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26 1:30 PM Missile Film In-Person Sunday, October 26, 2025 1:30 PM Missile Frederick Wiseman, United States, 1987, (115 mins) 4K Digital Restoration Frederick Wiseman tracks the day-to-day routines of the recruits and officers who are trained to arm, target, and launch nuclear warheads. Missile “presents quiet horrors and ironies galore” (Terry Atkinson, Los Angeles Times). Arlin Golden Introduction Arlin Golden is a documentary filmworker and cohost of Wiseman Podcast, a film-by-film analysis of the career of filmmaker Frederick Wiseman. Series Frederick Wiseman: America at Work Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 4:30 PM The Shanghai Drama Film In-Person Sunday, October 26, 2025 4:30 PM The Shanghai Drama G. W. Pabst, France, 1938, (109 mins) A sad-eyed cabaret singer finds herself swept up with a Russian refugee spy ring in Shanghai just before the Sino-Japanese War in G. W. Pabst’s reverse Casablanca, with exteriors shot in Saigon. A “minor masterpiece” (J. Hoberman). Preceded by three Hearst Metrotone Newsreels from the 1930s. Paul Fonoroff Introduction Paul Fonoroff is an expert on Chinese cinema who lived for years in Hong Kong and is currently based in Bangkok. Series Cities & Cinema: Shanghai Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7 PM The Werewolf of Washington Film Sunday, October 26, 2025 7 PM The Werewolf of Washington Milton Moses Ginsberg, United States, 1973, (90 mins) BAMPFA Collection “Because sometimes you need a little Halloween camp to take a bite out of what’s happening in this country. It’s satire with fangs—and the horror feels a little too familiar” (Cheryl Dunye). Series Cheryl Dunye Selects! Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	27	28	29 7 PM BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions Film Free In-Person Wednesday, October 29, 2025 7 PM BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions Kahlil Joseph, Ghana, United States, 2025, (113 mins) Free admission. Tickets available at the admissions desk beginning at 6 PM. Weaving fiction and history in an immersive journey in which the fictionalized figures of W. E. B. Du Bois and Marcus Garvey join artists, musicians, Kahlil Joseph’s family, and even Twitter chats, BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions is a vision for Black consciousness. Free admission. Tickets available at the admissions desk beginning at 6 PM (1 ticket per person) In Conversation Kahlil Joseph Onye Anyanwu Onye Anyanwu is a producer of BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions. Abigail De Kosnik Abigail De Kosnik is an Associate Professor at UC Berkeley in the Berkeley Center for New Media and the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies. Series Alternative Visions Google Calendar ICS	30 7 PM Crows and Sparrows Film In-Person Thursday, October 30, 2025 7 PM Crows and Sparrows Zheng Junli, China, 1949, (120 mins) Digital Restoration A Shanghai apartment building serves as a microcosm of China’s class struggles in Zheng Junli’s striking urban drama, filmed during the last days of China’s Nationalist rule and already looking forward to “a New Society.” Preceded by three Hearst Metrotone Newsreels from the 1940s. Paul Fonoroff Introduction Paul Fonoroff is an expert on Chinese cinema who lived for years in Hong Kong and is currently based in Bangkok. Series Cities & Cinema: Shanghai Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	31 4:30 PM Four Nights of a Dreamer Film Friday, October 31, 2025 4:30 PM Four Nights of a Dreamer Robert Bresson, France, 1971, (82 mins) 4K Digital Restoration The rarely screened Four Nights of a Dreamer is Robert Bresson’s great forgotten masterpiece, a stark yet haunting ode to romantic idealism and the capriciousness of love. Bresson’s philosophical concerns with transcendence play out in each lover’s romantic reveries. Series Special Screenings 2025 Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 6:30 PM Apocalypse Now: Final Cut Film Friday, October 31, 2025 6:30 PM Apocalypse Now: Final Cut Francis Ford Coppola, United States, 1979/2019, (183 mins) 4K Digital Restoration Francis Ford Coppola’s hallucinatory Vietnam War epic, one of AFI’s Top 100 Films of All Time, returns in a 4K restoration. A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact bampfa@berkeley.edu if you would like a ticket for a wheelchair accessible space. Series Special Screenings 2025 SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS	1 1:30 PM State Legislature Film In-Person Saturday, November 1, 2025 1:30 PM State Legislature Frederick Wiseman, United States, 2007, (217 mins) 4K Digital Restoration In State Legislature, the members of the Idaho State Legislature are forced to legislate—or, at least, debate—in the face of a rapidly changing world. “This is democracy in action from the ground up, wholly unheroic and absolutely mesmerizing” (Manohla Dargis, New York Times). Greg Hahn Introduction Greg Hahn was covering the Idaho Legislature for the state’s largest newspaper in 2004, when Frederick Wiseman arrived with his crew, giving this then-young storyteller an immersive three-month course Series Frederick Wiseman: America at Work Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 6:30 PM Shanghai Blues Film In-Person Saturday, November 1, 2025 6:30 PM Shanghai Blues Tsui Hark, Hong Kong, 1984, (112 mins) 4K Digital Restoration Tsui Hark’s retro semi-musical look at the nightclub milieu is set against the backdrop of the Second Sino-Japanese War. “It’s impossible not to be carried along by the delirious rush of silliness in this knockabout screwball comedy” (Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian). Preceded by a Hearst Metrotone Newsreel from 1936. Paul Fonoroff Introduction Paul Fonoroff is an expert on Chinese cinema who lived for years in Hong Kong and is currently based in Bangkok. Series Cities & Cinema: Shanghai Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS
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2 3 PM Lust, Caution Film Sunday, November 2, 2025 3 PM Lust, Caution Ang Lee, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, United States, 2007, (158 mins) Ang Lee’s subtle World War II thriller is arguably modern cinema’s most gripping re-creation of old Shanghai, highlighted by the uninhibited debut performance of Tang Wei as an assassin aiming for imperious official Tony Leung Chiu-wai. A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact bampfa@berkeley.edu if you would like a ticket for a wheelchair accessible space. Series Cities & Cinema: Shanghai SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Before Night Falls Film In-Person Sunday, November 2, 2025 7 PM Before Night Falls Julian Schnabel, United States, 2000, (135 mins) A sweeping cinematic portrait of the Cuban poet and novelist Reinaldo Arenas that “honor(s) queer memory with lyrical, defiant beauty” (Cheryl Dunye). In Conversation Cheryl Dunye Damon Young Damon Young is an Associate Professor of French and Film & Media at UC Berkeley. Series Cheryl Dunye Selects! Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	3	4	5 7 PM The Films of Tomonari Nishikawa Film Wednesday, November 5, 2025 7 PM The Films of Tomonari Nishikawa (67 mins) Tomonari Nishikawa’s films are a thrilling cinematic dialogue between the places, spaces, and architecture he documented and the filmstock, cameras, and lenses he used to record. A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact bampfa@berkeley.edu if you would like a ticket for a wheelchair accessible space. Series Alternative Visions SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS	6 3:30 PM Rice People Film In-Person Thursday, November 6, 2025 3:30 PM Rice People Rithy Panh, Cambodia, France, 1994, (125 mins) Rithy Panh’s debut narrative feature, finished only a few years after Cambodia’s decade-long post–Khmer Rouge civil war, was the country’s first-ever submission to the foreign-language category at the Oscars. Sylvia Tiwon Introduction Sylvia Tiwon is an Associate Professor in the Department of South & Southeast Asian Studies at UC Berkeley. Series Cambodian Elegist: The Films of Rithy Panh Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Lightning Film Thursday, November 6, 2025 7 PM Lightning Mikio Naruse, Japan, 1952, (85 mins) Adapted from a Fumiko Hayashi novel, and starring Mikio Naruse’s favorite actress, Hideko Takamine, this major work illuminates one of the director’s key themes: entrapment within the family system. Series Mikio Naruse: The Auteur as Salaryman Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	