Limited Engagements & Special Screenings 2017

Ongoing

Recent releases, restored classics, and special guests grace the Barbro Osher Theater.

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  • Faces Places

  • Blow-Up

  • Unforgiven

  • Mildred Pierce

  • California Typewriter

  • Dolores

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Past Films

  • Tampopo

    Juzo Itami
    Japan, 1986

    New 4K Restoration

    Friday, January 20 7 PM

    Juzo Itami’s hit Japanese satire of samurai films and Westerns, one of the best-loved foodie films ever made. “Gleefully sensual and inventive” (Film Comment).

     

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  • Tampopo

    Juzo Itami
    Japan, 1986

    New 4K Restoration

    Saturday, January 21 8:15 PM

    Juzo Itami’s hit Japanese satire of samurai films and Westerns, one of the best-loved foodie films ever made. “Gleefully sensual and inventive” (Film Comment).

     

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  • Tampopo

    Juzo Itami
    Japan, 1986

    New 4K Restoration

    Friday, January 27 4 PM

    Juzo Itami’s hit Japanese satire of samurai films and Westerns, one of the best-loved foodie films ever made. “Gleefully sensual and inventive” (Film Comment).

     

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  • In the Last Days of the City

    Tamer El Said
    Egypt/Germany, 2016

    East Bay Premiere

    Friday, January 27 7:30 PM

    A personal portrait of Cairo during the fall of the Mubarak regime, and a snapshot of the Arab Spring. “A city requiem rather than a city symphony” (Variety).

     

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  • The Battle of Algiers

    Gillo Pontecorvo
    Italy/Algeria, 1966

    New 4K Restoration

    Saturday, January 28 5:30 PM

    One of the best films on revolution ever made, Pontecorvo’s agit-prop classic concerns Algeria’s struggle for independence against its French overlords. “A masterpiece! Surely the most harrowing political epic ever!” (New Yorker).

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  • In the Last Days of the City

    Tamer El Said
    Egypt/Germany, 2016

    East Bay Premiere

    Sunday, January 29 4 PM

    A personal portrait of Cairo during the fall of the Mubarak regime, and a snapshot of the Arab Spring. “A city requiem rather than a city symphony” (Variety).

     

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  • In the Last Days of the City

    Tamer El Said
    Egypt/Germany, 2016

    East Bay Premiere

    Friday, February 3 4 PM

    A personal portrait of Cairo during the fall of the Mubarak regime, and a snapshot of the Arab Spring. “A city requiem rather than a city symphony” (Variety).

     

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  • The Battle of Algiers

    Gillo Pontecorvo
    Italy/Algeria, 1966

    New 4K Restoration

    Saturday, February 4 8:15 PM

    One of the best films on revolution ever made, Pontecorvo’s agit-prop classic concerns Algeria’s struggle for independence against its French overlords. “A masterpiece! Surely the most harrowing political epic ever!” (New Yorker).

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  • One-Eyed Jacks

    Marlon Brando
    United States, 1961

    New 4K Restoration

    Friday, February 10 7 PM

    Marlon Brando's first and only directorial effort, a Freudian Western loosely based on the legend of Billy the Kid. "Mean, moody, and magnificent" (Time Out).

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  • One-Eyed Jacks

    Marlon Brando
    United States, 1961

    New 4K Restoration

    Friday, February 17 4 PM

    Marlon Brando's first and only directorial effort, a Freudian Western loosely based on the legend of Billy the Kid. "Mean, moody, and magnificent" (Time Out).

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  • One-Eyed Jacks

    Marlon Brando
    United States, 1961

    New 4K Restoration

    Saturday, February 25 7:30 PM

    Marlon Brando's first and only directorial effort, a Freudian Western loosely based on the legend of Billy the Kid. "Mean, moody, and magnificent" (Time Out).

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  • Chan Is Missing

    Wayne Wang
    United States, 1982

    New 35mm Print

    Thursday, March 2 7 PM
    Wayne Wang in person

    Touted as the first all–Chinese American feature film, Wang’s irreverent, refreshingly authentic movie follows two cab drivers searching S.F.’s Chinatown for an elusive flim-flam man. “A small, whimsical treasure of a film” (Roger Ebert). With Wang’s short Dim Sum Take-Out.

