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Denver
27TH YEAR OF FILM
FEB-MAR-APR 2004
FILM
F E S T I VA L S , C I N E M AT H E Q U E AN D D F S M E M B E R E V E N T S
JEWISH
FILM FESTIVAL
MARCH 11 - 18
OSCAR NOMINATED
SHORT FILMS
COLORADO
FILMMAKER SHOWCASE
50TH ANNIVERSARY
FELLINI 35MM PRINT
I VITELLONI
KIDS MOVIE
SATURDAYS
STARTING FEB 7, 2004
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FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
WELCOME! In 2004, Denver
Film Society celebrates
27 years of bringing the
best of world cinema to
the Rocky Mountains.
Our primary platform, the Starz
Denver International Film Festival,
is augmented by a continuing
Ron Henderson, right, with Francis catalogue of exciting cinematic
Ford Coppola at the 26th Starz
events presented year round:
Denver International Film Festival
festivals, series, first-run engagements,
special screenings, meet-the-filmmaker programs and Denver Film
Society member events.
As you will see, there is a lot to enjoy, learn and talk about with
fellow film-lovers over these three months. Most of it happens at
Starz FilmCenter, the theatrical home and education center of
Denver Film Society and University of Colorado at Denver’s College
of Arts & Media, operated in partnership with Starz Encore Group.
Please join us for film, wine and conversation at the home of quality,
cutting-edge cinema in Denver.
I would like to acknowledge the Denver Film Society’s experienced,
dedicated staff, managing year-round film programs with the help
of generous sponsors, loyal members and enthusiastic volunteers.
See you at the movies!
~ Ron Henderson, Artistic Director
Denver Film Society Staff
Film Festivals
Pages 4-5
8 Annual Denver Jazz on Film Festival (FEB 13-15)
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8th Denver Jewish Film Festival (MAR 11-18)
6th Starz XicanIndie FilmFest: Latino World Cinema (APR 1-4)
5th Starz Denver Pan African Film Festival
(APR 26 TO MAY 2)
Cinematheque Series
Pages 6 -9
Americana Film (Monthly)
Language of Film (Monthly)
Open Screen: Colorado Filmmakers Showcase (Monthly)
Psychiatrist & Critic (Monthly)
Saturday Night Shadowcasts (Weekly)
Special Events
Pages 12-13
New Faces of Swedish Cinema (Feb 20-23)
Party With Oscar (Feb 29)
Night of the Adeaters (Mar 20)
Shoah (Apr 18 & Apr 25)
Kids Movie Saturdays
Page 10
DORI HARRELL
Film Education Programs
Page 14
SCOTT ROWITZ
RICKY SEMPLE
Film Venues & Theatres
Page 15
BRIT WITHEY
ROY SAND
Centerfold Film Calendar
Page 16
BRITTA ERICKSON
KEVYN FAIRCHILD
Denver-area First-run Exclusives Pages 18-30
MALA FOLSOM
HOWIE MOVSHOVITZ
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
PROGRAM DIRECTOR
MEDIA & INDUSTRY RELATIONS
DIRECTOR
DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR
LINDSAY MANGAT
PROJECT MANAGER
BOOKKEEPING / OPERATIONS
MEMBERSHIP DIRECTOR
STARZ FILMCENTER GENERAL MANAGER
STARZ FILMCENTER
PROJECTION OPERATIONS MANAGER
STARZ FILMCENTER DIRECTOR
OF EDUCATION
ERIC BETEILLE
STARZ FILMCENTER MARKETING
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FEBRUARY- MARCH - APRIL 2004
RON HENDERSON
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
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THIS DENVER FILM ISSUE
W W W. D E N V E R F I L M . O R G • ( 3 0 3 ) 8 2 0 - F I L M
Denver Film Society Membership Page 31
ON THE COVER: Maya Maron in BROKEN
WINGS, winner of nine Israeli Academy Awards,
opening exclusively at Denver Film Society’s Starz
FilmCenter for a one-week engagement starting
Friday, Apr 9, 2004. (see page 27)
DENVER FILM is published quarterly by Denver Film Society at
1725 Blake Street, Denver CO, 80202. ©2004 Denver Film Society.
Information is verified at press time. Visit denverfilm.org for updates.
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FILM FESTIVALS
8th Annual Jazz on Film Festival
8th Denver Jewish Film Festival
Feb 13 to Feb 15, 2004
Presented by Jazz89 KUVO
Mar 11 to Mar 18, 2004
Presented by Starz Encore Group
One of only two of its kind Starz FilmCenter at the Tivoli
900 Auraria Pkwy - Denver
in the United States, the 8th
Annual Denver Jazz on Film 303.820.FILM• denverfilm.org
Festival serves as a reminder
of the city’s dedication to the arts – and, in particular, to jazz. The festival takes place President’s
Day weekend. Complete
program is available
via denverfilm.org and
jazzfilmfestival.org and
includes documentaries
on Cole Porter and Benny
Goodman as well as:
The best new films from
Israel – as well as films
exploring the Jewish experience – screen at the Mizel
Center for Arts and Culture
and Starz FilmCenter at the
Tivoli. A complete schedule
with program descriptions,
dates and times is available via mizelcenter.org
and denverfilm.org. Titles
include:
• NINA SIMONE: LOVE SORCERESS
• THE HOWLIN’ WOLF STORY: THE SECRET OF
ROCK AND ROLL
• SWING: PURE PLEASURE and SWING: THE VELOCITY
OF CELEBRATION from the Ken Burns Jazz Series
• OSCAR ALEMAN: A SWINGING LIFE
MY ARCHITECT
Starz FilmCenter at the Tivoli
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Mizel Center for Arts & Culture
350 South Dahlia St - Denver
303.316.6360
• GOD IS GREAT AND I AM VERY SMALL (France,
2002) – Directed by Pascale Bailly, starring Audrey Tatou.
• ALILA (Israel, 2003) – Directed by Amos Gitai.
• YOSSI & JAGGER (Israel, 2002) – Directed by Eytan Fox.
• MY ARCHITECT (USA, 2003) – Directed by Nathaniel
Kahn. Closing night film.
• OSCAR PETERSON: IN THE KEY OF OSCAR
6th Starz XicanIndie FilmFest:
Latino World Cinema
5th Starz Denver
Pan African Film Festival
Apr 1 to Apr 4, 2004
Brought to you by El Centro Su Teatro and
El Centro Cultural Mexicano
Presented by Bud Light and American Family Insurance
Apr 26 to May 2, 2004
Presented by Pan African Arts Society
Four days of new films from Starz FilmCenter at the Tivoli
the U.S. and Latin America
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exploring all things Latino.
The festival includes a special sidebar of classic
films from Mexico. A
complete schedule is
available starting midMarch at suteatro.org
and denverfilm.org.
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The seven-day 5th Starz
Denver Pan African Film
& Arts Festival presents
approximately 60 films, and
related events including film and video features,
shorts, student works, documentaries, experimental
works, and works in progress.
Workshops, panels, and
receptions with local, national,
and international film artists
will focus on all aspects of
filmmaking. A complete schedule
of films and events is available in
April at panafricanarts.org and
denverfilm.org.
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CINEMATHEQUE SERIES
Americana Film Series
Feb 21, Mar 20 & Apr 17; all at 4:00pm
Award-winning Denver playwright and director
Terry Dodd hosts movie classics considered
quintessentially American geography, landscape,
spirit, memory, place and – above all – in dreams.
