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WHEREAS^ over the last 25 years) Seattle has quickly evolved into a culturally rich and diverse city; and WHEREAS* film acts not only as an educational and entertainment medium* but also as a source of economic stimulation to the state by providing a unique environment for film production* and also by providing an enthusiastic audience; and WHEREAS* the Seattle International Film Festival is one of the premier film events on the West Coast* and over the past 10 years has added greatly to the artistic credibility of our state; and WHEREAS* the Seattle International Film Festival serves as a showcase for films from many countries* a channel for international goodwill, and a bridge between our city and artistic centers around the world; NOW, THEREFORE, I, Booth Gardner, Governor of the State of Washington* do hereby proclaim May 9 through June 10, 1985 as

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in the State of Washington* and I urge all citizens to join me in acknowledging this festival and its contribution to the state.

Signed* this 30th day of April* 1985.

Governor Booth Gardner

M A Y O R ’S PRO CLA M ATIO N

City ofSeattle' OfficeoftheMayor

PROCLAMATION WHEREAS/

throughout the history of the movies/ the film medium has been a vital part of our culture and an important means of artistic expression; and

WHEREAS/

Seattle has the highest film attendance per capita of any city in the United States; and

WHEREAS/

critics/ the film industry and an enthusiastic public acknowledge the Seattle International Film Festival as the most important film event of the year in our city; and

WHEREAS/

the Seattle International Film Festival serves as a showcase for films from many countries/ a channel for international goodwill/ and a bridge between our city and artistic centers around the world; and

WHEREAS/

this year is extra special as it marks the Tenth Anniversary of the Seattle International Film Festival;

NOW/ THEREFORE/ 1/ CHARLES ROYER/ Mayor of the City of Seattle/ do hereby proclaim May 9 - June 10/ 1985/ as SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL WEEKS in Seattle.

Mayor

DIRECTOR’S M ESSA G E

Ten years of careful planning, experimentation, hard work and love of film have gone into this, TENTH SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL The best exhibition talents in the city have cooperated in presenting the m ost of what any m oviegoer can wish for in a city-wide celebration of film. Teammates have com e and gone but year after year, an eccentric and dedicated group of people come together to give their time, talent and all out effort to what we hope has become one of the finest film festivals in the country. The dedication of all the people and organizations who are involved in the SIFF has been amply and repeatedly rewarded by Seattle filmgoers w ho have supported the festival beyond our wildest expectations. it is to you, Seattle, that we dedicate our 10th offering, in the hope thatyour continued support and enthusiasm will propel us through another exciting cinematic decade.

Darryl Macdonald

Daniel Ireland

Festival Directors

CONTENTS ARGENTINA

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CZECHO SLO VAKIA THE SN O W D R O P FESTIVAL DEN M ARK THE ELEMENT OF CRIME LADIES O N THE ROCKS PARADISE IS NOT FOR SALE ZAPPA

FRANCE A N O S A M O U R S LACHEVRE CLAW AND TO O TH THE DEVIL, PROBABLY FAVORITES O F T H E M O O N

BIGGER THAN LIFE BIRDY BLIND H USBA N DS CANYO N C ONSORT FIVEGRAVESTO CAIRO FLESH A N D BLO O D FOOLISH WIVES GREED HARD TRAVELING HEARTBREAKERS

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MADEMOISELLE: A PORTRAIT OF

IMPROPER CONDUCT THE M A N IN THE SILK HAT

NAD IA BOULANGER THE M A N YOU LOVED TO HATE

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O P EN IN G NIGHT • TWICE IN A LIFETIME C L O SIN G NIGHT • FLESH A N D B L O O D A TRIBUTE TO A N N -M A R G R ET SHEILA BEN SO N : A N A T O M Y OF A M O V IE

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KISS O F THE SPIDER W O M A N ALW AYS THE FILMS O F ERICH V O N ST R O H EIM

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BRAZIL CANADA C H IN A CUBA C Z EC H O SLO VA KIA

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SHORT FILMS POSTERAUCTION BESTOFTHEFEST THE FILMS • YEAR BY YEAR

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FESTIVAL STAFF EGYPTIAN STAFF

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MARKETSTAFF • KEYVOLUNTEERS FEATURE FILM SOURCES

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FEATURE &. SHORT FILM SOURCES ACKNOWLEDGMENTS TICKET INFORMATION INDEX

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Pacific Northwest Ballet Patricia Barker and Courtland Weaver. Photo by Ben Kerns

Kent Stowell, Francia Russell, Artistic Directors

O PEN IN G NIGHT • TWICE IN A LIFETIME THURSDAY, MAY 9

8:00

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O PE N IN G N IG H T

u.SA W O R LD PREMIERE

TWICE IN A LIFETIME Director/Producen Screenwriter: Gnem atopgraphen Editor: Music: Cast: Print Source:

BudYoridn Colin Welland Nick McLean Robert C Jones Pat Metheny, Title Song composed and performed by Paul McCartney Gene Hackman, Ann-Margret, Ellen Burstyn, Amy Madigan, Ally Sheedy, Brian Dennehy, Steven Lang, Darrell Larson BudYoridn Productions 1985 110 minutes

Twice in a Lifetime is a love story set in Seattle that is really a love son g to the city of Seattle. Never before has a film shown so well what Seattle is really like: the changeable light and cloudy skies, the hills and water, the solid old houses with substantial porches; Ballard, Queen Anne, Capitol Hill, Lake Union, Elliott Bay, the Space Needle, the Kingdom e — a city where people live. Seattle is the real star of Twice In a Lifetime... but its human stars, one of the m ost distinguished casts assembled in a long time, manage to steal som e scenes. Oscar-winner Gene Hackman has his juiciest role in years as Hariy, an ordinary guy whose life has become predictable and routine; his only passion is the Seahawks, and he’s having trouble waiting for the season to start. Celebrating his 50th birthday he shocks himself by doing something he thought you had to be young to do: falling in love. Ann-Margret (Return of the Soldier, Carnal Knowledge), looking stunning, plays a widow who thinks she has her life together but finds herself surprisingly vulnerable to love. It’s a sparkling performance that brings to mind the warmth, strength, and loving tenderness of Simone Signoret in Room at the Top. Ellen Burstyn (Pro vidence, Resurrection, Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore) plays a woman so wrapped up in her husband and family that she has starved her own sense of identity and doesn’t even know it. Am y M adigan and Ally Sheedy play two grow n-up daughters who react in opposite ways to their parents’ separation. M adigan (Places in the Heart, Alamo Bay ), struggling financially with her husband out of work, feels betrayed and bitter, taking it harder, almost, than her mother. Ally Sheedy (The Breakfast G ub , WarGames) is in love herself and can’t stop loving her father. The scene in which she tells him that she is getting married instead of go ing to college and that she and her boyfriend are really in love and w on’t make the mistakes her parents did is truly touching: through her father’s eyes you see the years of trouble and experience that she cannot understand or believe will happen to her and know her marriage, like the majority of American marriages today, will probably fail — yet you love her for her pure idealism and faith, that is the essence of youth. Screenwriter Colin Welland (Chariots of Fire) and director Bud Yorkin (Start the Revolution Without Me) have exercised a keen eye for the human details that give the story insight and universality. W e are proud to present the World Premiere of this outstanding film in the city where it was made. In Dolby Stereo. Director/Producer Bud Yorkin and star Ann-Margret will attend. A gala opening night celebration will follow the screening.

C LO SIN G NIGHT • FLESH A N D B LO O D SUNDAY, JUNE 9

8:00 Egyptian

CLOSIN G NIGHT

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W ORLD PREMIERE

FLESH A N D B LO O D Director: Producen Screenwriters: Cinematographer Editor: Music: Cast: Print Source

Paul Veriioeven Gys Versluys Gerard Soeteman, Paul Verhoeven; story by Gerard Sotteman Jan de Bont Ine Schenkkan Basil Poledouris Rutger Hauer, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tom Buriinson, Jack Thompson as Hawkwood, Susan Tyrell Orion nctures/Rhrerside Pictures B.V. 1985 126 minutes

In Dolby Stereo It is most appropriate that we close our first decade with the world premiere of Paul Verhoeven’s first film for a major U.S. distributor, in English, Flesh and Blood. A cross between Robin Hood and The Road Warrior, Hesh and Blood is a hearty, gutsy, romantic adventure set in medieval times. The story centers around a group of mercenaries w ho are promised food, riches and sanctuary if they help recapture a village lost to a wealthy Lord by unknown attackers. O nce the village has been re-possessed by its original nobility, the Lord has the band of mercenaries banished from his village. Thus begins a saga of greed, betrayal, survival, revenge and passion, and not necessarily in that order. The international cast is sensational: and not since Rutger Hauer last worked with Paul Verhoeven in Soldier of Orange has he had such a chance to show what a dynamic actor he can be. O nce again, working with ace cinematographer Jan de Bont, screenwriter Gerard Soeteman, editor Ine Schenkkan and producer Gys Versluys, Paul Verhoeven has created a vision of medieval times like no other film before it. Flesh and Blood is high voltage entertainment from one of the most daring and talented filmmakers now working in film. Welcome home, Paul! PLEASE NOTE: Due to the intense and sometimes violent nature of this film no one under 18 will be admitted. Director Paul Verhoeven and producer Gys Versluys will attend this screening. Come Join us for a gala celebration following the screening.

A TRIBUTE TO A N N -M ARG RET WEDNESDAY, MAY 8

8:00

Egyptian

A TRIBUTE TO ANN-M ARGRET Sex symbol and serious actress; two-time Oscar nominee, Golden Globe award-winner, and Emmy award nominee — this is Ann-Margret, one of the m ost electrifying, versatile and talented entertainers in show business today. She had a meteoric rise in films, but it wasn’t until Mike Nichols cast her in Carnal Knowledge (1971) that critics and audiences alike began to realize what an enorm ous talent she had to offer as a serious actress. Nominated for an Academy Award for her role in that film, she went on to show new growth with each subsequent performance she has given, winning critical kudos and acting honors in films such as Magic, Tommy, The Return of the Soldier, and her Emmy-nominated role in W ho Will Love M y Children. She is now at the peak of both her talent and her beauty, as her role in Twice in a Lifetime should prove to all w ho see it. After years of being typecast as a pert ingenue, she is one of the few actresses to break through to a career in serious roles, and that is no mean achievement in a business which thrives upon typecasting and old formulas. It is therefore a great honor and pleasure for us to be able to present this, a tribute to her career and great achievement in the entertainment business. Please join us for an evening of clips, questionand-answer period with the star and a screening of her recent film A Streetcar Named Desire.

SUNDAY, JUNE 2 4:00

Egyptian

SHEILA B EN SO N : A N A T O M Y O F A M O VIE It is a rare pleasure for us to host Sheila Benson, distinguished and internationally acclaimed film critic for the Los Angeles Times, in a fascinating in-depth look at how one major national critic reviews a film. Utilizing a screening of the film Cutter’s Way, a hit at the Sixth Seattle Film Festival, M s. Benson will host a seminar on film criticism, with a question and answer period to follow. For those of us who follow film reviews, this program offers a rare behind-the-scenes look at what a film critic looks for, appreciates, and focuses on in reviewing a film— and how a critic, particularly one based in Hollywood, copes with the pressures of the film industry. Sheila Benson was a member of the Official jury at this year’s Berlin Film Festival.

THURSDAY, JUNE 6

8:00

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A N EVENING WITH HARRY DEAN STANTO N N o question about it: 1984 was the year of Hariy Dean Stanton. Not only did he turn in yet another brilliant character piece in the dynamic wacko hit Repo Man, but he leapt to stardom with his breathtak ing lead performance in W im W enders’ Paris, Texas. Stanton’s work in Paris, Texas is am ong the finest of all of cinema — truly the performance of a lifetime, and one that Stanton has spent a lifetime working toward. In such films as Where the Ulles Bloom, Cool Hand Luke, Two Lane Blacktop, One From the Heart, The Rose, Allen, Wise Blood and Christine, Harry Dean Stanton has brought a unique authenticity to the cinema. A s Sheila Benson of the LA. Times put it: “From the very first he has been one of a tiny collection of actors who make movies work. Put Harry Dean Stanton in a scene and it becomes real. Those of us with the movie affliction probably cannot forget the first Stanton performance that made us look up his nam e... Wherever you came upon it first, once Stanton’s beautifiil, astringent Walker Evans face was wood-burned into your mind, it could not be erased." The tribute will include choice clips from Stanton’s many films, a question-and-answer session with Mr. Stanton, and a complete screening of the feature com edy Uforia.

UFORIA Wrtter/Director. Cinematographer: Music: Cast: Print Source:

U.SJV. |ohn Binder David Myers Richard Baskin G n d y Williams, Harry Dean Stanton, Fred Ward, Darrell Larson Universal Pictures 1980 100 minutes

Last year, the SIFF helped rescue Repo M an from distribution limbo. This year we hope to d o the same thing for Uforia — a decidedly offbeat comedy about a seedy preacher named Brother Bud (Hariy Dean Stanton) who also deals in stolen cars; a smalltown supermarket cashier (Cindy Williams) who believes that a UFO is go ing to rescue her from the desert doldrums; and a drifter (Fred Ward) whose only fortune in life is a cultivated resemblance to Waylon Jennings. Variety wrote: “Writer-director John Binder can boast a snappy, beautifully written work featuring a sprightly cast.” Be the first on your block to discover this overlooked delight.

ATRIBUTE TO N IC O LA S ROEG SUNDAY, JUNE 2

7:00

Egyptian

A TRIBUTE TO N IC O LA S RO EG Nicolas Roeg is one director from whom we can always expect the extraordinary. His fascinating, dazzling and frequently enigmatic films delve deep into the human (un-) consciousness, playing provocatively with our most private notions of our own identities, of history, time, space, and sexuality. Roeg, who began his film career as a cinematographer (Petulia, Fahrenheit 451, Far From the Madding Crowd), sees beyond the concrete realities of our everyday lives; to him the universe (and everything in it) is filled with mystery, always in flux. His art, then, is more or less the cinematic equivalent of the Theory of Relativity. W e are delighted to present a tribute to this marvelous filmmaker, including five of his features as director: Performance, Walkabout, Don’t Look Now, The M an W ho Fell To Earth, Bad Timing — and culminating in the American premiere of his brilliant new film, Insignificance. The evening will begin with clips from his films and discussion on stage with Mr. Roeg, and conclude with the feature.

SUNDAY, JUNE 2

7 :0 0

Egyptian

IN SIGN IFICAN CE Director/Screenwriter: Producen Cinematographer: Editon Music: Cast: Print Source:

Great Britain AMERICAN p r e m ie r e

Nicolas Roeg Jeremy Thomas Peter Hannan Tony Lawson Stanley Meyers Theresa Russell, Gary Busey, Michael Emil, Tony Curtis Island Alive 1985 110 minutes

What could a famous actress, a famous scientist, an infamous senator, and a famous ball player have in com m on? Answer - they all get together during the course of one long night in 1955 and discuss life, death, sex, marriage, money and the theory of relativity. If that sounds outrageous it’s because it is! It is also Nicolas Roeg’s wonderful new movie about a group of famous people that through a strange series of events end up sharing som e pretty revealing moments of their lives with each other. The entire cast of this film give exceptional performances. Theresa Russell couldn’t be more perfect in the role of the famous actress. Gary Busey and Tony Curtis are both frightening in their parts of the famous baseball player and the infamous senator and Michael Emil is a revelation as the famous scientist. Nicolas Roeg has created a surrealistic black com edy blending history and fiction and come up with one of the most original and entertaining films - a comic parable for the Atomic Age. In addition to director Nicolas Roeg, star Theresa Russell will attend.

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1:30

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BAD TIMING Director: Screenwriter: Cinematographer: Cast: Print Source:

Nicolas Roeg Yale Udoff Anthony Richmond Art Garfunkel, Theresa Russell, Harvey Keitel, Denholm Elliott Corinth Films 1980 123 minutes

O ne of the most audaciously sexual films ever made by a major director, Bad Timing is a tale of pathological sexual obsession that leads to the point of death — and beyond. Featuring a stunning performance by Theresa Russell as the smoldering object of Art Garfunkei’s overpowering desire.

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D O N T LO O K NO W Director: Screenwriters: Cinematographer: Music: Cast: Print Source:

Nicolas Roeg Allan Scott, Chris Bryant Anthony Richmond Pino Donnagio Donald Sutherland, Julie Christie, Hilary M ason Films, Incorporated 1973 110 minutes

Finally, a truly erotic occult thriller in which the sex and the horror are equally voluptuous. Roeg turns Venice into a labyrinthine nightmare for Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie, who have come to the city of water to escape (or confront) their grief over the drowning of their young daughter. The bereaved parents begin to catch glimpses of their child — or something that looks like their child — dressed in a red mack, lurking in the alleyways and around the canals of Venice.

A TRIBUTE TO N IC O LA S ROEG SUNDAY, JUNE 2

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THE M A N W HO FELL TO EARTH Director: Screenwriter: Cinematographer: Cast: Print Source:

Nicolas Roeg Paul Mayersburg Anthony Richmond David Bowie, Rip Torn, Candy Gark, Buck Henry G n e m a V 1976 140 minutes

David Bowie, in the role he was bom to play, is the man from another planet w ho falls to earth, and experiences an even greater fall once he gets here. A splendid, evocative and disturbing look at the modern world through the beautiful yellow eyes of an alien.

SUNDAY, MAY 12

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PERFORMANCE Directors: Screenwriter: Gnematographer: Music: Cast: Print Source:

Nicolas Roeg, Donald Cammell Donald Cammell Nicolas Roeg Jack Nitzche, Randy Newman James Fox, Mick Jagger, Anita Pallenberg Warner Bros. Classics 1970 105 minutes

Roeg’s dynamite directorial debut is a stunning, time-shifting psychological puzzle about a hardened gangster (James Fox) who hides out with a decadent rock star (Mick Jagger) and finds his identity being co-opted.

SUNDAY, MAY 19

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W ALKABOUT Director/clnematographer. Screenwriter: Music: Cast: Print Source:

Nicolas Roeg Edward Bond John Barry Jenny Agutter, Lucien John, David Gumpilil Films incorporated 1970 100 minutes

This gorgeous film is a haunting, dreamlike evocation of the Australian outback, in which two young children learn to rely on a young aborigine w ho helps them survive in the wilderness. O ne of Roeg’s most lovely and deeply mysterious films.

A SPECIAL PRESENTATION MADE POSSIBLE THROUGH FOX/LORBER-CLASSICS ASSOCIATES JOINT VENTURE UCLA FILM ARCHIVES —

FRIDAY, MAY 31

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BECKY SHARP Director: Screenwriter: Cinematographer: Cast: Print Source:

Rouben Mamoulian Francis Edward Faragoh, based on the novel Vanity Falrby William Makepeace Thackeray Ray Rennahan Miriam Hopkins, Cedric Hardwicke, Billie Burke, Nigel Bruce Fox/Lorber-Classics Associates Joint Venture — UCLA Film Archives 1935 83 minutes

This delicious period piece, the first film ever made in the now-defunct 3-strip Technicolor process, is presented as a dazzling example of film restoration by the U CLA Film Archive, which took a badly faded movie and, through painstaking work, restored it to its original gloiy. At the time of its release, critic Otis Ferguson called Becky Sharp “as pleasing to the eye as a fresh fruit sundae” and now, for the first time in decades, you can see this landmark work in all its Technicolor splendor. Directed by Rouben Mamoulian (Queen Christina, Blood and Sand, Silk Stockings), this colorful Thackeray adap tation stars the splendid Miriam Hopkins (Design for Living, Trouble in Paradise) as an ambitious girl whose sole concern is to claw her way to the top of Regency society. This is the World Premiere of the fully restored version of this Aim classic. A representative from the UCLA film archives will be on hand to discuss the fascinating process of film restoration.

KISS OF THE SPIDER W O M A N • ALW AYS SATURDAY, JUNE 8

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KISS O F THE SPIDER W O M AN Director: Producer: Screenwriter: Cinematographer: Editor: Music: Cast: Print Source:

B ra zil/U ^ A AMERICAN PREMIERE

Hector Babenco David Weisman Leonard Schrader, based on the novel M anuel Perez Rodolfo Sanches M auro Alice John Neschling William Hurt, Raul Julia, Sonia Braga Island Alive 1985 116 minutes

“You know it could kill you, but you just d on’t care,” is how prisoner (William Hurt) describes his celluloid fantasy femme fatale, Lena (Sonia Braga) to cell mate Valentin (Raul Julia). Set in Brazil in a reformatory prison, Kiss of the Spider W oman is the story of two inmates — one a flamboyant homosexual who passes the time more quickly by reliving his favorite movie experiences (always with the same actress) out loud to his new cell mate, a hot-blooded radical who enjoys the brief escapism from his present situation. William Hurt gives the most dynamic, complex, and demanding performance of his career and Raul Julia has never had a better opportunity to show what a powerful actor he can be. Director Hector Babenco, who stunned audiences with Plxote, has crafted one of the finest films in years, and we are truly honored to have the veiy first American showing of this remarkable motion picture. This is a film that will take your breath away. Satan Sonia Braga and Raul Julia will attend.

FRIDAY, MAY 17

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ALW AYS Dlrector/Screenwriter: Producen Cinematographer: Cast: Print Source:

Henry Jaglom Judith Wolinsky (Associate Producer) Hanania Baer Henry Jaglom, Patrice Townsend, Joanna Frank, Alan Rachins, M elissa Leo, Jonathan Kaufer, Bob Rafelson, Michael Emil, Bud Townsend International Rainbow Pictures 1985 105 minutes

Henry jaglom is one of the most intense and entertaining filmmakers now working in the American cinema — and fiercely independent. His latest film, Always, follows his enormous success with Can She Bake a Cherry Pie? and Sitting Ducks. This time he is directing himself in one of the film’s main roles opposite Patrice Townsend, jaglom and Townsend portray a couple, separated for two years, getting together to sign their divorce agreement. He decides to prepare a divorce dinner but, as he really doesn’t know how to cook, she gets ill and is forced to spend the night. The next day two other couples arrive, one pair about to get married, the other the most solidly married of their friends. It’s the 4th of July weekend, so they decide to spend it together, never really leaving the house and garden. Always, as jaglom points out, used to mean forever. Times have changed. A film for the married, the unmarried, and those who are thinking about it: this film might change your ideas. Filmmaker Henry Jaglom will make a special appearance.

THE FILMS OF ERICH V O N STR O H EIM THE FILMS O F ERICH V O N STROHEIM This year is the 100th anniversary of the birth of one of the most distinctive geniuses in film history: Erich von Stroheim. Known for his monumental, fetishistic epics and fanatical attention to cinematic detail (as well as his explosive temper), Stroheim gave us rich and magnificent films of bizarre and terrible beauty. There has never been anything like him — nor will there ever be again. W e are pleased to present a veiy rare retrospective of six of Stroheim’s greatest silent achievements, plus a talkie in which he appears as an actor. It’s a week-long, opulent orgy of cinematic extravagence that nobody who loves movies can afford to pass up. All films (except Queen Kelly) will be accompanied on the organ by Jess Conrad. “These films contain the essential contradictions in Stroheim ’s work: between m elodram a and naturalism; rom anticism and cynicism ; psychological detail and epic perspectives. Like all great silent directors he knew how necessary it was to abandon taste for obsession. H is reckless enlargem ent of situations was a form o f improvisation, even if it entailed crazy expense and delay. Left to himself, Stroheim m ight never have finished a film, so chronic was the fever for detail. For all that he explored realism o f character and delighted in location work, nonetheless he was capable o f sudden, exquisite insights — usually into perversion, lust, m alice or pride. H is films am assed detail relentlessly, but never lost sight o f character or structure. ” David Thomson A Biographical Dictionary o f Film

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QUEEN KELLY Director/writer: Producer: Cinematography: Music: Cast: Print Source:

Erich von Stroheim Joseph P. Kennedy Gordon Pollock, Paul Ivano, Ben Reynolds Adolph Tandler Gloria Swanson, Walter Byron, Seena Owen Kino International 1928 95 minutes

O ne of the great lost treasurers of the cinema has been reclaimed! Queen Kelly, the last grandiose folly of the magnificent, maniacal Stroheim can now be shown, in all its perverse opulence, for the first time ever! This masterpiece of the bizarre and erotic concerns a wild prince (Stroheim) who is engaged to marry a deranged queen when he meets and kidnaps a lovely convent girl named Kitty Kelly (Gloria Swanson) and takes her back to his castle for an oyster dinner. But the queen finds them and drives Kitty away with a whip. Kitty attempts suicide, but then she has to g o to darkest Africa to comfort her dying aunt. There, she finds herself engaged to a decrepit plantation owner, and is caught up in an insane and decadent world of orgiastic sex, violence and white slavery. The studio didn’t know quite what to make of this astonishing (and incredibly expensive) work — and neither did Swanson, w ho nevertheless commissioned and recorded a M l orchestral soundtrack (just recently rediscovered) for what was supposed to have been her greatest success. That soundtrack is presented here along with the astounding never-before-seen, 25-minute African sequence. You’d have to be crazy to miss this one.

M ONDAY, MAY 27

7:00

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BLIND H USBAN D S Director: Print Source:

Erich von Stroheim Kino international 1919

68 minutes

Stroheim's first film as writer, director and star marks the most astonishing debut in Hollywood history alongside O rson Welles’ Citizen Kane. O n vacation in the Austrian mountains, an American doctor’s wife is seduced by the wily Lt. von Steuben — played by you-know-who.

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FIVE GRAVES TO CA IR O Director: Producer: Screenwriters: Cinematographer: Music: Cast: Print Source:

Billy Wilder Charles Brackett Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder John Seitz Miklos Rozsa Franchot Tone, Anne Baxter, Erich von Stroheim, Akim Tamiroff Swank Motion Pictures, Inc. 1943 96 minutes

Erich von Stroheim gives a galvanizing performance as Field Marshal Rommel in this delightful Billy Wilder gem, which manages to combine wit and playfulness with sizzling excitement and intrigue. In an oasis hotel in the Sahara, Tone tries discreetly to extract military secrets from Rommel. Wilder remembers that, in one scene, Stroheim insisted that his Leica camera be loaded with real 35m m print film: “An audience always senses whether a prop is genuine or false.” Conversation on the set, according to Wilder, was fascinating: “Mostly we talked about food, about Vienna in the old days, about love and women. This obsession with foot fetishism, underwear fetishism, other sexual perver sions which his pictures are filled with, was the real Stroheim. The movie he should have made was an adaptation of Krafft-Ebing’s Psychopathia Sexualis. But he succeeded in slyly getting a lot of sex perversion into those films he shot in 1919, 1920. In regard to sex perversions, Mr. von Stroheim was not only twenty years ahead of his time — he was fifty years ahead of his time.”

TUESDAY, MAY 28

7:00

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FO O LISH WIVES Director: Print Source:

Erich von Stroheim Kino International 1922

107 minutes

One of the most lavish films of the silent era, Foolish Wives stars Stroheim as a debauched Russian count who w oos five women (a m enage a trois isn’t enough for him!), ranging from mentally unbalanced daughters to beautiful ambassador’s wives. But the count gets his when an enraged father stabs him and stuffs him down the sewer with a dead cat. Substantially cut after its initial release, this restored print is the most complete version since opening night, 1922!

SATURDAY, JUNE 1

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GREED Director: Print Source:

Erich von Stroheim MGM/UA Classics 1923

110 minutes

After The Birth of a Nation, Greed is probably the most famous of all silent epics. Yet how many have actually seen this towering masterwork — which is also one of the most infamous examples of studio interference with a great artist’s vision? Stroheim’s original version ran eight hours, but even in this, the only surviving cut, Greed retains its power. A dentist and ex-miner murders his greedy wife, and then, in Death Valley, meets her lover in a deadly confrontation. Here’s your chance to experience this must-see classic — in a pristine 35 mm print, courtesy of the M G M archive.

THE FILMS OF ERICH V O N STRO H EIM WEDNESDAY, MAY 29

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USA.

THE M A N YO U LOVED TO HATE Producer/director: Screenplay/researcher: Narrator: Print Source:

Patrick Montgomery Richard Koszarski Edward Binns Kino International 1979

90 minutes

An exciting look at the bizarre career of Stroheim (previously showcased in the Fifth SIFF), this is an invaluable and informative sidebar to our Stroheim retrospective. Featuring interviews with Stroheim’s wife, associates and friends, Patrick M ontgom ery has given life to the myth. Excerpts from Blind Husbands, Foolish Wives, Greed, Grand Illusion, Sunset Boulevard and others offer a better under standing of Stroheim's unique work. The M an You Loved to Hate is a detailed study of a creative genius whose perverse aberrations regarding women, art and finance made him a Hollywood legend — and an outcast.