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  • King of Jazz

    John Murray Anderson
    United States, 1930

    New 4K Digital Restoration

    Sunday, March 5 4:45 PM

    One of Hollywood’s most ambitious musicals, featuring the top jazz orchestras and dancers of the day, is brought back to life in this dazzling restoration from the original two-color Technicolor negative.

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  • King of Jazz

    John Murray Anderson
    United States, 1930

    New 4K Digital Restoration

    Friday, March 10 4 PM

    One of Hollywood’s most ambitious musicals, featuring the top jazz orchestras and dancers of the day, is brought back to life in this dazzling restoration from the original two-color Technicolor negative.

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  • King of Jazz

    John Murray Anderson
    United States, 1930

    New 4K Digital Restoration

    Saturday, March 11 4 PM

    One of Hollywood’s most ambitious musicals, featuring the top jazz orchestras and dancers of the day, is brought back to life in this dazzling restoration from the original two-color Technicolor negative.

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  • The Great Dictator

    Charles Chaplin
    United States, 1940
    Friday, March 24 4 PM

    Chaplin takes on that other famous guy with a small black moustache. “A time capsule, a timeless document and a profound work of conscience. . . . See it with a crowd” (San Francisco Chronicle).

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  • Gerhard Richter Painting

    Corinna Belz
    Germany, 2011
    Saturday, March 25 4 PM

    This strikingly visual document of artist Gerhard Richter’s creative process is “a must-see for followers of contemporary painting” (Hollywood Reporter).

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  • The Great Dictator

    Charles Chaplin
    United States, 1940
    Sunday, March 26 6:30 PM

    Chaplin takes on that other famous guy with a small black moustache. “A time capsule, a timeless document and a profound work of conscience. . . . See it with a crowd” (San Francisco Chronicle).

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  • The Great Dictator

    Charles Chaplin
    United States, 1940
    Thursday, March 30 7 PM

    Chaplin takes on that other famous guy with a small black moustache. “A time capsule, a timeless document and a profound work of conscience. . . . See it with a crowd” (San Francisco Chronicle).

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  • Gerhard Richter Painting

    Corinna Belz
    Germany, 2011
    Friday, March 31 4 PM

    This strikingly visual document of artist Gerhard Richter’s creative process is “a must-see for followers of contemporary painting” (Hollywood Reporter).

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  • Gerhard Richter Painting

    Corinna Belz
    Germany, 2011
    Saturday, April 1 4 PM

    This strikingly visual document of artist Gerhard Richter’s creative process is “a must-see for followers of contemporary painting” (Hollywood Reporter).

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  • My Love Affair with the Brain: The Life and Science of Dr. Marian Diamond

    Catherine Ryan, Gary Weimberg
    United States, 2016
    Saturday, April 22 2 PM
    Co-directors Catherine Ryan and Gary Weimberg will introduce the 4/22 screening, and introduce and lead a discussion following the 4/28 screening.

    This biography-cum-scientific adventure is a fascinating, engaging voyage into the human brain and the work of UCB professor emeritus Marian Diamond, one of the founders of modern neuroscience.

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  • Amarcord

    Federico Fellini
    Italy, 1974
    Sunday, April 23 7 PM

    Fellini’s free-spirited portrait of Rimini in the 1930s, when fascism was a fact of life, shines in this new print. “A film of exhilarating beauty” (New York Times).

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  • My Love Affair with the Brain: The Life and Science of Dr. Marian Diamond

    Catherine Ryan, Gary Weimberg
    United States, 2016
    Friday, April 28 4 PM
    Co-directors Catherine Ryan and Gary Weimberg will introduce the 4/22 screening, and introduce and lead a discussion following the 4/28 screening.

    This biography-cum-scientific adventure is a fascinating, engaging voyage into the human brain and the work of UCB professor emeritus Marian Diamond, one of the founders of modern neuroscience.

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  • Amarcord

    Federico Fellini
    Italy, 1974
    Saturday, April 29 5:30 PM

    Fellini’s free-spirited portrait of Rimini in the 1930s, when fascism was a fact of life, shines in this new print. “A film of exhilarating beauty” (New York Times).

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  • Amarcord

    Federico Fellini
    Italy, 1974
    Saturday, May 13 8 PM

    Fellini’s free-spirited portrait of Rimini in the 1930s, when fascism was a fact of life, shines in this new print. “A film of exhilarating beauty” (New York Times).

