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Thursday, June 7, 2012

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


ASUC (Associated Students of the University of California)


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

Friday, June 8, 2012

Peter Greenaway: Cinema and Painting: Rembrandt’s J’Accuse

Film - Feature | June 8 | 7 p.m. |  PFA Theater


Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive


Peter Greenaway (England/Netherlands, 2008)

“Just because you have eyes does not mean you can see,” challenges the great director-contrarian Peter Greenaway in his this cine-essay, which reveals the mysteries hidden in plain sight in one of the most famous paintings of all time, Rembrandt’s The Night Watch. Where most see only a great work of art, Greenaway dissects the Dutch masterpiece to...   More >


$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)



Trailer Trash: A Mini-Movie Extravaganza: From the Collection

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


Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive


Why wade through an entire feature film when a crisply condensed version can save you time and trouble? Ninety minutes compressed to a pithy two or three—that’s a compression scheme to be admired. We’re talking trailers: abbreviated spectacles filled with thunderous scores, thrills and spills galore, and a cast of, at least, thousands. And those stentorian voices booming with blustery conviction:...   More >


$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)

Saturday, June 9, 2012

Peter Greenaway: Cinema and Painting: Nightwatching

Film - Feature | June 9 | 6:30 p.m. |  PFA Theater


Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive


Peter Greenaway (United Kingdom/Netherlands/Poland/Canada, 2007)

Nightwatching, Greenaway’s fictional foray into art-history detecting, was made a year before the more spare Rembrandt’s J’Accuse and focuses on the painter himself, played with gusto by Martin Freeman. Shifting between Rembrandt’s relations with three women—his wife, model, and servant—and the complications that arise when he...   More >


$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: Daisies

Film - Feature | June 9 | 8:30 p.m. |  PFA Theater


Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive


Three Czech New Wave Classics

A trio of classics circulating in 35mm format from the Czech National Archives offers a rare chance to see two films by one of Europe’s most innovative filmmakers from the 1960s, Vera Chytilová, and a third film by her fellow Czech New Wave director Jaromil Jires. Join us for these experimental narratives that remain as eye-opening today as when they first...   More >


$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)

Sunday, June 10, 2012

Afterimage: Three Nights with Nathaniel Dorsky: Films of Nathaniel Dorsky: Recent Films

Film - Feature | June 10 | 7:30 p.m. |  PFA Theater


Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive


Nathaniel Dorsky (U.S., 2010–12)


In Conversation Nathaniel Dorsky and Mark McElhatten

August and After 2012, 18:30 mins, Silent, Color, 16mm, From the artist
The Return 2011, 27 mins, Silent, Color, 16mm, PFA Collection
Pastourelle 2010, 16:30 mins, Silent, Color, 16mm, PFA Collection

Total running time: 62 mins


$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)

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

The Keys of the Kingdom: Gregory Peck: An Agreeable Gentleman

Film - Feature | June 13 | 7 p.m. |  PFA Theater


Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive


Nathaniel Dorsky (U.S., 2010–12)


In Conversation Nathaniel Dorsky and Mark McElhatten

August and After 2012, 18:30 mins, Silent, Color, 16mm, From the artist
The Return 2011, 27 mins, Silent, Color, 16mm, PFA Collection
Pastourelle 2010, 16:30 mins, Silent, Color, 16mm, PFA Collection

Total running time: 62 mins


$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)

Thursday, June 14, 2012

Tribute to Ken Russell (1927–2011): Gothic

Film - Feature | June 14 | 7:30 p.m. |  PFA Theater


Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive


Ken Russell (U.K., 1986)

Live Music Brale
Brale (Bruce Anderson, Gregory Hagan, Dale Sophiea), the world’s only Ken Russell tribute band, will play a brief set before the screening

From his first feature, French Dressing, in 1964 until his death last year, Ken Russell released a seductive string of flamboyant films that strip bare sexuality, the horrorific, and creativity itself....   More >


$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)



Spanish Comedy Summer Session: Iberia Cine Club

Film - Series | June 14 | 8-10 p.m. | 2040 Valley Life Sciences Building


ASUC (Associated Students of the University of California)


We are screening a famous spanish comedy "Dias de Futbol (Soccer Days)" from 2003. The movie is about a group of friends with depressing lives trying to resurrect a soccer team they had in their youth and finally win something in life.