THURSDAY, MAY 30

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M ERRY-G O -RO U N D Director: Print Source:

Erich von Stroheim Kino International 1923

90 minutes

Boy-wonder studio-exec Irving Thalberg fired Stroheim one third of the way into this picture — although it still follows Stroheim’s obsessively detailed screenplay, about an Austrian count who is comm anded by the Emperor to marry the peculiar Countess Gisella. But when the count visits Vienna’s great amusement park for a last fling, he falls for Agnes, the abused m eriy-go-round operator, who is tormented by a sadistic boss.

FRIDAY, MAY 31

7:00

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THE M ERRY W IDOW Director: Print Source:

Erich von Stroheim MGM/UA Classics 1925

111 minutes

It took Stroheim’s audacity to shoot this gorgeous silent film adaptation of an operetta — and The Merry Widow is one of his greatest achievements. The story might not sound like much — a bankrupt king comm ands an aristocrat to marry a rich American widow — but, of course Stroheim fills the film with his own inimitable, outrageous touches, including a character with a foot fetish.

DOUBLE DUTCH Seattle has gained an international reputation as being the Dutch Film Capitol of the World. Throughout our ten years, the Seattle International Film Festival has had the honor of presenting American premieres of such classics as Cathy llppel, Max Havelaar, Soldier of Orange, In For Treatment, Spetters, A Flight of Rainbirds, The Fourth Man, and many more. This year we are proud to present nine brand new Dutch films that will give you a veiy go o d idea why Holland is getting the reputation of producing some of the best films in the world. Each week there will be special guests — directors, stars, and producers — attending. All programs are presented as double-bills, with the exception of Scorpion (June 6th).

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BASTILLE Director: Producers: Screenwriters: Cinematographer: Editor: Music: Cast: Print Source:

Rudolf van den Berg George Sluizer, Anne Lordon Annemarie van de Putte, Rudolf van den Berg, Leon de Winter Toni Kuhn Mario Steenbergen Boudewijn Tarenskeen Derek de Lint, Geert de Long, Evelyne Dress, Dora Doll Netheriands Consulate General 1985 91 minutes

Based on the novel by Leon de Winter, Bastille is the story of a young Jewish teacher’s (Derek de Lint) growing obsession with his own identity. He knows his parents were murdered in Auschwitz but he comes to believe that his twin brother, who disappeared with them and is presumed dead, is alive in France. Hypothesizing that the course of history is based purely on chance, he undertakes to find his lost brother. To further support his theoiy, he writes a study of Louis XVI’s and Marie Antoinette’s unsuccessful flight from France in which the royal couple escape and the course of history is altered. Bastille marks an impressive feature film debut for Rudolf van den Berg. Lead actor Derek de Lint (Soldier of Orange) in an extremely demanding role is nothing short of sensational.

TUESDAY, MAY 28

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Kees van Oostrum Rob Houwer van Oostrum and Maurice Noel Theo van de Sande Hans Dunnewijk Loek Dikker Ester Spitz, Gerard Thoolen, Kitty Curbois Rob Houwer Film Campagnie/Netheriands Consulate General 1984 105 minutes

Adapted from a famous Dutch novel based on a true story, Bittersweet, set during the Nazi occupation of Holland, is the story of a Jewish family who are forced to m ove from their country hom es to a ghetto in Amsterdam, where they wait to be shipped to Auschwitz. The story centers on the young teenage daughter, who manages to escape through the help of a friend, a young Dutch teenage boy who has become a “Hitler Youth." Rob Houwer (Turkish Delight, Soldier of Orange, The Fourth Man) has once again produced a film of rarity; one that never oversentimentalizes, yet go e s straight to your heart. W e are honored to present the first American showing of this exquisite film. Producer Rob Houwer is scheduled to appear.

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CISKE THE RAT Director: Producer: Screenwriter. Cinematographer: Editor: Music: Cast: Print Source:

Guido Pieters Matthijs van Heyningen Karting Loomans Frans Bromet Ton Ruys Erik van der Wurff Danny de Munk, Willeke van Amelrooy, Herman van Veen, Linda van Dyck, Peter Faber Richard Winckler/Frederick KIopp 1984 97 minutes

Far and away the most popular Dutch film of last year, Ciske the Rat is the heartwarming and heartbreak ing story of a young boy’s rebellion against his living conditions, and against everyone in general. His mother works as the local barmaid, and she is more concerned about her sexual needs that the welfare of her son. His father (separated from his mother) loves the boy, but spends m ost of his time at sea (he’s a sailor), or with his new girlfriend. Only his new girlfriend truly cares about the boy and, after a tragic accident, tries to help Ciske reshape his views on life. Set in the early 19 0 0 ’s Ciske the Rat has the feel of a 19 3 0 ’s Hollywood film about troubled youth. Ciske will steal your heart, on the way to stealing a lot else.

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THE C O O L LAKES O F DEATH Director/Screenwriter: Producer: Cinematographer: Editor: Music: Cast: Print Source:

Nouchka van Brake! Matthijs van Heyningen Theo van de Sande Edgar Burcksen Eric van der Wurff Renee Soutendijk, Derek de Lint, Erik van fW ou t Richard Winckler/Frederick Klopp 1983 120 minutes

Fans of American television’s most popular current prime-time soap operas will not be disappointed by Cool Lakes of Death, the exotic title of Holland's most expensive and best looking period melod rama. Adapting Frederik van Eeden’s 1898 novel, Van Brakel (A W oman Like Eve) traces the mental and physical breakdown of the film’s heroine, Hedwig, (brilliantly portrayed in a remarkable performance by Renee Soutendijk) through suicide attempts, the death of a suitor, a disastrous platonic marriage, a scandalous affair with a pianist, the death of her only child, insanity, prostitution and drug addition. The director’s intention was to give a feminist slant to Hedw ig’s suffering, which can be viewed as an extreme example of the devastating effects on the female psyche of total subordination to men, repressed sexuality and the hypocrisy of Victorian morality.

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DARLINGS! Director/screenwriteR Producers: Cinematographer: Editor: M u s ic Cast: Print Source:

Ruud van Hemert Chris Browuer, Haig Balian Theo van de Sande Ton de Graaf Van Hamert Akkemay, Frank Schaafsma, Peter Faber, Geert de |ong The Movies B.V. Amsterdam/Warner Brothers 1984 90 minutes

Saucy, racy, cheeky... nasty, Darlings! is far and away the most outrageously entertaining film from Holland in years. This surrealistic com edy concerns a major social issue — the generation gap between children and parents. When Mother starts trying to play Mrs. Robinson with her 13 year-old daughter’s boyfriend all hell breaks loose. Father, played by Peter Faber (Max Havelaar) is one of the commanding officers in the military and he tries desperately to reenact his role at home. Suffice it to say Darlings! is a M O N ST ER movie, little monsters who start retaliation with what they have been taught by their elders. Director Ruud van Hemert has crafted the most hilarious black com edy since... well — Harold and Maude. N ot to be missed! Director Ruud van Hemert is scheduled to attend.

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Director/screenwriter: Producen Cinematographer: Cast: Print Source:

Dimitri Frenkel Frank Roeland Kerbosch Theo van de Sande Renee Soutendijk, Gerard Thoolen, Bruno Ganz Roeland Kerbosch/Netherlands Consulate General 1985 100 minutes

The year is 1941, and Holland is under Nazi occupation. Gerard Thoolen (The Taste of Water, Mark of the Beast) is the Jewish owner of the ice cream parlor which becomes the focal point of fascist vs anti-fascist confrontations. A s the situation becomes increasingly more dangerous his actions become more glaring. A long-time friend, (Bruno Ganz), who is also a German officer, protects his Jewish friend as long as it is possible. The inevitable confrontation with the Nazis forces the film’s characters to make crucial decisions between friendship and military allegiance, and between love and principles. Renee Soutendijk (The Fourth Man, Spetters) is fast becoming an actress of immmense depth and versatility, and her performance in this film is no exception. Stars Renee Soutendijk and Gerard Thoolen will attend this screening.

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THE PRETENDERS Director/Producen Screenwriter: Cinematographer: Cast: Print Source:

AMERICAN PREMIERE

jos Stelling jos Stelling Theo van de Sande Eveit Holzer, Coby Stunnenberg Jos Stelling Film Produckde/Netherlands Consulate General 1981 95 minutes

Director Jos Stelling (Rembrandt 1669, Mariken, The Illusionist) is one of the most original and interesting filmmakers now working in Holland. His films are always so saturated with rich detail and atmosphere that the feeling you get is much more than just a story. Set in the mid 5 0 ’s, The Pretenders is the story of a group of young people who hang out in the local cafes. The story centers around a young man who, like the times, is forever changing. This Dutch American Graffiti is so loaded with charm and style, with a great music score, that it is irresistable to watch. Director jos Stelling will appear.

TUESDAY, MAY 21

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WHITE M AD N ESS Director/Screenwriter: Producen Cinematographer: Editor: Music: Cast: Print Source:

Adriaan Ditvoorst Jan Vrijman Albert van der Wildt Edgar Burcksen Claus van Mechelen Thom Hoffman, Pirn Lambeau Netherlands Consulate General

AMERICAN PREMIERE

1984

100 minutes

White Madness is the story of Lazio, a strong silent hero who takes heroin, despite his contempt for addicts in general. After an absence of 10 years, he returns to the decaying mansion where his mother, a retired actress, lives alone, in order to help her. She has had a crippling accident which has left her an invalid, and now has called Lazio home for one final, dynamic reunion. Striking images, excellent acting by Thom Hoffman (The Fourth Man, SIFF 1983) and Pirn Lambeau, first-rate photography, music and sound make White Madness a real original. Star Thom Hoffman will appear.

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FUNNY DIRTY LITTLE WAR Director: Producer: Screenwriter: Cinem atographer: Editor: M usic: Cast: Print Source:

Hector Oliver« Fernando Ayala, Luis O . Re petto Roberto Cossa, H. Olivera Leonardo Rodriguez So lis Lduardo Lopez O scar Cardoza Ocam po Federico Luppi, Hector Bidonde, Victor Laplace, Rudolfo Ranni, M iguel Angel Sola, |ulk> de Grazl Peter M arai 1983 80 m inutes

A parable of events in Peronist Argentina leading up to the military takeover in 1974, Funny Dirty Utde W ar is a combination of outrageous com edy and just plain outrage over the horrors of war. Hector Olivera (Rebellion In Patagonia), with his astute and ironic mix of farce and seriousness, shows veiy plainly how political idealism can turn into political anarchy. Perhaps the most acclaimed film ever to come from Argentina, this is no Evita, but it provides enough riotous laughter and wry introspection to satisfy the most jaded film-fan. Winner of the Silver Bear, Berlin, 1984.

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M Y FIRST WIFE Director: Producers: Screenwriters: Cinem atographer: Editor: M usic: Cast: Print Source:

Paul Cox jane Ballantyne, Paul Cox Paul Cox, Bob Ellis Yuri Sokol Tim Lewis Ann Boyd, Carl Orff, Joseph Haydn, Gluck John Hargreaves, W endy Hughes, Lucy Angwin, Anna Jemison, Charles lln gw eil, Robin Lovejoy Spectra Film 1984 100 m inutes

Paul C ox’s meteoric rise as promising director (Lonely Hearts, M an of Flowers) reaches a new high with the harrowing, intensely emotional M y First Wife. Apparently drawing on personal experiences, C ox has made a tough, unsentimental film about the break-up of a marriage. This time, it’s the wife w ho leaves. W endy Hughes, the remarkably gifted star of Careful, He M igh t Hear You and Lonely Hearts, is completely sympathetic in the difficult role of the wife w ho recognizes that her marriage is over before her husband is aware of it. John Hargreaves gives an amazing tour-de-force as the husband, who simply can’t cope with the situation — reacting first with incredulity, then anger, then anguish and despair. A s in M an o f Flowers, classical music plays an integral part in the film, which is almost operatic in texture. M y First W ife was the winner of three Australian Academy Awards: Best Director, Best Actor and Best Screenplay.

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SN EAK PREVIEW A wonderful new com edy starring one of Hollywood’s hottest new young actors, Eric Roberts (Star 80, The Pope o f Greenwich Village, Raggedy Man). Take a chance, if you dare!

FRIDAY, MAY 17 9:30 Market SATURDAY, MAY 18 4:00 Egyptian

Australia

STRIKEBOUND Director/Screenwriter: Richard Lowenstein Producer: M iranda Bain, Timothy W hite Cinem atographer: Andrew de Groot Editor: Jill Bilcock M usic: Declan Affley Cast: Chris Haywood, Carol Bum s, Hugh Keays-Bym e Print Source: Timothy White 1984 100 m inutes The 23-year old director of Strikebound, Richard Lowenstein, has gone on the record professing to dislike “films and television programs which romanticize the trade union movement.” His film is instead a “dramatic reconstruction of events which directly influenced and encouraged the growth of the Australian Trade Union Movement.” The story focuses on a couple, Wattie and A gnes Doig, Scottish immigrants concerned with better working conditions in the Sunbeam Colliery. They are as diverse as two people can be; He, a member of the Australian Communist Party; She, a member of the Salvation Army. Their conflict, struggle, dedication and courage represent an important stance. Lowenstein’s first film, nominated for nine Australian Film Institute awards, represents a new territory in Australian filmmaking. Shot on a minimal budget, the film features a Dolby stereo soundtrack that would d o the biggest Hollywood extravaganza proud.

SATURDAY, MAY 11

7:00

Egyptian

Australia

A TEST O F LO VE Director: Producen Screenwriter Cinem atographer Editor: M usic: Cast: Print Source:

Gil Brealey Don Murray Chris Borthwick and )ohn Patterson, based on the true story, A n n ie’s Com ing Out, by Rosem ary Crossley and Anne M cDonald M ick Von Bom em ann Lindsay Frazer Sim on W alker Angela Punch McGregor, Drew Forsythe, Tina Arhondis, M onica M aughan, M ark Butler, Charles Tlngwell, Sim on Chilvers Universal 1984 ^ 93 m inutes

Winner of 3 Australian Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actress, this amazing film is an overwhelming experience in anger, pain, courage, and exhilaration. Annie, brain dam aged at birth and unable to control her mvoements, was institutionalized at age 3 and has lived for 14 years in a state hospital that makes the wards in O ne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest look humane. Bedtime is 4:30 pm and rows of children in steel-barred cots stare at the blank walls, tossing and occasionally screaming without any response, until morning. But inside Annie is a bright girl, helpless and angiy, condemned to prison. A new teacher, Jessica (Angela Punch McGregor), comes to suspect that Annie is mentally alert and even advanced in her intelligence. With a profound dedication costly to her career and personal life, Jessica helps Annie break out of her prison, in a saga rivalling The M iracle Worker. Once communication is established Annie’s progress is phenomenal: within 2 years of learning to read she has mastered Catch-22. But it proves to be even more difficult convincing the doctors who diagnosed Annie as severely retarded that they were wrong: eventually Jessica and Annie have to take her case to court. A Test of Love is a hymn of joy to freedom as Annie breaks free from the physical, emotional, and institutional chains that bind her.

MONDAY, MAY 20

9:30

Egyptian

Australia

THE WILD D U C K Director: Producen Screenwriters: Gnem atographer: Editor: M usic: G ist: Print Source:

Henri Safran Philip Emanuel Safran, Peter sm alley, John Lind; based on the play by Henrik Ibsen Peter James Don Saunders Sim aon W alker Liv Ullm ann, Jeremy irons, Arthur Dignam , John M eillon RKR Productions 1983 96 m inutes

Ibsen's great play is given a full-blooded interpretation by a distinguished cast with great experience on both stage and screen. Liv Ullmann, star of many Bergman films (Face to Face, Scenes from a Marriage) has frequently appeared on Broadway; Jeremy Irons (French lieutenant’s W om an, Swann in Love) won a Tony for his performance in The Real Thing. The W ild Duck, written in 1883, revolves around a seemingly harmonious and quiet family. Life is shattered by the return of the father s old school friend, who after 17 years reveals a secret which affects each member and bring unnecessary sacrifice and pain. Safran has slightly modernized the play, setting it in 1913 and in Australia, but the core of the film is faithful to Ibsen's original intentions: Truth by itself without love and understanding may be tragically detrimental; som e lies are necessary.

AUSTRALIA • AUSTRIA • BELGIUM TUESDAY, MAY 28

9:30

Egyptian

Australia

W RONG W ORLD

A M ERICAN PREMIERE Director: Ian Pringle Producer: Brian M enzies, Ian Pringle Executive Producen Basia Puszka Screenwriter: Ian Pringle, D oug U ng Cinem atographer: Ray Argali M usic: Eric Gradm an Cast: Richard M oir, Jo Kennedy, N icolas Lathouris, Robbie M cGregor Print Source: Jeannine Seaw ell 1985 100 m inutes David Trueman (Richard Moir) is an Australian physician w ho wants to dedicate his career to the poor, to become “the Dr. Schweitzer of Bolivia.” He go es to La Paz, but when faced with the corruption and the military juntas ruling Latin America, he takes to drugs, crosses America coast to coast to lose himself in the wide open spaces, and is finally committed to an institution where he meets Mary, a kindred spirit. Jo Kennedy (Maiy), the spunky star of Gillian Arm strong’s Starstruck, won the Best Actress Award at the Berlin Rim Festival. Executive Producer Basia Puszka w ill attend.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 22

9:30

Egyptian

Austria

THE INHERITORS Director: Producen Screenwriten Gnem atographen Cast: Print Source:

W alter Bannert Gebhard Zupan, Gottfried Rolrdter Ericha Richter, W alter Bannert H anus Polak N ikolaus Vogel, Anneliese Stoedd-Eberiiard, Karom lr Borek, Klaus Novak, Tltanlla Kraus, Roger Schauer Islan d ABve 1983 97 m inutes

Two young lads, from very different but equally unhappy backgrounds, pal up. Thomas is from a materially well-off, social-climbing family with a shrewish mother and an over-sensitive brother. Charley com es from the poorest possible circumstances, with a brutal drunkard for a father. Both 16-year-old boys lack security, understanding and encouragement, and both join a youth club run by an extreme right-wing party. Apart from acceptance and comradeship, they are here offered som e slickly packaged ideology, the “old values,” and easy access to weapons. Their indoctrination works: when Charley’s father rapes his own daughter, their “Know your Enemy” training program com es into play. This film has touched off a political firestorm in Europe, where it was attacked by right-wing groups for its exposé of certain group activities at so-called survivalist camps.

M ONDAY, JUNE 3

9:30

Egyptian

Belgium

THE G O LD EN 8 0 fS Director: Producen Screenwriten Gnem atographen Editen M usic: Cast: Print Source:

Chantal Akerm an M arilyn W atelet Chantal Akerm an, Jean G ruait M ichael H oussalu Nadine Kesem an, Francine Sandberg M arc Herouet Francesca Best, Aurore Gem ent, M agali Noel, Pascale Salkin W orld A rtists 1983 82 m inutes

For those who know Remish filmmaker Chantal Akerman only from her uncompromising Jeanne Dielm an and eccentric Toute lin e Nuit, The Golden 80’s may come as something of a surprise. If equally unconventional, it is, nevertheless, quite willingly accessible, lighthearted, and even charming. The film, which has been described as a kind of deconstructed M G M musical, consists of a series of videotaped auditions blossom ing into completed production numbers; from Warhol rawness to Arthur Freed polish. In one of the best of many lively and versatile sequences, Akerman herself steps before the camera to sing a song. She has said The Golden 80’s is about her love for actors. N o doubt this uniquely exhilarating entertainment is also about her love for the movies! Shown with The M an W ith A Suitcase.

BRAZIL • C A N A D A TUESDAY, JUNE 4 7:00

Brazil

M arket

TWENTY YEARS LATER Dlrector/Screenwriten Producer: Cinem atography: Editor: M u s ic Cast: Print Source:

Eduardo Coutinho Producoes G nem atografkas M apas Edgar M oura and Fernando Duarte Eduardo Escorel Rogelio Rossini Elizabeth Teixeira and her fam ily, )oao Virginio Silva, and the people o f the Galileia Sugar M ill A W orld A rtists Release presented by Fabiano Canosa 1984 119 min.

In 1964 a documentary began filming in hom age to assassinated peasant leader, Joao Pedro Teixeira. During the shoot, the military coup intervened and the production was shut down. Two decades later, Eduardo Coutinho has finally, through arduous perserverence, managed to locate the original subjects — am ong them Teixeira’s widow. Hailed at both the Rio and Berlin Film Festivals, Twenty Years Later fluctuates between fact and fiction, past and present, resulting in a deeply personal film of conviction and dedication.

TUESDAY, MAY 14

7:00

M arket

Canada

LA FEMME DE L ’HOTEL Director: Lea Pool Producer: Bernadette Payeur Screenwriter: L Pool, M ichael Langlois Cinematographer: Daniel |obin Editor: M ichel Arenad M u sic Yves Laterriere Cast: Paule Baillargeon, Louise Marieau, Marthe Turgeon, Serge Dupre, G iles Renaud Print Source: Film s Transit 1984 88 m inutes Andrea is a filmmaker w ho returns to her native Montreal to make a musical drama with emphasis on the latter element Shortly after checking into the hotel of the title, she has a brief brush with Estelle, an attractive older woman with a strange unsettling quality. The film Andrea is making stars a young actress portraying a singer with a stormy personal life. filming continues, Andrea repeatedly encoun ters Estelle, who seem s to be grow ing more and more desperate all the time. A strange bond is established between them and the film Andrea is making seem s to resemble Estelle’s life more and more. Is art imitating life, or life imitating art? A film of subtle and quiet pleasures that d o not soften its impact as a strong wom an’s film that any man could appreciate, winner of the Best Actress Award at the Chicago Film Festival.

THURSDAY, MAY 30

9:30

Egyptian

Canada

M ARIA CHAPDELAINE Director: G ile s Carle Producer: Robert Bayfls and M urray Shostak Screenwriters: Guy Fournier and GIHes Carle, based on the novel by Louis Hemon Cinem atographer. Pierre M ign ot Editor: Avde Chirlaeff and M ichel Arcand M usic: Lewis Furey Cast: Carole Laure, Nick M ancuso, Claude Rich, amulette Gam eau Print Source: C W A 1983 114 m inutes Based on a novel whose heroine has become something of a Canadian legend, M aria Chapdelaine is an epic entertainment, intertwining adventure, history, and a tragic romance. It is an authentic portrayal of the people who built the foundations of French-Canadian society, who fought for their dreams against a harsh, unyielding land. And, on a more intimate level, it is the story of the beauteous, headstrong Maria, longing for an easier life, torn between the love of three veiy different men. This handsome, sometimes magical film stars Carole Laure (Get O u t Your Handkerchiefs) and Nick M a n cuso (Ticket to Heaven, Heartbreakers) and was directed by one of Canada’s most honored directors, Giles Carle. Star Nick M ancuso w ill attend.

C A N A D A • C H IN A THURSDAY, MAY 16

9:30

Canada

M arket

SO NATINE Dlrector/Screenwriten M icheline Lanctôt Producer: Pierre Gendron Cinem atographer: Guy Defaux Editor: Louis Surprenant, Lucette Bem ier M u sic François Cast: Pascale Bussieres, M arcia Pilote, Pierre Fauteux, Klim ent Dentshev Print Sourcèes Films Rene M aio 1984 91 m inutes A haunting film by actress-tumed-filmmaker Micheline Lanctôt, Sonatine is the story of two girls who are both searching for fulfillment as they awaken to the stirrings of adolescent love. The film is in the form of three movements — or sonnets — expressing the isolation and search for belonging inherent in youth. The first movement concerns Chantal, who begins to blossom as she finds herself infatuated with a bus driver on the route she takes. The second movement introduces us to Louisette, who stows away on a fishing boat, only to be discovered by a Bulgarian sailor whose language she does not understand. In the third movement, the girls become friends, united by a com m on desire to escape. They board a subway train, and in an act of defiance to a seemingly uncaring world, they take a journey that is both a physical and figurative trip to the end of the line. Winner of the Silver Lion (Best First Film) Venice Festival, 1984.

SATURDAY, JUNE 1 4:00

Egyptian

THATS M Y BABY Director/Screenwriter: Producer: Cinem atographer: Editors: M usic: Cast: Print Source:

Canada AM ERICAN PREMIERE

Edles Yolle and John Bradshaw Edie Yolles W.W. Reeve Stephen Withrow, Edie Yolles, and John Bradshaw Eric N. Robertson Timothy Webber, Sonja Sm its, Derek McGrath, Lenore Zann, Joanne McIntyre, Peter M acNeill Gem ini Film Productions Ltd. 1984 96 m inutes

That’s M y Baby tells the story of two young people who want different things in life — but they also want each other. Lewis, erratically, comically, and sometimes turbulently, explores his male identity in an increasingly feminist world while his love, Suzanne, busily and contentedly pursues her career. When he quits his job to sort out his priorities, their relationship inevitably rocks. That’s M y Baby is a role reversal com edy that refreshingly avoids sitcom clichés. It should delight audiences of all ages (especially those still grappling with the very contemporary conflicts of career, family, and shifting sex roles) and not just for its ironic assertion that the more questions you answer, the more there are to ask. Edie Yolles and John Bradshaw w ill be present.

TUESDAY, MAY 28

9:30

M arket

China

Q IU JIN — A REVOLUTIONARY Director: Producer: Screenwriter: Cast: Print Source:

Xle Jin Shanghai Film Studio Xie Jin, H uang Zongying U Zhiyu, Chen Xiguang, Zhang Chao W orld Entertainment Inc. 1983 144 m inutes

A new film from one of China’s best known directors (Two Stage Sisters) Qiu Jin is based on the life of a brilliant poetess and revolutionary — a fiery heroine who is equally comfortable carrying a sword, writing poetry, or impersonating a man in fervent pursuit of her ideals. Qiu Jin lived at the turn of the century when the decadent regime of the Q in g Dynasty was plunging China into turmoil and decay. She gave up her family and her wealthy background to struggle for justice and freedom from sexual, economic and political oppression for the Chinese people, becoming a celebrated martyr at the age of 32.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5

9:30

Egyptian

China

THE RIVER W ITHOUT BUO YS Director: Producer: Screenwriter: Cinematography: Editor: Cast: Print Source:

W u Tianm ing M i S a ld i Ye W eilin Uu Changxu, Zhu Kongyang Zhong Furong U Wei, Tao Yuling, Song Baosun, Chen Weifen, Hu Ronghua W orld Entertainment inc. 1983 110 m inutes

A haunting and insightful look at those turbulent years of the Cultural Revolution and its effects on the Chinese people, The River W ithout Buoys interweaves the lives and personal histories of three men, who eke out a living from a raft on the Xiao River in Hunan province during this painful period in China’s recent history. The river, of course, is a metaphor for that history, and the telling way in which the details of life in a society of “constant revolution” affect the protagonists marks a turning point in Chinese cinema. The lyrical tempo, the dramatic backdrops, and the lack of melodrama presage a new freedom in that countiy’s cultural efforts. W inner of 2 aw ards, Hawaii Film Festival.

MONDAY, MAY 13

7:00

Market

Cuba

H O U SE FOR SW AP Director: Producen Screenw riter Cinematographer: Editor: M usic: Cast: Print Source:

Juan Carlos Tabio IC A IC ). Tabio, Raul Garcia Julio Valdes Roberto Bravo Juan Marquez Rosita Fom es, Isab el Santos, M ario Balm aseda, Ram on Veloz Cinem a Guild 1964 98 m inutes

House For Sw ap is a lively, unexpectedly quirky satire on housing conditions in Cuba, and the extreme lengths to which people will g o to secure better digs. A ditsy, middle-aged matron is determined to find a house in the ‘right’neighborhood for herself and her eminently marriageable daughter. Apparently, in Cuba one can more easily trade a home than buy one. To this end, mother spares no effort — her schemes become increasingly more elaborate, involving more people, and more and more homes until everything is ready to come crashing dow n around her like a house of cards. Abundant humor and uncharacteristic (for Cuban cinema) social satire make House For Sw ap a rare treat.

MONDAY, MAY 27

M arket

Cuba

THE TABLES TURNED

AM ERICAN PREMIERE

Director: Producer: Screenwriter: Gnem atographer: Editor: M usic: Cast: Print Source:

9:30

Rolando Diaz Evelio Delgado M iriam Lezcano Pablo Martinez Jorge Abello Juan Formell, interpreted by “Los Van Van” Reinaldo M iravallesl, Consuelo Vidal, Alberto Pujol, Beatriz Valdes G nem a Guild 1984 90 m inutes

Obviously, the battle of the sexes is heating up in Cuba. This brisk, very funny com edy presents a typical young Cuban couple, Emilio and Magdalena. They consider themselves sexually liberated, but one day when they sneak into his apartment for a roll in the hay they’re horrified to be disturbed by his father, a widower, and her mother, a widow, who are having an affair of their own. This sets off an endless round of complications, pitting first the young against the old, and then the men against the women — all portrayed with a sprightly sense of humor and a bouncy soundtrack of rhythmic Cuban songs. Winner of 3 awards (including best Latin American film) at the 24th Cartagena Festival.

