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Sunday, November 13

Sunday, November 13, 2016
11 AM-7 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Visit the Art Lab to participate in an evolving series of hands-on projects with a focus on drawing, collage, prints, and books. For all ages.

Included with admission

Sunday, November 13, 2016
11 AM–7 PM
Free gallery admission for all Lafayette residents.
Sunday, November 13, 2016
1:30 PM
Satyajit Ray,
India,
1956,
(106 mins)

Digital Restoration

The second film in the Apu Trilogy follows Apu’s family as they travel to the holy city of Benares along the banks of the Ganges. “Graceful, insightful, and moving” (S.F. Chronicle). November 13 screening introduced by filmmaker Robert Beavers.
  • Robert Beavers
    Introduction
    Filmmaker Robert Beavers introduces the November 13 screening 
Sunday, November 13, 2016
2 PM
Included with admission; no advance reservations necessary
Sunday, November 13, 2016
4:30 PM
Pier Paolo Pasolini,
Italy,
1962,
(110 mins)
Pasolini captured Magnani “like a found object” (Village Voice) in her role as a spirited prostitute; her downtrodden exuberance embodies Rome itself.

Monday, November 14

Monday, November 14, 2016
7 PM
(56 mins)
Robert Beavers in person.Four films made by Beavers since 2007, including his exquisite Pitcher of Colored Light and graceful The Suppliant, paired with the Bay Area premieres of First Weeks and Ute Aurand’s Four Diamonds.
  • Robert Beavers
    In Person
Monday, November 14, 2016
7 PM

Programmed by Shinichi Iova-Koga

With artist Amy Rathbone, music by Wayne Grim, practitioner of Daoist martial arts David Wei, and Nicole Klaymoon's dance group Embodiment Project.
Included with admission. Limited seating.
Series Full 2016

Tuesday, November 15

Wednesday, November 16

Wednesday, November 16, 2016
12:15 PM
Wednesday, November 16, 2016
7 PM
(55 mins)
Chip Lord and Steve Seid in conversation.
  • Chip Lord
    In Conversation
    Chip Lord is a founding member of Ant Farm and a present member of LST.
  • Steve Seid
    In Conversation
    Steve Seid was video curator at BAMPFA until 2014.

Thursday, November 17

Thursday, November 17, 2016
7 PM
(64 mins)
Madeline Anderson and Orlando Bagwell in conversation.Legendary filmmaker Madeline Anderson presents three documentaries that bring to life the civil rights movement and African American experience of the sixties.
  • Madeline Anderson
    In Conversation
  • Orlando Bagwell
    In Conversation
    Director of the documentary program at UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism

Friday, November 18

Friday, November 18, 2016
4 PM
Satyajit Ray,
India,
1958,
(103 mins)

Digital Restoration

The final film of the Apu Trilogy finds Apu as an adult, and in love. “So fresh and spontaneous that one feels . . . as if it were the world’s first love story” (Pauline Kael).
Friday, November 18, 2016
6 PM
Friday, November 18, 2016
7 PM
Shirley Clarke,
United States,
1963,
(104 mins)

Restored 35mm Print

Madeline Anderson and Orlando Bagwell in conversation.Anderson was assistant director and editor on Shirley Clarke’s jazz-infused feature about Harlem youth. “As much a document of uptown street life just before the period of Black Power as it is an early landmark in the history of American neorealism” (Amy Taubin). 
  • Madeline Anderson
    In Conversation
  • Orlando Bagwell
    In Conversation
    Director of the documentary program at UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism

Saturday, November 19

Saturday, November 19, 2016
5:30 PM
Sidney Lumet,
United States,
1960,
(121 mins)
Magnani meets Marlon Brando (and Maureen Stapleton and Joanne Woodward) in this smoldering adaptation of Tennessee Williams’s Orpheus Descending. Followed by a Magnani-themed dinner at Babette ($40/person). 
Saturday, November 19, 2016
8 PM
Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell,
United Kingdom,
1947,
(100 mins)

Imported Print

This tale of nuns in a remote Himalayan convent reaches delirious heights of psychosexual melodrama, thanks in large part to Jack Cardiff’s Oscar-winning cinematography.