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5:30 pm
Sunday, September 29, 2013
5:30 pm
Yuan Muzhi (China, 1937). (Malu Tianshi). Arguably the finest example of Shanghai's Golden Age, Street Angel is an intoxicating blend of Chinese leftist populism, Hollywood pizzazz, song numbers, French poetic-realist doom, comedic slapstick, and city symphony. (94 mins)
7:30 pm
Sunday, September 29, 2013
7:30 pm
Pier Paolo Pasolini (Italy, 1967). New 35mm Print! A dreamlike evocation of the Oedipus myth, filmed in Moroccan landscapes and set to music as disparate as Romanian folk tunes and Japanese pieces. (104 mins)
Series
Pier Paolo Pasolini
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Wednesday, October 2, 2013
7 pm
Student filmmakers in person. Student curators in person. The films in this year's festival reveal the myriad themes that preoccupy the minds of young filmmakers across the Bay Area. (94 mins)
Series
Alternative Visions
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Thursday, October 3, 2013
7 pm
Pier Paolo Pasolini (Italy, 1970). New 35mm Print! Pasolini's documentary-mainly handheld 16mm footage-on his preparations to film a modern-day version of Aeschylus's Oresteia in Uganda and Tanzania. With The Walls of Sana'a.
(86 mins)
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Pier Paolo Pasolini
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Friday, October 4, 2013
7 pm
Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Germany, 1969). "A restless and sombre foray into the black-and-white world of the Hollywood gangster film as interpreted by B-movie mavericks (and) stripped bare by Fassbinder" (Time Out). (88 mins)
7:30 pm
Friday, October 4, 2013
7:30 pm
Hal Ashby ( U.S., 1971). Free outdoor movie! Plus shorts and other surprises. Cult favorite starring a twenty-year-old (Bud Cort) who falls for a seventy-nine-year-old (Ruth Gordon). Filmed in Berkeley, with music by Cat Stevens. (91 mins)
Series
Endless Summer Cinema
8:50 pm
Friday, October 4, 2013
8:50 pm
Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Germany, 1973). The unlikely love between a washerwoman in her sixties and a Moroccan guest worker twenty years her junior is the subject of Fassbinder's bitter and touching homage to Douglas Sirk. (93 mins)
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6:30 pm
Saturday, October 5, 2013
6:30 pm
Pier Paolo Pasolini (Italy, 1968). New 35mm Print! Pasolini's first film shot in a bourgeois milieu is predicated on the theorem that “anything done by the bourgeoisie, however sincere, profound and noble it is, is on the wrong track.” (105 mins)
Series
Pier Paolo Pasolini
8:35 pm
Saturday, October 5, 2013
8:35 pm
Hal Kanter (U.S., 1957). Things are not going well for old-timey musician Tex Warner (Wendell Corey) and His Rough Ridin' Ramblers, until a local boy steps out of the crowd: Elvis Presley. The King, in only his second film, puts his best pelvis forward and knocks 'em dead with multiple songs, including “Teddy Bear.” (101 mins)
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5:30 pm
Sunday, October 6, 2013
5:30 pm
Lou Ye (China, 2000). (Suzhou He). In this atmospheric noir thriller, which doubles as a city symphony to Shanghai's eternal mysteries, a videographer searches for work, and for a lost love. (83 mins)
7:15 pm
Sunday, October 6, 2013
7:15 pm
Pier Paolo Pasolini (Italy, 1966). New 35mm Print! The great Italian comic Totò plays opposite Pasolini discovery Ninetto Davoli in this Brechtian slapstick set in the time of St. Francis. (89 mins)
Series
Pier Paolo Pasolini
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7 pm
Tuesday, October 8, 2013
7 pm
Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Germany, 1972/74). Fontane's nineteenth-century novel adapted into a classic and elegant film. "A kaleidoscopic perspective on the moral attitudes taken by all those involved with Effi...delicately and willfully portrayed by Hanna Schygulla" (Judy Stone, SF Chronicle). (141 mins)
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Wednesday, October 9, 2013
7 pm
Wednesday, October 9, 2013
7 pm
Marielle Nitoslawska (Canada, 2012). Introduced by Anne Walsh. A sensual, highly textured meditation on the creative process of artist Carolee Schneemann, intermixing the artist's personal reflections with documentation of her art. (100 mins)
Series
Alternative Visions
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7 pm
Thursday, October 10, 2013
7 pm
Moumen Smihi (Morocco, 1975). (El Chergui). Moumen Smihi in person. Life in the medina on the cusp of Moroccan independence, amid the contradictions of colonialism, religion, patriarchy, and resistance. Smihi's debut feature, one of Moroccan and Arab cinema's most groundbreaking films. (80 mins)
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7 pm
Friday, October 11, 2013
7 pm
Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Germany, 1969). Imported Print! The name means "troublemaker," fitting for Fassbinder, who cast himself as a despised immigrant worker, the butt of bored youth in a Munich backwater. "A gritty, low-budget tour de force" (Village Voice). (88 mins)
8:50 pm
Friday, October 11, 2013
8:50 pm
Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Germany, 1969). A lowlife gangster flick in which the camera gets all the best lines. With Schygulla, Von Trotta, Ingrid Caven. (91 mins)
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6:15 pm
Saturday, October 12, 2013
6:15 pm
Pier Paolo Pasolini (Italy, 1969). New 35mm Print! Photographed in brilliant color in Syria, Turkey, and Italy, Medea is an exotic and controversial reconstruction of the Greek legend featuring Maria Callas in her first and only film. (110 mins)
Series
Pier Paolo Pasolini
8:30 pm
Saturday, October 12, 2013
8:30 pm
Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Germany, 1978). Hanna Schygulla became the new Dietrich with her ironic performance as an emblem of Germany's postwar economic miracle. "Brilliantly complex...splendid and mysterious" (NY Times). (120 mins)
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Sunday, October 13, 2013
5:30 pm
Pier Paolo Pasolini (Italy, 1966–68). Pasolini's contributions to three omnibus films: The Earth as Seen from the Moon, What Are the Clouds?, and The Paper Flower. (64 mins)
Series
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Sunday, October 13, 2013
7pm
Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Germany, 1975). The story of a depressed bricklayer desperate to win the approval and love he has been denied through his childhood. "A grim Germanic variation on a classic theme that can never bear too much repeating: Can't buy me love" (Stephen Holden, NY Times). (104 mins)
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Wednesday, October 16, 2013
7 pm
Phil Solomon (U.S., 1983–2013). Phil Solomon in person. New Restorations! “Over a three-decade career, filmmaker Phil Solomon has established himself as one of the great visionary artists of American experimental cinema” (National Gallery of Art). (69 mins)
Series
Alternative Visions
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7 pm
Thursday, October 17, 2013
7 pm
Moumen Smihi (Morocco, 1999). (Chroniques Marocaines). Moumen Smihi in person. Smihi pays tribute to the art of storytelling-and the grace of life-in this collection of four tales, four cities, and multiple realities. (70 mins)
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7 pm
Friday, October 18, 2013
7 pm
Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Germany, 1970). Fassbinder called this film about a Vietnam vet in Munich "a study of a perfect killer." David Denby called it "a film esthete's dream of a gangster movie, all languorous gesture and sullen aggression." (80 mins)
8:40 pm
Friday, October 18, 2013
8:40 pm
Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Germany, 1970). Fassbinder's version of a film crew beset with personality clashes and other problems. With Eddie Constantine, Hanna Schygulla, Werner Schroeter, Lou Castel, and Fassbinder. (103 mins)
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6:15 pm
Saturday, October 19, 2013
6:15 pm
Pier Paolo Pasolini (Italy, 1962). New 35mm Print! Pasolini captured the great Anna Magnani “like a found object” (Village Voice) in her role as a spirited prostitute; her downtrodden exuberance stands in for Rome itself. (111 mins)
Series
Pier Paolo Pasolini
8:30 pm
Saturday, October 19, 2013
8:30 pm
Pier Paolo Pasolini (Italy, 1969). New 35mm Print! A film in two parts (Orgy and Pigsty) about cannibalism and bestiality. "It may be unlovable, but it is triumphantly unforgettable” (Richard Roud). Adults only. (98 mins)
Series
Pier Paolo Pasolini
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3 pm
Sunday, October 20, 2013
3 pm
Moumen Smihi (Morocco, 2005). (El Ayel: Le gosse de Tanger). Introduced by Moumen Smihi. The first installment of Smihi's trilogy about a young boy coming of age in 1950s Tangier. An elegy to the port city's polyglot cultural tapestry and elegant architecture. (83 mins)
5 pm
Sunday, October 20, 2013
5 pm
Moumen Smihi (Morocco, 2008). (Les hirondelles: Les cris de jeunes filles des hirondelles). Moumen Smihi in person. New Print! In this second installment of Smihi's Tangier chronicles, Larbi Salmi hovers between childhood and manhood, soaking in the city's unique blend of American, European, and Arabic cultural and intellectual influences. (80 mins)
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Tuesday, October 22, 2013
7 pm
Paul Chan (U.S., 2005–10). Paul Chan and Ted Purves in conversation. Documentation of artist/activist Paul Chan's staging of Waiting for Godot in Katrina-devastated New Orleans, plus videos exploring the state of America, post-9/11. (90 mins, plus conversation)
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Wednesday, October 23, 2013
7 pm
