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UW CINEMATHEQUE ANNOUNCES SPRING 2014 SCREENING CALENDAR

LINEUP INCLUDES FILMS BY ALFRED HITCHCOCK, CLAIRE DENIS, JACQUES DEMY, RICHARD FLEISCHER

+ TREASURES FROM ACADEMY FILM ARCHIVE & FILMMAKERS GUY MADDIN & ELIZA HITTMAN IN PERSON!

The Spring 2014 screening calendar for the UW Cinematheque promises another spectacular and celebratory season of cinematic classics and discoveries for movie lovers.

The internationally diverse lineup of screenings from January 17 through May 10 includes series devoted to the work of France’s Claire Denis & Jacques Demy and Hollywood’s Richard Fleischer. The Spring Sunday Cinematheque at the Chazen lineup will feature 13 masterworks by perhaps the most famous director in cinema history, Alfred Hitchcock. Both the Demy and Hitchcock series will extend to include screenings in the 2014 Wisconsin Film Festival, April 3-10.

Additionally, the Cinematheque will offer an extended series of new restorations and preservations from the Academy Film Archive in Los Angeles. The Treasures from the Academy Film Archive series begins with a special program of avant-garde restorations presented by the Academy’s Mark Toscano on Friday, January 31. Our continuing Premiere Showcase series kicks off the Cinematheque calendar with a screening of the acclaimed new documentary Cutie and the Boxer on January 17. The Premiere Showcase series also closes the season with It Felt Like Love on May 9, presented in-person by writer-director Eliza Hittman. Other in-person events include a visit from acclaimed Canadian auteur Guy Maddin on Februrary 20 & 21, presented in collaboration with the UW’s Material Culture program.

And, in collaboration with the WUD Film Committee, we will present four more of our special Marquee Mondays series at the Marquee Theater at Union South, including, on March 10, Grindhouse Trailer-Bration, a 100-minute program devoted entirely to coming attraction previews!

All Cinematheque screenings are free and open to the public. Please see below for a complete listing of programs and series descriptions. The Cinematheque’s website (http://cinema.wisc.edu) will go live with the summer calendar at noon on Monday, December 16, 2013.

Friday and Saturday programs screen at: 4070 Vilas Hall 821 University Ave Madison, WI 53706 Sunday programs screen at: Chazen Museum of Art 750 University Avenue Madison, WI 53706 Monday programs screen at Marquee Theater at Union South 1308 W. Dayton Street Madison, WI 53715 Admission free for all screenings, seating limited. Our website: http://cinema.wisc.edu For photos, visit: https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/xythoswfs/webview/fileManager.action?entryName=/breiser/UW%20Cinematheque%20photos%20Spring%202014&stk=2264E4AEE04A3FC For additional information, photos, and advance screener requests contact: Jim Healy, (608) 263-9643, jehealy@wisc.edu Ben Reiser, (608) 262-3627, breiser@wisc.edu SERIES AT-A-GLANCE: TREASURES FROM THE ACADEMY FILM ARCHIVE Dedicated to the preservation, restoration, documentation, exhibition and study of motion pictures, the Academy Film Archive, established in 1991 at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & sciences, is home to one of the most diverse and extensive motion picture collections in the world. This extensive screening series includes both independent and studio features and documentaries and will kick off on January 31 with a special visit from

Academy’s Film Preservationist Mark Toscano, who will present an exciting program of recently restored avant-garde treasures. FILM NOIR DOUBLE FEATURES Step into the shadowy side of film history with two pairs of rarely screened film noir gems. On January 25, we will present the hard-to-see 1949 Paramount version of The Great Gatsby, followed by Ray Milland as the diabolical title character in Alias Nick Beal. Then, on February 1, the UCLA Film & Television Archive provides us with two exciting but neglected noir masterpieces of the early 1950s, Cy Endfield’s devastating study of lynch mob violence, Try and Get Me!, and Lewis R. Foster’s pulse-pounding prison escape drama Crashout. LACIS PRESENTS NEW CHILEAN CINEMA In February, 2013, our annual series co-sponsored by the UW’s department of Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian Studies focuses in on several terrific new filmmakers from Chile, with a special emphasis on emerging women directors. The series will conclude on February 22 with the complete features of Pablo Larrain, Post Mortem, Tony Manero, and No, which together form a masterful trilogy about life in Chile during the regime of Augusto Pinochet. GUY MADDIN IN PERSON! The emergence of filmmaker Guy Maddin as an internationally championed auteur is an occurrence that is as anomalous as his distinctive work. On the surface, his movies appear to be pastiches of the conventions of late silent and early sound cinema. However, the films (which include Careful, The Saddest Music in the World, and, most recently, Keyhole) are infused with a deeply personal set of preoccupations and obsessions, not the least of which is life in Maddin’s native Winnipeg. On February 20 and 21, UW’s Material Culture program, in collaboration with the Cinematheque, will celebrate the weird and wonderful artistry of Guy Maddin as we welcome him to campus for three separate programs: a special lecture on the theme of loss in the cinema; a screening of one of his signature films, 2008’s My Winnipeg, followed by a panel discussion; and a screening of one of Maddin’s personal favorites, James Whale’s 1935 comedy whodunit, Remember Last Night? 3 X CLAIRE DENIS Modern cinema’s greatest poet of sound and image, Claire Denis makes films that take the form of reveries. Working closely with a team of trusted collaborators—the cinematographer Agnes Godard and the band Tindersticks foremost among them—Denis crafts mood pieces that are at once deeply subjective and gloriously physical. She has called this uniquely sensuous and beguiling body of work “open cinema,” a term reflective of films that are as aesthetically entrancing as they are politically complex. Our series includes her astonishing debut Chocolat, in which the Paris-born, African raised director tackles colonialism head-on, the hypnotic masterpiece Beau Travail, and its visceral followup, Trouble Every Day. As Sight and Sound

