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THURSDAY FEBRUARY 27 DOUBLE FEATURE
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 UNCUT
GEMS 7:00
In one of 2019's indisputably great
performances, Adam Sandler becomes Howard
Ratner, an ambitious jeweler plying his trade
in New York's busy diamond district. We follow
Howard through the highs and lows of two
emotionally fraught days as he attempts,
repeatedly and desperately, to parlay a recent
find of a rare black opal into a seven-figure
gambling win. Filmmakers Benny and Josh Safdie
(Good Time) have created a remarkable
opus that is both grippingly intimate and
startlingly cosmic, cringingly painful and
wildly funny. The cast includes Idina Menzel,
Lakeith Stanfield, Eric Bogosian, Judd Hirsch,
talented first-timer Julia Fox, and former NBA
power forward Kevin Garnett as himself; Daniel
Lopatin provides the exquisite, otherworldly
score. (2019, 135 min, 35mm ‘Scope) |
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THE KING OF MARVIN GARDENS 9:25
For his electrifying follow-up to the smash
success Five Easy Pieces, Bob
Rafelson dug even deeper into the crushed
dreams of wayward America. Jack Nicholson and
Bruce Dern play estranged siblings David and
Jason, the former a depressive
late-night-radio talk show host, the latter an
extroverted con man; when Jason drags his
younger brother to a dreary Atlantic City and
into a real-estate scam, events spiral toward
tragedy. The King of Marvin Gardens,
also starring a brilliant Ellen Burstyn as
Jason’s bitter aging beauty-queen squeeze, is
one of the most devastating character studies
of the seventies. –Criterion Collection (1972,
104 min, DCP) |
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FRIDAY FEBRUARY 28 DOUBLE FEATURE
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UNCUT
GEMS 7:00
In one of 2019's indisputably great
performances, Adam Sandler becomes Howard
Ratner, an ambitious jeweler plying his trade
in New York's busy diamond district. We follow
Howard through the highs and lows of two
emotionally fraught days as he attempts,
repeatedly and desperately, to parlay a recent
find of a rare black opal into a seven-figure
gambling win. Filmmakers Benny and Josh Safdie
(Good Time) have created a remarkable
opus that is both grippingly intimate and
startlingly cosmic, cringingly painful and
wildly funny. The cast includes Idina Menzel,
Lakeith Stanfield, Eric Bogosian, Judd Hirsch,
talented first-timer Julia Fox, and former NBA
power forward Kevin Garnett as himself; Daniel
Lopatin provides the exquisite, otherworldly
score. (2019, 135 min, 35mm ‘Scope) |
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THIEF 9:30
James Caan gives an
intensely controlled performance as a fiercely
independent professional jewel thief whose
personal life code is complicated when he goes
to work for crime lord Robert Prosky. Filmed
largely at night on the streets of Chicago,
Michael Mann’s neon-drenched feature film
debut is loaded with his soon-to-be trademark
hypnotic visuals and precise attention to
detail. “Thief is a film of style, substance,
and violently felt emotion, all wrapped up in
one of the most intelligent thrillers I've
seen.” –Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times.
Tuesday Weld, James Belushi, Willie Nelson,
and a sizzling score by Tangerine Dream
co-star. (1981, 122 min, DCP) |
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SATURDAY FEBRUARY 29
SPECIAL EVENT
Guster
An Evening
of Acoustic Music and Improv
Doors 7pm /
Show 8pm
All Ages
Tickets & info:
http://folkyeah.com/guster-san-francisco-castro-2020
Expect us to dig deep into the Guster
catalogue and discover songs we don’t usually
play at our big rock shows. Expect violins and
cellos. Maybe some nights we make up an album
on stage. There are no rules on the 2020
Guster Acoustic Tour.
All tickets
include $1 charitable donation. |
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SUNDAY MARCH 1 through TUESDAY
MARCH 3
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PARASITE in
Black & White
Sun (2:15), 5:00, 7:45;
Mon & Tue 5:15, 8:00
Struggling and scheming to make ends meet, the
Kim family seizes the opportunity when their
young son becomes tutor to the daughter of the
well-to-do Park family. As the Kims gradually
take over every domestic position in the Park
household, the question of who's scamming whom
becomes decidedly blurry. Director/co-writer
Bong Joon-Ho's energetic and bloody social
farce is both scathingly political and wildly
funny, delivered by one of 2019’s strongest
ensemble casts. The history-making Best
Picture Oscar winner reveals new depths in
this special black-and-white version
constructed under Bong’s supervision. (2019,
132 min, DCP ‘Scope)
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WEDNESDAY MARCH 4 BONG JOON-HO DOUBLE FEATURE
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 THE
HOST 6:30
A humble noodle vendor
and his family must spring into action to save
his youngest daughter, who has been taken
underground by a gigantic, slithering
creature. A major breakaway hit in both North
and South Korea, this wild and wooly fantasy
established Bong Joon-Ho as a major force in
international cinema, and has everything you
could ask for in a movie: family comedy,
monster thrills, and a long, scathing look at
US imperialist interventionism. Stars
Parasite’s Song Kang-Ho and Sense8’s
Doona Bae. (2006, in Korean with English
subtitles, 120 min, 35mm)
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SNOWPIERCER 8:45
After a global
apocalypse the last survivors of the human
race hurtle around the world on a modified
passenger train, but still-lingering class and
political resentments threaten to derail
everything. Bong Joon-Ho made his English
language debut with this richly imagined and
politically-charged parable, which features a
stellar international cast, including Chris
Evans, Song Kang-Ho, John Hurt, Ewen Bremner,
Ed Harris, and, in an award-winning,
particularly grotesque performance, Tilda
Swinton. (2013, 126 min, - ‘Scope) |
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THURSDAY MARCH 5, 2020 A.D.
