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* The Naked Proof *
USA, 2003 (108 min.)

Dir. Jamie Hook
Cast Michael Chick, Arlette Del Toro, August Wilson

A locally produced screwball comedy (with liberal nouvelle vague influence) about an academic whose logical life is upended by the appearance of a pregnant woman, who may or may not be imaginary, but who nonetheless embodies his fear of adulthood, commitment, and all the other troubling elements of being a man.
Egyptian Sun May 25 6:30 pm

Cinerama Fri June 13 4:00 pm

Nate Dogg
USA, 2003 (76 min.)

Dir. Thomas Farone

The true-life story of an impoverished, 16-year-old dropout suffering from ADHD, living in a trailer park and struggling to support his girlfriend. A manual-labor job, drug dealing, and abusive individuals work to turn his life from bad to suck, but no one said overcoming adversity was easy.
Harvard Exit Thurs June 12 7:00 pm

Harvard Exit Sat June 14 11:30 am

No Blood No Tears
South Korea, 2002 (116 min.)

Dir. Ryoo Seung-wan

Two ladies with flirting ties to organized crime plot to steal a duffel bag of loot in this fast-paced action extravaganza. Sure, other hoodlums are after the cash, and the gals are less than buddy-buddy with one another, but that won't keep them from their goal.
Harvard Exit Wed June 11 7:00pm

Egyptian Fri June 13 midnight

Northfolk
USA, 2003 (94 min.)

Dir. Michael Polish
Cast Peter Coyote, James Woods, Daryl Hannah

Hollywood's finest join hands to re-create a surreal story of small-town USA in the 1950s.
Cinerama Wed June 11 7:00 pm

Cinerama Thurs June 12 4:45 pm

Nudity Required
USA, 2003 (101 min.)

Dir. Steven Boe

While they curse their parents for moving them to Bremerton, WA, some bowling alley employees work to remedy their boredom. The answer? Making XXX porno.
Egyptian Sun May 25 1:45 pm

Brdwy Perf Hall Tues June 10 7:00 pm


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Oasis
South Korea, 2002 (132 min.)

Dir. Lee Chang-dongOK, it's a hard sell, but trust me, Oasis rewards staying power. A retarded ex-con, twitchy and feckless, sort of rapes, then falls in love with an isolated young woman with cerebral palsy. No euphemizing: she's a total spaz; he's the kind of sleazy guy you'd cross the street to avoid. Almost unbearable to watch at times, but slowly, irresistibly, these lovers are delivered from dehumanizing stereotype to become far more valuable and pleasing than the "normals" who sell them out. KATHLEEN MURPHY

Harvard Exit Sat May 31 6:30 pm

Harvard Exit Sun June 8 11:30 am

Once Upon A Time In The Midlands
UK, 2002 (103 min.)

Dir. Shane Meadows
Cast Robert Carlyle, Rhys Ifans, Shirley Henderson

A strange little movie suffering from an identity crisis. Wanting to shift between tones, it ends up in an awkward middle ground somewhere between comedy, melodrama, and spaghetti Western. Two guys fight for the same woman: One is a dorky guy who plays bingo, the other's a rebellious asshole (you can tell because he wears a leather jacket). (Adam Hart)
Harvard Exit Fri June 6 6:30 pm

Harvard Exit Fri June 13 1:45 pm

The One-Armed Swordsman
Hong Kong/China, 1967 (111 min.)

Dir. Zhang Che

Creating revolution in a genre that seems to prefer repetition to variation, this film modernized the swordplay concept by replacing the old-school wuxia swordfight with the modern-day kung fu swordfight.
Harvard Exit Sun May 25 11:30 am

The Other Side of the Bed
Spain, 2002 (120 min.)

Dir. Emilio Martinez Lazaro

Twentysomethings in heat sleep with hot twentysomethings as this musical comedy chronicles the torrid affairs of close-knit friends looking for love in all sorts of places.
Egyptian Sat May 24 9:30 pm

Egyptian Mon May 26 4:00 pm

* Overnight *
USA, 2002 (126 min.)

