Sunday, August 13
Sunday, August 13, 2017
11 AM-7 PM
Sunday, August 13, 2017
5 PM
Vanessa Gould,
United States,
2016,
(95 mins)
“An entertaining inside look at the obituary writers of The New York Times. . . . [This] doc makes a strong case for the well-wrought obituary as something of an art form” (Film Journal International).
Sunday, August 13, 2017
7 PM
Claude Chabrol,
France,
1970,
(111 mins)
Based on The Balloon Man by Charlotte Armstrong
A young woman is gaslighted by her scheming in-laws after trying to leave her mentally unstable husband in Chabrol’s powerful noir. “Chabrol’s most audacious experiment with narrative form—a modernist reworking of the melodrama” (Dave Kehr).
Monday, August 14
Tuesday, August 15
Wednesday, August 16
Wednesday, August 16, 2017
7 PM
Pedro Almodóvar,
Spain,
1984,
(101 mins)
An “ordinary” housewife navigates a working-class suburban life of deadbeat husbands, mad mothers-in-law, sex-worker neighbors, and child pandering in Almodóvar’s taboo-smashing send-up of the social realist drama. “An absolutely wonderful black comedy” (New York Times).
Thursday, August 17
Thursday, August 17, 2017
4-7 PM
Thursday, August 17, 2017
7 PM
Jean-Luc Godard,
France,
1964,
(97 mins)
Digital Restoration
Based on Fools’ Gold by Dolores Hitchens
Anna Karina, Sami Frey, and Claude Brasseur are unlikely burglars in Godard’s “reverie of a gangster movie” (Pauline Kael).
Friday, August 18
Friday, August 18, 2017
4-9 PM
Friday, August 18, 2017
6 PM
Programmed by Chika Okoye and David Brazil
Seneferu presents a performance highlighting themes behind her collaborative curatorial project, The Black Woman Is God.
Included with admission
Series
Black Life 2017
Friday, August 18, 2017
6:30 PM
Hiroshi Teshigahara,
Japan,
1985,
(72 mins)
Teshigahara’s study of the visionary Catalan architect’s work, scored by the great Toru Takemitsu. “A masterpiece of visual poetry and aesthetic rumination” (Time Out New York).
Friday, August 18, 2017
8:15 PM
Masaki Kobayashi,
Japan,
1967,
(121 mins)
Mifune is a dutiful samurai whose subservience is about to end. With music by Toru Takemitsu and an unforgettable supporting turn by Tatsuya Nakadai.
Saturday, August 19
Saturday, August 19, 2017
11 AM-9 PM
Saturday, August 19, 2017
6 PM
Terence Davies,
United Kingdom,
2016,
(124 mins)
Cynthia Nixon portrays the poet Emily Dickinson in this “absolute drop-dead masterwork” (Richard Brody) that imbues the structure of the biopic with the elliptical intensity of poetry.
Saturday, August 19, 2017
8:00 PM
Spike Lee,
United States,
2009,
(135 mins)
Free on Our Outdoor Screen!
Spike Lee's adaptation of the spectacular musical, which was developed and premiered at Berkeley Rep and went on to be a Broadway hit.
Series
Screen Play
Saturday, August 19, 2017
8:30 PM
Pedro Almodóvar,
Spain,
1999,
(101 mins)
Winner of the 1999 Cannes Best Director prize, this affectionate drama of a mother’s compassion serves as Almodóvar’s tribute to his two greatest inspirations: women and film.
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