7 2:30 PM The Missing Picture Film In-Person Friday, November 7, 2025 2:30 PM The Missing Picture Rithy Panh, Cambodia, France, 2013, (96 mins) Rithy Panh’s revelatory look at his childhood experiences surviving the Khmer Rouge won the 2013 Un Certain Regard prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Clay figures, archival footage, and spoken words weave a stunningly vivid picture of the filmmaker’s and Cambodia’s past. Michael Mascuch Introduction Michael Mascuch is a Professor in the Department of Rhetoric at UC Berkeley. Series Cambodian Elegist: The Films of Rithy Panh Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Meeting with Pol Pot Film In-Person Friday, November 7, 2025 7 PM Meeting with Pol Pot Rithy Panh, Cambodia, France, Qatar, Taiwan, Turkey, 2024, (112 mins) Three French journalists visit Cambodia in 1978 and discover the deadly gap between what is shown, what is hidden, and what they are “permitted” to document. “A hauntingly timeless depiction of power and its mechanisms” (Variety). Penny Edwards Introduction Penny Edwards is a Professor of Southeast Asian Studies, Walter and Elise Haas Professor of Asian Studies, and Director of the Institute of East Asian Studies at UC Berkeley. Series Cambodian Elegist: The Films of Rithy Panh Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	8 3:30 PM The Burnt Theatre Film Saturday, November 8, 2025 3:30 PM The Burnt Theatre Rithy Panh, Cambodia, France, 2005, (85 mins) Cambodia’s once-grand, now-abandoned former National Theatre is the site of Rithy Panh’s spellbinding investigation of how to rebuild one’s country when culture is nearly forgotten and capitalism all-powerful. Chosen for the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. Series Cambodian Elegist: The Films of Rithy Panh Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7 PM One Evening After the War Film In-Person Saturday, November 8, 2025 7 PM One Evening After the War Rithy Panh, Cambodia, France, 1998, (108 mins) Set in 1992, after two decades of war finally ended in Cambodia, this atmospheric urban noir/doomed romance follows a demobilized soldier and a dance-hall girl as they drift through a Phnom Penh of neon and dust, still haunted by death. Penny Edwards Introduction Penny Edwards is a Professor of Southeast Asian Studies, Walter and Elise Haas Professor of Asian Studies, and Director of the Institute of East Asian Studies at UC Berkeley. Series Cambodian Elegist: The Films of Rithy Panh Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS
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9 1:30 PM Everything Will Be OK Film Sunday, November 9, 2025 1:30 PM Everything Will Be OK Rithy Panh, Cambodia, France, 2022, (98 mins) A dystopian, Animal Farm–like world created out of clay figurines provides an ingenious backdrop to Rithy Panh’s intellectually barnstorming look at twentieth-century brutality. History lesson, archival footage masterclass, folk-art animation, and science fiction narrative in one, inspired by Chris Marker, Dziga Vertov, Umberto Eco, Mao, 2001, and more. Series Cambodian Elegist: The Films of Rithy Panh Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 5 PM Wife Film Sunday, November 9, 2025 5 PM Wife Mikio Naruse, Japan, 1953, (96 mins) Another affecting look at the everyday irritations of marriage, but with an atypical twist for Naruse—this time, the husband is the more sympathetic character. Series Mikio Naruse: The Auteur as Salaryman Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Juvenile Court Film In-Person Sunday, November 9, 2025 7 PM Juvenile Court Frederick Wiseman, United States, 1973, (144 mins) 4K Digital Restoration Juvenile Court finds troubled youth and their families confronted by the American justice system in Memphis, Tennessee. It is Frederick Wiseman’s first film to eclipse a two-hour run time, “but its cumulative impact is so powerful that it seems less than half that long” (Image). Judge Trina L. Thompson Introduction Judge Trina L. Thompson is currently serving as a District Judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of California, San Francisco division. Series Frederick Wiseman: America at Work Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	10	11	12 7 PM Gunvor Nelson: Program 1 Film In-Person Wednesday, November 12, 2025 7 PM Gunvor