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11 AM-7 PM
  • Art
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Sunday, October 30, 2016
11 AM-7 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Visit the Art Lab to participate in an evolving series of hands-on projects with a focus on drawing, collage, prints, and books. For all ages.

Included with admission

Sunday, October 30, 2016
2 PM
Included with admission; no advance reservations necessary.
Sunday, October 30, 2016
4 PM
Yasujiro Ozu,
Japan,
1962,
(112 mins)
Chishu Ryu once again plays a widowed father planning to marry off his daughter in Ozu's beautiful, bittersweet last film. "Quietly tears your heart to pieces” (Terence Davies).
6:30 PM
  • Film
Sunday, October 30, 2016
6:30 PM
Marcie Begleiter,
Germany, United States,
2016,
(108 mins)
An inspiring, heartbreaking profile on the artist Eva Hesse, one of the most significant American artists of the last century. “An indispensable aid to understanding and appreciating a fascinating artist” (A. O. Scott,  NY Times).
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12:15 PM
Wednesday, November 2, 2016
12:15 PM
Included with admission; no advance reservations necessary
Wednesday, November 2, 2016
7 PM
(68 mins)
Introduced by Susan Chainey and Janis Crystal Lipzin.A program of films by Roger Jacoby, a key transitional figure of gay experimental film.
  • Susan Chainey
    Introduction
    Susan Chainey, Roger Jacoby’s sister, appears in Pearl and Puppet.
  • Janis Crystal Lipzin
    Introduction
    Janis Crystal Lipzin knew Jacoby well during the last ten years of his life; former chair of the San Francisco Art Institute film department, she is a Bay Area intermedia artist and filmmaker.
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4-7 PM
Thursday, November 3, 2016
4-7 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Visit the Art Lab to participate in an evolving series of hands-on projects with a focus on drawing, collage, prints, and books. For all ages.

Included with admission

All Day
Thursday, November 3, 2016
All Day
Galleries free all day.
Admission free
Thursday, November 3, 2016
7 PM
Alanis Obomsawin,
Canada,
1993,
(119 mins)
Alanis Obomsawin in conversation with Joanne Barker and Corinna Gould.The 1990 fight for First Nations members to protect their burial grounds from a golf course expansion is chronicled in this moving documentary on native rights, resistance, and courage.  
  • Alanis Obomsawin
    In Conversation
  • Joanne Barker
    In Conversation
    Barker is professor of American Indian studies at San Francisco State University and author of Native Acts: Law Recognition and Cultural Authenticity.
  • Corrina Gould
    In Conversation
    Corrina Gould is cofounder of Indian People Organizing for Change and the Segora Te Land Trust
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4-9 PM
Friday, November 4, 2016
4-9 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Visit the Art Lab to participate in an evolving series of hands-on projects with a focus on drawing, collage, prints, and books. For all ages.

Included with admission

Friday, November 4, 2016
12:15 PM
4 PM
Friday, November 4, 2016
4 PM
Satyajit Ray,
India,
1955,
(125 mins)

Digital Restoration

The first film in the Apu Trilogy. Ravi Shankar provided the score for Ray’s debut film, the tale of a young boy in an impoverished Bengal village. The film won a special prize at Cannes: Best Human Document.
Friday, November 4, 2016
6 PM

Programmed by Ava Koohbor

Included with admission
Series Readings 2016
7 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Friday, November 4, 2016
7 PM
Alanis Obomsawin,
2014,
(84 mins)
Alanis Obomsawin, Joanne Barker, and Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie in conversation. Obomsawin’s powerful documentary is about both tracing and making history, looking back at Canada’s notorious Treaty No. 9 (which led many First Nations communities to lose their sovereignty) and chronicling contemporary indigenous struggles. 
  • Alanis Obomsawin
    In Conversation
  • Joanne Barker
    In Conversation
    Professor of American Indian studies at San Francisco State University and author of Native Acts: Law Recognition and Cultural Authenticity.
  • Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie
    In Conversation
    Director of the Gorman Museum and professor of Native American studies at UC Davis
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11 AM–9 PM
Saturday, November 5, 2016
11 AM–9 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Visit the Art Lab to participate in an evolving series of hands-on projects with a focus on drawing, collage, prints, and books. For all ages.

