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Film (106)

• Tina in Mexico

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

• Expressionism

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

• Free Tuesday Program: Lecture and Film Screening

  Robert Rauschenberg: Inventive Genius

  Tuesday, January 02, 2007
  11:00 a.m.
  

  Apsara DiQuinzio, curatorial associate, painting and sculpture, SFMOMA

  Rauschenberg invented the word combine to describe his work, which was neither painting nor sculpture exclusively. DiQuinzio discusses Rauschenberg's artistic innovations using a…

• Daily Video Screenings

  Philip Guston: A Life Lived

  Daily (except Wednesdays) January 04 - February 22, 2007
  11:00 a.m.
  

• Film Screening and Discussion

  Mike Kelley's Extracurricular Activities

  Thursday, January 11, 2007
  5:30 p.m.
  

  John C. Welchman, professor of art history, University of California, San Diego, and chair, Southern California Consortium of Art Schools

  The program begins with a screening of Kelley's short film Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction #2–32 (2004-5, 29 min.) and continues with clips from his epic Day Is…

• Werner Herzog Retrospective

  Werner Herzog Retrospective

  Thursday, January 18, 2007
  5:30 p.m.
  

  Little Dieter Needs to Fly
  By Werner Herzog, 1997, 80 min.

  The subject of this documentary is Dieter Dengler, a German American pilot for the U.S. Navy and Bay Area resident who dramatically escaped from imprisonment during the Vietnam…

• Werner Herzog Retrospective

  Werner Herzog Retrospective

  Saturday, January 20, 2007
  2:00 p.m.
  

  Grizzly Man
  By Werner Herzog, 2005, 100 min.

  Herzog's much-discussed recent feature tells the strange and disturbing story of Timothy Treadwell, an environmentalist who spent several summers in Alaska's Katmai National Park…

• Daily Video Screenings

  The New York School

  Daily (except Wednesdays) January 22 - February 17, 2007
  11:00 a.m.
  

• Werner Herzog Retrospective

  Werner Herzog Retrospective

  Thursday, January 25, 2007
  5:30 p.m.
  

  Nosferatu Double Feature

  Nosferatu, Werner Herzog, 1978, 103 min.
  6:30 p.m.
  Nosferatu, F. W. Murnau, 1922, 94 min.
  With live music by Tarentel
  9:00 p.m.

  This event is SOLD OUT. Limited rush seating will be…

• Werner Herzog Retrospective

  Werner Herzog Retrospective

  Saturday, January 27, 2007
  1:00 p.m.
  

  Three Documentaries by Werner Herzog
  The Great Ecstasy of the Woodcarver Steiner, 1974, 45 min.
  Lessons of Darkness, 1992, 55 min.
  Bells from the Deep, 1993, 60 min.

  These three films expand our ideas of what a documentary can be. The first is a profound and achingly beautiful account of world champion ski-jumper Walter Steiner's almost…

• Film Series

  Taking Sides

  Thursday, February 01, 2007
  7:30 p.m.
  

  Nine from Little Rock, Charles Guggenheim, 1964, 21 min.
  Harlan County, U.S.A., Barbara Kopple, 1976, 103 min.
  Barbara Kopple in attendance

  Go behind the scenes of two pivotal civil rights struggles in the American South. Guggenheim revisits the African American students at the center of the 1957 effort to integrate…

• Film Series

  Creative Visions

  Sunday, February 04, 2007
  1:30 p.m.
  

  Glas, Bert Haanstra, 1959, 11 min.
  My Architect, Nathaniel Kahn, 2003, 116 min.

  Explore the artistry of glassmaking and architecture through very personal lenses. Haanstra looks at mechanized and artisanal glass manufacturing processes in his native Holland,…

• Film Series

  Survival Instincts

  Thursday, February 08, 2007
  7:30 p.m.
  

  Breathing Lessons, Jessica Yu, 1996, 35 min.
  Marjoe, Howard Smith and Sarah Kernochan, 1972, 88 min.

  This program offers a riveting look at two compelling personalities: Berkeley-based poet and journalist Mark O'Brien, who is largely confined to an iron lung, and former traveling…

• Film Series

  The Lines of Battle

  Sunday, February 11, 2007
  1:30 p.m.
  

  The Battle of Midway, John Ford for the U.S. Navy, 1942, 18 min.
  The War Game, Peter Watkins, 1966, 48 min.
  The Weather Underground, Sam Green, 2002, 92 min.

