Week of December 1, 2013

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Sunday, December 1

Sunday, December 1, 2013
3 pm
David Lean (U.K., 1962). 4K Widescreen! Embedding the enigma of T. E. Lawrence in unforgettable desert images, David Lean and cinematographer Freddie Young created “an astonishing, unrepeatable epic” (Chicago Tribune). (221 mins)

Monday, December 2

Tuesday, December 3

Tuesday, December 3, 2013
5:30 pm
Tuesday, December 3, 2013
5:30 pm
Frederick Wiseman (U.S., 2013). An exclusive, invitation-only screening of At Berkeley for the current campus community, followed by a discussion with filmmaker Frederick Wiseman. "One of Wiseman's best, a summation of sorts of a career's worth of principled filmmaking" (Variety). (244 mins)

Wednesday, December 4

Thursday, December 5

Thursday, December 5, 2013
7 pm
One of the leading voices in the field of digital preservation, Sony Pictures archivist Grover Crisp joins us to discuss technological changes in the field of film preservation and exhibition. Followed by an introduction and screening of Otto Preminger's Bonjour Tristesse, starring Jean Seberg and David Niven, at 7:45 p.m. (94 mins, plus presentation).

Friday, December 6

Friday, December 6, 2013
7 pm
Michael Fengler, Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Germany, 1969). Imported Print! A gritty case history of a bourgeois office worker who “without warning” goes berserk, Herr R. predates Fassbinder's Sirk-influenced period and almost seems to reflect an influence of Andy Warhol's cinema in its seemingly improvised, quietly brilliant dialogues. (88 mins)
Friday, December 6, 2013
8:50 pm
Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Germany, 1977). A chocolate factory owner begins to distance himself from “his self” in early 1930s Berlin in Fassbinder's dry filming of a Nabokov novel, wittily adapted by Tom Stoppard. Dirk Bogarde stars. (119 mins)

Saturday, December 7

Saturday, December 7, 2013
6:30pm
Louis Malle (U.S., 1985). 4K Restoration! Introduced by Grover Crisp. A downhearted Vietnam vet (Ed Harris) clashes with a newly arrived community of Vietnamese refugees in the shrimping waters of the Texas gulf in Malle's fascinating look at American racial turmoil. (98 mins)
Saturday, December 7, 2013
9 pm
Martin Scorsese (U.S., 1976). 4K Restoration! Introduced by Grover Crisp. Vietnam vet turned vigilante Robert De Niro cruises through a New York cesspool of crime and concupiscence until he meets his supposed savior, the angelic Cybill Shephard, in Scorsese's memorable film, one of the acknowledged classics of the 1970s. (113 mins)