Behind the Scenes: The Art and Craft of Cinema, Editor Curtiss Clayton: Curtiss Clayton: Illustrated Talk on Film Editing

Film - Feature | June 20 | 7 p.m. |  PFA Theater

Sponsor: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

In this special lecture, editor Curtiss Clayton shares his thoughts on the art and craft of film editing, illustrating them with sequences from Van Sant’s To Die For, starring Nicole Kidman and Matt Dillon. We’ll see alternative cuts of scenes demonstrating how Clayton and Van Sant sought multiple editorial rhythms and compositions, until a stylish syntax emerged that supported the film’s satiric...   More >

Tickets:$5.50 BAM/PFA Members and UC Berkeley, staff, students, and faculty, $6.50 UC Berkeley faculty and staff, non-UC Berkeley students, senior citizens (65 & over), disabled persons, and youth (17 & under), $9.50 Adults (18-64)

The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit: Gregory Peck: An Agreeable Gentleman

Film - Feature | June 21 | 7 p.m. |  PFA Theater

Speakers: Veronique Peck; Sid Gannis, producer; Nancy Gannis, producer

Sponsor: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

One of the key influences on the AMC series Mad Men, this finely tuned Gregory Peck drama was one of the first postwar Hollywood dramas to expose the emptiness of seemingly successful white-collar lives. A former GI whose wartime exploits (and romances) in Italy pale in comparison to his current life spent schlepping from his Connecticut home to his Madison Avenue offices, copywriter Tom Rath...   More >

Tickets:$5.50 BAM/PFA Members and UC Berkeley, staff, students, and faculty, $6.50 UC Berkeley faculty and staff, non-UC Berkeley students, senior citizens (65 & over), disabled persons, and youth (17 & under), $9.50 Adults (18-64)

IISA Summer Series: America Must Be...

Film - Feature | June 7 – August 2, 2012 every Thursday with exceptions | 8-10 p.m. | 2040 Valley Life Sciences Building

Sponsor: ASUC (Associated Students of the University of California)

IISA presents the Summer 2012 series of Italian Movie Nights: "America Must Be...".   More >

Behind the Scenes: The Art and Craft of Cinema, Editor Curtiss Clayton: Rick, Curtiss Clayton (U.S., 2003)

Film - Feature | June 22 | 7 p.m. |  PFA Theater

Sponsor: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

In person Curtiss Clayton

Bill Pullman plays the titular Rick O’Lette, a corporate functionary at Image Corp., which sells nothing but its willingness to sell anything. After a humiliated job seeker (Sandra Oh) puts a “Chinese” curse on him, Rick’s life begins to quickly collapse—a fall handily dispatched by hit-man Buck (Dylan Baker). Writer Daniel Handler, creator of the darkly comic Lemony...   More >

Tickets:$5.50 BAM/PFA Members and UC Berkeley, staff, students, and faculty, $6.50 UC Berkeley faculty and staff, non-UC Berkeley students, senior citizens (65 & over), disabled persons, and youth (17 & under), $9.50 Adults (18-64)

Behind the Scenes: The Art and Craft of Cinema, Editor Curtiss Clayton: Maladies, Carter (U.S., 2012)

Film - Feature | June 22 | 9:20 p.m. |  PFA Theater

Sponsor: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

In person Curtiss Clayton

Tonight we’ll see the final stages of Carter’s first full-blown feature, Maladies, starring James Franco as a successful actor who retires at a young age due to an imagined mental illness. Now living in the outskirts of New York City with his deranged sister (Fallon Goodson) and his best friend (David Strathairn), we watch as their maladies mingle and mesh. Rumor has...   More >

Tickets:$5.50 BAM/PFA Members and UC Berkeley, staff, students, and faculty, $6.50 UC Berkeley faculty and staff, non-UC Berkeley students, senior citizens (65 & over), disabled persons, and youth (17 & under), $9.50 Adults (18-64)

One-Two Punch, Part Two: Pulp Writers on Film: In a Lonely Place, Nicholas Ray (U.S., 1950)

Film - Feature | June 23 | 6:30 p.m. |  PFA Theater

Sponsor: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Dorothy B. Hughes, Mickey Spillane, Elmore Leonard
6:30

In Andrew Solt’s terrific adaptation of Dorothy B. Hughes’s most pathological novel, Dix Steele (Humphrey Bogart as good as he gets) is a faltering Hollywood scriptwriter with anger management problems, not a serial killer as originally penned. When a coat check girl is found brutally murdered, Dix becomes a prime suspect, prodding his...   More >

