Cine/Club—free screenings of classic films followed by discussion—is held on Friday nights. These events are open 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 the Delancy Street Screening Room (500 Embarcadero). 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, the head of creative writing at the School of the Arts, and Ronald Chase, the director of Art & Film.




Friday 1: Cine/Club: Delancy Street Screening Room

Marcel Carné's THE CHILDREN OF PARADISE (1945, France)

A brilliant film about life in the theater. Shot on location in France during Nazi occupation, the film takes a group of actors through a labyrinth of love, intrigue, jealousy and revenge.

WHAT’S THE BIG DEAL?

This is one of those big, sweeping story-driven films that was a great product of the studio system in France, made during WW II. The producers had to keep its theme non-political, so they choose life in the theater around 1840—the “children” in question are those fanatic devotees who crowd the upper balconies of the theater. It’s a good example of the “social” epic, covering all classes and all ways of life (perfected by Charles Dickens). A love story between a mime and a rising star who is courted by a number of men is packed with diversion, intrigue and nuance as only the French can do it. It’s a movie feast, and we think it makes a great package with Satyricon.
 

Saturday 2: 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 8: Cine/Club: Dolby Labs

Federico Fellini's SATYRICON (1969, Italy)

Fellini’s film takes us on a journey through ancient Rome during its decline before the Five Good Emperors came along to clean things up. Excess and decay is everywhere as our heroes stumble through the city and beyond. A prime example of Fellini’s later style of epic fantasy. PARENTAL WARNING: some violence, nudity and suggested sex.

 
WHAT’S THE BIG DEAL?

Fellini and Bergman were very important in the middle of the 20th century. After your experience in December with Nights of Cabiria, which shows Fellini’s post neo-realism style, we thought it would be very helpful to follow up with his late “fantasia” style. Dropping plot altogether (well, there is a slim one about the importance of impotency) Fellini instead builds his film with large episodes, each in itself a comment about the complexity of humanity and its ills. The film, being a Fellini creation, has the air of an exotic circus, but behind that is a much deeper ambition: to give the viewer a imaginative idea of what the Roman past must have been. The customs, banquets, earthquakes, battles, exotic couplings that make reading about Rome so engrossing are brought to vivid life. Fellini pulls from his magician’s hat every grotesque and mind-boggling image he can imagine and you get an astonishing potpourri of picture and event. Too much? Well, probably, but you’ll remember it forever and it’s a great film finale for the year!
 

Saturday 9: Our Last Art Saturday of the Year!

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.