Nelson: Program 1 (75 mins) BAMPFA Collection Gunvor Nelson’s My Name Is Oona, a hypnotic portrait of the artist’s daughter and an essential classic of experimental cinema, screens with Schmeerguntz, a touchstone of feminist cinema, and Frame Line and Light Years, made in Sweden. In Conversation Steve Anker Steve Anker is an expert on experimental film as a teacher, curator, and author. Lynne Sachs Lynne Sachs (Brooklyn) discovered her love of filmmaking while studying in San Francisco, where she worked closely with artists including Gunvor Nelson. John Sundholm John Sundholm is a Professor of Cinema Studies at Stockholm University. Series Gunvor Nelson: A Life in Film Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	13 7 PM Fire of Wind Film In-Person Thursday, November 13, 2025 7 PM Fire of Wind Marta Mateus, France, Portugal, Switzerland, 2024, (74 mins) Sheltering in a grove of oak trees from an attacking bull, a group of agricultural workers share bread, wine, and stories of struggle and resistance. In Conversation Marta Mateus Natalia Brizuela Natalia Brizuela is Class of 1930 Chair, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and a Professor of Spanish & Portuguese and Film & Media, UC Berkeley. Series Marta Mateus Presents <i>Fire of Wind</i> and Films by Margarida Cordeiro and António Reis Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	14 7 PM Marta Mateus: Poetry, Portraiture, and Place Film In-Person Friday, November 14, 2025 7 PM Marta Mateus: Poetry, Portraiture, and Place (79 mins) Marta Mateus presents her debut film, Barbs, Wastelands, with João César Monteiro’s portrait of the poet Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen and António Reis’s Jaime, a documentary of the artist Jaime Fernandes. In Conversation Marta Mateus Iggy Cortez Iggy Cortez is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Film & Media at UC Berkeley. Series Marta Mateus Presents <i>Fire of Wind</i> and Films by Margarida Cordeiro and António Reis Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	15 7 PM Trás-os-Montes Film In-Person Saturday, November 15, 2025 7 PM Trás-os-Montes António Reis, Margarida Cordeiro, Portugal, 1976, (111 mins) Set in Portugal’s remote northeast, Trás-os-Montes is a magical time-traveling tapestry within which daily realities, chores, and rituals are interwoven with the stories of the people who lived and labored there through the centuries. In Conversation Marta Mateus Natalia Brizuela Natalia Brizuela is Class of 1930 Chair, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and a Professor of Spanish & Portuguese and Film & Media, UC Berkeley. Series Marta Mateus Presents <i>Fire of Wind</i> and Films by Margarida Cordeiro and António Reis Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS
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16 2 PM Gunvor Nelson: Program 2 Film In-Person Sunday, November 16, 2025 2 PM Gunvor Nelson: Program 2 (74 mins) A program featuring completed films by Gunvor Nelson that were never released. These copies were part of Nelson’s personal film collection, given to the Swedish Film Institute. John Sundholm of Stockholm University will speak about Nelson’s life and work, giving context to these special films. John Sundholm Introduction John Sundholm is a Professor of Cinema Studies at Stockholm University. Series Gunvor Nelson: A Life in Film Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 5 PM Husband and Wife Film Sunday, November 16, 2025 5 PM Husband and Wife Mikio Naruse, Japan, 1953, (87 mins) This thematic sequel to Repast centers on the domestic troubles of a young couple forced to share a flat with an eccentric friend. As always, Mikio Naruse depicts lower-middle-class life with impressive frankness and psychological insight. Series Mikio Naruse: The Auteur as Salaryman Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Ana Film In-Person Sunday, November 16, 2025 7 PM Ana António Reis, Margarida Cordeiro, Portugal, 1982, (115 mins) The observations and conversations of a group of ethnographers visiting a remote village are interwoven with the experiences and dreams of its residents and children. Marta Mateus Introduction Series Marta Mateus Presents <i>Fire of Wind</i> and Films by Margarida Cordeiro and António Reis Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	