Included with admission

5:30 PM
Saturday, November 5, 2016
5:30 PM
Jean Renoir,
France, Italy, United Kingdom,
1952,
(103 mins)
Renoir’s graceful comedy revolves around Magnani as the star of a commedia dell’arte troupe in eighteenth-century Peru. François Truffaut called it “the noblest and most refined film ever made.”
8 PM
Saturday, November 5, 2016
8 PM
Spike Lee,
United States,
1989,
(120 mins)
Spike Lee’s frequently hilarious but hard-hitting drama charts mounting racial tensions on a hot summer day in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood. “The funniest, most stylized, most visceral New York street scene this side of Scorseseland” (J. Hoberman, Village Voice). 
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11 AM-7 PM
Sunday, November 6, 2016
11 AM-7 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Visit the Art Lab to participate in an evolving series of hands-on projects with a focus on drawing, collage, prints, and books. For all ages.

Included with admission

1:30 PM
Sunday, November 6, 2016
1:30 PM
Satyajit Ray,
India,
1955,
(125 mins)

Digital Restoration

The first film in the Apu Trilogy. Ravi Shankar provided the score for Ray’s debut film, the tale of a young boy in an impoverished Bengal village. The film won a special prize at Cannes: Best Human Document.
2 PM
Sunday, November 6, 2016
2 PM
Included with admission; no advance reservations necessary
Sunday, November 6, 2016
4 PM
Roberto Castellani,
Italy,
1959,
(106 mins)

Imported Print 

This women-in-prison picture features Magnani at her most pungent as a brazen jailbird who takes innocent new inmate Giulietta Masina under her wing.
Sunday, November 6, 2016
6:30 PM
(87 mins)
Alanis Obomsawin, Joanne Barker, and Melissa Nelson in conversation.Three powerful works illuminate the lives of the indigenous community of Canada, including Obamsawin’s debut work, Christmas at Moose Factory (1971). 
  • Alanis Obomsawin
    In Conversation
  • Joanne Barker
    In Conversation
    Professor of American Indian studies at San Francisco and author ofNative Acts: Law Recognition and Cultural Authenticity. She is Lenape (an enrolled member of the Delaware Tribe of Indians).
  • Melissa Nelson
    In Conversation
    Associate professor of American Indian studies at San Francisco State University
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12:15 PM
Wednesday, November 9, 2016
12:15 PM
Included with admission; no advance reservations necessary
Wednesday, November 9, 2016
7 PM
(67 mins)
Robert Beavers in person.From the Notebook of . . . is "one of the best films in this year's [New York Film Festival]. . . . Elegant, beautiful, complex and austere (Manohla Dargis, New York Times). Paired with shorts by Harry Smith, Gregory J. Markopoulos, and Ute Aurand.
  • Robert Beavers
    In Person
Wednesday, November 9, 2016
7 PM

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4-7 PM
Thursday, November 10, 2016
4-7 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Visit the Art Lab to participate in an evolving series of hands-on projects with a focus on drawing, collage, prints, and books. For all ages.

Included with admission

2:10 PM
Thursday, November 10, 2016
2:10 PM
(170 mins)