Dir. Mark Brian Smith

In the late '90s, the chairman of Miramax bought a filmmaker a bar in order to close that director's first-ever picture deal. In 2003, few people remember the movie, Boondock Saints. This documentary is the biography of one Troy Duffy, from his former budding potential to his current obscurity.
Egyptian Thurs June 12 4:00 pm

Egyptian Fri June 13 6:30 pm

Owning Mahowny
Canada/UK, 2002

Dir. Richard Kwietniowski
Cast Phillip Seymour Hoffman

An overwhelmingly Canadian portrait of one sweaty bank manager's gambling addiction, and the enormous fraud he perpetrates to sustain it. The film is portentous and humorless. Hoffman is a great actor, but the only crucial difference between this performance and other recent ones (e.g., Love Liza) seems to be the moustache on his lip. (SEAN NELSON)
Pacific Place Fri May 23 9:30 pm

Pacific Place Sat May 24 1:45 pm


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P.T.U.
Hong Kong, 2002 (85 min.)

Dir. Johnny To

Three of the most efficient, invincible cops ever hired by the state battle the entirety of the Hong Kong criminal underworld. When a sergeant loses his weapon to gangsters, the Police Task Unit (and fantastic special effects) are called in to fetch it.
Cinerama Fri June 13 9:30 pm

Cinerama Sat June 14 4:00 pm

Pandemic: Facing AIDS
USA, 2002 (113 min.)

Dir. Rory Kennedy
Cast Narrated by Danny Glover

Rather than numb our compassion with unfathomable, abstract numbers, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation funded a film with a human touch to truly depress us. Following six families from six countries around the world, this remarkable documentary was the subject of a gloomy special conference at the UN last fall.
Brdwy Perf Hall Sun May 25 6:30 pm

A Peck on the Cheek
India, 2002 (123 min.)

Dir. Mani Ratnam

This Bollywood blockbuster focuses on a young Indian girl who, upon discovering that her real parents were Sri Lankan refugees, begs to be taken to her mother, now a leader of the Tamil guerrillas. Fun musical highlights break the morose monotony of family drama, and the captivating song-and-dance numbers make rebellious insurgency fun again.
Pacific Place Mon May 26 6:30 pm

Pacific Place Wed May 28 4:45 pm

* Ping Pong *
Japan, 2002 (114 min.)

Dir. Fumihiko (Sori) Masuri

Suspenseful, dynamic bouts conflict with moral dilemmas of good-natured rivalry in the ferocious world of table sports.
Pacific Place Mon June 9 1:00 pm

Egyptian Tues June 10 9:30 pm

* Power Trip *
USA, 2003 (85 min.)

Dir. Paul Devlin

An American company buys an ailing state-run electricity company in the Georgian Republic only to find that most of the customers have never seen a bill. More documentary than comedy, Trip also treats us to first-rate Third World humor.
Brdwy Perf Hall Fri June 6 6:30 pm

Brdwy Perf Hall Sat June 7 4:00 pm

Public Enemy
South Korea, 2002 (138 min.)

Dir. Kang Woo-Suk

One cop/maverick, slightly crooked. One yuppie/serial killer, very crooked. Sprinkle mind game, catch phrases, and creepy criminals where appropriate. Introduce self-discovery and simmer for two hours. Pull heartstrings with drama and serve hot.
Egyptian Sun June 1 6:30 pm

Pacific Place Fri June 6 4:00 pm

The Pussy With Two Heads (Porn theater)
France, 2002 (88 min.)

Dir. Jacques Nolot

Don't be put off by the title; it just refers to a vagina and two penises. Set in a Parisian porn palace, we are treated to the ubiquitous love triangle: Pussy wants older Head, older Head wants younger Head, younger Head wants Pussy. There are even, ahem, "private showings" as we see the regular customers go about their personal business.
Pacific Place Wed May 28 9:30 pm

Egyptian Fri May 30 4:00 pm


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Radical Harmonies
USA, 2002 (92 min.)

Dir. Dee Mosbacher
Cast Ani DiFranco, Margie Adam, Cris Williamson

What could be more radical than girls with guitars who love other girls with guitars? Sex, politics, and rock 'n' roll collide in this documentary about post-feminist musicians taking on the world three chords at a time. You don't have to be a lesbian to enjoy this film, but it couldn't hurt. (Forrest Leonard)
Brdwy Perf Hall Sat June 7 6:30 pm

Rana's Wedding
Palestine, 2002 (90 min.)

