Radical Visions Cinema Club

More info about Bernal Heights Outdoor Cinema’s “Film Crawl on Cortland”: https://bhoutdoorcine.org/outdoor-cinema-season/film-crawl-on-cortland-2026/#Progressive

6:30 Meet at the Bernal Heights branch library (500 Cortland Ave.) to take our seats.
7:00 Bernal Heights film program starts
7:55 We cross the street to watch two film programs at the Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center (515 Cortland Ave).
8:00 Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center film program I starts
9:00 Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center film program II starts
10:00 We will walk down the street to the Bare Bottle brewery (1525 Cortland Ave.) for refreshments and conversation.

Join us when we see lengendary Czech director František Vláčil’s newly restored classic, Valley of the Bees (1968). NOTE: Consider purchasing your tickets in advance at roxie.com.

“While his name lacks the recognition of other Eastern European filmmakers, writer / director / occasional actor František Vláčil could be considered among the greatest motion picture practitioners on the strength of his adaptation of Marketa Lazarová alone. Yet his follow-up, The Valley of the Bees [Údolí včel], is a similarly stunning period-piece of archetypal drama (and, like its predecessor and other works by the filmmaker, features an extraordinary score by Zdeněk Liška). In the thirteenth century, a young man reluctantly joins the Teutonic order at the behest of his father. During his travels, he fraternizes with a former combatant of the Crusades. However, life as a member of the order is not quite as it is popularly portrayed and the young knight opts to escape. His devoutly religious friend, however, wants him to return and will see to it that he does. Nothing good can come from these disagreements.”—Program notes

More info on the Roxie Theater: roxie.com

2:40 Meet at the Roxie Theater to purchase tickets and take our seats.
The film starts at 3:00.
5:00 After the film we will meet at Pancho Villa Taqueria (3071 16th St.) for conversation.

Join us for an afternoon screening of Indian director Satyajit Ray’s The Music Room (Jalsaghar) (1958). NOTE: Please purchase your tickets in advance at ybca.org. The screening room is small and the screening will likely sell out. Free admission to YBCA’s art galleries is included with your ticket, so you may wish to arrive early.

“In The Music Room (Jalsaghar), director Satyajit Ray brilliantly evokes the crumbling opulence of a fallen aristocrat (played by the beloved Chhabi Biswas) desperately clinging to a vanishing way of life. At the heart of his world is the music room where he once hosted lavish concerts—now a shadow of its former self, grand and ghostly. A showcase for some of India’s most celebrated musicians of the era, the film echoes GaHee Park’s aesthetic universe in its incandescent rendering of tradition meeting modernity, of social ritual, and of time, memory, and identity folded into one another.”—Program notes

More info on YBCA’s screening: https://ybca.org/event/the-music-room-through-an-open-window-film-series/

1:30 Meet at YBCA Box Office (701 Mission St. at Third) to purchase tickets and take our seats. The film starts at 2.
3:40 After the program we will meet for conversation at The Grove (690 Mission St. @ 3rd St.) for refreshments and conversation.