17	18	19 7 PM Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974 Film In-Person Wednesday, November 19, 2025 7 PM Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974 Kazuo Hara, Japan, 1974, (98 mins) Kazuo Hara’s extraordinarily intimate portrait of Miyuki Takeda, his former partner and mother of his child, breaks down the boundaries between filmmaker and subject reflecting on their relationship(s) as Takeda searches to make a life on her own terms. Miryam Sas Introduction Miryam Sas is Chair of the Department of Film & Media, and a Professor of Film & Media and Comparative Literature at UC Berkeley. Series Alternative Visions Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	20 7 PM Ginza Cosmetics Film Thursday, November 20, 2025 7 PM Ginza Cosmetics Mikio Naruse, Japan, 1951, (86 mins) 35mm Archival Print “Not to be missed. Kinuyo Tanaka, best known for her roles in the films of [Kenji] Mizoguchi, is sensational in this portrait of a Ginza bar hostess” (Cinematheque Ontario). Series Mikio Naruse: The Auteur as Salaryman Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	21 7 PM Gunvor Nelson: Program 3 Film In-Person Friday, November 21, 2025 7 PM Gunvor Nelson: Program 3 (108 mins) Gunvor Nelson’s interest in familial relations is central to Red Shift and Time Being. In her collaboration with Dorothy Wiley, Before Need Redressed, they consider the passage of time and how reflection can alter the shape of a film. Steve Anker Introduction Steve Anker is an expert on experimental film as a teacher, curator, and author. Series Gunvor Nelson: A Life in Film Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	22 12:30 PM City Hall Film Saturday, November 22, 2025 12:30 PM City Hall Frederick Wiseman, United States, 2020, (275 mins) Frederick Wiseman’s study of process, policy, and public service in Boston’s city government is a “typically sprawling, inquisitive and inclusive anatomy of the city’s inner workings . . . both sober and inspiring” (Guy Lodge, Variety). Series Frederick Wiseman: America at Work Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 6:30 PM The Fall of Otrar Film Saturday, November 22, 2025 6:30 PM The Fall of Otrar Ardak Amirkulov, Kazakhstan, 1991, (157 mins) 4K Digital Restoration Set in the early thirteenth century, Kazakh New Wave director Ardak Amirkulov’s The Fall of Otrar is a hypnotic epic about one of world history’s crucial military battles. Written by Amirkulov's former teacher Aleksei German and his wife, Svetlana Karmalita. Series Special Screenings 2025 Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS
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23 2 PM Sound of the Mountain Film Sunday, November 23, 2025 2 PM Sound of the Mountain Mikio Naruse, Japan, 1954, (95 mins) Mistreated wife Setsuko Hara forges a close and complex relationship with her father-in-law, So Yamamura, in Mikio Naruse’s adaptation of the famous Yasunari Kawabata novel. “Exquisite” (Boston Phoenix). Series Mikio Naruse: The Auteur as Salaryman Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 4:30 PM Four Nights of a Dreamer Film Sunday, November 23, 2025 4:30 PM Four Nights of a Dreamer Robert Bresson, France, 1971, (82 mins) 4K Digital Restoration The rarely screened Four Nights of a Dreamer is Robert Bresson’s great forgotten masterpiece, a stark yet haunting ode to romantic idealism and the capriciousness of love. Bresson’s philosophical concerns with transcendence play out in each lover’s romantic reveries. Series Special Screenings 2025 Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	24	25	26	27	28 2 PM The Gold Rush Film Friday, November 28, 2025 2 PM The Gold Rush Charles Chaplin, United States, 1925, (88 mins) 4K Digital Restoration A new 4K digital restoration timed with the centennial of Charlie Chaplin’s The Gold Rush (1925 version). His remarkable comedy of desperation and get-rich-quick fantasies lampoons the mad American hunger for wealth, which remains as ravenous as ever. Series Special Screenings 2025 Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 4 PM Ran Film Friday, November 28, 2025 4 PM Ran Akira Kurosawa, France, Japan, 1985, (160 mins) 4K Digital Restoration King Lear in feudal Japan, with Tatsuya Nakadai as the lord who divides his kingdom among his three sons, with disastrous results. “A