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88 MVFF T u r n i n g 3 0 world cinema v(ision)fest world cinema us cinema The Colors of Memory IRAN/GeRMANy 2007 102 MINS Saturday, October 6 3:45 pm COL06R Rafael Tuesday, October 9 9:45 pm COL09S Sequoia Director Amir Shahab Razavian Producers Mohammad Farokhmanesh, Amir Shahab Razavian, Seyed Saeed Razavian Screenwriters Amir Shahab Razavian, Armin Hofmann, Mohammad Farokhmanesh Cinematographers Daari Ayari, Mohamad Reza Sokoot, Claus Bosch Dos Santos Editor Faramarz Hootaham Cast Shahbaz Noshir, Ezatollah Entezami, Saber Abar Print Source Brave New Work Film Productions In Farsi and German with English subtitles • Layers of metaphor knit one man’s path of discovery from a broken life back to his now earthquake-ravaged childhood home in Iran. Returning from abroad ostensibly to perform surgery, Dr. Parsa sees modern Iran through the eyes of his young driver, while at the same time he rediscovers the soul of the culture under the tutelage of his father’s old friend. A quest to revive the family’s palm groves and the search for a childhood love evolve into an unexpected pilgrimage, not only to the spiritual center of a country in transition but also to the soul of a man who’s been adrift, devoid of spirit and heart. Part road trip, part vision quest, The Colors of Memory highlights both the value of remembrance and the vitality of place as that which feeds and forms us. North American Premiere —Melissa Howden • • • Presented in association with Iranian.com Compound Eye US 2006 74 MINS Sunday, October 7 5:30 pm COM07S Sequoia Saturday, October 13 2:45 pm COM13R Rafael Director/Producer/Cinematographer/Editor yahn soon Screenwriters yahn soon and cast Cast Fausto Caceres, Jesse Reklaw, Atosa Babaoff, Josh Millican, Jill Pixley, Jonathan Kaplan Print Source John Balquist Productions Blurring documentary and fiction, Compound Eye explores the lives and work of two artists and “militant vegans” who share a warehouse/studio in Oakland, California. Jesse Reklaw spends his waking nights drawing inspiration for his weekly comic strip, Slowave, by reading other people’s dreams. He becomes the center of a controversy when one dreamer conjures an Afghan refugee-run IHOP standing where the twin towers once did. Jesse’s roommate, Fausto Caceres, works with found sound to create audio collages for his pirate radio show. Through a discarded scrapbook of letters and photographs, he befriends a long-dead schizophrenic. Director yahn soon (Scared New World, MVFF 2005) worked with an improvised script, drawing, in turn, upon the actual lives of the cast. He has woven these gleaming threads of the real with the surreal (there’s an unforgettable scene involving a circular rope swing and a ukulele) into a fascinating metafictional fabric. World Premiere —Holly Roach Control UK 2006 121 MINS Friday, October 5 9:15 pm CONT05R Rafael Friday, October 12 9:30 pm CONT12S Sequoia Director Anton Corbijn Producers Orian Williams, Anton Corbijn, Todd Eckert Screenwriter Matt Green Halgh Cinematographer Martin Ruhe Editor Andrew Hulme Cast Sam Riley, Samantha Morton, Alexandra Maria Lara Print Source The Weinstein Company The haunting story of the brief sad life of British punk rock singer Ian Curtis, of the influential ’80s band Joy Division, is a luminous feature debut for director Anton Corbijn and was awarded a special mention for first feature film at Cannes this year. Shot in black and white in almost minimalist style, the emotional complexities of the troubled musician, who took his life at age 23, are memorably portrayed by Sam Riley, part of a cast that astonishingly re-creates Joy Division’s music with crisp accuracy. There’s no need to be a punk fan; the film delves into the humanity of its subject with such poignancy that it becomes a transcendent experience. A remarkable performance by Samantha Morton as the singer’s wife bearing up under the pain of Curtis’ depression and his affair with a pretty Belgian woman (Alexandra Maria Lara) adds dimension to this very touching work. US Premiere —Peter Stack • • •Sponsored by San Francisco magazine The Crazy Quilt US 1966 70 MINS Saturday, October 6 2:15 pm CRAZ06R Rafael Director/Producer/Screenwriter/Cinematographer John Korty Editor David Schickele Cast Tom Rosqui, Ina Mela, Ellen Frye Print Source Korty Films Inc. This lighthearted, cleverly cynical fable by Marin’s John Korty (Oscar-winning director of Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids?; first MVFF tributee, 1978) takes a brilliant look at men, women and expectations. Narrated by Burgess Meredith, with Tom Rosqui as the humorless but practical husband, Henry, and Ina Mela as his perpetually idealistic wife, Lorabelle, the film follows as their hapless relationship ebbs and flows between what they each think they want from one another and what they actually find. Filmed in Marin and San Francisco, Korty’s first feature remains a treasured classic, a soft-spoken masterwork of American independent cinema of the ’60s. “US cinema has seldom produced a picture as sophisticated in style as Crazy Quilt…. He [Korty] demonstrates day by day, crisis by crisis, how fear and lust and ignorance transform at last into the sacred mystery of marriage.” (Time, September 16, 1966). —Maureen Dixon • • •Sponsored by Marin Acura 2007 MVFF TICKETS | 877.874.MVFF (6833)