Paul Chan (U.S., 2010–13). Paul Chan in person. Introduced by Apsara DiQuinzio. Chan's video essay on Iraq just prior to the American invasion, plus other projects by the artist/activist, including his new experimental press Badlands Unlimited. (90 mins)
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Thursday, October 24, 2013
7 pm
Moumen Smihi (Morocco, 1981). (44 ou les récits de la nuit). Moumen Smihi and Peter Limbrick in Conversation. New print! Smihi's most epic work illuminates forty-four years of Moroccan history through a series of visually striking tableaux, inspired by 1001 Nights and Ulysses. (110 mins)
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Friday, October 25, 2013
7 pm
Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Germany, 1971). The story of a hapless fruit peddler told as "a virtuoso balance of soap opera, social comedy, irony, politics, farce, and brilliant ensemble acting" (New Yorker Films). (89 mins)
8:50 pm
Friday, October 25, 2013
8:50 pm
Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Germany, 1975). Margit Carstensen portrays a young mother in the grip of anxiety. Vincent Canby called this small film "perfectly sculpted...a distillation of reality-a dream in which everything counts." (88 mins)
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6:15 pm
Saturday, October 26, 2013
6:15 pm
Pier Paolo Pasolini (Italy, 1971). New 35mm Print! "One of the most beautiful, turbulent and uproarious panoramas of early Renaissance life ever put on film” (NY Times). Adults only.(111 mins)
Series
Pier Paolo Pasolini
8:30 pm
Saturday, October 26, 2013
8:30 pm
Pier Paolo Pasolini (Italy, 1972). New 35mm Print! “Chaucer is played for maximum ribaldry . . . (this adaptation is) uniformly gorgeous” (Village Voice). Adults only. (123 mins)
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Pier Paolo Pasolini
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5 pm
Sunday, October 27, 2013
5 pm
Pier Paolo Pasolini (Italy, 1974). New 35mm Print! A magic-carpet fantasy rooted in realism, filmed in North Africa, Iran, and Nepal. “Pasolini's most beautiful film” (Tony Rayns). Adults only. (129 mins)
Series
Pier Paolo Pasolini
7:30 pm
Sunday, October 27, 2013
7:30 pm
Moumen Smihi (Morocco, 2012). (Tanjaoui: Peines de coeur et tourments du jeune Tanjaoui Larbi Salmi). Moumen Smihi in person. New Print! Set in the early 1960s, the third part of Smihi's Tangier trilogy finds Larbi Salmi navigating both young adulthood and the early years of Moroccan independence. (95 mins)
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Tuesday, October 29, 2013
7 pm
Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Germany, 1972). The well-crafted world of a famous designer is slowly unraveled by the treachery of love. "A haute-couture lesbian pajama party with silken, knowing dialogue" (David Denby, New Yorker). (124 mins)
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Wednesday, October 30, 2013
7 pm
Abigail Child (U.S., 1983–2013). Abigail Child in person. Works spanning thirty years of the filmmaker's career, from 16mm to digital, that reveal Child's roots in language poetry, and feature her genre-jumping juxtapositions of public and private histories. (73 mins)
Series
Alternative Visions
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Thursday, October 31, 2013
7 pm
Pier Paolo Pasolini (Italy, 1975). New 35mm Print! Pasolini's most controversial film-a graphic adaptation of the Marquis de Sade's famous work, adapted to an Italian Fascist milieu-“has not been tamed by the passage of years” (LA Times). Adults only. (117 mins)
Series
Pier Paolo Pasolini
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7 pm
Friday, November 1, 2013
7 pm
Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Germany, 1976). Student Pick! Fassbinder out-Buñuels the master in this camp satire on the haute bourgeoisie starring Anna Karina and Margit Carstensen. "The humor fits the cruelty like a boot fits a groin" (Time Out). (86 mins)
8:50 pm
Friday, November 1, 2013
8:50 pm
Douglas Sirk (U.S., 1956). Robert Stack, Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, and Dorothy Malone star in Sirk's fever-dream of a melodrama about the emotional wreckage of an oil-rich family. “In Written on the Wind the good, the ‘normal,' the ‘beautiful' are always utterly revolting; the evil, the weak, the dissolute arouse one's compassion,” observed Fassbinder. (99 mins)
Series
Fassbinder's Favorites
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6:30 pm
Saturday, November 2, 2013
6:30 pm
Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Germany, 1973). Fassbinder's legendary made-for-television science-fiction epic. An evil cybernetics company creates another version of our world; one investigator soon wonders, though, which world is real? This existential head-trip anticipated The Matrix, Blade Runner, and Inception. (204 mins plus intermission)
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