CZECH O SLO VAKIA • D E N M A R K THURSDAY, MAY 30

7:00

Egyptian

Czechoslovakia

THESN O W D R O P FESTIVAL Director Screenwriters Cinem atographer M u sic C a st Print Source

|iri Menzel Bohum il Hrabal, from his book of short Stories Jiri M acak jiri Sust Rudolf Hrusinsky, Jaromir Hanzlik, Jiri Schmitzer, Petr Cepek International Film Exchange 1984 95 m inutes

Director Jiri Menzel and author Bohumil Hrabal have made 4 films together including the Oscar-winning Closely W atched Trains. In H ie Snow drop Festival, a gentle com edy filled with impishly inventive irreverence, they focus on Hrabal’s neighbors in a rustic forest district outside Prague, who seem to lead rather lusty and eccentric lives. O ne local character herds his goats by Pontiac, then soothes them with a serenade on his clarinet. The film’s centerpiece is som e inspired and galloping madness about a wild boar that leads its hunters on a merry chase from one village to another before it is finally felled on neutral turf (a classroom) — resulting in hotly disputed claims for the spoils by both villages. Variety says The Snow drop Festival “is a warming human com edy on man’s foibles, a universal tale that surely would have tickled the funnybone of Aristophanes or Chaucer.”

SUNDAY, MAY 26 7:00 Egyptian M ONDAY, MAY 27 4:00 M arket

Denmark

THE ELEMENT O F CRIM E Director: Lars von Trier Producer: Per H olst Screenwriters: Lars von Trier, N iels Vorsel Cinem atographer: Tom Elllng Editor: Thom as G islason M usic: Bo Holten, A rs Nova Cast: M ichael Elphick, Esm ond Krught, M e M e Lai, Jerold W ells, Ahm ed El Shenwi, Astrid Henning-Jensen Print Source: The D anish Film Institute 1984 103 m inutes The most astounding and exotic film at the Berlin Festival this year was this deliciously perverse film noir thriller which marks the emergence of a major new directorial talent. It is the future, and life has become a post-apocalyptic nightmare resembling a Conradian vision of hell. The latest in a series of bizarre murders has occurred and Fisher, a revered detective, has returned from Cairo to sift through the clues and pursue the killer. Visiting his mentor, a once brilliant criminal theoretician now gone mad, Fisher picks up the thread of the investigation and attempts to track the murderer through a bizarre method of criminal osm osis which involves reliving the elements of the crime. The style of this film is akin to a madcap mating of Orson Welles and Hieronymous Bosch. Symbolism and fantasy don’t wait shyly in the w ings but come charging out in full makeup and costume. A giddy and visually surrealistic film that recalls the sense of discovery attending Eraserhead or Le Dernier Combat. Guaranteed to be one of the most memorable films of this year’s festival.

FRIDAY, MAY 24

7:00

M arket

Denmark

LADIES O N THE R O C K S Director: Screenwriters: Cinem atographer: M usic: Cast: Print Source:

Christian Braad Thom sen Helle Ryslinge, Anne M arie Helger, Christian Braad Thom sen Dirk Bruel Helle Ryslinge and the Paravion rock group Helle Ryslinge, Anne M arie Helger, Hans Henrik G em m ensen New Yorker Films 1983 100 m inutes

N ew York’s Film Forum describes this Danish delight as “a very funny road movie in which the ‘buddies’ are wom en — an aging rocker and a sensual hausfrau who travel through Denmark with an uproarious and bizarre feminist stage show.” And Variety praised the film for its “gamely provocative and generally slapdash-funny new way of handling old feminist themes.” The story: “Micha is hurting from being forever spurned by a musician-boyfriend who never promised her a rose garden, anyway. Laura is sm ug in her conviction that she can forever combine her touring stage life with life as wife of a lawyer and mother of two small children. The lawyer seem s happy, too, but becomes less so when he drops in on one of the girls’ performances, the latter featuring much rough language and physical sexual posturing.”

MONDAY, MAY 27

9:30

Egyptian

PARADISE IS N O T FOR SALE

Denmark AM ERICAN PREMIERE

Director: Teit Ritzau Producer. Louise Kjaer. Gerd G oos Screenwriter O le Jenning Hansen, T. Ritzau Cinem atographer: Dirk Bruel Editor: O.H. Hansen Cast: Christine Jorgensen, Giorgia O ’Brian, Thom as Hoick, Hanna Rasm ussen, The Society Duo Print Source: Danish Film Institute 1985 60 m inutes A documentaiy with heart as well as art, Paradise is both a warm-hearted and sober look at the world, fate and feelings of the sexual transvestite. Scanning the lives of various transvestites and transexuals (most notably Christine Jorgensen) the film manages to be fascinating without pandering to voyeurism or cheap shot. Fascinating indeed is the included footage of the Danish Tourist Board’s This is Denm ark — featuring Christine Jorgensen; film from Russian and East German archives to show the fates of transvestites in Hitler’s Germany; and a sequence from a 1919 UFA feature, Different from the Others, starring Conrad Veidt in a sexual deviate role. Finally, the director brings the four main protagonists together to discuss their experiences and watch a performance of Giorgia O ’Brian’s Paradise is not for Sale.

THURSDAY, MAY 23

9:30

Egyptian

Denm ark

ZAPPA Director: Screenwriters: Cinem atography: Editor: M usic: Cast: Print Source:

Bille A ugust Bille August and Bjam e Reuter Jan W eincke Janus Billeskov Jansen Bo Holten Peter Reichardt, Adam Tonsberg, Morten Hoff Spectra Film 1983 103 m inutes

At first glance, the protagonists of Bille August’s Zappa look as though they must lead charmed lives. Tall, slender, uncommonly handsome young Danes, they are reaching adolescence during an era of quiet prosperity (the year is 1961). Their families are solidly upper middle class, their suburb pretty and serene. But appearances are deceptive and the friendship between Bjorn and Sten has a side that’s disconcertingly sinister. Sten uses all his seductive, malignant power to bend his unlucky friend and a poor fat boy, who badly wants to join their gang, to his will, tormenting them into acts of increasing violence. Formerly a cameraman, August draws unusually complex and evocative portraits of his boys, most intriguingly the devilish Sten. If the film’s dark moral may seem obvious (the boys’ parents are satirized with predictable zest), its drama is nonetheless suspenseful, troubling, and true!

SATURDAY, MAY 11

9:30

Market

France

A N O S A M O U R S (TO O U R LOVES) Director: Producen Screenwriters: Cinem atographer. Editor M usic: Cast: Print Source:

M aurice Pialat M icheline Pialat Ariette Langm ann and Maurice Pialat Jacques Loiseleux Yann Dedet Henry Purcell’s “The Cold Song,” performed by Klaus Nom i Sandrine Bonnaire, Maurice Pialat, Evelyne Kerr, Dom inique Besnehard Colum bia Pictures/rrium ph Films 1983 102 m inutes

Director Maurice Pialat (Loulou) has always been keenly interested in young people and has devoted some of his most perceptive productions to their problems. This is his most profoundly uncompromising work to date on that subject, featuring an unforgettable performance by sultry 17-year-old newcomer, Sandrine Bonnaire. (Pialat himself acts the role of her father.) A N os Am ours show s how a girl turns herself into a sexual object to escape intimacy. She plunges into promiscuity, not to tease her many suitors, but as a way to avoid confronting her most charged and terrifying bonds — with her family. Wrote the Village Voice's David Edelstein, “A N os Am ours is feral, grueling, and tragic — the most powerful movie of the year and a landmark work about adolescent sexuality.” It is, quite simply, not to be missed! Winner of the French Cesar for best film of 1983.

FRANCE FRIDAY, JUNE 7

7:00

Egyptian

France

LA CHEVRE Director/Screenwriter: Producer: Cinem atographer: Editor: M usic: Cast: Print Source:

A M ERICAN PREMIERE Francis Veber A lain Poire Alex Philips Albert Jurgenson Vladim ir Cosm a Pierre Richard, Gerard Depardieu, Corynne Charbit, M ichel Robin, Andre Valardy European U a ssic s 1982 91 m inutes

La Chevre (The Goat) is an earlier film from the same people as last year’s smash hit comedy, Les Comperes. In La Chevre writer/director Francis Veber first discovered the hilarious comic possibilities of teaming dithering foul-up Pierre Richard (The Tall Blond M an W ith One Black Shoe, The Toy) and tough guy Gerard Depardieu (The Last Metro, Return of M artin Guerre, Danton). Depardieu is a private detective hired by an industrialist to find his accident-prone daughter, w ho disappeared while on vacation in Mexico. When Depardieu fails the industrialist sends Richard, the company’s equally accident-prone accountant, hoping that the inevitable catastrophes that befall him will provide a path to the daughter. Needless to say, the comic complications that result are devastating^ funny.

SUNDAY, JUNE 9

4:00

Egyptian

France

CLAW A N D TOOTH Director/Gnem atographen Producer: Editor: Sound com posed by: Stereo sound recorded by: Print Source:

François Bel and Gerard Vienne Cinéastes Anim aliers A sso cies (C IN IA S) Jacqueline Lecompte M ichel Fano François Bel and Pierre Ley Interam a 1984

Probably the most beautifully photographed documentary on wild animals ever made, four years in production, Claw and Tooth is a breathtaking visit to the African plain. A wealth of animals are shown, including elephants, giraffes, panthers, gazelles, rhinoceruses, and zebras, but it is the big cats — and lions in particular — that steal the show. Whether hunting or mating, lounging or sleeping, these extraordinary beasts are never less than riveting. The photography throughout is superb, particularly in the amazing nocturnal sequences. Unencumbered by the kind of educational narration that so often mars this genre, Claw and Tooth allows the personalities of its furry stars to fairly leap from the screen. The film has won many prizes in Europe and was a hit at the Cannes Film Festival. In Dolby Stereo.

FRIDAY, MAY 24

5:00

Egyptian

France

THE DEVIL PROBABLY Writer/Director: Robert Bresson Producer: Stéphane Tchalgadjieff Cinem atographer: Pasqualino de Sands Editor: Germaine Lamy M usic: Philippe Sarde Cast: Antoine Monnier, Tina Irissari, Henri de Maublanc, Laetitia Carcano Print Source: Corinne M ann 1977 99 m inutes First we see the newspaper stories: Youth Kills Self in Cemetery, Then master director Robert Bresson takes us back six months in time to examine the reasons behind the headlines. W hy would a beautiful young boy commit suicide? W ho is responsible? The answer, perhaps, is in the ironic title of this haunting film by the director of L’Argent, Lancelot du Lac and Pickpocket. A lot of adjectives have been used in attempts to describe Bresson’s uniquely powerful vision — austere, rigorous, spiritual, Catholic, pure, pristine, intense, uncompromising, controlled — but his art is beyond paraphrase. It demands to be seen and experienced. The late François Truffaut wrote: “O ne doesn’t find this nobility in very many films. Film is an art, but not all filmmakers are artists. Bresson is, and his new masterpiece, The Devil Probably, is a voluptuous film."

FRANCE WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5

7:00

Egyptian

France/ltaly

FAVORITES O F THE M O O N Director: Producer Screenw riter Editor: M usic: Cast: Print Source:

O tar losseliani Philippe Dussart O tar losseliani, Gerard Brach Dom inique Bellfort N icolas Zourabichvili Alix de M ontaigu, Pascal Aubier, Jean-Pierre Beauviala, Mathieu Am alric, Gaspard Flori Spectra Film 1984 101 m inutes

To say that this wonderfully entertaining film contains echoes of Tati, Clair, and Buñuel is only half the story: it has also all the quirks and generosity of its talented director Otar losseliani (a Georgian from the U.S.S.R.). The theme is how greed m oves through all societies and all centuries. The method is kaleidoscopic — dozens of characters are caught in various stages of their lives as money and objects are passed from one to another, urged along by rhythmic camera movements and pin-sharp editing. The result is a truly original film, with the minimum of dialogue and so much to watch that you have to keep your eyes glued to the screen. A bravura, liberated work which makes many other current filmmakers look like sluggards.

M ONDAY, MAY 20

7:00

Egyptian

France

FRENCH C A N C A N Director: Screenwriter: Gnem atographer: M usic: Cast: Print Source:

|ean Renoir Andre-Paul Antoine M ichel Kelber GeorgesVan Parys Jean Gabin, Françoise Am oul, M aria Felix, Jean-Roger Caussim on, Edith Piaf, Patachou interam a 1955 105 m inutes

Unavailable for years, jean Renoir’s exuberant tribute to the Moulin Rouge can finally be seen, and loved, again. And w e’ve got a sparkling, ravishing new Technicolor print. Based loosely on the life of Ziegler, the founder of the Moulin Rouge, Renoir’s gorgeous film is an endlessly energetic symphony of dazzling dance rhythms and swirling colors. And petticoats. Lots of petticoats. Film historian Leslie Halliwell praised the film for “Splendidly evoking a vision of vanished Paris: a feast for the eyes.” From the director of Grand Illu sion and Rules of the Game, French Can-Can is an equal, but lesser-known, masterpiece.

TUESDAY MAY 21

9:30

Egyptian

France

L'HOM M E BLESSÉ Director Producer Screenwriter Cinem atographer Editor M usic C ast Print Source

Patrice Chereau Ariel Zeitoun Patrice Chereau, Herve Guibert Renato Berta Denise de Casabianca Alber Ayler (ean-Hugues Anglade, Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Lisa Kreuzer, Roland Bertin Cinevista 1983 110 m inutes

L’Homme Blessé (The W ounded M an) is a whirlwind of frustrated adolescent passion focusing on one month in the life of an 18-year-old boy who, with a jolt, awakens to his homosexuality. Wandering aimlessly into the men’s room at a seedy train station, Henri (jean-Hugues Anglade) tries to intervene when he witnesses a mugging, jean (Vittorio Mezzagiorno), the repulsively handsome and macho attacker, pins Henri against the wall and gives him an intense, sexy kiss which wounds him with his first love for an older man. L’Homme Blessé is absolutely amazing in its erotic power. Chereau, the renowned theatre director whose controversial staging of Bayreuth’s centennial Ring cycle was seen on PBS, brings his exquisite sense of theatre to the film. Combining the outward grittiness of Italian neo-realist cinema with the more modern explicitness of Fassbinder, L’Homme Blessé is an audacious film with heart and soul.

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IMPROPER C O N D U C T Director/Screenwriter: Producen Cinem atographer: Editen English narraton Cast: Print Source:

Nestor Alm endros and O rlando Jimenez Leal M argaret M enegoz, Barbet Schroeder, M ichel Thoulouze Dom inique M erlin M ichel ñ o n , A lain Tortevoix Jeoffrey Lawrence Carey interviews with 28 Cuban exiles, as well as Fidel Castro and Susan Sontag Cinevista 1984 115 m inutes

Oscar-winning master cinematographer Nestor Almendros (Days of Heaven, Sophie’s Choice, Places in the Heart), who lived for years in Cuba, and Cuban exile Orlando Jimenez Leal (El Super) have collaborated on the first thorough exposé of Castro’s Cuba, on its 25th anniversary. Alm ost from the beginning the revolutionary government was determined to deny the existence of political “impurities” by charging many dissidents with “moral impurity.” There came a time when a man could be arrested for wearing tight pants on the streets of Havana. O r long hair. O ne brave and touching transvestite tells of a prison guard’s falling hopelessly in love with him. Poet Arm ando Valladares tells of a 12-year-old boy w ho was arrested for a prank, tortured and raped by gu a rd s— then condemned as a homosexual. The anti-homosexual hysteria of the dominant ideology is, in particular, remarkably well documented. Winner of the Grand Prix at the International Human Rights Film Festival at Strasbourg, France, this film is an absolute must-see.

SUNDAY, MAY 19

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France

THE M A N IN THE SILK HAT Director/Producen Screenwriter: Editor: M usic: Narrator: Cast: Print Source:

M aud Linder M aud Linder Suzanne Baron, Pierre Gillette Jean-Marie Senia M aud Linder M ax Linder Horizon Releasing 1983 96 m inutes

Imagine a silent comedian the equal of Chaplin and Keaton but almost totally unknown today. Im pos sible? Indeed not, for here he is: M a x Linder, witty, debonair star of 5 0 0 short films between 1905 and 1925, whom Chaplin called “The Master.” The M an in the Silk Hat is funny, irresistibly charming, and without any parallel in the cinema. It is the visual autobiography of a man w ho died 6 0 years ago, lovingly retrieved and restored by the daughter who never knew him. M aud Linder was a tiny baby at the time of her parents’ double suicide in 1925, and did not know the identity of her great father until she grew up. Because he was so prolific, M a x regularly drew on scenes from his life as the inspiration for his comedies, so M au d is able to show his story through excerpts from his work (using 42 titles). Struck from the original negatives, the films are bright as new, so there is no longer any barrier to our rediscovery of this dashing, witty, sophisticated young Frenchman, the most endearing of the great clowns.

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M A N WITH A SUITCASE Director/Screenwriter Producers Cinem atography Editor C a st Print Source

Chantal Akerman Yves Valero and Marie-Helene Noquet Maurice Perrimont and M arie Cedle Thevenin Frederic Sandberg Chantal Akerman, |effrey Kime W orld A rtists 1984 60 m inutes

Chantal Akerman delights in confounding expectations. None of her films resembles any other in shape or subject, although they all recognizably share the viewpoint of an independent woman negotiating the shoals of sexuality, work, and the movie business. Here she demonstrates a surprisingly assured talent for comedy. M an with a Suitcase is based on an autobiographical incident and Akerman herself plays its heroine, a woman who returns to her apartment to find it invaded by a large American male. For two weeks she is besieged by the clatter, flushings, and footsteps of this unwanted guest. Ironically, it is her behavior, not his, that seem s abnormal, giving Akerman’s stock-in-trade feminism a provocative twist and suggesting a droll, sometimes hilarious, burlesque of Polanski’s Repulsion.

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M ISSISSIPPI BLUES Producers/Directors: Cinematographer: Editors: Cast: Print Source:

Bertrand Tavernier, Robert Parrish Pierre-W illiam Glenn Ariane Boeglin, A gnes Vaurigaud Joe Cooper, Poppa Neale, Hayward M ills Corinth Films 1984 107 m inutes

Director Bertrand Tavernier (A Sunday in the Country, Coup de Torchon) (is an ardent blues fan — so he got together with American Robert Parrish to make this charming documentary excursion into Faulkner Country. The crew spent two months in Faulkner's birthplace, Oxford, Mississippi, making what the London Film Festival described as: “a remarkable portrait of the American South, a portrait not only of the strong, on-going grassroots tradition of gospel and blues singing, but of a part of the world where the past actively informs the present: where people straight out of Faulkner still talk of the Secession War, but where a black preacher tells stories which would suggest that failing the Church he could easily find a rewarding career in showbusiness.” A fascinating and affectionate film.

FRIDAY, MAY 24

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M Y NEW PARTNER Director/Producen Screenwriter: Gnem atography: Editor: M usic: Cast: Print Source:

Claude Zldi Claude Zidi and Didier Kam inka, from the story by Sim on M ickael Jean-)acque Tarbes Nicole Saum ier Francis Lai Phlllippe Noiret, Thierry Lhermitte, Régine, Grace de Capitani, Julien Guiom ar O rion C lassics

1984

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Philippe Noiret (Let Joy Reign Suprem e, Coup de Torchon) gives yet another brilliant performance as René Broisard, a lovable, crooked, brilliant, and dedicated Parisian police detective. Noiret is saddled with a straight out of cadet school rookie, Thierry Lhermitte (M y Best Friend’s G ri), and the comic fireworks start. Director Claude Zidi has managed to balance the elements of a classic French “policier”, comedy, violence, and drama into a marvelously slick, funny film. Recipient of France’s Cesar for both Best Picture and Director, M y New Partner is sure to be a winner at this year’s Festival.

SATURDAY, MAY 18

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O N E DEADLY SUM M ER Jean Becker Gerard Beytout, Christine Beytout Sebastien Japrisot, from h is novel Etienne Becker Jacques W hta Georges Delerue Isabelle Adjani, A lain Souchon, Suzanne Flon, Jenny Geve, M ichel Galabru, M aria M achado Print Source: Universal 1983 133 m inutes

Director: Producer: Screenwriter: Cinematographer: Editor: M usic: Cast:

This film noir thriller with a strong psychological bent was the winner of 4 Cesars: Best Actress (Isabelle Adjani), Best Supporting Actress (Suzanne Flon), Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Editing. It tells the story of a dangerously neurotic girl’s obsession with a family shame. Early one summer a stunning young woman appears in a small town in Southern France and soon captures the attention of the entire male population. But her eccentric, petulant behavior remains enigmatic: is she merely a mixed-up charmer, or is there motive in her m adness? Isabelle Adjani is the heart of the film, completely believable both as a cunning femme fatale and as a tragic psychological victim. Varietycalled her performance “Astonishing... electrifying,” and Richard Corliss of Time M agazine said, Adjani makes it sizzle.

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PETIT C O N Director: Gerard Lauzier Producer: A lain Poire Screenw riter Gnem atographen Editor M usic:

Gerard Lauzier, based on his cartoon album , “M em oirs of a Young M an ” Jean-Paul Schwartz Georges Klotz Vladim ir Cosm a

G ist: Bernard Brieux, Guy Marchand, G irolin e cellier, Souad Am idou Print Source: The Sam uel Goldwyn Com pany 1984 90 m inutes Michel is a teenage rebel who romanticizes himself and his left-wing ideals. Declaring war on his parents’ narrow-minded materialism, he m oves out of their cozy apartment into an upstairs maid’s room, where he lures a luscious Algerian girl. He hangs around a bohemian family where the parents invite him to join in sex à trois and the shy son propositions him. Meanwhile Michel’s father (Guy Marchand) tries so hard to bridge the generation gap that his own marriage is jeopardized. Writer/director Gerard Lauzier, a leading French comic strip artist, is bitingly satiric, neatly turning the tables on the usual teenage rebellion film by siding with the values Michel rejects. John Haiti of the Seattle Times writes, Pedt Con “is balanced, witty, always surprising and a worthy successor to such great French films about adolescence as Louis Malle’s Murm ur of the Heart and François Truffaut’s The 400 Blows."

WEDNESDAY, MAY 29

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France

T CH AO PANTIN (SO LO N G , STOO GE) Director/Producer: Screenwriter: Gnem atographer: Editor: M usic: Cast: Print Source:

Claude Berri Claude Berri and A lain Page Bruno Nuytten Herve de Luze Charielie Couture Coluche, Richard Anconina, Agnes Soral, Philippe Leotard European G a ssic s 1984 100 m inutes

Those w ho remember Coluche as the loveable best friend from last year’s M y Best Friend’s Giri will have a startling surprise here: this famous funnyman’s first fully serious role. In Tchao Pantin he gives a raw and wholly credible performance as a dropout cop, d ogg ed by drink and self-disgust. It won him a well-earned French Cesar for best actor. Based on a prize-winning novel, the film focuses on an unlikely and almost redemptive friendship between the ex-cop and a young Arab with shady mob connections. Besides strong performances (including Richard Anconina as the Arab and A gnes Soral as his punky girl friend), the film boasts an exotic look at underworld Paris: mysteiy, violence, and bloody revenge. France’s representative in this year’s race for the Best Foreign Film Oscar.

FRIDAY, MAY 31

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A M A N LIKE EVA Director: Screenwriters: Gnem atographen Editor: Cast: Print Source:

Radu Gabrea Radu Gabrea, Laurens Straub Horst Schier Dragos-Em anuel W ittkowski Eva Mattes, Lisa Kreuzer, W erner Stocker, Charles Regnier G nevista 1983 92 m inutes

The great German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder may be dead, but his likeness lives on in this outrageous portrait of an eccentric, egomaniacal film director and his motley clan who are shooting a movie of “The Lady of the Camellias” (The story Giuseppe Verdi used for “La Traviata”) in a dilapated old villa. Eva Mattes (star of Fassbinder’s Jail Bait, The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, and Werner H erzog’s Stroszek) is R.W.F. (called Eva here) in this thinly-disguised bio-fantasy-pic. Also featured is Lisa Kreuzer, ex-wife of Wim Wenders and star of his Alice In the Cities and The Am erican Friend. From the Berlin Film Festival program: “The concentration of (Eva’s) directorial work and the beauty of the film being created are in stark contrast to the chaotic lifestyle of the group. There everybody and everything is in jarring discord with each other... The merry-go-round of work, sex and power spins faster and faster. Film and real life intermingle. A s in opera, drama takes its course.”

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M A N UNDER SU SP IC IO N Director: Producer: Screenwriter: Cinem atographer: M usic: Cast: Print Source:

Norbert Kuckelm ann Projekt Film produktion, Rübezahl Film Norbert Kuckelm ann, Thom as Petz, Dagm ar Kekule (urgen jurge, Renato Fortunato M arkus Urchs M axim ilian Schell, Lena Stolze, Robert Aldini Spectra Film 1984 126 m inutes

Known for “court room films” (The Experts, Shooting Practice, Last Years of Childhood), Norbert Kuckelmann continues in this vein with an intriguing and complex thriller about the dangers of right wing extremist groups in Germany. The investigation is viewed through the eyes of a lawyer (Maximilian Schell) who is reviewing the case of a shooting during a political rally in Oktoberfest. A boy is ap prehended and thought to be a leftist terrorist by the police, but the lawyer discovers he is a member of a reactionary youth group. M an Under Su sp id an is both brilliantly conceived as a fictional work as well as a frightening look at the actual sociopolitical phenomenon of Neo-Nazi groups in Germany. Official West German entry to the Academy for consideration as Best Foreign Language film.

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O U T O F ORDER Director/Screenwriter: Producer: Cinem atographer: Editor: M usic: Cast: Print Source:

W est Germany

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Carl Schenkel Thom as Schuhly, M atthias Deyle Jacques Steyn Norbert Herzner Jacques Zwart Renee Soutendijk, Gotz George, W olfgang Kieling, Henns Jaenicke, Kurt Raab Sand Star Distribution 1984 88 m inu tes

O ne of the best action thrillers of recent German cinema, O u t of O rder was also one of the top grossing films in Germany last year. Four extremely different characters (three men and a woman) enter an elevator in a Frankfurt skyscraper at the end of a work week. Each of them has a secret, and when thè elevator suddenly breaks down between floors, they discover they are trapped in a deserted building with little hope of escape before M o nd ay morning. At this point, a gam e of one upmanship begins which soon pits one against the other in a situation that is in turn harrowing and hilarious. When the steel cables begin to snap, and the elevator with its terrified passengers thunders down the shaft in abrupt intervals, the masks are stripped away and all hell begins to break loose. Twists aplenty, biting humor and large scale drama make this thriller a special treat — a sort of reverse play on last year’s festival hit The Lift, with brilliant performances by a cast that includes Renee Soutendijk (Spetters, The Fourth Man). Going dow n?

TUESDAY, MAY 21

7:00

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THE TROUBLE WITH LOVE Director: Producer: Screenwriter: Gnem atographer: Editor: M usic: ’ Cast: Print Source:

Heike Sander Jurgen Mohrbutter H. Sander, Dorte Haak M artin Shafer Barbara Von W eiterschausen Heiner Goebbels Heike Sander, Lou Castel, Rebecca Pauly, Katrin Seybold W eltvertrieb im Filmverlag der Autoren 1984 117 m inutes

Trained along with others of the Berlin Film School, Helke Sander is one of the founding members of the feminist film community in Germany, a writer and editor for W om en and Film, and an accomplished director who also stars in her films. Her films are rarely seen outside Europe, despite the attention and respect which they have been accorded there. In The Trouble with Love, Sander stars in a story of two women who struggle to maintain their friendship when they discover that the longtime boyfriend of one has become the full time lover of the other. The women overrate their ability to deal with the situation, while the man eventually turns tail and flees, setting in motion a series of om inous events...

G ERM A N Y • GREAT BRITAIN FRIDAY, MAY 31

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THEUNAPPROACHABLE Director: Screenplay: Editor: Cast: Print Source:

Krzysztof Zan u ssi Krzysztof Zanussi, Edward Zebrow skl Inge Behrens Leslie Caron, Daniel W ebb, Leslie M alton Teleculture 1982 89 m inutes

The SIFF just wouldn’t be the SIFF without another dazzling and provocative entry from one of the finest directors on the international scene today: Polish native Krzysztof Zanussi, maker of such masterworks as W ays in the Night, Cam ouflage, Contract and Imperativ. The Unapproachable, a Pinteresque chamber drama, has been called Zanussi’s Sunset Boulevard. A glamorous, reclusive screen actress (Leslie Caron) finds her privacy invaded by a mysterious yo un g man who claims to be an art student — and who gains admission to her private sanctuary by pretending to have been m ugged outside her gate. O nce inside, the “student” engages the actress in a witty (and deceptive) game of cat-and-mouse.

