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Film (91)

• Daily Video Screenings

  Seeing yourself seeing: Olafur Eliasson

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

• Daily Video Screenings

  The Films of Joseph Cornell

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

• Daily Video Screenings

  Jeff Wall: Retrospective

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

• Film Series

  The Films of Emile de Antonio

  Saturday, January 05, 2008
  noon
  

  Double feature
  Point of Order, 1963, 97 min.
  Charge and Countercharge, 1968, 43 min.

  For his debut film, Point of Order, de Antonio pulled material from 188 hours of kinescopes of the 1954 Army-McCarthy Senate hearings. This collage of television footage was one of…

• Daily Video Screenings

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

  Daily (except Wednesdays) January 07 - May 04, 2008
  11:00 a.m.
  

• Film Series

  The Films of Emile de Antonio

  Saturday, January 12, 2008
  noon
  

  Double feature
  Point of Order, 1963, 97 min.
  Charge and Countercharge, 1968, 43 min.

  For his debut film, Point of Order, de Antonio pulled material from 188 hours of kinescopes of the 1954 Army-McCarthy Senate hearings. This collage of television footage was one of…

• Film Series

  The Films of Emile de Antonio

  Saturday, January 19, 2008
  noon
  

  Double feature
  Rush to Judgment, 1966, 98 min.
  In the Year of the Pig, 1968, 103 min.

  A seminal refutation of the Warren Commission Report on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Rush to Judgment offers no definitive conclusions, but it simply and…

• Film Series

  The Films of Emile de Antonio

  Thursday, January 24, 2008
  5:30 p.m.
  

  In the Year of the Pig, 1968, 103 min.

  Perhaps the most radical film ever nominated for an Academy Award, In the Year of the Pig examines the historical roots of the Vietnam War and argues polemically for its end. The…

• Daily Video Screenings

  Paul Klee

  Daily (except Wednesdays) January 28 - February 29, 2008
  11:00 a.m.
  

• Film Series

  The Films of Emile de Antonio

  Thursday, January 31, 2008
  5:30 p.m.
  

  Double feature
  America Is Hard to See, 1970, 90 min.
  Millhouse: A White Comedy, 1971, 92 min.

  America Is Hard to See offers de Antonio's take on the 1968 Democratic primaries, "seen from the POV of liberals and Eugene McCarthy." The film addresses the assassinations of…

• Film Series

  The Films of Emile de Antonio

  Saturday, February 02, 2008
  noon
  

  Double feature
  America Is Hard to See, 1970, 90 min.
  Millhouse: A White Comedy, 1971, 92 min.

  America Is Hard to See offers de Antonio's take on the 1968 Democratic primaries, "seen from the POV of liberals and Eugene McCarthy." The film addresses the assassinations of…

• Film Series

  The Films of Emile de Antonio

  Saturday, February 09, 2008
  noon
  

  Double feature
  Underground, 1976, 87 min.
  In the King of Prussia, 1982, 92 min.

  Sam Green introduced a new generation to the radical 1960s group the Weathermen with his 2002 film The Weather Underground, but de Antonio first highlighted the group in 1976's …

• Film Series

  The Films of Emile de Antonio

  Saturday, February 16, 2008
  noon
  

  Double feature
  Underground, 1976, 87 min.
  In the King of Prussia, 1982, 92 min.

  Sam Green introduced a new generation to the radical 1960s group the Weathermen with his 2002 film The Weather Underground, but de Antonio first highlighted the group in 1976's …

• Film Series

  The Films of Emile de Antonio

  Thursday, February 21, 2008
  5:30 p.m.
  

  Painters Painting, 1972, 116 min.

  In Painters Painting, de Antonio and cinematographer Ed Emshwiller chronicle the work of 13 painters in New York through interviews and substantial studio observation. As one…

• Film Series

  The Films of Emile de Antonio

  Saturday, February 23, 2008
  noon
  

  Double feature
  Painters Painting, 1972, 116 min.
  Mr. Hoover and I, 1989, 90 min.

