San Francisco Metro: Fri, Nov 6, 2026 · Film & Screening · East Bay · 2 events · data version 20261021-173303
4:00 PM · Mean Streets · Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley) · film · rating 6
bampfa.org · details Set during the Feast of San Gennaro in the Italian neighborhood where Martin Scorsese grew up, and populated with characters and situations based on the neighborhood’s inhabitants, Mean Streets is a brilliant distillation of the themes that would define the director’s career.
7:00 PM · Harakiri · Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley) · film · rating 6
bampfa.org · details Masaki Kobayashi harnesses the breathtaking beauty of black-and-white, widescreen cinematography to create an abstract epic. Starring Tatsuya Nakadai, the film depicts one man’s desperate attempt to crack the blind, absolute authority that characterizes the feudal age and, Kobayashi suggests, our own. In an Edo-period mansion, the camera inches down hallways and finds rooms within rooms to explicate a complex flashback narration.