Crossing the Dust (Parinawa la Ghobar) KURdISTAN/FRANce 2006 76 MINS Saturday, October 6 4:30 pm CROS06S Sequoia Tuesday, October 9 9:30 pm CROS09R Rafael Director/Screenwriter Shawkat Amin Korki Producers Hasan Ali, Nechirvan Argosi, Toraj Aslani, Shawkat Amin Korki Cinematographer Toraj Aslani Editor Ebrahim Saeedi Cast Adil Abdolrahman, Hossein Hasan, Abdola Awayd, Aba Rash, Ayam Akra Print Source Arc En Ciel Films In Kurdish and Arabic with English subtitles • While the American invasion of Iraq is in its initial stages, two Kurdish militants heading home from Iraq encounter a major obstacle: a little boy (named after the deposed dictator) searching for his missing parents. The younger, idealistic soldier is determined to help the lost child; the older man, physically maimed and psychologically scarred by years of fighting, wants nothing to do with the kid. As the trio travel in search of the boy’s family, they encounter a land filled with righteous holy men and stoic American troops, abandoned corpses and looting villagers, mass graves and marauding youths. Evoking both classic Italian neorealism and the roots of Iranian cinema’s recent renaissance, Shawkat Amin Korki’s humanistic parable paints a tragic picture of life during wartime. Even those who are shellshocked and who have had their innocence stolen are capable of hope for a better tomorrow. US Premiere —David Fear The Darjeeling Limited US 2007 91 MINS Thursday, October 4 9:30 pm DARJ04S Sequoia Director Wes Anderson Producers Scott Rudin, Lydia Pilcher, Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola Screenwriters Wes Anderson, Jason Schwartzman, Roman Coppola Cinematographer Robert D. Yeoman Editor Andrew Weisblum Cast Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody, Jason Schwartzman, Amara Karan Print Source Fox Searchlight SPECIAL SCREENING • In director Wes Anderson’s The Darjeeling Limited, three American brothers who have not spoken to each other in a year set off on a train voyage across India, with a plan to find themselves and bond with each other—to become brothers again like they used to be. Their “spiritual quest,” however, veers rapidly off course (due to events involving over-the-counter pain killers, Indian cough syrup and pepper spray), and they eventually find themselves stranded alone in the middle of the desert with eleven suitcases, a printer and a laminating machine. At this moment, a new, unplanned journey suddenly begins. Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody and Jason Schwartzman shine as brothers Francis (the complete control freak), Jack (who has left his pregnant wife at home) and Peter (who is . . . well, between girlfriends). Surprise cameos just add more spice to an already fantastic journey. —Lily Buchanan Daughters of Wisdom US 2007 68 MINS - TOTAL PROGRAM 82 MINS Sunday, October 7 11:00 am DAUG07T 142 Throckmorton Sunday, October 14 12:30 pm DAUG14S Sequoia Director/Producer Bari Pearlman Cinematographer Gena Konstantinakos Editor Carla Ruff Print Source BTG Productions In English and Tibetan with English subtitles • In beautiful, remote eastern Tibet, one visionary lama and 300 joyful nuns are changing the destiny of women “born into suffering.” Graciously they welcome filmmaker Bari Pearlman and her crew to Kala Rongo, a Buddhist monastery dedicated solely to the devotional practice of women. Founded by Lama Norlha Rinpoche, a survivor of the Chinese genocide, Kala Rongo is a spiritually and politically complex mixture of exile and return. Freed of household duties and gender-based expectations, the nuns find happiness and fulfillment through dedicating their lives to Buddhist spiritual practice. In documenting the monastery as it enters its third decade, this film reveals an inspiring new generation of female spiritual leaders in contemporary Tibetan culture. —Carol Harada PRECEDED BY The Headman and I Director Peå Holmquist Sweden 2007 14 MINS In Swedish with English subtitles • An intimate portrait of the 30-year relationship between a Swedish photographer and a Hmong tribal chief, as both mature through the years. • • • Presented in association with Bay Area Friends of Tibet • • •Sponsored by Back to Earth Organic Catering Days of Darkness (L’Age des tenèbres) cANAdA/FRANce 2006 109 MINS Friday, October 5 9:30 pm DAYS05S Sequoia Director/Screenwriter Denys Arcand Producers Daniel Louis, Denise Robert Cinematographer Guy Dufaux Editor Isabelle Dedieu Cast Marc Labrèche, Diane Kruger, Sylvie Léonard, Caroline Néron, Rufus Wainwright, Macha Grenon Print Source Studio Canal In French with English subtitles • The dehumanizing world of government bureaucracy provides fertile ground for the latest work from Oscar-winning Denys Arcand (The Barbarian Invasions; MVFF tributee 2003). Jean-Marc Leblanc (Marc Labrèche) is an anonymous civil servant who is ignored at home by his workaholic realtor wife, despised by his iPod-obsessed teenage daughters and burdened by responsiblity for his bedridden mother. At work he must listen to the endless misery of his clients he is powerless to help, due to mountains of governmental red tape. To counter his frustrations, Leblanc escapes into a Walter Mitty–like series of vivid daydreams, where he becomes an exotic prince, a sword-swinging samurai, a famous author, and star of the stage, each fantasy sequence cleverly inserting a satirical comment on the Kafkaesque state of Canadian politics. Chosen for the prestigious closing night slot at Cannes this year, Days of Darkness is classic Arcand: an entertaining satire with plenty of teeth. US Premiere online | mvff.com world cinema us cinema valley of the docs world cinema 89
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