recently declared, “there’s no better filmmaker working in the world right now,” and there is no better way to experience her singular visions than on the big screen, on 35mm. (MK) RICHARD FLEISCHER: CINEMASCOPE KILLERS AND THRILLERS One of the most talented journeymen directors of the studio era, Richard Fleischer’s specialty was the crime film, whether a procedural look at a killer’s crimes, like The Boston Strangler or a multi-character thriller like Violent Saturday. These two films, plus The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing, a look at the scandalous Stanford White/Evelyn Nesbitt/Harry Thaw love-murder triangle, and Compulsion, a fictionalization of the Leopold & Loeb murders, will screen in excellent 35mm CinemaScope prints from the archives of 20th Century Fox. LE MONDE ENCHANTÉ DE JACQUES DEMY Although he rose to prominence as a director at the same time as Truffaut and Godard, Jacques Demy (1931-1990) found his own distinct voice in the French New Wave of the early 1960s. He delighted in creating precise worlds of destiny and chance populated with characters who were usually either possessed by the raptures of a new romance or filled with a melancholic longing for a lost love. The deliberately artificial and frequently candy-coated visuals and the embracing of musical conventions in Demy’s films do not disguise the fact that his films were very much about real love and real heartbreak. Instead, they remind us even more strongly of the precarious balancing act that is life. This series will begin during the 2014 Wisconsin Film Festival, April 3-10, with screenings of new restorations of Demy’s Lola and The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, and others! Special thanks to the Cultural Services of the French Embassy NY, Institut Français, Paris, and to Cine-Tamaris, Janus Films, Sony Pictures Repertory. SUNDAY CINEMATHEQUE AT THE CHAZEN: HITCHCOCK MASTERWORKS The Cinematheque-Chazen Museum of Art collaboration for Spring, 2013 salutes Alfred Hitchcock, perhaps the best-known director in film history and the greatest, most influential practitioner of the thriller. Hitchcock will be represented by 13 masterworks of suspense that will screen Sunday afternoons in the Chazen Museum of Art’s auditorium. The selections will take viewers from Hitchcock’s late British period, with films like The Lady Vanishes and The 39 Steps, through his decades in Hollywood, which yielded such all-time classics like Notorious, Psycho, and North By Northwest. The series will also extend to include Hitchcock screenings in the 2014 Wisconsin Film Festival, April 3-10, including an original Technicolor print of Vertigo, recently selected as the greatest film ever made in Sight and Sound magazine’s once-a-decade poll of filmmakers and critics. PREMIERE SHOWCASE Premiere Showcase is the Cinematheque’s effort to bring the boldest and most exciting new cinema back to the big screen. Crafted with the same

curatorial acuity we bring to our repertory series, Premiere Showcase presents exciting new work by contemporary directors that would otherwise have no theatrical venue in the area. This calendar’s lineup includes two acclaimed new documentaries: Zachary Heinzerling’s Cutie and the Boxer and Frederick Wiseman’s At Berkeley. Plus, the latest from celebrated French auteur Bruno Dumont, Camille Claudel 1915, starring Juliette Binoche; and a gem of independent cinema, It Felt Like Love, which will be presented in person by writer/director Eliza Hittman. SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS Spring 2013 special presentations include new 35mm prints of Andrei Tarkovsky’s Nostalghia and Jean-Luc Godard’s Le Petit Soldat. The latter title will be presented with two rarely-screened short films by Godard, episodes he directed for early 1960s European portmanteau features. MARQUEE MONDAYS In collaboration with the student-run WUD Film Committee, the Cinematheque brings back our Monday evening series of fun screenings that celebrate contemporary pop cinema. This season’s offerings include 35mm screenings of the unsurpassable original versions of Carrie and Robocop; Robert Zemeckis’ rowdy comedy I Wanna Hold Your Hand, which will screen 50 years and one day after The Beatles’ first appearance on Ed Sullivan; and Grindhouse Trailer-Bration, a 100-minute program of great and grungy coming attractions previews! The screenings take place on at the Marquee Theater in Union South. Grab a beer in the Sett and join us for movie fun! SCREENINGS AT-A-GLANCE: Fri., 1/17, 7 p.m. PREMIERE SHOWCASE CUTIE AND THE BOXER USA | 2013 | HD Projection | 82 min. | English and Japanese with subtitles Director: Zachary Heinzerling A one-of-a-kind portrait of marriage between artists, this unforgettable documentary captures a long-term relationship in all its grace and tension. Creation itself is a visceral spectacle for 80 year-old painter Ushio Shinohara, who pummels massive canvases with boxing gloves doused in brightly colored paints; operating at the other end of the spectrum, his wife Noriko depicts their tumultuous 40-year union through illustration. A joint gallery show rekindles the mutual competition and affection that has characterized their decades together. “Nothing short of breathtaking… a work of art in its own right” (Indiewire). Sat., 1/18, 7 p.m. SPECIAL PRESENTATION NOSTALGHIA Soviet Union, Italy | 1983 | 35mm | 125 min. | Russian and Italian with subtitles

