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Left, Fanny Berger in Murder of a Hatmaker Below, a trio of gunmen from Shoot First and Pray You Live n' BHf jMp- IJfibB identity via his relationship with Sherman is sad and even pathetic to watch. (3:15 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 6, and 7:45 p.m. Sunday Dec.

7, The Forum, College of Santa Fe campus, 1600 St. Michael's Drive, 473-601 1) Douglas Fairfield MURDER OF A HATMAKER (84 minutes) There are some topics that remain a source of terrifying intrigue many years after they occur. The Holocaust is near the top of the list. In this documentary, French filmmaker Catherine Bernstein looks into the short life of her great aunt Fanny Berger, a Parisian Jew. Fanny Berger rejected her family to realize her career ambitions in couture, and consequently only a few photographs of her, together with a small amount of ephemera, remain.

Bernstein makes up for this lack of information, however, as he researches the French archives, where the documentation and records of the Vichy regime which wholeheartedly collaborated with the Nazis provides a systematic and meticulous catalog of the restrictions, deportations, and deaths of French Jews. As more and more restrictions were brought to bear on Jews, Fanny and her friends tried to escape France, were caught and imprisoned, and began the journey to the death camps. In a very short time Fanny went from being one of the most popular hat makers in Paris to being murdered in Auschwitz. Along the way she was banned from interacting with her customers, forced to answer to an official overseer placed in her studio, and eventually made to sell her business. (11:15 a.m.

Friday, Dec. 5, The Film Center, 1616 St. Michael's Drive, 988-7414) JillBattson SHOOT FIRST AND PRAY YOU LIVE (100 minutes) Lance Doty's directorial debut comes off as a respectable tribute to the revenge-driven spaghetti Westerns of the 1960s. Shot in Santa Fe and using a mostly local cast, it relates the famous frontier story of the rivalry between Red Pierre and Bob McGurk via sharp animation (by Bill continued on Page 56 Filmmaker David Modigliani's documentary 'Crawford' is not just insightful about the psyche of a small town; it is also fun it watch as it covers the changes the community faces as the president moves in. PASATIEMPO 55.