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Posted Nov. 6 2009 21:29

Screening — Saint Joan

Starts:Dec 12 2009, @ 12AM
Location:San Francisco

6:30 p.m., PFA Theater
Otto Preminger (U.S., 1957). Jean Seberg was chosen from thousands of applicants to play the Maid of Orléans in Preminger’s version of George Bernard Shaw’s play, adapted for the screen by Graham Greene. (110 mins)
Part of PFA Series Otto Preminger ...

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Posted Nov. 6 2009 21:28

Screening — The Moon Is Blue

Starts:Dec 12 2009, @ 12AM
Location:San Francisco

8:20 p.m., PFA Theater
Otto Preminger (U.S., 1953). Condemned by the Legion of Decency for using terms like “virgin” and “pregnant,” Preminger’s indie sex comedy is more surprising in its frothiness than for its alleged prurience. (99 mins)
Part of PFA Series Otto Preminger: Anatomy of ...

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Posted Nov. 6 2009 21:27

Screening — Red Psalm

Starts:Dec 12 2009, @ 12AM
Location:San Francisco

6:30 p.m., PFA Theater
Miklós Jancsó (Hungary, 1972). Jancsó won Best Director at Cannes for this riveting psalm-song set during an ill-fated Hungarian farmworkers’ revolt. “Perhaps the most ecstatic fusion of political and formal radicalism since Dozvhenko’s Earth.”—J. Hoberman (88 mins)
Part of PFA Series Four ...

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Posted Nov. 6 2009 21:26

Screening — Short Films by Alain Resnais

Starts:Dec 12 2009, @ 12AM
Location:San Francisco

7:00 p.m., PFA Theater
(France, 1950-58). Resnais in short, from eloquent essays on art and cultural memory to a surreal “song of styrene.” (108 mins)
Part of PFA Series In Time: The Films of Alain Resnais.

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Posted Nov. 6 2009 21:25

Screening — Advise and Consent

Starts:Dec 12 2009, @ 12AM
Location:San Francisco

7:00 p.m., PFA Theater
Otto Preminger (U.S., 1962). This decades-old drama of Beltway intrigue reads like a contemporary playbook for political maneuvering, with Henry Fonda and Charles Laughton among the players. “By far the best political movie ever made in this country.”—Peter Bogdanovich (140 mins)
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Posted Nov. 6 2009 21:24

Screening — The Red and the White

Starts:Dec 12 2009, @ 12AM
Location:San Francisco

7:00 p.m., PFA Theater
Miklós Jancsó (Hungary, 1967). Central Russia during the 1918 Civil War is the setting of Jancsó’s disquietingly beautiful ballet of war and death, shot in breathtaking black-and-white CinemaScope. (90 mins)
Part of PFA Series Four by Hungarian Master Miklós Jancsó.

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Posted Nov. 6 2009 21:22

Screening — The Underground Orchestra

Starts:Dec 12 2009, @ 12AM
Location:San Francisco

3:00 p.m., PFA Theater
Heddy Honigmann (The Netherlands, 1997). A portrait of the buskers of the Paris Métro—a Venezuelan harpist, an Algerian singer, a violinist from Sarajevo—becomes a document of survival in exile. “A splendid example of how illuminating and entertaining a documentary can be.”—L ...

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Posted Nov. 6 2009 21:21

Musical Performance — Songs of the Fountain: Marian Meditations from the Medieval Era performed by the Women of the UC Chamber Chorus with Director Marika Kuzma

Starts:Dec 12 2009, @ 12AM
Location:San Francisco

3:00 p.m., Gallery B
The women of the acclaimed University Chamber Chorus will perform Guillaume de Machaut’s Le lai de la fonteinne, a series of short intricate rounds in praise of the Virgin Mary, and Hildegard of Bingen’s O tu illustrata, along with other a cappella ...

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Posted Nov. 6 2009 21:20

Screening — Psycho, with Introduction and book signing by David Thomson

Starts:Dec 12 2009, @ 12AM
Location:San Francisco

8:00 p.m., PFA Theater
Alfred Hitchcock (U.S., 1960). In celebration of his new book The Moment of Psycho: How Alfred Hitchcock Taught America to Love Murder, Thomson introduces a special screening of Hitchcock’s film. (109 mins)
Part of the PFA Series Readings on Cinema: Hitchcock’s ...

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Posted Nov. 6 2009 21:18

Screening — The Round-Up

Starts:Dec 12 2009, @ 12AM
Location:San Francisco

6:00 p.m., PFA Theater
Miklós Jancsó (Hungary, 1966). A prison on the vast Hungarian plains, and the prisoners and guards that circle therein, are at the crux of this critique of the relations between the powerful and the powerless. “Boldly stylized, a synthesis of Antonioni, Bresson, and Welles ...

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Posted Nov. 6 2009 21:16

Screening — Whirlpool

Starts:Dec 12 2009, @ 12AM
Location:San Francisco

6:30 p.m., PFA Theater
Otto Preminger (U.S., 1950). “Can a man make a woman do things she doesn’t want to?” Preminger’s most overtly psychological noir finds Gene Tierney married to analyst Richard Conte but under the sway of smarmy hypnotist Jose Ferrer. (97 mins)
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Posted Nov. 6 2009 21:14

Musical Performance — Ellen Fullman

Starts:Dec 12 2009, @ 12AM
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

Starts:Dec 12 2009, @ 12AM
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)
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Posted Nov. 6 2009 21:11

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

Starts:Dec 12 2009, @ 12AM
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

Starts:Dec 12 2009, @ 12AM
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

Starts:Dec 12 2009, @ 12AM
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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