Director: Andrei Tarkovsky Cast: Oleg Yankovsky, Erland Josephson, Domiziana Giordano In one of Tarkovsky’s most enigmatic and beautifully-composed films, world-weary Russian poet Andrei Gorchakov (Yankovsky) travels to Italy with translator Eugenia (Giordano) to study the life of an 18th-century Russian composer. Haunted by memories of his family back home, Andrei becomes increasingly unmoored after an encounter with a local madman (Ingmar Bergman regular Josephson), who purportedly locked away his wife and children for seven years in fear of the forthcoming apocalypse. Tarkovsky evokes his protagonist’s psychic and spiritual malaise through a series of extraordinary long takes, crafting a visual symphony of flooding ruins, fog-shrouded vistas, and echoing corridors bathed in fading afternoon light. A new 35mm print will be shown. Fri., 1/24, 7 p.m. PREMIERE SHOWCASE CAMILLE CLAUDEL 1915 France | 2013 | HD Projection | 95 min. | French with subtitles Director: Bruno Dumont Cast: Juliette Binoche, Jean-Luc Vincent, Emmanuel Kauffman Binoche gives a staggering performance as sculptor Camille Claudel, a former protégé and mistress of Auguste Rodin who was confined to a Church-run asylum for the final decades of her life. Rigorously authentic, this harrowing, feminist vision from French auteur Bruno Dumont (Humanite, Twentynine Palms) is based on Claudel’s written accounts, and was shot in a real-life mental hospital with actual patients and nurses. Sat., 1/25, 7 p.m. FILM NOIR DOUBLE FEATURES THE GREAT GATSBY USA | 1949 | 35mm | 92 min. Director: Elliott Nugent Cast: Alan Ladd, Betty Field, Macdonald Carey In the second big-screen adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s landmark jazz age novel, Ladd portrays the dreaming, scheming nouveau riche title character and Field is Daisy, the object of Gatsby’s obsession. Less faithful to the book than the other movie versions, veteran director Nugent’s shadowy take places emphasis on the story’s gangsters and violence. Sat., 1/25, 8:45 p.m. FILM NOIR DOUBLE FEATURES ALIAS NICK BEAL USA | 1949 | 35mm | 93 min. Director: John Farrow Cast: Ray Milland, Audrey Totter, Thomas Mitchell An honest politician (Mitchell) begins a steady slide into corruption when he begins to associate with the sinister Nick Beal (Milland). Milland is downright

devilish in this terrific, undeservedly neglected gem that merges the political thriller with the Faust legend. Sun., 1/26, 2 p.m. - Chazen HITCHCOCK THE 39 STEPS UK | 1935 | 35mm | 86 min. Director: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Peggy Ashcroft In this witty and fleet-footed take on Hitchcock’s classic “wrong man” storyline, debonair Canadian Richard Hannay (Donat) visits a London music hall and meets a mysterious spy who is later found dead in his apartment. Suspected of murder, Richard embarks on a mission to the Scottish Highlands to stop an espionage plot, while staying one step ahead of the police. In the unlikely chemistry that develops between Richard and Pamela (Carroll)—a no-nonsense woman convinced of Richard’s guilt—Hitchcock proves himself as deft at showcasing screwball-style repartee as he is at constructing quotidian paranoia and thrill-a-minute suspense. Mon, 1/27, 7 p.m. - Marquee Theater MARQUEE MONDAYS CARRIE USA | 1976 | 35mm | 97 min. Director: Brian De Palma Cast: Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, John Travolta In the ultra-stylish first screen version of Stephen King’s pop novel, Spacek gives an Oscar-nominated performance as the much-abused adolescent who uses her telekinetic powers to exact revenge on her tormentors. De Palma elevates the teen-horror genres to operatic levels with an arsenal of visual tricks including split-screen and slow-motion photography. Fri., 1/31, 7 p.m. ACADEMY TREASURES - MARK TOSCANO IN PERSON! BURSTING AT THE SEAMS - RESTORED AVANT-GARDE FILMS 16mm, 35mm | program running time: approx. 90 min. This program of experimental work restored by the Academy Film Archive focuses on films that examine, prod, and break down many of the conceptual and structural foundations of standard filmmaking practice. You will see the image fractured, defaced, multiplied, and divided. You will see one movie that was created in a fraction of a second, and another movie made with a squirtgun. You will experience the sound of Kirk Douglas's head. Filmmakers represented include James Benning, Stan Brakhage, Chick Strand, David Rimmer, Scott Stark, and several others. The films in this program are Projection Instructions (Morgan Fisher, 1976); No Art of Memory (James Otis, 1982); Under the Juggernaut (Robert Russett, 1969); Grain Graphics (Dana Plays, 1978); The Sound of his Face (Scott Stark, 1988); Chicago Loop (James Benning, 1976); Squirt Gun/Step Print (Pat O'Neill, 1998); Madame Mao's Lost Love Letters (Tom Leeser & Diana

Wilson, 1983); Night Mulch & Very (Stan Brakhage, 2001); Cartoon Le Mousse (Chick Strand, 1979); Variations on a Cellophane Wrapper (David Rimmer, 1970) Now Playing (Susan Rosenfeld, 1983). Academy Film Archive’s Mark Toscano will appear in person as your guide through this dazzling selection. Sat., 2/1, 7 p.m. FILM NOIR DOUBLE FEATURES TRY AND GET ME! (THE SOUND OF FURY) USA | 1950 | 35mm | 85 min. Director: Cy Endfield Cast: Frank Lovejoy, Lloyd Bridges, Richard Carlson In one of his most memorable roles, Bridges plays a sharp-dressed, smooth-talking psychopath who talks sympathetic, unemployed family man Lovejoy into a string of small-time robberies. When they botch a kidnapping job, the two criminals find themselves hunted by the law and – more terrifyingly – by a bloodthirsty lynch mob. One of the best films of the 50s, Endfield’s enormously tense masterpiece is both film noir at its finest and a devastating critique of American society. 35mm restored print courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive. Restoration funding provided by the Film Noir Foundation. Sat., 2/1, 8:30 p.m. FILM NOIR DOUBLE FEATURES CRASHOUT USA | 1955 | 35mm | 89 min. Director: Lewis R. Foster Cast: William Bendix, Arthur Kennedy, Gene Evans Six hardened convicts break out of stir in the middle of a riot and decide to stick together in a search for a buried cache of stolen money. Along the route to riches, the criminals are picked off one at a time by various hostile elements, not the least of which are their own violent tendencies. “Crashout belongs to that whole class of unassumingly ambitious, quietly accomplished little films whose prolific existence contributes so much to the unique stature of classical American cinema” (Dave Kehr, The New York Times). Sun., 2/2, 2 p.m. - Chazen HITCHCOCK THE LADY VANISHES UK | 1938 | 35mm | 96 min. Director: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Dame May Whitty A young woman (Lockwood) traveling by train befriends an elderly English governess (Whitty) then undertakes a search for her when she goes missing. However, none of the other passengers claim to have seen the old woman at all, and all evidence of her existence has disappeared. The quintessential train murder mystery is also a reminder that Hitchcock could make you laugh just as easily as he could stop your heart with suspense. Two

