Week of October 6, 2013

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Sunday, October 6

Sunday, October 6, 2013
5:30 pm
Lou Ye (China, 2000). (Suzhou He). In this atmospheric noir thriller, which doubles as a city symphony to Shanghai's eternal mysteries, a videographer searches for work, and for a lost love. (83 mins)
Sunday, October 6, 2013
7:15 pm
Pier Paolo Pasolini (Italy, 1966). New 35mm Print! The great Italian comic Totò plays opposite Pasolini discovery Ninetto Davoli in this Brechtian slapstick set in the time of St. Francis. (89 mins)

Monday, October 7

Tuesday, October 8

Tuesday, October 8, 2013
7 pm
Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Germany, 1972/74). Fontane's nineteenth-century novel adapted into a classic and elegant film. "A kaleidoscopic perspective on the moral attitudes taken by all those involved with Effi...delicately and willfully portrayed by Hanna Schygulla" (Judy Stone, SF Chronicle). (141 mins)

Wednesday, October 9

Wednesday, October 9, 2013
7 pm
Marielle Nitoslawska (Canada, 2012). Introduced by Anne Walsh. A sensual, highly textured meditation on the creative process of artist Carolee Schneemann, intermixing the artist's personal reflections with documentation of her art. (100 mins)

Thursday, October 10

Thursday, October 10, 2013
7 pm
Moumen Smihi (Morocco, 1975). (El Chergui). Moumen Smihi in person. Life in the medina on the cusp of Moroccan independence, amid the contradictions of colonialism, religion, patriarchy, and resistance. Smihi's debut feature, one of Moroccan and Arab cinema's most groundbreaking films. (80 mins)

Friday, October 11

Friday, October 11, 2013
7 pm
Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Germany, 1969). Imported Print! The name means "troublemaker," fitting for Fassbinder, who cast himself as a despised immigrant worker, the butt of bored youth in a Munich backwater. "A gritty, low-budget tour de force" (Village Voice). (88 mins)
Friday, October 11, 2013
8:50 pm
Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Germany, 1969). A lowlife gangster flick in which the camera gets all the best lines. With Schygulla, Von Trotta, Ingrid Caven. (91 mins)

Saturday, October 12

Saturday, October 12, 2013
6:15 pm
Pier Paolo Pasolini (Italy, 1969). New 35mm Print! Photographed in brilliant color in Syria, Turkey, and Italy, Medea is an exotic and controversial reconstruction of the Greek legend featuring Maria Callas in her first and only film. (110 mins)
Saturday, October 12, 2013
8:30 pm
Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Germany, 1978). Hanna Schygulla became the new Dietrich with her ironic performance as an emblem of Germany's postwar economic miracle. "Brilliantly complex...splendid and mysterious" (NY Times). (120 mins)