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SF Chronicle: "Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive Plan"
Sep 21, 2011"The proposal for the 82,000-square-foot facility made public Wednesday evening comes 15 months after the university-owned institution restarted the effort to build itself a new home on the downtown edge of the UC Berkeley campus at Center and Oxford streets," reports John King. Read more at sfgate.com.
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Radical Light: ‘Movie Factory’
George Kuchar
Sep 7, 2011As an appreciation of George Kuchar's inspired presence, we offer up the filmmaker in his own words, excerpted from 'Radical Light: Alternative Film and Video in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945–2000.'
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In Depth
Radical Light: ‘Movie Factory’
George Kuchar
Sep 7, 2011As an appreciation of George Kuchar's inspired presence, we offer up the filmmaker in his own words, excerpted from 'Radical Light: Alternative Film and Video in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945–2000.'
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September 8 2011
Radical Light: ‘Movie Factory’
George Kuchar
Sep 7, 2011As an appreciation of George Kuchar's inspired presence, we offer up the filmmaker in his own words, excerpted from 'Radical Light: Alternative Film and Video in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945–2000.'
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August 25, 2011
PFA Animates with Bay Area Works
Jonathan Kiefer
Aug 24, 2011SF State professor Karl Cohen’s animation collection investigates the nature of pictorial movement itself.
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PFA Animates with Bay Area Works
Jonathan Kiefer
Aug 24, 2011SF State professor Karl Cohen’s animation collection investigates the nature of pictorial movement itself.
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PFA Animates with Bay Area Works
Jonathan Kiefer
Aug 24, 2011SF State professor Karl Cohen’s animation collection investigates the nature of pictorial movement itself.
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August 25, 2011
PFA Animates with Bay Area Works
Jonathan Kiefer
Aug 24, 2011SF State professor Karl Cohen’s animation collection investigates the nature of pictorial movement itself.
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PFA Animates with Bay Area Works
Jonathan Kiefer
Aug 24, 2011SF State professor Karl Cohen’s animation collection investigates the nature of pictorial movement itself.
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Reviews
PFA Animates with Bay Area Works
Jonathan Kiefer
Aug 24, 2011SF State professor Karl Cohen’s animation collection investigates the nature of pictorial movement itself.
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August 16, 2011
'The Makioka Sisters'
Aug 18, 2011Pacific Film Archive screens 'The Makioka Sisters,' Kon Ichikawa's gorgeous and understated women's drama based on Tanizaki's novel of the same name. Lush color sequences of beautiful kimonos and cherry blossoms falling make this subtle masterpiece a joy to view on the large screen. New 35mm print shows Wednesday and Friday only. More info at bampfa.berkeley.edu.
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August 11, 2011
Pagnol's Foodie Oeuvre Appreciated in East Bay
Max Goldberg
Aug 11, 2011Pacific Film Archive serves a full course of films by Marcel Pagnol.
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Pagnol's Foodie Oeuvre Appreciated in East Bay
Max Goldberg
Aug 11, 2011Pacific Film Archive serves a full course of films by Marcel Pagnol.
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Pagnol's Foodie Oeuvre Appreciated in East Bay
Max Goldberg
Aug 11, 2011Pacific Film Archive serves a full course of films by Marcel Pagnol.
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Striking Skolimowski Films Rescued from Obscurity at PFA
Dennis Harvey
Jul 18, 2011Pacific Film Archive’s ‘Hands Up! Essential Skolimowski’ surveys the Polish director’s confounding oeuvre.
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July 21, 2011
Striking Skolimowski Films Rescued from Obscurity at PFA
Dennis Harvey
Jul 18, 2011Pacific Film Archive’s ‘Hands Up! Essential Skolimowski’ surveys the Polish director’s confounding oeuvre.
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Striking Skolimowski Films Rescued from Obscurity at PFA
Dennis Harvey
Jul 18, 2011Pacific Film Archive’s ‘Hands Up! Essential Skolimowski’ surveys the Polish director’s confounding oeuvre.
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Border Trouble Comes to Pacific Film Archive
Max Goldberg
Jun 30, 2011New series spotlights the fascination with Mexico in American noir.
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June 30, 2011
Border Trouble Comes to Pacific Film Archive
Max Goldberg
Jun 30, 2011New series spotlights the fascination with Mexico in American noir.
