Liv Ullmann gives a devastating performance in Bergman’s wrenching portrait of a successful psychiatrist on the brink of mental collapse. Bergman: “Regard it as a surgeon’s scalpel. Not everyone will welcome it.”
See the range of Trnka’s craftmanship and artistry, from early hand-drawn cartoons to surrealist interventions to the expressive beauty of his stop-motion beginnings. The program includes Romance with Double Bass, The Gift, Springman and the SS, and more.
Olmi won the Cannes Palme d’Or with this intimate epic of life, love, and work among three peasant families in turn-of-the-century Italy, a film of majesty made from minutiae. “A fully articulated work of cinematic art” (Andrew Sarris).
Featuring an impressive cast of art world characters, including artists Jeff Koons and Gerhard Richter, this documentary is a lively exploration of the uneasy but inextricable relationship between art and money.
Programmed by PC Muñoz, copresented by the JCC East Bay.
Acclaimed San Francisco recording artist and producer PC Muñoz leads an all-star ensemble through a lovingly crafted reimagination of Carole King’s blockbuster album Tapestry.
Included with admission. Seating for Full is limited.
This chronicle of an early twentieth-century theatrical family, told from the perspective of a young brother and sister, is comic and tragic, opulent and intellectual, mystical and autobiographical.
A small-town party thrown by the local fire brigade soon goes up in flames in Forman’s takedown of bureaucracies big and small. Both sweet-natured and biting enough to worry Czech authorities, this satire is also “a tragicomedy of old age” (Raymond Durgnat).
Digital Restoration Film to Table dinner follows the December 8 screening
Jack Lemmon, Fred MacMurray, and Shirley MacLaine in a riotously acidic tale of sex and corporate success. This winner of Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Editing, and Best Art Direction is “an American classic” (New York Times).