Feb 21, 4pm – SMILE
(USA, 1975, Color, Rated PG,
117 min.) – Comedy about
California’s Young American Miss pageant, the year’s
main event for Big Bob Freelander (Bruce Dern) and
Brenda DiCarlo (Barbara Feldon). An early Melanie
Griffith appearance.
March 20, 4pm – HOOSIERS (USA, 1986, Color, Rated
PG, 115 min.) – One-of-a-kind comeback story: A coach with
a checkered past (Gene Hackman) and a local drunk (Dennis
Hopper) train a small-town high school team for basketball
championship. Oscar for Hopper.
April 17, 4pm – NOBODY’S FOOL
(USA, 1994, Color, Rated R, 100 min.) – Paul
Newman, Jessica Tandy (in her final film), Bruce
Willis and Melanie Griffith in Robert Benton’s
adaptation of Richard Russo’s rueful novel
about a 60-year-old losing touch with his family.
Language of Film Series /
Stop-Start Deconstruction
Feb 10, Mar 9 & Apr 13; all at 7:00pm
Denver filmmaker Alexandre Philippe introduces and
deconstructs important films,
in stop-start fashion, from
his storyteller perspective.
Feb 10, 7pm: FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE (1965, Italy,
Color, Rated R, 130 min.) – The middle film of Sergio Leone’s
“Man with No Name” Western trilogy, a lead-in to THE
GOOD THE BAD & THE UGLY. Clint Eastwood, Lee Van
Cleef, Klaus Kinski.
Mar 9, 7pm: MULLHOLLAND DRIVE
(2001, USA/France, Color, Rated R, 147
min.) – Perhaps the most studied film
since SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, David
Lynch’s triumph stars Naomi Watts and
Laura Haring as mixed-up actresses in the
City of Dreams.
Apr 13, 7pm: – A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (1951,
USA, Black & White, Rated PG, 125 min.) Elia Kazan’s version
of the Tennessee Williams play set in New Orleans following
World War II. Marlon Brando, Vivien Leigh and Karl Malden.
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Tattered Cover Book Store
Free Classic Film Series
Feb 7, Mar 6, Apr 3, May 1 & Jun 5; all at 7:00pm
Co-sponsored by Colorado Public Radio
Hosted by Howie Movshovitz, Starz FilmCenter’s
director of education and Colorado Public Radio’s
resident film critic. Free
and open to the public.
Feb 7, 7:00pm: THE RIVER
(France, 1951, Color, Not Rated, 97 min.) – From Rumer
Godden’s novel about an English family living on the Ganges
River and standing out in dress, pace and lack of Indian
understanding of life and death. Translated wonderfully
into color and rhythm by director Jean Renoir. Great French
critic André Bazin calls it a masterpiece. Shown in a gorgeous
35mm print.
Mar 6, 7:00pm: CYRANO DE
BERGERAC (USA, 1950, Black &
White, Not Rated, 112 min.) – Edmond
Rostand’s play, in Michael Gordon’s
black-and-white version, makes a stark,
unusual story of one man sacrificing
himself for another. Oscar for José Ferrer
as Cyrano.
Apr 3, 7:00pm: A THOUSAND CLOWNS (USA, 1965,
Black & White, Not Rated, 118 min.) – Classic mid-60s look
at rebellious adman Jason Robards Jr. who finds himself
deeply committed to an
eccentric nephew abandoned
by his mother. Barbara
Harris and William Daniels
play uptight, bewildered
social workers. Oscar
for Martin Balsam as the
dependable brother.
May 1, 7:00pm: LA MARSEILLAISE (France, 1938, Black
& White, Not Rated, 130 min.) This French Revolution story
follows people from Marseilles, north to Paris, to fight against
the monarchy. Financed by France’s Communist labor union,
but director Jean Renoir’s takes
a humanist approach, and the
likeable King is played by the
director’s brother Pierre.
Jun 5, 7:00pm: TOP HAT
(USA, 1935, Black & White,
Not Rated, 99 min.) – Perfect
musical with Fred Astaire and
Ginger Rogers – even a young
Lucille Ball – and “Cheek to
Cheek,” “Isn’t This a Lovely
Day to Be Caught in the Rain,”
and “The Piccolino.”
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CINEMATHEQUE SERIES
Saturday Night Shadowcasts
ROCKY HORROR
PICTURE SHOW
Every Saturday night at midnight; preshow 11:45pm
Presented by Colorado Elusive
Ingredient (CEI)
CLUE: THE MOVIE
Feb 14, Mar 13 & Apr 10;
all at 9:00pm
Presented by Delusions of Grandeur
In addition to shadowing the action in 1975’s cult
classic ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW,
Colorado Elusive Ingredient’s Starz FilmCenter at the Tivoli
30-member troupe performs 900 Auraria Pkwy - Denver
an original pre-show
routine – every Saturday night. Then, during
ROCKY, CEI follows the 28-year tradition of
sacrificing “virgins,” tossing contents of $1 throw
bags, and integrating music, pop culture and comedy
into a film that would otherwise be, well, a drag.
For 1985’s game-based CLUE: THE MOVIE, CEI
splinter troupe Delusions of Grandeur delivers the
film’s first and only regional shadowcast. Never the
same show twice.
Feb 7, 11:45pm: ROCKY TAG NIGHT
Audience members tag in
Feb 14, 9:00pm: CLUE: THE MOVIE
Open Screen: Colorado
Filmmakers Showcase
Feb 2, Mar 8 & Apr 12, 2004; all at 7:00pm
Denver Film Society program director Brit Withey and
Academy Award-winner
Donna Dewey take turns
introducing a variety of
Colorado-made films.
Feb 2, 7:00pm: SPIRIT AT THE MOUNTAINTOP (Colorado,
2002, Not Rated, 81 min.) – Director Adam M. Dempsey
documents African-American history through the 135-year
heritage of Shorter Community African Methodist Episcopal
Church in Denver. In recognition of Black History Month.
Adam M. Dempsey in person.
Mar 8, 7:00pm:
SLEEPING PILLS
(Colorado, 2003,
Color, Not Rated,
85 min.) – Director
Michael Lauter’s
35mm feature shows
SLEEPING PILLS
the search paradise in
America’s suburbs, as a creative techie (Jonathan W. Chalker) is
torn between a mastermind boss (Lea Downey) and a tantalizing
free spirit (Melissa London). Michael Lauter in person.
Apr 12, 7:00pm: PATH ALTERED (Colorado, 2003, Color,
Not Rated, 25 min.) – Director Ali Jackson documents
women devastated by extreme sexual abuse in their youth.
Panel discussion follows in recognition of Sexual Assault
Awareness Month. Ali Jackon in person.
Feb 14, 11:45pm: MOVIE-PERFECT ROCKY
The Psychiatrist & The Critic Film Series
Feb 21, 11:45pm: EVOLUTION ROCKY
Feb 4, Mar 3, Apr 7, 2004; all at 7:00pm
Feb 28, 11:45pm: MONTY PYTHON ROCKY
A psychiatrist and a film critic analyze a slate of
important films, giving their unique perspectives in postscreening audience discussions. At Starz FilmCenter.
