Week of July 5, 2015

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Sunday, July 5

Sunday, July 5, 2015
4:30 PM
Norman Z. McLeod (US, 1934). W. C. Fields's “definitive study in the horrors of small town family life . . . easily the most devastating comedy of the '30s" (Time Out). With The Dentist (1932)
At Pacific Film Archive Theater
Sunday, July 5, 2015
6:30 PM
1932,
Stahl adapts Fannie Hurst’s bestselling novel into a surprisingly clear-eyed, quietly devastating story about what happens when a woman has nothing but a man, and not much of him.
At Pacific Film Archive Theater

Monday, July 6

Tuesday, July 7

Wednesday, July 8

Wednesday, July 8, 2015
7:30 PM

Imported Print! 
Live Music/Judith Rosenberg on piano

 

An actress turns courtesan to make ends meet during Europe’s decadent Second Empire in Renoir’s first full-length vehicle for his wife, Catherine Hessling. Renoir: “My first film worth talking about.” 
At Pacific Film Archive Theater

Thursday, July 9

Thursday, July 9, 2015
7:30 PM
Andrei Arsenevich Tarkovskii,
USSR,
1961,
Tarkovsky’s diploma film follows the unlikely friendship between a frail young violinist and a gruff older steamroller operative. With Voyage in Time, on Tarkovsky and screenwriter Tonino Guerra’s travels across Italy. 
At Pacific Film Archive Theater

Friday, July 10

Friday, July 10, 2015
7:00 PM
Luis Buñuel,
Mexico,
1958,

Archival Print!

Gabriel Figueroa’s cinematography lends stark beauty to an unforgiving landscape in this Buñuel classic about a priest whose charity is his undoing.
At Pacific Film Archive Theater
Friday, July 10, 2015
7:00 PM
Luis Buñuel,
Mexico,
1958,

Archival Print!

Gabriel Figueroa’s cinematography lends stark beauty to an unforgiving landscape in this Buñuel classic about a priest whose charity is his undoing.
At Pacific Film Archive Theater
Friday, July 10, 2015
8:50 PM
John M. Stahl,
United States,
1947,

Studio Print!

In antebellum New Orleans, Irish gambler Stephen Fox (Rex Harrison) wins a plantation and a beautiful, aristocratic wife (Maureen O’Hara), but can he master them?
At Pacific Film Archive Theater

Saturday, July 11

Saturday, July 11, 2015
6:30 PM
Augusto Genina,
France,
1930,

Imported Print! 
Live Music/Judith Rosenberg on piano

The last major role for silent-era beauty Louise Brooks (Pandora’s Box) was as a Parisian typist who wins a beauty contest and a movie contract, only to face the violent disapproval of her husband. 
At Pacific Film Archive Theater
Saturday, July 11, 2015
8:45 PM
Andrei Tarkovsky,
USSR,
1976,
Tarkovsky’s most autobiographical work, a collection of memories of a young boy coming of age, invented “a new language, true to the nature of film . . . life as a dream” (Ingmar Bergman).
At Pacific Film Archive Theater