Week of December 16, 2018

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Sunday, December 16

Sunday, December 16, 2018
11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, December 16, 2018
2 PM
Ingmar Bergman,
Sweden,
1975,
(176 mins)

Full-Length Television Version

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.”
Presented with an intermission
Sunday, December 16, 2018
2:00 PM
Explore the works on view in Old Masters in a New Light with tours led by UC Berkeley graduate students.
Included with admission
Sunday, December 16, 2018
6:30 PM
Akira Kurosawa,
Japan,
1943,
(80 mins)

BAMPFA Collection

A young man learns dedication and discipline in life—and judo—in Kurosawa’s debut film, “a must for Kurosawa admirers” (Los Angeles Times).

Monday, December 17

Tuesday, December 18

Wednesday, December 19

Wednesday, December 19, 2018
7 PM
(74 mins)
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. 

Thursday, December 20

Thursday, December 20, 2018
4 PM–7 PM
Thursday, December 20, 2018
7 PM
Ermanno Olmi,
Italy,
1978,
(186 mins)

Digital Restoration

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).

Friday, December 21

Friday, December 21, 2018
4 PM
Nathaniel Kahn,
United States,
2018,
(98 mins)
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.
Friday, December 21, 2018
4 PM–9 PM
Friday, December 21, 2018
7 PM

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.
Series Full 2018
Friday, December 21, 2018
7 PM
Ingmar Bergman,
Sweden,
1982,
(183 mins)

Theatrical Version

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.

Saturday, December 22

Saturday, December 22, 2018
11 AM–9 PM
Saturday, December 22, 2018
6 PM
Milos Forman,
Czechoslovakia,
1967,
(75 mins)

Digital Restoration

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).
Saturday, December 22, 2018
8 PM
Billy Wilder,
United States,
1960,
(125 mins)

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).