Jul 5, 2012
SFFILM
Love in the City (L’amore in città, Italy 1953), a diverse anthology collection portraying various stages of the search for love from flirting and lechery to matrimony and despair, opens an exclusive San Francisco engagement August 17 at San Francisco Film Society Cinema (1746 Post Street).
Six of Italy’s most talented filmmakers-including Fellini and Antonioni-collaborate on this diverse ’50s time capsule focusing on lives, mostly female, disappointed by love. Aiming for a “newly conscious kind of cinema” (as described in voiceover), the collection presents a journalistic view of city life using the actual people who experienced the events portrayed. From couples in a dance hall to prostitutes plying their trade, the film’s varied segments offer a wide-ranging examination of how mid-century mores often led to suffering, particularly for women. On the more upbeat side are Fellini’s tale of a woman longing for marriage and Alberto Lattuada’s nearly wordless portrait of men checking out women on the streets of Rome. Written by Michelangelo Antonioni, Aldo Buzzi, Luigi Chiarini, Federico Fellini, Marco Ferreri, Alberto Lattuada, Luigi Malerba, Tullio Pinelli, Dino Risi, Vittorio Veltroni, Cesare Zavattini. Photographed by Gianni Di Venanzo. With Ugo Tognazzi, Marco Ferreri. In Italian with subtitles. 105 min. Distributed by Raro Video.
Showtimes 2:00, 4:15, 6:30, 8:45 pm (no 6:30 screening Mon 8/20)
Tickets $9 for SFFS members, $11 general, $10 senior/student/disabled. Box office opens July 9 online at sffs.org and in person at SF Film Society Cinema.
To request an interview contact hhart@sffs.org.
To request screeners contact bproctor@sffs.org.
For photos and press materials visit sffs.org/pressdownloads.
At SF Film Society Cinema, the stylish state-of-the art theater located in the New People building at 1746 Post Street (Webster/Buchanan) in Japantown, the San Francisco Film Society offers its acclaimed exhibition, education and filmmaker services programs and events on a daily year-round basis.
More upcoming San Francisco Film Society programs
Continuing on consecutive Saturdays through July 21: The Story of Film: An Odyssey
Through July 7: KinoTek: Adriane Colburn: Ways, Points and Means
Through July 5: Corpo Celeste
Opening July 6: Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present
Opening July 13: Ballplayer: Pelotero
Also opening July 13: Bonsái
July 14 only: The Storytellers Show
July 19 only: Dark Horse Filmmaker Todd Solondz in Person
Opening July 20: A Burning Hot Summer
July 20-August 11: KinoTek: Nate Boyce
Opening July 27: Sacrifice
Opening August 3: The Devil, Probably Constructed as a flashback from news reports of a young man’s suspicious suicide, Robert Bresson’s splenetic 1977 drama puts the post-1968 world on trial and judges it unlivable.
Opening August 10: The Moth Diaries Mary Harron’s modern gothic thriller, based on the novel by Rachel Klein, skirts the line between horror film and psychological study while making full use of the atmospheric possibilities of its boarding school setting.
Also Opening August 10: Battle Royale If the plot about a group of teen-agers murdering each other in a gladiatorial contest sounds familiar, just be aware that this film came out eight years before Suzanne Collins wrote The Hunger Games.
August 11 only: Special Family Screening of James and the Giant Peach An extraordinary live action/animation adaptation of Roald Dahl’s children’s classic directed by Henry Selick and coproduced by Tim Burton.
August 24: Master Class: Les Blank on Documentary
September 15-October 20: KinoTek: Brent Green, sculpture and animation
December: KinoTek: Kota Ezawa, animation