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1:30 PM
Sunday, November 26, 2023
1:30 PM
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).
5 PM
Sunday, November 26, 2023
5 PM
Carol Reed,
United Kingdom,
1949,
(104 mins)
4K Digital Restoration
Joseph Cotten pursues Orson Welles through postwar Vienna in Graham Greene and Carol Reed’s cynical masterpiece. “Seeing it on the big screen is like watching it for the first time” (New York Times).
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7 PM
Wednesday, November 29, 2023
7 PM
Jean-Pierre Melville,
France,
1970,
(140 mins)
4K Digital Restoration
Alain Delon and Yves Montand star in Jean-Pierre Melville’s “dazzling epic of love, guns, gangsters, and cigarettes” (Los Angeles Times).
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7 PM
Saturday, December 2, 2023
7 PM
Werner Herzog,
Germany,
1972,
(95 mins)
Stunningly photographed in hazardous locations in Peru, Aguirre, the Wrath of God takes the viewer on a mad voyage as frightening and entertaining as one of Edgar Allan Poe’s maelstrom-bent epics of demented discovery. Featuring a seething, controlled performance from Klaus Kinski, who delivers an unforgettable portrait of madness and power.
A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact |
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4:30 PM
Sunday, December 3, 2023
4:30 PM
Yasujiro Ozu,
Japan,
1932,
(90 mins)
Copresented by the San Francisco Silent Film Festival
A comedy about a typical wage earner with two delightfully atypical sons. “One of the wisest and most charming films ever made” (Village Voice).
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7 PM
Wednesday, December 6, 2023
7 PM
Werner Herzog,
Germany,
1979,
(82 mins)
An ordinary German barber-turned-soldier (Klaus Kinski) puts up with all manner of slights and insults until, finally, he cracks in Werner Herzog’s adaptation of the acclaimed absurdist, anti-militarist play. “Kinski is a riveting screen presence who threatens to burst beyond the medium” (New York Times).
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Thursday, December 7, 2023
7 PM
Selcen Ergun,
Germany, Serbia, Turkey,
2022,
(93 mins)
A chilling, mysterious, and stunning debut film. “Selcen Ergun’s acute and wide-awake direction emphasizes the undertones of a rigid patriarchal society while brilliantly setting the atmosphere for this anti fairy-tale” (Toronto International Film Festival).
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7 PM
Friday, December 8, 2023
7 PM
Yasujiro Ozu,
Japan,
1930,
(112 mins)
Copresented by the San Francisco Silent Film Festival
That Night’s Wife is a crime melodrama inspired by Fritz Lang and American thrillers. As ever, Yasujiro Ozu tests the conventions as he employs them. Screening with Woman of Tokyo, a Depression-era romantic melodrama that is “a subtle riot of discordant formal devices. . . . Ozu never made another film like this one, and neither has anyone else” (J. Hoberman).
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7 PM
Saturday, December 9, 2023
7 PM
Werner Herzog,
Germany, United States,
1979,
(107 mins)
Werner Herzog’s reworking of the F. W. Murnau silent film showcases a ghoulish Klaus Kinski as das Vampyre, spreading death and disease in a small German town with only pretty bride Isabelle Adjani to stop him. “Opulently beautiful” (The Nation).
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2 PM
Sunday, December 10, 2023
2 PM
Werner Herzog,
Germany, United Kingdom,
1999,
(98 mins)
The lines between madness and artistry, and confrontation and creation, are explored through Werner Herzog’s look at his fiery collaborations with frequent lead, and frequent tormenter, Klaus Kinski. Together they created masterpieces, while nearly killing one another.
4:30 PM
Sunday, December 10, 2023
4:30 PM
Yasujiro Ozu,
Japan,
1933,
(100 mins)
Copresented by the San Francisco Silent Film Festival
In Yasujiro Ozu’s atmospheric American-style crime melodrama, Kinuyo Tanaka brings a wide range of moods and emotions to the role of a gangster’s moll trying to get herself and her lover/accomplice out of their murky world and into “a decent life.”
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7 PM
Wednesday, December 13, 2023
7 PM
Yasujiro Ozu,
Japan,
1949,
(108 mins)
Chishu Ryu and Setsuko Hara as father and daughter in a deceptively simple, eloquent story of filial devotion and parental sacrifice: this is a near-perfect film, and one of Yasujiro Ozu’s own favorites.
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Thursday, December 14, 2023
7 PM
Emilio Fernández,
Mexico,
1951,
(84 mins)
Digital Restoration
Victims of Sin is famed Mexican director Emilio Fernández’s unique blend of film noir, melodrama, and musical. Fernández infuses the film with impassioned songs and performances by Ninón Sevilla, an icon of Mexican cinema and a purveyor of African, Caribbean, and Cuban dance styles.
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7 PM
Friday, December 15, 2023
7 PM
Werner Herzog,
Germany, Peru,
1982,
(157 mins)
“In a film of stunning spectacle and furious struggle, boat and task become centerpieces for two tales of obsession. Every bit as driven as Fitzcarraldo’s efforts to move the craft upward, Mr. Herzog’s determination to perform the feat in actuality inspired Les Blank’s documentary Burden of Dreams, also released in 1982, about the making of the film” (Peter M. Nichols, New York Times).
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Saturday, December 16, 2023
6:30 PM
Yasujiro Ozu,
Japan,
1953,
(137 mins)
Digital Restoration
This simple, sad story of the gap between generations in a Japanese family revealed to Western viewers the poetic acuteness of Yasujiro Ozu’s style. “Wonderful. . . . One of the manifest miracles of cinema” (New Yorker).
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2 PM
Sunday, December 17, 2023
2 PM
Yasujiro Ozu,
Japan,
1934,
(86 mins)
Copresented by the San Francisco Silent Film Festival
This poetic, quietly devastating story finds the leader of a down-at-the-heels theater troupe meeting his grown son, the fruit of a casual affair years earlier. “A picture of great atmosphere and intensity of character” (Donald Richie).
4 PM
Sunday, December 17, 2023
4 PM
Béla Tarr,
France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Switzerland,
2000,
(145 mins)
Digital Restoration
One of the major achievements of twenty-first-century cinema thus far, Béla Tarr’s mesmeric parable of societal collapse is an enigma of transcendent visual, philosophical, and mystical resonance. New German Cinema icon Hanna Schygulla appears in a welcome cinematic comeback, while Lars Rudolf contributes a fevered performance of Klaus Kinski–like proportions.
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Wednesday, December 20, 2023
7 PM
Werner Herzog,
Germany,
1987,
(111 mins)
Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski’s final collaboration continues their exploration of colonial madness in Indigenous worlds, with Kinski starring as a Brazilian outlaw turned African slave trader in Dahomey. Haunted with an “intoxicated, intoxicating sense of spectacle” (New York Times).
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Thursday, December 21, 2023
7 PM
Yasujiro Ozu,
Japan,
1948,
(84 mins)
Digital Restoration
A former POW comes home to Japan to discover that his wife has prostituted herself to pay their son’s hospital bills. “[Yasujiro] Ozu brilliantly and honestly confronts the postwar moment” (Joan Mellen).
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