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Great Britain

BLUE M O N EY Director: Producer: Screenwriter: Cinem atographer: Editor: M usic:

Colin Bucksey June Roberts, Jo Apted Stewart Parker Peter Jessop Ron Costelloe Richard Hartley

Cast: Tim Curry, Debby Bishop, Billy Connolly, Derm ot Crowley, Frances Tomelty Print Source: London W eekend Television 1984 85 m inutes Tim Curry is a wacky London cabbie with showbiz aspirations who finds a briefcase full of money in the back of his cab. Soo n the mafia and the I.R.A. are after him, and he even has to dress up in nun-drag to elude his pursuers. Variety raved: “British television production gives Tim Curry his biggest chance to carry on without a leash since The Rocky Horror Show, and his performance is an audience pleaser... Pic is basically an excuse for a star turn, which Curiy pulls off with a nonstop display of feverish energy and manic comedy. At the same time, however, Colin Bucksey establishes himself as a director of som e promise thanks to the way he adroitly keeps things m oving through a multitude of locations and situations. M usic plays a considerable role in the proceedings, and Curry gets to do imitations of Elvis Presley and, much more effectively, M ick Jagger. It’s all light fun, a piece of contempo fluff pulled off with appealing elan.”

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THE CO U N TR Y GIRLS Director: Producer Screenw riter Cinem atographer Ed itor M usic: Cast: Print Source:

Desm ond Davis Aida Young Edna O ’Brien, based on her novel Denis Lewiston Timothy Gee Francis Shaw Sam Neill, Maeve Germaine, Jill Doyle, John Kavanagh, Niall Toibin Hanson and Schwam 1983 103 m inutes

Edna O ’Brien and Desm ond Davis worked together on The Girl with Green Eyes in 1963, and twenty years later that combination of talents is as fresh and formidable as ever. The Country G irls tells the story of a young girl, Kate (Maeve Germaine), grow ing up in a County Clare village in the 1950s. A scholarship to an oppressive convent school, the influence of her precocious friend Baba (Jill Doyle), and the attentions of an unhappily married older man (Sam Neill), set her on a course of discovery which leads beyond the narrow horizons of village life to Dublin. Filmed in Ireland, the simple romantic story is touched with tragedy and humor, and filled with the wonder of life.

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D ANCE WITH A STRANGER Director: Producer: Screenwriter: Cinematographer: Editor: M usic: Cast: Print Source:

Great Britain AM ERICAN PREMIERE

M ike Newell Roger Randall-Cutler Shelagh Delaney Peter Hannan M ick Audsley Richard Hartley M iranda Richardson, Rupert Everett, Ian Holm The Sam uel Goldwyn Com pany 1985 101 m inutes

Dance W ith a Stranger is based on the true story of Ruth Ellis, the last woman in Britain sent to the gallows, in 1955, for shooting her lover. This is also the best British film about passion in a frozen climate since jack Clayton’s Room at the Top. Ellis (Miranda Richardson) was working as manageress of a small Mayfair nightclub when she met public schoolboy and amateur racing driver David Blakely (Rupert Everett, charismatic star of Another Country). What follows is a tale of impossible love and lust that attains tragic proportions: the drunken, insecure young man without a will to win gradually destroys the life of a vivacious, highly sexual woman who lives alone with her child from a previous love affair. At the center of the film is a performance so perfectly realized and played with such finesse and intensity that it is downright staggering. Like Simone Signoret in Room at the Top, Miranda Richardson should earn an Oscar Nomination for this film, if not win the award. For Ruth Ellis, and for her son, who killed himself two years ago, this film is more than an appropriate memorial. It Is a requiem to unrequited passion and another jewel in the crown for British cinema. Stars Rupert Everett and M iranda Richardson w ill attend.

SATURDAY, MAY 11 9:30 Egyptian SUNDAY MAY 12 4:00 Market

Great Britain

THE HIT Director: Producer: Screenwriter: Cinem atographer: Editor: M usic: Cast:

Stephen Frears Jeremy Thom as Peter Prince M ike M olloy M ick Audsley Paco de Lucia, Eric Clapton John Hurt, Laura del Sol, Terence Stamp, Tim Roth, Fernando Rey, Bill Hunter Print Source: Islan d Alive 1984 105 m inutes

Even bad guys have bad days. And for the bad guys in this movie, everything go e s awry. Question is, just who are the bad guys here? Willie (Terence Stamp) is a crook turned informer who sent his own partners up the river. Ten years later, Willie’s ex-gang sends a hardened hit man (John Hurt) and a Cockney punk named M yron (Tim Roth) to kidnap Willie from the tiny Spanish village where he’s been hiding and take him back to Paris for execution. But Willie seem s unconcerned about the whole ordeal — an attitude that starts to drive the hit men crazy. Along the way they pick up hot-blooded Laura del Sol, and the sexual tension starts building, as well. Critic David Thomson called The Hit: “A slick, suspenseful, sun-drenched film noir.” It’ll have you biting your nails and clutching the arms of your seat (or your neighbor).

WEDNESDAY, MAY 22

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THE P LO U G H M A N ’S LU N CH Richard Eyre Sim on Relph and Ann Scott Ian McEwan Clive Tickner David Martin Dom inic M uldow ney Jonathan Pryce, Tim Curiy, Rosem ary Harris, Frank Finlay, Charlie Dore, Bill Paterson, M argaret Thatcher Print Source: The Sam uel Goldwyn Com pany 1983 107 m inutes

Director Producer Screenwriter Cinem atographer Editor M usic Cast

A ploughman’s lunch is a popular English pub meal that sounds traditional, but was actually invented in the 19 6 0 ’s by brewers’ advertising agencies to boost the lunch trade. The lying title reflects the moral bankruptcy of James, an unscrupulous BBC radio journalist (Jonathan Pryce), who is writing books on the Falklands War and the 1956 Suez crisis that he hopes will sell and is pursuing Susan, a beautiful tv researcher. Combining his two interests James wangles an invitation to stay with Susan’s mother, an expert on Suez, but it backfires. Tim Curry (Rocky Horror Picture Show, Blue Money) plays James' equally cynical best friend. This searing attack on current British politics and morality reaches an astonishing climax at the 1982 Conservative Party conference, where cast and crew filmed undercover during Prime Minister Thatcher’s victory speech.

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RESTLESS NATIVES Director: Producer: Screenwriter: Gnem atographer: Editor: M usic:

Great Britain

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M ichael Hoffman Richard Stevenson Ninian Dun nett O liver Stapleton Sean Barton Big Country

Cast: Teri Lally, Vincent Friell, Joe Mullaney, Ned Beatty, Robert Urquhart Print Source: Thom -EM I 1985 93 m inutes A humorous tale of two impoverished Scottish teenagers who, through their daring acts of highway robbery in the Highlands, become national folk heroes. Wanted by the police of 27 nations for holding up tourist buses, their time is running out. Restless Natives is the product of Seattle producer/director team of Rick Stevenson and Michael Hoffman (Privileged, SIFF 1983). Using the magical scenery of the Highlands and an absolutely splendid script, they have created a wonderful film that reminds one immediately of the charm and warmth experienced in Local Hero. Producer Rick Stevenson and director M ichael Hoffm an w ill attend.

FRIDAY, MAY 24 9:30 M arket SATURDAY, MAY 25 4:00 Egyptian

SECRET PLACES Director: Producer: Screenw riter G nem atographer Editor: M usic:

Great Britain

A M ERICAN p r e m ie r e

Zelda Barron Sim on Relph and Ann Skinner Zelda Barron, from a novel by Janice Elliott Peter M acDonald Laurence M ery-G ark M ichel Legrand

Cast: Mariek-Therese Relin, Tara MacGowran, G au din e Auger, Jenny Agutter, C assie Stuart, Anne-M arie Dwatkin Print Source: Twentieth Century-Fox/TLC Films 1984 96 m inutes N ew girl Laura Meister, a German refugee, is met with hostility when she enters an English girls school during World War II. Gradually, her likeable personality and intelligence gain her admission to the select circle that gathers in “secret places.” However, when the father of one of the girls is killed in battle, she is again rejected. Marie-Therese Relin is excellent as Laura, a girl who masks her suffering with emotional resilience. Tara MacGowran is just right as a repressed English girl who has a tentative sexual encounter with Laura. Secret Places is the auspicious directorial debut of Zelda Barron, who has previously worked on continuity on such films as Reds and Yenti.

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THE SH O O T IN G PARTY D irector Producer Screenwriter: G nem atographer Editor M usic:

Great Britain

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Alan Bridges Geoffrey Reeve Julian Bond, from a novel by Isabel Colegate Fred Tammes Peter Davies John Scott

Cast: James M ason, Edward Fox, Dorothy Tutin, John Gielgud, Gordon Jackson, Cheryl Cam pbell, Robert Hardy, Judi Bowker Print Source: European C lassics 1984 96 m inutes This newest film by Alan Bridges (Return o f the Soldier), with a cast like a W h o ’s W ho of British acting, is currently breaking house records in London. Sir Randolph Nettleby (james Mason, in his last role) is the detached, philosophic host of a grand shooting party at his country estate in the autumn of 1913, on the eve of World War I (when the shooting will become more serious). Two of the guests are in ungentlemanly competition for the largest bag, and others are pursuing unauthorized liasons. Sir Randolph’s granddaughter is flirting with a dashing Hungarian count, and his grandson is worried that his missing pet duck may be shot. Sir Randolph deftly deals with an interruption by an opponent to blood sports (John Gielgud) by identifying himself as a fellow protestor. It is a world in which lack of politeness is unforgivable, but the art of oblique insult is highly refined. The Shooting Party is a worthy successor to Renoir’s Rules of the Game.

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2 8 UP Dlrector/Producen Cinem atographer: Editors: Print Source:

M ichael Apted George Jesse Turner O ral Norrie Ottey, Kim Horton Granada Television 1984 133 m inutes

28 Up is an amazing documentary that traces the shapes of 14 young lives in a way that only the cinema can. Director Michael Apted (Kipperbang, Coal M iner’s Daughter, Gorky Park), began the film when he was 23, interviewing a group of seven-year-olds for a BBC documentaiy. Then, as Variety describes it: “He found and filmed them again when they were 14, 21, and, finally, 28, with an eye to discovering how their lives had progressed, how they either did, or did not, fulfill any youthful promise, and how the vestiges of the English class system still determine the stations to which its subjects will gravitate. The entire spectacle of grow ing up is framed within the context of the famous dictum (originated by S t Francis Xavier and adopted by Lenin), ‘Give me a child until he is seven, and I will give you the man.’” 28 Up is a British Academy Award winner, and a uniquely moving and fascinating document.

M ONDAY, MAY 27

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REMBETIKO Director: Producer: Screenwriter: Gnem atographeR EditoR M usic: Cast:

C ostas Ferris George Zervoulakos Sotiria Leonardou, Costas Ferris Takis Zervoulakos Yanna Spyropoulou Stavros Xarchakos; lyrics by N ikos Gatsos Sotiria Leonardou, N ikos Kalogetopoulos, M ichalis M aniads, Themis Bazaka, G lorgos Zorbas, Vicky Vanita Print Source: Film Network 1983 107 m inutes

Rembetiko is the long-suppressed Greek traditional music of protest and lament, associated with underworld hashish dens. The heroine of Rembetiko, Marica, is a sort of Greek Edith Piaf (exuberantly played by Sotiria Leonardou). She is born in 1917 in a rembetiko club in Smyrna, Turkey; as a girl she sees her drunken father kill her mother for infidelity; at 17 she runs off with a wandering magician, has his daughter, and is abandoned. Then she falls in love with a bouzouki player Bobbis, who helps her find fame in a higher-class club, but betrays her with another woman. The great music is the real treat of this film: a feast of rich, vibrant, flavorful son g such as you have never heard; music that makes you want to dance — and maybe start a revolution. Winner of the Best Picture and Best Actress Awards at the Thessaloniki Film Festival and the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival.

THURSDAY, MAY 23

7:00

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A H Y IN C Director: Screenwriter: Gnem atographeR EditoR M usic: Cast:

Allen Fong (Fong Yuk-PIng) Sze Yeung-Ping, Peter W ang Chang Lok-Yee Chow M uk-Leung, N g Kam -W ah Violet Lam Hui So-YIng, Peter W ang, Hui Put, Yao Un-Shum , Chen Chi-Hung, Hui W ai-Hon, Hui So-U n Print Source: Feng Huang M otion Picture Co. 1983 110 m inutes

Allen Fong, a young, American-trained H o n g Kong filmmaker, made an unforgettable debut at festivals around the world in 1981 with his wonderful feature film, Father and Son (S1FF 1981). H e has now resurfaced with a film that is even better, Ah Ylng, based on the life of a famous actress, and her poignant struggle to rise from fish peddler to film star. Ah Ying chafes at her meager life with her family in the public housing estate, and impulsively joins an acting class, where she meets a young Chinese-American filmmaker who has come to H o n g Kong to direct a movie. A relationship ensues which transforms Ah Ying’s life totally. This film was a major hit at both the Berlin and London Festivals last year, where its sophisticated humor, touching insights and unpretentious yet joyful celebration of a young wom an’s independence made it a huge crowd pleaser. Unavoidably cancelled from last year’s SIFF, we are delighted to get a second chance to present this heartwarming film.

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H O N G KO N G • H U NG ARY MONDAY JU N E 3

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BANANA C O P Director: Producer. Screenwriter: Cinem atographer: Editor: M usic: Cast: Print Source:

Hong Kong AM ERICAN PREMIERE

Po-Chick Leong Karl M aka, Dean Shek, Raym ond W ong, Teddy Robin Poon Yuen Leong Richard Coll Tony Chow Violet Lam Lam Tse Cheung, Teddy Robin, Chung Chor Hung, Poon Yuen Leung, Lo Kin Golden Princess Films 1984 90 m inutes

A wild and raucous comedy, Banana Cop is like a remake of 48 Hours reset in London with a H ong Kong-born detective trying to find a Chinatown killer, and having to recruit a petty crook from a H ong Kong prison to help. The film concentrates on providing a ripping g o o d time for the audience, and succeeds admirably: the situations, characters, and richness of visual gags are funny enough for several movies. Even the title is playful — poking fun at the native Chinese who have moved to London, New York and elsewhere and attempted to totally assimilate themselves in western society (a banana is yellow on the outside and white on the inside).

TUESDAY, MAY 14

9:30

Egyptian

Hungary

ANOTHER W AY Director: Producer: Screenwriters: Cinem atographer: Editor: M usic: Cast: Print Source:

Karoly M akk Antal Bogacs Erzsebet Galgoczi, Karoly M akk; based on the novel by Calgoczi Tam asA ndor — Gyorgy Slvo Laszlo Des, Janos M asik Jadwiga Jankow skak-Cieslak, Grazyna Sazpolow ska, Jozef Kroner Facets Multim edia 1982 109 m inutes

Veteran director Karoly M akk integrates two controversial themes that at first seem unrelated: political repression and female homosexuality. Eva, an overtly lesbian journalist working for the supposedly liberal newspaper The Truth shortly after the 1956 uprising, has an unhappy love affair with another woman journalist who is married to an army officer. In addition, she is harassed by her bosses because she insists on writing the truth. M akk contends that the very fact that Eva is a sexual nonconformist is closely related to her political nonconformity. Since she cannot accept the sexual party line, she can more easily see through the political party line. Polish actress jadwiga Jankowska-Cieslak is tremend ous as Eva: the pain of her inability to compromise is evident in her whole being, and her face expresses a sorrow and resilience which is impossible to forget. A veiy courageous film which, not surprisingly, has had trouble being distributed in Hungary.

M ONDAY, JUNE 3

7:00

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Hungary

DIARY FOR M Y CHILDREN Dlrector/Screenwrtter: Cinem atographer: M usic: Cast: Print Source:

M arta M eszaros M ik lo s Jancso Jr. Zso lt Dom e Zsu zsa Czinkoczi, Anna Polony, Jan Nowicki, Tam as Toth New Yorker Films 1982 106 m inutes

Hungarian filmmaker Marta M eszaros’ Diary For M y Children is so deeply felt and personal, it comes as no surprise that it is, in fact, largely autobiographical. The setting is Budapest, 1947. The film’s orphaned heroine has returned to her native Hungaiy from the Soviet Union, where her father vanished in the purges. She is adopted into a family involved in all the conflicts, corruption, and cruelty of the Stalinist years and com es into head-on collision with the queen bee of the family, an over-emotional woman caught up in blind enthusiasm for her Party career. This is the frankest exposé yet of the darkest days of communist history, inevjtably recalling M an of M aib le and A ngi Vera (significantly, political pressures delayed the film’s release for two years). But M eszaros is too perceptive a director to play the issues for black and white and her courageous D iaiy is by no means all grim. It is, as much as anything, the fond portrait of a bright, stubborn teenager discovering her abiding passion -— for the movies! Winner of the special jury prize at the Cannes Film Festival.

IN D IA • ISRAEL • ITALY M ONDAY, MAY 13

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THE H O M E A N D THE W ORLD

India A m e r ic a n PREMIERE

Director: Screenwriter: Cinem atographer: Editor: M usic: Cast:

Satyajit Ray Satyajit Ray, from the novel by Rabindranath Tagore Soum endu Roy Dulal Dutt Satyajit Ray Victor Banneijee, Swatilekha Chatterjee, Soum itra Chatterjee, Jennifer Kendal Kapoor Print Source: European C lassics 1984 140 m inutes

India's greatest director, Satyajit Ray (The Apu Trilogy, The Ch ess Players, SIFF 78), adapts a novel he had wanted to film for thirty years by Rabindranath Tagore, India’s greatest writer. Victor Bannerjee, whose superb performance in A Passage to India won the Best Actor Award of the National Board of Review, stars. He plays a peace-loving, progressive landowner in 1907 Bengal who, after ten years of marriage, persuades his wife Bimala to break Hindu tradition and leave the seclusion of the w om en’s quarters. Half to test her fidelity and half to allow her genuine freedom, he introduces her to his friend Sandip, the charismatic leader of the Swadeshi movement which is agitating against British rule. Soon Sandip has swept her into the movement and has himself moved into their home. A handsome, brilliantly acted, deeply felt film.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 15

9:30

Egyptian

Israel

BEYOND THE WALLS Director: Screenwriters: Cinematographer: Cast: Print Source:

Uri Barbasti Benny Barbasti, Eran Price, Uri Barbasti Am non Salom on A m on Zadock, M uham ad Bakri, Asst Dayan, Hite) Ne’eman, Rami Danon W arner Bros. 1984 97 m inutes

An Academy Award nominee for best foreign film, this powerful drama focuses on a maximum security prison where Israeli criminals are incarcerated side by side with Arab terrorists. Introduced into this volatile environment is a Jewish political prisoner (a peace activist) who, because neither side trusts him, becomes the catalyst for escalating violence — until the prisoners attempt to unite against their jailers. Variety called Beyond the W alls “one of the best films to come out of Israel in som e time ... (Director) Barbash manages to avoid two obvious pitfalls: he does not make just another jailhouse drama; and d oes not adopt the stentorian tones of a preachy political picture. H e concentrates instead on each of his characters, never allowing them to be simply black or white.”

THURSDAY, MAY 30

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Director: Producer: Screenwriter: Gnem atographer: Editor: M usic: Cast: Print Source:

AM ERICAN PREMIERE

Carlo Verdone M ario and Vittorio Cecchi Gori Enrico O ldolni, Franco Ferrini, Carlo Verdone Danilo Desideri Antonio Sicillano Fabio Uberatori and the Stadio Carlo Verdone, Natasha Hovey, Florinda Bolkan, Elena Fabrizi Colum bia Pictures/Triumph Films 1985 100 m inutes

Actor-director Carlo Verdone, who started out in theatre doing a one-man twelve-character show, was discovered by Sergio Leone, who said, “I couldn’t understand how he could be so comical without telling any jokes.” The answer is that his humor is rooted in reality, and his characters are people we see every day. Acqua e Sapone (W ater and Soap), prompted by a visit to Rome by supermodel Brooke Shields, concerns a world-famous yo un g model (played by 15 year-old Italo-American bombshell Natasha Hovey), who com es to Rome chaperoned by her domineering mother (Florinda Bolkan of A Brief Vacation). Verdone plays a young man who manages to pass himself off as her tutor and show Natasha, who soon catches onto the joke, a very g o o d time around town.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 29

9:30

Egyptian

Italy

OEDLPUS REX Wrtter/DIrector: Pier Paolo Pasolini Cinem atographer: Giuseppe Ruzzolini Cast: Franco Citti, Silvana M angano, A lida Valli, |ulian Beck, Carm elo Bene, Luciano Bartoll, Francesco Leonetti, Pier Paolo Pasolini Print Source: Horizon Releasing 1967 H O m ln u te s O ne of Pasolini’s rarest and most personal films (it received its New York premiere just last year), this dazzling movie re-works the Oedipus myth as Technicolor dream. Pasolini's O edipus begins with a poetic prologue which slips lyrically between memorable moments in a yo un g boy's childhood in Italy during the 19 2 0 ’s. It then plunges into O edipus proper, the desert of ancient Greece where a young man attempts to run away from the horrible fate that has been forecast for him: that he will kill his father and sleep with his mother. In the end, Pasolini shifts to a modern-day epilogue in which a blind man is led through the streets of Bologna. Pasolini himself wrote: “When I made it I had two objectives: first to make a kind of completely metaphoric — and therefore mythicized — autobiography; and second to confront both the problem of psychoanalysis and the problem of myth.” Kevin Thomas of the L A 77m escalledOedlpusRex“oneofthelatedirector’sfinestfilm s... a stunning coup dec/riema”

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S O F T L Y . . . SOFTLY

Italy AM ERICAN PREMIERE

U na W ertm uller M ario and Vittorio Cecchi Goti U na W ertm uller and Enrico O ldoini Dante Spinotti Luigi Zita Paolo Conte Enrico M ontesano, Veronica Lario, Luisa de Santis, M assim o Wertmuller, Isa Danieli, Elena Fabrizi Print Source: Colum bia Pictures/Triumph Films 1985 98 m inutes

Director: Producen Screenwriter: Clnem atographen Editor: M usic: Cast:

Softly.. .Softly is a romantic triangle involving Oscar and Ester, happily married, and their closest friend, Adele, w ho is trying to forget an unhappy marriage, occasionally solaced by the local cafe owner. On a visit to Bomarzo, a forest world of fantastically sculptured stone monsters, Ester and Adele help out two women, strangers. Later Ester dreams of enjoying a tender embrace with Adele. Uncertain and confused, she tells Adele about her dream, and later tries to discuss it with Oscar. However, her confession is so vague that he concludes the obvious: his wife is in love with another man. This is the newest film by Lina Wertmuller, one of the world’s most respected directors, whose previous films include Seven Beauties, Swept Away, A ll Screwed Up (SIFF 76), Blood Feud (SIFF 80), and A joke o f Destiny (SIFF 84).

FRIDAY, MAY 17 5:00 Egyptian

japan

CRUEL STORY O F YOUTH Director/Screenwriter Producer Cinem atographer Editor M u sic C ast Print Source

N agisa O shim a Tornio Ikeda Ko Kawam ata Kelichi Uraoka Riichiro M anabe Yusuke Kawazu, M iyuli Kuwano, Yoshiko Ruga, Fumio W atanaba New Yorker Films 1960 96 m inutes

In this, his second film, director Nagisa Oshim a (In the Realm of the Senses, Empire of Passion, Merry Christm as, M r. Lawrence) took on a big studio project in the popular teenage-sex-and-violence genre and transformed it into an audacious cinematic experiment filled with genuine political and generational anguish. M ade when he was only 28, it established his reputation in Japan, providing his first commercial success and first taste of controversy. The story centers on a teenage couple who perform sexual shakedowns on middle-aged men, their desperate nihilism and cruelty contrasted with the exhausted liberal idealism of the preceding generation. Oshim a’s eccentric, hallucinatoiy use of color and widescreen was unlike anything seen in Japan before. Twenty-five years later, Cruel Story remains visually startling and emotionally raw. A major discoveiy for all w ho have not experienced it!

JAPAN WEDNESDAY, MAY 15

7:00

Egyptian

Japan

THE C O MASTERS Director: Co-Producers: Screenplay: Cnematography: G u t:

Junya Sato, Duan Jlshun Beijing Film Studio, Toko Tokum a Co., Ud. l i Hongzhou, Gi Kangtong, Yasuko Ohno, Tetsuro Abe, Fumio Knoam i Shohei Ando, Luo De’an Sun Daolin, Rentaro M ikuni, Huang Zongylng, Shen Guanchu, M isako Konnu Print Source: G rd e Releasing 1982 1Z0 m inutes

This first co-production between China and Japan is a gorgeous epic depicting the two nations’tortured relations between 1924 and 1956, as reflected in the adventures of two champions of the board game of “Go.” The film begins in 1924 with the meeting in Beijing between the Chinese Go champion and the Japanese champion. Amazed by the ability of the young son of Kuang Yishan (the Chinese champion,) Matsunami (the Japanese champion) begs to take Kuang’s son back to Japan where he can receive advanced training. Kuang finally agrees, over the agonized objections of his wife, and the boy goes with Matsunami to Japan, where he grow s in skill and in stature, falling in love with the daughter of the Japanese house. But their love is doom ed as Sino-japanese hostilities begin, and the young man tries to return to his homeland. Kuang, meanwhile, loses eveiything to the Japanese during the war, and travels to Japan looking for his son. The Grand Prize winner at least year’s Montreal Rim Festival, H ie Go M asters is a powerful saga of family separation, and provides stunning tableaus of China unlike anything you are likely to have ever seen. Cancelled at the last minute from last year’s S.I.F.F., we are delighted to get another chance to present this outstanding film.

FRIDAY, MAY 10

7:00

Egyptian

japan

M acARTH URS CHILDREN Director: Producer: Screenwriter: Editor: M usic: Cast: Print Source:

M asahiro Shinoda M asato Hara, You-No-Kai Takeshi Tamura Sachiko YamaJ Shin khiro Ikebe Takaya Yam auchi, Yoshiyukl Om ori O rion C lassics 1984 121 m inutes

To the tune of Glenn Miller's ‘In the M ood ,” Masahiro Shinoda (Dem on Pond, Ballad o f Orin) swings you into a small remote Japanese village during the occupation period. A young woman school teacher whose husband was injured in the war is now alone as her husband is too proud to return home disabled. To keep his memory alive she teaches her class baseball, her husband's favorite sport. Two of her young male students are constantly scribbling down notes about the negative aspects of life under the occupation. This absolutely wonderful movie depicts life under the occupation for the villagers. The film is a poem to a time when life was not so easy but through the strength of eveiyone involved it was a very meaningful time of transition and growth. This is one of the m ost touching and personal films you’re likely to see in this year’s festival.

MONDAY, MAY 13

9:30

M aiket

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OHAN Director: Ron Ichikaw a Screenwriter: Based on a novel by Chiyo lin o Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga, Reiko Ohara, KoJI Ishizaka, Chocho M iyako, M ichi Kagaw a Print Source: Beverly Pictures 1985 As in The M akioka Sisters (SIFF 84), Kon Ichikawa has again elicited superb performances by women in Ohan. The story is a perverse twist on the familiar tale of the exquisite but exploited geisha: this time it’s the wife w ho is jilted. Ohan (Sayuri Yoshinaga) is so demure and dutiful that when her husband leaves her for the glamorous, ambitious geisha O kayo (Reiko Ohara), she doesn’t tell him that she’s pregnant, but divorces him. They d o not meet again for seven years, but when they d o the mutual attraction is so strong that they instantly become lovers. Ohan seem s passive to the point of absurdity, only to reveal the awesome strength of a martyr; Okayo, on the other hand, turns out to be not so hard a woman as she seemed. Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times, calls O han “ravishing to behold... a stylish work of the utmost ambiguity and irony, a constantly unpredictable pleasure.”