SPECIAL EVENT ($15)
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JESUS CHRIST
SUPERSTAR with TED NEELEY and YVONNE ELLIMAN
In Person!
VIP 5:00 • Q&A 7:00 • Film
7:30
Andrew Lloyd Webber and
Tim Rice's hit rock opera recounts the last
week in the life of Christ as told from the
point of view of Judas. Shot on location in
Israel, director Norman Jewison (Fiddler on
the Roof) takes an innovative approach to the
razzle-dazzle, each role perfectly brought to
life by Ted Neeley, Carl Anderson, Yvonne
Elliman, and Barry Dennen. (1973, 108 min, HD
'Scope) |
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FRIDAY MARCH 6
EDDIE MURPHY DOUBLE FEATURE
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 DOLEMITE
IS MY NAME 7:00
In a sensational
return to the spotlight, Eddie Murphy portrays
real-life legend Rudy Ray Moore, the comedy
and rap pioneer who proved naysayers wrong
when his hilarious, obscene, kung-fu fighting
alter ego, Dolemite, became a 1970s
Blaxploitation phenomenon. In dramatizing
Moore's stranger-than-fiction story, writers
Scott Alexander & Larry Karaszewski (Ed
Wood) and director Craig Brewer (Hustle
& Flow) make the film just as bold,
brash, and ultimately hard to resist as its
subject. (2019, 118 min, 35mm ‘Scope)
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BOWFINGER 9:10
Comedy greats Steve
Martin and Eddie Murphy star in this smart and
clever satire about Hollywood's least
successful director Bobby Bowfinger (Martin)
and his attempt to get Hollywood's biggest
star Kit Ramsey (Murphy) in his ultra
low-budget film. With an ingenious scheme and
the help of Kit's eager and nerdy brother Jiff
(also Murphy), an ambitious and sexy wannabe
(Heather Graham) and an over-the-hill diva
(Christine Baranski), Bowfinger sets out to
trick Kit into the performance of a lifetime.
Written by Steve Martin and directed by Frank
Oz. (1999, 97 min, 35mm) |
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SATURDAY MARCH 7
SPECIAL EVENT
FELLINI 100:
HOMAGE TO FEDERICO FELLINI
Presented
by Istituto Luce Cinecittà and Istituto Italiano
Cultura SF, director Annamaria Di Giorgio, under the
auspices of Consul General of Italy Lorenzo Ortona and
organized by Cinema Italia San Francisco as its 10th
program. The One Day Marathon with 4 films selected by
program director Amelia Antonucci is part of the
Federico Fellini 100 Tour, a series of centennial
tributes to Federico Fellini (1920–1993), which will
travel to major museums and film institutions
worldwide, coordinated by Paola Ruggiero and Camilla
Cormanni of Luce Cinecittà. All films have been
digitally restored by Luce Cinecittà, Cineteca di
Bologna and Cineteca Nazionale. All films are with
English subtitles.
LA STRADA 12:30
Giulietta
Masina stars as a young woman who joins a strongman
street entertainer on the road and soon discovers her
calling as a clown. 1957 Academy Award for Best
Foreign Language Film. (1954, 104 min, B/W, DCP)
JULIET OF THE SPIRITS 3:00
This Italian-French fantasy comedy-drama is about the
visions, memories, and mysticism of a middle-aged
woman that help her to find the strength to leave her
philandering husband, starring Giulietta Masina.
Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film in
1966. (1965, 144 min, Color, DCP)
AMARCORD 6:00
A carnivalesque portrait of
provincial Italy during the fascist period. The most
personal film from Federico Fellini, satiring the
director’s youth and turns daily life into a circus of
social rituals, adolescent desires, male fantasies,
and political subterfuge, all set to Nina Rota’s
classic, nostalgia-tinged score. 1975 Academy Award
for Best Foreign Language Film. (1973, 127 min, Color,
DCP)
LA MAGIA DI FELLINI PARTY
8:30-10:30
Fellini once said, "Life is a
combination of magic and pasta." Accordingly, this
party will include three different kinds of pasta
prepared for you by the Italian restaurants C'Era Una
Volta, Poesia and Italian Homemade, along with a giant
cake made by Emporio Rulli, Gió gelato, Italian wines,
and, of course, some magic. On the walls of the
mezzanine, the Italian Cultural Institute is
presenting a very special preview of the exhibition
"Food in Federico Fellini’s Drawings." Featured are 19
drawings from the famous Libro dei sogni, the diary of
dreams that Fellini had kept for about 30 years, which
is presently exhibited in the Rimini City Museum. The
exhibition has been produced thanks to the Culture
Department of Emilia-Romagna Region, Cinematheque of
the Rimini Town Council and Casa Artusi.
I VITELLONI 10:00
Five young men
dream of success as they drift lazily through life in
a small Italian village. I Vitelloni compassionately
details a year, following a group of small-town
layabouts struggling to find meaning in their lives.
(1953, 108 min, B/W, DCP).
TICKET PRICES
La
Strada, Juliet of the Spirits or I Vitelloni: $13
Amarcord: $15
La Magia di Fellini Party: $25
Festival Pass (All 4 Films + Party): $60
Open Online Box Office
Buy Festival Pass
www.cinemaitaliasf.com
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SUNDAY MARCH 8
KIRK DOUGLAS DOUBLE FEATURE
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 OUT
OF THE PAST 1:45, 6:00
Scuffling
P.I. Jeff Bailey (Robert Mitchum) gets a
sure-money job from shady high-roller Whit
Sterling (Kirk Douglas): Track down and
retrieve his mistress (Jane Greer) who skipped
with $40,000 of his money. Finding his prey in
Mexico, Bailey falls for her, but his plan to
make them new lives leads to stunning
betrayals. Jacques Tourneur’s (Cat People)
brooding masterwork is a candidate for the
best noir ever made. (1947, 97 min, 35mm)
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GUNFIGHT AT THE O.K. CORRAL 3:45, 8:00
Director John Sturges’ (The Magnificent Seven)
superbly mounted, landmark western
authentically depicts the famous 1881
Tombstone showdown between Wyatt Earp and
"Doc" Holliday and the Clanton Gang, while
exploring the friendship between the rugged
marshal (Burt Lancaster) and the
dentist-turned-gunfighter (Kirk Douglas). One
of the most elaborate and star-studded takes
on the story, Sturges draws out two of the
more complex performances ever given by his
two stars, with first-rate back-up from Rhonda
Fleming, John Ireland, Jo Van Fleet, Dennis
Hopper, and Lee Van Cleef. (1957, 122 min,
35mm) |
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MONDAY MARCH 9 through
WEDNESDAY MARCH 11
WINNER OF 3
OSCARS!
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1917 Mon 6:00,
8:15; Tue & Wed (3:30), 6:00, 8:15
Sam
Mendes (Spectre, American Beauty) brings his singular
vision to his World War I epic that follows the lives
of two young soldiers experiencing the atrocities of
war in real time. A race against the clock will save
the lives of their allies or send them all to certain
death. Cinematographer Roger Deakins (who won Oscars
for this film and Blade Runner 2049) shoots the movie
as if it is filmed in one seamless shot, using bleak
colors and occasionally an over the shoulder
perspective adds a thrilling video game element which
engages the audience while building a palpable
tension. George MacKay (Captain Fantastic) and
Dean-Charles Chapman (Game of Thrones) star. (2019,
119 min, DCP ‘Scope)
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THURSDAY MARCH 12
DOUBLE FEATURE
 I
COULD GO ON SINGING 2:00, 6:05
In
her last film, the legendary Judy Garland
stars as an American singer (belting out the
tunes as only Garland can) who visits London
and can’t resist the temptation to meet up
once again with a lost love (Dirk Bogarde) and
the now teenaged son she left him to care for
many years before. Ronald Neame (The Prime
of Miss Jean Brodie) directs Garland at
the height of her interpretive power, and the
title tune is by the incomparable duo of
Harold Arlen and E.Y. (“Yip”) Harburg. Jack
Klugman co-stars. (1963, 99 min, HD ‘Scope)
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JUDY 3:50, 8:00
Set in late 1968
and early 1969, the iconic star’s latest
biopic shows Judy Garland (Renée Zellweger, in
her Oscar-winning performance) hustling in
Swinging London after she successfully secured
a five-week engagement in Talk of the Town.
Behind the scenes, she battles her own
management and prepares to fight her
ex-husband and ex-manager, with her wit and
warmth shining through. Featuring some of her
best-known songs, the film celebrates the
voice, the capacity for love, and the sheer
pizzazz of “the world’s greatest entertainer.”
Jessie Buckley, Rufus Sewell, and Michael
Gambon co-star; Rupert Goold directs. (2019,
118 min, DCP ‘Scope) |
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