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THE COMPLETE METROPOLISFriday, February 25 at 7:00The lm event of 2010 Roger Ebert

The most inuential of all silent lms, Fritz Langsvisionary METROPOLIS (1927) can nally be seenas intended with 25 minutes of newly-discoveredfootage and Gottfried Huppertzs magnicentoriginal score. The dark and lavish tale is set in

the year 2000, a time when the promise of the Machine Age has disintegrated intoa nightmarish division between industrialists who live in Edenic splendor amidskyscrapers and workers who labor and dwell in a netherworld below the streets.METROPOLIS remains dominated by the vastness of its sets (unequalled in Germanyat the time) and the spectacle surrounding the futuristic story. (148 min, silent, with

English inter titles)

VISION: From the Life of Hildegard von BingeFriday, March 11 at 7:00 and Sunday, March 13 at 4:00The 12th-century Benedictine nun, Hildegard von Bingen is luminously portraby Barbara Sukowa in her 5th collaboration with director Margarethe von TroHildegard was a Christian mystic, composer, philosopher, playwright, poet, naturascientist, physician, herbalist and ecological activist. As an iconoclastic religigure who insisted on separate and independent abbies for nuns, she ran up agathe churchs authoritarian and patriarchal hierarchy; as a mystic and visionary, insisted on her right to preach and interpret the Gospels. Sukowa infuses Hildegwith the will of a modern feminist, but one tethered to a medieval universe. Von Trmakes that world believable and lush, and at times as scary and alluring as a 900-yeold fairy tale. (2009, 110 min., in German with English subtitles)

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POETRYFriday, February 11 at 7:00 and Sunday, February 13 at 4:00

Lee Chang-dong creates a masterful taleabout a woman raising a child on her own.Mija (played by the extraordinary YoonJeong-hee), a proper, sixtyish home aidein the early stages of dementia, lives withher sullen adolescent grandson, whosemother is looking for work. Enrollingin a poetry class, Mija anxiously awaitsinspiration from the museswhich arrives

the moment she decides her charge must nally suffer the consequences of a heinousact he has committed. Perfectly paced and performed, POETRY stands out as both aquietly scathing condemnation of male violence (and the craven attempts to cover itup) and an ode to the strengthand moral compassof an indefatigable senescentwoman. New York Film Festival (2010, 139min., in Korean w/English subtitles)

SAINT MISBEHAVIN: The Wavy Gravy MovieFriday, February 18 at 7:00 and Sunday, February 20 at 4:00

Michelle Esricksjoyful portrait ofcountercultural iconand humanitarianWavy Gravy journeysfrom the hills ofCalifornia to theHimalayas. The lmblends Wavys ownwords with magicalstories from anextraordinary arrayof fellow travelers

both cultural and counter-cultural, revealing the man behind the clowns grin and thefools clothing. Once described by Paul Krassner as the illegitimate son of HarpoMarx and Mother Theresa, Wavy is still feeding the hungry, teaching the children andexpressing gratitude to every saint, god, prophet, religion, musician and clown in theuniverse. With appearances by The Grateful Dead, Bonnie Raitt, Dr. Larry Brilliant,Ram Dass, Jackson Browne, Ramblin Jack Elliot, Patch Adams, Odetta and manymore! (2010, 86 min.)http://www.rippleeffectlms.com/wwwavy/index.php

MAKE WAY FOR TOMORROWFriday, March 18 at 7:00 and Sunday, March 20 at 4:00Orson Welles said it would make a stone cry. Leo McCareys masterful comedy/drais about a sweet, elderly couple (Victor Moore and Beulah Bondi) who lose their hoto a bank foreclosure and are forced to move in with their grown children. Few oAmerican lms have dealt with the discomforting topic of old age and its effect uthe parent-child relationship, and MAKE WAY FOR TOMORROW is probably best of the bunch because of its honesty and lack of manipulative stickiness. It portrthe realities of dealing with aging parents -- the responsibility, the inconvenience,duty, the guilt -- with tremendous humanity, heartbreak and even humor. If OrWelles said he likes a lm, perhaps you might want to watch it, too... (1937, 91 m