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  • Kedi

    Ceyda Torun
    Turkey, United States, 2016
    Wednesday, June 7 7 PM

    A “splendidly graceful and quietly magical documentary about the multifaceted feline population of Istanbul” (Variety).

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  • Kedi

    Ceyda Torun
    Turkey, United States, 2016
    Friday, June 9 6:30 PM

    A “splendidly graceful and quietly magical documentary about the multifaceted feline population of Istanbul” (Variety).

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  • Kedi

    Ceyda Torun
    Turkey, United States, 2016
    Sunday, June 11 5 PM

    A “splendidly graceful and quietly magical documentary about the multifaceted feline population of Istanbul” (Variety).

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  • Notes on Blindness

    Peter Middleton, James Spinney
    United Kingdom, France, 2016
    Saturday, June 17 6:30 PM

    A taped journal that theologian John Hull (1935–2015) kept after the onset of blindness in 1980 forms the basis of this “beautiful, accessible, and thoughtful work of art” (The Guardian).

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  • An Evening with Sophie Calle

    Thursday, June 22 7 PM

    Combining a key early work, a recent documentary, and an in-person discussion, this special evening provides an unparalleled introduction to one of the world’s leading contemporary artists. Featuring No Sex Last Night and the documentary Sophie Calle, Untitled.

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  • Notes on Blindness

    Peter Middleton, James Spinney
    United Kingdom, France, 2016
    Saturday, June 24 8:30 PM

    A taped journal that theologian John Hull (1935–2015) kept after the onset of blindness in 1980 forms the basis of this “beautiful, accessible, and thoughtful work of art” (The Guardian).

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  • Panique

    Julien Duvivier
    France, 1947

    New Digital Restoration

    Sunday, July 2 4:30 PM

    Duvivier’s long-unseen Simenon adaptation, starring Michel Simon and Viviane Romance, is an “allegory of wartime collaborationism and the cruel madness of rumor, fear and spite” (Village Voice).

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  • Revolution: New Art for a New World

    Margy Kinmonth
    United Kingdom, 2016
    Saturday, July 8 6:30 PM

    “Stunning research and archive footage conjures Revolutionary Russia and the courage of artists in the avant-garde” (State Magazine).

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  • Revolution: New Art for a New World

    Margy Kinmonth
    United Kingdom, 2016
    Sunday, July 9 5 PM

    “Stunning research and archive footage conjures Revolutionary Russia and the courage of artists in the avant-garde” (State Magazine).

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  • Panique

    Julien Duvivier
    France, 1947

    New Digital Restoration

    Friday, July 14 6:30 PM

    Duvivier’s long-unseen Simenon adaptation, starring Michel Simon and Viviane Romance, is an “allegory of wartime collaborationism and the cruel madness of rumor, fear and spite” (Village Voice).

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  • Revolution: New Art for a New World

    Margy Kinmonth
    United Kingdom, 2016
    Saturday, July 15 6:30 PM

    “Stunning research and archive footage conjures Revolutionary Russia and the courage of artists in the avant-garde” (State Magazine).

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  • Panique

    Julien Duvivier
    France, 1947

    New Digital Restoration

    Saturday, July 15 8:15 PM

    Duvivier’s long-unseen Simenon adaptation, starring Michel Simon and Viviane Romance, is an “allegory of wartime collaborationism and the cruel madness of rumor, fear and spite” (Village Voice).

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  • An Evening with Ernie Gehr

    Wednesday, July 19 7 PM

    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!).

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  • Panique

    Julien Duvivier
    France, 1947

    New Digital Restoration

    Saturday, July 29 8 PM

    Duvivier’s long-unseen Simenon adaptation, starring Michel Simon and Viviane Romance, is an “allegory of wartime collaborationism and the cruel madness of rumor, fear and spite” (Village Voice).

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  • Obit.

    Vanessa Gould
    United States, 2016
    Friday, August 11 8:30 PM

    “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).

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  • Obit.

    Vanessa Gould
    United States, 2016
    Sunday, August 13 5 PM

    “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).

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  • Obit.

    Vanessa Gould
    United States, 2016
    Sunday, August 20 7 PM

    “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).

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  • Il Boom

    Vittorio De Sica
    Italy, 1963

    Digital Restoration
    Bay Area Theatrical Premiere!

    Friday, September 1 6:30 PM

    The director of The Bicycle Thief shows off his comic side in this hilarious sendup of Italy’s early 1960s economic miracle, starring the great Italian comic Alberto Sordi and finally released theatrically in the US after over fifty years.