majestic piece of filmmaking” (Village Voice). A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact bampfa@berkeley.edu if you would like a ticket for a wheelchair accessible space. Series Special Screenings 2025 Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	29 3 PM Yi Yi Film Saturday, November 29, 2025 3 PM Yi Yi Edward Yang, Taiwan, 2000, (173 mins) 4K Digital Restoration A wedding and a wake bookend Edward Yang’s look at a year in the life of one multigenerational middle-class family in Taipei. “The work of a master in full command of the resources of his art” (New York Times). Released in 2000, it was still named to many Best Films of the 2000s lists. A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact bampfa@berkeley.edu if you would like a ticket for a wheelchair accessible space. Series Special Screenings 2025 SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS 6:30 PM The Umbrellas of Cherbourg Film Saturday, November 29, 2025 6:30 PM The Umbrellas of Cherbourg Jacques Demy, France, 1964, (92 mins) 4K Digital Restoration In this paean to Catherine Deneuve, French design, 1960s chic, MGM musicals, and Michel Legrand, a boy and girl love, lose, love again, and lose again against an assortment of fabulous wallpaper. Series Special Screenings 2025 Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS
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30 2 PM Sudden Rain Film Sunday, November 30, 2025 2 PM Sudden Rain Mikio Naruse, Japan, 1956, (90 mins) The everyday life of a marriage: “A masterpiece in miniature. . . . [Mikio] Naruse’s complex touches are brilliant” (IFC News). Series Mikio Naruse: The Auteur as Salaryman Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 4:30 PM The Tragedy of Macbeth Film Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:30 PM The Tragedy of Macbeth Joel Coen, United States, 2021, (105 mins) Starring Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand, Joel Coen’s adaptation of William Shakespeare’s cursed tragedy is attentive to the power of its language while being profoundly cinematic, rendering a fog-shrouded, haunted place where fate and ambition collide. Series Special Screenings 2025 Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	1	2	3	4 7:30 PM CineSpin Film Free Thursday, December 4, 2025 7:30 PM CineSpin Free Admission. Join us for CineSpin, the BAMPFA Student Committee’s annual event featuring talented UC Berkeley student musicians and/or DJs providing original live accompaniment for great movies. Free Admission. Tickets available at the admissions desk beginning at 6:30 PM. Series Special Screenings 2025 Google Calendar ICS	5 7 PM When a Woman Ascends the Stairs Film Friday, December 5, 2025 7 PM When a Woman Ascends the Stairs 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). Series Mikio Naruse: The Auteur as Salaryman Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	6 4 PM The Store Film In-Person Saturday, December 6, 2025 4 PM The Store Frederick Wiseman, United States, 1983, (118 mins) 4K Digital Restoration Frederick Wiseman’s first color documentary is a study of conspicuous Christmastime consumption at the Neiman Marcus flagship location and corporate headquarters in Dallas. Arlin Golden Introduction Arlin Golden is a documentary filmworker and cohost of Wiseman Podcast, a film-by-film analysis of the career of filmmaker Frederick Wiseman. Series Frederick Wiseman: America at Work Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Plastic Man: The Artful Life of Jerry Ross Barrish Film In-Person Saturday, December 6, 2025 7 PM Plastic Man: The Artful Life of Jerry Ross Barrish William Farley, United States, 2014, (74 mins) This “charming look at a singular life and talent” (Dennis Harvey) sculpts together the remarkable life and career of San Francisco’s Jerry Ross Barrish: bail bondsman of radical 1960s protestors, pioneering 1980s independent filmmaker, painter, and sculptor. Member tickets are now on sale! Tickets for the general public go on sale Friday, November 7 at 11 AM. Not yet a member? Join today. In Conversation William Farley Jerry Ross Barrish Janis Plotkin Janis Plotkin is the producer of Plastic Man: The Artful Life of Jerry Ross Barrish. Series Jerry Ross Barrish: A Life in Film and Art Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS