DOUBLE FEATURE: Valley Girl March 25, 2007

2 p.m. Valley Girl, Michele O’Marah, 2002, 113 min.
4 p.m. Valley Girl, Martha Coolidge, 1983, 99 min.

ALSO SHOWING:
Thursday, March 22, 6:30 p.m. Double Feature
6:30 p.m. Valley Girl, Michele O’Marah, 2002, 113 min.
8:30 p.m. Valley Girl, Martha Coolidge, 1983, 99 min.

Video artist O’Marah pays tribute to the favorite film from her youth by re-creating Coolidge’s Valley Girl with a cast of friends. Both films offer a modern-day fairy tale that seduces the audience with its idealism; O’Marah employs rudimentary sets and amateur performers to bring Coolidge’s characters to life, exaggerating the audience’s yearning to believe in the story’s fictional world despite its transparency.

About this FILM SERIES
Fidelity and Betrayal: Variations on the Remake
March 4–April 22

There are remakes and remakes. Most of the time films are remade simply in order to sell them to a larger, more mainstream—usually American—public. But sometimes a remake—by adapting, displacing, or just feeding off another film—not only generates something different and new, it reveals peculiarities of the original that we wouldn’t otherwise see. Whether it is an homage or a travesty, a remake can be faithful to the original in changing it—or it can betray the original by imitating it.

There are remakes in painting, too. The exhibition Picasso and American Art includes instances of American artists remaking, as new versions, particular works by Pablo Picasso, quoting passages of his paintings, or mimicking his style. In painting as in film the remake can, sometimes, be a valid and exciting genre.

This series presents a few of the many examples of creative remaking that exist in the history of cinema.

Thursdays: $7 general; $5 SFMOMA members, students, and seniors. Does not include Museum admission Sundays: Free with Museum admission.

Film at SFMOMA is generously supported by the Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation and Carla Emil and Rich Silverstein.

Tickets
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