NETHERLANDS • NEW ZEALAND THURSDAY, JUNE 6

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Netherlands

SC O R P IO N Director/Screenwrtter: Prodcuers: Screenwriter: Cinem atographer: Editor: M usic: Cast: Print Source:

Ben Verbong Chris Browuer, H aig Balian Ben Verbong Theo van de Sande Ton de Graaf N icola Piovani; so n gs performed by Brenda Lee Peter Tuinman, M onique van de Ven, Adrian Brine Thorn-EM I 1984 98 m inutes

The turbulent year 1956 is drawing to a close. A man (Peter Tuinman) arrives in a coastal town to embark on a ship to America but becomes involved in strange and violent events. Gradually he discovers that he is being used in an elaborate cover-up operation. Only one person stands by him, Anna (Monique van de Ven), whom he meets in this delapidated seaside resort. The story, the main theme of which is the abuse of power, plays against the background of the Indonesian war of liberation. Director Ben Verbong (The Girt with the Red Hair) has created an exotic, haunting film that ranks with the very best of Dutch cinema. M onique van de Ven, Holland’s and Seattle’s favorite actress, won the coveted “Golden C alf award for her outstanding supporting performance in this film. Director Ben Verbong and star M onique van de Ven w ill attend this screening.

FRIDAY, MAY 24

7:00

Egyptian

CAM E A H O T FRIDAY Director: Screenwriters: Cinem atographer Editor: M usic: Cast: Print Source:

New Zealand AM ERICAN PREMIERE

Ian M une Dean Parker and lan Mune Alun Bollinger Ken Zemke Stephen M cCurdy Peter Bland, Philip Gordon, Billy T. James, M ichael Lawrence O rion C lassics 1984 105 m inutes

What can we add to Variety's giddy description of this wonderfully rowdy m ovie? The show-biz bible raved: ‘Cam e A Hot Friday is a major advance in Kiwi film comedy. A barrel load of talent, nurtured during N ew Zealand’s filmmaking renaissance and now signalling distinctive maturity, has been brought together to explore a folk tale of intrigue and delight....” Cam e A Hot Friday is heartland N ew Zealand circa 1949, W es Pennington and loyal ma’e Cyril, conmen and gamblers, are ripping off small-town bookmakers in one of the last great scams of horseracing. But snags arise at Tainuria junction where they become involved in a tangle of events that uncovers bootlegging, arson, murder and provokes mayhem of extraordinary proportions. The acting standout is Polynesian Billy T. James, in what is a riveting, totally original performance as the Tainuia Kid. This Zorro-with-a-difference, who emits a schizoid blend of Western cowboy hero and Mexican patriot, with M onty Pythonesque overtones, Is a fine creation.”

FRIDAY, MAY 17

7:00

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9:30

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New Zealand

M arket

uni Director: Producer: Screenwriter. Cinem atographer. Editen M usic: Cast: Print Source:

Geoff M urphy Don Blakeney and Geoff Murphy Geoff M urphy and Keith Aberdein Graeme Cowley M ichael Horton and Ian John John Charles (Performed by the New Zealand Sym phony Orchestra) Anzac W allace, Bruno Lawrence, W l Kuki Kaa, Tim Elliot, Ilo n a Rodgers Tania Bristowe, Kelly Johnson, M erata M Ita D on Blakeney 1984 104 m inutes In Dolby Stereo

W e are excited and honored to present this stunning new film from Geoff Murphy (Goodbye Pork Pie, SIFF 1982). Utu (a M aori term roughly translated as retribution, revenge or pride) is a sprawling, spectacular adventure epic (recalling som e of the finest works of Kurosawa and Ford), injected with fresh insights, and set in a completely foreign — yet vaguely familiar — world. M urphy presents a dazzlingly complex kaleidoscope of memories of a story (based on a true incident in the 1870’s) in which a colonized Maori native, Te Wheke, in grief and rage over the senseless slaughter of the people in his village, sought to achieve utu against all pakeha (whites). The entire cast is simply outstanding, m ost notably Anzac Wallace as the Shakespeare-quoting Te Wheke, at turns sympathetic and horrifying, and Bruno Lawrence (Sm ash Palace, SIFF 1983) as a crazed settler seeking his own utu against Te W heke for the murder of his wife. Utu has received international acclaim. It is exhilarating, tragic, humorous and eloquent. But superlatives can barely d o this film justice. You must see Utu.

MONDAY, MAY 20

7:00

Market

Nicaragua

N O PASARAN

N ICARAGU A: Director: David Bradbury Producer: Leah Cocks Print Source: New Yorker Films

1984

74 m inutes

Nicaragua, seldom out of the headlines these days, is an explosive and vital issue for Americans. Australian filmmaker David Bradbury (Frontline, Public Enemy Num ber One, SIFF 1981) spent six months there filming the human face of a troubled revolution. He shows the young (mostly teenaged) militia that defends against the contras; two brothers who edit opposing newspapers; and he focuses on Tomas Borge, Minister of the Interior, one of nine commandantes in the collective leadership that has governed Nicaragua since 1979 and the only surviving founder of the original Sandinista movement established in 1961. Conversations with Borge are intercut with President Reagan’s 1983 address to Congress on Central America, for an informative and provocative exploration of a subject of increasing importance to us all.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 22 SUNDAY, MAY 26

7:00

Egyptian

Poland

Market

SEX M ISSIO N Director/Screenwriter: Producer Cinem atographer: Editor: M usic: Cast: Print Source:

Juliusz M achulski PCFP Zespoly Jerzy Lukaszewicz M iroslaw a Garlicka Henryk Kuzniak O lgierd Lukaszewicz, Jerzy Stuhr, Bozena Stryjkowna, Buguslaw a Pawalec Film Polski 1984 90 m inutes

A riotous black comedy that has been a standout hit on the film festival circuit this year, Sex M issio n concerns two men who take part in a medical experiment and agree to g o into hibernation for 3 years. Mislaid, they are finally revived fifty years late after a nuclear holocaust has destroyed all male genes. The only survivors are a group of women who have hidden in a mine and, through technology, have managed to create an underground city and even reproduce themselves to carry on the species — without men. Our heroes, being the only men in an all female society, naturally fall into their old chauvinistic ways, but this creates absurd confrontations with the new feminist order. The film m as querades as a wild, ribald and flagrantly chauvinistic sex com edy set in the twenty-first centuiy, but it is really an acute allegory of tyranny and political deception, though this certainly doesn’t detract from its sublime hilarity.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5

9:30

M arket

Poland

SHIVERS Director/Screenwriter: Producen Cinematographer: Editor: M usic: Cast: Print Source:

W ofdech Marczew ski Zbigniew Tolloczko Jerzy Zielinski Irena Chorynska Andrzej Trzaskowski Tom asz Hudziec, Teresa Marczew ska, M arek Kondrat, Zdzislaw Wardejn, Bogdan Koca New Yorker Films 1981 107 m inutes Silver Bear, Berlin Film Festival

Six years ago Wojciech Marczewski returned to Poland after a week-long visit to the U.S. with the idea for a new film burned into his soul. But given the Polish government’s rigid censorship and harsh treatment of dissent, his idea seemed to be a dangerous pipedream; his colleagues called it his “kamikaze film." However, during the brief flowering of Solidarity Shivers was filmed, and exhibited for 3 weeks before being banned when martial law was declared in Dec. 1981. It is a strongly autobiographical story, set in 1955, of an adolescent boy forced to attend an indoctrination camp where he learns, am ong other things, not to swear by God that he is a go o d Communist. His relationship with an older woman teacher (played by the director’s wife) is both moving and comic. Winner of the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival but long unavailable, Shivers is now revealed as one of the most extraordinary films from Poland in a long time.

FRIDAY, MAY 10 7:00 M arket SATURDAY MAY 11 4:00 M arket

Poland

THE YEAR O F THE QUIET SU N Krzysztof Zan u ssi M icahal Szczerbjec Slaw om ir Idziak M arek Denys W ojdech Kilar M aja Kom orow skl, Scott W ilson, Hanna Skarzanka, Ewa Dalkowska, Daniel W ebb, Vadim Glowna, Zbigniew Zapasiew icz, Tadeus Bradecki, Jerzy Nowak, Jerzy Stuhr Teleculture 1984 107 m inutes

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The year is 1946. The setting is a territory abandoned by the Germans and now given over to Poland. It is being gradually populated by refugees from the East, cut off from their own homeland by the tides of war. A small town, half destroyed and half abandoned, begins to come to life again in an atmosphere of refugee immigration, general insecurity and freshly experienced personal tragedies. Against this backdrop, an unlikely love stoiy develops — he, an American soldier from a P.O.W. camp, she, a Polish refugee with an elderly sick mother. This is a hauntingly beautiful love story in which the protagonists don’t speak a com m on language and can understand each other only by gestures, facial expressions, laughter and a few isolated words. Krzysztof Zanussi, arguably the most accomplished director to emerge from Eastern Europe in the last decade (W ays in the Night, Contract, Im peratk, all SIFF Alumna) here gifts us with his transcendent view of a love above and beyond the ruins. This film is so beautiful it hurts. Winner, Best Film, Venice Film Festival 1984.

SUNDAY, MAY 12

9:30

Market

Spain

CO LEG A S (PALS) Director: Producer. Screenwriter. M usic: Cast: Print Source:

Eloy de la Igle sia s J A Perez Giner Eloy de la igle sias and Gonzalo Goicochea (featuring “Lejos de A qui”) Antonio Gonzalez Antonio Gonzalez, Rosario Gonzalez, Jose Luis Manzano, Enrique San Francisco David Whitten Prom otions 1982 114 m inutes

Colegas, set in the slums of contemporaiy Madrid, is a stoiy of teenage male friendship. The plot follows the efforts of two boys to raise abortion money when one youth inadvertently impregnates the sister of the other. Unable to obtain work in a countiy where abortion is illegal, the boys resort to street hustling, petty robbery and generally drift into delinquency. They meet a sophisticated stranger, who holds out a promise of high-society illicitness where there is almost no risk at all... or is there? This latest film by the director of the widely acclaimed El Diputado (SIFF 1984) has fast pacing, sympathetic characters, colorful locales, and an abundance of youthful male nudity.

SATURDAY, MAY 25 SUNDAY, MAY 26

7:00 4:00

M arket

Spain

Egyptian

THE H O LY IN N O CEN TS Director: M ario Cam us Producer. Julian M ateos Screenw riter Antonio Larreta, M anuel Matji, M ario Cam us; based on the novel by M iguel Delibes Cinem atographer: Hans Burntann Editor: Jose M aria Biurrun M usic: Anton Garcia Abril Caste Alfredo Landa, Francisco Rabal, Terele Pavez, Juan Diego Print Source: The Sam uel Goidwyn Com pany 1984 108 m inutes The Holy Innocents is set in a remote comer of rural Spain in the 1960’s under Franco, a world that seem s straight out of the dark ages. A family of peasants — Paco and Regula, their children, and her kindly but feeble-minded brother Azarias — live together in one room, feudally serving as gatekeepers for a paternalistic but cruelly selfish landowner. The film has the simplicity and strength of The Tree o f the W ooden G o g s and Padre Padrone, but is told with a non-linear narrative that focuses, in turn, on each of the four major characters. The Holy Innocents creates poetry in a brutal world, bringing to light occasionally shocking and barbaric practices while it explores the themes of dignity, pride, and honor. Francisco Rabal (Viridlana, Belle du Jour) and Alfredo Landa were joint winners of the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival. A magnificent, truly memorable film.

SPAIN • SRI LANKA SUNDAY, MAY 19

7:00

Spain/U.S.A.

M arket

SKYLINE Dlrector/ScreenwriteR Fernando Colom o Cinematographer: A ngel Luis Fernandez Editor: M iguel Angel Santam aria M usic: M anzanita Cast: Antonio Resines, Beatriz Perez-Porro, Jaime Nos, Roy Hoffm an Print Source: Kino International 1984 83 m inutes Skyline (subtitled The Adventures of a Spaniard in New York) was the surprise hit of the Big Apple’s “New Directors, N ew Films” series last year. Delightfully droll, it's a sort of Spanish M oscow on the Hudson about Gustavo, a Spanish freelance photographer who com es to NY, NY full of promise and confidence. Things g o downhill from there. He sublets a trendy loft that com es with detailed instructions for watering the plants that tax his limited English and a complex telephone answering machine that becomes his nemesis. Vincent Canby called Skyline “a slight but endearing comedy, that, like Gustavo, regards New York with a mixture of wonder, amusement, open-mindedness and skepticism. (Writer/director) Colom o never forces the comic events or overstresses the ironies. The movie possesses a charm that, though gentle, is firmly rooted in the realities of a completely self-absorbed cviilization.

FRIDAY, MAY 17

7:00

Spain

M arket

THE STILTS Director: Producer: Screenwriter: Cinem atographer. Editor: M usic:

Carlos Saura Em iliano Piedra C Saura and Fernando Feman Gomez Teo Escam illa Pablo del Am o M adrid Judlo-Spanish M u sical Group Fernando Fernan Gomez, Laura del Sol, Antonio Banderas, Francisco Rabal

Print Source: L Piedra Productions

1984

95 m inutes

An elderly professor pays an autumnal visit to his summer cottage in a mountain resort outside Madrid. Despondent at the recent death of his wife, he decides to end it all, but at the critical moment a young attractive neighbor (Laura del Sol) intercedes and saves his life. She belongs to a troupe of artists who perform skits on stilts for the locals, and urges the professor to write a piece for the troupe. While doing so, he falls madly in love with the girl, 3 0 years his junior. At first, she reluctantly reciprocates his attentions, but soon tires of him and before long he sets out to finish the job she has interrupted. For Saura (Carmen, M am a Turns 100, Cria), this is a return to the themes of his introspective early films and a further twist in the direction of l’amour fou.

SUNDAY, JUNE 2

9:30

M arket

Sri Lanka

BEFORE THE DAW N Director: Producer. Screenwriters: Cinematographer: Editor: M usic: Cast: Print Source:

Am am ath jayadlaka Ananda Gunasekera Kum ara Karunaratna, Am aranath Jayadlaka Sum inda W eerasinghe Elmo Haliday W.B. M akuloluw a Denavaka Hamine, Chandi Rasika, Joe Dam bulugala Am am ath Jayadlaka 1981 80 m inutes

Reminiscent of the early work of Satyajit Ray, Before the Dawn succeeds with simplicity and sympathy in drawing us into a world seldom seen by western audiences. Set in that critical period when Sri Lanka was still colonial Ceylon, it tells the story of one family’s oppression at the hands of wealthy colonials and is all the more wrenching because we know that what we are watching is not the agony of one family but rather a whole class — and that this is not fiction but the most glaring of truths. Though technically rough, this film is a cinematic gem. Like M ax Havelaar, it is so true to life and so moving that it is certain to hold you spellbound.

SW EDEN • SW ITZERLAND SATURDAY, MAY 25

9:30

Market

BEHIND THE SHUTTERS Director/Screenwriter Producer Gnem atographer Editor M usic Cast Print Source

Sweden AM ERICAN PREMIERE

Sd g Bjorkman Bengt Forslund Dirk Bruci, Lasse Karisson Sylvia Ingem arsson Ulf Dageby Erfand joselphson, Dom iziana Giordano, Vlado juras, Gunnel Undblom Sw edish Film Institute 1984 96 m inutes

Daniel, a successful writer, is going through an amicable divorce with his actress-wife, mainly due to his almost pathological jealousy. Attempting to start a new life and a new novel, he has journeyed to exotic North Africa where his interest is piqued by a beautiful and mysterious young Italian woman and her husband, neighbors at the hotel where he is staying. A bit of a voyeur, Daniel plans to use the couple as models for his new book, through which he hopes to sort out the mess of his own marriage. In Daniel’s imagination, he gives the couple the leading roles in this drama of conflict and we see the couple acting out the plot of his novel as he writes. One day, he returns to find the Italian woman lying lifeless in his room. Reality collapses round Daniel’s ears. His own fantasy figures seem to have taken control in a completely unexpected plot over which he himself has no control.

SUNDAY, MAY 19

9:30

M arket

Sweden

A HILL O N THE D ARK SIDE O F THE M O O N Director. Producer; Screenwriter: Cinem atographer: Editor: M usic: Cast:

Lennart H)ulstrom Bert Sundberg Agneta Pleljel Sten Holm berg, Rolf Undstrom Lasse Lundberg LarS'Erik Brossner Gunllia Nyroos, Thommy Berggren, Lina Pleljel Bibi Andersson, Ingvar Hirdwall Print Source: Crystal Pictures, Inc. 1984 101 m inutes

An intelligent film about love almost seems to be a contradiction In terms, as most modern depictions of romance focus solely on emotion rather than reason. A Hill on the Dark Side of the M oon stands out as a truly unique, provocative and captivating movie that doesn’t shy away from confronting the uncomfortable and frustrating dilemma of two people s conflicting perceptions of “love." This award winning film explores the true relationship between Sonya Kovalevsky (Gunilla Nyroos), the world’s first woman university mathematics professor, and Maxim Kovalevsky (played by Tommy Berggren of Elvira M adigan), sociologist, lawyer and “male feminist.” Just as they coincidentally share the same name yet are not related, so too d o they love each other, all the while realizing (and yet denying) that they never could agree on what love is. Set in the 18 8 0 ’s, the story’s subject, issues and paradoxes are as timely today as ever.

SUNDAY, MAY 12

7:00

Market

Switzerland

TO SCA 'S KISS Director/Screenwriter: Producer G nem atographer Editor Sound M usic C a st Print Source:

Daniel Schm id Hans-Ulrich Jordi and M arcel Hoehn Renato Berta Daniela Roderer Luc Yersin Giuseppe Verdi, G acom o Puccini, Gaetano Donizetd Sara Scuderi, Giovanni Puligheddu, Leonida Bellon, Giuseppe M anacchini Italtoons 1984 87 m inutes

This intelligent and highly sensitive documentary is dedicated to a home for retired musicians founded by Giuseppe Verdi to which he pledged all of his royalties and which he considered his most beautiful work. Visiting it today, one can’t help but agree with him. With affection and admiration, the film shows the residents of Casa Verdi, who are still as passionately in love with music, as knowledgeable musically, and as eager to sing and perform as they ever were. Says the London Times-. “From whatever standpoint — cinematic, musical, historical or human — Tosca’s K iss is a crucial, m oving docum ent... the effect is magical."

USA WEDNESDAY, MAY 22

9:30

Market

U .S A

ALM O ST YOU Director Producer Screenwriter Cinematographer Editor Music Cast Print Source

Adam Brooks Mark Upson Mark Upson Alexander Gruszynsld Mark Burns Jonathan Elias Brooke Adams, Griffin Dunne, Karen Young, Marty Watt 20th Century Fox/TLC Films 1984 105 minutes

Almost You isn’t just any ordinaiy love story. It’s a uniquely roundabout romance telling the story of a young couple, perhaps not that different from other young marrieds, who find they aren’t getting along as well as they’d hoped. They’re bored being together. They don’t like being alone. What do they do? Starring Brooke Adam s (Days of Heaven, The Dead Zone) and Griffin Dunne (American Werewolf in London), Alm ost You is a romantic com edy veiy much for the 8 0 ’s (a traumatic comedy?), by turns outrageous, poignant, liberating, and wry. it is also an exciting reflection of the growing strength and vitality of the new American independent cinema, made, against all odds, by a first-time director and producer. Selected as the closing night feature of this year’s Los Angeles Filmex.

MONDAY, MAY 13

9:30

Egyptian

U .S A

BEFORE STONEW ALL Co-Director/Co-Producer: Cinematographer: Editor: Music: Narrator: Cast: Print Source:

Greta Schiller, Robert Rosenberg Sandi Sissel, Jan Kraepelin, Cathy Zheutlin Bill Gaughton Lori Seligman, Roy Ramsing Rita Mae Brown Allen Ginsberg, Ann Bannon, Rev. Grant Gallup David Whitten Promotions 1984 87 minutes

Would you believe Ronald Reagan starring in a cross-dressing musical during the war? H ow about a silent film whose entire cast was said to be gay? O r the the “Lavender Cow boy” prancing around the Wild West? From the sexual experimentation of the Roaring Twenties, to the scapegoating of hom osex uals during the McCarthy era, to the historic confrontation between gays and police at the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village in 1969, Before Stonewall presents a unique, at times outrageous, portrait of the history of homosexual experience in America. It uses a mind-boggling array of archival material and testimony about vice-squad tactics, censorship, and witch-hunts, as well as about the emergence of the gay rights movement, to present the most complete picture yet of the subject. Director Greta Schiller will appear.

FRIDAY, )UNE 7

5:00

Egyptian

U .S A

BIGGER THAN LIFE Director: Nicholas Ray Producen James M ason Screenwriters: Cyril Hume, Richard Maibaum (uncredited: Clifford Odets, Gavin Lambert, Nicholas Ray) Cinematographer: Joe MacDonald Cast: James Mason, Barbara Rush, Walter Matthau, Roland Winters Print Source: Films Incorporated/ZOth Century-Fox 1956 95 minutes The SIFF is thrilled to resurrect, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of 20th Century-Fox, a brand new 35m m CinemaScope print of one of the great overlooked films of the fifties. James M ason starred in and produced this disturbing, subversive and suspenseful film, directed by that master of wide-frame fluidity, Nicholas Ray (Rebel Without A Cause, In a Lonely Place). M ason gives what may be his finest screen performance as a small-town schoolteacher and family man who, after a few attacks of arthritis, is given a “miracle drug” — the newly discovered cortisone. But the drug only uncovers new layers of pain and rage that he had previously repressed, until he becomes convinced that he must murder his own son in the name of God. Cortisone is merely the excuse for Ray and M ason to explore the dark and deep-seated impulses that lie beneath middle-class contentment and conformity. W e present this masterwork as a special tribute to James Mason, who died last year at 75.

USA FRIDAY, MAY 10 9:30

Egyptian

U.SA

BIRDY Director Producer Screenwriters Gnem atographer Editor Music Cast Print Source

Alan Parker Alan Marshall Sandy Kroopf, Jack Behr, from the novel by William Wharton Michael Saresim Gerry Hambling Peter Gabriel Matthew Modine, Nicolas Cage, |ohn Harkins Tri-Star Pictures 1984 120 minutes

The team of producer Alan Marshall and director Alan Parker (Midnight Express, Fame, and Shoot the Moon) have crafted a uniquely beautiful and emotionally stunning story of friendship and love between two very different yo un g men, based on the Pulitzer Prize-nominated novel by William Wharton. The setting is Philadelphia, pre-Vietnam, where Birdy (Matthew Modine), a quiet, sensitive, self-absorbed youth spends virtually all his time learning about and caring for birds. He reluctantly becomes friends with the neighborhood tough guy Al Columbato (Nicolas Cage), and miraculously they also start becoming interested in each other’s worlds. Eventually both are drafted, and the war leaves them with severe scars. Al’s w ounds are physical, Birdy’s are emotional — but Al tries to help Birdy rejoin mankind. Matthew M odine (VisionQuest, Mrs. Soffel, Streamers) and Nicolas Cage (Cotton G u b , Rumblefish, Valley Girl, Racing with the Moon) are two of the hottest young actors in films today; together they spark acting fireworks. An emotional knockout! In Dolby stereo.

SATURDAY, JUNE 8

4:00

Egyptian

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CAN Y O N CO N SO RT Director: Producer: Cinematographer: Editor: Music:

David Vassar David Vassar, |ohn Lyddon Christopher Tufty Mark Salvaterra The Paul Winter Consort— Glen Velez, Steve Silverstein, Eugene Friesen, Paul Halley, and Paul Winter Print Source: Open Circle 1985 57 minutes

Canyon Consort is a musical journey with the Paul Winter Consort through the world’s most spectacular scenery, the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River. Winter, the soprano saxophonist w ho heads the popular Paul Winter Consort, describes their music as expressing “the wonders of nature and the sacredness of wildlife.” They have performed with the cries of the timberwolf (at one sellout Carnegie Hall concert they shared the stage with a wolf), have recorded surrounded by the sounds of whales, and played accompaniment to bird calls. Canyon Consort starts at the cavernous Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York, then m oves from the canyons of Manhattan to the Grand Canyon of the Colorado. The long-line music is floating, mysterious, and ecstatic; the scenery is inspiring. There is even an action sequence with the musicians, technicians, and instruments riding the rapids pell-mell. Altogether, a beautiful journey to another world.

SATURDAY, JUNE 1 7:00

Egyptian

H ARD TRAVELING Director/Screenwriten Producer: Cinematographer: Editor: Music: Cast: Print Source:

U .S A AMERICAN PREMIERE

Dan Bessie Helen Garvy David Myers Susan Heick Ernie Sheldon |.L Freeman, Ellen Geer, Barry Corbin, |ames Gammon Shire Films 1985 107 minutes

Reportedly Bette Davis once wanted to play Hard Traveling's gutsy heroine, but it has taken forty years and another of our courageous independent producers to finally bring the film into being. Based on an incident in the filmmaker's early life, Hard Traveling is an unusual love stoiy that blossoms against the vivid landscape of social injustice and desperation that characterized the Depression. Interwoven with the unfolding romance is the story of a murder and a powerful portrait of a man, like countless of that time and our own, who could have been many things but never had the chance to become anything. Even lacking Bette Davis, director Dan Bessie is ably served by his cast, and he directs with a passion and sense of the authentic born of memory and personal experience. Director Dan Bessie will attend.

FRIDAY, MAY 31

9:30

Egyptian

U.S.A.

HEARTBREAKERS Bobby Roth Bob Weis, Bobby Roth Michael Ballhouse John Camochan Tangerine Dream Peter Coyote, Nick Mancuso, Carole Laure, Max Gail, James Laurenson Carol Wayne, )amie Rose Orion Pictures Corporation 1985 90 minutes

Director/Screenwriter. Producers: Cinem atographer: Editor. Music: Cast:

Print Source: In Heartbreakers two men in their thirties, artist Peter Blue (Peter Coyote) and businessman Eli Kahn (Nick Mancuso), best friends since childhood, find their relationship severely tested when each is suddenly caught up in his respective struggle for love and success. With Coyote playing a contemporary L A painter and M ancuso playing an attractive but very straight businessman who inherits his father’s business, the two maintain their friendship despite their disparate lifestyles. Each sees in the other the very things that they seem themselves to lack — Blue sees Eli as successful at love and money, and Eli sees Blue as creative, unique and spontaneous. Each man’s search for security dominates their friendship, as they compete for love and professional recognition. This bright and artful film tells a compelling story of friendship that comes full circle. Director Bobby Roth and star Nick M ancuso will attend.

FRIDAY, MAY 10

5:00

Egyptian

U .SA .

KEROUAC Director: Screenplay: Cinematographer: Music: Cast: Print Source:

John Antonelli John Tytell Jerry Jones Tim Heller Jack Coulter, David Andrews, Jonah Person Wonder Productions 1984 73 minutes

This unique independent feature, three years in the making, explores the life and work of Jack Kerouac and his impact on American literature. The LA . Reader wrote: “Framed by Kerouac’s appearance on The Steve A llen S h o w in 1957, on which he reads excerpts from the just-published O n the Road, this 1984 American film by John Antonelli dramatizes events in Kerouac’s life to create a personal account of the serious writer who is often lost in myths about the Beat Generation. While the docudrama, except in the exploratory mind of Ken Russell, remains a hybrid genre, Antonelli intelligently uses the reenactments as a visual backdrop to the narration — readings (by Peter Coyote) of impressive descriptive passages from several of Kerouac’s novels, and interviews with such contemporaries as ■

Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs.” Director John Antonelli will attend.

SATURDAY, MAY 25 SUNDAY, MAY 26

9:30 9:30

Egyptian

U .SA .

Market

KEY EXCHANGE Director Producer: Screenwriter: Cinematographer Cast: Print Source:

Barnet Kellman Mitchell Maxwell Paul Kurta and Kevin Scott, from the play by Kevin Wade Fred Murphy Brooke Adams, Ben Masters, Daniel Stem, Tony Roberts, Danny Aiello 20th Century-Fox Pictures/RC Hlms 1985 100 minutes

This bright new romantic comedy, filmed on location in New York, was bom as an off-Broadway production which ran for a year to critical acclaim, and features the original director and leads. Philip (played by exciting new actor Ben Masters), a mystery writer, and Lisa (Brooke Adams), a television producer, are in love — but they’re keeping their distance and their separate apartments. When Lisa, who’s ready for something more, pushes for an exchange of apartment keys, Philip starts feeling hemmed in and worries he’ll have to forsake the joys of a m odem relationship for the mixed blessings of commitment. He often escapes the confines of love by bike riding in the park with his friend Michael (Daniel Stem, of Diner), a young lawyer whose new marriage is already in sorry shape. Key Exchange is a delightful com edy and one of the happiest discoveries of the Festival.