particular delights in the cast are Naunton Wayne and Basil Radford as a pair of cricket-loving fellow passengers Caldicott and Charters. These characters proved so popular that Wayne and Radford reprised the roles in three more movies! Fri., 2/7, 7 p.m. ACADEMY TREASURES HUD USA | 1963 | 35mm | 112 min. Director: Martin Ritt Cast: Paul Newman, Patricia Neal, Melvyn Douglas In one of his signature anti-hero roles, Newman is the title character, a womanizing, self-interested son of a Texas cattle rancher (Douglas) who destroys his family’s business just as coolly as he seduces the devoted family maid (Neal, in an Oscar-winning performance). Ritt’s unsentimental direction, James Wong Howe’s marvelous cinematography, and a peerless cast make undeniably compelling material out of Larry McMurtry’s early novel Horseman, Pass By. Sat., 2/8, 7 p.m. LACIS IL FUTURO Chile, Italy, Germany | 2013 | 35mm | 95 min. | English and Italian with subtitles Director: Alicia Scherson Cast: Rutger Hauer, Manuela Martelli, Luigi Ciardo Orphaned teenaged twins Bianca and Tomas aimlessly wander the streets of Rome searching for distractions in their upended lives. Intending to set-up the blind former movie star Maciste (Blade Runner’s Hauer) for robbery, Bianca instead finds comfort in the older man’s hermit-like existence. Strange surprises abound in this hypnotic, sometimes erotic, psychodrama, adapted from a novel by prize-winning Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño. Sat., 2/8, 9 p.m. LACIS AFTERSHOCK Chile, USA | 2012 | 35mm | 89 min. | English and Spanish with subtitles Director: Nicolás López Cast: Eli Roth, Andrea Osvart, Ariel Levy In the Chilean coastal town of Valparaiso, a group of international tourists find themselves fighting for survival after a powerful earthquake. Inspired by his experiences in Chile during the time of the devastating 2010 seismic activity, veteran horror filmmaker Roth produced, co-wrote, and co-stars in this intense, gory, and decidedly shocking update of the classic disaster movie. Sun., 2/9, 2 p.m. - Chazen HITCHCOCK

REBECCA USA | 1940 | 35mm | 130 min. Director: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Joan Fontaine, Laurence Olivier, Judith Anderson The nameless new wife (Fontaine) of an enormously wealthy widower (Olivier) must deal with the constraints of the dead woman’s memory. With surprising confessions and transformations, the new couple struggles against sinister forces to come to terms with Rebecca’s death. This Oscar-winning adaptation of Daphne Du Maurier’s novel is told with the requisite shocks and twists by Hitchcock in his first Hollywood production. Mon., 2/10, 7 p.m. - Marquee Theater MARQUEE MONDAYS I WANNA HOLD YOUR HAND USA | 1978 | 35mm | 104 min. Director: Robert Zemeckis Cast: Nancy Allen, Eddie Deezen, Bobby DiCicco Five hopped-up Maplewood, NJ teens on the daytrip of a lifetime try their best to cross paths with The Beatles during their first trip to NYC. There’s no better way to celebrate the 50th anniversary of John, Paul, George and Ringo's first appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show than with this sweet, sassy, frenetic and fab blast of Beatlemania from first-time director Zemeckis. Featuring many of the hallmark elements of his later triumph Back to the Future (a race against the clock, perfectly nostalgic period details, and a lightning storm infused climax) this rarely seen gem is worth screaming and shouting about. Uniformly winning performances abound, but in particular you will wonder how comic juggernauts Deezen, Di Cicco and Wendie Jo Sperber didn't wind up bigger stars. Fri., 2/14, 7 p.m. ACADEMY TREASURES BARRY LYNDON UK, USA | 1975 | 35mm | 183 min. Director: Stanley Kubrick Cast: Ryan O’Neal, Marisa Berenson, Hardy Kruger An adaptation of Thackeray’s novel, Kubrick’s masterful follow-up to A Clockwork Orange follows the picaresque exploits of Redmond Barry (O’Neal) from romantic duellist to British Army deserter to titled nobility. Barry’s rise and fall is told in a series of measured, carefully selected, and very compelling episodes that lead to perhaps the most moving conclusion in all of Kubrick’s films. John Alcott’s Academy Award winning cinematography set new, innovative standards for filming with natural light. Sat., 2/15, 7 p.m. LACIS THE SUMMER OF FLYING FISH (EL VERANO DE LOS PECES VOLADORES) Chile, France | 2013 | HD Projection | 95 min. | Spanish with subtitles

Director: Marcela Said Cast: Gregory Cohen, Francisca Walker, Maria Izquierdo A lush and atmospheric coming-of-age tale that doubles as a political awakening, The Summer of Flying Fish marks an exceptionally promising fiction debut for documentarian Marcela Said. Ensconced in her wealthy father’s vacation home in the south of Chile, rebellious teen Manela uncovers the underlying turf war between her family and the local Mapuche natives, who claim ancestral rights to the land. (MK) Sat., 2/15, 8:45 p.m. LACIS THURSDAY TILL SUNDAY (DE JUEVES A DOMINGO) Chile, The Netherlands | 2012 | HD Projection | 96 min. | Spanish with subtitles Director: Dominga Sotomayor Castillo Cast: Francisco Pérez-Bannen, Paola Giannini, Santi Ahumada In a last-ditch effort to save their marriage, Fernando and Ana take their two kids in on a journey across the Chilean countryside in this uncommonly elegant road movie, much of which unfolds within the cramped confines of the family station wagon. A major prizewinner on the festival circuit, Sotomayer’s debut racked up awards at the prestigious Rotterdam, Valdivia, New Horizons, and Indie Lisboa film festivals. Sun., 2/16, 2 p.m. - Chazen HITCHCOCK SHADOW OF A DOUBT USA | 1943 | 35mm | 108 min. Director: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Joseph Cotten, Teresa Wright, Macdonald Carey This slow-building, disquietingly cynical small-town thriller was also Hitchcock’s avowed personal favorite of his own films. A suspected murderer of widows, Charlie (Cotten, both charming and menacing in a brilliant performance), returns to his hometown to visit his teenaged niece (Wright). Harrowingly insidious, this was the closest Hitchcock ever came to film noir and remains entirely deserving of its description by critic Dave Kehr as “Our Town turned inside out.” Not coincidentally, Thornton Wilder collaborated on the script! Thurs., 2/20, 6 p.m. - Chazen GUY MADDIN IN PERSON! SPECIAL LECTURE - “LOSS IN THE CINEMA” One of contemporary cinema’s most exciting artists, Guy Maddin will speak on the theme of loss in film history and how it relates to his own work. This special program is a collaboration of the Cinematheque and the UW’s Material Culture Program. Fri., 2/21, 2 p.m. GUY MADDIN IN PERSON!

