International Film Clips English Captain Corelli’s Mandolin Directed by John Madden (UK/France/US, 2001, 128 min.) The director of "Shakespeare in Love" returns with Nicolas Cage and Penélope Cruz in a World War II love epic set in Greece. Based on the novel by Louis De Bernieres. (English, Italian, and Greek) AMC Courthouse AMC Hoffmann Cinema Arts Theater Cineplex Odeon Janus Cineplex Odeon Shirlington GCC Mazza Gallerie Loews Rio Regal Rockville United Artists Bethesda Call theater for times The Deep End Directed by Scott McGehee and David Siegel (US, 2001, 99 min.) In this gripping noir thriller, Scottish performer Tilda Swinton is mesmerizing as a Lake Tahoe housewife who will do whatever it takes to protect her family. Cinema Arts Theater Cineplex Odeon Dupont Circle Cineplex Odeon Shirlington GCC Mazza Gallerie Call theater for times Greenfingers Directed by Joel Hershman (UK/US, 2000, 91 min.} In this pleasant comedy, prisoners (including Clive Owens) gain purpose in life with the help of a famous garden book author (Helen Mirren). Cinema Arts Theater Cineplex Odeon Outer Circle Cineplex Odeon Shirlington Call theater for times. Innocence Directed by Paul Cox (Australia/Belgium, 2000, 96 min.) A well-written and acted tender romance about former young lovers reunited in the twilight of their lives. Opening Date and Theater TBA Life and Debt Directed by Stephanie Black (US/Jamaica, 2001, 80 min.) Documentary showing the impact of corporate globalization: a country rich in resources is steeped in dire poverty. (English) American Film Institute Visions Cinema Sept. 6, 8:30 p.m. (at AFI) Opens Sept. 28 at Visions Check theater for times Monty Python and the Holy Grail Directed by Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones (UK, 1974, 91 min.) From the legendary comedy troupe, this re-release—with 24 seconds of additional footage—represents the best of the wry and irreverent British comedy genre. Visions Cinema Opens Sept. 14 Call theater for times The Musketeer Directed by Peter Hyams (Germany/US, 2001) Australian Hyams helms this adaptation of the D’Artagnan tale with an international cast (Catherine Deneuve, Stephen Rea, Tim Roth) and breathtaking fight sequences by Hong Kong choreographer Xin Xin Xiong. Theater TBA Opens Sept. 7 The Others Directed by Alejandro Amenábar (Spain/France/US, 2001, 105 min.) In this supernatural thriller set during the last days of World War II, a woman (Nicole Kidman) shelters her afflicted children in a creepy Victorian mansion on the island of Jersey. AMC Hoffman Cineplex Odeon Wisconsin Ave. Loews Rio Loews Pentagon City Regal Ballston Regal Rockville United Artists Bethesda Call theater for times Rapunzel Let Down Your Hair Directed by Susan Shapiro, Esther Ronay, Francine Winham (UK, 1978, 78 min.) This consistently inventive and subversive British feminist take on "Rapunzel" explores the images of women in a patriarchal society. After being acted out in naturalistic terms, the Grimm tale is re-enacted in a series of cultural satires: Rapunzel as the princess of a Disney cartoon, a heroin addict kept prisoner by a lesbian protector, and the recalcitrant daughter of a feminist gynecologist. The National Museum of Women in the Arts Sept. 19, 7:00 p.m. Sexy Beast Directed by Jonathan Glazer (UK/Spa in, 2000, 88 min.) In this stylish, seriocomic gangster thriller, the shady Don (Ben Kingsley) pays an unwelcome visit to Gal, a retired crook now living in Spain. Cineplex Odeon Foundry Call theater for times Starstruck Directed by Gillian Armstrong (Australia, 1982, 102 min.) The place is Sydney, the time is the 1980s, the music is punk-influenced rock ‘n’ roll, and those who crave fame must be at least a little outrageous. Mary Pickford Theater Sept. 18, 7:00 p.m. French Beau Travail Directed by Claire Denis (France, 2000, 91 min.) Loosely based on Herman Melville’s Billy Budd and transposed to a remote East African Foreign Legion outpost, Claire