icto r J. Kemper

USSR

Cast: Alan Alda, Carol Burnett, Len Cariou, Sandy Dennis,

Director: Vladimir Menshov

Rita M oreno, Jack W eston, Bess Arm strong

Screenwriter: Valentin Chem ikh

100 min.

Cinematography. Igor Slabnevich

A contemporary comedy, The Four Seasons is the story o f a year in the lives o f three

Cast: V era Alentova, Irina Muravyova,

married couples w ho are friends. They have known each other casually fo r seven years.

Raisa Ryazanova, Yuri Vasilyev

Although disparate in personality, they like and respect each other as individuals and as

130 minutes

couples, and collectively share the awareness that they are financially, familially, and pro W e are honored to present as the Opening Night Selection o f The Sixth Seattle Inter

fessionally privileged.

national Film Festival this year's Academy Aw ard W inner fo r Best Foreign Film:

The film opens in the springtime when they are just making the transition from being

Moscow Does N o t Believe in Tears. This disarmingly charming romantic comedy is the

casual friends to being close friends, and goes through the summer, fall and w inter

delightful story o f three provincial Russian girls w ho travel to Moscow in search o f pro

during which period they weather the ravages o f closeness. W ith humour and a discern

sperity. The sincerity and humanity o f the film make it virtually irresistable as it provides

ing eye fo r human foibles, director Alda delineates the grow th o f a friendship.

a rare and honest look at contemporary Russian life styles.

Director/Screenwriter and award winning actor Alan Alda will be on hand to introduce the film and fo r a reception which follows the screening.

E EGYPTIAN THEATRE M MOORE THEATRE

Sunday, May 31st—8:00 pm Closing Night Selection, Egyptian Theatre

Sunday, May 31st—8:00 pm Closing Night Selection, MOORE THEATRE

CITY OF WOMEN

MAN OF MARBLE

Italy/France

Poland

D irector: Federico Fellini

Director: Andrzej W ajda

Screenwriter; Fellini, Bernardino Zapponi, with

Producer: Zespoly Filmowe G roup X

collaboration o f Brunello Rondi

Screenplay: Aleksander Scriber-Rylski

Cinematography: Giuseppe Rotunno

Cinematography: Edward Klosinski

Editor: Ruggero Mastroianni

Music: Andrzej Korzynski

Music: Luis Bacalou

Cast: Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Krystyna Janda, Tadeusz Lomnicki

Cast: Marcello Mastroianni

161 minutes

138 minutes

Considered by critics to be in a class With CITIZEN KANE, this electrifying epic is a As in all o f our past festivals w e have reserved our closing night feature selection to be

milestone in Polish cinema and a high point in the career o f Andrzej Wajda. In 1952 a

representative o f the best o f w orld cinema—and w hat could be more exciting and

bricklayer is elevated to the level o f a national hero through government publicity

entertaining than a new film by the master o f images, Federico Fellini! Here he casts

trumpeting the virtues o f hard w ork. In 1976 a woman television reporter begins in

Marcello Mastroianni as the rather unfortunate chauvinist w ho is lured into a dream

vestigating the fate o f this man after his time o f reknown, w ith only archives and inter

world where W oman reigns supreme, and there is little o r no room fo r him and his

views w ith form er associates to go by. As she uncovers more and more information

dated ideas. A fte r a whirlwind o f heavy indoctrination o f every feminine sensibility, poor

the suspense builds, but the closer she gets to the heart o f her story, the more she

Marcello will never be the same, and neither will you. Dazzling images, lush

finds her superiors withdrawing support fo r the project. A Closing Night Selection o f

cinematography, and a sweeping score: this is Fellini at this creative best.

the Seattle Film Festival Committee.

AUSTRALIA

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BACKROADS Australia D irector: Phillip N o yce Screenplay: John Emery Cinematography: Russell Boyd Cast: G ary Foley, Bill H unter, Zack Martin, Julie M cG reg or 60 minutes

This impressive first feature by the director o f NEWSFRONT (Fourth Seattle Film Fest) is an Australian 'mini-feature' road movie, a trek across Australia by an odd couple o f car thieves—one a racist w hite man, the other a recently divorced aboriginal. Their aimless journey mixes minor crime w ith a variety o f petty villains and an odd collection o f people they pick up. W onderful cinematography by Russell Boyd (PICNIC A T H A N G IN G ROCK).

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THE CHANT OF JIMMIE BLACKSMITH Australia Director/Screenplay: Fred Schepisi Cinematography: Ian Baker Score: Bruce Smeaton Cast: To m m y Lewis, Freddy Reynolds, Ray Barrett, Jack Thompson, Angela Punch 10 8 minutes

Directed by Fred Schepisi (THE DEVIL’S PLAYGROUND), Jimmie Blacksmith has been widely hailed as the greatest product o f the recent Australian film renaissance, a stirring national epic about the oppression, explosion, and flight o f a half-caste aborigine in the year 1900. In telling the story o f Jimmie Blacksmith, Schepisi has made the strongest indictment yet o f the white treatm ent o f blacks in Australia. Stunning production values and a biting screenplay combine to make this film, according to N e w Y o rk e r critic Pauline Kael, “ The first truly great Australian film .”

Short: LA PLAGE

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THE CLUB Australia D ire c to r: Bruce Beresford Producer: M a tt Carroll Cinem atography: D o n M cAlpine S creenw riter: David Williamson Cast: Jack Thom pson, G raham Kennedy, Frank W ilson, H arold Hopkins

99 min. Based on a hit Australian stage comedy, T h e Club is the new film by Bruce Beresford (BREAKER M O R A N T, THE GETTING OF W ISDOM ). On one level, it is a comedy o f manners about the game o f soccer. O r, m ore specifically, the rules o f the game—one must play by the rules in o rd e r to get ahead—w hether in a soccer club o r any o th e r ‘d u b .’ O n a deeper level the film is about tradition, and w hat use we should make o f it, w hether people should be bought and sold like cattle, w hether old fashioned values have a meaning to young Australians, about ambitions, and about pow er. Like N O R TH DALLAS FORTY, T h e Club delivers its message w ith humour and riotous action.

Short: TRACK STARS

AUSTRALIA

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FRONTLINE Australia D irector/W riter/Producer: David Bradbury Cinematography: David Perry Editor: Stew art Young Sound: Chris Manning Narration: Richard Oxenburgh 54 minutes Frontline is about Neil Davis, an Australian cameraman/journalist, w ho covered the w ar

in Vietnam from one year before the American büild-up all the way to the end, at which he captured exclusive w orld footage o f the N orth Vietnamese crashing through the gates o f the Presidential palace during the fall o f Saigon in 1975. This film records one man's experience during that war; how he survived on the frontline. Contains a compilation o f the best action footage filmed by cameramen during the Indochina war.

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HOMESDALE Australia (1971) D irector: Peter W e ir Cast: James Dezlit, Grahame Bond 52 minutes

A macabre comedy closer in spirit to THE PLUMBER than Peter W e ir’s other Seattle hits (PICNIC A T H AN G IN G ROCK, THE LAST WAVE), Homesdale shares w ith these films the sense o f dislocation and otherworldliness that we have come to expect from him. Homesdale, one o f W eir's earliest films (made when he was 27), w on the Australian Film Institute Grand Prize and helped launch his career. W e ir worked on an extremely limited budget, but perhaps no other director can do so much w ith so little. The storyline is the kind o f simple situation that W e ir has repeatedly used as a base on which to build infinite possibilities: Mr. Malfrey is having his first vacation at Homesdale, an expensive and very strange guest house on a rem ote island. Equally strange guests are encouraged to live out their fantasies, and have accustomed themselves to the at mosphere w ith considerable ease. W eir makes the most o f the bizarre location—his own house!

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THE NIGHT THE PROWLER Australia D irector: Jim Sharman Producer: Anthony Buckley Screenplay: Patrick W h ite Cinematography: David Sanderson Cast: Kerry W alker, Ruth Cracknell, John Frawley 98 min. The N ight The P row ler begins as a comedy surrounding the reactions o f Doris and

Hum phrey Banister to an alleged attack on th e ir daughter, Felicity. Transforming a comedy o f manners into an odyssey o f self-discovery, the film is in turns hilarious, sinister, and frightening as Felicity exploits the attack and breaks fro m the claustrophobia o f background, family, fiancee, and lifestyle. The screenplay is w ritte n by Patrick W hite, N obel Prize winning author. Several local critics and film festival regulars have asked us about this very strange and technically accomplished film since we premiered it in the Fourth Seattle Film Festival, so w e 're repeating it w ith our strong recommendation. Directed by Jim Sharman (ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW ).

Short: THE BELOVED (Canada)

AUSTRALIA

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PUBLIC ENEMY NUMBER ONE Australia D irecto r/W riter/C o -p ro d u cer: David Bradbury Editor: Stew art Young Cinematography: Peter Levy, Richard Drechsler and others N arration: Richard Oxenburgh 58 minutes

A taut and exciting document o f one o f Australia’s greatest journalists. W ilfred Burchett is also its most controversial. For most o f his working life, spanning the great post-war conflicts o f capitalism versus communism, nationalism versus imperialism, Burchett chose to re po rt from the "o th e r side.” As a result he has been reviled by some as a traitor, and championed by others as a hero.

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THE SINGER AND THE DANCER Australia ( 1976) D ire c to r: Gillian A rm strong Producer: Richard Brennan Screenplay: Gillian A rm strong and John Pleffer, fro m a story by Alan Marshall Cinem atography: Russell Boyd Music: R o b ert Murphy Cast: Ruth C racknell, Elizabeth Crosby, John Frawley 51 minutes

W ith a concern fo r w om en’s issues which predated her hugely successful MY BRILLIANT CAREER, Gillian Arm strong employs a multitude o f trick shots and plot twists to develop a relationship between a self-pitying old woman and a fairly distraught and frequently cuckolded younger one, Both wom en dream o f transcendence through a rt but remain bound, in fact o r in memory, to the men in their lives.

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STIR Australia Director: Stephan W allace Producer: N e w South W ales Film C orp. Screenplay: Bobjewson Cinematography: G eoffrey Burton Cast: Bryan Brown, Dennis Miller, Michael G o w , M ax Phipps 10 0 minutes

Australia's violent Bathurst jail riots o f 1974 serve as the basis fo r this ferocious, actionfilled prison picture, directed w ith all stops out by Stephan Wallace. The versimilitude of atmosphere plus screenwriter Bob Jewson's experiences as a participant in the Bathurst riots, make Stir an unforgettable dramatic tragedy—cinematic outcries from an Australian Attica.

Short: THE FAT A N D THE LEAN, Roman Polanski, 1963, 15 min.

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GERMAN SPRING Austria/W . Germany/Switzerland Director: D ieter Berner Screenplay: Peter Turrini Cinematography: Michael Ballhaus Cast: Elisabeth Stepanck, Manfred Lukas-Luderer, Karl Kroepll 105 minutes German Spring deals w ith the spring o f 1938, when the Nazis invaded Austria, and

Austria capitulated w ith little o r no resistance. Director Berner focuses on the story o f a farmgirl, caught in the vise o f history as her country is assimilated into the Reich. The girl is in love w ith a boy w ho wants to become a Nazi, yet her b rother is a member o f the small, ineffective resistance movement. The tide o f history which ensnares them all leaves the girl w ith a rude political awakening.

Short: Z O O , B e rt Haanstra, 1962, 12 min.

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WOMAN RHYMES W ITH HUMAN (MENSCHENFRAUEN) Austria D irecto r: Valie Export Screenwriters: V . Export, P eter W eibel Cinematography: W olfgang Dickmann Cast: Renee Felden, M aria M artina, Susanne W id l, Christianne von A ster, Klaus W ildbo lz Producer: T o p Film, Vienna 116 minutes

Female helmer Valie Export, a student o f Resnais and Godard, does the Austrian feature film industry proud w ith this deftly-fashioned story about fo u r w om en w ho are all attached in some way to the same man. For a time, the relationships w ork, but in the end, the w om en revolt; each to pursue her ow n destiny. The film's strength and obvious visual impact m ark Valie E xport as a d irector to watch.

Short: ELLE

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GAIJIN—ROADS TO FREEDOM Brazil D irecto r: Tizuka Yamasaki Screenwriters: Jorge Duran, T . Yamasaki Cinematography: Edgar M oura Editors: L.A . Rodrigues, V e ra Freire Cast: Kyoko Tsukam oto, A n ton io Fagundes, Jiro Kawarasaki, Gianfresco G uarniere 105 minutes

This powerful and passionate adventure set in turn-of-the-century Brazil tells the story o f Japanese w orkers im ported to toil on the coffee plantations. One family searches fo r fortune and finds instead exploitation and pain in this unique look at the Japanese-Brazilian commnity that still exists today. The most beautiful and exotic film we have shown since M A X HAVELAAR. Highly praised at the Berlin and Cannes Film Festivals.

