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Posted Nov. 6 2009 20:35

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

Starts:Nov 11 2009, @ 12AM
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

Starts:Nov 11 2009, @ 12AM
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

Starts:Nov 11 2009, @ 12AM
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

Starts:Nov 11 2009, @ 12AM
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

Starts:Nov 11 2009, @ 12AM
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

Starts:Nov 11 2009, @ 12AM
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

Starts:Nov 11 2009, @ 12AM
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

Starts:Nov 11 2009, @ 12AM
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

Starts:Nov 11 2009, @ 12AM
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

Starts:Nov 11 2009, @ 12AM
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

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

Screening — Altered States: Recent Experimental Cinema, with Vanessa O’Neill in person

Starts:Nov 11 2009, @ 12AM
Location:San Francisco

7:30 p.m., PFA Theater
Vincent Grenier, Jim Jennings, Vanessa O’Neill, Ben Russell, Sylvia Schedelbauer, Jonathan Schwartz, Fred Worden (U.S., 2007-2009). New works evoke altered states, whether observing phenomena of the physical world or contemplating interior transformations. (60 mins)
Part of the PFA series Alternative Visions.

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Posted Nov. 6 2009 20:19

Screening — Silent Country, and Discussion with Maja Oelschlägel

Starts:Nov 11 2009, @ 12AM
Location:San Francisco

5:00 p.m., PFA Theater
Andreas Dresen (Germany, 1992). Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, we look back with Andreas Dresen’s droll take on that pivotal moment, centered around a provincial East German production of Waiting for Godot. (98 mins)
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Posted Nov. 6 2009 20:18

Screening — The Sound of the Sea

Starts:Nov 11 2009, @ 12AM
Location:San Francisco

3:00 p.m., PFA Theater
Miguelanxo Prado (Spain/Portugal, 2007). A drowned sailor journeys through a fantastical underwater realm to find his true love in this breathtaking animated film by an award-winning Spanish graphic novelist. (75 mins)
Part of the PFA Series New Spanish Cinema.

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Posted Nov. 6 2009 20:17

Conversation — Ari Marcopoulos: Within Arm’s Reach, with Fred Brathwaite, Keith Hufnagel, Barry McGee, Ari Marcopoulos in person

Starts:Nov 11 2009, @ 12AM
Location:San Francisco

3:00 p.m., Museum Theater
The vibrant worlds of graffiti art, skateboarding, and hip-hop are vividly chronicled in the photography of Ari Marcopoulos. Three leading personalities from these different but overlapping scenes will converge at BAM for an expanded look at the photographer’s work. Following an illustrated presentation ...

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Posted Nov. 6 2009 20:16

Screening — The Shame

Starts:Nov 11 2009, @ 12AM
Location:San Francisco

8:30 p.m., PFA Theater
David Planell (Spain, 2009). A young couple find their relationship changing after they adopt an emotionally dysfunctional Peruvian boy. Winner, Best Film, Malaga Film Festival. (107 mins)
Part of the PFA Series New Spanish Cinema.

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