Our Art Saturday programs are free and meet above the waterfall in Yerba Buena Gardens (Mission between 3rd and 4th Streets) between 10:45 and 11:15. No need to RSVP. Students tour downtown art 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. A cultural education unlike any other!

Cine/Club is free and 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 7 unless otherwise noted.

Discussions are held after each film, led by Ronald Chase, director of Art & Film, and guest moderators such as Heather Woodward of SotA and Jeanne Finley of CCA.



Friday 4: Cine/Club: Dolby Labs

Stanley Kubrick's BARRY LYNDON (1978, UK)

A 1700s adventure that transcends time. A promising young Irishman does everything society says he should do to succeed and he climbs to the top of the world—before falling off. This is one surprising social epic that gives a new meaning to the term “bigger than life”. A perfect finale to Cine/Club this year!

 
WHAT’S THE BIG DEAL?

Barry Lyndon is a sprawling epic, covering so many aspects of the 17oo’s—it’s wars, its diplomacy, its class differences, habits, domestic rites—and it does it with enormous attention to detail. You are there. Kubrick invented new lens for the camera so that he could film the candle lit scenes in natural light. The authentic settings, the dazzling set pieces, the breath taking costumes and décor—all these things are some of the finest we find in film. Just as Moliere creates the world of the 1600’s, so this film let’s you visit the 1700’s. Ryan O’Neal (a matinee idol of his time) seems perfectly cast as the country bumpkin who becomes a nobleman, and the minor characters are all wonders to behold. We’re so happy to conclude this Cine/Club with a film we consider one of the finest of all.
   
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR:

Stanley Kubrick is also a golden track record in film, producing a hefty list of classic films. He began as a talented photographer for Look magazine, then a maverick film maker, financing his own Fear and Desire, and following that two film noir Killer’s Kiss and The Killing, and a war film Paths of Glory. He was involved in number of difficult film shoots. He worked on One-Eyed Jacks with Marlon Brando, and Brando fired him. He was then asked by Kirk Douglas to direct his Spartucus which was a huge epic and a grueling affair because of his disagreements with the star. He left for England to make Lolita, and never returned, producing a steady line of classics- Dr. Strangelove, 2001, A Clockwork Orange and Barry Lyndon. He preferred working in England, and made his life there. His later films never received the critical acclaim of his stronger work.

Saturday 7: Our Last Art Saturday of the Year!

10:30 Meet on the balcony outside Metreon 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.