Currently On Sale On Sale: 2011 Archive On Sale: 2010 Archive On Sale: 2009 Archive On Sale: 2008 Archive On Sale: 2007 Archive All That Fosse GS: Clara Bow Met: Roméo et Juliette Val Lewton Spanish Cinema Now Pilar Miró La Guerra Filmada YFF: ...Dollhouse Accattone in Jazz GS: Battling Butler Pasolini The Iron Horse Freewheelin’: Music Docs David Fincher Whole Shootin' Match Rolex Art Weekend NYWIFT: Attica YFF: Murmur... Beyond Boundaries IN: Greensboro 10 Years HK Leo Awards 07 Chinese Modern Avant-Garde De Andrade For Goodis Sake YFF: Run Fatboy... Zeki Demirkubuz FCS: The Last Winter Latinbeat 07 Latinbeat 07 Sidebar Gerard Depardieu IN: Life on the Mesa YFF: Bullets over B'way FCS: Executioner’s Song FCS: Them Green Screens: 11th Hour Polanski Scanners: NY Video Fest Woodfall Studios FCS: Norman Mailer SFP: Way Down East SE: After This... YFF: King of New York SE: Talk To Me Kino Live Earth FCS: Joshua Next Gen.: Scorsese Human Rights Watch IN: Banished SE: Evening New Italian Cinema YFF: The Story of Qiu Ju Magnum Barry Lyndon 4 from Schlesinger Lee Marvin Wide Awake White Nights Paul Mazursky Duke Ellington SE: Il Trittico YFF: Waitress SFP: Toons, Tunes... Carlos Saura China's Independents Blind Shaft The Silent Holy Stones The Orphan of Anyang Walking on the Wild Side The World FCS: Electra FCS: Hot Fuzz African Film Festival Daniel Barenboim ND/NF Classics Tian Zhuangzhuang Offside Rendez-Vous FCS: P. Verhoeven IN: A Dream in Doubt Film Comment Selects YFF: In the Soup Donald Cammell SE: Days of Glory Farmanara Retro NY Jewish Film Festival Whitaker Films SE: Forest Whitaker SE: For Goodis Sakepostponed Dance on Camera 2007 On Sale: 2006 Archive On Sale: 2005 Archive Archive 2005 - To April Archive 2004 - WRT Archive 2003 - WRT Archive 2002 - WRT Archive 2001 - WRT Archive 2000 - WRT Archive 1999 - WRT Archive 1998 - WRT Archive 1997 - WRT Archive 1996 - WRT		On the Edge: New Independent Cinema from China April 13 - 15, 2007 Though privately financed cinema has been allowed in China since the mid-1990s, the nation's films and filmmakers continue to face both strained relations with the government and limited opportunities to be shown at home. This series offers a direct, often controversial look at a society undergoing an almost unprecedented transformation. Even if little known in China, these films selected for this series are all international prizewinners, and filmmakers such as Jia Zhang-ke and Li Yang have been hailed as invigorating new talents. Directors will be present for a Q&A following the screenings denoted with an asterisk (*) . Click here for information and the schedule of the film screenings and discussions hosted by Columbia University. China on the Edge is presented by the Film Society of Lincoln Center, Columbia University, and the University of Notre Dame. It is sponsored by TODAY Literary Journal, Stiftung Omina Freundeshilfe, the University of Chicago and the US-China Culture Initiative, Inc. Admission: $11 general public; $7 members & students; $7 seniors weekday matinee screenings only. To purchase tickets online click on the SHOWTIME under Buy Tickets. Please note: there is a $1.25 service charge per ticket ordered online and cash only transactions at the box office.
