December 2016

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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.
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11 AM-7 PM
Sunday, December 4, 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 PM
Sunday, December 4, 2016
1 PM
Included with admission; no advance reservations necessary
2 PM
  • Film
Sunday, December 4, 2016
2 PM
Jayro Bustamante,
France, Guatemala,
2015,
(91 mins)

Winner, Silver Bear, Berlin Film Festival, 2015

4 PM
Sunday, December 4, 2016
4 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.”
6:30 PM
Sunday, December 4, 2016
6:30 PM
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger,
United Kingdom,
1941,
(106 mins)

Imported Print

A band of stranded Nazi sailors make their way across Canada in this wartime propaganda feature, which earned Pressburger an Academy Award for Best Screenplay. Laurence Olivier and Leslie Howard star.
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12:15 PM
Wednesday, December 7, 2016
12:15 PM
Included with admission; no advance reservations necessary
7 PM
Wednesday, December 7, 2016
7 PM
Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell,
United Kingdom,
1944,
(124 mins)

Imported Print

Three modern pilgrims almost accidentally retrace the ancient pilgrim’s path to Canterbury in an idyllic wartime ramble, one of Powell and Pressburger’s most personal films. “One of the richest and strangest treasures in British cinema” (David Thompson).
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4-7 PM
Thursday, December 8, 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

Thursday, December 8, 2016
7 PM
Theodore J. Flicker,
United States,
1967,
(104 mins)

Archival Print

Introduced by Daniel Clowes.James Coburn is a psychoanalyst who becomes as paranoid as his patient—the President—in this sixties headtrip through hippies, squares, and general nutters.
  • Daniel Clowes
    Introduction
    Daniel Clowes is a graphic novelist (Ghost World, Wilson, David Boring), Academy Award–nominated screenwriter, and frequent cover artist for the New Yorker; his latest book is Patience, and a movie ad
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4-9 PM
Friday, December 9, 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 9, 2016
12:15 PM
Included with admission; limited seating
4 PM
  • Film
Friday, December 9, 2016
4 PM
Jayro Bustamante,
France, Guatemala,
2015,
(91 mins)

Winner, Silver Bear, Berlin Film Festival, 2015

Friday, December 9, 2016
6 PM

Programmed by Ava Koohbor

Included with admission
Series Readings 2016
7 PM
  • Art
  • In-Person
Friday, December 9, 2016
7 PM
Included with admission
7 PM
Friday, December 9, 2016
7 PM
Krzysztof Kieslowski,
France,
1993,
(100 mins)
After a tragic loss, a young woman (Juliette Binoche) seeks to liberate herself from all connections in the first installment (“Liberty”) of Kieślowski’s trilogy based on the symbolic colors of the French flag.
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11:30 AM-1 PM
Saturday, December 10, 2016
11:30 AM-1 PM

Ages 6 to 12 plus one accompanying adult 

Make horizontal paper scrolls stamped with stenciled silhouettes of boats seen on San Francisco Bay with artist Marcela Florez. 
Included with admissions; admission free for kids aged 6 to 12 plus one accompanying adult
  • Marcela Florez
    With artist Marcela Florez
    Marcela Florez is an artist and art educator from Bogotá, Colombia. She loves painting and creating collaborative art projects with young artists.
Series Family Fare
1-2:30 PM
Saturday, December 10, 2016
1-2:30 PM

Ages 6 to 12 plus one accompanying adult 

Make horizontal paper scrolls stamped with stenciled silhouettes of boats seen on San Francisco Bay with artist Marcela Florez. 
Included with admissions; admission free for kids aged 6 to 12 plus one accompanying adult
  • Marcela Florez
    With artist Marcela Florez
    Marcela Florez is an artist and art educator from Bogotá, Colombia. She loves painting and creating collaborative art projects with young artists.
Series Family Fare
3-9 PM
Saturday, December 10, 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, December 10, 2016
1 PM

Copresented by the UC Berkeley Department of Art Practice

Included with admission
Saturday, December 10, 2016
3 PM

Ages 8 and up (younger kids welcome as listeners)

Included with admission; admission free for children plus one accompanying adult
  • K. C. Bull
    Reading Led by K. C. Bull
    Art teacher at Malcolm X and Thousand Oaks Elementary Schools, Berkeley
Saturday, December 10, 2016
3:30 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.
Saturday, December 10, 2016
6 PM
Louis Malle,
France,
1958,
(91 mins)

Digital Restoration

8 PM
  • Film
Saturday, December 10, 2016
8 PM
Michelangelo Antonioni,
France, Italy,
1961,
(122 mins)

East Bay Premiere: New 4K Digital Restoration

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11 AM-7 PM
Sunday, December 11, 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, December 11, 2016
3 PM
Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell,
United Kingdom,
1943,
(163 mins)
A career officer and lifetime bumbler recounts his adventures in this mocking send-up of the military upper crust. “The greatest English film ever made” (New Yorker). “Disgraceful” (Winston Churchill).
Sunday, December 11, 2016
7 PM
Krzysztof Kieslowski,
France, Poland,
1993,
(92 mins)
Kieślowski returned to his native Poland for this earthy, very Eastern European comedy involving a beaten-down Pole who aims for “equality” and plots revenge against his beautiful French ex-wife (Julie Delpy).
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7 PM
  • Film
Tuesday, December 13, 2016
7 PM
Jayro Bustamante,
France, Guatemala,
2015,
(91 mins)

