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5:30 PM
Sunday, June 28, 2015
5:30 PM
 Archival Print!
Tonight’s concluding chapters unravel the mystery of The Phantom Foe and, through a “veritable carnival of thrills and sensations,” restores some order to Janet Dale’s life.
At Pacific Film Archive Theater
7:30 PM
Sunday, June 28, 2015
7:30 PM
John Ford,
United States,
1962,
James Stewart, John Wayne, Vera Miles, and Lee Marvin star in John Ford’s legendary Western, “one of the enduring masterpieces of that cinema which has chosen to focus on the mystical processes of time” (Andrew Sarris).
At Pacific Film Archive Theater
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7:30 PM
Wednesday, July 1, 2015
7:30 PM
Archival Print!
A would-be writer whose ambition has been dampened by domestic life is soon tempted by a former flame. “Dominating the picture is the feminine reaction to life. And this is Mr. Stahl’s forte” (LA Times).
At Pacific Film Archive Theater
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7:30 PM
Thursday, July 2, 2015
7:30 PM
Introduction/Anuj Vaidya
A program of recent video art from India, including work from Mumbai, Goa, and New Delhi. Titles include Logic of Birds, Man with Cockerel, Fjaka, Iceboat, Between the Waves, Forerunner, and Night Noon.
At Pacific Film Archive Theater
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7:00 PM
Friday, July 3, 2015
7:00 PM
Tod Browning,
United States,
1927,
Live Music/Judith Rosenberg on piano
A circus performer has his arms amputated to satisfy his lover’s strange desires in Tod Browning’s shocking tale of madness and love, starring Lon Chaney and Joan Crawford.
At Pacific Film Archive Theater
8:30 PM
Friday, July 3, 2015
8:30 PM
Douglas Sirk,
United States,
1954,
A callow playboy sets out on a path towards redemption after causing a doctor’s death, and blinding the doctor’s widow, in Stahl’s great melodrama. Robert Taylor and Irene Dunne star. Later remade by Douglas Sirk.
At Pacific Film Archive Theater
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7:00 PM
Saturday, July 4, 2015
7:00 PM
Andrei Tarkovsky,
USSR,
1966,
Andrei Tarkovsky’s epic, otherworldly portrait of the 15th-century Russian icon-painter is “a superproduction gone ideologically berserk” (Village Voice).
At Pacific Film Archive Theater
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4:30 PM
Sunday, July 5, 2015
4:30 PM
Norman Z. McLeod (US, 1934). W. C. Fields's “definitive study in the horrors of small town family life . . . easily the most devastating comedy of the '30s" (Time Out). With The Dentist (1932)
At Pacific Film Archive Theater
6:30 PM
Sunday, July 5, 2015
6:30 PM
1932,
Stahl adapts Fannie Hurst’s bestselling novel into a surprisingly clear-eyed, quietly devastating story about what happens when a woman has nothing but a man, and not much of him.
At Pacific Film Archive Theater
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7:30 PM
Wednesday, July 8, 2015
7:30 PM
Imported Print!
An actress turns courtesan to make ends meet during Europe’s decadent Second Empire in Renoir’s first full-length vehicle for his wife, Catherine Hessling. Renoir: “My first film worth talking about.”
At Pacific Film Archive Theater
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7:30 PM
Thursday, July 9, 2015
7:30 PM
Andrei Arsenevich Tarkovskii,
USSR,
1961,
Tarkovsky’s diploma film follows the unlikely friendship between a frail young violinist and a gruff older steamroller operative. With Voyage in Time, on Tarkovsky and screenwriter Tonino Guerra’s travels across Italy.
At Pacific Film Archive Theater
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7:00 PM
Friday, July 10, 2015
7:00 PM
Luis Buñuel,
Mexico,
1958,
Archival Print!
Gabriel Figueroa’s cinematography lends stark beauty to an unforgiving landscape in this Buñuel classic about a priest whose charity is his undoing.
At Pacific Film Archive Theater
7:00 PM
Friday, July 10, 2015
7:00 PM
Luis Buñuel,
Mexico,
1958,
Archival Print!