Dir. Hany Abu-Assad

Rana's father went to the trouble of making a list of potential husbands for his daughter, and how does she thank him? Take a wild guess. Not happy with the prospect of arranged marriage, she sets off on a journey to reunite with her true love, and smooth things over with her angry papa. (FORREST LEONARD)
Harvard Exit Sat May 24 4:00 pm

Harvard Exit Mon May 26 9:30 pm

Respiro
Italy, 2002 (95 min.)

Dir. Emanuele Crialese
Cast Valeria Golino

An internally combusting family struggles to cope with its free-spirited mother (the frequently unclad Golino, who radiates an aura of irresistibly damaged goods) and her effect on their rumor-starved fishing village. A disarming combination of lower-class grit (the kids are unvarnished little bastards) and narcotic underwater lyricism, based on Sicilian myth. Warning: Contains a potentially upsetting off-screen mass Old Yeller carnage. (Andrew Wright)
Egyptian Sun June 1 9:30 pm

Pacific Place Thurs June 5 4:45 pm

Return to the 36th Chamber
Hong Kong/China, 1980 (111 min.)

Dir. Lau Kar-Leung

The original The 36th Chamber helped pave the way for screwball chop-socky master Jackie Chan. Whether you consider this a good or bad thing should dictate how much you enjoy this quasi-sequel. The Wu-Tang Clan swears by the wisdom of Kar-Leung's films, and that's good enough for me. (FORREST LEONARD)
Harvard Exit Tues June 10 7:00 pm

The Revolution will not be televised
Ireland, 2003 (74 min.)

Dir. Kim Bartley, Donnacha O' BrianAbout this time last year, a military coup against Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez crippled the world's fifth largest oil producer. If only Chavez had tried to kill W's dad, we could have gone in and claimed the oil for ourselves. Now they'll just have to wait their turn. (FORREST LEONARD)

Brdwy Perf Hall Fri May 23 9:30 pmBrdwy Perf Hall Tue May 27 4:45 pm

Rise Above: The Tribe 8 Documentary
USA, 2002 (80 min.)

Dir. Tracy Flannigan
Cast Lyn Breedlove, Leslie Mah, Slade Bellum

Did someone say "Riot Grrrls"? More lesbionic rock for your viewing pleasure, but these aren't your mother's radical punk dykes. These girls rock hard and love hard, and they aren't afraid of letting you know. Come for the hot girl-on-girl action, stay for the thought-provoking discourse. (FORREST LEONARD)
Brdwy Perf Hall Thurs May 29 4:45 pm

Robert Capa: In Love & War
USA, 2002 (90 min.)

Dir. Anne Makepeace
Cast Goran Visnjic

Balkan Peninsula hottie Visnjic brings to life one of modern history's most accomplished photojournalists. He survived and documented the Omaha Beach landing and the Spanish Civil War (as well as an always risky interview with Ernest Hemingway), but his telephoto lens was little help against the land mine that cut his life tragically short. (FORREST LEONARD)
Brdwy Perf Hall Sat May 24 11:30 am

Brdwy Perf Hall Wed May 28 4:45 pm

Rustling Landscapes
Slovenia, 2002 (90 min.)

Dir. Janez Lapajne

A traumatic abortion, a desperate reunion, and mindfucks-by-the-dozen are waiting in the secluded woods of Slovenia. This mostly improvised "comedy" won several awards at the Slovenia film Festival last year, and now it's ready to freak out audiences worldwide. (FORREST LEONARD)
Harvard Exit Wed June 11 4:45 pm

Harvard Exit Thurs June 12 9:30 pm


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Sayew
Thailand, 2002 (110 min.)