  In Painters Painting, de Antonio and cinematographer Ed Emshwiller chronicle the work of 13 painters in New York through interviews and substantial studio observation. De Antonio's…

• Film Series

  The Films of Emile de Antonio

  Thursday, February 28, 2008
  5:30 p.m.
  

  Mr. Hoover and I, 1989, 90 min.

  De Antonio's final film, Mr. Hoover and I, is a combination personal essay and documentary exposé of J. Edgar Hoover. Without collage or biting juxtaposition, the filmmaker…

• Daily Video Screenings

  Bernd and Hilla Becher: Four Decades

  Daily (except Wednesdays) March 01 - April 30, 2008
  11:00 a.m.
  

• Film Series

  Double Feature

  Saturday, March 01, 2008
  noon
  

  For a Few Dollars More, Sergio Leone, 1965, 132 min.
  Il Mercenario (A Professional Gun), Sergio Corbucci, 1968, 110 min.

   

  Perhaps no other artistic genre is as rich in American mythologies as the Western. It contains the spirit of the pioneer, the confrontation with nature, individualism, family…

• Film Series

  Non-Western Westerns

  Thursday, March 06, 2008
  5:30 p.m.
  

  El Topo, Alejandro Jodorowsky, 1971, 125 min.

  Gunfighter el Topo (the Mole), played by Chilean director Jodorowsky, sets out with his son (played by his actual son, Brontis Jodorowsky) to avenge his dead wife in this Mexican…

• Film Series

  Non-Western Westerns

  Saturday, March 08, 2008
  2:00 p.m.
  

  El Topo, Alejandro Jodorowsky, 1971, 125 min.

  Gunfighter el Topo (the Mole), played by Chilean director Jodorowsky, sets out with his son (played by his actual son, Brontis Jodorowsky) to avenge his dead wife in this Mexican…

• Film Series

  Non-Western Westerns

  Saturday, March 15, 2008
  3:00 p.m.
  

  A Girl Is a Gun (Une Aventure de Billy le Kid), Luc Moullet, 1971, 100 min.

  Sometimes described as an "acid Western," A Girl Is a Gun is certainly a weird trip. French New Wave icon Jean-Pierre Léaud stars as Billy the Kid, attempting to escape capture…

• Film Series

  Non-Western Westerns

  Thursday, March 20, 2008
  6:30 p.m.
  

  A Girl Is a Gun (Une Aventure de Billy le Kid), Luc Moullet, 1971, 100 min.

  Sometimes described as an "acid Western," A Girl Is a Gun is certainly a weird trip. French New Wave icon Jean-Pierre Léaud stars as Billy the Kid, attempting to escape capture…

• Film Series

  Non-Western Westerns

  Saturday, March 22, 2008
  3:00 p.m.
  

  Sholay, Ramesh Sippy, 1975, 162 min.

  Sholay is Bollywood's landmark contribution to the Western genre. It remains the highest-grossing film in the history of Hindi cinema and was declared "film of the millennium" by…

• Film Series

  Non-Western Westerns

  Thursday, March 27, 2008
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Summer Love, Piotr Uklanski, 2006, 93 min.

  The conceptual Polish artist Uklanski describes Summer Love, his debut film, as "the first Polish Western." Shot in southern Poland with a Polish cast, the film explores the Western…

• Film Series

  Non-Western Westerns

  Friday, March 28, 2008
  3:00 p.m.
  

  Summer Love, Piotr Uklanski, 2006, 93 min.

  The conceptual Polish artist Uklanski describes Summer Love, his debut film, as "the first Polish Western." Shot in southern Poland with a Polish cast, the film explores the Western…

• Film Series

  Non-Western Westerns

  Saturday, March 29, 2008
  3:00 p.m.
  

  Exiled, Johnnie To, 2006, 110 min.

  In Exiled, four hit men - childhood friends - find themselves reunited and struggling to survive a gangland turned against them. Set in Macau circa 1998, on the eve of the…

• Film Series

  Non-Western Westerns

  Thursday, April 03, 2008
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Sholay, Ramesh Sippy, 1975, 162 min.

  Sholay is Bollywood's landmark contribution to the Western genre. It remains the highest-grossing film in the history of Hindi cinema and was declared "film of the millennium" by…

• Film Series

  Non-Western Westerns

  Friday, April 04, 2008
  3:00 p.m.
  