Short: ALL N O T H IN G , 19 8 0 A cadem y A w a rd nom inee

BRAZIL

CANADA

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SUMMER SHOWERS Brazil Director/Screenw riter: Carlos Diegues Cinematography: Jose M eteiros Editor: M air Tavares Cast: Jofre Soares, Rudolfo Arena, Christina Ache, Liuz Antonio 87 minutes

A street-scene type comedy w ith some hilarious twists, Summer Rain is an upbeat, lifeaffirming tale forwarding the theory that life begins at 65. A fte r a perfunctory retire ment party, old Alfonso looks forw ard to nothing in life but lolling around in his pyjamas watching the w orld go by. His expectations are quickly jarred during a long incident-filled weekend when he discovers his maid hiding her terrorist boyfriend, his son-in-law in drag, and his lust rekindled by a spinster down the street.

Short: UMBRELLA, 28 min.

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THE DREAM NEVER DIES Canada D irector/Producer: William Johnston Cinematography: Arm in M atter, N ick Stiliadis

93 min. The Dream N e v e r Dies follows Ken Read, Canada's 1980 W o rld Cup downhill skiing

hopeful, fro m mountain to mountain in his push fo r the top. Athletic prowess at its best is filmed, as are the brutal consequences o f e rro r at 80 miles an hour. Val d ’lsere, Val Gardena, Schladming, and Kitzbuhel flash by. A beautiful and exciting film that will be a special treat fo r all ski buffs.

Short: O LYM PIAD CO NCERTO

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FIGHTING BACK Canada Am erican Premiere Director/Producer: John Kastner 90 minutes Fighting Back will deeply affect you. You may be moved to tears, o r anger, o r

both—but you will be moved. The film is about four children. The four, ranging in age from 9 to 16, have leukemia. D irector John Kastner and his crew spent a year and a half getting to know the children, their parents, and the doctors. They filmed the children at play, at school, and in treatment. They interviewed the parents, and followed each case through h orro r and hope. It's pretty powerful stuff, but it could be no other way. It is a tribute to the heroism o f the children.

Short: TH E SOLAR FILM (U S A ), 28 min.

CANADA

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GOOD RIDDANCE (Les Bons Debarras) Canada Director: Francis MankiewiczScreenwriter: Rejean Ducharme Cinematography: Michel Brault Cast: Charlotte Laurier, M arie T ifo , Germain Houde, Roger Lebel 95 minutes

13-year-old Manon (Charlotte Laurier) Is a precocious, romantic child who lives with her impoverished, good-natured m other (Marie Tifo) and her m other's sloww itted brother in rural Quebec. Manon loves her m other so much that she wants her all to herself. She is a little monster, yet so beautiful and imaginative that she breaks your heart. Charlotte Laurier is the most mesmerizing child actress since Ana Torent (THE NEST, SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE); she takes us into a child's w orld o f terrible in nocence that is unforgettable. The best film to come out o f Canada in years.

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THE EARLY SPRING China Produced by the Peking Film Studio Early Spring takes place in the 1920's when China was riddled w ith corruption and

shrouded in darkness. The best friend o f a fallen revolutionary soldier returns to Lotus Town to suport his friend's w idow and family. But complications arise, and his good in tentions are misinterpreted by the small-minded townspeople. Seattle will be the first audience in America to see this film from China, through the courtesy o f the Chinese Consulate in San Francisco. An unusual chance to view glimpses o f life in the world's most populous and least known country.

Short: RAINBO W DANCE (G re a t Britain) Len Lye, 1936, 3 min.

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EL SALVADOR: EL PUEBLO VENCERA (The People Will Win) Costa Rica D irector/C inem atography: Diego de la T e x e ra Producer: Carlos Alvarez 78 minutes

Perhaps the most moving and powerful documentary to come o u t o f Latin America in m ore than a decade. Produced largely in Costa Rica by an all Latin crew, the film w on all the to p prizes at this year's 2nd Latin American Film Festival. M ore than an award winner, the film puts the view er in the middle o f the civil w a r in El Salvador and protrays the real causes o f the revolution in that nation. El Pueblo Vencera documents a real w ar at home will n o t soon forget.

w ith the vividness and striking visual dimension one

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FRANCE

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LOVE BETWEEN THE RAINDROPS Czechoslovakia D ire c to r: Karel Kachyna Screenwriters: Jan O tcenasek, Vladim ir Kalina Cinem atography: Jan C u rik Cast: Lukas Vaculik, Vladim ir Mensik, Jan Hrusinsky, T e re z a Pokorna, Rudolf Hrusinsky

A tender and poetic story o f dreams and memories, set in a m odern Garden o f Eden. The rom antic younger son o f a p oo r family and the girl he loves discover a deserted garden together, and come there to dream. The only condition o f their visits is th a t they must not touch the ripening grape vines. But when he introduces her to his w orldly elder brother, they pick a bunch o f grapes and are th ro w n o u t of the garden. T o d irector Kachyna the Garden o f Eden is the land o f dreams, destroyed by inevitable reality breaking in. Official Czechoslovakian e ntry fo r Best Foreign Film, 1980 Academy Awards

Short: Z O O , B e rt Haanstra, 1962, 12 min.

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LA DROLESSE France Director/S creenw riter: Jacques Doillon Cinematography: Yves Lafaye Cast: Claude H ebert, Madeleine Desdevises

90 min. La Drolesse is a chaste love story between a seventeen-year-old boy and an elevenyear-old girl that takes place within the confines o f a single room . Beautifully w ritten and acted, it avoids all the pitfalls o f its subject m atter and achieves realism - not naturalismwhile retaining a sense o f linear form —as rf made by a democratic Rohmer w ith its brilliant use o f verbal exchanges. A very special film. W inner o f the Prix Louis Delluc.

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LOULOU France D irector: Maurice Pialat Producer: Gaum ont Screenplay: A tle tte Langman, Maurice Pialat Cinematography: Pierre William Glenn, Jacques Loiseleux Editor: Yann D edet Cast: Isabelle, Huppert, G erard Depardieu Guy Marchand, Christian Boucher 110 minutes

N o t to be confused w ith Alban Berg s o r Louise Brook's LULU, Loulou is the nickname fo r Louis, a cheerfully unemployed leather-jacketed super-stud. Nelly (Huppert) is happi ly married to an advertising man, but her chance encounter w ith Loulou reveals possibilities o f sexual fulfillment o f which she has never dreamed. D irector Pialat makes us sympathize w ith all three characters: because he loves them, he makes us love them too. Short: TH E LOG DRIVERS W A L TZ (Canada)

FRANCE

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ONE WILD MOMENT France D irector: Claude Berri Screenplay: C . Berri Cinematography: Andre Neau Editor: Jaques W itta Cast: V ic to r Lanoux, Jean-Pierre M arielle, Christine D e fo u x , Anges Saral 85 minutes

Claude Berri has managed to veer between comedy and drama in this topsy-turvy tale o f the affair between a 17-year-old-girl and a 44-year-old man. T w o very good friends in their 40's go on a vacation w ith th e ir respective nubile daughters, and things start to go a little haywire when everyone wanders o ff on th e ir own. One o f the fathers ends up becoming involved w ith the o th e r o ne’s daughter, and this sets the scene fo r a confrontation which reflects the changing dynamics in m odern malefemale relationships and the generation gap, albeit in a serio-comic way. Short: TH E BELOVED (Canada)

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PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT France D irector: Philipe D e Broca Screenwriter: Michel Audiard Cinematography: Jean Paul Schwartz Music: G eorge Delerue Cast: Jean Rochefort, Annie G irardot, Nicole Garcia, Danielle Darrieux, Catherine Alric, Lila Kedrova 94 min.

Master o f light comedy De Broca (KING OF HEARTS, last year's INCORRIGIBLE) here fashions a slightly more biting film—the story o f a mature philanderer (|ean Rochefort), a suave concert pianist, w ho starts to run out o f women and finds himself alone. The film showcases a dazzling array o f French feminine acting talent.

Short: BREAKDOWNS OF

1936; stars flub th e ir lines in W a r n e r B rothers features

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A SECOND CHANCE France D irecto r: Claude Lelouch Producer/Screenw riter: C . Lelouch Music: Francis Lai Cast: Catherine D eneuve, An ouk Aim ee, Charles D enner, Francis Huster

Tw o great actresses, blonde Catherine Deneuve (THE LAST METRO) and brunette Anouk Aimee (A M A N A N D A W O M A N ) make this very French, very romantic film irresistible. Deneuve plays a woman released from prison after 15 years whose only aim is to find her unknown teenaged son. She doesn't dare tell him the truth, but tries to become friends—succeeding so well that the boy falls in love w ith her. However, Deneuve’s best friend (Aimee), a reformed kleptomaniac, is also attractive . . .and all may still w o rk out happily in this delicious love story. Directed by Claude Lelouch (A M A N A N D A W O M A N , HAPPY N E W YEAR, C A T A N D MOUSE). Short: MOODS OF TH E SEA (U S A ) Slavko Vo rkapich and John H o ffm a n , 19 4 2 , 10 min.

FRANCE

GERMANY

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SOUPCON France D irecto r/S creen w riter: Jean-Charles Tachella Producer: Roy Durham , Jeffie Pike Cast: Jean C a rm e t, M arie Dubois W in n e r, G rand Prize— M ontreal Film Festival 103 minutes

A buoyant comedy by the d irector o f COUSIN COUSINE, about a m ature couple w ho, at the celebration o f th e ir wedding anniversary, announce th e ir plans to separate, much to the consternaton o f their children. A fresh and entertaining story about people w ho happily make changes after many years o f habit and conditioning.

Short: TH E PEOPLE T H A T DW ELT APART

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BLACK AND WHITE LIKE DAY AND NIGHT Germany D irector: W olfgang Peterson Cinematography: Jorg-Michael Baldenius Cast: Bruno Ganz, Gila von Weiterhausen Ljobo Tadic, Rene Deltgen 103 minutes

This powerful, edge-of-your seat film tells the story o f a man victimized by and destroyed by his own obsession w ith competition and winning. A fte r a breakdown, a chess player returns to international competition, where nerves remain constantly as taut as steel cable. Bruno Ganz (THE AMERICAN FRIEND) brilliantly portrays the con trolled rage, and heated anguish, o f this competitive junky who invents a com puter to best the w orld champion. D irector Peterson (THE CONSEQUENCE) has created this psychological thriller in the best tradition o f the N ew German Cinema.

Short: LO TTE EISNER IN GERMANY (U S A ) S.M . H o ro w itz , 34 min.

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THE CHILDREN OF NUMBER 67 G ermany Directors/Screenplay: Usch Barthelmess-Weller, W e rn e r M eyer Producer: Road Movies Filmproduktion Cinematography: Jurgen Jurges Cast: Bernd Reidel, Rene Schaft, May Buschke, Elfriede Irrall, Tilo Pruckner, Marina Krauel 103 minutes

This searing drama presents an unblinking look at the ultimate loss o f innocence, in 1933 Germany, when an entire generation left the pleasures o f their playlots fo r the allure of the lockstep. The film follows the children w ho live in one building—saving up money to buy a football, throwing a party in the courtyard, doing chores fo r their families—as they transform into Hitler Youth. W hat a difference a year can make.

Short: LO TTE EISNER IN GERMANY (U S A ) S.M . H o ro w itz , 34 min.

GERMANY

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FABIAN Germany American Premiere Director: W o lf G rem m Screenwriters: G rem m , Hans Borgalt, from the book by Erich Kastner Cast: Hans-Peter Hallwachs, Herm ann Lause, Silvia Janisch, Brigitte Mira 116 minutes

An arresting p ortrait o f Germany in the 1920's, in the grip o f unemployment and moral decay—a nation sleepwalking into Naziism and war. This w orld is viewed through the eyes o f a young man who keeps seeing the injustices building up, but enjoys the freewheeling life that a rich friend and easy women bring his way. D irector Gremm, who makes his points subtly and w ith a serio-comic edge, is a new talent ready to take his place beside the other leaders o f the German N ew Wave, Fassbinder, Wenders, Herzog, and Hauff. Official German entry fo r Best Foreign Film, 1980 Academy Awards. Short: ALPHABET

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LENA RAIS W est Germany Director/Producer: Christian Rischert Scenario: Manfred G ru nert Cinematographer: G erard Vandenberg. Cast: Krista Stadler, Tilo Pruckner, Nikolaus Paryla, Kai Fischer 116 minutes

One o f the founders o f the N ew German cinema has crafted a very engaging film about a woman w ho silently revolts and prepares to make her own way in the w orld when she can no longer tolerate the possessive demands o f her husband. The film ’s unusual appeal stems from its accuracy and its humour, and a striking performance by Krista Stadler in the title role.

Short: ORFEO (Canada) C a ro line Leaf, 1971, 10 min.

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FAMILY LIFE G reat Britain D irector: Ken Loach Screenwriter; David M ercer Cast: Sandy A td iff, Bill Dean, G race Cave 108 minutes

Top British director Ken Loach (KES, BLACKJACK) has made a brilliant, totally honest film about a disturbed young woman struggling to create her own identity. She fights against parents obsessed w ith suburban conventions, unwilling to accept her desire fo r independence. Showing the influence o f R.D. Laing and at times recalling this year's ORDINARY PEOPLE, Family Life is a haunting film, tender, touching, and true.

