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3:30 pm
Sunday, June 29, 2014
3:30 pm
Free Admission: BAM/PFA Family Day. Author/illustrator Christy Hale in person. These short animated films-films based on books by Leo Lionni, Maurice Sendak, Dr. Seuss, Tomi Ungerer, and more-explore trust, collaboration, difference, and the unexpected. (67 mins)
6pm
Sunday, June 29, 2014
6pm
Harold Ramis (U.S., 1993) In 4K Digital Cinema! It's one of those days again-literally, as Bill Murray finds himself reliving the same day over and over again in Harold Ramis's delightfully droll comedy. Andie MacDowell and cult comic Chris Elliott costar. (101 mins)
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6:30pm
Saturday, July 5, 2014
6:30pm
Kenji Mizoguchi (Japan, 1946). (Utamaro omeguru gonin no onna). This biography of the legendary eighteenth-century ukiyo-e artist Utamaro is “the closest Mizoguchi came to an autobiographical statement about the making of art” (Phillip Lopate). (93 mins)
8:20pm
Saturday, July 5, 2014
8:20pm
Derek Jarman, Paul Humfress (U.K., 1976) New Digital Restoration! Jarman's first feature caused riots at the 1977 Locarno Festival. Set on the sunny, sandy coastline of Sardinia, it is a homoerotic rendering of the legend of St. Sebastian-in Latin, with English subtitles. (82 mins)
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Derek Jarman, Visionary
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5 pm
Sunday, July 6, 2014
5 pm
Jerzy Kawalerowicz (Poland, 1959) Digital Restoration! Several strangers find themselves on a speeding train with a murderer on board in this fascinating resetting of an American film noir in socialist Poland. Best Director and Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival. (99 mins)
Sunday, July 6, 2014
7pm
Jay Roach (U.S., 1997). Yeah, baby! That seductive but lethal bachelor James Bond gets his due in Mike Myers's shagedelic send-up of spycraft. (90 mins)
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7:00 pm
Wednesday, July 9, 2014
7:00 pm
Kenji Mizoguchi (Japan, 1949). (Waga koi wamoenu). In the 1880s, a crucial period in the modernization of Japan, a determined young woman (Kinuyo Tanaka) leaves home to become involved in the political turmoil in Tokyo. (96 mins)
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Thursday, July 10, 2014
7 pm
Wojciech Has (Poland, 1973) Digital Restoration! A young man searches for his father in a distant sanatorium in this surrealist epic, and finds instead a world where “death” and “time” have little meaning. An adaption of the works of cult author Bruno Schulz. Winner of the Jury Prize at Cannes. (125 mins)
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7:30pm
Friday, July 11, 2014
7:30pm
Kenji Mizoguchi (Japan, 1952). (Saikaku ichidai onna). This story of a noblewoman's fall from grace is “perhaps the finest film made in any country about the oppression of women” (Joan Mellen). “One of the ten greatest films in the history of cinema” (Derek Malcolm). With Kinuyo Tanaka. (136 mins)
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6 PM
Saturday, July 12, 2014
6 PM
Satyajit Ray (India, 1955). 35mm Restored Print! Introduced by Dilip Basu. Ravi Shankar provides the score for Ray's debut film, a tale of a young boy in an impoverished Bengal village. The film won a special prize at Cannes: Best Human Document. (122 mins)
8:30 pm
Saturday, July 12, 2014
8:30 pm
Derek Jarman (U.K., 1978) New Digital Restoration! A classic from the British punk era, with music by Wayne County and Adam Ant. It's 1578 and Queen Elizabeth I and her court astrologer travel into the future to a postapocalyptic wasteland populated by outlaw girl gangs. (103 mins)
Series
Derek Jarman, Visionary
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3:30 pm
Sunday, July 13, 2014
3:30 pm
Author/illustrator Julie Downing in person. Are we ever exactly what we want to be? Could we be someone else, someone better, or even just someone exuberantly untamed? Find possible answers in animated films based on books by Mwenye Hadithi, Jack Kent, Rudyard Kipling, Maurice Sendak, and others. (57 mins)
6 PM
Sunday, July 13, 2014
6 PM
Satyajit Ray (India, 1956). 35mm Restored Print! The second film in Satyajit Ray's beloved Apu Trilogy follows Apu's family as they travel to the holy city of Benares along the banks of the Ganges. “Graceful, insightful, and moving” (SF Chronicle). (106 mins)
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7pm
Wednesday, July 16, 2014
7pm
