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<div><font color="#0000FF">Pacific Film Archive presents:</font></div>
<div><font size="+1" color="#007700"><b>Music in Focus at
the</b></font><font size="+1" color="#FF0000"><b> 50th San Francisco
International Film Festival at PFA</b></font></div>
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</font><font color="#0000FF">Friday April 27</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">4:30</font><font color="#FF0000"><i><b>
Opera Jawa</b></i></font><font color="#000000"><i><br>
</i>Garin Nugroho (Indonesia/Austria, 2006, 125 mins)<br>
Siti and Setio's marital bliss is threatened by Ludiro's fiery
writhings in Garin Nogroho's gorgeous postmodern musical-commissioned
by Peter Sellars for his New Crowned Hope festival in honor of the
250th anniversary of Mozart's birth-that updates an ancient Sanskrit
epic with gamelan melodies and Indonesian dancing.</font><br>
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<div><font color="#0000FF">Friday April 27</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">8:55</font><font color="#FF0000"><i><b> The
Old, Weird America: Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk
Music</b></i></font><font color="#000000"><i><br>
</i>Rani Singh (U.S, 2006, 90mins)</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">Rani Singh's jubilant documentary
celebrates the enduring legacy of underground culture hero Harry
Smith's influential collection of blues and country classics, brought
to life in concert footage featuring Elvis Costello, Nick Cave, Beth
Orton, Emmylou Harris, Philip Glass, Lou Reed, and other music
greats.</font><br>
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<div><font color="#0000FF">Monday April 30</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">9:10</font><font color="#FF0000"><i><b>
Wonders are Many</b></i></font><font color="#000000"><i><br>
</i>Jon Else (U.S, 2007, 94 mins)</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">Award-winning documentarian Jon Else
provides a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the making of Doctor
Atomic, an opera about J. Robert Oppenheimer created in 2006 for the
San Francisco Opera by composer John Adams and director Peter
Sellars.</font><br>
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<div>For the detailed festival schedule, please visit:</div>
<div>http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/filmseries/sfiff20077</div>
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<div><font color="#000000"><b>PFA Theater</b>: 2575 Bancroft Way at
Bowditch, Berkeley, CA</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><b>Info</b>: (510)
642-1124<x-tab> </x-tab><b>Advance Tickets</b>:
(510) 642-5249</font></div>
<div><font
color="#000000"><u>http://bampfa.berkeley.edu/pfa</u></font></div>
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<div>Anuj Vaidya<br>
Outreach Coordinator<br>
Pacific Film Archive</div>
<div>2625 Durant Avenue</div>
<div>Berkeley, CA 94720-2250</div>
<div>510-642-6883</div>
<div>www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/pfa</div>
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