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Border Trouble Comes to Pacific Film Archive
Max Goldberg
Jun 30, 2011New series spotlights the fascination with Mexico in American noir.
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June 28, 2011
Japanese Divas
Jun 30, 2011Pacific Film Archive's series of female-centered classic Japanese cinema continues with screenings of 'The Life of Oharu,' 'Rashomon' and 'Sancho the Bailiff'. Series runs through late August. More at bampfa.berkeley.edu.
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Border Trouble Comes to Pacific Film Archive
Max Goldberg
Jun 30, 2011New series spotlights the fascination with Mexico in American noir.
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June 30, 2011
Border Trouble Comes to Pacific Film Archive
Max Goldberg
Jun 30, 2011New series spotlights the fascination with Mexico in American noir.
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Reviews
Border Trouble Comes to Pacific Film Archive
Max Goldberg
Jun 30, 2011New series spotlights the fascination with Mexico in American noir.
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June 7, 2011
Cult of the Kuchars
Jun 10, 2011Throughout the month of June, Pacific Film Archive features a half century of alternately feverish, dark, confessional, parodic work from filmmaker brothers George and Mike Kuchar, starting with their 1965 feature, ‘Sins of the Fleshapoids,’ at which Mike Kuchar appears in person. More at bampfa.berkeley.edu.
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June 7, 2011
Arthur Penn, a Liberal Helping
Jun 10, 2011Arthur Penn is the focus of a monthlong series at Pacific Film Archive, beginning with 1958’s Gore Vidal-written revisionist Western, ‘The Left Handed Gun,’ which features Paul Newman. More at bampfa.berkeley.edu.
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April 26, 2011
SFIFF: ‘The Salesman’
May 1, 2011‘The Salesman,’ a feature that follows an aging car salesman in a struggling Quebec town, plays at Sundance Kabuki Cinemas on May 1 and Pacific Film Archive on May 3. Director Sebastian Pilote attends the screenings. More at fest11.sffs.org.
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April 26, 2011
SFIFF: ‘Crime After Crime’
Apr 27, 2011Bay Area director Yoav Potash attends screenings of his documentary ‘Crime After Crime,’ which showcases the story of a female prisoner and the two pro bono lawyers who fight for her release over five and a half years. The film plays at Pacific Film Archive on April 27 and Sundance Kubaki Cinemas on May 2. More at fest11.sffs.org.
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April 26, 2011
SFIFF: ‘Better This World’
Apr 26, 2011Bay Area directors are high profile in the 54th San Francisco International Film Festival; catch them in person this week. Katie Galloway and Kelly Duane de la Vega appear Tuesday with Bradley Crowder, a principal of ‘Better This World,’ a documentary that traces the paths of activists deemed the "Texas Two." The film plays at Pacific Film Archive on April 26 and Sundance Kubaki Cinemas on April 29. More at fest11.sffs.org.
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April 19, 2011
SFIFF: '!Women art Revolution'
Apr 23, 2011Lynn Hershman Leeson's decades-in-the-making documentary about women artists taking on the establishment debuts at the festival Saturday, April 23, with a San Francisco Museum of Modern Art screening, and plays again Monday, April 25, at the Pacific Film Archive. More at fest11.sffs.org.
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April 12, 2011
Afterimage: The Films of Patricio Guzmán
Apr 16, 2011Pacific Film Archive's Patricio Guzmán series continues with ‘The Pinochet Case’ and ‘Chile, Obstinate Memory.’ Later this month, Guzman's latest, a poignant and provocative reflection called 'Nostalgia for the Light,' closes the collection and screens as part of the San Francisco International Film Festival, April 26 and 28. More at bampfa.berkeley.edu and fest11.sffs.org.
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March 29 2011
Afterimage: The Films of Patricio Guzman
Apr 2, 2011‘Salvador Allende,’ the first feature in the month-long series ‘Afterimage: The Films of Patricio Guzman,’ which showcases a variety of Guzman’s work, plays at Pacific Film Archive. More at bampfa.berkeley.edu.
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March 29 2011
Patricia Woodbridge on Art Direction
Mar 31, 2011Behind the Scenes: Art director Patricia Woodbridge introduces ‘I Am Legend’ at Pacific Film Archive with a formal discussion of her work on that film and others on March 31. SFFS hosts Woodbridge at Ninth Street Independent Film Center for a Master Class on April 2, and then she returns to PFA to informally present ‘Shutter Island,’ on April 3. More at bampfa.berkeley.edu and sffs.org.
