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    7 PM
    • Film
    • In-Person
    Friday, June 6, 2025
    7 PM
    Michael Curtiz,
    United States,
    1950,
    (97 mins)

    35mm Archival Print

    The Breaking Point is film noir at its best, with outstanding performances by the cast, especially Phyllis Thaxter as a wife who keeps her family together on a shoestring budget despite the stubbornness of her husband (John Garfield).
    • Imogen Sara Smith
      Introduction and Post-Screening Discussion
      Imogen Sara Smith is a film critic and historian based in New York City and the author of two books, In Lonely Places: Film Noir Beyond the City and Buster Keaton: The Persistence of Comedy.
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    4:30 PM
    • Film
    • In-Person
    Saturday, June 7, 2025
    4:30 PM
    Ida Lupino,
    United States,
    1953,
    (71 mins)

    35mm Archival Print

    Two fishing buddies pick up a hitchhiker on their way to Baja, with potentially deadly results, in Ida Lupino’s high-tension thriller. Photographed by the great noir cinematographer Nicholas Musuraca.
    • Imogen Sara Smith
      Introduction and Post-Screening Discussion
      Imogen Sara Smith is a film critic and historian based in New York City and the author of two books, In Lonely Places: Film Noir Beyond the City and Buster Keaton: The Persistence of Comedy.
    7 PM
    • Film
    • In-Person
    Saturday, June 7, 2025
    7 PM
    Lewis Allen,
    United States,
    1947,
    (96 mins)
    Film noir expert Eddie Muller called Desert Fury “the gayest movie ever made in Hollywood’s Golden Era.” Filmed in glorious Technicolor with costume design by Edith Head.
    • Imogen Sara Smith
      Introduction and Post-Screening Discussion
      Imogen Sara Smith is a film critic and historian based in New York City and the author of two books, In Lonely Places: Film Noir Beyond the City and Buster Keaton: The Persistence of Comedy.
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    4 PM
    • Film
    • In-Person
    Sunday, June 8, 2025
    4 PM
    Raoul Walsh,
    United States,
    1947,
    (101 mins)

    35mm Archival Print

    Raoul Walsh’s favorite of his Westerns, Pursued is a fated family tragedy set under cinematographer James Wong Howe’s oppressive clouds and menacing cliffs. Starring Robert Mitchum.
    • Imogen Sara Smith
      Introduction and Post-Screening Discussion
      Imogen Sara Smith is a film critic and historian based in New York City and the author of two books, In Lonely Places: Film Noir Beyond the City and Buster Keaton: The Persistence of Comedy.
    7 PM
    • Audio Description
    • Closed Captioned
    • Film
    Sunday, June 8, 2025
    7 PM
    Vivien Hillgrove,
    United States,
    2025,
    (83 mins)

    Closed Captioned
    Audio Description

    When legendary film editor Vivien Hillgrove begins losing her sight, she turns to filmmaking to craft a magical memoir, reflecting on her career, personal struggles, and the transformative power of creativity.

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    • Film
    • In-Person
    Thursday, June 12, 2025
    7 PM
    François Truffaut,
    France,
    1959,
    (99 mins)
    Jean-Pierre Léaud plays François Truffaut’s alter ego, Antoine Doinel, in the quintessential coming-of-age film, a lyrical but unsentimental portrait of adolescence and of Paris.

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    • Laura Truffaut
      Introduction
      Laura Truffaut is the oldest daughter of director François Truffaut. Based in Berkeley, she regularly speaks about her father’s work at international cinematheques.
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    7 PM
    • Film
    • In-Person
    Friday, June 13, 2025
    7 PM
    Robert Altman,
    United States,
    1973,
    (112 mins)
    Updating Raymond Chandler’s noir pulp for the psychedelic 1970s, Leigh Brackett and Robert Altman pitch a bewildered and bereft Philip Marlowe (Elliott Gould) into a murder mystery involving a sun-dried siren (Nina van Pallandt) and her washed-out Ernest Hemingway-esque author husband (Sterling Hayden).
    • David Thomson
      Introduction and Post-Screening Discussion
      David Thomson is a noted film critic and historian who has authored more than twenty books on cinema, including ​​The New Biographical Dictionary of Film and The Big Sleep (BFI Film Classics).
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    7 PM
    • Film
    • In-Person
    Saturday, June 14, 2025
    7 PM
    Alfred Hitchcock,
    United States,
    1943,
    (108 mins)

    4K Digital Restoration

    Joseph Cotten is the urbane Uncle Charlie, hiding out in the small-town home of his sister Emma in this blend of satire and mystery. Is Uncle Charlie the Merry Widow Killer hunted by the police, or is he as innocent as he claims?
    • David Thomson
      Introduction and Post-Screening Discussion
      David Thomson is a noted film critic and historian who has authored more than twenty books, including The Fatal Alliance: A Century of War on Film.
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    Sunday, June 15, 2025
    5 PM
    (66 mins)

