Week of July 19, 2015

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Sunday, July 19

Sunday, July 19, 2015
4:30 PM
Clyde Bruckman,
United States,
1935,
W. C. Fields plays a beleaguered paterfamilias in "the kind of burlesque which comes dangerously close to realism” (NY Times, 1935). With The Golf Specialist (1934), featuring Fields's vaudeville routines.
At Pacific Film Archive Theater
Sunday, July 19, 2015
6:30 PM
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger,
United Kingdom,
1951,

New Digital Restoration!

Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's followup to The Red Shoes was this visually splendid tour-de-force: lush color, outrageous effects, Offenbach's magnificent score, and impressive dancing highlight the three connected tales of a poet's amorous adventures.
At Pacific Film Archive Theater

Monday, July 20

Tuesday, July 21

Tuesday, July 21, 2015

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At Museum Theater

Wednesday, July 22

Wednesday, July 22, 2015
Ethan Hawke, Jude Law, and Uma Thurman inhabit a future not racist or sexist, but genomist. "An Orwellian story presented with a cool, eerie precision like Peter Greenaway's...a handsome and fully imagined work of cautionary futuristic fiction."-N.Y. Times. With short One Breath.
Wednesday, July 22, 2015
7:30 PM
Erich von Stroheim,
United States,
1921,

 Live Music/Judith Rosenberg on piano

Monte Carlo provides the suitably decadent setting for von Stroheim’s look at money, temptation, and marriage. “Never was a film more revolutionary” (Langlois). 
At Pacific Film Archive Theater

Thursday, July 23

Thursday, July 23, 2015
7:30 PM
Andrei Tarkovsky,
USSR,
1979,

Imported Print!

A writer, a scientist, and their "stalker" guide venture into a mysterious wasteland known as the Zone. "A dense, complex, often contradictory, and endlessly pliable allegory about human consciousness” (Slant).
At Pacific Film Archive Theater

Friday, July 24

Friday, July 24, 2015
7:00 PM
Alain Resnais,
France, Japan,
1959,

In Memory of Alain Resnais (1922–2014) 
New Digital Restoration!

A French actress and a Japanese architect meet in Hiroshima, and begin a haunted love affair, in Alain Resnais’ mesmerizing work, written by Marguerite Duras. “A cornerstone film of the French New Wave, Alain Resnais’s first feature is one of the most influential films of all time” (Criterion).
At Pacific Film Archive Theater
Friday, July 24, 2015
8:50 PM
Erich von Stroheim,
United States,
1928,
In a debauched Central European kingdom, a mad queen must wed a notorious libertine, who instead falls for a young nun (Gloria Swanson). One of the most infamous unfinished film maudits in history, and praised as Erich von Stroheim’s masterpiece.
At Pacific Film Archive Theater

Saturday, July 25

Saturday, July 25, 2015
6:00 PM
John M. Stahl,
1934,
The lives of a black maid (Louise Beavers) and a white widow (Claudette Colbert) intersect in a scheme to manufacture pancake batter, in this melodrama. Nominated for three Academy Awards and named by Time in 2007 as one of the twenty-five most important films on race.
At Pacific Film Archive Theater
Saturday, July 25, 2015
8:15 PM
Andrei Tarkovsky,
France, Sweden,
1986,

New 35mm Print!

A retired actor and his family find themselves on a remote Baltic island when word arrives of nuclear war in Tarkovsky’s elegiac final film. 
At Pacific Film Archive Theater