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| Our Art Saturday programs run most every Saturday during the school year. 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), Dolby Labs (100 Potrero Ave.) and the Delancy Street Screening Room (500 Embarcadero). Refreshments are served at 6:30 and the film begins at 7 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. |
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| Friday 6: Cine/Club: Dolby Labs Patrice Leconte's RIDICULE (1996, France) This story of a poor French aristocrat who, in order to pay for a drainage project to rid his land of disease carrying mosquitoes, must learn to play the delicate and deadly games of wit at the royal court of Versailles. A comedy about manners and language that is a thorough delight. |
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| WHAT’S THE BIG DEAL? Ridicule is an orignal and a "one-of-a-kind" film whose subject matter is the elaborate and brilliant use of language. Well, that and all the intrigues and nastiness of the royal court in the early days of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. It's also one of the most accurate and believable re-creations of what life must have been like then. It captures attitudes about ideas and snobbery, about skill and competition in such stunning clarity that it towers abover all other similarly set period films. |
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| One of the most dazzling scenes in the film is a contest in which dinner guests must create rhymed couplets on a subject given them, in perfect meter and context, to show off how clever, brilliant and contemplative they can be with an audience watching. At the last Cine/Club screening the reaction was one of astonishment; it opened a world of expression the kids could not have imagined ever existed. The film is witty, cruel and unrelenting—high entertainment for anyone who wants escape from a world of mutants and exploding cars into a world of wit, elegance and grace, with a lesson in the ways of the real world thrown in. |  |
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Saturday 7: Our Last Art Saturday of the Year! |
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