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Call the Membership Coordinator: 212-627-2035. CONTROL NOTE BY NOTE: THE MAKING OF STEINWAY L1037 SEPTEMBER 2007 – JANUARY 2008 ADMISSION: $10.50 NON-MEMBERS / $5.50 MEMBERS 209 WEST HOUSTON ST. NEW YORK, NY 10014 BOX OFFICE: (212) 727-8110 E-MAIL: [email protected] www.filmforum.org CALENDAR PROGRAMMED BY KAREN COOPER AND MIKE MAGGIORE OCTOBER 24 – NOVEMBER 6 2 WEEKS DECEMBER 12 – 25 2 WEEKS NANKING THE VIOLIN LAGERFELD CONFIDENTIAL NOVEMBER 7 – 20 2 WEEKS DECEMBER 5 – 11 1 WEEK Lagerfeld Confidential WRITTEN, DIRECTED & PHOTOGRAPHED BY RODOLPHE MARCONI FRANCE 2007 89 MINS. IN FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES KOCH LORBER FILMS “I DON’T WANT TO BE A REALITY IN PEOPLE’S LIVES. I WANT TO BE LIKE AN APPARITION.” — KARL LAGERFELD, the man who transformed the House of Chanel from an elegant, but stuffy couture has-been into a super- sexy 21st century fashion powerhouse. Lagerfeld’s look is iconographic: snow-white ponytail, huge sunglasses and pinstriped suits with Edwardian collars, heavily accessorized with chains and enough silver rings to do some serious damage with just a handshake. The film profiles Lagerfeld the designer (his brands have included Karl Lagerfeld, Fendi and Chloé), photographer, bibliophile, weight-loss expert, marketing genius and star. It captures a world of serious diamond-encrusted glamour in which beauty and imagination air-kiss money and power, with a ruthless commitment to being in the moment. 1, 2:50, 4:40, 6:30, 8:20, 10:10 The Violin WRITTTEN, DIRECTED & PRODUCED BY FRANCISCO VARGAS MEXICO 2006 98 MINS. IN SPANISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES FILM MOVEMENT “ONE OF THE MOST AMAZING MEXICAN FILMS IN MANY A YEAR.” — Guillermo Del Toro (director, PAN’S LABYRINTH). The Los Angeles Times writes: “A number of Mexican film critics have pronounced it an unalloyed masterpiece… (a) deceptively modest movie about an octogenarian fiddle player embroiled in an Indian peasant uprising. Father, son and even grandson are actively supporting a ragtag army of indigenous rebels fighting to hold on to their ancestral farmlands. The conflict puts the rebels on a collision course with the Mexican army. Shot in poetic black and white, THE VIOLIN is a seemingly simple film composed of multiple harmonies and dissonances, much like the aching folk music that supplies its soundtrack.” 1:15, 3:15, 6, 8, 10 See graph on back for benefits! DECEMBER 26 – JANUARY 8 2 WEEKS CHUCK CLOSE Chuck Close DIRECTED BY MARION CAJORI USA 2007 115 MINS. CHUCK CLOSE, AN ASTOUNDING PORTRAIT of one of the world’s leading contemporary painters, was one of two parting gifts (her second is a film on Louise Bourgeois) from Marion Cajori, a filmmaker who died recently, and before her time. With editing completed by filmmaker Ken Kobland, CHUCK CLOSE limns the life and work of a man who has reinvented portraiture. Close photographs his subjects, blows up the image to gigantic proportions, divides it into a detailed grid and then uses a complex set of colors and patterning to reconstruct each face. The genius of this film is not only to allow the artist to illuminate his methodology (he is wonderfully articulate), but also to feature his friends and colleagues (Brice Marden, Robert Storr, Dorothea Rockbourne, Philip Glass, Arne Glimcher, Kiki Smith, Elizabeth Murray, Alex Katz, Kirk Varnedoe, among others) who make important contributions to appreciating Close’s gifts. 1, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45, 10 Nanking DIRECTED BY BILL GUTTENTAG AND DAN STURMAN PRODUCED BY TED LEONSIS USA 2007 90 MINS. IN ENGLISH, MANDARIN & JAPANESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES THINKFILM DECEMBER 2007 MARKS THE 70TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE RAPE OF NANKING: one of the worst atrocities of the 20th century, but one that is rarely spoken of, especially in Japan where that nation’s wartime behavior continues to be denied and debated. In December 1937, as part of a Japanese invasion of China, the city of Nanking was looted and burned and 200,000-300,000 civilians were individually murdered (and 20,000 raped). A new documentary, NANKING, in elegant and remarkably restrained fashion tells the story of these events, focusing on accounts by a handful of Western missionaries who saved as many as 200,000 Chinese. Mariel Hemingway, Woody Harrelson and Stephen Dorff are among the actors who give voice to their experiences. Interviews with Japanese invaders and Chinese survivors complete an extraordinary tale of both savagery and compassion. 