Short: DINO SAU R (U S A ) W ill Vinton

GREAT BRITAIN

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PROSTITUTE G re a t Britain D ire c to r: T o n y G a rn e tt Scenario: T o n y G a rn e tt Cinem atography: Charles S tew art Cast: Eleanor Forsythe, Kath C rutchley, Kim Lockett, Nancy Samuels, Richard Mangan, Ann W h ita k e r, Paul Arlington 96 minutes

An English provincial girl, played touchingly by Eleanor Forsythe, attem pts to improve her lo t by moving up the protitu tion ladder. A second character, a social w o rk e r in te n t on changing the prostitution laws, encounters her and the tw o become friends. The w orld 's oldest profession is examined w ith candor and compassion, although G arnett pulls no punches and the film is quite sexually explicit. Described as "quietly powerful. . . w ith gritty integrity and believability” by critic Richard Whitehall, the film boasts a raft o f rich supporting roles, some played by non-professionals.

Short: ELLE

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SECOND STAR TO THE RIGHT G re a t Britain D ire c to r: Paul A n n ett Producer: Diane Baker S creenw riter: M arjorie Sigley Cast: Petula C lark, John Castle, Cathleen Nesbit, Evelyn Laye, Roland Culver 9 8 minutes

This enthralling film explores the no-man's-land between a child's fantasies and reality. Second Star tells the story o f a young girl sent to London to live w ith a new family after her parents separate. Together w ith the youngest son o f the new family, she discovers the Peter Pan legend. This sets the stage fo r a fairy-tale-come-true when a little old lady, aware o f the children's secret w orld , begins to leave notes fo r them on behalf o f Peter Pan. Producer Diane Baker will attend this screening. Short: THE GOLDEN FISH (France) Edmond Sechan, 1959, 21 min.

In addition to SECOND STAR TO THE RIGHT, Monday, May 25 only, we are presenting: MELODY G re a t Britain D ire c to r: W aris Hussein Producer: David Putnam S creenw riter: Allan Parker Cinem atography: P eter Suschitsky Music: T h e Bee Gees Cast: Jack W ild , M ark Lester, T racy Hyde 9 2 minutes

From the director o f ED W A R D A N D MRS. SIMPSON and THE POSSESION OF JOEL DELANEY, fro m the producer o f FAME and M ID N IG H T EXPRESS, w ritte n by the director o f FAME, M ID N IG H T EXPRESS, and BUGSY M ALO N E, photographed by the cinematographer o f THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK, and w ith a musical score by the Bee Gees, this wonderful little film w e n t virtually unseen in Am erica when it was first released in 1972. Pitting upper class against low er class, M elody tells the story o f tw o precocious 13-year-olds w ho are determined to m arry each oter, much to the consternation of all concerned. . . It was a film long before its tim e, and w e hope you take the oppor tunity to see this rare showing. Everyone fro m 8 to 80 will enjoy it. D ire cto r Waris Hussein will attend this screening.

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r a in in g in t h e m o u n t a in s Hong Kong Director: King Hu Producer: Lo & H u Co-production Cinematography: H enry Chan Cast: Hsu Feng, Sun Yueh 125 minutes

An adventure tale o f 15th Century China—all the most exciting elements are here: .A serene monastery, beautiful and heroic girls, a priceless scroll, courtly intrigues, and spectacular kung fu and martial arts scenes. King H u’s newest action epic is a brilliant successor to his V A LIA N T ONES and TO U C H OF ZEN. Full o f mime and acrobatics, the film manages to convey the metaphysics o f martial arts as well as their execution, and it boasts marvelous color camera w ork.

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A TOUCH OF ZEN Hong Kong D irector: King Hu Cinematography: Hua Hui-Ying Cast: Hsu Feng, Pai Ying, Roy Chiao Hung 180 minutes

The Everest o f kung-fu films: breathtakingly beautiful throughout, crammed w ith thrilling action, and culminating in a mind-blowing Zen mystical experience. Set in 14th century China, the film shows the heroic confrontation between the undaunted daughter o f a murdered loyalist father and the bloody rebel chief w ho is determined to kill her. Her eventual triumph over vastly superior forces is due to her martial arts mastery, learned as the disciple o f an invincible pacifist Zen monk. The acrobatic athleticism o f the fight sequences is everywhere juxtaposed against the quiet, austere beauty o f nature and the Zen world.

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LAND AND SONS Iceland Director/Screenplay: Agust Gudmundsson Producer: Jon Hermannsson Cinematography: Sigurdur Palsson Cast: Sigurdur Sigurjonsson, Jon Sigurbjomsson Gudny Ragnarsdottir 94 minutes

As the first movie from Iceland to receive international acdaim, Land and Sons represents a breakthrough fo r that country's fledgling film industry. The dash is classic: “ H o w ’re you gonna keep him down on the farm after he’s seen the big city?" The farmer must decide whether to leave the woman he loves, w ho refuses to abandon her home, and his land, which he and his ancestors have cultivated. Though recognized as an achievement fo r Iceland, this moving drama would have been a success w ith au diences and critics no m atter where its origins. Short: O N THE LAND, O N TH E SEA, IN TH E AIR (Netherlands) Paul Driessen

IN D IA

IRAN

ISRAEL

F R ID A Y , M A Y 29 7 :0 0 M

STEPHEN India Director/S creenw riter: G . Aravindan Cinematography: Shagi Cast: Rajan Kakkanddan, Father Francis David, Balakrishnan N air, Ganesan Malayalam language 93 min.

Among Christian fishing folk in West-coast Kerala, an eccentric and mysterious man call ed Esthappan is seen in various forms which he assumes: prophet, healer, thief, and charlatan. This film has been declared the finest o f the current crop o f Indian films.

Short: TH E G O LDEN FISH (France) Edmond Sechan, 1959, 21 min.

T H U R S D A Y , M A Y 14 7 :0 0 M

DEAD END Iran D irecto r/P ro d u cer/S cree n w riter: Parviz Sayyad Cinem atography: Hooshang Bahrlou Music: Imami Cast: M ary Apick, Parviz-Bahador, A . Yousefian 8 2 min.

Mary Apick, w ho won the Best Actress Aw ard at the Moscow Film Festival fo r her per formance, stars as a young girl who becomes fascinated by a handsome, enigmatic stranger w ho is following her in this w o rk o f romantic suspense and intrigue.

Short: TRAVEL LOG

T U E S D A Y , M A Y 19 7 :0 0 E

THE THIN LINE Israel Director/Scenario: Michel Bat-Adam Producers: Avi Kleinberger, Gideon A m ir Cinematography: Nu rith Aviv Cast: Gila Alm agor, A lex Peleg, Liat Pansky 93 min.

They are ordinary people facing extraordinary challenges. The mother, father and daughter must cope w ith the mother's mental illness, but the only one w ho really understands is the 10-year-old. D irector Bat-Adam (EACH OTHER, Fifth Seattle Film Fest) has made a remarkable and affecting film about a family suddenly forced to spend its life on the thin line.

Short: HAPPY ANNIVERSARY (France) Pierre Etaix, 1961, 13 min.

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BELLISSIMA (THE MOST BEAUTIFUL) Italy (1951) Director: Luchino Visconti Cast: Anna Magnani, W a lte r Chiari 90 minutes

Arina Magnani gives a tour-de-force performance as a would-be stage mother, whose persistence and sacrifice come to little in a w orld indifferent to her instinctive desire to nourish and protect her child. This is a rare find, and a very special showing o f Luchino Visconti's lost film. (See also OSSESSIONE.)

Short: ARTHUR A N D LILLIE (U S A ) Academ y A w a rd nom inee, 30 min.

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IMMACOLATA AND CONCETTA Italy Director: Salvatore Piscicelli Screenwriters: Piscicelli, Carla Apuzzo Cinematography: Emilio Bestetti Cast: Ida di Benedetto, Marcella Michelangeli, Tom m aso Bianco

92 min. The daring and compassionate story o f tw o lower-class women w ho fall in love while they are cellmates in prison. The frankness o f the love-making scenes between the women has an honest eroticism that is almost shocking, and far away from the hard core. A fte r their release they continue living together, braving the violent reactions o f their rigidly conservative community and Immacolata's jealous husband. Filmed on loca tion in a small tow n outside Naples by film critic turned director Piscicelli.

Short: ORFEO (Canada) C a ro line Leaf, 1971, 10 min.

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AN ITALIAN WOMAN Italy Director: Giuseppe Bertolucci Producer: Fiction Films Cast: Mariangela M elato, Bruno Ganz, Renato Salvatori 110 minutes

Although he co-scripted LAST T A N G O , 1900, and LU N A, Giuseppe Bertolucci makes very different films from those o f his brother Bernardo. An Italian W om an is about a woman in flight from her husband, lover, and family. Marta (Mariangelo Melato) spends a day in the Milan railway station—a metropolitan microcosm o f everything she has been protected from. There she meets a man w ho leads her into a w orld she has never known, and from which she begins to gain a degree o f painful self-knowledge. Director Giuseppe Bertolucci will be on hand to introduce the film.

Short: P IX ILL A TIO N

ITA LY

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THE LADY W ITHOUT CAM ELIAS Italy D irector: Michelangelo Antonioni Cast: Lucia Boze, Gino Cervi 10 6 minutes

From the brilliant director o f L 'A W E N T U R A , THE RED DESERT, BLOW-UP, and THE PASSENGER, a lost masterpiece from 1953 has emerged; this is a very rare show ing. A young salesgirl is "discovered" by a film producer in a dress shop where she works. Their first feature together is a resounding commercial success, but her subse quent offers are only fo r sexpot roles. They marry and he tries to advance her career w ith a lavish production o f "Joan o f A rc .” The film's failure drives her to desperation and him to suicide. H er attempts to find a new lover and a renewed career are to no avail, leaving her w ith neither a rt nor love.

Short: BREAKDOWNS OF 1937; stars flub th e ir lines in W a r n e r B rothers features

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LEAP INTO THE VOID Italy D irector: M arco Bellocchio Screenplay: M . Bellocchio, Piero Natoli Cinematography: Beppe Land Cast: A nouk A im ee, Michel Piccoli, Michele Plácido 120 minutes

A nother full-bodied melodrama by Bellocchio, enfant terrible o f the Italian cinema ever since his startling debut in 1965 w ith FISTS IN THE POCKET. The film tells the story of a middle-aged couple, brother and sister, w ho have locked themselves away in the memory-filled home o f their childhood. He has become a neurotic judge, she a somewhat batty housekeeper. The resulting story is a kind o f wacky Greek melodrama w ith tw o bravura performances. Leap Into T h e Void should do fo r Anouk Aimee what T W O W O M E N did fo r Sophia Loren. Winner: Prize Rizzoli—Best Italian Film o f 1980 Italian Oscar (Donatello)—Best D irector Golden Palm (Cannes Festival)—Best A ctor—Michel Piccoli Best Actress—Anouk Aimee Official Italian Selection fo r Academy Aw ard—Best Foreign Film S hort: ALPHABET

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LITTLE ARCHIMEDES Italy Director/S creenw riter: Gianni Am elio Cast: John Steiner, Laura Betti, Aldo Salvi, Shirley Corrigan 85 minutes

A charming version o f an Aldous Huxley story about an English expatriate living in Italy in the 1930's w ho befriends an extraordinary peasant boy whose musical and mathematical talents mark him as somewhat astounding.

Short: UBU

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OSSESSIONE Italy D irector: Luchino Visconti Cast: C lara Calm ai, Massimo G iro tti 1942 135 min.

The original version (1942) o f James M. Cain's THE POSTMAN ALW AYS RINGS TWICE, kept out o f circulation in the U.S. fo r a generation because o f the glossy Lana Turner-John Garfield version (1946). Ossessione is a compelling story o f sexual obses sion and murder. It is the first film directed by the great Luchino Visconti (DEATH IN VENICE, THE IN NOCENT), and the film that started the Italian neo-realist movement. A fascinating comparison to the recent jack Nicholson-Jessica Lange version.

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STORY W ITHOUT WORDS Italy D irector: Biagio Proietti Screenplay: B. Proietti, Diana Crispo Cinematography: Alfio Contini Cast: Elizabeth Long, Lino Troisi, Lorraine D e Selle, Dario Mazzoli

59 min. Director Biagio Proietti eliminates dialogue altogether in this unusual, expressively photographed thriller about a love affair that explodes into a crime o f passion and violence.

Short: SHE (N etherlands), M atthijs van Heyningen, photographed by Jan de B ont, 28 min.

