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4:30 PM
Sunday, July 30, 2023
4:30 PM
Yuri Zhelyabuzhsky,
USSR,
1924,
(105 mins)
Copresented by the San Francisco Silent Film Festival
Yuliya Solntseva plays the eponymous tobacco vendor who unwittingly attracts the love of three men: a hapless scribe straight out of Gogol, an overstuffed American capitalist, and a wayward cinema cameraman.
7 PM
Sunday, July 30, 2023
7 PM
Preston Sturges,
United States,
1944,
(99 mins)
When small-town girl Trudy Kockenlocker (Betty Hutton) gets knocked up by a soldier—she isn’t sure which one—a 4-F local boy (Eddie Bracken) attempts to save the day. That Preston Sturges’s riotous comedy made it past the censors is a miracle in itself.
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7 PM
Wednesday, August 2, 2023
7 PM
William Wyler,
United States,
1935,
(97 mins)
Preston Sturges provided the sparkling script for this rarely seen comedy. Margaret Sullavan plays a movie usherette, who, to deflect the amorous attentions of a would-be benefactor (Frank Morgan), finds herself a husband in the White Pages.
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7 PM
Thursday, August 3, 2023
7 PM
John Lasseter,
United States,
1999,
(92 mins)
Recommended for all ages
“An awe-inspiring display of special effects, and its characterization, particularly that of the all-American hero Buzz, is very funny. As well as being a landmark of sorts in commercial cinema, Toy Story 2 really is that mythical beast: an extremely enjoyable picture for all ages” (Peter Bradshaw, Guardian).
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7 PM
Friday, August 4, 2023
7 PM
Luis Buñuel,
France,
1972,
(100 mins)
This account of six wealthy people’s thwarted attempts to sit down to dinner is the comedy of manners to end all comedies of manners. “A deeply funny movie. . . . [Luis] Buñuel’s art is as insolent now as ever” (David Denby).
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4 PM
Saturday, August 5, 2023
4 PM
Brad Bird,
United States,
2007,
(111 mins)
Recommended for all ages
“Ratatouille is delicious. In this satisfying, souffle-light tale of a plucky French rodent with a passion for cooking, the master chefs at Pixar have blended all the right ingredients to produce a warm and irresistible concoction that’s sure to appeal to everyone’s inner Julia Child” (Justin Chang, Variety).
7:30 PM
Saturday, August 5, 2023
7:30 PM
Luis Buñuel,
France,
1974,
(104 mins)
Casual blasphemies and waking dreams, bourgeois improprieties and Surrealist sight gags are strung together in this slippery chain of abortive comic vignettes, loosely coiled around themes of enslavement and the fear of freedom.
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5 PM
Sunday, August 6, 2023
5 PM
Oleksandr Dovzhenko,
USSR,
1935,
(81 mins)
“Frankly operatic in its portraiture and poetic stylization, this Soviet masterpiece began as propaganda but veers closer to pagan fantasy than any of Dovzhenko’s other sound films” (Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader).
7 PM
Sunday, August 6, 2023
7 PM
Mitchell Leisen,
United States,
1937,
(88 mins)
Jean Arthur plays a working girl whose life is transformed when a fur coat tossed from a millionaire’s apartment lands on her head. Preston Sturges’s screenplay is “funny and gracious and generous in the best Sturges tradition” (Andrew Sarris).
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7 PM
Wednesday, August 9, 2023
7 PM
Preston Sturges,
United States,
1940,
(67 mins)
Striving clerk Dick Powell wins an advertising jingle contest and triggers a corporate nervous breakdown in this comedy skewering the American dream of overnight success.
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7 PM
Thursday, August 10, 2023
7 PM
Wes Anderson,
United States,
2009,
(87 mins)
Recommended for ages 8 and up
George Clooney and Meryl Streep lend their voices to this hilarious and heartwarming animated adventure from visionary director Wes Anderson. Based on Roald Dahl’s classic children’s novel about a fox clan and other animal friends eluding human predators, this is a meticulous work of stop-motion animation.