Faithfully duplicating all moves & costumes
Modern twists, all new pre-show
Transvestites who say “nee,” costume contest
Mar 6, 11:45pm: DEBUT ROCKY
New cast members debut
Mar 13, 9:00pm: CLUE: THE MOVIE
Mar 13, 11:45pm: MOVIE-PERFECT ROCKY (see Feb 14)
Mar 20, 11:45pm: EVOLUTION ROCKY (see Feb 21)
Feb 4, 7:00pm: ALL THAT JAZZ (USA, 1979, Color, Rated
R, 123 min.) – Director Bob Fosse (CHICAGO) shows his
own life story in the sordid details of a womanizing, drugdealing dancer (Roy Scheider).
Mar 3, 7:00pm: PONETTE (France, 1996,
Mar 27, 11:45pm: BONDAGE ROCKY
Whips, chains, costume contest
Apr 3, 11:45pm: EVOLUTION ROCKY (see Feb 21)
Apr 10, 9:00pm: CLUE: THE MOVIE
Apr 10, 11:45pm: MOVIE-PERFECT ROCKY (see Feb 14)
Apr 17, 11:45pm: FOURTH ANNIVERSARY ROCKY
Apr 24, 11:45pm: LINGERIE ROCKY – Boxers or briefs?
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PONETTE
Color, Not Rated, 97 min.) – Jacques Doillon
directs the captivating tale of a little girl
(Victoire Thivisol) withdrawing from the
world after her mother’s death.
Apr 7, 7:00pm: THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH
(USA, 1956, Color, Rated PG, 120 min.) – Alfred Hitchcock
directs James Stewart and Doris Day as a vacationing family
stumbling into a Moroccan assassination plot.
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Kids Movie Saturdays
Every Saturday starting Feb 7, 2004; all at 12:30pm
With support from Xcel Energy Foundation and
Scientific & Cultural Facilities District (SCFD)
In cooperation with Coalition for Quality Children’s
Media and KIDS FIRST!®
Kids Movie Saturdays is a weekly family-friendly series
with short films and features perfect for kids – from age
2 up – and their families. From animated tales of wonder
like HAROLD AND THE
PURPLE CRAYON to a rare
Spanish-language version of
the 2002 blockbuster, ICE
AGE. Special admission for this program is $4.00, with
kids under 3 free.
Feb 7, 12:30pm - Ages 5-8: PETE’S A PIZZA and MORE
WILLIAM STEIG STORIES (54 min.) - Chevy Chase and John
Lithgow narrate this remarkable collection of animated tales
from one of America’s master storytellers,
and the author of SHREK. Includes
“Doctor de Soto,” an Oscar-nominated
short. Preceded by DOTTIE: THE LITTLE
GIRL WITH THE BIG VOICE (11 min.)
Feb 14, 12:30pm - Ages 6-12: PEOPLE (54 min.) - Cara
and her lovable grandfather embark on
a journey of imagination that brings
them face to face with the wonderful
variety of people in the world. Based on
Peter Spier’s book. Music by Al Jarreau,
Chaka Khan, Grover Washington Jr,
Vanessa Williams. Created in honor of the 50th Anniversary of
the United Nations. Preceded by ENEMY PIE (30 min.)
Feb 21, 12:30pm - Ages 5-8: MISS NELSON HAS A
FIELD DAY and MISS NELSON IS BACK
(54 min.) - Harry Allard’s Miss Nelson tales,
illustrated by James Marshall, are sure to
bring a chuckle as they explore every day kid
adventures. Includes the title programs, also
featuring the notorious substitute Miss Viola
Swamp. Music by Ernest V. Troost. Preceded by THE LITTLE
PEOPLE (22 min.)
Feb 28, 12:30pm - Ages 2-5: HAROLD AND THE PURPLE
CRAYON and MORE HAROLD STORIES (30
min.) - Harold and his amazing purple crayon,
from Crockett Johnson, have charmed readers
the world over for generations. Now, this true
to the original, animated adaptation introduces
Harold to a brand new audience with three highly
entertaining tales. Showing with THE SNOWY
DAY and MORE EZRA JACK KEATS STORIES (30 min.)
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March 6, 12:30pm - Ages 8-12: JUMPING FOR JOY (94
min.) - In 1964, tomboy Bobbie Dean gets
the chance to live her dream when she is
mistaken for a boy and invited to play on a
boys basketball team - but ends up leading
the team, thanks to a court order, from the
sidelines.
March 13, 12:30pm: SPECIAL PROGRAM
TO BE ANNOUNCED
March 20, 12:30pm - Ages 2-5:
HERMIE: A COMMON CATERPILLAR
(60 min.) - An inspirational tale of a
plain caterpillar who longs to be more
by imitating other insects. Preceded by
CHICKA CHICKA BOOM BOOM
(25 min.)
March 27, 12:30pm - Ages 8-12:
BEETHOVEN LIVES UPSTAIRS (52 min.) - The touching tale
of a young boy’s friendship with the great composer, Ludwig
van Beethoven. Emmy winner. Preceded by THE ROYAL
DIARIES (30 min.)
April 3, 12:30pm - Ages 7-15:
ICE AGE (In Spanish; 82 min.) A quartet of misfits unexpectedly,
and reluctantly, comes together in
a quest to return a human infant
to his father. Smart, complex
- and silly. Released for the first time in Spanish, appealing to
adults but not above kids’ level.
April 10, 12:30pm - Ages 2-5: GOOD NIGHT GORILLA
and MORE BEDTIME STORIES
(51 min.) - Bedtime made fun with
Peggy Rathmann’s magical, giggly
tale. Narrated by Anthony Edwards.
Contains popular book-based shorts
of Happy Birthday Moon, Good Night
Gorilla, How Do Dinosaurs Say Good
Night and more. Preceded by THE
LITTLE PEOPLE (22 min.)
April 17, 12:30pm - Ages 5-8: HAMTARO: HAMHAMS
HEAD SEAWARD (75 min.) - Hamtaro, an insatiably curious
hamster, with a group of pals known as the Ham-Hams,
gather together in their clubhouse to plan their next adventure
while their owners are in school.
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SPECIAL FILM EVENTS
Party With Oscar®
New Faces of Swedish Cinema
Feb 20, 21 & 22, 2004; multiple showtimes
Sunday, Feb 29, 2004, 5:30pm
Presented by Gotthelf’s My Jeweller
Benefiting Denver Film Society
Celebrate the 76th Annual Academy
Awards® at a high-energy cocktail and
Oscar® viewing party. Mediterranean
cuisine, silent auction and predict-thewinner contest. Proceeds
RISE Nightclub
enable Denver Film Society
1909 Blake St - Denver
to continue bringing quality
Tickets: denverfilm.org
film programming to Colorado.
Dress in Hollywood best. Valet parking available.
For tickets and additional info, visit denverfilm.org or
call (303) 595-3456 ext. 30. RSVP by Feb 23rd.
Night of the Adeaters
2002, Color, 95 min.) – The first feature from Joel Bergvall
and Simon Sandquist is a provocative, resonant story about
teenage bullying.
Feb 21, 4:30pm: FOUR WOMEN / FYRA KVINNOR
Amazing, funny, artistic, creative
films come from advertising. From
its French birthplace at Jean-Marie
Boursicot’s Film Library (adeater.com),
this annual event takes place in 47
nations, with two 90-minute programs pulling from
700,000 spots made since 1898.
Part One (90 min.): Mar
20, 5:00 pm. Part Two (90
min.): Mar 20, 7:00 pm.
Shoah
(Sweden, 2002, Color, 90 min.) – Uganda-born filmmaker
Baker Karim shows a woman using a camcorder as a way of
getting closer to old friends – without letting them get too
close to her.