  Ford melds documentary footage and polished narration for a groundbreaking depiction of World War II, the BBC-produced docudrama The War Game imagines the impact of a nuclear…

• Film Series

  San Francisco Stories

  Thursday, February 15, 2007
  7:30 p.m.
  

  Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter, Deborah Hoffmann, 1994, 44 min.
  The Times of Harvey Milk, Rob Epstein, produced by Richard Schmiechen, 1984, 87 min.
  Rob Epstein and Deborah Hoffmann in attendance

  Bay area filmmakers Hoffman and Epstein offer poignant portrayals of a mother's battle with Alzheimer's and a beloved gay politician's rise and assassination.

• Film Series

  Global Prophecy

  Sunday, February 18, 2007
  1:30 p.m.
  

  Sewing Woman, Arthur Dong, 1983, 14 min.
  Darwin's Nightmare, Hubert Sauper, 2005, 107 min.

  Dong traces his mother's arduous path from arranged marriage in China to 30 years as a garment worker in San Francisco's Chinatown, while Sauper looks at how capitalism is usurping…

• Film Series

  Bearing Witness

  Thursday, February 22, 2007
  7:30 p.m.
  

  Interviews with My Lai Veterans, Joseph Strick, 1970, 20 min.
  Hearts and Minds, Peter Davis, 1974, 112 min.

  Strick and Davis offer intimate perspectives on the Vietnam War by training their cameras on soldiers who participated in the My Lai massacre and a diverse selection of American…

• Daily Video Screenings

  Brice Marden: Four Decades

  Daily (except Wednesdays) February 23 - May 13, 2007
  11:00 a.m.
  

• Film Series

  That Was Then

  Sunday, February 25, 2007
  1:30 p.m.
  

  Woodstock, Michael Wadleigh, produced by Bob Maurice, 1970, 185 min.

  This film presents a comprehensive look inside the famous Woodstock Music and Art Festival in Bethel, New York, including logistical challenges, performance highlights, and the…

• Film Series

  Fidelity and Betrayal: Variations on the Remake

  Sunday, March 04, 2007
  12:30 p.m.
  

  Double Feature
  Irma Vep, Olivier Assayas, 1996, 97 min.
  Les Vampires (The Vampires), parts 1-3, Louis Feuillade, 1915, 120 min.

  Irma Vep, which stars Maggie Cheung playing herself playing a jewel thief in a rubber catsuit, is a witty, sexy, stylish film about film - and one of the cult movies of the 1990s.…

• Daily Video Screenings

  David Smith: American Sculptor, 1906-1965

  Daily (except Wednesdays) March 05 - March 18, 2007
  11:00 a.m.
  

• Free Tuesday Program

  Film Screening and Talk: Le Mystère Picasso by Henri-Georges Clouzot

  Tuesday, March 06, 2007
  11:00 a.m.
  

  Dominic Willsdon, Leanne and George Roberts Curator of Education and Public Programs, SFMOMA

  By 1955 Clouzot was established as the director of classic noirish thrillers such as Wages of Fear (1952) and Les Diaboliques (1954). That summer, however, he spent eight hours a day…

• Film Series

  Fidelity and Betrayal: Variations on the Remake

  Sunday, March 11, 2007
  1:30 p.m.
  

  Les Vampires (The Vampires), parts 4-7, Louis Feuillade, 1915, 172 min.

  Irma Vep, which stars Maggie Cheung playing herself playing a jewel thief in a rubber catsuit, is a witty, sexy, stylish film about film - and one of the cult movies of the 1990s.…

• Film Series

  Fidelity and Betrayal: Variations on the Remake

  Sunday, March 11, 2007
  1:30 p.m.
  

  Les Vampires (The Vampires), parts 4-7, Louis Feuillade, 1915, 172 min.

  Irma Vep, which stars Maggie Cheung playing herself playing a jewel thief in a rubber catsuit, is a witty, sexy, stylish film about film - and one of the cult movies of the 1990s.…

• Screening and Discussion

  Strange Culture

  Thursday, March 15, 2007
  8:30 p.m.
  

  Lynn Hershman Leeson, artist and filmmaker
  Steve Kurtz, artist

  In the wake of his wife's death in 2004, Steve Kurtz found himself embroiled in a major political and legal controversy. The discovery of bioscience paraphernalia in his home -…

• Film Series

  Fidelity and Betrayal: Variations on the Remake

  Sunday, March 18, 2007
  1:30 p.m.
  