MY WINNIPEG Canada | 2008 | 35mm | 80 min. Director: Guy Maddin Cast: Darcy Fehr, Ann Savage, Amy Stewart A chronicle of the life of the wintry Canadian city, director Maddin provocatively mixes the fictional and real to explore various aspects of Winnipeg life. Maddin’s self-described “docu-fantasia” on his Canadian hometown contains some of the strangest and most stirring imagery in any film of recent memory: dreamy sleepwalkers in the snow, a floating kielbasa, and horses encased in ice. Alternately hilarious and haunting, My Winnipeg is an enormously entertaining meditation on myth and memory. Following this screening, Guy Maddin will participate in a panel discussion on the “Poetics of Memory, Space, and Architecture in My Winnipeg.” Fri., 2/21, 7 p.m. GUY MADDIN IN PERSON! REMEMBER LAST NIGHT? USA | 1935 | 35mm | 81 min. Director: James Whale Cast: Edward Arnold, Robert Young, Constance Cummings A group of young, wealthy socialites wake up from an all-night revelry to find their oldest member murdered. The district attorney (Arnold) who is called in to solve the mystery can’t get anywhere with his investigation because all parties involved were too drunk to remember anything! This fast-paced comedy whodunit from the director of Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein is a personal favorite of director Guy Maddin. He will talk about Remember Last Night? and his own cinephilia in a post-screening discussion. Sat., 2/22, 2 p.m. NEW CHILEAN CINEMA POST MORTEM Chile | 2010 | 35mm | 98 min. | Spanish with subtitles Director: Pablo Larrain Cast: Alfredo Castro, Antonia Zegers, Jaime Vadell In the days leading up to the 1973 military coup in Chile, a lonely bureaucrat working in Santiago’s morgue seeks out the companionship of his neighbor, an exotic dancer. As the country moves towards martial law and the bodies begin to pile up, our ambiguous hero is summoned to perform an important, historical task. This simple, direct, and powerful film evokes a troubling era with great precision. Sat., 2/22, 4 p.m. NEW CHILEAN CINEMA TONY MANERO Chile | 2008 | 35mm | 98 min. | Spanish with subtitles Director: Pablo Larrain Cast: Alfredo Castro, Amparo Noguera, Antonia Zegers

In 1978 Santiago, under the rule of the repressive Pinochet regime, dancer Raúl (Alfredo Castro) stops at nothing to win a televised contest for the best impersonation of John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever. Masterfully told and brutally honest, this is a powerful, violent, and sometimes frightening study of life under fascism with a main character who is equal parts fascinating and repellent. “An extremely dark meditation on borrowed cultural identity.” (Stephen Holden, The New York Times) Sat., 2/22, 7 p.m. NEW CHILEAN CINEMA NO Chile | 2012 | 35mm | 118 min. | Spanish with subtitles Director: Pablo Larrain Cast: Gael Garcia Bernal, Alfredo Castro, Antonia Zegers Advertising executive René (Bernal) convinces his firm to let him head up the television campaign to defeat Augusto Pinochet in the 1988 plebiscite. Instead of dwelling on poverty and other horrors of the Pinochet dictatorship, René produces a series of positive shows featuring inspirational music, dancing, and rainbow imagery. Shot on a relatively primitive video format, the Oscar-nominated No is nonetheless one of the most compelling and gratifying political dramas ever made. Larrain concludes his trilogy of life under Pinochet on a decidedly upbeat note. Sun., 2/23, 2 p.m. - Chazen HITCHCOCK NOTORIOUS USA | 1946 | 35mm | 101 min. Director: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains In Hitchcock’s great post-war spy thriller, G-man T.R. Devlin (Grant) convinces Alicia Huberman (Bergman) to infiltrate a group of Nazis living in South America. Devlin, despite his obvious romantic feelings for Alicia, pushes her into marriage with the group’s leader, Alex Sebastian (Rains). “There is never a moment when improper behavior is actually stated or shown, but the film leaves no doubt.” (Roger Ebert) Fri., 2/28, 7 p.m. ACADEMY TREASURES JOI BABA FELANAUTH - THE ELEPHANT GOD India | 1979 | 35mm | 112 min. | Bengali with subtitles Director: Satyajit Ray Cast: Soumitra Chaterjee, Siddhartha Chatterjee, Santosh Dutta The second of legendary filmmaker Ray’s films about the detective Feluda (Chaterjee) finds the Bengali Sherlock Holmes searching for a lost Ganesha idol along the banks of the Ganges. A playful departure from Ray’s more typical social dramas, this whodunit was adapted from one of the director’s voluminous Feluda short stories.

