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Posted Nov. 6 2009 21:04

Screening — Daisy Kenyon

Starts:Nov 11 2009, @ 12AM
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

Starts:Nov 11 2009, @ 12AM
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

Starts:Nov 11 2009, @ 12AM
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

Starts:Nov 11 2009, @ 12AM
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

Starts:Nov 11 2009, @ 12AM
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

Starts:Nov 11 2009, @ 12AM
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

Starts:Nov 11 2009, @ 12AM
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

Starts:Nov 11 2009, @ 12AM
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

Starts:Nov 11 2009, @ 12AM
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

Starts:Nov 11 2009, @ 12AM
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

Starts:Nov 11 2009, @ 12AM
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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Posted Nov. 6 2009 20:49

Screening — Walpurgis Night

Starts:Nov 11 2009, @ 12AM
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

Starts:Nov 11 2009, @ 12AM
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

Starts:Nov 11 2009, @ 12AM
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

Starts:Nov 11 2009, @ 12AM
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

Starts:Nov 11 2009, @ 12AM
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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