Kluge's "Yesterday Girl" and Linklater's "A Scanner Darkly"
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Join us at Berkeley's Pacific Film Archive when we see German director Alexander Kluge’s debut feature film, Yesterday Girl, and Richard Linklater’s animated Philip K. Dick adaptation, A Scanner Darkly. Kluge’s film is part of the PFA’s months-long Fassbinder and the New German Cinema retrospective. Linklater’s film is part of the PFA’s months-long Psychedelia & Cinema film series. NOTE: It is recommended that you purchase tickets in advance.
"Rainer Werner Fassbinder trades on the tricks of his Hollywood mentors, especially Douglas Sirk, in creating an always sunlit environment for his heroine, the ‘perfect’ middle-class wife and mother, to go mad in. Soon after the birth of her child, Margot (Margit Carstensen) experiences a depression that is exacerbated by her fear that she is becoming schizophrenic. Disproving Franklin D. Roosevelt’s famous axiom, Fear of Fear is more than an examination of free-floating anxiety; rather, as Vincent Canby noted, “it is about the autumn of materialism in the form of an intensely personal case history . . . everything is perfect for Margot, yet nothing works.”—Pacific Film Archive
Pacific Film Archive Tickets, Information, and Directions: https://bampfa.org/visit/calendar?date=2026-04
Fassbinder and the New German Cinema (March 6 – May 17): https://bampfa.org/program/Fassbinder-New-German-Cinema
Psychedelia & Cinema (March 1 – May 10): https://bampfa.org/program/psychedelia-cinema
4:00 Meet at PFA's Box Office (2155 Center Street) to purchase or pick up tickets.
The film Yesterday Girl starts at 4:30.
6:00 Meet in the lobby to discuss Yesterday Girl.
6:30 Meet at PFA's Box Office (2155 Center Street) to purchase or pick up tickets.
The film A Scanner Darkly starts at 7:00.
8:45 After the film we will meet at Elaichi cafe on 2161 Allston Way for conversation.