Dir. Kongdej Chaturanrasamee, Keart Kongsananta

Tao, like most teenage virgins in Thailand, has a burning desire to make a living by writing erotica for her sexually repressed countrymen. Just when you think America has cornered the market in raucous sex comedies, all it takes is one horny Asian schoolgirl to put everthing in perspective. (FORREST LEONARD)
Pacific Place Fri June 13 9:30 pm

Pacific Place Sun June 15 6:30 pm

The Sea
Iceland/France/Norway, 2002 (109 min.)

Dir. Baltasar Kormakur

The ruling family of a limping Nordic fishing village harbors destructive secrets in this energetically dire tale from the director of 101 Reykjavik. The film's ornery granny, icy father figure, wayward sons, and kissing cousins are a family therapist's nightmare in the vein of the Dogme 95-stamped The Celebration--but with much better cinematography and a fiery black comedy/tragedy undertone. (Shannon Gee)
Egyptian Wed May 28 9:30 pm

Harvard Exit Fri May 30 4:00 pm

The Sea Is Watching
Japan, 2002 (199 min.)

Dir. Kei Kumai

This was to be Akira Kurosawa's last film, but before he could get started, he had an early call to that great studio backlot in the sky. Though sadly bereft of samurai, Kurosawa's script explores a red-light district in 19th-century Japan, and the star-crossed lovers that meet on its seedy streets.
Egyptian Thurs June 5 9:30 pm

Brdwy Perf Hall Sun June 8 11:30 am

Seaside
France, 2002 (90 min.)

Dir. Julie Lopes-Curval

A look at a seaside resort town in northern France through the eyes of its residents, tourists, and one hot young lifeguard. Idyllic vacation spot or plain old boring small-town existence? How does it feel when your livelihood depends on the leisure of others? What does it take to get mouth to mouth around here?
Harvard Exit Sun June 1 4:00 pm

Harvard Exit Wed June 4 9:30 pm

THE Secret Lives of Dentists
USA, 2002 (103 min.)

Dir. Alan Rudolph
Cast Campbell Scott, Hope Davis, Denis Leary

Nothing to do with those anti-dentist activists on Broadway. The laughing gas gets turned way up when a dentist (Scott) suspects his wife of having an affair and his maniacally misogynist patient (Leary) encourages him to drill down to the root of the problem. Based on Jane Smiley's novella The Age of Grief.
Pacific Place Fri June 6 6:30 pm

Pacific Place Sun June 8 1:45 pm

Secret Things
France, 2002 (115 min.)

Dir. Jean-Claude Brisseau

Two coquettes used to getting their way with men through sex and mind games go head to head with a true playa hata when they pick the wrong guy to lure into their lurid web. Erotic melodrama with a hint of sexual slavery ensues.
Pacific Place Tues June 10 9:30 pm

Pacific Place Sat June 14 4:00 pm

* SIFF Shorts: Animate * Magnetism

Dir. Various

Animated shorts. The Curtain Is Open (Sergio Catá Riobóo); Einstein's Playground (Matthew Heckerling); The ErlKing (Ben Zelkowicz); The fine Art of Poisoning (Bill Domonkos); I Reason (Francesca Talenti); Roof Sex (Sarah Phelps); Stiltwalkers (Sjaak Meilink); The Toll Collector (Rachel Johnson); Wallace and Gromit's Cracking Contraptions (Christopher Sadler & Loyd Price); What's Wrong with This Picture? (Jeffrey Travis).
Brdwy Perf Hall Sat May 24 4:00 pm

* SIFF Shorts: Beyond * The Twilight Zone

Dir. Various

Spooky. Blueberry (Brett Bell); Nights Like These (Gadi Harel); L'Entretien (Kathleen Mann);"Excursion (Cris Jones); Bill's Seat (Karl Shefelman); Untitled: 003-Embryo (Mike Goedecke).
Brdwy Perf Hall Tues June 10 9:30 pm

* SIFF Shorts: Camp * and Circumstance

Dir. Various

There's gay and there's geigh. Hyper (Michael Canzoniero & Marco Ricci); D.E.B.S. (Angela Robinson); Twin Set (Eva Saks); DOGS (Danny Lukic);"Clark, the Canadian Hockey Goalie (George Plamondon); Going Down (Dominic Inzana); Triple Threat (Joshua J. Smith and Wayne McClammy); Men of Action (Todd Grossman).
Brdwy Perf Hall Tues June 3 7:00 pm