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March 22, 2011
First Person Rural: The New Nonfiction
Mar 26, 2011Lisandro Alonso’s 2001 ‘La Libertad’ is the first film in Pacific Film Archive’s First Person Rural: The New Nonfiction series, which presents works that utilize documentary filmmaking techniques in fictional storytelling. More at bampfa.berkeley.edu.
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March 8, 2011
Film and Video Makers at Cal
Mar 10, 2011Pacific Film Archive hosts ‘Film and Video Makers at Cal,’ which offers an array of short narratives, documentaries and music videos by UC Berkeley student filmmakers. More at bampfa.berkeley.edu.
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March 8, 2011
Images of Nature, or The Nature of the Image: Canadian Artists at Work
Mar 9, 2011Pacific Film Archive offers the latest in their Alternative Visions series with Images of Nature, or The Nature of the Image: Canadian Artists at Work, which explores the techniques and strategies utilized by four decades of Canadian short films as they showcase images of nature and Canadian landscapes. More at bampfa.berkeley.edu.
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February 8, 2011
The Lunch Love Community Documentary Project
Feb 13, 2011Pacific Film Archive presents The Lunch Love Community Documentary Project, featuring in-person presentations and webisodes that examine the impact of nutritional habits on youth and the current Berkeley School Lunch Initiative. More at bampfa.berkeley.edu.
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February 10, 2011
Im Sang-soo Re-hires a Troubling 'Housemaid'
Adam Hartzell
Feb 8, 2011A South Korean classic is re-envisioned.
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Im Sang-soo Re-hires a Troubling 'Housemaid'
Adam Hartzell
Feb 8, 2011A South Korean classic is re-envisioned.
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Reviews
Im Sang-soo Re-hires a Troubling 'Housemaid'
Adam Hartzell
Feb 8, 2011A South Korean classic is re-envisioned.
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February 10, 2011
Im Sang-soo Re-hires a Troubling 'Housemaid'
Adam Hartzell
Feb 8, 2011A South Korean classic is re-envisioned.
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Im Sang-soo Re-hires a Troubling 'Housemaid'
Adam Hartzell
Feb 8, 2011A South Korean classic is re-envisioned.
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Reviews
Im Sang-soo Re-hires a Troubling 'Housemaid'
Adam Hartzell
Feb 8, 2011A South Korean classic is re-envisioned.
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February 1, 2011
Cruel Cinema: New Directions in Tamil Film
Feb 2, 20113rd i launches its ‘Cruel Cinema: New Directions in Tamil Film’ weekend series at the Pacific Film Archive Theater. Four current new wave films from Tamil play, beginning with India’s highly successful crime thriller ‘Pudhuppettai.’ More at bampfa.berkeley.edu.
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January 25, 2011
African Film Festival 2011
Jan 27, 2011Pacific Film Archive Theater hosts the African Film Festival 2011, presenting popular documentary and narrative films from eight African countries. The festival begins with Remi Vaughan-Richards’ 2010 ‘One Small Step.’
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January 18, 2011
'Beauty and the Beast' with Lecture
Jan 19, 2011Pacific Film Archive Theater and UC Berkeley’s Department of Film and Media present Jean Cocteau’s 1946 ‘Beauty and the Beast.’ A lecture by Professor Russell Merritt follows. More at bampfa.berkeley.edu.
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January 11, 2010
World Cinema Foundation: Safeguarding Cinematic Treasures Series
Jan 15, 2011Pacific Film Archive Theater offers the World Cinema Foundation: Safeguarding Cinematic Treasures series, highlighting WCF's preservation efforts. It opens with Edward Yang's 1991 ‘A Brighter Summer Day’. More at bampfa.berkeley.edu.
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Radical Light: 'A Haven for Radical Art and Experimental Film and Video'
Steve Anker
Nov 19, 2010Pacific Film Archive offers the second of three excerpts from its monumental work, 'Radical Light.'
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In Depth
Radical Light: 'A Haven for Radical Art and Experimental Film and Video'
Steve Anker
Nov 19, 2010Pacific Film Archive offers the second of three excerpts from its monumental work, 'Radical Light.'
