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Friday, May 16
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Dasepo Naughty Girls
Korean Film Festival DC 2008 |
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Note: This film is intended for mature audiences.
(2006, 103 min., directed by E. J-young, Korean with English subtitles) In this twisted musical comedy film that takes place in No Use High, it satirizes everything from internet dating to cross-dressing. Beneath the bawdy jokes, however, is a touching story about a poor, shy girl who tries to fit in at the weirdest high school imaginable.
Free, tickets (2 per person) distributed 1 hour before
Series continues May 18
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Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and Freer Gallery of Art
Location: Freer, Meyer Auditorium
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Sunday, May 18
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Short Films: If You Were Me 2
Korean Film Festival DC 2008 |
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(2005, 112 min., Korean with English subtitles) Topics for this program of short films by five well-known directors -- Park Kyung-hee, Ryoo Seung-wan, Jung Ji-woo, Jang Jin, and Kim Dong-won -- include the plight of refugees and immigrants, prejudice against the physically challenged, and problems of temporary workers. They are treated in a variety of styles, from straightforward documentary to sly comedy.
Free, tickets (2 per person) distributed 1 hour before
Series continues June 3
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Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and Freer Gallery of Art
Location: Freer, Meyer Auditorium
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Wednesday, May 21
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The Big Sleep
American Classics: Film Noir |
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(114 min., 1946, directed by Howard Hawks) A cynical private eye (Humphrey Bogart) investigates the gambling debts of a wealthy general's daughter (Lauren Bacall) and finds himself tangled up in blackmail, deception, and violence.
Free; first come, first served
Last in series
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Smithsonian American Art Museum
Location: McEvoy Auditorium (enter from G St.)
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Thursday, May 29
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Three Women in Video Art
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This program features the following 3 films:
• Nancy Holt's Underscan (1974) explores the home of the artist's aging aunt through still images and excerpts from her letters.
• Dara Birnbaum's Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman (1978-79) uses imagery from the television series Wonder Woman to deconstruct the identity of a pop culture icon.
• Eleanor Antin's Caught in the Act (1973) compares the realities of still photographs to images captured on videotape.
Free, first come, first served
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Smithsonian American Art Museum
Location: McEvoy Auditorium (enter from G St.)
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Friday, May 30
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Reel Portraits: The Fighting Lady
Documentary Film and Discussion |
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(1945, 61 min., directed by Edward Steichen, narrated by Robert Taylor) In this Oscar-winning documentary film, set sail with Admiral William "Bull" Halsey aboard the USS Yorkstown (CV-10) through the Panama Canal and experience the assaults on Marcus, Kawjalein, Truk, and Tinnian to the Battle of the Philippine Sea. Discussion follows with Jack Green from the Naval Historical Center.
Free; first come, first served. Auditorium doors open 6:30 PM.
Related Exhibition: Ballyhoo! Posters as Portraiture
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National Portrait Gallery
Location: McEvoy Auditorium
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Saturday, May 31
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Moving Perspectives: Yang Fudong: Seven Intellectuals in the
Bamboo Forest, Part 1: Video |
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(2003, 30 min., directed by Yang Fudong, Mandarin with English subtitles, single-channel video projected continuously) For centuries, artists have been inspired by the landscape of China's Yellow Mountain. Internationally renowned artist Yang Fudong expands that perspective in the contemporary medium of video with his five-part series Seven Intellectuals in the Bamboo Forest, which is based on a famous Chinese tale. In Part I, Yang follows 7 Chinese youths in contemporary dress who are in a permanent state of contemplation atop the mist-shrouded peaks of Yellow Mountain.
Free
Related Exhibition: Yellow Mountain: China's Ever-Changing Landscape
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Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and Freer Gallery of Art
Location: Freer, Meyer Auditorium
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Tuesday, June 3
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Empress Chung: Korean Folktale through Animated Film
Korean Film Festival DC 2008 |
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Note: This film is unrated and contains disturbing scenes.