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  • Il Boom

    Vittorio De Sica
    Italy, 1963

    Digital Restoration
    Bay Area Theatrical Premiere!

    Saturday, September 2 6 PM

    The director of The Bicycle Thief shows off his comic side in this hilarious sendup of Italy’s early 1960s economic miracle, starring the great Italian comic Alberto Sordi and finally released theatrically in the US after over fifty years.

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  • Stalker

    Andrei Tarkovsky
    USSR, 1979

    Digital Restoration

    Saturday, September 9 7 PM

    A writer, a scientist, and their “stalker” guide venture into a mysterious wasteland known as the Zone. “A dense, complex, often contradictory, and endlessly pliable allegory about human consciousness” (Slant).

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  • Il Boom

    Vittorio De Sica
    Italy, 1963

    Digital Restoration
    Bay Area Theatrical Premiere!

    Sunday, September 10 7 PM

    The director of The Bicycle Thief shows off his comic side in this hilarious sendup of Italy’s early 1960s economic miracle, starring the great Italian comic Alberto Sordi and finally released theatrically in the US after over fifty years.

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  • Serenade for Haiti

    Owsley Brown
    United States, 2016
    Friday, September 15 7:30 PM
    Owsley Brown in Person (September 15 screening only)

    Shot over a period of years both before and after Haiti’s deadly 2010 earthquake, this vibrant documentary testifies to the role of music in creating community and sustaining hope under the most difficult of circumstances.

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  • Le bonheur

    Agnès Varda
    France, 1965

    BAMPFA Collection Print

    Saturday, September 16 5:30 PM

    Agnès Varda’s strikingly colorful, lyrical film examines a love triangle within a circular structure.

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  • Le bonheur

    Agnès Varda
    France, 1965

    BAMPFA Collection Print

    Friday, September 22 4 PM

    Agnès Varda’s strikingly colorful, lyrical film examines a love triangle within a circular structure.

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  • Stalker

    Andrei Tarkovsky
    USSR, 1979

    Digital Restoration

    Friday, September 22 7 PM

    A writer, a scientist, and their “stalker” guide venture into a mysterious wasteland known as the Zone. “A dense, complex, often contradictory, and endlessly pliable allegory about human consciousness” (Slant).

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  • Il Boom

    Vittorio De Sica
    Italy, 1963

    Digital Restoration
    Bay Area Theatrical Premiere!

    Saturday, September 23 6 PM

    The director of The Bicycle Thief shows off his comic side in this hilarious sendup of Italy’s early 1960s economic miracle, starring the great Italian comic Alberto Sordi and finally released theatrically in the US after over fifty years.

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  • Serenade for Haiti

    Owsley Brown
    United States, 2016
    Sunday, September 24 3 PM
    Owsley Brown in Person (September 15 screening only)

    Shot over a period of years both before and after Haiti’s deadly 2010 earthquake, this vibrant documentary testifies to the role of music in creating community and sustaining hope under the most difficult of circumstances.

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  • Il Boom

    Vittorio De Sica
    Italy, 1963

    Digital Restoration
    Bay Area Theatrical Premiere!

    Friday, September 29 4 PM

    The director of The Bicycle Thief shows off his comic side in this hilarious sendup of Italy’s early 1960s economic miracle, starring the great Italian comic Alberto Sordi and finally released theatrically in the US after over fifty years.

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  • Serenade for Haiti

    Owsley Brown
    United States, 2016
    Saturday, September 30 6:15 PM
    Owsley Brown in Person (September 15 screening only)

    Shot over a period of years both before and after Haiti’s deadly 2010 earthquake, this vibrant documentary testifies to the role of music in creating community and sustaining hope under the most difficult of circumstances.

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  • Serenade for Haiti

    Owsley Brown
    United States, 2016
    Sunday, October 8 2 PM
    Owsley Brown in Person (September 15 screening only)

    Shot over a period of years both before and after Haiti’s deadly 2010 earthquake, this vibrant documentary testifies to the role of music in creating community and sustaining hope under the most difficult of circumstances.

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  • Horse Feathers

    Norman McLeod
    United States, 1932
    Friday, October 20 4 PM

    BAMPFA celebrates Homecoming Weekend with this perennial favorite in which college president Groucho and the other Marx Brothers wreak havoc on higher education.