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November 24, 2010
Radical Light: 'A Haven for Radical Art and Experimental Film and Video'
Steve Anker
Nov 19, 2010Pacific Film Archive offers the second of three excerpts from its monumental work, 'Radical Light.'
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November 16, 2010
Carl Theodor Dreyer Series Continues
Nov 16, 2010The Pacific Film Archive’s series on film giant Carl Theodor Dreyer continues well into the month December and showcases the Danish director’s greatest achievements. Dreyer’s influence on cinema is colossal and ageless as proven in Lars Von Trier’s ‘Medea,’ which he directed for television decades after Dreyer penned the original screenplay. Dreyer’s ‘Michael’ precedes ‘Medea.’ ‘The Master of the House,’ and ‘Leaves from Satan’s Book’ also screen this weekend. More at bampfa.berkeley.edu.
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November 10, 2010
Afterimage: Filmmakers and Critics in Conversation: Kelly Reichardt with B. Ruby Rich
Nov 11, 2010This event marks the debut of an exciting new filmmaker-in-person series presented by BAM/PFA. Regarded as one of the most significant voices in contemporary American indie cinema, director Kelly Reichardt presents and discusses her work with professor, author (and SF360.org contributor) B. Ruby Rich at the Pacific Film Archive. Feature films include ‘Ode,’ ‘Old Joy,’ ‘River of Grass’ and ‘Wendy and Lucy,’ as well as two shorts, ‘Then a Year,’ and ‘Travis.’ More at bampfa.berkeley.edu.
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October 26, 2010
'Left in the Dark' Photographer and Essayists in Person
Oct 30, 2010Celebrations of photographer R.A. McBride’s and Julie Lindow's elegiac ‘Left in the Dark: Portraits of San Francisco Movie Theatres,' which features photographs cinemas of the past and present matched with scholarly essays on local industry themes, continue. Pacific Film Archive hosts a slide show presentation by McBride and readings by writers including Lindow, Katherine Petrin, Melinda Stone. More at bampfa.berkeley.edu.
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'Left in the Dark' Savors the Bay Area's Cinema Past, Present
Susan Gerhard
Oct 4, 2010Photo/essay book 'Left in the Dark' offers a way in—and out of—San Francisco cinema's rich, gritty, glamorous past.
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October 7, 2010
'Left in the Dark' Savors the Bay Area's Cinema Past, Present
Susan Gerhard
Oct 4, 2010Photo/essay book 'Left in the Dark' offers a way in—and out of—San Francisco cinema's rich, gritty, glamorous past.
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Q & A
'Left in the Dark' Savors the Bay Area's Cinema Past, Present
Susan Gerhard
Oct 4, 2010Photo/essay book 'Left in the Dark' offers a way in—and out of—San Francisco cinema's rich, gritty, glamorous past.
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September 21, 2010
Elegant Perversions: The Cinema of João César Monteiro
Sep 22, 2010Pacific Film Archive celebrates the iconoclastic Portuguese filmmaker João César Monteiro with a curated collection of his films. This week's programs offers Monteiro's figurative and literal journey through Portugal with 'Trails' (September 24) and an exaltation of sensual pleasure, 'God's Comedy' (September 25).
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Radical Light: 'Image Dissectors'
Rebecca Solnit
Sep 17, 2010Pacific Film Archive offers the first of three excerpts from its monumental new book, 'Radical Light.'
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In Depth
Radical Light: 'Image Dissectors'
Rebecca Solnit
Sep 17, 2010Pacific Film Archive offers the first of three excerpts from its monumental new book, 'Radical Light.'
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September 23, 2010
Radical Light: 'Image Dissectors'
Rebecca Solnit
Sep 17, 2010Pacific Film Archive offers the first of three excerpts from its monumental new book, 'Radical Light.'
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Radical Light: 'Image Dissectors'
Rebecca Solnit
Sep 17, 2010Pacific Film Archive offers the first of three excerpts from its monumental new book, 'Radical Light.'
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In Depth
Radical Light: 'Image Dissectors'
Rebecca Solnit
Sep 17, 2010Pacific Film Archive offers the first of three excerpts from its monumental new book, 'Radical Light.'
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September 23, 2010
Radical Light: 'Image Dissectors'
Rebecca Solnit
Sep 17, 2010Pacific Film Archive offers the first of three excerpts from its monumental new book, 'Radical Light.'
