Chantal Akerman’s last work screens at YBCA
The movie, which played three times at the San Francisco International Film Festival, serves as her last words and a perfect bookend to “Jeanne Dielman,” a character she modeled after her mother.
The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts is screening “No Home Movie” with a new 67-minute documentary, directed by Marianne Lambert, about Akerman’s life and work.
To encourage seeing both films, the YBCA is offering a $12 ticket package for both, 40 percent off the $10 separate admission tickets.
“Sudden Fear” (2:30 and 7 p.m.) is a terrific, clever noir from 1952 that has always seemed to fly under the radar — hard to do when the star is Joan Crawford and she was Oscar-nominated for her performance.
More familiar is “Experiment in Terror” (4:35 and 9:05 p.m.), Blake Edwards’ classic 1962 thriller starring Lee Remick as a bank clerk harassed by Ross Martin into pulling a bank job, with FBI agent Glenn Ford enlisted to play defense.
Martin’s chilling performance was the gold standard of S.F. movie villains until Andrew Robinson (“Dirty Harry”) came along.
“Experiment in Terror” remains the most geographically accurate San Francisco film — a scene set at 25th and Clement Street was actually filmed at 25th and Clement, for example, and the 38-Geary bus line has a cameo — right up to the climax set during a Giants-Dodgers game at Candlestick Park.
The Balboa Theatre’s Saturday morning Popcorn Palace family series ($10 gets you a ticket, popcorn and drink) cracks the whip for the next month with all four (so far; Harrison Ford and Steven Spielberg are working on another) of the Indiana Jones films, beginning at 10 a.m. Saturday, May 21, with the original, 1981’s “Raiders of the Lost Ark.”