Feb 21, 6:45pm: THE NEW COUNTRY
(Sweden, 2002, Color, 137 min.)
– Director Geir Hansteen Jorgensen has a
15-year-old Somalian boy and a 40-yearold Iranian man escape a refugee camp to
bond with a former Swedish beauty queen.
Feb 21, 9:30pm: DAYS LIKE THIS (Sweden, 2001, Color,
96 min.) – Filmmaker Mikael Håfström weaves together
romantic dramas witnessed (and at times reluctantly
participated in) by a vacuum cleaner salesman making his rounds.
Feb 22, 1:30pm: WINGS OF GLASS (Sweden, 2000, Color,
“One of the
noblest films
ever made”
~ Roger Ebert
Director Claude Lanzmann’s 9 1/2 hour
documentary mixes Holocaust survivor interviews
with modern scenes of the
massacre sites, shining
definitive light on one of
mankind’s darkest hours.
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Feb 20, 9:00pm: INVISIBLE / DEN OSYNLIGE (Sweden,
2002, Color, 100 min.) – Directors Måns Herngren and
Hannes Holm show how one event can define the rest of life,
especially at a 20-year high-school reunion.
In cooperation with Alliance Francaise (Denver)
Celebrating International Francophone Day
(France, 1985, Color, 566 min.)
Recognizing Holocaust Remembrance Day
Feb 20, 7:00pm: JALLA! JALLA!
Feb 21, 2:00pm: THE REUNION / KLASSFESTEN (Sweden,
Mar 20, 2004, at 5:00pm and 7:00pm
Part One: Apr 18, 12:30pm & 5:30pm
Part Two: Apr 25, 12:30pm & 5:30pm
The national cinema of Ingmar Bergman is enjoying a
renaissance thanks to Sweden’s new crop of immigrant
filmmakers. This film series Starz FilmCenter at the Tivoli
shows how Swedes deal
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an increasingly borderless
world. In-person appearance by Iran-born Swedish
director Susan Taslimi, Feb 22, 7:00pm.
(Sweden, 2000, Color, 88 min.) –
Exuberant comedy about an
arranged – and intricately unarranged
– marriage for Lebanese immigrants;
one of Sweden’s biggest box-office hits.
• Denver Film Society members: $100
• Patron Tickets: $125
• Rising Stars: $100 (ages 21-35)
• Corporate packages: (303) 595-3456 ext. 12
‘The
In cooperation with Consulate General of Sweden of
New York and Swedish Film Institute
105 min.) – First-generation Swede Reza Bagher’s story
concerns Persian sisters embracing different aspects of their
Muslim roots, from marriage to miniskirts.
Feb 22, 4:00pm: THE NEW COUNTRY (see Feb 21, 6:45pm)
Feb 22, 7:00pm: ALL HELL LET LOOSE (Sweden, 2002,
Color, 88 min.) – Iranian actress Susan Taslimi makes an
impressive directorial debut in this no-holds-barred look at
the travails of three generations of an Iranian family adjusting
to their new Swedish homeland. In person appearance by
Susan Taslimi.
Feb 22, 9:00pm: THE REUNION (see Feb 21, 2:00pm)
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FILM EDUCATION
How to Watch Art Film
Three-week course: Apr 15, Apr 22 & Apr 29;
6:30pm to 9:00pm
Presented by Starz FilmCenter Director of Education Howie Movshovitz
Art-house movies aren’t quite like the pictures at local
multiplexes and in saturated TV ad campaigns; they take
time, show different characters
and offer different pleasures.
Join Howie Movshovitz for three
sessions looking inside art-house
films, getting a sense of how they work, what they’re about,
and how to “see” them. The course covers questions of film
history, style, editing rhythms, humor, irony, casting and
acting, featuring three classics:
Francois Truffaut’s THE 400
BLOWS (1959), Ingmar Bergman’s
THE SILENCE (1964), and Jim
Jarmusch’s STRANGER THAN
PARADISE (1983). Noncredit
course open to college and
continuing-education students. Cost: $120.00 via cash, check
or credit card to University College, 303-871-2291.
CU-Live Film Events
Administered by University of Colorado at Denver
CU-Live brings some of the world’s finest film artists to
University of Colorado at Denver’s Auraria Campus with free,
CU-Denver student-only screenings at Starz FilmCenter at the
Tivoli. Check Auraria campus bulletin boards and Web sites
– or call 303-352-3500 – for the spring 2004 lineup, including
student-only screenings with filmmakers from New Faces
of Swedish Cinema (page 13) and Open Screen: Colorado
Filmmakers Showcase (page 9).
Denver Screenwriting Center
Collaboration with Lighthouse Writers Workshop
The Denver Screenwriting Center is a non-profit
collaboration between Lighthouse Writers Workshop and
Denver Film Society. The Center offers a full host of
writing workshops, seminars and services for screenwriters.
For additional information and the 2004 schedule, check
lighthousewriters.com and call 303-297-1185.
About the Director of Education
As Starz FilmCenter’s director of education, Howie Movshovitz
works with area middle and high school teachers to develop
a range of programs in film education. Movshovitz also hosts
public film events, including Tattered Cover Book Store’s
Free Classic Film Series, and is responsible for retrospective
programming. He has been Colorado Public Radio’s film
critic since 1976 and teaches at University of Colorado at
Denver. Movshovitz earned a BA in English from University of
Pennsylvania and a PhD in English from University of Colorado.
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THEATRES & VENUES
Multiple showtimes daily
(303) 820-FILM
www.denverfilm.org
Home Theatres and Cinematic Education
Center of Denver Film Society and
University of Colorado-Denver College
of Arts & Media. In partnership with Starz
Encore Group
As Denver’s first and only true cinematheque, Starz
FilmCenter at the Tivoli is committed to presenting the best
in film art, with an eye toward
titles not readily available on
the big screen. Every day, Starz
FilmCenter screens a lively
selection certain to challenge,
provoke and entertain – even as it
informs and enriches.
Starz FilmCenter programming
includes local and international
festivals, series, first-run
engagements, revivals,
retrospectives, previews, meetthe-filmmaker events, educational/
outreach programs, and Denver
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original languages (with English
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subtitles) and many films are not
rated by the Motion Picture Association of America.
Admission to most screenings at Starz FilmCenter is $6.00
for Denver Film Society members ($5.00 for members before
6:00pm), and $6.00 for students/seniors with ID. Admission
for non-members is $8.00 ($6.00 before 6:00pm). Midnight
screenings are $6.00 per person. Kids Movie Saturdays
programs are $4.00 per person; kids under 3 free. Festivals
and special events vary.
Mizel Center for Arts and Culture
Showtimes Mar 11-18 during
8th Denver Jewish Film
Festival (see page 5)
(303) 316-6360,
www.mizelcenter.org
A complete east Denver arts center
offering exhibitions, concerts, films,
author appearances and theatrical
performances.
350 South Dahlia Street
Denver, CO 80222
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AT-A-GLANCE CALENDAR 2004
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THE RIVER (1950)
TOKYO GODFATHERSTHE
ROCKY HORROR
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JAZZ ON FILM FESTIVAL
CLUE: THE MOVIE
AILEEN: SERIAL KILLER
ROCKY HORROR
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NEW FACES / SWEDISH
SMILE (1973)
A.K.A.