* SIFF Shorts: Gay as * a Goose

Dir. Various

Damn, that's GAY! Burl's (Maryam Karimi); GAYDAR (Larry LaFond); One Fine Morning (Scott Boswell); Quintessence (Dustin Schell); Seventy (Q. Allan Brocka); Straight, No Chaser (Barry Alexander Brown).
Brdwy Perf Hall Sun June 8 9:30 pm

* SIFF Shorts: Passport * Stamps

Dir. Various

Pen pals from around the world! Antychrist (Adam Guzinski, Poland); The Cowboy Loses His Boots (Christian Svanes Kolding, Denmark); The Last (Steven Benedict, Ireland); MBOUTOUKOU (Victor Viyouh, Cameroon); Spoon Man (Heath Davis, Australia).
Brdwy Perf Hall Thurs June 5 9:30 pm

* SIFF Shorts: Spawned * in Seattle

Dir. Various

Homegrown. Pan with Us (David Russo); Honing the Edge (James Canfield); Ikon (Greg Walsh); '80s Ending (Douglas Jordan); Entry (Dayna Hanson & Gaelen Hanson); Afterthought (Michael Cross); Umbrella (Dalton Rose); It Just Is (Scott Phillips); eRATicate (Ross Williams).
Brdwy Perf Hall Sun May 25 1:45 pm

* SIFF Shorts: The Hush *

Dir. Various

Silencio! Abigail (Kristina Sisco); Dimensionless Woman (Anita Salomone); Last Light (Tim Folkmann); Listening (Kenneth Branagh); Misdemeanor (Jonathan LeMond); Pinky (Ted Bourne); A Tall Tale (Jeffrey Blatt); Touched (Chandler Pohl).
Brdwy Perf Hall Sun June 1 1:45 pm

* SIFF Shorts: Women * at Work

Dir. Various

Next thing you know, they'll want to vote. Sophie ( Helen Lee); White Like the Moon (Marina Gonzalez Palmier); Waiting River (Sue-Ling Braun); The Ball (Anny Slater); Cupboard Love ( Emma Farrell); Confection ( Eva Saks).
Brdwy Perf Hall Sat May 31 4:00 pm

So Close
Hong Kong, 2002 (110 min.)

Dir. Corey Yuen

Orphaned-teenage-sisters-turned-assassins Lynn and Sue use their slain father's invention to outwit thugs, infiltrate video security systems all over the world, and to kill. Just as the fun is getting started, tough-talking cop Kong Yat Hong shows up to put an end to all this nonsense. Don't make me turn this squad car around, ladies.
Egyptian Tues May 27 7:00 pm

Egyptian Fri May 30 midnight

A Soldier's Girl
USA, 2002 (112 min.)

Dir. Frank Pierson
Cast Troy Garity, Lee Pace, Andre Braugher

Compelling the way only made-for-television cinema seems to be, this Showtime-produced drama, operating under the thin guise of "based on a true story," tells the tale of a slow military man who falls for a down-to-earth girl with something a little extra. And when I say "extra," I mean a dick. (ZAC PENNINGTON)
Pacific Place Sun May 25 6:30 pm

Somewhere Over the Dreamland
Taiwan, 2002 (93 min.)

Dir. Cheng Wen Tang

In this sad story, a young man becomes intrigued with a phone sex operator, and a construction worker finds a photograph that sets him off on a quest for lost love. Featuring members of the disappearing Taiwanese aboriginal Atayal tribe and a score that won Best Music at the '02 Taiwan Academy Awards.
Harvard Exit Tues June 3 9:30 pm

Brdwy Perf Hall Mon June 9 4:45 pm

Song For a Raggy Boy
Ireland/USA/Denmark/UK/Spain, 2002

(93 min.)

Dir. Aisling Walsh
Cast Aidan Quinn, Lain Glen, Marc Warren

William Franklin thought the Spanish War was bad. Well, just wait until he gets to his new teaching post at St. Jude's, an Irish reformatory school for wayward boys where harsh Catholic rectorship and cruelty abounds! Dehumanization in the name of God ensues.
Egyptian Fri May 30 9:30 pm

Pacific Place Sun June 1 1:45 pm

Spring Subway
China, 2002 (93 min.)

