• Starts:Feb 2 2009, @ 12AM
3:00 p.m., PFA Theater
Enchanting silhouette animation. Part of the PFA Series Movie Matinees for All Ages.

  • Starts:Feb 2 2009, @ 12AM
3:00 p.m., PFA Theater.
Part of the PFA Series Film 50: History of Cinema.

  • Starts:Dec 12 2008, @ 12AM
2:00 p.m., PFA Theater
Sternberg’s starkly poetic first feature. Part of the PFA Series Josef von Sternberg: Eros and Abstraction.

  • Starts:Feb 2 2009, @ 12AM
1:00 p.m. & 3:30 p.m., PFA Theater
The Bay Area High School Film Festival presents fresh works by the filmmakers of tomorrow.

  • Starts:Feb 2 2009, @ 12AM
3:00 p.m., PFA Theater.
Part of the PFA Series Film 50: History of Cinema.

  • Starts:Feb 2 2009, @ 12AM
3:00 p.m., PFA Library

  • Starts:Jan 1 2009, @ 12AM
6:00 p.m., PFA Theater
Gorin and Godard deconstruct a notorious photo of Jane Fonda in Hanoi. With Santiago Alvarez short LBJ. Part of the PFA Series The Way of the Termite: The Essay in Cinema.

  • Starts:Jan 1 2009, @ 12AM
7:30 p.m., PFA Theater
Edgardo Cozarinsky’s “documentary fiction” juxtaposes competing views of Nazi-occupied Paris. Part of the PFA Series The Way of the Termite: The Essay in Cinema.

  • Starts:Jan 1 2009, @ 12AM
7:30 p.m., PFA Theater
Dziga Vertov’s dizzying, associative ode to urban Russian life. With short À propos de Nice. Part of the PFA Series The Way of the Termite: The Essay in Cinema.

  • Starts:Jan 1 2009, @ 12AM
6:30 p.m., PFA Theater
“A complex waterfront melodrama of moral rebirth and one of the photographic glories of American silent cinema.”—Village Voice. Part of the PFA Series Josef von Sternberg: Eros and Abstraction.

  • Starts:Jan 1 2009, @ 12AM
3:00 p.m., PFA Theater.
Part of the PFA Series Film 50: History of Cinema.

  • Starts:Jan 1 2009, @ 12AM
7:30 p.m., PFA Theater
Clara Bow and Gary Cooper in a rarely screened melodrama. With documentary D’un silence à l’autre: Josef von Sternberg. Part of the PFA Series Josef von Sternberg: Eros and Abstraction.

  • Starts:Jan 1 2009, @ 12AM
5:30 p.m., PFA Theater
Emil Jannings stars in “one of the strangest, greatest, and cruelest films about Hollywood during the silent era.”—Janet Bergstrom. Part of the PFA Series Josef von Sternberg: Eros and Abstraction.

  • Starts:Jan 1 2009, @ 12AM
  • Location:US
2:00 p.m., PFA Theater
Fragments from the legendary thriller The Deep, as well as The Dreamers and Don Quixote. Part of the PFA Series Unknown Orson Welles.

  • Starts:Jan 1 2009, @ 12AM
  • Location:San Francisco
8:00 p.m., PFA Theater
On the last day of the war, a young Resistance fighter (Zbigniew Cybulski) is caught in a Hamlet-like quandary: to kill or not to kill. Part of the PFA Series Man of Marvel: Andrzej Wajda.

  • Starts:Jan 1 2009, @ 12AM
  • Location:San Francisco
5:00 p.m., PFA Theater
Excerpts from TV programs depict Welles as an indefatigable globetrotter. Plus a compilation of Welles’s takes on Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice. Part of the PFA Series Unknown Orson Welles.