USA SATURDAY, JUNE 8

4:00

Egyptian

M ADEM OISELLE: A PORTRAIT

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O F N A D IA BO U LANGER Director/Producer. Cinematography: Editor. Music:

Dominique Parent-Alder Shawn Alder Vance C o M g , Roger Fellous, Michael Miner Dominique Parent-Alder Lili Boulanger, Aaron Copland, Gabriel Faure, Philip Glass, Cast: Igor Stravinsky, Virgil Thomson Print Source: Nadia Boulanger, Aaron Copland, Virgil Thomson, Philip Glass Crocus Productions 1985 58 minutes

Nadia Boulanger, one of the most gifted and influential musical personalities of our time, is a woman w ho broke new ground as conductor and performer; an enigma who gave up a promising career in composition to dedicate her life to teaching; a pedagogue called tyrannically conservative by some, but credited by others for their success. For 75 years she has given lessons in the same Paris apartment, to a succession of students that included Aaron Copland, Virgin Thomson, Michel Legrand, and Philip Glass. This is a rare filmed interview with Mile. Boulanger, juxtaposed with insights and music by some of her best-known students. Director Dominique Parent-Alder will attend.

THURSDAY, MAY 23

9:30

Market

U .S A

OBSERVATIONS UNDER THE V O LCANO Producer/Dtrector Qnematographer: Editor: Narrator: Cast: Print Source:

Christian Blackwood Christian Blackwood Ned Bastille |ohn Hurt John Huston, Albert Finney, Jacqueline Blsset, Anthony Andrews, Michael Fitzgerald, Guy Gallo, Gabriel Figueroa, Emilio Fernandez Christian Blackwood Productions 1984 82 minutes

Christian Blackwood is a one-man film company: producer, director, cameraman. The maker of that m ost entertaining of movie-biz-bio-docs, Hollywood’s Wild Angel (about sleaze-meister Roger Corman) now turns his camera on another legend of the cinema: John Huston. Shot on location in Cuernavaca, Mexico, during the filming of Huston's latterday masterpiece, Under the Volcano, this fascinating and colorful document includes intimate interviews and revealing glimpses of Huston, his cast and crew at work: actors Albert Finney, Jacqueline Bisset and Anthony Andrews; screenwriter Guy Gallo; cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa; and others. Intermingled with these looks at a great film-inthe-making are selections from the letters and prose of Malcolm Lowry (author of Under the Volcano) read by actor John Hurt.

SATURDAY, JUNE 1 9:30 Egyptian SUNDAY, JUNE 2 4:00 Market

O N THE EDGE Dlrector/Screenwriter: Producers: Qnematographer: Editor: Music: Cast: Print Source:

U .S A

AMERICAN PREMIERE

Rob Nilsson Rob Nilsson and Jeffrey Hayes Stefan Czapsky Richard Hatfcness Herb Pilhofer Bruce Dem, Pam Grier, John Marley, Bill Bailey Alliance Films 1985 95 minutes

O n the Edge is probably the most authentic and thrillingly beautiful film yet made about running, despite such serious competitors as Chariots of Fire. That it was written, produced, and acted with the participation of real runners shows in almost every frame. Directed by Rob Nilsson, w ho made his mark with the independent classic, Northern Lights, the story centers on one man’s attempts to come to terms with his personal and professional failures. It climaxes in one of the world’s most rugged footraces, the Cielo Sea, but the conclusion is hardly what w e’ve com e to expect. “When I read the script, I realized it was the embodiment of something I’ve been looking for all my life,” star Bruce Dern has said. “It’s about the potential disintegration of people and their ability to pull themselves out of it it's about som ebody trying to figure out w ho he is. It has the best of Rocky, Ordinary People, and Breaking Away. Finally I have a movie that has all the things I became an actor and an artist for.” Director Rob Nilsson will attend.

THURSDAY, MAY 23

7:00

U.S.A.

Market

PERMANENT VACATION Dlrector/Writer/Edlton Producen Clnematographen Music: G u t: Print Source:

|im Jarmusch Sara Driver Thomas D iG llo John Lurie, Jim Jarmusch Chris Parker, Leila Gastil, John Lurie, Richard Boes, Sara Driver Cinesthesia Releasing 1980 80 minutes

From the people who brought you the brilliant Stranger than Paradise com es this equally offbeat early picture — in color this time. Jim Jarmusch, one of the hottest directors around these days, introduces the film: “Permanent Vacation is my first feature. It is a narrative which follows 2>/z days in the life of Aloysious Parker, a young wanderer with no home, no school, and no job. At the age of 16, Allie drifts into and out of strange encounters with other misfits; always moving, always keeping just ahead of whatever it is that seem s to be chasing him. The main character is partially based on the actor portraying him (Chris Parker), whose real life situation is very similar to that of A loysious... Pieces of dialogue came directly from tapes that 1 made with C hris... The film attempts to merge re-created experiences with imagined ones, placing the camera somewhere in the netherworld between documentary and theatrical (neo-realism in color?).”

TUESDAY, JUNE 4

9:30

Egyptian

U SA

PRIVATE PRACTICES: The Story o f a Sex Surrogate Dlrector/Producen Associate Producer: Cinematographer: Editor: Sound: Cast: Print Source:

Kirby Dick Barbara Zheutlin Chris Burrill, Catherine Coulson Lois Freeman, Kilby Dick Alan Barker, David Brownlow Maureen Sullivan, Christopher Walker, John Christ K.D. Productions 1984 60 minutes

Christopher: At age 25, he had never dated. He was even afraid to hold a woman’s hand. John: A middle-aged man whose marriage fell apart because of sexual problem s... Two years later, he was still unable to ask a woman into bed. They both went to see Maureen, a woman w ho practices a radical new form of sexual therapy. She became each man’s sexual partner, and taught them how to love. Private Practices will take you deeper into human sexual behavior than any documentary has ever taken you before. Please note: Filmmaker Kirby Dick will be present at this screening to discuss his film and answer questions from the audience. W e promise a fascinating evening spent exploring a unique subject.

SATURDAY, MAY 18 7:00

Egyptian

ROAR

U .S A AMERICAN PREMIERE

Director/Screenwriten Noel Marshall Producéis: Noel Marshall and Tippi Hedren Gnematographer: Jan de Sont Editors: Jerry Marshall, Jan de Bont Music: Dominic Frontière, Orchestrated and Conducted by Terence P. Mlnogue Cast: Noel Marshall, Tippi Hedren, Melanie Griffith, Don Marshall, Scott Marshall, Kyalo Mantivo Noel M arshall Productions 1983 102 m inutes Print Source: 4-track Magnetic Dolby Stereo Roar is filmmaker Noel Marshall’s lifetime labor of love, a tribute to wildlife and mankind, and the precarious balance the two must strike to survive. The disasters that befell the making of this movie threatened to upstage the movie itself. Marshall shot 9 0 % of Roar on his California ranch, which he shares with over 150 untamed lions, cheetahs, leopards and elephants. Besides the numerous animalcaused accidents (i.e. ace-cinematographer Jan de Bont’s scalp being partially removed by a playful lioness) there was also a flood which ruined the sets, and destroyed almost 300,000 feet of exposed film. At a final cost of over $11 million and seven years in the making, it is hard to believe that such an enormous project could have been inspired by one striking image; while traveling through the African savannah, Marshall and his wife, Tippi Hedren (The Birds, Mam ie) came across a pride of lions which had taken over an abandoned cabin in the wilderness. The image of unbridled savagery in a civilized setting planted a seed in their minds, which grew into an all-consuming passion. The film that resulted is an exciting, breathtaking, often hilarious account of a man studying the big cate in Africa, and the comic consequences that develop when his family com es to visit from America to find him not at h o m e ... and the home far from unoccupied. Marshall’s gamble has paid off, as this film is unlike any film you have seen before. W e are thrilled to present the American premiere of Roar. Noel Marshall and Tippi Hedren will attend the screening.

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SECRET ADM IRER

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Director; David Greenwalt Screenwriter: Jim Kouf G u t: C Thomas Howell, Dee Wallace, Leigh Taylor-Young, Fred Ward, Cliff deYoung, Lore Loughlin Print Source: Orion Pictures 1985 90 minutes Take one unsigned love letter from a high school girl to a high school boy; add one nosy little brother, two sets of parents w ho jump to conclusions, and several big-mouthed friends and you’ve got a beautifully plotted, absolutely hysterical contemporary farce. Secret Admirer is a classic comic romance — an almost Shakeskpearian com edy of errors — that works like a charm. The reason we wanted this movie in the festival is that it’s a delightful rarity: A teen sex farce that adults will enjoy as much (if not more) than their kids. After a rather Animal House beginning, Secret Admirer is off and spinning through an ever-more complicated (and hilarious) series of dizzy romantic misunderstandings as kick and parents are matched and unmatched and mis-matched. The cast, including C. Thomas Howell (E.T., Grandview U .S A ), Dee Wallace (E.T., The Howling) and Fred Ward (The Right Stuff, Silkwood), is absolute perfection.

MONDAY, MAY 27

9:30

Egyptian

THE SILENT PIONEERS Director: Producer: Executive Producer: Cinematographer: Print Source:

Lucy Winer Patricia Giniger Snyder Harvey M arks Paula deKoenigsberg Filmmakers Library 1984

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A documentary that profiles older gays and lesbians, including an 84-year-old former m onk w ho owns a horse ranch, a male couple who have been together for 54 years, a black great-grandmother, a wealthy author/political activist living with her partner of 15 years in a remote intergenerational com munity of women, and many more — all challenging society’s harmful and misleading stereotypes.

THURSDAY, JUNE 6

9:30

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UNTITLED M O V IE Director Producer: Executive Producer Screenplay: Gnem atographen Editor Cast: Print Source:

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Sam Raimi Robert Tapert Ed Pressman Sam Raimi, joel Coen, Ethan Coen Robert Prime Michael Kelly Louise Lasser, Reed Blmey, Paul Smith, Brion James, Ed Pressman, S.J. Wilson Embassy Pictures 1985 83 minutes

H ow ’s this for a description of the new film from the makers of The Evil Dead and Blood Simple? 'A rock’em -sock'em American roller coaster ride of daffy fun and zany chills.” Well, ya better believe it! They’ve gone and made a comedy. What is the world com ing to? (And no, it’s not really called Untitled M o v ie ... those guys just haven’t made up their minds yet!)

U SSR • YUGOSLAVIA THURSDAY, MAY 16

7:00

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JAZZM AN Director: Screenwriter. Cinematographer: Art Director: M u s ic Cast:

Karen Shakhnazarov Alexander Borodyansky and Karen Shakhnazarov Vladimir Shevtslk Konstantin Forostenko Anatoly Kroll Igor Sklyar, Alexander Chorny, Nlkolalr Averyuskin, Pyotr Shcherbakov, Larissa Dollna Print Source: International FMm Exchange 1983 80 minutes

Soviet films are not normally noted for lighthearted comedy, so Jazzman is a delightful surprise. It’s the stoiy of an early champion of jazz in Russia, where the attempt to suppress it was the only Stalinist purge that failed. “Jazz is the music of the people!" proclaims jazz enthusiast Konstantin to the disapproving commissars, who promptly expel him from music convervatoiy. Konstantin forms a jazz quartet from two struggling street musicians (who know nothing about jazz but like the promise of steady work) and a saxophonist left over from the Czar’s marching band. They have a lot to learn (such as the concept of improvisation), and their path to success is strewn with many obstacles. [m i b u i i is a charming musical that mixes history and humor with lots of swing, ragtime, and dixieland jazz.

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9:30

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THEM IR R O R Director/Screenwriter: Andrei Tarkovsky Producer: L Walsberg Qnematographer: Georgi Rerberg Editor. L Felginova M u s ic Eduard Artemyev, J.S. Bach, Pergoiese, Henry Purcell G a t : Margarita Terekhova, Philip Yankovsky, O leg Yankovsky Print Source: International Film Exchange 1974 106 minutes Andrei Tarkovsky is a poet of the cinema; his films (Andrei Rublev, Solaris, Stalker, Nostalghia) are rich in imageiy and experimental in narrative. The rarest of them all is The M inor, made in 1974 but almost immediately suppressed, becoming an international cause celebre. It is a stream of conscious ness film, shimmering, enigmatic, intensely personal, and breathtakingly beautiful, in which the past is evoked through memories, imagination, and dreams, in color and black-and-white, in slow motion and regular speed. In one nightmare scene the mother frantically tries to find and correct a misprint of Stalin’s name, which in Russian is but one letter removed from a word for excrement. The same actress (haunting Margarita Terekhova) plays both the mother and the wife, the same child plays both the protagonist as a boy and his son. “The Mirror is a sublime, radiant dream of a film. Kevin Thomas, L A Times.

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BALKAN SPY Director/Screenwriter: Qnematographer. M u s ic G a t: Print Source:

Duscan Kovocevk Bozidar Nikolic Vo|lslav-Vock Kostic DanHo Bata Stojkovk, M k a Banjac, Bora Todorovic, Zvonka Lepetic Yugoslavian Consulate

1984

110 minutes

The top prize winner at the Yugoslavian Film Festival in Pula, Balkan Spy marks the brilliant directoral debut from the screenwriter of two of the most admired recent Yugoslav films, H ie Marathon FamHy and W ho’s Singing Over There (SIFF 1985). A sharp and powerful black com edy about paranoid suspicion, this film should have universal appeal. A man is asked to visit the local police station to answer questions about his new lodger w ho has recently arrived from Paris to open a tailor shop. A former Stalinist the protagonist, begins to fear that he may be harboring a spy in contact with imperialis tic forces. H e buys a camera and tape recorder and begins to follow the suspect around and, as his paranoia grows, he brings out his old Stalinist colleagues to assist him, leading to manifold complications and much mayhem.

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4:00

Egyptian

Yugoslavia

Market

W HO'S SiN G IN ’ OVER THERE? Director: Producen Screenwriter: CInematographen Editor: Music: Gist: Print Source:

Slobodan Sljan Milan Zmuklc Dusan Dovacevic Bozldac Nikolic Lana Vukobratovlc Vojislav Kostic Pavle Vulsic, Dragan Nikolic, Danilo Stojkovic Aleksandar Bercek, M iodrag and Nenad Kostic International Home Cinema 1983 83 minutes

W ho rides M etro? Hopefully nobody even remotely similar to anyone on this Busload of Fools. W ho’s Slngin’ Over There? could easily be retitled “The Bus Trip to Hell,” as it follows the misadventures of a diverse group of characters (a couple of gypsies, an egocentric singer, a pair of hom y newlyweds, a rock collector, an old Army hero and som e pigs) trying in vain to travel to Belgrade (a mere 100 kilometers). Set on April 6, 1941, (the day before Nazis invaded Yugoslavia, plunging the entire countryside around this little red bus into World War II), one can look at this film as a parable on life, with the characters serving as a microcosmic slice of humanity. But it’s more fun to just sit back and howl in delight as the halfwit busdriver takes on an unintentional dare to drive the bus while blindfolded, to the horror of the passengers. If Fellini were young, carefree and Yugoslavian, he could easily have made this ferociously funny satire.

, I ’m back on the day shift again, only it doesn’t seem to make any difference this week. We’re getting the night people com ing here anytime even the middle of the afternoon, and it’s because of this Film Festival where they show about a thousand m ovies in a week and everybody’s eyes turn red and they com e in here and order expresso and cup-a-chino and tons of the pastas with this-and-that sauce that really sm ells good. A nd you know w hat? H unk and I went to one and it w asn’t in English and you had to read these words that flash on the bottom of the screen to know what’s going on. It was no fun ’cause you oughtta know it’s hard to read that fast and watch at the sam e time and let m e tell you, there are plenty of steam y parts, at least in the one I saw, where you really want to watch. At least I did. Whew! A nd I was sitting there with the Hunk, too. Well, anyway, about the restaurant here. I’m kinda getting to like it and it’s really fun ’c ause the people even the custom ers are so nice really, anytime and I ’m getting used to the food, too, and really have kicked m y 3 burger a day habit. Gad, yesterday you know w hat? I found out \/eel M AR-saw la isn ’t chicken at all but I still like it. Gotta go now. H unk’s taking me to the flicks again tonight and, boy, it’s nothing like the drive-in back home. I mean, even with H unk I get to see the whole movie. Dinah says, “Check it out.”A nd check out the restaurant after the show, too. O K ? . .

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EXECUTION OF JUSTICE by Emily Mann A gripping account of the 1978 trial of Dan White.

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BEYOND THERAPY by Christopher Durang A zany comedy about love in the 1980s.

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MUM FRIDAY, MAY 17 Midnight Egyptian

THE BOYS NEXT D O O R Director: Producen Screenwriters: Cinematography: Cast: Print Source:

U .S A W ORLD PREMIERE

Penelope Spheeris Keith Rubenstein, Sandy Howard Glen Morgan, James W ong Arthur Albert Maxwell Caulfield, Charlie Sheen, Patti D ’Arbanville New World Pictures 1985 97 minutes

Young, handsome, innocent, desirable, DEADLY, is how to describe the two protagonists in Penelope Spheeris’ (Decline of Western Civilization, Suburbia) latest shocker about youth gone to hell. The Boys Next Door is like In Cold Blood gone berserk. The characters are your average high school graduates w ho are frustrated with everything their life has had to offer. Roy (Maxwell Caulfield), the stronger of the two, and Bo (Charlie Sheen) set off for a fun-filled weekend in L.A. O n the way Roy confesses to having som e “angry stuff inside him and a desire to hurt someone, and sets about gratifying his psychopathic urges. Maxwell Caulfield proves that he is an actor of enormous range, with this riveting and unnerving performance. Charlie Sheen (Martin’s other son) is also perfect as the innocent boy along for the ride. Although director Spheeris is obviously sickened by her subject, she nonetheless has made a most effective film that works like shock therapy on the audience and ultimately becomes a very moral tale of mass murder. W A R N IN G This film contains scenes of brutality and violence which may be considered offensive to some. Director Penelope Spheeris will attend.

FRIDAY, MAY 31

Midnight Egyptian

U .S A

THE CLASS OF 1984 Director: Producen Screenwriter: Clnematographen Music: Cast: Print Source:

M ark Lester Arthur Kent M. Lester, John Saxton, Tom Holland Albert Dunk Alice Cooper (“We are the Future”) Perry King, Timothy Van Patten, Roddy McDowall United Film Distribution 1984 90 minutes

In turns violent, scaiy and hilarious, The G a s s of 1984 is in a class all by itself. This is a stylish, ferocious punk update on The Blackboard Jungle in which the brilliant but crazed leader of a teenage gang (Van Patten) rules a crowd which terrorizes the staff, teachers, and students of a big-city highschool. A new teacher arrives at the school, and almost immediately squares off against the gang leader, setting off a round of outrageous and bloody confrontations climaxing in a Grand Guignol ending which pulls out all the stops. This is the type of high school film in which a teacher pulls a gun on his class and invites them to share with him in the joys of education... or else.

FRIDAY, MAY 10 Midnight Egyptian

New Zealand

DEATH W ARMED UP Director: David Blyth Producer: Murray Newey Screenwriter: Michael Heath, David Blyth Cinematographer: James Rartle Editor: David Hugget Music: Mark Nicholas Cast: Michael Hurst, Margaret Umbers, William Upjohn, David Letch Print Source: Skouras Films 1984 85 minutes Winner of the 1984 Grand Prix at the Paris Film Festival of Science Fiction and Fantastic Films (previous winners include M ad Max, The Evil Dead, Eating Raoul), Death Warmed Up is a surrealistic shocker filled with screams, thrills, plenty of imagination, and a great sense of fun. The story centers around Michael Tucker who was programmed by genetic surgeon Dr. Archer Hall Into killing his parents, a crime for which he is incarcerated in a psychiatric institution. Years later Michael tracks down Dr. Hall, now running mad experiments at “Trans Cranial Applications” on an isolated island, to seek revenge and (incidentally) to save mankind. The cast is striking, especially Michael Hurst, bleached blond like a young Hollywood Alexander the Great, and David Letch, as Spider, King of the Mutants. O ne leaves the theatre with one’s head full of wild images and screams, at the same time invigorated, satiated, and som ehow dazed by such an explosive mix. In Dolby Stereo.

SATURDAY, JUNE 1 Midnight Egyptian

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THE LO ST EMPIRE Dlrector/Producen Screenwriter: Cinematographer: Editor: Music: Cast: Print Source:

Jim Wynorsld Jim Wynorsld Jacques Haitkin Larry Bock Alan Howarth Melanie Vincz, Raven de la Croix, Angela Aames, Paul Coufes Crest Films 1984 83 minutes

Only on the Egyptian’s large Cinemascope screen could we d o poetic justice to the extremely well-de veloped female cast of The Lost Empire. This is the latest entiy to the “W om en Warriors” genre and undoubtedly the funniest, intentional or not. The story... well, sort of, you see these three women go to the Pacific island of Golgotha where Dr. Sin D o has a cult. Sin Do, w ho turns out to be the ancient Li Chuk, has a pact with the devil whereby he causes natural disasters, and is currently searching for the second jeweled Eye of the Avatar, to match his own and give him endless power. Enter the girls and — well, we think you get the picture. Great campy fun... and w ho will die for art?

FRIDAY, MAY 24

Midnight Egyptian

MOTHER’S MEAT A N D FREUD’S Director/Screenwriter: Producen Cinematography: Editors: Music: Special makeup effects: Cast:

Demetrios Estdelacropolis Louise Bum s Jason Levy, Jean Lebeaux, Andre Guimond Louise Bums, Lean Leveaux Trio Greggordon Hilderbrand, Greggordon Pastuszko Demetrios Estdelacropolis, Esther Vargas, Rotwang (Michael Gagnon), E. J. Sullivan 1984 85 minutes

Hands dow n the most controversial film in the Festival! Writing in Film Com m ent, Mary Corliss described it as “a cunning little atrocity...A doped-out structuralist semi-porno comedy, M M 8 J F traces the Oedipal relationship between a whiny, dyspeptic actor (played by the film’s writer-director, Estdelac ropolis) and his cloying m om (Esther Vargas). The cast never dares even to flirt with competence; and at the end there’s blood and excrement all over the place. A s a comic stylist, Estdelacropolis makes john Waters look like Eric Rohmer. This is one of those unendurable films it is impossible to walk out on. You never know what crime against humanity will be perpetrated just after you leave.... Shown in squeaky-dean Toronto this film had the effect of a welcome act of aggression from outer space.”

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U .S A

NO T FOR PU BLICAT IO N Director Producer Screenwriters Cinematographer M usic C ast Print Source

Paul Bartel Anne Kimmel John Meyer, Paul Bartel George Tiri |ohn Meyer Nancy Allen, David Naughton, Alice Ghostley, Richard Blackburn The Samuel Goldwyn Company 1984 87 minutes

M ad e after Eating Raoul and before Lust in the Dust, Paul Bartel's fifth wacky feature is a tribute to the worlds of sleaze and politics, if such distinctions can be made. Nancy Allen (Dressed to Kill, Blow Out) leads a double life as a smut reporter for the tabloid Inform er (sample headline: “Frog Baby Ax Murders!”) and a spunky campaign aide for the dashing incumbent M ayor of N ew York. But while covering an orgy at the underground nightclub, The Bestiary, she witnesses a crime which leads her back to city hall. After that, there’s no telling what, who, and how much will be revealed?!! Variety called the film a “hilariously trashy pic (which) continues Paul Bartel’s obsession with tasteless jokes, sight ga g s and kinky characters.”

SATURDAY, MAY 25

Midnight

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France

THE PERILS O F GW ENDOLINE Director. Producers: Screenwriter: Cinematographer: Editor: Music: Cast: Print Source:

|ust Jaecldn (ean-Claude Fleuiy and Serge Laski just Jaeckin; inspired by the comic strip by |ohn Willie Andre Domage Michele Boehm Pierre Bachalet Tawny Kitaen, Brent Huff, Zabou, Bernadette Lafont, Loi Lam Due The Samuel Goldwyn Company 1984 88 minutes

Som e things have to be seen to be believed. After viewing The Perils of Gwendoline, you still won't believe it! The film critic for that bastion of fine literature, People M agazine, sniffed that Gwendoline “is a chintzy exploitation in which Romancing the Stone, Raiders of the Lost A ik and many ladies’ blouses are ripped off.” Hey, how can he call this chintzy?! W e’re talking ALOT of money spent on this film! W e’re talking a pretty danged realistic papier-mache crocodile! W e’re talking a guy getting his LARS pulled off! W e’re talking so much black leather you’d think this was filmed in a tannery! W e’re talking a Minnie M o u se hair-do that almost defies gravity! Featuring a chariot race straight out of one of Ben Hur’s wet dreams, and a love scene between our heroine and hero in which their bodies never once touch! Like we said, ya gotta see it to believe it! (Alright, so the film is a little bit sexist, just suspend your politics for a couple of hours and have som e fun!) In Dolby Stereo.

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SCREAM PLAY Director: Producer: Screenwriters: Cinematographer: Editor: Music: Cast: Print Source:

Rufus Butler Seder Dennis M. Piana R.B. Seder, Ed Greenberg D. Piana R.B. Seder George Cordeiro, Basil |. Bova R. B. Seder, George Kuchar, Katy Bolger, George Cordeiro, B. J. Bova, M. Lynda Robinson, Eugene Seder Boston Movie Co. 1984 90 minutes

Screamplay is an outrageous comedic whodunit reminiscent of Thundercrack — certainly in style if not in substance — situated in the shadow of Hollywood Hill in the seamy Welcom e Apartments. It is the home of the would-be’s, the has-been's and those w ho never were. Here lives Holly, the aspiring but limited young actress: Nina, washed up queen of the lower than low-grade B’s; Kleindorf, producer of more angles and gimmicks than films; Lot, the burned-out rock star; and the macho Martin, (George Kuchar) w ho presides over all. Enter Edgar Allen, an aspiring young murder movie writer w ho arrives in Hollywood on a Greyhound Bus to pursue his dream. Saved from a fate worse than death by Martin, Edgar Allen takes a job as the janitor in the sleazy apartment block. Soon he is involved innocently in a series of bizarre and hilarious murders that seem to follow the plot developments in his own purloined movie script.

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VOYAGE OF THE R O C K A LIEN S Director: Producers: Executive Producers: Screenwriters: Cinematographer: Editor: Music: Cast:

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James Fargo Micheiine H. Keller and Brian Russel Max A. Keller, Tlno Barzie and Mike Curb S. James Guidotti, Edward Gold and Charles Hairston Gilbert Taylor Malcolm Campbell lack White Pia Zadora, Tom Nolan, Craig Sheffer, Rhema, Alison La Placa, jimmy &. the Mustangs, and Ruth Gordon as the Sheriff. Special appearance by |ermaine Jackson Inter Planetary Productions Corp. 1985 100 minutes

Here it comes! Dow n from outer space! W hy it’s ... a flying guitar? Plot: A spaceship streaking through the galaxy picks up frequencies from the planet Acirema (read that backwards) which it assumes are typical life forms. In actuality, the ship has tuned in to a music video broadcast (starring, coincidentally, Pia Zadora and Jermaine Jackson.) Landing in the town of Speilburgh, U.S.A., our aliens find a life form that more closely resembles Beach Blanket Bingo. And when Mr. Spaceman loses his head (quite literally) over the high school queen (Pia again) well, what can a girl d o but...sing?! Subplots: A tentaded swamp-thing, a maniac-chainsaw romance, and Will Pia Get a Chance to Sing At The High School Dance? V o yage... is the cult movie of the 8 0 ’s; pure outrageous, mindless fun, presented in glorious Dolby stereo, and featuring a dance number in the girls’ bathroom. (And you guys just thought they smoked in there!) D on ’t miss this month’s Rocket for details on the Pia Zadora look-alike contest!

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SPACED OUT! The Cinerama 70-MIHImeter Marathon There are very few reasons you should stay up all night long on a Sunday. But when the following M ond ay is a national holiday, and you’re given the chance to be blasted into outer space via the hum ongous 70-millimeter screen at the Cinerama, well, then you have very few reasons not to stay up all night! O nce again, the Seattle International Film Festival, with the gracious cooperation of Sterling Recreation Organization, presents an out-of-this-world evening — and morning — unlike anything else you’re likely to encounter this year. The Cinerama’s huge screen and Dolby sound system are the closest most of us will ever get to experiencing weightlessness. From breaking the sound barrier with The Right Stuff, to bursting into an entirely new galaxy by way of Dune, we guarantee you’ll be floating with stars in your eyes. (You may be crawling by the end of the marathon, but as a special bonus, survivors will receive their very own 70-m m souvenir badge!) The countdown also includes Alien, , and 2001: A Space Odyssey.