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REGGAE SUNSPLASH Jamaica Director: Stephan Paul Cinematographer: Hans Schalk, Rainer Heinzelmann, Peter Rees Features: Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Third W o rld , Burning Spear, and others 107 minutes

Come rock along w ith Jamaica’s best reggae bands. Filmed last year at a huge outdoor concert in Montego Bay, this exceptional documentary follows in the footsteps o f ROCKERS and THE HARDER THEY COME as a celebration o f the culture, the spirit, the hypnotic power, and the all-out-fun o f reggae music. D irector Stefan Paul focuses on the concert scenes, but also cuts away to illustrate the roots o f reggae in the Rastafarian religion and Jamaican culture. The superb sound recording gives audiences a you-are-there sense o f excitement.

Short: BASKETBALL JONES

JAPAN

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HIMIKO Japan D ire c to r: Masahiro Shinoda Screenplay: T ae k o Tam ioka Cinem atography: Talsuo Suzuki Music: T o r u Takeniitsu Cast; Shima iwashita, Maseo Kusakari, Rentaro Mikuni 10 0 minutes

Him iko is a stylized a tte m p t to evoke Japan in the second century that envisions vividly the dawning o f Japan’s system o f religious and political ideology. Telling a story o f star-crossed lovers, the prophetess Himiko and her half-brother Takehiko, and the ramifications o f th e ir relationship oh the domain o f the sun god, d irector Shinoda depicts the laying o f the foundation o f em peror worship in a film o f stark, bizarre im ages and tragic conflicts.

Short: RAINBO W DANCE (G re a t Britain) Len Lye, 1936, 3 min.

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THE IDIOT Japan D ire c to r: A k ira Kurosawa Cast: Toshiro M ifune, Masayuki M o ri, Setsuko H ara, Yoshiko Kuga 1951 166 minutes

For those w ho recently enjoyed KAGEMUSHA, w e present a striking rarity by the master, Akira Kurosawa. Transposing Dostoyevsky's tale o f madness and jealousy to post-war Japan and setting it among raging blizzards and claustrophobic, madly-lit interiors, Kurosawa fashions an expressionistic vision o f passion—and, by the end, a heartbreaking plea fo r simplicity and goodness. Masayuki Mori plays the holy fool, Toshiro Mifune is the demented ruffian mysteriously attracted to him, and Setsuko Hara (heroine o f many Ozu films) is the passionate woman loved by both. (1951)

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LOVE AND FAITH Japan D irector: Kei Kumai Screenwriter: Yoshitaka Y orita Cinematography: K ozo Okazaki Cast: Ryoko Nakano, Takashi Shimura, Toshiro Mifune, Kichiemon Nakam ura 150 minutes

A splendiferous period tragedy (set in 1585) in a strong traditional style that only underlines its contemporary feminist sensibility. D irector Kei Kumai's 1978 Oscarnominated S A N D A K A N 8 was the film most deeply sympathetic to and understanding o f w om en in recent Japanese cinema. This, his latest film, tells the story o f a beautiful young woman w ho abruptly loses status and is therefore prevented from marrying the man she loves. Long-time Kurosawa stars Toshiro Mifune and Takashi Shimura co-star, the latter in his first major role since IKIRU. Mifune plays a fierce samurai w arlord who desires the heroine, and Shimura plays her stepfather, the country's greatest master of the tea ceremony. Love and Faith is a film o f timeless impact and beauty.

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NETHERLANDS

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LOVE SUICIDE AT SONZAKI Japan D ire c to r: Yasuzo Masumura Producer: T o h o Film Cast: M eiko Kaji, Tatsudo U zaki, Hisashi Igawa 113 minutes

The film is based on an historic incident o f 1703; w hat emerges on screen is a classic Japanese style o f pictorial close-ups, sensual tension, and artistic scene composition. This film portrays the hapless victims o f a transitional period o f the mercantile class that to o k over fro m the old Samurai w arriors, and the resultant conflicts o f obliga tion, gratitude, and justice.

Short: AFTER LIFE (Canada) Ishu Patel

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CHARLOTTE G erm any/N etherlands Am erican Prem iere D ire c to r: Frans W eisz Producer: A r tu r Brauner Screenwriters: Judith H erzb erg, F. W eisz Cinem atography: T h e o van de Sande, Jerzy Lipman Cast: Birgit D o ll, D e re k Jacobi, Elisabeth Trissenaar, M ax C roiset

93 min. C h arlo tte is adapted from an extraordinary 'autobiography, ’ a gifted Jewish girl’s

dramatized story o f her doomed Berlin family from 1913— 40. The girl is Charlotte Salomon, born in Berlin in 1917, killed in Auschwitz in 1943. The film is neither about war, nor about the death camps. It is simply the fictionalized story o f a haunted family, and a young girl’s great love for her Svengali, a voice teacher with Faustian ambitions. Vivid and moving, it brings to life the thoughts and talents o f a young victim o f the war. ’’ Jules Farber, International H erald Tribune.

It is also, quite simply put, one o f the m o st sumptuously photographed films you're likely to see in this year’s festival. Short: AFTER LIFE (Canada) Ishu Patel

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FLIGHT OF THE RAINBIRDS Netherlands American Premiere Director/Screenw riter: A te de Jong Cinematographer: Paul Van den Bos Editor: Edgar Burcksen Music: Laurens van Rooyen Producer: Matthijs van Heyningen Cast: Jeroen Krabbe, Marijke Merckens 96 minutes

Martin, a 34-year-old cell biologist obsessed w ith trying to create life w ithout sex (via cloning) has a strange dream: that he has only seven more days to live if he doesn't find a woman by then. A t first he ignores the dream, but significant accidents make him pay attention. W ith the help o f his alter ego w ho eggs him on, Martin at last reaches his goal

fo r the all-time high attendance fo r a Dutch film, surpassing such hits as TURKISH

after a dramatic and comic struggle. Jeroen Krabbe (the dashing co-star o f SOLDIER OF

DELIGHT and SOLDIER OF ORANGE. Because o f Seattle’s renowned reputation as

ORANGE) is absolutely brilliant as the many-layered, adorable Martin, and Rainbirds is distinguished by the youngest director in Holland, A te de Jong, w ho is 27. Flight o f the

the Dutch film capital o f the world, we w ere given the honor o f presenting this very special movie. D on ’t miss it!

Rainbirds was first released in Holland in early February, and has already set a record

D irector A te de Jong and star Jeroen Krabbe will be in attendance fo r these screenings.

NETHERLANDS

NEW ZEA LA N D

PHILIPPINES

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SPLITTING UP Netherlands D irecto r/S creen w riter: H erm an van Veen C inem atography: R aif Baumans Editors: Edgar Burcksen, Hans van Beek Music: Erik van d er W u rff Producer: jo o s t Tavem e C ast: H erm an van V een, M onique van de V en, M arious Fluitsma D o lby S tereo — 9 2 m inutes

This very personal, sensitive film marks a departure from the usual narrative style o f filmmaking. It is m ore like a concert, a poem told in flashbacks. The star, w riter-director Herman van Veen, is in fact the most popular singer/entertainer in the Netherlands, and he has been justly compared to Jacques Brel and Charles Aznavour. The film is about a famous singer w ho is not only losing touch w ith himself, but w ith everything else around him, induding his attractive wife (Monique van de Ven, the beautiful and ver satile star o f TURKISH DELIGHT, C A TH Y TIPPEL, and A W O M A N LIKE EVE). Trap ped in his fear and fantasies he floats through life, unresponsive to everything, except when he performs on stage. A lyrical ballad, a love song, a most unusual film that more than amply rewards the audience it challenges. Superb photograhy, beautiful perfor

Short: SHE (N etherlands), M atthijs van Heyningen, photographed by Jan de Bont, 28 min.

mances,and music that will haunt you fo r days to come. The first non-English language film recorded in Dolby Stereo.

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SQUEEZE N ew Zealand Director/Producer/Screenplay: Richard Turner Cinematography: Ian Paul Cast: Robert Shannon, Paul Eady, Donna Akersten, Peter Heperi 80 minutes H e’s straight by day, gay by night. Squeeze examines the cultural rules that have shaped his decision to lead a double life. Inevitably his tw o worlds conflict, and he must choose between his fiancee and his after-dark lover, between a socially sanctioned life in the business w orld and unknown existence in the bar scene. Sometimes violent and often funny, Squeeze bravely confronts an often ignored segment o f society, the gays who try and play it straight.

S hort: LEGACY (USA) W ill V inton

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MANILA: IN THE CLAWS OF DARKNESS Philippines D ire cto r: Lino Brocka Screenwriter: Clodualdo del Mundo, Jr. Cinematography: Michael De Leon Cast: Rafael Roco, Hilda Koronel, Lily Gamboa, Tom m y Abuel 124 minutes A tender Romeo and Juliet story. Julio, a youth from the country, comes to Manila in search o f his lost sweetheart Ligaya, a virginally beautiful girl. She has disappeared into the darkness and degradation o f the city, an evil force that threatens to swallow Julio too. A compassionate neo-realist p ortrait o f the penniless urban poor.

PO LAND

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THE CAMERA BUFF Poland Director/Screenplay: K rzysztof Kieslowski Cinem atography: Jacek Petrycki Editor: Halina N a w ro ck a Cast: Jerzy Stuhr, M algorzata Zabkow ski, Ewa Pokas 117 minutes

Aw arded the Grand Prize at the 1979 Moscow Film Festival, this film w ould seem to be a rather ironic choice fo r the honour because o f its implications about filmmaking in a socialist state. W he th e r seen as the story o f one film m aker’s birth o r as the moral fable o f how even an innocently conceived documentary can have less inno cent repercussions, C am era Buff is a remarkably charming and w ryly hum ourous' film.

Short: THE H O BO JUNGLE

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THE CHANCE Poland D irector/Screenw riter: Feliks Falk Cinematography: Edward Klosinsky Editing: Miroslawa Garlicka Cast: Krzysztof Zaleski, Jerzy Stuhr, Tom asz Zieciowski

94 min. The setting fo r Feliks Falk's Chance is in a provincial school, where tw o teachers—representing tw o kinds o f society, authoritarian and humanistic—vie fo r the allegiance o f a talented student, but everyone loses when the student takes his own life. The implications about life in Poland today are evident.

Short: TH E G R ANDM O THER (U S A ) David Lynch, 34 min.

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THE CONSTANT FACTOR Poland Director/Screenw riter: Krzysztof Zanussi Cinematography: Slawomir Idziak Editor: W ieslawa Dembinska Cast: Tadeusz Bradecki, Zofia M orzowska, Malgorzata Zajaczowska, C ezary Morawaski 9 2 minutes

One o f the most highly praised films o f the extraordinary new Polish cinema, The Constant Factor is about corruption in high places and its effect on the idealistic young.

A young man lands a choice job, through well placed connections, that takes him travell ing to trade shows throughout the w orld. But when he objects to the shady currency dealings o f his boss, he ends up in a state w o rk crew washing windows. Like Zanussi's earlier w o rk (ILLUM INATIO N , CAMOUFLAGE) this film is governed by the ironic inter-relationships between on the one hand purity and ideals, and on the other corrup tion and reality. Short: BOOOM!

PO LAND

RUM ANIA

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OLYMPICS 1940 Poland D irector: Andrzej Kotkowski Producer: Polish C orporation Scenario: Andrzej Kotkowsky, Michal Kom ar Cinematography: W ito ld Adam ek Cast: Mariusz Benoit, Jery Boncrak, Tadeusz Galia

103 min. In 1940, four years after the games w ere held in Berlin, the Olympic Torch did not burn over Tokyo. But some Europeans in a Nazi P O W camp, in an act o f courage against all odds, staged their own Olympics. This stirring tale is, given Poland's present political situation, and given the state o f the 1980 Olympics, an especially brave and timely w ork o f art, rooted in an indomitable spirit o f pride. Official entry in the Academy foreign language film award.

Short: THE FAT A N D THE LEAN, Roman Polanski, 1963, 15 min.

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PROVINCIAL ACTORS Poland Direction: Agnieszka Holland Screenwriters: W ito ld Zatorski, A . Holland Cinematography: Jacek Petrycki Editing: Halina Naw rocka Cast: Tadeusz Huk, Halina Labonarska, Jan Ciecierski 10 8 minutes

Agnieszka Holland, protege o f the great Andrzej Wajda (and scriptwriter o f W ajda’s ROUGH TREATMENT), is emerging as one o f the most im portant o f the new East European film directors. H er concerns in this film echo those o f the other current Polish filmmakers: the dash o f personal ambition and principles. A shallow big-city opportunist comes to direct a play w ith a small-town theater company. The hero o f the film, a young idealistic actor, finds himself compromising his feelings and his performance in his lust fo r success, but his rebellion comes to o late to salvage the love he has lost in the process.

Short: CO LOUR B O X (G re a t Britain) Len Lye, 1935, 3 min.

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ANASTASIA PASSED BY Romania D irector: Alexandru Tatos Screenwriter: D .R . Popescu Cinematography: Florin Mihailescu Cast: Am za Pellea, T a rr Laszlo, Biro Levente 100 min.