35 SHOTS OF RUMFriday, February 4 at 7:00 and Sunday, February 6 at 4:00Claire Denis has created a sensual and contemplative body of lms over the years,but nothing in her work prepares us for this deeply emotional yet light-of-touch story

set among a small circle of Parisians and their friends. In fact, Denis evokes nothing somuch as Eric Rohmer in his seasons quartet as she follows the various characters ina roundelay of relationships that touches on almost every kind of love there is: father-daughter, old lovers, old colleagues, absent mother, lost sister, unrequited, one-night,budding, brooding . . . Lionel, a train engineer, shares an apartment with his daughterJo, a university student. In the same building live taxi driver Gabrielle and a youngman who comes and goes. We gure out their roles and relationships only graduallyas Denis leaves crumbs along her narrative path for us to followits one of the greatpleasures of this extraordinarily pleasurable lm.- San Francisco International FilmFestival (2007, 100 min., in French w/English subtitles)

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LENFANT (The Child)Friday, March 4 at 7:00 and Sunday, March 6 at 4:00Bruno (Jeremie Renier, in a remarkable performance), living on the margins withgirl Sonia and their new baby, makes a living pulling minor heists. Always schemand always strapped for cash, he decides one day to sell the baby on the black markBrunos quick, painful growth from childhood to manhood is the central concerndirectors Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, and as always they realize their goal throuan ingenious mixture of dramatic compression in harrowingly real time, a stunnsensitivity to sound as a dramatic tool, and a mobile camera eye that stays pinnedthe action as it unfolds in furious motion. Alternately heart-rending and uplifting, TCHILD is that rare thing, a lm in which we not only see but feel the redemption o

human being. (2005, 95 min., in French w/English subtitles)

THE SECRET OF THE GRAINFriday, March 25 at 7:00 and Sunday, March 27 at 4:00

The grain is couscous and

recipe is the secret in AbdellKechiches warm and expansfamily drama, set in a communof rst- and second-generatMaghrebi immigrants in depressed port town in the soof France. Allowing his storyunfold at a leisurely pace, Tunisiborn Kechiche (GAMES OF LOAND CHANCE) envelops

audience in the internecine squabbles of an extended family for whom food provimore than sustenance. When 61-year-old Slimane Beiji (Habib Boufares) is laid after 35 years at the shipyard, he decides to use his severance pay to buy a rundoboat that will house a restaurant to serve his ex-wifes beloved sh couscous. By side in this venture is his current girlfriends daughter, Rym (Hafsia Herzi), who hehim navigate the government bureaucracy and subtle prejudices that stand in his wand on opening night his children and boardinghouse compatriots rally to his aid

Now that Kechiche has won Frances top Csar honors for two lms in a row, we mbe forgiven for dreaming that he perhaps represents a future path for a French cinemat once naturalistic, multicultural, and shorn of pretense. Peter Scarlet, Tribeca F

Festival (2007, 151 min. in French and Arabic with English subtitles)

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LA MISSIONFriday, April 8 at 7:00 and Sunday, April 10 at 4:00Peter Bratts powerful and moving lm is an ardent love letter to the vibrancy of SanFranciscos Mission District and an urgent corrective to the violence that plays outin its streets. Full of affection for its characters and despair for their situations, LAMISSION is a story of community and family and one mans struggle to unlearn alifetime of destructive habits. Che, in a commanding performance by Benjamin Bratt,is an ex-con who has turned his life around and now devotes himself to his lifelongfriends, his passion for building classic lowrider cruisers and his honor student son,Jess (Jeremy Ray Valdez). Full of compassion and love, LA MISSION is not only

tough but hopeful, beautiful and true. (2009, 117 min.)