  Summer Love, Piotr Uklanski, 2006, 93 min.

  The conceptual Polish artist Uklanski describes Summer Love, his debut film, as "the first Polish Western." Shot in southern Poland with a Polish cast, the film explores the Western…

• Film Series

  Non-Western Westerns

  Saturday, April 05, 2008
  3:00 p.m.
  

  Lemonade Joe, Oldrich Lipsky, 1964, 99 min.

  Made in Czechoslovakia, Lemonade Joe is arguably the sharpest and funniest satire of the Western to have come out of the Eastern bloc during the Cold War. From East Germany to…

• Film Series

  Non-Western Westerns

  Friday, April 11, 2008
  3:00 p.m.
  

  Summer Love, Piotr Uklanski, 2006, 93 min.

  The conceptual Polish artist Uklanski describes Summer Love, his debut film, as "the first Polish Western." Shot in southern Poland with a Polish cast, the film explores the Western…

• Film Series

  Non-Western Westerns

  Thursday, April 17, 2008
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Lemonade Joe, Oldrich Lipsky, 1964, 99 min.

  Made in Czechoslovakia, Lemonade Joe is arguably the sharpest and funniest satire of the Western to have come out of the Eastern bloc during the Cold War. From East Germany to…

• Film Series

  Non-Western Westerns

  Friday, April 18, 2008
  3:00 p.m.
  

  Summer Love, Piotr Uklanski, 2006, 93 min.

  The conceptual Polish artist Uklanski describes Summer Love, his debut film, as "the first Polish Western." Shot in southern Poland with a Polish cast, the film explores the Western…

• Film Series

  Non-Western Westerns

  Saturday, April 19, 2008
  3:00 p.m.
  

  Lemonade Joe, Oldrich Lipsky, 1964, 99 min.

  Made in Czechoslovakia, Lemonade Joe is arguably the sharpest and funniest satire of the Western to have come out of the Eastern bloc during the Cold War. From East Germany to…

• Film Series

  Non-Western Westerns

  Saturday, April 26, 2008
  3:00 p.m.
  

  Yojimbo, Akira Kurosawa, 1961, 110 min.

  In his wildly popular and influential Yojimbo, Kurosawa reimagined the period samurai film as a darkly comic if existential tale. Toshiro Mifune's drifter, Sanjuro, is a masterless…

• Daily Video Screenings

  The Medium and the Body: Chris Burden, Peter Campus, Joan Jonas, and Steina Vasulka

  Daily (except Wednesdays) May 01 - June 13, 2008
  noon
  

  Program includes Documentation of Selected Works 1971-74 (Chris Burden, 1971-75, 35 min.), Left Side Right Side (Joan Jonas, 1972, 9 min.), Three Transitions (Peter Campus, 1973, 5…

• Live Art

  The Rape of the Sabine Women

  Thursday, May 01, 2008
  8:00 p.m.
  

  Program 1: Opening Screening and Post-screening Performance
  Eve Sussman and the Rufus Corporation, 2006, 82 min.
  Geoff Gersh, Eric Hubel, Algis Antanas Kizys, Scott Moore, Katerina…

• Live Art

  The Rape of the Sabine Women

  Friday, May 02, 2008
  8:00 p.m.
  

  Program 1: Opening Screening and Post-screening Performance
  Eve Sussman and the Rufus Corporation, 2006, 82 min.
  Geoff Gersh, Eric Hubel, Algis Antanas Kizys, Scott Moore, Katerina…

• Live Art

  The Rape of the Sabine Women

  Saturday, May 03, 2008
  3:00 p.m.
  

  Program 2: Screening and Panel Discussion
  Eve Sussman and the Rufus Corporation, 2006, 82 min.

  Program 3: Screenings
  Eve Sussman and the Rufus Corporation, 2006, 82 min.
  Fridays,…

• Daily Video Screenings

  Home Movies: Vito Acconci, William Wegman, and Lawrence Weiner

  Daily (except Wednesdays) May 05 - June 13, 2008
  noon
  

  Program includes Home Movies (Vito Acconci, 1973, 33 min.), Green as Well as Blue as Well as Red (Lawrence Weiner, 1976, 18 min.), and Selected Works 1970-78 (William Wegman, 1981, 19…

• Film Series

  One P.M.