  Double Feature
  Irma Vep, Olivier Assayas, 1996, 97 min.
  Les Vampires (The Vampires), parts 8-10, Louis Feuillade, 1915, 129 min.

  Irma Vep, which stars Maggie Cheung playing herself playing a jewel thief in a rubber catsuit, is a witty, sexy, stylish film about film - and one of the cult movies of the 1990s.…

• Daily Video Screenings

  Jackson Pollock: Portrait of an Artist

  Daily (except Wednesdays) March 19 - April 01, 2007
  noon
  

• Film Series

  Fidelity and Betrayal: Variations on the Remake

  Thursday, March 22, 2007
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Double Feature
  Valley Girl, Michele O'Marah, 2002, 113 min.
  Valley Girl, Martha Coolidge, 1983, 99 min.

  Video artist O'Marah pays tribute to the favorite film from her youth by re-creating Coolidge's Valley Girl with a cast of friends. Both films offer a modern-day fairy tale that…

• Film Series

  Fidelity and Betrayal: Variations on the Remake

  Sunday, March 25, 2007
  2:00 p.m.
  

  Double Feature
  Valley Girl, Michele O'Marah, 2002, 113 min.
  Valley Girl, Martha Coolidge, 1983, 99 min.

  Video artist O'Marah pays tribute to the favorite film from her youth by re-creating Coolidge's Valley Girl with a cast of friends. Both films offer a modern-day fairy tale that…

• Screening and Artist Talk

  Adventure Poseidon, The (The Unsinking of My Ship)

  Thursday, March 29, 2007
  6:30 p.m.
  

  By Anne McGuire, 2006, 117 min.
  Kota Ezawa, artist
  Anne McGuire, filmmaker

  Using Ronald Neame's The Poseidon Adventure as raw material, McGuire crafts a groundbreaking new film that commemorates the 20-year anniversary of her own ill-fated experience at…

• Film Series

  Fidelity and Betrayal: Variations on the Remake

  Sunday, April 01, 2007
  2:00 p.m.
  

  Outer Space, Peter Tscherkassky, 1999, 10 min.
  Dream Work, Peter Tscherkassky, 2001, 11 min.
  The Entity, Sidney J. Furie, 1981, 125 min.

  Tscherkassky appropriates and manipulates footage from Furie's psychological horror film The Entity to delve deeper into the experiences and psyche of Furie's protagonist (Barbara…

• Daily Video Screenings

  Roy Lichtenstein: Reflections

  Daily (except Wednesdays) April 02 - April 15, 2007
  noon
  

• Film Series

  Fidelity and Betrayal: Variations on the Remake

  Thursday, April 05, 2007
  8:30 p.m.
  

  Damned If You Don't, Su Friedrich, 1987, 42 min.
  Black Narcissus, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 1947, 100 min.

  Repression and eroticism mingle on-screen in this pair of films about nuns struggling against feelings of lust and uncertainty. Black Narcissus stands as a classic for its stunning…

• Film Series

  Fidelity and Betrayal: Variations on the Remake

  Sunday, April 08, 2007
  2:00 p.m.
  

  Damned If You Don't, Su Friedrich, 1987, 42 min.
  Black Narcissus, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 1947, 100 min.

  Repression and eroticism mingle on-screen in this pair of films about nuns struggling against feelings of lust and uncertainty. Black Narcissus stands as a classic for its stunning…

• Film Series

  Fidelity and Betrayal: Variations on the Remake

  Sunday, April 15, 2007
  2:00 p.m.
  

  Double Feature
  All That Heaven Allows, Douglas Sirk, 1955, 89 min.
  Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1974, 93 min.

  Sirk's tale of two lovers whose differences in age and social stature ignite the disapproval and derision of those around them provides genetic fodder for Fassbinder, but the films…

• Daily Video Screenings

  Jasper Johns: Ideas in Paint

  Daily (except Wednesdays) April 16 - April 30, 2007
  noon
  

• Film Series

  Fidelity and Betrayal: Variations on the Remake

  Thursday, April 19, 2007
  8:30 p.m.
  

  Invisible Adversaries, Valie Export, 1976, 112 min.

  Export explores themes of paranoia and isolation in a pair of allegorical films about the loss of identity. Export imbues her 1970s film with a feminist perspective and avant-garde…

• Film Series

  Fidelity and Betrayal: Variations on the Remake

  Sunday, April 22, 2007
  2:00 p.m.
  

  Double Feature
  Invisible Adversaries, Valie Export, 1976, 112 min.
  Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Don Siegel, 1956, 80 min.