ROCKY HORROR
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ROCKY HORROR
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SUN
MODERN TIMES
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TOKYO GODFATHERS
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NEW FACES / SWEDISH
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JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL
SAME RIVER TWICE
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SECRET THINGS
ERY DA
KITCHEN STORIES
TOKYO GODFATHERS
A.K.A.
MODERN TIMES
TOKYO GODFATHERS
A.K.A.
TOKYO GODFATHERS
NEW FACES / SWEDISH
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SUDDENLY
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CYRANO DE BERGERAC
2003 OSCAR SHORTS
ROCKY HORROR
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CLUE: THE MOVIE
SAME RIVER TWICE
ROCKY HORROR
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HOOSIERS
SECRET THINGS
NIGHT OF ADEATERS
ROCKY HORROR
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ROCKY HORROR
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SAME RIVER TWICE
SECRET THINGS
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MODERN TIMES
ALL THAT JAZZ
EVERY DAY OF THE YEAR IN DENVER FILM SOCIETY’S “BEST OF ART-HOUSE CINEMA” SERIES, FIVE SCREENS AT STARZ
FILMCENTER AT THE TIVOLI SHOW THE CREAM OF THE CURRENT INDEPENDENT FILM CROP. TITLES ANNOUNCED DAILY AT
DENVERFILM.ORG, 303-820-FILM, AND IN THE DENVER POST AND ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS.
SUDDENLY
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TOKYO GODFATHERS
FOR A FEW DOLLARS..
A.K.A.
Y!
MODERN TIMES
KITCHEN STORIES
SUDDENLY
2003 OSCAR SHORTS
MULHOLLAND DRIVE
SAME RIVER TWICE
SECRET THINGS
KITCHEN STORIES
SUDDENLY
PONETTE
2003 OSCAR SHORTS
SAME RIVER TWICE
SECRET THINGS
SUDDENLY
2003 OSCAR SHORTS
2003 OSCAR SHORTS
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SECRET THINGS
SAME RIVER TWICE
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XICANINDIE FILM FEST
RED TROUSERS
11
BROKEN WINGS
18
BLIND SHAFT
SHOAH: PART ONE
25
I VITELLONI
SHOAH: PART TWO
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1
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A THOUSAND CLOWNS
RED TROUSERS
ROCKY HORROR
KITCHEN STORIES
RED TROUSERS
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CLUE: THE MOVIE
BROKEN WINGS
ROCKY HORROR
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NOBODY’S FOOL
BLIND SHAFT
ROCKY HORROR
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I VITELLONI
ROCKY HORROR
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LA MARSEILLAISE
DAYS OF HEAVEN
PANAFRICAN FILM FEST
ROCKY HORROR
RED TROUSERS
BROKEN WINGS
BLIND SHAFT
I VITELLONI
RED TROUSERS
BROKEN WINGS
STREET CAR NAMED
DESIRE
BLIND SHAFT
I VITELLONI
RED TROUSERS
THE MAN WHO KNEW
TOO MUCH
BROKEN WINGS
BLIND SHAFT
I VITELLONI
RED TROUSERS
BROKEN WINGS
BLIND SHAFT
I VITELLONI
BROKEN WINGS
BLIND SHAFT
I VITELLONI
DAYS OF HEAVEN
F O R A D D I T I O N A L I N F O R M AT I O N , V I S I T W W W. D E N V E R F I L M . O R G A N D C A L L 3 0 3 - 8 2 0 - F I L M
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DENVER-AREA FIRST-RUN EXCLUSIVES
Tokyo Godfathers
Feb 6 to Feb 12, 2004; multiple showtimes daily
(Japan, 2003, Color, Rated PG-13, 92 Min.)
Feb 13 to 19, 2004; multiple showtimes daily
WRITER/DIRECTOR: SATOSHI KON
CAST (VOICES): TORU EMORI, AYA OKAMOTO, YOSHIAKI UMEGAKI
DISTRIBUTOR: SAMUEL GOLDWYN FILMS
(USA, 2004, Color, Not Rated, 89 min.)
Satoshi Kon – the highly respected director of groundbreaking
anime features MILLENNIUM ACTRESS and PERFECT
BLUE – has now created
TOKYO GODFATHERS,
qualifying him as “one of our
leading filmmakers,” writes
A.O. Scott, The New York Times, with an imagination
“every bit as prodigious and strange as Sylvain Chomet’s
[THE TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE] and twice as much
as Pixar’s.” With anime and Japanese influences rocketing
across recent Hollywood fare – witness KILL BILL, LOST IN
TRANSLATION and THE LAST SAMURAI – Kon integrates
state-of-the-art anime technology with solid storytelling
inspired by John Ford’s 1948 western, 3 GODFATHERS.
In TOKYO GODFATHERS,
Groundbreakiurng
three homeless people – a former
e
at
Anime Fe
professional bicyclist, a transvestite
and a young runaway girl – slum together
on Christmas Eve, stumbling on a baby girl left at a garbage
dump. As they head for Tokyo’s brighter neighborhoods, where
people are enjoying holiday festivities, the trio seeks the infant’s
parents. They encounter various personalities and adventures
that force each of them to confront life, beginning to realize
they’d almost thrown them all away. TOKYO GODFATHERS
is one of the first anime films with a central gay character.
DIRECTOR: NICK BROOMFIELD
CAST: AILEEN WUORNOS (AS HERSELF), BROOMFIELD (AS HIMSELF)
DISTRIBUTOR: LANTERN LANE ENTERTAINMENT
Nick Broomfield’s new documentary examines Aileen
Wuornos (1956-2002), a teenage highway prostitute who
grew up to be convicted of
killing six truck drivers she said
tried to rape her. Arguably the
first American female serial
killer, Wuornos died in October 2002 in Broward County; the
second woman ever executed in Florida; the tenth in the U.S.
The film shows Wuornos over the course of her legal process,
including her final interview. Broomfield, also the director of
the documentaries BIGGIE AND TUPAC
and KURT AND COURTNEY, often
real stoTryheb
appears in his own films, and AILEEN
Charlize Theehind
ro
included Broomfield’s testimony about
MONSTER n’s
his experiences filming his first Wuornos
chronicle, 1992’s AILEEN WUORNOS: THE
SELLING OF A SERIAL KILLER.
Wournos is also the subject of Patty Jenkin’s 2003 feature,
MONSTER, starring Charlize Theron and Christina Ricci.
Also during the week of Feb 13 to Feb 19, 2004:
PEOPLE – Kids Movie Saturdays, Feb 14, 12:30pm, Starz
FilmCenter at the Tivoli (see p.10)
PETE’S A PIZZA – Kids Movie Saturdays, Feb 7, 12:30pm, Starz
FilmCenter at the Tivoli (see p. 10)
CLUE: THE MOVIE – Saturday Night Shadowcasts, Feb 14,
9:00pm, Starz FilmCenter at the Tivoli (see p. 8)
ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW – Saturday Night Shadowcasts,
Feb 7, midnight, Starz FilmCenter at the Tivoli (see p. 8)
ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW – Saturday Night
Shadowcasts, Feb 15, midnight, Starz FilmCenter at the Tivoli
(see p. 8)
FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE – Language of Film; stop-start
deconstruction, Feb 10, 7pm, Starz FilmCenter at the Tivoli (see p. 6)
BEST OF ART-HOUSE CINEMA - Up to 5 screens of additional,
current independent film, daily at Starz FilmCenter at the Tivoli
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Aileen: The Life and Death
of a Serial Killer
FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE – Language of Film; stop-start
deconstruction, Feb 10, 7:00pm, Starz FilmCenter at the Tivoli
(see p. 6)
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A.K.A.