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August 24, 2010
Inside the PFA Film Vault
Aug 27, 2010The Pacific Film Archive has dusted off a collection of rarely seen shorts from its new film vault; the kaleidoscopic collection full of "grain, color and noise" displays on a summer evening, outdoors, at a free screening on Friday, August 27.
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August 24, 2010
The Factory Year-End Screening
Aug 24, 2010Oakland's youth video-production collective The Factory showcases more than a dozen documentary, narrative, and experimental films made by students at the Pacific Film Archive on August 24. A panel discussion with student filmmakers follows.
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August 10 2010
Francesco Rosi: 'Chronicle of a Death Foretold'
Aug 12, 2010Chronicle of a Death Foretold screens at the Pacific Film Archive as part of the Modernist Masters series on August 12. Gabriel García Marquez' novella, which unfolds around uncertain crimes of passion, is faithfully adapted by Francesco Rosi, who focuses on his own recurring theme, motives behind violence.
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Crime on the Mind
Sura Wood
Jul 29, 2010The Pacific Film Archive's Criminal Minds series offers a liberating mix of asocial outlaws and sordid stories based on the ripped-from-the-headlines exploits of real-life gangsters and killers.
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Reviews
Crime on the Mind
Sura Wood
Jul 29, 2010The Pacific Film Archive's Criminal Minds series offers a liberating mix of asocial outlaws and sordid stories based on the ripped-from-the-headlines exploits of real-life gangsters and killers.
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Crime on the Mind
Sura Wood
Jul 29, 2010The Pacific Film Archive's Criminal Minds series offers a liberating mix of asocial outlaws and sordid stories based on the ripped-from-the-headlines exploits of real-life gangsters and killers.
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Reviews
Crime on the Mind
Sura Wood
Jul 29, 2010The Pacific Film Archive's Criminal Minds series offers a liberating mix of asocial outlaws and sordid stories based on the ripped-from-the-headlines exploits of real-life gangsters and killers.
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Reviews
Pacific Film Archive's Young Filmmakers on Big Screen
Jane Riccobono
Feb 3, 2010In the YouTube-Facebook-viral video era, it's hard to remember the time when youth-made media was rare.
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Reviews
Can't Stop the Musical: PFA's Classics
Dennis Harvey
Jan 27, 2010As soon as the silent era hit sound circa 1927, musicals became a leading genre worldwide. How could their appeal possibly die out?
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Reviews
Val Lewton's Brooding Mood, Chilling Themes
Dennis Harvey
Jan 21, 2010Horror movies were once dismissed by most grownups (and nearly all critics) as juvenile, silly, even offensive. Val Lewton seriously challenged that thinking,
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Q & A
Michael House's Translation of Tati at YBCA
Michael Guillen
Jan 17, 2010Riding the crest of the Tati tsunami hitting our shores is The Magnificent Tati by Michael House, who lived in S.F. for 12 years before moving to Paris.
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Reviews
It's 'Playtime' with Jacques Tati in New Series
Dennis Harvey
Jan 13, 2010You could make a case for Tati as the last great silent comedian even if he didn't begin making features until two decades into the sound era.
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Q & A
Pamela Jean Smith Brings Home Movies to Big Screen
Max Goldberg
Oct 12, 2009Though often made for private reasons, home movies are treasure troves of culture ephemera and social history.
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Q & A
Pamela Jean Smith Brings Home Movies to Big Screen
Max Goldberg
Oct 12, 2009Though often made for private reasons, home movies are treasure troves of culture ephemera and social history.
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Reviews
Tangerine Dreams: Cinematheque de Tanger's Morocco Showcase
Simona Schneider
Oct 1, 2009Tangier has created an identity as a great fount of stories and light, complete with an independent cinema that opened in 2007.
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Tangerine Dreams: Cinematheque de Tanger's Morocco Showcase
Simona Schneider
Oct 1, 2009Tangier has created an identity as a great fount of stories and light, complete with an independent cinema that opened in 2007.
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Reviews
William Klein's Restless Mind
Dennis Harvey
Sep 9, 2009The movies of William Klein are suffused with the same impudence, social commentary and aesthetic surprise found in his photos.
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Reviews
Kim Longinotto and Women Make Movies Film Festival
Adam Hartzell
Aug 27, 2009A mini-retrospective of the work of Kim Longinotto plays during the Women Make Movies Film Festival at the Roxie.