SECRET FESTIVAL THE SECRET FESTIVAL Psst! We've got five great secrets, and we ain’t gonna tell anybody what they are! There’s a way you can find out, but it’ll cost you. See, all’s you gotta do Is pay a $5.00 membership fee to join the Secret Festival Film Club, and give us your solemn oath — in blood, and on your mother's grave — that you will never, NEVER tell anyone in the ignorant, general public what you see or hear at our weekly meetings. W e ’re serious! This is top-secret stuff! O pen your mouth and you face the consequences: Donald Draper, a Secret Festival Club member in 1984, thinking it couldn’t hurt, told a friend in Duluth what he had been privy to see. A week later, HE W A S EATEN ALIVE BY RATS! Libby Michaels, a Club member for two years now, has not spoken A SINGLE W O R D since the first meeting in 1983. Last month, she won the lottery! Is It worth it? YO U be the judge! Join the Secret Festival Film C lu b ... but don’t tell anybody!

G O LDEN SPACE NEEDLE A W A R D S MONDAY, JUNE 10

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THE GOLDEN SPACE NEEDLE AW ARDS After nine years of hemming and hawing, we've finally decided to take the plunge, and do what is just about the only thing that this Festival has not yet done or attempted to do: give awards. In the true spirit of proletariat struggle, these prizes will not be awarded by a glitzy panel of celebrities, but by filmgoers at the Festival — through a vote for their favorite film. The procedure for voting is quite simple: a Ballot Box will be in the lobby of both the Egyptian and Market Theatres throughout the Festival. Ballots and pencils will (hopefully) be beside the boxes. When you have seen a film that you consider one of the best in the Festival, simply fill in that film’s title (along with any pertinent comments), and drop your ballot in the box. W e ask that you please not vote for any more than five films during the Festival. O f course, if you prefer, you could vote for one film five times, but in any case we ask that you refrain from casting more than five ballots. At the end of the Festival, the votes will be tallied, and the winning film(s) will be awarded w ith... (what else?) a Golden Space Needle as a token of audience esteem. The awards will be handed out at a free show featuring the best shorts from this year’s Festival starting at 7:30 M ond ay night, June 10 at the Egyptian Theatre. Please exercise your right to vote — and we w on’t promise you a chicken in every pot, but we hope to make this an annual event, and learn more about what our audience wants to see in the Festival.

PLUS A N EVENING O F SHO RT FILM S Seattle has become a groundbreaker for showcasing both local and international short subjects. After countless requests for an entire program of shorts, we have compiled the best films of the Tenth Seattle International Film Festival into a single closing night event. A m o ng the short films to be featured are Academy award winners, Up and The Stonecarvers. Two years ago at the Eighth Seattle International Film Festival we premiered the wonderfully unique short, Vincent. This year we present the new work by the same filmmakers, Frankenweenie, which promises to be as eccentrically humorous. Hopefully the Best of the Shorts will become a regular event in the Seattle International Film Festivals to come!

A N IJ A M I Marv Newland and Sally Cruikshank / USA and Canada / 8 minutes /198 4 A N N A A N D B E L L A I Borge Ring / Netherlands / 7 V i minutes /198 4 B O IS E A N D B E Y O N D I Gregg Osborne / USA /1 9 minutes / 1984 C IT Y S C A P E S T R IL O G Y I Franklin Backus and Richard Protovin / USA / 32 minutes /1 9 8 4 C U C U M B E R S T U D IO S R O C K V ID E O S I England /1983-1984 D O U B L E N E G A T IV E I Sam Irvin / USA / 20 minutes /198 5 EV ER Y D A Y E V E R Y N IG H T I Kathy Mueller / Australia / 25 minutes /1 9 8 4 F L O O D I Boris Hybner / Czechoslovakia / 3 minutes /198 4 F R A N K E N W E E N IE I Rick Heinrick / USA / 25 minutes /198 4 F R O M H A R L E M T O H A R V A R D ! David Lewis and Marco Williams / USA 119 minutes /1984 G A M E I Jiri Sommernitz / Czechoslovakia / 8 minutes /198 4 G A R D E N O F E D E N I Laurence Holt and Roger Sherman / USA 28 minutes /1 9 8 4 H A V E T H E U F O ’S B E E N H E R E ? I Ivan Popovic / Czechoslovakia / 7 minutes /1 9 8 4 IC E FR EE I Netherlands /198 4 IN M Y D R E A M S I Jeffrey Mindt / USA / 7 V i minutes /198 5 L A N D S C A P E W IT H W A IT R E S S I Jeffrey Townsend / USA / 27 minutes /198 5 M E M O R A B IL IA I Greg Araki / USA / 5 minutes /198 3 A f£D W E T H E R E D I Lee Whitmore / Australia / 1 2 minutes /198 3 N U R S E L Y D I A ’S F L IG H T T O F R E E D O M / Frank Herrebout / Netherlands / 10 minutes /1984 P IE S I Sheldon Cohen / Canada /1 3 minutes /1 9 8 4 P R O M E T H E U S T H E F IR E B R IN G E R / Robert McGinley / USA / 1 5 minutes /198 5 TH E Q U E S T I Saul and Elaine Bass / USA / 35 minutes /198 4 S P A C E T R A S H I Jeffrey Mindt / USA / 1 5 V i minutes /1985 THE S T O N E C A R V E R S I Paul Wagner and Marsha Hunt / USA / 29 minutes /1 9 8 4 T A B LE F O R O N E I Doris Chase / USA / 30 minutes /198 4 T W O L IP S I Garek Seko / Czechoslovakia / 7 minutes / 1983 U P — m k t Hoover / USA /1 4 minutes /198 4 THE V ID E O A R T IS T I Ruud Monster / Netherlands / 30 minutes /1 9 8 4 V IR T U O S O I Jan Slama / Czechoslovakia / 7 minutes /198 3 X ID U I Michelle Mahrer / Australia / 5 minutes /198 5

POSTER AUCTIO N MONDAY, MAY 27

1:30

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FOREIGN FILM POSTER EX H IBIT IO N A N D A U CT IO N O ne of the most popular highlights of the Festival is rapidly becoming the display and auction of foreign movie posters, even though this is only the third time w e’ve done it. A glorious variety of co lo ry , beautiftjl foreign posters, usually not available to Americans, will be displayed in the theatre lobby during the Festival. They will be auctioned on Monday, M a y 27th, (Memorial Day) at 1:30 at the Egyptian, so circle that date on your calendar! A m o ng the goodies this year: British posters for Return of the Soldier, Company of Wolves, and Beveriy Hills Cop; a German Marlene; a Belgian Under the Volcano; and of course, loads of gorgeous, giant French posters, including La Chevre, L’Homme Blessé, Rosi’s Carmen, A Sunday in the Country, Amadeus, Ghostbusters, Cotton Gub, Visconti’s Ludwig, and the M o nroe Seven Year Itch.

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THE BEST OF THE FEST

A Free Series

To celebrate ten years of success and growth beyond our wildest dreams, we'd like to invite you on a trip down memory lane for a rediscovery of what we feel were am ong the high-points of the first nine festivals. W e’ve selected nine films, one from each edition of SIFF: the emphasis is on our favorite films which, for one reason or another, go t little or no exposure in regular theatrical dates despite having captivated festival audiences. In most cases, the films were relatively unheralded before gaining audience favor at SIFF. The sense of surprise and revelation that attended their initial fest screenings provided an experience that all film lovers cherish, and that is perhaps the best thing about any festival: the chance to discover a great film for yourself. Rediscover these nine fantastic films with us in our 10th Birthday party gift to you: THE BEST OF THE FEST. The Lost Honor of Kathedna Blum; Max Havelaar, The Devil’s Playground; Empire of Passion; China 9/Liberty 37; A Flight of Rainbirds; Muddy River; Stepping Out; Streamers.

SATURDAY, MAY 11

1:30 Market

West Germany

THE LO ST H O N O R OF KATARINA BLU M Director:

(IstSIFF)

Margaretha von Trotta 1975 97 minutes

Nothing short of masterful, Seattle audiences go t their first taste of Margaretha von Trotta’s brilliant brand of German N ew Wave filmmaking in this true story about an innocent woman who is hounded to the breaking point by the police and press after a chance love encounter with an alleged terrorist. The film was never seen widely in the U.S., though it was remade as an Emmy Award winning movie for television last year — The Lost Honor of Katherine Beck.

SUNDAY, MAY 12 1:30 Egyptian

M A X HAVELAAR Director.

Netheiiands/lndonesia (2nd s if f )

Fons Rademakers 1977 170 minutes

Raved about by local and national critics alike and mishandled by its distributor, M ax Havelaar was a huge hit with audiences in the Second SIFF as well as in its American Premiere engagement at the Moore Egyptian — then home of the Seattle Rim Festival. It is an epic story of one Dutch official’s fight against corruption and oppression in colonial Indonesia. Exotic locales and gorgeous cinematog raphy add to its many pleasures.

SATURDAY, MAY 18

1:30 Market

THE D E V ILS PLAYGROUND Director:

Australia (3rd s if f )

Fred Schepisi 1977 107 minutes

Fred Schepisi (The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith, Barbarosa, Iceman) made his directorial debut in this stunning film about the inhabitants of a religious boys’ school in Australia. The film won several Australian Film Awards including Best Rim in 1977, and helped to establish Australia as a major force in world filmmaking.

SUNDAY, MAY 19

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EMPIRE OF PASSION

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Director:

1:30

N agisa Oshim a 1978

108 minutes

A follow-up to his controversial international hit, In the Realm of the Senses, Nagisha Oshima created a richer, even more haunting story of obsession in this Cannes Film Festival prize winner (Best Director 1978). Two adulterous lovers conspire to murder the wom an's husband in order to be free to carry on their affair. But the tables turn, and the ghost of the husband returns to drive the lovers mad in this atmospheric Shakespearian tale of grand passion.

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U.S.A.1U1,

CHINA 9/UBERTY 37

(51hsm)

SUNDAY, MAY 26 Director:

1:30

Monte Heilman 1979 102 minutes

Director M onte Heilman (Two Lane Blacktop) assembled a great cast (including Warren Oates, Fabio Testi and jenny Agutter) and Fellini’s great cameraman Giuseppi Rotunno in this “Spaghetti Western” rich in comic absurdity. A hired gunman is pardoned on the brink of being hanged, on the condition that he will kill a farmer who is blocking construction of a new railroad. Predictably, he becomes romantically involved with the farmer’s w ife... but there is nothing predictable about how this triangular relationship resolves itself.

SATURDAY, MAY 25

1:30

Market

A FLIGHT O F RAINBIRDS Director:

N « h .H » d s

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Ate de Jong 1981 96 minutes

Unaccountably, this droll and delightful romantic com edy never found a national distributor after charming two sold-out audiences at the Sixth SIFF. Jeroen Krabbe (Soldier of Orange, The 4th Man) gives a remarkable performance as Martin, a shy, bumbling scientist who has an enormous problem: a complete failure at romance, he dreams he has seven days to find a woman or face certain death. Adding to his problems is a very active alter-ego who constantly appears (visible only to Martin) to throw a monkeywrench into the works.

SATURDAYJUNE 1 1:30

Market

M U D DY RIVER Director:

japan (7th SIFF)

Kohei Oguri 1981 105 minutes

Nominated for an Academy Award as Best Foreign Film that year, Muddy River is a classic evocation of the childhood rites-of-passage, seen through the eyes of Nobu, a nine-year-old waif who lives on the banks of the river of the title with his parents. In a community whose life revolves around the ebb and flow of personal events rather than the outside world, Nobu slowly awakens to the harsh realities of life in an adult world.

SUNDAY JU N E 2

1:30

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STEPPING O UT Director:

Denmark (8th SIFF)

Esben Holland Carisen 1981 100 minutes

A wonderful com edy about love and lovemaking between people in their thirties, Stepping O ut came as a complete surprise to audiences at the Eigth SIFF, and remains one of the fond memories of that festival. Jens and Karen (both newly divorced and both with children) are two sadder but wiser new singles who are ready once again to take the small and larger steps in a tricky waltz of love.

SUNDAYJU N E 9

1:30

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STREAMERS Director:

U. S A (9th s if f )

Robert Altman 1983 118 minutes

Robert Altman’s electrifying film of David Rabe’s hit play is set in 1965, with a small group of men in a military barracks awaiting orders to be shipped to Vietnam. The six men are a mixed bunch: two of them are black, one an Ivy League homosexual, and another is an intellectual from the sticks. Streamers is an utterly dynamic movie about men placed in strange and threatening circumstances, with savage consequences awaiting them. A fascinating precursor of A Soldier's Story.

THE FILMS • YEAR BY YEAR THE LOST HONOR OF KATHAR1NA BLUM • BLACK M O ON • CONFRONTATION • NIGHT OF COUNTING THE YEARS • PHANTOM OF LIBERTY • DOWN THE ANCIENT STAIRS • SCENT OF A W OMAN • CATHY TIPPEL • ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW • FOX & HIS FRIENDS • ALL SCREWED UP • HEDDA • MAHLER THE BEST WAY • CRIA CUERVOS • PEOPLE OF THE WIND • MOTHER KUSTER’S TRIP TO HEAVEN • THE INCREDIBLE SARAH • LANCELOT DU LAC • UNDER MILKW OOD • A W OMAN OF PARIS (CHAPLIN) • THE OLD GUN • THE SARAGOSSA MANUSCRIPT • CALIFORNIA REICH • THE STORY OF SIN • A BIGGER SPLASH • LET JO Y REIGN SUPREME • CIRCUS IN THE CIRCUS • THE CLOCKMAKER • AGUIRRE, WRATH OF GOD • TRACKS • F FOR FAKE • MAX HAVELAAR • ALLEGRO NON TROPPO • THUNDERCRACK • EXHIBITION • MULTIPLE M ANIACS • ERASERHEAD • TURKISH DELIGHT • THE ICEMAN COMETH • A DELICATE BALANCE • THE HOM ECOM ING • RHINOCEROS • BUTLEY • THE MAIDS

M ADAM EROSA • THETOY • SUMMER PARADISE • BLACK JO Y • THE CHESS PLAYERS • W HO ARE THE DEBOLTS AND WHERE DID THEY GET 19 KIDS? • THE ASCENT • LA MERVEILLEUSE VISITE- THE PROMISED LAND • BAKER’S BREAD • THE DEVIL’S PLAYGROUND • BAHIA • EFFIE BRIEST • BONJOUR AM OUR • COUSIN ANGELICA • SUMMER OF SECRETS • THE AMERICAN FRIEND • COBRA W OMAN (1944) • SOLDIER OF ORANGE • ANNA KARENINA • VOYAGE TO GRAND TARTARY • PAFNUCIO SANTO • MIKEY &. NICKY • THE WILD DUCK • CEDDO • ONIBABA (1953) • LULU • W ORD IS OUT • SHORT EYES • SALO: THE 120 DAYS OF SO D O M • ANATAHAN (1953) • HEART OF GLASS • LETTERS FROM MARUSIA • ROSELAND • TENT OF MIRACLES • GAS CITY • OPERATION THUNDERBOLT • HOT TOM ORROW S • DESPERATE LIVING • THE BEAST • KUCHAR/MCDOWELL (REASON TO LIVE/TRUE, BLUE & DREAMY/NUDES) • GUMS • FEMMES FATALES • ERASERHEAD • THIEF OF BAGDAD/WINNIE THE POOH/UGLY DUCKLING • STANLEY KRAMER RETROSPECTIVE/TRIBUTE

A LITTLE ROMANCE • FEDORA • EAGLE’S WING • PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK • DESPAIR • THE MIDDLEMAN • NIGHTHAWKS • PRINCE EHTEJAB • CARNIVAL DREAMS • YEAR OF THE HARE • THIRD BASE • ISLAND OF MILITIA WOMEN • M EANDCHARLY • REMBRANDT 1669 • THE SANDGLASS • THE W RONG MOVE • ADELE HASNT HAD HER SUPPER YET OR NICK CARTER IN PRAGUE • THE CYCLE • EMPIRE OF PASSION • PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN • KINGDOM OF NAPLES • DEATH OF A PRESIDENT • CONFESSIONS OF WINNIFRED WAGNER • WITH BABIES AND BANNERS/NO MAPS ON MY TAPS • ILLUMINATION • DOSSIER 51 • NIGHTS AND DAYS • FOUL PLAY • PASTORALE 1943 • NISH ANT • SKIN DEEP • PERCEVAL • RIDDLE OF THE SANDS • IVAN THE TERRIBLE (BALLET) • MYSTERIES • SERVANT AND MISTRESS • JACOB THE LIAR • PARATROOPER • THE LONG WEEKEND • THE PORNOGRAPHER • THE NIGHT THE PROWLER • ALAMBR1STA • THE SECOND AWAKENING OF CHRISTA KLAGES • PASTORAL HIDE AND SEEK • A W OMAN LIKE EVE • W HO HAS SEEN THE W IND? • MY FRIEND • STEVIE • THE VALIANT ONES • FLAMING HEARTS • THE MAIN ACTOR • THE LAST THREE DAYS • STERNSIDE M ANOR • NEWSFRONT • THE 39 STEPS • DAWN OF THE DEAD • SEBASTIANE • WAKEFIELD POOLE’S BIBLE • GEORGE KUCHAR TRILOGY: HOLD ME WHILE I’M NAKED/REASON TO LIVE/SYMPHONY FOR A SINNER • WEDDING TROUGH (THE PIG AND I) • ALIEN • TARZOON, SHAME OF THE JUNGLE • JUBILEE • MARI KEN • LABOR OF LOVE • ITIM • PROPERTY • LIGABUE • HYENAS UNDER THE SUN • TATTOOED TEARS • GREENPEACE: VOYAGE TO SAVE THE WHALES • CIA: A CASE OFFICER • W OODY ALLEN: AMERICAN COMEDY • GOODNIGHT, M ISS ANN • FLIGHT OF THE GOSSAMER CON DO R • EL CAPITAN • COM E AND GET IT • RHYTHYM ON THE RANGE • SOUTH OF PAGO PAGO • SON OF FURY

THE GETTING OF W ISDOM • THE GLASS CELL • ^INCORRIGIBLE • THE LADY VANISHES • IN FOR TREATMENT • BELOVED LOVER • CHRIST STOPPED ATEBOLI • PACIFIC HIGH/BIG BOATS • QUE VIVA M EXICO • EL SUPER • ROUGH TREATMENT • TERESA THE THIEF • THE MIRACLE TREE • BEST BOY • ON COMPANY BUSINESS • THE APPLE GAME • L’ADOLESCENTE • JUN OO N • RETURN OF THE SECAUCUS SEVEN • DON GIOVANNI • FRENCH POSTCARDS • THE LAST GAME • A SAFE PLACE • DEAR DOCTOR • BUTTERFLY MURDERS • BETWEEN MIRACLES • WAR AT HOME • MIRA • DEAR BOYS • HEAD OVER HEELS • W OMAN IN A TWILIGHT GARDEN • SPARTACUS (BALLET) • THE BRONTE SISTERS • THE MEADOW • SCREAM FROM SILENCE • BLOOD FEUD • IN A YEAR OF 13 M O O N S • FRAGRANCE OF WILD FLOWERS • NORMANDE • CHINA 9/LIBERTY 37 • YOU ARE NOT ALONE • ANGI VERA • BUFFET FROID • HEARTLAND • SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY • ANNA KARENINA (BALLET) • LA DEROBADE • THE MAN TO DESTROY • EACH OTHER • NIGHTMARES • T O D O M O D O • THE MAN YOU LOVED TO HATE • THOSE MAGNIFICENT MOVIE MEN • THE LAST OF THE BLUE DEVILS • TALES FROM THE VIENNA W OO D S • SPETTERS • THE SECRET LIFE OF PLANTS • THE STUNT MAN • RUST NEVER SLEEPS • FORBIDDEN ZONE • J-MEN FOREVER • ANDY • CHA CHA • THE GREAT ROCK’N ROLL SWINDLE • MR. MIKE’S M ONDO VIDEO • ROCK’N ROLL HIGH SCH O O L • OUR HITLER • THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK • TURKISH DELIGHT • CATHY TIPPEL • SOLDIER OF ORANGE

M OSCOW DOESN’T BELIEVE IN TEARS • THE FOUR SEASONS • CITY OF WOMEN • MAN OF MARBLE • BACKROADS/HOMESDALE/THE SINGER AND THE DANCER • THE CHANT OF JIMMIE BLACKSMITH • THE CLUB • FRONTLINE/PUBLIC ENEMY # 1 • THE NIGHT THE PROWLER • STIR • GERMAN SPRING • W OMAN RHYMES WITH HUMAN (MENSCHENFRAUEN) • GAIJIN — ROADS TO FREEDOM • SUMMER SHOWERS • THE DREAM NEVER DIES • FIGHTING BACK • G O O D RIDDANCE (LES BONS DEBARRAS) • EARLY SPRING • EL SALVADOR: EL PUEBLO VENCERA (THE PEOPLE WILL WIN) &. EL SALVADOR: THE SEEDS OF LIBERTY • LOVE BETWEEN THE RAINDROPS • LA DROLESSE • LOULOU • ONE WILD MOMENT • PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT • A SECOND CHANCE • SO U PCON • BLACK AND WHITE LIKE DAY AND NIGHT • THE CHILDREN OF NUMBER 67 • FABIAN • LENA RAIS • FAMILY LIFE • PROSTITUTE • SECOND STAR TO THE RIGHT/MELODY • RAINING IN THE MOUNTAINS • A TOUCH OF ZEN • LAND AND SO N S • STEPHEN • DEAD END THE THIN LINE • BELLISIMA (1951) • IMMACOLATA AND CONCETTA • AN ITALIAN W OMAN • THE LADY WITHOUT CAMELIAS (1953) • LEAP INTO THE VOID • LITTLE ARCHIMEDES • OSSESSIONE (1942) • STORY WITHOUT W ORDS • REGGAE SUNSPLASH • HIM IKO • THE IDIOT (1951) • LOVE AND FAITH • LOVE SUICIDE AT SONZAKI • CHARLOTTE • A FLIGHT OF RAINBIRDS • SPLITTING UP • SQUEEZE • MANILA: IN THE CLAWS OF DARKNESS • THE CAMERA BUFF • THE CHANCE • THE CONSTANT FACTOR • OLYM PICS 1940 • PROVINCIAL ACTORS • ANASTASIA PASSED BY • THE HAUNTING OF M • THE NEST • FARO DOCUMENT 1979 • THE LITTLE ESCAPES • MESSIDOR • THE STORY OF A SMALL TOWN • HAZAL • OBLOM OV • QUEEN OF THE GYPSIES • THE WILD HUNTING OF KING STAKH • AGEE • ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT (1930) • ATLANTIC CITY • THE BEATS/FRIED SH OES, COOKED DIAM ONDS • CUTTER’S WAY • THE DARK END OF THE STREET • EIGHT MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT/WILLMAR 8 • FROM M AO TO MOZART • GAL YOUNG UN • HEALTH • THE HOWLING • IMAGE BEFORE MY EYES • IMPOSTERS • KNIGHTRIDERS • THE LIFE A TIMES OF ROSIE THE RIVETER &. NIGHT CITY ANGELS • POTO AND CABENGO • SOLDIER GIRLS • THE TRIALS OF ALGER HISS • TUCK EVERLASTING • UNION CITY • OUTLAND • ANTICLOCK • BLACK AND BLUE • BLUE SUEDE SHOES • BREAKING GLASS • THE DECLINE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION • FADE TO BLACK • THE FUNHOUSE • ONE TRICK PONY • THE PUNK ROCK MOVIE • REGGAE SUNSPLASH • RUDE BOY • SHELLSHOCK ROCK • THE WILD CHILD • THE PARALLAX VIEW • IMITATION OF LIFE • INTOLERANCE • SOLDIER IN THE RAIN • HELL’S ANGELS ON WHEELS/SAVAGE SEVEN • BLOODBROTHERS • ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 • YANCO • WOMEN IN LOVE • ISADORA DUNCAN, THE BIGGEST DANCER IN THE WORLD • THE M USIC LOVERS • SONG OF SUMMER • ELGAR • THE DEVILS • DANTE'S INFERNO • BILLION DOLLAR BRAIN • ALWAYS ON SUNDAY • THE BOY FRIEND • SAVAGE MESSIAH • TOMMY • MAHLER • DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS

THE FILMS

YEAR BY YEAR

MEPHISTO • WRONG IS RIGHT • DIVA • ATOM IC CAFE • FAT ANGELS • PUBERTY BLUES • THE HUNGRY I REUNION • CLARENCE AND ANGEL • THE OUTLAW: SAGA OF GISLI • PAUL MORRISSEY: FORTY DEUCE/MADAME WANG’S • WASN’T THAT A TIME • ALL NUDITY SHALL BE PUNISHED • KALYUG __ MACHINE AGE • MARK OF THE BEAST • A WEEK’S VACATION • THE LONG G O O D FRIDAY • GOODBYE, PORK PIE • THE ROAD WARRIOR • THE TEMPEST • HEARTACHES • PIAF • LES BEAUX SOUVENIRS • TRADEGY OF A RIDICULOUS MAN • LA VIE CONTINUE • WINTER KILLS ZIGUENERWEISEN • OPERA PRIMA • BEST OF FRIENDS • THE SILENCE AROUND CHRISTINE M . • BUND FABIAN MEETS GOD • TRAVELLING PLAYERS IMAGINE THE SOUND • MUDDY RIVER • VITO RUSSO: THE CELLULOID CLOSET • SUZANNE • THE AVIATOR’S WIFE • MINUET • MYSTERY OF OBERWALD • HIGH HEELS __ TRUE LOVE • SHE DANCES ALONE • PORTRAIT OF TERESA • FROM THE ASHES/BECOMING AMERICAN • INTIMATE FRIENDS • IOHNNYLARSEN • DAVID • FLAMETOP • SHORTCUTS • SO LO SU N N Y • STREETMUSIC • THE GIRL WITH RED HAIR • CHARLIE MUFFIN CONTRACT • CIRCLE OF DECEIT • BOB LE FLAMBEUR • FATHER AND SON • SWEET PEA • HUIE’S SERMON/VERNON, FLORIDA • THE MAKING OF RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK • THE DIVINE EMMA • WAR OF THE W ORLDS— THE NEXT CENTURY • D O YOU REMEMBER DOLLY BELL? • CONVERSATION PIECE • TALL SHADOW S OF THE WIND • THE PERSONALS • TO AN UNKNOW N GOD • HEART TO HEART • EIJANAIKA • EATING RAOUL • A HOT SUMMER NIGHT • MARIANNE AND |ULIANE • ANNIE • FRUITS OF PASSION • MAITRESSE • BUSINESS IS BUSINESS • TABOO • POLTERGEIST • THE LOVERS • SUSAN SLADE • THE EGYPTIAN • START THE REVOLUTION WITHOUT ME • LIFEGUARD • A SUMMER PLACE • SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS GYPSY • LOVE WITH THE PROPER STRANGER • INSIDE DAISY CLOVER • THIS PROPERTY IS CONDEMNED • WEST SIDE STORY

THE FOURTH MAN • AN EVENING WITH LOUIS MALLE • AN EVENING WITH SYDNEY POLLACK • RETURN OF THE JEDI • PARSIFAL • LA TRAVIATA • THE WIND (1927) • HEART LIKE A WHEEL • QUERELLE • THE WITNESS • THE PLAGUE D OGS • TO BEGIN AGAIN • INVITATION AU VOYAGE • KOYAANISQATSI • INDEPENDENCE DAY • DUDLEY CARTER/CITY NEWS • CITY LOVERS/COUNTRY LOVERS • STEPPING OUT • THE FAREWELL • THE ESCAPE ARTIST • TIME FOR REVENGE • CELESTE • FAREWELL TO THE LAND • THE LEOPARD • THE WIZARD OF BABYLON • THE DRAUGHTMANS CONTRACT • STARSTRUCK • M OSES PENDLETON • COU P DE TORCHON • SCRUBBERS • THE THREE AGES (KEATON) • THE GIRL FROM LORRAINE THRESHOLD • SUCCESS • WAYS IN THE NIGHT • SALLY AND FREEDOM • THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE • THE KILLING OF ANGEL STREET • PRIVILEGED THE ANIMALS FILM « IN THE KING OF PRUSSIA • UN ETRANGE AFFAIRE • LA PETITE SIRENE • L’ETOILE DU NORD • RETURN ™ ^ I M i N T • LIQUID SKY • BUMBLE « , C O . • SAY AMEN, SOMEBODY • AN UNSUITABLE JO B FOR A W OMAN • GALA • SLOW ATTACK • LUCIO FLAVIO • THE STATIONMASTER’S WIFE • GROW ING UP • BROKEN SKY • THE MAN WITH TWO BRAINS • THE BALLAD OF GREGORIO CORTEZ • SMITHEREENS • WAR GAMES • PSYCHO II • KAMIKAZE ’89 • HEATWAVE • THE TASTE OF WATER • IN-LAW S • EXPERIENCE PREFERRED BUT NOT NECESSARY • PURPLE HAZE • CAMOUFLAGE • SWEET HOURS • CHOICE OF ARMS • ANGELO, MY LOVE • JEANNE DIELMANN • INTER NO S • WITCH HUNT • VILLAGE IN THE JUNGLE • LA TRUITE • ONIM ASA < DREAMLAND • LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP • THE SAVAGE LAND • EMMA LA BANQUIERE • MONKEY GRIP • SPACEHUNTER: ADVENTURES IN THE FORBIDDEN ZONE • BASKET CASE • THE EVIL DEAD • VERONIKA VO SS • ANGEL • ANDROID THE WORMEATERS • CHAINED FOR LIFE/TERROR OF TINY TOWN • WEST SDIE STORY • BEN-HUR • RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK • WIND AND THE LION • DAUGHTERS OF DARKNESS • WHATEVER HAPPENED TO SUSAN JANE? • OKLAHOM A! • OKLAHOMAI • ARROWSMITH • BALL OF FIRE DODSW ORTH • STELLA DALLAS • GUYS AND DOLLS

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FEATURE FILM SOURCES Actav Film 1210 Rue St Hubert Montreal, Quebec, Canada H 2L3Y7

Alliance Films 2 6 0 0 10th St 4th fl Berkeley, C A 9 4 7 1 0

John Antonelll 4 7 Castle Rock Dr Mill Valley, C A 94941

Array Films 2 1 3 6 Palova San Francisco, C A 9 4 1 2 4

Australian Film Com m ission

2 0 0 9 Grey Ave Montreal, Quebec, Canada

San Bernardo 3 0 3 Madrid 8 Spain

Embassy Pictures 1901 Ave of the States Los Angeles, C A 9 0 0 6 7

European Classics 4 8 1 8 Yuma N W Washington, D C 2 0 0 1 6

Australian Film Office

1517 W. Fullerton A Chicago, IL 6 0 6 1 4

2 0 4 9 Century Park Los Angeles, C A 90 0 6 7

Film Network Inc.