    BAMPFA Collection

    Alive with satire, irony, and rhythm, experimental filmmaker Bruce Conner’s collage films have influenced countless artists and captivated viewers. His work constitutes a wry, devastating portrait of America. This program of his short films is drawn from the BAMPFA collection.
    7 PM
    • Film
    Sunday, June 15, 2025
    7 PM
    Robert Altman,
    United States,
    1970,
    (116 mins)

    35mm Archival Print

    Winner of the Palme d’Or at the 1970 Cannes Film Festival, M*A*S*H put Robert Altman on the map. The anti-everything episodic war comedy follows the antics of a trio of surgeons in a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital in Korea.
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    • Film
    Wednesday, June 18, 2025
    7 PM
    Maura Delpero,
    Italy,
    2024,
    (119 mins)

    East Bay Premiere
    Winner of the Silver Lion at the 2024 Venice Film Festival

    The lush and breathtaking beauty of the Alps, filmed with painterly grace under natural light from frigid winter to redemptive spring, provides the physical and emotional backdrop for Vermiglio, Maura Delpero’s visionary film, which won the Silver Lion at the 2024 Venice Film Festival.

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    7 PM
    • Film
    • In-Person
    Thursday, June 19, 2025
    7 PM
    Robert Altman,
    United States,
    1971,
    (121 mins)
    Far from the open plains of the classic Western, Robert Altman and cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond created a radical and ravishing vision of the turn-of-the-century Pacific Northwest, capturing the sodden grit of frontier life with impressive authenticity.
    • David Thomson
      Introduction and Post-Screening Discussion
      David Thomson is a noted film critic and historian who has authored more than twenty books on cinema, including ​​The New Biographical Dictionary of Film.
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    7 PM
    Friday, June 20, 2025
    7 PM
    Andrei Tarkovsky,
    USSR,
    1962,
    (95 mins)

    BAMPFA Collection

    Lyrical and brutal by turns, Andrei Tarkovsky’s first feature tells of a child’s experiences during World War II. “Tarkovsky would go on to make grander, weightier, more iconic films, but it’s tough to argue he ever made a better one” (Time Out).
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    4 PM
    • Audio Description
    • Closed Captioned
    • Film
    Saturday, June 21, 2025
    4 PM
    Vivien Hillgrove,
    United States,
    2025,
    (83 mins)

    Closed Captioned
    Audio Description

    When legendary film editor Vivien Hillgrove begins losing her sight, she turns to filmmaking to craft a magical memoir, reflecting on her career, personal struggles, and the transformative power of creativity.

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    Saturday, June 21, 2025
    7 PM
    Max Ophuls,
    United States,
    1949,
    (82 mins)

    35mm Archival Print

    Housewife Joan Bennett must cope with a killing, blackmail, and the everyday pressures of domesticity in this stunning suburban noir. “An underrated gem” (Phillip Lopate).
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    Sunday, June 22, 2025
    4:30 PM
    Andrei Tarkovsky,
    USSR,
    1961,
    (108 mins)
    A student film in name only, The Steamroller and the Violin holds the seeds of Andrei Tarkovsky’s future career. Paired with Voyage in Time, a visual diary of Tarkovsky and screenwriter Tonino Guerra’s travels across Lecce, Tuscany, and the Amalfi Coast while location scouting for Nostalghia. 
    7 PM
    • Film
    • In-Person
    Sunday, June 22, 2025
    7 PM
    Robert Altman,
    United States,
    1977,
    (124 mins)
    Young Pinky (Sissy Spacek) finds herself in the thrall of her extroverted but unpopular roommate, Millie (Shelley Duvall), in this exploration of identities fractured and fused. “3 Women is a film whose provocative schizophrenia is both gripping and contagious” (Kier-La Janisse).
    • Leila Weefur
      Introduction
      Leila Weefur is an artist, writer, and independent curator based in Oakland. Weefur is an educator at Stanford University and a founding member of the curatorial film collective The Black Aesthetic.
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    • Film
    Wednesday, June 25, 2025
    7 PM
    Edgar G. Ulmer,
    United States,
    1945,
    (68 mins)

    Digital Restoration

    This 2018 restoration is the best that Detour has looked or sounded for generations. Despite severe restrictions of time and budget, Edgar G. Ulmer and his collaborators were able to craft one of the best and purest film noirs of all time.
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    7 PM
    Thursday, June 26, 2025
    7 PM
    Andrei Tarkovsky,
    USSR,
    1966,
    (183 mins)

