Week of April 21, 2013

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Sunday, April 21

Sunday, April 21, 2013
3 pm
Alain Robbe-Grillet (France, 1968). Imported 35mm Print! A film crew boards a train to Antwerp and impulsively decides to cast a fellow passenger (Jean-Louis Trintignant) as a drug runner, with strange, sexual, and fetishistic results. “As challenging and influential again today as it was in the 1960s” (Senses of Cinema). (105 mins)
Sunday, April 21, 2013
5:15 pm
Leonard Retel Helmrich (The Netherlands/Indonesia, 2001). Archival print! Leonard Retel Helmrich and Daniel L. Miller in Conversation. The fall of longtime ruler Suharto left Indonesia in turmoil; this remarkable documentary follows the changes through the eyes of an “ordinary” Jakarta family. Visionary, complex camera techniques add to this riveting film. (94 mins)

Monday, April 22

Tuesday, April 23

Tuesday, April 23, 2013
7 pm
Leonard Retel Helmrich (The Netherlands/ Indonesia, 2004). Archival print! Leonard Retel Helmrich in person. Winner of Sundance's 2004 World Cinema Documentary Grand Jury Prize, Shape of the Moon follows one Indonesian family navigating their country's myriad partitions: between urban and rural, Muslim and Christian, old world and new. (92 mins)

Wednesday, April 24

Wednesday, April 24, 2013
3:10 pm
Peter Weir (U.S., 1998). Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Jim Carrey stars as Truman Burbank, living a life completely planned (by the Hollywood producer of a reality show starring the unwitting Truman) in a completely planned community based on Seaside, Florida. (103 mins)
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Wednesday, April 24, 2013
7 pm
Alfred Hitchcock (U.K., 1972). A man accused of rape and murder plans a deadly revenge on the real killer in this disturbing London-set thriller. “Hitchcock at 73 proved he could still excite. . . . Although his vision of life here is bleak to the point of hopelessness, he is more comically macabre than ever” (Andrew Sarris). (116 mins)

Thursday, April 25

Friday, April 26

Friday, April 26, 2013
6:30 PM
Sergei Loznitsa (Germany/Latvia/Russia/Netherlands/Belarus, 2012). Two partisans plan to kill a Belorussian railway worker suspected of Nazi sympathies in this dreamlike movie, but what actually ends up happening among the three men is a complicated story involving guilt, betrayal, and defiance. (128 mins)
Friday, April 26, 2013
9 pm
Dan Krauss (U.S., 2012). In this chilling documentary, Bay Area-based Dan Krauss explores the deeply disturbing story of U.S. soldiers stationed in Afghanistan in 2009 who were convicted of murdering innocent civilians. (79 mins)

Saturday, April 27

Saturday, April 27, 2013
12:30pm
Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Japan, 2012). (Shokuzai). Kiyoshi Kurosawa's epic new work, told in five parts over five hours, is a riveting drama about a mother whose daughter is killed and the four childhood friends who witnessed the crime. Shown with a 10-minute intermission. (300 mins)
Saturday, April 27, 2013
6:15pm
Francesco Rosi (Italy, 1972). (Il caso Mattei). A newly restored version of Rosi's crackling political thriller based on the life and mysterious death of Italy's legendary postwar energy czar, Enrico Mattei. As revelatory now as it was in 1972; “a massively underrated masterpiece” (Alex Cox). (116 mins)
Saturday, April 27, 2013
8:45pm
James Sansing in person. Nine recent experimental films look at troubling facts and surprising moments with beauty and inventiveness. Includes new films by Deborah Stratman, Katherin McInnis, Bobby Abate, Ali Cherri, Karen Yaskinksky, James Sansing, Peter Rose, Lonnie von Brummelen and Siebren de Haan, and Scott Stark. (89 mins)