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27 3 PM Susa Film Sunday, November 27, 2022 3 PM Susa Rusudan Pirveli, Georgia, 2010, (75 mins) BAMPFA Collection A quiet young boy weaves his way through the underbelly of contemporary Georgia in this evocative update of the neorealist tradition, which “beautifully captures the way a crumbling locale permeates the characters’ lives” (Variety). Series Georgian Cinema: Highlights from the BAMPFA Collection Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 5 PM Arabian Nights Film Sunday, November 27, 2022 5 PM Arabian Nights Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italy, 1974, (129 mins) Imported 35mm Print Recommended for adults only A magic carpet fantasy rooted in realism—filmed in North Africa, Iran, and Nepal—Arabian Nights is “Pasolini’s most beautiful film” (Tony Rayns). Series Pier Paolo Pasolini Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	28	29	30 7 PM The Avant-Garde Films of Stefan and Franciszka Themerson Film Wednesday, November 30, 2022 7 PM The Avant-Garde Films of Stefan and Franciszka Themerson (60 mins) This program of early avant-garde films showcases work by Polish filmmakers Stefan and Franciszka Themerson, including their recently restored masterpiece, Europa, which was long thought to be lost. Series Alternative Visions 2022 Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	1	2	3
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4 5 PM Sherlock Jr. Film Performance Sunday, December 4, 2022 5 PM Sherlock Jr. Buster Keaton, United States, 1924, (85 mins) Sherlock Jr. will be Keaton’s most enduring commentary on the art of cinema. Buster plays a projectionist who dreams his way onto the screen and into a movie in which he resolves the conflicts of his own life. With The Frozen North and The Playhouse. Wayne Barker On Piano Series Camera Man: Buster Keaton Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	5	6	7	8 7 PM Tokyo Drifter Film Thursday, December 8, 2022 7 PM Tokyo Drifter Seijun Suzuki, Japan, 1966, (83 mins) Imported 35mm Print An embattled ex-yakuza tries to go it alone in Suzuki’s most exquisite collaboration with art director Takeo Kimura. “One of the most brilliant genre movies ever made” (Tony Rayns). Series Elegy to Seijun Suzuki Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	9 7 PM Our Hospitality Film Performance Friday, December 9, 2022 7 PM Our Hospitality Jack Blystone, Buster Keaton, United States, 1923, (89 mins) Buster is heir to an Appalachian estate and, along with it, a Hatfield-McCoy-type feud. Our Hospitality, an American masterpiece, at once lyric and frenetic, is a sly satire. With The High Sign. Judith Rosenberg On Piano Series Camera Man: Buster Keaton Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	10 4:30 PM Beirut the Encounter Film In-Person Saturday, December 10, 2022 4:30 PM Beirut the Encounter Borhane Alaouié, Belgium, Lebanon, Tunisia, 1981, (97 mins) Cosponsored by the Arab Film and Media Institute Two young people separated by the war make tapes for each other. “The monologues, by the well-known writer Ahmad Baydoun, which form the basis of this acutely observed, moving film, have acquired classical status in Lebanese cinema” (Alia Arasoughly). Jonathan Mackris Introduction Jonathan Mackris, who guest curated this series, is a doctoral student in film and media at UC Berkeley. Series The New Lebanese Cinema of the 1970s and 1980s Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Satan’s Town Film Saturday, December 10, 2022 7 PM Satan’s Town Seijun Suzuki, Japan, 1956, (119 mins) Imported 35mm Print A “double bill” of Suzuki rarities, this program includes Satan’s Town a heist film and early example of the directors inventive style and black humor; and Love Letter a surreal and haunting snowbound romance. Series Elegy to Seijun Suzuki Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS
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11 5 PM The General Film Performance Sunday, December 11, 2022 5 PM The General 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 Series Camera Man: Buster Keaton Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	12	13	14 7 PM Keaton in Context: Silent Comedies by and with Mabel Normand, Roscoe Arbuckle, and Bert Williams Film In-Person Performance Wednesday, December 14, 2022 7 PM Keaton in Context: Silent Comedies by and with Mabel Normand, Roscoe Arbuckle, and Bert Williams (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 Series Camera Man: Buster Keaton Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	15 7 PM Fighting Elegy Film Thursday, December 15, 2022 7 PM Fighting Elegy 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. Series Elegy to Seijun Suzuki Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	16 7 PM The Cameraman Film In-Person Performance Friday, December 16, 2022 7 PM The Cameraman 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 Series Camera Man: Buster Keaton Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	17 7 PM Carmen from Kawachi Film Saturday, December 17, 2022 7 PM Carmen from Kawachi 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. Series Elegy to Seijun Suzuki Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS
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18 3 PM Family Matinee: Buster Keaton’s Marvelous Houses Film In-Person Sunday, December 18, 2022 3 PM Family Matinee: Buster Keaton’s Marvelous Houses (64 mins) One Week, The Scarecrow, and The Electric House, three two-reelers for all ages, reveal Keaton’s comic ingenuity through three houses as only he can imagine them. 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 Series Camera Man: Buster Keaton Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 5 PM Steamboat Bill, Jr. Film In-Person Performance Sunday, December 18, 2022 5 PM Steamboat Bill, Jr. Charles F. Reisner, United States, 1927, (102 mins) Set on the Mississippi River, Steamboat Bill, Jr. seems to have a direct line to Keaton’s youth and soul in the tale of a sensitive lad trying to figure out the mettle of manhood in his overbearing dad. With The Boat. Dana Stevens Introduction and Book Signing 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 Series Camera Man: Buster Keaton Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	19	20	21 7 PM Notfilm Film Wednesday, December 21, 2022 7 PM Notfilm Ross Lipman, United States, 2015, (150 mins) Lipman’s fascinating kino-essay examining a 1965 collaboration between Samuel Beckett and Buster Keaton, “testifies to an almost inexhaustible fascination with the pleasures and paradoxes of cinema” (New York Times). With the original Film by Samuel Beckett. Series Camera Man: Buster Keaton Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	22	23	24
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