San Francisco Metro: Fri, Oct 23, 2026 · Film & Screening · East Bay · 2 events · data version 20261021-173303
3:30 PM · La maison des bois: Episodes 1–3 · Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley) · film · rating 6
bampfa.org · details Epic yet intimate, sweeping yet personal, La maison des bois stands as one of the greatest achievements in the history of television, as well as legendary director Maurice Pialat’s magnum opus. Commissioned for Télévision Française in 1971, this seven-episode, nearly four-hundred-minute miniseries considers the impact of World War I on a simple French family living in the countryside.
7:00 PM · The Arch · Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley) · film · rating 6
bampfa.org · details A Ming dynasty widow, beloved for her grace and kindness, becomes tempted by a visiting soldier in this investigation of propriety, tradition, and repression. This early precursor of the Hong Kong New Wave was praised as “a film of poetic beauty” by Anaïs Nin.