  Siegel and Export explore themes of paranoia and isolation in a pair of allegorical films about the loss of identity. Siegel's original, based on Jack Finney's 1954 serial, is rife…

• Film Screening

  Guernica Films

  Thursday, April 26, 2007
  8:30 p.m.
  

  Marking the 70th anniversary of the bombing of Guernica, Spain, this program presents a selection of short films that explore the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, including Land…

• Film Festival

  50th San Francisco International Film Festival

  Friday, April 27, 2007
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Acclaimed for its excellence in world cinema, the San Francisco International Film Festival is the first such event in the Americas to reach the 50-year milestone. This year SFMOMA…

• Film Festival

  50th San Francisco International Film Festival

  Saturday, April 28, 2007
  1:00 p.m.
  

  Fabricating Tom Zé
  Décio Matos Jr., 2006, 90 min.
  1:00 p.m.
  One of Brazilian music's unsung pioneers gets heads bopping and hips swinging in this on-the-road documentary…

• Film Festival

  50th San Francisco International Film Festival

  Sunday, April 29, 2007
  2:45 p.m.
  

  Daratt
  Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, 2006, 93 min.
  2:45 p.m.
  In this fable-like gem from Chad, a young man seeks to avenge his father's murder in the aftermath of the country's civil war. He…

• Daily Video Screenings

  Picasso and His Time

  Daily (except Wednesdays) May 01 - May 28, 2007
  noon
  

• Film Festival

  50th San Francisco International Film Festival

  Friday, May 04, 2007
  noon
  

  When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
  Spike Lee, 2006, 255 min.
  Noon
  Lee's documentary on Hurricane Katrina is a powerful elegy for an American tragedy. In addition to this…

• Film Festival

  50th San Francisco International Film Festival

  Saturday, May 05, 2007
  12:30 p.m.
  

  How Is Your Fish Today?
  Xiaolu Guo, 2007, 83 min.
  12:30 p.m.
  Ruminating on urban isolationism in a rapidly expanding China, Guo's debut narrative feature follows a Beijing-based…

• Film Festival

  50th San Francisco International Film Festival

  Sunday, May 06, 2007
  12:30 p.m.
  

  Tierney Gearon: The Mother Project
  Jack Youngelson and Peter Sutherland, 2006, 70 min.
  12:30 p.m.
  This intimate documentary examines the life and work of American photographer Tierney…

• Film Screenings

  Part One: Festival of the People

  Thursday, May 10, 2007
  6:30 p.m.
  Sunday, May 20, 2007
  1:30 p.m.
  Thursday, May 24, 2007
  6:30 p.m.
  Sunday, May 27, 2007
  1:30 p.m.
  

  126 min.

  Riefenstahl's Olympia begins by evoking classical Greek ideals of physical beauty, embodied in statues of discus, shot-put, and javelin throwers that come alive and carry the…

• Film Series

  Double Feature

  Sunday, June 03, 2007
  2:00 p.m.
  

  Flying Down to Rio, Thornton Freeland, 1933, 89 min.
  The Gay Divorcee, Mark Sandrich, 1934, 107 min.

  Flying Down to Rio
  2:00 p.m.
  Remember the chorus girls dancing on the wings of the airplane? Just the second film for Astaire, this classic is a perfect example of the American…

• Film Series

  Double Feature

  Thursday, June 07, 2007
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Flying Down to Rio, Thornton Freeland, 1933, 89 min.
  The Gay Divorcee, Mark Sandrich, 1934, 107 min.

  Flying Down to Rio
  6:30 p.m.
  Remember the chorus girls dancing on the wings of the airplane? Just the second film for Astaire, this classic is a perfect example of the American…

• Daily Video Screenings

  Henri Matisse: Figure, Color, Space

  Daily (except Wednesdays) June 09 - September 16, 2007
  noon
  

• Film Series

  Double Feature

  Sunday, June 10, 2007
  2:00 p.m.
  

  Top Hat, Mark Sandrich, 1935, 101 min.
  Swing Time, George Stevens, 1936, 103 min.

  Top Hat
  2:00 p.m.
  This is quintessential Fred and Ginger - "He gave her style, and she gave him sex," Katharine Hepburn famously said - and it stands with Swing Time as their very…

• Film Series

  Double Feature

  Thursday, June 14, 2007
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Top Hat, Mark Sandrich, 1935, 101 min.
  Swing Time, George Stevens, 1936, 103 min.

