A Theater Near You

July 5, 2007 - August 21, 2007

Syndromes and a Century, July 13, 15

This summer's installment in our ongoing repertory series brings you East Bay premieres of three major international releases: Syndromes and a Century by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, who was featured in our Closely Watched Films series this spring; Tsai Ming-liang's I Don't Want to Sleep Alone; and Corneliu Porumboiu's 12:08 East of Bucharest, harbinger of a Romanian new wave. Rounding out the program are a special pre-broadcast premiere of Steven Okazaki's compelling documentary White Light/Black Rain and new prints of classics by Altman, Ichikawa, and Kurosawa.

Thursday, July 5, 2007
7:30 p.m. The Long Goodbye
Robert Altman's casually ironic, surprisingly apt adaptation casts Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe adrift in seventies L.A. With Elliott Gould, Sterling Hayden, and stunning widescreen photography by Vilmos Zsigmond, showcased in this new print. Repeated on Saturday, July 7.

Saturday, July 7, 2007
5:45 p.m. The Long Goodbye
Please see Thursday, July 5.

Friday, July 13, 2007
7:00 p.m. Syndromes and a Century
By the director of Blissfully Yours and Tropical Malady, a shimmering Thai portrait of love and remembrance, mirrored in two parts, rural and urban. Repeated on Sunday, July 15.

Friday, July 13, 2007
9:05 p.m. I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone
Several nocturnal wanderers search for connection in the latest from Tsai Ming-liang (The Hole, Goodbye Dragon Inn), set in the crumbling mega-city of Kuala Lumpur. "Looks ravishing."—Variety. Repeated on Sunday, July 15.

Saturday, July 14, 2007
8:20 p.m. 12:08 East of Bucharest
A TV talk show turns into a battle over the success of the Romanian Revolution in this hilarious Eastern European allegory. "Savvy but concrete, gentle but sharp as a knife."—Variety

Sunday, July 15, 2007
5:00 p.m. Syndromes and a Century
Please see Friday, July 13.

Sunday, July 15, 2007
7:05 p.m. I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone
Please see Friday, July 13.

Thursday, August 2, 2007
7:30 p.m. White Light/Black Rain
Steven Okazaki in Person. Academy Award–winning Bay Area documentarian Okazaki (Days of Waiting; American Sons) presents the most thorough visual and narrative account yet of the events of the Nagasaki and Hiroshima bombings, told through the recollections and photos of survivors.

Saturday, August 18, 2007
5:45 p.m. Fires on the Plain
Kon Ichikawa's grim antiwar classic about the last days of the Pacific War, set amidst a weakened Japanese army in Leyte. "So powerfully felt and intensely expressed it turns rage into beauty."—Pauline Kael

Tuesday, August 21, 2007
7:30 p.m. High and Low
A kidnapping becomes a moral dilemma for executive Toshiro Mifune in Akira Kurosawa's take on the American police thriller, adapted from an Ed McBain novel. "One of the best detective thrillers ever filmed . . . both spine-tingling and compassionate."—N.Y. Times