Gabriel Figueroa’s cinematography lends stark beauty to an unforgiving landscape in this Buñuel classic about a priest whose charity is his undoing.
At Pacific Film Archive Theater
8:50 PM
Friday, July 10, 2015
8:50 PM
John M. Stahl,
United States,
1947,
Studio Print!
In antebellum New Orleans, Irish gambler Stephen Fox (Rex Harrison) wins a plantation and a beautiful, aristocratic wife (Maureen O’Hara), but can he master them?
At Pacific Film Archive Theater
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6:30 PM
Saturday, July 11, 2015
6:30 PM
Augusto Genina,
France,
1930,
Imported Print!
The last major role for silent-era beauty Louise Brooks (Pandora’s Box) was as a Parisian typist who wins a beauty contest and a movie contract, only to face the violent disapproval of her husband.
At Pacific Film Archive Theater
8:45 PM
Saturday, July 11, 2015
8:45 PM
Andrei Tarkovsky,
USSR,
1976,
Tarkovsky’s most autobiographical work, a collection of memories of a young boy coming of age, invented “a new language, true to the nature of film . . . life as a dream” (Ingmar Bergman).
At Pacific Film Archive Theater
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4:00 PM
Sunday, July 12, 2015
4:00 PM
James W. Horne,
United States,
1937,
New Preservation Prints!
In one of their best-loved comedies, Stan and Ollie travel to Brushwood Gulch to deliver a deed to a gold mine to its rightful inheritor. With more slapstick fun in shorts Helpmates (1932) and The Midnight Patrol (1933).
At Pacific Film Archive Theater
6:15 PM
Sunday, July 12, 2015
6:15 PM
Alexander Dovzhenko,
USSR,
1930,
(81 mins)
BAM/PFA Collection Print!
Dovzhenko's great film poem to the Ukraine he loved. "Dovzhenko seldom recaptured the pantheistic phosphorescence of this hymn both to nature and to the glittering new tractors and ploughs destined to transform it” (NFT, London)
At Pacific Film Archive Theater
6:15 PM
Sunday, July 12, 2015
6:15 PM
BAM/PFA Collection Print! Judith Rosenberg on piano. Dovzhenko's great film poem to the Ukraine he loved. "Dovzhenko seldom recaptured the pantheistic phosphorescence of this hymn both to nature and to the glittering new tractors and ploughs destined to transform it” (NFT, London)
At Pacific Film Archive Theater
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7:30 PM
Wednesday, July 15, 2015
7:30 PM
IB Technicolor Print!
Based on a novel by the author of Black Narcissus, Renoir’s wise, warm Technicolor masterpiece follows several young girls coming of age on the River Ganges. “The artist, medium, and location combine, as though effortlessly, to produce an experience of surpassing loveliness” (NY Times).
At Pacific Film Archive Theater
7:30 PM
Wednesday, July 15, 2015
7:30 PM
IB Technicolor Print!
Based on a novel by the author of Black Narcissus, Renoir’s wise, warm Technicolor masterpiece follows several young girls coming of age on the River Ganges. “The artist, medium, and location combine, as though effortlessly, to produce an experience of surpassing loveliness” (NY Times)
At Pacific Film Archive Theater
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7:30 PM
Thursday, July 16, 2015
7:30 PM
Andrei Tarkovsky,
USSR,
1972,
In Tarkovsky's influential 1972 masterwork, based on a famous novel by Stanislaw Lem, "the alien world is one immense ocean, the ocean is a brain, and the brain may be our own" (Village Voice).
At Pacific Film Archive Theater
Thursday, July 16, 2015
8:40 PM
Maecenas faucibus mollis interdum.
UC Berkeley psychology professor Dacher Keltner joins exhibition co-curator Toby Kamps for a lively, improvisational conversation in the Silence galleries.
At BAM/PFA Galleries
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7:00 PM
Friday, July 17, 2015
7:00 PM
John M. Stahl,
United States,
1943,
Studio Print!
