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AFI at ArcLight
Screenings and Events: June - July 2009
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Schedule - AFI at ArcLight Hollywood
JUNE 2009 - MISFITS AND MYSTERIES
 WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3, 8:00 PM
THE MUPPET MOVIE
1979 95 MIN 35MM Rated G
DIR James Frawley SCR Jack Burns, Jerry Juhl CAST Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Jerry Nelson, Richard Hunt, Dave Goelz, Charles Durning, Austin Pendleton, Edgar Bergen, Milton Berle, Mel Brooks, James Coburn, Dom DeLuise, Elliott Gould, Bob Hope, Madeline Kahn, Carol Kane, Cloris Leachman, Steve Martin, Richard Pryor, Telly Savalas, Orson Welles, Paul Williams
In his first foray on the silver screen, Kermit the Frog heads to Hollywood with the hopes of becoming rich and famous along with his Muppet cohorts Fozzie Bear and Miss Piggy. Attempting to thwart Kermit's plans to make it big is Doc Hopper, an evil frog-leg restaurant magnate. With cameos galore, in the tradition of classic Hollywood films, THE MUPPET MOVIE is one those special films that the whole family can enjoy.
The Rainbow Connection is #32 on the AFI 100 Years...100 Songs list.
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 WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10, 8:00 PM
THE MISFITS
1961 124 MIN 35MM
DIR John Huston SCR Arthur Miller CAST Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, Montgomery Clift, Thelma Ritter, Eli Wallach, James Barton, Estelle Winwood, Kevin McCarthy
When Roslyn Taber (Marilyn Monroe), a showgirl still reeling from her recent divorce, meets stubborn, aging cowboy Gay Langland (Clark Cable), they immediately fall for each other. But their romantic idyll is soon interrupted when Gay's friend Guido (Eli Wallach) turns up with a plan to round up some mustangs, wild horses known as "misfits," which leads to former rodeo star Perce Howland (Montgomery Clift) joining the gang on a journey to the Nevada foothills.
Arthur Miller wrote this timeless drama about broken hearts and the rugged life of horse wrangling as a vehicle for wife Marilyn Monroe, and sadly it was the last feature film that she would complete. The film also features Clark Cable's final performance; he died of a heart attack shortly after the film finished shooting. THE MISFITS, an homage to the drifters of a vanishing American West, is one of his finest performances.
John Huston received the eleventh AFI Life Achievement Award in 1983.
Marilyn Monroe is the #6 female legend and Clark Cable is the #7 male legend on the AFI 100 Years...100 Stars list.
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 WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 8:00 PM
BLUE VELVET
1986 120 MIN 35MM Rated R
DIR David Lynch SCR David Lynch CAST Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern, Hope Lange, Dean Stockwell
Written and directed by AFI Conservatory graduate David Lynch, BLUE VELVET begins, iconically, with the discovery of a severed human ear in a field of grass. Young Jeffrey Beaumont (Kyle MacLachlan) decides to investigate the mystery on his own, becoming drawn into a world of femmes fatales and madmen--most memorably Frank Booth, played by Dennis Hopper. As Jeffrey tumbles further down the rabbit hole, we are taken along for an unusual tour of America, distorted through Lynch's funhouse mirror.
Abounding with striking visual flair and unique metaphors for American life, BLUE VELVET is one of the most celebrated and scrutinized works of modern cinema.
#96 on the AFI 100 Years...100 Thrills list, and #8 on the AFI 10 Top 10-Mystery list of films.
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 WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 8:00 PM
CHINATOWN
1974 131 MIN 35MM Rated R
DIR Roman Polanski SCR Robert Towne CAST Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, Perry Lopez, John Hillerman, Darrell Zwerling, Diane Ladd, Roy Jenson, Roman Polanski
Robert Towne's original screenplay received an Oscar at the 1975 Academy Awards ceremonies, and Roman Polanski was nominated as best director. Polanski's Los Angeles is a parched landscape of corruption, just waiting to be washed clean. Jack Nicholson is the private eye whose sleepy gaze unravels layers of private depravity behind a public waterworks scam involving gentleman-farmer John Huston and his skittish daughter, Faye Dunaway. CHINATOWN is a film in a class, if not a genre, of its own.