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Reviews
Josef von Sternberg Gem
Dennis Harvey
Aug 12, 2009Josef von Sternberg's The Salvation Hunters caused a small sensation within the industry when it appeared, and is visually assured time capsule of urban poverty.
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Reviews
'Desert of the Tartars' Saved from Obscurity
Dennis Harvey
Aug 2, 2009The Desert of the Tartars is a story in which the grim certainty that "Nothing will ever happen" is a slow poison that drives men to madness, suicide or other inglorious ends.
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Reviews
'Desert of the Tartars' Saved from Obscurity
Dennis Harvey
Aug 2, 2009The Desert of the Tartars is a story in which the grim certainty that "Nothing will ever happen" is a slow poison that drives men to madness, suicide or other inglorious ends.
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Q & A
Shelley Diekman Reflects on Well-Spent life
Hilary Hart
Jul 27, 2009Newly-retired Pacific Film Archive publicist Shelley Diekman discusses her cinephile tastes, her past and her future.
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Q & A
Shelley Diekman Reflects on Well-Spent life
Hilary Hart
Jul 27, 2009Newly-retired Pacific Film Archive publicist Shelley Diekman discusses her cinephile tastes, her past and her future.
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Q & A
Britta Sjogren and "Women's Film"
Max Goldberg
Jul 16, 2009Sjogren threads her vexations with feminist film theory into a study of sound and voice in "women's film" touchstones like Letter from an Unknown Woman.
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Reviews
Social Fury 'In the Realm of Oshima' at PFA
Matt Sussman
Jun 11, 2009Oshima's output grazed on familiar genres, such as the youth-gone-wild and domestic drama, while freely incorporating elements from avant-garde and documentary filmmaking.
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Reviews
Berkeley Hosts Karel Vachek Retrospective
Dennis Harvey
May 28, 2009Berkeley hosts Karel Vachek: Poet Provocateur, the first-ever full U.S. retrospective for this unclassifiable Czech filmmaker.
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Reviews
Berkeley Hosts Karel Vachek Retrospective
Dennis Harvey
May 28, 2009Berkeley hosts Karel Vachek: Poet Provocateur, the first-ever full U.S. retrospective for this unclassifiable Czech filmmaker.
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Reviews
Essay Films at the Pacific Film Archive
David Winks Gray
Jan 30, 2009The PFA's series of "essay films," a collection of diverse work, offers the viewer an opportunity to adapt to the peculiar tone of these films.
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Reviews
'Discovering Teuvo Tulio'
Dennis Harvey
Dec 4, 2008The Pacific Film Archive shows Discovering Teuvo Tulio, a four-film retrospective of works from Finland's master of over-the-top melodrama in the 1930s and '40s.
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Reviews
'Discovering Teuvo Tulio'
Dennis Harvey
Dec 4, 2008The Pacific Film Archive shows Discovering Teuvo Tulio, a four-film retrospective of works from Finland's master of over-the-top melodrama in the 1930s and '40s.
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Reviews
Something Wild: Martha Colburn's Collage Animations
Max Goldberg
Dec 1, 2008Martha Colburn's recent shorts plunge the interstices of Americana for a hidden history of fanaticism and double-faced hypocrisies.
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Q & A
Susan Oxtoby and the Pacific Film Archive
Michael Fox
Oct 24, 2008The PFA senior curator talks about her cinematic influences, curating in Canada and the U.S., and recent additions to the world of film.
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Q & A
Susan Oxtoby and the Pacific Film Archive
Michael Fox
Oct 24, 2008The PFA senior curator talks about her cinematic influences, curating in Canada and the U.S., and recent additions to the world of film.
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Reviews
Chris Marker Comes Home, At Last
Michael Fox
Sep 1, 2008I confess that for a long while I had the misperception, based on almost no exposure to his work, that French essayist Chris Marker made dense, dry films steeped in political theory and inaccessible to anyone but a narrow strata of irrelevant European intellectuals.
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Reviews
'The Dark Cinema of David Goodis' at the PFA
Dennis Harvey
Aug 7, 2008The Pacific Film Archive screens a survey of Goodis-related works from both the big and small screen, spanning nearly five decades.
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Festivals
SFIAAFF's winners
Susan Gerhard
Mar 21, 2008Two top winners at the SFIAAFF focused on breakadancing, an art form taken up with vengeance by Asians, with Koran teams a particularly dominant force.