Dir. Zhang Yibai

A Chinese version of the French film Time Out. Set in present-day Beijing, a man stuck in a stale marriage and laid off from his job three months ago continues to go through the motions of heading in to work, observing romance in bloom during the subway ride into the city. For three yuan each way, let's hope he sees some action.
Pacific Place Sun May 25 9:30 pm

Pacific Place Mon May 26 11:30 am

* Springtime in a Small * Town
China, 2001 (112 min.)

Dir. Tian Zhuangzhuang

This exquisite remake of Fei Mu's 1949 classic, considered one of the best Chinese films ever made, marks Tian's (The Blue Kite) return to filmmaking after a 10-year blacklisting for demanding human rights reforms. When a doctor returns to his post-WWII hometown, he arouses surprising passions in his oldest friend, his wife, and his teenaged sister. Camera movement, composition, color--every visual ingredient in this superb movie precisely measures emotional, spiritual, sexual epiphany. (Kathleen Murphy)
Pacific Place Thurs June 5 7:00 pm

Stoked: The Rise And Fall of Gator
USA, 2003 (85 min.)

Dir. Helen Stickler

This documentary takes us from the half-pipe to the cell block, tracking the rise and fall of Mark "Gator" Rogowski, a shining star of pro skateboarding who blew it all by killing a friend. Stickler looks at the skills and style of the fallen Gator and his fellow skateboarders in a subculture gone mainstream. And they say skateboarding is not a crime.
Cinerama Mon June 9 4:45 pm

Suddenly
Argentina, 2002 (94 min.)

Dir. Diego Lerman

Have you heard the one about the two rough-and-tumble lesbians who kidnap a bored and overweight underwear salesgirl for some carousing, relationship-building, mischief, and mayhem?
Harvard Exit Sat June 7 4:00 pm

Harvard Exit Mon June 9 9:30 pm

Sudeste
Argentina, 2003

Dir. Sergio Diego Bellotti
Cast Javier Locatelli, Luis Sziembrowsky

It's a road movie, but with a river. Dad is dead and Boga's gone fishing, until mosquitoes, storms, and a river rat called El Pampa screw the whole thing up and lead to violence and general buzz-kill. If we've told you about not picking riffraff up during aimless tropical boating trips once, we've told you a million times.
Harvard Exit Tue May 27 7:00 pm

Harvard Exit Thurs May 29 4:45 pm

Surplus
Sweden, 2002 (52 min.)

Dir. Erik Gandini

A look at rage and consumerism, from the 2001 G8 summit in Genoa through the emotional roots and aftermaths of protests, including that of Seattle's WTO conference. Featuring John Zerzan, author and alleged idea man behind the Black Bloc movement, on the necessity of property damage, and George W. Bush's fight for your right to shop! Screens with X Marks the Spot, a short.
Brdwy Perf Hall Thurs June 12 7:00 pm

Brdwy Perf Hall Sun June 15 1:45 pm

Sweet Sixteen
UK, 2002 (106 min.)

Dir. Ken Loach

Young Liam dreams of escaping his low-rent upbringings, but small-time crime sprees that evolve into an alliance with the local kingpin prevent him from ever transcending the dead-end cycle he desperately wants to leave behind. Loach's cinematic style is superbly gritty, tender, and tough. Compston's performance is the stuff that lands young American actors a Vanity Fair cover. (Shannon Gee)
Brdwy Perf Hall Fri June 6 9:30 pm

Harvard Exit Sun June 8 6:45 pm

Swordswoman of Huangjiang
Hong Kong/China, 1930 (74 min.)

Dir. Chen Kengran, Zheng Yisheng, Shang Guanwu

A special archival presentation with live musical accompaniment by Aono Jikken Ensemble. In this 1930 silent story of swords and sorcery, ass-kicker Fang Yuquin and her brother roam the countryside helping and protecting the needy. Soon their journey takes a portentous turn when they arrive at a temple where the way of the jiang hu (underworld) is law.
Egyptian Sat June 7 1:45 pm