  Top Hat
  6:30 p.m.
  This is quintessential Fred and Ginger - "He gave her style, and she gave him sex," Katharine Hepburn famously said - and it stands with Swing Time as their very…

• Film Series

  Double Feature

  Thursday, June 21, 2007
  6:30 p.m.
  

  You'll Never Get Rich, Sidney Lanfield, 1941, 88 min.
  The Sky's the Limit, Edward H. Griffith, 1943, 89 min.

  You'll Never Get Rich
  6:30 p.m.
  Featuring Rita Hayworth in her first major role, this film put her on the cover of Life magazine and made her the preeminent sex icon (and wartime…

• Film Series

  Double Feature

  Sunday, June 24, 2007
  2:00 p.m.
  

  You'll Never Get Rich, Sidney Lanfield, 1941, 88 min.
  The Sky's the Limit, Edward H. Griffith, 1943, 89 min.

  You'll Never Get Rich
  2:00 p.m.
  Featuring Rita Hayworth in her first major role, this film put her on the cover of Life magazine and made her the preeminent sex icon (and wartime…

• Film Series

  Double Feature

  Thursday, June 28, 2007
  6:30 p.m.
  

  The Band Wagon, Vincente Minnelli, 1953, 103 min.
  Funny Face, Stanley Donen, 1957, 103 min.

  The Band Wagon
  6:30 p.m.
  Astaire partners with Cyd Charisse in arguably the greatest of the MGM musicals of that era. He plays an aging singer and dancer trying to relaunch his…

• Film Series

  La Chienne (The Bitch)

  Sunday, July 01, 2007
  3:00 p.m.
  

  1931, 95 min.

  The great Michel Simon plays Maurice Legrand, an unhappily married, mild-mannered office worker and amateur painter who falls in love with the disreputable Lulu. Lulu and her…

• Film Series

  La Chienne (The Bitch)

  Thursday, July 05, 2007
  6:30 p.m.
  

  1931, 95 min.

  The great Michel Simon plays Maurice Legrand, an unhappily married, mild-mannered office worker and amateur painter who falls in love with the disreputable Lulu. Lulu and her…

• Film Series

  La Chienne (The Bitch)

  Sunday, July 08, 2007
  3:00 p.m.
  

  1931, 95 min.

  The great Michel Simon plays Maurice Legrand, an unhappily married, mild-mannered office worker and amateur painter who falls in love with the disreputable Lulu. Lulu and her…

• Film Series

  Jean Renoir in the Thirties

  Thursday, July 12, 2007
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Double Feature
  Une Partie de campagne (A Day in the Country), 1936, 40 min.
  Boudu sauvé des eaux (Boudu Saved from Drowning), 1932, 81 min.

  These are two of Renoir's most charming films. Both take place along the banks of the Seine - the landscape painted by Renoir's father - and serve as a kind of homage to the world…

• Film Series

  Jean Renoir in the Thirties

  Sunday, July 15, 2007
  3:00 p.m.
  

  Double Feature
  Une Partie de campagne (A Day in the Country), 1936, 40 min.
  Boudu sauvé des eaux (Boudu Saved from Drowning), 1932, 81 min.

  These are two of Renoir's most charming films. Both take place along the banks of the Seine - the landscape painted by Renoir's father - and serve as a kind of homage to the world…

• Film Series

  Jean Renoir in the Thirties

  Thursday, July 19, 2007
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Double Feature
  Une Partie de campagne (A Day in the Country), 1936, 40 min.
  Boudu sauvé des eaux (Boudu Saved from Drowning), 1932, 81 min.

  These are two of Renoir's most charming films. Both take place along the banks of the Seine - the landscape painted by Renoir's father - and serve as a kind of homage to the world…

• Film Series

  La Marseillaise

  Sunday, July 22, 2007
  3:00 p.m.
  

  1938, 130 min.

  Renoir explored political history partly as a way of commenting on the politics of his time - a technique most clearly illustrated in La Marseillaise. In 1938, France's political…

• Film Series

  La Marseillaise

  Thursday, July 26, 2007
  6:30 p.m.
  

  1938, 130 min.

  Renoir explored political history partly as a way of commenting on the politics of his time - a technique most clearly illustrated in La Marseillaise. In 1938, France's political…

• Film Series

  La Marseillaise

  Sunday, July 29, 2007
  3:00 p.m.
  

  1938, 130 min.

