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Posted Nov. 6 2009 20:49

Screening — Walpurgis Night

Location:San Francisco

7:00 p.m., PFA Theater
Gustaf Edgren (Sweden, 1935). Bergman lusts after her married boss while her father Victor Sjöström bemoans the passionlessness of Swedish youth in this surprising hybrid of erotic satire and anti-abortion tract. (80 mins)
Part of the PFA Series A Woman’s Face: Ingrid Bergman ...

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Posted Nov. 6 2009 20:48

Conversation and Book Signing — Learning Mind: Experience into Art, with Jacquelynn Baas, Walter Hood, Lawrence Rinder

Location:San Francisco

7:30 p.m., BAM Galleries
How is art conceived, created, and experienced? How is it taught? How does the act of viewing an artwork make the viewer part of that work? Starting from such questions, the new publication Learning Mind: Experience into Art explores the contemporary art experience and ...

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Posted Nov. 6 2009 20:38

Screening — Wristcutters: A Love Story, with Introduction by Reyna Cowan

Location:San Francisco

7:00 p.m., PFA Theater
Goran Dukic (U.S., 2006). “A lovely-loony picture about an afterlife for suicides. It’s an off-road ‘road movie’ about people who off themselves.”—Baltimore Sun (89 mins)
Part of the PFA Series What’s a Matta U? Considering the College Experience Through Film.

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Posted Nov. 6 2009 20:37

Screening — Loud and Clear, with Ari Marcopoulos in person

Location:San Francisco

7:30 p.m., PFA Theater
Ari Marcopoulos (U.S., 1991-2009). Sonic Youth, the Beastie Boys, skaters, snowboarders, and others figure in six exhilarating works. (96 mins)
Part of the PFA Series Fiercely Freestyle: Ari Marcopoulos.

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Posted Nov. 6 2009 20:36

Screening — Everything’s for You, with Abraham Ravett in person

Location:San Francisco

7:30 p.m., PFA Theater
Abraham Ravett (U.S., 1989). Abraham Ravett examines the loss of his father, who had been a survivor of the Lodz Ghetto and Auschwitz. With Ravett shorts The March and Non-Aryan. (95 mins)
Part of the PFA Series Jesters and Gestures: Performing Yiddish Culture ...

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Posted Nov. 6 2009 20:35

Screening — West and East: A Film-Translation, with Performance by the Sala-Manca Group

Location:San Francisco

7:30 p.m., PFA Theater
This performance is both an homage to Goldin and Abramson’s East and West and a study in cultural and linguistic translation. (c. 60 mins)
Part of the PFA Series Jesters and Gestures: Performing Yiddish Culture from Silent Cinema to Avant-Garde Film.

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Posted Nov. 6 2009 20:34

Screening — East and West, with Introduction by Zehavit Stern and Judith Rosenberg on piano

Location:San Francisco

5:00 p.m., PFA Theater
Sidney M. Goldin, Ivan Abramson (Austria, 1923). A thoroughly modern Molly Picon steals the show in Sidney Goldin and Ivan Abramson’s good-natured comedy of worldly American Jews encountering shtetl life. (85 mins)
Part of the PFA Series Jesters and Gestures: Performing Yiddish Culture ...

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Posted Nov. 6 2009 20:33

Screening — Little Mother, with Introduction by Zehavit Stern

Location:San Francisco

3:00 p.m., PFA Theater
Joseph Green (Poland, 1938). The inimitable Molly Picon plays mama to her siblings, her father, and the rest of the tenement in Joseph Green’s film, which transposes Meyer Schwartz’s play from the Lower East Side to Lodz. (95 mins)
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Posted Nov. 6 2009 20:32

Panel Discussion — Fernando Botero: The Abu Ghraib Series: Art and Human Rights

Location:San Francisco

3:00 p.m., Musem Theater
What are the ethical and even theological implications of Fernando Botero’s Abu Ghraib series? Laurel Fletcher, clinical professor of law and director of the International Human Rights Law Clinic at UC Berkeley, will introduce and moderate a panel of scholars from the Graduate ...

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Posted Nov. 6 2009 20:30

Screening — Muriel

Location:San Francisco

8:45 p.m., PFA Theater
Alain Resnais (France, 1963). Delphine Seyrig stars as a widow haunted by a former love, as her son is haunted by memories of the Algerian War. With Night and Fog, an extraordinary reflection on the Holocaust and historical memory. (145 mins)
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Posted Nov. 6 2009 20:30

Screening — The Jester, with Introduction by Zehavit Stern

Location:San Francisco

6:30 p.m., PFA Theater
Joseph Green, Jan Nowina-Przybylski (Poland, 1937). This musical comedy set in a Galician shtetl is “a wistful romance that’s interspersed with songs but rooted in the wisecracks and banter of oral Yiddish culture.”—J. Hoberman (88 mins)
Part of the PFA Series Jesters ...

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Posted Nov. 6 2009 20:29

Conversation and Book Signing: — SHOOT: Photography of the Moment, with Ken Miller, Ari Marcopoulos, Paul Schiek

Location:San Francisco

7:30 p.m., Gallery B
The photographers featured in the new book SHOOT (Rizzoli International Publications), from Nan Goldin to Dash Snow, are part of a burgeoning movement in photography that embraces the mundane image, reflecting an era in which ephemeral images increasingly define our lives. Ari Marcopoulos, whose ...

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Posted Nov. 6 2009 20:28

Screening — Stavisky

Location:San Francisco

8:45 p.m., PFA Theater
Alain Resnais (France/Italy, 1974). In a 1974 film that seems made for 2009, Resnais depicts the downfall of a grandiose swindler (Jean-Paul Belmondo) and of an even grander swindle, the all’s-well image of prewar Europe as it rotted within. (117 mins)
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Posted Nov. 6 2009 20:26

Screening — The Count of the Old Town

Location:San Francisco

7:00 p.m., PFA Theater
Edvin Adolphson, Sigurd Wallén (Sweden, 1935). A freewheeling comedy about a gang of ruffians on an all-day bender in Stockholm’s Old Town, featuring a baby-faced eighteen-year-old Bergman. (83 mins)
Part of the PFA Series A Woman’s Face: Ingrid Bergman in Europe.

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Posted Nov. 6 2009 20:24

Screening — The Man Without a World, with Introduction by Jeffrey Skoller

Location:San Francisco

9:00 p.m., PFA Theater
Eleanor Antin (U.S., 1991). Performance artist and experimental filmmaker Eleanor Antin conjures a lost world of Yiddish literature, cinema, and theater and reengages the debate on popular art, politics, and modernism. (98 mins)
Part of the PFA Series Jesters and Gestures: Performing Yiddish ...

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Posted Nov. 6 2009 20:22

Screening — The Dybbuk, with Introduction by Zehavit Stern

Location:San Francisco

6:30 p.m., PFA Theater
Michał Waszyński (Poland, 1937). Jewish mysticism is fused with cinematic Expressionism in this haunting tale based on S. An-ski’s famed folkloric play. “The most ambitious Yiddish movie of its day.”—J. Hoberman (123 mins)
Part of the PFA Series Jesters and Gestures: Performing ...

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