Drawing on the myth o f Antigone, screenwriter D.R. Popescu has adapted his own novella fo r the screen in this film set in a Danubian village occupied by the Nazis. A young schoolteacher defies a German edict not to bury the corpse o f a Serbian partisan left as a warning in the middle o f the main square; in the process, she asserts the dignity o f her countrymen at the cost o f her own life. D irector Tatos has created a very topical, relevant film in which he is criticizing any brutal pow er which humiliates and degrades mankind.

Short: MR. PASCAL (G re a t Britain), Alison V e re

SC O TLA N D

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THE HAUNTING OF M Scotland D ire c to r/W rite r: Anna Thomas Producer: Triangle Films Cinematography: G regory Nava Cast: Sheelagh Gilbey, Nini Pitt, Evie G arratt 98 minutes

This first featurfe by Anna Thomas is the story o f a haunting, and o f tw o sisters w ho re spond differently to the past. Shot entirely on location in Scotland, at Kellie Castle, the film is at once a Gothic thriller and an elegant psychological portrayal. Made by the same team who produced the elegant, and much-praised, CONFESSIONS OF AMANS.

Short: ALL N O T H IN G , 1980 A cadem y A w a rd nom inee

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THE NEST Spain D irector/Screenw riter: Jaime de Arminan Cinematography: T e o Escamilla Cast: Ana T o rre n t, H e c to r A lterio, Luis Politti, Patricia Adriani 108 min.

This meticulously crafted and fascinating film tells the story o f a wealthy gentleman whose isolated existence is disrupted by the arrival o f a 13-year-old girl, brilliantly played by Ana T o rre nt (child star o f CRIA, and SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE). The girl's seductive beauty and diabolical machinations allow her to take control o f the man's life. Academy Aw ard N om in ee -B e st Foreign Film.

T H U R S D A Y , M A Y 7 7 :0 0 E

FARO DOCUMENT 1979 Sweden Director/Producer/Scenario: Ingmar Bergman Cinematography: A rne Carlsson 103 minutes

Ingmar Bergman spent three years completing this tribute to the island he has called home since the early 60's. A documentary, Bergman's newest film is a sequel o f sorts to THE FARO DO C UM EN T, his 1969 feature examining the island's people. TH R O U G H A GLASS DARKLY and PERSONA are only tw o o f Bergman's movies to have been inspired by Faro, and to have been filmed there. A must-see fo r everyone who appreciates the cinematic genius o f one o f the w orld's greatest filmmakers.

Short: THE H O BO JUNGLE

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W E D N E S D A Y . M A Y 20 7 :0 0 M

THE LITTLE ESCAPES Switzerland D irector: Yves Yersin Screenplay: Claude M uret, Yves Yersin Cinematography: Robert Alasraki Cast: Michel Robin, Fabienne Baraud, Laurent Sandoz, Mista Prechac, Fred Personne

Inspired by a true story, w riter-director Yves Yersin's first feature is an extremely touching and humorous fable o f an eccentric old man's quest fo r personal freedom and the resulting influence on his neighbors w ho oppose his individuality.

T H U R S D A Y . M A Y 14 7 :0 0 E

MESSIDOR Switzerland D irecto r/S creen w riter: Alain Tanner Cinem atography: Renato Berta Cast: Clem entine Am oureux, Catherine R etore 120 min.

A visually magnetic road movie filled w ith ironic w it. T w o girls hitch-hiking through pro sperous, beautiful, orderly Switzerland play games o f survival after their money runs out, eventually stealing and becoming fugitives from the police. Their odyssey is both aimless and obsessive, raising random chance to a religion. The symbolic title is the name o f the harvest month in the French Revolutionary calendar. The most recent film by major director Alain Tanner (|O N A H W H O W ILL BE 25 IN THE YEAR 2000, THE MIDDLE OF THE W O RLD , THE SALAMANDER).

T H U R S D A Y , M A Y 7 9 :3 0 M

THE STORY OF A SMALL TOWN Taiwan D irector: Li Hsing Screenplay: Chang Yung-hsiang Cinematography: C h ’en K ’un-hou Cast: Chung Chen-t’ao, Lin Feng-chiao, Chiang Ming, Li Lieh 97 minutes

An eloquent tribute to the virtues o f small-town life and the pursuit o f traditional skills, this impressive w o rk by Taiwan's forem ost director tells the story o f a young man released from prison in hopes o f returning to a normal life. While apprenticing as a woodcarver, he becomes involved w ith the boss' daughter, and almost imperceptibly the circumstances o f his original crime begin to repeat themselves.

Short: DINO SAU R (U S A ) W ill Vinton

TURKEY

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HAZAL D irector: Ali O zgenturk Screenplay: A . O zgenturk, O n a t Kudar Cinematography: Muzzafer Turan Music: Zulfu Livaneli Cast: Turkan Soray, Talat Bulut, Meral Ctinkaya

90 min. A poignant and compelling love story set within the broader theme o f the conflict o f the old ways versus the new in a rem ote village in eastern Anatolia. The beautiful Hazal is wedded to her late fiancee's brother, the 11 -year-old O m er. Custom has decreed the marriage, and it is custom that will suffer if a new road is built through the ancient village.

Short: TRAVEL LOG

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OBLOMOV USSR D irector: Nikita Mikhalkov Screenwriters: Aleksandr Adabashyan Cinematography: Pavel Lebeshev Cast: O leg Tabakov, Elena Solovei, Andrei Popov 140 minutes

This magical film, adapted from a great 19th-century Russian comic novel and directed by Nikita Mikhalkov (A SLAVE OF LOVE), has is its hero a man w ho wouldn’t get out o f bed if the sheets w ere on fire. O blom ov is a mythic figure—like Hamlet o r Chaplin's Tramp—indeed his name has come to symbolize lethargy and inertia in Russia. When a friend sets out to change Oblomov's ways and arranges fo r him a new healthy regimen, it leads to romance in a comedy o f missed connections. Elena Solovei, so memorable as the doomed heroine in A SLAVE OF LOVE, turns in a marvelous performance as Olga, as does Oleg Tabakov in the title role.

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QUEEN OF THE GYPSIES USSR D irecto r/S creen w riter: Emil Loteaunu Cinem atography: Sergei Vronsky From a story be M axim G o rk y Cast: G rigory G rigoriou, Svetlana T o m a, Boris Mulaev 10 2 minutes

The Moldavian legend o f the daring Gypsy horse thief Loiko Z o b a r and the proud Ftedda is the basis fo r this colorful, energetic, and highly romantic feature by one o f the m ost talented directors in Soviet cinema. Music and Gypsy dances punctuate the action in this romantic tragedy about tw o doom ed lovers w ho are destroyed by their mutual need fo r freedom . Grand Prize W inner, San Sebastian Film Festival. Dialogue partly in English and partly in Polish.

Short: HAPPY ANNIVERSARY (France) Pierre Etaix, 1961, 13 min.

USSR

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THE WILD HUNTING OF KING STAKH USSR D irector: Valeri Roubinchik Scenario: Vladimir Korotkevitch Cinematography: Tatiana Loguinova Cast: Boris Plotnikov, Elena Dim itrova Boris Khmelnitsky, Valentina Chendrikova 135 minutes

This spooky thriller already ranks as one o f the best Russian films in years. W hen a vengeful ancestor returns from the grave to kill a castle's occupants, all hell breaks loose. The script o f this eerie tale clips along w ith juggernaut intensity, while the score sets an appropriately ghostly mood. Superb technical achievements and nonstop thrills mark this film as a must-see.

M O N D A Y , M A Y 18 7 :0 0 E

AGEE USA D irector: Ross Spears Cinematography: Anthony Forma Music: Kenton C o e Features: John Huston, James and Mia Agee, W a lk e r Evans, R obert Fitzgerald, fo rm e r President Jimmy C a rte r 88 minutes

Five years in the making, Agee chronicles in vivid, dramatic, and often humourous terms the unfolding o f a life dedicated to the w ritten w ord. Perhaps the most versatile American w rite r this century, James Agee was a novelist, short story w riter, film critic, poet and screenwriter. His novel ‘Death in the Family' w on the Pulitzer Prize; his 'Let Us N o w Praise Famous Men’ is considered an American masterpiece; and his screenplay THE AFRICAN QUEEN has been loved by millions.

Short: A R TH U R A N D LILLIE (U S A ) A cadem y A w a rd nom inee, 30 min.

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ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT D irector: Lewis Milestone Cast: Lew Ayres, Louis W olheim , Slim Summerville 14 0 minutes

A haunting masterpiece, once seen, never forgotten. W e are proud to present the full, uncut Road Show version in 35mm, unseen fo r half a century and more than 30 minutes longer than any o f the copies exhibited since 1930. The film that was regarded as the most powerful and eloquent anti-war statement ever produced by Hollywood came in the middle o f a rash o f W orld W a r I “ spectaculars" and has outlived them all, influencing such modern directors as Stanley Kubrick and Francis Coppola.

USA

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ATLANTIC CITY USA D irecto r: Louis Malle Screenw riter: John G uare Producer: Denis H e ro u x Cinematography: Richard Ciupka Editor: Susanne Baron Cast: Burt Lancaster, Susan Sarandon, Michel Piccoli, Hollis McLaren 105 minutes

Burt Lancaster and Susan Sarandon star in Louis Malle's film o f an aging—o r is he?—man, and the young woman he manipulates, set against the backdrop o f Atlan tic City, the new gambling capital o f the East coast. Suspense, romance, and strong performances enhance Malle’s dissection o f American culture today. Grand Prize W inner at the Venice Film Festival.

Short: LEGACY (U S A ) W ill V inton

S U N D A Y , M A Y 10 7 :0 0 M

THE BEATS USA D irector: Philomene Long Producer: Jay D . Kugelman 40 minutes The Beats— An Existential Com edy is a gem o f a movie that captures the magic o f the

'beat generation' and their continuing legacy. The film moves back and forth between the present and the 50’s, providing filmed encounters w ith poets Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, jack Hirschman, Aya, and Frank Rios, filmmaker Shirley Clarke and A n dy Warhol superstar Viva that show the role that these artistic, iconoclastic to rchbearers played in liberating American life and art from the stifling conventionality o f the day.

S A T U R D A Y . M A Y 30 9 :3 0 M

CUTTER’S WAY USA D irecto r: Ivan Passer Producer: Paul R. Gurian Screenw riter: Jeffrey Allan Fiskin, fro m the novel C u tte r a n d R o n e by N e w to n Thornburg Cinem atography: Jordan C ron enw ath Music; Jack N itzche Cast: Jeff Bridges, John H eard, Lisa Eichhorn

Like a C H IN A T O W N o f the '80's, C u tte r ’s W a y takes its hauntingly beautiful, yet twisted m ood fro m the contradictory lotus land atmosphere o f Southern California—in this case the dreamy Santa Barbara public life o f street fiestas and posh lawn parties set against its seamy underbelly o f lust and corruption. Thrust into unravelling the mystery o f a perverse killing are an unlikely young trio : an em bittered and brilliantly verbose Vietnam amputee, his beautifully bitchy alcoholic wife, and an aimless California golden boy-gigolo w ho accidentally witnesses the dumping o f a

excellence is heightened by seductive cam erawork by the cinematographer o f

teenage m urder victim. The film has everything going fo r it: a dazzling screenplay

ALTERED STATES. C u tte r ’s W a y is, quite simply, the best new American film

w ith perfectly on-target dialogue, three superb performances, and a strong director

around.

who, like Polanski, brings a fresh European feel to a distinctively American milieu. Its

Short: T O M W AITS FOR N O ONE

T H U R S D A Y , M A Y 28 7 :0 0 M

THE DARK END OF THE STREET USA Director/S creenw riter: Jan Eagleson Producer: Diane K. M iller Cinematography: D ’A rcy Marsh Cast: Laura Harrington, Lance Hendriksen, Henry Tomaszewski, Michelle G reen, Pamela Payton-W right 88 minutes

This independent feature by Jan Eagleson, director o f the highly acclaimed BILLY IN THE LO W LAN DS, is a taut drama on social themes that examines the uncertainty and fear o f a white couple in a racially mixed housing project w ho witness the death o f a black youth. The script contains the kind o f realistic street-wise dialogue that made RETURN OF THE SECAUCUS 7 ring so true.

Short: TH E G R A N D M O TH E R (U S A ) David Lynch. 34 min.

M O N D A Y , M A Y 4 7 :0 0 E T U E S D A Y , M A Y 5 9 :3 0 M

EIGHT MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT USA D ire c to r: M ary Benjamin Cam era: Boyd Estus 60 minutes

“ / view nuclear weapons and nuclear power as the greatest public health hazard the world has ever known. ” An inspiring film about a remarkable and fascinating pediatrician w ho has com m itted her life to alerting us to the medical dangers o f the nuclear threat. Eight Minutes to Midnight is an hour long docum entary on anti-nuclear activist D r. Helen Caldicott.

The title hints at a thriller as tense as THE C H IN A SYNDROME, and it isn’t misleading. Caldicott is a leading e xpe rt on the effects o f radiation poisoning and, as a m o th e r o f tw o adolescents and as a humanist, is terrified and determined to spread her fearful awareness. A shy and unassuming speaker, she does n o t seek the limelight; rather, she speaks o u t because, quite simply, she knows to o much. Unabashedly subjective, the w o rk is as insightful as it is passionate, and as informative as it is partisan.