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  • Horse Feathers

    Norman McLeod
    United States, 1932
    Saturday, October 21 4:30 PM

    BAMPFA celebrates Homecoming Weekend with this perennial favorite in which college president Groucho and the other Marx Brothers wreak havoc on higher education.

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  • Horse Feathers

    Norman McLeod
    United States, 1932
    Sunday, October 22 2 PM

    BAMPFA celebrates Homecoming Weekend with this perennial favorite in which college president Groucho and the other Marx Brothers wreak havoc on higher education.

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  • The End of the Ottoman Empire

    Mathilde Damoisel, Sylvie Jézéquel
    France, Switzerland, 2016

    Film to Table dinner follows the November 4 screening

    Saturday, November 4 5 PM

    Back by popular demand! This new documentary offers an overview of the Ottoman Empire and its decline, the essential backstory of our world today.

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  • The End of the Ottoman Empire

    Mathilde Damoisel, Sylvie Jézéquel
    France, Switzerland, 2016

    Film to Table dinner follows the November 4 screening

    Friday, November 10 4 PM

    Back by popular demand! This new documentary offers an overview of the Ottoman Empire and its decline, the essential backstory of our world today.

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  • Almost Sunrise

    Michael Collins
    US, 2016

    Veterans Day screening cosponsored by KQED and the Cal Veteran Services Center at UC Berkeley

    Saturday, November 11 4:30 PM
    Michael Collins, Tom Voss, Anthony Anderson, Marty Syjuco, and Rita Nakashima Brock in Person

    This documentary follows two friends as they walk from Wisconsin to California to bring attention to the plight of veterans of the Afghan and Iraq wars. “Deepen[s] the picture of what troubles many veterans” (New York Times).

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  • Dolores

    Peter Bratt
    US, 2017
    Sunday, November 12 7 PM

    Peter Bratt’s intimate yet universal documentary profiles one of the US’s most dedicated community organizers, Dolores Huerta (cofounder of the United Farm Workers), and reveals the raw, personal stakes involved in committing one’s life to social justice.

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  • Dolores

    Peter Bratt
    US, 2017
    Saturday, November 18 3:30 PM

    Peter Bratt’s intimate yet universal documentary profiles one of the US’s most dedicated community organizers, Dolores Huerta (cofounder of the United Farm Workers), and reveals the raw, personal stakes involved in committing one’s life to social justice.

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  • Blow-Up

    Michelangelo Antonioni
    United Kingdom, 1966

    New Digital Restoration

    Saturday, November 18 8 PM

    “Set in a vividly mod Swinging London, Antonioni’s first English-language film [is] a cryptic murder mystery . . . a landmark of the decade’s observational outrage and Pop disposability” (Time Out).

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  • The End of the Ottoman Empire

    Mathilde Damoisel, Sylvie Jézéquel
    France, Switzerland, 2016

    Film to Table dinner follows the November 4 screening

    Sunday, November 19 2:30 PM

    Back by popular demand! This new documentary offers an overview of the Ottoman Empire and its decline, the essential backstory of our world today.

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  • Dolores

    Peter Bratt
    US, 2017
    Friday, November 24 5:30 PM

    Peter Bratt’s intimate yet universal documentary profiles one of the US’s most dedicated community organizers, Dolores Huerta (cofounder of the United Farm Workers), and reveals the raw, personal stakes involved in committing one’s life to social justice.

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  • Blow-Up

    Michelangelo Antonioni
    United Kingdom, 1966

    New Digital Restoration

    Friday, November 24 7:30 PM

    “Set in a vividly mod Swinging London, Antonioni’s first English-language film [is] a cryptic murder mystery . . . a landmark of the decade’s observational outrage and Pop disposability” (Time Out).

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  • Blow-Up

    Michelangelo Antonioni
    United Kingdom, 1966

    New Digital Restoration

    Friday, December 1 7 PM

    “Set in a vividly mod Swinging London, Antonioni’s first English-language film [is] a cryptic murder mystery . . . a landmark of the decade’s observational outrage and Pop disposability” (Time Out).

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  • The End of the Ottoman Empire

    Mathilde Damoisel, Sylvie Jézéquel
    France, Switzerland, 2016

    Film to Table dinner follows the November 4 screening

    Saturday, December 2 4 PM

    Back by popular demand! This new documentary offers an overview of the Ottoman Empire and its decline, the essential backstory of our world today.