    Digital Restoration

    Andrei Tarkovsky’s epic, otherworldly portrait of a fifteenth-century Russian icon painter is “a superproduction gone ideologically berserk” (Village Voice). “The best arthouse film of all time” (The Guardian).
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    Friday, June 27, 2025
    7 PM
    (68 mins)
    Alive with satire, irony, and rhythm, experimental filmmaker Bruce Conner’s collage films have influenced countless artists and captivated viewers. His work constitutes a wry, devastating portrait of America. This program of his short films is drawn from the BAMPFA collection.
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    Saturday, June 28, 2025
    4 PM
    Rachel Elizabeth Seed,
    United States,
    2024,
    (87 mins)

    Winner of the Truer Than Fiction Award at the 2025 Film Independent Spirit Awards

    A New York Times Critic’s Pick, A Photographic Memory is an intimate portrait of filmmaker Rachel Elizabeth Seed’s trailblazing mother, Sheila Turner Seed, who was a vibrant and pioneering journalist, photographer, and filmmaker. “Vividly introspective . . . sumptuous” (Carlos Aguilar, Variety).

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    • Film
    • In-Person
    Saturday, June 28, 2025
    6 PM
    Robert Altman,
    United States,
    1993,
    (183 mins)

    35mm Archival Print

    Short Cuts is a Los Angeles–set, star-studded mosaic of unhappy families in situations that are tragic, comic, and commonplace. “The movie has the intensity of an epic, only its subject matter is everyday life” (Julie Salamon, Wall Street Journal).
    • David Thomson
      Introduction and Post-Screening Discussion
      David Thomson is a noted film critic and historian who has authored more than twenty books on cinema, including The New Biographical Dictionary of Film.
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    5 PM
    • Film
    Sunday, June 29, 2025
    5 PM
    Él
    Luis Buñuel,
    Mexico,
    1953,
    (93 mins)

    4K Digital Restoration

    A psychological thriller: one of Luis Buñuel’s rawest, angriest indictments of religious and social hypocrisy, Él stands as the Surrealist master’s great excursion into dark melodrama, where civilization can find no answer to the raging urges of the irrational id.

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    7 PM
    • Film
    Sunday, June 29, 2025
    7 PM
    Andrei Tarkovsky,
    USSR,
    1972,
    (167 mins)

    Digital Restoration

    In Andrei Tarkovsky’s influential 1972 masterwork, based on a famous novel by Stanisław Lem, “the alien world is one immense ocean, the ocean is a brain, and the brain may be our own” (Village Voice).
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    • Film
    • In-Person
    Wednesday, July 2, 2025
    7 PM
    Nicholas Ray,
    United States,
    1948,
    (95 mins)

    35mm Archival Print

    Nicholas Ray’s lyrical, passionate debut follows a pair of fugitive innocents. It influenced films from Jean Luc Godard’s Pierrot le fou to Arthur Penn’s Bonnie and Clyde.
    • David Thomson
      Introduction and Post-Screening Discussion
      David Thomson is a noted film critic and historian who has authored more than twenty books, including The Fatal Alliance: A Century of War on Film.
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    Thursday, July 3, 2025
    7 PM
    Mikio Naruse,
    Japan,
    1960,
    (111 mins)

    BAMPFA Collection

    Essential Mikio Naruse. “An elegant essay in black-and-white CinemaScope and tinkling cocktail jazz, this tale of a bar hostess’s attempt to escape her lot could give heartbreak lessons to [Rainer Werner] Fassbinder and [Douglas] Sirk” (Village Voice).
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    • Film
    Friday, July 4, 2025
    5 PM
    Robert Altman,
    United States,
    1975,
    (160 mins)
    As the bicentennial of American independence looms, the titular “Country Music Capital of the World” becomes an unholy soup of politics, art, patriotism, religion, and money—showbiz, America. Buoyed by a cast of dozens, Nashville “is a satire, a comedy, a musical, a melodrama” (Vincent Canby, New York Times).
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    Saturday, July 5, 2025
    4:30 PM
    John M. Stahl,
    United States,
    1945,
    (110 mins)

    35mm Archival Print

    Intoxicating Gene Tierney (Laura) is the femme fatale par excellence in this astounding Technicolor noir classic, now beautifully restored, about a young novelist (Cornel Wilde) whose new bride’s extreme jealousy plunges their nuptial heaven into hellish depths of psychic disorder.
    7 PM
    • Film
    Saturday, July 5, 2025
    7 PM
    Andrei Tarkovsky,
    USSR,
    1975,
    (106 mins)
    Andrei Tarkovsky’s most autobiographical work, a collection of memories of a young boy coming of age, invented “a new language, true to the nature of film . . . life as a dream” (Ingmar Bergman).