  Renoir explored political history partly as a way of commenting on the politics of his time - a technique most clearly illustrated in La Marseillaise. In 1938, France's political…

• Daily Video Screenings

  Richard Avedon: Darkness and Light

  Daily (except Wednesdays) August 01 - August 31, 2007
  noon
  

• Film Series

  Les Bas-fonds (Underground)

  Thursday, August 02, 2007
  6:30 p.m.
  

  1936, 95 min.

  Based on a play by Maxim Gorky, Underground (also known as The Lower Depths) anticipates the social realist cinema of the 1940s and 1950s and has affinities with the films of Marcel…

• Film Series

  Les Bas-fonds (Underground)

  Sunday, August 05, 2007
  3:00 p.m.
  

  1936, 95 min.

  Based on a play by Maxim Gorky, Underground (also known as The Lower Depths) anticipates the social realist cinema of the 1940s and 1950s and has affinities with the films of Marcel…

• Film Series

  Les Bas-fonds (Underground)

  Thursday, August 09, 2007
  6:30 p.m.
  

  1936, 95 min.

  Based on a play by Maxim Gorky, Underground (also known as The Lower Depths) anticipates the social realist cinema of the 1940s and 1950s and has affinities with the films of Marcel…

• Film Series

  La Grande Illusion (Grand Illusion)

  Sunday, August 12, 2007
  3:00 p.m.
  

  1937, 94 min.

  Along with Rules of the Game, Grand Illusion ranks high on the list of the greatest films of all time. It is also one of the most powerful antiwar films ever made. The film…

• Film Series

  La Grande Illusion (Grand Illusion)

  Thursday, August 16, 2007
  6:30 p.m.
  

  1937, 94 min.

  Along with Rules of the Game, Grand Illusion ranks high on the list of the greatest films of all time. It is also one of the most powerful antiwar films ever made. The film…

• Film Series

  La Grande Illusion (Grand Illusion)

  Sunday, August 19, 2007
  3:00 p.m.
  

  1937, 94 min.

  Along with Rules of the Game, Grand Illusion ranks high on the list of the greatest films of all time. It is also one of the most powerful antiwar films ever made. The film…

• Film Series

  La Règle du jeu (Rules of the Game)

  Thursday, August 23, 2007
  6:30 p.m.
  

  1939, 110 min.

  Rules of the Game explores romantic and class relationships, as well as social codes, during a hunting weekend at the country house of an upper-class family. The film premiered on…

• Film Series

  La Règle du jeu (Rules of the Game)

  Sunday, August 26, 2007
  3:00 p.m.
  

  1939, 110 min.

  Rules of the Game explores romantic and class relationships, as well as social codes, during a hunting weekend at the country house of an upper-class family. The film premiered on…

• Film Series

  La Règle du jeu (Rules of the Game)

  Thursday, August 30, 2007
  6:30 p.m.
  

  1939, 110 min.

  Rules of the Game explores romantic and class relationships, as well as social codes, during a hunting weekend at the country house of an upper-class family. The film premiered on…

• Daily Video Screenings

  Marcel Duchamp, Iconoclast

  Daily (except Wednesdays) September 01 - September 07, 2007
  noon
  

  Free with Museum admission.

• Film Series

  Rebels with a Cause: The Cinema of East Germany

  Saturday, September 01, 2007
  3:00 p.m.
  

  The Monument, Klaus Georgi and Lutz Stützner, 1990, 4 min.
  The Architects, Peter Kahane, 1990, 97 min.

  Rebels with a Cause is the only comprehensive retrospective of East German cinema ever screened in the United States. Between 1946 and 1992, the state-owned DEFA studios produced…

• Daily Video Screenings

  Seeing yourself seeing: Olafur Eliasson

  Daily (except Wednesdays) September 08, 2007 - February 24, 2008
  noon
  

• Film Series

  Rebels with a Cause: The Cinema of East Germany

  Saturday, September 08, 2007
  3:00 p.m.
  

  The Bicycle, Evelyn Schmidt, 1981, 89 min.
  Yell Once a Week, Günter Jordan, 1982/1989, 15 min.

  Schmidt showcases a rare feminist view of socialist Germany in The Bicycle, while Yell Once a Week, which was banned before is debut, documents the teenage perspective.

• Film Series

  Rebels with a Cause: The Cinema of East Germany

  Saturday, September 15, 2007
  3:00 p.m.
  

  A Love Story, Richard Groschopp, 1953, 7 min.
  The Legend of Paul and Paula, Heiner Carow, 1972, 106 min.

