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Programming 2024 35 films
52 By Women / 2020 33 films
Women-directed and co-directed films shown at Pickford Film Center during 2020.
Social Justice Films for Kids 10 films
Missing from Letterboxd:
- March On! The Day My Brother Martin Changed the World - Frontline: Policing the Police
Anti-Racist Resources 10 films
Pickford Film Center recommends these films as educational resources. The ten documentary and narrative films cover current and past activism…
Rocket Sci-fi Matinees 106 films
Rocket Sci-Fi is one of Pickford Film Center’s longest-running series and incredibly near and dear to all of our hearts,…
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Director Bruno Barreto is no stranger to PFC screens, including his riveting Last Stop 174, but he became known in the US for this ribald sex romp starring the great and beautiful Sonia Braga (also on our virtual screens in Bacurau. Novelist Jorge Amado was part of the Latin American literary renaissance, and it’s easy to see why this was among the first to get translated to film.
- Michael Falter, PFC Program Director
Luchino Visconti, one of the titans of Italian cinema, staged a comeback with his final film, the lush, novelistic L’Innocente, which stars Giancarlo Giannini, Laura Antonelli, and Jennifer O’Neill as the husband, wife and lover at the center of this critique of masculine pride.
- Michael Falter, PFC Program Director
The Wild Goose Lake, directed by Diao Yi'nan is a twisty, stylish Chinese neo-noir painted in neon shades of greens and blues. Perfect for fans of Raymond Chandler and Nicolas Winding Refn, Yi’nan’s gangster drama set in Wuhan, China, follows a small-time mob boss Zhou Zenong (Hu Ge) as he attempts to stay alive after he mistakenly kills a cop and a dead-or-alive reward is put on his head. Wild Goose Lake is a deliberate and gritty noir that will add some drama to a rainy night in.
- Mikayla Nicholson, PFC Education Outreach Manager
Briefly on-screen at The Limelight before our closure, Daniel Roher’s documentary leans toward Robbie Robertson’s version of The Band’s ultimate dissolution, but along the way we have rare archival footage, great music, and a who’s who of contemporary greats—like Van Morrison and Bruce Springsteen. A must for music fans.
- Michael Falter, PFC Program Director
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okay I’m really over the whole “we’re rolling our eyes at ourselves in the fourth wall break” YOURE A MOVIE MUSIcal you might as well be earnest about it!!!!
Opened and closed on Friday, March 13.
Well defined while being both beguiling and amorphous. This score by Emile Mosseri threads its roots deep into forgotten memories. Outstretched and burrowing.
I haven't seen Mike Epps in so long that his brief appearance was like visiting with an old friend.
[Seen on DVD and rented from Rainy Day Records in Olympia, Washington]
Watching a Frederick Wiseman documentary is probably the closest cinematic equivalent to the experience of reading a book. It's slow, long, dense, and requires patience to access its quiet profundity.
At Berkeley left me with simultaneous desires to never set foot in an institution of American higher education again and also to apply for every grad program in the country.
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