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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.
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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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
Trailblazer Ida Lupino’s fourth film as a director stars Trevor as Millie Farley, a manipulative, parasitic mother to Forrest’s Florence, a burgeoning tennis star. Features stirring tennis action largely filmed on location at Forest Hills Stadium, former home of the U.S. Open.
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.
See Rebecca Miller’s adaptation of her own novel about Pippa Lee (Wright), a loving mother of two grown children, and the wife of successful publisher Herb (Arkin), who’s 30 years her senior. Stay for a conversation with Miller.
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.