Through - Tuesday, January 7

Roxie Releasing and The Trust for Public Land present

Rivers and Tides
Andy Goldsworthy Working With Time

This year's surprise sensation returns to where at all began with a special holiday engagement to help celebrate the film's nation-wide release which begins in New York on January 1. RIVERS AND TIDES is the most successful film to ever play the Roxie, and now it can be visited and revisited anew. Scottish sculptor Andy Goldsworthy knows that most of his pieces will not last long because of where he makes them (often in open fields or on beaches) and what he uses-ice, driftwood, bracken, leaves, stone. His work's transitory nature, in fact, is a central part of the sculptor's creative efforts to understand the energy that flows through him and through the natural landscape that nourishes his vision. We see Goldsworthy as he works to understand that energetic flow, represented often by water, by wind or simply the passage of the seasons. Both carefully composed and fluid, RIVERS AND TIDES keeps our attention on the sculptor's vision and work, giving us room to ponder our own relationship to the energy coursing through the natural world. A superb musical score by Fred Frith evokes and deepens our sense of the precarious but beautiful balance Goldsworthy strives for in taking his work "to the very edge of its collapse." Directed by Thomas Riedelsheimer. In Color. 35mm. 90 mins. 2001. DAILY AT (2:00), 4:15, 6:30 AND 8:45 THROUGH WED JAN 1, THEN NIGHTLY AT 6:30, 8:45 WITH (2:00) AND 4:15 SHOWS ON SAT AND SUN JAN 4 AND 5. PLEASE NOTE: WE WILL BE CLOSED MON AND TUE DEC 23 AND 24. NO 8:45 SHOW ON TUE, DEC 31. Fred Frith, composer of Rivers and Tides' score will appear in person Friday, December 20 to speak after the 6:30 show, and introduce the 8:45 show!

"Fascinating" -- Edward Guthmann, SF Chronicle
"The hottest ticket in town. The movie is breathtaking!"
-- Jon Carroll, SF Chronicle"
"Truly Great". -- Kenneth Baker, SF Chronicle
"Hypnotically dazzling!" -- David Fear, SF Bay Guardian
"A beautiful, meditative piece." -- Jeffrey M. Anderson, SF Examiner
"A Sculpture of Sea and Prairie, of Water, Fire and Stone"
-- Ann Wilson Lloyd, New York Times Arts & Leisure
"" -- Bruce Newman, San Jose Mercury
"Finding the flow of Goldsworthy's art" -- Kenneth Baker, SF Chronicle
"Creations draw on natural realm " -- Jack Fischer, San Jose Mercury

In the United States, Andy Goldsworthy is represented by
the Haines Gallery and Gallerie Lelong

Rivers and Tides is NOW SHOWING in these Theaters.

Wednesday, Jan. 8 - Tuesday, Jan. 14

Strange Fruit

Lovingly and masterfully crafted, STRANGE FRUIT tracks the long and winding history of the eerie, controversial jazz classic. A song about lynching, it gained infamy when Billie Holiday performed it at a Greenwich Village nightclub, Café Society, the only integrated nightclub in 1939 Manhattan. The song began as a poem by Abel Meeropol, a Jewish high school teacher from the Bronx who was disturbed by a photo of a lynching. Under the pseudonym Lewis Allan, he set it to music. One of the most important protest songs ever written, it became a staple in Billie Holiday's career. The tale of the song reflects on the lives of African Americans, immigrant Jews, anti-Communist government officials, radical leftist organizers, music publishers and jazz musicians. The film features moving interviews, a score by Don Byron and hypnotizing performances of the song. Directed by Joel Katz. 60 mins. 2002. USA. Also on the program, the short THE HOUSE I LIVE IN. Another song, "The House I Live In," by Abel Meeropol, was an appeal for religious and racial tolerance. Written in 1942, the song was recorded by Frank Sinatra and later made into this film short that won an Academy Award. West Coast Theatrical Premiere! Presented with the cooperation of the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival. NIGHTLY AT 6:00, 8:00 AND 10:00; WED / SAT / SUN MATS AT 2:00 AND 4:00.

" Excellent!" -- Edward Guthmann, SF Chronicle

" Great! An incredible story." -- Jeffery M. Anderson, SF Examiner