			Blind Shaft Mang Jing Li Yang, China, 2002; 92m "Blind Shaft is set in the bleak northwest, where the weary-looking miners are up before dawn and work shifts can last for days. The conditions are horrible enough--then, down in the tunnel, one guy casually kills the co-worker he's been joking with and fakes a collapse. Another guy starts screaming about his trapped brother. It's a scam that the itinerant miners run--murdering comrades whom they've falsely identified as relatives, then collecting the quick payouts that management offers to avoid an official investigation. According to the Chinese government, some 5,000-plus miners die each year--and, since private mine owners are loath to file reports, the actual number is likely much higher. "Li trained in Germany as a documentary filmmaker, and for all its crime-fiction melodrama and free-floating symbolism, this accomplished first feature--independently produced and adapted from Liu Qingbang's muckraking novel--plays as cinema verité...The movie doesn't so much illuminate a social problem as conjure the darkness around it. Blind Shaft means to leave the viewer dazed, and it does." --J. Hoberman, Village Voice		Buy Tickets Sat Apr 14: 8:45* Sun Apr 15: 6:15* *Intro/Q&A with director
			The Silent Holy Stones Lhing vjags kyi ma ni rdo vbum Wanma Caidan, China, 2005; 102m "Winner of China's national film award for best directorial debut, director Wanma Caidan's serene document of daily Tibetan life challenges the idealized perception of remote mysticism that the region has borne for generations. The film follows a young lama, assigned to attend to the seven-year-old Living Buddha of a mountain monastery. Much of the 'little lama's' day is spent attending to his monastic duties, but in his free time he works to get access to the Living Buddha's television... "Commandeered by an experienced native director and strengthened by nonprofessional local actors and startlingly beautiful locations, The Holy Silent Stones has the immediacy of a documentary, delivering real insight into the evolution of a much-romanticized culture."--Aaron Lazenby, 2006 San Francisco Film Festival		Buy Tickets Sat Apr 14: 3:15 Sun Apr 15: 3:45* & 8:30* *Intro/Q&A with director
			The Orphan of Anyang Anyangde Guer Wang Chao, China, 2001; 84m A simple, tough and deeply affecting tale of three characters whose fates cross paths in the ancient city of Anyang. A desperate young prostitute from the northeast pays an out-of-work factory worker to look after her baby, and this uneasy but oddly touching relationship develops into something akin to a family--until the young girl's pimp gets the idea that he is the baby's father. A low-class thug who wants an heir, he tracks them down and upsets the precarious balance of their lives. The Orphan of Anyang has a devastating emotional impact, heralding a director of great talent and maturity. Shown at New Directors/New Films in 2002.		Buy Tickets Fri Apr 13: 5:20 & 9:15* Sat Apr 14: 1:30 *Intro/Q&A with director
			Walking on the Wild Side Lai xiao zi Han Jie, China, 2006; 89m "Han Jie is growing up in the northwest Chinese province of Shanxi. In 1992, when he is 12 years old, the area comes under the influence of the market economy. Small coal mines spring up like mushrooms. Most of the mines are private operations without official licenses and pay little regard to the necessary safety measures. The streets of the town where Han spent his adolescence slowly but surely become greyer, thanks to the dust that chokes the air. The lawlessness surrounding the mines also grips the secondary school he attends. A gang of youths led by a certain Xiaosi does its everyday rounds and young Han Jie is a favorite victim...Walking on the Wild Side is about the fear of growing up and bearing responsibility. The three youths who swear to be eternally faithful to each other in this film and dream of a better future eventually have to put up with a life that does not transcend the misery of their parents' existence."--2006 Rotterdam International Film Festival; Winner of the Tiger Award.		Buy Tickets Fri Apr 13: 3:30 & 7:10* *Intro/Q&A with director
			The World Shijie Jia Zhang-ke, China, 2004; 143m A major work from Jia Zhang-ke (Platform, Unknown Pleasures), The World is about people who aren't sure where they belong in the new, globalized world order. The story focuses on a young dancer and her security-guard boyfriend who work at a Beijing theme park, a weird cross between Las Vegas and the Epcot Center that offers scaled-down versions of famous landmarks--the Pyramids, the Eiffel Tower, even the twin towers of the World Trade Center. Rather than dwell on the kitsch, Jia casts a compassionate eye on the daily loves, friendships and desperate dreams of the provincial workers at World Park. They've come to the capital to get ahead but end up offering tourists surreal simulacra of the real thing. Sly, poetic, and pulsing with life, this touching work confirms, yet again, that Jia is one of the new millennium's most inventive cinematic talents		Buy Tickets Sat Apr 14: 5:45* Sun Apr 15: 1 *Intro/Q&A with director