December 2013

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Sunday, December 1, 2013
3 pm
David Lean (U.K., 1962). 4K Widescreen! Embedding the enigma of T. E. Lawrence in unforgettable desert images, David Lean and cinematographer Freddie Young created “an astonishing, unrepeatable epic” (Chicago Tribune). (221 mins)
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Tuesday, December 3, 2013
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Tuesday, December 3, 2013
5:30 pm
Frederick Wiseman (U.S., 2013). An exclusive, invitation-only screening of At Berkeley for the current campus community, followed by a discussion with filmmaker Frederick Wiseman. "One of Wiseman's best, a summation of sorts of a career's worth of principled filmmaking" (Variety). (244 mins)
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Thursday, December 5, 2013
7 pm
One of the leading voices in the field of digital preservation, Sony Pictures archivist Grover Crisp joins us to discuss technological changes in the field of film preservation and exhibition. Followed by an introduction and screening of Otto Preminger's Bonjour Tristesse, starring Jean Seberg and David Niven, at 7:45 p.m. (94 mins, plus presentation).
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Friday, December 6, 2013
7 pm
Michael Fengler, Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Germany, 1969). Imported Print! A gritty case history of a bourgeois office worker who “without warning” goes berserk, Herr R. predates Fassbinder's Sirk-influenced period and almost seems to reflect an influence of Andy Warhol's cinema in its seemingly improvised, quietly brilliant dialogues. (88 mins)
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Friday, December 6, 2013
8:50 pm
Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Germany, 1977). A chocolate factory owner begins to distance himself from “his self” in early 1930s Berlin in Fassbinder's dry filming of a Nabokov novel, wittily adapted by Tom Stoppard. Dirk Bogarde stars. (119 mins)
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Saturday, December 7, 2013
6:30pm
Louis Malle (U.S., 1985). 4K Restoration! Introduced by Grover Crisp. A downhearted Vietnam vet (Ed Harris) clashes with a newly arrived community of Vietnamese refugees in the shrimping waters of the Texas gulf in Malle's fascinating look at American racial turmoil. (98 mins)
Saturday, December 7, 2013
9 pm
Martin Scorsese (U.S., 1976). 4K Restoration! Introduced by Grover Crisp. Vietnam vet turned vigilante Robert De Niro cruises through a New York cesspool of crime and concupiscence until he meets his supposed savior, the angelic Cybill Shephard, in Scorsese's memorable film, one of the acknowledged classics of the 1970s. (113 mins)
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Sunday, December 8, 2013
3 pm
Cecile Tang Shu Shuen (Hong Kong/U.S., 1969). A Ming dynasty widow, beloved for her grace and kindness, becomes tempted by a visiting soldier in this investigation of propriety, tradition, and repression. Photographed by Satyajit Ray's main cinematographer and edited by Les Blank, this early precursor of the Hong Kong New Wave was praised as “a film of poetic beauty” by Anaïs Nin. (95 mins)
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Sunday, December 8, 2013
5:15pm
Joshua Logan (U.S., 1956). 2K Widescreen! A staid Kansas town prepares for its annual Labor Day picnic. On the surface, this town is idyllic Americana, but underneath seethe some not-so-bucolic desires. Kim Novak, Rosalind Russell, and William Holden star. (115 mins)
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Wednesday, December 11, 2013
7pm
Blake Edwards (U.S., 1962). 2K Restoration! Bank teller Lee Remick gets a phone call she'll never forget: embezzle a hefty sum from the bank or her sister gets snatched. Edwards (The Pink Panther) goes noir in this San Francisco-set thriller. (123 mins)
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Thursday, December 12, 2013
7 pm
Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Germany, 1973). Imported Print! Student Pick! “A virgin German librarian in her thirties meets a bridge builder while vacationing in Rome; it's a match made in heaven-she's a masochist, he's a sadist….My favorite Fassbinder movie” (Jonathan Rosenbaum). (116 mins)
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Friday, December 13, 2013
7 pm
Brian De Palma (U.S., 1976). 2K Restoration! A heightened homage to Hitchcock's much-valorized Vertigo, this Paul Schrader-written thriller induces bouts of dizziness through its whirlpooling camera moves, eddying Bernard Herrmann score, and maniacal plot twists, replete with body doubles and double crosses. (98 mins)
Friday, December 13, 2013
9 pm
Stanley Kubrick (U.K., 1964). 4K Restoration! Peter Sellers, Sterling Hayden, George C. Scott, and Peter Sellers (again) star in Kubrick's scathing satire on the nuclear age. Cold War camp, here brought to life in a luminous 4K restoration. (94 mins)
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Saturday, December 14, 2013
6:30 pm
Nicholas Ray (U.S., 1954). Saloonkeeper Joan Crawford faces Mercedes McCambridge and her vengeful mob in Ray's baroque, gender-bending Western passion play. Fassbinder named it one of his top ten favorite films. (110 mins)
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Saturday, December 14, 2013
8:40 pm
Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Germany/France, 1982). Imported Print! Fassbinder adapts Jean Genet's notorious novel of a sailor, a waterfront brothel, a madam, and her husband. “An intensely personal statement that is the most uncompromising portrayal of male homosexual sensibility to come from a major filmmaker” (Penny Ashbrook). (108 mins)
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Sunday, December 15, 2013
3 pm
Elia Kazan (U.S., 1954). 4K Restoration! “I coulda been a contender,” mumbles failed boxer Marlon Brando in this brilliant American noir drama, set among the docks, unions, and cops of an East coast waterfront. Winner of eight Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor. (108 mins)
Sunday, December 15, 2013
5:15pm
Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Germany, 1978). Imported Print! Fassbinder regular Volker Spengler here takes his star turn as a transsexual beset by doubts about her sex-change operation-only the most profound in a lifetime of futile gestures toward love. “Grotesque, arbitrary, sentimental and cold as ice-Its only redeeming feature is genius” (Vincent Canby). (124 mins)
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