Denis’ lyrical and haunting film plays like a languorous tropical dream, with some of the most hypnotic and unforgettable cinematography seen in recent years. (With subtitles) La Maison Française Sept. 19, 7:00 p.m. Bob le Flambeur (Bob the Gambler) Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville (France, 1956, 102 min.) A seminal precursor to the French New Wave, in which a former crook, now a devoted gambler, joins forces with some old pals to rob the Deauville casino. (With subtitles) American Film Institute Through Sept. 5 Call theater for times The Closet (Le Placard) Directed by Francis Véber (France, 2000, 84 min.) In this outrageous farce, Daniel Auteil plays a staid accountant who pretends to come out of the closet to save his job. (With subtitles) Cinema Odeon Foundry Call theater for times French Cancan Directed by Jean Renoir (France, 1955, 97 min.) Renoir’s glorious musical comedy is about the construction and opening of the Moulin Rouge. A set of romantic triangles complicates the proceedings and shuts the project down for a while, but everything eventually comes together in a joyous and emotional finale. (With subtitles) La Maison Française Sept. 5, 7:00 p.m. Lumumba Directed by Raoul Peck (France/Belgium/Haiti/Germany, 2000, 114 min.) A chilling political thriller about the quick rise and fall of Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of the independent Congo. (French and Lingala with subtitles) Visions Cinema Check theater for times Ouch! (Aïe!) Directed by Sophie Fillieres (France, 2000, 106 min.) This deliciously offbeat comedy stars Andre Dussolier as a slightly befuddled middle-aged man who, despite obvious charms, finds himself in the throes of a bizarre affair. The film is a tenderly observed and absurd comedy of high expectations. (With subtitles) La Maison Française Sept. 12, 7:00 p.m. Same Old Song (On Connait la Chanson) Directed by Alain Resnais (France, 1999, 120 min.) From a master of the French New Wave, this assured and sparkling romantic comedy and quasi-musical revolves around two contrasting Parisian sisters. A feast of irony and everyday desires brought to an unforgettable climax. (With subtitles) La Maison Française Sept. 26, 7:00 p.m. Under the Sand (Sous le Sable) Directed by François Ozon (France, 2000, 96 min.) A provocative character study of Marie (Charlotte Rampling), whose husband disappears during a swim. Left with grief and denial, she floats between fantasy and reality. (French and English with subtitles) Cineplex Odeon Inner Circle Check theater for times German Aimee and Jaguar Directed by Max Faberbock (Germany, 2000, 125 min.) Based on a true story, this gripping love story, set in Berlin in 1943, follows Felice, who is Jewish and a lesbian. Recklessly brave, she works for the editor of a Nazi newspaper and works for the underground. Love unfolds between her and Lilly, the wife of a German office. Their dangerous love affair is continually threatened by the Allied bombs that are falling on Berlin and by the possibility of discovery. Cinema Art Bethesda has now moved to Mazza Gallerie. Cinema Art Bethesda Sept. 30, 10:30 a.m. Arnold Böcklin Directed by Bernard Raith (Germany, 1987, 95 min.) A fictional recreation of the life of 19th-century German painter Arnold Böcklin concentrates on his complex vision of nature, both serene and sinister, as depicted in his well-known painting "The Isle of the Dead." (With subtitles) National Gallery of Art Sept. 2, 2:00 p.m. Berlin is in Germany Directed by Hannes Stöhr (Germany, 2000, 90 min.) Hannes Stöhr’s tragicomedy follows a man as he adapts to a new life in the new Berlin after eleven years of incarceration under the East German regime. (With subtitles) Hirshhorn Museum Sept. 28, 8:00 p.m. Brigitta Directed by Dagmar Knöpfel (Germany/Hungary, 1994 80 min. Based on Adalbert Stifter’s novella of 1844, Brigitta centers on a young painter and his deepening relationship with the landscape