Friday, June 15, 2012

Three Czech New Wave Classics: Fruit of Paradise

Film - Feature | June 15 | 7 p.m. |  PFA Theater


Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive


Vera Chytilová (Czechoslovakia, 1970)

(Ovoce stromu rajskych jime, a.k.a. We Eat the Fruit of the Tree of Paradise). The companion piece to Daisies, Chytilová's little-seen masterwork Fruit of Paradise is a dazzlingly complex, formally rigorous allegory of Adam and Eve. Chytilová's color schemes and juxtapositions brought the art of montage to new heights, while Fruit's mad expressionism and...   More >


$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 Snows of Kilimanjaro: Gregory Peck: An Agreeable Gentleman

Film - Feature | June 15 | 8:50 p.m. |  PFA Theater


Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive


Henry King (U.S., 1952)

This flavorful Hemingway adaptation spans the globe from 1950s Africa to 1920s Paris and 1930s Spain, and back again, as it follows the recollections of a hard-drinking writer (Peck) on death’s door during an African safari. As the macho artist reflecting on a lifetime of drinking, hunting, and womanizing, Peck uses his full range of masculine charms to convince as a...   More >


$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)

Saturday, June 16, 2012

Pork Chop Hill: Gregory Peck: An Agreeable Gentleman

Film - Feature | June 16 | 6:30 p.m. |  PFA Theater


Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive


Gregory Peck: An Agreeable Gentleman
6:30
Pork Chop Hill
Lewis Milestone (U.S., 1959) New Print!

Korea, 1953: while officials gather to negotiate a truce, an American lieutenant (Peck) receives orders to attack Pork Chop Hill. Exposed, outnumbered, and cut off from central command, his company will be decimated in defense of what the negotiators call an “insignificant little hill.” Yet,...   More >


$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)



Roman Holiday, William Wyler (U.S., 1953): Gregory Peck: An Agreeable Gentleman

Film - Feature | June 16 | 8:30 p.m. |  PFA Theater


Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive


A backwards Cinderella story with an unexpected moral: “Life isn’t always what one likes.” Young princess Audrey Hepburn decides to go incognito in Rome, trading fairy-tale opulence for the enchantment of “ordinary” life. American reporter Gregory Peck picks her up, and realizes he has a scoop on his hands; princess and hack try to hide their respective identities, but they can’t conceal their...   More >


$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)

Sunday, June 17, 2012

Afterimage: Three Nights with Nathaniel Dorsky: Films of Nathaniel Dorsky: The Quartet, Nathaniel Dorsky (U.S., 2008–10)

Film - Feature | June 17 | 7:30 p.m. |  PFA Theater


Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive


In Person Nathaniel Dorsky

Sarabande 2008, 15 mins, Silent, Color, 16mm, PFA Collection
Compline 2010, 18:30 mins, Silent, Color, 16mm, PFA Collection
Aubade 2010, 11:30 mins, Silent, Color, 16mm, PFA Collection
Winter 2008, 21:30 mins, Silent, Color, 16mm, PFA Collection


$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)

Wednesday, June 20, 2012

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


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 >


$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)

Thursday, June 21, 2012

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

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


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

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 >


$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


ASUC (Associated Students of the University of California)


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

Friday, June 22, 2012

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


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 >


$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


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 >


$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)

Saturday, June 23, 2012

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


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 >


$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


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 >


$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)

Sunday, June 24, 2012

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

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


Michael Butler, REPertory Company

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 >


$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


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 >


$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)

Wednesday, June 27, 2012

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


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 >


$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)

Thursday, June 28, 2012

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


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 >


$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


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 >


$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)

Friday, June 29, 2012

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

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


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 >


$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


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 >


$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)

Saturday, June 30, 2012

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


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 >


$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


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 >


$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)