In Focus lecture/screening, special admission applies

Lecture/Screening with filmmaker Robert Beavers. Judith Rosenberg on piano.Robert Beavers leads a discussion on the poetics of cinema and presents several of his films, including Work Done and Ruskin, alongside an excerpt from Lotte Reiniger’s The Adventures of Prince Achmed. 
Special Admission Applies General admission: $13.50; BAMPFA members: $9.50; UC Berkeley students: $7.50; 65+, disabled persons, UC Berkeley faculty and staff, non-UC Berkeley students, and 18 & under: $10.50
  • Robert Beavers
    In Person
  • Judith Rosenberg
    Live Music
    Judith Rosenberg on piano
Thursday, November 10, 2016
5:30 PM
Included with admission; RSVP to (510) 643-0857 starting October 24
7 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Thursday, November 10, 2016
7 PM
Charles Burnett,
United States,
1977,
(81 mins)
Introduced by Stephen Best.Charles Burnett’s poetic evocation of working-class Watts, “a great—the greatest—cinematic tone poem of American urban life” (New York). 
  • Stephen Best
    Introduction
    Associate professor of English at UC Berkeley and author of The Fugitive's Properties: Law and the Poetics of Possession.
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4-9 PM
Friday, November 11, 2016
4-9 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Visit the Art Lab to participate in an evolving series of hands-on projects with a focus on drawing, collage, prints, and books. For all ages.

Included with admission

11 AM–9 PM
Friday, November 11, 2016
11 AM–9 PM
Free gallery admission for veterans in honor of Veteran's Day.
4 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Friday, November 11, 2016
4 PM
Satyajit Ray,
India,
1956,
(106 mins)

Digital Restoration

The second film in the 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” (S.F. Chronicle). November 13 screening introduced by filmmaker Robert Beavers.
  • Robert Beavers
    Introduction
    Filmmaker Robert Beavers introduces the November 13 screening 
7 PM
Friday, November 11, 2016
7 PM
Carl Theodor Dreyer,
France, Germany,
1931,
(99 mins)
Introduced by Robert Beavers.Carl Theodor Dreyer’s film is paired with Gregory J. Markopoulos’s Swain, an early psychodrama trance film; both were influential on Beavers’s aesthetic.
  • Robert Beavers
    Introduction
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11:30 AM - 1 PM
  • Art
  • In-Person
Saturday, November 12, 2016
11:30 AM - 1 PM

Ages 6 to 12 plus one accompanying adult

Create your own sculptural “spirit boat” from plastic water bottle pieces covered with stained paper that resembles animal skins with artist Jennifer Ewing.
Included with admission; free for kids aged 6-12 plus one accompanying adult
  • Jennifer Ewing
    Jennifer Ewing is an artist, muralist, and workshop leader. Before studying at Monmouth College in Illinois, she attended children’s and teen art programs at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Series Family Fare
1 - 2:30 PM
  • Art
  • In-Person
Saturday, November 12, 2016
1 - 2:30 PM

Ages 6 to 12 plus one accompanying adult

Create your own sculptural “spirit boat” from plastic water bottle pieces covered with stained paper that resembles animal skins with artist Jennifer Ewing.
Included with admission; free for kids aged 6-12 plus one accompanying adult
  • Jennifer Ewing
    Jennifer Ewing is an artist, muralist, and workshop leader. Before studying at Monmouth College in Illinois, she attended children’s and teen art programs at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Series Family Fare
3-9 PM
Saturday, November 12, 2016
3-9 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Visit the Art Lab to participate in an evolving series of hands-on projects with a focus on drawing, collage, prints, and books. For all ages.

Included with admission

Saturday, November 12, 2016
3 PM
Ages 8 and up (younger kids welcome as listeners)
 
Included with admission; Admission free for kids plus one accompanying adult.
  • Jennifer Gordon
    Reading Led by Jennifer Gordon
    Librarian at Malcolm X Elementary School, Berkeley
5:30 PM
Saturday, November 12, 2016
5:30 PM
Mario Monicelli,
Italy,
1960,
(106 mins)
Magnani is marvelous as a hapless would-be actress in this beloved comedy, also featuring Totò and Ben Gazzara. “Like a long night of champagne without the hangover” (Time Out New York).
Saturday, November 12, 2016
8 PM
(66 mins)
Robert Beavers in person.The concluding trio of films, Hedge Theater, The Stoas, and The Ground, in Beavers’s magnificent film cycle offers images of ineffable beauty and unspoken eloquence. 
  • Robert Beavers
    In Person
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11 AM-7 PM
Sunday, November 13, 2016
11 AM-7 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Visit the Art Lab to participate in an evolving series of hands-on projects with a focus on drawing, collage, prints, and books. For all ages.