CHINATOWN ranks #21 on the AFI 100 Years...100 Movies - 10th Anniversary Edition list and #16 of the AFI 100 Years...100 Thrills. The character Noah Cross is the #16 villain on the Heroes and Villains list, and the line, "Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown," ranks #74 on the list of AFI 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes.
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JULY 2009 - 1950s GLAMOUR
 WEDNESDAY, JULY 1, 8:00 PM
ALL ABOUT EVE
1950 138 MIN 35 MM
DIR Joseph L. Mankiewicz SCR Joseph L. Mankiewicz (based on the short story "The Wisdom of Eve" by Mary Orr) CAST Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm, Gary Merrill, Hugh Marlowe, Gregory Ratoff, Thelma Ritter, Marilyn Monroe
"Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night," says Margo Channing (Bette Davis) at the start of Bill's birthday party, and her protegee Eve Harrington (Anne Baxter) is all ears. Eve, a young starlet who models herself on Margo, is far from naive; she has an innate understanding of female insecurity and how to manipulate it for her own ends in a win-at-all-costs rise to stardom. Mankiewicz's classic tale of rivalry in the late 1940s New York theater world offers as much insight into gender games and role-playing today as it did then. ALL ABOUT EVE, one of only two films in Academy Awards history to receive 14 nominations, was awarded six Oscars, including best picture, director and screenplay nods for Joseph L. Mankiewicz, and best black-and-white costume design for Edith Head and Charles Le Maire.
Bette Davis is the #2 female legend of the AFI 100 Years...100 Stars: America's Greatest Screen Legends, he film is #28 on the AFI 100 Years...100 Movies - 10th Anniversary Edition list, and the line, "Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night," ranks #9 on the AFI 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes list.
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 WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 8:00 PM
SABRINA
1954 113 MIN 35MM
DIR Billy Wilder SCR Billy Wilder, Samuel Taylor, Ernest Lehman (based on the play by Samuel Taylor) CAST Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn, William Holden, John Williams, Walter Hampden, Martha Hyer, Joan Vohs
Audrey Hepburn sparkles in the title role as the chauffeur's daughter who pines in secret for wealthy playboy David Larrabee (William Holden). She's packed off to Paris to forget her heartbreak and returns a fashionable woman of the world--and David takes notice. So, too, does his responsible brother Linus (Humphrey Bogart), who intends for his kid brother to make a good marriage with a wealthy heiress. Running interference, Linus steps out with Sabrina himself--and into a comic love triangle.
Edith Head won the black-and-white costume design Oscar for SABRINA at the 1955 Academy Awards.
Audrey Hepburn is the #3 female legend of the AFI 100 Years...100 Stars: America's Greatest Screen Legends, and the film is #54 on the AFI 100 Years...100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories list.
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 WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 8:00 PM
HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE
1953 95 MIN 35MM
DIR Jean Negulesco SCR Nunnally Johnson CAST Marilyn Monroe, Betty Grable, Lauren Bacall, William Powell, David Wayne, Cameron Mitchell, Rory Calhoun
HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE was the first Hollywood comedy to be shot in CinemaScope. A remake of 1932's THE GREEKS HAD A WORD FOR THEM, as well as a reworking of 20th Century Fox's favorite plotlines, Lauren Bacall, Betty Grable and Marilyn Monroe play three models of modest means who rent an expensive Manhattan penthouse apartment and pose as women of wealth, as part of an elaborate scheme to snare rich husbands.
20th Century Fox wardrobe director Charles Le Maire earned an Academy Award nomination for color costume design for his work on the film.
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Marilyn Monroe and Lauren Bacall are, respectively, the #6 and #20 female legends of the AFI 100 Years...100 Stars: America's Greatest Screen Legends.
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 WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 8:00 PM
SUNSET BLVD.
