Sunday, June 25
Sunday, June 25, 2023
11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, June 25, 2023
2 PM
Tours of What Has Been and What Could Be: The BAMPFA Collection take place on selected Sundays at 2 PM and Free First Thursdays at 1:15 PM
Series
Exhibition Tours 2024
Sunday, June 25, 2023
4:30 PM
Alice Diop,
France,
2022,
(122 mins)
Alice Diop’s first venture into narrative after more than a decade of documentary filmmaking, Saint Omer follows a young novelist, Rama, who is observing the trial of Laurence Coly, a woman accused of murdering her fifteen-month-old child in northern France.
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ruth gebreyesus
Introductionruth gebreyesus, a writer and producer based in the Bay Area, is currently the cocurator of Black Life.
Sunday, June 25, 2023
7 PM
Mauro Bolognini,
Italy,
1961,
(102 mins)
A headstrong peasant (Jean-Paul Belmondo) abandons the politics and doom of his family farm for the arms of a beautiful prostitute (Claudia Cardinale) in a rain-soaked nineteenth-century Florence. Directed by Mauro Bolognini, one of Cardinale’s favorite collaborators.
Monday, June 26
Tuesday, June 27
Wednesday, June 28
Wednesday, June 28, 2023
12:15 PM
Tours of Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory are led by UC Berkeley graduate students in history of art, Chicanx/Latinx studies, and theater, dance, and performance studies.
Included with admission.
Series
Exhibition Tours 2023
Wednesday, June 28, 2023
7 PM
Sadao Yamanaka,
Japan,
1937,
(86 mins)
Imported 35mm Print
A poor ronin samurai and his gambling neighbor become involved in a desperate plan in this little-known gem from the 1930s, set in what would become downtown Tokyo during the Edo period.
Thursday, June 29
Thursday, June 29, 2023
7 PM
Tomás Gutiérrez Alea,
Cuba,
1968,
(97 mins)
Digital Restoration
This groundbreaking Cuban work explores the experiences and reveries of a bourgeois writer after the revolution. “A profound, noble film” (New York Times). Tom Luddy hosted Tomás Gutiérrez Alea at the Pacific Film Archive in October 1979.
Friday, June 30
Friday, June 30, 2023
2 PM–7 PM
Friday, June 30, 2023
7 PM
(89 mins)
In Memoriam Kenneth Anger (1927–2023)
The Magick Lantern Cycle, Part 2, screens at 9 PM.
Tom Luddy was a great supporter of avant-garde film and brought many filmmakers to the Pacific Film Archive over the years. Kenneth Anger visited in December 1976 to present his work. We take this occasion to showcase Anger’s The Magick Lantern Cycle, a central body of work in American avant-garde cinema.
Friday, June 30, 2023
9 PM
(81 mins)
In Memoriam Kenneth Anger (1927–2023)
The Magick Lantern Cycle, Part 1, screens at 7 PM.
Tom Luddy was a great devotee of avant-garde film and brought many filmmakers to the Pacific Film Archive over the years. Kenneth Anger visited in December 1976 to present his work. We take this occasion to showcase Anger’s The Magick Lantern Cycle, a central body of work in American avant-garde cinema.
Saturday, July 1
Saturday, July 1, 2023
11 AM–7 PM
Saturday, July 1, 2023
4:30 PM
Satyajit Ray,
India,
1956,
(110 mins)
Digital Restoration
The second film in the Apu trilogy follows Apu’s family as they travel to the holy city of Benares along the banks of the Ganges River. “Graceful, insightful, and moving” (San Francisco Chronicle). Satyajit Ray’s films were shown frequently by Tom Luddy during the 1970s.
Saturday, July 1, 2023
7 PM
Yuzo Kawashima,
Japan,
1956,
(81 mins)
A down-on-their-luck young couple settles on the edge of Tokyo’s red-light district in this major rediscovery, a “radiant masterwork of Japanese cinematic melodramas” (Tokyo Filmex).
Through July 6
Through July 13
Through August 17
Through May 11
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