  Thursday, May 08, 2008
  6:30 p.m.
  

  D. A. Pennebaker with Jean Luc Godard and Richard Leacock, 1971, 95 min., Beta SP

  It has been 40 years since May 1968. In political history and popular memory, that month has come to stand for a whole era of political protest. It was the month of les…

• Live Art

  The Rape of the Sabine Women

  Every Wednesday May 09 - June 27, 2008
  noon
  

  SFMOMA is pleased to host the West Coast premiere of the acclaimed video musical The Rape of the Sabine Women. The work recasts Rome's founding myth of abduction and peaceful…

• Film Series

  Around '68

  Saturday, May 10, 2008
  1:00 p.m.
  

  Double Feature
  One P.M.
  D. A. Pennebaker with Jean Luc Godard and Richard Leacock, 1971, 95 min., Beta SP

  Originally titled One A.M. (One American Movie), this collaboration among Pennebaker, Leacock, and Godard hoped to capture Vietnam War protests and what Godard believed to be…

• Film Series

  Rojo amanecer (Red dawn)

  Thursday, May 15, 2008
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Jorge Fons, 1989, 96 min., DVD

  Set during the October 1968 Tlatelolco Massacre, just weeks before Mexico City was to host the Olympic Games, Rojo amanecer follows the lives of a middle-class Mexican family living…

• Film Series

  Around '68

  Saturday, May 17, 2008
  1:00 p.m.
  

  Double Feature
  Rojo amanecer (Red dawn)
  Jorge Fons, 1989, 96 min., DVD

  Set during the October 1968 Tlatelolco Massacre, just weeks before Mexico City was to host the Olympic Games, Rojo amanecer follows the lives of a middle-class Mexican family living…

• Film Series

  If . . .

  Thursday, May 22, 2008
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Lindsay Anderson, 1968, 111 min., 35mm

  The cult classic that launched the career of Malcolm McDowell (A Clockwork Orange), If... tells the tale of an armed rebellion at a traditional British school. Echoing the May 1968…

• Film Series

  Around '68

  Saturday, May 24, 2008
  1:00 p.m.
  

  Double Feature
  If . . .
  Lindsay Anderson, 1968, 111 min., 35mm

  The cult classic that launched the career of Malcolm McDowell (A Clockwork Orange), If... tells the tale of an armed rebellion at a traditional British school. Echoing the May 1968…

• Film Series

  Les Amants Réguliers (Regular Lovers)

  Thursday, May 29, 2008
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Philippe Garrel, 2005, 178 min., 35mm

  A love letter both to French New Wave cinema and to late 1960s French youth culture, Philippe Garrel's Regular Lovers stars the director's son (Louis Garrel, of Bertold Bertolucci's …

• Film Series

  Les Amants Réguliers (Regular Lovers)

  Saturday, May 31, 2008
  1:00 p.m.
  

  Philippe Garrel, 2005, 178 min., 35mm

  A love letter both to French New Wave cinema and to late 1960s French youth culture, Philippe Garrel's Regular Lovers stars the director's son (Louis Garrel, of Bertold Bertolucci's …

• Film Series

  Program 1

  Thursday, June 05, 2008
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1980
  Parts 1-3, 199 min.

  Part 1: The Punishment Begins
  Part 2: How Is One to Live If One Doesn't Want to Die
  Part 3: A Hammer Blow on the Head Can Injure the Soul

  Personal anguish finds rich expression in…

• Film Series

  Program 1

  Saturday, June 07, 2008
  2:00 p.m.
  

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1980
  Parts 1-3, 199 min.

  Part 1: The Punishment Begins
  Part 2: How Is One to Live If One Doesn't Want to Die
  Part 3: A Hammer Blow on the Head Can Injure the Soul

• Film Series

  Program 2

  Thursday, June 12, 2008
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1980
  Parts 4-7, 240 min.