through which he must travel en route to an old friend in a remote Hungarian terrain. Stifter was a painter as well as a writer, and his story serves as the basis for a meditation on beauty. (With subtitles) National Gallery of Art Sept. 1, 4:00 p.m. Hunters in the Snow (Heimkehr der Jäger) Directed by Michael Kreihsl (Austria, 2000, 86 min.) Upset by the noise and garishness of contemporary Vienna, Franz, a middle-aged painter, spends much of his time copying works in Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum. As Franz struggles to hold onto his idealized notions of beauty, his artistic obsessions begin to blur reality and he imagines a way to get even with his world. (With subtitles) National Gallery of Art Sept. 1, 2:00 p.m. Ludwig 1881 Directed by Fosco and Donatello Dubini (Switzerland/Germany, 1993, 90 min.) In the summer of 1881, King Ludwig II of Bavaria yearned to see Schiller’s William Tell enacted in its original Swiss settings. Letting affairs of state slide, he hired the actor Josef Kainz and set off incognito to experience what he hoped would be a thrilling fusion of landscape and art. Based on an actual incident, Ludwig 1881 gives a witty account of the mad Bavarian monarch’s ambitious experiment. (With subtitles) National Gallery of Art Sept. 2, 4:00 p.m. Hungarian An American Rhapsody Directed by Éva Gardos (US/Hungary, 2001, 103 min.) An autobiographical tale of a young girl’s separation from her family in Hungary and the reunion years later in the United States. (Hungarian and English with subtitles) Cineplex Odeon Outer Circle Check theater for times Italian An Adventure of Salvator Rosa (Un Avventura di Salvator Rosa) Directed by Alessandro Blasetti (Italy, 1940, 97 min.) Fictional tale of the masked hero, "The Ant", Rosa’s alter-ego, a friend and defender of the poor citizens of the Naples area who are oppressed by the evil viceroy. (With subtitles) Mary Pickford Theater Sept. 25, 7:00 p.m. Bread and Tulips (Pane e Tulipani) Directed by Silvio Soldini (Italy/Switzerland, 2000, 117 min.) With the help of a charmingly eccentric waiter (Bruno Ganz), a bored housewife takes an extended "vacation" in Venice that reinvigorates her life. (With subtitles) Cinema Arts Theater Visions Cinema Check theater for times CamminaCammina Directed by Ermanno Olmi (Italy, 1983, 165 min.) Literally, a child-prodding chant, "keep walking, keep walking." And that’s what a group of peasants, costumed for a present day pageant, have to do as they find themselves caught up on what seems to be the Journey of the Magi, many of the incidents evoking the story of Christ to come as well, albeit with a twist that reportedly ruffled Roman collars. American Film Institute Sept 9, 8:00 p.m. Sept 12, 8:45 p.m. The Circumstance (La Circostanzo) Directed by Ermanno Olmi (Italy, 1974, 97 min.) In the wake of Dad’s possible downsizing, the holing up at the family farm by an increasingly dysfunctional Milanese family proves providential. Uptight Mom finds caring for an injured youth arouses a latent vulnerability, while a new addition during a thunderstorm provides a set piece tour de force. (With subtitles) American Film Institute Sept. 8, 2:00 p.m. Sept. 10, 8:45 p.m. The Secret of the Old Woods (Il Segreto del Bosco Vecchio) Directed by Ermanno Olmi (Italy, 1993, 134 min) Circa 1900, a retired soldier has inherited a magical forest, complete with sprites and talking plants and animals, to be kept as an inheritance for his nephew, but then he decides to go for the lira. Dazzling photography enforces this ecological fable from the arch-neo realist. (With subtitles) American Film Institute Sept. 8, 3:45 p.m. Sept. 11, 8:45 p.m. Japanese Sonatine Directed by Takeshi Kitano (Japan, 1993, 94 min.) Several yakuza from Tokyo are sent to Okinawa to help end a gang war. The war escalates and the Tokyo drifters decide to lay low at the beach. (With subtitles) Mary Pickford Theater Sept. 28, 7:00 pm Woman of