- Thursday, June 16, 2011
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The Moderns
Phyllis Wattis Theater
7:00 p.m.
Alan Rudolph, 1988, 126 min., 35mm
The Moderns follows Nick Hart, a struggling painter at the center of the expatriate culture of 1920s Paris, as he navigates the Left Bank milieu. From cafe conversations to sordid love intrigue, sketching caricatures to forging paintings, Hart comes in contact with not only Gertrude Stein and others in her salon circle, but also a dangerous businessman, the husband of one of his paramours.
Part of Stein High/Stein Low.
$5 general; free for SFMOMA members or with museum admission (requires a free ticket, which can be picked up in the Haas Atrium); does not include entry to The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde.
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Image: Alan Rudolph, The Moderns (still), 1988; image courtesy of MGM
Print courtesy of MGM.