1, 2:45, 4:30, 6:15, 8, 10 OCTOBER 10 – 23 2 WEEKS Control DIRECTED BY ANTON CORBIJN UK 2007 121 MINS. THE WEINSTEIN COMPANY LATE-’70S BRITISH POST-PUNK BAND JOY DIVISION was one of the most influential groups of their time, inspiring U2, Kurt Cobain, The Cure, Interpol, “goth rock” and countless others. Yet their career ended after only one album, when lead singer Ian Curtis committed suicide at age 23. Sam Riley gives an unforgettable performance as the troubled, enigmatic leader of the Manchester band — whose talent for singing intense, darkly infectious pop songs was subverted by mood swings, bouts of epilepsy and a crumbling marriage. Samantha Morton (IN AMERICA, SWEET AND LOWDOWN) plays his wife, upon whose memoir the film is based. The feature debut of acclaimed rock photographer/music video director Anton Corbijn. 1, 3:30, 7, 9:30 MAIL TO: Film Forum ATTN: Membership 209 W. Houston St. NY, NY 10014 BUY TICKETS ONLINE! BUY TICKETS ONLINE! A NONPROFIT CINEMA SINCE 1970 BILL JACOBSON / COURTESY PACEWILDENSTEIN, NY / © CHUCK CLOSE DEAN ROGERS/TWC RECEIVE OUR E-NEWSLETTER WEEKLY! Go to: www.filmforum.org/info PREMIERES Note By Note The Making of Steinway L1037 PRODUCED & DIRECTED BY BEN NILES USA 2007 81 MINS. “HOW DOES A PIANO GET TO CARNEGIE HALL?” — the first of 9 articles by James Barron, published by The New York Times, on the making of a Steinway piano and the history of the 150-year-old company, “one of the last outposts of hand craftsmanship in a machine- dominated industry.” Intrigued, Ben Niles has made a documentary on the genesis of a Steinway concert grand. It begins life in a gritty 5-story Queens factory (on Steinway Street in Astoria) where a small army of technicians ply their trade in much the same way as their predecessors a century ago. The mystery of each piano’s sound and personality is explored by Pierre- Laurent Aimard, Harry Connick Jr., Hélène Grimaud, Kenny Barron, Marcus Roberts, Bill Charlap, Hank Jones and Chinese prodigy Lang Lang. 1, 2:45, 4:30, 6:15, 8, 10 SEPTEMBER 26 – OCTOBER 9 2 WEEKS SEPTEMBER 12 – 25 2 WEEKS Forever DIRECTED BY HEDDY HONIGMANN THE NETHERLANDS 2006 95 MINS. IN FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES FIRST RUN / ICARUS FILMS Lost / In Memoriam DIRECTED BY ANITA THACHER USA 2006 7 MINS. “LIFE IS SHORT; ART IS LONG.” — Hippocrates. For the past 20 years Heddy Honigmann has been producing documentaries of uncommon beauty, insight and intelligence. Ostensibly a visit to Paris’s famed Père Lachaise cemetery, FOREVER focuses upon those visitors who haunt the graves of artists whose work has touched them profoundly: they talk about Maria Callas’s arias, Modigliani’s nudes, Jim Morrison’s rock lyrics, Simone Signoret’s sexy screen presence, Chopin’s sonatas. A testament to the oft-quoted notion that a civilization is not remembered by its great military victories but by its most brilliant artistic accomplishments. It is complemented by Anita Thacher’s elegant, abstract tribute, LOST / IN MEMORIAM: stylized images of tulips and waving grasses whose splendid sensuality are an apt elegy for creative lives of friends loved and lost. 1:10, 3:15, 5:50, 8, 10 Banished PRODUCED & DIRECTED BY MARCO WILLIAMS USA 2007 87 MINS. BETWEEN THE CIVIL WAR AND THE GREAT DEPRESSION, DOZENS OF SOUTHERN COUNTIES (AND NOT SO SOUTHERN ONES) BANISHED THRIVING AFRICAN- AMERICAN COMMUNITIES. This little-known phenomenon typically began with a criminal accusation of a black man and his lynching, followed by the violent eviction of all the black families living in the county — and the appropriation of their land. Today, these counties remain virtually all white and their victims’ descendants remain uncompensated. African- American filmmaker Marco Williams interviews both groups, traveling to Forsyth County (Georgia), Pierce City (Missouri) and Harrison (Arkansas). Handsome, soft-spoken, articulate and unfailingly polite, he is the perfect foil for drawing out KKK members and guilty liberals alike. He takes an incendiary subject and through force of personality weaves a thoughtful investigation of racism, responsibility and real estate. 1, 2:45, 4:30, 6:15, 8, 10 BANISHED FOREVER I’M NOT THERE NOVEMBER 21 – DECEMBER 4 2 WEEKS I’m Not There DIRECTED BY TODD HAYNES USA 2007 135 MINS. THE WEINSTEIN COMPANY “INSPIRED BY THE MUSIC AND MANY LIVES OF BOB DYLAN” reads the opening title. Cate Blanchett, Richard Gere, Heath Ledger and Christian Bale all take a crack at him; Julianne Moore, Michelle Williams and Charlotte Gainsbourg appear as some of his women. But it is Blanchett as Dylan circa 1965 (think D.A. Pennebaker’s DONT LOOK BACK) and as the post- acoustic guitar rocker, who captures our imagination and runs with it at breakneck speed. As the emaciated, cigarette-smoking, nasal-voiced enfant terrible, his hair backlit to suggest a depraved angel, he torments journalists, fans and girlfriends alike. Appearances by imaginary versions of Allen Ginsberg, Edie Sedgwick, Suze Rotolo, Bobby Neuwirth, Bobby Seale, Albert Grossman and Joan Baez round out Haynes’s fever dream of what it means to be Bob Dylan. 1:00, 1:15, 3:45, 4:00, 6:30, 7:00, 9:15, 9:30 JONATHAN WENK/TWC ON 2 SCREENS