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  • Dolores

    Peter Bratt
    US, 2017
    Sunday, December 3 2:30 PM

    Peter Bratt’s intimate yet universal documentary profiles one of the US’s most dedicated community organizers, Dolores Huerta (cofounder of the United Farm Workers), and reveals the raw, personal stakes involved in committing one’s life to social justice.

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  • Faces Places

    Agnès Varda, JR
    France, 2017
    Friday, December 8 7 PM

    Forever young-at-heart filmmaker (and French New Wave legend) Agnès Varda teams up with hipster artist JR on a road trip across rural France. A first-rate achievement in Varda’s brilliant career.

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  • Faces Places

    Agnès Varda, JR
    France, 2017
    Wednesday, December 13 7 PM

    Forever young-at-heart filmmaker (and French New Wave legend) Agnès Varda teams up with hipster artist JR on a road trip across rural France. A first-rate achievement in Varda’s brilliant career.

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  • Mildred Pierce

    Michael Curtiz
    US, 1945

    New Digital Restoration

    Friday, December 15 7 PM

    Joan Crawford won an Oscar for her driven performance in this noir melodrama that exposed the nightmare side of upward mobility and domestic virtue.

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  • California Typewriter

    Doug Nichol
    United States, 2016
    Saturday, December 16 3:30 PM

    This hymn to the ordinary typewriter is also a portrait of the countless artists, writers, and collectors (including Tom Hanks and Sam Shepard) who remain steadfast in their love and loyalty. “Pure typewriter heaven” (Don DeLillo).

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  • Faces Places

    Agnès Varda, JR
    France, 2017
    Sunday, December 17 4 PM

    Forever young-at-heart filmmaker (and French New Wave legend) Agnès Varda teams up with hipster artist JR on a road trip across rural France. A first-rate achievement in Varda’s brilliant career.

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  • California Typewriter

    Doug Nichol
    United States, 2016
    Friday, December 22 4 PM

    This hymn to the ordinary typewriter is also a portrait of the countless artists, writers, and collectors (including Tom Hanks and Sam Shepard) who remain steadfast in their love and loyalty. “Pure typewriter heaven” (Don DeLillo).

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  • Unforgiven

    Clint Eastwood
    US, 1992

    New Digital Restoration

    Friday, December 22 7 PM

    Clint Eastwood’s Western opus chronicles a retired, reformed gunman roped back into action by a much younger (and dumber) man. “A tense, hard-edged, superbly dramatic yarn” (Todd McCarthy, Variety).

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  • California Typewriter

    Doug Nichol
    United States, 2016
    Saturday, December 23 3:30 PM

    This hymn to the ordinary typewriter is also a portrait of the countless artists, writers, and collectors (including Tom Hanks and Sam Shepard) who remain steadfast in their love and loyalty. “Pure typewriter heaven” (Don DeLillo).

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  • Mildred Pierce

    Michael Curtiz
    US, 1945

    New Digital Restoration

    Saturday, December 23 8:15 PM

    Joan Crawford won an Oscar for her driven performance in this noir melodrama that exposed the nightmare side of upward mobility and domestic virtue.

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  • Mildred Pierce

    Michael Curtiz
    US, 1945

    New Digital Restoration

    Wednesday, December 27 2 PM

    Joan Crawford won an Oscar for her driven performance in this noir melodrama that exposed the nightmare side of upward mobility and domestic virtue.

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  • California Typewriter

    Doug Nichol
    United States, 2016
    Thursday, December 28 2 PM

    This hymn to the ordinary typewriter is also a portrait of the countless artists, writers, and collectors (including Tom Hanks and Sam Shepard) who remain steadfast in their love and loyalty. “Pure typewriter heaven” (Don DeLillo).

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  • Faces Places

    Agnès Varda, JR
    France, 2017
    Thursday, December 28 4:30 PM

    Forever young-at-heart filmmaker (and French New Wave legend) Agnès Varda teams up with hipster artist JR on a road trip across rural France. A first-rate achievement in Varda’s brilliant career.

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  • Unforgiven

    Clint Eastwood
    US, 1992

    New Digital Restoration

    Friday, December 29 4 PM

    Clint Eastwood’s Western opus chronicles a retired, reformed gunman roped back into action by a much younger (and dumber) man. “A tense, hard-edged, superbly dramatic yarn” (Todd McCarthy, Variety).

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