Week of June 21, 2015

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Sunday, June 21

Sunday, June 21, 2015
5:30 PM

Archival print!
Live Music/Judith Rosenberg on piano

The mysterious Phantom Foe continues to bedevil our heroine Janet Dale (Juanita Hansen) in tonight’s thrilling chapters. 
At Pacific Film Archive Theater

Monday, June 22

Tuesday, June 23

Wednesday, June 24

Wednesday, June 24, 2015
7:30 PM
Edward Cline,
United States,
1940,
"Respectable people had best avoid this comedy; if they see it, they may catch a spitball in the eye. W. C. Fields snarls out his contempt for abstinence, truth, honest endeavor, and human offspring” (Pauline Kael). With Fields's absurdist masterpiece The Fatal Glass of Beer (1933).
At Pacific Film Archive Theater

Thursday, June 25

Thursday, June 25, 2015
7:30 PM
Kenji Mizoguchi,
Japan,
1954,

BAM/PFA Collection Print!

Bring all your senses and your handkerchief to this haunting tale of a family (led by Kinuyo Tanaka) victimized by the cruel practices of feudal Japan, “developed with intuition, cunning, and an overarching sense of tragedy” (SF Weekly)
At Pacific Film Archive Theater

Friday, June 26

Friday, June 26, 2015
11 AM

West Crescent, UC Berkeley campus (corner of Oxford and Center Streets)

 

An all-ages, family-friendly event! Admission is free!

An all-ages, family-friendly event!
Free admission
Friday, June 26, 2015
7:00 PM

35mm Restored Prints! 
Live Music/Judith Rosenberg on piano

Two early and rare shorts, The Madness of Doctor Tube and The Deadly Gases, that demonstrate the fledgling skills of the director who would later make one of the silent era’s greatest epics, Napoleon.
At Pacific Film Archive Theater
Friday, June 26, 2015
8:45 PM
John M. Stahl,
United States,
1939,
Stahl combines Depression-era labor struggles with dreamlike romance in this tale of a waitress (Irene Dunne) and a married man (Charles Boyer). Based on a James M. Cain story, and later remade by Douglas Sirk as Interlude.
At Pacific Film Archive Theater

Saturday, June 27

Saturday, June 27, 2015
6:00 PM
Andrei Tarkovsky,
USSR,
1962,

Introduction/Nariman Skakov

 

Lyrical and brutal by turns, the great Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky's first feature tells of a child's experiences during WWII. “A poetically directed antiwar film that also shows the beauty of the landscape” (SFIFF 1962).
At Pacific Film Archive Theater
  • Nariman Skakov
    Introduced by Nariman Skakov
    Stanford's Nariman Skakov is an expert on the work of Tarkovsky
Saturday, June 27, 2015
8:20 PM
Robert Bresson,
France,
1966,
Bresson found the perfect protagonist for this film in a donkey, "born, like all beings, to suffer and die needlessly and mysteriously. . . . A morbidly beautiful flower of cinematic art" (Andrew Sarris).
At Pacific Film Archive Theater