A Haunting in Venice
Set in eerie, post-World War II Venice on All Hallows’ Eve, A Haunting in Venice is a terrifying mystery featuring the return of the celebrated sleuth Hercule Poirot. Special advance screening 9/13.
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Inside Out
Pixar's Oscar-winning animated feature vividly imagines five emotions as its main characters, vying for equilibrium inside the mind of an 11-year-old girl.
Elementary Triptych of Spain
The films that comprise José Val del Omar’s Elementary Triptych of Spain (1953–1995) are audiovisual poems of the senses; these encore screenings will take place in the Bartos Screening Room on DCP.
Janie Geiser Program 1: The Nervous Films + The Red Book and The Fourth Watch
This program features Janie Geiser's series of five collage-based films made of found and natural objects, medical illustrations, photographs, extant footage, and other elements. Plus two of her most acclaimed short films. With Janie Geiser in person!
Fremont
Jalali’s Sundance standout, about a newly immigrated twentysomething from Afghanistan in the San Francisco Bay Area, has an exquisitely modulated tone all its own: somewhere between deadpan comedy and offhand sorrow. Screening 9/15–9/24.
Janie Geiser Program 2: Time, a substance
This program, titled after a phrase from Marianne Moore’s poem “Black Earth,” includes several films that were made during the intense first years of the pandemic. The films evoke a sense of suspended time and the liminal space between life and death. With Janie Geiser in person!
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
See one of cinema’s grandest and most powerful antiwar statements, starring Rudolph Valentino, with live piano accompaniment by Makia Matsumura on Sunday, 9/17.
Fremont
Jalali’s Sundance standout, about a newly immigrated twentysomething from Afghanistan in the San Francisco Bay Area, has an exquisitely modulated tone all its own: somewhere between deadpan comedy and offhand sorrow. Screening 9/15–9/24.
Lost in Translation
On 9/16 and 9/30, see a special 35mm twentieth-anniversary screening of Sofia Coppola’s confident second film about an aging movie star (Bill Murray) and a newly married twenty-something (Scarlett Johansson in her breakout performance), who meet at a lofty hotel bar in Tokyo.
Janie Geiser Program 3: Double Vision
This series includes eight films made between 2013 and 2018 that investigate the photographic image. Found thrift store images and rediscovered family photographs are forensically examined, reimagined, reframed, unmoored, and re-revealed in all of their documentary truth and fiction. With Janie Geiser in person!
House Party
A memorable snapshot of the era’s social and fashion trends, House Party is a jubilant celebration that also speaks to the importance of appreciating Black culture without ignoring widespread societal problems. The 9/16 screening will be copresented by Afrikan Poetry Theatre and followed by a panel discussion.
Fremont
Jalali’s Sundance standout, about a newly immigrated twentysomething from Afghanistan in the San Francisco Bay Area, has an exquisitely modulated tone all its own: somewhere between deadpan comedy and offhand sorrow. Screening 9/15–9/24.