1950 110 MIN 35MM
DIR Billy Wilder SCR Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, D. M. Marshman, Jr. CAST Gloria Swanson, William Holden, Erich von Stroheim, Nancy Olson, Fred Clark, Lloyd Gough, Jack Webb, Cecil B. DeMille
Joe Gillis (William Holden), a hunky but bankrupt screenwriter, is hired by washed-up silent screen star Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson) to help her with a comeback star vehicle. Gillis has had his latest screenplay rejected by the studios and, desperate, takes up Desmond's offer to edit SALOME for her. She demands that he stay with her while he works, and soon he becomes a virtual prisoner of the actress and her gloomy mansion.
The costumes in SUNSET BLVD. were designed by Edith Head who, over the course of her career, earned eight Academy Awards and 35 Oscar nominations.
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#16 on the AFI 100 Years... 100 Movies - 10th Anniversary Edition list and the AFI 100 Years of Film Scores list, and #7 and #24 in the AFI 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes list. William Holden is the #25 male legend of the AFI 100 Years...100 Stars.
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JULY 2009 - AFI Directors Screening Series
 WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 8:00 PM
HUMPDAY
2009 95 MIN 35MM
DIR/SCR/PROD Lynn Shelton CAST Mark Duplass, Alycia Delmore, Joshua Leonard, Lynn Shelton, Trina Willard
It's been a decade since Ben (Mark Duplass) and Andrew (Joshua Leonard) were the bad boys of their college campus. Ben has settled down and found a job, wife and home. Andrew took the alternate route as a vagabond artist, skipping the globe from Chiapas to Cambodia. When Andrew shows up unannounced on Ben's doorstep, they easily fall back into their old dynamic of macho one-upmanship. Late into the night at a wild party, the two find themselves locked in a mutual dare: to enter an amateur porn contest together. But how exactly will it work? And more importantly, who will tell Anna (Alycia Delmore), Ben's wife? Lynn Shelton, director of MY EFFORTLESS BRILLIANCE and recipient of the "Someone to Watch Award" at the 2009 Independent Spirit Awards, expertly mines the biggest ironies of the male ego to hilarious effect. HUMPDAY is a buddy movie gone wild.
A Q&A with writer/director/producer Lynn Shelton and actor Mark Duplass will immediately follow the screening.
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Schedule - AFI at ArcLight Sherman Oaks
JUNE 2009 - 100 THRILLS
 MONDAY, JUNE 1, 7:30 PM
THE GREAT ESCAPE
1963 172 MIN
DIR John Sturges SCR James Clavell, W. R. Burnett (based on the book by Paul Brickhill) CAST Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, James Donald, Charles Bronson, Donald Pleasence, James Coburn, Hannes Messemer, David McCallum, Gordon Jackson, John Layton, Angus Lennie, Nigel Stock, Robert Graf
Steve McQueen is reunited with John Sturges, the director who made him a star in THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN. McQueen gives a career-defining performance as Capt. Hilts, the motorbike-riding "Cooler King" at a German maximum-security POW camp in 1943 who, along with his fellow aptly nicknamed prisoners "The Tunnel King" (Charles Bronson), "The Scrounger" (James Garner), "The Forger" (Donald Pleasence), "The Manufacturer" (James Coburn) and others, participates in what became the largest prison breakout ever attempted.
THE GREAT ESCAPE is simultaneously a poignant World War II drama based on a true story and a thrilling prison escape adventure that celebrates heroism and high action. It features a superb orchestral score from Elmer Bernstein.
#19 on the AFI 100 Years...100 Thrills list.
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 MONDAY, JUNE 8, 7:30 PM
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA
1962 227 MIN 35MM Rated PG
DIR David Lean SCR Robert Bolt, Michael Wilson (based on the writings of T. E. Lawrence) CAST Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins, Omar Sharif, José Ferrer, Anthony Quayle, Claude Rains, Arthur Kennedy, Donald Wolfit
David Lean's masterpiece is now as legendary and infamous as its title character, the British soldier-adventurer, T. E. Lawrence, portrayed by Peter O'Toole, whose blue eyes aptly convey the volumes that make up Lawrence's character and exploits as a guerrilla leader of Arab tribesmen during World War I.
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA is an awe-inspiring epic that captures the beauty, adventure, humanity and hues of a barren desert and a rich life. Freddie Young's cinematography is spectacular. It is a film with big ideas that expresses its grand vision succinctly, giving the audience an unforgettable experience.
