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
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.
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
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).
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
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).
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.