"A Slightly Pregnant Man" Jacques Demy (France/Italy, 1973)
(L’événement le plus important depuis que l’homme a marché sur la lune). This farce was supposedly conceived in response to a remark from Demy’s wife, Agnès Varda: “If you men could get pregnant, you’d behave differently with women.” Driving instructor Marcello Mastroianni and his hairdresser wife Catherine Deneuve are faced with an unexpected pregnancy—his. “Things we find abnormal now may be normal in the future,” says Marcello’s doctor; indeed, the film is both very much of its time (doctors smoking in the exam room, sets saturated in shades of orange) and, with its TV pundits debating socio-moral implications while marketers rejoice in pregnancy’s commercial possibilities, quite at home in ours.
7pm to 8:30pm, Pacific Film Archive 2575 Bancroft Way
Frank Gratkowski, saxophone and electronics
Willy Winant, percussion
Chris Brown, electronics
David Wessel, electronics
$10 general/$5 students and seniors
http://cnmat.berkeley.edu/event/2013/08
8pm to 10pm, 1750 Arch Street
$15 adv./$18 day of show. Community benefit. An all-star tribute to Jerry Garcia with David Nelson, Henry Kaiser, Jenny Kerr and Phil Milner, Joe Burke, David Gans, Sycamore Slough String Band, and more. 525-5054. www.ashkenaz.com
8pm, Ashkenaz, 1317 San Pablo
$18.50 advance / $20.50 at door. 644-2020. www.thefreight.org
8pm, Freight and Salvage Coffee House, 2020 Addison