Included with admission

Sunday, November 13, 2016
11 AM–7 PM
Free gallery admission for all Lafayette residents.
1:30 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Sunday, November 13, 2016
1:30 PM
Satyajit Ray,
India,
1956,
(106 mins)

Digital Restoration

The second film in the 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” (S.F. Chronicle). November 13 screening introduced by filmmaker Robert Beavers.
  • Robert Beavers
    Introduction
    Filmmaker Robert Beavers introduces the November 13 screening 
2 PM
Sunday, November 13, 2016
2 PM
Included with admission; no advance reservations necessary
4:30 PM
  • Film
Sunday, November 13, 2016
4:30 PM
Pier Paolo Pasolini,
Italy,
1962,
(110 mins)
Pasolini captured Magnani “like a found object” (Village Voice) in her role as a spirited prostitute; her downtrodden exuberance embodies Rome itself.
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7 PM
Monday, November 14, 2016
7 PM
(56 mins)
Robert Beavers in person.Four films made by Beavers since 2007, including his exquisite Pitcher of Colored Light and graceful The Suppliant, paired with the Bay Area premieres of First Weeks and Ute Aurand’s Four Diamonds.
  • Robert Beavers
    In Person
7 PM
  • In-Person
Monday, November 14, 2016
7 PM

Programmed by Shinichi Iova-Koga

With artist Amy Rathbone, music by Wayne Grim, practitioner of Daoist martial arts David Wei, and Nicole Klaymoon's dance group Embodiment Project.
Included with admission. Limited seating.
Series Full 2016
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Wednesday, November 16, 2016
12:15 PM
Wednesday, November 16, 2016
7 PM
(55 mins)
Chip Lord and Steve Seid in conversation.
  • Chip Lord
    In Conversation
    Chip Lord is a founding member of Ant Farm and a present member of LST.
  • Steve Seid
    In Conversation
    Steve Seid was video curator at BAMPFA until 2014.
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Thursday, November 17, 2016
7 PM
(64 mins)
Madeline Anderson and Orlando Bagwell in conversation.Legendary filmmaker Madeline Anderson presents three documentaries that bring to life the civil rights movement and African American experience of the sixties.
  • Madeline Anderson
    In Conversation
  • Orlando Bagwell
    In Conversation
    Director of the documentary program at UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism
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4 PM
Friday, November 18, 2016
4 PM
Satyajit Ray,
India,
1958,
(103 mins)

Digital Restoration

The final film of the Apu Trilogy finds Apu as an adult, and in love. “So fresh and spontaneous that one feels . . . as if it were the world’s first love story” (Pauline Kael).
7 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Friday, November 18, 2016
7 PM
Shirley Clarke,
United States,
1963,
(104 mins)

Restored 35mm Print

Madeline Anderson and Orlando Bagwell in conversation.Anderson was assistant director and editor on Shirley Clarke’s jazz-infused feature about Harlem youth. “As much a document of uptown street life just before the period of Black Power as it is an early landmark in the history of American neorealism” (Amy Taubin). 
  • Madeline Anderson
    In Conversation
  • Orlando Bagwell
    In Conversation
    Director of the documentary program at UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism
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5:30 PM
Saturday, November 19, 2016
5:30 PM
Sidney Lumet,
United States,
1960,
(121 mins)
Magnani meets Marlon Brando (and Maureen Stapleton and Joanne Woodward) in this smoldering adaptation of Tennessee Williams’s Orpheus Descending. Followed by a Magnani-themed dinner at Babette ($40/person). 
8 PM
Saturday, November 19, 2016
8 PM
Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell,
United Kingdom,
1947,
(100 mins)

