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Fri 6/20 thru 6/26

SILVERDOCS
AFI / Discovery Channel Documentary Festival


Jimmy Stewart:
VERTIGO
ANATOMY OF A MURDER


GODARD in the 1960s:
LA CHINOISE
MY LIFE TO LIVE
WEEKEND

SILVERDOCS
Continues through June 23
Closing Night: THEATER OF WAR
Saturday, June 21, 7:00


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Special Events
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SILVERDOCS
AFI / Discovery Channel Documentary Festival

June 16 - 23, 2008
700+ Industry Professionals - Live Performances - Music Docs - Filmmaker Parties

Featured guests include:
Spike Lee (Guggenheim Honoree) - Academy Award-Winning Director Alex Gibney - General Wesley Clark - MANY MORE

Closing Night Film:
THEATER OF WAR
Saturday, June 21, 7:00
In Person: Director John Walter (HOW TO DRAW A BUNNY)

A mesmerising examination of the intersection of art and politics in The Public Theater's 2006 performance of Brecht's anti-war play Mother Courage and Her Children, featuring Meryl Streep and Kevin Kline.

Sponsored by The German Information Center and the German Embassy.

SILVERDOCS.com
JIMMY STEWART CENTENNIAL RETROSPECTIVE
May 20 - July 3

June 24 - July 3:
VERTIGO
Check calendar for newly-added show on June 26!

June 24 - July 1:
ANATOMY OF A MURDER
Jean Luc Godard in the 1960s
May 22 - July 3

June 24 - 26:
LA CHINOISE

June 24 - 29:
MY LIFE TO LIVE [Vivre Sa Vie]


Jean Luc Godard in the 1960s
In Person: Author Richard Brody

Richard Brody, film critic for The New Yorker, will sign copies of his new Godard biography, Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard at the following screenings on Thursday, June 26:

LA CHINOISE
June 26, 7:00

MY LIFE TO LIVE [Vivre Sa Vie]
June 26, 9:35
Best Of The 48 Hour Film Project (International), 2007
US Premiere!
First presented in May at the Cannes Film Festival

Thursday, June 26, 9:30 p.m.
Tickets $8.50

Featuring a selection of international award-winning 48-Hour films from four continents, including the Best 48 Hour Film of 2007: TIME CATCHER, from Tel Aviv.

Click here for more information.
FREE SCREENINGS!
NIH presents SCIENCE IN THE CINEMA
July 9 - August 13
Select Wednesdays at 7:00 p.m.


This six-week series offers a different film with a medical- or science-related theme every Wednesday. Audience Q&A with a guest expert follows each screening. Admission is FREE!

July 9: AWAY FROM HER
July 16: THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY



MONGOL
Opening June 27
The untold story of Genghis Khan
2007 Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Language Film
MY WINNIPEG
Dir. Guy Maddin (BRAND UPON THE BRAIN!)
Opening June 27

"The finest, funniest, saddest film I've seen ... I haven't laughed so hard or with such good reason since BORAT" -Richard Corliss, Time Magazine
Totally Awesome 2: More Films of the 1980s
July 4 - September 4
AFI Life Achievement Award Retrospective: Warren Beatty
July 4 - September 2
Steven Spielberg Retrospective, Part 1
July 4 - September 4
David Lean: A Centennial Celebration
July 4 - September 1
Johnny To: Action Auteur
July 6 - August 18
Muppets™, Music & Magic: Jim Henson's Legacy
July 12 - August 24
ROMAN POLANSKI: WANTED AND DESIRED
Opening July 18
The Films of Milos Forman
July 19 - September 3



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