Sunday, November 27
Sunday, November 27, 2016
2:30 PM
Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell,
United Kingdom,
1939,
(82 mins)
Imported Print
Conrad Veidt plays a Nazi submariner hiding out in the Scottish isles as he plots to sink the British fleet in this “Hitchcockian blending of humor and thrills” (William K. Everson).
Sunday, November 27, 2016
4:30 PM
George Cukor,
United States,
1957,
(114 mins)
Cukor, Hollywood’s finest director of actresses, takes on the great Italian film diva in this Nevada-set melodrama costarring Anthony Quinn.
Sunday, November 27, 2016
7 PM
Tony Gatlif,
France,
1997,
(100 mins)
Introduced by Janet and David Peoples.A Frenchman travels to a small Romani village in Romania and immerses himself in Romani music and culture in this “often genuinely intoxicating brew” (Variety).
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Janet & David Peoples
IntroductionDavid and Janet Peoples have written screenplays together or separately for The Day After Trinity, Who Are the DeBolts, Blade Runner, Hero, Twelve Monkeys, and Unforgiven, among others.
Series
Cinema Mon Amour: Fall 2016
Monday, November 28
Tuesday, November 29
Wednesday, November 30
Wednesday, November 30, 2016
12:15 PM
Wednesday, November 30, 2016
7 PM
Ron Rice,
United States,
1961,
(58 mins)
Introduced by Justin Desmangles.Warhol sensation Taylor Mead, “the first underground movie star” (J. Hoberman), flits through a Beat-era San Francisco of smoky North Beach cafes and dreamy poets in Rice’s legendary counterculture film. “The purest expression of the Beat sensibility in cinema” (P. Adams Sitney).
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Justin Desmangles
IntroductionPoet and radio producer Justin Desmangles is collaborating on an opera on poet Bob Kaufman’s life; he contributed an essay to Black Hollywood Unchained (2015), edited by Ishmael Reed.
Series
Cinema Mon Amour: Fall 2016
Thursday, December 1
Thursday, December 1, 2016
1 PM
Thursday, December 1, 2016
4-7 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
Thursday, December 1, 2016
7 PM
Ryan Coogler,
United States,
2013,
(85 mins)
Introduced by Aya de Leon.The real-life killing of Oscar Grant by a police officer at an Oakland BART station provides the backstory of this moving look at the last twenty-four hours of Grant’s life. Michael B. Jordan stars in this “acutely political work” (Sight & Sound).
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Aya de Leon
IntroductionWE REGRET THAT AYA DE LEON IS UNABLE TO INTRODUCE TONIGHT'S SCREENING.Director of June Jordan’s Poetry for the People, Leon teaches poetry, spoken word, and hip hop at UC Berkeley; she is the author o
Thursday, December 1, 2016
All Day
Friday, December 2
Friday, December 2, 2016
12:15 PM
Friday, December 2, 2016
4-9 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
Friday, December 2, 2016
6:30 PM
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger,
United Kingdom,
1940,
(92 mins)
Imported Print
A Danish sailor (Conrad Veidt) is on the trail of illegal contraband (and Valerie Hobson) in this wartime thriller, tinged with both the whimsical and the nightmarish. “Playful and provocative” (Ian Christie).
Friday, December 2, 2016
8:30 PM
Jayro Bustamante,
France, Guatemala,
2015,
(91 mins)
Winner, Silver Bear, Berlin Film Festival, 2015
Saturday, December 3
Saturday, December 3, 2016
11 AM–9 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
Saturday, December 3, 2016
3:30
Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell,
United Kingdom,
1945,
(90 mins)
Recommended for ages 12 & up
Powell and Pressburger’s most romantic, lyrical film sets a love affair against the vast beauty of Scotland’s Hebrides islands. “One of the finest of all screen romances” (Village Voice).
Saturday, December 3, 2016
5:30 PM
Michelangelo Antonioni,
France, Italy,
1961,
(122 mins)
East Bay Premiere: New 4K Digital Restoration
Saturday, December 3, 2016
8 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.
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