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Film (25)

• Art:21: Stories: Kiki Smith

  Daily (except Wednesdays) November 19, 2005 - January 29, 2006
  11:00 a.m.
  

• Chuck Close: A Portrait in Progress

  Daily (except Wednesdays) November 19, 2005 - February 28, 2006
  11:00 a.m.
  

  Since 1969, when Close's first series of black-and-white portraits was exhibited, his paintings have fascinated the public. Working from Polaroid photographs, Close paints colossal…

• Free Tuesday Program

  Chuck Close: A Portrait in Progress

  Tuesday, January 03, 2006
  11:00 a.m. - noon
  

  By Marion Cajori, 1997, 57 min.

  Since 1969, when Close's first series of black-and-white portraits was exhibited, his paintings have fascinated the public. Working from Polaroid photographs, Close paints colossal…

• Stones & Flies: Richard Long in the Sahara

  Daily (except Wednesdays) January 30 - March 02, 2006
  11:00 a.m.
  

• American Masters: Alexander Calder

  Daily (except Wednesdays) March 03 - May 21, 2006
  11:00 a.m.
  

• Daily Video Screenings

  Early Films of San Francisco, Before and After the Great Earthquake and Fire, 1896-1915

  Daily (except Wednesdays) March 03 - May 30, 2006
  11:00 a.m.
  

• Special Film Screening

  Beyond Real: Surrealist Films

  Thursday, April 06, 2006
  6:30 p.m.
  

  This evening program features short surrealist films, including Un Chien Andalou (1929) by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí as well as films by Joseph Cornell, Maya Deren,…

• Frank Gehry: An Architecture of Joy

  Daily (except Wednesdays) May 22 - June 22, 2006
  noon
  

• Paul Klee

  Daily (except Wednesdays) May 29 - June 22, 2006
  noon
  

• Studio: Olafur Eliasson

  Daily (except Wednesdays) June 01 - June 22, 2006
  noon
  

• DRAWING RESTRAINT 9

  Daily (except Wednesdays) June 23 - September 17, 2006
  noon
  

  Set on a whaling ship in Nagasaki Bay, Japan, DRAWING RESTRAINT 9 follows the transformations of a couple brought on board and an enormous petroleum jelly sculpture created on the…

• Nagasaki from a 45 Degree Angle: The Photographer Shomei Tomatsu

  Daily (except Wednesdays) June 23 - August 13, 2006
  noon
  

• The Body as Matrix: Matthew Barney’s Cremaster Cycle

  Daily (except Wednesdays) June 23 - September 17, 2006
  noon
  

• Matisse Picasso

  Daily (except Wednesdays) July 01 - August 31, 2006
  noon
  

• Film Screening

  Matthew Barney: No Restraint

  Thursday, July 13, 2006
  6:30 p.m.
  

  By Alison Chernick, 2005, 72 min.

  Filmmaker Alison Chernick follows Matthew Barney to Japan to document the making of his latest film, DRAWING RESTRAINT 9. Known for ambitious and elaborate works of art, Barney…

• Robert Rauschenberg: Inventive Genius

  Daily (except Wednesdays) August 14 - August 31, 2006
  noon
  

• Tina in Mexico

  Daily (except Wednesdays) September 02, 2006 - January 02, 2007
  noon
  

• Free Tuesday Program

  Film Screening: Matthew Barney: No Restraint

  Tuesday, September 05, 2006
  noon
  

  Alison Chernick

  Chernick chronicles the action behind the scenes in Matthew Barney's film DRAWING RESTRAINT 9 as the artist navigates cultural divides and challenging logistics to realize his…

• Daily Video Screenings

  Documentaries on Frida Kahlo

  Daily (except Wednesdays) September 18 - October 20, 2006
  noon
  

• Expressionism

  Daily (except Wednesdays) October 21, 2006 - January 21, 2007
  noon
  

• Film Screening

  Is It Really So Strange?

  Thursday, October 26, 2006
  7:00 p.m.
  Saturday, October 28, 2006
  2:00 p.m.
  

  By William E. Jones, 2004, 80 min.

  Jones's insightful documentary examines the cult following of Stephen Morrissey - the former front man and singer/songwriter of British band The Smiths - that flourishes in the…

• Films by Charles and Ray Eames

  Daily (except Wednesdays) November 01 - December 31, 2006
  11:00 a.m.
  

• Werner Herzog Retrospective

  Werner Herzog Retrospective

  Thursday, November 09, 2006
  5:30 p.m.
  

  Aguirre, the Wrath of God
  By Werner Herzog, 1972, 93 min.

  An ill-fated 1560 expedition into the Peruvian jungle provides the narrative genesis for Herzog's groundbreaking Aguirre, which imagines a grueling trek along the Amazon River by…

• Werner Herzog Retrospective

  Werner Herzog Retrospective

  Saturday, November 11, 2006
  1:00 p.m.
  

  Signs of Life and Early Shorts by Werner Herzog
  Last Words, 1968, 13 min.
  Precautions Against Fanatics, 1969, 12 min.
  Signs of Life, 1968, 90 min.

  Two rarely seen early shorts provide the context for Herzog's acclaimed first major feature film, Signs of Life. Set during the Nazi occupation of Greece, Signs of Life is a strange…

• Werner Herzog Retrospective

  Werner Herzog Retrospective

  Saturday, November 18, 2006
  2:00 p.m.
  

  Stroszek
  By Werner Herzog, 1977, 107 min.

  In one of Herzog's most moving films, Bruno Stroszek is a remote and fragile street musician who flees ordinary persecution in Berlin for a new but unimproved life in the American…