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Reviews
Tomo Uchida at the PFA
Matt Sussman
Sep 19, 2007Does Tomo Uchida, whose retrospective is currently at the PFA, merit the same sort of reverent revival treatment that has been given many times over to other Japanese filmmakers of his generation?
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Tomo Uchida at the PFA
Matt Sussman
Sep 19, 2007Does Tomo Uchida, whose retrospective is currently at the PFA, merit the same sort of reverent revival treatment that has been given many times over to other Japanese filmmakers of his generation?
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Reviews
"From the Tsars to the Stars: A Journey Through Russian Fantastik Cinema"
Dennis Harvey
Aug 23, 2007The Pacific Film Archive offers a three-week sampling of Russian sci-fi films stretching from the silent era to the end of Communism.
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Reviews
Abbas Kiarostami: "Image Maker"
Robert Avila
Aug 2, 2007An impressive PFA series runs alongside an exhibition at the Berkeley Art Museum of Kiarostami's striking photographic work.
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Reviews
Saul Bass, "Phase IV"
Dennis Harvey
Jul 25, 2007Few people not employed as directors, producers, cinematographers, costume or production designers have had as much impact on the "look" of movies.
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Festivals
A Festival, a Half Century
B. Ruby Rich
Apr 24, 2007Is there anyone who doesn't know that the San Francisco International Film Festival is turning 50 this month?
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Q & A
Weerasethakul Talks Hospitals, Aerobics, and a Boy From Mars
Johnny Ray Huston
Apr 9, 2007One of Apichatpong Weerasethakul Ôs goals as a filmmaker is to simply show what he likes, and what he likes to see.
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Reviews
The Critics and Antonioni
Max Goldberg
Mar 29, 2007A look at critics' responses to Antonioni through the ages shows there is, and always was, plenty to say about his work.
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Reviews
"Alternative Visions" at the PFA
Johnny Ray Huston
Feb 15, 2007The Pacific Film Archive's standing as a cinema-centric educational institution brings the avant-garde into conversation with a broad program of film history.
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Reviews
"The Lubitsch Touch"
Dennis Harvey
Jan 18, 2007The Pacific Film Archive retrospective on Ernst Lubitsch encompasses 21 features, including many seldom-seen silent movies.
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Reviews
"Absolute Wilson"; "Army of Shadows"
Robert Avila
Jan 9, 2007A documentary provides an in-depth description of Robert Wilson's life and art. Melville's spy story on a Resistance cell in Nazi-occupied French challenges our idea of heroism.
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Reviews
"Radical Closure" at the PFA
Robert Avila
Dec 7, 2006This series of cinematic responses to war, curated by Lebanese video artist Akram Zaatari, opens up possibilities for re-imagining the dehumanized landscape of violence.
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Reviews
"Radical Closure" at the PFA
Robert Avila
Dec 7, 2006This series of cinematic responses to war, curated by Lebanese video artist Akram Zaatari, opens up possibilities for re-imagining the dehumanized landscape of violence.
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Reviews
50 Years of Janus Films
Max Goldberg
Nov 15, 2006It doesn't seem like a stretch to group Janus with those American institutions which have represented a vision of what art is and can be.
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Reviews
Pacific Film Archive's "A Theater Near You"
Max Goldberg
Aug 31, 2006This 2006 series of recent releases and restorations that played theaters for only a day or, at most, a week is exceptionally varied.
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Reviews
Pacific Film Archive's "A Theater Near You"
Max Goldberg
Aug 31, 2006This 2006 series of recent releases and restorations that played theaters for only a day or, at most, a week is exceptionally varied.
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Reviews
"Seventeen" Might be Greatest Movie Ever About Teenagers: 17 Reasons Why
Johnny Ray Huston
Aug 17, 2006Jeff Kreines and Joel DeMott's legendary and obscure 1982 documentary set in Muncie, Indiana, highlights the PFA series "Screenagers: Documents from the Teenage Years."
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"Seventeen" Might be Greatest Movie Ever About Teenagers: 17 Reasons Why
Johnny Ray Huston
Aug 17, 2006Jeff Kreines and Joel DeMott's legendary and obscure 1982 documentary set in Muncie, Indiana, highlights the PFA series "Screenagers: Documents from the Teenage Years."
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