This droll fable of class and authenticity, revolving around a painter who poses as his own valet, reveals Stahl as a capable director of comedy.
At Pacific Film Archive Theater
8:45 PM
Friday, July 17, 2015
8:45 PM
Nicholas Ray,
United States,
1949,
Ray's lyrical, passionate debut following a pair of fugitive innocents influenced films from Pierrot le Fou to Bonnie and Clyde.
At Pacific Film Archive Theater
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6:30 PM
Saturday, July 18, 2015
6:30 PM
Jean Renoir,
France,
1931,
Imported Print!
Michel Simon is an unhappily married middle-aged bank clerk whose only passion in life is painting, until he becomes obsessed with a prostitute. Remade by Fritz Lang as Scarlet Street, Renoir’s original is infused with a sadomasochistic sexuality that is both heightened and tempered by Renoir's camera.
At Pacific Film Archive Theater
8:30 PM
Saturday, July 18, 2015
8:30 PM
Andrei Tarkovsky,
USSR,
1983,
New 35mm Print!
Andrei Tarkovsky's breathtaking journey through the ruined but magical spaces of Tuscany follows a Russian man who feels the longing for home, closure, and the absolute that the film's title describes. "Nostalghia is not so much a movie as a place to inhabit for two hours” (J. Hoberman).
At Pacific Film Archive Theater
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4:30 PM
Sunday, July 19, 2015
4:30 PM
Clyde Bruckman,
United States,
1935,
W. C. Fields plays a beleaguered paterfamilias in "the kind of burlesque which comes dangerously close to realism” (NY Times, 1935). With The Golf Specialist (1934), featuring Fields's vaudeville routines.
At Pacific Film Archive Theater
6:30 PM
Sunday, July 19, 2015
6:30 PM
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger,
United Kingdom,
1951,
New Digital Restoration!
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's followup to The Red Shoes was this visually splendid tour-de-force: lush color, outrageous effects, Offenbach's magnificent score, and impressive dancing highlight the three connected tales of a poet's amorous adventures.
At Pacific Film Archive Theater
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Tuesday, July 21, 2015
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Wednesday, July 22, 2015
Ethan Hawke, Jude Law, and Uma Thurman inhabit a future not racist or sexist, but genomist. "An Orwellian story presented with a cool, eerie precision like Peter Greenaway's...a handsome and fully imagined work of cautionary futuristic fiction."-N.Y. Times. With short One Breath.
Series
Genetic Screenings
7:30 PM
Wednesday, July 22, 2015
7:30 PM
Erich von Stroheim,
United States,
1921,
Live Music/Judith Rosenberg on piano
Monte Carlo provides the suitably decadent setting for von Stroheim’s look at money, temptation, and marriage. “Never was a film more revolutionary” (Langlois).
At Pacific Film Archive Theater
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7:30 PM
Thursday, July 23, 2015
7:30 PM
Andrei Tarkovsky,
USSR,
1979,
Imported Print!
A writer, a scientist, and their "stalker" guide venture into a mysterious wasteland known as the Zone. "A dense, complex, often contradictory, and endlessly pliable allegory about human consciousness” (Slant).
At Pacific Film Archive Theater
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7:00 PM
Friday, July 24, 2015
7:00 PM
Alain Resnais,
France, Japan,
1959,
In Memory of Alain Resnais (1922–2014)
A French actress and a Japanese architect meet in Hiroshima, and begin a haunted love affair, in Alain Resnais’ mesmerizing work, written by Marguerite Duras. “A cornerstone film of the French New Wave, Alain Resnais’s first feature is one of the most influential films of all time” (Criterion).
At Pacific Film Archive Theater
8:50 PM
Friday, July 24, 2015
8:50 PM
Erich von Stroheim,
United States,
1928,
In a debauched Central European kingdom, a mad queen must wed a notorious libertine, who instead falls for a young nun (Gloria Swanson). One of the most infamous unfinished film maudits in history, and praised as Erich von Stroheim’s masterpiece.
