- Thursday, September 23, 2010
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Return to Canyon
Anticipated guests: Bruce Baillie, Lawrence Jordan, and Robert Nelson
Phyllis Wattis Theater
7:00 p.m.
On a summer day in 1961, in the East Bay community of Canyon, California, filmmaker Baillie shined a light on a bedsheet screen and Canyon Cinema was born. Over the years, Baillie's brainchild evolved into the independent distributor Canyon Cinema and the venerable exhibitor San Francisco Cinematheque. We celebrate Cinematheque's golden anniversary with a gathering of founding figures and luminaries from the early days of the organization, featuring brand-new works and newly preserved masterpieces by Baillie, Jordan, Nelson, and Chick Strand. (Steve Polta)
$10 general; $7 SFMOMA and SF Cinematheque members, students, and seniors.
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Image: Bruce Baillie, Castro Street (still), 1966; courtesy the artist
Presented by San Francisco Cinematheque in association with the Pacific Film Archive.
