Week of August 5, 2018

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Sunday, August 5

Sunday, August 5, 2018
11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, August 5, 2018
2 PM
Explore the works on view in Way Bay 2 with tours led by UC Berkeley graduate students.
Included with admission
Sunday, August 5, 2018
3 PM
Ingmar Bergman,
Sweden,
1950,
(98 mins)
The redemptive power of music is Bergman’s central theme in this portrayal of an ambitious, mercurial violinist (Stig Olin), featuring the great Victor Sjöström as an orchestra conductor.
Screening in Theater 2; regular film ticket prices apply
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Sunday, August 5, 2018
5 PM
Alain Tanner,
Switzerland,
1969,
(94 mins)
An aging conformist drops out of conventional life and joins a youthful anarchist community in Tanner’s first feature, “the most intelligent film inspired by the spirit of May ’68” (Nouvel observateur).
Sunday, August 5, 2018
7 PM
Aki Kaurismäki,
Finland, France, Germany,
2011,
(93 mins)
Kaurismäki depicts the intersecting (mis)fortunes of a refugee from Gabon and a shoeshine man in the French port of the title. “A love letter to France, in particular to a half-imaginary, half-vanished realm of proletarian Frenchness” (New York Times).

Monday, August 6

Tuesday, August 7

Wednesday, August 8

Wednesday, August 8, 2018
12:15 PM
Explore the works on view in Way Bay 2 with tours led by UC Berkeley graduate students.
Included with admission
Wednesday, August 8, 2018
7 PM
Michelangelo Antonioni,
France, Italy, Spain, United States,
1975,
Decades later, Antonioni’s 1975 film “still packs a wallop. . . . This moody Jack Nicholson political thriller remains a great, bizarre film, full of beauty, mystery, and riddles with no answers” (Chicago Tribune).
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Thursday, August 9

Thursday, August 9, 2018
4 PM–7 PM
Thursday, August 9, 2018
7 PM
Andrei Tarkovsky,
USSR,
1966,
(186 mins)
Tarkovsky’s epic, otherworldly portrait of the fifteenth-century Russian icon painter is “a superproduction gone ideologically berserk” (Village Voice). “The best arthouse film of all time” (The Guardian).
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Friday, August 10

Friday, August 10, 2018
4 PM–9 PM
Friday, August 10, 2018
7 PM
Jacques Becker,
France, Italy,
1953,
(93 mins)
French legend Jean Gabin is a Montmartre gangster looking to hide—and later find—his loot, with Jeanne Moreau as his tough-as-nails lover. A masterpiece of hard-boiled film noir, French style.
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Friday, August 10, 2018
7:30 PM
Ingmar Bergman,
Sweden,
1954,
(96 mins)
A philandering gynecologist (Gunnar Björnstrand) preens while his wife and daughter (Eva Dahlbeck and Harriet Andersson) carry the day in this comedy “notable among Bergman’s work for its freedom and spontaneity of invention, its emotional richness, warmth and generosity” (Robin Wood).
Screening in Theater 2; regular film ticket prices apply
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Saturday, August 11

Saturday, August 11, 2018
11:00 PM–9 PM
Saturday, August 11, 2018
5 PM
(132 mins)

Imported Prints

This evening’s program of shorts ranges from the island setting of L’avventura to India and Sicily. Plus Enrica Antonioni’s portrait of her husband’s passion for cinema, To Make a Film Is to Be Alive.
Saturday, August 11, 2018
8 PM
Alain Tanner,
Switzerland,
1979,
(130 mins)
Two fierce young women hit Switzerland’s not-so-open roads in Tanner’s claustrophobic road movie, a deeply pessimistic vision of social restriction that’s more proto–riot grrrl than pre–Thelma and Louise.