Suddenly (Tan de Repente)
Feb 20 to Feb 26, 2004; multiple showtimes daily
Feb 27 to Mar 4, 2004; multiple showtimes daily
WRITER/DIRECTOR: DUNCAN ROY
CAST: MATTHEW LEITCH, DIANA QUICK, GEORGE ASPREY, BILL NIGHY
DISTRIBUTOR: EMPIRE PICTURES
DIRECTOR: DIEGO LERMAN
WRITERS: CÉSAR AIRA (ORIGINAL NOVEL LA PRUEBA), DIEGO
LERMAN, MARÍA MEIRA
CAST: TATIANA SAPHIR, CARLA CRESPO , VERONICA HASSAN
DISTRIBUTOR: EMPIRE PICTURES
(UK, 2002, Color, Not Rated, 120 min.)
For his debut feature, writer/director Duncan Roy
audaciously splits A.K.A. into three simultaneous frames to
tell the engrossing story of a
disaffected youth’s search for
love, status and identity in
late 1970s Britain. Handsome,
bright, 18-year-old Dean (Matthew Leitch) assumes a new
identity to enter decadent high society where he meets an
older gay man and a young Texas hustler.
Starz FilmCenter screens the film in 2.35in
d
e
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e
Scre
to-1 cinemascope (vs. typical 1.85-to-1
e
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-F
Triple -1
widescreen) to show the full breadth
2.85-to pe
and depth of what Indiewire’s Brandon
Cinemasco
Judell called “quite possibly the best
narrative gay film to appear this year.”
• Seattle Gay & Lesbian Award for best feature.
• Audience Award at Copenhagen Gay & Lesbian
Film Festival.
• HBO First Feature Award, Outfest LA.
• Best Fiction Film, Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival.
(Argentina, 2002, Black & White, Not Rated, 90 min.)
In Diego Lerman’s sly, comic Argentine New Wave feature
debut, a pair of lesbian malcontents kidnap a frumpy lovelorn
lingerie salesgirl. They attempt
to seduce their prisoner on a
road trip that includes, among
other things, hijacking a taxi
to the beach and visiting an aunt who’s surprises everyone
by being just young enough to cut a rug. In Spanish with
English subtitles.
of
Best
Arge
“A delightfully unpredictable sleeper
New Wnativne
that proves new Argentine cinema really
e
exists,” writes Variety’s Deborah Young,
“like a realistic road movie topped by irony, with a
melancholy air under its bravado. Cast is right on target.”
And the Minneapolis Saint Paul International Film Festival lists
SUDDENLY as “reminiscent of Jarmusch’s STRANGER THAN
PARADISE (also shot in deep and grainy black and white), both
in its stark visuals and its unsparing emotional truths.”
MISS NELSON HAS A FIELD DAY - Kids Movie Saturdays,
Feb 21, 12:30pm, Starz FilmCenter at the Tivoli (see p. 10)
Also during the week of Feb 27 to Mar 4, 2004:
NEW FACES IN SWEDISH CINEMA – Seven films from
Sweden’s emerging generation of immigrant filmmakers, Feb
20 to Feb 22, Starz FilmCenter at the Tivoli (see p. 13)
HAROLD AND THE PURPLE CRAYON – Kids Movie
Saturdays, Feb 28, 12:30pm, Starz FilmCenter at the Tivoli
(see p. 10)
SMILE (1973) – Part of Americana Film Series, Feb 21,
Shadowcasts, Feb 28, midnight, Starz FilmCenter at the
Tivoli (see p. 8)
Shadowcasts, Feb 21, midnight, Starz FilmCenter at the Tivoli
(see p. 8)
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PARTY WITH OSCAR – Feb 29, 5:30pm, at Rise Nightclub
(see p. 12)
PONETTE – Mar 3, 7:00pm, part of Psychiatrist & Critic Film
Series Starz FilmCenter at the Tivoli (see p. 9)
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2003 Oscar-Nominated Short Films
The Same River Twice
Mar 5 to Mar 11, 2004; multiple showtimes daily
Just days after Oscar® winners are announced, this exclusive
package shows all the live-action and animated short films
nominated for the 2003
Academy Awards. To be eligible
for an Academy Award for
best short or best animated
short, a film must have been shown at any one of a number
of Academy selected festivals or award ceremonies. And
for many of the titles in this short-film package, this release
represents their first full theatrical run.
Past Oscar winners in the animated
or cartoon short-film category have
included Sony’s THE CHUBBCHUBBS
(2002), Pixar’s FOR THE BIRDS (2001)
and Walt Disney’s THE THREE LITTLE PIGS (1933). In the
live-action category, short-film Oscar winners have included
Denmark’s THIS CHARMING MAN (2002) and RAY’S
HETEROSEXUAL DANCE HALL (1987).
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Denver-sAive
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Ex
Specific titles (with directors and countries of origin) included
in the 2003 Oscar Nominated Short Films package are listed
at denverfilm.org starting Feb 27, 2004.
(USA, 2003, Color, Not Rated, 78 min.)
DIRECTOR: ROBB MOSS
DISTRIBUTOR: BALCONY RELEASING
For one breath-taking month in the Grand Canyon in
1978, documentarian and Harvard University film teacher
Robb Moss trekked down the
Colorado River with a group of
free-spirited friends – and lovers. 303.820.FILM• denverfilm.org
This documentary juxtaposes
those youthful, unscheduled days with the complex realities
of their adult lives today. A compelling portrait of cultural
metamorphosis – from running rapids to running for mayor,
from peyote to prozac. This is a story of change, choices and
of finding a place in the world.
‘Sexiest’
Nudist Mo
The Village Voice calls THE SAME
Since TABvie
RIVER TWICE the “sexiest naturally
U
nudist American movie since Murnau’s
TABU.” And The New York Times’ Stephen
Holden describes it as “a piercingly poignant then-and-now
portrait … so palpable it puts a lump in your throat.”
Also during the week of Mar 5 to Mar 11, 2004:
JUMPING FOR JOY – Kids Movie Saturday, Mar 6, 12:
30pm, Starz FilmCenter at the Tivoli (see p. 10)
KIDS MOVIE SATURDAYS - Mar 13, 12:30pm, Starz
Shadowcasts, Mar 6, midnight, Starz FilmCenter at the Tivoli
(see p. 8)
CLUE: THE MOVIE – Saturday Night Shadowcasts, Mar 13,
SLEEPING PILLS – Part of Open Screen: Colorado Filmmakers
Showcase, Mar 8, 7:00pm, Starz FilmCenter at the Tivoli
(see p. 9)
MULHOLLAND DRIVE – Part of Language of Film Series with
stop-start deconstruction, Mar 9, 7:00pm, Starz FilmCenter
at the Tivoli (see p. 9)
Shadowcasts, Mar 13, midnight, Starz FilmCenter at the
Tivoli (see p. 8)
DENVER JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL – Begins Mar 11 with
screenings through Mar 18 (see p. 5)
DENVER JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL – Begins Mar 11 with
screenings through Mar 18 (see p. 5)
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Secret Things (Choses Secretes)
Kitchen Stories
Mar 26 to Apr 1, 2004; multiple showtimes daily
(France, 2004, Color, Not Rated, 115 min.)
(Norway/Sweden, 2003, Color, Not Rated, 92 min.)