Winner, Silver Bear, Berlin Film Festival, 2015

7 PM
  • In-Person
Tuesday, December 13, 2016
7 PM

Programmed by Shinichi Iova-Koga

With performance artist Dohee Lee, Congolese choreographer Byb Chanel Bibene, and taiko drummer Jimi Nakagawa. 
Included with admission
Series Full 2016
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7 PM
Wednesday, December 14, 2016
7 PM
Krzysztof Kieslowski,
France, Poland, Switzerland,
1994,
(99 mins)
A chance encounter brings together two solitary individuals—a model (Irène Jacob) and a retired judge (Jean-Louis Trintignant)—in Kieślowski’s meditation on the need for “fraternity.”
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4-7 PM
Thursday, December 15, 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

7 PM
Thursday, December 15, 2016
7 PM
Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell,
United Kingdom,
1950,
(111 mins)

Restored Print

Jennifer Jones stars as a beautiful and free mountain lass caught between a kindly parson and a leering squire in a masterpiece of Technicolor splendor, based on a Victorian-era potboiler. “Visually spellbinding” (Time Out).
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4-9 PM
Friday, December 16, 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

6 PM
Friday, December 16, 2016
6 PM
Included with admission. Space for this event is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Friday, December 16, 2016
6:30 PM
Friday, December 16, 2016
8:30 PM
Louis Malle,
France,
1958,
(91 mins)

Digital Restoration

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11 AM–9 PM
Saturday, December 17, 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

3:30 PM
Saturday, December 17, 2016
3:30 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.
6 PM
Saturday, December 17, 2016
6 PM
Krzysztof Kieslowski,
France,
1993,
(100 mins)
After a tragic loss, a young woman (Juliette Binoche) seeks to liberate herself from all connections in the first installment (“Liberty”) of Kieślowski’s trilogy based on the symbolic colors of the French flag.
8:15 PM
Saturday, December 17, 2016
8:15 PM
Krzysztof Kieslowski,
France, Poland,
1993,
(92 mins)
Kieślowski returned to his native Poland for this earthy, very Eastern European comedy involving a beaten-down Pole who aims for “equality” and plots revenge against his beautiful French ex-wife (Julie Delpy).
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11 AM-7 PM
Sunday, December 18, 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, December 18, 2016
2:30 PM
4:30 PM
Sunday, December 18, 2016
4:30 PM
Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell,
United Kingdom,
1948,
(108 mins)

Imported Print

An embittered World War II bomb-disposal expert is tapped to conquer a sinister new German booby trap in a claustrophobic, expressionist film noir that includes “Powell’s most erotically eloquent lovers” (David Thomson).
7 PM
Sunday, December 18, 2016
7 PM
Krzysztof Kieslowski,
France, Poland, Switzerland,
1994,
(99 mins)
A chance encounter brings together two solitary individuals—a model (Irène Jacob) and a retired judge (Jean-Louis Trintignant)—in Kieślowski’s meditation on the need for “fraternity.”
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Wednesday, December 21, 2016
4 PM
Wednesday, December 21, 2016
7 PM
Louis Malle,
France,
1958,
(91 mins)

Digital Restoration

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4-7 PM
Thursday, December 22, 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

Thursday, December 22, 2016
4 PM
7 PM
  • Film
Thursday, December 22, 2016
7 PM
Michelangelo Antonioni,
France, Italy,
1961,
(122 mins)

East Bay Premiere: New 4K Digital Restoration

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4-9 PM
Friday, December 23, 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, December 23, 2016
7 PM
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger,
United Kingdom,
1951,
(133 mins)

Digital Restoration

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Saturday, December 24, 2016
All Day
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Sunday, December 25, 2016
All Day
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Wednesday, December 28, 2016
All Day
1 PM
Wednesday, December 28, 2016
1 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).
3:45 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Wednesday, December 28, 2016
3:45 PM
Alexander Korda,
France,
1931,
(127 mins)

New Digital Restoration

Introduced by Alice WatersThe first installment in the beloved Fanny Trilogy introduces César, boisterous proprietor of a Marseilles bar; his son Marius; and Fanny. “These films display such old-fashioned virtues as truth to life and boundless humanity” (Time Out). Come early for a themed lunch at Babette before the screening!
  • Alice Waters
    Introduction
    Chef, author, and the proprietor of Chez Panisse
7 PM
Wednesday, December 28, 2016
7 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.
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4-7 PM
Thursday, December 29, 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

Thursday, December 29, 2016
All Day
Thursday, December 29, 2016
1 PM
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger,
United Kingdom,
1951,
(133 mins)

Digital Restoration

3:45 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Thursday, December 29, 2016
3:45 PM
Marc Allégret,
France,
1932,
(127 mins)

New Digital Restoration

Introduced by Alice WatersThe continuation of the trilogy is Fanny’s tragedy but César’s story: he is played by the incomparable Raimu. Come early for a themed lunch at Babette before the screening!
  • Alice Waters
    Introduction
    Chef, author, and proprietor of Chez Panisse
7 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Thursday, December 29, 2016
7 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 
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4-9 PM
Friday, December 30, 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, December 30, 2016
All Day
Friday, December 30, 2016
1 PM
Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell,
United Kingdom,
1955,
(101 mins)

Imported Print 

3:45 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Friday, December 30, 2016
3:45 PM
Marcel Pagnol,
France,
1936,
(142 mins)

New Digital Restoration

Introduced by Alice WatersThe conclusion of the trilogy poignantly evokes remembrances and regrets as the cycle of life and love begins again. “Today the modest charms and graces of the Pagnol trilogy seem more precious than ever” (Time Out). Come early for a themed lunch at Babette before the screening!
  • Alice Waters
    Introduction
    Chef, author, and the proprietor of Chez Panisse
7 PM
Friday, December 30, 2016
7 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).
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All Day
Saturday, December 31, 2016
All Day