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I KNOW WHERE IM GOING

Friday, April 15 at 7:00Created by the British team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, I KNOWWHERE IM GOING is one of the most irresistible love stories ever lmed and along-time SFI favorite. An arrogant and highly practical young woman (Wendy Hiller),about to marry for money, is stranded during a storm on an island off the coast ofScotland. People who saw IKWIG when it was new, and were enchanted by it, ndthat it is one lm that fully lives up to its memories. Others, seeing it for the rst time,are inevitably bowled over by its beauty and charm. William K. Everson (1947, 90min.)

TROUBLED WATERFriday, April 29 at 7:00Special repeat screenings of an extremely popular lm we premiered last year.Released from prison after serving an eight-year sentence for the murder of a youngchild, Thomas returns to Oslo to arrange the scattered pieces of his life and pursuea quiet redemption. He nds employment as a church organist, settles into a small

apartment and even manages an awkward but genuine courtship of Anna, the churchpastor. Honest about his lack of religious faith, Thomas is nonetheless affected bythe music he plays, letting the hymns wash over him with an effect at once causticand purifying. The tension mounts when a schoolteacher recognizes the organist asthe convicted murderer of her child. Director Erik Poppe skillfully combines twostrong stories about people who try to come to terms with the past, and explores thepossibilities for forgiveness and atonement in a world colored by cruel chance andirreparable acts. (2008, 115 min., in Norwegian w/English subtitles)

LE QUATTRO VOLTEFriday, May 6 at 7:00 and Sunday, May 8 at 4:00

M i c h e l a n g eFrammartinos wondrfour-part meditation man and nature trathe grand cycle of through the humble drituals of rural folkthe hilly southern Itaregion of Calabria. elderly shepherd ingthe dust from a chu

oor to treat his cougbaby goat from his tentatively ventures to pasture; a majestic

tree is felled and repurposed as the centerpiece of a village celebration; nally, its lare transformed into wood charcoal through the ancient methods of the local workConnecting the dots among animal, vegetable, mineral, and dust, Frammartinos is both concrete and cosmic, and it features what may be the most impressive sinshot of the year: a masterfully orchestrated long take involving a religious processioherd of goats, a runaway truck, and a truly awe-inspiring dog. -NYFF(2010, 88 min Italian w/English subtitles)

UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HPAST LIVESFriday, May 13 at 7:00 and Sunday, May 15 at 4:00

Apichatpong Weerasethawon the Palme dOr at Canlast year for this gently coand wholly transporting of death and rebirth, setThailands rural northeUncle Boonmee, a farsuffering from kidney failis tended to by loved oand visited by the ghostshis wife and son. As for remembered past lives, tmightor might notincla water buffalo, a disguprincess, a talking catsh,

the insects whose chirps engulf the nighttime jungle scenes. A sensory immersUncle Boonmee is an otherworldly fable that lingers on earthly sensations, a lm ab

a dying man thats lled with mysterious signs of life. Apichatpongs vision is abovea generous one: in the threat of extinction he sees the possibility of regeneration. (20113m, in Thai with English subtitles)

SOUL KITCHENFriday, April 1 at 7:00 and Sunday, April 3 at 4:00Celebrated lmmaker Fatih Akin has been exploring some of the darker aspects of theTurkish and Greek immigrant experience in Germany in dramas like HEAD ON andTHE EDGE OF HEAVEN. His latest, however, is something else entirely: a deliciouslyoverstuffed comedy. Zinos Kazantsakis runs a no-frills pub in Hamburg called SoulKitchen, where loyal locals ock for the good grub and music. His idle life begins totilt when his girlfriend takes a job in China, fast-tracking his plan to leave the restaurantbusiness forever. However, his exit strategy gets derailed in this vibrant comedy oferrors. His surly brother is recently out on parole and needs a job, and his new chefsfancy fare is turning away the currywurst-loving customers What ensues is a foot-tapping-music-lled, mouthwatering journey of revelations. Genna Terranova, TFI(2009, 99 min., in German and Greek w/English subtitles)

StaffEleanor Nichols, Director; Philip Caswell, Aidan Humrich, Anya Rose-Ramo,

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