  Part 4: A Handful of People in the Depths of Silence
  Part 5: A Grim Reaper with Powers from Almighty God
  Part 6: Love Has Its Price
  Part 7: Remember: An Oath Can Be Amputated

• Daily Video Screenings

  The Life and Times of Frida Kahlo

  Daily (except Wednesdays) June 14 - September 28, 2008
  noon
  

• Film Series

  Program 2

  Saturday, June 14, 2008
  2:00 p.m.
  

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1980
  Parts 4-7, 240 min.

  Part 4: A Handful of People in the Depths of Silence
  Part 5: A Grim Reaper with Powers from Almighty God
  Part 6: Love Has Its Price
  Part 7: Remember: An Oath Can Be Amputated

• Film Series

  Program 3

  Thursday, June 19, 2008
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1980
  Parts 8-11, 240 min.

  Part 8: The Sun Warms the Skin but Burns It Sometimes, Too
  Part 9: About the Eternities between the Many and Few
  Part 10: Loneliness Tears Cracks of Madness Even in Walls
  Part 11: …

• Film Series

  Program 3

  Saturday, June 21, 2008
  2:00 p.m.
  

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1980
  Parts 8-11, 240 min.

  Part 8: The Sun Warms the Skin but Burns It Sometimes, Too
  Part 9: About the Eternities between the Many and Few
  Part 10: Loneliness Tears Cracks of Madness Even in Walls
  Part 11: …

• Film Series

  Program 4

  Thursday, June 26, 2008
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1980
  Parts 12-13 and Epilogue, 240 min.

  Part 12: The Serpent in the Soul of the Serpent
  Part 13: The Outside and the Inside and the Secret of Fear of Fear
  Epilogue: The Death of a Child and the Birth of a Worthwhile Human…

• Film Series

  Program 4

  Saturday, June 28, 2008
  2:00 p.m.
  

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1980
  Parts 12-13 and Epilogue, 240 min.

  Part 12: The Serpent in the Soul of the Serpent
  Part 13: The Outside and the Inside and the Secret of Fear of Fear
  Epilogue: The Death of a Child and the Birth of a Worthwhile Human…

• Live Art

  The Rape of the Sabine Women

  Saturday, June 28, 2008
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Final Screening
  Eve Sussman and the Rufus Corporation, 2006, 82 min.

• Live Art
  WEST COAST PREMIERE

  The Rape of the Sabine Women

  Saturday, June 28, 2008
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Final Screening
  Eve Sussman and the Rufus Corporation, 2006, 82 min.

  $5 general, students, and seniors; free for SFMOMA members or with museum admission (requires a free ticket, which can be picked up in the Haas Atrium). Tickets are available at…

• Daily Video Screenings

  Lee Miller: Through the Mirror

  Daily (except Wednesdays) July 01 - September 14, 2008
  noon
  

• Film Series

  Jean Cocteau: The Orphic Trilogy

  Saturday, July 05, 2008
  1:00 p.m.
  

  Le Sang d'un poète (Blood of a Poet)
  Jean Cocteau, 1930, 55 min.
  A landmark of surrealist cinema, Cocteau's first film attempts to reveal the inside of a poet's mind and…

• Film Series

  Orphée (Orpheus)

  Thursday, July 10, 2008
  7:00 p.m.
  

  Jean Cocteau, 1949, 95 min.

  This is, without a doubt, Cocteau's best film. Orphée is clearly based on the ancient myth in which Orpheus (Jean Marais) descends into the underworld to rescue his wife,…

• Film Series

  Jean Cocteau: The Orphic Trilogy

  Saturday, July 12, 2008
  1:00 p.m.
  

  Le Sang d'un poète (Blood of a Poet)
  Jean Cocteau, 1930, 55 min.
  A landmark of surrealist cinema, Cocteau's first film attempts to reveal the inside of a poet's mind and…

• Film Series

  Le Testament d'Orphée (The Testament of Orpheus)

  Thursday, July 17, 2008
  7:00 p.m.
  

  Jean Cocteau, 1959, 80 min.

