Empire will be screened at New Langton Arts, 1246 Folsom, San Francisco (415-626-5416). Special Admission: $6, general; $5, UAM/PFA, S.F. Cinematheque and New Langton Arts members. Tickets are available in advance at PFA and at the door. No intermission; patrons may leave and re-enter the screening as they wish. "The Empire State Building is a star!"-Andy Warhol Empire is undoubtedly Warhol's most notorious film. The sheer egregiousness of its concept-a stationary eight-hour shot of the Empire State Building-has guaranteed the film a kind of permanence as one of the most effective and characteristically outrageous gestures of Warhol's artistic career. This notoriety-famous for eight hours-has only been enhanced by the film's inaccessibility: Empire has thrived on a purely conceptual level since its creation, even occasionally growing in reputed length to twelve and even twenty-four hours. Despite its success as a relatively simple concept, however, the actual film turns out to be a complex and extraordinarily resonant work, inviting the kind of meditative attention that is characteristic of Warhol's cinema, yet simultaneously suggesting a rich and nearly infinite variety of interpretations and associative readings. The content of the film is a single shot of the top of the Empire State Building, beginning after 8 p.m. in the fading light of sunset and continuing through nightfall until about 2:30 in the morning. (It is the silent projection speed, not the actual shooting time, that makes this film approximately eight hours long.)-Callie Angell