Our Art Saturday programs run every 1st and 3rd Saturday from September 18th through May 7th. No need to RSVP. Students tour downtown galleries and museums to take in the very latest in contemporary art before they are treated to a picnic lunch. After lunch we go see a new release film. Unless noted otherwise, we meet on the balcony outside Metreon overlooking Yerba Buena Park between 10:30 and 11am. Come join us.

Cine/Club is held on Friday nights. These events are free to students, their guests, mentors, parents and friends of Art & Film. No need to RSVP. Screenings are held at the Randall Museum (199 Museum Way) and at Dolby Labs (100 Potrero Avenue). Refreshments are served at 6:30 and the film begins at 7pm unless otherwise noted.

Discussions are held after each film with moderators Heather Woodward of School of the Arts, and Ronald Chase, director of Art & Film.



Friday 22: Cine/Club: Randall Museum

Charlie Chaplin's THE GOLD RUSH (1925, USA)

Charlie Chaplin’s famous tramp goes to the Klondike in search of gold. He finds it... and a heap of trouble. Here is the master of silent comedy at his most ambitious. It features some of his most famous routines—the dancing bread rolls alone make it worth your time. Come enjoy.
WHY WE CHOSE THIS FILM:

We thought you needed a relief from so many important and challenging films, and it was time for you to enjoy yourself. You’ll have a lot more fun watching this film than Chaplin had making it. The endlessly torturous details—on location shooting in the Sierra Nevadas turned into a disaster due to storms and mishaps. The entire production retreated to a Hollywood sound stage and withstood production difficulties another year. But the film was Chaplin’s most popular success.
   
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR:

Does anyone need an introduction to Charles Chaplin, the creator of “the little Tramp” and star of any number of silent comedies? He was a very big deal, and not just for his films. He began in English vaudeville, came to America and got his start in the Mack Sennett’s Keystone Cops slapstick capers. He quickly rose to the top of the heap by writing, starring in and directing his own films. His brilliance was in mime, invention and physical action. When sound entered the film landscape, he rebelled. He produced two silent films, Modern Times and City Lights using sounds and music (he was also a composer who wrote his own music) but no dialogue. They are among his finest.
   
Chaplin was also famous for scandals that cropped up continuously through his career, most significantly the ones involving his love of little girls and the fortunes he had to shell out to keep their mothers quiet. At age 73, Chaplin married the barely-legal daughter of Nobel playwright Eugene O’Neil (who was horrified). Chaplin was socialist in his politics and very anti-war, for which he was hounded from the country. He and his wife escaped to a castle in Switzerland and produced a dozen children, many who have become actors, directors, writers and painters. He also founded UNITED ARTISTS with Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. All of the above makes him a very big deal in film history.

Saturday 23: Art Saturday

10:30 Meet on the balcony outside Metron overlooking Yerba Buena Park (on Mission between 3rd & 4th)
11:00 We'll go see galleries, followed by a picnic lunch and see a film in the afternoon.
Friday 29: Cine/Club: Dolby Labs

Roy Andersson's SONGS FROM THE SECOND FLOOR (2000, Sweden)

And now something completely different. A series of the most bizarre and seemingly disconnected scenes you’ll ever see, connected by droll humor, biting satire, and a very fertile imagination. You won’t stop talking about this one!
WHY WE CHOSE THIS FILM:

Roy Anderson is practically unknown here in America, but we aim to help fix that. This film brought him international acclaim, and it’s so unique, strange, and funny, we couldn’t resist introducing his work to you. His style is entirely his own, and his sense of humor—often morbid, but drawing on a lot of comic timing from silent era comedies—feels fresh and genuine compared to the silliness that is served up so often in movies and on TV these days.