Week of September 22, 2013

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Sunday, September 22

Sunday, September 22, 2013
5 pm
Pier Paolo Pasolini (Italy, 1964). New 35mm Print! “Pasolini's most satisfying movie. . . . The director's Catholicism and Marxism serve him well here (but) the film's beauty . . . derives from its simplicity” (Time Out). (137 mins)
Sunday, September 22, 2013
7:40 pm
Joseph Anthony (U.S., 1956). Conman Bill Starbuck (Burt Lancaster) is a bogus rainmaker aiming to “help” a parched Depression-era Kansas town out of its drought-or at least its cash. Katharine Hepburn plays a spinster who falls for this traveling trickster, and Wendell Corey is the town's dowdy, damaged deputy. (120 mins)

Monday, September 23

Tuesday, September 24

Tuesday, September 24, 2013
7:00 pm
John Gianvito, Jon Jost, Soon-Mi Yoo, Minda Martin, Travis Wilkerson (U.S./Afghanistan, 2012). John Gianvito and Jeffrey Skoller in conversation. An omnibus film by five politically committed filmmakers focusing on the impact of the war in Afghanistan. (129 mins, plus conversation)

Wednesday, September 25

Wednesday, September 25, 2013
7 pm
John Gianvito (U.S., 2007). John Gianvito in person. A minimalist memorial to America's radicals and freethinkers, inspired by Howard Zinn. (58 mins)

Thursday, September 26

Thursday, September 26, 2013
7:30 pm
Pier Paolo Pasolini, Giuseppe Bertolucci (Italy, 1963/2008). New 35mm Print! Pasolini's 1963 film essay, constructed from newsreel footage accompanied by poetic and political commentary, reveals his radical view of history. With La ricotta. (116 mins)

Friday, September 27

Friday, September 27, 2013
7:00 pm
John H. Auer (U.S., 1954). Archival print! The swaying palms and lapping waves of Waikiki give way to the sordid darkness of nearby Chinatown in this little-known Aloha Noir. Wendell Corey (in a rare starring role) plays an island gangster gone legit, until, of course, he's brought back into the game…. Elsa Lanchester, Evelyn Keyes, and Philip Ahn costar. (90 mins)
Friday, September 27, 2013
7:30 pm
Philip Kaufman (U.S., 1978). Free outdoor movie! Plus shorts and other surprises. A remake of the classic 1956 sci-fi flick about an alien invasion, here set in San Francisco. Starring Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Leonard Nimoy, and Jeff Goldblum. (115 mins)
Friday, September 27, 2013
8:50 pm
Budd Boetticher (U.S., 1956). Bottle-bottom bespectacled “Foggy” Poole (Wendell Corey) is an unassuming bank clerk, turned to become the inside man on a heist, in Boetticher's tight and trim tale of noir terror, helped along by the presence of Joseph Cotten, Rhonda Fleming, and Alan Hale. (73 mins)

Saturday, September 28

Saturday, September 28, 2013
6:30 pm
Pier Paolo Pasolini (Italy, 1964 ). New 35mm Print! A record of Pasolini's travels in Israel and Palestine in preparation for The Gospel According to St. Matthew. With Notes for a Film about India. (87 mins)
Saturday, September 28, 2013
8:20 pm
Pier Paolo Pasolini (Italy, 1964). New 35mm Print! Pasolini interviews Italians from all walks of life on the subjects of love, prostitution, homosexuality, marriage, and the family. (90 mins)