“With its blend of melodrama, weapons-based action, and wire-fu choreography . . . [The Sword] gets as swept up by the characters’ quieter moments of their muted agony as it does by their physical violence” (Jake Cole, Slant Magazine).
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Free 30‑minute classical concerts with themed selections and hands‑on musical activities for ages 5–10 at Central Library’s 4th‑floor and West Community Room.
Free 30‑minute classical concerts with themed selections and hands‑on musical activities for ages 5–10 at West Branch, Central 4th Floor and West Community Room.
Azchike at Cornerstone Berkeley, 2367 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley.
Cal Berkeley Rugby plays Western Washington University at Witter Rugby Field.
San Francisco Leonard Cohen Festival — Leonard Cohen tribute performances held in Berkeley, CA.
Y&T performs at Cornerstone Berkeley, 2367 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley.
Harakiri (BAMPFA) — Tatsuya Nakadai plays a penniless samurai seeking permission for ritual suicide, with additional killings, hailed as possibly the best samurai film.
Screening the first three episodes of Maurice Pialat’s WWI miniseries La maison des bois at BAMPFA.
The Arch (BAMPFA) — A Ming dynasty widow, praised for poetic beauty, faces temptation from a soldier, exploring propriety, tradition, and repression.
4K restoration of Maurice Pialat’s *La maison des bois* Episodes 4–7 screens at BAMPFA.
Jean‑Luc Godard’s second film, Le petit soldat, screens at BAMPFA, tracing a disillusioned French counteragent’s entanglement with Algerian separatists, Parisian torturers, and Anna Karina.
