San Francisco Metro: Sun, Nov 8, 2026 · Film & Screening · East Bay · 2 events · data version 20261021-173303
1:30 PM · The Human Condition I: No Greater Love · Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley) · film · rating 6
bampfa.org · details This first part of the trilogy finds Kaji working as a supervisor in a forced labor camp in southern Manchuria, where he and his wife attempt to better the lot of the enslaved Chinese workers. Kaji is accused of dissent, tortured, and then inducted into the army.
6:30 PM · Contempt · Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley) · film · rating 6
bampfa.org · details In Italy, Fritz Lang is shooting The Odyssey for an American producer (Jack Palance). Fritz mourns classical culture but will settle for swords and sandals; like The Odyssey , Contempt is about man against circumstances, and such is the circumstance of cinema. The screenwriter, Paul (Michel Piccoli), meanwhile, becomes lost in Rome, and during his odyssey, his wife, Camille (Brigitte Bardot), enters into a crisis of contempt.