F R ID A Y , M A Y 2 2 9 :3 0 E

EL SALVADOR: THE SEEDS OF LIBERTY USA Producer: Glenn Silber Associate producer: T e te Vasconcellos Cinem atography: T o m Sigel 28 minutes

This short docum entary on El Salvador, “ another Vietnam?” by the film m aker o f THE W A R A T HOME, places special focus on the role o f the church and deaths o f the American Church w om en as its point o f departure. D ire cto r Glenn Silber will introduce the program.

USA

S U N D A Y , M A Y 10 7 :0 0 M

FRIED SHOES, COOKED DIAMONDS USA D irector: Constanzo Allione Featuring: Allen Ginsberg, G regory Corso, Anne Waldman, William Burroughs, LeRoi Jones, Dianne di Prima, Peter Orlovsky, Miguel Pinero, Miguel Algarin, Meredith M onk, Araw na Hayashi, Tim othy Leary, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche 55 minutes Fried Shoes is a documentary on the Jack Kerouac School o f Disembodied Poetics at

the Naropa Institute in Colorado during a summer over which a joyous reunion o f the leading figures o f the ‘beat generation' takes place. These poets are all old friends, and as well as some o f their classic poetry, the film illustrates their varying attitudes towards writing, politics, religipn, and the adventure o f consciousness in general.

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FROM MAO TO MOZART: ISAAC STERN IN CHINA USA Director/Producer: M urray Lerner Cinematography: Nick Knowland, David Bridges Editor: T o m Haneke W ith: Isaac Stem , David Golub, Tan Shushen 84 min.

This year's Academy Aw ard winner fo r Best Documentary Feature, From Mao to Mozart is a vivid visual record o f Isaac Stern's three week visit to China in 1979. As a guest o f the Chinese government, Stern and pianist David Golub visited Peking, Shanghai and other cities w ith a touring group o f young native ballet artists ^acrobats and musicians. The to u r has been brilliantly captured on film, along w ith fascinating travelog footage o f the countryside and bustling cities.

Short: PACIFIC 231 (France), music by A rth u r Honegger, 1944, 10 min.

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GAL YOUNG UN USA Director/Producer: V ictor Nunez Cinematographer: V ictor Nunez Music: Charles Engstrom Production Manager: Brian Lietz Cast: Dana Preu, David Peck, J. Smith 105 minutes

Rural central Florida in the early thirties is the setting fo r this tale (based on the Marjorie Kinnan Ftawlings 1932 short story) o f a lonely w idow o f means w ho falls prey to a hand some young con man. H er transformation, first by love, then by deceit, then by the taking o f her own destiny in hand, is delicately and deftly marked. As her plight becomes known, the colours o f small tow n life in the large, bright weave o f the prohibi tion era are revealed. Beautifully filmed, and elegantly and sensitively directed by Victor Nunez, one o f our emerging regional filmmakers, Gal Young Un reaches surely tow ard its surprising climax. Short: H ISTO RY OF THE WORLD IN THREE M INUTES FLAT, 19 8 0 A cadem y A w a rd nom inee

F R ID A Y , M A Y 29 9 ;3 0 M

HEALTH USA D irector: Robert Altman Screenwriters: Paul D ooley, Frank Barhydt, R. Altman Cast: Lauren Bacall, Carol Burnett, Glenda Jackson, James G am ér, Dick Cavett, H enry Gibson

“ Although 20th Century Fox considers it 'unreleasable'—Just as it did THE STU N T M A N a few short months ago—Robert Altman's Health is the director’s most enter taining movie since NASHVILLE and his jolliest since MASH. It's a broad, amiable, goofy comedy set at a Florida health convention which Altman en courages us to take as his comment on the idiocies o f recent Presidential conventions. Health is firmly based on social insights and character comedy, not the repetition o f

toilet jokes. That alone makes it to w e r above most o f last year's 'releasable' comedies.’’ John Hartl, Seattle Times D irector Robert Altman will be present at this showing.

S A T U R D A Y , M A Y 2 7 :0 0 M

THE HOWLING USA D ire c to r: Joe Sante S creenw riter: John Sayles C at: D e e W allace, Christopher Stone, Devin M cC arthy, John Carradine, Elizabeth Brooks 104 min.

Just when you thought it was safe to go o u t fo r a full moon stroll, along comes the first o f the new wave o f shockers about th a t dreaded beast o f night, the W erew olf. T h e Howling, made on a shoestring budget o f $ 1.8 million, contains some o f the m ost astounding special effects ever created, filmed all in one shot. The story, like Hitchcock’s PSYCHO, starts o ff w ith a “ red herring" and lots o f wildly black humor, but suddenly you find yourself trapped into a terrifying situation w ith hair-raising hysteria. The ending has m ore punch than any thriller in recent years, and the special effects are w o rth the price o f admission alone. Co-scripted by John Sayles, w riterdirector o f RETURN OF THE SECAUCUS SEVEN, w ho makes a cameo appearance as a morgue attendant. Short: TH E FURTHER ADVENTURES OF MAJOR MARS (U S A ) G lenn Johnson

S U N D A Y , M A Y 17 7 :0 0 E M O N D A Y , M A Y 18 7 :0 0 M

IMAGE BEFORE MY EYES USA D irector: Josh W alètzky Producer: Susan Lazarus, J. W aletzky Screenplay: Jerome Badanes Cinematography: Joel Gold Music Compilation: H enry Sapoznik N arrato r: Karen Sunde 88 minutes Images is an informative documentary record o f a lost civilization— Polish Jews between

the tw o W o rld Wars. This p ortrait o f family life and the cities and towns o f Poland in the 30's shows an evolving but highly traditional culture, co-existing despite pogroms and growing discrimination general to the Polish nation. The film emphasizes the positive, despite the final segment which deals w ith the Holocaust, during which only 250,000 o f a population numbering 3,500,000 survived. S h ort. LIFE A N D D EA TH OF 9413, A H O L LY W O O D EXTRA (U S A ), R o b e rt Florey, Slavko V o rk apic h, G regg Toland , 1928, 10 min.

W E D N E S D A Y , M A Y 27 7 :0 0 M

IMPOSTERS USA D irector/Screenw riter: M ark Rappaport Cinematography: Fred Murphy Editors: M. Rappaport, Meri W eingarten Cast: Peter Evans, Ellen McElduff, Charles Ludlum, Michael Burg, Lina Todd, Randy Danson Producer: Z D F /T u x e d o Films 110 minutes

A strange, obsessive, darkly funny film loosely based on a passage from Proust's 'Remembrance o f Things Past.' Melodrama, Victorian intrigue, pulp thrillers and vaudeville, all inspire this comedic rom p around the irony o f being. A hit o f the Cannes, London, Berlin and Filmex film festivals.

Short: T O M W AITS FOR N O ONE

S A T U R D A Y , M A Y 9 9 :3 0 M

KNIGHTRIDERS D irecto r/S creen w riter: G eorge A . R om ero Cinem atography: Michael G ornick Cast: Ed Harris, G ary Lahti, T o m Savini 14 6 minutes

Rousing action sequences and h o t rod heroics make Knightriders a rich, ripe fantasy in which Romero shows that Arthurian legend can be m ore exciting on tw o wheels than on fo u r legs. The jousting sequences are brilliant dances o f motorcycles, riders, and speed. The film introduces a likeable new star in Ed Harris, w ho has the appeal o f a young Steve McQueen. This is the newest film by the trailblazing d irector o f N IG H T OF THE LIVING DEAD.

Short: TH E W IZA R D OF SPEED A N D TIM E (U S A ) M ike Jitlov

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NIGHT CITY ANGELS USA D irector/Screenw riter: Rita Xanthoudakis Producer: Barbara Glasser Music: Michael Kamen Cast: Marion Perkins, Maxine Herm an, David Proval, Chris Mulkey, Nicholas Guest 40 minutes

This is the story o f Adrian, a young woman living in N ew York City, and her guardian angel, Amelia Earhart. Equipped w ith a computer that can recall the past, reveal the future, and turn back time, Amelia tries to help, assisted by an ad-hoc committee o f angels composed o f Joan o f Arc, Harriet Tubman, Aristotle, and Daddy Bigbucks.

T U E S D A Y , M A Y 12 7 :0 0 M

POTO AND CABENGO USA D irector: Jean-Pierre Gorin Cinematography: Les Blanc Editor: G reg Durbin Featuring: G race (Poto) and Virginia (Cabengo) Kennedy and family 77 minutes

Poto and Cabengo refers to the unusual names that tw o little girls, the Kennedy twins, call one another. They had confounded people by conversing w ith one another in their own language, a language beyond the understanding o f anyone else. Jean-Pierre Gorin, long tim e collaborator w ith jean-Luc Godard, became fascinated by the twins' strange story, and has shaped an extraordinary documentary about the nature o f communica tion. Poto and Cabengo have created a whole w orld, the eternally optimistic and in nocent w orld o f childhood, that outsiders cannot comprehend.

Short: UMBRELLA. 28 min.

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THE LIFE AND TIMES OF ROSIE THE RIVETER USA Direction/Script: Connie Field Production: Clarity Educational Productions Cinematography: Bonnie Friedman, Kathy Zheutlin, Bob Handley, Emiko O m o ri 60 minutes

W hen Johnny w ent o ff to w ar in 1942, Rosie w ent o ff to the factories. W hen johnny w ent marching home a few years later, so did Rosie. A fte r all, it was common knowledge a woman couldn’t do man's w ork. Rosie was better suited to making babies than planes. Beguilingly filmed, this documentary takes a lovable, good humoured and sometimes sardonic look at w hat it was to be a Rosie. The film shows how the govern m ent "conned" wom en into the factories and out o f them, second classing w om en as workers and as citizens. Highly entertaining, the film is a delightful p ortrait o f the w om en w ho kept the factories going in a time o f crises and w hat has become o f them since.

M O N D A Y , M A Y 25 9 :3 0 M

SOLDIER GIRLS USA Directors: Nicholas Broom field, Joan Churchill Producer/C inem atography: Joan Churchill Editor: Nicholas Broom field 8 7 minutes

Joan Churchill and Nicholas Broomfield, w ho made the sensitively observed T A T T O O E D TEARS (Seattle Film Fest ’80) have again focused their cameras and th e ir intelligence on a fe w individuals attem pting to function, this tim e voluntarily, within the confines o f a dehumanising social institution. The prim ary subjects are three w om en arm y recruits w ho respond to the pressures, the depersonalization, and the stress, in sharply varied and uniquely personal ways. This film shows everything th a t PRIVATE BENJAMIN didn't.

Short: TH E SOLAR FILM (U S A ), 28 min.

USA

M O N D A Y , M A Y 11 9 :3 0 M

THE TRIALS OF ALGER HISS USA Director/Producer: John Lowenthal Cinematography: Steven L. Alexander, Adam G ifford, M ark Obenhaus, Edward Gray, W illiam G . Markle Editor: Marion Kraft 166 minutes

This newly-made documentary, The Trials o f Alger Hiss, was co-produced, in a sense, by the U.S. Congress, which recently passed the Freedom o f Information Act. Thus Hiss evidence, suppressed fo r almost 30 years, has become accessible to the public. Under such new revelations o f old secrets, plus new interviews w ith surviving p a r ticipants from that Hiss era o f the late 1940's, producer John Lowenthal has created a film that surely is a milestone in American documentary. Jurors interviewed in the film confirm that they would have voted differently had such suppressed facts been made known to them. Alger Hiss was the victim o f a Red-hunting young congressman named Richard Nixon, w ho became a senator the year Hiss was convicted.

W E D N E S D A Y , M A Y 27 7 :0 0 E

TUCK EVERLASTING USA Director: Frederick K. Keller Producer: H ow ard Kling Screenplay: Stratton Rawson, Fred A . Keller Cinematography: Michael Mathews Cast: M argaret Chamberlain, Paul Flessa, Fred Keller, James M cGuire 120 min.

Based on an award winning novel by Natalie Babbit, Tuck is a children's adventure that speaks to the child in us all. A young girl, living at the turn o f the century, befriends a handsome, daring and mysterious boy w ith a magical secret: he lives forever.

Short: CO LO U R B O X (G re a t Britain) Len Lye, 1935, 3 min.

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UNION CITY USA D irector/Screenw riter: M ark Reichert Cinematography: Edward Lachman Music: Chris Stein Cast: Deborah H arry, Dennis Lipscomb, Irina Maleeva, Pat Benatar 87 min.

Blondie's bombshell Deborah Harry and Dennis Lipscomb star and Pat Benatar is featured in this glossy punk rock 'film noir' send-up, adapted from a story by Cornell Woolrich, about murder and passion in a N ew Jersey tow n during the Fifties. In glorious blazing color, but decidedly not a musical.