Christian Blackwood Productions 115 Bank St New York, NY 10014

Don Blakeney d o H. Kerner I2 0 D New York, NY 10007

Boston Movie Co. 24 Thayer St Boston, M A 0 2 1 1 8

Cinema Guild 1697 Broadway New York, NY 10019

Clnesthesla 3 05 W. 55th St. # 3 New York, NY 10019

Clnevlsta 35 3 W. 39th St New York, NY 10018

Circle Releasing 2 3 9 '/z E. 3 2 n d S t N e w Y o rk , N Y 1 0 0 1 6

Concord Pictures 1 1600 San Vicente Blvd. Los Angeles, C A 9 0 0 4 9

Corinth Films 4 1 0 L 62nd St New York, NY 10021

Crest Fllms/JGM Enterprises Crocus Prod. 5 3 3 0 Wilkenson A v N. Hollywood, C A 91 6 0 7

Crystal Pictures 1560 Broadway New York, NY 10036

CWA 1717 N. Vine St # 4 Hollywood, C A 9 0 0 2 8

Danish Film Institute Soundevoldst Kobenhavn K Denmark

Kirby Dick 1961 Palmerston PI Los Angeles, C A 9 0 0 2 7

H 4H 3N3

E. Piedra Prod.

Facets M ulti M edia

1300 Summit Ridge Beverly Hills, C A 9 0 2 1 0

32 W. 40th Suite 2 N ew York, NY 10018

East o f the Acropolis

9 2 2 9 Sunset Blvd Los Angeles, C A 9 0 0 6 9

Beverly Pictures

Italtoons

Dutch Consulate

9 6 3 8 Beacon Ave S Seattle, W A 9 8 1 1 8

Film Polskl Filmmaker’s Library 133 E. 58th N ew York, N Y 10022

Les Films Rene M alo 171 Dorchester Montreal, Quebec, Canada H2L4T3

Films Transit 4 8 7 2 Papineau Ave Montreal, Quebec, Canada H 2H 1 V 6

Films, Inc. 5 6 2 5 Hollywod Blvd Hollywood, C A 9 0 0 2 8

Fllmverlag der Autoren Tengstrasse 33 8 0 0 0 Munich 4 0 Germany G e m in i Film P ro d u ctio n s 6 9 Sherboume # 4 2 Toronto, Canada M 5 A 3 X 9

Golden Princess 201 119 W. Broadway Vancouver, NC, Canada V5Y1P4

Horizon Releasing 22 4th St. #1 Brooklyn, N Y 11231

Rob Houw er Film Compagnie Keizersgracht 3 1 9 1016 EE Am sterdam , Netherlands

IFEX 159 W. 53rd N ew York, N Y 10019

Interama 301 W. 53rd St # 1 9 N ew York, NY 10019

International Hom e Cinema 6 2 0 Lincoln Blvd Venice, C A 90291

International Rainbow Pictures 9 3 3 N. LaBrea Ave. Los Angeles, C A 9 0 0 3 8

Interplanetary 14225 Ventura Blvd Sherman Oaks, C A 9 1 4 2 3

Island Alive 9 0 0 0 Sunset Blvd Los Angeles, C A 9 0 0 6 9

Amarnath Jayatilaka 165/2 Dudley Senan Senan Mawatha, Borella

Kino International 2 5 0 W. 57th St N ew York, NY 10019

Kit Parker Films 1245 10th St Monterey, Ca 9 3 9 4 0

London Film 4 4 -A Floral St London, England W C 2 E9 D A

London W eekend T.V. Kenthouse - Upperg London, England S E I 9LT

Corrine M ann 6 1 3 9 Maiyland Dr Los Angeles, C A 9 0 0 4 8

Harvey M arks 1281 V a D u n s m u i r A v e L o s A n g e le s , C A 1 0 0 1 9

Media Hom e Entertainment 116 N Robertson # 9 Los Angeles, C A 9 0 0 4 8

M GM /UA Classics 10202 W. Washington Culver City, C A 9 0 2 3 0

Ministry o f Culture PO Box 54 0 6 2 2 8 0 H K Rijswijk, Holland

New World 1888 Century Pk E Los Angeles, CA 9 0 0 6 7

New Yorker Films 16 West 61st N ew York, NY 10023

Octo Media Group M useum T Bldg 15 W N ew York, NY 10019

O pen Circle H 7 0 7 Pier 5 San Francisco, C A 94111

Orion Classics 711 5th Ave N ew York, NY 10022

Orlon Pictures 1875 Centuiy Park Los Angeles, C A 9 0 0 6 7

RKR Entertainment Group 11622 Sunshine Ter Studio City, C A 9 1 6 0 4

Sam uel Goldwyn Co. 10203 Santa Monica Los Angeles, C A 9 0 0 6 7

Sandstar P O B o x 1636 Provo, UT 8 4 6 0 3

Seon Film Prod’s Pty, Ltd. 2 2 Egerton Road Arm adale 3 1 4 3 Victoria, Australia

FEATURE & SHORT FILM SOURCES Shire Films PO Box 1728 Santa Cruz, C A 95061

Skouras 4 1 5 N. Crescent Dr Beverly Hills, C A 9 0 2 1 0 Sp ectra In f l. film s 29 W. 34th St N ew York, NY 10001

Swank M otion Pictures 201 S. Jefferson St. Louis, M O 6 3 1 6 6

Swedish Film Institute Film H ou se Borgvàgen B ox 2 7 126 10252 Stockholm , Sw eden

TeleCulture 15 Vandam St N ew York, NY 10013

Thorn EM I 9 4 8 9 Dayton W ay Beverly Hills, C A 9 0 2 1 0

TLC Box 9 0 0 Beverly Hills, C A 90 2 1 3

TriStar 711 5th Ave New York, N Y 10022

Paul Wagner and M arsha Hunt

9 1 9 Olive

Washington D.C. 2 0 0 0 9

Seattle, W A 9 8 1 2 2

Direct Cinema

1875 Century Park Los Angeles, C A 9 0 0 6 7

Triumph Films 20 4 3 Columbia Plaza Burbank, C A 9 1 5 0 5

UCLA Film Archives 6311 Romaine St Hollywood, C A 9 0 0 3 8

Unlfrance Film 9 2 0 0 W. Sunset Los Angeles, C A 9 0 0 6 9

Universal Films 7523 17th N W Seattle, W A 9 8 1 1 7

Warner Brothers 8 4 8 4 Wilshlre Blvd Beverly Hills, C A 90211

Warner Brothers Classics 4 0 0 0 Warner Ave Burbank, C A 9 1 5 2 2

David Whitten Productions 221 Hampton Dr Venice, C A 90291

World Artists 1730 N Vista St. Los Angeles, C A 9 0 0 4 6

World Entertainment 67 7 Bush St San Francisco, C A 9 4 1 0 8

The Yorkln Co. 9 3 3 6 W. Wash. Blvd Culver City, C A 9 0 2 3 0

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Spectrafilm

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Dula Productions 3 6 jackson Road London N 7 6EJ

Cinema and Television Productions Ltd. P.O. Box 4 7 1 1 0

12th Floor N ew York, N Y 10001

Cucum ber Studios Vivian Munt 10 Livonia St. London, Wl

Ponsonby, Auckland N ew Zealand

Doris Chase Films 1 1 1 W est 23rd Street N ew York, N Y 10011

Franklin Backus 2 9 9 W est 12th Street N ew York, N Y 10014

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Desperate Cinema Ltd. Gregg Araki 1500 Amherst W est Los Angeles, C A 9 0 0 2 5

M ichelle Mahrer Australian Consulate General International Building 6 3 6 5th Avenue N ew York, N Y 10111

Im age Network 751 Broadway East Seattle, W A 9 8 1 0 2

Jeffrey Townsend Available Light 8 5 3 Broadway Suite 1509 N ew York, N Y 10003

Australian Film Com m ission 9 2 2 9 Sunset Blvd. Suite 6 15 Los Angeles, C A 9 0 0 6 9

Terry Thoren Landmark Theatres 2 2 2 2 So. Barrington Los Angeles, C A 9 0 0 6 4

Ceskoslovensky Filmexport 11145 Praha 1 Vadawskenam

Black Filmmaker Distribution P.O. Box 3 15 Franklin Lakes, N| 0 7 4 1 7

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Glen Harris Bernadette Payeur Rob McQuIston Rob NUsson Betty Rosen lohnAntonelli Ray Tom

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Array Films Australian Consulate General Andrea Marshall Australian Film Commission Robert Lewis Australian Film Office Franklin Backus L. Donn Bartholomew Brent Northup Bellevue Journal-American Herb Bregstein Beverly Pictures Christian Blackwood Blackwood Pictures DonBlakeney Rufus Seder Boston Movie Company Eamonn Bowles Michael Davidson Broadway Performance Hall Brad Brooks B. Brooks Associates Dick Cook Buena Vista Rick Heinrich Buena Vista BIURenn CAP. Inc. Ed Cassidy C.W.A. John Watson C.W.A. Cactus Films Ceskoslovensky Filmexport Maxine Chan UsaTesone Christian Blackwood Productions Amir Malln Cinecom International IraDeutschman Cinecom International John G. Ives Cinecom International Maureen Tolsdorf Cinecom International Stephanie Ogle Cinema Books Gary Crowdus CinemaGuild SamKitt Cinesthesia Pippin Cinevista |ohn Tilley Cinevista Chris Zarpas Circle Releasing Alexander Kagan Classic Associates Mark Pogachefsky Clein & Feldman Ashley Boone Columbia Pictures Robert Moulton Columbia Pictures |uBaA. Sweeney Columbia Pictures Barbara Mu rd Common Line Communications Gary Wells Common Line Communications MaryDItkoff Common Line Communications Susan Hill Concord Pictures Jess Conrad Matthew Curtis Corinth Films Mel Maron Crest Film Sean Aider Crocus Prods. Cucumber Studios SydneyTager Crystal Pictures (eanne Wechsler Crystal Pictures David Whitten D.W. Promotions UsseyBelalche Danish Film Institute |on Davison Desert Heart Productions Kirby Dick Direct Cinema East of the Acropolis Pictures Mary Armstrong East-West Center Amy Klmmelman Embassy Pictures Ed Russell Embassy Pictures PaulGjefle Environmental Design Ted Goldberg European Classics Ronald Goldman European Classics Laurie Fabrick James Madigan Facets Multi-Media Inc. Candace Manning Film Network Vincent Manning Rim Network Rim Polski Patd Crawford Filmex Tim Craig Films Inc. Rims Transit Finnish Film Institute Richard Lorber Fox- Lorber Associates Michael Spielberg Fox-Lorber Associates Edle Voiles Gemini Rim Productions William Lamb Golden Princess Larry Michaels Grade's Brace Hale Tlppl Hedren

Shelby Stone Holland FilmWeek, N.Y.C. Lynne Dahlgren Horizon Releasing Robert Horsley Marion Hunt Tim Hurley

Image Network Beth Brown Interama |effrey|acobs International R|m Exchange Christopher Woods International Film Exchange Mickey Cottrell International Home Cinema Raflgh Pooya International Home Cinema Henry (aglom International Rainbow Pictures Linda Beath International Spectrafilm Sam Irvin International Spectrafilm NickPerrot International Spectrafilm Don Rosen International Spectrafilm |ane Wright International Spectrafilm Sam Helfman Interplanetary Barrie Lynn Krich Intiman Jesse Beaton Island Alive Cary Brokaw Island Alive Wendy Holden Island Alive Carolyn Pfeiffer Island Alive Robert Leverone Italtoons Amamath Jayatilaka GloryJones Paul Carlson KEZX-FM |effKembel KEZX-FM Nancy Low KEZX-FM Peyton Mays KEZX-FM Steve Ward KEZX-FM Steven Rabow KHIT-FM Debbie Berg KING-FM Chris Crosby KING-FM Peter Newman KING-FM Rebecca Smyth KING-FM Marcia Alvar KUOW-FM VonDell Bennion KILL Distributors Roeland Kerbosch Donald Krim Kino International Dane Wilson ne Kit Parker Films George Kirvay Kristine Larsen Robert Laurent RulaLenska Cavolo Boudreault Les Films Rene Malo MarkShelmerdine London Film Colin Bucksley London Weekend T.V. Kristine Larson Los Angeles Times |ohn Lyddon Dawn Anderson M.C.A. MortSlakoff M.C.A. CorinneMann SeanMarkland Harvey Marks Noel Marshall PeterMaral Media Home Entertainment Steve Mellander ]lmmy Darbinlan MGM/U A Classics Terry House MGM/U A Classics JeffMacFariand MGM/U A Classics AiMllgram Lynne Albers Moss Bay Graphics Catharine Moyers

Bruce Gardiner Dale Nash Bob McRae Twyla Odegaard Dan Long Yvonne Sies Chris Aaronson Scott Einbinder Marge Rykowski lose Lopez Mary Lugo Chlpangela George Frederic Klopp Richard Wlnckler Norman Langlll Michael Barker Tom Bernard Donna Glgllotti PaulMowry David Sprigle Robert Cheren Charles Glenn Robert Lewln John Longmulr MardeTemp Nancy Goldman Sally Syberg |oeVigil Liz Marx Dennis Plana Emlllano Pledra Leonard Pollack Sue Williams Linda Stanley StacyeK. Richmond PaulVerhoeven GysVersluys Richard K. Rosenberg RobHouwer GregFeise Steven Roffer Bill Banning LeonledePIcdotto Samuel Goldwyn|r. Larry Jackson |eff Upsky T.C.RIce Merrill Shipper |lll Zlgnego Karen Larsen Peter Moore PeterScarlet

MPEX National Cinema Supply National Cinema Supply Neptune Theatre Netherlands FilmMinistry NewWorld Pictures New World Pictures NewWorld Pictures New Yorker Films New Yorker Films N orthwest Diversified Octo Media Films Octo Media Rims One-Reel Vaudeville/Bumbershoot Orion Classics Orion Classics Orion Classics Orion Classics Orion Classics Orion Pictures Orion Pictures Orion Pictures Orion Print Department Orion Print Department Pacific FilmArchives Pacific FilmArchives Paramount Pictures Corp. Peoplesbank

Public Forum Productions Pyramid Rims Riverside Pictures Riverside Pictures RKR Entertainment Rob Houwer Rim Company The Rocket Roxy Samuel Goldwyn Co. Samuel Goldwyn Co. Samuel Goldwyn Co. Samuel Goldwyn Co. Samuel Goldwyn Co. Samuel Goldwyn Co. Samuel Goldwyn Co. San Francisco Inti Rim Festival San Francisco Int’l. Rim Festival San Francisco Int’l. Rim Festival

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Steve Stewart JeffWatts William Arnold Quick Information Irene John Hard BaslaPuszka Randy Finley Steve McCoy |.B.Shayne Helen Garvey Matthijs Van Heyningen Janet Fleming Debbie Tucker Georges Sluizer Roger Smith Lisa Conway Geoffrey Gelardi Bob Bond Fred Danz LeAnne Eskenazi John Harsh JeffHauser Bob Hazard RodgerHeggen Neal Pulham John Keris John Teegarden Ruth Robbins Annabelle Sam Wendell Stella Pence Nick Roth Haig Ballan Chris Brouwer TerryThoren Rkk Stevenson ¿ ¡¡¡I Reg Williams Cary Jones

Sand Star Productions Seattle Central Community College Seattle Post-Intelligencer Seattle Public Library Seattle Times Seattle Times Seon Film Productions Seven Gables Corp. Seven Gables Corp. Shire Films Sigma Films B.V. Skouras Pictures Skouras Pictures

Sorrento Hotel Sorrento Hotel Sterling Recreation Organization Sterling Recreation Organization Sterling Recreation Organization Sterling Recreation Organization Sterling Recreation Organization Sterling Recreation Organization Sterling Recreation Organization Sterling Recreation Organization Swank Motion Pictures Swedish Film Institute

Peter Meyers Lucille Carra RobbyTowne John Skouris Joe Foley Cindy Herrenwyn R. Wayne Case Michael Friend Jeffrey Gilmour Robert GHt JosetteBonte Martin Swearingen Fred Mound Gordon Wallinger Marvin Antonowsky Don Barrett Harold Goldberg Michelle Reese Bob Hull Leonard Schien Kerry VanVeen Janet Wainwright Jennifer Henderson Richard Hill Richard Miner JeffPriU Barry Reardon

TLC Films Toho Tri-Star Pictures Triumph Films Triumph Films 20th Century Fox UCLA FilmArchives UCLA FilmArchives UCLA FilmArchives Unifrance Rim United Film Distribution Universal Rim Exchange Universal Film Exchange Universal Rims Universal Rims Universal Rims Universal Films USA Rim Festival Vancouver Inf 1.Film Festival

Linda Malcolm Cindy Ryfle David Brewster Carta de Orque Warren Payne Murray Weissman Timothy White Lloyd Cohn Susannah PrescottWright Bud Yorkin David Yorkin

Warner Brothers Classics Warner Brothers Classics The Weekly The Weekly The Weekly

World Artist World Entertainment Worldwide Pictures The Yorkin Company The Yorkin Company

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Warner Brothers Warner Brothers Warner Brothers Warner Brothers Warner Brothers

Teleculture Telefilm Canada Telefilm Canada Telluride The Boss’Son, Part 2 Inc. The Movies B.V. Amsterdam The Movies B.V. Amsterdam Thorn E.M.I. Thom E.M.I. TLC Films

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Allan Arment Judy Blackard Camille Blanchette Hemy Boothe Jeff Notten Jodi Burgess Brent Burhans LB. Butler Allen Chapman Jean Colman Mary Pat Dileva

Kim Ducote Joanna Flanders Gillian Gaar Jeff Gerson Herman Gilman Hollis Gimmetteo John Gray Reid Green Tony Grab Norman Gunderson Bryan Haughton Jeanne Hays Jeff Hilbert Janet Hitchcock Pam Hoerlein Mark Hoffman Margaret Howieson Cathy Hughen Pam Inglesby Barbara Jackson Betty James

Judy Koven Gary Krukowski Nancy Lindeman John Linse Ethel Ludwig Carole Main Judy Malgren Sharon McGill Jean Milam Sally Mizroch Fred Mullett Dale Nash Linda Novenski Nancy Olden Glenette Olvera David Pastro Kuaya Phillips Jon Pray Anne-Liis Richardson David Roberge Trixie Rombouts Ben Sabiers Cathy Sarkowsky Nancy Schub Sonny Spiedel Amy Stolov Laura Stusser John Teegarden Bill Totten Louise Van Sijl Laura Van Tosh Bill Waldo

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“C h ee rs” to the Egyptian’s 10th year. For the past decade, the Egyptian's "Show-of-Shows" has given hundreds of movie makers the opportunity to have their films professionally presented to Seattle's film-lovers.

P ro je ctio n ist L o c a l 1 5 4 Over 75 years, helping make the art of movies " state-of-the-art".

TICKET INFORMATION GENERAL INFORMATION All film s will be show n in their original language with English subtitles. M o st film s will be preceded with a short. Please check w ith the festival inform ation line if yo u w ish further details. Seating is available at all perform ances on a first-com e, first-served basis. All program s are subject to change w ithout notice. D ue to circum stances beyond our control, certain film s m ay be rescheduled or cancelled. Every effort hum anly possible will be m ade to keep yo u inform ed o f these changes.

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This year, three different full series p asse s are available. The $ 100 full series

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p a ss includes adm ission to all program s at the M arket Theatre only. For $ 125, the full series pass includes adm ission to all program s at the Egyptian theatre

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only, with the exception o f O p e n in g Night, M a y 9th. The $ 150 full series pass includes adm ission to all program s at both the Egyptian and the M arket Theatres,

with the exception o f O p e n in g Night, M a y 9th. The 70m m M arathon is included only on the $ 150 full series pass. Please Note: Due to the lim ited seating at the M arket Theatre and anticipated sell-outs at both theatres, all those purchas in g full series pa sse s are requested to arrive at the theatre one-half hour before show tim e. This is to ensure adequate seating for everyone. All series passes

are non-transferable. Full series ticket purchasers will be put on S R O ’s m ailing list to receive invitations to special screenings throughout the year. W Partial series tickets, available for $25.00, include adm ission to any six films,

with the exceptions o f any events priced ove r $5.00. W hen purchasing a partial series pass, yo u will be asked to select the film s yo u will be attending. There are a lim ited am ount o f seats alloted for partial series ticket holders per film, so it is stron gly urged that yo u purchase yo u r tickets as so o n as possible. Tickets for all events are available the follow ing ways: individual advance tickets, partial and full series tickets at the E gyp tian B ox Office — 801 L Pine — from n oon to 10 p.m. By m ail from the Egyptian. W hen ordering tickets, please use the form included in this flyer. If ordering partial series tickets, indicate the am ount needed and then check the am ount o f tickets next to the film s y o u ’d like to see u sin g the pass. To avoid the possible

inconvenience o f refunds, please leave the am ount on your check blank and indicate the maximum you wish to spend with the words "Not valid over $

W hen picking up yo u r tickets at the box office, please check them before yo u leave the w indow . No refunds or exchanges can be m ade with the excep tion o f a program change. W e regret that w e cannot adm it children under 6 years old. All children over 6 will be charged adult prices. Please note that unless w here noted, the program s are not double bills. All screenings require separate adm issions.

ADM ISSION PRICE SCHEDULE Regular Evening S c re e n in g s..........................................................$ 5.00 Gala O p e n in g — Twice in a Lifetime ..............................................$ 12.50 C lo sin g N igh t — Flesh and B lo o d ................

$ 7.50

A Tribute to N icolas R oe g — In sign ifican ce................................... $ 7.50 Spaced O u t at the C in e ra m a .......................

$ 7.50

Becky S h a rp ...................

$ 7.50

A Tribute to A n n -M a rg re t...............................

$ 7.50

A n Evening w ith H a n y Dean Stanton/U foria.................................. $ 5.00 Anatom y o f a Film: Sheila Ben son .................................................. $ 5.00 Desperately Seeking Sh ock ........................................................ $ 4.00 4:00 and 5:00 M a tin e e s.............................

$ 4.00

N icolas R oe g R e tro sp e ctive ..........................................................$ 2.50 Best o f the F e s t .......................................... ................................. Free Secret Festival Society M em bership (P A ID O N C E ).......................... $ 5.00

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"A WICKEDLY FUNNY COMEDY. "SH EER INTEN SITY T H E 4TH M A N ' r a c e s a lo n g a t a rapid c lip , but it fin d s tim e for its sh a re o f b la c k humor. Mr. Verhoeven m a n a g e s to co n v ey an irresistib le fa sc in a tio n w ith the p ie c e s e f th is p uzzle, and to ju g g le them e n e rg e tic a lly . Mr. K rabbé and M is s So u te n d ijk play their ro le s w ith ju st th e lu n atic intensity th at th e m aterial req uires, d aring to be nearly rid icu lo u s and so m etim es gam ely c r o s s in g th at lin e . They share a num ber of m em orably heated e n c o u n te rs.”

A s the thriller p lot th ic k e n s , so d o e s d irector Paul Verhoeven’s sa rd o n ic se n s e of humor. The fa sc in a tio n of Verhoeven's dark and stylish riddle is its ab ility to w o rk sim u lta n eo u sly a s m ystery and sa tire. T here’s not a dull m om ent in it.” — D avid Ansen, N e w sw e e k

T H E 4TH M AN * is lik e m a d ca p

m iddle-period B ergm an or, w h e n "SENSUAL. STRIKING. it’s really c o o k in g , T H E TW ILIGHT MYSTERIOUS AND ENGROSSING. ZO N E ' a s it m ight h ave b een im agined in a m ed ieval DONT MISS." m onastery. It m a k e s th e dream — Stephen Schaefer, U s M agazine

s e q u e n c e from 'SPELLBO U N D * seem e so te ric . T he m ovie is a s b onkers in its a ffe c t a s it is brazen it its e ffe c ts . It is an even funnier film if you kn o w h o w it e n d s. Tim e's sure fun w h e n you're h avin g flie s .” — J. Hoberman,

Village Voice

"LURID. O M INOUSLY LETHAL

— Janet MasJin, N e w York Times

"A N EROTIC DELIGHT.

The sta g e is s e t for a m ovie fu ll of the colo rfu l nightm ares of m ovies lik e D O N T LOOK N O W ' and T H E C A B IN E T OF DR. CALIGARI.' The m o vie, w h ic h h a s a s iz e a b le am ount o f nudity and s e x u a l c o n ta c t, tan ta lizin gly p lays w ith th e v ie w e r and h a s a high old tim e ta k in g the a u d ie n c e alo n g for th e sp oo ky rid e.”

T H E 4TH M A N ' is a b la c k com edy abou t th e lo v e lie s t b la c k w id o w sp id er you've ever se e n — R en é e S o u te n d ijk . In its m ixture o f w it, perversity and v io le n c e , it's lik e a m ore so p h istic a te d Brian D eP alm a m o vie .” — Richard Freedman, N ew ho use N ew spapers

— Ernest Leogrande, N e w York D aily N ew s

"A SEXUALLY EXPLICIT TREAT

"DAZZLING. ENTICING A N D TERRIFYING.

A rtistic clarity c o m b in e s w ith a frank European ap p roach to sex u a lity to m a k e 'THE 4TH M A N ' an uncom m only arrestin g film .”

The v ie w e r is ta k en on a rolle rco a ste r ride through th e s p e c ta c le o f a w riter's im agination. R en é e So u te n d ijk is a kn o ck o u t.”

— A rcher W insten, N e w York P o st

'COM PELLING POW ER

"PLAYFUL GRAND G U IG N O L

"TH IS IS N T A MOVIE FOR PRUDES. — W illiam Wolf, Gannett N e w s Service

The kinky Grand G u ig n o l unfold s in w a y s rem in isce n t of Ingm ar B ergm an film s, althou gh the horror ta k e s an u n e x p e cte d ly sharp turn into th e w orld of Step hen K ing. Fine a c tin g , e x c e lle n t ca m e ra w o rk , deft d ire ctio n .”

For an eccentric blend of Hitchcock, Bergman and New Wave androgyny, try T H E 4TH MAN.' This funny, slightly perverse mystery tells about a writer who finds himself a candidate to be the fourth-husband of Christine, a boyish blonde woman whose husbands keep dropping like flies. Unlike American filmmakers who prefer to limit on-screen nudity to women, Mr. Verhoeven exposes his men, too. He has put together a witty piece of work and keeps us amused with visual jokes, many of which are really commentaries on sexual ambiguity.

T his film turns out to be a lot more c o m p lica te d than w e first su sp e c t. The m ovie is large ly co n cern e d w ith m atters of p assio n , but it's con stru cted lik e a thriller, and it w o r k s.”

— Leo Seligsohn, N ew sd a y

— Julie Salam on, W all St. Journal

— R oge r Eb ert Chicago Sun-Tim es

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