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size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">The <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns =
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/><st1:stockticker>MFA</st1:stockticker> Film Program is proud to to present a 6
show engagement of a restored 35 mm print of Kent MacKenzie’s 1961 film <B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">The
Exiles</I>, September 26-October 3</B>.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>This is the first time that <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">The
Exiles</I> has been widely available for theatrical engagements.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">The Exiles</I>, was possibly inspired by
Kent MacKenzie’s friendship with Native American artist and dancer Tom Two
Arrows, whom he met when they were both summer camp counselors in
<st1:State><st1:place>Maine</st1:place></st1:State> during
<st1:country-region><st1:place>Kent</st1:place></st1:country-region>’s years at
<st1:City><st1:place>Dartmouth</st1:place></st1:City>.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Gritty, realistic and far ahead of
its time (in a period when <st1:place>Hollywood</st1:place> films featured noble
savages), the script for <EM>The Exiles</EM> was created exclusively from
recorded interviews with the participants and with their ongoing input during
the shooting of the film. Native American writers and activists have long
considered the film as one of first works of art to portray modern life honestly
and as an important forerunner for the cultural renaissance of American Indian
fiction, poetry, filmmaking and theater starting in the 1970s.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">The Exiles</I> is also an artifact of a lost
time and place. In the early 1960s, developers and city planners not only razed
the existing homes and tenements of Bunker Hill, which Kent documents in both
his first film, <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Bunker Hill-1956</I>, and
in<I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"> The Exiles</I>, they leveled much of
the hill itself - replacing a residential neighborhood with high-rises, office
buildings and more recently, the Walt Disney Concert Hall.<SPAN
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face="Times New Roman"><SPAN lang=EN style="mso-ansi-language: EN">“<I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">The Exiles</I> is almost unbearably
intimate, allowing us to ride along for a raucous night on the town while
simultaneously peering into its deeply conflicted
characters</SPAN><st1:PersonName><SPAN lang=EN
style="mso-ansi-language: EN">'</SPAN></st1:PersonName><SPAN lang=EN
style="mso-ansi-language: EN"> souls.”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>– LA Times<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=normal style="MARGIN: auto 0in"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Kent
MacKenzie was born in England in 1930.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>He spent much of his childhood shuttling back and forth between England
and New York.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></SPAN><st1:country-region><st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Kent</SPAN></st1:place></st1:country-region><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">
attended </SPAN><st1:place><st1:PlaceName><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Dartmouth</SPAN></st1:PlaceName><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN><st1:PlaceType><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">College</SPAN></st1:PlaceType></st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">
,where he studied English literature and film writing.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>After several years in the army, Kent
moved to California and enrolled in University of Southern California Cinema
Department.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>His student film, the
documentary <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Bunker Hill-1956</I> was
screened at the Edinburgh Film Festival where it won a Silver Award.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">The Exiles</I> was his second feature
film.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Kent edited, produced and
directed one other feature film, <EM>Saturday Morning</EM>, in 1971 before he
passed away in Marin County, California in May 1980<SPAN
class=642481014-26082008>.</SPAN></SPAN></P>
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size=3>Tickets: Members, seniors and students $8; general admission $10.
</FONT><A name=OLE_LINK206></A><A name=OLE_LINK205><SPAN
style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK206"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Discount
matinee prices (weekday until 5 pm; weekends until 12:30 pm) are $6, $7.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>To purchase please call the box office
at 617-369-3306 or online at </FONT></SPAN></A><A
href="http://www.mfa.org/film"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK205"><SPAN
style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK206">www.mfa.org/film</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
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style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman">The Exiles<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></I></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Fri. Sept. 26 6:45 pm<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Sat. Sept 27 7:30 pm<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Wed. Oct. 1 6:45 pm<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Fri. Oct. 3 4:30 pm<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Sat. Oct. 4 12:00 pm<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Wed. Oct. 8 5:00 pm<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">The Exiles</I> by
Kent MacKenzie (1961, 72 min.). Three years in the making, <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">The Exiles</I><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>chronicles a day in the life of a group
of twenty-something Native Americans who left reservation life in the 1950s to
live in the district of Bunker Hill in <st1:City><st1:place>Los
Angeles</st1:place></st1:City>. Bunker Hill was then a blighted residential
locality of decayed Victorian mansions, sometimes featured in the writings of
Raymond Chandler, John Fante and Charles Bukowski. The structure of the film is
that of a narrative feature, the script pieced together from interviews with the
documentary subjects. <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">The New Yorker</I>
critic Richard Brody says, “Miraculous…few directors in the history of cinema
have so skillfully and deeply joined a sense of place with the subtle flux of
inner life.” <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">The Exiles</I> has recently
been restored to its full glory with support from, among others, director
Charles Burnett. <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">The Exiles</I> shares
similarities with Burnett<st1:PersonName>'</st1:PersonName>s legendary <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Killer of Sheep</I>: both are gritty,
frills-free depictions of marginalized <st1:City><st1:place>Los
Angeles</st1:place></st1:City> communities.</FONT></FONT></P>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>Stefanie Lubkowski</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>Film & Concerts Press
Officer</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>Museum of Fine arts, Boston</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>465 Huntington Avenue</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>Boston, MA 02115</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>617-369-3687</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>slubkowski@mfa.org</FONT></DIV>
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