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.
In Akira Kurosawa’s humanist masterpiece, an ordinary civil servant discovers what it means to live. This Japanese Everyman was perhaps Takashi Shimura’s greatest role.
Chieko Baisho shines as a Shitamachi factory worker in Yoji Yamada’s fascinating study of postwar Japanese social mobility and a woman’s choice in the paths she takes.
The devil takes many guises to tempt Saint Simon Stylites from his pedestal in Luis Buñuel’s wicked satire of religion and hypocrisy. With Cinéastes de notre temps: Luis Buñuel.
Adapted from a script by Oleksandr Dovzhenko, The Story of the Flaming Years sets an elegiac tone for Yuliya Solnetseva’s tribute to the Ukrainian peasants’ struggle against the Nazi invaders through extraordinary montage sequences and double and triple superimpositions.
Sergio Leone goes to the heartland of the Western—Monument Valley—for this monumental revision of American myth, starring Henry Fonda as a ruthless killer up against Jason Robards, Charles Bronson, and Claudia Cardinale.
In Luis Buñuel’s subversive erotic classic, Catherine Deneuve is a frigid housewife who indulges her masochistic desires by working in a Paris brothel. “A landmark not only of Buñuel’s career, but of the history of motion pictures” (Paul Schrader).