Joel and Ethan Coen (U.S., 1998). The Coen Brothers's ever-quotable comedy of bowlers, “the Dude,” nihilists, and more, starring Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore, and Steve Buscemi. (117 mins)
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7 pm
Thursday, July 17, 2014
7 pm
Andrzej Wajda (Poland, 1975) Digital Restoration! Wajda's epic, this Dickensian portrait of greed in turn-of-the-century Lodz is “a prophetic vision of the industrial revolution impinging on the pastoral life of Poland”(Variety). (170 mins)
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7pm
Friday, July 18, 2014
7pm
Kenji Mizoguchi (Japan, 1951). (Oyu-sama). Imported Print! Kinuyo Tanaka stars in this contemplative and ambiguous account of a love triangle, based on a story by Junichiro Tanizaki and translated through Mizoguchi's use of the long, mobile shot infused with emotion. “An exceptionally poignant melodrama” (Andrew Sarris). (95 mins)
8:55 pm
Friday, July 18, 2014
8:55 pm
Ishiro Honda (Japan, 1954) Restored Original Version! In this ground-zero exemplar, Godzilla is back in full-force without Raymond Burr announcing the play-by-play. You know the story: A-bomb tests, big lizard, Tokyo, etc. (98 mins)
Series
A Theater Near You
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6:15pm
Saturday, July 19, 2014
6:15pm
Satyajit Ray (India, 1958). (Apur Sansar). 35mm Restored Print! Part three of Ray's Apu Trilogy finds Apu as an adult, and in love. "In essence the film is a love story so fresh and spontaneous that one feels Ray created it entirely out of his own spirit, as if it were the world's first love story" (Pauline Kael). (103 mins)
8:30 pm
Saturday, July 19, 2014
8:30 pm
Derek Jarman (U.K., 1986) New Digital Restoration! “Caravaggio (is) admirably straightforward, but elusive and dreamy nonetheless. Set in a milieu of gamblers and prostitutes, the film evokes the fantasies of rough trade to which the artist supposedly subscribes and then transcends” (J. Hoberman). (93 mins)
Series
Derek Jarman, Visionary
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3:30 pm
Sunday, July 20, 2014
3:30 pm
Author/illustrator Elisa Kleven in person. Becoming harmonious with our environment is at the heart of these works based on Tomie dePaola, Dr. Seuss, William Steig, and others. (62 mins)
6pm
Sunday, July 20, 2014
6pm
Dean Parisot (U.S., 1999). When the Thermians are in danger of extinction at the hands of a reptilian warlord, they seek help from earth: unfortunately, they can't fathom fact from fiction, and look for salvation from the cast of a canceled TV series, Galaxy Quest. Recipient of Hugo and Nebula Awards. (102 mins).
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014
7 pm
Emily Hubley, Faith Hubley, John Hubley (U.S., 1956–2012). New Prints! Emily Hubley in person. In their socially committed independent animations, Faith and John Hubleys' experimental aesthetic was distinctly modern, and included paper cutouts, wax resistance, and oil painting, as well as collaborations with musicians from Benny Carter to Dizzy Gillespie. (90 mins)
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7 pm
Wednesday, July 23, 2014
7 pm
Krzysztof Zanussi (Poland, 1976) Digital Restoration! A naïve young teacher gets schooled in the social order by a disillusioned older professor in Zanussi's powerful parable of blending in, selling out, and sucking up. (101 mins)
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Thursday, July 24, 2014
7 pm
Satyajit Ray (India, 1957). (Parash Pathar). 35mm Restored Print! A bank clerk discovers a stone that turns steel into gold in Ray's delightful foray into comedy, delightfully tweaking Calcutta middle-class mores like a Bengali Preston Sturges. “One of the most sophisticated and effective satires produced by world cinema” (Sight & Sound). (111 mins)
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7pm
Friday, July 25, 2014
7pm
Kenji Mizoguchi (Japan, 1953). (Gion bayashi). Imported Print! A sixteen-year-old Ayako Wakao became a star in Mizoguchi's update of his earlier Sisters of the Gion, now set-significantly-against the occupied Japan of 1953. It is the story of the friendship of an older geisha and her teenage protégée. (85 mins)
8:45pm
Friday, July 25, 2014
8:45pm
Mike Judge (U.S., 1999). A team of peeved worker drones tries to survive office culture in Mike Judge's biting takedown of corporate culture, suburban dread, vapid chain restaurants, and how to get away with not working while at work. From the creator of Silicon Valley and Beavis and Butthead. (89 mins)