  In the film that completes the cycle, Cocteau plays an 18th-century poet who travels in time. This is a wry, self-deprecating work, with the 70-year-old poet portraying his dreams,…

• Film Series

  Jean Cocteau: The Orphic Trilogy

  Saturday, July 19, 2008
  1:00 p.m.
  

  Le Sang d'un poète (Blood of a Poet)
  Jean Cocteau, 1930, 55 min.
  A landmark of surrealist cinema, Cocteau's first film attempts to reveal the inside of a poet's mind and…

• Film Series

  Le Testament d'Orphée (The Testament of Orpheus)

  Thursday, July 24, 2008
  7:00 p.m.
  

  Jean Cocteau, 1959, 80 min.

  In the film that completes the cycle, Cocteau plays an 18th-century poet who travels in time. This is a wry, self-deprecating work, with the 70-year-old poet portraying his dreams,…

• Film Series

  Jean Cocteau: The Orphic Trilogy

  Saturday, July 26, 2008
  1:00 p.m.
  

  Double Feature
  Orphée (Orpheus)
  Jean Cocteau, 1949, 95 min.
  This is, without a doubt, Cocteau's best film. Orphée is clearly based on the ancient myth in which Orpheus…

• Film Series

  Nazarín

  Thursday, July 31, 2008
  7:00 p.m.
  

  Luis Buñuel, 1959, 94 min.

  Buñuel's film is a study of religious idealism and harsh social realities at the end of the 19th century. Father Nazarín is a priest who lives in a Mexico City slum. His…

• Film Series

  Angel of Fire: Kahlo, Mexico, and Film

  Saturday, August 02, 2008
  1:00 p.m.
  

  Double Feature
  Nazarín
  Luis Buñuel, 1959, 94 min.

  Buñuel's film is a study of religious idealism and harsh social realities at the end of the 19th century. Father Nazarín is a priest who lives in a Mexico City slum. His…

• Film Series

  El Puño de hierro (The Iron Fist)

  Thursday, August 07, 2008
  8:00 p.m.
  

  Gabriel García Moreno, 1927, 77 min.

  This rare, remarkable silent adventure opens with a young man experiencing his first shot of morphine. To try to describe the rest of the breathless plot would be futile, but…

• Film Series

  Angel of Fire: Kahlo, Mexico, and Film

  Saturday, August 09, 2008
  1:00 p.m.
  

  Double Feature
  ¡Que viva México!
  Sergei Eisenstein, 1931/1979, 85 min.

  Hollywood was never a natural home to Eisenstein, and with several projects rejected, it took little to persuade him to follow Upton Sinclair south to create a film celebrating…

• Film Series

  ¡Que viva México!

  Thursday, August 14, 2008
  7:00 p.m.
  

  Sergei Eisenstein, 1931/1979, 85 min.

  Hollywood was never a natural home to Eisenstein, and with several projects rejected, it took little to persuade him to follow Upton Sinclair south to create a film celebrating…

• Film Series

  Angel of Fire: Kahlo, Mexico, and Film

  Saturday, August 16, 2008
  1:00 p.m.
  

  Double Feature
  ¡Que viva México!
  Sergei Eisenstein, 1931/1979, 85 min.

  Hollywood was never a natural home to Eisenstein, and with several projects rejected, it took little to persuade him to follow Upton Sinclair south to create a film celebrating…

• Film Series

  Aventurera

  Thursday, August 21, 2008
  7:00 p.m.
  

  Alberto Gout, 1949, 101 min.

  One of the most popular Mexican films ever made, the cult sensation Aventurera is a famous example of cabaretera, a curious film noir and musical hybrid wildly popular in Mexico in…

• Film Series

  Angel of Fire: Kahlo, Mexico, and Film

  Saturday, August 23, 2008
  1:00 p.m.
  

  Double Feature
  Aventurera
  Alberto Gout, 1949, 101 min.

  One of the most popular Mexican films ever made, the cult sensation Aventurera is a famous example of cabaretera, a curious film noir and musical hybrid wildly popular in Mexico in…

• Film Series

  Frida, naturaleza viva

  Thursday, August 28, 2008
  7:00 p.m.
  

  Paul Leduc, 1984, 108 min.