Sat., 3/1, 1 p.m. PREMIERE SHOWCASE AT BERKELEY USA | 2013 | HD Projection | 244 min. Director: Frederick Wiseman 45 years (and 38 films) after his landmark High School, legendary documentarian Frederick Wiseman heads to college for a masterful study of the University of California, Berkeley. Typically comprehensive, Wiseman takes his camera from the classroom to the boardroom, culminating in a massive student demonstration that rocked the campus. A profound examination of the complexities of running a world-class, state-run university in the age of shrinking public funds, At Berkeley is vitally relevant for anyone who calls Madison home. Sat., 3/1, 7 p.m. SPECIAL PRESENTATION LA PARESSE France | 1962 | 35mm | 15 min. | French with English subtitles Director: Jean-Luc Godard LE GRAND ESCROC France | 1964 | 35mm | 25 min. | French with English subtitles Director: Jean-Luc Godard LE PETIT SOLDAT France | 1963 | 35mm | 88 min. | French with English subtitles Director: Jean-Luc Godard Cast: Anna Karina, Michel Subor, Henri-Jacques Huet Le Petit Soldat, Godard’s second feature, was initially banned in France for its critical portrayal of the French/Algerian War. Bruno (Subor, who would reprise his role almost 40 years later in Claire Denis’ Beau Travail) is a photojournalist ordered by the government to murder the man who helped him escape military service. When he refuses, he is taken hostage by the Algerian Liberation Front. Godard explains: “I wanted to show that the most terrible thing about torture is that people who practice it don’t find it arguable at all. They all end up by justifying it.” (TY). The feature will be preceded by two rarely shown Godard short films, La Paresse and Le Grand Escroc, his contributions, respectively, to the portmanteau features Les Sept Péchés Capitaux and Les Plus Escroqueries du monde. New 35mm prints courtesy of Rialto Pictures, Film Desk, & Olive Films. Sun., 3/2, 2 p.m. - Chazen HITCHCOCK ROPE USA | 1948 | 35mm | 80 min. Director: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: James Stewart, Farley Granger, John Dall In their Manhattan high-rise apartment, two well-to-do young men (Granger and Dall) strangle an acquaintance and place his dead body in a trunk. The two thrill killers immediately welcome in a number of friends for a party

where the ersatz coffin doubles as a serving table, but the murderers’ former mentor (Stewart) proves an unlikely challenger to their sick game. Hitchcock’s film version of Patrick Hamilton’s Leopold-and-Loeb-inspired play provides uninterrupted, “real-time” suspense through a series of innovative ten-minute camera takes. Fri., 3/7, 7 p.m. ACADEMY TREASURES MARJOE USA | 1972 | 35mm | 88 min. Director: Sarah Kernochan, Howard Smith Billed in the 1950s as “the world’s youngest ordained minister,” Marjoe Gortner returned to revival tent preaching in the late 1960s as a way to make money. Looking to escape the evangelical limelight, Gortner invited documentary filmmakers Kernochan and Smith to follow him around on a final holy-rolling tour, admitting privately to the cameras that he’s a fraud and an atheist. This mesmerizing film won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Sat., 3/8, 7 p.m. DENIS BEAU TRAVAIL France | 1999 | 35mm | 90 min. | French with English subtitles Director: Claire Denis Cast: Denis Lavant, Gregoire Colin, Michel Subor One of the most original, sensuous, and beautiful films of the 90s, this loose version of Melville’s Billy Budd transposes the sea-bound story to a group of French Foreign Legionnaires in the East African outpost of Djibouti. Here, Denis renders the almost wordless drama of sexual jealousy that arises between two soldiers and their commander with an exquisite subtlety. As it moves along, the film gains the power and rhythm of a wonderful tone poem, using an eclectic soundtrack featuring Britten’s Billy Budd opera, Neil Young, and techno dance. Sun., 3/9, 2 p.m. - Chazen HITCHCOCK STRANGERS ON A TRAIN USA | 1951 | 35mm | 101 min. Director: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Robert Walker, Farley Granger, Ruth Roman Tennis pro Guy Haines (Granger), traveling by train, meets the charming but psychopathic Bruno Anthony (the brilliant Walker, in his penultimate film performance). Before you can say “Criss Cross,” Guy’s made a Faustian deal with Bruno that leads to murder. Filled with witty, dark humor and two marvelous lead performances, Strangers on a Train builds to one of the most suspenseful conclusions in all of Hitchcock. Mon., 3/10, 7 p.m. - Marquee Theater

MARQUEE MONDAYS GRINDHOUSE TRAILER-BRATION approx. program running time: 100 min. This marathon of movie trailers celebrates the sleaziest and cheesiest movies from cinema history, as well as some cool films that time forgot. These dynamic and funny pieces of movie advertising are an art form in themselves. Horror, sexploitation, sci-fi, action, and comedy are all on display in this tantalizing special program from the collection of Grindhouse Releasing. You’ll thrill to trailers from “classics” like Dr. Butcher M.D. (Medical Deviate), Superchick, and The Rats Are Coming, the Werewolves Are Here and many, many more! Fri., 3/14, 7 p.m. ACADEMY TREASURES BUGS BUNNY FOREVER: LOONEY TUNES & MERRIE MELODIES approx. program running time: 70 min. Get ready to laugh! This side-splitting collection of nine great Warner Bros. shorts from the golden age of animation is a showcase for some of the medium’s greatest artists. That wascally wabbit Bugs makes his first appearance in Tex Avery’s Oscar-nominated A Wild Hare (1940) and the character’s evolution can be traced through A Heckling Hare (Avery, 1941), Hare Ribbin (Robert Clampett, 1944), Hare Conditioned (Chuck Jones, 1945), Rhapsody Rabbit (Friz Freleng, 1946) and Long Haired Hare (Jones, 1949). Plus, bonus shorts Have You Got Any Castles (Frank Tashlin, 1938), A Tale of Two Kitties (Clampett, 1942), and Tweetie Pie (Freleng, 1947). Each cartoon will be presented in a newly struck print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive!