Short: UBU

USA

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THE WILLMAR 8 USA Direction/Script: Lee G rant Producer: M ary Beth Y a rro w , Julie Thompson Cinematography: Ulie Irola Music: Peter Y a rro w 55 minutes

The story o f eight wom en bank employees who form a union and go on strike after enduring years o f wage and sex discrimination. The tow n o f Willmar, Minnesota, was outraged fo r the most part, and these women, the first ever to organize a bank strike in the state o f Minnesota, suddenly found themselves to. be heroines throughout the country, but ostracized in their own tow n. It is impossible not to be moved by this tribute to human dignity, beautifully directed by actress Lee Grant. Shown w ith “ 8 Minutes to Midnight."

\SEVEN GABLES Refessili/

“EXTRAORDINARILY EVOCATIVE" — JANET MASLIN, N ew York Times

'MESMERIZING'' — ANDREW SARRIS. Village Voice

"SUPERB'' — DAVID DENBY. N ew York Magazine

A daughter's firs t love... A girl's firs t passion... A tale of obsession.

GOOD RIDDANCE A film by Francis Mankiewicz Written by Rejean Ducharme Photographed by Michel Brault With MARIE TIFO, CHARLOTTE LAURIER, GERMAIN HOUOE Produced by PRISMA PRODUCTIONS An IFEX/FBF Release(S)1981

W IN N E R OF 8 GENIE AW A R D S (C A N A D IA N A C A D E M Y AW ARDS) including Best Picture and Best Actress STARTS FR ID AY, M A Y 15

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MIDNIGHT MOVIE MADNESS

A SPECIAL EVENT Thursday, May 21, Midnight CINERAMA THEATRE American Premiere OUTLAND D irecto r/S creen w riter: P eter Hyams Producer: T h e Ladd Com pany Cast: Sean C o nnery, P eter Boyle, Frances Sternhagen

This year’s tre a t fo r our science fiction fans w ho have enjoyed such past premiere presentations as THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK (Fifth Seattle International Film Festival) and ALIEN (Fourth Seattle International Film Festival). A science fiction western that is literally o u t o f this w orld . From the creative Alan Ladd Company, newly form ed by Alan Ladd, w ho made STAR WARS and ALIEN possible. Many thanks to Ashley Boone fo r this special showing. Presented in 70mm and 6-channel Dolby Stereo

M ID N IG H T M O VIE MADNESS

B R E A K IN G GLASS

BLUE SU ED E SH O E S

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ANTICLOCK G re at Britain

BLUE SUEDE SHOES

Director: Lee H . Katzin, Charles Crichton

G re at Britain

Producers: G . and S. Anderson

D irector: Curtis Clark

Director: Jack Bond

Cinematography: Roger Deakins

Producer: D o n Boyd

Producer: Penny C lark

Screenwriter: Jane Arden

The English fascination w ith American rockabilly sounds captured in this finger-poppin’

Cast: Sebastian Saville, Louise Tem ple 120 minutes

documentary featuring Ray Campi, Crazy Caven, Freddie 'Fingers' Lee, and Bill Haley,

Joseph Sapha, gambler and mindreader, born 1953, guinea pig fo r an audio-video

w ith archive glimpses o f Billy Fury, Gene Vincent, Eddie Cochran and more, all in Dolby Stereo.

parapsychology conference in London, witnesses his 'dream' and 'real' w orld in the video laboratory. H ow far can he control his destiny? H ow far can he define his future? An avant garde film that stretches the limits o f the genre.

Short: LYNYRD SKYNYRD

Short: TH E UNIVERSE

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BREAKING GLASS

A feast fo r fans o f heavy metal, Black and Blue features tw o o f the biggest acts in the

G re at Britain

business—Black Sabbath and Blue Oyster Cult—captured in concert in a rock

D irector: Brian Gibson

documentary that carries all the pow er o f their live performances.

Cinematography: Stephen Goldblatt Scenario: Brian Gibson Cast: Phil Daniels, Hazel O ’Connor, Jon Finch, Jonathan Pryce 10 4 minutes

The trashy ambience o f London’s post-punk “ N ew W a ve " music scene electrifies this traditional saga o f a young woman's rise from obscurity to pop-fame. D irector Brian Gibson conveys both the dynamic thrill and underlying tensions o f the record business in powerfully staged concert sequences. But Breaking Glass is more than just a brash music movie o r another rags-to-riches story o f superstardom—it's also a startling to u r o f modern Britain’s social landscape, and the sometimes tragic distance between reality and the illusions o f youth. Presented in Dolby stereo.

Short: H O W T O BE A SOCIALLY SUCCESSFUL W O M A N

Short: DA D D Y H IT A DOG, Alan Blangy

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THE DECLINE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION

THE FUNHOUSE

USA

Director/Producer: Penelope Spheeris

D irector: Tob e H o oper

Cinematography: Steve Conant

Cast: C o o p er Huckabee, Sylvia Miles,

W ith: Alice Bag Band, Black Flag, Catholic Discipline,

W illiam Finley, Elizabeth Berridge

Circle Jerks, Fear, Germs, X .

Dolby Stereo

100 minutes

W ith o ut a doubt, the most mis-marketed, good film o f the year award goes to Tobe

A bracing, stimulating, and technically superb close-up o f the Los Angeles punk rock

H ooper’s T h e Funhouse. It was sold as a sleazy h o rro r film in the same genre as

scene, contrasting w ith the British scene o f THE PUNK ROCK MOVIE. The recent L. A.

TERROR TRAIN, PROM NIGHT, and other such pieces o f junk. However . . . it was

opening was the biggest movie event to hit Hollywood Boulevard in a long time: a mob

on the basis o f this film that Steven Spielberg decided to produce Tobe H ooper’s next

o f 3500 w ere turned away. Decline combines provocative performance footage and

film. The Funhouse, though admittedly not a literary masterpiece, is the most original

revealing interviews w ith punk group members, club owners, managers, critics, and

monster movie since ALIEN and ERASERHEAD—and the most refreshing thing o f all is

hardcore fans. The recording quality o f the music is/excellent, and the filmmaker has

its wonderful sense o f humor. The production values are excellent, and w e are proud

wittily provided subtitles on certain songs o f which the delivery allows fo r no com

to enhance this presentation on our giant screen in 4-track Dolby Stereo (the first

prehension. A highpoint is the kitchen-table interview with Darby Crash, late lead singer

stereo showing in Seattle). So if you are ready fo r a rollercoaster ride, fasten your

fo r the Germs, w ho was obviously living on, if not over, the edge as he takes his pet

seatbelts!

tarantula out fo r a walk on his arm. Short: TH E PRETENDERS

Short: ALPHABET

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ONE TRICK PONY

USA

D irector/Screenw riter: Vernon Zim m erm an

D irector: R obert M . Young

Cast: Dennis Christopher, Linda Kerridge,

Screenplay /Music: Paul Simon

Tim Thomerson, N o rm an Burton

Cinematography: Dick Bush Cast: Paul Simon, Blair Brown, Rip T o m ,

The most likely candidate fo r this year's upcoming midnight movie circuit is Vernon

Joan H ackett, Lou Reed, Eric Gale

Zimmerman's outrageous black comedy about a film freak, Dennis Christopher

98 minutes

(BREAKING AW A Y ), who w orks in a film distribution center, and spends the rest o f his time collecting posters, watching old movies, dispensing movie trivia, and indulging in

An engaging and emotionally sympathetic look at a perform er on the rock'n’roll road

necrophiliac fantasies about falling in love w ith Marilyn Monroe. W hen a Monroe look-

to ruin, Pony was another good new film slighted by poor marketing. Paul Simon stars

alike stands him up on a date, Christopher goes completely bananas, and the rest is a

as the man w ith the fading career, failing marriage, and frantic manager, and his sound

wild parody o f ho rro r movies that adds up to massive thrills and a lot o f fun.

track, nominated fo r three Grammy Awards, is enhanced by our Dolby Stereo sound system.

Short: HE M AY BE DEAD—BUT HE’S ELVIS

Short: THE W IZARD OF SPEED A N D TIM E (U S A ) M ike Jitlov

John M yhre

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RUDE BOY

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RUDE BOY

G re at Britain

86 minutes

Directors/Producers: Jack Hazan, David Mingay Screenplay: Mingay, Hazan, Ray Gange

The bizarre energy o f the English punk rock scene in its early days ( 1976-1977) captured

Features: T h e Clash, Ray Gange

in great performance footage o f the Sex Pistols, the Clash, Siouxsie and the Banshees, X-Ray Spex, the Slits, Wayne County, and more!

133 minutes Rude Boy is a remarkable mix o f character study, rock opera, and social documentary.

It features The Clash, one o f the original and most accomplished o f the British punk bands, in the story o f a late 1970's rebel-roadie w ithout a cause which conveys precise ly, and often wittily, the tensions felt by the young in a country that's skidding into economic decline and disillusionment. The Clash’s numbers, all filmed live, have the vivid, urgent energy that they are famous fo r in concert. In Dolby Stereo.

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Short: DEVO

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SHELLSHOCK ROCK

Jamaica

Ireland

D irector: Stephan Paul

D ire c to r: John Davis

Cinematographer: Hans Schalk, Rainer Heinzelmann, Peter Rees

Features: Stiff, Little Fingers, Rhesus N egative, Rudi,

Features: Bob Mariey, Peter Tosh, Third W o rld ,

Idiots, Outcasts, P ro tex, Parasites, Victim

Burning Spear, and others

Subtitled An A lternative Blast From Belfast, this ro w d y little musical features the

107 minutes

N o rth e rn Irish N ew W ave scene in concert footage th a t makes m ost American N ew Come rock along with Jamaica s best reggae bands. Filmed last year at a huge outdoor

W ave bands seem tame by comparison.

concert m Montego Bay. this exceptional documentary follows in the footsteps o f ROCKERS and THE HARDER THEY COME as a celebration o f the culture, the spirit, me hypnotic power, and the all-out-fun o f reggae music. D irector Stefan Paul focuses on the concert scenes, but also cuts away to illustrate the roots o f reggae in the Rastafarian religion and Jamaican culture. The superb sound recording gives audiences a /ou-are-there sense o f excitement.

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THE MOVIE LOVERS

A FREE SERIES

N ew this year! W e have invited some o f Seattle’s leading film personalities to choose arid present in person th e ir favo rite , litde-seen film . These are movies tha t deserve a chance, and they are being presented entirely free. W e urge you to take advantage o f this unusual and exciting series. Brent N orthup, film critic D a ily Jo u m al-A m erica n

Sat. May 2: THE W ILD CHILD - Directed by Francois Truffaut Richard T . Jameson, film critic The W e e k ly and editor Movietone News

Sun. May 3: THE PARALLAX VIEW - Directed by Alan Pakula; with Warren Beatty Anne Mitchell, film critic S ea ttle Sun

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Sat. May 9: IM ITATIO N OF LIFE - Directed by Douglas Sirk; with Lana Turner John Hard, film critic Seattle Tim es

Sun. May 10: INTOLERANCE - Directed by D .W . Griffith G reg Palmer, film critic K IN G -T V

Sat. May 23: SOLDIER IN THE RAIN - Directed by Ralph Nelson;With Steve McQueen, Jackie Gleason, Tuesday Weld William Arnold, film critic Seattle P o st-In tellig en cer

Sun. May 24: HELLS ANGELS O N WHEELS and SAVAGE SEVEN - Directed by Richard Rush; with Jack Nicholson James Greenberg, freelance film critic

Mon. May 25: BLOODBROTHERS - Directed by Robert Mulligan; with Richard Gere Jim Emerson, form er A S U W film series booker and form er U W D a ily film critic

Sat. May 30: ASSAULT O N PRECINCT 13 - Directed by John Carpenter Ruth Hayler, film booker fo r Seven G ables Theatres

Sun. May 3 1: YA N C O - Directed by Servando Gonzalez; plus “The Playhouse“—Buster Keaton

T H E M OVIE LOVERS

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THE WILD CHILD

HELL’S ANGELS ON WHEELS and THE SAVAGE SEVEN

A 12-year-old boy (|ean-Pierre Cargol) w ho has been raised by animals, is "educated" by a patient psychologist (Francois Truffaut). An absolutely beautiful essay on teaching, and the giving, and eventually receiving, o f love. A French variation on THE MIRACLE WORKER and THE ENIGMA OF KASPAR HAUSER, directed by Francois Truffaut. (1969, 90 minutes)

T o a large extent, the major American filmmaking talents o f the 1970’s and early 1980’s came o u t o f the exploitation genre o f the 1960’s—among them Coppola, Scorsese, Milius, De Palma and Zsigmond. A nother is Richard Rush, whose legendary "The Stunt Man” opened at last year's Seattle Film Festival and w ent on to be nominated fo r three Academy Awards.