  This fictional documentary investigates the agonies and ecstasies that punctuated - and, literally, punctured - Frida Kahlo's life, in a series of dramatized flashbacks as she lies…

• Film Series

  Angel of Fire: Kahlo, Mexico, and Film

  Saturday, August 30, 2008
  1:00 p.m.
  

  Double Feature
  Enamorada (A Woman in Love)
  Emilio Fernández, 1946, 99 min.

• Film Screening

  Double Feature: Lost Indulgence and Lost in Beijing

  Saturdays, September 06, 13, and 20, 2008 1:00 p.m.

  Lost Indulgence
  Zhang Yibai, 2008, 96 min.
  Lost in Beijing (Ping Guo)
  Li Yu, 2007, 112 min.

  The latest feature by one of China's up-and-coming directors, Lost Indulgence offers a visually captivating meditation on loss and a moving portrait of relationships. When a taxi…

• Daily Video Screenings

  The Pencil of Nature

  Daily (except Wednesdays), 1:00 p.m., 3:00 p.m., and 4:30 p.m.

  Films for the Humanities and Sciences, 1989, 26 min.

• 

  Film Screening

  Sebastiane

  Saturday, November 01, 2008, 1:00 p.m.
  Thursday, November 06, 2008, 7:00 p.m.

  1976, 86 min.

  Sebastiane is hailed as the first film to portray unconcealed homosexuality in a positive light and also the first film entirely in Latin. Taking place in 300 A.D. in a womanless…

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  Film Screening

  Jubilee

  Saturdays, November 01 and 15, 2008, 3:00 p.m.

  1977, 103 min.

  Queen Elizabeth I time travels to the late 20th Century only to find herself smack dab in the middle of a punk wasteland. Anarchy, rampant sexuality, nihilism, and…

• Daily Video Screenings

  Ant Farm: Early Underground Adventures with Space, Land, and Time

  Daily (except Wednesdays), 1:30 p.m.

  Elizabeth Federici and Laura Harrison, 2008, 30 min.

• Daily Video Screenings

  The World of Lygia Clark

  Daily (except Wednesdays), 2:00 p.m.

  Eduardo Clark, 1973, 27 min.

• Daily Video Screenings

  A Tribute to John Cage

  Daily (except Wednesdays), 2:30 p.m.

  Nam June Paik, 1973/1976, 29 min.

• Daily Video Screenings

  Art:21: Art in the Twenty-First Century: Time

  Daily (except Wednesdays), 4:30 p.m.

  Featuring Martin Puryear
  Art:21, 2003, 60 min.

• Daily Video Screenings

  The Misfits: 30 Years of Fluxus

  Daily (except Wednesdays), 3:00 p.m.

  Lars Movin, 1993, 76 min.

• 

  Film Screening

  Caravaggio

  Thursday, November 13, 2008, 7:00 p.m.
  Saturday, November 22, 2008, 1:00 p.m.

  1986, 93 min.

  Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio was an Italian baroque artist known as much for his glowing realistic paintings as his rebellious and dangerous ways. This film is a fictionalized…

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  Film Screening

  The Tempest

  Saturday, November 15, 2008
  1:00 p.m.
  

  1979, 92 min.

  A punk inspired adaptation of Shakespeare's Tempest. Much of the Shakespearian dialogue has been removed and haunting images successfully take its place. Filmed in Stoneleigh Abbey,…

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  The Last of England

  Saturday, November 22, 2008
  3:00 p.m.
  

  1988, 87 min.

  Using all the elements of film that he was known for — non-linear narrative, arresting images, punk, homosexuality, and visual poetry — Jarman tackles the subject of…

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  The Garden

  Saturday, November 29, 2008
  1:00 p.m.
  

  1990, 92 min.

  One of Jarman’s last films, The Garden follows the story of a gay couple who face public ridicule, humiliation, and death. Intertwined with the couple’s trials are…

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  Wittgenstein

  Saturday, November 29, 2008
  3:00 p.m.
  

  1993, 75 min.

  A theatrical interpretation of the life and ideas of the 20th Century philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. Through sketches, Jarman presents Wittgenstein as a child, a lover of young…