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7 PM
Friday, August 11, 2023
7 PM
Mitchell Leisen,
United States,
1940,
(94 mins)
DA Fred MacMurray takes jewel thief Barbara Stanwyck home to Indiana for the holidays in this tender comedy scripted by Preston Sturges. “As smart-mouthed as it is stunningly compassionate” (Village Voice).
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4:30 PM
Saturday, August 12, 2023
4:30 PM
Hayao Miyazaki,
Japan,
2002,
(125 mins)
English version The original Japanese version of Spirited Away screens on Friday, August 18.
In this celebrated Hayao Miyazaki fantasy, ten-year-old Chihiro and her parents stumble upon an abandoned theme park that turns out to be a true magic kingdom. Joe Hisaishi’s exquisite score enhances a cinematic feast. Winner of the 2003 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.
7:30 PM
Saturday, August 12, 2023
7:30 PM
Luis Buñuel,
France,
1977,
(103 mins)
A seemingly well-heeled elderly man narrates the tale of his obsession with a much younger woman (played by two actresses) in Luis Buñuel’s final treatise on passion, perversion, and the irrationality of human desire.
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5 PM
Sunday, August 13, 2023
5 PM
Oleksandr Dovzhenko, Yuliya Solntseva,
USSR,
1939,
(128 mins)
While Stalin commissioned this epic on the “Red Commander of the Ukraine,” Mykola Shchors, “as in all [Oleksandr Dovzhenko’s] best work, Shchors leaves in the memory burning images of death and of passionate life” (Jay Leyda). With an extract from Solntseva’s film remembrance of Dovzhenko, The Golden Gates.
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7 PM
Wednesday, August 16, 2023
7 PM
Yuliya Solntseva,
USSR,
1958,
(128 mins)
“Poem of the Sea, which tells of the construction of an artificial sea, necessitating the flooding of a village, is remarkable for its confidence, grandeur and glowing beauty” (Ronald Bergan, Camera Lucida). With an extract from Solntseva’s film remembrance of Dovzhenko, The Golden Gates.
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7 PM
Thursday, August 17, 2023
7 PM
Andrew Stanton,
United States,
2003,
(100 mins)
Recommended for all ages
Nemo is a little fish kid whose overprotective dad, Marlin, is perfectly voiced by Albert Brooks. When Nemo defiantly swims too far out to sea, the adventures begin. “It’s all tremendously entertaining stuff, with oodles of wonderful detail and superb direction by Andrew Stanton” (Peter Bradshaw, Guardian).
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7 PM
Friday, August 18, 2023
7 PM
Hayao Miyazaki,
Japan,
2001,
(125 mins)
Original Japanese version The English version of Spirited Away screens on Saturday, August 12.
In this celebrated Hayao Miyazaki fantasy, ten-year-old Chihiro and her parents stumble upon an abandoned theme park that turns out to be a true magic kingdom. Joe Hisaishi’s exquisite score enhances a cinematic feast. Winner of the 2003 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.
A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact
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5 PM
Saturday, August 19, 2023
5 PM
Claude Barras,
France, Switzerland,
2017,
(66 mins)
English version
Will Forte, Nick Offerman, Elliot Page, and Amy Sedaris lend their voices to this stylized and sympathetic stop-motion animation about an orphan boy called Zucchini. Nominated for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe for Best Animated Feature.
In Conversation
7:30 PM
Saturday, August 19, 2023
7:30 PM
Preston Sturges,
United States,
1942,
(90 mins)
Preston Sturges pits the idle rich, embodied by Rudy Vallee and Mary Astor, against the ingenious but impoverished Claudette Colbert and Joel McCrea in this fractured fairy tale.