Imported Print

This tale of nuns in a remote Himalayan convent reaches delirious heights of psychosexual melodrama, thanks in large part to Jack Cardiff’s Oscar-winning cinematography.
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11 AM-4 PM
  • Art
  • Film
  • Free
  • In-Person
  • Tours
Sunday, November 20, 2016
11 AM-4 PM

A Free Day of Performance, Art & Film

A Free Day of Performance, Art & Film
Free
1:30 PM
Sunday, November 20, 2016
1:30 PM
Satyajit Ray,
India,
1958,
(103 mins)

Digital Restoration

The final film of the Apu Trilogy finds Apu as an adult, and in love. “So fresh and spontaneous that one feels . . . as if it were the world’s first love story” (Pauline Kael).
Sunday, November 20, 2016
4:45 PM
Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell,
United Kingdom,
1945,
(90 mins)

Recommended for ages 12 & up

Powell and Pressburger’s most romantic, lyrical film sets a love affair against the vast beauty of Scotland’s Hebrides islands. “One of the finest of all screen romances” (Village Voice).
7 PM
Sunday, November 20, 2016
7 PM
Daniel Mann,
United States,
1955,
(117 mins)
Magnani won an Oscar for her American film debut as a widow whose repressed emotions are rekindled by big-hearted lummox Burt Lancaster. Tennessee Williams created the part for Magnani.
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Friday, November 25, 2016
3 PM
Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell,
United Kingdom,
1946,
(104 mins)

Archival Print

World War II fighter pilot David Niven is caught between a black-and-white heaven and a glorious Technicolor earth in this odd and compelling hybrid of romantic fantasy and wartime propaganda.
5:15 PM
  • Film
Friday, November 25, 2016
5:15 PM
Michelangelo Antonioni,
France, Italy,
1961,
(122 mins)

East Bay Premiere: New 4K Digital Restoration

Friday, November 25, 2016
8 PM
Mario Monicelli,
Italy,
1960,
(106 mins)
Magnani is marvelous as a hapless would-be actress in this beloved comedy, also featuring Totò and Ben Gazzara. “Like a long night of champagne without the hangover” (Time Out New York).
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3 PM
Saturday, November 26, 2016
3 PM
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger,
United Kingdom,
1948,
(133 mins)

Digital Restoration

Recommended for ages 10 & up

Ballerina Moira Shearer must choose between love and art in this ravishing melodrama. “No flatscreen TV will ever do it justice—see it in the theater” (New York).
5:45 PM
  • Film
Saturday, November 26, 2016
5:45 PM
Alfredo Giannetti,
Italy,
1972,
(116 mins)
Magnani appears opposite Marcello Mastroianni in this Risorgimento period drama. Her final starring role is a reprise of and tribute to every passionate woman of the people she ever created.
8:15 PM
  • Film
Saturday, November 26, 2016
8:15 PM
Michelangelo Antonioni,
France, Italy,
1961,
(122 mins)

East Bay Premiere: New 4K Digital Restoration

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2:30 PM
Sunday, November 27, 2016
2:30 PM
Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell,
United Kingdom,
1939,
(82 mins)