Tickets:$5.50 BAM/PFA Members and UC Berkeley, staff, students, and faculty, $6.50 UC Berkeley faculty and staff, non-UC Berkeley students, senior citizens (65 & over), disabled persons, and youth (17 & under), $9.50 Adults (18-64)

One-Two Punch, Part Two: Pulp Writers on Film: Fallen Sparrow, Richard Wallace (U.S., 1943)

Film - Feature | June 23 | 8:30 p.m. |  PFA Theater

Sponsor: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Dorothy B. Hughes was a master of the tangled tale laced with deception, fear, and mayhem. In Fallen Sparrow, the Spanish Civil War has ended and Kit McKittrick (John Garfield) is out West recuperating from two years of torture in a Franco prison camp. When the news of a friend’s death forces his return to New York City, Kit enters into an intrigue freighted with Nazi sympathizers (Walter...   More >

Tickets:$5.50 BAM/PFA Members and UC Berkeley, staff, students, and faculty, $6.50 UC Berkeley faculty and staff, non-UC Berkeley students, senior citizens (65 & over), disabled persons, and youth (17 & under), $9.50 Adults (18-64)

To Kill a Mockingbird, Robert Mulligan (U.S., 1962): Gregory Peck: An Agreeable Gentleman

Film - Feature | June 24 | 4:45 p.m. |  PFA Theater

Speaker/Performer: Michael Butler, REPertory Company

Sponsor: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

New Print!
Student Pick!

Introduction/Michael Butler

Butler is artistic director of Walnut Creek’s Center REPertory Company, which recently staged a production of the Harper Lee story.

Like Harper Lee’s novel on which it is based, To Kill a Mockingbird is rooted in the America of the early 1960s, with its gathering struggle for civil rights, yet the film’s message of tolerance—told...   More >

Tickets:$5.50 BAM/PFA Members and UC Berkeley students, $9.50 general admission, $6.50 UC Berkeley Faculty/Staff, Non-UC Berkeley Students, Seniors (65+), and Youth (17 & Under)

Films of Nathaniel Dorsky: Devotional Songs

Film - Feature | June 24 | 7:30 p.m. |  PFA Theater

Sponsor: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Nathaniel Dorsky (U.S., 2004–12)

In Person Nathaniel Dorsky

Song and Solitude 2006, 21 mins, Silent, Color, 16mm, PFA Collection
Threnody 2004, 25 mins, Silent, Color, 16mm, PFA Collection
The Visitation 2012, 18 mins, Silent, Color, 16mm, PFA Collection

Total running time: 64 mins

Wednesday / 6.27.12
Gregory Peck: An Agreeable Gentleman
7:00
Duel in the Sun...   More >

Tickets:$5.50 BAM/PFA Members and UC Berkeley, staff, students, and faculty, $6.50 UC Berkeley faculty and staff, non-UC Berkeley students, senior citizens (65 & over), disabled persons, and youth (17 & under), $9.50 Adults (18-64)

Duel in the Sun, King Vidor (U.S., 1946): Gregory Peck: An Agreeable Gentleman

Film - Feature | June 27 | 7-9:30 p.m. |  PFA Theater

Sponsor: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Restored Print!


Ablaze with Technicolor passions, Duel in the Sun is a delirious testament to inexplicable obsession, both on- and off-screen. Producer David O. Selznick constructed (and, in the course of production, compulsively reworked) the picture as a shrine—or sacrificial altar—to his personal love idol Jennifer Jones, who stars in bronzy makeup as sultry “half-breed” Pearl Chavez....   More >

Tickets:$5.50 BAM/PFA members and UC Berkeley students, $9.50 General admission, $6.50 UC Berkeley Faculty/Staff, Non-UC Berkeley Students, Seniors (65+), and Youth (17 & Under)

One-Two Punch, Part Two: Pulp Writers on Film: My Gun Is Quick, George A. White (U.S., 1957)

Film - Feature | June 28 | 7 p.m. |  PFA Theater

Sponsor: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Nathaniel Dorsky (U.S., 2004–12)

In Person Nathaniel Dorsky

Song and Solitude 2006, 21 mins, Silent, Color, 16mm, PFA Collection
Threnody 2004, 25 mins, Silent, Color, 16mm, PFA Collection
The Visitation 2012, 18 mins, Silent, Color, 16mm, PFA Collection

Total running time: 64 mins

Wednesday / 6.27.12
Gregory Peck: An Agreeable Gentleman
7:00
Duel in the Sun...   More >