the Mist (Oboroyo no onna) Directed by Heinosuke Gosho (Japan, 1936, 90 min.) "Woman" shows Gosho’s understanding of life in downtown Tokyo. The movie centers on a law student who makes a young waitress pregnant and then doesn’t know what to do with the child. (With subtitles) Mary Pickford Theater Sept. 27, 7:00 pm Portuguese Brave New Land (Brava Gente Brasileira) Directed by Lucia Murat (Brazil/Portugal, 2000, 104 min.) In 1778, Floriano Peixoto escorts Portuguese surveyor Diogo Infante to Fort Coimbra in the far West to determine the Spanish/Portuguese boundary, attacking Indians along the way—but Diogo saves one. A painful romance, searing indictment of European genocide, and provocative examination of the conflict of cultures. (With subtitles) American Film Institute Sept. 21, 6:30 p.m. and 8:45 p.m. Posthumous Memoirs (Memórias Póstumas) Directed by André Klotzel (Brazil, 1999, 101 min.) This is an ironically humorous adaptation of the classic 19th century novel by Machado de Assis about Brás Cubas’ life. (With subtitles) American Film Institute Sept. 22, 5:15 p.m. Sept. 23, 8:00 p.m. Spanish Bread and Roses (Pan y Rosas) Directed by Ken Loach (UK/Spain/Switzerland/France, 2000, 110 min.) British director Loach transplants his leftist ideals to Los Angeles, covering the plight of non-unionized janitors. Though lighter than his typically bleak fare, it’s still a harrowing portrait of the underclass. (Spanish and English with subtitles) American Film Institute Sept. 7, 8:30 p.m. Caliber 35 (Kalibre 35) Directed by Raul Garcia (Columbia, 1999, 105 min.) Would-be scriptwriters and their photographer pal get caught up in bizarre circumstances as they plan their debut film. An ode to all filmmakers in potentio. (With subtitles) American Film Institute Sept. 14, 8:45 p.m. Sept. 16, 1:00 p.m. City of M (Ciudad de M) Directed by Felipe Degregori (Peru, 2000, 100 min.) Sex, drugs, rock and roll, and soccer: not bad if Santiago Magill could afford them. (With subtitles) American Film Institute Sept. 20 and 22, 9:00 p.m. Our Lady of the Assassins (La Virgen de los Sicarios) Directed by Barbet Schroeder (Colombia/France/Spain, 2000, 98 min.) This is a beautiful yet bleak portrait of the violent chaos of Medellin, where a writer who’s tired of life returns home. (With subtitles) Theater TBA Opens Sept. 28 Without a Trace (Sin Dejar Huella) Directed by Maria Novaro (Mexico/Spain, 2000, 120 mi n.) This fugitives-on-the-road adventure follows Aurelia, a single mother dodging her drug-trading husband, and Ana, a Mexican artifact dealer and possible smuggler. (With subtitles) American Film Institute Sept. 18 and 19, 6:30 p.m. Tibetan Himalaya (Himalaya—L’Enfance d’un Chef) Directed by Eric Valli (Nepal/France/Switzerland/UK, 1999, 110 min.) A sort of Nepalese Western, this visually stunning Oscar nominee portrays the Tibetan subculture of the Dolpo region in the northern Himalayas. (Tibetan with subtitles) Cinema Arts Theater Call theater for times Turkish Clouds of May Directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Turkey, 1999, 120 min.) A young filmmaker returns to his home village to capture the idyllic memories of his youth, but family problems threaten the project’s completion. This film earned more than 60 awards at film festivals worldwide. (With subtitles) Freer Gallery Sept. 23, 2:00 p.m. Run for Money Directed by Reha Erdem (Turkey, 1999, 100 min.) Turkey’s submission to the best foreign language film category at the Academy Awards is this film about a scrupulously honest working man whose family, reputation and sanity are threatened by a bag of stolen cash he finds in a taxi. (With subtitles) Freer Gallery Sept. 16, 2:00 p.m. Third Page Directed by Zeki Demirkubuz (Turkey, 2000, 109 min.) The spirits of a distraught, impoverished soap-opera actor are lifted by a neighbor with an abusive husband, in this compassionate, twisting story. (With subtitles) Freer Gallery Sept. 30, 2:00 p.m.