Imported Print

Conrad Veidt plays a Nazi submariner hiding out in the Scottish isles as he plots to sink the British fleet in this “Hitchcockian blending of humor and thrills” (William K. Everson).
4:30 PM
Sunday, November 27, 2016
4:30 PM
George Cukor,
United States,
1957,
(114 mins)
Cukor, Hollywood’s finest director of actresses, takes on the great Italian film diva in this Nevada-set melodrama costarring Anthony Quinn.
Sunday, November 27, 2016
7 PM
Tony Gatlif,
France,
1997,
(100 mins)
Introduced by Janet and David Peoples.A Frenchman travels to a small Romani village in Romania and immerses himself in Romani music and culture in this “often genuinely intoxicating brew” (Variety). 
  • Janet & David Peoples
    Introduction
    David and Janet Peoples have written screenplays together or separately for The Day After Trinity, Who Are the DeBolts, Blade Runner, Hero, Twelve Monkeys, and Unforgiven, among others.
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12:15 PM
Wednesday, November 30, 2016
12:15 PM
Included with admission; no advance reservations necessary
Wednesday, November 30, 2016
7 PM
Ron Rice,
United States,
1961,
(58 mins)
Introduced by Justin Desmangles.Warhol sensation Taylor Mead, “the first underground movie star” (J. Hoberman), flits through a Beat-era San Francisco of smoky North Beach cafes and dreamy poets in Rice’s legendary counterculture film. “The purest expression of the Beat sensibility in cinema” (P. Adams Sitney).  
  • Justin Desmangles
    Introduction
    Poet and radio producer Justin Desmangles is collaborating on an opera on poet Bob Kaufman’s life; he contributed an essay to Black Hollywood Unchained (2015), edited by Ishmael Reed. 
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4-7 PM
Thursday, December 1, 2016
4-7 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Visit the Art Lab to participate in an evolving series of hands-on projects with a focus on drawing, collage, prints, and books. For all ages.

Included with admission

All Day
Thursday, December 1, 2016
All Day
Galleries free all day.
Admission free
1 PM
Thursday, December 1, 2016
1 PM
Included with admission; no advance reservations necessary
7 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Thursday, December 1, 2016
7 PM
Ryan Coogler,
United States,
2013,
(85 mins)
Introduced by Aya de Leon.The real-life killing of Oscar Grant by a police officer at an Oakland BART station provides the backstory of this moving look at the last twenty-four hours of Grant’s life. Michael B. Jordan stars in this “acutely political work” (Sight & Sound). 
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  • Aya de Leon
    Introduction
    WE REGRET THAT AYA DE LEON IS UNABLE TO INTRODUCE TONIGHT'S SCREENING.Director of June Jordan’s Poetry for the People, Leon teaches poetry, spoken word, and hip hop at UC Berkeley; she is the author o
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4-9 PM
Friday, December 2, 2016
4-9 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Visit the Art Lab to participate in an evolving series of hands-on projects with a focus on drawing, collage, prints, and books. For all ages.

Included with admission

12:15 PM
Friday, December 2, 2016
12:15 PM

 

Included with admission; limited seating
6:30 PM
  • Film
Friday, December 2, 2016
6:30 PM
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger,
United Kingdom,
1940,
(92 mins)

Imported Print

A Danish sailor (Conrad Veidt) is on the trail of illegal contraband (and Valerie Hobson) in this wartime thriller, tinged with both the whimsical and the nightmarish. “Playful and provocative” (Ian Christie).
8:30 PM
  • Film
Friday, December 2, 2016
8:30 PM
Jayro Bustamante,
France, Guatemala,
2015,
(91 mins)

Winner, Silver Bear, Berlin Film Festival, 2015

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Saturday, December 3, 2016
3:30
Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell,
United Kingdom,
1945,
(90 mins)

Recommended for ages 12 & up

Powell and Pressburger’s most romantic, lyrical film sets a love affair against the vast beauty of Scotland’s Hebrides islands. “One of the finest of all screen romances” (Village Voice).
11 AM–9 PM
Saturday, December 3, 2016
11 AM–9 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Visit the Art Lab to participate in an evolving series of hands-on projects with a focus on drawing, collage, prints, and books. For all ages.

Included with admission

5:30 PM
  • Film
Saturday, December 3, 2016
5:30 PM
Michelangelo Antonioni,
France, Italy,
1961,
(122 mins)

East Bay Premiere: New 4K Digital Restoration

8 PM
  • Film
Saturday, December 3, 2016
8 PM
Pier Paolo Pasolini,
Italy,
1962,
(110 mins)
Pasolini captured Magnani “like a found object” (Village Voice) in her role as a spirited prostitute; her downtrodden exuberance embodies Rome itself.