Today in the PFA Theater

The PFA Theater is closed today.

Current 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.
	Alternative Visions September 2 - October 28 Our Tuesday evening avant-garde showcase returns for a wide-ranging fall season that features works by Craig Baldwin, Robert Beavers, James Benning, Robert Breer, Valie Export, and many others, plus a program of found-footage works in memory of the late Bruce Conner.
	Czeching Out: The Early Films of Milos Forman September 4 - September 13 In seminal works of the Czech New Wave, Milos Forman brilliantly mocked an authoritarian system in decline. Then, in the seventies, he discovered new satiric territory: America. This series witnesses Forman stepping out from behind the Iron Curtain.
	Jean-Luc Godard: Movie Love in the Sixties September 5 - October 17 In the sixties, Jean-Luc Godard broadened the notion of screen romance to embrace a wide entrancing world: this was movie love. Godard celebrates and deconstructs his various inspirations—Anna Karina, Paris, cinema itself—in eight films, including several new prints.

Upcoming Film Series

	Unknown Pleasures: The Films of Jia Zhangke September 12 - October 17 “One of the most exciting filmmakers of our time” (Film Comment), Jia Zhangke contemplates a China perpetually reinventing itself, and the people left behind in the transition. Our retrospective surveys the observational, highly original work of this contemporary master.
	Before Big: The Early Films of David Lean September 19 - October 11 David Lean’s early films are smaller in scale than his famous epics, but nonetheless “lively, stirring, and an inspiration . . . in love with the screen’s power and the combustion in editing” (David Thomson). We present ten of these wonderfully crafted British classics in recently restored prints.
	Movie Matinees for All Ages September 20 - October 11 Our ongoing Saturday series is a great way to introduce youngsters to the joys of the big screen—and to rediscover them yourself.
	Campus Connections September 25 - September 26 Music and modernity in films from Turkey and South Africa, offered in conjunction with conferences at UC Berkeley and open to the public.
	No Wave: The Cinema of Jean Eustache October 4 - October 22 In documentaries and unvarnished fictions, Jean Eustache recorded provincial French traditions and the mating habits of post-1968 Parisians with the same detached fascination. This series presents a rare opportunity to explore his career beyond the landmark The Mother and the Whore.
	Envisioning Russia: A Century of Filmmaking October 10 - October 30 Classics by masters from Eisenstein to Tarkovsky; little-seen genre gems; fabulously kitschy relics of the Soviet era—all are part of the panorama of Russian cinema presented in this eclectic survey.
	Home Movie Day October 18 - October 18 Dust off your old home movies and share them with the world, or just come and enjoy the spectacle. “Home Movie Day is an orgy of self-discovery, a chance for family memories to suddenly become show business.”—John Waters
	I Love Beijing: The Films of Ning Ying October 23 - October 27 “Ning Ying knows Beijing the way Martin Scorsese knows New York” (Boston Phoenix). China’s most important woman director maps her country’s shifting physical and cultural topography with deadpan humor and clear-eyed intelligence. She is an artist in residence at PFA this fall.
	Special Event: Ghost World October 26 - October 26 Bay Area originals Daniel Clowes and Terry Zwigoff present their great tribute to teen disaffection.
	An Election Year Halloween: The Werewolf of Washington October 31 - October 31 Dean Stockwell is a speechwriter with bite in this satiric treat from the era of Tricky Dick.