  An immensely popular cult film, The Legend of Paul and Paula tells the story of a passionate, undeniable love between a single mother and a married bureaucrat in East Berlin. A Love…

• Daily Video Screenings

  Art:21: Season One, Program Two: Spirituality

  Daily (except Wednesdays) September 17 - October 05, 2007
  noon
  

• Film Screenings and Discussion

  40yearsvideoart.de: Video Art in Germany since the Sixties

  Thursday, September 20, 2007
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Rudolf Frieling, curator of media arts, SFMOMA
  Christian Jankowski, artist
  Wolfang Müller, artist

  Recognizing Germany's vast contributions to one of today's most exciting artistic media, SFMOMA presents a three-part series highlighting German video works. This first installment…

• Film Screenings and Discussion

  40yearsvideoart.de: Video Art in Germany since the Sixties

  Saturday, September 22, 2007
  2:30 p.m.
  

  Recognizing Germany's vast contributions to one of today's most exciting artistic media, SFMOMA presents a three-part series highlighting German video works. This second program in…

• Film Screenings and Discussion

  40yearsvideoart.de: Video Art in Germany since the Sixties

  Sunday, September 23, 2007
  2:30 p.m.
  

  Recognizing Germany's vast contributions to one of today's most exciting artistic media, SFMOMA presents a three-part series highlighting German video works. This final program in…

• Film Series

  The Second Track

  Saturday, September 29, 2007
  3:00 p.m.
  

  Joachim Kunert, 1962, 80 min.

  The only East German film to depict former Nazis adjusting to life in the German Democratic Republic, The Second Track follows the story of Station Inspector Brock, who is forced to…

• Preview Screening

  Art:21: Art in the 21st Century: Protest

  Saturday, October 06, 2007
  noon
  

  PBS, 2007, 55 min.

  SFMOMA offers viewers a chance to preview an episode from season four of PBS's acclaimed Art:21 series. "Protest" looks at the ways artists address war, outrage, and human suffering…

• Daily Video Screenings

  The Films of Joseph Cornell

  Daily (except Wednesdays) October 06, 2007 - January 06, 2008
  noon
  

• Film Series

  Rebels with a Cause: The Cinema of East Germany

  Saturday, October 06, 2007
  3:00 p.m.
  

  News from the West. Harald Röbbeling, 1955, 8 min.
  Carbide and Sorrel, Frank Beyer, 1963, 80 min.

  An usually comic film set at the end of World War II, News from the West is the lighthearted story of Kalle in his travels north from Dresden. It screens with Carbide and Sorrel for…

• Film Series

  The Gleiwitz Case

  Thursday, October 11, 2007
  7:00 p.m.
  

  Gerhard Klein, 1961, 69 min.

  The Gleiwitz Case recreates the true story of Nazis disguised as Poles who attack a radio station in Gleiwitz. This staged incident served as Hitler's justification for invading…

• Film Series

  Joseph Cornell: Films

  Friday, October 12, 2007
  3:00 p.m.
  

  Program One
  Total running time: 80 min.

  In conjunction with the exhibition Joseph Cornell: Navigating the Imagination, SFMOMA and San Francisco Cinematheque copresent three programs of Cornell's experimental films and…

• Film Series

  The Rabbit Is Me

  Saturday, October 13, 2007
  3:00 p.m.
  

  Kurt Maetzig, 1965/1990, 109 min.

  Once banned as an antisocialist attack on the state, The Rabbit Is Me deals with a young student who has a love affair with a judge - the same judge who sentenced her brother for…

• Film Series

  Berlin Schönhauser Corner

  Thursday, October 18, 2007
  7:00 p.m.
  

  Gerhard Klein, 1957, 82 min.

  The classic teen cult film of its era, Berlin Schönhauser Corner exemplifies the effect political and economic divisions have on the entire German population. The program…

• Film Series

  Joseph Cornell: Films

  Friday, October 19, 2007
  3:00 p.m.
  

  Program Two
  Total running time: 74 min.

  This program includes:
  Mulberry Street, 1957/1965, 9 min.
  Untitled (Bookstalls), ca. 1930s, 11 min.
  Vaudeville De-Luxe, ca. 1940s, 12 min.
  By Night with Torch and Spear, ca. 1940s, 8…

• Film Series

  Your Unknown Brother

  Saturday, October 20, 2007
  3:00 p.m.
  

  Ulrich Weiss, 1981, 108 min.

  Your Unknown Brother is the story of a former communist political prisoner released into unfamiliar Nazi Germany on the brink of World War II.

• Film Series

  Joseph Cornell: Films

  Friday, October 26, 2007
  3:00 p.m.
  

