Week of July 12, 2015

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Sunday, July 12

Sunday, July 12, 2015
4:00 PM
James W. Horne,
United States,
1937,

New Preservation Prints!

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).
At Pacific Film Archive Theater
Sunday, July 12, 2015
6:15 PM
Alexander Dovzhenko,
USSR,
1930,
(81 mins)

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)
At Pacific Film Archive Theater
Sunday, July 12, 2015
6:15 PM
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)
At Pacific Film Archive Theater

Monday, July 13

Tuesday, July 14

Wednesday, July 15

Wednesday, July 15, 2015
7:30 PM

IB Technicolor Print! 

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).
At Pacific Film Archive Theater
Wednesday, July 15, 2015
7:30 PM

IB Technicolor Print!

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)
At Pacific Film Archive Theater

Thursday, July 16

Thursday, July 16, 2015
7:30 PM
Andrei Tarkovsky,
USSR,
1972,
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).
At Pacific Film Archive Theater
Thursday, July 16, 2015
8:40 PM

Maecenas faucibus mollis interdum. 

UC Berkeley psychology professor Dacher Keltner joins exhibition co-curator Toby Kamps for a lively, improvisational conversation in the Silence galleries.
At BAM/PFA Galleries

Friday, July 17

Friday, July 17, 2015
7:00 PM
John M. Stahl,
United States,
1943,

Studio Print!

This droll fable of class and authenticity, revolving around a painter who poses as his own valet, reveals Stahl as a capable director of comedy.
At Pacific Film Archive Theater
Friday, July 17, 2015
8:45 PM
Nicholas Ray,
United States,
1949,
Ray's lyrical, passionate debut following a pair of fugitive innocents influenced films from Pierrot le Fou to Bonnie and Clyde.
At Pacific Film Archive Theater

Saturday, July 18

Saturday, July 18, 2015
6:30 PM
Jean Renoir,
France,
1931,

Imported Print!

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.
At Pacific Film Archive Theater
Saturday, July 18, 2015
8:30 PM
Andrei Tarkovsky,
USSR,
1983,

New 35mm Print! 

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). 
At Pacific Film Archive Theater