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In the late 1960's, Rush and cinematographer Laszlo Kovacs made tw o motorcycle epics

THE PARALLAX VIEW

fo r American International Pictures that will always be dear to the heart o f anyone who

Although it was ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN that made him a directorial superstar,

Jack Nicholson got his first good part co-starring w ith the real-life Hell’s Angels; and The

Alan J. Pakula’s best and certainly his most exciting movie remains The F’arallax V iew —

grew up on I960’s drive-in programmers: H e ll’s Angels on W heels ( 1967), in which Savage Seven (1968), a bizarre but irresistible biker western starring Robert W alker and

which hardly anyone saw at the time o f its release in 1974. Parallax is the dark version

Adam Roarke.

o f PRESIDENT'S MEN: a contentious investigative re po rte r (W arren Beatty) goes

Both films are stylistically innovative (it was in them that Rush and Kovacs developed

hunting fo r political conspiracy, and ends up ensnared in it. Superbly photographed by

"critical” focus, arguably the only true innovation in the grammar o f film since the ad

Gordon Willis, Parallax must be seen in full widescreen—if you've caught it only on TV,

vent o f sound), thematically ahead o f their time (foreshadowing the concerns o f both

you haven’t really seen the movie yet!

"Easy Rider" and "Five Easy Pieces"), packed w ith fast action and filled w ith mischief,

(1974, 102 minutes)

fun and unexpected insight as only a Richard Rush film can be. (95 minutes, 97 minutes)

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IMITATION OF LIFE Cascading diamonds fill the screen fo r the opening and closing credits. Lana Turner and

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BLOODBROTHERS

Sandra Dee shine like the tinsel on a Christmas tree. But this is an ironic film about

Emotions come at a fevered pitch in this story about the tw isted ties th a t bind and

reflections, and their alter egos, appropriately are black: the black maid in the back

strangle a N e w Y o rk Italian family. Tony LoBianco is th e blue collar patriarch and

room and her fair-skinned daughter w ho tries to pass fo r white. If ever a director

Richard Gere the son looking fo r a way out. Bloodbrothers is the kind o f powerful

played the devil, Douglas Sirk did in this one. He got Lana Turner to primp and preen

street-m ovie th a t plays best to a large enthusiastic audience, the kind it was never

fo r all she was w o rth —but all that glitters is not golden. Melodrama in the best sense. (1959, 124 minutes)

given a chance to find.

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(1978, 112 minutes)

INTOLERANCE

ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13

Directed and conceived by David W a r k Griffith

John C arpenter has proved his ability to make the m ost o f low budgets w ith the cult

Cast: Mae Marsh, Constance Talmadge, Ro bert H arron,

sci-fi comedy DARK STAR (made as a student) and m ore recently the smash

Miriam C o oper, H o w ard Gaye, Alfred Paget, and Lillian Gish.

nightmare H A LLO W EEN . Assault, his second film, tells its story w ith characteristic

David W ark G riffith’s Intolerance, like Abel Gance's recently resurrected NAPOLEON, is one o f the rejuvenating wonders o f silent cinema—always fresh because it’s never been duplicated, always exciting because Griffith’s gifts as an editor, storyteller and director o f a compnay o f actors never received a m ore demanding w orkout. Telling four stories simultaneously—crosscutting between ancient Babylon, 16th century France, the life o f Jesus, and 20th century slums—he created "th e only film fugue," a film in

speed and dash: a policeman guarding a bunch o f tough cons in an otherwise deserted precinct station tries to stop a vengeful street gang fro m breaking in and murdering the lo t o f them . If the plo t sounds familiar, it is indeed an hom m age to H ow ard Hawks's RIO BRAVO, told tongue-in-cheek but nevertheless filled w ith exciting suspense. (1977, 91 minutes)

which "history seems to flow like a cataract across the screen." Pauline Kael, comparing it to "an enormous, extravagantly printed collection o f fairy tales," called it "one o f the tw o o r three most influential movies ever made, and I think it is also the greatest.”

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While it may not qualify as a neglected film, any year that goes by w ithout a showing is the poorer fo r it.

YANCO

(1916)

A romantic fable o f extraordinary beauty, charm, and emotional power; once seen, it is never forgotten. A young boy, w ith such perfect pitch that children's taunts and off-key church bells nearly drive him mad, is taught to play the violin by an old man w ho dies,

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leaving music as his legacy. Every image is exquisitely composed, and the soundtrack is a superb melodic merging o f music and the sounds o f nature (there is virtually no

SOLDIER IN THE RAIN

dialogue). The performances are wonderful, particularly Ricardo Ancona as the boy.

Soldier in the Rain offers the unusual acting combination o f Jackie Gleason and Steve

Servando Gonzales directe d this 1964 prize-winning film from Mexico. ( 1964, 94 minutes)

McQueen, in this 1963 comedy-drama about the bond o f friendship between a worldly wise Master Sergeant (Gleason) and his naive worshipper (McQueen). D irector Ralph Nelson (LILIES OF THE FIELD, CHARLY) draws from both Jackie Gleason and the late Steve McQueen perhaps their finest performances ever. For anyone w ho never got a glimpse at just how good an actor Steve McQueen was, this is a golden opportunity. A funny, warm, and sensitive film that was virtually overlooked when it was first released in 1963. Co-starring Tuesday Weld. (1963, 88 minutes)

Leonard Pollack

A TRIBUTE

KEN RUSSELL TRIBUTE

to rtu re d homosexual achieving release only in his lushly romantic compositions takes liberties w ith the scholar's view, but its analysis o f human despair and elation make it riveting cinema. Special vault print in 4-track stereo. Cast: Richard Chamberlain, Glenda Jackson

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SONG OF SUMMER 1968

Max Adrian is superb as the crippled and blind composer Frederick Delius, dying o f syphilis. A shy young music student Eric Fenby (Christopher Gable) comes to help w rite o u t the music Delius can no longer compose, and together they create a trium ph o f art over mortality. Delius' elegiac music is beautifully complemented by rich images.

ELGAR 1962

Ken Russell is one o f the w orld's greatest directors, a supremely personal filmmaker whose explosively sensual films could never be mistaken fo r anyone else's. Russell films burst with creative imagination and w ith hallucinatory, sometimes surreal images. His favorite subject is the artist and the process o f creation; in fact, he has almost singlehandedly created a whole genre o f a rt biographies. His m o tto has been, "D o it in a

Glamorous, nostalgic, triumphantly optimistic biography o f composer Edward Elgar. Landscape plays a major role, and one o f the most unforgettable scenes shows the boy Elgar riding his white pony along the Malvern Hills, filmed in airborne tracking shot. This film was a great sucess, and is credited w ith causing a revived o f Elgar’s music in the I960’s!

totally unreal way, but make it m ore real than ever." This overpowering personal vi sion, blending artistic w ith historical truth, has made him frequently misunderstood by critics w ho demand that he conform to their ow n m ore sedate concept o f reality. But audiences feel the creative pow er flowing, and love Russell films. Mr. Russell’s latest creation, A ltered States, has re-affirmed his position at the to p o f filmmaking. The combination o f wildly imaginative images and sounds (perhaps the best

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THE DEVILS 1971

use o f sound in the history o f cinema) convince the viewer he is dreaming, yet narrative

Russell's ow n favorite among his films, a vivid and unforgettable masterpiece. D eter

excitement keeps him on the edge o f his seat.

mined to communicate the h o rro r and absurdity o f the true event, in which a liberal

W e are proud to welcome Mr. Russell to Seattle, and in honor o f this very special oc

priest weis tortu re d and burned at the stake on the evidence o f nuns afflicted by sexual

casion present the most complete retrospective o f his films ever shown here; seven

hysteria, Russell stresses the brutality o f the time, though balancing it w ith the hope o f

features and six television films. Russell started his career as a filmmaker in television,

salvation fo r the spirit. First Seattle showing o f uncut European version.

making 32 films fo r the BBC over a period o f 11 years. These films, though very

Cast: Oliver Reed, Vanessa Redgrave

famous, are almost impossible to see today. W e are pleased to have secured special permission from the BBC to show them. They are some o f Russell's best w ork, and are important fo r understanding the development o f his career.

DANTE'S INFERNO 1967

Volcanic p ortrait o f the pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, w ith O liver Reed as the poet and painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti. S A T U R D A Y , M A Y 2 2 :0 0 E

WOMEN IN LOVE 1969

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The best screen adaptation o f D.H. Lawrence ever made, distilled into images o f visual

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poetry and cinematic force. It is Russell’s most accessible and controlled w ork. The superb cast includes Alan Bates, Oliver Reed, Glenda Jackson (Academy Award), Jennie

1967

Linden, and Eleanor Bron. W o m e n in Love is the portrait o f an England under whose

This early feature (little seen today, but a film o f which Russell is particularly fond) looks

tranquil surface lies unexpressed fears and mysteries, a society whose repressed desires

great and shows many aspects o f his later style already form ed. Unable to untangle the

erupt in flashes o f sexual fire.

intricacies o f Len Deighton's novel about the efforts o f a Texan billionaire to fom ent revolution in Latvia, Russell wisely used the plot as a vehide fo r a mocking assault on the absurdities o f diplomacy, w ith the insolent Harry Palmer (Michael Caine) shuttling bet ween Finland, London, and Texas at the whim o f General M idw inter’s billion dollar

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computer. W ith Francoise Dorleac, Karl Malden, Ed Begley.

ISADORA DUNCAN, THE BIGGEST DANCER IN THE WORLD

ALWAYS ON SUNDAY

1967

Russell sees Duncan as both a genius and a bit o f a fraud. Vivien Pickles captures her larger-than-life style, making her bizarre excesses credible and often touching.

1965

A compassionate and funny p ortrait o f the retired French customs officer, Henri Rousseau, w ho struggled throughout a life o f "Sunday painting" to show the w orld in all the magic simplicity o f his own vision. Rousseau is played by Yorkshire painter James Lloyd.

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THE MUSIC LOVERS 1970

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THE BOY FRIEND

The Music Lovers is primarily a film about sexuality, rather than a musical biography.

1972

There is so much sex in the film that if it were all removed, w hat would remain would

Russell thought he would enjoy filming this musical comedy (he was once a chorus boy in

be a 15-minute entertainment starring Max Adrian! Russell's vision o f Tchaikovsky as a

a 1947 touring company o f Annie Get Your Gun), but in reality the production was beset

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with difficulty. The elaborately ambitious and colorful Busby Berkeley-style numbers are a treat. The seediness and squalor o f backstage life deflates the on-stage illusion. Christopher Gable (form erly a ballet dancer before he was chosen by Russell fo r Song o f Summer) is effortlessly elegant as the smooth young lead and Twiggy, in her screen

debut, brings a vulnerable charm to the girl w ho goes out a youngster and—naturally— comes back a star. In 4-track stereo. Cast: Max Adrian, Glenda Jackson, Antonia Ellis, Tom m y Tune.

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SAVAGE MESSIAH 1972 Leonard Pollack

One o f Russell's least-known films, but nonetheless one o f his most intense and appeal ing. It is the story o f tine young Vorticist sculptor Henri Gaudier (killed at age 24 in W W I), and his relationship w ith a neurotic older woman, Sophie Brzeska. A sculptor is the Ideal subject fo r showing the e ffo rt o f creation, since (unlike a composer fo r exam ple) has w o rk is manifestly exhausting, as much hard labor as art. Gaudier-Brzeska's brief torm ented career aptly sums up the fury o f the great artist at his peak. Particularly strik ing is a scene in which the sculptor works feverishly through the night on a block o f mar ble which he has stolen from a graveyard. Cast: Scott Antony, D orothy Tutin, Helen Mirren

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TOMMY 1975

The W ho's rock opera about a little boy traumatized into total sensory retreat—deaf,

AN EVENING W ITH KEN RUSSELL Saturday, May 16th, 8:00 p.m. M O O R E TH EATR E Film clips w ill begin at 8:00 p.m ., fo llo w e d by a discussion w ith M r. Russell. A fte r an interm ission, “The Dance of the Seven Veils” w ill be shown.

DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS

dumb, and bland—is perfect material fo r Russell, w ho creates a feast fo r the senses. The

1970

all-star cast includes Roger Daltrey, Oliver Reed, Ann-Margret (remarkable!), Jack

This is Russell's last film w ith the BBC—in fact, some said he was throw n out after it.

Nicholson, Robert Powell, Elton John, Eric Clapton, Keith Moon, Tina Turner, and

Broadcast only once, it created a nationwide deluge o f protests, culminating in a denun

m ore. In Dolby Stereo.

ciation in Parliament! Russell earned his reputation as "The W ild Man o f the BBC" with this b itter and fantastical biography o f Richard Strauss (played by Christopher Gable), sub-titled A Com ic Strip in Seven Acts.

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MAHLER 1974

Robert Powell plays the composer Gustav Mahler, struggling against ill-health and career pressures to create music. (He tells an inquisitive reporter, "I conduct to live, I live to compose.") Inspired by Mahler's lush romantic music (the gorgeous soundtrack is per form ed by the Amsterdam Concerlgebouw), Russell's untrammeled imagination con jures up a strange vision—beautiful, terrible, and absurd. Antonia Ellis is a nightmare as an anti-semitic Cosima Wagner. Georgina Hale is excellent as Mahler's young, discontented wife Alma.

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