  Program Three
  Total running time: 104 min.

  This program includes:
  Cornell, 1965, Larry Jordan, 1978, 9 min.
  The Wonder Ring, Stan Brakhage, 1955, 6 min.
  Rose Hobart, Joseph Cornell, 1936, 19 min.
  The Secret Story, Janie Geiser,…

• Film Series

  Born in '45

  Saturday, October 27, 2007
  3:00 p.m.
  

  Jürgen Böttcher, 1966/1990, 94 min.

  Once banned for being "indifferent and insignificant," Born in '45 tells the story of newlyweds Alfred and Lisa, who decide to separate, only to be reunited after fruitless…

• Film Series

  Born in '45

  Saturday, October 27, 2007
  3:00 p.m.
  

  Jürgen Böttcher, 1966/1990, 94 min.

  Once banned for being "indifferent and insignificant," Born in '45 tells the story of newlyweds Alfred and Lisa, who decide to separate, only to be reunited after fruitless…

• Daily Video Screenings

  Jeff Wall: Retrospective

  Daily (except Wednesdays) November 01, 2007 - January 27, 2008
  noon
  

• Video Screenings

  Dark Mirror: Artist Videos

  Thursday, November 01, 2007
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Tanya Zimbardo, assistant curator, media arts, SFMOMA

  Organized by Zimbardo in conjunction with Douglas Gordon: Pretty Much Every Film and Video Work from about 1992 until Now, this program presents contemporary video shorts that…

• Film Series

  Late Spring

  Saturday, November 03, 2007
  3:00 p.m.
  

  1949, 108 min.
  Direction: Yasujiro Ozu
  Cinematography: Yuharu Atsuta

  Starring Setsuko Hara and Chishu Ryu - Ozu's favorite actors - Late Spring tells the story of the relationship between a widowed father and his grown-up daughter as she prepares for…

• Film Series

  Late Spring

  Saturday, November 10, 2007
  2:00 p.m.
  

  1949, 108 min.
  Direction: Yasujiro Ozu
  Cinematography: Yuharu Atsuta

  Starring Setsuko Hara and Chishu Ryu - Ozu's favorite actors - Late Spring tells the story of the relationship between a widowed father and his grown-up daughter as she prepares for…

• Film Series

  Marnie

  Saturday, November 17, 2007
  2:00 p.m.
  

  1964, 130 min.
  Direction: Alfred Hitchcock
  Cinematography: Robert Burks

  Marnie stars Tippi Hedren as a disturbed kleptomaniac terrified of the color red and Sean Connery as the businessman who becomes obsessed with her. It has a psycho-sexual intensity…

• Film Series

  Mouchette

  Saturday, November 24, 2007
  2:00 p.m.
  

  1967, 78 min.
  Direction: Robert Bresson
  Cinematography: Ghislaine Cloquet

  Ingmar Bergman said of this film, "Mouchette, I loved it! Mouchette is a saint, and she takes everything upon herself, inside her, everything that happens. It makes such an…

• Film Series

  Mouchette

  Thursday, November 29, 2007
  5:30 p.m.
  

  1967, 78 min.
  Direction: Robert Bresson
  Cinematography: Ghislaine Cloquet

  Ingmar Bergman said of this film, "Mouchette, I loved it! Mouchette is a saint, and she takes everything upon herself, inside her, everything that happens. It makes such an…

• Film Series

  Joseph Cornell: Films

  Friday, November 30, 2007
  2:00 p.m.
  

  Program One
  Total running time: 80 min.

  This program includes:
  Rose Hobart, 1936, 19 min.
  Cotillion, 1940, 8 min.
  The Midnight Party, 1940, 3 min.
  The Children's Party, 1940, 8 min.
  The Aviary, 1954, 11 min.
  Nymphlight, 1957,…

• Film Series

  Fat City

  Saturday, December 01, 2007
  2:00 p.m.
  

  1972, 110 min.
  Direction: John Huston
  Cinematography: Conrad L. Hall

  Huston's Fat City is a compelling portrayal of working-class life and of those who lose out in the pursuit of the American Dream. It is the story of two boxers: Jeff Bridges, who is…

• Film Series

  Fat City

  Saturday, December 01, 2007
  2:00 p.m.
  

  1972, 110 min.
  Direction: John Huston
  Cinematography: Conrad L. Hall

  Huston's Fat City is a compelling portrayal of working-class life and of those who lose out in the pursuit of the American Dream. It is the story of two boxers: Jeff Bridges, who is…