Sunday, July 16
Sunday, July 16, 2017
11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, July 16, 2017
5 PM
Andrei Konchalovsky,
USSR,
1966,
(96 mins)
BAMPFA Collection Print
Konchalovsky’s first feature, set in a Kirghiz village shortly after the Revolution. “Expressed with a deft simplicity of style and a rare quality of emotion” (Michel Ciment).
Sunday, July 16, 2017
7:00
Jean-Pierre Melville,
France,
1961,
(130 mins)
New Digital Restoration
Two of the French New Wave’s most iconic actors, Jean-Paul Belmondo and Emmanuelle Riva, star as a cleric and a Communist drawn together through love. “A triumph of mood, setting, and innuendo” (Criterion Collection).
Series
Melville 100
Monday, July 17
Tuesday, July 18
Wednesday, July 19
Wednesday, July 19, 2017
7 PM
(81 mins)
As part of Canyon Cinema’s fiftieth-anniversary celebrations, Gehr makes a rare visit to the Bay Area to present a selection of his recent digital films: Picture Taking, Autumn, Transport, and A Commuter’s Life (What a Life!).
In Conversation
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Ernie Gehr
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Ken Eisenstein
Ken Eisenstein is an Assistant Professor at Bucknell University.
Thursday, July 20
Thursday, July 20, 2017
4–7 PM
Thursday, July 20, 2017
7 PM
Akira Kurosawa,
Japan,
1960,
(148 mins)
Kurosawa charts corporate evil as a company is torn from within by scandal, greed, and lust. “Enron meets Hamlet” (Film Forum). “Better than Shakespeare” (Francis Ford Coppola).
Friday, July 21
Friday, July 21, 2017
11:30 AM
Friday, July 21, 2017
3 PM
Friday, July 21, 2017
4–9 PM
Friday, July 21, 2017
6:30 PM
Lance Comfort,
United Kingdom,
1946,
(90 mins)
Archival Print
Based on the novel by Vera Caspary
A beatific housewife, a smitten husband, and a trail of dead spouses dwell in an isolated Connecticut house in this gothic tale of “disordered emotions.”
Friday, July 21, 2017
8:30 PM
Otto Preminger,
United States,
1944,
(88 mins)
Based on the novel by Vera Caspary
Detective Dana Andrews is enthralled by a portrait of elusive Gene Tierney in Preminger’s sleek noir, a study in duplicity that asks not just whodunit, but what “it” is. Featuring Clifton Webb and Vincent Price as preening rivals.
Saturday, July 22
Saturday, July 22, 2017
11 AM–9 PM
Saturday, July 22, 2017
6 PM
Mathilde Damoisel, Sylvie Jézéquel,
France, Switzerland,
2016,
(104 mins)
This new documentary offers an overview of the Ottoman Empire and its decline, the essential backstory of our world today.
Saturday, July 22, 2017
8:15 PM
Akira Kurosawa,
Japan,
1961,
(110 mins)
BAMPFA Student Committee Pick
Mifune is a sly, amoral mercenary in a town ruled by killers in Kurosawa’s tongue-in-cheek anti-epic. “A visually faultless and highly sophisticated satire on violence and human weakness” (Sight and Sound).
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Steven Okazaki
IntroductionSteven Okazaki is an Academy Award–winning Bay Area filmmaker and the director of Mifune: The Last Samurai. Note: Okazaki introduces the July 22 screening only.
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