O'Toole earned the first of eight Best Actor Oscar nominations for his portrayal of Lawrence, and the picture received seven Oscars at the 1963 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Color Cinematography and Best Score.
#7 on the list of AFI 100 Years...100 Movies-10th Anniversary Edition, #23 of AFI 100 Years...100 Thrills, #30 in 100 Years...100 Cheers, T. E. Lawrence is the #10 hero of 100 Heroes and Villains and Maurice Jarre's score is #3 on the AFI 100 Years of Film Scores list.
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 MONDAY, JUNE 15, 7:30 PM
SPARTACUS
1960 187 MIN 35MM Rated PG-13
DIR Stanley Kubrick SCR Dalton Trumbo (based on the novel by Howard Fast) CAST Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton, Peter Ustinov, John Gavin, Tony Curtis, Nina Foch, John Ireland, Herbert Lom, John Dall, Charles McGraw, Joanna Barnes, Harold J. Stone, Woody Strode
Kirk Douglas's landmark role provides the centerpiece for Stanley Kubrick's epic story of Spartacus, the slave who inspired a rebellion against the Roman Empire. Among the film's many memorable scenes are when hundreds of men stand in unity with the words, "I am Spartacus," as well as a hand-to-hand gladiator fight between star Douglas and Woody Strode that has been imitated many times, but never equaled. Behind the scenes, the film was groundbreaking in that Douglas insisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, who had been one of the "Hollywood Ten" and blacklisted for more than a decade, receive screenplay credit under his own name, a major step in ending the blacklist.
#81 on the list of AFI 100 Years...100 Movies-10th Anniversary Edition, #44 on AFI 100 Years...100 Cheers and #62 on the AFI 100 Years...100 Thrills list. Spartacus is the #22 hero of 100 Heroes and Villains.
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 MONDAY, JUNE 22, 7:30 PM
RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK
1981 115 MIN Rated PG
DIR Steven Spielberg SCR Lawrence Kasdan (from a story by George Lucas, Philip Kaufman) CAST Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman, Ronald Lacey, John Rhys-Davies, Denholm Elliot, Alfred Molina
Harrison Ford makes his first appearance as Indiana Jones, the whip-cracking, fedora-wearing, archeologist/adventurer who's always up to his neck in snakes, Nazis, or both. It's 1936 and the US government has learned that the Nazis are in pursuit of a religious relic that holds the remains of the original Ten Commandments. This Lost Ark is a source of unknowable power, and it's up to Indy to get to it first.
The Indiana Jones movies are Spielberg's and George Lucas's homage to the Saturday matinee serials of their youth. The action/adventure sequences are some of the most famous in film history--including the legendary opening where Indy is pursued by a giant rolling boulder, and the thrilling chase scene where he's dragged along a dirt road beneath a speeding truck.
#66 on the AFI 100 Years...100 Movies list and #10 of 100 Years...100 Thrills. Indiana Jones is the #2 hero on the AFI 100 Years...100 Heroesand Villains list.
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 MONDAY, JUNE 29, 7:30 PM
DIE HARD
1988 131 MIN Rated R
DIR John McTiernan SCR Jeb Stuart, Steven E. de Souza (based on the novel Nothing Lasts Forever by Roderick Thorp) CAST Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Bonnie Bedelia, Reginald VelJohnson, Paul Gleason, De'voreaux White, William Atherton, Hart Bochner, James Shigeta, Alexander Godunov
It's Christmas Eve, and off-duty NYPD cop John McClane (Bruce Willis) is at his estranged wife's office party in Los Angeles, hoping to save his marriage. But instead, he is forced to deal with a band of European terrorists led by the eerily phlegmatic Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman in his feature film debut) who have taken control of the building and are holding the guests hostage.
At this point in his career, Bruce Willis was known primarily for his work on TV's MOONLIGHTING. In addition to carrying the amazing action sequences, Willis brings a wise-cracking, comedic edge to the proceedings. DIE HARD, one of the great action films, provided a launching pad for one of America's biggest movie stars.
#39 on the AFI 100 Years...100 Thrills list. Hans Gruber is the #46 villain on the AFI 100 Years...100 Heroes and Villains list.