(2005, 94 min., Korean with English subtitles, directed by Nelson Shin) Following the screening, join Dr. Heinz Insu Fenkl (associate professor of English at SUNY New Paltz) for a stimulating discussion on Nelson Shin's rarely screened animated film Empress Chung and on how it reflects Korean values.
Free, tickets (2 per person) distributed 1 hour before
Last program
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Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and Freer Gallery of Art
Location: Freer, Meyer Auditorium
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Friday, June 6
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Dragon Gate Inn
King Hu: Inspired by Taiwan Film Series |
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(1967, 111 min., Mandarin with English subtitles, directed by King Hu) This film's astonishing fight sequences, which were inspired by the rhythms of Beijing Opera, set a new standard for the genre, and its heroine, a no-nonsense fighter capable of dispatching dozens of enemies with her sword, spawned legions of imitators.
Free, tickets (2 per person) distributed 1 hour before
Series continues June 8
Related Exhibition: Yellow Mountain: China's Ever-Changing Landscape (at Sackler)
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Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and Freer Gallery of Art
Location: Freer, Meyer Auditorium
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Sunday, June 8
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A Touch of Zen
King Hu: Inspired by Taiwan Film Series |
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(1971, 170 min., Mandarin with English subtitles, directed by King Hu) Generally acknowledged as Hu's masterpiece, this blend of mysticism and action elevated the martial arts film to new heights of sophistication. Living in a fortress that is rumored to be haunted, a scholar encounters what he thinks is a ghost, but the situation turns out to be more complicated than that.
Free, tickets (2 per person) distributed 1 hour before
Last in series
Related Exhibition: Yellow Mountain: China's Ever-Changing Landscape (at Sackler)
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Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and Freer Gallery of Art
Location: Freer, Meyer Auditorium
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Sunday, June 15
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Hara Kiri
Tatsuya Nakadai: Icon of Japanese Cinema Series |
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(1962, 135 min., bandw, Japanese with English subtitles, directed by Masaki Kobayashi) In this classic film, a masterless samurai (played by Tatsuya Nakadai) stops at an Edo mansion and asks for a haven where he can commit ritual suicide. While he waits for the arrival of three more samurai to serve as his seconds, the house's owner passes the time by telling of the horrific outcome of a similar request. As each of the seconds calls in "sick," the masterless samurai begins his own story.
Free, tickets (2 per person) distributed 1 hour before
Series continues June 20, 22, 27, & 29
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Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and Freer Gallery of Art
Location: Freer, Meyer Auditorium
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Friday, June 20
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Immortal Love
Tatsuya Nakadai: Icon of Japanese Cinema Series |
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(1961, 103 min., bandw, Japanese with English subtitles, directed by Keisuke Kinoshita) The year is 1932, and a woman, whose fiance is fighting in China, is raped and then forced into marriage with a landowner's son (Nakadai). In four more chapters presented over three decades, their children undertake their own searches for love.
Free, tickets (2 per person) distributed 1 hour before
Series continues June 22, 27, & 29
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Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and Freer Gallery of Art
Location: Freer, Meyer Auditorium
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Saturday, June 21
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There Was Always Sun Shining Someplace: Life in the Negro
Baseball League: Film |
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(1984, 57 min., bandw) Narrated by James Earl Jones, this film provides first-person accounts of life in the segregated Negro Baseball League. Offering invaluable information about this unique chapter in American sports history are noted players Satchel Paige, James "Cool Papa" Bell, Judy Johnson, Buck O'Neil, and Monte Irvin. Cosponsored with the Historical Society of Washington, D.C.
