Dear Screen-L Members: I wanted to let you know about a special upcoming screening series in New York City that the cineastes among you will find intriguing: Kicking off on September 5 with the New York theatrical premiere is Patricio Guzman's SALVADOR ALLENDE. A leftist revolutionary or a reformist democrat? A committed Marxist or a constitutionalist politician? An ethical and moral man or, as Richard Nixon called him, a "son of a bitch"? In SALVADOR ALLENDE, acclaimed Chilean filmmaker Patricio Guzmán returns to his native country thirty years after the 1973 military coup that overthrew Chile's Popular Unity government to examine the life of its leader, Salvador Allende, both as a politician and a man. Running alongside our nine-day premiere engagement of Patricio Guzmán's SALVADOR ALLENDE, Anthology Film Archives will present a series of programs devoted to classic and radical Latin American cinema (and its legacy). At the heart of the series are the films of Guzmán, who has spent thirty years constructing a history of his country unparalleled in scope, commitment, and cinematic dynamism, most famously in the astounding, three-part BATTLE OF CHILE, a document of the final nine months of the Allende government and the coup that toppled it on September 11th, 1973. We will also screen Guzmán's CHILE, OBSTINATE MEMORY, the story of his return to Chile to screen THE BATTLE OF CHILE for his countrymen and women for the first time, and THE PINOCHET CASE, the story of the legal efforts across two continents to bring General Augusto Pinochet to trial for the crimes of his dictatorship. This will be the first time the complete sequence of Patricio Guzmán's films tracing the history of Chile over the past 35 years has been screened in the U.S. Anthology Film Archives 32 2nd Avenue New York, NY 10003 USA Telephone: (212) 505-5181 http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/ Please forward along to your NYC friends! Thank you! Agnes Varnum Marketing & Publicity Associate First Run/Icarus Films 32 Court Street, 21st Floor Brooklyn, NY 11201 Email: [log in to unmask] Phone: (718) 488-8900 Fax: (718) 488-8642 http://www.frif.com Theatrical Premiere of FOREVER <http://frif.com/new2007/fore.html> by Heddy Honigmann - New York's Film Forum on September 12th! ---- Learn to speak like a film/TV professor! Listen to the ScreenLex podcast: http://www.screenlex.org