Tickets:$5.50 BAM/PFA Members and UC Berkeley, staff, students, and faculty, $6.50 UC Berkeley faculty and staff, non-UC Berkeley students, senior citizens (65 & over), disabled persons, and youth (17 & under), $9.50 Adults (18-64)

The Girl Hunters, Roy Rowland (U.K., 1963)

Film - Feature | June 28 | 8:50 p.m. |  PFA Theater

Sponsor: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

If you want it done right, do it yourself. Cowriting the script is one thing, but with this British-born brawler, Spillane takes on the lead character, playing iconic Mike Hammer his way. We find husky Hammer in an alley, “a dirty, lousy slob.” A case had gone wrong, Velda, his trusted secretary was presumed dead, and Mike finds his only solace bobbing in booze. Then a dying man tells the...   More >

Tickets:$5.50 BAM/PFA Members and UC Berkeley, staff, students, and faculty, $6.50 UC Berkeley faculty and staff, non-UC Berkeley students, senior citizens (65 & over), disabled persons, and youth (17 & under), $9.50 Adults (18-64)

Arabesque, Stanley Donen (U.S., 1966): Gregory Peck: An Agreeable Gentleman

Film - Feature | June 29 | 7 p.m. |  PFA Theater

Sponsor: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Stanley Donen’s follow-up to the successful Charade replaces that film’s Cary Grant-and-Audrey Hepburn pairing with an even more glamorous, handsome pair—Gregory Peck and Sophia Loren—all while amping up the globe-trotting intrigue, Dior fashions, and big-budget spectacle. A finely cheekboned hieroglyphics expert (Peck) winds up in the middle of an international plot, and is soon on the run with...   More >

Tickets:$5.50 BAM/PFA Members and UC Berkeley, staff, students, and faculty, $6.50 UC Berkeley faculty and staff, non-UC Berkeley students, senior citizens (65 & over), disabled persons, and youth (17 & under), $9.50 Adults (18-64)

Three Czech New Wave Classics: Valerie and Her Week of Wonders, Jaromil Jires (Czechoslovakia, 1969)

Film - Feature | June 29 | 9 p.m. |  PFA Theater

Sponsor: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

(Valerie a tyden divu). Cult film classic Valerie and Her Week of Wonders adapts the tricks of cinema to the art of the fairy tale to inscribe a young girl's passage from innocence to womanhood with eerie beauty. In a constantly surprising mixture of gentle eroticism and gothic nightmare, shot through with cobwebs and lace, thirteen-year-old Valerie (Jaroslava Schallerová) innocently turns the...   More >

Tickets:$5.50 BAM/PFA Members and UC Berkeley, staff, students, and faculty, $6.50 UC Berkeley faculty and staff, non-UC Berkeley students, senior citizens (65 & over), disabled persons, and youth (17 & under), $9.50 Adults (18-64)

One-Two Punch, Part Two: Pulp Writers on Film Dorothy B. Hughes, Mickey Spillane, Elmore Leonard: Stick, Burt Reynolds (U.S., 1985)

Film - Feature | June 30 | 6:30 p.m. |  PFA Theater

Sponsor: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Following on Cannonball Run 2 and Smokey and the Bandit 3, Burt Reynolds snagged Elmore Leonard to adapt his novel Stick for the screen. It’s the perfect vehicle for a director apt to commit vehicular manslaughter with a lesser script. Lean and upright, Reynolds gets the Ernest “Stick” Stickley shtick just right, the evasive banter, the nonchalant swagger, the barbed humor. An ex-con, Stick blows...   More >

Tickets:$5.50 BAM/PFA Members and UC Berkeley, staff, students, and faculty, $6.50 UC Berkeley faculty and staff, non-UC Berkeley students, senior citizens (65 & over), disabled persons, and youth (17 & under), $9.50 Adults (18-64)

Valdez Is Coming. Edwin Sherin (U.S., 1971)

Film - Feature | June 30 | 8:40 p.m. |  PFA Theater

Sponsor: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Edwin Sherin’s adaptation of Elmore Leonard’s Valdez is Coming ropes Burt Lancaster into the part of Bob Valdez, a conscientious constable who watches over “the Mexican American side of town.” When a black deserter is mistakenly killed, Valdez wants trigger-happy Frank Tanner (Jon Cypher), a local rancid rancher, to cough up a hundred bucks for the dead man’s widow. After Tanner’s men literally...   More >

Tickets:$5.50 BAM/PFA Members and UC Berkeley, staff, students, and faculty, $6.50 UC Berkeley faculty and staff, non-UC Berkeley students, senior citizens (65 & over), disabled persons, and youth (17 & under), $9.50 Adults (18-64)