WRITER/DIRECTOR: JEAN-CLAUDE BRISSEAU
CAST: CORALIE REVEL, SABRINA SEYVECOU, ROGER MIRMONT,
FABRICE DEVILLE
DISTRIBUTOR: FIRST RUN FEATURES
DIRECTOR: BENT HAMER
WRITERS: JÖRGEN BERGMARK, BENT HAMER
CAST: JOACHIM CALMEYER, TOMAS NORSTRÖM, BJØRN FLOBERG
DISTRIBUTOR: IFC FILMS
French director Jean-Claude Brisseau presents “plenty for
both the eyes and the intellect,” according to Variety, in a
“taut, juicy feast of sexual and
office politics.”
Norway. 1950s. The Home Research Institute has dispatched
social researchers to study the cooking habits of bachelors.
To this outrageously original
premise, director Bent Hamer
adds a dash of social satire –
and a sprinkling of visual gags –
to produce an offbeat look at the human condition.
After losing their jobs, a bartender
(Sabrina Seyvecou) and an erotic dancer (Coralie Revel)
become roommates – and partners in crime – by targeting
a company’s rich founder (Roger Mirmont) and his son
(Fabrice Deville). Seyvecou describes the film via her own
character’s voiceover: “The delectably twisted
fable centers on two penniless but shapely
Mature
Audiences young women who set out to better their
social station by manipulating men.”
Only
SECRET THINGS was Cahier Du Cinema’s 2002
selection for “Film of the Year.” The film is screened in its
original language, French, with English subtitles.
“For a touching, intelligent and multi-layered film, beautifully
designed, skillfully performed and scripted,” explains the
Jury Announcement for the International
Touc
Film Critics Awards (the FIPRESCI Prize),
Scandinhing
“KITCHEN STORIES delivers an always
av
Satire ian
relevant fable of friendship, self realization
and modernity, observing with grace,
intelligence and, most of all, humor, the timeless
desire of the human heart to escape classification.”
Screened in its original languages, Norwegian and Swedish,
with English subtitles.
Also during the week of Mar 26 to Apr 1, 2004:
HERMIE: A COMMON CATERPILLAR – Kids Movie
Saturdays, Mar 20, 12:30pm, Starz FilmCenter at the Tivoli
(see p. 10)
BEETHOVEN LIVES UPSTAIRS – Kids Movie Saturdays, Mar
27, 12:30pm, Starz FilmCenter at the Tivoli (see p. 10)
HOOSIERS – Part of Americana Film Series, Mar 20, 4:00pm,
Starz FilmCenter at the Tivoli (see p. 6)
NIGHT OF THE ADEATERS: VOLUME 1 & 2 – Mar 20, 5:00pm
and 7:00pm, Starz FilmCenter at the Tivoli (see p. 12)
Tivoli (see p. 8)
Tivoli (see p. 8)
6TH STARZ XICANINDIE FILMFEST: LATINO WORLD CINEMA
– Starts Apr 1 and runs through Apr 4, Starz FilmCenter at
the Tivoli (see p. 4)
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Red Trousers: The Life of the
Hong Kong Stuntmen
Broken Wings (Knafayim Shvurot)
Apr 2 to Apr 8, 2004; multiple showtimes daily
(Israel, 2003, Color, Rated R, 87 min.)
(Hong Kong, 2004, Color, Not Rated, 93 min.)
WRITER/DIRECTOR: NIR BERGMAN
CAST: ORLY SILBERSATZ BANAI, MAYA MARON, NITAI GAVIRATZ
DISTRIBUTOR: SONY PICTURES CLASSICS
DIRECTOR: ROBIN SHOU
CAST: ROBIN SHOU, BEATRICE CHIA, KEITH COOKE
DISTRIBUTOR: TAI SENG
This documentary from Asian action star Robin Shou
(MORTAL KOMBAT) – interwoven with a new martial-arts
short called LOST TIME – pays
tribute to the unsung heroes of
Hong Kong film. Shou shows
the world’s most illustrious
stunt professionals – past and present – through interviews
and clips of their work, exploring death-defying feats and
often foolhardy working methods. (Often without a wire – or
a health-care plan.) These stuntmen and stuntwomen also
explain how they trace their profession back to the original
“Red Trousers,” a term used to describe the costumes of
young acrobats groomed for Beijing Opera (where Jackie Chan
trained from the age of six). RED TROUSERS uses behind-thescenes footage from LOST TIME to deconstruct the short film’s
stunts and show how they were set up and shot.
A box-office hit in its home country, BROKEN WINGS is
the moving story of the life and loves of the Ullman family:
an ordinary Israeli mother and
her four children – including
newcomer Maya Maron, 17,
as the daughter – coping with
everyday life after the abrupt death of their husband and
father. As the family falls apart, another sudden
incident seems destined to give them one last
Winner
chance to heal their “broken wings.”
Nine Israof
e
Academy li
Awards
Shot entirely on location in Haifa and Tel
Aviv, BROKEN WINGS reveals an Israel very
different from TV news images and violent world
politics, and also portrays a truly universal experience.
Also during the week of Apr 2 to Apr 8, 2004:
Director Nir Bergman’s first feature won Best Film at Tokyo
International Film Festival and Jerusalem International Film
Festival. Screened in its original language, Hebrew, with
English subtitles.
ICE AGE (In Spanish) – Kids Movie Saturdays, Apr 3, 12:
30pm, Starz FilmCenter at the Tivoli (see p. 10)
6TH STARZ XICANINDIE FILMFEST: LATINO WORLD
CINEMA – Starts Apr 1 and runs through Apr 4, Starz
A THOUSAND CLOWNS – Part of Tattered Cover Free Classic
Film Series, Apr 3, 7pm, Starz FilmCenter at the Tivoli (see p. 7)
Shadowcasts, Apr 3, midnight, Starz FilmCenter at the Tivoli
(see p. 8)
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GOOD NIGHT GORILLA – Kids Movie Saturdays, Apr 10,
CLUE: THE MOVIE – Saturday Night Shadowcasts, Apr 10,
Shadowcasts, Apr 10, midnight, Starz FilmCenter at the
Tivoli (see p. 8)
THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH – The Psychiatrist & the
Critic series, Apr 7, 7pm, Starz FilmCenter at the Tivoli (see p. 9)
STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE – Language of Film Series
with stop-start film deconstruction, Apr 13, 7:00pm, Starz
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Blind Shaft (Mang Jing)
I Vitelloni
Apr 23 to Apr 29; multiple showtimes daily
(Hong Kong/China/Germany, 2004, Color, Not Rated, 92 min.)
(Italy/France, 1953, Black & White, Not Rated, 104 min.)
WRITER/DIRECTOR: YANG LI
CAST: QIANG LI, BAOQIANG WANG, SHUANGBAO WANG
DISTRIBUTOR: KINO INTERNATIONAL
DIRECTOR: FEDERICO FELLINI
WRITERS: FEDERICO FELLINI, ENNIO FLAIANO, TULLIO PINELLI
CAST: FRANCO INTERLENGHI, ALBERTO SORDI, FRANCO FABRIZI
DISTRIBUTOR: KINO INTERNATIONAL
Yang Li’s controversial film is about itinerant workers who
risk their lives – and their morals – to survive conditions
in China’s illegal coal mines,
where 10,000 or more people
die each year.
