3-Iron (Bin-jip)

RESCHEDULED September 23-29

Little Golden Lion, FIPRESCI Prize, SIGNIS Award, Special Director's Award, 2004 Venice Film Festival
Golden Spike, Valladolid International Film Festival

"It's difficult to imagine an American director making 3-Iron, yet the intimate South Korean drama has worth beyond cultural borders." — Reno Gazette-Journal

"3-Iron is a romance of tenderness and increasingly poignant silence." — The Boston Globe

    Tae-suk drifts around looking for empty houses to live in until the owners return, but he never steals or ruins anything. He simply guards the houses for a few days, fixing broken items, and even does the owners' laundry. Before leaving, he puts everything back as it was. One day, after sneaking into a wealthy home, Tae-suk meets a married woman named Sun-hwa who has been tormented by her abusive husband. While Tae-suk sneaks around the house, Sun-hwa hides in the dark and silently watches him. At first she's afraid of him, but when she sees him fixing a broken scale, she realizes he's not a thief and continues to observe him. That same night, Tae-suk wakes up suddenly to find Sun-hwa staring at him. As he runs out, the phone rings. Tae-suk overhears the conversation between Sun-hwa and her husband and realizes that she has an unhappy marriage and life. Sun-hwa looks silently at him as if she is begging him to save her. Tae-suk turns away and walks out, but he can't stop thinking about Sun-hwa's imploring eyes. RESCHEDULED September 23-29 88min/2004/South Korea/subt./R

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Saving Face

RESCHEDULED September 30-October 6

"Unexpected pregnancy and family politics can be heavy, dramatically explosive issues, but Wu tempers her direction with empathy and her script with well-placed laughs, attempting to bridge both cultural and generation gaps without alienating either." — Chicago Tribune

    "With her first feature, Alice Wu has taken the romantic comedy and turned it into something not so frightening. Saving Face is thought-provoking and brimming with charm. Match that with an infectious sense of humor and outstanding performances and you have a film better than most of the fare hitting national theaters every weekend. Wilhelmina Pang is the perfect daughter, or so you'd think. She's a smart, beautiful, successful surgeon, but her family, and friends of the family, won't be completely happy with her until she's married to the right guy. Problem is, Wil is gay, or at least, this is what she'll discover about herself when she meets the gorgeous Vivian, a professional dancer, who pursues Wil until the two become secret lovers. This task Wil finds difficult due to her widowed mother recently moving in with her after being kicked out of her parents' home because they've found that she's pregnant with a mystery man's baby. And things get a lot more complicated... I'll just let it all unravel itself when you see this film for yourself. And yes, that means this is a big recommendation." - excerpted from Film Threat. In 2001, this script won the CAPE (Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment) screenwriting award. It was inspired by Alice Wu's own experiences coming out as a gay woman. That win led to the script being produced. RESCHEDULED September 30-October 6 98min/2004/USA/R

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Saraband

September 9 - 15

"Makes for fascinating viewing, with Bergman regulars Erland Josephson and Liv Ullmann encoring their roles and in top form." — Variety

"In Ingmar Bergman's magisterial last film, we watch family members bare their souls and in their faces we see intimations of the grand emotions which animate us all." — Spirituality and Health

    In this sequel to Bergman's 1973 film Scenes from a Marriage, Marianne and Johan meet again after 30 years after Marianne suddenly feels a need to see her ex-husband again. She decides to visit Johan at his old summerhouse in the western province of Dalarna. And so, one beautiful autumn day, there she is, beside his reclining chair, waking him with a light kiss. Also present on the property is Henrik, Johan's son from an earlier marriage. Henrik is staying in the lake cottage with his daughter, Karin. His beloved wife (and Karin's mother) Anna has been dead for two years, but her presence is still intensely palpable. Marianne's sudden appearance and presence unleashes the hidden power struggle that has been going on around Karin. Karin seeks out Marianne and begins to talk about Henrik, about her beloved dead mother and her very complicated and oppressive existence living with her father. A powerful contemporary drama about the struggle for power, liberation, and reconciliation. The film is very autobiographical. The character of Anna (and the picture of her) is actually Ingrid Von Rosen, Ingmar Bergman's wife, who died of cancer and was his greatest love. SEPT. 9-15 120min/2003/International/subt./R Note: Because it is not available in 35mm, this film will be shown in high-quality digital format.

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Caterina In The Big City (Caterina va in città)

September 16 - 22

Best Supporting Actress, David di Donatello Awards
Guglielmo Biraghi Award, Silver Ribbon, Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists

"Despite outward appearances, Paolo Virzi's utterly charming fable is actually a razor-sharp political satire." — TV Guide

"According to Paolo Virzi's vibrant coming-of-age drama, Italian teens are just like their American counterparts, except that who they vote for matters more than what they wear." — N.Y. Daily News

    Junior high is often so terrible because it's a preview of adult life's internecine struggles for power. In Paolo Virzí's dark comedy, a Roman middle school presents in microcosm the ills afflicting Italian society. Newcomer Alice Teghil stars as Caterina, a teenage girl who moves to Rome from the provinces with her sweet, ineffectual mother and her father, an embittered accounting teacher who believes that in the capital his literary talents may finally get their due. On her first day, a bemused Caterina learns that her eighth-grade class is divided between the hippie daughters of radical-chic intellectuals and the spoiled brats of reactionary industrialists and politicians. Soon her father is trying to use her glamorous acquaintances for his own social climbing. Caterina adores him, but even she begins to notice something amiss. Pitch-perfect performances and a light-handed but razor-sharp script keep this satire brisk and biting. SEPT. 16-22 106min/2003/Italy/subt./NR

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