A Theater Near You

7/5/07 to 8/21/07

This summer's installment in our ongoing repertory series brings you East Bay premieres of major new films by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Tsai Ming-liang, and Corneliu Porumboiu, plus a special pre-broadcast premiere of Steven Okazaki's compelling documentary White Light/Black Rain and new prints of classics by Altman, Ichikawa, and Kurosawa.

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  • Syndromes and a Century, July 13, 15|Syndromes and a Century, July 13, 15

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  • The Long Goodbye

    Thursday, July 5 7:30pm
    Robert Altman's casually ironic, surprisingly apt adaptation casts Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe adrift in seventies L.A. With Elliott Gould, Sterling Hayden, and stunning widescreen photography by Vilmos Zsigmond, showcased in this new print. Repeated on Saturday, July 7.
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  • The Long Goodbye

    Saturday, July 7 5:45pm
    Please see Thursday, July 5.
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  • Syndromes and a Century

    Friday, July 13 7:00pm
    By the director of Blissfully Yours and Tropical Malady, a shimmering Thai portrait of love and remembrance, mirrored in two parts, rural and urban. Repeated on Sunday, July 15.
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  • I Don't Want to Sleep Alone

    Friday, July 13 9:05pm
    Several nocturnal wanderers search for connection in the latest from Tsai Ming-liang (The Hole, Goodbye Dragon Inn), set in the crumbling mega-city of Kuala Lumpur. "Looks ravishing."-Variety. Repeated on Sunday, July 15.
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  • 12:08 East of Bucharest

    Saturday, July 14 8:20pm
    A TV talk show turns into a battle over the success of the Romanian Revolution in this hilarious Eastern European allegory. "Savvy but concrete, gentle but sharp as a knife."-Variety
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  • Syndromes and a Century

    Sunday, July 15 5:00pm
    Please see Friday, July 13.
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  • I Don't Want to Sleep Alone

    Sunday, July 15 7:05pm
    Please see Friday, July 13.
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  • White Light/Black Rain

    Thursday, August 2 7:30pm
    Steven Okazaki in Person. Academy Award–winning Bay Area documentarian Okazaki (Days of Waiting; American Sons) presents the most thorough visual and narrative account yet of the events of the Nagasaki and Hiroshima bombings, told through the recollections and photos of survivors.
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  • Fires on the Plain

    Saturday, August 18 5:45pm
    Kon Ichikawa's grim antiwar classic about the last days of the Pacific War, set amidst a weakened Japanese army in Leyte. "So powerfully felt and intensely expressed it turns rage into beauty."-Pauline Kael
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  • High and Low

    Tuesday, August 21 7:30pm
    A kidnapping becomes a moral dilemma for executive Toshiro Mifune in Akira Kurosawa's take on the American police thriller, adapted from an Ed McBain novel. "One of the best detective thrillers ever filmed . . . both spine-tingling and compassionate."-N.Y. Times
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