Sunday, September 17
Sunday, September 17, 2017
11 AM-7 PM
Sunday, September 17, 2017
1:30 PM
Raoul Peck,
Belgium, France, Switzerland, United States,
2016,
(93 mins)
Raoul Peck’s acclaimed documentary is an invigorating look at the great writer James Baldwin, and at the fight for civil rights both in the past and now. “An act of provocation and prophecy” (Village Voice).
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Stephen Best
Introduction byStephen Best is an associate professor of English at UC Berkeley.
Sunday, September 17, 2017
4 PM
Owsley Brown, Jerome Hiler,
United States,
2010,
(103 mins)
Discover the origins and work of the Louisville Orchestra, which grew from a city’s devastation to become a major center for contemporary music, in this beautifully made documentary. Narrated by indie icon Will Oldham.
In Person
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Owsley Brown
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Jerome Hiler
Sunday, September 17, 2017
7 PM
Sidney Lumet,
United States,
1960,
(121 mins)
Sidney Lumet’s adaptation of Tennessee Williams’s play places four consummate actors—Marlon Brando, Maureen Stapleton, Joanne Woodward, and Anna Magnani—in a backwoods bastion of stifling meanness. There’s enough heat to set the town on fire.
Monday, September 18
Monday, September 18, 2017
6:30 PM
The author of the bestselling book Strangers in Their Own Land talks about theater and community with actor and researcher Ben Russell.
Free admission
Tuesday, September 19
Wednesday, September 20
Wednesday, September 20, 2017
12 PM
A dialogue about how museums and other arts organizations are responding to the call for participation in our current moment.
Free admission
Wednesday, September 20, 2017
7 PM
Mike Kuchar,
United States,
1965,
(74 mins)
Mike Kuchar’s sci-fi extravaganza of lusty robots in revolt—featuring his brother George as an evil prince—helped launch American underground cinema. With the Kuchar brothers’ short Night of the Bomb.
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Mike Kuchar
In Person
Series
Alternative Visions 2017
Thursday, September 21
Thursday, September 21, 2017
1 PM
Lewallen discusses the life and work of Martin Wong—his identity, his milieu, and his passions.
Included with admission
Thursday, September 21, 2017
4-7 PM
Thursday, September 21, 2017
7 PM
Stanley Kramer,
United States,
1958,
(97 mins)
Nominated for eight Academy Awards and winner of two, Stanley Kramer’s anti-racist “message” film stars Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier as escaped convicts in the deep South.
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Stephen Best
Introduction byStephen Best is an associate professor of English at UC Berkeley.
Friday, September 22
Friday, September 22, 2017
4 PM
Agnès Varda,
France,
1965,
(85 mins)
BAMPFA Collection Print
Agnès Varda’s strikingly colorful, lyrical film examines a love triangle within a circular structure.
Friday, September 22, 2017
4-9 PM
Friday, September 22, 2017
6 PM
We continue our series of New Narrative readings with authors Glück and Saidenberg.
Included with admission
Series
Readings 2017
Friday, September 22, 2017
7 PM
Andrei Tarkovsky,
USSR,
1979,
(163 mins)
Digital Restoration
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).
Saturday, September 23
Saturday, September 23, 2017
11 AM-9 PM
Saturday, September 23, 2017
4 PM
Charles F. Reisner,
United States,
1928,
(69 mins)
Digital Restoration
Recommended for ages 7 & up
Set along the Mississippi but filmed along the Sacramento Delta, this is “Buster Keaton’s most entertaining balance of the instinctual and the cerebral” (Village Voice).
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Judith Rosenberg
Live MusicOn piano
Saturday, September 23, 2017
6 PM
Vittorio De Sica,
Italy,
1963,
(88 mins)
Digital Restoration
Bay Area Theatrical Premiere!
The director of The Bicycle Thief shows off his comic side in this hilarious sendup of Italy’s early 1960s economic miracle, starring the great Italian comic Alberto Sordi and finally released theatrically in the US after over fifty years.
Saturday, September 23, 2017
7:45 PM
This Film-to-Table dinner is sold out.
At Babette
Saturday, September 23, 2017
8 PM
Elia Kazan,
United States,
1954,
(108 mins)
4K Digital Restoration
“I coulda been a contender,” mumbles Marlon Brando in this brilliant drama set among the longshoremen and cops of an East Coast waterfront. Winner of eight Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor.
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