Week of December 4, 2022

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Sunday, December 11

Sunday, December 11, 2022
11 AM–7 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Sunday, December 11, 2022
12:00 PM
A durational dance and film installation by choreographer Maurya Kerr

Included with gallery admission.

Sunday, December 11, 2022
2 PM
Tours of Undoing Time are led by students from the Berkeley Underground Scholars program, which supports formerly incarcerated and systems-impacted students.
Sunday, December 11, 2022
5 PM
Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton,
United States,
1927,
(109 mins)
Keaton plays a Civil War–era railroad engineer in love with both his girl and his train in this masterpiece of silent comedy. With The Goat.
  • Judith Rosenberg
    On Piano

Monday, December 12

Tuesday, December 13

Wednesday, December 14

Wednesday, December 14, 2022
7 PM
(126 mins)
A selection of silent film comedy gems placing Keaton in context with contemporary innovators Roscoe Arbuckle, Mabel Normand, and Bert Williams, who appear behind and in front of the camera with weird and wonderful results.
  • Dana Stevens
    Introduction
    Dana Stevens—Slate’s film critic since 2006 and a cohost of the magazine’s weekly cultural podcast, Slate Culture Gabfest—is the author of Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invent
  • Judith Rosenberg
    On Piano

Thursday, December 15

Thursday, December 15, 2022
7 PM
Seijun Suzuki,
Japan,
1966,
(86 mins)

BAMPFA Collection

Regarded as one of Suzuki’s best films, ranking twenty-fifth on Kinema Jumpo’s “200 Best Japanese Films List” from 2009, the comic Fighting Elegy is a scathing portrait of the militarism that, in the 1930s, sent young men to war.

Friday, December 16

Friday, December 16, 2022
2 PM–7 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Friday, December 16, 2022
7 PM
Edward Sedgwick, Buster Keaton,
United States,
1928,
(87 mins)
In his most self-reflexive film, Keaton plays a New York City newsreel cameraman whose love life is as jumbled as the mixed-up footage he shoots. With Cops.
  • Dana Stevens
    Introduction
    Dana Stevens—Slate’s film critic since 2006 and a cohost of the magazine’s weekly cultural podcast, Slate Culture Gabfest—is the author of Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invent
  • Judith Rosenberg
    On Piano

Saturday, December 17

Saturday, December 17, 2022
11 AM–7 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Saturday, December 17, 2022
7 PM
Seijun Suzuki,
Japan,
1966,
(89 mins)

Imported 35mm Print

Adapting a novel by the author of The Incorrigible (Akutaro), Suzuki blends satire with melodrama to surrealistic effect to tell the story of provincial factory worker Tsuyuko (portrayed by the director’s favorite actor, Yumiko Nogawa), who tries to rebuild her life after being raped.