A Theater Near You

May 25, 2007 - June 23, 2007

Two or Three Things I Know About Her, June 1, 3

PFA's popular repertory series offers East Bay premieres of international festival favorites, screenings of recent restorations, and revivals that shed new light on the classics. This season brings fresh prints of films by Godard, Malle, and Greenaway, plus a compendium of postwar British cautionary tales and a deadpan comedy from Uruguay's Juan Pablo Rebella and Pablo Stoll.

Friday, May 25, 2007
7:00 p.m. The Draughtsman’s Contract
Mysteries disrupt the ordered world of a seventeenth-century estate and the life of a draftsman hired to draw it in Peter Greenaway’s intricately witty breakthrough feature. “Astonishingly elegant . . . extraordinarily detailed . . . mind-bendingly rich.”—N.Y. Times. “A masterpiece.”—Time Out

Saturday, May 26, 2007
8:55 p.m. A Zed & Two Noughts
“The boldest and arguably the best of Peter Greenaway’s fiction features . . . involves amputees, painting, a ménage à trois, and decomposing animals—along with many other things. . . . A one-of-a-kind movie."—Chicago Reader

Friday, June 1, 2007
7:00 p.m. Two or Three Things I Know About Her
Jean-Luc Godard’s incisive view of prostitution and Paris, in a new print that showcases Raoul Coutard’s breathtaking color cinematography. “Perhaps Godard's greatest feature.”—Susan Sontag. “The new CinemaScope print makes this perennial must-see a must-see-now.”—N.Y. Times

Saturday, June 2, 2007
6:30 p.m. Whisky
From Uruguay’s Juan Pablo Rebella and Pablo Stoll, a deadpan comedy about minor subterfuge and awkward loyalties, “the story of ordinary life artfully and touchingly told.”—N.Y. Times. “Drolly glum and sneakily humane, Whisky swigs from the same bottle as Aki Kaurismäki.”—Village Voice

Sunday, June 3, 2007
3:00 p.m. How to Survive the 1940s: Postwar Public Information Films
Bacteria! burglars! wives with syphilis! A compendium of cautionary tales from Britain's Central Office of Information catalogs the everyday dangers of postwar life with surprising verve and dramatic impact.

Sunday, June 3, 2007
4:50 p.m. Two or Three Things I Know About Her
Please see Friday, June 1.

Friday, June 22, 2007
7:00 p.m. Elevator to the Gallows
A restored print of Louis Malle's first feature, an elegant thriller featuring an iconic performance by Jeanne Moreau and a celebrated Miles Davis jazz score. "A consistently engaging, atmospheric noir. . . . Elevator to the Gallows remains worth treasuring."—Time Out N.Y.

Saturday, June 23, 2007
9:10 p.m. Elevator to the Gallows
Please see Friday, June 22.