Sat., 3/8, 7 p.m. DENIS CHOCOLAT France, West Germany, Cameroon | 1988 | 35mm | 105 min. | French with English subtitles Director: Claire Denis Cast: Isaach De Bankolé, Cécile Ducasse, Francois Cluzet Denis’ semi-autobiographical debut feature explores themes of racism and colonialism. A young woman named France returns to her West African homeland of Cameroon to confront the haunting memories of life in a brutally segregated society. There, she remembers her childhood friendship with her family’s servant (De Bankolé). Sun., 3/16, 2 p.m. - Chazen HITCHCOCK REAR WINDOW USA | 1954 | 35mm | 112 min. Director: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Thelma Ritter

Injured and homebound in his Manhattan apartment, photographer (and voyeur) Stewart witnesses what he thinks is foul play while peeping in on his neighbors. With the help of friends (Ritter and Wendell Corey), the stationary Stewart gets to the bottom of the mystery, but not before placing himself and his girlfriend (Kelly) in serious danger. Recently restored to its original luster, Hitchcock’s innovative classic is just as smart and fun as it was when first released 60 years ago. Fri., 3/28, 7 p.m. ACADEMY TREASURES THE BIG COUNTRY USA | 1958 | 35mm | 166 min. Director: William Wyler Cast: Gregory Peck, Charlton Heston, Jean Simmons Looking to marry the daughter (Carroll Baker) of a cattle baron, pacifist Peck finds himself caught in an increasingly violent feud over water rights between his bride-to-be’s wealthy father (a great performance by Charles Bickford) and his more slovenly neighbor (an Oscar-winning turn from Burl Ives). Released the year before Ben-Hur, Wyler’s underrated and much more personal epic reveals a director who, having honed his talents in silent westerns, knows precisely where to place a camera for maximum effectiveness. Jerome Moross’ memorable score enhances Wyler’s vision. Restored by the Academy Film Archive with funding from the Film Foundation. Sat., 3/29, 7 p.m. DENIS TROUBLE EVERY DAY France, Germany, Japan | 2001 | 35mm | 102 min. | English and French with English subtitles Director: Claire Denis Cast: Vincent Gallo, Béatrice Dalle, Tricia Vessey Gallo stars in this disturbing and shocking allegory about two diseased individuals driven to cannibalize their sexual partners. The horrifying violence in Denis’ variation on the vampire genre underscores the director’s ideas about the often-devouring nature of contemporary relationships. At its Cannes Film Festival premiere, Trouble Every Day notoriously caused several members to faint in the aisles! Sun., 3/30, 2 p.m. - Chazen HITCHCOCK NORTH BY NORTHWEST USA | 1954 | 35mm | 112 min. Director: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason In one of the most entertaining classics of all time, Grant is Hitchcock’s prototypical “wrong man” Roger Thornhill, an ad exec sucked into an intrigue of mistaken identity. The ensuing chase plays out across the American

landscape, including one particularly memorable Midwestern farm, and concludes with a showdown at Mount Rushmore. Fri., 4/11, 7 p.m. DEMY MODEL SHOP USA, France | 1969 | 35mm | 95 min. Director: Jacques Demy Cast: Anouk Aimée, Gary Lockwood, Alexandra Hay In Demy’s only American film, a married and disillusioned architect about to be drafted (2001’s Lockwood) meets an exotic model (Aimée, reprising her role from Demy’s Lola) who rents herself out to “amateur photographers”. Exquisitely and evocatively shot on sun-drenched and neon-lit Los Angeles locations at the height of the Vietnam War, the film recalls a very specific time and place for our country. Sat., 4/12, 7 p.m. FLEISCHER THE GIRL IN THE RED VELVET SWING USA | 1955 | 35mm | 109 min. Director: Richard Fleischer Cast: Ray Milland, Joan Collins, Farley Granger In 1906, there was no more sensational or scandalous story than the love affair between model Evelyn Nesbitt and celebrated architect Stanford White; an affair which ended when White was murdered by Nesbitt’s violently jealous husband, Harry Thaw. The true story of this deadly triangle (which was dramatized again later in the novel and film, Ragtime), is told with style and finesse by director Fleischer. Sun., 4/13, 2 p.m. - Chazen HITCHCOCK PSYCHO USA | 1960 | 35mm | 109 min. Director: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles Marion Crane (Leigh) checks into the Bates Motel for a destiny-changing shower; a scene that also forever altered the expectations of moviegoers. Hitchcock's most unrelentingly dark work is greatly enhanced by Bernard Herrmann's chilling score and Perkins' unpredictable performance as Norman Bates. Though it’s one of the most imitated horror movies, nothing equals the power of seeing Psycho in a cinema. Fri., 4/18, 7 p.m. DEMY LE SABOTIER DU VAL DE LOIRE France | 1956 | 35mm | 26 min. | French with subtitles Director: Jacques Demy JACQUOT DE NANTES

France | 1991 | 35mm | 118 min. | French with subtitles Director: Agnès Varda Cast: Philippe Maron, Edouard Joubeaud, Laurent Monnier Varda was the wife of director Jacques Demy and Jacquot is not only a love-letter to her late spouse, but a fluid cinema essay about the way in which we see movies. Varda juxtaposes her tender “recreations” of young Jacques’ life in the smalltown of Nantes with clips from Demy’s earlier films, as well as rare interviews with the filmmaker shortly before his death. The feature will be preceded by Demy’s early short documentary Le Sabotier.

Sat., 4/19, 7 p.m. FLEISCHER COMPULSION USA | 1959 | 35mm | 99 min. Director: Richard Fleischer Cast: Bradford Dillman, Dean Stockwell, Orson Welles The notorious crimes of Leopold & Loeb, originally dramatized in Rope, are again fictionalized in this riveting adaptation of Meyer Levin’s novel. In telling this bleak but compelling story, director Fleischer makes effective use of the black and white CinemaScope format. He also has a fine cast that includes a memorable Welles as a very Clarence Darrow-like attorney. After the screening, a discussion with Jerry Hancock, former assistant attorney general and current director of the Prison Ministry Project at First Congregational Church. This program presented with the support of Madison Opera’s production of Dead Man Walking on April 25 & 27. Sun., 4/20, 2 p.m. - Chazen HITCHCOCK THE BIRDS USA | 1963 | 35mm | 120 min. Director: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Rod Taylor, Tippi Hedren, Jessica Tandy In Hitchcock’s viscerally intense study of nature gone wild, a plague of homicidal feathered creatures descend upon the small, sleepy community of Bodega Bay, CA. Simultaneously, aggressive Melanie’s (Hedren) attempts to romance Mitch (Taylor) are thwarted by Mitch’s cold and domineering mother (Tandy). In the psychologically-charged cinema of Hitchcock, these two seemingly unrelated plot strands have a lot to do with each other. Come for the shocks, but dig that Oedipal subtext! Fri., 4/25, 7 p.m. DEMY DONKEY SKIN (PEAU D’ÂNE) France | 1970 | 35mm | 90 min. | French with subtitles Director: Jacques Demy Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Jean Marais, Delphine Seyrig

