August 2015

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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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Monday, July 27, 2015
5:00 PM

Digital Restorations! 
Live Music/Judith Rosenberg on piano

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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Wednesday, July 29, 2015
7:00 PM
Víctor Erice,
Spain,
(138 mins)

In Conversation/Víctor Erice and Richard Peña  
Archival Print!  
International Critics’ Prize, 1992 Cannes Film Festival

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.
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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
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7:30 PM
  • Film
Friday, July 31, 2015
7:30 PM
Víctor Erice,
1983,
(95 mins)

Archival Print! 
In Person/Víctor Erice

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
9:30 PM
  • Film
  • Free
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).
Saturday, August 1, 2015
6:00 PM
Víctor Erice,
Spain,
1973,

In Person/Víctor Erice 
Part of It’s a Wrap! celebrating our final weekend in the PFA Theater

 

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)
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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  • Film
Sunday, August 2, 2015
3:30 PM
Charlie Chaplin,
United States,
1921,

Part of It’s a Wrap! celebrating our final weekend in the PFA Theater.
Followed by a demonstration-workshop in the art of pantomime with Charlie Chaplin impersonator Damian Blake. Bring the whole family to learn how to walk like Chaplin!

 

 

The film that established Chaplin's signature fusion of slapstick and pathos, and the first to costar Jackie Coogan. 
At Pacific Film Archive Theater
Sunday, August 2, 2015
6:00 PM

In Person/ Víctor Erice 
Part of It’s a Wrap! celebrating our final weekend in the PFA Theater

A rare opportunity to see a selection of Erice's highly acclaimed short works, crafted in recent years for omnibus projects. Titles include Lifeline; Ana, tres minutos; Broken Windows; and La morte rouge.
At Pacific Film Archive Theater
8:15 PM
Sunday, August 2, 2015
8:15 PM
Yasujiro Ozu,
Japan,
1953,

Part of It’s a Wrap! celebrating our final weekend in the PFA Theater

 

This simple, sad story of the gap between generations in a Japanese family revealed to Western viewers the poetic acuteness of Ozu's style, and features one of Japanese cinema’s greatest performances in Setsuko Hara’s role as a becalmed, utterly determined young woman. "Wonderful . . . one of the manifest miracles of cinema" (New Yorker). 
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Wednesday, August 5, 2015
Barry Spinello in person. Experimental filmmakers engage silence in a variety of ways in this collection of shorts. Includes Maya Deren's Meshes of the Afternoon, Stan Brakhage's The Riddle of the Lumen, Nathaniel Dorsky's Threnody, Nam June Paik's Zen for Film, Steve Roden's four words for four hands, and Barry Spinello's Soundtrack. (85 mins)
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Monday, August 10, 2015

Free for Cal Students
 

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Friday, August 21, 2015
Celebrate our final weekend at the PFA Theater with special screenings, live music, family fun, and gifts for members.
At Pacific Film Archive Theater
Friday, August 21, 2015
Celebrate our final weekend at the PFA Theater with special screenings, live music, family fun, and gifts for members.
At Pacific Film Archive Theater
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