Today in the PFA Theater

Current Film Series

	United Artists: 90 Years July 5 - August 31 Founded by Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, D. W. Griffith, and Charles Chaplin in 1919, United Artists went on to release films by such independent-minded artists as Buster Keaton, Billy Wilder, Stanley Kubrick, Robert Altman, Woody Allen, and Martin Scorsese. This anniversary tribute samples from UA’s eclectic roster with everything from low-budget gems to blockbuster classics, including many gorgeous new prints.
	Hecho por México: The Films of Gabriel Figueroa July 10 - August 9 More than a cinematographer, Gabriel Figueroa was a consummate film artist. His rich chiaroscuro captured Mexico’s grandeur and embodied its entrenched contrasts in what the painter Siqueiros called “murals that travel.” This series reframes Figueroa’s work with new and archival prints of films directed by Emilio Fernández, Luis Buñuel, and others.
	The Long View: A Celebration of Widescreen July 16 - August 30 Invented as a retort to television, CinemaScope and its widescreen successors—VistaVision, Panavision, and the rest—take cinema outside the box. Our summer-long series covers an expansive panorama of genres, styles, periods, and nations, but all these films have one thing in common: they truly must be seen on the big screen.
	Streets of No Return: The Dark Cinema of David Goodis August 1 - August 23 Filmmakers have long found sordid inspiration in the dead-end tales of pulp writer David Goodis. In films by Jacques Tourneur, François Truffaut, and many others, this series explores a noir universe peopled with tormented losers and doomed lowlifes, where Goodis’s obsessions are written—or rewritten—on the screen.

Upcoming Film Series

Manoel de Oliveira: Talking Pictures August 9 - September 28 The rich, rigorous work of Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira is at once passionate and austere, gracefully weaving philosophy, literature, theater, and storytelling into a purely cinematic experience. We celebrate the upcoming centennial of this still active director with a major series.