Sunday, August 20
Sunday, August 20, 2017
11 AM-7 PM
Sunday, August 20, 2017
5 PM
Terence Davies,
United Kingdom,
1988,
(84 mins)
Davies mines family memories, both painful and bittersweet, for an elliptical, luminous, and moving portrait of working-class life in midcentury Liverpool. “Becomes its own kind of poetry: taut, referential, inward, brilliant” (Los Angeles Times).
Sunday, August 20, 2017
7 PM
Vanessa Gould,
United States,
2016,
(95 mins)
“An entertaining inside look at the obituary writers of The New York Times. . . . [This] doc makes a strong case for the well-wrought obituary as something of an art form” (Film Journal International).
Monday, August 21
Tuesday, August 22
Wednesday, August 23
Wednesday, August 23, 2017
7 PM
Terence Davies,
United Kingdom,
2016,
(124 mins)
Cynthia Nixon portrays the poet Emily Dickinson in this “absolute drop-dead masterwork” (Richard Brody) that imbues the structure of the biopic with the elliptical intensity of poetry.
Thursday, August 24
Thursday, August 24, 2017
4-7 PM
Thursday, August 24, 2017
7 PM
Akira Kurosawa,
Japan,
1963,
(143 mins)
A kidnapping becomes a moral dilemma for executive Mifune in “one of the best detective thrillers ever filmed” (New York Times).
Friday, August 25
Friday, August 25, 2017
4-9 PM
Friday, August 25, 2017
7 PM
Terence Davies,
United Kingdom,
2008,
Davies’s lyrical cine-poem about his hometown of Liverpool, as well as Catholicism, homosexuality, violence, death, loss, childhood, and the glory of cinema. “Mesmerizing and eloquent” (Jonathan Rosenbaum).
Friday, August 25, 2017
8:40 PM
Pedro Almodóvar,
Spain,
2002,
(112 mins)
Almodóvar won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for this film involving the odd friendship between two men, each with a lover in a coma. “Almodóvar’s most mature and mysterious movie” (Newsweek).
Saturday, August 26
Saturday, August 26, 2017
11 AM-9 PM
Saturday, August 26, 2017
2 PM
(40 mins)
Free on our outdoor screen
The City of Berkeley presents a free outdoor screening of the 2017 documentary celebrating the life of Berkeley street philosopher Mark Hawthorne, better known as the Hate Man.
Saturday, August 26, 2017
6:30 PM
Terence Davies,
United Kingdom,
1992,
(85 mins)
Depicting a cinephilic childhood in 1950s England, Davies paints a world of music, shadows, and light. “A marriage of individual and collective memory consecrated by the movies” (Village Voice).
Saturday, August 26, 2017
8:30 PM
Pedro Almodóvar,
Spain,
2004,
(106 mins)
Gael García Bernal stars in Almodóvar’s intricate hybrid of film noir, melodrama, autobiography, and Catholic Church exposé involving two old friends revisiting their troubled Catholic school days. “A bold and far-reaching summation of his career to date” (A.V. Club).
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