A young princess in a faraway land (an ultra-radiant Deneuve) must flee from the incestuous designs of her father the king (Marais), taking along only her fairy godmother (Seyrig) and the skin of her father’s magical donkey. Deneuve, Demy, and Michel Legrand, the star, director, and composer of The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and The Young Girls of Rochefort reunited for this charming fantasy, one of the most extravagant of all film musicals. Sat., 4/26, 7 p.m. FLEISCHER THE BOSTON STRANGLER USA | 1968 | 35mm | 116 min. Director: Richard Fleischer Cast: Tony Curtis, Henry Fonda, George Kennedy Fleischer goes out on an artistic limb with this recounting of Albert De Salvo’s infamous murder spree that paralyzed the Boston area in the early '60s. A smorgasbord of split screens and sexual perversities ultimately gives way to an unnervingly intimate portrayal of madness. In a performance unique in his career, Curtis's De Salvo is delicately understated, and surprisingly naturalistic, even with the aid of some theatrical nose putty. A police procedural that is equal measures dated and daring, and featuring a stark, minimalist conclusion, The Boston Strangler will follow you home from the theater after the lights go up.

Sun., 4/27, 2 p.m. - Chazen HITCHCOCK MARNIE USA | 1964 | 35mm | 129 min. Director: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Tippi Hedren, Sean Connery, Diane Baker Hedren is the title character, a troubled kleptomaniac who becomes obsessive object of wealthy Connery. A gripping sexual drama that pits obsession against repression and rotating roles of predator and prey, Marnie was Hitchcock’s last film with music by Bernard Herrmann. The composer later wrote a score for Torn Curtain that was rejected by the director. Mon., 4/28, 7 p.m. - Marquee Theater MARQUEE MONDAYS ROBOCOP USA | 1987 | 35mm | 103 min. Director: Paul Verhoeven Cast: Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Kurtwood Smith Weller stars as the title character in the unsurpassable original saga of the part human/part cyborg law enforcement officer, keeping the streets safe in an ultra-violent Detroit of the not-so-distant future. In director Verhoeven’s breathtakingly stylish dystopian satire, we learn the origins of

Robocop/Murphy, who, along with partner Lewis (Allen) fights a vicious druglord (Smith) with ties to the corporation that created Robocop. Fri., 5/2, 7 p.m. DEMY THE YOUNG GIRLS OF ROCHEFORT (LES DEMOISELLES DE ROCHEFORT) France | 1966 | 35mm | 124 min. | French with subtitles Director: Jacques Demy Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Francoise Dorléac, Gene Kelly After experimenting with the musical form in Lola and The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Demy added choreographed dancing to his repertoire and emerged with this full-on extravaganza in the tradition of MGM classics. He even invited American stars Kelly, George Charkiris and Grover Dale to join his cast, which also includes French cinema icons Danielle Darrieux and Michel Piccoli. Real-life siblings Deneuve and Dorléac play the two sisters at the center of the fun, multi-character plot that involves mistaken identity, music lessons, romance, and even an axe murder! The songs, by Demy and Michel Legrand, are unforgettable. Fri., 5/2, 9:15 p.m. DEMY THE YOUNG GIRLS AT 25 (LES DEMOISELLES ONT EU 25 ANS) France | 1991 | 35mm | 64 min. | French with subtitles Director: Agnès Varda In the second of a series of essay films exploring the life and work of her late husband, Jacques Demy, Varda takes a special look at the enduring legacy of The Young Girls of Rochefort 25 years after its first release. Sat., 5/3, 7 p.m. FLEISCHER VIOLENT SATURDAY USA | 1955 | 35mm | 91 min. Director: Richard Fleischer Cast: Victor Mature, Lee Marvin, Sylvia Sidney A gang of bank robbing rogues (including a particularly sadistic Marvin) roll into town all ready for their big score, only to find that this rural community has troubles all its own. The many characters also include Mature as a distressed father and lawman who refused to serve in the war, Sidney as a kleptomaniac library, and Ernest Borgnine as an Amish man with an ethical dilemma. This color CinemaScope film noir is a gem in the filmography of action film specialist Fleischer. Sun., 5/4, 2 p.m. - Chazen HITCHCOCK FRENZY UK | 1972 | 35mm | 116 min. Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Cast: Jon Finch, Barry Foster, Anna Massey Hitchcock’s penultimate feature, his first British production in two decades, focuses on a rapist-murderer terrorizing London, and the “wrong man” accused of the crimes. The clever, suspenseful script by Anthony Shaffer (Sleuth) reveals the criminal’s identity to the audience long before the police catch on. Fri., 5/9, 7 p.m. PREMIERE SHOWCASE - ELIZA HITTMAN IN PERSON! IT FELT LIKE LOVE USA | 2013 | HD Projection | 82 min. Director: Eliza Hittman Cast: Gina Piersanti, Richie Folio, Andrew McCord “One of the most involving and sensually lush debuts in recent memory” (Cinema Scope), It Felt Like Love is a captivating window into a teenage girl’s burgeoning sexuality. Left behind as her peers begin partnering up, romantic novice Lila awkwardly pursues an older thug, with disastrous results. In keeping with Lila’s shyness, the tactile cinematography lingers on evocative details, conjuring incredible emotional resonance with a minimum of dialogue. Talented writer/director Hittmann will join us in person to talk about her feature debut. Sat., 5/10, 7 p.m. SPECIAL PRESENTATION COMMUNICATION ARTS SHOWCASE Highlighting works produced in Communication Arts Media Production courses at UW Madison, this program is curated by the instructors of film, video and animation courses and gives new filmmakers the opportunity to present their films on screen for the first time. See you at the Movies! Jim Healy, Director of Programming