In one of their best-loved comedies, Stan and Ollie travel to Brushwood Gulch to deliver a deed to a gold mine to its rightful inheritor. With more slapstick fun in shorts Helpmates (1932) and The Midnight Patrol (1933).
BAM/PFA Collection Print! Judith Rosenberg on piano.
Dovzhenko's great film poem to the Ukraine he loved. "Dovzhenko seldom recaptured the pantheistic phosphorescence of this hymn both to nature and to the glittering new tractors and ploughs destined to transform it” (NFT, London)
BAM/PFA Collection Print! Judith Rosenberg on piano. Dovzhenko's great film poem to the Ukraine he loved. "Dovzhenko seldom recaptured the pantheistic phosphorescence of this hymn both to nature and to the glittering new tractors and ploughs destined to transform it” (NFT, London)
Based on a novel by the author of Black Narcissus, Renoir’s wise, warm Technicolor masterpiece follows several young girls coming of age on the River Ganges. “The artist, medium, and location combine, as though effortlessly, to produce an experience of surpassing loveliness” (NY Times).
Based on a novel by the author of Black Narcissus, Renoir’s wise, warm Technicolor masterpiece follows several young girls coming of age on the River Ganges. “The artist, medium, and location combine, as though effortlessly, to produce an experience of surpassing loveliness” (NY Times)
In Tarkovsky's influential 1972 masterwork, based on a famous novel by Stanislaw Lem, "the alien world is one immense ocean, the ocean is a brain, and the brain may be our own" (Village Voice).
UC Berkeley psychology professor Dacher Keltner joins exhibition co-curator Toby Kamps for a lively, improvisational conversation in the Silence galleries.
Michel Simon is an unhappily married middle-aged bank clerk whose only passion in life is painting, until he becomes obsessed with a prostitute. Remade by Fritz Lang as Scarlet Street, Renoir’s original is infused with a sadomasochistic sexuality that is both heightened and tempered by Renoir's camera.
Andrei Tarkovsky's breathtaking journey through the ruined but magical spaces of Tuscany follows a Russian man who feels the longing for home, closure, and the absolute that the film's title describes. "Nostalghia is not so much a movie as a place to inhabit for two hours” (J. Hoberman).