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5 PM
Sunday, August 20, 2023
5 PM
Yakov Protazanov,
USSR,
1924,
(109 mins)
Copresented by the San Francisco Silent Film Festival
Soviets in space, as class warfare extends to Mars, in this exhilarating silent saga, a Russian Metropolis famed for its outlandish Constructivist production design. Starring Yuliya Solntseva, it is “a major early achievement in futuristic cinema” (Variety).
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7 PM
Wednesday, August 23, 2023
7 PM
Preston Sturges,
United States,
1944,
(101 mins)
Preston Sturges’s wartime comedy of community stars Eddie Bracken as a soldier who is discharged from military service due to hay fever but is hailed as a hero when he gets home.
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7 PM
Thursday, August 24, 2023
7 PM
James Blue,
United States,
1964,
(92 mins)
Free Admission
To commemorate the sixtieth anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, which demanded equal rights for African Americans, we present two powerful documentaries, James Blue’s The March and Haskell Wexler’s The Bus.
Tickets available at the admissions desk beginning at 6 PM |
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7 PM
Friday, August 25, 2023
7 PM
Jonas Poher Rasmussen,
Denmark, France, Norway, Sweden,
2021,
(90 mins)
Closed captioned
Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s award-winning film depicts the refugee experience through vivid animation in a moving memoir hailed as “a feat of humanistic filmmaking” (Harper’s Bazaar).
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4 PM
Saturday, August 26, 2023
4 PM
Brad Bird,
United States,
2004,
(115 mins)
Closed captioned
Meet the Incredibles, just a normal suburban family except for one thing: they’re all superheroes. This joyous Pixar pic won the Academy Award for Best Sound Editing.
7:30 PM
Saturday, August 26, 2023
7:30 PM
Preston Sturges,
United States,
1941,
(91 mins)
Hollywood movie director Joel McCrea wants to switch from lowbrow comedy to dramas with Social Significance, so he sets out to learn something about poverty, and finds out more than he bargained for. Veronica Lake costars.
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5 PM
Sunday, August 27, 2023
5 PM
Oleksandr Dovzhenko,
USSR,
1930,
(79 mins)
Copresented by the San Francisco Silent Film Festival
“Earth is Dovzhenko’s pictorial love song to nature, a radiant canvas for flowing wheat fields, oceans of crops, and idyllic close-ups of produce and foliage” (Jeremy Carr, Senses of Cinema).
7 PM
Sunday, August 27, 2023
7 PM
Yuliya Solntseva,
USSR,
1964,
(80 mins)
Free Admission
Based on a quasi-autobiographical script by Oleksandr Dovzhenko, Yuliya Solntseva’s The Enchanted Desna was described by critic Jonathan Rosenbaum as “among the most ravishingly beautiful and poetic spectacles ever made.”
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7 PM
Wednesday, August 30, 2023
7 PM
Ari Folman,
France, Germany, Israel,
2008,
(90 mins)
Recommended for adults
Waltz with Bashir is a striking animation film depicting the horrors of Israel’s first war in Lebanon in 1982, and the events leading up to the killings in the Sabra and Shatila Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon. Awarded the prestigious Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign-Language Film and nominated in the same category at the Academy Awards.
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7 PM
Thursday, August 31, 2023
7 PM
Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud,
France,
2007,
(96 mins)
Recommended for ages 12 and up
The story of a young girl’s coming of age in difficult times, Persepolis, based on the graphic novel by Marjane Satrapi, is a striking animated production that unfolds with grace, intelligence, and charm.
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7 PM
Friday, September 1, 2023
7 PM
Luis Buñuel,
Mexico,
1950,
(88 mins)
BAMPFA Collection Print
Luis Buñuel’s unsentimental portrait of slum kids in Mexico City. “Its matter-of-fact brilliance continues to astonish” (BBC).
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7 PM
Saturday, September 2, 2023
7 PM
Jean-Luc Godard,
France,
1963,
(103 mins)
4K Digital Restoration
Jean-Luc Godard’s Homeric homage to Fritz Lang, “one of the defining moments of modernist filmmaking” (Film Comment).
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