From Today Until Tomorrow 7:30, 8:45Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub (Germany/France, 1997)(Von Heute auf Morgen). PFA celebrates a new acquisition to the collection, straight from its Bay Area premiere at the San Francisco Film Festival. Based on a rarely performed Schoenberg opera from 1929, From Today Until Tomorrow explores one night in a marriage. A husband and wife return from a party where she has flirted with another man while he has cast an appraising eye toward an attractive acquaintance of his wife's. Each dreams, briefly, of leaving the marriage for the excitement and mystery of a new lover. Directors Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub (The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach, 1968; Moses and Aaron, 1975) present Shoenberg to us in long fixed shots and austere black and white so that the focus remains on the musical brilliance of the twelve-tone score and the voices of Richard Salter and Christine Whittlesey. That Schoenberg would choose such a relatively lighthearted message for his musical language-especially since the conclusion reached by the husband and wife, to stick with the tried and true, seems directly at odds with his own philosophy of composing-only adds to the compelling mystery of this film. Based on the opera by Arnold Schoenberg. Photographed by William Lubtchansky. Performed by Symphony Orchestra of Frankfurt Radio, conducted by Michael Gielen. With Christine Whittlesey, Richard Salter, Claudia Barainsky, Ryszard Karczykowski. (62 mins, In German with English subtitles, B&W, 35mm, PFA Collection)Sunday May 10, 1998