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JULY 2009 - CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
 MONDAY, JULY 6, 7:30 PM
IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT
1967 109 MIN 35MM
DIR Norman Jewison SCR Stirling Silliphant (from the novel by John Ball) CAST Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates, Lee Grant, James Patterson, Quentin Dean, Larry Gates, Beah Richards
IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT was a milestone in the mid-1960s, a tense detective story set in a small racist town in Mississippi. Bigoted but shrewd police chief Bill Gillespie (Rod Steiger) and renowned black homicide expert Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier) from Philadelphia are forced to collaborate on a murder case--one in which Tibbs is at first the main suspect. The film was nominated for seven Academy Awards and won five--best picture, actor (Steiger), screenplay, sound and film editing.
#75 on the list of AFI 100 Years...100 Movies - 10th Anniversary Edition and #21 of AFI 100 Years...100 Cheers. Virgil Tibbs is the #19 hero on the AFI 100 Heroes and Villains list.
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 MONDAY, JULY 13, 7:30 PM
THE GODFATHER
1972 175 MIN 35MM Rated R
DIR Francis Ford Coppola SCR Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola (based on the novel by Mario Puzo) CAST Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Richard S. Castellano, Robert Duvall, Sterling Hayden, Richard Conte, Diane Keaton, Abe Vigoda, Talia Shire, John Cazale
Francis Ford Coppola's masterpiece is an intimate family saga that has captivated our collective cinematic consciousness. When a rival Mafia family decides to start selling drugs in New York City, Don Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando) declines an invitation to invest in their business, resulting in an attack on his life and his family. Favorite son Michael Corleone (Al Pacino), determined to avoid the fate of his family, is forced to become the man his father never wanted him to be--accepting the transition of power from his father to avenge the attack on his family, leading to the ruthless dispatch of his enemies. Winning Oscars for best picture, screenplay and actor (Brando), the film launched Al Pacino's career and assured James Caan's place as one of cinema's most charming bad boys.
#2 on the list of AFI 100 Years...100 Movies - 10th Anniversary Edition and #11 on the AFI 100 Years...100 Thrills list. The quote, "I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse," is #2 on the AFI 100 Movie Quotes list, and the film's score is #5 on the AFI 100 Years of Film Scores list.
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 MONDAY, JULY 20, 7:30 PM
THE GODFATHER: PART II
1974 200 MIN 35MM Rated R
DIR Francis Ford Coppola SCR Francis Ford Coppola, Mario Puzo CAST Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, Robert De Niro, John Cazale, Talia Shire, James Caan, Lee Strasberg
The continuing saga of the Corleone crime family tells the story of a young Vito Corleone growing up in Sicily and New York during the 1910s, and follows Michael Corleone in the 1950s as he attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba. THE GODFATHER: PART II is an example of how a carefully crafted sequel to a great film can become both a box office and critical success when attention is paid to its artistic quality. A companion piece in the truest sense of the term and the first sequel to receive a best picture Oscar, THE GODFATHER: PART II earned as much praise as its predecessor, if not more, receiving 12 Academy Award nominations and six Oscars.
#32 on the list of AFI 100 Years...100 Movies - 10th Anniversary Edition, and the quote, "Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer," is #58 on AFI 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes.
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 MONDAY, JULY 27, 7:30 PM
SERPICO
1973 129 MIN 35MM Rated R
DIR Sidney Lumet SCR Waldo Salt, Norman Wexler (based on the book by Peter Maas) CAST Al Pacino, John Randolph, Jack Kehoe, Biff McGuire, Barbara Eda-Young, Cornelia Sharpe, Tony Roberts, Allan Rich
In 1970, police officer Frank Serpico electrified the Knapp Commission investigating the New York City Police Department by testifying that there were as many cops taking payoffs as there were crooks. Peter Maas's biography of Serpico formed the basis of the screenplay by Waldo Salt (MIDNIGHT COWBOY) and Norman Wexler (SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER). Al Pacino plays title character Serpico, an honest cop who refuses to go on the take.
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#84 on the list of AFI 100 Years...100 Cheers, and Frank Serpico is the #40 hero on the AFI 100 Heroes and Villains list.
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