“BLIND SHAFT is a film that realistically portrays the lives
of the coal miners at the bottom stratum of the Chinese
society today,” explains writer/director Li. “Employing a
documentary-like cinematic style, it simply and directly pushes
the lives of these ordinary people in front of the audience.
There are no deliberate melodramas or dramatization. It just
portrays a real story.”
New 35mm
Li’s film is banned from release in
Film and
China, and Li is banned from making
Filmmaker
Banned
another film in China. BLIND SHAFT
in China
won best feature film at New York’s
Tribeca Film Festival, five out of six
major awards at Deauville (France) Asian Film Festival,
and two Taiwan Academy Awards. Screened in its original
language, Mandarin, with English subtitles.
Fellini earned 12 Academy Award
Print
Fellini Beoafu
nominations, including one for writing I
ty
VITELLONI, his “story of adolescents who
cannot see anything more in life than satisfying
their animal desires – sleeping, eating, fornicating.” Fellini once
explained, “I was trying to say there is something more, there is
always more. Life must have a meaning beyond the animal.”
I VITELLONI is screened in its original language, Italian,
with English subtitles.
HAMTARO: HAMHAMS HEAD SEAWARD – Kids Movie Saturdays,
Apr 17, 12:30pm, Starz FilmCenter at the Tivoli (see p. 10)
KIDS MOVIE SATURDAYS – Apr 24, 12:30pm, Starz
NOBODY’S FOOL – Americana Film Series, Apr 17, 4:00pm
(see p. 6)
Tivoli (see p. 8)
Tivoli (see p. 8)
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Following its 50th anniversary, Denver Film Society presents
a restored 35mm print of I VITELLONI, the movie that
established director Federico
Fellini (1920-1993) as a film
auteur of international stature.
303.820.FILM•
denverfilm.org
With a story and style that
inspired George Lucas’s AMERICAN GRAFFITI (1973), Martin
Scorsese’s MEAN STREETS (1973) and Barry Levinson’s
DINER (1982), this film was Fellini’s second solo directorial
effort. He followed with, among other greats, LA DOLCE VITA
(1960) – which made a star of Marcello Mastroianni – and his
autobiographical masterpiece 8 1/2 (1963).
5TH STARZ DENVER PAN AFRICAN FILM FESTIVAL – Apr 26
to May 2, Starz FilmCenter at the Tivoli (see p. 9)
SHOAH: PART ONE – Apr 18, 12:30pm and 5:30pm (see p. 12)
SHOAH: PART TWO – Apr 25, 12:30pm and 5:30pm (see p. 12)
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Denver Film Society Memberships
Denver Film Society is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to celebrating
and cultivating film as art. Founded in 1978, DFS represents one of the
Rocky Mountain region’s premier arts and culture institutions. DFS members
support one-of-a-kind cinematic and educational programs, reaching more
than 150,000 film lovers and film lovers-in-training each year.
Days of Heaven
Apr 30 to May 6, 2004; multiple showtimes daily
(USA, 1978, Color, Rated PG, 95 min.)
WRITER/DIRECTOR: TERRENCE MALICK
CAST: RICHARD GERE, BROOKE ADAMS, SAM SHEPARD, LINDA MANZ
DISTRIBUTOR: PARAMOUNT CLASSICS
Terrence Malick’s picturesque 1978 film is pure Americana:
“One of the most beautiful movies ever made,” writes
Chicago Sun-Times’ Roger
Ebert, dealing with love, death
and whole grains in turn303.820.FILM• denverfilm.org
of-the-century Texas. Told
through a jaded teenage voice (Linda Manz) and expressive
images of nature, DAYS OF HEAVEN is a moody love
triangle involving two migrant farm workers
(Richard Gere, Brooke Adams) and a rich
Restored
35mm Print landowner (Sam Shepard). The vast plains
were shot primarily during “magic hour” –
between sunset and nightfall, when light seems
to come from everywhere (and nowhere) – by Haskell Wexler
and Nestor Almendros, who won the year’s cinematography
Oscar. Ennio Morricone (THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE
UGLY) composed the evocative Oscar-nominated score.
The entire directorial oeuvre of Terrence Malick, a true film
maverick, consists of BADLANDS (1973), DAYS OF HEAVEN
(1978) and, 25 years later, THE THIN RED LINE (1998).
His next project, CHE, with Benicio Del Toro in an epic about
Aregentine populist revolutionary Che Geuvara, is due in 2005.
Also during the week of Apr 30 to May 5, 2004:
KIDS MOVIE SATURDAYS – May 1, 12:30pm, Starz FilmCenter
at the Tivoli (see p. 10)
ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW – Saturday Night Shadowcasts,
May 1, midnight, Starz FilmCenter at the Tivoli (see p. 8)
LA MARSEILLAISE – Tattered Cover Free Classic Film Series,
May 1, 7:00pm, Starz FilmCenter at the Tivoli (see p. 7)
5TH STARZ DENVER PAN AFRICAN FILM FESTIVAL – Apr 26
to May 2, Starz FilmCenter at the Tivoli (see p. 9)
30
30
E-CLUB
FREE
KEY GRIP
$40/YR
FILM BUFF
$75/YR
DIRECTOR
$100/YR
PRODUCER
$500/YR
EXECUTIVE
PRODUCER
$1,000/YR
HOLLYWOOD
LEGEND
$2,500/YR
WEEKLY FILM
E-NEWSLETTER,
FREE POPCORN AT
SIGN-UP
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FREE ANNUAL
SUBSCRIPTION
TO DENVER FILM
CATALOGUE
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2/YEAR
4/YEAR
10/YEAR
2/VISIT
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FREE STARZ
FILMCENTER MOVIE
VOUCHERS
STARZ DENVER
INTERNATIONAL
FILM FESTIVAL
MOVIES
2 FREE
2 FREE
2 FREE
10 FREE
ALL FREE
ALL FREE
DENVER FILM
SOCIETY SPECIAL
EVENT DISCOUNTS
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FREE MOVIE PREVIEW SCREENING
INVITES
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FREE MOVIES
AT OTHER DFS
FESTIVALS
2/FEST
2/FEST
4/FEST
RECOGNITION IN
INTERNATIONAL
FILM FESTIVAL
PROGRAM
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DISCOUNTS AT
OTHER DENVERAREA THEATRES
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Name:
Company:
Address:
City:
Phone (day):
Email (required):
Membership type:
Membership level:
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Title:
ZIP:
(evening):
New
Renewal
E-Club (free)
Key Grip ($40)
Film Buff ($75)
Director ($100)
Producer ($500)
Executive Producer ($1,000)
Hollywood Legend ($2,500)
Membership fee from above: $
Donation to Denver Film Society: $
(Membership fees cover only 6% of DFS costs. Your tax-deductible donation is greatly appreciated.)
Total Due: $
CHECK ENCLOSED (PAYABLE TO DENVER FILM SOCIETY)
PLEASE CHARGE TOTAL DUE TO MY:
VISA
AMERICANEXPRESS
MASTERCARD
Card #:
Exp. Date:
Name as it appears on card:
Check if membership is a gift and enter name for acknowledgement letter:
Please send information about corporate sponsorship for October’s Starz
Denver International Film Festival.
Please send information about volunteer opportunities with DFS.
MAIL TO: DENVER FILM SOCIETY
1725 BLAKE ST., DENVER CO, 80202 • 303-595-FILM, FAX 303-595-0956
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Denver Film Society
1725 Blake Street
Denver, CO 80202

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