Free; for information, call 202-383-1828
See related program June 7
Related Exhibition: Separate & Unequaled
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Anacostia Community Museum
Location: Historical Society of Washington, D.C., 801 K Street, NW
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Sunday, June 22
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Yojimbo
Tatsuya Nakadai: Icon of Japanese Cinema Series |
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(1961, 110 min., bandw, Japanese with English subtitles, directed by Akira Kurosawa) Nakadai stars as a pistol-waving killer opposite Toshiro Mifune's scheming yojimbo (bodyguard) in this Kurosawa classic. To introduce and discuss the film are actor Tatsuya Nakadai and author Teruyo Nogami, two icons of Japanese cinema, with Japanese film specialist Michael Jeck hosting the program. Following the screening, Nogami, who was a script supervisor for Kurosawa, signs copies of her book Waiting on the Weather: Making Movies with Akira Kurosawa.
Free, tickets (2 per person) distributed 1 hour before
Series continues June 27 & 29
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Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and Freer Gallery of Art
Location: Freer, Meyer Auditorium
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Thursday, June 26
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Travelers and Magicians
Film |
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(2003, 108 min., Dzongkha with English subtitles, directed by Khyentse Norbu) In celebration of the Folklife Festival's focus on the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, the Freer Gallery of Art presents this cinematic fable by Khyentse Norbu, Bhutan's most famous director and one of Himalayan Buddhism's most revered lamas. The film's star Tshewang Dendup and celebrated musician Sonam Dorji answer questions after the screening.
Free, but tickets (2 per person) distributed 1 hour before
Repeats July 2
See related 2008 Smithsonian Folklife Festival programs
Related Exhibition: Arts of the Indian Subcontinent and the Himalayas
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Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and Freer Gallery of Art
Location: Freer, Meyer Auditorium
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Friday, June 27
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Untamed
Tatsuya Nakadai: Icon of Japanese Cinema Series |
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(1957, 120 min., bandw, Japanese with English subtitles, directed by Mikeo Naruse) In this adaptation of Shusei Tokuda's 1915 novel Akakure, Hideko Takamine plays an independent woman who defies her family's expectations that she enter an arranged marriage.
Free, tickets (2 per person) distributed 1 hour before
Series continues June 29
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Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and Freer Gallery of Art
Location: Freer, Meyer Auditorium
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Sunday, June 29
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Kagemusha
Tatsuya Nakadai: Icon of Japanese Cinema Series |
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(1980, 162 min., Japanese with English subtitles, directed by Akira Kurosawa) An epic evocation of 16th-century Japan, as well as an ironic tale of loyalty and illusion, this film stars Nakadai in a double role as a thief and the dying lord he impersonates.
Free, tickets (2 per person) distributed 1 hour before
Last in series
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Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and Freer Gallery of Art
Location: Freer, Meyer Auditorium
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Wednesday, July 2
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Travelers and Magicians
Film |
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(2003, 108 min., Dzongkha with English subtitles, directed by Khyentse Norbu) In celebration of the Folklife Festival's focus on the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, the Freer Gallery of Art presents this cinematic fable by Khyentse Norbu, Bhutan's most famous director and one of Himalayan Buddhism's most revered lamas. The film's star Tshewang Dendup and celebrated musician Sonam Dorji answer questions after the screening.
Free, but tickets (2 per person) distributed 1 hour before
Last screening
See related 2008 Smithsonian Folklife Festival programs
Related Exhibition: Arts of the Indian Subcontinent and the Himalayas
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Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and Freer Gallery of Art
Location: Freer, Meyer Auditorium
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Johnson IMAX Theater
The Samuel C. Johnson Theater features three-dimensional (3D) large screen format films in the National Museum of Natural History.
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Lockheed Martin & Udvar-Hazy Center IMAX Theaters
Explore our fascination with flight through the air and in space. View Earth from the open cargo bay of the Space Shuttle. Journey to natural and manmade wonders of the world. National Air and Space Museum.
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IMAX and Jazz Cafe
Friday evening event offers music by Washington's top jazz musicians, screenings of several IMAX films, and an elegant dinner a la carte.
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