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Friday, December 6, 2024
7:00 PM
Víctor Erice,
Argentina, Spain,
2023,
(169 mins)
Revered Spanish auteur Víctor Erice (The Spirit of the Beehive, El Sur, and The Quince Tree Sun) returns with his fourth feature, a meditation on memory, absence, and the magic of cinema—a “poignant cinematic swan song” (Hollywood Reporter).
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Saturday, December 7, 2024
3:00 PM
Maureen Gosling,
United States,
2023,
(107 mins)
For decades Barbara Dane lent her stellar singing voice to social-justice movements in the Bay Area and beyond, garnering an impressive FBI file along the way. “A true unsung hero of American music” (Boston Globe).
In Person
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Special Screenings 2024
6:30 PM
Saturday, December 7, 2024
6:30 PM
G. W. Pabst,
Germany,
1926,
(75 mins)
A fascinating early attempt to illustrate psychoanalysis on film. Written under the supervision of three students of Sigmund Freud, Secrets of a Soul is filled with strikingly beautiful images.
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Sunday, December 8, 2024
1:30 PM
Marion Cajori,
United States,
1993,
(88 mins)
New Digital Restoration
In Marion Cajori’s elliptical and intimate documentary, Joan Mitchell—the creator of an eloquent vocabulary of abstract gesture, color, and light—speaks about painting and life. Screens with Meg Partridge’s Academy Award–nominated portrait of photographer Imogen Cunningham.
4:00 PM
Sunday, December 8, 2024
4:00 PM
Kelly Duane de la Vega, Jessica Anthony, Zandashé Brown,
United States,
2022,
(96 mins)
A searing look at the culture that overturned Roe v. Wade, In the Bones is a cinematic journey through Mississippi that provides a poetic and sometimes painful portrait of American culture through the ordinary lives of women and children.
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Wednesday, December 11, 2024
7:00 PM
Cédric Kahn,
France,
2023,
(115 mins)
New York Times Critic’s Pick: “An electrifying courtroom drama” that delves into the sensationalized 1976 trial of Pierre Goldman. The film communicates so much about the complexity of Jewish identity in recent European history.
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Special Screenings 2025
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7:00 PM
Thursday, December 12, 2024
7:00 PM
G. W. Pabst,
Germany,
1927,
(106 mins)
One of G. W. Pabst’s rarely seen triumphs of lyrical realism—“among the culminating works of silent cinema, a grand attempt to synthesize Soviet montage, Hollywood action-melodrama, and German mise-en-scène” (J. Hoberman, Village Voice).
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Friday, December 13, 2024
7:00 PM
Henri-Georges Clouzot,
France,
1953,
(147 mins)
4K Digital Restoration
Four desperate men are hired by a ruthless oil company to drive trucks filled with explosives across a mountainous South American country in one of the toughest noirs ever filmed. Starring Yves Montand.
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Special Screenings 2025
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1:30 PM
Saturday, December 14, 2024
1:30 PM
Akira Kurosawa,
Japan,
1954,
(207 mins)
4K Digital Restoration
A ragtag group of samurai bands together to protect a village from bandits in Akira Kurosawa’s masterpiece, often cited as one of the ten best films ever made.
Presented with a 10-minute intermission A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact
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Special Screenings 2024
6:30 PM
Saturday, December 14, 2024
6:30 PM
Jacques Demy,
France,
1964,
(92 mins)
4K Digital Restoration
For those who love the 1960s, French culture, Catherine Deneuve, Jacques Demy, design, romance, musicals, or cinema itself, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg stands alone, unmatched.
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Special Screenings 2024
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1:30 PM
Sunday, December 15, 2024
1:30 PM
Agnes Martin,
United States,
1976,
(85 mins)
Gabriel, Agnes Martin’s cinematic celebration of freedom, happiness, and the beauty of the natural world, screens with Bruce Conner’s The White Rose, an elegiac ode to painter Jay DeFeo and her monumental masterpiece.
4:00 PM
Sunday, December 15, 2024
4:00 PM
Luchino Visconti,
France, Italy,
1957,
(101 mins)
Marecello Mastroianni stars in a romantic, sublimely artificial adaptation of a Fyodor Dostoyevsky story about people drifting along crossing, doubling paths.
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Marcello Mastroianni at 100
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Wednesday, December 18, 2024
7:00 PM
Claire Denis,
France,
1990,
(91 mins)
4K Digital Restoration
In Claire Denis’s surprising second film, Isaach de Bankolé and Alex Descas play immigrants who train birds for cockfights on the outskirts of Paris. The film “has a seedy, claustrophobic power that says as much about human as about animal exploitation” (Time Out).
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Special Screenings 2025
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Thursday, December 19, 2024
7:00 PM
Pietro Germi,
Italy,
1961,
(104 mins)
Marcello Mastroianni in Pietro Germi’s Sicilian farce is “a terrific entertainment” (Chicago Reader).
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Marcello Mastroianni at 100
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Friday, December 20, 2024
7:00 PM
G. W. Pabst,
Germany,
1925,
(154 mins)
The Joyless Street “is not only one of the most important films of the Weimar Republic, it is also one of the most spectacular censorship cases of the era” (Jan-Christopher Horak).
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Saturday, December 21, 2024
3:30 PM
Charles Chaplin,
United States,
1936,
(87 mins)
Recommended for ages 8 & up
Charlie Chaplin’s politically outspoken film also contains some of his funniest scenes, in which he causes complete chaos simply by being human.
6:00 PM
Saturday, December 21, 2024
6:00 PM
Federico Fellini,
Italy,
1960,
(175 mins)
A Federico Fellini masterpiece eddying around Marcello Mastroianni’s definitive performance as a jaded reporter drawn to the decadence he sensationalizes.
A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact
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Marcello Mastroianni at 100
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Sunday, December 22, 2024
1:30 PM
Marcie Begleiter,
Germany, United States,
2016,
(123 mins)
Marcie Begleiter’s compelling documentary is an indispensable aid to understanding and appreciating the groundbreaking work of artist Eva Hesse. Screens with Obata’s Yosemite, which reflects on the painter and educator’s life and his relationship with Yosemite’s landscapes.
Introductions
4:30 PM
Sunday, December 22, 2024
4:30 PM
G. W. Pabst,
Germany,
1928,
(98 mins)
Notable for its complex portrait of a marriage and fluid camerawork, and as an index of G. W. Pabst’s ongoing interest in female psychology, this cool, understated film may be his most modern.
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