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Posted Nov. 6 2009 21:14

Musical Performance — Ellen Fullman

Location:San Francisco

7:30 p.m., BAM Galleries
In 1981, composer Ellen Fullman invented the Long Stringed Instrument, an installation of dozens of wires fifty feet or more in length, played with rosined fingers. The instrument explores natural tunings based on the overtone series and the physics of vibrating strings. Fullman will ...

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Posted Nov. 6 2009 21:13

Screening — Made in U.S.A., with Kaja Silverman and Jonathan Everett Haynes in conversation

Location:San Francisco

7:00 p.m., PFA Theater
Jean-Luc Godard (France, 1966). In glowing color and ’Scope, Godard’s last film with Anna Karina is “beautiful, goofy, and explosive . . . Godard’s ultimate statement about his love/hatred for the aesthetics/politics of American movies/life.”—Jonathan Rosenbaum (90 mins)
Part of the ...

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Posted Nov. 6 2009 21:11

Screening — Anatomy of a Murder, with Introduction by Carol Clover

Location:San Francisco

7:00 p.m., PFA Theater
Otto Preminger (U.S., 1959). A backwoods town is the setting for sordid accusations of murder and rape in “one of the most accomplished and ambiguous courtroom dramas ever filmed in America.”—Village Voice. With Jimmy Stewart for the defense, Ben Gazzara as the ...

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Posted Nov. 6 2009 21:11

Screening — In Comparison

Location:San Francisco

7:30 p.m., PFA Theater
Harun Farocki (Germany/Austria, 2009). Farocki’s latest film considers the brick, that foundational unit of construction, as object, metaphor, and product of labor. (61 mins)
Part of the PFA Series Alternative Visions.

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Posted Nov. 6 2009 21:08

Curatorial Talk — Ari Marcopoulos: Within Arm’s Reach

Location:San Francisco

12:00 p.m., Gallery 4
Join exhibition curator Stephanie Cannizzo and video curator Steve Seid as they converse about Ari Marcopoulos’s photography, tapes, and films in the exhibition gallery.

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Posted Nov. 6 2009 21:04

Screening — Daisy Kenyon

Location:San Francisco

5:30 p.m., PFA Theater
Otto Preminger (U.S., 1947). Joan Crawford is torn between married lawyer Dana Andrews and tormented army gunner Henry Fonda. “Directed by Preminger with his customary blend of sinuous visual eloquence and analytic intelligence…[it’s] that rarest of Hollywood entities: a realist romance ...

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Posted Nov. 6 2009 21:03

Screening — Europa ’51

Location:San Francisco

3:00 p.m., PFA Theater
Roberto Rossellini (Italy, 1952). Bergman plays a bourgeois wife called to an unconventional kind of sainthood in Rossellini’s moving study of postwar society and its ethical rootlessness. (110 mins)
Part of the PFA Series A Woman’s Face: Ingrid Bergman in Europe.

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Posted Nov. 6 2009 21:02

Screening — Mon oncle d’Amérique

Location:San Francisco

8:40 p.m., PFA Theater
Alain Resnais (France, 1980). It’s survival of the wittiest in Resnais’s take on behavioral theory. Starring Gérard Depardieu, with guest appearances by Jean Gabin, Jean Marais, and Danielle Darrieux. (125 mins)
Part of the PFA Series In Time: The Films of Alain ...

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Posted Nov. 6 2009 21:00

Screening — Stromboli

Location:San Francisco

6:30 p.m., PFA Theater
Roberto Rossellini (Italy, 1949). Roberto Rossellini sets the interior drama of Bergman’s character, a Lithuanian refugee married to an Italian fisherman, amid the drama of nature on a volcanic island. (107 mins)
Part of the PFA Series A Woman’s Face: Ingrid Bergman ...

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Posted Nov. 6 2009 20:59

Screening — Fallen Angel

Location:San Francisco

8:50 p.m., PFA Theater
Otto Preminger (U.S., 1945). This follow-up to Laura trades the earlier film’s gloss for lower-depths grit. Andrews drifts into a small town and into big trouble when his plans to finance a romance with Linda Darnell by marrying rich Alice Faye go ...

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Posted Nov. 6 2009 20:58

Screening — Laura

Location:San Francisco

7:00 p.m., PFA Theater
Otto Preminger (U.S., 1944). Detective Dana Andrews is enthralled by a portrait of elusive Gene Tierney in Preminger’s sleek noir, a study in duplicity that asks not just whodunit, but what “it” is. Featuring Clifton Webb and Vincent Price as preening rivals ...

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Posted Nov. 6 2009 20:56

Screening — Urban Peasants, with Introduction by Jeffrey Skoller

Location:San Francisco

7:30 p.m., PFA Theater
Ken Jacobs (U.S., 1975). Ken Jacobs constructs a picture of Brooklyn in the thirties and forties from fragments of home movies. With Ernie Gehr short Untitled (Part One) 1981. (88 mins)
Part of the PFA Series Jesters and Gestures: Performing Yiddish Culture from ...

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Posted Nov. 6 2009 20:55

Screening — Alexander Black: Cinema Pioneer, with Illustrated lecture by Kaveh Askari and Judith Rosenberg on piano

Location:San Francisco

5:00 p.m., PFA Theater
(U.S., 1919-46). Discover the work of an unjustly neglected film forefather in this presentation, including several recently preserved films. (c. 100 mins)
Part of the PFA Series Alexander Black: Cinema Pioneer.

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Posted Nov. 6 2009 20:53

Screening — Je t’aime, je t’aime

Location:San Francisco

8:30 p.m., PFA Theater
Alain Resnais (France, 1968). A failed suicide becomes a guinea pig for research on the nature of time: Resnais’s obsession with memory manifests itself as science fiction. (91 mins)
Part of the PFA Series In Time: The Films of Alain Resnais.

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Posted Nov. 6 2009 20:52

Screening — June Night

Location:San Francisco

6:30 p.m., PFA Theater
Per Lindberg (Sweden, 1940). In this rare, inventively photographed Swedish film, Bergman beautifully plays a sensitive young woman attempting to rebuild her life in Stockholm after her romance with a sailor comes to a violent end. (90 mins)
Part of the PFA Series A ...

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Posted Nov. 6 2009 20:50

Screening — A Woman’s Face

Location:San Francisco

8:40 p.m., PFA Theater
Gustaf Molander (Sweden, 1938). Bergman is cast very much against type as a disfigured, bitter blackmailer in this darkly atmospheric Swedish drama. (104 mins)
Part of the PFA Series A Woman’s Face: Ingrid Bergman in Europe.

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