Special Events

September 11, 2010 - October 30, 2010

Home Movie Day, October 16

Whether hosting authors and artists in person, campus discussions, silent film restorations, old-time music celebrations, or our annual Home Movie Day, the PFA Theater continues to be the place for the campus and local community to come together and access the most eclectic cinema-related live events that the Bay Area has to offer.

Saturday, September 11, 2010
4:00 p.m. I Hear What You See: The Old-Time World of Kenny Hall
Chris Simon (U.S., 2010). Kenny Hall, Chris Simon, and Alice Gerrard in person. The blind old-time fiddler/mandolin player Kenny Hall is the subject of this bouncy portrait of life and music. With short Sprout Wings and Fly. (75 mins)

Saturday, September 11, 2010
6:30 p.m. Yang Bang Xi: The Eight Model Works
Yan Ting Yuen (The Netherlands, 2005). Introduced by Elizabeth Wichmann-Walczak and Chen Xiaomei. The "eight model works" were Communist China's all-singing, all-dancing propaganda retort to Hollywood, selling Maoism with lots of leg. Ting Yuen Yan's documentary looks at the movies, the people who starred in them, and the people who still watch them today. (90 mins)

Saturday, October 16, 2010
11:00 a.m. Home Movie Day Film Check-In
Share your adventures with us on 8mm, Super 8mm, and 16mm formats. Bring them to PFA's offices by August 31, or if you are unable to drop them off ahead of time, bring them to the PFA Theater between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. on Home Movie Day.

Saturday, October 16, 2010
1:00 p.m. Home Movie Day Screening
Home Moviemakers in person. Hop on your bike, take a train, or hit the beach with this compilation of home-movie travelogues from the famous and the next-door, starring Lon Chaney, James Broughton, and you, the audience. Gathered from the PFA Collection and audience submissions! (c. 180 mins)

Tuesday, October 19, 2010
7:00 p.m. The Complete Metropolis
Fritz Lang (Germany, 1926). Judith Rosenberg on Piano. The newly discovered, 25-minutes-longer print of Fritz Lang's gorgeous, dystopian classic, "a crazed, pathetic ballet of mechanized ant-man in revolt against his Utopian overlords."—Monthly Film Bulletin (148 mins)

Thursday, October 28, 2010
7:00 p.m. Readings on Cinema: Safety Last
(Fred Newmeyer, Sam Taylor, U.S., 1923). Introduced by Merrill Schleier. Judith Rosenberg on piano. Famous for Lloyd's clock-hanging stunt, this is "a model of comic economy that's also a model of one man's place in the economy."—Village Voice. With short Never Weaken. (104 mins)

Saturday, October 30, 2010
5:00 p.m. Readings on Cinema: Left in the Dark: Portraits of San Francisco Movie Theatres
R.A. McBride, Julie Lindow, Katherine Petrin, Melinda Stone, and others in person. A slide-show and essay presentation on existing or abandoned San Francisco movie theaters, with photographs by R.A. McBride that reveal both the grandeur of their architecture and the everyday details of film exhibition. (60 mins)