- December 20 - December 27, 2008
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Vegas Highs, Vegas Lows
Phyllis Wattis Theater
Las Vegas is a topsy-turvy world that seems to defy taste, a world where what's bad is good, and what's good is bad. The same goes for more than a few films about Vegas. In this series, what would normally be taken as a vacant spectacle suffering from an existential crisis reveals itself to be a unique cinematic gem that epitomizes the peculiar character of the place itself. In conjunction with Double Down, SFMOMA presents some of the high points of Las Vegas film — and some low points that became high points, given time.
$5 general; free for SFMOMA members or with museum admission (requires a free ticket, which can be picked up in the Haas Atrium). Double features: films offered on the same date are included in one ticket. Tickets are available at the museum (with no surcharge) or online.
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Viva Las Vegas
George Sidney, 1964, 85 min.
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"About as pleasant and unimportant as a banana split," said the New York Times of Viva Las Vegas. Sure it's light and formulaic, but Viva Las Vegas is also smooth,…
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1:00 p.m.
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Showgirls
Paul Verhoeven, 1995, 131 min.
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"Before I get into all the sex stuff, I should tell you right off the bat: This is a really bad movie. No, I mean really bad." (The Spectator)
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Back in 1995, lots of…Saturday, December 20, 2008
3:00 p.m.
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I Don’t Hate Las Vegas Anymore
Caveh Zahedi, 1994, 70 min.
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I Don't Hate Las Vegas Anymore is a real-life documentary comedy about a filmmaker, Zahedi, who takes a road trip to Las Vegas with his father and half-brother in an attempt to…
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1:00 p.m.
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Experimental Shorts
Curated by Steve Anker, dean, School of Film/Video, California Institute of the Arts
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Las Vegas, a quintessential modern American city, is revealed as a mystifying landscape of elusive, shifting surfaces and distant encounters in this program of short films and…
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3:00 p.m.
Film at SFMOMA is generously supported by the Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation.
Thursday Nights at SFMOMA are sponsored by Banana Republic. Virgin America is the official airline of Thursday Nights at SFMOMA.
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