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Saturday, July 26, 2014
6:30pm
Satyajit Ray (India, 1970). Imported Print! Ray's most overtly Renoir-ish film, and probably his masterpiece. Four young men from Calcutta spend a few days in the country, and their youthful arrogance gets them into a series of disastrous and often hilarious adventures. "A major film by one of the great film artists" (Pauline Kael). (115 mins)
8:40 pm
Saturday, July 26, 2014
8:40 pm
Derek Jarman (U.K., 1987) Archival Print! Jarman's apocalypse-now vision of Thatcher's England is an anti–city symphony whose lyricism is put toward a portrait of the damage done. An astounding collage of urban images is edited to flow with dramatic passages-reenactments from hell-and idyllic family footage from before the fall. Tilda Swinton stars. (87 mins)
Series
Derek Jarman, Visionary
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5pm
Sunday, July 27, 2014
5pm
Satyajit Ray (India, 1971). 35mm Restored Print! This portrait of the remote Himalayan kingdom of Sikkim, nestled between Tibet and Nepal, is one of the most remarkable documentaries on Himalayan culture ever made. With shorts, The Inner Eye, on the blind artist Binod Behari Mukherjee, and Bala, on the dancer Balasaraswati. (111 mins)
7:10 pm
Sunday, July 27, 2014
7:10 pm
Derek Jarman (U.K., 1988). Jarman's nonnarrative lament to the tragedy of war combines poetry recitations (Wilfred Owen's “Strange Meeting”) and Benjamin Britten's oratorio “War Requiem” with archival footage and appearances by Tilda Swinton and Sir Laurence Olivier, in his screen farewell. (92 mins)
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Derek Jarman, Visionary
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014
7 pm
Amanda Forbis, Wendy Tilby (Canada, 1991–2011). Amanda Forbis & Wendy Tilby in person. An evening of the work of this groundbreaking duo, who find inspiration for their hand-drawn and painted films from both history and fantasy. Including their recent Wild Life, a wry take on the frontier experience. (90 mins)
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014
7pm
Kenji Mizoguchi (Japan, 1954). (Chikamatsu monogatari). Imported Print! A merchant's wife and her husband's servant embark on a doomed love affair in this torrid tale of forbidden romance. Mizoguchi at his most painterly and romantic. (102 mins)
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7pm
Thursday, July 31, 2014
7pm
Satyajit Ray (India, 1973). (Ashani Sanket). In this searing drama, Ray focuses on one of the twentieth century's greatest man-made disasters-the 1942 Bengali famine, where over five million people died. (102 mins)
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7pm
Friday, August 1, 2014
7pm
Kenji Mizoguchi (Japan, 1954). (Uwasa no onna). Imported Print! Kinuyo Tanaka stars as the madam of a brothel who finds herself competing with her own daughter for the affections of a young doctor. “Has the feeling of late Ford or Buñuel, of a director who has arrived at the most subtly exquisite, minimalist ways of expressing his deepest, most complex sentiments” (Andrew Sarris). (83 mins)
8:40 pm
Friday, August 1, 2014
8:40 pm
Derek Jarman (U.K., 1991). New Digital Restoration! Jarman's bold version of Christopher Marlowe's four-hundred-year-old play streamlines the plot to the doomed King Edward II and his beloved Piers Gaveston, enthralled in an obsessive love affair condemned by nobles and church, and his despairing queen, Isabella (Tilda Swinton). (90 mins)
Series
Derek Jarman, Visionary
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5:30 pm
Saturday, August 2, 2014
5:30 pm
Satyajit Ray (India, 1974). (Sonar Kella). Recommended for ages 8 & up. Introduced by Tipu Purkayastha. A child who suffers from flashbacks to an ancient time journeys to Rajasthan in search of a fortress of gold and aided by the master detective Feluda! Ray's little-seen yet unforgettable combination of children's adventure tales and detective fiction is the master at his most entertaining, pulpiest best. With short, Two. (126 mins)
8:15pm
Saturday, August 2, 2014
8:15pm
Charles Chaplin (U.S., 1918). Lecture by Russell Merritt. Judith Rosenberg on piano. Released just a few weeks before the Armistice, Shoulder Arms is a Tramp's-eye view of World War I. With shorts The Sinking of the Lusitania and Great Guns. (95 mins including lecture)
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