At Pacific Film Archive Theater
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6:00 PM
Saturday, July 25, 2015
6:00 PM
John M. Stahl,
1934,
The lives of a black maid (Louise Beavers) and a white widow (Claudette Colbert) intersect in a scheme to manufacture pancake batter, in this melodrama. Nominated for three Academy Awards and named by Time in 2007 as one of the twenty-five most important films on race.
At Pacific Film Archive Theater
8:15 PM
Saturday, July 25, 2015
8:15 PM
Andrei Tarkovsky,
France, Sweden,
1986,
New 35mm Print!
A retired actor and his family find themselves on a remote Baltic island when word arrives of nuclear war in Tarkovsky’s elegiac final film.
At Pacific Film Archive Theater
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6:30 PM
Sunday, July 26, 2015
6:30 PM
John M. Stahl,
United States,
1944,
Studio Print!
The young Gregory Peck garnered an Oscar nomination for his performance as a priest in China who refuses to buy converts but wins them anyway through compassion, tolerance, and common sense.
At Pacific Film Archive Theater
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5:00 PM
Monday, July 27, 2015
5:00 PM
Digital Restorations!
The genius shorts of the father of cinema, many hand-painted and restored by La Cinémathèque française in 2013 with the Éclair Group.
At Pacific Film Archive Theater
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7:00 PM
Wednesday, July 29, 2015
7:00 PM
Víctor Erice,
Spain,
(138 mins)
In Conversation/Víctor Erice and Richard Peña
Erice’s third feature is an exquisite portrait of the Spanish realist painter Antonio López García. "A thoughtful, delicate inquiry into the essence of the artistic process” (NY Times). International Critics' Prize, 1992 Cannes Film Festival.
Series
An Open Window: Víctor Erice
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7:30 PM
Thursday, July 30, 2015
7:30 PM
Víctor Erice, Abbas Kiarostami,
(97 mins)
In Conversation/Víctor Erice and Richard Peña
Created for an innovative museum exhibition in Barcelona and Paris that paired the works of filmmakers Víctor Erice and Abbas Kiarostami, Correspondences is composed of ten “filmed letters” between the two great masters.
At Pacific Film Archive Theater
Series
An Open Window: Víctor Erice
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7:30 PM
Friday, July 31, 2015
7:30 PM
Víctor Erice,
1983,
(95 mins)
Archival Print!
A young girl comes of age amid the long silences and shadows of her family’s wintry northern exile from southern Spain in Erice’s follow-up to The Spirit of the Beehive. “A film of love and sorrow suffused with an appreciation of life’s beauty” (LA Times)
At Pacific Film Archive Theater
Series
An Open Window: Víctor Erice
9:30 PM
Friday, July 31, 2015
9:30 PM
Jean Vigo,
France,
1945,
Free screening!
Enfant terrible Jean Vigo's lyric, anarchic account of rebellion in a boarding school is poetry, wild in hatred and tender in remembrance.
At Pacific Film Archive Theater
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4:00 PM
Saturday, August 1, 2015
4:00 PM
Charlie Chaplin,
United States,
1931,
Part of It’s a Wrap! celebrating our final weekend in the PFA Theater
“Chaplin’s most masterful blend of pathos and comedy . . . You can’t leave the planet without seeing this movie at least once” (SF Chronicle).
6:00 PM
Saturday, August 1, 2015
6:00 PM
Víctor Erice,
Spain,
1973,
In Person/Víctor Erice
Victor Erice's Spanish classic is a haunting, mystical evocation of youth and the magic of cinema. "There has probably never been a more extraordinary view of a child on a movie screen . . . By the time it ends it has possessed the viewer completely" (NY Times)
Series
An Open Window: Víctor Erice
8:45 PM
Saturday, August 1, 2015
8:45 PM
Vittorio De Sica,
Italy,
1949,
Part of It’s a Wrap! celebrating our final weekend in the PFA Theater
De Sica’s masterpiece of a father and son searching the streets of Rome for their stolen bicycle is considered one of the greatest films ever made. “An allegory at once timeless and topical” (Village Voice).
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